001St okay the safety regulations for our meetings uh do not allow people to stand if there's not an open seat we're going to have to ask you to um go outside as items uh you know as we work our way through the agenda there will be uh people who I'm sure will uh leave after the item that they're interested in is uh finished so we anticipate that seats will open up but for now um if you don't have a seat we're going to have to ask you to clear the auditorium okay we will start with a non-agenda public testimony uh we have a large uh number of speakers so we're going to limit uh public speaking to a minute and uh depending on how we go we might need to cut off uh this portion
002and uh and then people who want to speak on non-agenda items would do so at the end of the meeting so I will uh call folks up uh Francisco Francisco Salo Jackie basa hedia yamini Megan Nunes spring schaer Jessica nest and Megan Glenn please come forward if I call you called your name control cuz nobody's back in the back just really got to do that that's the only way CU going to lose control again we we do need to ask you to clear the auditorium if you don't have a seat okay again if I called your name uh to speak please uh please come forward did I call your name to speak oh please yeah good evening my name is Jessica Nest I'm a parent of a mainstream student that is attending Foster Elementary I'm
003here today to represent and speak for on behalf of the mainstream parent parents um I want to talk about the the benefits of having the integration of our children with other children of special needs and moderate disabilities our kids have learned and continues to learn acceptance compassion and understanding of diversity among not only their peers that they've bonded with and love but others in the community and at the World At Large awareness has become personal to each individual as the kids are in the Forefront of of Our Lives as friends neighbors and especially as our classmates it would it would be inhumane to separate actually segregate the children as a result of closing opportunities of having dialogues and understanding about special needs with segregation a door is open and opening a door to intolerance and
004bullying thank you thank you very much [Applause] hi my name is Megan Nunes and everybody here today wearing the all students in solidarity shirts are here to protest the consolidation of the special education classes um it appears this time like last time there was very little research done into which programs should move where Foster Elementary for example has a Hoyer lift a sensory room and a private bathroom which are utilized daily by the students that special day class is being moved to Marvin which has none of those about a million dollars was spent just a year ago to put functional living skills equipment into uclid Elementary now that class is being moved from that site these are not numbers these are our children they are part of a community they're part of a community of
005children mainstream children who know their names who invite them to birthday parties to tear them out of those communities our most vulnerable children who have a difficult time with transition and from M making peer relationships and put them in a brand new location where they have no social connections to typically developing peers is completely contrary to the spirit of inclusion which San Diego unified is supposed to have [Applause] embraced my name is Megan Glenn I am the parent of a third grade mode student at Foster Elementary I am here to encourage the district to reconsider the decision to close the mode classroom and move the students to Marvin Foster is better equipped to serve these students than Marvin is both in facilities such as a sensory room and restroom with ho lift but also in
006intangible things like School culture School culture can make all the difference between academic success and stagnation for students with special needs and Foster has a wonderful School culture Foster doesn't merely tolerate or accommodate its mod severe students it welcomes them it Embraces them my child is an important member of the student body at Foster and San Diego Unified School District is doing all Foster students a disservice by breaking up their peer groups uh if I called your name please come forward otherwise uh Francine Maxwell Kimberly Miller Olivia Flores Magdalena escco Paul publicco Francine Maxwell I'm asking the board trustee to ask questions close session is supposed to be used for litigation and Personnel matters you come and sit on the dasis and you ask not one question um California Special Education management information system reporting
007usually occurs twice a year due to a pattern of continued non-compliance San Diego unified is required to undergo continuous monitoring and an additional casmus report this clearly shows you that the superintendent ignores and continuously has been in non-compliance at what point are you board trustees can we trust when are you going to start asking some questions I implore you now is the time go out of your comfort zone stop getting all the answers that you think that you have in the close session and come and do what your board trustee definition calls for real engagement real dialogue here on the diis ask some questions when her staff does the presentation it's a spin my name is Maggie ESO and I'm the PTO president of Cesar Chavez Elementary School we the PTO and the parents of
008Chavez Elementary are presenting you with this signed petition as a protest to the teacher faculty layoffs and pink slips issued on March 15 2017 we're asking the board of education office and Stu superintendent Sydney Martin to focus on balancing your budget without impacting our teachers our students and parents with these drastic layoffs that negatively impact our students and Community you serve a 100,000 students in your community your plans are to provide an excellent education but with, 1500 fewer employees and $120 million lasting your billion dollar budget how do you expect to accomplish that what will impact the size of our classrooms that are already overcrowded we will impact the teacher staff that are already overworked you're cutting special education that is important to um students here at Travis Elementary you're cutting physical education with this
009obesity epidemic that's affecting our elementary schools how you're also cutting the police patrols how does that impact the safety of our schools we are located in the middle of South Crest Park in AIA Grove Way that's where SPD officer Jonathan Gonzalez was shot last year I'm almost done schools are expected to with fewer teachers occupational therapists counselors Head Start employees Librarians and other positions who's going to pick up the workload okay thank you thank you very much so please think about the layoffs stop the layoffs at Cesar Chavez hello my name is Olivia Flores and I'm a fourth grade teacher at Caesar Chavez Elementary a school that Prides itself in teaching students to protect the rights of others today our teachers and staff are threatened to lose their jobs the practice of giving quarter quarter
010of our teachers and staff layoffs notice affects not only our teachers but the students and communities they work in the way to avoid these layoffs is to stop new programs and Charter Schools community colleges are already doing a fine job in providing Career Technical programs we don't even have the money to provide our children with teachers who teach students the fundamentals how can we have money to create Career Technical programs and new Charter Schools you cannot deny our students the basics of an education Reading Writing and math they are the foundation for success in college or Career Technical programs 50 years ago School segregated students and labeled some mentally challenge today the school board wants to segregate students in Career Technical programs Caesar Chavez would have never said to his organizers individuals deeply dedicated to
011the cause I don't need you anymore in this Spirit of Caesar Chavez the Board needs to withdraw the layoffs thank [Music] [Applause] you hi guys my name is Paul publico and I'm here on behalf of USA shade we are a company that helps provide shade over playgrounds for kids uh and we do it all over California um I'm going to talk about the what and the how and the why and the what is that kids are exposed to ultraviolet rays at a young age and Sano UniFi doesn't have a ton of these fabric shade structures um the how is how USA shade can help we work with LA unified San Jose Unified Carl's Bad Grossmont Sweet Water you name it in California we've done over 100,000 structures and they're cost effective and they keep Kids
012Safe um and why you should choose us is because of our reputation and what we've done uh I was was a former teacher I'm humbled by the passion in this room tonight and uh I think you guys do a great job and God bless you guys thank you thank [Applause] you okay uh Ashley Beaver Angie Serrano Karen D wagi Jessica Dee Rosie bendy Ricardo Serrano Dean Royals and Billy sandros hi my name is Ashley beaver and I'm a person with a Volva this is how our new curriculum encourages teachers to address girls if you don't think that's sexually objectifying regardless of intent I'm not sure if you understand what age appropriateness is today I'm here with 700 others petitioning our board to suspend this new sexual health curriculum because it's too much too soon and
013too fast this is an adult curriculum for a non-adult brain [Music] it it introduces sexual terms and Concepts before our kids are ready for them it encourages them to use the internet to find out more information about sexuality it starts in lesson one with without even giving them protective par parameters we don't teach accelerated math because we know it overwhelms some kids we should not teach accelerated sex said don't use our kids as guinea pigs with this new curriculum later on to find it was too much too soon because then it will be too late hi I'm Angie Serrano I've been talking to my neighbors here in San Diego via nextd door.org about the new sex a curriculum many of my neighbors say well parents can opt out in fact a lot of parents are
014opting out and that is a problem parents are moving their children to other districts Charter Schools private schools and home schools Terry and my neighbor said we do not have control over the content of the dis of the discussion and have no idea what the teachers in the classroom will teach I submit that if the curriculum list anal sex vaginal sex and how to cut a condom for oral sex for sixth graders then that is what the teacher will be discussing Terry's family took out a home equity line of credit to put their kids in private schools sadly parents are fleeing the San Diego Public School System in droves and with them go tax dollars in light of the $124 million budget deficit instead of provoking parents to pull kids out of public education we
015need to pull out offensive curriculum parents want you to suspend this curriculum and call for a selection committee that includes concerned parents choosing transparent age appropriate unbiased evidence-based Community accepted law compliant Sexual Health curriculum thank you my name is Karen K and dagi I have three girls in three schools in Miram Mesa I am involved at all levels from the cluster Congress into the classroom I represent parents that feel very strongly that this curriculum is too much too soon I represent Asian parents and Filipino parents and Hispanic parents African-American parents Caucasian parents we talk to three Muslims outside who were shocked by this curriculum you represent all of these families the California healthy youth act knows that parents have the ultimate responsibility in imparting values values regarding sexuality to their kids this curriculum does not
016res represent the values of of your constituents right but they did not seek out parent involvement when they did this curriculum one of our concerned parents specifically asked to be involved in this curriculum and she was denied because her values on sex are not the most aggressive and Progressive this curriculum does not just meet the law it far exceeds the law it's openly hostile to parents thank you my name is Judy newfeld Fernandez and I'm here to ask this school board why you approved a curriculum that introduces children to pornography under San Diego Unified School District adopted curriculum Sexual Health it has students going to amaze the Amaze project takes them to the this imagery which is cartoonized pornography we have have Julie melons with a well-endowed chest we have miles long we have Julie
017and miles in bed naked this is adopted by this board they think your sixth graders are ready for this how dare you introduce our children to pornography when we know that pornography is connected according to Summer step of The Da pornography is connected to child predation thank you shame on you Ricardo Sano I'm thankful for the opportunity that we have so we together can work on a sound sex health education I'm going to appeal to your wisdom you have children grandchildren and what you heard is really disturbing so I'm going to appeal appeal to your wisdom think that you are shaping the Next Generation and we are entrusting you our children so you can teach them you can shape them and you can send send them into this world let's work together what you heard
018here it's so alarming and also this proposed curriculum list things that are Unthinkable for an 11y old again I'm appealing to your wisdom have the courage to put your conscience at ease and we are mandated to pray for our leaders we're going to be praying for you so you can have wisdom and at the end we're going to have a Sound Health sex curriculum thank you good evening my name is Rosie Bindy I'm a mother a grandmother and a great grandmother my granddaughter will be 11 years and one month going into sixth grade this curriculum is inappropriate for a 11y old girl or 11y old boy I don't understand maybe you guys don't have children maybe you don't have grandchildren but this is not a apprpriate for a sixth grader as a matter of fact
019I don't think it's appropriate for a seventh grader or eighth grader so I'm pleading you to please take a look at what you are doing and not push this [Applause] through that's okay my name is Dean BRS I'm a constitutional attorney and serve as the president of the national Center for Law policy I sent the board a letter earlier today there are two significant legal problems with this sex program first it undermines the right of parents to direct the care and upbringing of their children second it demonstrates unlawful hostility towards religion um the Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized the importance of parents and Guardians in the fundamental role of inculcating values in their children under their care I quote the child is not the mere creature of the state those who nurture him and direct
020his Destiny have the right coupled with the high duty to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations under California law parents not the state decide what is age appropriate for their children that's why the California healthy youth act gives parents the right to review sexed materials and decide whether to opt their children out of the program I quote from the California law the legislator recognizes that while parents and Guardians overwhelmingly support medically accurate comp comprehensive sex education parents and Guardians have the ultimate responsibility for imparting values to their children thank you thank you thank you hello my name is Billy sandros and um I am a a parent and a grandparent two questions came to my mind when I heard about this one was what is the motivation behind you guys behind the writers of
021this is there somebody down line making a profit on this I think that needs to be asked the second thing is by giving children of this age this kind of information I believe you're setting them up for statutory rape because if a 18yearold would have sex with a 17-year-old they would go to to jail if a if a sixth grader go has sex with a sixth grader where are we I just throw out those two questions [Applause] thank you thank you okay Lissa gallana Jan Le Salazar David compos Benz Esmeralda compos Benz M bidz and Mario VI the [Applause] lead thank you um hi my name is Janell Salazar I'm a local of City Heights and a college student attending San Diego State University um today I will be speaking about the fourth right in
022our School Community rights um which states that students staff and administrators have the right to a school structure that supports restorative practices restorative practices can only Thrive if if administrators and educators are given the time tools and the staff to exe to execute restorative practices roll out we need to fund programs that will train admin administrators teachers authorities and parents to facilitate restorative practices and create a healthy environment for our children and the future of San Diego um we want to thank board members Barrera and white Hurst Payne for agreeing to meet with us on May 16th and we urge the board that the school climate bill of right be passed in its full form by June 6th 2017 thank [Applause] you good evening board members my name is David cample and I am a
023sixth grade student at Alero Community School I am here to tell you why the school climate Builder rights is important for students the first right is student staff administrators and parents or Guardians have a right to a positive collaborative healthy healing School environment school should Thrive to be sanctu for students and parents or Guardians students should want to go to school and feel safe if teachers have a circles then it will help them know what's going on with us and help us if schools use restorative justice instead of suspending or expelling students can stay in school and learn I thank the board members for agreeing to meet with us on May 16th for my future and the future of my school and Community I wish wishing that the school Bill of Rights passes before I
024start seventh grade thank you thank you good evening my name is m Benitez I'm a San Diego native graduated from mors high school and received the B bachor in child and family development from San Diego State University for two years I worked as a restorative Community conferencing specialist for the RCC pilot program in City Heights with confidence knowledge and experience I can say that the school climate Bill of Rights is more than a document it is one solution to eliminating the school to pris pipeline it is a mindset and lifestyle to humanize the student experience in our school district it is a guideline to bring about a healing process to our families schools and Community highly affected by the punitive systems amongst other social justice issues um one of the SEC the second right states
025that parents or Guardians have a right to resolve conflict through restorative practices over traditional punitive disciplinary measures prioritizing RP over traditional methods affords all students the best possible opportunity to succeed academically and socially due to limited time I hope that this paints a picture on how important this issue truly is and I thank you for agreeing to me with us and at the same time I urge that you pass the school climate bill of right and its full form by June 6 2017 good afternoon my name is Mario Antonio v and I am working right now as a resource counselor restorative counselor for race human relations and advocacy it's uh one of two departments that's actually been cut um we're trying to figure out um I know there's a restorative Department that's been created we're
026trying to figure out who's going to be able to do this work because myself and Trisha CH who've been doing this work in the last two or three years are now going to possibly put in classrooms if uh if you know having to do uh post and bid so I'm trying to figure out right now we're doing work at Lincoln High School Crawford Hoover Port Elementary and Knox and we're starting at San Diego High we're going to be doing moving it into Madison and other schools but this is all for next year I'm trying to see if the if the district if the board and the district District are going to uh support uh support this District support the students and keeping this going we all know that restorative practice works we all know the
027restorative justice work it increases uh kids going to school it incre decreases aism and it decreases kids going to prison and we need to make sure that you all are going to support us thank [Applause] you okay um I'm going to call up a few more speakers and then we're going to need to uh move on with the uh with the agenda so Lily Higman Jennifer Tandy Carolyn meros Mariana merlos Margo Hutcheson uh Maria Mikus Carolina Bailey hi my name is Jennifer Tandy and I'm on the Mission Bay cluster board uh there are many of us here from the Mission Bay cluster uh who are heartbroken and this is not an exaggeration uh over the dozens of pink slips that have been issued to our teachers throughout the cluster we are an international baloria cluster
028with manderin immersion science and music as our Pathways for Success the San Diego Unified School District holds our cluster up as the example of Grassroots parent action support site instruction administrative vision and distri strict resources working together to create upward Trends in almost every defined category of success the Mission Bay cluster is the embodiment of the district's Vision 2020 a quality neighborhood School quality School in every neighborhood we are here because we must retain our programs on our uniquely qualified people to continue our success the San Diego Unified School District has made clear they've made a clear commitment to the Mission Bay cluster but the district must recognize that these programs and the successful trajectory are entire cluster cannot continue without these highly trained professionals so how much time and money has been invested in
029making the Mission Bay cluster IB program the powerful Game Changer that has become it cannot be dismantled with pink slips thank hello Maria micas a parent of three children at the elementary schools in Pacific Beach I'm not going to speak about the mess we're in although I will suggest some of you take a common core math class so you understand budgets better um but I do want to speak to stcs um I'm going to speak to the statistics that I pulled off the website from San Diego unified all our elementary schools are at capacity or near capacity PB Middle School is up 100 students each year at 83% local enrollment speaking to Cindy's Vision about local neighborhood schools the Mission Bay cluster is up 10% while the district is down 23,000 students at 19% so
030it's not just the locals raving about IB in fact my neighbor just transferred from a private school to Mission Bay High I want to talk about how we've taken 57 students from outside the district that are coming to our schools for IB at Mission Bay cluster so what's the solution what's my ask as you're looking at your laptops and hopefully listening I'm asking that you listen about the specialty teachers that we've invested in paid for trained years after year with IB now you're ripping them out and putting new people in that we have to train and we have no money obviously thank you it's about the [Music] kids thank you in the past couple of years Mission Bay High Senior can we just have your name please oh sorry I'm Margo hutchon um in the
031past couple of years Mission Bay High seniors have been accepted into Princeton Berkeley and all of the UC schools NYU the University of Chicago and ridiculously competitive programs like Cal Poly engineering UCL UCLA engineering this is from the director of admissions at MIT send us prepared students Allah IB it is the best High School prep curriculum an American school can offer from the director of admissions at Harvard IB is well known to us for excellent preparation success in all in an IB Program correlates well with success at Harvard a study in the UC system showed that students who participated in the IB Program earned higher grade point averages and graduated at higher rates than comparison group students this trend was observed across all income groups the IB program is the only program that can claim
032success for students across all demographics and all income groups we as a community have fought hard to bring this kind of college success to our kids we can't give this to our students if you take away our IB credential teachers this is a K12 program that serves every kid across every income level and every demographic thank you thank you hi Lily Hickman with the Mission Bay cluster as well um as you can see we've had tremendous success in our cluster because of the IB the Mandarin language program and we have followed what you have said Cindy Martin you have said we want to invest in essential programs like IB Kevin Biser you have also said our balanced budget puts students first with programs such as IB Dr Mike you have said acquisition of world languages
033and increased understanding of multiple cultures are critical to Preparing students for college careers and Civic engagement in a more globally competitive Marketplace Cindy Martin you said on K USI we need further access to immersion and dual language programs students need to be multilinguals for society and the World of Tomorrow in a recent letter Cindy you have said students will also continue to have access to our amazing IB dual language and arts and other vital programs from a 2015 UT article you said from a program perspective the district will consider replicating International baloria curriculum for language instruction performing artemy thank this takes more than just the program it takes people and we're here fighting for our people who have been well trained and we love this is why we are successful not because of the just
034the program hi I'm mahogany Taylor and I'm a parent of a kindergartner and a second grader I'm one of those uh parents who have ch choiced into the Mission Bay cluster specifically because there is a dual language immersion program that is a continuing pathway throughout K through 12 including the international baloria program without these programs I would not have chosen the cluster and it's very important that we keep the teachers and the staff that create the program and provide everything that is needed for the program by taking these teachers away You're dismantling the program and in that point basically ruining the program I look forward to become a future buck and I hope that you guys support that too thank you hi my name is car Ln Merlo and I'm proud to say that my
035daughter is a student at Pacific Beach Middle School and she'll be attending Mission Bay High School a few years ago I wouldn't have been so proud to say that but because of the IB program and because of the amazing teachers and staff that we have at these schools the perception has changed entirely and one of these teachers in particular Mr John O'Donnell is one of the San Diego unified school districts music teachers of the year he is at risk he's been given a pink flip the music program is one of those rare opportunities for students from all backgrounds and interests and academic levels to come together for a common purpose Mr odonnell has helped these students come from the very basics of not having ever picked up an instrument to becoming award-winning on sble musicians
036in a matter of a couple of years these students learn so much about each other and about themselves and the positive interactions and success that they experienced through this program motivates them to do better in all aspects of their academic lives please keep Mr O'Donnell and our music programs at our schools hello my name is Mariana meros and I'm currently an eighth grader at pbms as a student I have experiences with many different teachers and subjects every day I see how my peers are influenced to act and learn in every class with every teaching style and although students gain something from all academics there's one class that always stands out in an average school day um when a student takes a music class they're not only opening their mind to a new form of art
037and culture but learning a language that is shared internationally I've been in the Pacific Beach Middle School Advanced Orchestra for 2 years now and have taken music classes for most of my life I can honestly say that no other class has given me such a huge sense of teamwork and passion this of course is all due to our wonderful teacher Mr John O'Donnell in our classes he motivates us to play with feeling and makes each class feel like a family he teaches us to be professional to take risks with our music and to embrace cultures and feelings from around the world what students gain from music class is important not only is playing an instrument proven to raise test scores but it gives you vital life skills such as teamwork compromise and ability to perform
038and break out of your shell PBS thrives because of our IB music program and more specifically Mr odonnell who took the time to become IB trained so that he can give students like myself experiences that we never have gained anywhere else I can fully say that he's an inspiration to each and every one of his students past and present and pbms wouldn't be the same without Mr Donald thank [Applause] you okay thank you okay um that concludes this portion of non-agenda public testimony um and uh folks who wish to address the board and non-agenda items can do so at the uh conclusion of the uh uh rest of the meeting uh I'd like to welcome everyone present today and those watching the broadcast and call the April 25th 2017 regular meeting to order with all
