001okay I'd like to call everyone present today and those watching the broadcast and called the May 29th 2018 regular meeting to order with all board members present with the exception of trustee McQuarrie the JR me JROTC color guard from Hoover High School will now present the colors please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance Oh March [Applause] Oh Thanks cool place your right hand over your heart ready begin I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you very much Hoover High School JROTC color guard if you wish to address the board on any of the agenda items before the board today or on a subject that not that is not on today's
002agenda and your name's not on the speaker list printed on blue paper located at both entrances to the auditorium and you have not already submitted a request for public testimony form please complete the form and submit it to share award the board action officer on your left speaker forms are located at both entrances to the auditorium I'd like a motion to adopt today's agenda with section J superintendents consent agenda to be considered out of order following the adoption of the agenda and acted upon next we have a motion in a second does any board member wish to remove any items from the consent agenda okay we have speakers on consent agenda items I don't see in here on the blue page founded consent superintendent's consent agenda items j8 10 and 30 okay now what about
003and then 7 and 23 which were previously removed by staff okay is there a motion oh we have to let's vote on the adoption of the agenda first sorry that passes unanimously does any board member remove to wish to remove an item from the consent agenda okay we have speakers on the aforementioned items is there a motion to move the consent calendar except for those items we have a motion and second please vote okay that passes unanimously next we go to our student presentation recognition and resolutions trustee Barrera would you please introduce the area for superintendent Sophia Ferrer who will introduce the student presentation for today Hoover High School excited to do this and to hear the presentation tonight we've got so much really groundbreaking work going on in the Hoover cluster and so we're
004gonna we're gonna hear about that tonight and it's just something I think this whole district can be proud of so yeah thank you board president Weiser and board trustees it is with great enthusiasm and excitement that I'm here to present the Hoover team there's so many exciting things happening at Hoover you actually feel great energy and passion when you walk onto the campus especially when you see the interaction among adults and kids I promise the principal that I wasn't going to take any of his talking points so I'm gonna keep my little speech very brief we know that it all starts with leadership and at the helm of Hoover High School is an amazing leader and without further ado I'd like to present the new proud principal of Hoover High School Jason Babineaux good evening
005my name is Jason Babineaux and I am the proud principal of Hoover High School all right it has been an honor to serve the Hoover community and to work with exceptional young men and women like the ones you were about to meet tonight this year we became a wall-to-wall school meaning every student is connected to a small learning community tied to an industry sector with four previously established academies a group of hard-working teachers have developed our fifth academy the social justice Academy these Cardinals Academy ambassadors are going to share their unique academy experiences with you in addition each individual here was a member of the College Avenue Compact which guarantees a mission to San Diego State University with the completion of specified academic requirements this is an incredible opportunity for all Coover cluster students and
006these five outstanding senior Cardinals stand as role models for every child who has a dream to go to college it is an honor to introduce Evelyn Aguilar to begin our story my name is Evelyn Aguilar I am part of a whitey short for Academy of information technology AIT prepares students by giving them the opportunity to take courses such as computer science game design GIS and IT essentials AIT revolves around technology which is crucial in our current world because you need to have some technology background in all job requirements every year freshmen participate in a one-day event in the beginning of the year called the hour of code we're a company called the control group comes to Hoover and informed students about computer science and teaches basic coding I remember how fascinating this event was when
007I participated in it it made me become more curious about this academy and it and it encouraged me to stay in it although I will not be pursuing a career in the technology field it has been a wonderful experience as for my future plans I will be majoring in kinesiology at San Diego State University in hopes to become a physical therapist one day not only did the courses and the support that AIT offered me prepare me for college by also Oh a lot of it to College Avenue compact for my guarantee admission to SDSU cat assigns an advisor to every student in the program and offers one-to-one mentoring in these one-to-one and they make sure that I was on track with my schoolwork and they answered my any questions I had regarding college my CAC
008advisor encouraged me to take honors and AP classes that Hoover offered I was hasn't the efforts but I trusted them due to the fact that they knew my potential before I ever did and I'm glad I did because it benefited my overall GPA of a four point one as I leave Hoover my goal as president of a whitey is to have set an example that will allow who were to continue forward at having college ready career searching students it is my pleasure to introduce Louise Laura main [Applause] good evening my name is Louise Dora Mae and I'm a proud senior representing Alma the Academy of literature media and arts Alma has given the students the opportunity to express themselves in a wide variety of different classes from theatre to visual art courses to an uprising
009music department which I am also proud to represent with the proud diversity that this Academy holds there are also comedy there are also common culminating projects through different organizations that help students tell their story through photography as well as spoken word and a fall on opera production that was held in our auditorium two years ago the Allman Academy has given students the opportunity to go out into the community and demonstrate the artistry and in-video individuality as well as give students the tools to succeed with real world skills my ultimate experience in the academy has proved that a hardworking and determined student can achieve some truly amazing milestones the music department has granted me the leadership position as president for the orchestra program under the mentorship of the music director I have been able to transform
010the orchestral department by taking our most advanced group to compete against other schools and competitions as well as perform at different events throughout San Diego do this experience I've learned how difficult exciting and interesting leading an ensemble convene as my fellow colleague had discussed the college I mean in compact CAC has given me the motivation to stay on track in my academics my mentors have been able to do this by advising and pushing me to achieve even higher goals than what I would typically shoot for and I greatly appreciate everything this program has done for me and my fellow Cardinals I plan to attend San Diego State in the fall to study music education with the goal of becoming a music teacher so that I can give back to my community and teach younger generations
011music through all - tremendous support the Coover community has definitely shaped me to become the great leader I am today it is with great pleasure I introduce Nani oh so do hi my name is Loni Osorio I plan on going to assist you a major in psychology hoping to be a future pediatric psychologist I'm here to represent the health Academy from Hoover High School the help Academy partners are 3d Children's Hospital to form a program called faces for the future both the program and the Academy work together to provide hands-on and professional health care experience to their students they also offer support from academic to personal problems students are facing one experience that not many high school students get is interning in the hospital having this opportunity I was able to complete an internship with
012the neuro science integrative and audiology audiology department this experience is not only fulfilling but it also made me realize that I want to continue on the career path to medicine thanks to the partnership the health Academy has with brady's students are provided with mentors that guide and prepare them throughout their high school experience if it wasn't for my mentor applying for college would have been much more difficult she offered me the support I needed when it came to college abs in financial aid another great program provides it's called a Germany compact also known as kack kack offers workshops to parents so they can have a better understanding of how college works they also have translators available most of the time and they tend to keep in contact with parents to keep them updated on students
013grades in order to help them succeed CAC also helps the whole Coover community not just the tech scholars and sexually CAC is a great - of the benefits the entire Hoover population it's a pleasure to introduce Alexandra Sanchez Reyes [Applause] good evening ladies and gentlemen my name is Alexander Sanchez Reyes and it is an honor to be here representing the social justice Academy I am here tonight to speak on behalf of my Academy and the college having a compact program the social justice Academy is a brand new Academy with the mission to educate organize and advocate positive social action for self family community and environment since our Academy is the largest the student the student cabinet and myself as a vice president in families to bring collaboration opportunities for every student to participate and build
014a community around in our campus we learned to work with one one another because that is how the real world works with different languages cultures ideas and stories this Academy has helped me prepare for college in the way to see everyone's perspective one major experience this year was in my English class when we got invited to the Museum of photographic of Arts to watch a documentary called Joshua versus superpower some may know what this subject is about and others might not - sunrise is about a young advocate named Joshua who at the age of 14 fought for education in China to have Liberty to choose what they want to learn at school rather than have the government implement a one standard curriculum this film goes in-depth with the young advocates action step-by-step and witness what
015a great impact he had on its family community and country by having a passion and willing to fight for what he believed in furthermore with the support of college Emily compact I was able to complete all of my college applications and financial aid that brings stress upon our seniors during the start of our senior year with the extra hand that they provided it is easier to understand and get it advice as was edited before submitting I will be attending San Diego State University to pursue a major in civil engineering attending over these past four years have taught me not to be afraid of Who I am and where I come from has their arms open to anyone despite their background and the challenges they are living with because we are a family and wants us
016to strive for greatness it is an honor to introduce my classmate got him in our CSO to the lectern good evening my name is karima Narciso i am 17 years old any senior Hoover high school I am under sustainable Academy a building and engineering also known as sabe I sit in the acronym my Academy finds ways to be sustainable in a creative way to help our school and our community by building projects in our woodshop one major project I took part in was during my sophomore year where we built sheds and donated a couple to the City Heights 444 which they use as an office and storage through field trips hosted by sabe I have been exposed to many potential careers and even learned skills to be college ready such as flexibility adaptability adaptability collaboration
017and communication both with classmates and adults additionally through Hoover's College Avenue contact program other students and I had had the opportunity to travel exploring different college options last summer we visited three different schools starting with UC Santa Barbara thank her Poly San Luis Obispo and lastly UCLA this all-expense-paid trip giving a straight glance at the college experience especially by staying in the dorms for one night through the CAC program I also exceeded the requirements to receive guaranteed admission to SDSU where I plan on attending in the fall majoring and communication with a minor in television film and new media in order to have a career as an executive producer it is because of the exceptional programs offered at Hoover as well as the guidance of the wonderful teachers and staff that I am the person
018I am today they have taught me how to be a leader step out of my comfort zone and take advantage of every opportunity that comes my way thank you for allowing us to share our incredible Hoover experience have a great night [Applause] thank you very much her high school is definitely in the house tonight thank you we go on to the next agenda item which is item c2 this is an action item on a resolution to support the climate science literacy program do I have a motion we have a motion is there a second we have a multiple seconds we do have speakers on the item we have a few speakers so we'll have two minutes each please Blair Lea Michael Smith I'm Blair Lee should I just start huh yep you have two minutes
019I am in favor of the climate literacy program my name is Blair Lee I've been involved in science education for 30 years as a science author college professor and public speaker we're in the middle of an environmental crisis if you think I'm incorrect it only emphasizes the point I'm trying to make and it is that we are doing an inadequate job of educating people about the science that explains human-caused global warming and how that is causing substantial climate change climate change denial is as it is at its very center and education issue climate change denial could not even be an issue if people had ownership over the science explaining it the word ownership used in this context refers to the information you just know if I were to tell you that two plus three equal
020four you would think I was not a very well-educated person and most people would agree with you it's because you have ownership over that issue the problem is we do not hold people to the same basic standard when it comes to understanding science that explains climate change we are in the middle of an environmental crisis it is a critical area to educate children about because we cannot solve the problem without a solid understanding of the science explaining it the science explaining climate change is actually quite straightforward and per not particularly complicated which is good it means that creating ownership for this is obtainable we just need to teach it thank you and I hope that you agree with me and adopt the climate literacy program and members of the board I'm Michael Smith I'll be
021brief first I agree with everything the previous speaker just said second I'm the parent of a 10 year old in the district a 5th grader who already at that young age is seriously concerned about the ongoing degradation of the biosphere and really worried about the world that he can expect to grow up in I think we owe it to his cohort his generation as well as those who will come later to provide them with a firm science-based understanding of climate literacy and the actions they can take both in the near term and in the longer term to mitigate the impacts of climate change and to adapt their behavior to the changes that are coming I strongly support adoption of this resolution I think it's critical both for students in our district and across the country
022and I urge you to adopt it thank you thank you James Ferguson Jim Miller Kelly Mayhew come forward in any order thank you good evening I'm co-chair of San Diego 350s public policy team and I think I have other colleagues here but I came to speak in support of this common-sense I'm sure it cannot fail I really hope that that's the case hello superintendent Martin we meet again the first time that I heard about climate change was when I attended my very first college course in 1975 we studied greenhouse gases we studied climate change we studied what would happen we studied timelines that those would happen in we studied the reasons for them they had already been known for at least 20 years before that and so I thought you know good we got this
023we know about it we can fix it in the meantime there's been a decades-long program of disinformation to make sure that certain economic forces have not been have not been impacted and the problem that we now have is that we've transformed it from a issue of science an issue of what's actually happening into a political issue and it's really essential these kids and young people are going to live in this world that we are creating and it's no longer in the distant future it's no longer far away it is the increasing pace and intensity of climate disasters that we have as fires and prolonged droughts and famines and displacement of people and resource warfare those things are going to happen increasingly in their lifetimes will be dead but we have to teach them how to
024do how to do life in those conditions unless we can change it and we can we have many many things that we do all the time in our team and in the legislature and around the country which are making a huge difference I think so I want to thank you very much for your support okay thank you sir I'll try not to get the red light my name is Jim Miller I teach the San Diego City College I'm with the American Federation of Teachers Local 1931 and the chair of the San Diego Imperial counties labor council environmental caucus as well as the chair of the California Federation of Teachers statewide climate justice task force so I mean most importantly I'm the parent of a child at Roosevelt middle school here in San Diego and I'm
025standing here to thank you for this resolution in support of climate literacy you know given the crisis that the previous speakers have mentioned there is there's so many things on your plate every single meeting but really in the times we're living and nothing could be more important than preparing the next generation to deal with what is the crisis of our time and I think given the fact that this has become a political issue it sometimes takes some courage to step up and put something like this forward but really nothing could be more important thank you for taking this action thank you [Applause] and I'm not gonna add much new but I'm Kelly Mayhew I am the other parent of the soon-to-be ninth grader at San Diego high I'm also the co-chair of the now labor
026and climate justice education committee for the California Federation of Teachers I coordinate the Labor Studies program at San Diego City College and I teach about climate literacy in my English classes because we need to what I appreciate appreciate about this resolution is how how much it offers guidance for teachers hum-hum how it's got some good teeth in it if we don't educate our kids now they won't have a future that that we would be depriving them of and my classes I teach them how to analyze the discourse surrounding climate change I would love to have there be there be fewer cases of negative discourse surrounding it and to be able to just look at the facts so thank you thank you thank you I know you guys don't get to hear that very often but
027thank you for doing this thank you a good afternoon I'm Derrick Cassidy an organizer with the climate mobilization coalition the San Diego claimant mobilization coalition I believe that if the students knew what was happening with the climate today they would be in the streets like the young people are in Florida regarding the gun reform Nessun the need for gun reform our television our media our churches and our major educational institutions are not telling the people what is happening every night if we were really telling people what's happening our television would be our television stations would be warning people that were on a path to the end of civilization truly and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography has recently issued a report that there's a 5% chance of human extinction by 2050 now that's not a very
028big percentage 5% but they said if you're going on an airplane and they told you they had a 5% chance of crashing you wouldn't go so it really is serious and we've not been told the truth and the fossil fuel industry has been spending millions of dollars to confuse people all over this country and in the media interestingly our school district today has in the Advanced Placement environmental studies textbook a wonderful section about the need to take strong action and talking about the work of mark Jacobson at Stanford University who has computer modeled the complete changeover of this country to renewable wind water and solar energy thank you for taking this seriously and for having this hearing tonight Nancy did you want to speak as well Nancy Cassidy thank you thank you for the privilege
029of not exactly adhering to the proper procedure just to reiterate it is an extremely dire situation and there is still much that can be done I recommend to you a book called drawdown if you've not seen it it lists the studies for the hundred most effective things to do in order to address the climate emergency you've taken the steps that have been very inspiring including meatless Monday because having a more plant-based diet is the second part of what we must do if civilization is going to be able to survive we have to get off fossil fuels in order to do that we have to have the new energy system built and that should be the priority for every opportunity to spend any government money it should be directed to this transition to the new infrastructure
030this is a jobs program we're talking about the new infrastructure of wind water and solar so we can get off fossil fuels and then addressing the culture of a plant-based diet those are the two parts not to do them both commend you so much for your attention on food waste and your alternatives to packaging you guys are really inspiring I only wish that more people knew of your good work thank you thank you that concludes public testimony board member comments or questions all right seeing none please vote and that motion passes unanimously if next I'd like to consider item g8 which is recognition of Dwane Crenshaw if you look in your agenda under item g8 it's a proclamation on behalf of the board recognising Dwane Crenshaw who's the CEO of rise San Diego for his
