Board of Education Regular Meeting

001I'm Santa Clara let him sleep her from the desert I would like to welcome everyone present today and those watching the broadcast and call the July ninth 2019 regular meeting to order with all board members present please standby the Pledge of Allegiance ready begin States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation thank you you may be seated I would like a motion to adopt today's agenda so moved give me a motion on the floor please vote thank you that passes 5-0 now let us please turn our attention to the screens hopefully they're functioning today as a Scripps Ranch High School graduate and former ASB president Jerry Yang provides important information related to today's meeting today's meeting of the Board of Education is a business meeting that is conducted in public

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004seated at the media table if you need any assistance thank you for your interest in participating in our board meeting thank you let us move to to the superintendent's consent agenda I does any board member wish to remove any items from the consent agenda no do we have any speakers you have a speaker on I - okay you note that an I 14 and 15 have already been withdrawn by staff may I have a motion on that place I'll move item I with the exception of I - okay we had a motion on the floor please vote when that passes hi zero we have no student presentations today a report on closed session let's begin with any reportable action no fee to administrative assignments thank you dr. white hairs pain to management appointments this evening

005program manager special education BET's O'Reilly and principle for Kure Elementary Cynthia Smith oh thank you item d3 none as our students are hopefully often during this summer's on d4 superintendent we have a report yes thank you so next week in case you didn't know San Diego celebrating its 250th anniversary and we're planning to participate in our city's 250th anniversary I plan to attend several of the activities that are organized with Mayor Faulkner so I know everybody is wondering the district doesn't look a day over 165 and that's true the city was here actually before the district and of course our Native American ancestors were here long before that but the future of the city is closely bound to the future of our schools that's important to us and happen because if you think about it

006half of San Diego either graduated from one of our schools or has a student in one of our schools now that's why we take our responsibility to make San Diego a better place so seriously hashtag better SD I recently shared at the one of my recent superintendent reports was a study that was co-authored by the chair of the State Board of Education Linda darling-hammond and how in that report she talked about african-american and Latino students in San Diego Unified and how they're beating the odds and outperforming their peers statewide I've been made aware of further studies beyond that one showing similar growth that's in the works and those reports are going to be coming out soon as well our state is looking at San Diego Unified to study what's possible and to see what's possible

007in public education and that's especially true in the area of governance our charter school oversight procedures and practices have been recognized as some of the best in California have recently participated with Deidre Walsh giving examples of how we do the process of our charter authorization that's why the State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurman asked our district to help lead the conversation on charter reform California has had a historic opportunity to overhaul our outdated charter laws in a way that serves the interests of every students so tomorrow I'm going to be back up in Sacramento to testify before the state Senate on this issue and as San Diego looks forward to the next 250 years I'm proud of the work San Diego has done to lead the future not just on key matters of state

008policy but by making bold statements like raising the pride and trans flags over the district headquarters and standing up for our immigrant families who are facing unimaginable levels of concern those are things that we've done since our last meeting and we did it together because we believe in making San Diego a better place thank you thank you let us move now to board reports and we'll start on the right here mr. pizer the u-pass yes thank you 32 for so for my board report tonight I'm featuring two videos that highlight our high school students who are in the community performing at local and global events the first video shows our vapid students from several high schools performing at seaport village one group of the students from Mission Bay High School regularly performed regular travel to

009perform in Japan and with events with civic and school events in Yokohama next year they will perform in Havana Cuba the second video shows boys and girls high school soccer players participating in the first annual San Diego Tijuana International Sister Cities soccer tournament that was held last August at Balboa Stadium at San Diego high school and at a high school in Tijuana several students from Hoover High School played in the San Diego played on the San Diego County all-star team which consisted of soccer players from five different high school districts in San Diego County the San Diego County all-stars won that first international tournament and you will remember that the Hoover girls soccer team went on to win the state championship last year so let's play the two videos [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause]

010[Music] all right after the international soccer tournament and back to the allsports repour the San Diego Sister Cities International Association held their inaugural Balboa cup soccer tournament between San Diego and Tijuana high school all-star players the aim is to promote by national cooperation between the border cities Landon Donovan was on hand to meet the players from both teams and Express and cross-border Express donated $4,000 to a foundation that helps teams south of the border what this is doing is this is teaching kids forget about the soccer part it's teaching kids at a young age that we are friends we are partners we are up sides of the border but we can come together and be one these kids are loving it you speak to these King pictures together because they're building friendships that last a

011lifetime it's an honor to be on getting like chosen there's more like to play in it that's great because it's like we're communicating in a way but like it's not by talking with it's like playing a sport that we all love day 22 at Del Mar the featured seventh for three-year-olds and up racing thank you so this year the second annual San Diego Tijuana turn our sister city soccer tournament will take place on July 16th and 17 with the first game at 9:00 a.m. at Balboa Stadium at San Diego High School with the second game at Korea Sports Center in Tijuana the San Diego house start all the San Diego all-star team consists of soccer players from 11 high schools from six different school districts in San Diego County and Landon Donovan will be there

012again to hand out the awards on the on the on the final day so see you there thanks Greg students doing great things globally and locally thank you and I would just like to say that I did go and visit evapo Foundation project at Rosa Parks this week so it was a day before the fourth of July I'm going like schools are still in session but basically it was a wonderful picture and I'm not sure if Melissa has that picture up or not but it's a wonderful mural yes that they had done with such diversity and it had eight or nine languages as a part of that mural they're doing a great job over there with their diversity and the parents had all gotten together all the teachers work together to apply for that grant

013and this was a culmination of that project so I was very exciting the only other thing I wanted to note is that I did go back to my class reunion 50 years and it was on counting yes but it was wonderful in the sense that of course I hadn't seen a lot of those folks in 50 years but I learned quite a bit about my class as you know I was I went to a segregated school and everyone there was African American except we did have one white teacher I think didn't realize it until recently that there was another one I had thought about one one left another one came and it turned out that that class was the number one in not just the city but the state of Virginia in terms of success

014going on to college etc 50 years ago I was not being exhibited there but anyway it just left it reinforces my beliefs that all children can learn and will be working together as a school at Crestwood High School to put together events that happened during that time and show where everyone is and that's why I believe that it's possible that you can put a class together and it will succeed so thank you let's move on to item e1 and that students with disabilities update superintendent have someone to present before our executive director of special education Sarah OTT is going to join me for this update that we have discussed a while back we committed to bringing back this update and now we're following through on that commitment we have I'm Sarah on with us to

015do provide the update hi good evening okay it's on I would I would say after a very successful three-day summer institute focused specifically on students with disabilities we can talk more about that at another time but great work from you and your team putting that learning together for all of our leaders thank you so that's what I was gonna start so I'll start with the Summer Institute it was at the end of June we had principals vice principals and coaches in attendance stress and on this side it talks about the visions for the school so it was around ownership access and high quality instruction there was a lot more involved in a lot of change and I wrote some of the reflections that quotes but around ownership that principals teachers and support staff take ownership

016of all students including students with disabilities so I'm all teachers they're not just students with disabilities special ed all general teachers principals all staff that students have access students with disabilities are generalized students first and should have meaningful course of study and the last was high quality instruction all teachers will design instruction and create learning environments that students that meet students individualized learning needs so they learn the strengths of the students and then design lessons that are based on those strengths as opposed to designing lessons that kind of cover on the ones and we talk about personalized instruction meeting student needs so some of the highlights that people shared the one person said that it was life-changing based on the keynotes that we had and people sharing about adults with disability student panels talking about

017their experiences that was really life-changing there was a quote that was shared a riot of is the language of the unheard and it's time to look deeper into the reasons why students are not in the sphere of success and have real conversations about what needs to change at the district site classroom and instruction level in order for any change to happen so that we're really working as a group to figure out how we're going to create that change the day has given me a sense of urgency to rethink how we're serving our most neediest kids it will give a priority it will be a priority of mine to ensure we are truly providing equal access and opportunity for all students and another one said my cup is full I realized the importance of looking at

018opportunity to drive ability and not ability to drive opportunity so you don't have to have the ability to in order to get in the class or it's actually getting in the class that gives you the ability then to have the skills that are needed so those were some of the highlights of the Summer Institute and it was well attended it was strong and we're excited to continue that movement moving forward one of the other areas that we are talking about and aligning is our early childhood special ed program so we really want to align it with our vision which is that students our general ed students first and that we create a culture of belonging by providing equal educational access and meaningful opportunities equal to those of their non-disabled peers so next year our preschool

019for all program we are enrolling students through our neighborhood school enrollment options office and we're allowing students with disabilities to enroll that same way so previously they were enrolled separate you had to go to the special ed office to enroll or to the school to enroll now it's all enrolled in one centralized location and that's that parents have options they can have choices and just like students without disabilities and sometimes we can accommodate the choice and sometimes we can't and we'll be aligning services to the IEP and so that students currently students with disabilities do not attend on Wednesdays and so they will be attending on Wednesdays to align with their general ed peers in the preschool for all program so those are a few of those resources and as we continue to improve our

020early childhood program we have a committee that will meet weekly that's comprised of our general IDI early childhood program manager general IDI early childhood teachers special IDI early childhood teachers parents and my executive director program manager / early childhood all with meeting weekly to discuss what the three-year plan will look like and how we'll be able to make changes to more align our students with disabilities alongside their general ed peers in our early childhood program and how we're going to support this change is really looking at coaching through our central office resource teachers our behavior support resources and our consult with our program managers to provide training around literacy provide training around how do we design instruction for all students through Universal Design and how do we support behavior of students when they're in those

021general ed classrooms and that's this specifically was talking about for the early childhood as we are putting more students with disabilities in those general ed classrooms what we knew and what we've heard is the data showing that students in kindergarten probably have the most referral for behavioral supports and so they're just coming into kindergarten not having necessarily the experience in order to participate in a meaningful way and so we want to give them that really experience in a general ed classroom with 24 peers as soon as possible the other area that we were discussing was meaningful course of study and as we talked about an Universal Design for Learning currently the CAC is meeting with instructional cabinet monthly we've had two meetings so far we presented kind of the the plan for the Summer Institute

022and how we were going to be talking about meaningful course of study and designing learning for student strengths at the Summer Institute to launch that and then continue we'll be continually meeting to talk about how we're going to move that forward throughout the schools we have the six lighthouse schools will will you be setting up models three elementary to middle one high where people will come to see discussing kind of glitches what's happening what's not happening what are some concerns so that we can make sure we're addressing those we also have mid-level principal and high school principals they came together for master schedule support really talking about the use of applied how we're using it our students who will be receiving a diploma in the right courses do they have the option to retake courses

023how are we having them retake courses if they're struggling all of those pieces so those are conversations that we'll continue to have and have been having and then the last area of concern was around budget our goal is to have a user-friendly transparent budget that includes ways that we can show all stakeholders what special ed kind of can control and what things are out of control that staffing or formula is needed and what are areas that we could look at to make changes so that that's really user-friendly and transparent and that the special ed program really is looking at funding things that really are special at only and anything that's general ed we're moving over so a couple examples that we're working with finance around is recently we moved bs are the behavior support resources

024was just under special ed and we realized that all students have behavior and there might be students that don't have IPS that need to access teachers need to access that resource so we move that under student services so now any student can get that support so some alignment of those resources and other ones looking at nursing there's a nursing budgets that are in special ed but really nursing takes care of that so what would that look like so just aligning resources more aligned with where the program is as opposed to you know if it's under special ID it's only about students with disabilities not general ed functions as well and then we sent the CAC just recently the the budget they had about 12 questions and we sent that recently to to them thank you

025all right I believe we have a speaker yes we have two speakers on this item Linda Mahdi and Moira Albertan my name is Linda money and I'm a special education teacher at Crawford High School my concerns that brought me here today is the graduation requirements for my students who do not qualify for that those 444 credits for the regular diploma and go for the option to diploma this year has been very difficult because two circles have come out one stating that only students who have 44 credits can participate in graduation are those students who are not different about competitions and also that kind of leaves out those students who are the option to diploma who have said in all the classes as generated students who have received the graves and who have the 2.0 GPA

026unfortunately they cannot they could not participate because they did not meet that final requirement that is required one of the structures that came out in February that allows students with ESL students immigrant students and other students foster care homeless students it allows them to graduate after completing the state minimum however students with disabilities with IEP s they are required to enroll in the high school diploma program are the trace program they don't have an option in it if they want to get that diploma they have to go that route or they have to remain in school a fifth year the other requirement that they have to do is that once they enroll another high school diploma program they have to do 12 hours of seat time there is no a B grade for its C

