SMUHSD Board Meeting - June 6, 2024

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003justice for all okay um I will now report out on actions taken in close session the board received considered and denied an appeal with regard to a complaint filed by by an employee with a vote of 5 to Zer upon the motion of trusty Chavez seconded by trusty Jacobson the board moved to approve special education settlement case one with vote four to one the votes were as follows Tristy Griffin yes Tristy Chavis yes trusty Jacobson yes trusty land no and I voted yes upon the motion of trusty Chavis seconded by truste Jacobson the board moved to unanimously approve special education settlement case two with a vote of five to zero upon the motion of trusty Chavis second by trusty Jacobson the board moved to approve special education settlement case 4 with a vote of 4

004to one the votes were as follows trusty Griffin yes trusty Chavez yes trusty Jacobson yes trusty land yes and I voted no at the May 23rd boy meeting upon the motion of trusty Griffin seconded by trusty Jacobson the board approved the denial of eight interdistrict transfers 25-7 2425 d63 25-11 one excuse me 115 24-25 hyph 85 24 25-19 sorry I read those differently d97 24 25-9 24 25-61 and I approved two interdistrict transfers 24 25-44 and 2425 d 13 with a vote of four to zero the votes excuse me 4 to one thank you um four to one uh the votes were as follows trusty Griffin yes trusty Chavez no trusty Jacobson yes trusty land yes and I voted yes adopt okay going on to adopting the agenda the Board of Trustees May either adopt

005the agenda as presented or make a change to the agenda through a motion second and majority vote the brown act prohibits any additions to the agenda without a 72-hour public notice for regularly scheduled board meetings are there any questions or comments from the Board of Trustees or the superintendent with respect to the agenda okay since there are no responses any questions or comments from the public there are none thank you and from Zoom none okay no um all right um I would like to entertain a motion so moved great we have a motion by trusty Griffin second by trusty Chavez all in favor I I and there are no oppositions and no extensions the motion carries thank you going on to public comments if you are joining us in person and wish to make a

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007for public comment depending upon the topic and number of persons wishing to be heard I will call on in-person comment requests first there are none thank you um are there any on Zoom there are none thank you okay we will go on to governing board comments do any of the Board of Trustees have any comments before we move on with our agenda yes I will try to be chis about this I did attend the um the graduation of um African-American students here in SEL County that was the Wednesday before um actually was a ceremony awarding kenty stalles and I actually got to put the Stalls on the graduates and the majority of them were from um our district and actually they had a uh an African dance performed by a uh graduate from Eric on

008who had actually graduated from college and uh it was a really good performance um and then I also did s and Tal's graduation along with the superintendent and we sat out there in the Sun and really enjoyed it's it's quite a energetic uh graduation ceremony so I really had a time of my life and I relive my youth because I took the superintendent around and told them where everything used to be and you know that was that was that included the home e building which nobody even knew we had one uh the pit which has been you know is only in my memory in a couple other buildings so but it was a it's great day highlight for me so excellent thank you for sharing that trusty Travis yeah congratulations are so exciting so that's

009uh basically what I want to share about I know at the last board meeting I had already mentioned about the capuccino Latino graduation that I was honored to uh be part of and that was and brought my sash I forget uh trusty Andre Zuna the sash that I brought last time there's a particular name for it um oh the um the Latino it's made out of a SAT yeah right and that was on May 22nd that was really remarkable um and then a few of us attended the bridge graduation dinner and that was really special superintendent Brooker was there trusty Jacobson trusty and ziga and we had just a great time of celebrating the students with their families and I felt like that was really that's always really special time this is the second um

010year in a row that I attended that and that was really special um trusty Jacobson and I know um we also went to uh the Peace p the peace Pantry celebration dinner uh and that was celebrating all the volunteers um at Hillsdale that participate year round in the peace Pantry um and we had a great dinner outdoors and it was great weather and I wanted to mention that a lot of volunteers were recognized with certificates including trusty Jacobson because a lot of families and volunteers um volunteer every Friday and they they actually food part of it's um grown right there at the school site herbs and uh I don't know you can speak up to what else is grown there because you know more about that than I do but they also have food from

011the is it the first harvest Second Harvest Food Bank they drop off food so it's really great that our community actually delivers food um to those in need that can't travel um and then the Aragon graduation that was really amazing that was on May 30th and I had the opportunity to speak at that graduation and I was asked if I wanted to um distribute hand out the the graduation certificates to each and every student and I want to apologize to all those families because I did not know I was going to be in 440 individual photos with the students and my face was really red because it was hotter than normal so I was actually in 440 photos so I want to apologize up front 444 graduates that was a long graduation but it was

012it was amazing um and then the very next day was the capuccino graduation and I was not in 444 photos so I liked that that was pretty but it was amazing because I was honored to actually speak at that graduation as well and it was extra all graduations are special this graduation had my daughter as one of the graduates um and that was very unique that I was able to hand my daughter this the um principal Gomez says here you you give it to your daughter so because you they call the name and I um so whether my daughter really appreciated that or not I'm not sure but I gave her you know I gave her the diploma and how often is it that a parent can can give their own child the high school

013diploma so that was very special to me once an elect time opportunity and so I hope some people took some pictures of that um and then we had the staff um staff had professional learning this week two days at Skyline beautiful um room if those those of you who haven't been there the verlon room at Skyline College is amazing it overlooks the Pacifica ocean right there um and a lot of times it's fogged in so today uh it's not fogged in today and it was not fogged in Tuesday and Wednesday when they had the staff um at the staff site the staff official learning there and I was able to attend the morning session um on Tuesday I know that trusty uh Jacobson was there so I'll let you speak to that as well so

014that's my just to recap the most this is one of my favorite times of the year there's several favorite times of the year that I have but the graduations seeing the students um graduate it it's really exciting um because it takes four years or more but basically in school for how long like 12 you know 12th graders going going we're always life lifelong learners but so much effort and I just want to lift up all the staff because at every graduation a lot of Staff members helping parents volun parent volunteers but I want to lift up the staff we have a lot of amazing staff members that are there are involved whether they're behind the scenes or right there on the stage helping the students and everything behind the scenes so thank you to all

015the staff members involved with all the graduations thank you great Tristy then I'm short I'll make M really brief um yeah I have a nice suntan thanks to being at bhs's graduation it was really nice um I do want to say that um I really enjoyed the the Dr Fong being the new principal what it looks like I'd been at bhs's before I think she did a great job um we're a good team team Lov loved handing out the the um diplomas to all the students uh I did enjoy I I think I did a pretty good job my speech was about AI um and talked about uh you know just things that we had talked about at the the one of the one of the board meetings that we were at and really talked

016about kind of the balance that really needs to happen and uh joked around that I I'm a procrastinator and would love to use chat GPT a lot just to get out of work but jokingly with the you know and I think the students got a got a kick out of it so anyway it was really nice um I'll leave it brief that that that's the big thing that I did uh it's crazy time I love this time of year too but I also am overwhelmed and working and you know it's the Thousand Days of May and then June and it's like oh I just can't I just need to get to the Finish Line all right that's it for me thank you Jesse Jacobs okay um I will just briefly Echo a couple things that

017trusty Chavez and I were both at the bridge dinner um and celebration for the bridge graduates was wonderful I got to meet a lot of the students and families and staff and I got to hold one of the students babies which was so fun um and the peace Pantry volunteer appreciation was wonderful and I'm so something that I learned there that I think is really cool is um Mr Boyce talked about how a lot of times or maybe it was Brent Brett Stevenson I'm not sure I can't remember which one but um when he's talking to students who um I don't know what the correct word is but got in trouble and need to be to need to meet with the dean or whatever um he'll take him out to the peace Pantry garden and

018have them work in in the garden um while they talk and it's it's just healing and and restorative to even just dig your hands in the Earth um in that situation and also building those skills that it's it's a form of capital that they can then take back to um their peers of just knowing how to to Garden um so I thought that was cool the graduations I attended and spoke at were Hillsdale which like trusty Chavez I got to be at my own daughter's graduation and that was just wonderful and I'm very very grateful for that opportunity um it was a it was a wonderful celebration and also Mills High School both of them I'm just just so grateful that we could have traditional inperson um ceremonies again and one of the highlights of

019the Mills graduation was Jeremy and Justin Garcia who were twins that performed competed on The Voice they sang and it was just wonderful I'm a big fan and I got to shake their hands and so I'm like fangirling over here so um then yes I attended both days of the professional learning Workshop um a Tuesday and Wednesday of this week on the new instructional framework I learned a lot and um one of the things that I thought was really nice about the workshop is the it it was done mostly by our own staff which was great and they used a lot of the teaching methods and practices um for us to actually experience and try out there was a lot of movement there was a lot of um discussion among you know Pairs and small

020groups there was a lot of uh time for personal reflection there was student Choice um I really enjoyed meeting a lot of the staff and teachers and and just feeling very grateful and impressed with um our staff and so I'm grateful that I could attend that that's all thank you um I have some comments I want to start with the land acknowledgement um that the students from cappuccino wrote A couple of years ago um our community acknowledges that all of our campuses lie on the ancestral homeland of the rush aloney the raus are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula whose land was stolen from them and whose native language was lost because of Spanish colonization as settlers on the stolen land of the peninsula we should be alongside the Ros remembering and honoring

021their ancestors and relatives we thank the first people the raes alone for taking care of the land we use now for education and activities our responsibility of caring for the Earth is unique and personal to each of us but should be rooted in allyship with the Rome to Shalon so we can work together to protect and preserve the land for future Generations um when reading that um land acknowledgement I think about a lot of the construction that's been happening in our school district and I think about a lot of the folks that were here before we were um there are still artifacts that sometimes are dug up and things like that so I really hope that we are um being mindful of how we um how we just recognize people that were here before we