031work facilitating the district committee on the elections is Dwane Crenshaw here at this time can I get a motion on the proclamation we have a motion and a second okay trustees comments or remarks dr. white hairs paint I want to say that I he was on my choice list to serve on the committee for the elections and then he wound up chairing the group that facilitated the whole process and I was very proud of him I'm very proud of him and the group and the work that they did and I want to say thank you for who's serving in that capacity and we thought you did an outstanding job of facilitating that given the time constraints and so forth so I just want to publicly say thank you for taking on that civic duty and
032shepherding that activity thank you any other board member comments I would like to you know say thank you very much mr. krenshaw you took on a very challenging task that we had asked of you and you step forward and I really appreciate all the time and the hours the weeks meeting with different members of the community and facilitating the whole process so thank you very much I really really appreciate your commitment to the school district and our kids thank you seeing no other comments please vote okay that passes unanimously Duane would you like to say a word or two good evening thank you so much for that recognition I want to acknowledge first and foremost this board for calling a community process together far too often we don't do civil dialogue we don't truly engage
033citizens and you all did that the time was tight but the issue was important and I think the feedback from many folks in this room was important in critical to receive so I just want to say thank you for the opportunity and hope that we can continue to partner together on bringing citizens and parents and teachers and community together on behalf of our kids thank you thank you sir we have this Proclamation right here can I ask the board to take a picture with mr. Crenshaw please thank you okay that takes us to section D on the agenda which is public participation and non-agenda public testimony we set aside 30 minutes of our board meeting at this point in time and then we have additional minutes that we can use to hear a non-agenda public
034testimony at the end of the meeting there's we've received over 21 requests looks like even more than that so in order to hear from everybody in the 30 minutes that we have what we do is we adjust the time if we only had 10 people everybody would get 30 minutes if 3 minutes sorry 30 minutes total sorry that's that would be a great board meeting huh yeah and so because we have well over 20 23 24 people then in order to hear what everybody has to say fortune we're gonna limit the testimony to 1 minute so that we could hear from everybody all the different concerns they have so let's go ahead and please here and come on forward in any order and please begin speaking citizen Francisca Salcedo Francine Maxwell Louise Lucas so please
035respond to my complaint that I sent to you an email by June 30 the district website fails to inform citizens that it is optional to give your name and your address to a government entity so please correct that also please remove the statement on your website that states the board requests that speakers for comment only on issues and not on individuals it is an illegal action to control public speeches so please correct that and one of them is as easy as just placing the word optional on these sign-in sheets thank you [Applause] franciene Maxwell our prime purpose in this life is to help others and if you can't help them at least don't hurt them board trustees your one employee has heard thousands of students and thousands of parents since her tenure here with that
036secret appointment as our superintendent no community input no community vetting or anything recently her visit to Lincoln traumatized parents who were coming to school to observe their children they were they had security called on them she was sitting there in the conference room her and her leadership team so how disgraceful do you say when you want parent involvement and I have a teacher that she knows about that the general counsel has made Lincoln keeper who had parents escorted off the campus and I want to thank the security for the professionalism that they shown the parents that they had to come and eject from a class when they were trying to watch that teaching and learning was not occurring with their student there on campus I think it's time for you to wake up and just
037stop it and buy her out of her contract [Music] [Applause] Louise Lucas classified employee this is just to say that the abyss is growing between the staffing recommendations your Human Resources Department makes to you that you approve without a parent question or discussion and the work your classified employees are expected to get done the left hand truly does not know no as in comprehend what the right hand is doing as a group with classified folks like working in supporting positions we like the jobs we applied for and we agree with the expectations in our position descriptions as a group we classified folks are pretty freaked out by all the related duties as assigned we are now expected to add on duties that were originally covered by say registered nurses actual librarians or designated computer technicians
038and not only are we expected to do these so-called it related duties we're expected to be cheerful while being told our salaries benefits and pensions are a burden it feels like the words structural deficit are your secret code for classified employees forgive us we're here to remind you we are priceless thank you [Applause] Celeste barber kisaki David Hartman has Zeus Angoon says Marcela in a new gas and IGAs is that okay please come forward if your name's been called and speak in any order you have one minute do you mean my name is les popeck Ozaki currently have three children enrolled in the same unit the Unified School District I'm here to speak on behalf of the Arturo DHA them at Whitman elementary and updated letter was sent home to the families regarding this relocation
039of the only auditory Oreo DHA program to Lafayette elementary in this letter Kristin McKenna refer to that this decision was backed up by data from a legislative analyst report which if you actually read it comes down to that school districts are not capable of educating DHH students they're better off being shipped off to regional programs it is apparent that Kristin McKenna's letter really questions her own credibility the credibility of the special education department and that of the San Diego Unified School District I will be giving you a copy of my thermo statement because I only have less than a minute however I want to reaffirm my assertion that we are requesting the sustaining a Board of Education direct to say Nia Unified School District to rescind this decision to relocate this program thank you thank
040you [Applause] good evening my name is hey Suzi Negus I am the father of Sammy when you guys I want to first apologize I didn't let my son speak the last time he was here there's something I want to try since we only have a minute I'm just gonna make it quick when he first got his hearing aids the first thing he kept repeating that he heard us say a lot was no nada meaning there's nothing not sure but we try to keep him away from but he got that pretty quick and he kept repeating your horn over so this is a lot longer than just nada [Music] [Applause] hi I am the proud mother of Sammy my name is Marcela and the reason why we here is because we want to tell you guys
041to think about the relocation of the program the DHH oral program and that is a program of my cenis and has helped him a lot when he was born he was diagnosed with hard of hearing and we thought we would never hear his voice we thought we would never hear him say mommy or daddy so and as a parent as parents of him we want the best for him and the best for him is for you guys to think about not sending that program to to Lafayette and that's my request as a parent for you guys to think I want the best for my son and I know you guys want the best for your son for your children and the best thing again is for him to have that program Stella and Whitman and
042thank you so much thank you ma'am [Applause] David Hartman I'm an OT abs employee I want to echo what miss Lucas was saying that we are getting smaller and smaller in our offices at our schools a lot of positions are vacant and aren't being filled they're not being posted on the website there's difficulties on the website I requested a password change never got any response it's been a week so hey you might want to communicate with HR there's not a lot of recruitment on new employees within the classified spectrum and we are also being given these furlough days and in good faith we hope that you're able to give those back to us for the 19:20 school year because our workload did not change when we were given those furlough days we're still expected to
043do the same amount of work and if the me to clause is in fact true then we should be given those days back so we can actually get back to the levels we were at prior to the furlough days I really hope that this gesture can get their act together Jennifer Nunez Debbie glands our group is gonna go now I called Jennifer Nunez and Debbie glands but you you didn't call a five through yeah we're grouping them by subject matter content okay yeah hi good afternoon my name is Jennifer Lee yes and I'm here with Daniel Xena's we're both parents to Santiago and CMS he attends Whitman at the oral program we're here to support the previous parents just to let you guys know a little bit they're trying to move the oral program to
044Lafayette from Whitman at women our son and like Sammy and other kids have a classroom that is adapted to them not only is the AC adapter to them where they get their speech therapy is within that same classroom so they don't have to be pulled from the classroom taken to another classroom taken away from classroom time taking away from activities and things like that everything is there for them everything is there accommodated for them that's why the classroom was built for that reason to accommodate those children and just like Sammy my son has benefited from the program he's been there one year and he has come up home with words that I've never even thought he would say you guys send somebody to have a parent meeting and right then and there at the beginning
045of the midden sheet here you said the two insane this is a decision that's been made and this is what we're moving forward with what was she there for then if she wasn't there to listen to the parents if she wasn't there to have our input if she doesn't have any medical background I was speaking to a lot of speech therapists who do not agree with this and they look down upon this there's no research on this there's nothing you're just doing it to save money Debbie glanced all right Debbie last call Franciscus I'll say though president Weiser the last name we requested that the the staff review the situation with the DHH program and my understanding that they're still researching that and taken into consideration yes that's accurate yeah Billy Stewart Ashleigh beaver Leslie
046Faulkner and Judy Neufeld Fernandez please come forward and speak please you have one minute Karen D is Reggie throwing the group together I'm sorry I am on the list we're just all okay I was just standing there Thank You Jo if you state your name that I can make sure that you submitted the speakership thank you thank you all right it's sad to watch speakers like that and with our group watching this district ignoring the voice of the majority of its stakeholders removing parent involvement making decisions without the parents involved like the sexual health I've seen and done your surveys your town hall meetings cluster Congress and petitions yet when this board sees the clear positions and opinions it completely disregards them still to this day last year in this the vast majority of parents
047I've spoken to at the middle schools are still shocked at this aggressive sex ed feeding the full range of sexual experience to 11 year olds our 11 year olds you're ignoring us you're ignoring the parents and you're just doing what organizations like advocates for youth Planned Parenthood and the ACLU are wanting you to do why are you allowing them to make decisions for our children they don't represent the values of our stakeholders engage parents like the El Cap requires all we're asking is that used to spend this curriculum and listen to us helped us come up with a well vetted parent involvement age-appropriate representing our shared community values thank you thank you [Applause] good evening ladies and gentlemen my name is dawn Carson I am the father of three adult children and four amazing granddaughters
048and it is hard for me to imagine them growing up and entering into the school curriculum that would ultimately teach them a very wrong way to go as it's been said here already we want the best for our children the chef's program is not the best for our children what we need to do is get the community involved the values that are broadly representative do some more research on what would be really good and helpful and beneficial for our kids so that they can grow up and be part of the solution in our world and not be in my opinion corrupted with a curriculum that would send them in a in a bad direction I think that the curriculum that offers pornographic websites and will be a gateway drug user to bad things thank you
049[Applause] from the Office of Public Affairs you please state your name so I can keep track of the beauty Neufeld Fernandes from the Office of Public Affairs sexually transmitted diseases reach a new high in California with a 45% increase in the past five years with youth being hit the hardest yet our district sent sex myths eighth grade video spends more time reinforcing sex myths than it does clarifying pregnancy prevention teens hear all about pulling out not coming soda as a douche girl on top standing up doing it in a pool teen sex scenarios culminate with the boyfriend doing the wrong thing talking his girlfriend into sex without a condom afterwards she's worried about pregnancy while he'll all is about in a hammock clearly uninterested she opts for the post-coital technique of jumping jacks her boyfriend
050does muster the energy to advise her to jump higher this is the only contribution to pregnancy prevention in the scenario played out the weight of the pregnancy scare rests solely on the female this message is not a message we want to affirm in our teen boys thank you the San Diego Unified parents this district has done a bait-and-switch with this curriculum it's not medically accurate it is not scientifically based and it is not healthy and it is mandated by the state you're falsely falsely you are father presenting the California healthy youth back this curriculum is not mandated by we're gonna take a five-minute recess okay let's let's have order in the board let's ma'am you're out of order let's have order in the board meeting please okay bill Billy Stuart please thank you very much
051I do I get that five-minute recess period to speak good recess my name is Billy Stuart I'm a father grandfather a great-grandfather and I consider average to stand here before you and to share with you the burden is on my heart not only about our children but about your children and the children in the public school system I know there's other alternatives that are available other than public schools today but it's difficult for a lot of people to be able to be in a position to afford that so I believe that every person in attendance here tonight can say one thing the area that I'm talking on is the teaching about abortion abortion is a very tender subject to me because I have children and I know the joy of having a child that is
052my own flesh blood and to see the child grow and develop but a lot of this education that's being brought about today is because my parents made a decision to have me and not to abort me and I would love to see the children today being taught the same way of living life life is special life is precious and just when medical science says a new human being is treated at the time of conception you're not killing a fetus you're not telling an embryo you're killing a human being when an abortion takes place and think about it how grateful you should be that you're here tonight to hear this man center and say it's nice to be alive that we are another statistic of abortion thank you thank you we're gonna go we're gonna we're
053gonna go back to the list and follow the list in order so that we can make sure that everybody has the opportunity to speak ashley beaver thank you did you want to pass down samples of the state curriculum thank you miss ward okay hi last year when my older daughter was in the sixth grade I gave her parts of the curriculum to read and she said something really poignant she said mom I'm gonna have to put a condom on my head in order to protect my mind exposing children to adult sexual behavior before they're ready is a form of abuse it is not a restorative practice to embarrass children to have adults talk to sixth graders about sexual pleasure too much to send them to websites where they can learn to ask for consent in
054a sexy way not appropriate sex with objects in high school too much these are not consenting adults please partner with parents and put this on the agenda as an actionable item or suspend it and let's engage and find something more appropriate and represents our shared community values we don't want this now and we do not want this coming to elementary school as the national sexuality education standards is designed to do so thank you thank you miss beaver and thank you for bringing copies of the state mandated curriculum booklets Leslie Faulkner good evening I'm a retired kindergarten teacher at Erikson elementary for 20 years in the district I loved my students I cared about my students and I still do it breaks my heart to see my little children being exposed to this horrific curriculum it
055is shocking it is sickening it is corrupt it is graphic and moral offensive it needs to be suspended it needs to be suspended now and if suspension is delayed further without information by informed parents parents are not being informed should be mandatory Shep is a hundred eighty degrees of posts of community values that undermines faith and families who are dear to a student's virtue and purity Shep is not going to solve wing and community in in our schools or keep our schools safe it's going to cause embarrassment stress confusion dissonance and society guilt and shame it is opening Pandora's box God is not going to be mocked if you sow to the wind you are going to reap the whirlwind let's stick to academics the Golden Rule and character development lay aside your politics and
056do it its best right and just for the students created in God's image seek God's wisdom you need it search your hearts follow God's laws God will bless her schools he will protect her schools just do what is right Gail Levin Gail 11:11 affiliate relations director of the salt line council CSC does not work key findings of an in-depth review of 60 the best peer-reviewed studies of 40 CSC programs used in US school rooms include the following teen pregnancy only one program one reported a short-term reduction in teen pregnancy a subsequent study in another location found increased pregnancy rates STD prevention none of the school best base CSE studies demonstrated a reduction in team teens to STDs in fact only two measured it teen abstinence although four studies reported 12-month increases in abstinence 12/12 other
057studies found no such positive effects and one negative effect consistent condom use none of the CSE program showed effectiveness and increasing consistent condoms used by teens benefit of teen abstinence and condom use none produce sustained effects on both outcomes negatively five of the 40 produced significant increases in sexual initiation for recent sex oral sex or pregnancy Cherie Walker [Applause] good evening board this raps for you this nation is rattled by shootings galore yet headlines are waiting to report even more of gun fires blazed with bullets that kills and teachers that somebody's will too many too soon in classrooms and halls have had their blood splattered on school desk and walls bloody without guns call for new laws that seek to control yet denying the cause children kill children with crazed intent we question just where
058our sanity went but tragic is this yet still other wars are aiming their weapons to our school doors not just here at home but in districts throughout most parents are clueless of what it's about in small font or large its target is set upon innocent youth to be caught in the net of sexual pleasures where anything goes adult entertainment with ribbons and bows it's theirs for the asking to try with a friend it's to be expected that's how the story ends Shep like a gun is purposefully aimed without rhyme or reason to morally blame maim purities chance for each girl and boy instead it will make them each other's toy too much too soon with fists in the air the parents cry out does the board even care parents know best grandparents to Shep must
059be repealed it's what you must do think of your own offspring replace it with pages with content that matches kids of all ages yet this can be done just start once again come up with a program that we can opt-in John Moore Duane Lindstrom thank you my name is John Moore I'm a retired businessman in San Diego City resident in April this year a Horace Mann middle school teachers reported to have us shown a sixth grade class a graphic sexual video during a physical education class SD USD is investigating the incident and an unnamed employee has been placed on leave in another incident in April of this year a fifth grade teacher at Rosa Parks Elementary and City Heights was charged with distributing child pornography of young girls including a toddler 59 year old David
060weeks was arrested a search of weeks residents and his computer revealed numerous files featuring child pornography he's being held on bond on grounds that he's a danger to the community how did such teachers pass approval by school administrators how long did they engage in illicit behavior with students prior to being caught how can parents be confident that such teachers aren't placed in sexual education classes parents have a right to know that their children are unquestionably protected from predators Dwayne Lindstrom [Applause] good evening I understand this school district has one of the highest suicide rates in the state is that true top five top three I understand that the rates are 240 you're high right now is that true that's true isn't it you know I'm gonna tell you that if you go forward with this