027time once that's done they have to do 70 hours at a in this case ECC our educational complex 70 hours also of C time also know a we green-green the time they get to that point they've already completed the required minimum state requirements of the 26 credit 24 credits that they need in order to graduate once they participate in graduation and I want to note that in order for them to participate I had to change their IEP is from diploma bound to non diploma bound or else they would not be able to walk I have one student who started out in it's at Crawford with in all apply classes he was moved into general classes his goal was to graduate with his class of 2019 and he was determined to graduate in white which he

028accomplished but once he did that he was declared as a dropout until he gets that finished those required credits which is the seat time he is a dropout as for the structure that came out of February students who are as I mentioned the homeless students they're allowed to get that diploma right then and there with the other students thank you superintendent would you look into this for us to correct this because it sounds like the glitch that we need to somehow earn other thick's thank you for bringing that to our attention so that we can yeah Sarah's already looking into this okay thank you thank you thank you hi Maura Alberton I wanted to just request that there's a little more clarification around a slide three four there's a certain group of students that are

029enrolling via the preschool for all but there is a group of students that isn't just that the board is clear and then on the final slide I just want to define what recently means recently means 4:39 p.m. this afternoon I received answers to questions so I want to acknowledge that I was driving here so didn't see it until I got here and cannot open it however when we say transparent and Noah and user-friendly that would mean that we could actually look at it so as of right now we have not seen like the budget I've seen you hold it but I haven't actually been able to look at the numbers so that's where we are thank you Thank You superintendent do you have anything else to address this yes being specifically around the budget and

030Sarah and the team had been working on that and I know she did just receive it this afternoon but what I'd like to put in place going forward and for next school year is for Sarah to our executive director special education and finance to meet regularly with CIC to discuss the budget so it's not just waiting until you have a big chunk of information to share that can be something that happens on a regular basis so I've asked for finance and Sarah to work together with CSC to have regular meetings about the budget so it's not one big waiting till the end of the year for something there's no reason why we can't talk about it in an open transparent way on a regular basis and I've asked for that to happen going forward thank

031you and I know I have several questions but I'll allow my colleagues to go first any of you have questions one question on the Summer Institute in the participation who exactly participated and on and on what criteria requirement or optional or what was the deal so principles was mandatory unless there was a circumstance they couldn't principles and all levels yep Vice Principals who could adjust calendars but a lot of them were able to do that and then all instructional coaches were invited and were able to if they were able to adjust their calendars as well then my questions go back to the fact that we did I did stop by one workshop one morning for five minutes or whatever and there was a lot of enthusiasm and a lot of folks there so I applaud

032that I'm grateful that we did that now we have a level playing field so that all of our principals and administrators should know and understand what the district's goal is in terms of special education my questions center around the issue of measure yes we can check off that books sat in a workshop or may have participated but what will be the measures that we as a board that citizens that parents or even that children will know that it makes a difference do we have some tangible goals spell down ie it may be that I don't know something related to the IEP is that we don't have a fewer fewer issues with complaints on and on and on do we have something tangible that's supposed to come out of this so that we will know that

033it made a difference to have the workshop and so that principals understand it's not just a matter of saying that everybody is owning up to every student but how will we know that it really got through to them and that parents especially had cats and everybody else understand this is this is real I mean yeah so throughout the three days there was multiple times for the attendees to do self assessments around inclusive practices around our three areas for the vision to see where their current reality is we showed some systematic measurements about how often students are in generalized costumes or separate classrooms around meaningful course of study around high quality instruction we showed kind of the system's data but every site has their own current reality so they were tasked with doing a self-reflection on

034their own current reality that they'll be sharing that area superintendent of them had them link it to their running record of what they see what that current reality and running record is and then we'll be checking in throughout the year on the growth in those areas alongside our expectations and that's something you wonder we want to be able to give regular updates on so it's something that we can track and monitor throughout the year yeah because I mean I I don't know about you guys but I do find it it's a little frustrating that we don't seem to be getting the message across that I don't mean you've been maybe it's society but that special education children are people occasion first on Sunday night I think it was the TV was just on and all

035of a sudden there was this young man assignment Cowen or whatever his name is and those this young man who is playing the piano and singing and it's like I mean he's he's a child with special needs and he was outstanding so we just need to understand that we are that children are capable our students are capable of doing more than than what we expect them to and so we've got to raise our standards so that we get the best out of them throughout the system and I'm just beating a dead horse just to follow up on what dr. Rogers pan is saying I mean so the second value you put there was have access to meaningful course of study so I'm assuming that that's in some way measurable by looking at what courses students

036are taking and that you could sort of compared and they were taking this type of courses before and now they're taking this type of courses and then create learning environments that meet students in divide individualized learning needs I guess from what she was saying I guess it would be on the negative side would be if there are fewer complaints about my students needs are not being met that would be one one sign I don't know how you would word that in a in a positive way like absence of complaints versus five stop a couple ways the state has this measure is how often students on their IPS are in the general environment what percentage and what percentage of students are needing to be in a separate school so you know our students are schools for

037all students only with IEP s and so when we're designing lessons and environments for students strengths we would have less students going into separate schools and environments of students with IPS only of course they're students that that might be needed but it should be a very very small number and we know we can track that number to see the positive effect of students being able to stay at their home school at their comprehensive site and being able to have environments that meet those needs there so a higher percentage of students being mainstreamed and I'm assuming being successful inside the mainstream - right okay thank you so with the graduation information it's very long the same same lines related to equity and access and opportunity and know our programs for students special need tend to focus

038on the academic side and and we do have the special olympics for our high school students and for our middle school students I'm wondering if we can't have something similar to round out the the visual and performing arts so that we get to have a special Fine Arts fair work for example the students who have talents in music and dance would be able to develop and those talents and have those those exhibited in the same way that we do are our honors sympathy as the symphonies and choirs and bands we could have a performance where our students could display the talents that they have in that area Visual and Performing Arts Sun and my dream was that they would be able to perform that alongside their general I think years right and so being able

039to be in those classes performing alongside and they have a part and a opportunity there was just a video that I'm hoping to feature on one of the upcoming Friday he bless its from CPM a did their end-of-the-year performance and they did a dance performance that was fully integrated with students with disabilities called Shaboom is phenomenal the principal just sent me the clip of it I did I wasn't there for that performance I was there for an evening performance and it's exactly what you're talking did you get it to see a copy of this it's exactly what you're talking about and featuring that at CP ma whose core mission is doing this kind of work and the way they integrated where students were on the stage with all it was phenomenal so we're planning to

040tell that story that can lift up that exact example of how we integrate in a way that's meaningful thank you all I just a couple real quick I just want to thank you Sarah for your work and I really appreciate some of the things that you bring forward especially allowing all students and all teachers to have access to the behavioral supports and moving that under student services because you're absolutely right you know sometimes students that aren't identified need behavioral help and and to be more successful in school and thank you very much also for your changes with early childhood education getting preschool for all to get those parents into the same place so that they can have the same choices as all the other parents for their kids and then I also had a question

041about caseloads I know in the last couple of years we've been working together with our teachers and educators and parents to try to do what we can to get our caseloads even lower than they already are so what are we looking at for caseloads for next year or two teachers that have the mild moderate credential or servicing the mild moderate program are at 20 20 okay what's the state 28 okay so we're eight below the state okay and our students that are teachers that have the mod severe have 12 12 okay all right thank you very much and then I want to thank Cindy Martin for also coming forward tonight and mentioning that you know going forward we need to make sure that we have more regular meetings with CSC on the budget I don't

042I do know that sometimes the budgets in flux and it changes and so you it's kind of a challenge to kind of put put different ideas out and then we maybe when we have to make adjustments and and that might be good or bad and then finally I do want to mention that students are more than a test score and as a teacher I just know that you know students should not be measured by one federally mandated Common Core standardized test and especially with special education students they're you know we every single human being can't be expected to jump through the same hope everybody has different talents whether it's musically inclined or artistically or athletically or maybe some people are more mathematical other people might be more linguistic there's lots of different intelligences out there

043and we've got us I really believe that we as a society of got to re-evaluate how we measure what is a good school or an effective school or educator by more than just one test once a year thanks and thank you mr. baza for bringing up the fact that our racial is now 20 to 1 and we're optimistic I would say that we will go good return on that that our students will notice that kind of service that level of service from us then the parents will also notice that so we're thankful and thank you for your report thank you let us now move on to item f1 and to the board consent agenda I move the board consent agenda for F 1 & 2 thank you please put in that oh we have one

044speaker on f2 and that is Francine Maxwell yes Francine Maxwell f2 and you said Ruth f/32 just after just f2 okay my question and my concern is that the IDI code I think six zero zero two stipulates that each district when you're having involvement you have instructional met material that you promote the parent community involvement and so I'm a little concerned with the lack thereof of parent and community involvement because it's such a heavy thing that is occurring for our students and we want to make sure that things are age-appropriate parents need to really be involved in the decision process for curriculum when it applies across the board but especially for the LGBTQIA because so many as they support that they still need to know what is age-appropriate so that they can prepare their homes

045because that's where it starts to teach a child they gave birth to the child so they should have the first rights to say some things but they also need to be able to come and express what their concerns are age-appropriate is extremely important and parents need to know that they have a right to come and talk about that and it's not a one size fit all and that's what this district continually thinks that things are one size fits all so I think that there needs to be more parent involvement as a district as a community as a city we know where we're lacking in parent involvement and so I'm hoping that there's going to be a strong conversation and a strong push to ensure that parents know about the curriculum that they know about the

046ED code six zero zero two and that the fact that they're there brought to the table thank you thank you sprintin we should say anything okay please vote on that ping that passes on so let us move down to second okay we have a motion on the floor and you want to present the item every one percent so I think what's important to understand is that the content in assembly bill 493 which Assemblymember Gloria is leading is an a large measure based on the work that's been going on at San Diego Unified for a number of years and you know when we raised the LGBTQIA and transgender flags last week and we had students lead that presentation we were reminded that the efforts that we've been in barking on for a number of years in

047our district have been led by students you know John and I remember students from Madison High School who began a movement first at their school and then spread to every high school in the district to bring students together and to honor everybody's gifts and so the work that we've been doing ever since in our district about training about developing our curriculum is now I think used as a model in this assembly bill 493 that would extend throughout the state so when Todd Gloria introduced this bill he and State Superintendent Tony Thurman came and held a press conference in San Diego high and I think it was no coincidence that they came to our district to - so if you think about the work that those students at Madison High did first at their school and

048then throughout the district I think that work is now spreading throughout the state and I think this bill will well will help with that effort thank you I need to recognize Randy Wilde is it he's here from Assembly Member Todd glorious office and who is the author of this bill for maybe four ninety three so I'm gathering you're not speaking today but at least you're here thank you and we have some speakers yes we do have one speaker Francine Maxwell Francine Maxwell we support the rights of LGBTQIA and as you singled out the fact that you raised a flag Black History Month for African Americans is in February and you didn't raise the flag we have Asian American months and you didn't raise the flag we have Latino American day and you didn't raise a

049flag so let's not keep pretending like we are all inclusive because we're not you're singling out a certain subject subset of people which is not a problem because they need attention and they need help they need to not be bullied and we need to know how to start a conversation and different things like that but don't sit on the diocese and continue to play like you are just so equal to everybody because you don't celebrate each individual so we're looking and we're gonna hold this district accountable when February comes back around to see if you're going to raise the African American flag and celebration of African American students and staff LGBTQIA and transgender african-american individuals we're gonna look to you when you put it on the website that is Asian Heritage Month Asian Americans have

050a flag Latino Americans have a flag let's go ahead and go to Seaport Village and go to the flag man and you need to buy up a whole bunch of flags with our tax dollars so that you can start stringing up everybody's flag so every child that you're blessed to have in this district because the parents are continuing to bring them some are going to come back and they need to know that this is a welcoming school student Lin I'm a little bit lost on that because the students didn't lead to close race and human relations it was abolished by your one employee we have things occurring in summer school that are right up the alley of race and human relations but once again it was abolished by your one employee so that speaks volumes

051and when Sacramento wants to look at something Sacramento needs to look at that all other departments were collapsed but in red next to race and human relations embolden red it's that the word abolished and so with all the different ethnicities in this district we do not have a race in human relations we close that and we moved most of the money to the LGBTQIA we have lost some things under the LGBTQIA that goes to every subset and so we need to relook at that I support Todd Gloria's bill and I look forward to the resolution being voted on but let's not continue to fool ourselves as we close 2019 and move to 2020 school year about the fact that you are not being equal you're not being genuine to every culture in this district thank