039board members present and uh we'll uh please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and we've got the navy jrc color guard from Sarah High School to present the colors ready face ready begin I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the for it stands one nation indivisible withy andice Ready Cut forward thank you Sarah High School jotc okay if you wish to address the board on any of the agenda items before the board today and your name is not on the speaker list printed on blue paper located at both entrances to the auditorium and if you've not already submitted a request for public testimony form please complete the form and submit it to miss Ward our board action officer speakers on agenda items will be called on to speak
040during the discussion of the agenda item once discussion begins on an item no additional public speaker requests will be accepted by the board uh our bylaws provide uh a maximum of 20 minutes per consent and our action item allowing for a maximum of 10 minutes per opposing view Point Public testimony speakers are limited to a maximum of 3 minutes per speaker and depending upon the total number of speaker requests received by the board on an item the time may be reduced to two or 1 minute each uh the time limit for speakers on today's agenda items will be announced at each item we'll start with our student presentation from Dingman Elementary School uh Mr Biser thank you very much uh president Barrera uh today uh I'm proud to share some of the great things happening
041in our neighborhood schools um so here we have uh some of the elementary school students from Dingman Elementary School in scrips Ranch uh many of you know that dingham elementary school is named after Colonel Bob Dingman known as Mr scripts Ranch who is still with us today and is a very big part of that School uh and every year we celebrate Colonel Bob uh Colonel Bob's birthday at the school with Colonel Bob Dingman day so board if you please join me in the audience so we can uh observe these students and some of the great work they're doing in the school welcome my name is Carly and I in fourth grade at Dingman Elementary School at Dingman Elementary School we value value the Visual and Performing Arts our parents deliver art lessons to classrooms through
042the art corpse program families are also invited to participate in family art nights each spring we have an art corpse Show featuring our best Art Of The Year music is also big part of our School fourth and fifth graders can pick a band a string or band instrument my teacher Mr sigill directs the Honor Choir some of our third and fourth grade classrooms also learn to play the recorder we also have classroom choir that gets together weekly to sing each fall fourth and fifth grade seminar classrooms produce a musical this year it was Princess what's her name several of our fourth and fifth grade classrooms participate in weekly hip hop classes and love to perform even our kindergartens kindergarteners love to perform this year they will star in three different musicals our Spring Fling featured
043performances by class classrooms and individual students and I I will introduce my class we are going to perform some of some harmonica pieces for you this evening in fourth grade social studies the Gold Rush is one of the eras we study one of the instruments that the miners like to play in the 1840s was the harmonica sometimes called the mouth organ Mr Sill's fourth grade seminar class will perform to you two songs first o California a goldra song played to the tune of O Suzanna and You Are My Sunshine a song written in 1939 that has become part of our country's popular culture [Music] w [Music] the [Music] [Applause] okay great job Dingman Elementary School that was a lot of fun we'll move on to item B4 and this is our third annual Edco recycling
044challenge Awards uh and I think superintendent Martin will uh present the awards thank you president barera this is the third year of these Awards under our negotiated contract with Edco and I'd like to invite our Edco Partners Darren Vay and John vorus um supervisor and Darren and can come up to the podium to help present these Awards thank you superintendent Martin uh we uh appreciate having this opportunity to recognize the outstanding winners of the Edco recycling challenge um but before we do that I I wanted to give a a quick thank you to Janet Whitehead our recycling specialist for the District who does a great job of diverting recycle to to trash so let's give Janet the hand she didn't know I was going to say that but I thought I'd give her some recognition
045all right so uh this year the challenge was structured to include categories by grade level as well as the most improved category so John um go ahead and uh do your part here okay the um the uh uh category it's a with 15% increase from waste diversion going to N9 from 9.9 last year to 24.9 this year I would like to recognize terce Santa Elementary School accepting award and their $250 prize is principal Sally mind the name here via Vala there you go and Building Services Supervisor Miguel Serrano congratulations thank you so much thank you quick picture in the elementary school category the runnerup with 42.6% diversion receiving a $500 award is Walker Elementary School accepting the award is Justin Phillips principal and building super supervisor tan Holmes get the real money too good job
046ftic thank you good job thank you congratulations all right and the winner of the Middle School category with 31.2 32.1% diverent the winner of the elementary school category this one right here oh I'm sorry sorry about that okay in the winner Elementary School category with 42.7% diversion and a $750 award is Encanto Elementary School accepting the award is principal Audrey modder science prep and Planet protector student Lynn Howard custodian Edgar hin leonian Stanley student members of the ananto private Protection Team yes everybody gets to be in this picture okay get them all in there did you do it again okay yeah yeah okay all the pictures okay here comes theun okay okay get the parents okay you need a lighter [Music] shirt oh you're welcome we got so many cameras going here I don't know
047what we're going I mean we got a lot of cameras for 10 minutes I know right okay everybody's got their okay there you go okay good good job year after year you guys do wonderful Okay so where we at this one yeah just finish that all right now we're going to talk about the Middle School category in the Middle School category the runner up with 29.3% recycling diversion receiving a $750 award is Challenger Middle School accepting the award is vice principal Donnie Torino and the student recyclers come on down students yes good job you guys we're so excited yeah just we're going to take a bunch of pictures okay so [Music] okay we just did where are we middle chall middle you're here so go ahead here okay okay let me see if I get
048this one correct and the winner in the Middle School category with 32.1% diversion receiving ,000 award is Knox midle School accepting the award is principal Heather Potter Building Services Supervisor Nick Roth [Applause] [Music] congratulations thank you very last but certainly not least is the high school category the runnerup with 24.4% diversion receiving a $1,000 award is Patrick Henry High School accepting the award listy Gillingham plant supervis who say principal there plant operation supervisor Kathy Murphy AP environmental science teacher Laura Dickens and seniors Tom doe and Eric changen both students have been active in Henry's recycling program for all four years so let's give him a [Applause] hand part of [Applause] and then you do this part right here the red part you're good go ahead okay and the winner in the high school category with
04932.6% diversion receiving a $1,250 award is Sierra High School something award is principal Erica rrey Kathy Topete senior custodian crew [Applause] leader good thank you thanks for wearing your Sarah shirt that looks good oh yeah representing yeah you're forgot to yeah you go thank you so much thank you that's right thank you and that concludes our presentation we we just really appreciate everybody showing up for this thing this is important so thank you for showing up we appreciate thank you thank you Dr to mccy yeah I'd like to add a comment I I had the pleasure to visit the Eco process it's an incredible plan an incredible process they use Hightech hard science and practical Mechanical Solutions in order to separate sort and recycle waste that uh not only saves money but it makes money
050I want to thank you for your program thank you for your participation thank you for your collaboration we're learning something and and uh and our students are as well thank you thank you Dr I want to thank um Steve South and everybody at Edco for their partnership uh a lot of us uh on the board had a different vision for how our school district would deal with our waste disposal situation and part of that solution was actually putting into the waste disposal contract specific targets for uh making sure that we divert waste into recycled product or um composting and things like that and this uh award process is a part of that so thank you very much to Edco thank you to all of the children and the teachers and the support staff and the
051administrators and the parents that make it happen because kids are not only doing the right thing for the planet but they're also learning about how they can make a big difference so thank you very much and congrat congratulations Patrick Henry and Sarah high school and Tira Santa District B represents all right there we go that's right okay thanks again to Edco and to all the uh incredible work uh that we've seen from our schools uh can we get a motion to adopt today's agenda with Section I the superintendent's consent agenda considered the following please vote okay does any board member wish to pull any item from the consent agenda question yes uh I know we in the time of saving money and and trying to uh enhance our ending balance and I just want to
052ensure that these expenditures we're making right now have been thoroughly vetted they're absolutely necessary and essential we wouldn't be going forward with them if we hadn't have taken uh that extra effort to make sure that we absolutely need these items yeah thank um I'd also like to just comment real quick um that when I go through the superintendent's consent agenda and I see a contract for you know $112,000 or something like that I used to drill down a lot and now I kind of become much more familiar with the specific specific expenditures and I've learned a lot of them are for milk or apples or various kinds of things like that that we absolutely need for our children okay if we're not removing any items and we got one speaker one speaker I on I35
053I'll move the superintendent's consent agenda uh except for the I35 okay do we have a second okay uh please vote okay okay uh report of Clos session actions uh do we have any administrative assignments tonight I'm sorry we have we have a report out on Clos session go ahead we do thank you president barera uh the board voted 5 Z to I'm sorry 4 Z to approve litigation to recover unpaid development funds from the county auditor controller thank you okay and we have no administrative assignments tonight there are none president barera okay let's go to our uh ASB uh president's report uh we have uh two Representatives tonight we have Siara langill our ASB president at University City High School and Laura Barton our ASB president from Mission Bay High School so uh CR why
054don't we start with you and tell us about what's going on uh with yourself and at your school both academically and socially hi I'm CR LEL from University City High School um we've just finished our 3-day training with ADL which stands for the Anti-Defamation Le we had 30 students involved with 10 is her speaker is her microphone on yeah okay close there okay so we had 30 students involved with 10 incoming 8th graders who aimed to create a safe caring and positive atmosphere around our campus um many of the students who were involved included our ASB members um our upcoming events include our ASB elections for the 2017 to 2018 School school year um as well as our Spring Showcase which we which we'll be showing our Color Guard um who was awarded second in
055Southern California um over the weekend as well as our drill and all male dance team who plays third in Six Flags on Sunday along also with our award-winning band our cheer and other dance teams thank you thank you thanks here Laura good even good evening my name good evening my name is Laura Barton and I'm the ASP president at Mission Bay and the president of the San Diego Unified School District of ASB Presidents since I was last here the Council of ASB presidents have been working on analyzing ASB card sales at each of our schools and looking at best practices to share with each other in order to boost card sales we also have discussed trauma enforced practices that we can Implement at our schools during times of need in addition we have all been
056contributing to an ASB Google drive to leave suggestions and information for the ASP presidents for the upcoming school year at Mission Bay we've started karaoke Fridays to boost school spirit this Friday we have our spring pep rally that we are combining with our SB elections for the upcoming school year academically at Mission Bay all Juniors and seniors are getting ready for the international borate testing that starts next week through the 3D week of May lastly I would regret if I didn't mention my concern about the effect of the district's budget cuts are having on the culture and environment at Mission Bay High School seeing teachers and staff seeing teachers and staff members having to deal with the uncertainty of having a job or not is upsetting while my teachers continue to put forth a strong
057effort I can see it weighs on them seeing meaningful and worthwhile programs that have been built up over the years cancelled for the upcoming school year is truly disheartening and while I understand that there are difficult Financial realities I am disappointed that so many of these cuts are being felt so deeply within the student body and faculty not only at Mission Bay but across the district thank you thank you [Music] thank you Laura and c and we'll move to our superintendent information report superintendent Martin thank you president Bara just this past week the or two weeks ago the state of California released the official graduation rates for the class of 2016 and it's something that we've been talking about in terms of on track to graduate but San Diego unified now those numbers have been
058been verified by the state and we ranked first among the top five largest districts in California ahead of Los Angeles San Francisco Long Beach and Fresno the state put the final graduation rate number for San Diego unified at 91.2% within a percentage point of our on of our own internal estimate of ontract number that we discussed last spring San Diego unified students lead the state with the highest graduation rates and the lowest Dropout rates of all big city schools in fact our dropout rate is now down to 3.4% half of what other big city districts face but the real story besides that number underneath those numbers is the story about our students because while all of our students are thriving some of the biggest gains when you unpack those numbers and look more closely have
059been among those groups that traditionally have been left behind and our goal to close the achievement Gap is about making differences for students who are traditionally left behind so I want to point point out a little bit deeper besides the 91.2% rate African-American students post the biggest gains of any group on a through G academic achievement 10 percentage Point gain in college readiness our African-American students now have a graduation rate that is 6% above any other big district and a dropout rate that is lower Dropout rates that are 33% lower likewise our Latino students are also enjoying some of the highest graduation rates in the state of California and students learning in English saw 11 percentage Point increase in their graduation rates that was the largest gain by any population Group in San Diego so
060congratulations to our English learners for achieving that I hope the tremendous success of our students will continue to inspire us to do this most important work of ser serving our students closing the achievement Gap delivering a broad and challenging curriculum while we make very difficult decisions we know that none of the decisions that we're facing are easy easy but we know that working together keeping the success of students front and center is a way that we will continue to achieve and achieve more in years to come thank you thank you thank you superintendent okay board information reports uh Dr mccy yeah I would like to acknowledge the Partnerships that we have with our community groups our Civic groups and our other professional organizations here locally and and across across the state I just want to
061highlight a few that I've participated in acknowledging similarly what what has happened at Edco and the work that we have with p uh businesses working with our students and schools I did an audit walk with Carson Elementary uh it was a effort to take a look at how we have a safe pathway from home to school and one of the issues around the school uh what was collaborative with a number of groups that showed up and participated we have we had helpers from uh National City and jul Vista uh we had the city uh uh Engineers along with the city police uh and we had our teachers and and students and and and support staff there to take a look at a school to make sure that uh we had taken care of everything in
062order to have a safe walk and it was the collaboration that makes a difference with that in other areas I do want to call attention to our community school officer whose expertise and knowledge uh of of the of the process uh was so was very very beneficial in in making this successful effort also attended a career day at price uh where our local businesses and Civic leaders uh met to uh to discuss jobs and skills and training and their pathway for taking on specific uh skills and and uh uh careers in the future at Kate sessions we had our IB uh project presentations for students uh did the uh reported out their their programs uh that they put together uh dealing with uh international issues with a local uh impact and they came up with
063problem Solutions with a local action plan and then I also met with California school board uh Association as we do with uh with 12 school board uh represented across the state in order to look at the lcap and the lcff and our dashboard to ensure that the reports that we are making that coming from the state are meaningful and provide information helpful information um for um for making School Improvement uh uh at our local schools so our parents can understand it our staff can understand it so that we can move forward and again congratulations to our teachers staff parents and school everyone for the outstanding outcomes that we had this year thank you do uh thank you president Barrera um several things uh first of all uh on Thursday evening I was thrilled to uh
064attend the environmental health Coalition annual award ceremony recognizing uh various leaders in the community making sure that our uh neighborhoods are safe um I'm very proud and honored and humbled to have one of my former students Karen Fernandez receive a full ride scholarship from every IV League school in the United States of America it's my understanding she will be going to Harvard University for free which is exactly what I told her when she was in my seventh grade math class when Harvard University announced several years ago that they wanted to try to increase the representation of socioeconomically disadvantaged and minority students and she picked up that challenge and she continued to work very hard in middle school and high school I was honored to be her math teacher twice in seventh grade and again in
0659th grade and congratulations to Karen Fernandez um Friday evening I joined uh Billy Bean the San Diego gay men's chorus and the San Diego Women's Chorus on the field before the Padre's game and sang the national an anthm at the annual out at the park the lgbtq day and I've got my fantastic hat anybody else have one yeah yeah hi cat all right uh many of you may know Billy Bean was the first ever professional baseball player to come out while he was a padre uh he's a great hero to many people on Saturday I uh supported home start at their Blue Ribbon Gayla which is a nonprofit organization that fights childhood uh childhood um abuse and and helps single mothers to find somewhere to live and for housing I'm I'm almost done um hey
066you can do it I can do it so uh also uh uh I also was uh attended the San Carlos Public Library essay contest where several students students in elementary and middle schools in San Carlos and delo uh moved on to the Citywide literacy competition um on Monday after school I uh was thrilled to meet with some protesters at my school uh to visit with them about the kind of Balan budget that I want to see us finalize in June one that restores vapa teachers that restores Elementary School prep time teachers and PE in element schools and one that takes another look at campus safety officers uh just found out today that there are many people that have taken the Ser retirements uh offer and looking forward to pulling back a lot of those preliminary
067uh pink slips uh had a meeting to yeah I had a uh a couple of interviews today talking about our commitment to keep our children safe uh there's been a lot of misunderstanding with regard to what we're doing to keep our Muslim Students safe we don't think this school board exactly exactly I'm sorry we will not allow that we we will not allow in San Diego Public Schools for Muslim children to be spit on beat up verbally harassed or have their hijabs constantly pulled on in class we must make sure that we must make sure we I'm I'm sorry Mr Biser we will we will clear this Auditorium if people are going to interrupt and not be respectful then clear the auditorium all right go hate has no place in San Diego [Music] [Applause] schools
068and I want to thank for the graduation rates I want to thank our teachers and all the support staff that help provide for our children thank [Applause] you I would like to acknowledge the progress of our students and to commend them in conjunction with their teachers their parents and all of the other support staff whove helped them to achieve I also want to thank the community for standing by um the schools and offering their help with various programs such as the link Achievers program that I I attended on Sunday uh where uh 24 African-American males were mentored and nurtured through an intense program so that they can uh get through the system regardless to what school they attend as a u matriculate into uh College next year and then I also attended the rotary um
069the uh rotary program I just wanted to say thank you to all the rotarians who are out there helping youth um with the leadership program and uh finally I want to thank uh the librarian and all the support staff they have friends of Library uh at Malcolm X Library and on this past Saturday they gave out Awards and certificates to 75 students across the city for their essays in an essay contest and uh I I want to just commend the community and all of us as citizens of this country for supporting all of our children thank you okay thank you Dr WHUR pan okay we'll move on to item E1 our vision 2020 quality schools in every neighborhood update and this is uh specifically an update on our efforts to protect and support our immigrant
070students superintendent Martin thank you president barrer I'd like to invite um Stanley engine to join me up here as we present this Vision 20120 update it's lcap go 4 we've presented on this goal before and specifically tonight we're going to give an update as the board requested on immigration work that we've been doing since a recent election elcap goal 4 is about positive School environments and when we talk about positive School environment it's about the climate at the school environment the culture and at the center of our work is equity putting Equity at the core and being able to support the whole child so I'm going to do this presentation with Stan and you as you can see we're going to load the PowerPoint and I'll let you let me get the first one up
071no you can do it for me I'll tell you when I'll I'll do the first View and then I'll pass it over to you are you loading the PowerPoint Miss Ward okay as they load the PowerPoint I just want to set the stage that over 50,000 students in San Diego unified speak a language anguage that's other than English at home and 10% of all of our students are foreign born that being said San Diego UniFi clearly serves tens of thousands of first and second generation immigrant families and we're proud of our families and our diversity because San Diego unified is a strength-based district we can go to the next slide we're a strength-based district we believe in unlocking the genius and seeing the values that each student brings from their language from their culture and
072from their background and focusing on their strengths as a tremendous asset that helps us recognize that language and cultural diversity are important strengths and immigrant students bring these strengths with them when they come to our schools from 61 countries 171 different languages that we're proud to welcome these students into our schools just as immigrant students contribute to our success as a district we're focused on their success and we've organized ourselves internally to accomplish the work for example the office of language acquisition is part of our instructional cabinet working collaboratively with our secondary office and Leadership and learning and our English language learn resource teachers work to train school-based teachers to align the lesson plans with common core and English language development standards that it's an integrated approach we will not close the achievement Gap unless
073we integrate these Services across the district Slide Five are you on five Slide Five these strategies that we' put together are definitely paying off this slide shows just some of the ways we're getting results I want to highlight the fact that I just recognized earlier our graduation rate for students reclassified before the 8th grade is now 96% higher than the general student population in terms of positive School environment and culture another way that we align the goals is we've seen success that we this the success that we've seen in the graduation rates in the academic achievement can actually be under threat because what we know is that students can't learn when they feel threatened when they feel scared when they're worried and given the current national political climate who could blame our IM immigrant students
074for feeling afraid we want to be sure that we can ensure positive School environments across our school so I'm proud in slide seven I'm proud of the board uh the action and the leadership that this board has shown on December 12th 2016 when you passed the resolution reaffirming the rights of all of our students to a public education the action April 25th your resolution tonight that you'll be passing you're showing strong leadership to transmit to our students and our families that our schools are safe places for all students to learn to achieve and to reach their dreams and just today we saw a victory in the Santa Clara versus Trump case protecting Sanctuary cities from retribution by the federal government a federal judge just today issued an injunction to stop that from happening our district
075was on the right side of history when we filed our amus brief in that case and you can see going forward that based on the board's actions that we've taken we're able to make those decis decisions now I'd like to introduce Stan anen our family and Community engagement director to talk about how we support immigrant students and families to lead across our system thank you as a response to the many concerns that we received from a variety of families and students um our schools and and reminding us that all our schools have an obligation to ensure safe and supportive School environments for all students we launched a collaborative effort with a variety of school Partners parent leaders which include the San Diego PTA ADL the Mexican consulate the center sdaa aasd Alliance San Diego cluster
076Congress and many more actually achieving over 40 different Community Partnerships uh to bring to the district a celebration of life which was a remembrance of the diversity and the many faces um that we represent as a school district the family community engagement was extremely excited to launch this event and throughout the course of the event we easily achieved over 500 participants at uh making it one of the largest events the district has held to support and remind us that we are here for all children from the from the uh first event in December the San dieo unified family community engagement team has been leading some districtwide work in these issues in collaboration with many other uh Partners one of them being uh USD where we held a USD sdusd educator Symposium on safe school safety
077and climate in which we had our Equity ambassadors in attendance uh and as student panelists they were able to share their voice uh as well as share their fears of the school climates in which they um they were they were in um we just recently also in partnership with USD were participants in the restoring respect conference in which we had not only our Equity ambassadors but also our uh student Representatives here who um in in conjunction and in partnership with our Equity ambassadors shared not only issues around equity and um equity and access but also safety um as it pertains to harassment and bullying and their their beliefs around how we need to move forward to ensure that students are safe at all times um and this year we launched the equity Coalition which is