061sex educate educate program it is only going to get worse because what this going on here is a cultural war the first thing on the curriculum for sixth graders we're talking 11 year old kids is gender identity why is that the first thing on the curriculum it's not about sex education it's not about biological science it's about promulgating and pushing a ruled view upon them it's about sowing the seed of idea of gender confusion gender dysphoria it's what you're trying to promote with the children now the statistics show that 80% of teenagers and youth that identify as transsexual during their their youth 80% of them will walk away from it but the ones that don't have a suicide rate that's 20 times higher than the general population so it's a it's a it's a life
062it's a it's a world view of despair that is being pushed upon the children to replace a world view of hope that the rest of us get from God and from the Bible Archie Robinson [Applause] Dean Broyles Archie Robinson I just want to address two things first of all you please state your name for the record I'm Dean Broyles thank you sir I'm an attorney I'm with the National Center for Law and Policy I'm I've delved into the California healthy youth act president Biser you've said two or three times tonight an absolute lie legally factually morally that the Calif you said that this curriculum the three arts curriculum chef's curriculum that's offered here in this district is mandated and required by the state that is absolutely not true I've studied all the law the California
063healthy youth Act and the requirements of the California Board of Education there are only recommended curriculum there are no mandated curriculum under the California Health youth Act because it's too new and a framework has not even been developed yet so you are wrong there are no mandated curriculums as a matter of fact Capistrano just put their curriculum from sex etc which is almost as bad as this one and they are developing their own okay there is no mandated curriculum and we want you to respond to the parents requests for public records about how this curriculum was adopted and who was behind it we've submitted a request you asked for an extension we gave an extension and it almost a year later we still don't have the public records and now you want to destroy them
064now you want to destroy records after six months please don't destroy those records we we've required them and we're gonna go to court to get them if you don't provide them to us thank you very much Archy Robinson I'm not I'm not gonna waste much time I've been here before and one thing I just want you to know all of this grief that you hear and everybody's been passionate from climate to Hoover everybody's been passionate about what they're saying we're passionate about this pastures that you see behind me we're passionate behind this families mothers fathers we're passionate behind this this didn't have to be all you have to do is talk to some of us allow us to come in and and work this thing out there doesn't have to be like this if you
065want it like this you'll get it like this but it doesn't have to be this way parents just want something to be able to allow our children to be what they need to be not what you're causing them to be because what you're causing them to be it's getting ready to do some great harm we're talking about in our city about not having enough fathers this is gonna put things out there and so we just need your help to just pull it in just pull it in and let's just talk about it it doesn't have to get here so always just telling you what you're doing is just too much too soon Haneda reggae Hannah Hannah Dave reggae okay jameelah Harrison shamela Harris yeah it's not the point man we're having all these meetings every
066day we ain't getting nowhere so who's overseers why Hertz Payne said my family is making noise I talked to biter if you tell me your math teacher are your president are you a math teacher I'll be one of the answers then want things to be done we have bullying going on from the staff at Lincoln from the administrators we don't keep allowing this do you have a speech for everything we can't come here every single time I'm wasting gas energy I work 12 hours a day we come here for years and years and years some people would be here for years we sit back we come here all the time where we getting that where the answer is all we want is answers so what we're gonna do you got kids you guys how can
067you have y'all have kids throw away trash and shout out to the Hoover students who's doing something because they did not my kids education students who's not going to college no more to have 158 absences and straight s and you know the reason why I will keep talking and talking and talking and talking but anybody else apparently riding with me and I'll run this community by the way now you wanna vote go ahead run for what you running for cuz I would definitely shut it down every last one of you especially pain so you just said back and say my family's making noise my son has a brain injury my child was attacked by a teacher that's that's noise we have students being stabbed we have everything you name it doesn't even matter I'm gonna
068keep talking to talking you can look at me like do it you still answer my question are you there [Applause] so you want me start you can media team without their I run the whole district you sitting like no respect love and everything's not doing photos not doing anything over there bullying of employees we stood was stabbed because everybody has issues we all do president first off are you a math teacher every time you talk to you use a math teacher sir we have four more speak are we gonna do well we're meeting the same thing cry on deaf ears what are we gonna do here okay Jacqueline people run away like you got the jackal and Elijah okay sir the reason why you have one minute are you Jacqueline Elijah ma'am yes okay great
069you have one minute I want to talk to you I want to talk to the citizens of San Diego and I want to talk to citizens of America right now all of our children are going through this traumatic craziness about shootings and killings and then yet we are lying abortions and we're killing our children in the womb that their parents are being the murders of their own child and most wanted so to speak and now we're getting into sexual orientations as young sixth graders seventh graders eighth graders nightmares tinkers they can't even get married and they're it's just the same if someone went into your house citizens of San Diego and Americans and they took your child and they took them to a room and start showing them how to masturbate show them how to
070have vaginal sex and so matter I know anal sex as well as all this other disgusting things that is out of the marriage agreement and earlier two were they 18 and 21 to get they can get married but they're suing them at 6th grade someone's been apron and then they wonder how come we're all out of control you gotta come here you better stand up America stand up or your children nobody else is gonna stand up for your children [Applause] debora beaver last call for deborah beaver excuse me number one you said things that we've allowed to the same time I'm now informing the board and the audience that this disruptive behavior now occurring is causing if it does not cease immediately I will instantly adjourn the board meeting and the auditorium hall may be
071cleared so that order may be restored to this meeting the disruptive the disruptive if any board member objects to the clearing of the auditorium determine if there is the consensus of the board to support the clearing of such consensus exists and then repeat the direction to the police officers unless the disorder is of a very sensitive nature that to delay a vote or taking consensus would be dangerous in any such instance the president shall have sole authority to adjourn adjourn the meeting this is a provision a called for in California state law because this is a school board meeting that we're conducting in public and so we want to make sure that we're able to restore order and if we're not able to do that then if there's consensus of the board we will adjourn
072the meeting and clear the hall you just told us all the rights of the board but we have rights to Marvin Dodson marvin davidson you have one minute sir I first of all in no school districts should be telling anybody's child about sexual orientation that's a parent's job and here in America as well as in San Diego first of all it's not your place to do that thank you evening Marvin Davidson your your chef program if someone at home was to show through the website bad information to other children in the neighborhood there's a good chance they could be arrested as a pervert or a sex offender you can't even send a child to school with two aspirin without a doctor's note but now you want to allow teachers in a school district to send
073a minor child a way to get an abortion if they're if they're pregnant without the parents notification parents are the legal responsibility over the child the school has no legal right the school would be open to a huge lawsuit you're black you're backed by Planned Parenthood whose main agenda is abortion and selling dead and body parts the school is responsible to educate not to morally corrupt our children you must not have a conscience and you ought to be ashamed Brad Jones [Applause] hi my name's Brad Jones represent c3 Church a youth pastor of about 700 kids and I mean everybody has made an incredible point but what to add on to this is the ramifications of the emotional damage that happens to teenagers when they're exposed to this the school boards even the council and
074sex educators don't have to deal with this or don't see it but I see it on a daily basis and the guilt and shame that causes teenagers from depression to anorexia tilt to suicide and some of them it's something that I believe that we're all standing in agreement that we should just recall it come up with something that we all agree on global warming to many people is very important I think that the the lives of our teenage kids right now should be equally if not greater more important and I'm happy to bring them all all here so that you guys can look them in the eye and tell them that we're okay with what is currently happening Thank You Debra Beaver yeah believer OTPs 788 not sure how I got at the end of
075this but I want to talk a little bit about some integrated classroom technicians that were laid off last year 16 of them you guys I don't know if you remember I'm sure you've heard from the teachers and principals about how they can't get their computers and their technology to work and those are our members so we've been approached by HR with some reclassifications of other positions to give steps leveled steps to these positions while it's an interesting concept we would appreciate if you would recall the people that got laid off last year first and then we'd be happy to talk about steps and a job ladder but not having another position still classification in our unit work at a higher rate doing the work that people that were laid off we're doing so I'd appreciate
076it if you look into it and see about calling back those 16 people thank you thank you ma'am okay I took the liberty as the president to extend the time that we spent on non-agenda public testimony so that we could hear from all the speakers that submitted slips that now we go on to item section ee1 is a report on closed session actions are there any reportable actions to report out from closed session at this time miss Sullivan I'm sorry kid your microphone the board voted for zero to reject all proposals regarding district on property located at forty 100 normal Street 2375 Congress Street and 24:41 Cardinal Lane the board in closed session approved by a vote of four to zero to proceed with the San Diego Superior Court case number three seven - 2018
077- zero zero zero two four three one six CLP a CTL which is a separation case so for those of the those folks at home or in the audience that did not hear the board voted unanimously for to zero in closed session to accept staff recommendation to reject all proposals on the property in question now we go into item e - which is an information report on administrative assignment superintendent Martin Thank You president Weiser the management appointments this evening vice principal 4i hi Victoria Conway we have an eye high student here a principal for Dingman Elementary Maria Montgomery principal for Lincoln High School Jose Soto Ramos principal for Mason Jesse Harrison principal from New Orleans Jeff Martin principal for Porter elementary school Graciela Chavez okay on to item III this is another information item on
078the associate student body presidents report I'd like the ASB student representatives the board to introduce yourselves and tell us a little bit about what's going on with your school Diego Robles ASB president at Kearney high school so today I'm going to start off by thanking you for the opportunity to be here this is my last board meeting so thank you so much it was a really great experience a whole side of Education that a lot of students don't get to see and learn about and so it was really incredibly eye-opening so thank you so much now for the council raise with presidents we just had our last scheduled meeting last month but we do have the ASB Olympics June 5th which is just all our ASB is coming together playing some games and network and
079have a little fun competition we also have an ASB council celebration in June 11th where we'll get to introduce in your ASB president and further that you know keep that net worth going and pass down our GAAP rules and stuff like that sound very excited and then lastly I did talk a few times about the student-teacher connections being like the priority of this council so in our last meeting we did review a document that I created best practices to kind of involve students and staff create that connection so that will go along with our ASB shared folder and I should inventory which we have worked on this year and now for Kearney our last blood drive of the year is tomorrow so we're very excited and getting prepared for that already our graduation is june
08012th at the golden hall which I'm very excited about prom took place May 5th and our grad night the 25th both of them super wonderful I had an awesome time and also our ASB election results were announced today for an ex president and so on and most of our seniors I kind of just waiting for graduation because most of them already were just taking classes that means at college they're finished with those courses so they're just chillin until graduation so I'm very excited and again thank you so much for the opportunity are you ready to announce who the new president is yes it's Jennifer Garcia for Kearney high school okay big shoes to fill and next we have ASB president and I hi Virtual Academy Dalia Kanani go okay sorry Kennedy goes be president I
081hypertrophic Adam II our campus is located in Old Town San Diego San Diego however we provide the opportunity of online curriculum throughout the San Diego School District on campus we have labs throughout the week including science math art physical education and your book and ASP given each student the chance to further their knowledge in the subject ask questions and socialize with the diverse student body ranging from actors to athletes so that always makes for a really interesting vibe our campus on on our campus if I student ever has a question or concern this staff is basically always there for us creating a very open and caring environment ASB holds social ills socials inviting the entire school to grow morale and create a safe space for students to flourish as well as opening up field trips
082to the students such as a field trip to the federal courthouse in downtown and the NBC Studios in Kearney Mesa ASP also partook in the annual Martin Luther King jr. food drive which we earned first place for raising of around 800 pounds we also volunteered at father Jose for feeding the homeless which was a great experience we held an online auction this year to support our events we have since I highs kind of underfunded this year we raised a thousand and and $15 to pass on to next year's ASB which was a huge accomplishment I hide the students are always more than satisfied with the staff so this month we found out that will actually be losing one of our teachers because the student count or the student population dropped we found that this was
083very uncalled for because of the school's fluctuating population throughout the years we need as much support as we can get though last year's numbers might have been lower than the year prior that doesn't really mean it doesn't mean that students will transfer into AI high to join us increasing the population so transferring a teacher that the school would need later on in the year causes for the students to have a difficult time bonding with a pellicle t and difficulties placing the students with what teachers are gonna get but ultimately I high is doing really well and will accept any challenges coming with the new school school year so thank you thank you onto item for superintendents information report superintendent Martin I'm gonna skip that tonight thank you port information report each board member will have
084opportunity to speak and share information if they wish start with trustee Barrera Thank You president Weiser I had the pleasure of attending the end of the Year celebration for our student equity ambassadors and we have I think three who are here tonight we've got of course Diego Robles we've got Johnny Winn I thought I saw Johnny here and we have vets now who's you know of course in the booth in the back so we give a big round of applause amazing work all year long and I think maybe the highlighted this year was the student equity ambassadors leadership in crafting the district's response to the to the Parkland shootings and student activism so thank you again for your leadership and then I also had that we had a at our last board meeting a few
085students from Hoover High School who came and talked to us about the issue of student transit passes and it turns out that this is part of a campus-wide effort to engage I think it's tenth grade English classes in identifying an issue that's important to those students and and becoming active in it and so I had the pleasure of going and speaking to that class and we look forward to a new generation of students from Hoover and hopefully other schools in advocating for transit passes for young people so thank you dr. whitish Payne I asked one of Mike's minutes there's no deferral of time yes I would like to say that there are a lot of things happening and like Mike I kind of popcorn around to a lot of different places I just want to
086mention that urban Lynx golden pyramid they had 250 students this time that they recognized with 3.5 GPA etc the City College today had a major event for african-american children throughout the district I guess grades 9 and 12 they were going for 12th graders and they move the ages down comment later on Lincoln I just want to really focus my attention on a couple of things one is Morse had an event last week that I think is outstanding for all of us because it demonstrates the level of support that our schools are receiving from other areas other than just San Diego's City Schools even the Ford Motor Company had they used Morris's lab as the test site for cars for Ford cars the f-150 I believe it was they use Moore's high school because it has
087standard level equipment and the students are being trained at that level they use them as the test site to go ahead and paint whatever paint they used and drive them around and others are trying to find out well what's going to be the new model well they use our Moore's high school so we're very pleased with those students and with that staff and what's going on there it at Moore's it's a world-class program there at Moore's high school also I want to say that I had the opportunity to serve as the inspector and my husband thought what what are you inspecting for the JROTC program at Lincoln High School and Johnny when just gave up his area of command and passed it on but I learned a couple of things in that process there are
088300 slots for every ROTC program and we have 13 sites now some students would say I don't want to go into the military etc but one of the things that they do is to mentor nurture students because I don't believe you're going into the ROTC program Johnny you're you've done your stint in high school now you are going on to college it helped him to get a scholarship he's going on and was it Berkeley yes he's going to UC Berkeley and is getting a scholarship etc so if we have some slots available that students can get some training some support they're nurtured by adults and a structured program and for some of the students who may need that this is an opportunity so you don't have the student loans etc so I want to thank
089you for allowing me to share that much dr. Evans thank you first I want to congratulate the graduates of 2018 those here in this on the Dyess and also out in the audience and reason I had the privilege of meeting with the class of 2020 at Central High School and I'll be bringing that tape to the school board here sometime soon but as we were listening to different speakers tonight I was just thinking about how inspirational this particular group of students are and I've been meeting with them since they were in elementary school and now they are sophomores in high school but they were so and compared to when I was in high school anyway they are so aware of the challenges that they're facing in the world they're very concerned about the environment and
090and they're also very very compassionate in terms of really wanting to be inclusive and and and really reaching out to all types of people there they're very thoughtful and so it just gives me a lot of hope for the future so we'll be talking about that more thank you very much a couple things first of all last week had the opportunity to go to the day Lord Elementary School open house and it was phenomenal they have an amazing Orchestra program choir program they have an award-winning robotics team that is competed this is an elementary school robotics team and next year they're expanding it to include kindergarten and first grade that go and compete at Legoland and they have all these trophies from this year and all the great work that the kids have done the
091other thing that's phenomenal about the parents at day LURD elementary school is how many of them were there you couldn't even walk it was shoulder-to-shoulder parents and kids and then the other thing that's really phenomenal about Gaylord elementary school is they have art program once a month and all the students had put their art up all over the outside on a little clothesline so it was really phenomenal to see that how much they've learned about the different art styles distance-r impressionist art and things like that and the kids I randomly went up taking a play out of dr. Evans playbook I randomly went up to a bunch of kids and and interviewed them a little bit and just asked him what do they love the most about Gaylord elementary school and the first kid of