052you any more speakers for discussion please I must say that I I think that that's a valid point that has bothered me that we need to be fair across the board we haven't raised anybody else's flag then let's look at doing that okay that's not we heard it today we'll do that raise everybody's play thank you and that passes 5-0 let us now move forward to item on G 1 which is the Career Technical Education Advisory Committee annual update to the board I get to drive okay thank you see Terry McNerney the business chair for a seat it will present the report you have up to ten minutes to the hard part of the reports the hard part is driving well good evening I'm Carrie McCartney I'm the chair of the SeaTac been honored to

053present this report for several years in this and tonight looking forward updating you on the things that we've been doing with the career technical education here in the district well I didn't work so let's see this what am I missing here technical part I didn't tell you what I did for let me tell you introduce myself a little bit more while working on this issue I am NOT an educator I have a small company that does a defense related work we evaluate technology for the lab out of Point Loma that's not a good advertisement here with me playing with a button here but the point is is and I'll make I'll make it again here as we talk about the SeaTac that we are a the middle button that we are a we are an

054advisory panel as you can see here and our goal is provide a liaison between the district and the business community and develop some recommendations relative to see CTE programs within the district there we go I went to forward you know so here's who we are again the point I want to make is we are not strictly educators and you'll find within this group business leaders and also a strong component of those folks who work with workforce development here in San Diego because that's what we're really very interested in and we'll talk about that as we go on ah here we go so what have we done we review and we approve grant applications we make recommendations and do the C CTE office relative to construction and modernization I saw my friendly as we walked in

055and talked about some of the projects that were that he is building on the first slide there you saw that we were building to prop 51 facilities Mira Mesa and Crawford auto tech programs those are being worked on now we'll have them finished in 2021 interesting point about those those are nine million dollar projects and half of that funding is coming from Grants and the other half from our bond funding and the thing that's interesting about those projects is they are very involved in certification so when the kids walk out of those automotive programs they've got the patches on their sleeve that they can go down and work as technicians down at Massey or wherever and be this slide here we see a couple of our culinary facilities under development these are at Hoover and

056these are provided by our grant funds as well culinary's one our most visible programs I remember he loves the culinary kids and if you've participated in the Thanksgiving luncheon that they did out at the Prado those are the kids from Garfield and what you really get a feel for when you attend that event is how important that program is to those kids in that continuing education school just to let you know who supports us and the SeaTac members we are interested in providing support for events such as the hospitality teen Iron Chef and I want you to look at some of the industry partners we have here I already mentioned Massey Ford what we really emphasize is that these industry partners work at the individual school and program level and that's very important to see

057that these industrial relationships are solid and we're also interested in seeing them expanded some of the details here as you will aware there are 15 sectors for career technical education within the California Code we support 12 of them the ones that are italicized are the ones that we do not support the ones that are highlighted in red are those that are marked for the most growth is in the San Diego region by the Workforce Partnership so we'll take a look at the enrollment and in a few minutes here but it's important to recognize that we are trying to steer our si CTE efforts toward those particular jobs those particular careers that are going to be most important to San Diego in the future now make one note here you see that we don't have energy

058an energy environmental program but those those kind of things that are embedded in that particular kind of energy efficiency green kind of work are also covered under other other programs our engineering programs or manufacturing programs so we are emphasizing that that particular aspect and some of the other programs that we do this is kind of a this is a difficult slide but the thing I want to emphasize is this looking at the five-year growth these are the high-demand high-wage jobs and across these jobs you're going to have more than 75% are going to require a degree or certification 50% will require a four-year degree or higher if you look take a look and this is what I think is interesting the slide take a look at the high school graduate programs and then the certificate

059program so those are the second and third lines down those that's the sweet spot for our si CTE effort so when we talk about having partnerships with the Community College partnerships with with industry partnerships with other people who help get certificates for the for our students that's important and remember certificates also apply to people a very high-end job cpa financial planners and such real estate license so certification is one of those things that we need to be pointing our c CTE efforts toward i'm gonna get this down later just to take a look here at the way our students are are supported right now we have twenty three thousand four hundred ninety one CTE students that are in pathways and pathways are kind of our gold standard we want those kids to be able to

060complete a pathway by the time they walk at graduation so looking at last year forty nine percent of our students enrolled in high priority sectors this is up from to two percent previous year every high school has at least two pathways that are within these high priority sectors now just walking around the this chart can be a little bit hard on the eyes but to take a look at those that are the high priority areas look at the bottom there the EI ICT hsm t-- t-- and the MPD those are the high priority sectors and again you can see that about 45 percent of our pathway students are enrolled in those programs our strategies here and a couple of things to emphasize it that kind of reflect back to some of the things I've talked

061about before one we're doing a much better job I believe our career counselors or our high school counselors are doing a much better job at steering kids into si CTE programs through the pathways in the past sometimes counselors looked upon si CTE programs as just another place to put a kit so a story I may have told you before a couple years ago was at the at Morris where they have a very solid automotive program we asked the kids hey what do you like what do you dislike what bothers you and the kids in the pathway told us we don't like it when we get kids in the program that are not here for the whole program because the counselors send the kid here just to get credits they don't participate they're not interested they're

062not as enthusiastic about it so that's the kind of enthusiasm that one the C CTE programs generate among students but you also see there again the value of these kids see in the in the pathways and that's what we want the career counselors to talk to as well secondly we've also increased a number of programs at the middle school level we'll talk about middle school again and the last two bullets refer to what we're kind of doing internally is doing some good entrepreneurial if you will on the part of the CCE teachers in terms of talking up the programs and trying to get kids into those programs one of the big ways we're expanding is down into the middle school through the middle school makerspaces the one thing I want to point out and I'll

063admit that I personally when I first saw a makerspace is I thought well this is kind of fun busy work but take a look at the kind of facilities we're building in these maker spaces talking about 3d printers and so forth these are a very these very high-end and we're starting middle school to develop these kids into the pathways that are so important so you kind of see a vertical alignment if you will between middle school and into in the high school and eventually what we expect to see is that go down into the middle of the elementary school level beginning next year we're going to be talking about doing stem projects down in the at the elementary school level that again feed the middle school in the high school pathways a little bit more

064on these middle school programs got 16 of the makerspaces that we just took a look at again the emphasis is on that that vertical alignment golden Hill Munroe are scheduled to have these maker spaces installed this summer and we have Project Lead the Way involved in the middle school as well and as you know Project Lead the Way certainly gives a a validation and a rigor to the to these to these pathway programs if you went to the recent showcase I hope you all did but if you went to the recent showcase you saw how well the middle school kids were were there to show off and they were actually mixing it up and they might have embarrassed some of the high school programs that were there they work based learning is very important to

065us work based learning is the involvement of industry and our in our programs you can see the numbers there are generally up as we go particularly you see that there's that 20% increase in guest speakers threefold infra increase in business tours and we doubled our industry events the only area where a little bit flat is on internships and I personally would like to see the internships grow but we got some complicated issues relative to internships one it's the particular program and secondly it's the ability of industries to support the internships financially and so forth so we got some work to do with the internships last year I talked about some goals so let's take a look at how well we're doing first of all our facilities are doing very well and I mentioned that earlier

066before the other problem I mentioned last year was the issue of articulation and we're continuing to work with that with the Community College District I won't say that we've got the problem completely solved but I know it's been elevated to this board level it's been elevated to the joint board level with the San Diego Community College Board in your your joint session with them and I think the thing is we just need to make sure that that emphasis continues so we want those kids to be able to continue through our pathways right into the to the to the Community College the important thing about the the strong workforce partnership is they are actually funding through a grant some of the some positions in the CCTV office and again a point I've made in the past

067is how important it is for that CCTV office to have the right staffing because of the intensity it requires to manage the C CTE program so some of our recommendations this year strengthen the integration between C CTE arts media can I keep going keep going we're all here okay and vapo and we begin we've begun to integrate those the Pappa Pappa teaches a kid how to play the violin who teaches the kid how to be a violinist there's a whole lot of things that go into being a musician being a theatre professional that probably ought to be looked at as part of C CTE I already talked about the computer science and one other goal that I have is to to broaden the to broaden the membership of the SeaTac itself then finally we do

068want to increase our pathway completion rates this year past year we only had a 50% completion rate we'd like to see that go off kids come into the program they don't complete the pathway we'd like to see that go up ideally we'd like to see every kid that graduates from San Diego Unified have completed a pathway that maybe a little bit too pie-in-the-sky but we'd certainly like to see that as much as we can very pleased to announce our our new director miss Sara bellman sara has 17 experience in C CTE and that includes county district and site administration she's had experience working all levels of elementary education middle school post-secondary and she's looking forward to our partnership with the with the SeaTac I will also tell you that I was on the the interview

069panel that hired Sara it was a tough panel we had very good candidates it was a tough choice and we're glad to have Sara here to continue her leadership continue the leadership within the CGV area thank you know with that thank you thank you for that presentation and welcome these are new yes I was here nice to have you here it is a pleasure to formally meet all of you Thank You Ford members for all of your support and as Terry mentioned I'm definitely committed to working with all of our schools all of our stakeholders to ensure that all of our students are prepared for their careers in college and life so look very looking forward to working together and before Sarah got started just as she was getting started one of her first engagements

070was going to the showcases she got to see what the end of the year what it all looks like and to have begin with the end in mind which is not it's very much what you've been working on in other roles but you got to see how we do it here San Diego style and you doctor Reuters paint just asked me if this was the new L love L love is at the county and we still work closely with alleys doing great work at the county level and we're glad to have you on our team Sarah thanks for being here thank you we'll just hit the speaker yes we have one speaker friends and them as well engaged in some dialogue Thank You Terry also for all your years of service francy maxwell's c CTE

071so once again the word transparency slips this diocese because this report didn't have many schools so that you can showcase the equity north of 8 and south of 8 CTC CTE we have a room at Valencia elementary that C CTE certified we have a 3d printer but we have no programming for my children at Valencia Park Elementary why is that that's the lack of equity isn't it I have a 3d printer I have a whole engineering room why isn't C CTE in district II at Valencia Park Elementary once again you know where the programs are show it this is our only public meeting we have so I'm happy that we have somebody new Sarah so let's see when Sarah gives a report is she gonna be transparent and know what the definition of transparency means

072and show us the schools so that we can hold this district accountable for the lack of equity one again north of 8 versus south of 8 it's appalling that we have to continue to come to our public meetings and you don't show us where this things are you know where they're at I think that when I was outside I heard him talk about culinary I didn't hear the hungry tiger there should have been a shout-out to district II and a hungry tiger and all the catering that they're doing at the convention center to help us with our marketing so that we can continue to roll in some children so you keep wanting to talk about Hoover you keep wanting to talk about Garfield talk about the hungry tiger their culinary and the things that those

073children are doing that's equity when you name the culinary and the hungry tiger in the conversation with Garfield in a conversation with Hoover that's transparency and that's equity so once again I want to make sure that I'm extremely clear it's a public meeting you know where everything is why not show it on the screen so that the taxpayers can see the lack of equity in San Diego Unified School District especially when it comes to see CTE and yes our love is gone once again you're one employee she continues to purge San Diego Unified of african-american men you people sitting on the diocese should have a problem with that with your one employee doing the purge look at the board chart look at all of your staffing here at normal Street see if that's equitable you

074need all voices at the table to help move this train and the way that she has gotten rid of african-american men in title position there's a problem with that and somebody needs to call the DOJ because she's been able to purge this district of top african-american males thank you at the anyone speaker's board let's have some discussion yeah so first of all Terry I really thank you for for your report and obviously for your continued years of service but the report is very clear and and and and I think the goals that you said every year are clear and to have you know a report out about the progress that we're making and then you know goals for next year so I very much appreciate that and I think it would be useful on and

075you know maybe Sarah this could be something that you could do in in collaboration with the SeaTac but perhaps to have like a mid-year you know report on the progress a lot of the issues that the dis Terry and the SeaTac are bringing forward are also issues that we discuss in our joint board meeting with the community colleges so I think I a mid-year report and how we're doing and and how that you know integrates the the work that we're doing with the community colleges I think I think could be could be helpful I'm appreciative of the I what I believe is a trend although it would be good to get some numbers there about the increase in the in the percentage of students that are enrolled in the high priority occupations we've talked about

076that in the past and it feels like we're you know we're making progress there you know if you talk to people at the Workforce Partnership or in you know employment development programs what they'll say is that the number one barrier to people accessing you know high quality jobs and careers is the lack of social capital you know the lack of networks that you know so if you grow up and your parents or people around you are in an industry that's a high-growth industry you're likely to you know have exposure to that industry and to have a sense of what you need to do to get on a career pathway in that industry but if you don't the role that Career Pathways play in the school district is really very much to create that social capital