078a collaborative of stakeholders District District staff members as well as student leaders who come together on a uh five month uh on a on a uh I'm sorry every other month uh to address these Equity issues so that they are the Forefront of the conversations in which we are leading our work and always in remembrance that we do this work um from the voice of our children um so now the family community engagement team is taking this work um on campuses to serve students and families directly we've opened eight neighborhood centers this year all with um the ability to bring Community Partners and agencies onto those campuses to provide resources and services to families we've established and maintained key Partnerships that include the Mexican consulate immigration Forum Alliance San Diego Kasa Cornelia ACLU IRC say
079San Diego and many many more um we've partnered with San Diego Community College District and their Outreach Department to ensure that we are providing the right resources and services to our ab540 our Dream California Dream Act students and that we have uh and that they have access for um furthering their educational uh Endeavors we've also Central we've also centralized a center for international families and students formerly the Dak office at Ballard Center allowing it to be a space for um information and access and resource to our family families and students um as well as the family community engagement uh department and the San Diego Unified School District police department has EST has established some strong communication and information sharing with ice to ensure that we have relevant current information uh that will impact the many
080families that we service so in the many work that and and the work that we've lifted this year uh we have held Community forums all being driven by community members giving us the topics and the the majority of those have been around immigration and citizenship so with the 16 with the over 16 immigration forums that we've held across the across San Diego unified we've had over 2,000 parents and students come through in need of support resources and information as well as staff members coming through for support information for others planning our future so we are currently um committed to working with the and partnering with the Mexican consulate to support our undocumented students and families in ensuring that they have the right resources and services needed um with uh with this new partnership we've learned
081that baja Public Schools is currently educating 55,0 44 us-born American CI American citizens in grades K through 9 there approximately over and approximately over 2,000 students who are American Born have returned to Baja a Public School System since January of this year um Baja schools also estimates that over 500 newly enrolled students grade 7 through n are are Mexican Nationals but have never enrolled in a Mexican uh School institution um so there are higher numbers of students enrolling in the Baja school system currently that are actually us born American citizens than the Mexican born students and so with this um information we are working to collaborate on ensuring that our students from San Diego unified who have left Andor enrolled in another school district or country in this matter um continue to have the right
082supports and so we will we are currently in the process of um creating a strong plan of support for students thank you Stan let me emphasize the work that this board has done in board direction to take action and to ensure that our students feel safe and that they're well- loved and that the nurturing environments are there so kids can learn um staff's job has been to implement the board actions and we wanted to update you tonight on the actions that you've taken until now some of them have been this has actually been several departments and for staff to figure out who's going to present we had our legal department working on this of course family and Community engagement the curriculum Department actually many departments are working to ensure the board's wishes to be able
083to make sure that the learning environments around all of our campuses meet lcap goal 4 which is safe and inclusive environments for all students and we wanted to update you tonight specifically on immigrant students and each board meeting when we do an lcap goal four there's many different facets to this goal and tonight you heard specifically what we have done are doing and intend to continue to do to make sure students know that they can come to school they'll be welcomed and they can learn in a safe environment without being fearful of being harassed or bullied [Applause] thank you uh Stan and and superintendent Martin we've got several uh public speakers um could we please uh remove this person you are out of order sir no I'm not I have put a motion on the
084floor this is the board meeting that's run in a in a in a purposeful way you are out of order the chair is asked for you to be dismissed please abide by that out um we we've got several public speakers on this item and if you continue to disrupt this meeting we will ask you to be to leave you don't want to hear my voice uh you can you can sign up as a as a speaker I'm G to call up Anna bonatti Elaine cetti Celeste Barbara kazaki Francine Maxwell Jeffrey and Andrew Amaral and we'll give you each two minutes go ahead El hi I'm elain cetti I'm a library technician at persing middle school I'm so pleased to hear you say that cultural diversity is important to you I'm pleased to read today that
085you are interested in knowing that relevant and current information appropriate materials related to Muslim culture and history are in our library media centers we welcome any influx of materials resources for our diverse students to learn about all cultures and all religions and we don't want you to worry at all about safe spaces we don't want you to worry about creating safe spaces for our Muslim children or for any of our children you see we already have safe spaces on our campuses we have safe spaces for all of our children walk into my library into our library any day of the week during lunch and you will see students of all Fai cultures diverse backgrounds happily interacting with one another in a safe learning environment you'll see our GSA Club you'll see our LGBT qia students
086hanging out in the one place they know they're safe and welcomed because all of our students know that they are safe and welcomed in our school library in their school library thank you [Music] hi anaban taty I'm wondering how you can even present much of the information on this goal without feeling complete shame I'm wondering how any school can maintain a positive School environment when many staff members are losing their positions or believe that they will I'm wondering how schools will be safe and clean when many custodians are being laid off I'm wondering how many how schools will feel safe when among the 450 pars being laid off um there are security officers and health techs and in addition to 22 police officers I'm wondering how Equity at the core is the focus when schools
087south of the eight are being hurt the hardest with teacher layoffs I'm wondering how any part of lcap goal number four can be met without the staff to do it again your actions are in contradiction of your propaganda when you say you are going to do something and you don't do it it's a lie you are lying to the [Music] public good evening ladies and gentlemen the Schoolboard superintendent Cy Martin my name is Les B kazaki the president of San dieo unified Council PTA I would like to read to you the letter that I issued to you earlier today is co-written with the president- elector burner we are writing on behalf of San unify Council PTA to reiterate the PTA leacy of of inclusiv inclusivity and tolerance the mission of T PTA to make every
088child's potential Reality by engaging and Empowering Families and communities to advocate for all children our slogan is every child One Voice our values our collaboration commitment accountability respect inclusivity and integrity we are Guided by the standards of PTA more specifically the national PTA and its unit Council district and States PTA welcome into membership people representing A diversity of culture ethnic backgrounds and political religious beliefs Creed Color Race economic stat are irrelevant to qualification for membership PTA should be hospitable to all supporting no one religion over another and according each Faith equal respect and consideration we are aware of concerns from Community regarding the curriculum being introduced related to Islam lgbtqia immigration and others we would like you to believe that the goal of talking about Islam or Judaism or lgu or undocumented immigrants during the
089instructional time is not to teach religion or sexual behavior or promote political agendas but to enhance the understanding of others and encourage dialogue and through education to develop a culture of acceptance and maintain school as a safe place for all children finally we would like to also remind our communities that PTA is a nonpartisan nonpolitical nonsecular organization where our s focus is on well-being of the whole child of all children thank [Applause] you good afternoon board members um my name is Andre moral I'm with Alliance San Diego and I've had the honor to be working with Stan and his staff um with face um in um the community on a series of know your rights immigration forums and so it's been um a pleasure working with his staff and being able to provide services and
090uh much needed resource ources to to the Immigrant Community um I'm here today because I'm in support of the um Muslim advocacy initiative that that you all had passed um I think it's important that um this this particular District um had had shown the leadership had had shown that they can move swiftly on on these issues because it is an is it is a problem for for a lot of um communities um in in you know especially Muslim Students who are attending schools and and being bullied and so we just wanted to stand in solidarity with you and and make sure that you understand um that you know hate um doesn't have a place in in schools so thank you so much thank you Francy Maxwell I truly believe that every child should be feeling
091safe rather you just got to San Diego from Uganda rather you just got from to San Diego from Ethiopia the lcap goal says support for the whole child when you try to separate us when you try to consistently as a board on the dasis single someone out it doesn't do us good on our journey as we're moving forward trying to unite faces is a department that is the new flavor of the month there is no reason for faces to be here at San Diego UniFi costing us all the money that it's costing us we have departments that you have eliminated that have train faces so now you're going to try to get to train the trainer yes we love our Community Partners yes we love unity and moving and we're working with outside organizations but
092you guys keep supporting the superintendent in her flavor of the month spare of the moment huras come on it's time for you guys to get serious get serious with this budget cut we don't need quality assurance we don't need faces give us some real Cuts so that we can move forward as a district I'm all in favor of receivership receivership is the flavor of the month that I'm excited for that means that we would cut everybody on this dasis we would get back to basics you don't deserve to be there anymore because you have sold us out you are committed to adults you're committed to yourselves you're not committed to children children's first is just a slogan to you I just can't take it anymore we need to have some real honest conversations here tonight
093we have come out not week after week for these board meetings you guys don't ask each other hard questions I've said it before in my public statement I just can't take it anymore you need to ask we got rid of the Welcome Center oh now we need a neighborhood center come on you're letting her pull acronyms out of the sky hello board my name is Jeffrey Bennett and I'm a parent at uh Gage Elementary School I'm serve on the School site Council our cluster Council and the district advisory Council where I'm also the second Vice chair of our executive uh board with the district uh advisory Council Stan it's good to see you and I appreciate the effort your department has made to come and engage us at the district advisory Council um that's the
094type of leadership that we'd like but on the lcap 4 I am really concerned that we're picking specific groups and to promote when we're looking at the whole community and the schools specifically 4.1 talks about the emotional needs counseling guidance and behavioral support um for our students yet when the Dak suggested adjustments to the title one formula for funding because some students who need additional counseling and other um services at some schools were getting about a quarter what they are at other schools Bas even if the same populations but different percentages um that was rejected by the board so how do those students in similar populations get that then if you look to um the next uh one is 4.2 it talks about special education and how that there's in the health services that they
095should provide support and in the 2020 vision for Community Schools how if you're moving them out of their Community how are you providing that in the in the 4.2 and then in the 4.5 it talks about a staff a staff that is inviting and welcoming yet the staff members that are involved critical programs in our neighborhood schools the ones that make our our schools um unique and important um with the transition of the staff to the um District centers for the Elementary uh prep teachers where we have enrichment programs now even if they come back if even if um as Mr viser said he'd like um trusty viser like to bring that back um there now they're controlled by the district and we might not have the people who our kids are working with or
096the programs because it's now not at the school level I really encourage you to look at all the lcap elements when making your decisions and doing that because we need to look at things as a whole thank you Dr Evans yeah I want to thank the superintendent for the report and I think it's important that we look at results and we're looking at results for all students and I think you went over it a little quickly but I think it was really important about the graduation rate which is the overall graduation rate of unified which is 91.2 and we've had a lot of criticisms and questions about it how is that possible how is it possible with an urban district with such a diverse population uh could produce this this level of graduation and I
097as I've said to others before I'm reminded of the movie that some of you may seen Stand and Deliver which is about a calculus teacher haime Escalante in East East Los Angeles his students uh performed very well on the AP Calculus test and they sent in investigations because they were asking how could those kids perform at that level they must have cheated and that's what we've seen when we produced the the 91% graduation rate is people have asked how could these kids in our district have produced these results and they in fact did and and what's important we look at various groups we look at all the students we also look at groups and the African-American group has increased significantly the Latinos have increased significantly but one thing that you you went over very quickly
098was about reclassified students and I don't think everybody necessarily knows what a reclassified student is but we're talking in here about immigrants immigrants who have come into our community we have many many students who come into our schools without speaking any English and what we found in this report is that those students that came in to school at some point without speaking English actually performed higher and graduated a higher rate than the rest of the students I mean if this is not an indication of what our immigrant students are capable of I don't know what else is so I think it's just I think it's really important that we have the teachers and the support and everything this is what this is what's created we have really changed what we're doing in the high schools
099we we're changing all at all levels but it's really important that we recognize the strong achievement of our immigrant students and that's part of what this report is thanks uh any other board Dr whiter p no no any other board questions or comments okay oh Dr report yeah excellent report uh and it's good hearing from you it's also good seeing you uh it's important when we see face in the community and I've seen you work and and and members of your staff uh work uh with us on a number of activities and and projects and want to thank you for that we have students who are born in 163 different countries that's how diverse they are this is not students who have uh relatives or or have an ancient connection like I do to Scotland
100these are children who are actually born in another country 162 different countries outside of the United States which is how diverse of a student population we have I used to think we had 70 different languages tonight I heard we have 171 different languages that students bring with them and then we see the outcomes that we get we cannot have High graduation rates unless we have High graduation rates for all all groups and that means we need to accept uh and understand and and celebrate the divers diversity of the students that we that we bring here and the families who live here it's it's important work that we're doing it's important work that you're doing it's important work that we've identified in this lcap um it is critical that we I U provide the wraparound support
101services that make a difference yes the teacher in the classroom does have the most important impact but we also know we have to have outstanding leadership ship at that school we need to have outstanding support wraparound Services counseling health and and nursing we need to have the the custodial staff that the classified staff the people who provide the support to make the school operate it is a team effort we're working together as a team to acknowledge the diversity we have to accept the power that we have in unity and moving forward we will continue to have outstanding uh growth and want to thank you and your staff and your department for doing it thank you for setting this as a high priority and we know that our lcap goals ident ify where we spend our
102money and so we've been doing the LC cap for this our third year going on four years we want to find out what we're spending our money on the money is spent on what is identified in the lcap the LC cap is put together by Community involvement and Community input and it's then coll it's been codified at the district level and and then sent to the state uh for uh to to show that this is how these are our priorities this how we're going to spend our money and then we have a a a comprehensive auditing process so we're spending the money to get outcomes we're getting outcomes that are based upon our needs our needs are identified by our local communities and our local communities run these schools thank you yes uh it says
103that over 50 50,000 of our students speak the language other than English at home that's like one and two I mean what half I'm try I'm going to try to answer that CU I didn't could you what was the question again I'm sorry it says over 50,000 students speak a language other than English at home that's like a half of our students that is correct yes so um our department is also in charge of um managing the over 110,000 parent surveys that have been distributed to our school district this over the last few weeks um the current survey that we have is only addressing 26 of those languages but in the um in the data polling to be able to uh ensure that the survey is given to the right family member based on their
104home language we are we are currently servicing um that that number which is that over 50,000 students speak a language other than English at home which is yes just over half sorry um I want to thank uh the face Department uh and also superintendent cdy Martin for uh the presentation on lcap goal 4 which is uh basically to make sure that all of our students are safe and I I particularly want to call out and thank the Anti-Defamation League which is a Jewish organization that helps focus on a program called no place for hate so it's through this partnership with the Anti-Defamation League that we work to help our students lead the way in creating safe schools for all of our children whether it is disc discrimination or bullying or hate or any of those
105categories that we know are not appropriate and not welcome in our schools when I look at the United States Olympic team I see a country that comes out during Opening Ceremonies that is diverse the United States Olympic team is very very diverse and that's what America is about theit United States of America is a is a country where lots of people have come together my family's Heritage comes from different countries and that's what makes the United States what it is so pres president Barrera yeah would you please bring order to the meeting yeah we really are going to have to ask uh people to be respectful when anybody is speaking whether it's a public speaker or board board member we have to allow that person to be heard and so again I I I I
106ask that people be respectful and if we can't be respectful then we're going to have to clear the auditorium thank you president Barrera um there's a lot of interesting things that have been said about the action that this board took because we had a problem we have a problem we have several students in San Diego that happen to be Muslim 55% of them report bullying being bullied different degrees some are spit on and that's not okay some are getting their hijabs pulled in class while the students are trying to learn that's not okay some of those students are being beat up that's not okay and so that's one of the reasons why this school board took action to establish a clearly articulate the expectation that no student should be bullied no student should be bullied
107for any reason and so as a part of that program we have made sure uh through the superintendent's recommendation that we're going to try to do a better job at helping uh to enhance our curriculum so that when we teach about in history class we teach about Buddhism we teach about taism we teach about Christianity and we also teach about Islam and so we're going to make sure that we're complying with California state law in terms of the diverse curriculum guidelines that are put forth in our state we're also going to make sure that our schools are safe places for all of our children including students that may be Muslim and so it's through this effort that I think that we're doing the right thing for kids and helping them to have a place where
108where they cannot worry about their safety but they can worry about learning and achieving and contributing back to our society um so I think that's very important and I want to thank you and one thing that I think is really important I really want to appreciate Celeste barri oaki president of the San Diego unified Council of ptas when she so eloquently articulated that we will we are and we will continue to be a secular School District but we will continue to be a school district that values all of our students thank you thank you Mr okay well that was an information item uh so uh with no further uh board questions or comments thank you again s for your excellent work presentation time I'll move I'll move item F the board consent agenda we have
109a second second any comments or questions oh we do have uh one speaker uh on item F5 anab bonitati so I appreciate the resolution for Day of the teacher on May 9th I think it is but given the timing and what's going on I just wanted to express how as a teacher that really feels kind of like a slap in the face at the same time because of how many teachers are worried about their jobs for next year and it it's it's kind of ludicrous at the same time as as we're celebrating what what great things that we do in the classroom and I take pride in that but at the same time I feel kind of sick because I really don't feel like the board and the Ed Center really value what teachers really
110do do and even though you say it it doesn't feel like the actions are very often there many decisions come from the top down we're giving I you know it's sad because I've been a teacher for 20 years now and I love teaching and I you know I love immigrant kids because I'm always here talking about English learners but what you do here at this board meeting and talk and talk and talk and talk and then the actions that actually take place where us little people are living do not reflect what's on these on your documents and coming out of your mouths it's it's not what's really happening and I can tell you that teachers and I'm not I'm I can only speak for myself but I was talking to teachers today and talking to
111my friends and we feel demoralized teaching has become a demoralizing a demoralized career if somebody asks me if they were going to want to become a teacher I would tell them don't do it and if you do don't teach in San Diego unified because because you really don't value US you don't you make decisions that impact students and teachers without really giving any actually even listening to them we had the Scythe committee they met they came up with great ideas and I just asked somebody on that committee and she's like I don't know what happened poof it disappears you chucked off your box yes we got collaboration yes we got parent input yes we got teacher input but you don't listen to it you listen to each other you Pat each other on the back
112and you congratulate each other and then you go home and then we go home and we feel like what's the point deaf ears that it just falls on deaf ears that's what I feel like so I'm glad that you're going to recognize us and and the other people that you're laying off that you're going to recognize them too but it seems pretty ludicrous okay we have a motion in a second on on the board consent ad please vote okay okay we'll move on to item G1 uh this agreements with multiple bargaining units regarding impacts and effects of reduction and force superintendent Martin thank you this item is about uh we met with sdaa and aasd certificated and classified bargaining units regarding the impacts and effects of the reduction en Force for the respective bargaining units
113so what you have before you today is the after we met and negotiated in good faith the district reached an agreement with each of the three bargaining units and this item is the agreement that we've reached with those three units okay do we have a motion on this item move for approval any discussion did the uh did the three bargaining units ratify this agreement yet yes did they no not necessar not necessarily to be ratified okay okay so it's impacts and effects pardon okay so it's not something that is ratified by the unit members no right it's not ratified because it's not ratified it's not something that is ratified it's not required to be ratified right I understand okay but the three bargaining units all their leadership agreed to these impacts and effects okay uh
114we do have one speaker on this item but I didn't know if you wanted to speak uh to this item or to the item on the classified layoffs this is Daren DS pesta you want to speak now okay during this pesta I was going to speak um on the impacts and effects and I would like to speak on the other one but unfortunately I cannot but what I do want to tell you is we have been here before when it's broke we don't copy it everybody up here is educated you've all been studying this information and we've been making progress africanamerican boys and girls are making progress so we're going to dismantle everything so my point to you is on the impact and effects what about the impact and effect on all of us who
115voted for you when you gave us promises with the impact and effects of that um you sat there all of many of you and you said you would support classified in teachers and students and education and you're not in the early 90s the r Center was closed down as they started hurting all the special AED kids into one school and to we got sued and then we had to and integrate students into schools Tom here's report how much money was spent flying people from massachusett to California to do these reports and you didn't listen to anything how many times do we do surveys and you don't listen you're just wasting our money there should not be this money that you're spending on report should be going to students to classified people to teachers it takes
116makes a village yes but the impact and effect of dismantling all these Villages when we're trying to serve the whole child from when you step on the bus till you get home we're trying to feed them take care of their safety take care of their health which includes their mental health how are these impacts going to change them I really wish you would think about the impacts of these kids because I don't believe you are we've been here we've been here and you know the result our test scores will go down our enr's going to go down our attendance going to go down and lo and behold we have less money for Ada and we have less money coming from the state we've been here why are you repeating this we need to find other