092course at recess and then his brother said art to other kids said Orchestra other kids that art and choir and so that's the part of day learn elementary school experience that they really look forward to every day and of course in alignment with California they're a phenomenal school academically so that's that was really really a great joy to see so many parents involved in what's going on in that school and then also I did have a meeting with several parents about the sexual education program that we heard so much about during non-agenda public comment so I had a conversation last week because a lot of other people have been sending us emails and in the conversation we did discuss how sexual education is a state mandated curriculum now and that the materials and the curricula
093that we're using it's my understanding is state approved as age appropriate education which is science-based so then that concludes this portion of the agenda now we'd like to go on to the board consent agenda do I have a motion for G one through seven please vote okay on to item H 1 this is the Advisory Committee on school board member elections report and recommendations if Dwane Crenshaw we already do that will now hear item I 1 from the Advisory Committee on school board member elections report recommendations from Mike Michael Snyder and Claire Crawford please come forward and present and Thank You mr. president and fellow board members and I'm actually going to yield the floor for just a moment to Claire Crawford so that she can make some comments initially thank you thank you Mike
094so I'm gonna start off by I think what Mike and I had agreed to do is I'll start off by providing the the actual results of our process in terms of kind of recommended policies and a little bit about the some of the equity issues and concerns that I think informed our process and then Mike will go through our process and I do want to say thank you for recognizing Dwane Crenshaw arises work with an actual official acknowledgement and I also want to just mention that there are several of our committee members who are here in the audience today a student and please stand if you're on the committee and you've helped serve or raise your hand thank you so first just to go through our our recommendations and Mike will go more into the
095process of you know public outreach etc but so are based on the feedback from community via townhall meetings the online surveys and some of the expertise of committee members the right set of recommendations that have come forth to you from our committee are that we support a process by which school board trustees the process by which school board trustees are elected should remain within the city charter we recommend that SD USD students under the age of 18 but older than 16 should be able to vote in school board trustee elections that non citizen residents within the San Diego Unified boundaries should be able to vote in school board trustee elections the proposal to make school board trustees a full-time position with full-time salaries should not move forward and this one was probably the slam dunk
096so the following issue should be placed on the November 2018 ballot for consideration by residents of the city of San Diego residents within the boundaries of San Diego Unified School District instituting term limits for members of the San Diego Unified School Board for three terms totaling 12 years and then we further recommend that there be further investigation impact research and discussion conducted on the following issues moving from a hybrid sub district primary and at-large general election process to a sub district only election process and then increasing the number of school board trustees and the number of sub districts in San Diego Unified School District so a couple of things I just want to highlight in terms of equity issues so I think some of the concerns and issues that came out of our process were
097regarding representation of various communities in terms of the participation process there were if you look through our report you'll see it seen numerous points where you know number one I know Mike is gonna go into this but the the rapid amount of time the very short amount of time we had to really flesh out these issues I think made the task although we completed it difficult to complete in the kind of robust way that we would have liked to and so I think some of the limitations of that were that there were a few issues where the town halls had different results than the surveys there were a few issues where it was clear out of the town halls that there was a difference between the the opinions in some of the south of the
098eight communities versus some of the north of the eight communities there was in districts D and E I think there are 23 I think is the number 23 schools that are on the year-round schedule that were not actually in session for the entirety of our process and including we had a testimony from the Crawford cluster raising concerns about sufficient outreach to immigrant communities which I think was reflected in the low number of non-english language [Music] surveys that were completed there are only 7% when I think it's around 25% of students in San Diego Unified are English language learners there was some difference well while the demographics did reflect by and large similarity with San Diego with the city of San Diego there was under representation of Latinos and for people who reported race and they
099were different from the the actual student populations demographics and I wanted to point out one thing on a couple of items I mean I think with the students increasing student participation in elections and non-residents these were two issues that there really was in particular for non citizen voting where there was a pretty big difference in the town halls between the results of in communities represented in D and E versus a B and C and I think those are both reforms that would increase representation of underrepresented communities just based on the demographics and then in terms of the sub district to district only elections and increasing the number of board members within our committee there were two different analyses that were both about increasing equity and increasing the power of communities of color there was one
100argument that was very clear that sub district elections will empower the voters in that sub district to elect their representatives and there was an equally clear argument that sub district only elections will prevent residents of districts DNE from being able to weigh in on a majority of the school board sees both of those things combined with what seemed like you know some confusion in the town hall about the issue I think led our committee to recommend that those issues were important and deserves significantly more analysis and ability to provide real numbers around voting who would be empowered who wouldn't be empowered to the community and that they should continue to be studied discussed with the community and more time and effort should be put into those issues for consideration in a future election Thank You
101Claire one point I wanted to make was in in taking on the roles the chair of this committee I saw two obligations one was the an obligation made by this board to the city of San Diego and that was to gather stakeholders in input and I think we did that to the best of our ability the second was regarding what recommendations and how those would be put forward there was quite a bit of discussion from members as to whether we stay strictly with stakeholders information or actually go with the committee itself and I made the decision not to question that but to go forward so that we had all the board all the committee members feel that they actually were part of this committee and work together and I must say in six weeks I'm
102very pleased with rice San Diego for not only getting the five town hall meetings done but on top of that to get a survey prepared get it out to the public and get 1300 responses was to me a sign of success that we met the obligations we put forward so that's what we are presenting to you tonight is the final report done in a short period of time and with people like Johnny to win very involved and not surprising again and and I had to add his name since being Madison High School I was glad to see two Madison representatives on the committee but moving forward we are here to answer any questions that you might have I'm making a point of staying as neutral as I can as I did throughout the entire process
103in the meantime I do have Susie Reed here who helped draw up the draft and prepare the report for us so she is also available for any questions you might have thank you okay at this point in time if that concludes the presentation I think it would probably be good if we went with public comment and then we could go to a board member comments or questions okay so at this point in time call up some folks we have quite a few people so please limit your remarks to two minutes so let's begin with Chris Kate sorry all the TV cameras have left that's quite all right good after good evening I'm mr. chair and members of the board thank you for so much for allowing me to speak and I do want to start
104my comments by actually thanking you for getting this done in a very short period of time and I agreed that mr. krenshaw and team arise need to be commended for the work that they have done in a very short period of time to get 1,300 results which is a we understand is a not insane on scientific poll that was a non-scientific survey so I'll speak to some of the issues regarding that and and and the rest of my comments but I mean this is a process that's myself and three my colleagues began back in February 2017 which culminated in a grand jury report that lists a number of recommendations and our council supporting the findings that were outlined within that grand jury reports and going back to January of this year when we heard from
105the board at our rules committee regarding the update to this process the goal at that time what was told to us and I'm quoting was identify if there is a consensus on any of these issues and with speak in regards to the questions that were outlined in the survey I think I can gather from the results of this survey that there is quite a bit of consensus on the two main issues in which we started to discuss upon which was term limits and sub district elections I don't think that is in question whatsoever and if you look at some of the comments by organizations that are represented from that Committee on a number of different matters from throughout this County folks have said local officials understand that district based elections provide better representation for diverse
106neighborhoods and ensure all residents have a voice and local governments that district based elections would be an important step in ensuring that voters of all races and smaller unrepresented neighborhoods would have someone from their community on the governing body this helps level the political playing field strengthens our civic process and gets more people involved in our democracy that was from Alliance San Diego regarding district only elections in Poway so we there's no question that this process needs to move forward these reforms he didn't move forward and I would hope that you would see the actual survey results and be able to include those in your recommendations to our body thank you very much thank you beretta slavka being president good evening council members thank you for the time and again Dewayne doesn't get enough credit
107so I want to throw hats off to doing one more time thanks for doing that I also want to thank the committee for putting it the effort that they did to get together and especially Mike Snyder I know Mike you're you're going through some pretty tough times and it's always good to see your smiling face staying there in front of us I do like to follow up on the heels of what council member kait said you know it's interesting to me to stand here and listen to everything that was presented by this the committee and in the co-chair and define that the two questions that were the only reason why the committee was put together was at the bottom of the questions concerns me greatly you have 80% of the people that were tallied data
108is the data doesn't tell you anything different if the board wanted more members to be representative during those townhall meetings they could have done a better job of presenting it and putting it out there on their phone their four websites instead of burying it on page three so when you do a survey of whoever is there that's what you get 80% of the survey said term limits were needed 60% of those when they asked what type of term limits do you want they want two four-year terms not three 12% of the survey said 360 percent of them want sub-district only elections and then 60 percent wanted the two two-year terms in the sub-district elections and that is the only two questions that needs to be discussed everything else that was put out there and I
109thank you for questioning other situations 12% wanted six to eight to under 18 year olds of bullying 12% why is that even a question to be placed on the ballot for 2018 you know you've had plenty of time to look at this questions came from other members of the committee that I see that are sitting here as well say we didn't have enough time to do this we've been at this since February of 2017 just like council member kait was saying so you've had time if people were confused with the questions on the survey the committee is the one that created the questions well so no wonder they're confused because it can create questionable questions I beg you and I'm asking you to do what's right do and align yourself with the City Council other
110large districts in the state have done it a large districts across the country have done it don't put this off anymore let the voters make a decision on the 80 percent and the 60 percent and that's the only reason the committee was set to be there and I thank you for your time citizen so please reject the report that only had seven votes in its majority seven votes out of 1,300 people that had different opinions instead recommend term limits area elections and nine areas it costs a quarter of a million dollars to put a measure on the ballot two hundred and fifty thousand dollars please do not circumvent the will of the people by resetting term limits with a subsequent amendment don't waste tax money respect the will of your constituents the people's will your
111own data supports it the report that was approved by this committee does not support the will of the people and you represent two people so please term limits area elections in nine areas and remember it costs a lot of money for citizens to have a chance to vote so do it once and do it right Francine Maxwell shirley chisholm said if they don't give you a seat at the table bring a folding chair I think the citizens of San Diego that attended all these town halls they brought their folding chair when Richard Barrera sent his dog hounds on this committee to out throw different strategic plans that he had to distract people people stayed focused a tea I I did 80 81 percent I counted surveys 1243 if there was 1,300 great but they sent
112a clear message you tried to distract us but we stayed focused no matter where you went around this city there were people that attended all of the same town halls went to the same tables and talked to each other and the consensus was so let's stop playing games let's stop playing politics let's do what's right for children and the taxpayer enough money is wasted already want a lot of things but we don't need to waste money on this the City Council the Rules Committee the full council they deserve to only bring two things that most of the citizens want so that we can get on the November ballot and let's get down to business let's stop playing games let's stop going and grabbing all these people and putting them on a committee to talk about
113children voting come on they know when it's time to vote we don't need teachers we don't need people that hold their grades to tell them who to vote for that was a distraction ploy by Richard it didn't work there were other things thrown on that survey her Richards requests to the people that Richard and panel and it didn't work so come on let's just move forward and get this done no politicking any more time is now be be courageous stop standing with the crowd you decided to be a trustee and Trust is at the core people trust you to make the right decision we we enjoy seeing every button green but at some point somebody need to push a red button Jennifer Avena good evening my name is Jennifer Ivana and I'm a co-chair of
114the youth empowerment committee for the League of Women Voters of San Diego and I'm speaking in support of the advisory committees recommendation to lower the voting age for school board trustee elections to 16 they're compelling reasons to lower the voting age that might not seem obvious at the outset allowing the first vote at age 16 or 17 has the potential to create increased voter participation in our country for generations to come this is because voting is a habit that is most likely to be created when a first-time voter is supported and encouraged to vote by those surrounding them once that voter takes to the polls the likelihood that they will do so again is much greater creating a habit of voting that can increase participation rates throughout the voters life so that first contact that
115first experience of voting is monumentally important in determining feature engagement of our citizens with this promise in mind think back to what was happening in your life at age 18 most likely you're going off to college starting full-time work joining the military maybe moving out of your parents house age 18 is one of the most tumultuous times in most of our lives people often point to the dismal turnout rates of 18 to 24 year olds in our country as that young people are apathetic about voting and politics in general however voting is often far down on the list of responsibilities that needs to be mastered at that age conversely think of when you were 16 or 17 for most that's a period of relative stability a time when you were still invested in your community
116your school and your family if students can vote for the first time during that important period the likelihood that they will have the encouragement and support needed to become a habitual voter is higher in addition that we might think of a 16 or 17 year old as to cognitively immature for voting science shows that the critical thinking skills information processing and deliberation necessary and the type of decision-making required for voting is as mature as an adult by around age 16 finally by allowing 16 and 17-year olds to vote the school district strengthens the clear commitment to civics education made by this board when it adopted the 2015 civics learning resolution what we have the League of Women Voters have experienced is that when youth are given support and the opportunity to engage in their communities
117they will do so and very often brilliantly therefore the League of Women Voters of San Diego asked that the board further strengthen support for civic learning by recommending a November 2018 ballot measure to lower the voting age to 16 for elections with San Diego Unified School District School Board trustees thank thank you Eileen Collins I'm also a member of the League of Women Voters of San Diego and I'm here to support the testimony of Jennie Ivana in favor of lowering the voting age in school board elections and possibly local elections to 16 this change has been implemented successfully in a number of countries and in the community of Takoma Park Maryland where studies actually have indicated a higher voter turnout among 16 and 17 year olds then was true of eighteen year olds voting for
118the first time those of us who are are now or who ever have been teachers know that the key to engaging students in the classroom is motivation and what greater motivation can we provide students in helping them to see a real-world purpose in studying civics than actually possessing the privilege and responsibility to vote Thank You Lori Thiele hi and good evening I'm the president of the League of Women Voters here in San Diego and I'd like to take another moment of your time to support the notion of letting 16 year-olds vote by giving us a little bit of perspective there was a time not so long ago in this very country when people understood that women didn't have the mental capacity to vote that women were not able to make an informed decision that they
119were too easily influenced by the people around them well it turns out to nearly 100 years later that women are almost running the country now we have women who are running in record numbers for races all around the country and they're winning that is because women have been given an opportunity to participate in their civic responsibilities and duties that comes from voting the very fundamental opportunity we have as citizens is to vote and to allow a 16 year old or 17 year old that opportunity earlier in their lives rather than later in their lives will only serve to make them better citizens more informed citizens and more engaged citizens as they become adults thank you Jeff Bennett I want to thank the board for putting this committee together and it was an honor to serve
120as the DAC representative on the committee something that's been very important to me and you've heard me come up here and say is that stakeholder engagement is key to this back and forth and you hear there in this issue I think you guys have done a great job in ensuring that we had some stakeholder involvement we great to have a little bit more night time next time but as far as the stakeholder involvement piece the survey was written by the the committee and we had a diverse group of people and the questions were approved unanimously which I mean that's a great accomplishment that meant that we felt that it was a fair and impartial way that we asked the questions and one of the things that seemed to come out just from my listing I
121went to all of the town halls is that the voters really cared about being heard and having their voice heard by their representatives on the two issues that we recommended further investigation I really encourage you guys to move forward with further investigation on those issues I remember being shocked when I went to the district d meeting and the board member question came up and it was five and nine pretty much evenly split and one of the real concerns was well seven might not be right based on the way boundaries would be drawn as far as board members and so it's important when we look at those things to draw in a way that we empower people we give people a voice and I appreciate that you guys put us on this this process and I