077and and and connect young people to these promising careers in a way that they otherwise wouldn't have access to and so this work is so important and and then when you highlight you know the the growth industries the the promise priority occupations and we see that we're exposing our students more and more to those industries when we see another conversation that we've had you know extending down to the middle schools all of that is so important because it really you know opens up opportunities you know to our young people so I and I just I appreciate the clarity of the report and and to get you know sort of a mid-year check-in I think would be would be helpful like I just make the observation of how important it is and again I see this

078is the the SeaTac chair of getting industry involved I think that's where a lot of that socialization comes from and and what you see in that I think whether it's whatever level that work based learning it's just the the kids understand what it's really needed to go into that profession they begin to get that light on yeah I can I can go do this yeah well you know I want to pick up on that before I check in with my colleagues at the joint board meeting we talked about the fact that there are so many jobs right now in coding I believe they said there are thousands unfilled in the state of California and at that meeting I challenged them and us to begin thinking about maybe requiring all students at least take a class

079so that they can see or at least have some exposure to what it is because we can't do it with just having one or two folks to go into it whether it's south of eight or north of eight or wherever we've got to really run ratchet up if you will what that's all about and that's just an example I think if you talk about restaurant it's here and all of that people know you know you're talking about restaurants and they know how to deal with that dealing with the automotive industry etc they have some concept of that but I don't think that a lot of people really understand when we say coating and we had it was jariabek I believe it was a cam and they showed the kindergarteners birth second all the kids are

080now being exposed to coating yes and so if we begin to put it in as you said at the elementary level then we'll stimulate more interest we will then be able to meet the needs of the market like the jobs for our kids Alton so I can tell he's a business owner and you know potential hire looking I'm looking I'm looking at the finished product this is the person I'm gonna hire or whether it's in my personal business or not but that that literacy in code is we talked about the you know really K through elementary feeding into the into the pathways the pathways representing the high-level learning but the preparation for those kids and turning them into code literate STEM literate elementary school kids is is really where it it starts what let me

081make an observation we have very they're generally around the district among parents there's there's there's good understanding of CTE at least at some level because I don't have the numbers in front of me this year but but almost eighty percent seventy eighty percent of the kids in the in the district will take one CTE course before they graduate the problem is that maybe just one CTE course what we really want to do is put people into pathways so they can they can leave with those skills and and if it's to college they go on to college otherwise again a certification that gets them employed right out of high school thank you free report and also welcome to miss Velma and I do know that you know when I'll love left he told me that he

082really enjoyed working sent a unified group of other CCT leaders across the county really felt that he was the person to step in at the county level to lead a larger level and and he had a lot of regrets about leaving Senate unified so this wouldn't make it clear what were the reasons for him moving on at that point which we're very positive so the other issue is in terms of certifications I mean you mentioned about in automotive and I know there's it's you see or something that's different the different tests that they take to qualify for different things and they get you know various certifications besides in the automotive what are the other areas where works in high school where students get a very very specific marketable certification so that is one of my

083goals personally is just to look at certification programs for all of our programs so we can look at Community College certificate programs and how can we link our courses so currently we do have one in the biotechnology area where the students take courses that are articulated and then they can continue on to the Community College sort of certification program but there's other certification programs that we're looking at now including in the coding area in cybersecurity in other healthcare fields so there's there's a lot of certifications out there there are single core certifications as well like in software or engineering some of our engineering engineering programs offer certification and software programs but that is a goal to look at all the different certification opportunities that are out there it just gives our kids an advantage to

084have a certificate in the industry or in the field that they're studying okay and then another thing that was mentioned was that at every I believe you said that every high school has at least two of the high high needs areas so and every single high school okay because I know at one high school they were talking about the the fact that they had culinary arts and on a motive but they didn't they didn't have their their own bias was towards other things that were related to engineering and so forth all obviously automotive related engineering but so I just wanted to kind of ask about that yeah and at that particular school we're looking at adjusting pathways they're based on student interest and looking at the cluster and what are the interests in the middle

085school what are you know what are they what is the feeder schools feeding into that high school so we are looking at ways to integrate within transportation so the automotive pathway is within the transportation sector which really does cover other areas besides just auto so we're looking at bringing in some of the aerospace into that area and then looking at some other environmental engineering goals for that but I'm not sure the other pathways that are at that school but that was you know sometimes different interests change and when that pathway was created that may have been a high interest area but so now we're always looking at student interest looking at labor market demand we are looking at that school and looking at some other ways to bring some other areas into it okay and

086then just in terms of the whole transparency and equity issue it would be helpful made from the MU or from the superintendent if we could just if the board to get a memo with all the high schools and what CCT the pathways are at each high school so we have a clear understanding of that and then maybe if it's possible to actually put that up at the on the website at some point just to have that list because I mean there's so many things we can list about the schools but that would be because I know in the past there was a certain percent this is even several years ago certain perceptions about certain CCT or CTE courses were offered at some schools and and and not awkward at others or the particular area of

087town had an advantage over another area of town and when they actually came up with the list it was almost the opposite was almost true so wherever it is where it's good bad or indifferent and we just like to see how it is and even if it's not a map I mean just the names of the high schools and the lists and and just to see what opportunities kids have and the different clusters across the district and and also to see if there's some inequity that there's just at this particular school there are a lot more opportunities at this school I know that a lot of reasons for that but that would be important to look at definitely and I know on the website just as I've been learning as much as possible and you

088know as fast as possible there there are on the website now all of the schools and all of the pathway programs that are each at each school we have another document that I've been using which lays out nicely each high school and all the pathway programs thanks to the team of NC CTE who has put a little work in to put this together and one of the things that I do want to add to that is our middle school programs on the same document as the high schools to see what programs they have as well so we will be updating those and we will make those available on the website end to the board as well but okay but you're saying that right now on the website yes the CCTs all the high schools are

089listed and where would I find that yes so on the C CTE website there is a link to all of the pathways of each school and there you can download every school separately but I can send you that link as well this there's a one-pager for each each of yet schools we sent that to each of you but and we also put it on the website but I can resend them so that you have them and it's okay but someone going to the website and they're looking for it you said on the CCTV page I don't think on the home page it says CCTV so I searched there's a link to it on the you know in the menu bar on this left side we'll send you the owner and we'll make sure that it's

090clear right yeah we'll make it be a nice yeah and you can't miss it peace okay thank you we just type in sandy dotnet /c CTE it takes you to the main page and then it has all the broken down sections within there okay great before we go to one of my other colleagues I want to return to John's point about exposure with that reunion I talked about there were a couple of guys there who said there were subjects were chemistry they spent thirty some years as chemical engineers with DuPont one in Laguna Beach and one in in Richmond Virginia so if they're not exposed to it they don't know so we can't just shut the students off from even exposure to two concepts into thoughts and we want to expand them maybe initially I

091want it to be a mechanic but then they may decide to go into mechanical engineering or whatever it is and that's what I don't want to happen I want our kids to be especially I'm really concerned about the Moores area and the Crawford areas because they're so far away from everything and they don't have a lot of businesses around that they can see I mean to you why couldn't we have a an office there a coding a lot of times is just paper and pencil in an office why don't we have some offices in the community that people can see this is a business here and one day I passed by this building as I go to school or wherever but potentially this is a job where I can go and work to do coding

092or whatever it is I just think that I'm really in challenging you wanted to go beyond just thinking about we're getting them through these pathways but to also think about the end product of where they work and how we can expose all of the children more to all kinds of things because they don't know now where they might want to be and they may decide to spend thirty some years in chemical engineering and retire from an entity I'm sorry and again no no your your great I didn't want to build onto that story about exposure as a middle school student I had mechanical drawing in woodshop and it was out of that experience those experiences that gave me a job for my juniors my freshman and sophomore year in college where I was able to

093build houses you know because I loved working with wood knew how to cut wood and we knew how to use the tools and was hired to build a housing that paid my way through my first two years of college when immediately graduated from Berkeley I was hired as a quality control inspector and was that mechanical arts class that that allowed me to understand blueprints and how to read them to inside/outside calipers to be able to do quality control inspections on major private and governmental contracts it was that exposure in those middle school grades that gave me those skills and that interest to be confident enough to apply and to get those positions and so I think we I want to add to the the folks the emphasis on that and I'm wondering in terms of

094building the vertical alignment that we are and does make a big difference we have our Lego at our early learn learning which is helping us understand coding students are understanding coding as they as a way of as well as building items and ideas and using Lego blocks been able to describe those and drop pictures of those been able to change those pictures to a to a to Anna rhythmic sentence be able then to transform that in their middle school years into an algebraic equation to be able to do graphing charts to be able to read that so I think it's starting with those early grades with toy with tools that then build with toys that then build up to the knowledge of using the toys as tools and I'm wondering in terms of the vertical

095alignment as we talk about internships and maybe apprenticeships I'm not sure what the pathway is and how successful we are engineers our high school graduates in two the building trades and into construction and sheetmetal work and and I'm wondering if there's a way if a pathway into architecture and engineering might be through middle school and through through woodshop and mechanical drawing yeah definitely I think you've said you know a lot of key things there I like what you said about toys to tools and so increasing awareness in elementary we're right so some of the steam units we're working together with them to see how can we add some career awareness and exploration within those and then pre apprenticeships there are definitely opportunities and I know that that area is growing so that is something that

096we'll look into and then again internships and how can we increase the number of students as Terry mentioned on the slide that gets internships may be looking at summer internships so one of the things that we're doing and talking about with our team too is how can we use the grant funds that we are getting to build our work based learning on our coordination of finding those opportunities and coordinating student placement into both we can look at apprenticeship and internships one thing I didn't talk about this year that I have in the past because we've been more successful with it is the the alignment value with that and of course the kids not locking pollination of the the rigor in the fall and of course is my mind I can appreciate what you said about

097exposure I took woodshop too and my big project was a cutting board which is like this so it also we can also rule out things and that's why I realized I need to do something with my mouth rather than my hands that is true it is definitely part of them discovering their strengths and their interests and what do they want to pursue what do they not want to pursue so definitely a big aspect of that was being able to look at a piece of paper two-dimensional drawing and be able to transfer that drawing to an actual object whether it's a cutting board or for us it was we built a boat that sailed I wasn't very good at mechanical drawing either thank you good thinking did you yes yeah thank you for acknowledging me president

098white hers paint one of the things I have been concerned about over the years of being on the board is the equity with community college course offerings and I know when this was first a new program the course offerings at Lincoln High School were laughable and in comparison to other high schools north of the eight we've gotten much much better over the years but obviously we always want to just make sure that we're doing everything we can to double-check and make sure that the kinds of courses to some schools are not different than other schools and one of the main reasons that we hear is because there aren't enough students at any particular school maybe that are interested in taking that Community College course and so then I believe that the Community College Joint Board

099meeting a couple of years ago and part of the ongoing dialogue is the opportunity that if you only have 10 students at one school and maybe 15 at another and 12 at another then maybe we can somehow bring them together with some kind of integrated learning opportunity online learning opportunity at the community college level or something like that I mean you know it's about putting heads together and finding solutions to overcome the speed bumps instead of hitting a speed bump and throwing arms in the air saying sorry the students at that school aren't going to have access to that kind of curriculum at the community college level and so that's something that I think is real important and I appreciate dr. Evans comments about let's take a look at the map let's take a look

100at the lists and be more transparent with what's offered at what schools not just what schools have what career pathways but also what community college course offerings are available to students at each high school and another thing that we've talked about many times is how many career college and technical education classes also fulfill a through G college graduate or high school graduation requirements and that's something that's really phenomenal and I really think we ought to continue to educate the public on because there's this perception in a lot of the public's mind parents Minds and students Minds that if you're in a C CTE class then you've been pigeon-holed that you can't then pursue a college career I think president winters pain mentioned that just because maybe you get a certification for automotive work doesn't mean

101you can't still go to college and become an engineer a mechanical engineer or a teacher so I think that's really a really really important sliding hit and you want to say that you know talking with parents of kids that have come from tracks where they would they expect their kids that go on to Harvard or wherever they do see the value with CCTV courses and some of those pathways particularly the Health Services pathway very much linked in very much appreciated by colleges who are looking for those kind of kids but I think the fact that you bring it up is just another indication that you got we always got to be concerned about that perception and may be concerned about the reality a little bit curriculum yeah and we're supported by the state's vision for

102college and career and so there is efforts from University of California to have integrated courses that our CTE courses will also be core requirements so so there's a lot of support behind that and we are working well welcome Sara and thank you so much for all your work thank you so much for your questions time thank you and the only comment I would make about that is that the electrical on the electricians that told us if you go through the program with I think it's two or maybe four additional classes you can get an A and then move on I mean they pay for everything won't you're getting it yes that's what it was ib w so yes it does work together but we want our kids not just a finished school with a goal