022were um so I want to say happy pride month yay um we had the raising of the flag recently and um the one today they they Rose the flag in Half Moon Bay and it just made me think about different communities that um have not been able to do that and how important it is in terms of representation so I'm really proud that our district doesn't does everything they can to well we do everything we can to um acknowledge different uh communities I also want to say congratulations to all the graduates um but most of all everybody that is has their hands in helping people helping all of our wonderful kids graduate um it's not easy but it's definitely a village uh a village um uh um I can't think of what I'm going to

023say it's a um village effort um to be able to get our students to that point so congratulations to all the students and their families and all of the supporters I was able to attend the bridge and Peninsula um graduations um which was really nice I um I always and and also the um the bridge dinner um it's really special because just knowing um like from lived experience with my own family of folks that have come from um Guatemala um coming to this country to get their education it has been something that um is really special and really important but sometimes coming here is not easy and so remembering the struggles of all of the students that are here um and what it definitely takes not only getting here but in their everyday lives um

024everything they have to experience each and every day um with situations that are not always in the quote unquote traditional um path is very is is just remarkable so um keeping that in mind um and I want to say thank you to all of the staff as well that gets the students at this point again it's a community effort so thank you um there on there's a student that graduated um from peninsula in 2020 and they um now have um received their AA from one of the community colleges and are now given the opportunity to go to three different very um prestigious universities so it's not always the path that you think you're going to take right it's the actual path that you are on that's important and so I think that in this District

025we definitely prepare our students for um for greatness and so regardless of what path we're on um we can definitely get there so thank you um for for that example because sometimes we think that going that it's a failure you know not going straight to a four-year University but it's not the case so thank you um I also wanted to comment on the PD day unfortunately I was not able to attemp but I've heard through the grap line some really great um comments about it um so I want to congratulate our staff for creating great opportunities for the rest of our staff and um and the the commitment that we have in this district for uh progress um I also want to thank I want always want to recognize our staff that helps us with

026these meetings so our it folks and the folks that keep this building clean and organized and ready to go for us thank you um lastly I wanted to talk about um voting uh we have a very important election coming up not only um federally but within our local elections um I serve on the North Peninsula chapter of the ACLU and we are working on some voter registration and voter Outreach for our students um so I really hope that um we can encourage our young people to do their civic duty and vote um along with our adults in our district so please it's a very very important election especially with some of the things that have been transpiring lately with some of our rights that are being uh rolled back it's very concerning so um please

027encourage people to vote um and I think those are my only moments let me get to the rest of my agenda here oh there's one last thing I just wanted to mention um just keeping in our hearts um all of our young people all over the world that are suffering right now with a lot of violence and a lot of um just a lot of suppression of their of their futures um so please just be mindful of um of our youth around the world okay um we will go on to recognition um we will start with our juneth Proclamation superintendent Booker thank you very much uh this evening C Union High School District is recognizing June 19th 2024 as juneth through um a drafted Proclamation which I'll I'll I'll read tonight uh whereas after the

028Union Army captured New Orleans in 1862 slave owners in Confederate states migrated to Texas with more than 150,000 enslaved black persons for three years even after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation enslaved black Americans in Texas remained in brutal bondage immorally and illegally der deprived of their freedom and basic dignity and whereas on June 19th 1865 over two years after President Lincoln declared all enslaved persons free Union Army troops marched to Galveston Texas to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation and free the last enslaved black Americans in Texas and whereas those who were freed from bondage celebrated their long overdue emancipation on June 19th today our nation commemorates juneth a chance to celebrate human Freedom reflect on the Grievous and ongoing Legacy of slavery and rededicate ourselves to rooting out the systemic racism that continues to

029plague our society as we strive to deliver the full promise of America to every American and whereas the post emancipation period known as Reconstruction from 1865 to 1877 marked an era of great hope uncertainty and struggle for the nation as a whole forly enslaved people immediately sought to reunite families establish schools run for political office push radical legislation and Sue slaveholders for compensation and whereas the joyous commemorations that began in Texas spread around the nation with cities and communities in California joining in celebration of this milestone in the ongoing American journey toward freedom for all and whereas since 2003 the state of California has celebrated juneth as a day to honor and reflect on the significant contributions of black Americans to our nation and whereas opal Lee the 94-year-old activist known as the grandmother of

030juneth pushed for years for June 19 to become a national holiday which included walking 1,400 miles from Fort Worth Texas to Washington DC at 90 years old in 2016 to bring awareness of America's other Independence Day and whereas President Joe Biden signed a bill in 2021 making June 19 a Federal holiday and whereas we are often reminded that the poisonous ideology of racism has not yet been defeated juneth is a day to reflect on both bondage and freedom a day of both pain and purpose it is in equal measure a remembrance of both the long hard night of slavery and subjugation as well as the celebration of the promise of a brighter morning to come and whereas we recognize that as a that we as a district must continue to make additional progress on the

031ideals reflected in our Equity mission to quote continually disrupt and eliminate institutional biases and barriers to ensure that all students have the skills and knowledge to thrive physically emotionally and academically unquote and whereas on juneth we remember our extraordinary capacity to heal to Hope and to emerge from our worst moments as a stronger Freer and more just Nation it is also a day to celebrate the power and resilience of black Americans who have endured generations of Oppression and the ongoing journey toward Equal justice equal dignity equal rights and equal opportunity in America and whereas we urge members of our community to reflect on the ongoing cause of freedom for black Americans as we honor juneth let us all renew our commitment to use our power to Stamp Out racism in our communities and institutions and

032help secure freedom for all thank you okay um are there any questions or comments uh from the board in respect to the proclamation yes trusty Griffin okay I have a quick comment and you know everybody loves a holiday a day off from work uh you know it's I I'd like to see more reflection and I know that you know the front part was all the celebration and all the good times and you know they were we were freed um but in fact I don't know that any of us have been freed but I'd like to think that there's more reflection uh on the the issues and the challenges that the nation and the world face face in terms of racism uh and I'd like to you know we have not made the progress that I

033think many of us think we should have made during uh you know since 1865 or whenever um whenever the Civil War actually ended and you know we're still suing for compensation and that just really shows how difficult that issue is to get agreement on because that is uh that's a tough issue uh I'm glad we're we're having the acknowledgement I'm glad to make a motion to adopt a proclamation but uh you know words just aren't aren't cutting it it's difficult in our society so anyway I don't mean to be the the downer so thank you Tristy Griffin I you know I I Echo what you're saying um you know I always say like what during the proclamations they're great right but they are just words and so where is the action and we haven't gotten

034to that point um this is also why it's so important to have ethnic studies to have an accurate excuse me representation of our US History um because we need to be accurate with the information and honest about what's happening um purpose purp purposeful ignorance and denial um does nothing for the progress of a community of a society and so it's it's really important that we acknowledge those things um we still have book Banning we still have uh voter suppression we still have you know undermining of our educational institutions um it's it's really really disturbing and so I AG I Echo what you're saying until until um until we really think about those things we aren't really great um so thank you um are there any other comments or questions yes trusty Jacobson I'll just say

035that I agree with you I think it is important that we be honest about our history and also acknowledge how far we have come and it's it's important to look at when you're looking at disparities of outcomes there are many causes and it's important to be honest about all of those causes sometimes actions by government do more harm than good 85% I think I just read 85% of incarcerated individuals come come from single parent households and the average black family was intact before the Civil Rights Movement and the um the Great Society policies and there was great Damage Done To The family structure can you can you clarify that what do you mean um I'm kind of I'm confused can you clarify what you mean about the black families being intact I I'm saying that

036mothers and fathers and marriages were intact um before policies of of that were designed to help those help poor people get welfare but what happened was those policies encouraged the breakdown of marriages and that harmed children go ahead no I was going to and this is not I mean this is our public comment and we should share our ideas I just wantan to um it's not just not a debate or anything to to get too deep you know African families came here as slaves those families started getting broken up at that point I you know it it didn't just happen you know and it's not I let's hope we keep this from the politics it was not just an Administration or a recent action yeah it happened when we hit the shores right I mean

037and it's not that you know and I don't want to I'm not you know I'm getting a little emotional and it's you know you're making a good comment but it it happened a long time ago and it you know and it continued to happen I mean and and how and we could debate and really take the focus away from why we're here which is the focus on the education of these students we have so I forgive me for my evotion that's I'm sorry I mean don't apologize that's your that's your perspective go ahead um I just want to say I'm glad that we have this Proclamation I'm glad that we have this holiday I'm glad that we're celebrating it and I'm glad that we're bringing this forward I I think what I really appreciate and

038and what I'm hearing is a discussion yeah we don't agree and that's okay and I'm okay with that but I'm glad we're bringing the facts forward and we're talking about it we're debating it and it's out there and that's what education is and I'm glad that this is part of the board and I want to thank all of you for contributing to your in in helping us grow right no that's good but we just have to be very careful with accurate information so I just want to be clear I'm not it's not a judgment I'm just just saying that you have to be very clear go ahead thank you um La last year for the juneth um recognition and celebration um I joined um couple of cities for their festivities um at the local parks

039one was San Bruno the city of San Bruno one was the city of Milbury so I just want to encourage everybody to get involved and look at look at your local communities celebrate go go attend talk to people I mean the one I the one I attended in San br last year had a lot of books on the history of what happened and and why we're celebrating juneth and I think it's really important and so I I just want to say that um I had a great time at met both uh celebrations last year and I plan to attend the celebrations as well at my local community so I just want to say that thank you thank you okay um I guess we can move on with our I I oh I'm sorry yes I

040I tried to make the motion during my comments I'll make the motion now second thank you so we have a motion by trusty Griffin second by trusty land all in favor I thank you okay we'll move on to the consent agenda we're moving on to the okay uh are there any items that need to be pulled okay doesn't seem like it um are there any questions or comments from the public there are none okay thank you um can I have a motion to uh to uh motion thank you I'll second that okay motion by trusty Griffin and a second by trusty Chavis all in favor I I I thank you okay there's no oppositions and no extensions thank you motion passes report of the superintendent go ahead thank you so a couple of things uh