117Solutions like let's not take a department change its name and give everybody 10,000 pay raises because they changed their job description name that would save us money let's get rid of these area superintendent that would save us money let yes let's take this Ed Center person by person administrator by administrator and see who is crucial who could be sitting in front of a computer and doing that job for a lot less money thank you thank [Music] you okay we have a motion in a second on item G1 uh please vote okay item G2 this is a resolution support of uh State Bill 30 which before you move on I just want to make a comment um just for um information uh at the central office services they did take a look at who was doing
118what where and and to what uh what degree and they have uh recommending 355 cuts that amount to $61 million so we have taken a look at what we're doing and we are making a difference and we are and we still listen and and and listen to your input and respond to it okay thank you Dr mccor okay item J G2 is a resolution in support of State Bill 30 uh which would prohibit public Contracting with any person who is providing goods or services to the federal government for construction of of a federally funded wall fence or other barrier along California's Southern board I'd like to move item G2 please okay and do we have a second I'll second okay we've got a motion and a second we have uh three speakers on this item
119I guess we have a few more six six speakers so we'll um allow 2 minutes a piece Lorraine Burley John Moore Luis faneva Jeff schwick Michael Richardson and Robert Lon please come forward yes ready go ahead yes good evening my name is Lorraine Burley and my contact information is on file I was reading through this agenda item and I noticed that you're defining responsible biders how can the Monarch Development Group be considered a responsible bidder for partnership with this District on the joint occupancy project for the apartment building in scrips Ranch Ryan stone is listed as a development partner in the Monarch RFP response and in Ryan Stone's Court settlement with the California gambling commission Ryan Stone admitted to failure to make full and true disclosure of information necessary didn't disclose agreements regarding finan financing
120and ownership agree arrangements and made illegal loans to card room owners in chil Vista who by the way are under indictment for money laundering participation in illegal management of the card room so the definition of Fraud is wrongful or decep intent with the intent to result in financial or personal gain so how how is it that this this board supports Monarch Development Group and the proposed term sheet with greater potential for legal challenges in the amount of bond money that you proposed to spend and the the current environmental impacts and the the public contract code violations and the constant denied and delayed public record act requests that you have produced to the the voice of scripts Ranch which is a coalition of members fighting against this proposal this board should cancel the term sheet agreement
121with Monarch Development Group due to the senior partner fraud they do not qualify as a responsible bidder according to your the definition in the California uh code and I'm just going to add that this Bond project to advance this joint occupancy with with Monarch Development Group to build the four-story apartments on scrips Ranch which currently is the site of the innovation academy charter school is a Highly Questionable very bad Capital Bond project it does not benefit students does not benefit schools or the surrounding community and I've identified this to the ioc and hopefully it will be included in the yearly audit thank you thank you for your time my name is Michael Richardson I'm a a native of San Diego County 76 years alumni of San Diego State um I understand that you plan to
122uh take a position against the wall but wait a minute don't we already have a wall San Diego and most of San Diego County has a wall in fact I think a large part of it has two walls and some of it has three walls so what is it that you're trying to accomplish you want to you want to deny other areas a wall also is that what you're hoping for I submit to you that that the only reason you're doing this is political that that you're your your uh goal is to discredit and embarrass our president and that is wrong that is that is dead wrong and I think you should drop it and forget it thank you thank you thank you for this opportunity my name is John Moore I'm a resident of
123San Diego I'm a retired programmer Aerospace worker and network engineer our porest border allows criminals and terrorists from various Nations South of the Border and parts of the Middle East to illegally enter the United States Mexico and other Central American countries have deliberately released criminals only to later arrive in the United States through our unfinished barrier and commit murder rapes and robberies against US citizens immigrations and custo Immigration and Customs enforcement officials confirmed that 121 homicides were committed in the US between 2010 and 2014 by illegals who had already been convicted and released back into society the Supreme Court has Pro prohibited Detention of deportable foreign Nationals Beyond 6 months Yemen and Somalia are poor and backwards Islamic countries that have little or no records on their citizens their refugees stream through our physical and
124political barriers with only the word of the individual Refugee available for vetting it is impossible to tell who is a criminal or terrorist when the refugee is functionally unett Minnesota in the last few years accepted Somali refugees with no medical records during the first 5 years between 2010 and 2014 81% of the state's active TB cases 59 3 were foreign born of the foreign born cases 50% were refugees according to the epidemiology of tuberculosis in Minnesota published by the Minnesota Department of Health the incurable form of tuberculosis is widespread in those parts of the world sending refugees to the United States Syria once a prosperous Islamic country has been devastated by War the records of its citizens have been in many cases lost foreign terrorists fighting in Syria can easily be swept up as unvetted
125refugees headed to the United States the companies that build the border wall are protecting the United States and its citizens we should encourage these construction companies not discourage them as sb30 does thank you thank you very much please do do not support [Applause] sb30 um Robert Lon uh member of the of we the people rising a border fence will significantly reduce the flow of heroin cocaine methamphetamines and Other Drugs uh into our country a border wall would significantly reduce the profits of the drug cartels a border wall will raise the cost of uh heroin cocaine and methamphetamines and it will it will only be a a a you know a drug of choice of the super rich in the uh the community that's most affected by open borders and and the drugs that that come
126in are are the poor are the poor communities on uh on Sanctuary cities Sanctuary cities creates fear Sanctuary cities reduces the contct of the immigration and custom enforcement agents in our jails when when when they're not into jail they they have to find they have to go after the illegal aliens that committed serious crimes in their homes in their workplaces and in their neighborhoods the way I the way ice works is is when a illegal alien is convicted of a serious crime the the uh did then then the ice agents put a put a imig could put a hold on them and then and then then they are allowed to contact the illegal alien within 24 hours and Deport them when when ice is not allowed to work in the jails then they have to
127go over the Deportes in their homes in their workplaces and in their Community when they enter home everyone gets fingerprinted and and and then and then they then they sweep up uh people that had have that have committed less serious crimes thank you very much thank you Sanctuary cities Great your time is up thank you good evening board members uh my name is Jeff schil I'm the founder of San dieon for secure borders myself and my group have been fighting open borders and illegal immigration Anarchy in San Diego for 12 years some of you probably know about us and know about me and we are determined to stop the Marxist open border left-wing politicians such as most of you up there we are going to stop you we spoke loud and clear in November as
128a nation and as a country we want the immigration Mr I'm gonna have to ask everybody again please be respectful for anybody who's speaking tonight go ahead the fact that you guys would even consider entertain the notion of opposing a border wall as one of the other speakers said we already have a border wall here 15 mil to secure border fence and you better be damn thankful we have it because it keeps you safe every day we still have thousands of illegals running across that border every night terrorizing the residents on that southern border down there sedra area thank God that Duncan Hunter and others built that fence and we're going to build it all the way across the southern border whether you you guys like it or not okay I'm sure all of you
129read the paper this morning right there top story SUV chased by border patrol crashes guess where the seven Mexican citizens in that SUV one Smuggler six aliens crossed the border guess where they crossed right where the 15 Mile border the double fence ends that's where Trump's going to build the next part of the border so we are going to secure this border do you guys do what you want we're we're taking it back so enjoy yeah okay I believe we've got a motion in a second uh to support this item any board comments no board comments okay with that please vote i' like sorry I'd like to make a few um so yeah we do have a border uh and that border has not done what people said it was going to do and I
130don't think it hasn't done because it's not complete and and covers every Square foet foot across the state of California or this nation the borders aren't working borders do not work it's not borders that make us safe what makes us safe what makes us safe is been able to have educational programs of communities that respect understand uh uh each other that acknowledge the diversity of of of of our community where we can work together plan together and and and develop the the safe environments that'll be safe for all students so that's that's the intent of this of this resolution is to acknowledge the fact that this is not about borders this is about people attitudes and it's about Civility and also think it's about American patriotism and we can be more patriotic without the Border
131than we can [Applause] with um stay I can I can wait for you guys to to calm down I can wait about four years ago I went over to Israel and in Israel they built a wall uh because of terrorism yeah and then I went and visited a town that didn't have a wall between them and the Palestinian uh region and I was curious how were they dealing with the relationship with the Palestinian Community because they did not have a wall did they have problems with terrorism there whereas in other places where there was a wall they continue to have problems with terrorism and the the now we need to let the speakers speak thank you and so you know we asked the mayor of that town without a wall between their Jewish community and
132the uh Palestinian community what are they doing uh to try to build a coalition and a friendship and they said that they had a variety of different things first of all in their schools they had Jewish and Palestinian and Arab students going to school together and that through that collaboration students were learning about each other's cultures and the level of of hate because of understanding and learning about the other groups and their ideas resulted in uh they would they would there were various assessments that they would take on would you have a friend that was like that other group and as they took these surveys over the years they figured out that the more that Jewish and Muslim and Arab students played soccer together on the same team the more that they went to school
133together the less hate that they would have and that they were more likely as the years went on to be able to say that they would have a friend that was Arab or Muslim even though they were different and I thought that that was very profound here we were in Israel with all the centuries of tension and hate and misunderstanding that there was a community that didn't need a wall because they were figuring out other strategies to help build Bridges between their culture and other cultures and that was something that was quite interesting for me and other folks that were from San Diego on this trip with the Jewish Federation so I was really excited to learn on this journey and if we can just bring part of that lesson back a lesson where Muslim
134and Jewish people can live together in peace in Community where they employed ways of bringing people together instead of building walls to divide them and that's one of the reasons why I support s sp30 thank you thank you okay with no further comment please vote all right it passes 5 z uh let's move on to item H1 and this is an information report on water testing in our schools uh superintendent Martin thank you president barer this as you said is an information report and I'm going to invite up Drew Rolland to help present this report and regarding the water testing that we began um on April 4th city of San Diego's Public Utilities Department started testing the water in our district schools and oper and schools that were operating on District Pol um property for
135possible leg contamination in the water and we thought that there's been a lot of um talk about it we have a District's um oh here here it is [Laughter] we have a district frequently asked questions page we've been trying to keep the public informed every step of the way but we thought tonight it would be important to update um comprehensively everything that we've done including the things that are already publicly available but I wanted Drew to be up here with me tonight to present where we currently are with the districtwide water sampling as you know that was required by the state of California and our district is going as quickly as we can to have all of our schools tested before the summer break getting a a complete testing and water sampling happening before the
136summer break which was lightning speed and I want to say thank you to the partnership with the city of San Diego and thank the state Water Resources control board and people that worked with us to be able to do testing as quickly as possible so with that I'll turn it over to Drew to give this comprehensive update great perfect timing so uh just a quick update on our water sampling and and the uh concern for lead in the drinking water at our schools as the superintendent touched on um really this is a partnership between the city the school district and even the state uh you know the the governor the state superintendent Public Instruction through the state Water Resources board uh put this plan in place so that we could uh proceed with this testing
137um I should note and as the superintendent touched on the super uh the city has been an excellent and very Cooperative partner in this they're our water provider and they've uh agreed to carry out the sampling plan on a very rapid timeline uh ahead of what is actually required by the state permitting uh finally I'd also like to just touch on that it's been a team effort within the district as well including um Safety Office physical plan operations nursing and wellness Communications and public information office principles and campus uh campus staff we are starting our test we started our testing on April 4th in the uh Southeast corner of the district moving West and up through the district five campuses are sampled daily Tuesday through Saturday uh five minimum of five samples or I'm EXC
138excuse me a maximum of five samples per School site the protocol for the sampling requires that the testing is done first thing in the morning so the water has sat in the pipe in the line overnight and we are making tremendous progress and we'll be done with all of our testing by mid June so we have also established a water flushing protocol as I touched on in general terms the longer water sits in a pipe without moving the greater the opportunity for the lead to leech into the water in basic terms uh potential for for the lead contamination so periods overnight over the weekends is when uh this this action takes place and flushing is an easy way to combat that uh we've established a districtwide flushing protocol running the water for 1 minute before
139use each school day uh also note that while we were doing our sampling program and one of the concerns was that we would flush an a a drinking fountain and then go and test it but uh that's not what we would do we actually tag out the specific F fixtures that are going to be tested the night before so then they are tested first thing in the morning very early in the morning after only after the testing would any flushing take place it's our intent to continue this flushing protocol uh through the round of sampling and testing and most likely Beyond uh but we want to get a broader view of where we are with our tests and our results before we make further decisions you just kind of see that uh again we requested
140testings with the city on February 14th UT kind of picked up on that as well and we are one of many districts throughout the state that are looking at this uh we have reached out to other school districts in the county we've talked to the County Office of Education we've been sharing notes with uh La unified who has been working on this program as well we've also connected with districts throughout the nation uh through the Council of great City Schools here's where we are this slide was built uh on Friday in time to submit to the board packet uh We've updated since then cuz again we tested Saturday morning and Monday and Tuesday of this week so where we have submitted 109 plans we now have submitted 121 plans to the city where we have
141completed 72 uh where it says 72 schools being sampled that number is now 86 test results remain the same we have results back on 29 of our schools with only two schools and I should say schools uh above the Action level those both of those schools share the emberson campus and that's where we've had our only issue so far I should touch on the sampling plan uh takes effort on our side as well it's a coordination with the school site to determine High use drinking fountains we also want to touch on kitchens and Child Development Centers located on the campus uh plan includes a photo and a description an exact location of where the testing will take place uh I think that's all as you know we are searching to an act or uh testing
142to an action level of 15 parts per billion just to give a sense of that a one part per billion is a drop of water and an olympic size swimming pool it's a very sensitive testing procedure as I mentioned the only issue we have encountered to date is the U is that the Emerson campus of the Emerson Bandini Elementary and San Diego Cooperative Charter School uh just to kind of make sure we're all on the same page Emerson Bandini is two campuses the Emerson Bandini school have students on both Emerson and Bandini they share both of those campuses with the San Diego Cooperative Charter 2 um so January 26th we are informed of water water quality issue on the Emerson campus we addressed that we um ultimately identified the presence of vinyl chloride in the
143water which is attributable attributed to um degradation of plastic or PVC water pipe we rerouted that piping and solved that issue while we were there uh we were also initiating our districtwide lead testing program and we felt it made sense to kick that off by testing the water at uh on the Emerson campus so that's what we did uh we have tested we have resolved the uh vinyl chloride issues we have resolved the lead issues on the San Diego Co-op 2 campus we wanted to do a little more testing on some of the some of the Portables that the Emerson Emerson Bandini School uses we're waiting for those results um that school has been on uh it's a year round school it's been on spring break they come back tomorrow we've been coordinating with the
144principal as far as um restoring that site to using the water fountains as we again have resolved those issues with the exception of three classrooms where we will continue to provide bottled water while we await the final results obviously um the concern around all this is the health impact of potential health impact of lead in drinking water to our students and we've connected very closely with our nursing and wellness folks and our and Dr terce the district physician to make sure that we understand where all this is going um there are we're aware and sensitive to how that works um I get that yeah we as as having San Diego Coop uh to as an example um we met with parents and families from from Co-op 2 included The District staff on both uh the
145work the safety side of it with what the physical issue is with the plumbing as well as nursing and wellness Dr Terrace again plus we brought in through their relationships County Public Health and S San Diego County childhood lead prevention program all to meet and discuss with the families the issues that they encountered we've created a web page somewhat of a one stop shopping uh within the district uh District's Internet site to provide information this includes kind of the background on how we got here it includes sampling results as well as um other uh uh resources again we have engaged our communication and public information group to work with us to make sure that we are transparent and as we learn things as we get test results results we're getting them out there so all
146can see what's going on uh as I as I mentioned this also this is a broader issue than just us um our local members of the state legislature are also concerned uh this picture up here is a a meeting we attended with uh local Representatives our superintendent and trusteed white her pay were in attendance as we discussed this issue uh we can expect their continued support here again touching on the transparency this is a um screenshot of test results uh through our district website as you can see where schools are listed here as we take the test we will load the the sampling uh information onto the website basically you'll see a number of statuses pending meaning we've taken a sample and haven't seen the result yet below Action level we've gotten a result back
147and it was favorable above Action level again that only being the Emerson Bandini school and the San die Cooperative school on the Emerson campus where they would show above Action level and within that you would be able to click on the link and see the test results uh as they are provided to us by the city what we added to the website today was a resolved final report for San Diego quap 2 which tells the story of how we got from the testing we did to the intermediate work we did and the final results showing showing that we have cleared the issue we're on track to complete our sampling by mid June we've been fortunate so far with the results in having 29 schools where we have had U results below the Action level of
14815 parts per billion however we are ready to respond if we get further uh or if we get additional results that are show being above the Action level we would our basic process is shown here we would secure the contaminated uh area the sink the outlet we will switch the campus to bottled water we we'll perform our communication throughout the process investigate the issue resolve the resolve the plumbing concern if you will and then as part of the process the city will come and resample and we'll work through the process that way we don't know the full impact to us uh financially I do provide here just that uh we know and the work at Emerson cost us about $122,000 between providing bottled water doing more in intermediate testing to figure out where the source
149of the contamination was and also the physical plumbing repairs that went along with that just a list of the names of the folks that have been uh making this go along it's been uh been a lot of work for us lately um so we are concerned uh you know we want to make sure we're providing the family am the best information so they can be confident in the water that's supplied to their children during the school day thank you thank you drew and your whole team for working together you listed a few people that are part of it but I know it's been a complete comprehensive team effort to do this um expeditiously I appreciate your efforts sure thank you um I want to I want to thank you drew and all the team for
150for all the work that you've done on a massively accelerated rate um you know when we learned that we had had the the ability to do this to test the water in all the schools and that the state had had established the deadline of 2019 um you know we all felt well why do we why do we need to wait uh let's try to test every school as fast as we can um and so I also want to thank uh the city of San Diego and mayor Kevin Falon for partnering with the school district to do this as fast as possible testing five schools a day um and having every school done by mid June I really appreciate your work and uh making sure that this happens um I do have a couple of questions
151first question is um I believe that there's some State Bond money that can help uh alleviate the the cost associated with this or to mitigate when problems do arise is the state releasing any of those Bond dollars yet no and I'm probably about a a week behind but it's uh they're still working on the guidance and direction of of when uh when you'll be able to submit for the fund okay would we be able to uh disperse the expenditures and then seek reimbursement yes there is discussion of that being retroactive for any any uh repairs we need to make now yes okay yeah cuz I don't think we should wait until that money is released we have no intention of waiting and that was a subject of the conversation part of what we discussed when
152we met with the state legislators we talked about the financial impact and we discussed the fact that we are going to move forward because time is of the essence and we can't wait but any proposed legislation or any monetary fix that may come forward that it needed to be retroactive retroactive and they they heard us when we said that and then the EPA guidelines I noticed that and maybe some folks uh you know listening and watching the presentation are hearing actionable level of 15 parts per billion where where does that 15 parts per billion uh number come that's the EPA guidelines yes that is from the EPA guideline okay um it's a little different for a I mean and that's what they've always tracked too it's a little different there's actually when they perform their
153testing for a water system for the city of San Diego that provides our water they actually work to the 90th percentile of their testing we don't do any of that it's just purely if you're if you're 15 parts per billion are higher then it's above the Action level okay um and and so then you're saying that according to the EPA and that uh say for example nine parts per billion of lead in a water that's that's nothing to be concerned about I that's certainly not nothing to be be concerned about I think we want to get through this process and really gather the data but really um we have a few results right now that are in that range of nine between five and nine okay and what we are what part of our plan
154is again is that flushing protocol we we believe that flushing protocol will make sure that that water is safe going forward during the day okay um and we do not flush the that we are going to be testing that school correct okay we we flush we will not flush that specific flush fixture that okay I understand um or or or cycle water through the pipe okay all right T the night before right at at this point in time I'd like to make a motion uh to ask the superintendent to look it into um uh to look into mitigation opportunities for schools that are coming in with lead but that's below 15 parts per billion and come back to the board um you know with a with a plan to address those schools that are not
155that are below the actionable level but still have some Le uh Parts in those schools and if I can offer just one more comment on that what we already doing is is starting a testing protocol there where we we know what the water coming out of the pipe when you first do it is now we're going to do our flush and see what the results are coming out of that just to make sure we're confident that the flushing is resolving the problem so that's part of what we should do um ultimately I think there's big that could be a part of the superintendent's uh plan uh so my motion is to just ask the superintendent uh to come back to the board uh at a later date uh with a with a proposal for us
156to evaluate and address the schools that are between one and 15 parts per billion that's my motion um I I I support the idea the one uh maybe Amendment or question I'd have for Mr Roland is my understanding is that the city Only reports out on levels above five parts per billion correct the detection level is at five so it would be five so then I'll amend my between five and 15 parts per billion great yeah do we have a second for that I'll second that item uh any further yeah Dr mccor comment and and and a question uh the the comment definitely you've already been um credited for the good work that you're doing and the way in which you identified the problem and and how you reached out to find Partners in in