103finishing our facility and then going to a college and not knowing what they want to do but at least to think about all these various careers and have a plan in place thank you both for the report and now let us move on to item G to I'll move item G to another motion on the floor and it's been seconded so we have a presentation on this so I want to speak about how there really has been no plan for all this tax money that you're taking from tax payers and let's make it clear that this is these are Barrera bucks all right passing these propositions and these measures that keep increasing the cost of housing in this city as a result of Richard Barrera giving political favors to people having people from the city

104email them and say hey let's look at this property we'd like to buy it why don't we spend the money that you guys are getting from the taxpayers through the property taxes you guys spend money on flashy projects like football field lights instead of spending money on the really important things like the boring plumbing and the boring bathrooms those are the things that really change the quality of the lives of students every day so when you're looking at this plan you need to make sure that you're doing the basics because we don't have a superintendent that understands operations and understands making a plan she just goes along with whatever dole grow-op has to say so and on that point I've asked the bill Groff several times to post the recordings for ICOC let's be transparent

105it's pretty simple to do takes about a minute but the value to the public to have those posted recordings of what's happening in I see oh see would be a wonderful tool and that would be transparent but understanding Martin we don't want transparency we're going to eliminate emails and we're going to to send out oh we're gonna send out fake letters now the President of the United States President Donald Trump complains about fake news but in this school district what you get are letters Quality Assurance is great I'm getting off topic so I'm going back to proposition s and YY and z and how you guys have mismanaged that budget and you continue to buy property and you don't explain to the taxpayers that you had property and you sold it tens and tens of

106millions of dollars and you took the property that the taxpayer is already owned and you spent all the money you could have put it in a savings account and said you know what we might need to buy a piece of land in the future for school so let's put the money in the bank but not Cindy Marten and Richard Barrera they spent it all gone all gone instead what you're doing is you're going around buying property and that property is going to be piled on the back of US taxes and it's increasing housing you guys are the single entity that increased housing costs in this city more than any other entity check it out hundreds and hundreds of dollars are coming based on the more the bonds that you guys just approved well I think

107that was a little he should have been first so now we've done the public speaking and that's it okay as least getting ready to do the presentation I just want to let everyone know that we have significant construction projects already underway at 33 San Diego Unified schools right now and we're gonna give you a progress update tonight on these bond programs and the projects that are underway Thank You Lee thank you thank you Thank You superintendent Martin good afternoon president Weiss hurts pain members of the board superintendent Martin this is a report and update of the progress and financial status of current S&Z and YY bond programs as well as looking ahead at our plan to address urgent needs to improve our school facilities over the next few years san diegoans clearly endorsed the direction

108our district is heading with the approval of measure YY last november at this midpoint of Nova 2019 we have much to celebrate in these pictures of the topping off ceremony at Hoover High School show the students involved and here were busy designing and building innovative new education spaces for students and academic programs into the future okay with the passage of proposition YY we're prioritizing accelerating projects to improve school safety provide safe drinking water clean renewable energy and also to make instructional focus facility improvements outlined in the bond measure including C CTE and we've we've integrated the the prop YY projects with prop s and Z projects to coordinate all the planned improvements benefit economies of scale and eliminate rework and the the larger complex projects are designed and constructed in phases to reduce the impact

109on schools because we're working we're building during and operating schools at the same time student ok we go student safety is our highest priority as you heard at the recent L cap workshop physical facility security improvements are just one component of a complex security strategy and we've invested fifty two point eight million dollars in physical secure security improvements at our schools with measure YY wien plan to invest another two hundred fifty million dollars approximately fifty million dollars per year over the next five years we're focusing this work in three critical areas securing single point of entry canvas campus prone or fencing and improving wired and wireless communication systems the new ip-based intercom PA and emergency notification systems that we're implementing or designed and provide effective audible and visual communication and emergency and these systems have

110the ability to utilize mobile devices to initiate alerts and receive notifications in the area of drinking water the results of our extensive drinking water testing and plumbing remediation are listed here our plan is to accelerate the plumbing fixture replacement across the district in chief of five parts per billion bottle drinking water standard staffs actually evaluating the feasibility and piling projects that will move us to a one part per billion action level and you can see this the this picture of the filtered hydration station and here well is how we intend to get to the one part per billion action level and measure YY provides the resources to replace those fixtures and lead solder pipe that contaminate drinking water were we're spending roughly fifteen million dollars per year over the next three years on this on

111drinking water improvement this is a summary of of progress underway renovating and modernizing schools we've got three hundred and 138 major school construction projects have been completed including 25 C CTE facilities and 80 new classroom buildings like the one shown at Mann middle school pictured here these projects have replaced six hundred and twenty six aging portable classrooms oops proposition SC and measure YY provide the opportunity to transform education spaces to support our academic programs our modernized schools include collaborative learning spaces maker spaces specialized learning environments as the supports team Vava and c CTE curricula our innovative learning spaces are infused with technology we work in close collaboration with torrent Allen and the IT department and together we've advanced education technology at a large scale across our district each year we're replacing five year old student

112devices so in the in the nineteen twenty school year we will replace 37,000 student devices with Chromebooks and over 1500 teacher laptops computers and in the nineteen twenty school year we'll also see the implementation of new interactive displays and wireless sound reinforcement systems the advanced wired and wireless network infrastructure that connects students to teachers to infamy information and applications is critical and we're continuing to leverage federal ear eight grant matching funds for this wired and wireless infrastructure also this infrastructure supports our emergency communications system so as I mentioned earlier air conditioning we're now in the last phase of air conditioning our all schools design build contracts were awarded by this board in February and for the last twenty schools currently 102 schools have been completed 23 are currently in construction the remaining seventeen are being

113designed or in regulatory approval phase sustainability is a big part of the program as well we've started construction on ten schools in the second phase of our solar energy program and engineering and design on 14 more solar installations that are going to take place in 2020 and in addition to helping our district achieve its climate action plan net zero energy goal by 2030 these solar energy projects also help us with our utility expenditures by by the end of 2020 our solar projects will save about four and a half million dollars per year in utility costs and offset 80-100 tons of co2 emissions annually in terms of field projects in 2014 this board asks staff to develop a plan to improve playground surfaces we were playing our kids were playing on dirt playgrounds at the time

114our preferred approach is to develop grass fields joint use fields with the city of San Diego that maximize public access to our schools for weekend and summer use of neighborhood school facilities we now have 83 joint use fields that comprise 295 acres two fields are recently completed five are in construction and tonight the Board approved two more contracts for construction of joint use fields at Tubman village and Longfellow charter school projects are also funded by the pro rata share of prophecy and measure why why and this slide shows the summary of the board approved projects that provide better quality schools facilities for charter schools we've expended 119 point nine million dollars to date on district charter schools yeah how come inside all right community a lot is going on in terms of communications engagement we

115we really believe that that public participation input from parents students teachers staff and community members really help us design better facilities improve the quality of the the in quality of our projects and thus far our team is facility 435 site master planning design task force community meetings so many meetings we have lots of pictures of this our comprehensive website contains detailed information about the projects planned and underway at each school these these first two photos on the slider really cool they show sixth graders at Mann middle school breaking ground for their new classroom building and then the same students as eighth graders cutting the ribbon during the grand opening ceremony I got to say the the kids are really articulate too they great they they were great kids we also have seen a lot of

116success in emerging business outreach we're off to a great start in 2019 with our EB participation at nerdy nearly 33 percent we've more than triple the dvbe local market capacity and in the minority owned business subcategory we've achieved more than nine nine times market capacity that thus far this year and we're on track to meet our business outreach goals and much many thanks go to Karen lino Hannah and Alma Banuelos for their effective business outreach efforts one of the ways that we get there is is with micro project so we we we offer Mike recycle projects micro contracts to emerging businesses and this year in this fiscal year 18 19 16 projects were awarded totaling one hundred eighteen thousand dollars to local emerging small businesses on July 17th were as part of this outreach effort

117we're hosting our ninth annual business outreach X construction Expo event it's it's a premier business-to-business event opportunity in San Diego and it's free to all the entities and other public agencies that want to participate at Kearney high school project stabilization agreement this July 28th big milestone we're celebrating the 10 year anniversary of our successful partnership with the San Diego building trades and carpenters union under the project is stable stabilization agreement we've employed 11,500 workers on 154 projects and the Union referrals are really the key to employing residents from target zip because these are poor zip codes in San Diego 26 percent of all workers on our projects live in target zip codes which represent the areas of the district with high free and reduced lunch participation but eighty two point six percent or four out

118of every five workers that come from these zip codes are actually referred union members so there's a big contrast and this is what's really activating these areas of in San Diego so also the the building trades have referred over 2,500 workers residents of San Diego from target zip codes to our construction projects since the inception 2,500 actually 2552 and since 2009 they've created twenty three thousand nine hundred and one job years of work using the US Department of Transportation methodology let's see where okay we issued our first measure YY bonds in May and we've expended about in this last month we've expended about 2.2 million dollars of those proceeds so we're we're focusing here with this slide on s and z expenditures where we've issued two point eight billion dollars combined between s and z

119bonds and our expenditures against that revenues 2.2 billion in fiscal year 1718 we've expended three hundred forty four million and you can see we're ramping up because in 1819 we went up to four hundred and thirty million which is about one point one seven million dollars a day and when when measure YY passed we started ramping things up and now we're you can see we have about five hundred seventy four point seven million dollars of work in progress so we're at a pace of about one point four million dollars a day and the cumulative change order rate you think that with this all this volume that would suffer but we're actually the overall change rates about two point five percent at this time and our fiscal bond fiscal and performance audits results have been positive

120for the for the past nine consecutive years and knock on wood that we've received the highest opinion that the the auditors can offer on for further four audits in terms of future revenues we issued the those first bonds first why why bonds in May and we're preparing for another issuance in the fall for Z and YY and we're obviously issuing bonds at least cost to taxpayers and taking advantage of prop 51 matching funds clicker doesn't work so the the entire summary of our SZ + YY program plan from 2019 through 2033 is detailed in the attachment 1 of this item the plan integrates the YY projects with SSE projects to coordinate planned improvements and benefit economies of the scale it prioritizes school safety drinking water sustainability and instructional focused facilities improvements outlining the voter guide

121I want to also appreciate our citizens oversight committee advisory volunteers staff facilitates the citizens oversight committee and the charter school facilities Advisory Committee both committees are functioning well the ICF seen its three subcommittees meet regularly they review audits produce quarterly and annual reports and I don't want to steal too much of a thunder because the next item on the agenda tonight is is an update from Vice Chair mahogany Taylor and Andy Berg so with this I like to say that you know what this work would not be possible with the collective effort of our facilities planning construction team and we're also supported by a lot of other departments including strategic sourcing and contracts legal services real estate Human Resources communications IT & finance departments and also and I'd like to thank superintendent Martin Greg Ottinger

122Stacey monrell and the Board of Education for all of your ongoing support and that that helps make this work I want to finish my presentation with a staff recommendation to adopt the attached resolution improving proposition deci and YY project plan is so it's going on attachment 1 and for transparency we've included a column that references the voter guide pages for each project in in that in that attachment thank you and I believe we've already put the motion on the floor already you have some yeah just dug a couple questions and a couple of comments first question is as we're going to sell the bonds what's our credit rating an interest position look like we had a triple-a from Crowell which which and from Fitch and and we've we were wishing bonds at extremely low interest

123rates i I can't each each series has its carries its own interest rate I don't have that information handy but because of our stellar credit ratings we're getting we're doing really well in terms of saving the taxpayers money on how would you say that our triple-a credit rating compares to other school districts in the state we're probably one of the higher rated maybe that maybe the highest large I'd have to talk to our financial advisor but I think we're one of the and so then higher rated as a result of having you know the highest are one of the highest credit ratings in the state of California amongst all school districts so you that means that we're getting very good interest rates which are good investments for taxpayers right yes okay all right good i

124I do we've got some folks in the audience for an agenda item later but I do want to thank you for all your work for the gauge elementary school joint use field I know that you listen to the community you and your team did a great job of hearing what their needs were and and those items went into some of that project the project so that's a lot like what your work was with green elementary school thank you for that and Coverly and all the other schools in the district for the joint use fields because the children in every school should play on grass I also want to thank you for all your work and the board support and the staffs work in air conditioning in all of our classrooms so that the kids can