041quickly one I want to go everyone's comments about uh graduation just beautiful lovely uh all very unique and distinct from one another obviously I wasn't able to attend each one because the times conflict the dates conflict and all that but from what I've heard I it's one of the strengths of this District that um you we talked about this in the new logo design that that you know we hold up the fact that each of our schools have a unique uh personality a uni a unique culture and community and the way they do things not one High School is similar to the next in the way that they even hold graduation uh so sitting next to tr trusty Griffin at s Mato we were let out by the drum core which was I don't know

042I got chills it was just it was very I think I said that while we were walking out it was very cool uh Mills you know sitting next to uh trusty Jacobson at Mills one of the first things I noticed I leaned over and I told principal disisi no adults on the stage the students ran the whole thing it was incredible like I'm like where are the adults and then I'm thinking to myself yeah these are high school they can run it why aren't they run you know and they ran a beautiful ceremony uh without a hitch so I I just thought that was great uh I also went to Peninsula Bridge uh over at cappuccino fantastic graduation so much energy in the room it was so much fun uh I love when the little

043girl ran by with the balloons I was it just oh ran remember that little girl just kind of and then they were kind of chasing after her and she was up on stage running across with the balloons that was fantastic um it couldn't even catch her I know it couldn't catch her uh I want to back up about the bridge dinner and I had to I went for a little bit but then had to bolt out uh trusty land and I uh went to the San Bruno city council and uh petitioned uh the council uh for um some work with crestmore sale and I want to thank trusty land for his words there and time uh it really appreciate that it meant a lot um moving on uh humanizing pedagogy PD uh trusty Jacobson was

044there trusty Chavez was there uh we hosted two full days at Skyline College for many many certificated Educators again the theme was humanizing pedagogy and the purpose was to bring Educators together uh to learn about and anchor all of this work for our instructional framework um I really want to thank sabii uh Hopkins Marlo bagic Brian Simmons Julia Kempy the entire instructional team and professional development team I mean that was topnotch program not just the content but how it was run how we kept how it kept moving the time for personal reflection the collaboration time uh all of that uh every detail the the colored folders and you know what groups you were in and just the maps and just the food you know all that uh so big big thanks I know that is

045a huge Endeavor that that's not like two days before you figure it out and you throw it together I mean this was really really well thought out it our professional development or professional learning in this district and I've been part of a number of districts this again when I talk about this District being the show this is another example I mean for those who been in this district and maybe only this District you don't have anything with which to compare I have never seen a district put on professional learning like this District does it is really great so big thanks uh and then lastly personal to me uh today is the 80th uh anniversary of the D-Day Landings uh along the Normandy Coast during World War II I want to acknowledge that uh that this

046event ultimately led to the liberation of Europe and the defeat of Nazi Germany in the end of uh World War II and I I I've been on this big kick of researching uh my dad and my grandfather and their involvement in World War II I put a long post on my personal Facebook page about my dad and some of the research that I'm that I'm doing um but it's those that were involved in in in that conflict that war and and other Wars it it's just I get to sit here today in in my luxury and privilege because of their service so um I'm I'm really grateful so I want to acknowledge that thank you thank you okay moving on to report from the district Teachers Association I don't believe we have a report this

047evening oh okay thank you um report of the CCA chapter 519 rep representative hello we have not seen you in a while you have that very wonderful uh Garrett wolf skill here I was like what am I gonna do I can't follow that I'm not eloquent as he is to sit and Nod at everybody like he does I get a little bit ruffled sometimes but um actually I I came with a lot of positive and I really enjoyed Proclamation okay I'm not going there um I want to say congratulations to all the students and everyone who lifted them and helped them reach the goal of everyone graduating and I hope that is really happening because On My Level I don't see what's going on at those other places but I know they're all working hard

048and I appreciate their effort I appreciate the teachers and all the staff that makes it happen for them and whatever I can do to help them improve how they assist the students and help each other the school district makes it all better and easier for all of us um I hope they have a great summer I too was very Star Struck when I was watching the well the um the voice and the brothers were on there because they showed a bit of the school and and they showed like the red lockers I went that looks like Mills I thought yeah sure right how could that possibly be and then they were Mill students that was amazing and they did very well and you know what also super special it was Mills that you said that

049ran the um graduation in their program they did not include the names of the spoe and maintenance and operations well not the spoe at their School site they named them one by one there at the ceremony Julian did it um the president the 20202 2024 president Julian did a great job and everyone was felt very heartfelt that he took the time and energy to make sure that everyone was honored me got honorable mention and that really means a lot to to you know because they do notice it's like okay all the other schools have the spoe and other maintenance folks listed but not that school but I appreciate that and they do too so thank you um for all of that um I'm going to yeah you know what really nice these guys did not

050have a 2020 graduation from e8th grade so this was their big first time doing it so maybe that's a reason for Mills to get out and do it for themselves so I'm glad they could do it and make it happen they elevate their goals they meet their expectations manage their expectations so they're not upset if they don't meet all the goals because sometimes 50% of something wonderful is better than none at all so we're going to keep being positive we're going to work forward into 2024 uh we haven't done all of our negotiations yet because we're going to wait for the teachers to come to a compromise so our meeting that we have scheduled for I think it's July 16th may get postponed until after the teachers meet which is fine because half of our

051crew are sdos school day only employees they won't be able to attend anyway so for the next year I want to apply lessons learned from this year listen more I'm going work real hard to talk less and spread the the effort and help people rise to the occasion just having Garrett do this for me is wonderful at first I give him a dozen eggs please car do it for me please and then he's like you know I like doing this I was like okay great so he was off today he like let me do it for you and I did so thank you very much for a wonderful year we'll get to this again in the fall well we're not going anywhere we're 12 month people thank you thank you for your report okay um

052report of the C Adult School Teachers Association we have Lynette Garcia online go ahead Miss Garcia sorry let me unmute myself thank you very much um I want to take a moment to thank the board president Leia Zuniga vice president Robert Griffin cherry Chavez Greg L and Jennifer Jacobson and superintendent Booker and for all those in attendance today thank you for the opportunity to present uh my name is Lena Garcia and I am one of the CFT Union delegates what I'd like to do today is just share a little bit about our month of May uh updates for June and then some some actual Union business at the very end well it's all Union business but you know um the month of May was very busy for us we had we c not celebrated we

053acknowledge mental health month and it was very very active in terms of awareness we had several activities going on throughout the month we had mental health tabling fair where students had the opportunity to speak to various Representatives we had mental health poster contests which I had a great picture to share with you and I ran out of time so I wasn't able to share it and I will share it with um superintend Booker so he can share it with the board uh community events for info tables we had several community events on the 5th and the 6th of May to share with our morning and evening and afternoon students so that they could collect information from mental health as well as organizations that offer services uh spirit week to be seen in green we were

054all encouraged to wear green and if we didn't have green on we gave everybody these lovely bright green bows uh we had a mental health dance off on the 20th and the 21st during our break times that was fun great way to break tension relax the body it was very cool I did both uh morning and an evening one uh we did a balloon art demo one of our students it was really funny she likes to make these um oh they're like swords as well as dogs and so forth but it was a lot of fun as and we also had a poster contest which I have a really really great poster for you guys again I'll send that we also had mental health workshops for the staff as well as our students what came

055out of this which I thought was really cool was that several students had shared their experience with mental health issues and they were able to reach out for support well once we brought it to the table and it gave them permission to be and really acknowledge that they were struggling in some instances and so I thought that was very very cool I and now they have resources you know to further that along um our hope is that next year it will be an even better bigger production for the month of May with more participation from our wonderful School Community um let's see for the month of June the SM CFT teachers union in support of team building with our classified counterparts we successfully hosted a teachers union barbecue for all of the AE staff and

056administration in the form of a potluck uh the union provided the main dish and the members were to bring side dishes oh my gosh you guys should have been there the potluck was to die for we had pork chicken and um pork and barbecue chicken with vegan side proteins uh the side dishes so many of them were handmade and you know homemade and handmade it was great as well as a variety of non-alcoholic drinks now I ask you is there nothing like connecting and reconnecting with fellow team members over a fabulous meal meals are what bring people together in all walks of life and it was very cool and it was yesterday all right and then activities to come uh we will have our s Adult and Career Education annual volunteer appreciation event organized by

057Marina ketova I'm sure I just mashed up her name she is our current El specialist Wednesday June the 12th we will have a volunteer Gathering and refreshment in the evening from 5:45 to 6:45 certificates will be awarded at the flag poll at 6:45 Thursday June 13th certificates awarding at the flag poll at 11:30 a.m. so that's our am Awards volunteers Gathering and refreshments from 11:45 to 12:45 an update on our as graduation schedule is June the 27th in the Venus Saturn room from 5: to 7 I believe invitations have been sent so if you've not received them please triple check your emails because they have gone out and if they if you have not received one and you're on the board please let me know and I'd be happy to make sure that one is

058sent for a union specific business um we are upcoming activities we do we are in the midst of NE uh putting together our team for contract negotiations a member survey was recently distributed to gather input for the upcoming negotiations and the negotiation team is for the most part assembled and we'll be reviewing the Sur data in the upcoming weeks we do have Union officer elections upcoming ballots have been drafted and emailed and we will have an update for you as soon as the polling begins I'd like to close down this evening with something from Nelson Mandela education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to see change in the world again thank you very much have a great evening everybody thank you okay we will go on to excuse me special reports and

059appearances um Spotlight on student learning um go ahead superintendent Booker thank you so this evening I'm really pleased to welcome April Torres and her whole Wellness team uh to give us an overview of uh our Wellness programs you know our health and wellness program this is a program that I would say in every school district up and down the state and across the nation that has really grown exponentially uh to meet the needs of our students Educators and and families and and here specifically in Sano uh it's it's a real Hallmark of our district um and so I want to welcome you to the podium and um yeah you're presenting remember yeah bring the team it's it's all yours thank you thank you thank you super excited to be here tonight and super excited that