157identifying issues and solutions and then working for a very complicated testing process that had to be expedited uh and and then now we we've got a report I want to u to acknowledge our our information office as well and the work that they've done in order to take these results and to Comm communicate them clearly to our to our public in in a question answer fact sheet so people can go to our website to find out you know what are we doing why are we doing it and and what are the results telling us and what the results are at each site in addition to that we've communicated well with our parents uh and and our community members about it and also with the press and my question is we have a a press is
158releasing some of the results and and an interactive map are they getting that information from us or they yes they're taking the same data that we post and putting putting in a different fion and then I'm also concerned about the um the cumulative effect of of the of the results that uh that that we may have at that the five level six level and and and and and how that might accumulate over time so I I I definitely support uh support the motion in addition I'm wondering this cannot just be an isolated incident at one uh within our schools maybe there I'm wondering what is unique about Emerson that was either in in the plumbing the piping or the construction or the time that was different from the schools that that that are around it
159I would offer a few things and and yes Emerson's been a a learning opportunity for us as well um first of all you have very old Portables on that campus and that's where a lot of our problems were concentrated generally uh LED in solder uh or there was a big transition through the Safe Drinking Water Act 1986 lead and solder lead and fixtures brass fixtures so there's a significant change uh at that point in time some of our construction at Emerson particularly those portable was pre 1986 and and and as early as 1955 um secondly I think the thing you can also understand with lead is it it can be it can be the the valve on the handle that turns the water on the water fountain that just that one component itself can be
160the source of the lead contamination so um you know it's our our staff the PO the plumbing guys have done done a great job of chasing that back we've used incremental testing to kind of find how far down the line the the lead contamination shows up in the water and they've done a real good job of working through that um up until 2014 even a leadfree fixture a brass fixture could have up to 8% lead in it and still be classified as lead free so just because we're post 1986 doesn't mean we're out of the woods and and I think what we saw it at Emerson was we had a very new uh relatively new fixture on the campus where we also had a problem it was a very easy fix we just took it
161back from the the the fountain to the wall and that solved the problem but it was is there as well I guess I want to commend you on uh all the hard work that's gone into this but one of the things that I I do want to note is the concern that we had once Le was found and the protocol that you've established and I do appreciate your bringing in the physician and having him to direct us on which way to go with on a site once we've discovered that such as what's going on at Emerson Bend thank you okay one more thing I should mention you know much as we had that conversation with San Diego Co-op because that school was back in session again Emerson Bandini has been out for spring break they
162come back tomorrow we have meetings on site with with staff and parents there next week that same type of discussion and our County Partners will be there with us as well yeah please why you said earlier that there was only a maximum of five samples being taken and I was wondering why that is that it comes from the same like pipeline or like why well the maximum five is is what's established by the state through the regulation but thank you very much because what we are doing though is at at a site where five is not enough we are taking additional samples the city won't do it um but we are doing that through our own independent laboratory if five is not enough we'll do additional testing there we're testing in kitchens we're also making
163sure we're testing Child Development Centers but the basic answer of five is because that's what the state regulation says Okay I I just want to uh clarify my motion and that is after we're done doing the initial testing and mitigating actionable sites then have the superintendent come back and look at drill down even more to the 5 to 15 uh PBB okay thank you for saying that CU I was going to clarify the timing of it appreciate that I'm just wondering what what's the scientific basis for this in terms of the 5 to 15 I mean every substance that we intake has has some small trace of of toxic we go into a building and it says this building is known by the state of California you to have carcinogens and so forth so how
164are we what is the significance of this between 5 and 15 parts per billion I mean sort like we're trying to go for the most pure but but I don't know that that has there there are initiatives to lower that threshold with there are initiatives within the state to lower that threshold okay why we're at five and 15 15 is the EPA standard that it's different than public health goals and all that but that is the number and then five again is the detection threshold that we working with with the city so who who sent the five um I'm trying to I can't quite remember if it's within the regulation but again I believe that is the sensitivity of their equipment will only get them to five yeah the the and and that's a great
165uh Point Dr Evans I've met with uh a lot of folks uh about this issue over the last several months a couple of doctors and Physicians that say that the human body can handle a lot of different uh things that that we're putting into our environment but one of the things that the human body cannot deal with is lead at any level um so that's part of it and the second reason is because um I've also met with representatives from Cal perg uh which is a Statewide uh organization that's really dedicated to public interest um and consumer protections and they have done a lot of research on this issue as well and they're really hoping that we'll do we'll go above and beyond epa's guidelines to keep our kids safe that's okay I just want
166to make sure we weren't arbitrarily drawing a line okay yeah okay uh we've got a do you have comments no okay we've got a motion on the table uh please vote thank you drew okay and thank you drew and thank you for the excellent work yeah I move item H2 okay we've got a motion for item H2 do we have a second is there a second okay all without any comment uh please vote I move item H3 do we have a second on item H3 a second and we've got one speaker Kristen jaroff no yes please okay um so I'm Christian jov I'm the Headmaster of San Diego French American school and first of all I want to thank you for uh and thank you and your staff for all the the hard work in
167bringing this uh item forward thank you very much so we are looking forward to working with the district to extend our lease in order to finance and construct a new uh permanent educational facility and new sports field uh to replace the ex existing one which is half a century old uh we have support from our nearby uh homeowners association churches and neighbors uh during our 11 years in the community we have had the pleasure of Hosting San Diego unified students and the Comm and and the community to use a sports field and other facilities most recently we had for example laoya High School uh lacrosse team during their Field construction we have also enjoyed engaging in French language and cultural collaborations with Mission Bay High School whose students for example attended recently a math and
168French Workshop in our school led by one of our teachers and then they attended our traditional uh winter show which winter Fair which is called Mar the Noel in French um we uh we have also many of our students uh go after the eighth grade after our Middle School they go on to attend uh and succeed at the IB International Balor program in San Diego High Mission Bay High and also some of them go to La Hoya high school and they very very well educated student International speak languages French and Spanish as well well um these are just a few example a few more example if I have time for some of the community activities that we do uh French lecture series at the laal library uh story time for the children we have also
169a music and artist program uh led by visiting local artists from Lya uh the center for World music or the Lya Playhouse uh our students also raise money for local charity they they volunteer their time gather Goods uh for organizations such as radis children hospital um feeding America San Diego chapter or the monar school and other events including Beach cleanup also we have the mount solidad veteran Association uh using our parking for overflow whenever they they have a special event we also hosted uh recently the French film club in our Auditorium so again we look forward to continuing to collaborate with the district and the community thank you very much thank you thank you uh any board member questions or comments if not please vote I move item H4 we have a motion for item
170H4 is there a second okay why don't we ask uh superintendent Martin to introduce uh the item thank you president Barrera H4 is the work year reduction for non-represented managers confidentials par Educators with the agreements with aasd classified and certificated units and the POA regarding the work year reduction we're asking to approve these worky reductions brought forward tonight okay I I have a question so first of all we need to clarify that the POA work year with with I'm sorry go ahead they're clarifying for me what I just said go ahead uh the POA what's thaty to say po the POA work year reduction is withdrawn uh because it was not ratified by its members is that correct okay um well actually we've got two uh speakers so I'll call on them and then I'll
171proceed with my questions uh Sabrina hanin and Mary L [Applause] Finley got uh Sabrina hland par educator president almost forgot why I'm here um so work year reduction so I don't know if you guys realize that imposing 11 days on 10-month employees is pretty significant 5% of our income most of us are very low wage earners by choice because we work for you um you know trying to negotiate This was um rather pushed upon us we weren't really given the opportunity to get the information that we requested because of this pressure of 60 days by Ed code well the Ed code states that you need to notify US 60 days in advance it doesn't mean to say that you need to impose on US 60 days in advance so I'm I'm very frustrated that youve
172Chen Chen to impose this on us without us letting without letting us have the proper information to perhaps maybe have solutions to this problem I mean I'm not denying that you guys are in a Dire Straits financially uh but that wasn't our fault we didn't spend the money so honestly you know I'm just disappointed it it's very frustrating for my members while you're cutting us you're cutting our hours people are losing their benefits and now you're going to take away what was really forced vacation I was appalled to have someone say to me well you you're getting extra time off well we really aren't that was time off that you guys were paying us out of our vacation pay that wasn't earned money like we were working a day and now you're going to take
173a day off from us we're still going to be there every day with those kids every day with those kids and now we're going to have 11 more vacation days that we won't be able to use because your sites can't afford put Subs in if we wanted a vacation day we already have people get denied vacation time because there is no sub I hear it all the time people get denied to get trained because there's no money to put a sub in so you can go get properly trained to deal with students that's sad so again I'm just disappointed I'm saddened I don't know where to go with this I I you know I wish that you guys would really reconsider imposing this on us at the moment we get where you're at we understand
174let us notice us we already are noticed we know we know we're we've got a problem but that doesn't mean you should force it on us at the moment let us try to work something out I I don't understand we are reasonable people I feel like I'm a fairly reasonable person and I don't think I'm asking for too much again 10-month employees taking a 5% hit I don't know how my members are going to pay their rents pay their mortgages put food on the table and you know those members they actually have kids in the schools and and those kids are not going to feel that [Applause] impact yeah my name is Mary Lou Finley I'm 72 uh working at Bell Middle School uh as a special ed assistant and um I am also very
175uh disheartened that after our bargaining units bargained with you on this and couldn't come to an agreement so now you're going to vote and make it happen what was I mean uh I don't understand how our input and our uh needs I I don't understand how you think that somehow the students needs are being meant when we don't have cafeteria workers bus drivers clerks par Educators we really do make the system work so when you cut us it's the students who are hurting and it's time to find other Solutions besides continuously cutting us thank [Applause] you okay we have a motion from uh Dr Evans on this item is there is there a second with with no second this item cannot uh move forward yeah go ahead Dr V all right you're okay a second
176by Dr whiters pay I I'll comment on this uh first I think that the I think everybody understands and acknowledges that we've got a financial problem that we need to fix and I think there's a lot of reasons uh that we have at this uh point in time uh projected $124 million deficit and I think that uh some of those reasons are out of our control and some of those reasons are uh the result of decisions that we've made um and I would say you know to our uh bargaining units um part of the decision making that we are responsible for uh that uh is um creating a challenge for us is coming from agreements that we've made around salary increases and I will support those agreements I certainly supported those agreements I voted for
177them and I will and I in retrospect would support them again I think they were critical and I think necessary in order to uh bring our district into uh fairer compensation and more competitive compensation with other districts but I also think that we've got a long and strong track record in this District of solving problems together and that includes negotiation and and I'll speak later on uh on on issues uh later in the agenda but when we have the opportunity to negotiate we should take that opportunity yes and I trust Sabrina hanlin I trust what you said about your not only willingness but your uh capacity uh to work with the district to solve these issues we have as part of this item we have an agreement with ASD and that was the product of
178negotiation and negotiation means we come to the table with our bargaining unit and the negotiations can be tough at times but they can also identify solutions that we would not have identified had we not worked together and negotiated so my position on this item H4 is that we should go ahead and uh uh approve the item for ASD approve the the item for the non-represented managers and confidentials but that we should pull the item for now with the par Educators in order to have the opportunity for a real negotiation yes I don't think that can go on forever uh my recommendation is that um we put this item back on the agenda uh in our special meeting on May May the 11th and between now and May the 11th we see if we can get
179to an agreement that actually works uh for both uh for both parties so um we've got a motion on the floor I will oppose that motion and then if that motion uh fails to carry I'll come back with a counter motion that would uh approve the item uh for the non-represented managers confidental confidentials and pared Educators and ASD uh but remove the uh the item with uh regarding par Educators any other board questions or comments Dr mccy yeah I I want to thank you for your comments uh thank you for the history uh you've been here before some of us are are new um and the um uh the pain of making um these kinds of decisions are are are are heartfelt um and and and it's we are confronted with with tough and difficult
180situations that are going to require some uh hard um work uh being done by by all sides and I think this is our opportunity U for uh maybe moving in the direction that you have suggested for a way for us to um honor and support the collaborative process of of working together with all of our stakeholders and in this case the our bargain units to arrive at a solution that'll be beneficial for all all of us Dr Ryder's P I guess for me as a new member on this board a part of what my expectations uh would be are you know I've been looking for is and maybe this is by math M looking at it but for everything that we're suggesting that we should cut I I mean I'd like to see futuristically what
181the budget line item is what the the uh over overage is uh some history on why we've gotten to this point I mean it just yeah it just kind of feels I mean I'm a newbie I I confess I'm a newbie at this but it's like your own budget if you have a budget and a certain area is out of line then you have to deal with that line you look at it why how what do do I need to do to correct it but this this has a feeling of you know it's we're like flying by the seat of our pants kind of thing rather than just I I really don't people bring thing to us things to us but I don't see each program spelled out with how much that program cost uh
182are we over or under uh what are the things that need to be changed and and Corrections on that for the long-term future because otherwise we're going to get to the same place again if we don't know where we are and and how we got here and where we need to go forward I mean I'm just I'm just speaking for myself about this and how I like to logically look at things and say okay this department we have 10 million here and we're at 12 million then you can ask the question why are we at 12 million we've overspent by two what's going on in that particular Department that we need to correct or that program that needs to be addressed or I don't know that's that's why I'm like not um thank you president
183Barrera um we've in looking at the various categories of the budget that we have been exploring and trying to identify the the uh you know the kinds of things that we need to do to achieve a balanced budget and the kinds of programs that we do want to continue to support strategically spending um there are some solutions in the budget that we're looking at uh from various uh classified units and things like that that have been brought forward by the superintendent um some of those were uh from various classified bargaining units in the in the form of a work year reduction however that uh that that was with the caveat that we would bargain uh with those units on that to discuss you know how can we uh work together to achieve a balanced budget
184and try to mitigate the impacts by Staffing so first of all uh the The Proposal that we had heard uh for the reduced work year was that that there would not affect uh instructional days uh second was that we would work with or bargain with uh the different classified units to try to help them uh achieve a balanced budget and understand what we need as a district um uh to to minimize the number of layoffs necessary so I believe the reason why this item is on the agenda is because there hasn't been that conversation yet and so for example if there is a need to save in one category $9 million in the budget then we're hoping to achieve that through various means now we could achieve the $9 million in in budget reductions through
185a reduced work year or other things that maybe we're not realizing yet that we could learn about through negotiation and bargaining or through additional layoffs um and I I would tend to concur with President Barrera that we need to allow a little bit more time for bargaining to occur and so to that extent I will oppose this particular motion because there is not we don't absolutely have to act on this tonight we could wait until May to do it because with classified employees we all know uh that they as long as we follow the proper protocol of noticing in the timelines as outlined by law that we can make those kinds of reductions and savings to impact the budget going forward um and so I I think it's worth that investment I think it's worth
186going back to the table and to try to figure out how can we work together because we all know we need to have a balanced budget we need to be fiscally responsible and we need to be respons responsible to ensure that we continue to have the support staff that we know our kids need um and so if this is uh if this motion does not pass then I will support a motion looking at and exploring uh other options thank [Applause] you U first of all Dr riter's pain I understand what you're saying about if we budgeted 10 million in a particular area and we ended up spending 12 million we need to look at that but the reality is and that and there might be some savings here and there but the reality is that
187we may have budgeted 10 million in one area and now the state is giving us 9 million and so when we spent 10 million and we were spending it the best way we thought possible and we have to do with 9 million we have to figure out how to re redesign it to do it for for 9 million uh but I guess at this point I would I'd like the superintendent to comment because we've had plenty of opportunities to go in and meet on the budget and ask and talk about different things and I want to know you know it's sort of the I just want to know what she has to say in response to these comments well I want to be perfectly clear about the solutions that we've brought forward we've been talking
188about since December we've been bringing forward Solutions and to putting together a package where none of us wanted to make any of these Cuts we have promises and commitments that we want to make and keep to our families to our communities in our lcap and the goals that we hold sacred for our students we put together a a plan to how how to reduce our deficit by $124.4 million and that package is something we've been discussing at every single chance that we have had with you both individually open and closed session with our bargaining units being perfectly clear about how to move forward in a situation where we don't want to have to do this as we move forward we have identified the solutions that are going to allow us to with reduced staff keep
189our commitments to our students will it be difficult will there be challenges es absolutely we're trying to not affect the school we're not affecting the school year for students the number of learning days we have a billion dollars that we will be spending next year to deliver on our goals and with due respect Dr whitear PNE we have had the opportunities to discuss this let me just I want to respond to that if you uh I I don't deny those meetings we have met and we've talked about it but I think you've missed the whole point of my my point which is that you should not be bringing things to me as a an individual December meeting with me throughout we need to have a plan with a list of all the programs for everybody
190to see up on the web that says um whatever the program is now I I'm not saying this for Applause or anything I'm just talking about it from a logical perspective we should have every Pro every year in fact that's my desire every year whatever programs we have even now preparing for next year we need to know what is the budget that we're approving and then how are we spending in comparison to that budget yes and then based upon that if we see for example special ed is uh bleeding by $10 million a year why is that happening are we also addressing the fact that this district has gone down in enrollment every single year but I don't know how many years and yet we've not reduced the workforce commensurately with that I mean that's
191a reality and and it goes on in in every Department preschool whatever the department is uh noon Duty assistant we've been bleeding over in that why why haven't we if we need to make an adjustment to even budget more money for that then we need to have that discussion honestly about each and every dep department so that we can know yes we've got it right on this department we don't need to look any further this one this department needs more money or we need to make some adjustments to this department I mean that's the kind of discussion I'm talking about it should not be that we up I I I've said I would support this because I mean for us to right siiz this district for us to get this budget right and to move
192forward so that we don't have this problem in the future but what I'm saying is that if we don't do something systematic so that everybody can see including the board members about what's going on in terms of each department and how they're spending or overspending or whatever the issue is then we're going to be back here again with you bring in some Department saying oh well we need to cut this or we need to cut that but why why do we need to cut it [Applause] that's so we started the lcap three years ago and my understanding the lcap is a way of connecting State money with school program uh and the idea was to identify our goals and our objectives uh we can't do everything so we have to set priorities uh and we've
193I think went through 12 indicators I think we ended up with 10 and I think we're down now to now to six to me the lcap should be and if it is and obviously it isn't uh been been effective the LC cap should allow anybody in this room or on this Das uh to take a look at our budget and see where is the money going and why is the money going there and we should be able to to track it to know at the end of the year how much we spent where did we overspend or underspend and and and also help us go forward in terms of revising and and and and resubmitting that should be a c collaborative process that starts from the uh from the uh from the from the schools
194and work it its way up and and there probably should be a way to do uh to handle it and to slice it so it could be interactive so it could be a department by Department look program by program look school by school look there needs to be a way so people understand where the money came from and where the money went and and I would hope that we could uh make it more transparent and and easier to understand and and simpler for everybody so they can be meaningfully engaged in helping us solve these kind of problems that we're confronted with today so the the context in which staff has done the work that you asked us to do you asked us to come forward with $124.4 Million worth of solutions we've done that and
195we did it in the context of the LC cap and the promises and commitments that were made and that was not easy work to figure out where are we going to cut something abide by our contracts stay within our lcap goals which departments and and to your point Dr whiters pain going forward the final budget this is leading towards the final budget adoption the final budget adoption lists all of the programs actions and services like Dr mcquery said that are in the ELC cap that we do have in place that we be going forward and each cut that we brought forward we brought forward with a plan for how are we going to be implementing our solutions for next year and the final budget adoption is the overall spending plan for for the following school
196year but but but but but let you know I must confess that I sat here and listened to people they don't think we listen I have notes on all of them but I sat here and listened to someone come in and tell me that her child was in a special education class and there are two children in that class two two children and I thought that's an awfully expensive program thank you and how would I have known that if the woman hadn't come here and told me that we've got at least and now it turns out yes we do have too many mod severe teachers because we cannot afford to pay that many folks for doing the job when the state and the FEDS are not giving us that much money that's why we're number
197one in the state for special education spending we can't afford that kind of money we have to stay within our budget it would be nice to have oneon-one but if you don't have the money to do it then you have to live within your budget and whatever that budget line item is for a special ed based upon the number of children that's what we need to do for every program preschool somebody stood there and said there was an empty classroom and the teacher is being paid I heard that I took notes on that right we cannot afford that as a district if we don't correct that kind of thing as a district then we will be here every single year we've got to stop that kind of practice oh I'm sorry it it just really
198is troubling that we spent $10 million more in special education this year probably last year the year before preschool 5 million more whatever it is that stuff adds up up after time and we need to stop it that's why I'm voting tonight to stop it okay and the reductions that we've recommended are to address exactly that we looked for the efficiencies and the program options that would address those things okay we've got uh we've got a motion on the floor in a in a second um why don't we vote on that motion on item H4 are you Danielle Knack no I'm uh I don't have you okay okay I'm sorry thank thank you we we've uh okay that motion fails 3-2 um I'll make a counter motion that we uh accept the uh uh staff