122encourage that to continue but the other thing I would mention is I would encourage looking at at the the clusters it's a great element you have in the school district and there were some conflicts part of it was short time but for the clusters for some representation in any type of future committee because I think you'll get even better engagement than the Poynting process so thank you for the opportunity to serve and I think we did a lot in the amount of time provided Thank You Johnny Winn good evening school board trustees I'm glad to be back here my name is Johnny Nguyen and I'm a senior at Madison High School and I'm graduating in two weeks today I wanted to share my personal stance on and express my support for sixteen seventy year olds
123voting for school board member elections and so one of the biggest takeaways that I received as a student here at San Diego Unified is that all of you really care for what we have to say as youth and so next week I'm going to be working at the election polls as a 17 year old and I think it's really wonderful that 16 17 year olds are allowed to work and volunteer their time at the polls and it always makes me wonder how people allow our students to volunteer their time at the polls which includes an online training that takes two hours transport themselves independently to a physical classroom training that takes three hours and work the polls from 5:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. twelve hours yet we question the responsibility to vote and so I
124just want to talk about how like our district how can our district treat our students like adults and expect them to become adults ready to enter the real world yet hesitate to place faith and their ability to vote at 16 and 17 for school board members and I believe that I speak for many of my peers like Diego Robles and student equity ambassadors when it comes to how much we appreciate how that inclusive the district has been for the youth voice and allowing us to shape how we tackle issues like the parkland shooting and so I hope that the board will continue the work that they do and take action by supporting allowing 16 17 year-olds to vote for school remember elections thank you thank you Adam Goldstein hi my name is Adam Goldstein I'm
125a teacher in this district and I'm speaking in support of the recommendations that the committee has put forward but I have two concerns that I want a voice about the process of how this went about it and one concern I have is that it was initiated by a flawed grand jury report and that the grand jury is not at all representative of our school communities and then another concern that I have is that the question of charter schools did not come up during this process there are over 50 school board's charter school boards that are in this district and I believe only one is elected so why wasn't the charter school board being elected a question for our communities so moving forward I ask that that be considered and then I just wanted to give
126a shout out to that student who just spoke from Madison people 16 and 17 year olds can vote on their Sgt so when it makes sense for them to also then be able to Technica step above that and vote for their board members so thank you Keisha Borden and then Lindsey burning him good evening board members I am here to ask that you support and accept the committee's recommendations also however I have some concerns about the process I'm the processing rushed there were limited opportunities to participate as was stated before many of my colleagues were off on spring break especially in the area that I work in I attended the forum at Lincoln High School and a comment that I heard from many of the participants many of the tables was that they needed more
127data more information about other large urban school districts to compare they needed actual election data from the last school board elections or maybe the last several school board elections seeing how the at-large voting went compared to the actual district or sub district voting went to compare them and basically a lot of the people did not have a lot of information about the city charter so more information about the city charter may have been more helpful regardless I'd hope that whatever changes are made going forward they come from deep analysis looking at the questions that have been raised this evening and more thorough engagement with the community especially in districts D and E so again I ask that you support the committee's recommendations Thank You Lindsay burning ham Lyndsay burning ham SDA president i'm striker who
128attended the meetings with me many more meetings than we ever imagined we would attend in six weeks and many more hours than we have that I ever anticipated would go into this process so I want to make sure all of you guys know that the committee worked long and hard to bring forward this recommendation not only those that attended the meetings also the subcommittee that worked on the reports the subcommittee that worked on putting together the survey and outside of the committee right San Diego did an amazing job facilitating everything that happened I do am standing here in support of the recommendations that our committee worked long and hard to bring to you I know there's been some concerns raised that it doesn't go in line with the survey the survey is only one piece
129of information we were all appointed to that committee in order to also bring forward our background knowledge our information as well to take and take that into account when we came up with our decisions and so I want to mainly speak to the three decisions that our four decisions that are coming forward before you of course keeping it within the city charter there's major concerns what would happen if we pulled it out of the city charter secondly term limits it really was consensus among the committee that that was something reasonable we thought one or two terms wasn't enough to actually get we all know it takes time to learn your job it took time for me to learn my job and I only had two two-year terms and we thought that twelve years was a
130good amount of time to be able to come make a difference do what you need to do but then also open it up to others to have an opportunity to make a difference in this school and our schools and in our district in addition to that sixteen year olds voting in this district we talked a lot about civic engagement teaching our students to be civic minded and to be involved and have a voice in the decisions that they make they have a voice at their school sites on their site governance teams they have a voice through the Associated student body why not give them a voice in electing those that are making decisions on their behalf and then finally allowing our parents of undocumented students to vote this is something that we strongly favor there
131are students there all of our students and those parents have every right on top of the rest of us who were born here in this country to be able to have a voice in the decisions on what happens to their students in their schools that concludes public testimony on the item board member comments or questions trustee Barrera I'd like to move the Committee's recommendation and then we could have okay we have a motion to move Committee's recommendation is there a second please state in simple words the Committee's recommendation okay all right very simple so yeah I understand that the committee is making the following recommendation which is broken a few different parts the board asked the committee to engage the community around I think seven key questions I think of the seven and I think
132so I think the committee's report went down questioned by question the first question was should school board elections remain under the city charter and I think the committee's our recommendation is yes I think the second question is or I'll get these out of order but a question was should there be term limits and if so how long should those term limits be and I believe that the committee's recommendation is that there should be term limits and that those limits should be three four years terms we asked the committee to engage the community around the question of whether people in our community under the age of 18 should be allowed to vote in school board elections and if so you know what's what would the minimum age be and I believe the committee the committee recommended
133that 16 year olds I would be allowed to vote in school board elections we asked the committee to consider whether non-citizens should be allowed to vote in school board elections and I believe that the committee's recommendation I can clarify this is that non-citizens should be allowed to vote I wasn't clear whether it was further defined as non citizen parents students in the district okay so we say who's abroad here we go thank you Thank You Cheryl non-citizens we ask the committee to consider whether school board trustees as school board trustee should be a full-time a position with full-time salaries and the committee recommended against that idea we asked whether the the school board election should be done in rather than having the runoff be at-large elections whether they should be confined to district only boundaries
134and if so should we expand the number of districts and I believe what the committee is recommending is that there's consensus around the idea of district only elections but there needs to be more study more dialogue to determine how many board seats there would be and how those seats would be drawn and I don't know if I'm forgetting one of the one of the recommendations but I think that is I think I think those are the committee's recommendations doctor so on the when you said on the non-citizens the committee's recommendation was what that non citizen residents that the district should be allowed to vote in school board elections I think one other clarification and please correct me Mike or any members of the committee is that we several people commented on the kind of the
135short timeline and when we established the committee and asked the committee to get out and engage the community one of the things that we did ask was was there consensus on one or any issues that could be placed on this November's ballot knowing that that would be a short timeline but also understanding that in order for the committee to feel comfortable recommending something go to this number November's ballot there needed to be clear consensus around that issue that it was ready to go now and I believe the only recommendation that the committee is making to take to this November's ballot is the recommendation around term limits is that correct so even though the committee is recommending that we move forward and and further define a process for district only elections that that be something that
136takes place over time and that even though the committee is recommending that students 16 and older should be allowed to vote that's also a process that would take time and I believe would require some action by the state government to allow that to happen and so that's not recommended my understanding for this No but it is recommended that we move this forward the concept forward and similarly for non citizen residents that that's recommendation of the committee that we move that forward but not for this November's election is that fair is that correct okay so okay so the non citizen recommendation is not on this November kuroh it Oh neither is the student reckoned is the student 16 and older right so 16 and over is is not for this November's ballot recommendation correct yes okay
137yeah so that that was what my question was because I see the different recommendations that the committee is making but we're also in this timeframe need to approve something for the the November ballot or to recommend the City Council I should say for the for the for the ballot and that specific one was the term limits issue yes but that is mine and and remain in the student and the city charter remaining but that doesn't necessarily have to be on the ballot because that's a moot points in nomination right so then the only act the only item then would be term limits on the school board for this November this November and then the other the other items would you know we would maybe reconvene another committee to give them more time to evaluate it
138and see what there's some process okay okay I understand so for purposes of discussion I will second the motion okay we have a motion in a second any other board member comments or questions of your pain first of all it may seem like it's a any relevant issue to talk about remaining within the city but that's very that was a very controversial issue in that the state governs school boards on one level with the Education Code and they specify how they want elections to go forth versus remaining under the city charter with some flexibility in terms of how folks are elected so it's very important also within that discussion I think that there was some discussion about boundaries that's item number five but it deals with the issue of boundaries because at one point I
139lived in Spring Valley right across the line there in Paradise Valley and the lines are not contiguous so it means that we although it stays on this the city charter those folks still get to vote on on what's happening with schools and and maybe Kari can weigh in but my understand is that the opinion of both our legal counsel and the city attorney is that if you live in the city of San Diego but outside the boundaries of San Diego Unified you cannot vote in a matter concerning San Diego Unified it's good that we have both we have both issues we have parts of San Diego that are not a part of San Diego Unified and then we have some folks who are not sandy Aegon's who on the board of Lemon Grove etc who
140attend school so those people are not being disenfranchised either that's right so that's why to actually have that vote in conjunction with an issue of the city charter is relevant I hear what Johnny and the others are saying about those who are 16 and older and passionately supported them because I know that not only are they the future they're right now and we know that parkland has made a difference already and we're looking for them down the road to have a greater voice in what's going on with with their lives because it does come down to your battery life nowadays the full-time position I don't think anybody on this board and really wanted a full-time assignment because you guys have full-time jobs and Mike and I are retired and like it that way and we've
141done our forty hours a week and so on and so I'm glad they studied it but you know thank you for your a decision but it's not going to impact any of us and the the term limits personally I don't weigh in either way eight twelve I mean because you always have the option not to run can run and not run for the twelve years and district only versus the hybrid approach that we have now that's a big controversial issue and folks like on dr. Dorothy Smith have weighed in on that and as this goes forward I'll be interested in hearing what some of the other folks have to say about the reason for having on sub district primary versus a general election for the general I think that either way it's it's a very
142complicated process to run to two races and even if we do vote to go forward I think we should have it just as the City Council does that even with two people you can't have it that you win in the primary and that's it because you have such a small fraction it would be like saying the fact that 1,300 folks responded to the survey they represent a million folk in San Diego City folks who didn't get involved in wooden but would be asked to weigh in on this issue and in the same way I know in some of the the other school districts who have district only elections if there are only two people then there's no need to have two elections you just go forward to the general without having to wage a campaign
143because it is a waste of time if you have to go both the primary and the general with district only elections so I would hope we would be wise and not have the process to go through that those nations the five or nine I'm sure for me personally and probably for a lot of you you have four or five high schools and Richard you only have two high schools but for graduation we're split trying to make all of the graduations and thankful that Crawford has its graduation on on a Monday of the day before we they finish and then the other two and I always miss SCPA but you know trying to get around to all the graduations you want to be there to send your students on it would be nice to have you
144know to buy divide those up thank you okay trusty Barrera yes so first of all I just very much like to thank the people who served on this committee and I appreciate you know that this was not only long but difficult meetings and conversations I was cursed by many of you many times for the idea and especially the folks that I asked to serve but but the committee was put together with the intention of bringing a diverse group of perspectives from people who are actively involved in our school district and with our schools and I would quite frankly contrast that with the grand jury I spoke to the grand jury when they were beginning this conversation about you know changing the school board elections and I have to be honest that you know a nice
145group of people and I think there was one retired teacher in the group but they didn't know anything about how our school board works or how our school board elections work and so this process was not a response to the grand jury's report this process was designed to bring a group of actual stakeholders in our district that represented diverse viewpoints together to get out and listen to the community in you know various ways and then grapple with these issues and these are complicated issues as dr. Whitehurst pain said the people that we've had speak tonight to this issue have represented varying perspectives and I'm sure you know what you heard you know consistently was that people have different ideas and different perspectives you know on these issues and and and I know the committee approached
146this with a sense of responsibility because we're talking about changing a process that's been in place for decades and whatever this new process ends up being is likely to be in place for decades long after most of us except for maybe Johnny and some others are involved in in these situations so we have to remove ourselves you know from from these issues and think about long-term you know what's best for this district and I and I know that that's what the committee took on and it was not easy and so it's not surprising that the committee's recommendations would come back reflecting you know difference of opinion in the in the community where the committee identified one issue as having clear consensus and that was the issue of term limits you came forward and said it's
147time for that to go in the November 2018 ballot and and and and I appreciate that the question of district only elections of course is an incredibly important and complicated question because I think not only the five of us sitting on the board today but every board member wellnitz you preceded me but every board member that I've worked with on this board and I believe probably every board member going back years and years the first thing that a board member would say is I care about and I'm responsible for every student in this district and for every school in this district not just the students and the schools in the sub district that I come from every student in this district and of course this being a large complicated School District we have a lot
148of students who go to school not in the area that they live and so you know I did you know sort of so changing a system that requires every board member who's elected to be answerable to every voter in this district is something that requires a lot of thought and then on top of that of course this board has grappled with and I believe come to clear consensus around the concept of equity and equity is a tough concept in a district like ours and I would say it's a particularly tough concept for dr. Evans and dr. Macquarie and president Weiser because what equity has translated into in our district among many other strategies is a focus on five key high school clusters San Diego Crawford Lincoln Morse and Hoover that are all south of eight
149and that are all outside of the sub districts that you live in and so having a board that has come together and achieved clear consensus that we care about every student in this district we care about every school in this district but we have to pay attention to to the students in the schools and greatest need and those happen to be moat for the most part schools in those five south of eight clusters is a concept that we need to protect and be very careful about a structure that would essentially say because I'm not answerable to the voters south of 8 my priority is not the kids south of 8 and I worry about that and I've been clear about that you know from the beginning of this process and so for me personally you
150know a move to district only elections has to be done with great care and has to be done in a way that doesn't set up structurally a system where the students who are in greatest need are not represented by the majority of the board so I appreciate that the committee has come back and said before we move to a sub district only election process which is probably there's consensus in the community for a number of reasons to move in that direction but before we do that we need to do some analysis we need to know if we were to draw five districts what that looks like today if we were to draw seven districts if we were to draw nine districts what would that look like you know the City Council has district only elections
151but of course there were nine city council districts so I you know I think I certainly would want to be extremely clear as we move forward under the committee's recommendation to look at the concept of district only elections that we do that with the lens of equity that we approach all of our work and that we do not end up with a structure where we've got large communities with students in great need that don't have the ability to have a say and who the majority of the board is so I think that's an incredibly important issue that we move forward we move forward timely but with clear analysis and so if we come to the City Council at some point and say we're representing moving changing the system from at-large elections to district only elections