060I don't have to do the entire presentation Alone um when I was writing the report I think uh you all have in front of you uh it gives me a lot of time to reflect and um I'm looking at numbers and I'm thinking about the team and uh we got to do some really fun things this week we made a craniums with some succulents for our end of the year get together um tonight we broke bread before we came here was really fun and it it just gives me this time to really reflect on what we're doing and why we're doing it and who I have the privilege to do it with um so I'm very excited to have everybody here tonight let me make sure I can do this okay so we're g to

061talk about our um our highlights we're going to showcase our intersectionality with all of our uh Partners uh really showcases that we do not do this work alone I do not do this work alone nobody here does this work alone it and speaking of reflection it made me think of my own two students my uh little cherubs that have graduated from the district um that uh have had their own struggles and Journeys uh Leia knows uh some of some of those struggles and um I went back and read some of the emails that uh my daughter's teachers sent uh during a really difficult time when she was in the hospital and it just made me remember that we're all doing this together it's not just mental health it's not just school counselers it's teachers it's

062our coaches it's our family engagement coordinators our ad ad ministrators so um and then of course I looked at some of my sons and then you know uh so so with that um I'm oh Diego um so um I want to I want to introduce everybody and before I do uh Dr Holly Wade said something the other day in one of her presentations and it really resonated and she said all of our students are general education students first all of our sites support every single one of our students regardless of their special education multilingual Learners and other therapeutic programs so with that uh I hope that you can keep that in mind our theme tonight and I think Randall will like this is our our intersectionality with all of our different departments so with that

063I want to just do quick introductions we have Christina Cabrera our lead mental health therapist at Burling game high school Adriana Gomez is our teec therapist at Burling game Chelsea train Chelsea Chang um our social work one of our social workers doggo espanosa another one of our social workers and then our tway team here Jessie cadigan and Amelia Nash so with that I'm going to turn it over um to miss Christin good evening everyone um it really is a pleasure to be here today um I'm a bearcat graduated in 2000 and now I'm a panther and so it's really exciting to be back home um because that's what the district represents for me so I have a lot that I am going to read to you because April has highlighted all of the wonderful work

064we are doing across the district and I want to make sure that credit is given where credit is due so please forgive me if I'm looking down because there a lot of points I want to make sure that I hit um so when we really look at the holistic approach which is how we integrate mental health um and education those two things don't naturally meet it's it's ocean and river and we've tried to find a way to really make sure that we're supporting our students and one of the most basic ways that we do that is by providing individual counseling to students and so it's often times um a safe space for students to connect with a trusted adult or to get to know a trusted adult when they're having a difficult time and often

065times they don't think we're doing therapy with them because we have comfy couches we have snacks we have fidgets I have you know tons of plants and so they just come in they hang out but we're doing a lot of work in supporting them with their stressors not only related to schools but in in terms of family life and just the social atmosphere that they're navigating um we have a number of peer support groups that are run across the district and I want to highlight a couple of them um one of them is um you know be Street boxing is working with our Peninsula students and our students um have the opportunity to participate in weekly um boxing sessions led by their Wellness counselor we want to recognize owner Eddie Croft and fitness instructor Freddy

066from be Street boxing for supporting this initiative and by opening up a channel for our students an outlet a healthy Outlet um where they can not only go in and connect as a community but they're also getting you know this service for free they're getting boxing gloves and they've been inv Ed to continue to access the gym during summer and that that means a lot to our students who may have a hard time accessing these supports and services outside of school we also have dungeon and Dragons which is a group that was started by Seth Wright at Hillsdale high school and it's been his pet project which he has fostered and has grown to now have over 40 students that run that group and invite others to join every year um I had the privilege

067this year of being one of six uh SM Educators who attended a Latino Fellowship a 9-month program and I have learned that there's still so much work to be done for our Latinos and I have really connected with also my roots as a Latina here in the Bay Area um and through the work I also helped um create a Latino boys affinity group that was co- facilitated by our Dean Nicole Carter one over campus safety specialist Richard Gonzalez and we met with students and played games and we led a circle and we had an opportunity to build community and that's something that we're hoping to continue next year um with our students we also want to highlight that oftentimes we Mentor our students and Advocate we are Fierce advocates for our students we advocate for

068their well-being we advocate for their needs and we really work to connect our students um and some of our students that you know may need more support are are multilingual Learners um we now have four dedicated therapists and two MultiLing social workers um who work to really meet their students where they are and they work so hard and so tirelessly because our students oftentimes there's many gaps not only in education but also in access to resources um so kudos to all the work that they do I also want to highlight that we do a lot of work with different departments across our site I love to be in everyone's business at my school because I feel like that's what helps me understand the bigger picture of what our student is experiencing I you know actively

069attending attendance meetings I work collaboratively with our Dean I make sure that our special ed Department um you know we're constantly working together and so it's really important that we work with our site collaborators but also with our families and our family engagement coordinators are just so instrumental oftentimes helping Bridge the connection um offering translation services for our families um and and they are you know crucial in really helping support our students um I also want to highlight that student students accessing or support has just exponentially increased every single year um you know highlights are that our multilingual Learners um their uh their use of services Rose by 133% this school year um and you know some of the schools that are supporting our students are you know our bridge program cappuccino hillso high school

070and Sano High School we've also seen a 35% ENT um increase of foster youth accessing our services as well uh special education students Services increased by 14% And will continue to you know increase throughout the years um we want to highlight that our therapeutic programs like the one that Adriana is a part of are so important to us because when we did not have a therapeutic program at our site it was really hard to um encourage families to connect to that service because it would take them out of their home school it would take them out of their Community it would create a loss in their friend group and so now that most of our sites have a therapeutic program it's really helped BR bridge that connection to a higher level of support um our

071Latino students have also increased in um receiving services and over the past four four years that's increased by 133% um our black and African-American students have also received uh steadily increased Services over the last four years by 27 % and our newcomer Bridge um program also continues to increase um by use of 27% within the last four years so that's just a very small snapshot of all of the work that you know we're doing our team is much larger than this I think we're 60 deep but um it's really been a pleasure to be here to share with you guys some of the highlights of our program and I will pass it off to our social workers good evening my name is Chelsea Chang um I am a part of the social work team um

072we believe that home school and Community collaboration is the key to achieving Student Success um as social workers we are an integral part of this collaboration and we are instrumental in enhancing the district's ability to meet its academic Mission especially for students who are are struggling to overcome psychosocial stressors that are negatively impacting their attendance and learning experiences at school as such we have designed and perfected the attendance review process which we call sart um that is a School site level attendance meeting process and sarb which is a district run attendance meeting this process helps to identify and allows us to directly engage with students who are struggling with attendance and academic performance these students typically come from low socioeconomic um backgrounds underresourced families and they present with low self-esteem after getting to know each

073of these students we offer individualized support by meeting them where they're at and bringing services to them such as conducting home visits meeting them out in the community in order to support our students and help them feel more connected to their school Community we really believe that if we can enhance their sense of belonging um it's important to help them feel more connected our work depends heavily on collaboration or intersectionality with school administrators Wellness counselors um school counselors attendance technicians and family engagement coordinators for parents and caregivers we offer a uh a group called Parent Connect which is a parenting education and support group some of the feedback and testimonials we have received from parents include I don't feel alone anymore I don't get mad as much anymore the problem is not as big as

074I thought I have tools now I praise my child more I don't have the word for how much support I have gotten it's very clear to me that parents need a group too I came to this group because my kid was not going to school now he goes to school every day um upon completion of the group parents um enjoy and they value the group so much that they asked for a part two to continue this work so we responded and we created a new curriculum so we just started a round of part two for parents who want to continue to meet with us um so yeah we're very proud of the work and the impact that we're making across the district and um I'm going to let doggo my teammate here speak a little

075bit more um on the specifics of our interventions good evening everyone my name isosa and I'm here to talk to you about attendance uh you go to the other slide before attendance um Crisis Intervention and collaborations with Community Resources first and foremost uh one of the things that I always share with families is that when we're talking about attendance chronic absenteeism is not the problem it's a symptom to the problem and so when we conduct these home visits we do assessments there to see what are the needs that the families need in order to re-engage them to come back to school I just I'm happy to report that after our start meetings there's been a 76% in attendance for the families that participate in our start process and we served about 477 starts this year

076now once they come to school we might have to interact with them regarding uh Crisis Intervention right because when we uh conduct these home visits we uncover very difficult situations while we're conducting these visits and when they return to school they they have higher levels of needs and so we're there to be able to support them and give them the support they need to be able to uh stay in school um also when it comes to case management um we are that higher level of care to help support the families and the children and uh we work uh very hard to uh collaborate with with caregivers and to be able to to have them reconnect with their uh student in order to be successful academically and lastly but not least uh one of the things

077that we're also working on is that we are hosting a welcoming event for incoming ninth grade families ex uh which we got the information through the universal screener if you're not familiar with that that's a questionnaire that they have when they register into our school two of the questions was have you had uh difficulties with attendance in the past 12 months and so the people that said yes we are reaching out proactive actively so that we can then address those concerns and hopefully they can uh be at school and be part of the orientation process and so we're really just taking the time to reconnect with those families thank you for your time next I oh loveely um thank you so much for having us um we're the tobacco use prevention education mental health therapists

078we are alternative to suspension I'm jessame I'm Amelia Nash yes and we are really happy to be here to talk about the program that we really love so one of the things we want to do today is we're going to we're going to give you a little flavor a taste of like how we approach the work we'd also like to talk a little bit about our intersectionality and then some highlights from our year so um we work from a narrative uh therapy perspective which means that uh the problem is the problem the students aren't the problem people are not the problem the problem is externalized so we get the problems outside the students one of the simplest way to externalize a problem is you just put the in front of the problem and we talk