199recommendation on the work year reduction for non-represented managers confidentials and a SD uh that we continue at the bargaining table with the par Educators with the goal of coming back with an agreement uh by May the 11th second okay do we have any uh discussion of that motion okay uh please vote staining okay that motion passes 4 zero okay we now move on to item H5 uh resolution of the matter of elimination of classified positions related to the Sanda program superintendent thank you this is the elimination of classifi classified positions um that are outlined in this item this is a sandep program and this was specifically a program services at San Diego I want to emphas that the services to our students will continue within the sand out program the elimination of these classified position
200is due to the loss of the grant funding that was associated with it we cannot continue to fund positions as it will negatively impact the general fund unrestricted I move for approval in the spirit of Sharon White her pay I second we've got a motion in a second on this item any uh for questions or comments if not please vote I move item H6 okay we've got a motion on item H6 I would appreciate a second for purposes of discussion there a second we've got a second purpose discussion Dr Evans I'm sorry superintendent thank you this is a resolution in the matter of elimination of classified services and the Ser the program or services that we're bringing forward tonight is part of our budget solution some of the positions that are being affected are vacant
201positions and we wanted to make sure what we already talked about POA um we'd like POA had vote scheduled a vote tonight but that um they did not they did not ratify that okay we've got my gosh I we've got a large number of speakers on this item so I'm going to sorry I'm going to call you up and we're going to limit it to a minute a piece and uh if you don't need to speak on this item uh please uh let it go uh Elaine Elaine cetti Linda Kleiner Jeff Goodman Joel and Archer please go ahead Linda claner scitech farb Middle School I've been a scitech for less than 10 years during that time I've been involved in two other layoffs at this moment I am not losing my job but there's still
202time for that I feel very sad because I feel like your the people you selected to be on the negotiating team are not acting in a professional manner they are not allowing us to talk and do things and schedule negotiations we have tried and they've said oh we'll put it off till May and then we hear from other people sorry you're not negotiating with us we aren't given the opportunity I'm really frustrated with that I think it's time for you to get a new team I was reviewing your vision 2020 and seriously I I wanted to laugh but I I can't there's no way this current deficit just happened since November why did you hire upper management positions knowing there was a deficit you should have seen this coming and fix it I I will
203not finish my whole thing because there's no time but I would like the people in the audience who live in the city of San Diego to please raise your hand these are your voting members they voted you in I voted you in they can vote you out Joel and Archer been here many times I am now with black armband for the adversarial way we are being negotiated with there is no respect there have been threats for these layoffs because we didn't go right away we wanted to negotiate the work year next year if I was here with the extra vacation I have with 13 days out for 11 month I would have to take a vacation Daye every other week to not be over vacation because I earn 14 hours a month you are not
204looking at the total picture you have picked the classified because in 30 days you can use it to solve your problem your structal challenges are that you've overspent what you brought in you understood stirs and purs for the last three years you knew how it was going up you're only 4% able in your lcf ex extra funds thank you thank you Joel y hello my name is Jeff Goodman and I work for the San Diego unified Mental Health Resource Center we are going to have several speakers here tonight our speakers are here to educate you on the devastating consequences of cutting mental health we've also emailed our concerns in advance but if you didn't have time to read the emails we're going to speak to them tonight our presenters will provide very use ful information
205that should ensure you vote no on these layoffs while all district positions are important you have chosen to Target people who are literally handling life or death situations we are the people who help to prevent suicide which is the second leading cause of death in teenagers we are the people we are the staff who help to prevent tragedies like Coline and Virginia Tech I urge you to pay close attention to what we have to present here tonight and vote no on these layoffs to mental health so that 425 students in special education won't lose their legally mandated IEP mental health related Services thank [Applause] [Music] you I'm elain saetti um Library tech for 20 years I've been actively working for 30 years to get school libraries built stocked and staffed for all sdusd students I'm
206so blessed that I was around in 2010 to see school libraries built with San Diego taxpayer money and then filled with books with California library act money and all have some mandatory Staffing thanks to our past superintendent Dr Greer and a Forward Thinking School Board in those wonderful days of 2010 every Elementary library had at least a halftime library assistant every Secondary School library had a full-time Library technician some schools were fortunate enough to also have a part-time library teacher sdusd School libraries were finally available to all of our students they had access to books computers excellent online resources all provided for free Equitable access for all students was a dream come true a culmination of many years of work collaboration and generous taxpayer contribution I am hoping that my 20 years of serving you
207will give me 30 more seconds they came the dark these are my library colleagues these are the people that also work and staff your your school libraries some of them then came the dark years worse in a way than having no library was knowing the library was there with all its Rich resources but those resources were off limits the library was dark because new leadership regime didn't believe that open libraries were a priority for all students and that brings us to today April 25th April the celebration month for school libraries let's talk about how you celebrate that school libraries you've already voted to decimate Elementary library Staffing one day a week two hours a day that's not enough time to check out a 100 books much less a thousand today you vote to shudder every
208single School library every single Secondary School library libraries that our grandchildren will be paying for but cannot use it doesn't feel like much of a party it seems we have very different views about what celebrate means and very different views about the importance of school libraries thank thanks L okay um Le Lisa Cooper Sabrina npca Tina Merchant Sally Kaufman mahogany Taylor Jennifer Sims Leslie Johnson my name is Lisa Cooper and I've got a couple of different ideas here first of all how can the district expect labor groups to make well-rounded decisions for the good of all of its members without numbers we haven't seen any numbers published from the first round of layoffs what is the savings from those layoffs how much more needs to be negotiated to get to that $124 million Mark was
209there a good savings next is the serp uh we know that I I heard you say that many people took it well where's the savings from that we need to see these numbers even if they're PR preliminary for the negotiating uh uh to negotiate in good faith I mean the district showing us those numbers um well we can't wait for the May revised numbers because it's only only April um I have an idea here don't yell at me people won't like this idea but it's this idea will not be liked by many how many are going to how about going back to the drawing board and looking at the numbers of and across the board all District staff including people at the Ed Center classified staff and teachers reduction in pay by the 4% that
210never should have been offered in the first place since the superintendent financial department legal department and Labor Relations already knew we were going to have this budget issue going into the next year this could actually save a large number of positions from uh the original layoffs as well okay thank you hello I'm Tina Merchant I'm a school bus driver I'm also a certified teacher and I will never teach in San Diego Unified School District because when I graduated they cut 1,200 the year I graduated so I'm still a proud bus driver and I want to say cutting 62 bus drivers means a minimum of 248 routes that will be cut next year what schools will these Cuts affect have you guys decided that how many children will be told they cannot continue programs they've invested
211their educational process in do you realize those cuts will eliminate transportation for approximately 3,720 children many employees have children that attend our schools if they have to leave the city to go elsewhere for work they will be taking their children with them now that affects the enrollment are you seeing the trickle down effect and the big question is who's to blame for the mismanagement of funds the district has to submit a budget and stick to it how do you spend 124 million more than what you have and then expect employees to fix the deficit thank you thank you thank you I am finished and on a side note I want to say that it's very disrespectful for you to put us this late on the agenda many of us in here have to be at
212work at 5:00 in the morning and you have us I'm in bed normally sleeping right now thank you next time please put us farther up on the [Applause] agenda I'm s Kaufman and I proud to be a library technician at Pacific Beach Middle School who like all of my colleagues singlehandedly run a library program that saves the district millions of dollars superintendent Martin Dr Mike and Mr Biser I want to thank you for coming a few years ago to support me in creating a Peace Garden at pbms you've had the opportunity to see our well-maintained library space and the program it offers the elimination of my position will negatively affect students teachers parents and community members who uh who benefit from our library program Library cuts are fiscally irresponsible and not cost effective District Library
213techs are well Tred and an important asset to this District not only do we account for the millions of dollars of District textbooks we also facilitate lending resources from school to school lowering expenditures if Library texts are cut students will lose the one place on campus that provides equal access to a safe well-maintained and positive learning climate that provides support to meet their academic social emotional and physical needs and our library collection supports the diversity of our students thank you thank you [Applause] okay hello my name is lesie Johnson I'm with the Mental Health Resource Center serving the highest risk students of San Diego Unified School District our students experience homicidal and suicidal thoughts have attempted suicide engage in self-harming behaviors and often psychiatrically hospitalized many struggle with substance abuse and are at risk for
214human trafficking or gang involvement all these students have experience significant traumas and require the support of mental health clinicians our clinicians are highly skilled and trained to provide compassionate evidence-based and Trauma informed therapy but the impact our clinicians have on our students is seen in the numbers since 2012 the day treatments alone have served close to 850 students who otherwise would be harming themselves or others or creating such a disruption at comp sites that other student safety and education would be impacted the Therapy Services provided by Mental Health Resource Center have also help to decrease the amount of students requiring residential placement which saves San die unified approximately $135,000 per year per student our clinicians make a difference and they in our students lives and they help also save hundreds of thousands of dollars don't
215approve these Cuts okay Brian L Melinda donor Dana Ellis Lisa Clem Diane Jones Sarah gerardi okay greetings my name is Brian L and I am speaking on behalf of some of the most vulnerable children in the district and I a licensed mental health clinician at the Mental Health Resource Center we are providing students with assessment treatment planning Psychotherapy behavioral intervention therapeutic rehabilitation case planning case management and linkage psycho education clinical consultation and Crisis Intervention we are serving serving children with depression anxiety mood and behavioral disorders trauma and psychosis our children are the ones with thoughts of and acts of self harm including cutting and burning themselves due to emotional turmoil our students are the children who are thinking about suicide and the teens who are completing suicide at alarming rates their mental health stands in
216the way of their ability to access their education most of the children we serve require educationally related services on their IEP in order for our district to offer a free and appropriate public education faith cuts to our department will severely impact our ability to provide our service vote no on the layoffs vote no on work reductions and please wait till May to revise and make informed decisions about this [Applause] budget my name is Melinda donor and I am with the Mental Health Resource Center a federal law called the individuals with disabilities Education Act or idea requires that public schools create an IEP for every child receiving special educ Education Services these IEPs require the district to provide Mental Health Services to students as part of their legally binding IEP if we lay off the proposed
21717 mental health clinicians and the associated support staff that equates to 425 students who are going to go unserved this is more than concerning it is irresponsible dangerous and will greatly and negatively impact the lives of children in our district not to mention the many lawsuits that will follow when we are out of compliance with our IEPs I implore you to vote no on layoffs vote no on work reduction work you reductions and please wait for the May Revis to make informed decisions about the budget thank [Applause] you good evening Dana Ellis president of the San Diego Schools Police Officers Association teaching employees to do right things takes a good manager a manager that can do things right but also do the right thing is a leader this instills confidence in employees that their leaders
218will guide them through the tough times the district has shown it has managers but does it have Leaders The District didn't lead and take the time to collaborate with its employee associations to try and jointly solve its fiscal dis difficulties it imposed the district's only plan at this time is to balance a budget on the back of its employees at the expense of student safety there is no plan going forward for how the work gets accomplished once employee classifications are eliminated I'm asking you the Board of Education members to stop being managers and become the leaders you should be hello my name is Lisa clamp and I'm with the Mental Health Resource Center I want to highlight the need for mental health services and how it has grown in 2012 we were providing outpatient therapy
219for 638 students last year we provided therapy for 1,248 students while our district enrollment may be dropping our mental health needs are certainly Rising that is an increase of 100% in four years the need is there these students who have mental health services and I IEP will not disappear because of the firing of 20 Mental Health Department professionals that service will not be provided and the district will be out of compliance and without a doubt be brought more due process cases the district will be settling lawsuits more often and at the very worst we could face the tragedy of a completed suicide or homicide how will you explain the cutting of mental health if that were to occur it's not a risk I think any of you are willing to take it is irresponsible and
220is unacceptable I urge you to [Applause] reconsider hello my name is Diane Klein Jones and I work with the Mental Health Resource Center the proposed number of cuts to our department include approximately 17 direct service clinicians cutting 17 clinicians means approximately 425 children will go without any therapy services Services we are legally required to provide further IEP approximately 425 hours of therapy per week where students will not have the opportunity to express warning signs when they are suicidal being abused bullied hearing voices contemplating hurting others suffering due to lack of self-esteem depression and anxi iy those one-on-one opportunities with the trained person these kids can trust can change the trajectory of their lives often times we are the only one adults these kids can trust and the only adults who are professionally trained in this
221District to assist these children with these very serious and debilitating issues we our staff are funded by special ed Health and Human Service Agency County contracts and by a grant by price philan philanthropies all of our employees have designated funding sources which Drive the programs they support and we provide we have $7 million in County contracts which funds 62 staff members that support all of San Diego unified 2 million out of the 7 million helps to offset the district for the provision of day treatment services to students with IEPs that attend separate School site settings thank you Diane thank you just lastly um we are willing as an department for last when I was here in February I heard you guys come look at the Departments where the budgets are being slashed and look with
222the program sit down with the manager and look at their budgets well now you guys are interested I'm offering the Mental Health Resource Center come to our department sit with our manager look at our budget and see if you can help us find ways to reduce that's not going to economically that's not going to impact the students okay thank you thank [Applause] you hi my name is Sarah gerardi I'm a mental health admin assistant I've been providing clerical support at the day treatment level for 14 years I could tell you countless stories of near Miss suicide and homicide attempts by students struggling with mental health issues that have been averted by the hard work of my deeply dedicated colleagues it is clear to me that whomever proposed these Cuts does not understand that special ed
223funding and contract funding are completely interconnected Ed the county contracts are intended to supplement the delivery of special ed services under a specific highly effective Service delivery model positions cannot simply be divided as contract versus specialed funded as anyone watching the news knows we're in the midst of an extremely serious mental health crisis in this country the mhrc is a model for how to successfully provide mandatory special ed services through a combination of funding sources we we've produced incredibly improved outcomes for our most atrisk population and have provided you hard data these Cuts will eviscerate the mhrc program I beg you to reconsider these [Applause] Cuts Lindsay Peterson Andrea bosowski Caroline Fogerty Paul quilkey gift ch Elanor sailor Stephanie Moss hello my name is Andre Bowski and I'm with the Mental Health Resource Center as
224we've mentioned earlier we're facing the threat of losing services for approximately 425 students perhaps you feel we could cover those cases with the existing therapists for the 2015 2016 school year we had 37 clinicians on the mental health intervention team alone serving 1,248 students right now the average case load is 26 students per clinician with the proposed cuts the case load would increase to 62 62 students who require collaboration with teachers parents psychiatrists Behavior Support not to mention the weekly Therapy Services we travel to different School sites we respond when there's a crisis we keep notes of our sessions we complete assessments and we plan for our therapy sessions managing 62 students is not feasible it's not safe it's not ethical and it can't be done in San Diego Unified School District would be out
225of compliance the cuts you have recommended would the mental health department please reconsider these cuts and vote no on the layoffs thank [Applause] you my name is Lindsay Peterson and I'm a mental health admin Aid it is being proposed that three out of the four special ed funded mental health admins be eliminated you are expecting a four-person job to be managed by one person this would leave our department without adequate support staff for our special ed services the work of a mental health admin Aid is highly specialized the state requires detailed documentation on compliance Service delivery and outcomes this could not be done without the skills that of a mental health admin to generate medical and Private health coverage billing to provide Staffing info for Lea funding to comply with County requirements to process referrals
226to collect data to ensure legal requirements and timelines are met our mental health admins have many hours trained in cultural competency trauma informed care and in youth Mental Health First Aid these specialized skills take months of trainings and years of experience to master these administrative duties will be impossible to manage by one person and the unintended consequences of these Cuts will be far-reaching And longstanding in regards to compliance I urge you to reconsider these eliminations thank you uh hello my name is Stephanie moss and I'm with the Mental Health Resource Center while many of my colleagues have made valid points regarding the value of our service I want to take a moment to address something that seems to be overlooked when the district proposed these Cuts our department is unique in that we are funded
227in various ways while we have licensed mental health clinicians working in multiple settings many are County contracted the strict regulations for County Mental Health dollars prohibit these clinicians from filling the Gap that will result from these Cuts so when you look at numbers on paper comparing how many clinicians we have and how many you want to cut we feel there's a significant misunderstanding we urge Ur you to vote no on the layoffs explore this matter further become educated on how our funding sources work and the limitations that exist surely you would never make such proposals if you knew how it was going to devastate the provision of Mental Health Services for our children thank [Applause] you this is just a point of order about the agenda I signed up a couple of us signed up
228to talk about music and somehow we ended up in this section so I was just hoping that at some point we'll be able to talk about music I think that'll be non agenda public at at the end of the meeting yeah but I just want to make sure that my name gets in there because it's not sure all right thank okay thank you okay uh Heather pona Margarita Garcia morera Serena Enrique Joy nakari Dingman Danielle knack [Music] I'm Heather panika I'm a licensed mental health clinician um I want to address the impact on of the cuts on the general education classroom if the special education students receiving their legally required Mental Health Services are cut when mental illness goes untreated it will often manifest itself in a very behavioral way as I'm sure you all
229know cutting these positions will not only affect those who lose the service but certainly in the general education classrooms as well you will see a ripple effect when the teacher does not have a mental health professional to consult with you will see the ripple effect when the general education staff are asked to manage a mental health crisis you will see the ripple effect when parents are calling the principal filing complaints with the district concerned for the safety of their child these Cuts will leave many parents questioning the district's judgment and rethinking their child safety and placement in our district less mental health supports will impact classroom safety please reconsider thank [Applause] you hello my name is Margarita Garcia and I'm a mental health assessor with the uh Mental Health Resource Center and um it has
230been proposed to lay off four lead licensed mental health clinicians if I was to ask you the board members if you have an idea who they are and what they do would you be able to tell me I would like to tell you a little bit about what these people do the leads uh the leads a bridge the gap between mental health laws and regulations and the special education law and regulations they provide guidance and clinical Supervision in the most critical cases in our district and they are continuously called for crisis management they organize and oversee Service delivery for over 200 School sites a very difficult task that will res will result in lawsuits if it was mismanaged they supervise clinicians at our dat treatment programs where we treat students with the most severe mental
231health issues as we know a San Diego UniFi School District student completed suicide I urge you to reconsider the cuts and to and to prevent um this from happening please vote no on the [Applause] layoffs hi my name is Joy nakari Dingman I'm a licensed mental health clinician with the Mental Health Resource Center I'm my intention is to to share with you how important important a lead clinician is in our department I ask you if you could please open your hearts and your minds to learning more about the Mental Health Resource Center we provide the support for mental health services for the most at risk youth in our district providing Safety and Security on campuses we prevent suicide and homicide on campuses we work with kids who have anxiety and depression and our district has
232been blessed and fortunate enough not to experience a tragic event like Coline it has been proposed to lay off 20 mental health staff and three licensed mental health clinicians leads a leads Clin a lead clinician is important in helping provide Safety and Security for our campuses and to help intervene with crisis management I had an experience recently with a student who wanted to kill himself he wanted to kill other people I directly contacted My Lead Supervisor and I spoke with him and I was able we together were able to provide crisis management and support contacting police parents providing safety for these campuses I ask you to please Recon consider cuts to mental health thank [Applause] you hello I'd like to start with two points of information one lcap goals were done give us your name
233please Sena andri um elcap goals were met with the current staff second point of information I'm neither work for the mental health services or am I A A School uh Library Tech I am a unified employee I'm speaking on behalf of these people because while the age of Suicidal Thoughts suicidal actions and suicide has declined in a time when bullying has become an issue so serious our district has implemented policies procedures and programs to combat it the Mental Health Resource that's where we can make Cuts this is a viable solution to the board that's contradictory after years of investment in the construction refurbish remodeling of libraries after the years and the money's invested in literacy materials there's to be no investment in the bodies that drive our students largest literacy resource would you purchase a
234vehicle that you did not intend to drive our library checks were many hats just like many classified do because as you reduce staff the work does not reduce thank you good evening I'm Danielle Knack I'm a licensed clinician with the Mental Health Resource Center um tonight I want to talk to you just information money about the cost of Residential Treatment um Residential Treatment placement for one student equals about $135,000 a year that doesn't it includes only the housing and the mental health support not the education piece which is additional um if you follow through with the cuts you're proposing again there's the 425 students that may not receive the preventative Outpatient Therapy that will help them to remain in their comprehensive School site so they don't have to be in a residential treatment facility or
235a higher facility in July of 2011 there were as many as 37 students that were placed in residential treatment facilities at any month's time throughout that school year um Mental Health Services were acquired by the school district in 2012 and if you look at this year 2017 we have 12 students currently placed in residential treatment you can easily see the fiscal benefit of keeping Mental Health Services in place for our Val vulnerable students please reconsider making cuts to this department thank you thank you okay Mariam uh Irene kinata John kinata Sabrina hanlin Daren Diaz pesta Sabrina hanen par educator president I'll be brief I'm in support of my fellow chapters and asking you to not reduce um Margarita I don't know if she remembers she was actually my son's counselor when he was 11 years
236old suffering from depression she created a a gentleman who is now a special ed tech for your school district who has compassion and understanding for the students so I I just hate the thought that we're going to lose these kind of people that are going to impact our children who are impacting our future those people could be coming back and helping other students which is what happened with my son um the loss of more Police Service is just going to be detrimental to our students uh already the that they've already received it's going to hurt bus drivers we need those bus drivers transporting our kids um the roads are dangerous and you know I know as a parent I had the child on the bus I appreciated it thank you thank [Applause] you hi uh