125focus on learning instead of other issues especially when we have a high heat days so thank you for that I was also surprised to hear about the quality and the water quality plan that we were planning to spend 1 million dollars a year for the next three years to get the lead out is that correct that's correct okay thank you and then two questions one where are we with the removal of old portable classrooms as construction projects are providing modern classrooms for our children so we've removed 626 so far some of those so far this year or oh not not this year okay over the over over the program we at one time the district had about 3,200 portable clock okay we're down into the 2,000 range I mean when I see straight 626 that's

126how many we replaced with permanent building but we're down into the low 2000s and we've every time we do a modernization we look at the well first we look at how much swing space we need for the modernization and then once the project's done we remove any excess portables okay oftentimes our goal is to eliminate all the portables right because those some of those portables are 65 years old yeah yeah okay so we just want to hopefully we can get a follow up update on the progress on the on removing old portables that's a very high priority for me and I hear that from parents and teachers and lots of folks out in the community that's very important and then my last question is just you know and I know maybe you can't provide a

127thorough update right now but at some point in time in the future hopefully you can provide maybe a board memo or something an update on the the the construction at Patrick Henry high school that's grossly behind schedule and I'll leave that question for I don't know if you can answer it now or maybe later in a memo with more detail thank you okay I think yeah the working we've been working with a contractor to finish the stadium at Patrick Henry the there's been been a lot of challenges with that particular contractor but they do have a recovery plan to finish by the end of summer but we know that remains to be seen they haven't to date they've had a plan to finish by the end of summer for this will be the third year

128now yeah yeah so anyway well I'll check in with the team and I'll send you of some information and mr. buzzer you asked for an update on that this afternoon so I have the staff working on that to provide you in our weekly meeting as well I just want to make sure that the board knew that we are in the third year of construction of a football stadium at Patrick Henry high squad thank you dr. Evans anything in terms of on the drinking water you talked about these these stations are really great with the filters and so forth how much of the the lead though is related besides the felt is related to the - all the pipes in the system that connect the city and everything else I mean how extensive is that and

129how much of that house it be replaced yes so that's that's the challenge if we want to get down to one part per billion you almost have to use a filter because it's hard to you know it's hard the source really we can't predict whether the source has you know more or less than five parts per billion right now we know that the water is typically delivered at less than five parts per rule and if you go to the store and buy bottled waters it's going to be that that's the standard they're there but in order to achieve one part per billion you you have to filter it almost at the tap and that's and that's the idea that the the the picture that you saw there is and the kids love to bring their

130water bottles because they're reusable and so the picture there is you know kids who bring their water to school and they can refill it at those stations and they're also this hydration station also has drinking fountains built into it but there's a large filter that's in that in that unit and and what the reason why we're piloting it because we we know that we're gonna have to also from an operation standpoint manage the change out of all those filters so that's something that but but we think that if we provide a few of these depending on the size of the campus on each campus we think that will will solve the problem in terms of providing a high level or high quality drinking water at every school - the best way to do it is

131with the filter and right at the end right and then we're doing a massive replacing of all the pipes and then the other thing on the on on the PSA since it has been 10 years just still looking at what way can we find out about our Santa Unified grads I mean we talked about the high target neighborhoods the that was living within the senate unified boundaries but there has to be some third or fourth or fifth graders when we started passing the PSA that have now been working on these projects and i don't know how you would collect that data but that would be very interesting to see you know it certainly would can talk to our partners in the building trades and see if there's some opportunity to figure out I know I

132mean I know that there are many of them when I want to meet with our partners many of them came up through San Diego Unified schools over the years and it would be interesting to see if we can track that data but I have to touch bases with them and get that because they you know they really care that information but I'll see what I can do in terms of that any other piece that overlaps with the CCT is the whole all the different internships for the building trades and you know how far the students getting in high school in terms of being prepared for it and I know with ibw there was an overlap but I don't know about the others in terms of doing actually in high school yeah there's that's definitely a

133pathway that can lead you to a really great middle class job and and if you get into one of these apprenticeship programs you're you're you know you're it's tuition free so the you know the high cost of college and these are really highly skilled trades right and great great careers okay thank you mr. Berger no Lea basically I just want to say thank you and again I you know I I think it's I think people take you and your team for granted sometimes how lucky we are to have your leadership you've been directing our bond program now for a number of years and so when we look at all of these outcomes that we're achieving of course you know it's it's a it's a big team and you always talk about that but we need

134to acknowledge you because it's just tremendous leadership you know on your part I just wanted to ask one question about so you mentioned the 2.6 percent change order rate do you have a sense of kind of how that compares you know industry-wide well the standard for new construction is about 5% I mean that's typically Andry or you know remodeling it you know it's not unheard of to have a 10% average so yeah we're actually seeing some of these new console week we've implemented some new types of contracts and with those new contracts we're getting better contractors not like the one we have at Patrick Henry benefit but but new and and we're actually seeing the change our rate going coming down with these you know yeah our active project change order late rate is lower

135than that that's our cumulative so we're at about two point five overall and it used to be like 2.8 so they're kind of coming down but it's due to better quality contractors it's but I think it's a lot due to our partnership with the building trades yeah where we have really high quality work being produced by through them but through the skilled labor that we're using but but overall I mean it's it's below industry standards that's fantastic and that's of course saving the taxpayers a lot of money and it's money that it can then be reinvested back into the program which is what you're leading I was in City Heights today and just you know driving down El Cajon Boulevard you know between Wilson and Hoover and you know it's I can't remember a time

136when there's been that degree of economic activity going on you know in City Heights I mean construction workers are everywhere and of course frequent team the businesses and city heights and as we know from your numbers you know a lot of the folks who are you know building our City Heights schools you know live in City Heights as well so absolutely family members so it's really we're doing right by our kids we're transforming you know our schools but we're also I think we have the the largest jobs program and the largest economic development program in the city and so again congratulations for your leadership thank you thank you dr. Mike yeah likewise thank you and your team the efforts that you do individually as well as collectively the various the coordination you have to do

137with the various departments within the district this is the massive effort has been ongoing up for years I remember getting on the board and and and looking at the construction projects that we're going to be taking place across the district and and wondering how we were going to be able to do that once I got to know you and your team it definitely is not a surprise that we are doing so well and that we have the the ratings that we have and the projects are are I have low it what's the change order yeah which is which is pretty pretty incredible I remember also when I first came on the first big issue we confronted was air conditioning and I was going to be a phase one phase two not Phase three and the

138board wisely and made the effort to put air conditioning in every learning space and use we asked you if we could do that and you said we'll figure out a way to make that happen the board went ahead and passed that that motion we now have air conditioning going in every school in that project which started five years ago or is is about to be completed I want to thank thank you for doing that related to that when we put in air conditioning that generates a utility use and energy and I'm wondering on your page twelve you you talk about the number of kilowatt hours that we were generating producing I think one idea was the we would be able to do generate enough production that we would not have increased cost is that still

139yeah that's still true so what the thing one of the things we're seeing with these new units is on their they're more efficient on the heating side B and so they actually with the numbers I've calculated I showed with the the photovoltaic systems include the air conditioning and and it's interesting there some of them are saving money on the heating side and and most of our you know energy we don't air-conditioned as much because most the school year is during the wintertime so so saving energy on the heating side is actually kind of offsetting or allowing facilitating the ability to air-conditioned on the on the on those hot days and and and we really do think we can get to a net zero energy by 2030 where we're making huge strides and we get we

140need to keep rolling out these phases of photovoltaics at each school to offset that the energy use and and basically provide clean energy you know or provide the energy for these systems with with clean energy renewable energy so so that's happening in the in the numbers I that I indicate on the slide and it also includes the air conditioning load relate it to that question about the solar system and so forth I know we've had an issue and I'm just bringing us up round works in the whole bits lab off but the problem is that we're also using solar ourselves to try to reduce our cost on our property so it's kind of a conflict for us to give it up for a community project which is what they're trying to do so hopefully we're

141working through that issue with them so that they can understand what we're trying to do yeah that's true and we have a meeting scheduled with them but but yeah we're maximizing there is a in some of our schools looking for space for the solar panels you know that especially the more dense urban schools we're we're when we build new buildings where we're creating rooftops that will accept in the new buildings accept solar panels because there isn't enough but in a lot of places there's land to build car ports and to put ground mounted systems but some areas it is it's sort of in conflict we're trying really hard to find enough space on the property to create enough energy to offset the the energy use at that particular location and that those as you mentioned

142those sometimes those those are challenging issues and relate it to that you just challenged me on something I has anybody thought about bonding away so that the panel's don't have to be so big and can still bring in a same amount of power that's a question for our students who want to be engineers the technology you know years ago ground-mounted systems they had tracking systems they had to track the Sun because they they didn't generate electricity unless they were at a 90-degree angle to the Sun and now they can they get they collect solar energy from from all angles or you know better than they used to and they capture more of the sun's energy and create electricity more energy per square foot of panel very good related to that on page 9 you talk

143about classroom technology and you know that we have 37,000 student devices planned for the upcoming school year I know that there's an issue at some schools where apparently they chose to by all I mean computers at the time and we don't replace them because I think that was an issue at a school like Lincoln can you explain the difference of why some schools are getting new some aren't and how that decision came about there all the all the active classroom spaces should be getting new devices and refreshed every every five years there might be some computer systems that are you know tied to a particular program or something or maybe a computer lab that somehow we'd have to definitely look into that I mean or maybe it's maybe they were connected to a particular program

144I don't know but all the devices should be refreshed I know if there is an issue we can certainly you know find out what what that is and and there may be some specialized computers that are not the classroom computers that are part of a maybe they're connected to see CTE or some other program I had a conversation with Russ Sperling on Vava and the need to there are certain kinds of APIs spaces that also need a computer refresh or should be connected in and so we're looking at all those spaces and making sure that we we refresh and that those students get those specialized programs also get new computers and when we do our refresh very good good to hear that and I think that pretty much I'll just stop there on thank you

145for working with Johnson school to for the joint field we're optimistic about just getting a bathroom in just to piggyback on your technology piece at our board workshop one a fantastic student who'd been through a lot of challenges financially socioeconomically said that one of the biggest challenges she had passing her math the recourse in high school was she didn't have access to a computer at home or the internet and you know I know a lot of schools and school districts some charter schools they have an opportunity for students actually take their computer home to do math work or supplement their math practice online with Khan Academy or whatever kinds of programs are open up to those students but I think that that too is really important that a lot of the students in poverty don't

146have access to the Internet at all and that that's a challenge because it's one thing to have you know computers available for students in the classroom but when the students have to turn it in and then leave without a computer that gives them a huge disadvantage so that I think is something that it's a part and parcel of our mission yes superintendant how many I mean I know I know a couple of schools that currently have a take the computer home program I think that was a pilot program but on how extensive it is now they're learning it was called the learning on the go program logo program and I don't know off the top of my head how many schools have it updated so thank you and I want oh we have a vote

147don't we yes please let's vote and that passes 5-0 and Thank You Lee for this report you do have a lot of things that up there right at the fingertip and we like that thank you g3 information item and I understand mahogany Taylor the ICOC vice chair and Andy Berg the ICOC member will present the report you know you have to 10 minutes to report it together we will be speedy I have to get my boys to it's tournament season I'm the vice chair for of IC OCA represent a being a parent who has a student in the school I have two boys that are in elementary school they're sitting out there Andy will be my wonderful clickers Phil this is not as important so the first word is kind of go for the responsibilities

148of the ICOC we have basically as a group of citizens who review over information presented by the staff and they give us information regarding the whole construction process from design always through the construction process we review over change orders the process like how the how each project is going and we also as mr. Dorf had said that we create reports quarterly and annually to provide information to the public about what's going on with the different bonds and as a number of people have said want to go visit Wilson middle school during this section of our of the year from the last update which is an amazing project if you've ever had a chance to go by on some of the days there's seriously like they said over a hundred people working it's it's pretty amazing

149to see all those people getting so much done I think the space is gonna be really amazing for the students when they're ready to get in there we also go over all of the financial reports and audits that the bond programs go and for the last couple years since I've been a member we've had clean audits the last two years we've had zero issues raised from the auditors the auditors are really diligent about their jobs they reach out to all of our the members and I know that they also reach out to staff to make sure that they are getting all the information they need so that they know what's going on when they produce the audits one of the big things that have been going on right now is the kind of working on

150the deferred maintenance program we're moving our way to our target goal of seven percent in the last five years we went down from 22 percent down to just below 17 percent and what that basically is is just making sure all the repairs that need to get done obviously we do great buildings but then 10 years later we have to kind of keep the maintenance of going on and we're trying to make sure that all the programs all the work we do keeps going keeps updated this one is a quick kind of review I'm gonna kind of quickly talk about it because mr. Duggar off talked about it as he said the review over snz and we will be also doing Park why why then we just got one it's issued in May so we haven't