079about the story of the trouble of the problem that brought the student to the group as soon as you kind of externalize a problem with a kid or with any person really uh it's a lot easier to talk about it because the problem can be sitting right there but it's not inside of us and we think problems are inside of kids and they don't feel good about themselves and when kids don't feel good about themselves you know sometimes they don't want to go to school and they might think hm I might try a vape you know something that will help me feel a little bit better so we externalize problems we use restorative justice practice questions and we also um use um stages of change motivational interviewing and harm reduction strategies so those are some

080of the ways that we approach this work and one of of our students has said that um we are a comfortable place to have uncomfortable conversations yeah just to back up what we do the two of us is all students who have had trouble coming to their lives is how we say it um come to us as an alternative to suspension they might also get suspended we prefer that they never got suspended and only came to us so we see all the students across the district um who have gotten in trouble for fighting cheating getting caught with substances anything like that so we are very interconnected um we might be the only people who go across the whole District and see all students from everywhere so we feel like we have a really good finger

081on the pulse of um just students across the district um one a few of the things that we started this year were uh a parent group a parent Guardian group for parents whose students got caught using substances on campus so those parents were invited throughout the year to join um a Therapy Group basically that I ran I did four different um sessions and they loved it so much that they actually much like with Parent Connect asked to continue meeting with each other um on a monthly basis so the thing that they loved about it is it's really uncomfortable and there's really no one to talk to when your kid is using substances you feel very alone and super hopeless so they just got a lot of support from the other parents and from you know

082hearing from me about techniques that they can use uh at home because I what we really realize is that school can only do so much the therapist can only do so much but really the parents have the biggest impact but they didn't know what to do so that's been super successful definitely we'll continue that next year um another thing that we started I think that came actually maybe out of the board is the dehumanizing language group for students who got um in trouble I always say they did something that the school didn't like uh but basically at school they said something that somebody found uh to be unsafe usually and so I started that really the last six weeks of school and had two different groups as kind of a pilot and um that went

083really well and we'll definitely be continuing that next year as well so those are a few of the things that we started what else I think the other highlights that I was going going to say is that we are big interrupts of the high school to prison pipeline so we were able to support our community with avoiding 342 days of suspension this year which is definitely the most we've ever done since we've been around how many students do we see we we saw three like almost 400 students I think like 368 um just a million I um and more more but I can't remember sorry I got all the numbers mixed up I just wanted to give them a sense yeah we had over 400 referrals which is the most we've ever had we we

084placed um it's just we really it's the most epic year we've ever had um and then the other things I wanted to highlight were we were able to intersect and interconnect and interdepend with Parent Connect and do um Tay uh parent support uh sub to support um presentations in English and Spanish keep calm and keep talking about substances with your students because one of the things that we think is most important is that there aren't a lot of solutions but the solution is to just keep talking and to make have access to the problem we don't want our students alone in the land um trying to figure out all the problems on their own so if we can become trusted adults and be safe enough for them to to trust us with what's going on

085with them that can really be helpful and supportive um the last thing I wanted to say I think was that um ailia has another one um is that we did the most work in Spanish that we've ever done so we went to Hillsdale and Sano and did groups in Spanish for ATS for substance to support for Vape awareness prevention education we also did individual sessions in Spanish at bridge at Hillsdale at Sano at cappuccino so we really kind of learned how to work better with our interpreters to support our multilanguage Learners whereas we actually go to the sites like PE like other people were saying like Christina was saying we go there we have to have two hours minimum with our interpreters so we make it work sometimes we did all days at Sano and

086Spanish sometimes we did all day at Hillsdale and Spanish and that really seemed to support the students and just so much better we used to actually have interpreters come to our groups and do both it did not work very well so we're really kind of sorting it out and we were really happy with how it worked this year so thank you yeah you you remind me the other thing that uh we started doing this year is going to the school sites to meet with students um especially around substance use because we ask them to come to the district office and sometimes students just can't come or they just don't come and so we were having little pockets of students so I went to cappuccino and had a girls group um and also to Peninsula and

087had a girls group there um because the students just you know needed support and so that we're we're doing more of that as well like going to the site and having things um for students so and on to Adriana my inner assistant really wanted to grab the remote and deal with the things myself so I did um and also can you tell we listen more than we speak we have so much to say tonight um so I am going to be speaking about our mental health and wellness steering and advisory committees um we developed and implemented the the steering and advisory committees um in order to collaborate with uh diverse partners and that included students parents our team um teachers our board president uh Miss Leia um and getting to create that safe space where

088we have honest discussions about what the needs are for our students and how we can best support them um and continue to ensure Equitable high quality service with continuity of care um this created u a collaborative environment by building agency within our partners um enhancing our ability to address the unique needs of our students and our families for Effective and sustainable outcomes we are looking really to just support our students meet them where they're at and the need is so high I mean we all know post pandemic things are not the same um and we see that in um our numbers we are serving so many more students I mean our team has needed to grow um I remember when it started and there was just a couple um but look at the team now

089and it's and it's a necessity um and we're looking to make sure that we are on our aame all the time um and this uh these steering and advisory committees um allowed us to demonstrate an uh commitment to inclusivity and collaboration through our committees uh creating a compreh ensive and culturally responsive and impactful mental health and wellness program for our community um and really in support of our students and getting them you know on their Journeys is is a long one thank you um now this information is gathered from our senior exit surveys um we had over um 1300 students participate in our survey and as you can see overwhelmingly our students are satisfied with with our work uh they know where they can find us and they know that there are people there for

090them they know that there are not I mean not just their teachers not just their um school counselors not just admin or Dean but there are Wellness counselors on hand to support them and not blow up their spot and not tell you know their business um and it's a safe space I mean I think I can speak for every single person on our team it is important to us to create a safe space where these students know that there is someone out there who cares beyond their families sometimes more than their families and we are so lucky and so blessed to have to do this work but as we see our students are asking for more they want more Wellness counselors and they want us to be more available which is difficult when we're offering

091um services to specific case loads and then drop in and then ask to hold everything else that may a little bit falls into the mental health realm um we are the students are looking for more advertising so um let's get some posters Laura um they want more snacks so I guess we got to start baking guys um and they want to know that they are cared for and this is what our seniors had to say um I think part of our work in the steering and advisory Comm committees is we want to know what the freshmen want to say too I think we want to know what they are thinking what they're expecting what their um comfort level with mental health and talking about their own anxieties and depression and their own you know even

092if it's not an anxiety or depression it's a life struggle and we all go through them um and we want to know how we can serve our incoming and Rising students even better than we already do and for that uh looking forward I will pass it to miss Torres yeah please do it Dan I know so looking ahead what what are um what are our hopes our goals um our thoughts for next year and really it's that intersectionality to continue this work um to continue with our partners um and really we need to do that for sustainability if we want to sustain this program if we want to grow this program and we want to provide Equitable access ACC to services and education so that is what we are excited about moving forward and lastly

093because I forgot to mention this and I think it was said we have 35 mental health therapists and social workers we also have a Administrative Assistant Janice Fuentes who put this um together here we um have our uh clinical supervisor Stephanie leoy and we have our associate manager of mental health Joanne Michaels so total 39 of us thank you so much and we're open to any questions comments thank you I will now open it up to questions and comments from the board does anybody have any questions or comments to start with trusty land I'll be very quick excellent presentation I just remember years ago when I first got on the board we had none of this and and this was just an adventure and a journey and just to look at it now I'm so

094impressed and I love all the aspects and all the elements that we put into this for our kids for mental health it's just outstanding um I even as a Burling game Intermediate School get some access to social workers I and and you know and really appreciate the partnership so and I really appreciated where you where we're going your concern of where we're growing and how to sustain this because unfortunately budgets are budgets and if we don't fight for it we're going to lose it and I don't want that to happen so thank you for doing all of this appreciate it great anybody else trusty Griffin thank you for the uh the presentation you know I got a question um you brought up an example of B Street boxing uh which is pretty demanding I imagine

095and are there other outet that's for people that don't probably don't want to have to lace them up and put a headgear on and and all that um yeah so uh Hilda vioa is uh one of our mental health therapists at uh Peninsula High School District and um Eddie has worked with I mean I think we all know Eddie and um I know when I was a school counselor if I didn't if I had students that were not coming to school but at B Street boxing I Eddie they're not coming to school and he'd work with us right so he works with the students at all levels but that's not the only peer support group that we offer so we have multiple peer support groups I can go on and on and on with the

096different ones I know Christina mentioned um what the Latino boys affinity group and that's just one of many we have running groups for social skills just kind of hang out maybe you know get to know other people uh other peers so yeah you don't have to put on the what Dungeons and Dragons is a huge one so you don't have to put on the boxing yeah the boxing gear but um yeah I was an adviser for my middle school for D and D so it's very popular you get excited about that that's why we're looking for another adviser let me out of my middle school and I'll do it but someone's got to play principal for the day [Laughter] a you know there were there was also um uh it it happened that the comment

097was made related to the TP program uh but you know I love the quote that the problem is the problem and I think the students the Imp impacted students and their families really have to understand the problem is the problem not the student and that is just I think so critical and you know and this is like the slogan that you know the a comfortable place to have an uncomfortable conversation if that's not really appealing I mean I I kind of I need a comfortable place many times during my day to have those uncomfortable conversations so it's great program thank you could we come and sit on your couch well we're looking to build out more wellness centers at all of our sites so that you can come and take a seat yes oh and

098uh I think one one of the things our seniors said and mind you the seniors took the survey because um they have to for checkout so um but um we we get a lot of great information they really want us uh it's always been therapy dogs now it's therapy cats therapy bunnies therapy fish so I didn't know fish were therapeutic that sense but hey well maybe so there are some programs out there that work with the SPCA they come we have them come twice a year to the sites yeah but they want them daily a resident cat trusty H Chavez thank you thank you I want to thank thank you for the wonderful presentation thank you for each and every person thank you can I speak tonight I guess not thank you each and every

099person for being here presenting and I want to thank everybody involved in in the wonderful program that we have um I wanted to make a couple of comments the results from the senior survey I know that you said it was because they have to take the survey but regardless of that I think 136 responses is amazing from our seniors and 96% agree or strongly agree that they know where to go on campus to access to access access wellness support and that that is really important to me as a person and as a mother and there were several times uh throughout this past year and last year that my daughter now she's not a student anymore maybe I can talk more about it um she probably she doesn't watch these meetings so that's good her and