152that we have some sense of what the implications of that would be and I can say flat out my opinion is that if that move was to result in the current structure where we have the five current sub districts more or less as they're drawn and we know every census there will be a little bit of change to that but if if we end up with five school board seats in the way that they're currently drawn and that means people who live south of Interstate 8 in district D&E don't have a voice in who the majority of the school board is I will oppose that every single time that that comes up because that's not a process that's about equity now can we get to a process that's about equity by enlarging the number of
153board seats and moving to sub district and then having the benefit of you know smaller districts with you know the ability of a trustee to focus more on those that's that's a valid question and something that you know we should we should take up and then the questions of you know first of all should 16 year olds be able to vote well again I'm gonna be extremely frank tonight given what we've seen in this meeting tonight for somebody to argue that students under 18 are either incapable or not thoughtful enough to vote in school board elections versus adults I think you'd be hard-pressed to make that case I think we've seen some of the most thoughtful articulate knowledgeable citizens in this community speak to us tonight and they've been students and I think mostly have
154been under 18 years old so the idea that 16 17 year-olds can't vote in school board elections because somebody's gonna tell them how to vote is so incredibly disrespectful but also so incredibly missing the contribution that young people are already making in this district that concept I believe strongly needs to move forward not that we're gonna act not that I believe we should ask the City Council to put that on this November's ballot because there are a lot of I think things that need to happen in order for 16 year olds to be able to vote but boy I you know I think it's incumbent on all of us to figure out how to make that happen so that that voice of young people is included in deciding who sits on the school board and
155then similarly the question of non-citizens and all of our sub districts and maybe particularly in districts E and D we know that many of the parents who contribute so much every day to the strength of our schools and who by the way are out working every day and paying taxes to support our schools should have a voice and who sits on this school board and I know that there's a lot of issues you know regarding federal elections and state elections but I don't think that's what we're talking about I think we're talking about non-citizens being able to have a voice in their local school board and again I think that's something that will take some process you know for people to grapple with think about but you know to disenfranchise as we currently do such
156a large group of parents in our community who are active contributors to our district and to say that yeah but you can't vote for us you can't decide who's on the school board I think it's not right and I think we'd be a stronger district by in franchising people rather than continuing to disenfranchise people so for those reasons I strongly respect and support the recommendations coming forward forward from this community they're thoughtful they respect they reflect how complicated and difficult coming to consensus on these issues is and I think the way that the recommendations have come back with we believe we have consensus on one issue and that's term limits and we're bringing and we recommend that that go to the to the to the voters in November 2018 and that the other issues we
157need to we want to move forward on those issues we want to move towards district only elections we want to move towards 16 year olds being able to vote we want to move towards non-citizens being able to vote but we have to put the time and thought into how that would look I think that's incredibly thoughtful work and I appreciate the committee's work dr. Evans yes well first clearly this topic is less hot than sex education judging by the number of people who are left in the auditorium and that is a disappointment because we really would like to see more more people involved I'm glad that we have one former school board member I don't see any other former school board members or candidates or anyone else but I would hope that as we have
158this discussion tonight that and it is recorded that City Council and and other people across the city would listen to this discussion because it's not just as simple as what was the what did the survey show and what was the final vote by the board there's a lot more font than that that goes into this and so what I guess one of the things first of all I might look I know one of the things that that it was part of the impetus for this was was a report by the grand jury and as Richard was saying when people hear grand jury it sounds you know super important but there there's there's an issue of the school board and are very different than other elected bodies - so my first question is was what are
159the problems that we're dealing with it we're trying to solve and I think one of the problems is board member and constituent contact and I don't know that any of these are are going to seriously address that because if you have 80 thousand voters versus a hundred thousand voters or something like that in your district that's not going to mean you're gonna be able to reach out to them a lot more and this really issue here is and if we make the comparison the City Council we don't have personal staff to to be in touch with our constituents I mean so which is why when we can emails and so forth and we can't we can't answer an email we rush through them quickly and so forth and try to get a general sense of
160what's going on but clearly we have never proposed adding more staff for school board members because with all the budget limitations we have the last thing we wanted to do is is spend more money at the central office then there's the issue of citywide election or columns citywide election seamless a school district which I know when I first found the board was looked very daunting like how do you how do you possibly reach out to that many voters and I used to joke that is this larger than a congressional district to get elected to the school board I had to have more votes than Sarah Palin got to be elected governor of Alaska so I think a lot of the problem here is is what we really need and this is was not part of
161the committee's work where clean elections where people not only get signatures from people to support there can't see but get a few bucks I mean like five or ten dollars symbolically to show that they really support the candidate and have the the campaigns publicly financed so that the the candidates could actually talk about the issues rather than just going around and raising money and then the other issue is how do you get more people involved or more people to participate and run for the school board there was the issue of salary whether it's a part-time salary or a full-time salary there certainly are limitations now because a person currently on the board either has to have be retired or have a job then has some flexibility that allows them to put in the many hours
162for this I do think it is better for it to be part-time because I think that really embodies the the citizen leader in terms of being in the community and not just being an elected position so I do want to thank the committee and all the members on the committee for for the work that you did I had no preconceived notions myself in terms of the three people that I appointed to point to the committee as far as what their viewpoint was going to be or what their what their recommendations would be I realized that there was a limited amount of time but life is a time-limited exercise anyway so we always have to operate in some some timeframe I know that town hall meetings and so forth can be be very sloppy that's part
163of the essence of democracy I think if there had been more time people at the town halls would have been able to have more background information about each of these issues and make a more informed decision that way we know that the the survey as councilman Kay pointed out is is non-scientific so you know with a hundred thousand students and and however the parents that involves and parents and family members we you know I've heard from a thousand or so of them and and we certainly got a sample there but it's not a it's not a scientific sample and to me as I read through the information and and as I was at one of the meetings what's what's more helpful were the comments about why people took a particular position rather than just sort
164of voting on the position it's an advisory committee so obviously it's not a rubber stamp that there was a survey click and okay the the board automatically votes that way we have to take all of the information into account so the the two key issues that were responded to by pretty much everybody involved were we're about term limits number one and number two sub-district and and the number of seats on the board now first of all in terms of term limits were not like the Board of Supervisors which for 20 years had the same five people serving we've had a four term incumbent who was defeated we've had a two-term incumbent is defeated we've had a one-term incumbent was defeated so obviously there's an advantage to incumbency no but nobody's gonna deny that but it
165certainly does not exclude someone else gaining the office the another issue in terms of term limits when some of the comments that were made and I would tend to agree with them in terms of getting board members up to speed and and and really participating I know when I got on the board I thought four years was too short and eight years was too long and now I'm in my ninth year so I'm not sure what happened there but I know that in LA they did make the change recently I believe to term them it's four four three terms if that's correct but one of the things is in terms of reform and change is it's it's very slow and that's really important too because otherwise we could just have a rotating body that's that's
166not really making progress one former superintendent who was an admiral talked about it making change was like turning around an aircraft carrier this is a very very big district and a big bureaucracy and there's a lot to do in terms of making change and and the real change that we've been able to make in terms of equity across the district and really including every child is a result of a have a long term process and so that's but I do realize that this is important to the voters and so I I will support term limits then there's the issue of sub districts and the number of seats and one of the problems I think with a five-member board is that change can happen very quickly sometimes too quickly it can kind of make it unstable
167because if you have a three to split in one election and go the other way and then you can go back the other way and so the other the other problem I have with a five-member board because the Brown Act if you have an idea you can only discuss it with one other board member and so if there were for example seven members you could actually have a coalition of three people discussing and fleshing out ideas and coming up with something as a sort of a committee it's sort of hard for us to form committees here when we you know we only can have two at a time so I think that's that's important to look at in terms of more more seats on the board now this at-large versus sub district a lot of
168the information and the arguments about this are not fully informed the the grand jury talked about the other districts that have had our other entities government entities had to change because they had at large elections and they have broad diverse representations they need to go to district elections when Reverend George Walker Smith was elected to the board they were at-large election all of them were at-large and so most of the people on the board he said at the time were from Point Loma and in La Jolla he got on the board he told me by not putting his photograph in the voters album is the first first african-american to be elected to the board but we do not have at-large elections and we do not have sub district only elections it is a hybrid so
169it's important for people to keep clear that it really works both ways and and so the first issue that is guaranteed under the current system is that every geographic area is guaranteed to have a representative from their area now what was mentioned in the grand jury report and has been repeated by others is that sometimes the citywide election there's the one person wins in the primary and and then a different person wins in the general election which supposedly means that the the sub district was overruled by the rest of the city but I think if you go back and look at the voting statistics and we've done this in the last election of the previous elections before the tendency has been for the person who won in the general election also won in their sub
170district in the general election and this is one of the reasons that the the City Council would decide to go from not making final decisions in the primary election because it's such a such a lower turnout and so it's more representative and so first of all there's a guarantee that someone is from each district and and it generally happens that the person who wins in the sub different general election is also wins across the district so and then we but again school board is different than city council or anything else as Richard was talking about the equity issue we have many students south of the eight since we use that in hearth South split who attend school north of the eight so therefore they are disenfranchised if they don't have a say and who are
171the the board trustees in representing the schools north of eight so so it's it's a complicated issue and I one issue there is the choice program that further complicates it but we need to have a system we do have a system now that allows for for the local district to be represented but to be responsible to the entire city and so I think you know it still wit by increasing the number of seats there's the possibility of working out that way I'm not proposing this but an example is before we had the strong mayor system in San Diego we had one person who was elected as the mayor's and we had council members representing each district but there was at least one person who was accountable to the whole city we don't have an elected
172superintendent so it's more like the the city manager you know that would be one way to introduce some equity into the system so the issue of sub district elections I think and the number of sub districts needs to be done at the same time it would create too much instability between be doing one at one point we're gonna add number of seats and another point we're gonna go to sub district elections that just would not be stable at all we have coming up in 2020 another census which would be the perfect time to after that to redraw the district lines and also decide on on how the elections would be held so on that I agree that that should not be rushed and should not be limited to the time limits of what we had
173for this proposal right now I think the term limits can't go forward because there's there's a general consensus about that but I think we need to be more thoughtful about the next step and that's why I will support the recommendation of the committee and and and again I think the committee was did a good job in terms of balancing the different viewpoints and while I was saying that the survey is not scientifically sampled I think that the committee was a pretty diverse group in terms of viewpoints and so forth so I think we can rely on their recommendations dr. wieder Spain the ultimate test is the voters they get to weigh in on whatever it comes forward thinking vote for if they don't they won't so and that should be the message to even the
174folks who have a particular position you know kind of listen to what the voters say they voters say they want they don't like this I can bunk that way but let's just let the voters say without any manipulation thank you I want to also appreciate and thank everybody that was on the committee I know that I heard regularly from the folks that I had appointed on the committee and I want to thank them and all the other people that stood step forward to on this voluntary assignment it was a tremendous amount of time and I really appreciate your guys's dedication and commitment to thoroughly vet all the different points of view because there is no one point of view that was actually agreed on by everybody with the exception of term limits it's my understanding
175from the committee and so to the extent that the committee did reach consensus and is bringing forward term limits and that's the recommendation I believe that I absolutely agree with dr. winders pain let's go ahead and let the voters then decide on whether or not they want to go to term limits or not and as dr. Evans had mentioned many of us are on this board because we defeated an incumbent and that's something that I think is telling because it goes to prove that democracy works and that we are you know responsive with with regard to also some of the comments about district in the primary and then district-wide in the November general there are a lot of folks that do get first place in the district only election in June and then go on
176to also win and represent that district on the board and I'm an example of that in 2010 I came in first place in the district and was elected in November and then last cycle in 2014 I received 68 percent of the vote in the district and then went on to be elected in November so I think there are lots of things to take into consideration and so I think that's really important it's really interesting to me that there's all these other questions but we're not you know looking at those yet and you know I absolutely respect the will of the the the will and the decision of the committee to ask for a little bit more time to reevaluate that I think dr. Evans made a good point that when we have redistricting in 2020
177after that that's a good opportunity and a time to strike to explore going to seven trustees with you know and see what kind of districts those look like and then go to district only at that point in time I think that's something that I could get behind you know the idea of having 16 year olds vote in school board elections I think is something that I would really look forward to embracing on and hope that we can continue to analyze that find you know look and explore what other school districts have gone down that road and what are some of the results in terms of the data I know that we've had questions legal questions on non-citizens voting and I know that that will also require more time and analysis legally and and and with
178regard to that situation one of the things that I think is also interesting that I haven't heard come up is we have a number of military families in San Diego Unified with their children in our schools but because the military moves them around they maintain their residency in their home state so they don't get to vote on school board elections and so that maybe also something for further analysis because you know I really think that those military families with kids in our schools should have some influence a lot of those parents are involved in their schools and the PTAs I talked to them I visit with them about issues going on in their schools and and I really think that that may be something we ought to kind of figure out and see what we
179can do I know we don't want double voting we don't want them to vote in their home state and then vote again here for the same race but I think we're all as long as we're only talking about school board and local elections then I think we need to have that conversation because I know in other other communities they've started talking about things like this too so while I while I had had hoped and thought that we were going to be voting and considering and debating more of these questions you know I think the term limits is a good first step and then let's go ahead and do the additional analysis on the other items and questions and let's look at those and I think as dr. Evan said you know consider those for the
1802020 cycle with in alignment with redistricting so if there's any other board member comments or questions please vote on the on the recommendation from the committee and that passes unanimously on to item h2 which is an update on access to public information review of the district practices pertaining to public record storage and production with recommendations to improve transparency cost efficiency and security Thank You president advisor I'm having legal staff join me up here on the Dyess to do this presentation like to introduce you to Kimberly Chapin from our legal office I can't thank you okay this is an information update that has been requested by the board something they have MS Chapin present the information item with some recommendations at the end for you to take action on I'm sure your speaker we've been doing
181to improve the efficiency of responding to Public Records Act requests this relates back to a presentation that was provided to the board on July 25th of last year and so it's a continuation of that discussion so the purpose is to review the district's current practices pertaining the storage and production of public records and to continue to implement measures to enhance transparency cost efficiency and importantly security as we talked about the Public Records Act tonight I think it's important to know what the Public Records Act is not it is not a policymaking opportunity for retention of records the destruction schedules how records should be maintained what records should be maintained it's all about disclosure so what you have you disclose and records under the Public Records Act are defined very broadly for example it's any writing
182including electronic emails now voice messages that are transcribed into emails notes that you make at your desk related to various things that you're working on contain about anything related to the conduct of the public's business and that is prepared own used or retained by a public agency when responding to these requests it's incumbent upon legal staff because we're charged with responding to them to assist the requesters and making more focused requests courts have been pretty clear that you can't just engage in a fishing expedition but you need to have a somewhat focused request so that the agency can properly respond and the more specific or request the easier it is for a local agency to respond and a quick I'm more efficient manner the next thing we're going to talk about is how we respond