151had any reports yet coming out because they just started spending that money I'm sure at the next meeting we'll be reviewing those expenditures as you guys know it's summertime so there's tons of projects going on everything is very busy basically when we get there up updates we know that they are basically working a ton to be able to get as much done before school or she starts to reduce the amount of disruption that construction happens during school time and as mentioned through the I 21 updates there there's a number of refreshes that are going on they this year we also learned that they are going to be replacing the Promethean boards and they did a whole bunch of testings of trying to find a better product that would actually be more cost efficient so we're

152excited to see that there's one I think in the ballard center and one other place that they've been testing out that seems to be a better fit for our teachers we are a open to the public our meetings are the third Thursday of every month we have subcommittee meetings of the construction and finance committee we also try to quarterly go tour schools so you know go to the website so you can if you'd like to come to the meetings and also we have at the website we have all of our agendas all of our reports the quarterly reports and a lot more information about all the bond programs let me just add a couple of editorial comments first up as many of you know I've done this now for four different school districts over more

153years than I want to remember and I've been on this one since prop s started except for the one year that I was you know forced to get off by law and take a take a little break I could say without reservation at this moment in time this is the best program I've ever been associated with and it's not really even close and when you're talking about 1.4 million dollars per day in construction that's obscene amount of work when you look at a project that is a 1.4 million dollar project that's a big project not going out every day and having you know mr. delgros and his staff manage that almost flawlessly yes there are problems Patrick Henry's a problem others are problems they kind of corrected that by changing the contracting method going forward

154that will ensure that we get better better projects going forward but just simply amazing and and I could talk about that as you know when people have complaints they show up and they let you know about it right when the press senses controversy or there are problems they show up and they're ready with pen in hand we haven't had a public member or a member of the press at one of our meetings in probably two years the program is just smooth it's almost boring and boring is good when it comes to this you know the students are getting better projects and it's going well but I do want to add just two things though one if that ever changes you'll hear from us right if mr. del Groff or anybody in his staff is not

155responsive to what we want we don't think things are going right trust me you'll hear about it from us I don't expect that to happen but we're going to be there for it too the bond program is not enough to maintain your facilities so I've said this a couple times we come before you twice a year and I'm gonna be the only person that ever lobbies for money for facilities because everybody else you know teachers counselors and all the things that are super important then they get that but you need to keep money in the budget to maintain the facilities where they're still gonna go bad when you looked at that slide on the FCI the facility condition index it deteriorates every year these buildings have an effective lifecycle of about 50 years in total

156which means if you do nothing you're FCI goes up two percent every single year construction inflation is three to four percent a year you add that all together you need to maintain these things you know we got a lot of criticism last time why are you going off or another bond because the facilities don't sit still you can't take a picture today and have that picture be the same in 20 years you got to make them better so I beseech you to keep that in mind when you do the budget every year and I vow to you that we will keep you informed if there are any problems and if not every six months we'll be here to tell you what's going right so thank you I think there are any questions any speakers let's

157see we need to get the speaker yes we have one speaker on this item citizen she may have already spoken about it it's already estimates right okay I'm so board members Andy real quick and again thank you for your incredible many many years and many projects of service how many years in a row now have we had like no findings in the financial I think it's only been three actually but before that the findings were minimal a lot of the findings that we had were based on the fact that we have a fiscal year and we closed the books yet bill still actually get paid in the next fiscal year and that was that was actually a problem for about two years trying to figure out how to get that right and went away there's

158never been to my recollection a finding of any malfeasance or bad performance or anything like that they were all technical things and it's kind of amazing that there's been no findings for two or maybe even maybe it has been three years auditors are paid to find things right you know that's that's their job yeah you know and if they can't come up with anything to complain about to justify the fact that you just spent you know whatever it is you spent that I know it's a lot of money on those audits that's what really that's a really good thing and it also shows that the findings they found in the past were listened to and corrected so thank you thank you on they can facilities condition index I mean this is brought up a lot

159of times and I thoroughly understand that as we're improving things there are things deteriorating at the same time so actually to not getting worse is his improvement how it was before these it's not only not getting worse it is actually getting bad right putting enough money into but I'm curious and then I don't know if you know this but I mean in terms of for school districts what what is kind of a standard and where they're at I have no idea because nobody else measures it so I mean that that's another thing you know you get criticized a lot in the press because you actually measure this and they say well it's not good uh-huh nobody else measures there's you know I guarantee if we went to your house I know if we went to

160my house the facility condition index is in double digits in my house there's no there's no way it's not after a house that was built mine in 1991 right so that's always the case you have about five maybe even more now five to six billion dollars worth of building value so at 2% a year that's a hundred million dollars or to 120 million dollars that it's decaying automatically let's break even spend a hundred million dollars break even and understand the bonds doing more than just repairing facilities because the the idea here is student achievement the facilities is just a means to an end student achievement is the end so we have technology upgrades you know we have air conditioning these aren't things that helped our facility condition index at the time those those are new

161things that didn't so money has to go to that because you could build a great new beautiful building and if the students are roasting and they're working on abacuses and pencil and paper they're not gonna get any success in their life either so you you know you've made those difficult decisions on what spending so if I make it the comparison but like for example in ten percent it's listed as fair I mean I have no idea came from I think it's pretty unrealistic slightly the truth I mean if we keep doing what we're doing and you keep putting money in the budget like you've been doing we'll get there there's enough money left on these bonds to get there but I just think below 10% so so is it fair to say that you know

162when when the operational budget does not include enough for for routine maintenance that then there's the need for more bond funds more often to County and it probably will be anyway because I don't think you're ever going to be able to spend one hundred million dollars on a regular basis just on you know routine stuff that you know that would take away from the classroom so there's always going to be a need you know hopefully not for another you know eight twelve years or after I'm gone so enough to be involved in it you know they'll be need for future bonds when we get to that point there's no doubt every school district that's the way we fund schools these days unfortunately the state doesn't provide the money necessary to to do everything it needs

163to make it better okay thank you thank you it's are on the same same topic the facilities in addition index as I recall that's the ratio of the cost needed to improve and maintain but related to the cost of new construction no not exact close it means whatever the building's worth let's call it five billion dollars it's whatever it would take to get it to five billion dollars worth of value with no need to repair anything no new paint no anything for that snapshot in time so if we had you know if we could spend you know two billion dollars in one day or billion you know a billion dollars in one day with where we're an hour a little less in one day and get it all done then we'd have a facility condition

164index of zero but it and it does it refers to the condition they were building and what we're doing in order to maintain what we have no absolutely it's it's a measure of that but the actual measure though is this is perfect new pristine for how much money would it take to get to that divided by the total value of the buildings right so that's the ratio so to go from twenty twenty two percent to two sixteen point nine I think is incredible I agree and and and I'm it also a think speaks to to some of the comments that were made in today's board meeting about we're not taking care of our projects we're going for the fancy visual projects we're not taking care and maintaining our facilities this seems to imply that we

165are maintaining our failed facilities to a very high degree you can walk and chew gum at the same time you know students the good facilities for their football team that is school spirit they need air conditioning they need technology but that doesn't mean we're not fixing the plumbing you heard what being done there right the the problem I think in sometimes the perception is this is at least a 10-year project if not longer the bond that was just passed unfortunately or fortunately every that votes for it knows money's gonna go to their school and they're real excited about that but it's a 10 or 15 year project again we can't do that 2.8 billion dollars in one day so the schools that aren't done first are naturally if I was a parent in those schools

166I've done that too are you hey what about in my school what about my kids when's that happening but it is all happening and it's being done by the ones that need it the most first I mean I think you guys have made that really clear that's what you want and I think they're doing that so we're required by law to have 2% in the budget thank you and thank you for it and thank you all for taking the time to come and volunteering to this thank you let us move to G for the appointment of representing I'll move item G for any speakers discussion before we go to a vote I did notice that the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce representative to the ICOC is vacant superintendent do we know where we are

167with having the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce have somebody on the ICOC yeah there have been times when they have appointed a member to that position it's just been vacant for a number of time we continually ask them and we haven't received we haven't received a anybody in that seat so we have 10 out of the 11 members but it's a the committee is large by ICOC standards across the state typically I COCs have seven members sometimes nine we have eleven although we have a very big bond program too but they have at times appointed a member into that position it's just lately we have not received a nominee they must think we're doing good jobs and I don't need to send somebody over to boring meeting so what I would what I would

168was wondering if maybe we could you know ask them again and then if not if if we don't want it to go and to go vacant not be representative by somebody and affiliated with the regional chamber of commerce if maybe then we can can change the metric or the process in our ICSC on how that person is selected and said it may be having the regional chamber of commerce picked that person maybe be anybody that is a member of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce that would like to participate in that capacity I don't know I'm just kind of trying to figure out how do we solve this problem because I believe this isn't the first time I've seen that explore it thank you so we need to vote on this no please do

169John I bought it my button doesn't work my vote has been taken away okay zero that passes thank you let's move on to h1 I'd like to move on an h1 naming of the new gage Elementary School joint use field to be the Cindy Elrod field you're the motion on the floor please present the item sprintin Thank You president Whitehurst and I'd like to say thank you to the whole gage family that's back there and have you've been here for a long meeting it's nice to have you here it's our honor to be bringing this item forward tonight on behalf of engaged community and Cindy Elrod and her fan family Cindy Elrod taught physical education and she was an integral part of the faculty at gage Elementary School for 28 years and 36 years with

170San Diego Unified until her retirement in 2017 during this time she was known to be one who inspired coached and encouraged thousands of students and her influence is still seen today under Cindy's leadership she established a running club that continues to this day it's before school and at morning recess Cindy was involved in all aspects of that running club which included tracking students daily progress ribbons when students reached milestone distances 25 mile 50 mile 75 miles etc just tracking their progress popsicles every Wednesday after school when students hit increments of 10 miles and even yearly field trips for those who ran over a hundred miles asides aside from the running club and providing physical education to all students Cindy organized a yearly field day for all grades weekly Friday Fitness which had song and dance

171for grades TK through to second and their families and she developed and maintained a motor lab for grades TK through two she acquired a neurones ium for grades three through five and organized family PE nights for the entire game cindy was also named district Teacher of the Year in 2006 cindy is remembered as kind dedicated teacher and a mentor who was adored by students and parents the community has brought forth this recommendation tonight with all of the requisite support letters including from Mission Trails Little League the principal has written a letter of support the PTA letter of support teachers letter of support all the signatures among others it's our honor to bring this forward tonight thank you do we have any speakers well one speaker Kathy burns oh I should also mention our families Cindy's

172family's letter of support is in the packet as well yes thank you I'm Kathy burns I'm the principal at gage elementary and I wanted to take a second just to add on a little bit about Cindy her impact is felt at our school still today as cindy has mentioned and it's not just the programs that she led but it's the feeling that she left at the school she has mentored so many of our students who have come back to say you know they come back where's miss Elrod I want to see her and tell her how great I'm doing she's made it a priority all her life to show kids that you need to live healthy and happy with a positive attitude and she did that by my example and I want to share one

173quick personal connection that I have my daughter had the privilege to have Cindy as her PE teacher during her time at gage and every time she would finish a 5k on the weekend her first thing that she would say is I can't wait to tell Miss Elrod how quickly how quickly I did what my time was and she would the first thing Monday morning she'd run and find this Elrod tell her how she did and she would her response would be not only a good job but now what did you do to prepare yourself talk about what you did what was the power you have in that and then now what are you gonna do to get a better time and that's how she interacted with all kids there was not one child that didn't

174love going to PE and that's hard for a teacher to do so I can think of no better name for our field but the Cindy Elrod field thank you and I do want to say there has not been one hiccup during this whole project it has gone so smooth so leave that group is amazing so thank you thank you [Applause] are there others here I remember the first time I met Cindy Elrod she was very persistent that I come out and attend the the end of the year awards ceremony back in 2011 and I was I was delighted to try to rearrange my schedule to figure out how to be there and it was great the the whole school the energy of the students how excited they were some of the students had run hundreds

175of miles that year over 400 500 600 miles little kids and you know she had such a great positive attitude she was very energetic her whole heart was committed to trying to create a positive environment for those students and you know going back year after year visiting gauge and seeing her was always a delight and I remember when she retired in 2017 we kind of kidded around about it how she needs to come back and volunteer after retirement because that's just not something that she was able to do and and I shared in this the surprise and the shock and the sadness when she when she left us so I'm really want to appreciate everybody in the community for bringing this forward and I remember when this idea was first floated and I couldn't think