100her friends would feel um panic attacks anxiety extra stress During certain times of the year and throughout the year and so I kept mentioning to my daughter and her friends that there's the wonderful Wellness Center at cappuccino and I really do uh hope that all of our school sites can have their own dedicated Wellness Center soon if not if they don't already have um because I think it's really great that students are utilizing that well I'm sorry what's that did you hear that yansy yes yes uh and maybe they can make the rooms larger and some special couches snacks you know we have the budget for that um I wanted to mention something about there's also this is also attached to um the agenda uh table one student de demographics so can I can I

101talk about that for a minute okay absolutely I just wanted to mention that school year 2020 to 2021 our total en rollment on the chart here 9328 9 thou roughly 9,300 students receive service 1173 that's roughly 12 and a half% and then you move into the next full year of covid and we have 9391 students so still roughly around 9,300 students and we have 2400 2,346 students receiving a service 25% and then we come still in Co the next year it's 23% and now we're at 22% and I just want to say that we're we're doing this right we're helping each student we're encouraging students to come and get support and the numbers have doubled not the not the enrollment numbers but the the enrollment has gone down slightly but but the number of students

102receiving service and the percentage matches of course the percentage doubled and I hope that we doubled staff looking at our leadership here I'm hoping that we doubled staff but I wanted to mention what a wonderful job thank you and we actually have doubled staff over the eight years so we've been able to do that and I think it's important to note that although those are the amount of students we seen it's not the only time we saw them right so that's right we had multiple times that we met with students I just meant that the trend of of doubling students being seen uh versus pre pre-co right right yeah thank you so much Great Is there anybody else yes just gin uh thank you so much this was wonderful and it helps me understand a

103lot more about the programs that we offer I know um trusty Chavez and I attended a session at the csba conference about uh chronic absenteeism and so I appreciate all of the work you're doing on that front um I like what you said about how the parents have the biggest impact and how much you're doing to support parents and these groups and how they appreciate it and how you know they wanted more and you're giving them more thank you so much because the parents I feel very strongly that they have such an impact and we need to engage with them so um I also want to thank you for providing all these sessions in Spanish um I think it was you two and that was something that our daac group had asked for um were

104were education sessions in Spanish specifically related to substance abuse so yay um and then uh I had the idea for maybe for one of these groups uh these special interest groups you could have kids come volunteer at the peace Pantry Garden I know that gardening is so therapeutic and um Not only would they be doing something therapeutic but also giving back to the community so you should talk to Brett Stevenson about that we might be able to make that one of the ETA groups great right yeah yeah awesome um and then I had a question about um okay two questions one snacks what do they like because my daughter likes to bake she would love to have a an some people to eat her baked goods okay I'll tell her um and then second question

105technology phones is this something that you find comes up a lot uh as impacting the the mental health um I know that some of our campuses have I think it's I know San Mato has Yonder pouches I think Peninsula Peninsula do you notice that that makes a difference a positive impact on mental health for kids well one of the Parent Connect uh sessions focus on uh technology and addiction and gaming addiction and what we noticed is that yes when we do house visits and the kid is tired because they were up all night on their phone checking their Instagram their Snapchat or whatever new app that comes out you know every day so we are addressing those concerns there to see how they can connect and also just the Normy of of being able to

106have dinner with your family with without having a phone Interruption so those are the dialogues and conversations we have in Parent Connect to help support with the technology addiction that we're facing today great this is definitely a big concern for many of the parents that come to Parent Connect they ask us for strategies on how to help their kids um yeah take a take a break from technology because they see the excessive amount of time spent on devices and it's really impacting their family life um they're School functioning because they're going to bed late they're not attending school on time um like Dogo said they're really tired they also get very like irritable when they're addicted to games they don't like to be interrupted it creates a lot of conflict um so we yeah we

107provide a lot of information um intervention strategies to try home um uh ideas to replace um like the if you're going to take away technology what what what kind of quality time um like bonding experiences can you have with your child like come up with different activities to do with them as a family so that they're not always on their devices right because sometimes it's kind of used as a babysitter too um totally yeah so it's it's a big topic and they're very interested in talking about it I also want to uh add that for Parent Connect we do have a Spanish group it's uh SP is in Spanish and uh English two separate uh sections super yeah thanks I just wanted to uh mention when you were speaking about the um whether or not

108how we see it impact students at school um I like U April said I work in the therapeutic elective classroom and I have a very small group of kids so our room is their like hangout this is where they come during lunch brunch we've made it a really safe space for a lot of different students not even just our own Tec students but when we're asking how technology is impacting our students I see it every single day with my kids every single day they're on their phone and who's beefing with who and who's going to catch a fade and who they're going to fight here and there and it just distracts them completely and I know next year we um moving towards um pencil pouches um to put the phones in at Burling game high

109school and I'm hopeful that that'll help um it's just really hard to take phones away from students at this point um but we're really hopeful that we can start to make some changes um because it's so distracting and it really does impact their mental health they're worried about somebody who they don't even know what they think of them for what do you do you talk about that with them I mean just in terms of a a personal action not even just a school policy which should definitely be something that is explored but just in terms of do you see how this is making impacting your feelings Y and we've talked about blocking these other people and we've talked about all those things and they sit there and they struggle with blocking somebody that is making

110their life absolutely miserable and they just but but but but what what what is stopping you from blocking this person from having access to you and having power in your life they don't pay your I mean they're teenagers Mom and Dad pay their bills but what impact really truly does this person have on your life why are you allowing them to have power over you living your head rentree for no reason exactly with no value they're not you know pushing you down from going to school they're not pushing you down from making absolute most of your life you are because you're so absorbed in the phone and not accessing your education you're not paying attention because we're on our phones and we're worried about what somebody else is wearing or who somebody else is dating

111and what they're saying about you for what and it's the group chats and it's the Snapchat and it's the who did what F clubs I'm telling you fight club Middle School I mean yeah yeah like elevated all that from being right from being it's a huge issue I me how do you get that them to really turn it off and you know and now even those Yonder pouches there's way to subvert it that's what's happening some places oh yeah yeah two phon yes the one that goes in Yonder and the one I used to text everybody yeah trap yeah sorry I just relate and I appreciate thank you great okay um any other comments just want to say thank you again um great I have some comments yeah thank you so much for everything you

112all do mental health um is so important uh it's it could just like make or break everything and it doesn't have to be some gigantic problem it could be even little things um so thank you I know that they've made such an impact in my own kids lives when they were here um I really like that you all really get to know the students and so you can just know you can just tell when there's something up and you're like hey what's going on with you you know I really really like that so thank you um peer support is one of my most favorite things in the world I think it's so important to hear your peers um either struggling with the same thing and how they how they you know did better or just

113you know bouncing ideas I think that's like it's probably the most impactful um because because it's peer-to-peer it's somebody that lives life just like you do and so I I really am glad that you all do a lot of different peer support because that's very very important and the reinforcement um especially with the parents that um talking about not the you know not the most happy parts of your life um it's really important to validate and when you are going through something and you be you are validated it changes everything your perspective your outlook you will provide hope and so that's so so so good um I do like the boys of an IND group um I think you know it's funny like I think in time we focus a lot on the boys and

114then the girls need help you know we focus a lot on the girls and the boys need help you know so it's like I'm glad that there that there is a pivoting you know and there is room for it all and so thank you for doing that that's excellent um especially around the stigmatization and changing that um in so many communities there is a stigma of mental health and asking for help it's like what do you mean you're letting people know our family business you know don't you know don't don't tell everybody that and it's important to be honest right but um to have to have a place that you could trust like trusty Griffin was saying I also like that a place where you can talk about you know really hard things so and

115feel the freedom to do so it's really important thank you um I also um would I don't know if you could speak to how with the dehumanizing language and um a lot of these issues that we're having um just externally also in our in our society how has that impacted the student's Mental Health if anybody has some antidotal stuff I'm gonna let jessame and Amelia talk but I will say there is definitely a um level of students just being desensitized and that's really difficult when they don't think it's a problem so but I'll let Jess me and milia talk I'll say from what I've seen with the specific group um de humanizing language most of the time it's meant in a joking way so the student isn't it's not really how we perceive it that

116they're really saying something particular to one person usually it's a joke about no one in particular and somebody overhears it and doesn't didn't like it so it's really not targeted um generally at one person from what we've found over the years and so I do a lot of discussion about what's funny and what's not funny and really making school to me into somewhere I mean I've even started saying it's more like um church maybe like you need to know that people are watching you and do you be on your you know your top-notch behavior you're not out with your friends at the mall when you're at school and I just think kids that's become a line that is really Blended now and that maybe needs to come back like school is a you know it's

117a serious place and you really need to pay more attention to what you're saying even casually to your friend because people are listening and they don't want to hear it and so um that's what I have started to tell students that I'm seeing um yeah yeah and everywhere right you're a representation of your family that's exactly you know of your of your values yeah yeah exactly so you know mostly it's you know 15-year-old boy and they're trying out the humor right and that's how they relate to each other and they just you know haven't really grown up yet so it's a good reminder for them that that's not cool and you know so that's really what I say do you have anything on I was just G to say that I've that was the first

118thing that popped into my mind is that truly that one of our experiences is is that when we do get the context the problem is often in the context it's that you know somebody was trying to be funny somebody was trying something on it didn't work um they weren't thinking about their environment and who else was listening and that's one of the things we'll talk about is like if you go to work you can have one relationship with your work with your employment when you're with your friends you might have a different relationship when you're with your family you might have a different relationship in all these contexts you might use different language and you might have different relationships and it's really important to be thoughtful about those things and so we talk a lot