183the law provides that we have ten days in order to provide an initial response as to whether or not we're going to disclose the records if we are unable to make that determination because the records are located off-site or at various different sites or because of the volume of the records then we have an initial an additional 14 days in order to indicate whether we're going to respond this does not mean that we have to produce the records in 14 days which is a common misnomer we need to produce them within a reasonable period of time of locating them when we have these deadlines one of the things that we're trying to do while we're evaluating the request is we make the request for the documents and then we spend depending on how many they
184are a considerable amount of time reviewing those documents many of you know I was a city attorney in my former life and so I've been doing Public Records Act requests for about 20 years now it was a lot easier as a city attorney I didn't have to worry as much about student information in my records it was much more clear-cut the volume one I'm not going to date myself but email was not quite so prolific then so it was unusual to get more than 5,000 documents in response to a request that is now the norm it is not an unusual event to have that many documents provided as a result of a single request so some of the things that legal offices not just ours but throughout the state have done is create separate tracks
185for simple and complex requests so that the more simple request can be handled first while they were gathering the documents that are being that are subject to the more complex requests we've requested that departments to provide records directly where there's no legal review required for example if someone wants all contracts with Acme company going back to 2015 then those aren't going to require legal review because they've been approved by the board so we can refer them to board Docs or we can review them to our friend Andrea and strategic sourcing who will gather all of those contracts for her those are pretty simple requests because there's not much that legal services needs to do in order to redact them and make them present make them legally defensible for a public record the other things we've
186done is we reduced the amount of detail involved in responding to the request instead of giving full-blown responses we've really narrowed it down focused our response back to the requesters and how we track that information is more focused in specific now one of the things the public hopefully has noticed is that we've been loading our Public Records Act requests and responses in to board Docs and we asked that facilities also handles Public Records Act requests and they today have begun uploading the responses to the facilities related Public Records Act requests into board Doc's so there's tremendous amount of information and public information available through board Docs now related to public records the other thing we do and this is really it was precipitated by a change in law that specifically allowed us to refer requesters
187to areas on a districts public website for the documents that they're requesting before the law was changed we hadn't we kind of assumed that we could do that because we were providing the copy the documents available for inspection but the legislature officially recognized that as a means of compliance and we've been active in communicating the various links on our web sites where people can obtain that information the other thing the Public Records Act request records Act does not require agencies to produce reports for free for example if someone wanted to know all the terminations that occurred in the last three years well to comply with that we could pull all the employee data or the termination agreements whatever that was not exempted and it might result in a thousand documents and take a year or
188we could because we store some of the information electronically generate a one-page report in a matter of a couple of hours and provide that instead and so where it's more efficient and cost effective to provide a report then we will do that rather than produce the thousands of pages of documents that support the underlying report we mentioned briefly the difference between simple and complex requests and just because we're in legal office doesn't mean that everything is complicated some things really are quite simple for example and this is an actual request that asked for a single contract with any amendments between San Diego Unified and Winston school there was only one document it was a public document and it took five days and that includes the day the request came in the day to search for
189it and then to get the response out which is pretty quick on the other hand we have the more complex requests and I'm not making this up so all emails or electronic communications again this is a real request dated between August 1st 2015 August 30th 2016 - and/or from it was 22 administrator managers and the superintendent and containing or related to 27 different keywords that's a very complicated request so complicated in fact that it led to 100 130 1971 emails that's not the number of pages that's the number of emails the data set was so large that it could not be exported so in other words sometimes like if you get a really big boulder it's great to look at but how are you ever gonna get into your backyard we couldn't get the boulder
190into our backyard to be able to manipulate the data to respond to the requests so the requester subsequently modified it on three different occasions reducing the number of individuals and the number of key terms that still really resulted in five thousand seven hundred and forty six pages that were produced there was about another four hundred or so pages that were deemed non-responsive all of those pages had to be reviewed and redacted to ensure that we were not transmitting any student data or other exempt information and but that those are a lot of documents to have to redact so the time to produce this was 12 months and that's because this was not the only request we were working on as the board has been a forum we get on average about 200 Public Records Act
191requests per year should have to be addressed a quick question that that when you're reviewing those 5,000 pages the legal team has to read each one to see if there's any confidential information every single one of them sometimes more than once well the Public Records Act determining whether or not a record is exempt or can be defended as an exempt record takes judgment and a lot of times you'll want to bounce that off other attorneys in your office because the law isn't always clear and so we exercise a good bit of discretion and judgment when we choose to redact or to determine that something is non-responsive or whether or not the law would permit us to claim the exemption under the particular circumstances raised in that email and so it's it's not a simple process
192it's it's considerable judgment be easy if there were artificial intelligence or something that could just scan everything and exercise the judgment for us but we're not there yet and I'm not really sure that we want to because the human element that goes to you know which side of the aisle do you want to be defending do you want to be defending someone's request for confidential student data or do you want to be defending a case where parents are claiming that you you produced confidential student data I'm always going to fall inside I'd rather be defending the conservative approach of not disclosing the information but every time we make that choice we have to evaluate what is what is the current status of the law under these circumstances how other courts found does it relate more
193to the facts of one case or another so it's it's not rote review some of the things that we've considered to help expedite the review rely on for example the city's records storage system um it's pretty slick but it's also really expensive and it's not compatible with our existing servers and when we dug into it a little bit further it seemed pretty similar to what we already have in board Docs and so we determined that it would probably wasn't worth the additional resources to duplicate the city's effort for the district given that we already had a substantially similar system in place the other thing was redaction software and that kind of goes back to what's about artificial intelligence redaction software is kind of a species of artificial intelligence however it can only redact or search
194based on the terms that are entered by humans and we cannot rely on redaction software we have Adobe Acrobat that can search and redact terms we still have to individually review them because for example somebody might ask work I'm not picking on you send me all of Superintendent Martin's emails from you know in 2016 well there might be emails where somebody calls her superintendent there might be emails that misspelled her name ma rtin and so it's not as simple as running a search for superintendent Sidney Martin yes superintendent its Sidney Martin and various spellings of Sidney Martin so that we can fully comply with that request redaction software doesn't do that for you you have to specify each of those terms individually also it doesn't we can't possibly know when we're rejecting the software for
195example the request might be something related to I want to pick up an example related to students the number of students that were expelled and who had the last name Jones well if you do all email searches for students expelled with the last name Jones you're gonna get a lot of different students right you might also get students referenced within those emails that are not a part of the original response or a request so each of those have to be reviewed individually other student names redacted this usually comes up when we have parents requesting all emails related to their own child and you would think that's pretty simple because they're asking for their own kids but it's not because it may actually reference other students within those emails so that's why we don't really rely
196on a redaction software it's not a substitute for the judgment and the discretion that goes into reviewing and producing those records we have made some progress based on the things that we've been doing one thing the Unruh specifically wanted to point out was that we complete 140 requests from September 1st to April 13th but in the year prior we had only completed a hundred requests so we're making a little bit of progress in terms of the documents we haven't went through the effort of like counting up all the pages that have been produced but you can assume that's in the tens of thousands within the last year the next slide relates to some things that we'd like to do going forward and a lot of this stuff that we're already doing but that we want
197to encourage the board to comment on in terms of what we could do better and again you know a lot of this relates to the exercise of general councils discretion in making sure that the practices of the office comply with state law and on occasion if we disagree with state law having the discretion to bring that to the board and challenge state law under the applicable circumstances so one of the things that we're doing is creating an a PRA page with guidance on the huh how to formulate a focus request continued improvements to the district's website to allow the public access to information without the need for formal request we're gonna continue posting responses implore Ducks library we think that that's important because we can refer people there as an initial spot to search for
198records I already mentioned the facilities plan construction began posting their documents today Thank You Lee for sharing that information we're gonna continue dual tracking our responses so that the simpler request we can get out the door faster media requests are often some of the more complex and we're going to refer those requests to communication staff for initial handling first of all communication staff is in a better position to understand and speak media speak than the lawyers most of the time and so we want them to be able to work with media to try to find out what they're really getting that and help them develop focus requests that we can more efficiently respond to the other thing we're doing is we're continuing to guide staff on the need to preserve records and as an aside
199some of the things that I know that we've been providing guidance on is not just how to preserve records but sort of what it what it really means to send emails and how those can become records and some of the sort of tricks and tips that I've told clients over the years which is and I'll share with you that reply to all button needs to go reply to all one it inevitably will lead to a serial meeting - it creates duplicates of emails so in those 5746 pages produced I guarantee you there are at least 500 duplicates and it's because when you reply to all the emails search string doesn't distinguish with duplicates so if 10 people get the message and it's a email request for all employees all 10 of those employees emails are
200going to show up and if you reply all to those 10 then it creates another 10 and then exponentially by by like 15 minutes you'll have a hundred emails on a single subject and 90 of them will be duplicates so limiting the reply to all and CC's on emails can can go a long way in reducing a number of documents that are produced and responds in response to these email requests the other recommendation is that legal staff retain the discretion to adjust our practices to ensure compliance with volume law and circumstances and this just relates back to you know it's it's not a mechanical process to review and produce these documents there's a lot of judgment that goes into it and the discretion is to when to exercise that judgment how to exercise that judgment
201is really imperative when we're talking about what to disclose and what not to disclose and how to comply with the request that's consistent with the law and the district's policies procedures and other matters that are brought to our attention so with that I'm not talking about secret tonight everybody should be great thank you public records so we do have a couple public comments and then let's go to board questions or comments Locke Sea Grant or Gant Loxy Gant looks like that person's gone home citizen you have three minutes regarding emails three years would be a better time frame for preserving those documents as you know in this century emails document what is going on in our school district the Marnie Foster emails revealed of the extent of corruption and superintendent Martin's failure to act in
202that situation it led to the superintendent stepping down and now being on probation for her corruption in her behavior having departments produce records we'll see how that works I asked the high level chief of police with his school district to provide the policy on use of force and the use of Tasers on teenagers and he refused by that document I have the sheriff's policy and I have the San Diego Police Department policy I still do not have the school's police policy on the use of Tasers there's no excuse for not being able to you answer the request of the public that was the point of our CPRA Act simple requests I don't get anything in five days I'm lucky if I get a letter saying they got my request in ten days I asked for
203records from the California Department of Education that are massive and I get an email but leads me to link and there it is and it's redacted and it's simple and they don't charge me anything this school district charged me $200 for documents that I never received and it takes so long to receive these documents that by the time you want to go to court and sue to get the documents your statute of limitations is over so you're sitting there waiting for the records and they have your money and they're telling you you're going to get them and then it takes months and actually as long as two years to get documents there are no excuses for you to provide the documents so that we can see what you are doing your track record is not
204very good I'm reading emails of Kevin Weiser forwarding complaints of citizens to other people that's huge three at least three instances and those will be deleted soon so how much more of that stuff is going on Richard Barrera he loves using his private email I heard him outside in the in the lobby right after some people spoke and he ran out in the lobby and gave him his private email and says contact me right after Kevin Weisser had just said we refer everything to the superintendent well no you don't and those are the kinds of things that I read in these documents and they should be provided and there's just no reason at all that it's taking months to receive them the standard email is you'll get something in eight weeks while that is never
205going to happen never and even though I know where the document is I've given the date of the document and the people they're from I have it in my hand and the school district can't produce it that concludes public comment board member comments or questions dr. wieder Spain one question related to died acting and doing searches eventually will you kind of take a look at the process involved in the example you gave about the superintendent and you could have a thousand different ways as its searched but it would also be interesting to compare what you get versus your having a human being go through so that eventually you could look at the different permutations of what would help you through that process are you saying like what we received versus what we produce and because
206we usually put them in piles things that are privileged deliberative process of turning client communication and we separate them out that way so we get a group of what are considered responsive documents and then all those responsive documents responsive meaning they showed up in the search terms then they are all called to see if they're actually responsive to the request for example if it was we want our emails saying oMG and that was a real request to when we denied it so did every other agency in the state but then you would have to look through all of those to make sure that all of them that had oMG were part of the requesters document sort of mindset like what were they trying to get like maybe somebody misspelled a word and instead of it
207saying ing it said oMG and that one got pulled into the document in the research when really what they were looking for is the shorthand for oh my god or using other sort of slang expressions to communicate via email so everything has to be reviewing yeah it's tedious so it's not just the subject line of an email that has to be reviewed its to who from how related to what and every line of every email including the little disclaimers on the bottom saying it's confidential you know it's you read it top to bottom you don't miss a step or work okay any other comments or questions do I have a motion to well I I guess I'd like to make a motion to adopt the eight recommendations with one revision the last one being edited
208to state staff shall adjust practices to ensure compliance with the evolving law and/or circumstances so I'm making a motion to move these eight recommendations on improving our PRA process we have a second okay any other comments or questions okay please vote that motion carries four zero unanimously thank you very much for your time and your work and we look forward to always trying to find any way we can to support you in the work that you do thank you okay so that takes us to item h3 is not an action item it's been moved to June 19th agenda I believe is there a motion to continue item h3 to the June 19th agenda we have a motion is there a second and a second please vote that passes we have a motion on H 4
209to 7 is there a second we have a motion a second any discussion we have a speaker on item H 7 citizen you have three minutes speaking on the s DEA agreement impacts and effects I believe contract agreement states that teachers who get jobs elsewhere have the right to come back to the school district I don't think that's a very good policy it's very disruptive to people that have been hired since then if a person takes a job in other district and leaves this School District so they left okay but that doesn't mean that they get to come back and step back into a job because the people that came before after them and took jobs and think well now I have a good job here they get disrupted and all of these leaves of
210absences and insane people leave the school district and come back to the school district is very disruptive as many years as I've been telling you that you need to look at those those issues about leaves of absences and help you can come back to the district it falls on deaf ears but it would save this district a lot of money it would allow people to move on it would allow the new employees to be insured that they have a secure job any other comments for discussion okay please vote that passes on to item I one update on the impact of the governor's may revise for the 2018-19 district budget superintendent Martin Thank You president Weiser I'm going to invite dr. Greg auditor our CBO to come and present this item as you know the governor
211presented his may revise this is not the final budget final budget is still coming but we traditionally will give you an update on the impact of the may revise in what we're hearing currently and how that impacts our district budgets so with that dr. Aden girth good evening and thank you president Weiser vice president Whitehurst pane members of the board superintendent Martin on behalf of the finance team who worked diligently put together this presentation for you we want to express our appreciation for the opportunity to discuss the governor's proposed budget which you revised earlier in May tonight we will summarize the state level proposal briefly and provide available details as to potential local impacts so with that we'd like to round ourselves with the state budget timeline and process the blue highlight shares where we
212are at this point and moving into the state assembly and Senate review of a provision so that we can take our take our actions as such all of which culminating with June 30th the governor signing the budget package with the possibility of line-item vetoes so moving forward the may revise as just as a reminder is the governor's true last opportunity to revise his revenue and other forecasts based on updated economic economic indicators and more updated tax collections however though it's his last true opportunity the governor has the choice to invoke line-item vetoes based on any legislative changes so aside from a few adjustments this year to the lcff and one-time dollars the overall budget was fairly consistent with what we saw in the January proposal we absolutely saw a continued cautious approach from Governor Brown