237I'm Irene quinada I work at Crawford high school I'm the Library tech there I'm uh for over 10 years I've supported the staff and students alone in the library um I'm students maybe 1100 1200 I'm here today because I want you to know the person not the library Tech that you have targeted to eliminate I bring 19 years of experience knowledge and consist consistency to my community of teachers and my English language learner students our students programs keep getting eliminated the newcomer center now the Ola teachers so the only consistent venue that my students have available to them to provide these valuable resources before school I get there at 6:30 at lunchtime and after school is me and the library student students and I work together and student access to Power School to review grades
238PowerPoint presentations Word documents we proofread and correct drafts of homework together all the things that are not offered in class because teachers barely have enough time to cover the students curriculum please reconsider this [Applause] vote uh Francine Maxwell cat Ortiz Lance Ren Rob Wilbur Michael briad Francine Maxwell currently today there's three resource teachers for the Ed Center being post and bid and we should be at a hiring freeze why do we need three resource teachers here at the Ed Center second of all you didn't start discussing the budget deficit until well after the election in 2016 so I'm confused at where you guys are calculating all of the talk about this I also looked at the budget and the textbook budget went up we have kids that are running from this District our enrollment is
239extremely no low so why would the budget for books continue to rise I'm very unclear about that and there was a comment made about um the fact that Bell is losing their Library Tech and our children really need access to the library so when we get these new books that are overpriced who's going to put the barcode on them who's going to check them out and make sure that we get them back and we're not wasting money completely understand that we are moving away from hard textbooks but we still need CDs to put into the computers because we have a vast um surplus of that so in closing look look deep inside just one thing just one thing tonight look deep inside and don't vote for this my name is Lance Ren I am the
240President of chapter 724 operation support services and I went to the lcap meetings for a little while and I expected to see the budget and I expected to see line it on the budget and at that at those meetings I was told oh this is not the venue for that so I stopped going I want to talk about the P the layoffs that we are seeing this time around so B drivers you're going to lay off bus drivers great so you're going to take away opportunity for some of our lowest income most impacted students also um talking about lead who does the lead we got lead in our paint we going to get rid of 14 painters who removes the lead paint from our schools talking about lead and our water we're going to get
241rid of some of our planner estimators we're going to get rid of our planner estimators and inspectors those are the guys that go plan to get the lead pipes out of the pipe out of the schools we're going to do that what about our what about our sidewalks we're talking about getting rid of all of our skilled grounds workers what we're going to be walking on asphalt it is not that's that's uneven we're we're we're talking about safety of our students with the jobs that you are eliminating this cut we have a proposal we sent it today if you V vote to not accept this we will return to the table so I urge you don't make this cut give us more time thank you hello I'm cat Ortiz I've been with the district district
242since 1981 I have spent the last three school years at Riley New Dawn Mary A specialized setting for students with social and emotional disabilities our program provides services to students whose behaviors are so severe they cannot be managed at a on a comprehensive School site um the I if if you cut these uh if these cuts are made I predict our school will have a lot uh will be over impacted because number one they will be over impacted because the regular school sites will not be able to manage these students um number two we are already um over getting over impact and we're not even full these therapists um and and workers and you talk about bus drivers I want to mention real quick our bus driver because they I know they've talked about therapist
243but the bus driver that we have is critically needed because he's he's um at our site because he stays and takes these students that um go off at the end of the day that normal sites would not handle and so thank [Applause] you good evening my name is Rob Wilbur I'm the Labor Relations representative to proudly serving 2800 pair Educators in San Diego unified by The District's current proposal I will be [Music] losing many hundreds of those that I represent if this board does not care about its employees on behalf of all classified units I'm asking you to care about our students where you are looking to cut is going to impact the safety of our students it's been many years since any of us it's been decades for most of us since we had
244a civics class let me give you a refresher the school board is voted in by the public therefore you work for for us the superintendent works for you not vice versa okay you've got it B sawards thanks Rob thank you good evening my name is Michael Brad I'm the senior Labor Relations representative with California School Employees Association and these are the individuals that give me the inspiration to do the job I do every day and I want to thank them for the job they do tonight I was going to speak about the impacts of the proposed cuts to services on children and I was going to speak on the district's budget unfortunately this may be a surprise to some of the members in this room but during this very meeting District's lead Council legally ordered
245me to cease and desist from dealing with the school board regarding the budget cuts while I certainly disagree with district council's threat and I believe it's indicative of the district once again acting on half truths and assumptions before thoroughly reviewing the information I guess we'll have to see how silence Works anyone interested in my comments can watch the media tonight miss Donovan I'll work with csca legal to assure you get a formal response promptly thank [Applause] you okay we have a motion on the floor and a second um Dr Evans did you want to speak to your motion sure yeah well I'm I'm directing my comments mostly the board although I'm very aware that there is a very important audience here but we're conducting a board meeting in public where we're supposed to converse with
246each other we're all all of us here all the board members are very clear on the the $124 million deficit there's not not a dispute about that that's been comb through over and over and you know there have been different things said about well we're spending uh more than we have or how could you have spent 124 million more than what you have well the reality is we spent a certain amount last year our costs for the next year have gone up the amount of the revenue increase did not equal the amount of the cost because obviously we balanced the budget last year and we we we balanced the budget every year a lot of things have contributed to this u a big one is the the state pension fund in terms of which we
247have no control over in terms of increasing the amount we have to pay as as president barer mentioned also the raise that we gave our employees which was was very much deserved um you know health care costs go up but the reality is you know we talk about finding money here or finding money there n over 90% of our budget is employees and as Dr wher pay said we have to reduce the number of employees and and right side the the the number of employees according to the enrollment of the district and according to the to the funds that we have um you it was brought up about the number of students in a class which is you know very nice for someone to have in their neighborhood school but it's clearly if you have
248two students in a class that's not something we can afford I remember when I first came on the board there was an issue of how many students are riding on the bus and it was it was to try to save money on Transportation it was a very low minimum number the students are riding on the bus and so we increased that number because of the costs so we have to look for Solutions and what i' what I've heard very much is um you know don't don't cut this and don't cut that I haven't heard a lot of solutions about what we should cut instead um the one one uh one uh employee mentioned well you could you know take back the raise we've never proposed that we're not going to propose that in terms of
249a a district wise um salary cut like we did do in the past but the reality is we're elected here and we have to do this hard job uh if we don't approve the layoffs that we need to approve we we can't operate the district and there's and there's another thing about this whole situation of the May Revis okay the the amount we have $124 million deficit which we're still struggling to meet and the May revise could come anywhere from from $1 million to maybe $20 million let's say it was extravagant 25 or 30 the reality is that the following year we have a deficit of 50 million which is actually going up now if we don't meet all of the the the commitments that we've made so far and and any ending balance that
250we have from that that may revise would actually go to solving part of that problem the next year so we're not facing massive layoffs again the next year um so here we are in the situation um this bargaining issue is uh and I think it's important we have a we have a a superintendent and we've uh selected a bargaining team and and we're not going to to bargain in public um I know that uh just before just shortly before this board meeting we received a proposal about negotiating which didn't go just to the bargaining team but also also went to the board members and again I'm not going to bargain in public but we have to realize that the the layoffs that we're talking about today are not part of the original $124 million of
251cuts this is Plan B plan CDE e FX I mean the when people were talking about how horrible is to make these Cuts uh we totally agree with that but the reality is if we are able to negotiate agreements on certain things that we're in negotiation now which I'm not going into great detail we many of these layoffs will will be rescinded but we have to follow a timeline for the teachers we had to follow a timeline of March 15th and and in in terms of giving the initial notice and and then later on the final notice for the ca employees we have to do uh 60 days and so we are right at the line right here because you know May 1st and this is April 25th so we're the the week ahead of
252time in terms of getting the 60-day notice if our employees are not going to have a job obviously they deserve and need and are are legally entitled uh to that notice so so our our negotiating team is still ready to act but we need to follow through with the plans we have at this point we can come back on on May 11th and if we've been able to negotiate some agreements we can at that very meeting in a couple of weeks if if the negotiation goes well we can announce some of the the uh recisions of these layouts it doesn't have to take that long but you know this is not a popular position this is not not an easy thing to do I know every person here every person on the board cares very
253much about education and children in spite of you know different uh comments that have been made but we agree that these Cuts we're talking about today are not acceptable and so uh I think we need this is a point where we really need to draw a line in the sand we don't want to keep doing this over year after year after year we we need to make the cuts and we need to write size so that's my position in terms of of of uh approving uh the the the staff recommendation for issuing the notices for these particular positions okay thank you Dr rans I'd like to speak to the motion um I agree with everything Dr Evans just said um where my disagreement is is um I believe that if um I believe that we
254need to give time not a lot of time again I would hope that we could get together tomorrow we got a proposal today from CA covering all three units I would hope that we can get together tomorrow and see if we can get to an agreement but I believe it's important that we signal um to you uh that we're not going to do this by putting a gun to your head we can we have before and I'm confident that we will this time get in a room together figure this out so that we don't have to make these cuts that we just heard about tonight and that nobody in this room uh believes that the district can afford to make but we have to work together uh I would uh vote against this motion and
255come back with a counter motion that um we allow two weeks back to this May 11th meeting for negotiation to happen uh that we pull for now uh these cuts off of the table and allow negotiation to happen in a spirit where we're actually working together with shared [Applause] values um and it doesn't have to wait till May 11th either right we can we can get to an agreement uh tomorrow look what we've heard some of today in this meeting uh tells us that if we're not working together if we can't get ourselves to a point that we can listen to each other respect each other trust each other and problem solved together which has been the Hallmark of this District which is what has produced these graduation rates and these successful outcomes for kids
256if we can't get ourselves to do that we see what we deal with with people who frankly don't believe in our kids if we can't pull ourselves together as adults to find solutions to protect our kids there's a world out there that we are leaving our kids vulnerable to and we saw a little bit of that tonight I believe in everybody in this room I trust and respect the people in this room the leaders of the uh bargaining units the rank in file who work with our kids every day our district team our superintendent and our board I know many of you very well known you for a long time some of you I don't know very well but I know what we believe in in this district and I know that we're capable of
257solving these problems together so uh I would oppose this motion and I would if if this motion does not pass I would come back with a counter motion that we get to that bargaining table we figure this out we solve this problem knowing full well that we have to continue to do that going forward into into next year uh but that we collectively demonstrate that we actually practice what we preach that we care about our kids that we believe in each other and that we set an example for our kids that we can work together to solve problems and not go into our corners and let uh you know bad things happen so that's uh that's where I am right now on this uh on the motion on the table Mr U I think Dr
258Evans is absolutely right we have to balance the budget we have to be fiscally responsible so then the question is how do we get there and I I believe that this motion puts the layoffs in the front and in the hopes that then later we can negotiate and work together to find Budget solutions to bring those people back that we need in our schools and then Richard uh then uh president barrera's uh counter position is uh hold on let's wait let's first bargain in good faith see what we can do then explore and see what kinds of things we need to do to ensure we have a balanced budget so I believe that both uh Dr Evans and president Barrera both will get us to a balanced budget the question is the strategy and how
259and I I tend to favor uh discussion and communication and trying to work together first and then let's see what we need to do uh in terms of layoffs so I'm going to go ahead and uh and oppose this motion uh with the caveat that we we will uh have to sit down at the table and and talk about how do we achieve a balanced budget and save all of these uh [Applause] jobs yeah for me the having everybody in the room makes a difference having the conversation is important listening does uh does matter uh and it's the actions we take based upon what we hear and what we've experienced is what we're pursuing so we we know we've got a big problem I wasn't here when it got started but I've been here long
260enough to take responsibility and I want to make sure that we move forward that I move forward with responsibility uh with um with wisdom uh with the learning from our past experiences and what I've been learning from my past experiences is that we do when we do sit down when we have that conversation when I'm in your schools and in your Shops and and and and with you on the grounds and and I I hear you I see you I understand what you're doing I see the values of what you're doing and I know we have a quality school we have a school that is reaching outstanding Heights we have students who are graduating a rate never foren and it's higher than any other large Urban District in the state of California as well as
261lower Dropout r rates which means we're taking care of all of our kids and it's important that we continue to do that and we can do that as we realize that we're all in it together it's working together having that conversation in the same room with uh uh transparency and accountability and and with uh uh uh with uh with emotion um and as was mentioned a number of times tonight you know this is not just about the money the budget is important but I think how ever what's going to get us further down the road is if we start carrying the conversation it's about people it's education is a People to People business and it's and it's it's how we do that and how we work together to make that happen and I do see
262the elap as the pathway I do see um sitting down and and and working uh together on the elcap the way to go it troubles me that someone will go to an lcap meeting and then not see budgets or numbers and not feel like they're are talking about the especially key stakeholders that the conversation doesn't address their critical needs and doesn't answer their questions but for me uh the big question is how do we provide the services necessary to maintain compliance with the law maintain safe schools and optimal learning environments and continue to provide the highquality support services that is enabled us to achieve the record high graduation rates and the low and the lowest Dropout rates of the largest urban districts in the state can we do that with these Cuts I don't think
263so can we do that with these people in the service that they're providing I don't think so can we rearrange the way in which people are providing services and and and how services are delivered can we be more efficient and more effective I think so um but these are uh these are uh issues and questions that do require conversation and getting together we have the issue of having a balanced budget we are constrained by time and and in a certain way we have certain we have established rules and procedures and protocols that we need to follow that they're set up in order to involve bargaining units uh with the uh uh with the administration with the board in a way to determine uh terms and conditions and wages of employees which so we have to
264we have to balance the budget and and it's the question is how do we get from here to there um and it's how do we how do we work together to find a solution as was suggested by trusty Biser that places the uh the order of uh of of in in the right sequence uh that maybe we need to have the conversation before we arrive at a decision and I heard Lance say let's not make the cuts let's not make them now give us more time time and I take him at his word I take this group as its word with the with the desire to arrive at a solution that we are all agreed on that we are working together to do let's have that conversation let's make a decision but I say with
265uh president barera let's have a little more time in the very beginning uh the set of cuts that we're talking about tonight were not on the list as the way to go because we do need know that we need those we need everybody um I think the one thing that's um that has me thinking tonight is what Lance said also so it's interesting that you would say that um one of the things that I had I was thinking that was that perhaps we could have another board meeting on Friday to look at it again before the end of the month but that would not give staff enough time uh so the question then comes down to are we willing to trust Lance and others to come to the table and to work this out as
266the president said and um I'm going to trust you to do that okay that's [Applause] it okay we have a motion on the table with no further discussion please vote so a a no vote right now means that then president barer will have a counter motion a no vote now means president barer will then have a counter motion please vote [Applause] okay so my counter motion is that we allow uh between now and May 11th uh for the parties to come together uh and develop solutions that alleviate these cuts my ask of everybody in the room is let's get to work on this tomorrow and let's see if we can get this wrapped up as soon as we possibly can so my my motion is we come back uh if necessary on May 11th um
267but hopefully that's not going to be necessary hopefully what we're coming back on on May 11th is to approve uh an agreement that we've that we've reached that's my counter okay um please vote okay all right thank you okay superintendent consent [Music] agenda okay we had one item pulled from the superintendent's consent agenda and we had one speaker is that correct is uh on item I35 Robert Lon if you're still here is Mr Lon still here yes thank you um item 35 is a waste of money um I'm sorry could we just uh please quiet down a little bit and allow Mr L to speak okay I'm Robert Lon from the roou PAC uh item 35 is a waste of uh money I'm asking the uh San Diego Unified School Board of Education to Google
268search YouTube global warming British for genocide uh carbon dioxide CO2 is for 4 1,000 of 1% of our atmosphere plants take CO2 and sunlight and water to produce sugars for the plant's growth oxygen is the plant's waste product the process is called photosynthesis solar minimums created our planet's ice ages Arctic Ice is floating ice when floating ice melts the ocean water level is reduced most of the Antarctic ice is on land and the ice is increasing so once again I'm asking the Board of Education and the people in the audience and the people that that are watching this on your uh on your on your channel uh uh Channel website or Internet website or whatever it is to uh Google search um YouTube global warming British for genocide thank you for your time okay thank
269you do we have a motion on I35 so moved we have a second second all please vote point of clarification it says here the fiscal impact is none it's just an extension on the status quo contract please vote how do you spell that okay um this meeting is adjourned but I'm going to ask uh the board to and the superintendent to reconvene and close session agenda public oh I'm sorry oh I'm sorry there is yes vice president Biser reminded me thank you wow oh I'm sorry we yeah all right yeah okay y we stopped at 34 32 okay back to non-agenda public testimony Valentina Hernandez uh ktina Evans Kathy Jolly fager pelo Isabella cherik Joshua win Kristen Stone and this is non-agenda public comment that we're continuing because we didn't have enough time at the
270beginning of the meeting if you're here please come forward you have a minute each I'll keep uh calling name names anarie Haney Anna bonatti Lorraine Burley Sabrina hanlin Rob Wilbur Leticia mongia Lance Ren okay D okay Christy Williams Kyle rascon Dana Ellis who's spoken Carlos Mahia Howard guy Eric Gonzalez Mary Baker Lynette Williams Charles lamandre Christopher wrick if I called your name please come up and address US yes thank you hello good evening I'm Eric Gonzalez and I have two children in the mer Mesa cluster and I'm not coming here from the position of fear or islamophobia as most of you call it from personal experience because I've served in the united military for 22 years now I'm speaking out against the curriculum based lessons regarding the religion of Islam at one of my schools
271at one of my children's school first I was never given the opportunity to give my permission for my child to attend those lessons now is it is my understanding that all that the curriculum calls for all religions to be covered throughout the school year and in my case that is not the case if you want students to learn about Islam then make it elective not a primary course topic secondly if you truly say this not about if you say truly this is not about the religion of Islam but primarily about anti-bullying they make it about all students not just one particular demographic group because that's what's happening the buling of those of Christian faith continually our Targets on and off campus thank you finally now thank you very much everything care who you have aligned
272and partnered with supports is is everything against the United Constitution so wake up good evening Mary Baker uh representing citizens for Quality education San Diego here um with several complaints about the new discriminatory anti-bullying policies crafted for a special group of students in the district number one the biased reviewing and vetting of materials related to Muslim culture and history and media centers and classrooms as though it's missing somehow number two restorative justice approach to deal with bullying incidents like talking circles in lie of Mental Health Services apparently three the district establishing formal Partnerships with care the council and American Islamic relations which is partially funded by the terror group Hamas the series of professional development training related to awareness and advocacy for Muslim culture why single out Muslim culture and five the Islam IC religious
273practices and accommodations in schools if the district is making these accommodations then shouldn't they provide accommodations for kids of all religions in the times of San Diego they report this 33% are anti-semitic incidents reported in the San Diego County in 2016 compared to the year prior thank you I'm going to finish with this quote the ADL noted a spike in the incidents since November and a doubling in the amount of bullying a vandalism at non-denominational K through 12 grade schools you have a larger issue and what are you doing for them thank you thank you good good evening my name is Alice Kaiser and I came to ass's board to immediately reverse your policy of compliance with Sharia law Sharia law is not a religion it is a theory by desperate cruel men against women
274we cannot support that type of action in our schools in our cities or in our nation you have given your alliance to people that are against our own Constitution it is wrong Sharia law is Despicable and not acceptable in this country you women especially should know that women's rights are very very important to all of us when you voted for this policy it was terribly wrong and you should reverse it immediately you are working against our American Constitution and that is wrong you've given your loyalty to the enemy care is an arm of terrorists thank you and you should reconsider this policy and give the students the right to freedom of speech if a student sees that it's wrong thank you then they should have the right and not be punished under the the guys
275of bullying Sharia law has nothing to do buing to include your comments thank [Applause] you my uh I've had to chop my uh Speech up pretty well to fit your guys' one minute time constraints my name is Christopher wrick I'm a resident of San Diego I'm a taxpayer a father and a husband and a very very proud American over the years I've had many titles one of them I will not accept is Infidel there's been an argument over the years to keep religious beliefs out of school especially any that happen to be associated with Judaism or Christianity so at what point did you decide that it was okay to teach my children about Islam if you're going to take a stance on any religion in school then that stance needs to be firm against all
276religions your protective class reports from July 1st 2016 to December 31st 2016 accounted for 11 or states that there were seven incidences regarding religion number four on the list accounting for 11% of those reports if you further separate these in incidences down into religious sects then those numbers fall drastically so how does your board justify spending our tax dollars on a program that is meant to educate our kids on the Muslim religion specifically yet only accounts for a very very small portion of the harassment reported have you oh pardon me it's the first time I've ever been up no it's okay so I've seen your reports and it amazes me that you've allowed car to come into our Public School schools and begin to implement pro-islam curriculum what's next teaching them about the Five Pillars
277or the conversion prayer okay thank you very much oh dude I'm going to go you're going to have to drag me out of here is that what you consider educating how does your organization like care with ties to terrorists like Hamas have an ear of this board sir we've got to ask you whatever how does you actually allowing them to implement its propaganda and hate speech into our schools in an effort to brainwash the minds of the young the Muslim and its followers have gracefully hidden their prop political agenda un under the veil of religion yeah I get it you guys you know what you guys are hypocrites and you guys should protect your children okay [Applause] you're okay uh Gustav GES Deee ramela Victoria Hargrave Tammy Coleman Susan Bush Elaine cetti Lydia Grant uh