119about context and the power of context and that's really what we experience is it's a lot of times it's it's jokes gone wrong it's impact intent is a big conversation that we have with our students yeah can you also give me some examples of how you address um like we've had some issues you know obviously how do you address that with the students like if they are put in a um more of like a disciplinary situation what are some of the things that you all do when you're working with them so if they do get Wellness uh therapy or Services yeah I mean that is what we're doing uh so we talk a lot well first the most important thing is allowing them to tell their story without judgment so we ask the restorative justice

120questions to every single student and not only did they love telling their story but the other students in the group love hearing the stories because it makes them feel like they're not the only one in the world Foundation yeah exactly and they also learn a lot from hearing what other students did like oo I'm not going to do that next time um so they get a lot just from hearing all the stories so that's a lot of it and then we talk a lot about um empathy and just understanding that you know people are having a tricky time at home you really don't know anything about a lot of these people that you're with so you know just think about that I mean don't forget these are often times 15 year 14y old boys and

121they haven't given a lot of thought to other people in the world um humor you know and and how to navigate that and think about that um talking about stereotypes um what else yeah social constructs like jie was kind of saying and just you know there isn't um you know Society is telling us how to be a boy how to be a girl how to be you know High School is a social construct also so just everything and so you know just really kind of taking it up a level and having them think about just bigger things than just this one act that they said in one moment so yeah that's good yeah I would just add that one of the things we talk a lot about is that problems are good for us these

122experiences are good these are learning they opportunities for us we welcome them in we're like we want you to be here we want to have this conversation it's it's good that you had this experience this is how we learn problems make us who we are how we respond to them make us who we are um and that that they we want to rightsize problems because we're going to have problems we're not eradicating problems that's we're not that powerful none of us are so how do we what do we do when they come into our lives so we have a lot of discussions around that and they're powerful and they have really great ideas and Beautiful Minds and wonderful brains and hearts and we love getting to hear the problem and then all the other parts

123of their story too wow this is great thank you so much um I have a million other questions but I'll I'll talk yeah I'll I'll save it for the advisory committee thank you very very much um are there any uh comments from the public there are none okay great all right and I believe this is just a info only right great well thank you again excellent okay going on to second semester all right in in the uh understanding of of we're running late here um I'm going to go through this presentation at warp speed I I encourage the community the board to take a look at the presentation the the memo associated with the pr presentation you know when you have an opportunity I think the thing that I would say above and beyond any

124well a couple things one to thank Miss Chalkley and and miss hapit and and Dolce and her whole team uh for putting this together I really really appreciate it they've done a remarkable job um one of the reasons I think the biggest reason why we put together the the fall and spring highlights and then ultimately the annual report is to help the board and Community remember and try to reflect on some of the positive things that we've accomplished this year as truste L said earlier in in our evening the Thousand Days of May and June and you know oftentimes the end of the year can drag on and we have a lot of challenges at the end of the year and we can sometimes lose sight of all the remarkable things we've accomplished as a

125district and I think this presentation and ultimately the annual report looks to honor uh and celebrate the work of you know our over thousand employees our over 9,000 students uh all of our families um we might be frustrated or grumpy at especially at this time of the year about this that or the other but that shouldn't take away from the remarkable accomplishments throughout the year and this isn't an opportunity to Pat anyone as an individual on the back it's really to highlight the variety of departments across our district and all the work that they've put in uh to support and care for our students our our fellow Educators and our families so I'm just going to move on you're going to read on your own but curriculum instruction with professional learning days and instructional framework

126the PD days that we've talked about a real emphasis this year and moving into next year and you're going to hear us talk a lot about multilingual learner programs and support um the the daac committee we're taking their feedback very very seriously uh we've already implemented a number of things and and more is on the way uh the equity work that we've been doing across the district with equity councils and the equity advisory committee uh as a through line uh for our district when when students do not feel welcomed or they don't feel like they belong they will not learn uh and it's important that we understand their lived experiences uh and try to support them through a lens of understanding Aragon high school going through the schools amazing robotics and and and and music

127and Tech rise challenge really a ton of work around confronting dehumanizing language we we brought this to the board a few uh board meetings ago and had them present really proud of the work there and I know we have a lot more work to do but I I appreciate their their jump into it the bridge program being its own Alternative School uh um their first dance they hosted their first dance you know they got a lot of Firsts coming on uh as a new school and and uh looking to continue to grow and support them Burling game high school with your sustainable climate ready schools young Arts US Presidential scholars in the Arts nominee Italian Exchange program the Berling game B and the list goes on and on cappuccino High School $115,000 Community grant that

128supports their summer bridge program that's different than the bridge program I just talked about this is a way to uh Orient our incoming ninth graders our tier one teams and Workshop Wednesdays meet the Mustang event all these kinds of things uh really really fantastic Hillsdale High School uh they were featured in learning policy institutes redesigning high schools Humanities Department Special Olympics mock interviews democracy day all those kinds of things Middle College 125 sophomore shadowed middle college students on CSM campus 150 applications 42 site presentations field trips professional development largest graduating class this year they've ever exper experienced uh real success stories Mills High School uh 39th grade Hispanic latinx students were recognized for outstanding achievement from The Freshman honor Ral uh tier one interventions robotics team uh AXA Region 5 every student succeeds award uh

129they're doing really remarkable things over at uh Mills peninsula high school with their restorative justice practice training the rewarding of student achievement family and student events and the amount of opportunities Ron and Fred and that whole team over there get you know give for students to get off campus and and uh participate in their Community is really uncanny uh s De adult and Career Education um they commemorated black history months celebrating African-American art if you haven't had a chance please go over to the smart Center and see some of the paintings they are amazing it's some of the paintings you literally just want to sit in a chair and just kind of reflect for a moment they are outrageously good uh ESL graduation ceremony we've got the their graduation ceremony coming up I June 27th

130I think if I have that wrong sorry mental health and wellness fair and such Sano High School the Hawaii band Invitational I have no idea why I didn't accompany them on that event uh sanon High School codes the hackathon the biotech summer career Expo it goes on and on and now you know so those are School sites and now we talk about you know the big bad district office I jokingly say that but all of the district supports this this idea and our new logo of of that that circle surrounding all of our schools whether it's academic support or District governance and operations you all right student board Council uh our study sessions all those kinds of things um District governance and operations the let's talk events that that uh we put put on in

131ping our commu communities our six cities together um uh Communications the Communications Department this year outrageously awesome I mean they have just Contin they continue to knock it out of the park uh and we're going to be migrating to a new website to Summer uh logos Golden Apple I mean all the stuff we've been doing it's just they're they're great um all of the videos social media engagement and reals the transcreated uh content around um trans creation instead of just direct interpretation Spanish Facebook all of that mental health and wellness you just heard from just amazing that presentation could have been a study sess two-hour study session in itself um and to be honest every single one of these could be a two-hour study session I mean that's how remarkable these programs are student health

132you know student health got a lot of attention during covid uh that that attention maybe public facing is pulled back but the amount of work they're doing in our district to support uh students and families is amazing employee Wellness uh Eco community and wellness and fitness classes and all those kinds of things it's it's it's really cool in this District I don't see this happening in many other districts uh our athletic training program and Department um nursing Stu hosting nursing students from CSM and such just just amazing human resources at the beginning of every year we have human resources provide a report to the board about how we're attracting recruiting retaining staff seeing our programs uh growing um and that's just getting better Dr Black and his whole team they they do an amazing job

133teacher induction uh 26 instructional coaches uh the list goes on special education Holly Wade uh and her whole team unified PE course that you all approved this year the bay Quest program uh Community advisory committee uh for students families of students with disabilities all their work is amazing the Special Olympics that they've put on uh in conjunction with Special Olympics on our campuses uh student services Don scatena program you know they they are often and I I I love the picture of the front desk there because for many families these are the first faces our families see when they come into our district these are the first people they talk to this in a sense is the first impression of our district you do not get a second chance to make a first impression they

134do an amazing job 2200 new e8th grade families 450 student transfers all done with a smile um and often times those conversations can be contentious you know people don't understand or they're frustrated they want help or they don't know what to do and all of that um or sort of practices training Grant you heard about alternatives to suspension you hold you heard about um sart teams technology you know no one really thinks about technology until it doesn't work it's kind of like payroll no one really thinks thinks about payroll until something's wrong with payroll and then uh oh right so uh our technology teams uh do a great job so does our payroll teams by the way uh they do AG Everyone likes to get paid so uh high five to our payroll team but

135Everyone likes to access the internet right and having uh email smooth and internet SE searches smooth and all that kind of stuff smooth secure all that so so important and they work around the clock business and operations Capital facilities the amount of construction Pro projects that we have going on uh uh all the time in this District really with no major uh no major hiccups on time on budget um facilities we're proud of we want to show off uh and then you know that comes back to us in rentals uh when we rent out and it's going to get to that portion here in a second but a lot of lot of uh lot going on Transportation teams I mean these are like the most spirited uh Department our whole District I mean they come

136come to meetings like with big posters and stuff and they're just just a a a really really great team hiring new van drivers and home to school transportation Fleet electric bus fleet that we're doing all of that work fiscal Services uh really really fantastic here you know this is a team I love this second bullet right they processed over 231.50 uh all of that it it's again it's that it's a department that uh a lot of people don't pay attention to until there's a problem and yet everything they do is so fantastic in the sense of getting things processed and done and and and moving along when there are problems in fiscal Services districts can come grinding to a halt and we have seen that in the news lately in in other districts it can

137absolutely a district and we have such a strong team they're going to present tonight as well student nutrition uh so many meals uh that they provide through Universal meals uh and and I love how Dennis and his team they just strive to get better every single year scratch cook meals there they're a real they're a department that I think really embodies this idea of continuous Improvement um and and if you go to the kitchens at each of our school districts you walk in you know the the the chefs and and people working there they're just so proud they want you to taste their food they want you to come in and talk like they're they love their space and I I love feeling so welcomed there maintenance operations and Facilities use we call it mofu