213with continued focus on rainy day savings and again emphasis on one-time funds so that moves us to a little bit closer a little bit closer to look at a multi-year and here's a depiction for you and the public the key items and how they were projected in January over a few years based on their adjustments in May and you'll notice that Governor Brown has for the most part largely stayed the course from January to May and again in terms of the one-time dollars versus ongoing funds what we've seen is staying the course with one-time funds and we are going to continue with our partners and our director of government relations to ensure Sacramento is aware of our belief and the importance of shifting those one-time funds to ongoing dollars so that those can support not
214just our 1819 budget but our out years and we can really enact where the board and the superintendent are guiding the district which is making sure that we can make wise fiscal choices over a number of years so moving those two ongoing funds will allow us to continue to support every aspect of the district which leads us to a little bit closer look at the district and so we wanted to make sure that we are able to provide accurate information to this point in time so here are estimated impacts listed here however as earlier mentioned these are projected based on this point in time and I did want to foreshadow that the budget first and second reading will be coming up excuse me I think we want ahead a little bit right I don't have
215a keyboard on this so sit up okay thank you so this is based on what we do know and what we do know is that we've solved for the 1819 shortfall and will continue to have a shortfall as as stated we are expecting a shortfall for 1920 based largely on our are known increasing expenses from our larger categories such as step and column and health and benefits and utilities and additional programs so we are expecting that to continue and and in a few weeks as you know the staff is currently preparing our final budget adoption which will again be to you in public June 19th for the for the first read where we will absolutely provide the accurate information based on all the letter schedules that are all being finalized at this moment we also
216we will continue as the board has directed us in years past we will base those projections based on what we know in the may revise while we are also listening carefully to the Senate the Senate possibilities in terms of their feelings on the one-time funds versus ongoing we're also monitoring closely the merit uchi bill 2808 so we're monitoring all of those but to be consistent with our approach as the board has directed your your final budget will be brought to you based on the known calculators as expressed by the May the may revise and by the way the mayor to chew bill 2808 was brought to the assembly for a third read and that was filed today so again we are we are monitoring that closely and so at this point to close before questions
217wanted to bring our attention to the calendar and the proposed budget again on the 19th and the final on the 26th where we will lay everything out for you and at this point this is an information item to give you a pulse check on what we're interpreting with the governor's may revise and I would love to entertain questions if the board members so desire okay we have no speakers of public speakers on this item so any board member comments or questions dr. Evans yes on the increases on the previous slide the point one four point five and five so there was a little bit increase with what the governor's revised and this is sort of a back-of-the-envelope question but they're also expenses that we've approved since the initial budget so is it more or less
218a wash in terms of the 1819 budget you see I'm saying I understand what you're saying what I would what I would ask that is in in this session we allow the the letter schedules and the budgets to be put together for that June 19th first read because that will take into account the collective bargaining agreements and the other any other factors are variables that have changed from from second interim so it would be a little speculative at this point to assess whether it was a a wash or not okay so at that point you'll look at this ten million dollars and you look at the increased expenses and then obviously if there was any gain it would be a slight slight reduction in the next year's out year's budget we're very conscious of the
219nineteen twenty right shortfall as as as was projected in first and second interim and so that information will be forthcoming okay can you discuss the short-term issue so short-term monies versus long-term because I don't think a lot of folks understood that there were some items that he had in the budget before that we were that were short-term and we were not considering them because guess and I believe that overall the overall statewide discussion when the on January 10th with the governor's proposed budget a significant amount of funds 1.8 billion dollars was allocated across the state not as ongoing not necessarily adding to the lcff base amount it was set aside as a a one-time at one time use as different funding sources increased there was widespread belief by different entities that as revenues continued to
220show signs of increasing and the temperament of different legislators was to instead of having those be frankly a one-time fund to be a bonus instead of having it be a bonus for school districts which you really can't base a long-term budget on moving that actually into say an increase in overall year over year salary in which that would allow a school district to make long-term decisions and make assessments and so what we saw in May was the despite the different conversations that were happening about the use of those funds whether it was a conversion from one time to ongoing the governor truly stayed the course with the exception of a relatively small increase to both one time funds and a relatively small increase to the to the ongoing so at this point it depends on
221if the legislature makes the change from on from one time to ongoing if the legislature legislature makes the change and if the governor agrees if the government would not veto the veto right so that's a big if big IFS which is why we are staying the course with making the calculations and assessments for the proposed budget based on the may revise but also monitoring closely for any of those shifts and changes any other comments or questions okay trustee brewer any comments or questions okay I just have a couple of comments real quick in a couple of questions first of all the bill that you had mentioned 2808 Martucci this board just voted unanimously to support a resolution to support that legislation in Sacramento and we also voted this evening to support a couple of other
222pieces of legislation in Sacramento that would increase the base grant funding for all school districts in the state of California because we're at the bottom in the United States of American funding per pupil also obviously to convert one-time funds to ongoing because for the entire term of Governor Brown every year we get one-time funds and then the one-time funds are there the next year and it's one time every time and I think that's what we call ongoing and so I hope that the assembly reads this for what it really is and and classifies the money appropriately so that it can be allocated for ongoing expenses which are services for our students so I think that's very very important there's some some other things that that I'm want to hopefully as we get towards the final
223budget adoption in June and then in July I know that the budget is an ongoing process as we reassess our expenditures and our current state of affairs that's how you know I think dr. Evans brought it up that you know we're not a hundred percent sure where we're gonna end up because they're continuing to be expenses in the current year cycle and then obviously things that are budgeted that aren't spent then we can bank and so a lot of that stuff will true up at the end of the budget cycle and the year but I hope that we will continue to do what we had said that we would do in March and that's continue to look and evaluate and reevaluate the services that were providing to students based upon the money that we do
224have and that I think includes taking a look and seeing if there's any opportunity or possibilities to create a stronger feedback loop with our employees in the schools and our bargaining units to make sure that we're listening to them about the concerns that they're having and that we're addressing those as they're presented for example I do know that there have been monthly meetings in the past and I believe the last couple of months that those didn't transpire so I hope that we can can re-establish that monthly meeting with with leaders in our schools and bargaining unit presidents and members so that we can continue to hear what's going on what are their concerns with regard to workload issues so that we can make sure that the work is getting done to support our students with
225regard to filling funded positions in our schools I believe that there are some concerns about that some of those positions that are funded that are not being swept continue to to be vacant and like to get an assessment of that I believe that it's about a hundred positions I know that at the beginning of this last sike last school year in September or October we had you know a lot of staff transition and changes and we moved HR moved to fill all those vacancies and I think they did a pretty good job as far as I received information around January 3rd that most all of those special IDI para education unit positions and special ed teaching positions most of them had all been filled by I believe early January and so I think that that
226speaks to some of the work and I hope that we can continue to receive updates on that and that's one of my questions is that I hope that before we do our final budget adoption we could get some information on how many funded unfilled positions do we have in the district that are continuing to be funded next year so we can at least measure that and and and look at that that's really important I think another piece of information I think that would be helpful for me to have an informed decision before we do the final budget adoption it's just to give it a sense of how many FTEs do we have in the central office and how many have we had in the last you know two three years to do a comparison and
227I understand that some of those FTEs that are funded in the central office are work folks working in the schools for example our elementary music teacher zappa they go around and every day they're in a different elementary school teaching Orchestra or choir or band and so they're in the schools but they're still funded out of the school district so getting some information as to how many FTEs we have in the central office how many are funded in the central office but work in the school's getting some of that information I think would help us to make a more informed final budget adoption and then also I you know I just found out today that some concerns especially with members of ot BS that they're taking work home and that they're being asked to work on
228their furlough days and I hope that that's not the case that we're not asking people to come in and work furlough day and that they're not taking work home another concern that I heard this afternoon regarding the budget was you know that we really need to take a look at you know how furlough days are impacting some of our folks that are making less than you know $30,000 a year or less than $40,000 a year and try to see what we can do to make sure that we're recognizing the burden that's been placed upon those individuals and it's kind of a trade-off because we are continuing with the furlough days and those furlough days will expire it's my understanding at the end of next budget cycle right and that those furlough days will expire and
229that this current budget cycle we are not considering this evening more furlough days is that correct this evening is is the information report on the on the governor's so there's no this is an information item write an action night yeah but we're not we're not looking at as a result of the May budget revise were not considering more furlough days for the for the third year for 1919-20 yeah 18:19 you're looking for what the solutions are gonna be we haven't decided what those are gonna be as a final decision tonight that's why he's saying tonight's not an action item if you want us to lock in and say no there's not well no I'm just I'm just wondering if that's if you know if that's we ever discussed that publicly yeah we'll bring those forward
230at the June budget adoption what the solutions are gonna be next year next year yeah 89 yeah very much sorry about that yeah okay for 1819 for next year you know we're not you know as a result of looking at the may revised budget numbers we're not having to you know to look at more furlough days for next school year is that correct if the and thank you for allowing me to check for understanding so if the question is for this upcoming 1819 year I'm not aware of a proposal to change the furlough structure for the 1899 for 1819 right I just I'm just you know clarifying some rumors that I had heard and and you know I think it's important that you know sometimes when I hear rumors I like to kind of flesh
231it out and confirm the direction that we are going yeah to not to not do that next year and then with regard to some of the concerns I know that back in March when we discussed laying off para educators we had a very long and robust dialogue at this Dyess about the total number of notices that were going out however there were a lot of pairs that could apply for vacancies at where are we you know hopefully before we vote on the final budget adoption we can look at that because it was my understanding that that that would result in a net of only 55 para educator layoffs is that is that correct I would need to confirm that with my colleague in HR okay but I mean I remember like it was yesterday because
232that was a very pivotal moment for this board to to have a conversation about this because I believe there were several pair of educators that were displaced at the cdc's and that they were going to then have the opportunity to apply for other pair of educator openings in the district that hadn't been filled yet you know so that is that accurate he would have to check with acacia in each okay do you have that information okay thank you very much president Weiser may make one yeah go ahead first of all absolutely thank you for the commentary if I may hone in on a budget piece I'd like to share one of your request was to ensure there was a deeper understanding in terms of central office what was what was a allocated to the central
233office versus the services that are provided directly in staff you mentioned baphu directly yeah just how many FTEs are there in the central office is the first question in fact I could share that at the direction of the superintendent and Achieva staff and the leadership in finance there's a diligent effort at this point to provide to the Board of Education a a final budget adoption that will also include analysis in terms of central office budget and where whether that's strictly for central office or it actually serves school sites directly and so we're we're very proud of the finance team or what they're putting together to be able to provide this additional clarity and this came from conversations with community partners on a regular basis just wanted to share yeah these goods in motion and that
234yeah that's because I know we've talked about this over a period of time you know to try to get a big you know get that ten thousand foot view of the district so we can evaluate and look at these these kinds of pieces of information as we go forward and then I believe also that we've heard from a variety of folks from you know teachers and different individuals that work in the school I know as I've gone around and visited schools I've also heard concerns about the IT support and you know I know that we're not at our final budget adoption yet and that you know there's still a lot to be considered and it's not like you know there you know the governor's may revise just gave us another hundred million dollars but I
235hope that we will kind of look and assess the the need in the district before we go to the final budget adoption to make sure that we're providing the services necessary to maintain the technology that were that were investing in for our kids so I think that's really really important I think yeah I think that that pretty much covers the comments that I had you know I know that we've all been through this budget process year after year after year some years are much much more challenging than other years and and we also know that this is a work in progress and while this governor's may revise does seem to signal a couple more million dollars in ongoing a couple more million dollars in you know in one-time expenditures I think that you know we
236also have to make sure that we're sober and understanding there are also some obligations as a result of bargaining in the 2% cost-of-living raise that I feel that our employees deserve and need so that they can continue to live in San Diego and so that's an expenditure that we have to account for and so I hope that we continue to to look at all of our options as we move forward before we make our final budget adoption okay any other board member comments or questions at all okay Asia has the answer okay acacia evening everybody so I don't have the total number of para that were FTE that were cut in February I pulled up the item from the February 28th board meeting I don't have my real computer with me because it's in the
237shop but it is public information it's on our February 28th board meeting is in the resolution entitled para the cuts that were made were not necessarily a budget solution but they were decisions made by sites and departments to streamline their information I can come back to the board and provide the total number of FTE that were cut from the Perry unit right because I believe that you know we had had a very robust conversation at the Dyess in March that there were because of the displaced power educators in the CDC's that there were other unfilled vacancies for Perry educators that those folks can go into yes so then on the net result would be from my memory about 55 net layoffs in the para unit yes that's still right there are since that time though
238as many of the positions within the Perry unit also have high turnover rates many of those employees will be moving into any positions vacated by people who have moved on moved to different places and things like okay it's okay we're still confident is that number of people actually who won't have a position will continue to decrease as we move so even less than that correct okay is there any way that you could maybe please report to the board in June um at the end of June when we do our final budget adoption where we are with the impacts to those members of the Perry unit yes okay thank you very much okay so thank you very much for this information item I really appreciate your view report now we're on to item I 2 which
239is an action item on the Civic Center rate schedule with annual incremental rate increases for an additional five years is there a motion we have a motion is there a second we have a motion a second any speakers okay citizen you have three minutes I'm seeing a lot of private businesses that are they had a monopoly on school sites and that's not right now that you're redoing this and changing the race the rental office also needs to be advised of all of these companies that are using our school sites I've seen employees and I've seen parent groups that are bringing in companies that they have personal ties to these are taxpayer facilities and when they're bringing them in like this and they're not paying any rent they are they are causing wear and tear on
240our properties and we need to be collecting that money I specifically complained about a music company that an employee provided all this coordination for and all this marketing and free advertising and then then the customers just started pouring in and that's not fair to other music companies in this in this city there are many people that are struggling to to pay their rent to pay their employees to pay their workman's comp and they don't have the sweet deal of not paying rent of having free advertising of having literally just having the customers just line up and sign the contracts with a company so there needs to be more oversight about it it can't happen unless you put in and it's the superintendent's job to do this a requirement that these private companies do not get
241in for free I've actually seen an athletic director just tell the rental office don't charge rent to this company you don't do that that's corruption you're giving away our taxpayer facilities and we're paying billions and I mean billions in taxes to try and build better facilities and have nice places and then we people that just slip in and get use of these properties for free and I'm not disparaging the rental office they do a great job I try to pull documents so I can see if there have been RFPs for these different people that are coming in and in different documents but it's very difficult with the process you have in there and the superintendent needs to be ensuring that special people don't have special access and really get to profit off our taxpayer facilities
242and having employees doing the work for them and just handing them a lot of money but the taxpayers don't get anything we just get our rugs torn up and our electricity used up and our bathrooms being flushed and we get nothing for it okay thank you any board member comments or questions all right please vote and that passes unanimously any more non-agenda public testimony oh I apologize thank you very much do you have a motion on item 10 and 30 we have a motion is there a second okay we have citizens speaking on all three you have four four minutes thank you just j8 and J 30 J I like this this is a language bridge I see that this is money well spent I think that was a well-crafted contract for our summer a
243summer program for children to be able to learn English better that's going to help them a lot when they start school j30 kohrville okay so this is reviewed you guys are gonna save $65,000 that's great that's great but when I tell you guys to review Vibha and you haven't done that and I don't know how many decades and you could save a million dollars a million dollars you don't look at that and understand you people you'll you'll you'll do all this work to save $65,000 and you know ask people let's get rid of Deepa and they're going what's FIBA well right now they're providing yoga classes boardmember comment or questions okay please vote okay that motion passes unanimously any other any non agenda public comment seeing none the next regular meeting will be held Tuesday
244June 19th at 2018 at 5 p.m. the L cap workshop will be held Thursday June 7th 2018 from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. in the Ballard parent Center auditorium we are now adjourned