278Celesta RI Colleen cuac Margarita corado hialgo Sabrina hanlin Ali lebam okay go ahead Sabrina sorry you want to take him in order because I'm pretty go ahead okay so um I'm back about my passion and my passion is my members and these are for the board um so talking about my noon duties again you know I can't let them go um so I found in your I I've been reading board policy and I found in your policy that you actually do have an allocation formula for noon duties per size of schools um the smallest being a025 the schools have only been given a02 all the schools no matter what size they are so I just briefly today looked at Zano I went from A to Z Zano has 1194 kids they have a breakfast program
279which includes in your policies that they should get an additional hour if they're running a breakfast program Zano qualifies for Point well for 7 hours a day of of noon Duty according to your policy so I looked at Adams they're a smaller school but they still qualify for 3.75 okay thanks thank you good evening my name is Lydia Grant I live in San Diego County and I'm very concerned about this sh uh implementing the Islamic Sharia law compliant policies Sharia law has no regard for women Sharia law treats women like dogs Sharia law believes in mutilating women's female genitals Sharia law is not something that should be mandatorily taught to our children I just I I this country needs excuse me this country needs to be united we have been divided so much and this
280is dividing us even more honest to God God has been taken out of our school schools a lot of schools don't even say the Pledge anymore our allegiance to our country and I don't want to see Islam coming into our schools okay thank you thank you thank you and I appreciate the way you listen to all the speakers and not look at your computers and really pay attention to us the people that put you in these positions thank you thank you hello my name is Tammy Coleman and I am here as a representative of the citizens for Quality education I am asking you to reconsider the policy that you have taken in regards to your new bullying policy students may be taught about religion in its historical content context Public Schools may not teach religion
281and its tenants we we care about all students in in this new anti-bullying policy specifically crafted to protect Muslim Students it discriminates and may adversely affect the student body we urgently recommend that the San Diego Unified School District retract all aspects of this new policy the five complaints about this new policy are the biased reviewing and vetting of the material related to the Muslim Muslim culture and the his the history in the media centers and the classrooms associated with this new policy the restorative justice approach the discipline disciplinary students which only serves to name and shame the individuals thank you very much thank you we won't tolerate it Alice Kaiser Mia Briar Abdi Ali I'm sorry Robert Lon John steel Lucia Nunes namang horn James [Music] Horn Bob cowl go ahead Mr L um this
282this school board uh took educational funds and gave it to the Council of American Islamic relations to pay for the imams that that are going to teach sixth graders that you know about um Islam uh two two of the major uh doctrines of Islam is that Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth was not crucified that that's Surah 4 157 and another Tenant of Islam is that uh America is is the great Satan and uh and Israel is is the little Satan and and this is not this is not something that that you want to talk teach sixth graders I am also opposed to uh to uh rabbis teaching the doctrines of uh Judaism to sixth graders and uh and and you need to you need to make Cuts in the budget and and I I
283would suggest that you stop giving educational funds to the Council of American Islamic relations thank Youk [Applause] you hi my name is nam Yong hor I am an American citizen I always emphasize the importance and value of responsible quality education including Freedom equality for all educating children should be your focus not political or cultural induct indoctrination you have a responsibility to do what is the best for the children not to push an i ideology that allows one group to bully others immigrants from many countries I have to shorten this so sorry they come here strive to assimilate to participate with the mainstream America from the minute they arrive in America they do not try to impose their cultures and their native laws and ideology on Americans Islam teaches that American laws are meaningless this is
284wrong thank you Thank You by partnering with care you have taken side against those you are responsible to protect please conclude thank you very much this is beyond the shameful and please please think over thank you my name is Bob kowell I'm from maretta California um first of all Mr rice rice B uh beer I've been to uh Israel as well walls do work that little town you went to must be an anomaly because I've been to Hebron where shots were fired I've been all over the place there those walls work before the wall there were people killed by bus bombings we bought bus 19 to Tula it was blowing up with innocent people in it afterwards there were no bus bombings now they just use swords and and caterpillars and and uh and and
285cars but you're aligned with care care is a terrorist organization if you're aligned with care and something happens we're gonna hold you personally responsible and you're going to go to jail for this I am James Horn I am a retired Foreign Service Officer during the 25 years I served overseas I worked in intelligence Counter Intelligence counterterrorism and National Security I spent 10 years working in Sharia compliant Islamic countries where I have personally witnessed some of the most egregious human rights violations against women and non-muslims I have also experienced Islamic hatred directed at me and my colleagues I know and I understand Islam very very well I also know and I want to tell you that the Council on American Islamic relations has been identified by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a criminal Enterprise do
286you understand that you have partnered partnership with a Criminal Enterprise with evil shame on [Applause] you okay Lori Smith uh Mohamad Magan fadumo sop Lynn Booth Mary Simpson Kent Cassidy Stephanie Savala lemoy Melena ruval cabba Donna vaugh Carrie Mundy please go ahead hello board I'm Lynn Booth I grew up in San Diego I've attended the K through 12 school schools and now I have three grandchildren about ready to enter and I'm very upset about hearing this proposed program for the Islamic instruction we've been hearing all evening about cuts that we're encountering and I'm asking you to cut this program before it even starts it's going to require a lot of time on the part of teachers a lot of teacher training a lot of expense toward materials it's a diversion of resources and it's unnecessary
287because you already have policies regarding bullying anti-bullying we don't need it and it's going to open the district to lawsuits do you know that the national focus is going to be here in San Diego it's already starting there's going to be a spotlight on you and there are going to be groups coming here and getting um involved in this whole situation so I suggest that we quietly remove ourselves from this proposal it's I've looked on the website of the ACLU and they're they have many things that say that this is ripe for a lawsuit we've listened to them for a long time let me just finish a couple of quotes from them they say a public school curriculum the inclusion of a religious program violates The Establishment Clause you know the establishment cost okay thank
288you very much and this is taking too big a risk for our school district we can't afford a lawsuit thank you thank you hi my name is Mary Simpson and I'm a parent at Horizon Christian Academy and I thank you board for staying this long and listening to everyone's concerns although I'm passionate about a lot of things that have been spoken here um my main concern right now is due to your budget crisis you chose to sell our elementary campus to a Housing Development which put a bunch of houses where our school is so we had to transfer over all of our teachers and students from our elementary campus to our high school campus our high school principal is a former Crawford graduate we have a wonderful set of teachers and staff and family and
289children and we are all being displaced because you've also chosen to sell our other Camp our high school campus which holds our preschool through 12th grade to help your budget crisis we now have no home and I'm appealing to you Dr Evans because I believe you oversee our district we have information that you are on the bridge brink of closing some local Claremont schools and we are asking for to work with us to possibly make available a campus for us to lease or purchase we are all going to be displaced as of June teachers are going to lose their jobs students are so upset families are so upset and we have a thriving school okay thank you thank you thank [Applause] you hi my name is Stephanie zal maroy and I go to Pacific Beach
290Middle School 5 years ago I stood here asking the board of education at that time to not cut music in my elementary school and they listened and they made the right choice and because of that music was a part of my life and I have to say now the pink slips are not part of are not part of the solution to this budget cut problem for you the pink slips might seem like the answer but for us children it's not one of my teachers who got a pink slip is Mr John O'Donnell who single hand manages both band and Orchestra in my school beginners intermediate and advanced he takes pride in his work and I love his class there are so many teachers like him across the district making a difference in your children's lives
291the pink slips are not the answer to the budget cut problem I am here standing past way way past my bedtime to tell you about the teachers that we will be losing if you go through the pink slips since when did Money become more important than education I think that if we work together we can find a solution to this problem I don't want to lose my school music program thank you for your time thank you great [Applause] job good evening board trustees and superintendent Martin my name is Magdalena Raba and I'm the principal at cubberly elementary for the last two years cubberly has surpassed the district's projected enrollment 2 years ago our actual enrollment was 10% higher than District projections last year our enrollment was 14% higher I can assure you that we will
292once again exceed the district projection for this September by at least 15% this will put us at well over 200 students as a result of our actual enrollment being higher than our projected enrollment the last two years we have been faced with reorganizing classrooms and adding an additional teacher and classroom in October we project needing two additional classrooms this coming September I would also like to share our progress on esac in ela and math we have increased 10% uh from from 1415 to 1516 we have students that are thriving happy and engaged and in just the last year our community has received multiple grants thank you thank you thank [Applause] you good evening thank you guys for staying and listening to us my name is Nikki Wright and I am a proud parent of two
293students at cly Elementary and also the PTA president for 2 years we at cubberly are very passionate about the welfare of our children I here today to tell you about a win-win situation for both the children of cubberly and the children of cavod on April 4th District staff presented several preliminary offers to cavod the first offer was to stay at cly with no additional classrooms the second was to split their campus between culy and Lindberg SCH whiter and the third offer a very generous one was to offer an entire building on the campus of Kimbro Elementary which did not not only had the classrooms kavod had requested but an additional classroom as well kode addressed one of those Alternatives here at the board meeting two weeks ago the combined cubberly Lindberg offer kavod stated they
294did not want their school split up what kavod did not mention was the third preliminary offer received an offer which gave them more than enough classrooms to house cod's entire enrollment the School site Kimbro Elementary is a relatively new School site and is only 7 miles from cly thank you thank you for your time thank you hi thanks for staying so late my name is Carrie Mundy and I'm a parent of two students at cly Elementary it is extremely concerning to me that we are in this current position as a parent I want exactly what kly is providing my child they provide the basics such as math reading and writing but they also provide art core Project Lead the Way in a state ofth art I can studio and gate curriculum during instructional time all
295which are essential to a well-rounded educational experience these programs are driving the success of coverly but it seems to me like the board is okay with killing this incredible Pro progress you are considering removing two classrooms that are essential to our continued growth of cly rooms used for education of our children during instructional hours you will be restricting the growth of our school and dismissing the hard work of the dedicated staff which will result in forcing our kids out of our neighborhood school I say this because facilities is act has looked at the actual numbers and resources it has provided three legal options to devote Carter charter school that will not hamper the growth of cly that is two more than most School schools get so again it will be you that drives my family
296out of its neighborhood school thank you have a good night thank [Applause] you good evening my name is Andrea Kennedy and I'm a fourth and fifth grade teacher at cber elementary I'm the Lead Teacher of Project Lead the Way a Hands-On Science Program based on ngss standards schoolwide we have embraced design thinking and in order to construct prototypes we need alternative spaces we have modeled the Ian Studio after places like the highly acclaimed thinkabit Lab at qualcom where our students have access to it each and every day cly's I can studio is where Innovation happens projectly the way is new to elementary schools but it is not new to San Diego unified in fact our students are now in a cluster pathway from elementary school to high school where they will grow up with Project
297Lead the Way giving them College and Career Readiness in such Fields as biomedical engineering and digital media we want our students to have every opportunity to become critical thinkers and our Ian Studio provides the Equitable and accessible opportunity for each and every one of our student students this is not an empty room that can be used by our after school's robotics all of our classes visit the lab daily our students are performing Hands-On experiments this room is important to all of us at cubberly thank [Applause] [Music] you my name is Vanessa Lon and I'm a fourth grader at cerly elementary today I'm here to talk about why the I can studio is important to me the students next year and hopefully many years to come one reason why the I can studio is important to
298me is because it taught my class and I how to work in teams teamwork is important in life because you learn how to communicate with others and understand each each other while in the I can studio my class teamed up in groups and built a robot it took a lot of communication but it was really fun while communicating I learned how my classmates think differently than me and taught me more one of the things my classmates helped me with was make correcting my mistakes when I made them students next year and in the future can benefit from the I can studio and Project Lead the Way by learning new things and communication skills as well they can also expand their knowledge on many things that are beneficial I'm so thankful that the I can studio
299is available during the school day cuz I'd never be able to visit if it was just used for after school robotics this room is not just a room it is a place where Innovation creativity and design happen each and every day day thank you thank you good [Applause] job good evening my name is Susan inglehart and my daughter attends coverly as a parent I am continuously asking myself is my child developing the skills necessary for the career opportunities of the future the coverly I can studio is a critical part of the influential curriculum that teaches our students to become creative problem solvers critical thinkers and aligned with the stem education initiative the icon Studio allows cly to Lead the Way by providing a Hands-On learning lab that produces students who will be inspired to pursue
300engineering science and design educational pass I know a very few San Diego unified elementary schools that are incorporating Innovation and design opportunities at the elementary school level this is a primary reason why I decided to send my daughter to our neighborhood school I watch kavod presum presumptuously indicate that our icon Studio could be used after school which is not the case at all our teachers use this Ian Studio daily as it's built in every teacher's curriculum I believe we need to be Forward Thinking in our approach to education the I can studio can accomplish that thank you thank you [Applause] you my name is Lisa Taylor I here tonight to speak to you about our wonderful neighborhood school and it's amazing artcore program cly students have been fortunate to have the artcore program on our
301neighborhood campus for the past 11 years as a comprehensive developmental curriculum which teaches art Fundamentals by bringing process-oriented Hands-On art experiences to the campus it is taught during instructional hours to each and every cly student as part of their Core Curriculum these lessons also meet the California state guidelines and all five Visual Arts content standards the students are so excited when it's time for their artcore lesson art is a place where no mistakes are made it gives them a chance to develop individual individuality and self-esteem at the end of the year open house we have a schoolwide art show each and every student has a piece of artwork displayed you should see the pride on the kids faces when they show the family their masterpiece this program makes up a majority of the cubberly pta's
302budget one of the requirements from the arcore program is having a dedicated classroom for the lessons and supplies there's a pre-lesson setup and after lesson cleanup that would thank you thank you very much thank [Applause] you my name is an mcconville and I'm a teacher at cly Elementary School I'm here to respond to cavod Charter's suggestion at the April 4th meeting that the prime time office be repurposed as a Teachers Lounge at coverly elementary the staff parents and students have been committed to supporting San Diego unified's Vision 2020 of quality schools in every neighborhood we've collaborated with our community to build a strong bond our Prime Time program is one of our strengths and has supported this endeavor to have our facility meet the needs of our neighborhood The Prime Time extended day program provides
30360% of our coverly students with a physically and emotionally safe environment this program has been impacted by the presence of cavod sharing our campus miss amers our parents and students deserve to have an area worthy of quality education that goes beyond their daily classroom it is also important that she has a place for confidential meetings with parents and a secure place to lock up iPads when they're not being utilized I Ur you to think about the impact of this program our families our community to and I cavod our classrooms they've been given viable options thank [Applause] you my name is Richard Martinez I am the parent of a kindergartener at culy elementary recently you were approached by the charter school who shares the physical site with cly to expand by annexing some of cly's facilities
304they cite their growth and expansion and I'm all for educational opportunities however coverly is growing as well in fact data from the US Census Bureau shows that more kids are coming into our area coverly draws most of its students from census track 9306 20 2011 estimates show approximately 271 kids age 5 to9 are in this area in 2015 this demographic increased to 291 not all these kids attend cly as they out for one of the two parochial schools in our immediate area but as you can see this is changing as they see the gains that our school have made in fact the district's own data shows that c is drawing more and more from the local area additionally this is an older neighborhood with a shifting demographic as many of longtime residents passed on the
305median age shifted down from 34.1 years down to to 32.3 years moving into more than the 2500 housing units in our area including housing family residences and apartments kly will need room to grow I just want to thank you thank [Applause] you my name is Olga coio and I'm a teacher at cly Elementary on the board meeting on April 4th 2017 cavote spoke to the board about extra classrooms at cubberly that were unused for a classroom instruction they claimed that that one of the classrooms is currently used as a staff lounge and could be given up for cavod to have an extra classroom cly has already been impacted by cod's growth and cly is currently growing in attendance according to sdea contract 11.3.1 the district shall provide a safe and sanitary condition currently operational lunchrooms
306restrooms Laboratories and Lounge facilities which are not used by students at least one room shall be for use as a staff Lounge in 2015 kavod was given a classroom that coverly used as a designated staff Lounge the staff Lounge was Rel relocated to a room that is currently used as a book room so the designated room currently called the staff Lounge only occupies 25% of the room thank you very much thank you I'm Amy reading as chair of the Kerney neighborhood of schools I could not be prouder of cubberly for its amazing growth and the hard work that went into it the coverly community has grown its enrollment beyond all expectations because of its strong PTA its parents its hardworking principal and its devoted teachers they are building what you have asked a quality neighborhood
307School worthy of our children the the very least you the school board can do to honor their commitment and success is to do everything in your power to facilitate the continued growth this means giving culy the ability to expand its programs in its space I would also stress that the district and board have made co uh cavod a fair and legal offer they have been given choices which is more than cly has been afforded kavod was offered three options including a site that would be able to host all their students their administrators have made a choice to divide their families not you finally in light of the $124 million budget crisis every time you lose a student because of this collocation you lose more than $7,000 and that's a bad financial decision thanks Amy thank
308you coverly folks uh an non Imus Michelle Huffman Brittney mcnight Wayne simnet Paul quilkey I gon Chong Eleanor sailor uh and Grace desert hi I'm gon CH thanks for not forgetting about me I'm a parent at La Hoya High School we're against the decision to eliminate half of the district's Elementary school music programs for the coming year we ask everyone in the room well everyone who's left to write to Governor Brown and your State Rep and urge them to increase funding for Education California is one of the lowest ranked states in the nation in per pupil funding okay so back to San Diego unified since the seniority of the average Elementary School music teacher in this district is higher than the average seniority for the secondary music teacher you're going to see displaced elementary teachers
309forced into high school and middle School positions some of these teachers have only been teaching say one instrument on a wheel program for decades and now they'll have to teach diverse things like marching band Orchestra jazz band and choir some of these teachers won't be able to manage these new responsibilities why would someone who's been teaching flute for 20 years know best practices for high school jazz band it's just a recipe for failure thank [Applause] you I'm Elanor sailor a student at La Hoya high school and I'm also talking about music uh the district has many PE marching band programs which require music teachers to also have a PE credential uh many of these teachers are being laid off with no available Replacements with the same credentials and without a teacher with the right certification
310the class will disappear and how about Equity how do you decide which elementary schools lose their music programs with all but two high schools in the entire District losing at least one music teacher to layoffs it seems logical to eliminate Elementary music in the Clusters that are most negative ly affected and then the Clusters who get lucky and have teachers with higher seniority would likely be spared the loss of their Elementary programs but the others are out of luck this does not align with the district's Vision 2020 cutting vapa programs at some schools will cause many local students to attend other schools how is this Equitable coming from a school where it took two decades to recover after losing its music program I think that it's highly unlikely all of this negativity will be reversed
311by 2020 recently funds in the budget have increased for textbooks and for displaced principles we humbly ask you to look there instead of of cutting Arts keep the music alive thank [Music] [Applause] you uh hello everybody I know it's late and I um I'm glad you uh called me here um yeah um first I have a novel um solution us your name pleas balanced B budget um my name is Anan and mus thank you okay and and um it would be to um top down I just got this idea and ask everybody all the teachers all the administrators starting with the superintendent all of you all administrators you know would you be like send out a flyer and say who's in favor of saying oh we're going to sacrifice 1% of my paycheck to save
312all their jobs and services and pro and that would how how far would that uh go I sort of like maybe kick that around I know it's kind of Novel um anyway um yeah uh all the people that stood up here I just want to repeat um basically the Islamic um you know intimidation uh they're not the ones really intimidated um I think that we uh maybe possibly some of you might be intimidated and please don't let that um happen um okay thank you yes well basically that's it okay thank you very much thank you um so I um signed up online and I haven't heard my name called yet and I've been waiting here for the entire night um may I uh um go ahead present to the board yes please uh good evening
313my name is Joshua NN and I have recently participated in the Middle School honors Orchestra this year it was at the same concert that Mr John O'Donnell was commended for his strong commitment to teaching music great discipline practice and determination he inspires students to continue their musical interest by providing students with numerous opportunities to learn and provide a love for music for these reasons he was awarded the David Paul shukman Memorial award for M for music teacher of the year it was also at this very concert that the superintendent and Board of Trustees expressed their commitment to making sure that music and art is alive and well within our district because they are the key to unlocking the genius in our students in a robust balanc beautiful broad and challenging curriculum furthermore it was stated
314that the board unan unanimously voted to pass a strategic art plan with the vision to create and support the best music program in the nation board trustees continue to say that even in these challenging times they will still work to achieve the vision it was further said that schools need to be more than just math and English it has to be about the Arts something to channel AR artistic energy to produce a well-rounded education for all students that night my parents and I were proud were so proud to be part of a district that truly supports my love for music and understands how music helps me achieve my academic potential I'm not only feel supported by my teacher Mr odonnell but by my superintendent and my and my Board of Trustees unfortunately my pride quickly
315turned to confusion if the superintendent and the Board of Trustees are truly committed to the Arts and is working hard to keep music and art alive not just in their hearts but in their actions and the decisions they make every day as it was clearly stated the night of the concert then I do not understand why Mr OD Donald and many other music teachers in the district received a pink slip is that part of the Strategic art plan that was passed in the fall is that helping to ensure that music is music and art is Alive and Well in our schools to create a well-rounded education is that part of the district's plan beyond all the politics and all the other issues to ensure that our music program will continue how is music and art
316preserved in our schools if the district is laying off the most valuable and influential resources that students like me have our music teachers they are vital to our music program Mr odonnell is a vital part to our music program at Pacific Beach Middle School as he brings cultural diversity and awareness into our study of music how can students keep the beat going without the heart of our program please keep art music and art alive not just in your hearts but in your action and decision please resend the pink slips given to Mr odonnell and all of our music teachers great job thank okay I'll ask the board to convene to close close session in the superintendent