176of a better tribute to her work for the kids on thank you Lee and your team again for all your work with the gage joint use field that's going to totally transform that community of that neighborhood so now the neighborhood will have a place to come in the evenings and on weekends and and play with their their families together and the running track I think is a really good addition so I just want to say thank you Kathy for coming down and everybody else that's here to celebrate and honor her thank you thank you any other comments otherwise thank you Paul you're working recognizing Thank You Sam or two for helping to lead the process yes thank you I - I believe I move item I - okay one of the contracts in this independent

177contractors agreement is regarding spending and it's about about $6,000 on how to make the public records system work better that's really really something you need to do Jeffrey Day takes weeks takes weeks to produce a document that I can get from the city of San Diego or California Department of Education like the next day I actually just did that so I really don't understand why you spent that kind of money because I don't see any result actually having it happen but that report should be made public and the what this contractor came up with to improve the public document production by the school district is really really needed that's a critical part of government work and it's not happening in San Diego Unified we're discussion otherwise please vote on it and it passes 5-0 Thank

178You this concludes the agendize business of the board at this point we had any speakers on the non agenda yes we have six speakers on non-agenda items and any of them on the same topics because otherwise we just don't believe every minutes each we have Francine Maxwell citizen Rafaela of Maximo Herman Collins Christopher Paulette and Cindy the United States President Donald Rob he has complained about fake news and so I'm here to complain about the superintendent's fake news I received this document that I've been trying so hard to to to get it's called the federal program monitoring for 2018-2019 I haven't heard it reported not out of closed session not a discussion item for the board but I think it's pretty important California Department of Education said it causes a CDE to question the reliability

179of the time accounting process that's pretty serious here's another one time accounting records we're certified by a supervisor as being an after-the-fact situation so it wasn't documented properly I made up some fake documents to back yourselves up that's what it really means let's see Lincoln High School Hoover High School Moors High School teachers do not have PE teaching credentials were we're not employed so that goes back to HR that would be acacia and it says as a result students are not receiving the required 400 minutes a PE instruction as they're supposed to these are laws they're pretty basic I don't know what the area superintendents are what the superintendent is doing but I know a lot of laws are being violated and some people better be in trouble over this next hello Christopher but they're

180just a parent most of the commonalities here from the comments from parents and public comment every two weeks boils down to accountability and transparency and that is something that we expect from our public officials this is what is being done so that there is no more barrier between the community the parents the kids and this board I want to know what's being done I mean I hear I spent two and a half hours listening to your guys comments on presentations kid advisor dr. Sharon weathers pain you were the only ones who challenged some of those stuff and brought some some questions on the table we've got more time thanking recognizing people which is important but we need to challenge ourselves how do we make education in San Diego better how do we meet the needs

181of our community how do we address choice we want to expose our kids to what they're gonna do to be successful in their careers school is not gonna be a choice education is important because it's the most the single topic in our society that will change our next generation let's not forget that that is important this is our future these are the kids need to learn how to learn we have to have that thirst to learn for the rest of their lives this is not twelve years of getting through school this is not school it's teaching our kids and teaching the world how important this topic is and it will not be thrown under the rug you guys close the school full of kids that we're hungry to learn thrive charter school let's not forget

182that closing it down based on on test scores not listening to parents not listening to the teachers not listening to the community that they serve and you said it has to change because it was all based on test scores right what's being done about that why can't we send surveys out to the community see how we're doing how we could improve let's get this report cards from parents from the stip from the teachers those subjective measures of how our kids are doing and they're being ignored getting on a snap of a boat we could close the school down we could reject the petition of a charter school no one is safe and it has to change and what is being done can we have a forum on the next agenda let's talk about it let's

183make some progressive change so that you hear our voices that's all we're asking thank you next well good evening my name is Herman Collins here today to talk to you again about what's going on at Lincoln High School if doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result as a definition of insanity Expecting people whom we overwhelmingly rewarded for acting in one manner to change that behavior is more than a bit naive in fact the parents know that who deal with children what the parents students and teachers and community or sync at Lincoln coppers clusters in the Lincoln cluster schools is really a lesson in accountability with the potential of hiring at-6 administrator in 12 years the Lincoln campus has become a case study in failure nonetheless according to the published timeline

184for hiring a new campus administrator it appears that with a 20 day recruitment process the district is willing to risk expediency over efficiency I'm not an educator professionally I'm trained as a social worker and while I wouldn't say you're insane there are strong signs that you may be suffering from post traumatic brain damage an example of such trauma is a recent request by the district to southeastern community leadership to lead small groups in a survey to help support in understanding the issues at Lincoln here's the complete essence of that survey three questions what is your vision for Lincoln high school based on your vision what are the experience knowledge and skills you would like to see in the next leadership and finally are there any leadership traits you would believe you believe should be considered

185as candidates are vetted the Lincoln cluster schools is there really a strategic plan an analysis to solicit community input parental buy-in and strategic planning with metrics timetables to understand what is expected of all parties to ensure student success the challenges at Lincoln are really the challenges of the San Diego Unified School District and educating black and brown students everywhere once a plan is complete the district will have a better idea of the skill set needed for campus administrator to get ahead the new new birth Lincoln High School which should be extended to include Porter knocks a millennial middle school Tet this plan would actually be a prescribed treatment plan to address the trauma of the administrative musical chairs at Lincoln Porter and MTM and the reasons why some 8,000 students every morning leave the Lincoln

186catchment to get into education somewhere else if I could have just one more minute to summarize the Lincoln campus was built for some 2,800 students its efficiency works best at about 2400 the current enrollment is about 1700 which would make one believe the district to be a victim of chronic traumatic info failure CET a progressive degenerate disease of the brain found in people who have a history of repetitive brain damage please no further harm at Lincoln press the pause button for even the most skilled educational administrator needs the opportunity to study the challenges assess the campus capabilities form community and parental and teacher alliances and what this is what I believe educators do in preparing a lesson plan in this case the lesson for accountability thank you thank you let's see we have any more

187speakers Rafaela maxima was actually supposed to speak for a group of current and future green parents in regards to bus transportation and so she had to leave because she had other prior things to do so we come to you for the board that at the very last moment we were told and notified that bus transportation was not gonna be provided for our children for the upcoming school year never was that ever informed to us prior to any kind of enrollment or throughout the plan of us applying for the school district of applying for the school so we have lost that bus transportation this is an injustice to our children because with your plan of the vision of 2020 to have qualified schools and every neighborhood what happens to our skids who are not in the

188neighborhood of green who are being bussed in now we have been told that it was the school's lack of getting the twenty five qualified applicants into the school but that was not ever told to us or never brought to our decision or even given to us as a decision to be made as we gave up as a new coming parents other opportunities for our kids to attend a magnet school that is not in our community that is not accessible to us so we come to as many parents we have here right now to see if something can be done or something can be thought of because if we are looking at that vision for 2020 to have that kind of schooling within our neighborhood and we don't have that what happens to our kids we've

189been here for two and a half hours wanting to speak and our children are not getting that kind of education that can be given to us in our neighborhood schools and I'm sorry and that's why we look out to other schools so we asked for you guys to please if you guys can reinstate our buses for our children from the next school year and see that our kids can get the same education as any other kids out there you what's what school are we talking green elementary now they're coming from different areas some are coming from southeast so 54 credit City Heights area so it's a it's affecting a big community now they said they had to have 25 applicants but school decides that I mean if they knew they had to have 25 kids

190on that bus they should have been able to accommodate 25 kids and for us to be told literally on like June 16th no June 19th no busing what are we gonna do I already give up high tech high the people giving up other schools so that's well thank you you will not the super did you ever report on it it does have to do with the decision around the number of students that we need for a bus the bus stops are determined by the high school boundaries between Morris Lincoln San Diego high and Hoover there's tens only ten students from those four high schools that are riding the bus and for magnet transportation students our policy as they live within must live more than five miles from the school and there must be 25 students

191from high school boundary to have a stop and in this case there weren't enough riders from any school boundary to continue this route between both schools they have 12 students currently and at time of enrollment versus time of notifying them some people don't know when they enroll that that might happen so I can give a further update in a memo if you'd like to all of you but that's the current status you know but because I think the point is valid about them no one to make plans it's not agendize for discussion right now so I can I can get more information later but we are aware of it president white errs pain would you please share with the public the fact that we can't really discuss it and the superintendent yes this is not

192a gin die so we can't discuss it now but superintendent won't give us or Beverly agenda if necessary yes in the future thank you this is Cindy burrows Lincoln High School PTO a proud public servant is defined as someone who works honorably consistently and with dedication that is what you all under diocese are you are public servants I have personally witnessed the very degrading disrespectful remarks from very several public servants one of them being third grade reading level of Lincoln High School students in a public forum with parents our second statement was I will not hire Soto as a principal no matter what you say or what you do a third statement was due to the low parent attendance having a parent meeting was not the best option as we know Lincoln is in a

193state of an emergency and I highly doubt that the district will be able to fulfill the administrative positions that were fired recently here in the last couple of months there is no possible way with the the very strenuous ways that HR has to take this process on that we are going to give our community what it is deserved we have a complex director position that I feel should be halted and not funded or hired for what is most important at Lincoln is a principal and three vice principals we should not be wasting time resources or money trying to hire a complex director who has no instructional input who cannot make a change to instructional input which is the whole reason why we got rid of the entire staff the admin staff we have a lot

194of turnover at this school we are not serving this community correctly also it was also annotated because I read through a lot of emails I've been around and show a little bit someone y'all have seen me five times the announcement went out for one principal position for Soto I said on three panels and you want to think that in 20 days you can hire five positions absolutely not it's ludicrous so at this point this diocese is filling the community in Lincoln and I need everyone to acknowledge their failure and everybody to do what they're supposed to do as public servants and make sure we we get the staff that we need to get I'm requesting for that position to be stopped I want to see an evaluation of sending more I want to see her

195last evaluation she was evaluated we don't have a record of that evaluation that's public record I want to see it I'm gonna leave you guys with this we need to have a parent meeting our parents have not been hurt the request has been made your email should be flooded if we need a parent meeting they need to be heard it's gonna be painful it will be I'll be there to help you get through some of that pain but you are refusing to listen to the parents voices you had student and staff but you forgot the parents you can't have students without parents and you guys are ignoring the parent voice I need that meeting to happen ASAP because you have level one interviews next week and panel interviews next week also thank you for your

196time I look forward to the meeting that should be scheduled to meet with the Lincoln community parents thank you thank you are there any other yes we had a late addition Sean coolican and Francine Maxwell if she's still here thank you thank you everybody I know it's late in the evening you guys might remember me I was here two years ago I was one of the ones who got pink-slipped I was a teacher at SC PA I taught creative writing and English and I was two English department head I was here right after I lost my job and then I was here again in the fall and a couple months later and just telling you how difficult it is I'm leaving the district and this is probably gonna be my last time here but I

197just wanted to come back and talk about the whole pink slip thing because I think it's kind of been forgotten you know I'm no spring chicken I was a teacher for 18 years and both of my parents were teachers I was also I am I think highly educated I have an MA in English and I have I just got my MFA in creative writing and I mean I live my subject but after being slipped and losing my job a couple days before graduation it was traumatizing and I did go off and I taught somewhere else the year after but last year I just decided I I was just really upset and frustrated and so I kind of quit and I took this last year off and yeah and I just wanted to come back tonight

198I'm moving in a couple of days I'm moving out of state to go get my PhD in English so maybe this was a whole blessing I really like that CPA SCPA was my family and I belonged there and I really wanted to get that English department going and I really wanted to build the creative writing program with the connections I had at San Diego State but it all just crumbled apart and lose out the most are the students always and yeah I don't want to come here and just give you guys a whole guilt trip but you know I did take a couple hours out of my time from packing tonight because I wanted to come here and I just want to speak to you if there are pink slips again and I know there

199will be just remember that there are teachers like me great teachers the students lost and I'd like to come back here again I wanted to say thank you so much for the two years you guys gave me at a CPA I wanted to say thank you too there was a woman named Marilyn I think she hired me back in September 2015 when I came here for San Diego State I want to thank se acacia over there thank you acacia for always emailing me back Aaron Houston I don't know if she's here but Thank You Aaron she was the one who called me and hired me I know you guys are a great district I know you guys were a special district i subbed around here in the last couple months recently and I saw the

200schools that are all being built I'd like to come back here someday maybe teach maybe work for the district I don't know but I just want to say thank you and take care I wish you the best thank you and that's it I couldn't lose it this concludes our meeting our next regular meeting will be held on July 30th 2019 thank you all for coming and sharing with us