138uh they're really fantastic uh you know $2.3 million in revenue for the general fund in just rental facilities that doesn't just happen uh that takes a tremendous amount of coordination especially when we have big ticket names coming into our district big Big Ticket names uh and and and so we can't attract those kind of big big ticket names if we're Rinky Dink if we're not organized if we're not professional and and that team really is professional uh operations uh how things need to get uh fixed and addressed and emergency procedures and and all of that again no one really notices until something's wrong uh and and not a lot goes wrong around here there maintenance uh their Department led by Linda Carlton amazing over 3,000 work orders just in the second semester alone across the

139district electricians painters Carpenters locksmith I mean the list goes on and on uh grounds team electrical amazing just so amazing uh our new little logo here that's I love the animated logo looks really great um and there we have it so I went as fast as I could so big thanks to everyone um for making this uh District so special thank you great presentation thanks thank you um okay going on to end bias Grant African-American staff affinity group update that's right sorry I'm scrolling on here sorry about that you I appreciate it uh so uh oh he's already up at the podium thank you come on everyone come on up uh the first thing I want to do before you jump in is I want to uh thank trusty Griffin uh trusty Griffin is the

140one that pushed uh us to uh apply for this uh Grant um and and the work done by Dr Kempy uh and Brian here uh to to land the Grant and then the work done uh by Miss Thomas here uh to implement really just an amazing team but I do trusty Griffin want to say big thanks for pushing us forward there um really great so with that it's all yours Bri trying to um they're trying to get remember their password don't you have a posted somewhere that no I'm just kidding um oh no let's hope tsg doesn't have a posted the password good evening uh I'm really gonna go as quickly as I can board president Andre Zuniga uh andr Zuniga trustees cabinet um Miss Thomas and I are here to tonight to provide you

141with an important update on our anti-bias grant I'm going to do a little framing of this where this work sits in our Broad racial Equity policy implementation and strategies and then Candace is going to share the purpose of the grant uh early activities in which we've engaged staff and plans for the future um we're going to conclude by addressing and speaking to the issue of dehumanizing language and specifically the n-word which our black staff are particularly concerned about and have ideas for continuing to address this serious issue which has already been referenced earlier tonight um so big reminder quickly is you know why we're doing this work uh it's directly related to the Ral Equity board policy uh which which talks about um and again I I this we got this $200,000 Grant uh last

142summer um under the leadership of Dr kmy in order to further our efforts to implement this this policy um on the slide you can see the focus of the of the um the policy really is around creating um a welcoming but really support like like affirming and supportive environment for bipo student staff and families and ultimately that we eliminate the opportunity gaps for bip students obviously um this is another reminder about our Equity vision and Mission I'm not going to read it now but this is certainly at the heart of the work that we do um and then you know I just pulled together this little graphic to sort of situate this in the context of a lot of work we're doing as a district and you've heard about honestly every month over the last

143three months um that we are undertaking as a district to ultimately have schools that are humanizing spaces and supportive of all students including those that have been historically underserved and these the four broad strategies um are certainly our new humanizing pedagogy instructional framework which folks have done a good job of talking about tonight our ethnic studies courses at the ninth and upper division levels are work described by Dr Black back in April related to countering dehumanizing language across our campuses and in our board memo you'll find links to those old to those previous um presentations including our presentation on hate speech uh and student perspectives on hate speech um and bipo student in particular perspect P perspectives on on hate speech um and then finally the work described tonight related to supporting our bipo but

144specifically our African-American staff to thrive in their respective roles I'm going to now hand things off to Candace to discuss the details of the Grant and the work that she's LED this spring so you just press the green button to go ahead hi everyone um I'm Candace I'm the grant coordinator work at Mills High School um yeah so um and so this grant is to provide direct support to um our black Educators and so that's classified in certificate and also um administ trors have joined us as well and it's for professional learning and networking so that um we as a black staff um can really thrive in the district and so the expected outcome of this grant is continued retention of black falculty so they can thriving their roles and the ability to increase um

145Educators educators of color coming into the district so here are just some key components of the grant um targeted and differentiate actions to meet the needs of our black Educators um programming to disrupt and eliminate the instances of hate speech and bias um we also want to partner with organizations that can help us design experiences and Affinity support for educators so that we can meet their specific needs um providing a sense of community which is a big aspect of what we did this year a developing a deep understanding of the experiences of our black Educators and students um so why a focus on black staff and like what can we do which is targeted universalism um so basically if the goal is incre increased retention of bipo teachers um so targeted universalism and this is

146from the othering and belonging Institute at UC Berkeley is basically a framework which is saying that you don't have to choose between targeted support and kind of universal support and there's a way to mix the two um to get the goal that you want and so by using targeted strategies to recruit and support and retain black faculty staff and administrators um you could then increase overall Recruitment and Retention of bipack Faculty staff and administrators and ultimately for better outcomes for everyone in the group um so if you think about it it's kind of like bowling you never Bowl to the middle you bowl to the sides you probably you've seen the video right and you knock down all the all the bowling penss right it's the kind of the same thing um so our first

147event of uh the year was Thursday May 2nd we had a black staff and faculty event it needs a name I will come up with a name but hope this is the inaugural event um so it was facilitated by Ken Shelton and included again administrators um classified and certificate employees there were 19 total attendees and we had representatives from the do cap Mills Sano Aragon Hillsdale and peninsula shout out to Mills we had the most people there we have the most black staff on in the district at Mills um and our Focus was building community building capacity and addressing the nword um which wasn't even on the agenda but I'll get to that later um so here are some of the feedback that I got um from people who attended so it was a safe

148space to Hope open up and hear others the fact that we could speak friendly amongst each other and building Community with each other I've benefited from listening to my colleagues and sharing on occasion the ability to come together in a safe space discuss real thoughts feelings without being subjected to microaggressions and denial of our true reality and it was something that was truly special um so here are our next steps um I would like to do a familyfriendly black to school barbecue um these are alternative dates uh just I wanted to be on the weekend cuz again I want people to be able to bring their kids bring their partners and really again just about building Community um tenative professional learning dates um so something for in November kind of in the middle of the

149school year something in the New Year in January something for black history month so I just put celebration sometime in February and then something to round out the year and then our plan is to continue to work with Ken Shelton and also work with the black teacher project to facilitate these professional learning opportunities um and again we would also like to increase effort and strategies on how to minimize the use of um dehumanizing language and anti-blackness I specifically want to talk about that anti-blackness so anti-blackness is defined as the beliefs attitudes action practices and behaviors of individuals institutions that devalue minimize and marginalize the full participation of black people and it's about the systemic denial of black humanity and black dig dignity and thing about anti-blackness um one does not have to be white to

150contribute to anti-blackness or adopt anti-black attitudes and I actually believe this is the problem this is the problem that the district is having when it comes to the nword because it's not only racist it's anti-black um and so when it comes to the nword this is a testimonial um from a black employee in the district it is my wholehearted belief that the n-word is allowed to be used way too Loosely around campuses throughout the district I hear it way too often I hear it way too often to be accepted as just talk or quoting of rap music today a student used the n-word towards me after I instructed the group of them to go back into the gym I couldn't tell who said it but the fact that it was said is unacceptable I'm highly

151offended and mentally traumatized by the lack of attention being given to this matter by the district I hear the n-word at least five times a day while I'm at work this type of behavior needs to be addressed in a more pointed manner by staff admin and District so that students realize that this is not acceptable language or behavior um and so the nword usage it varies across the district it is mostly said by other non-black people of color and I think that was what the wellness counselors were alluding to um and this is a school culture problem um and like I said it it varies with usage throughout the district um so these are just kind of broad things that our district could do um so the problem some students teachers and administrators are not

152aware of the history of the nword they lock lack knowledge around anti-blackness and how it operates administrators and most teachers do not know how to address this and they're hesitant to participate and engaging conversations because this makes them so uncomfortable to talk about um black faculty staff and administrators being subjected to these conditions could create situations that allow for a hostile and unsafe work environment for black employees in the district um so to disrupt anti-blackness in addition to targeted Universal targeted universalism would be incorporating the history of the nword into the curriculum and ethnic studies could be a great starting point for this teachers and administrators responding quickly to this incident um there being a greater accountability for students to use the N word um ordering to encourage some sense of deterrence from using the

153word and also greater accountability for administrators who fail to enact concrete um concrete strategies and responses around hate speech in the district we would also like to see opportunities for restorative justice um for students who use the nword we would also like our districts and administrators at each site to publicly recognize that this is an issue and announce the steps they're going to take to address it and we will also like professional learning around the nword and any questions thank you thank you um I'll open it up now to the board are there any questions or concerns yes try Griffin oh thank you thank you for the presentation so what percent of the um uh africanamerican teachers employees participate in the the group on my list I had about over 60 a little over 60

154and then um I will say about 30 RSVP and 19 showed um we did ask people and a lot of people thought like it was like a joke and disbelief it like a lot of people didn't even think it was like a real thing that was happening um and so there is a lot of distrust among black employees in the district and so um so we're hoping since the first event was so popular and got so much positive feedback that more um black employees will shut up to show up to the next one yeah you kind of answered my second question not I I'll hold out hope because I'm aware of at least one person who's wondering how come he never got asked to participate in this and I think at least individually you know

155when we've been together I know you've been in the same group and I will come over and make it a point yes to listen and ask you know like the barue yeah yes so I will uh I look forward to put it on your calendar you saw the date right okay yeah AP Harris he won a barbecuing contest apparently so it should be good yeah ni thank you trusty land I just want to say uh so I get this because the n-word is a huge problem in middle school too and this me and my vice principal we were just talking about this and he he's at the train in Oakland right now and I said the one thing I want is how are we going to deal with the nword we got to deal with

156this this is not okay and I'm just so proud to see this right now it's just we we got to do something and I just want to know if there's Partnerships with our middle schools to help out because one of the things that really is you know one of the things that I'm noticing is this year we worked with the high school group our affinity group was working with the high school Infinity group we actually went to CSM uh to to the the Oakland Museum just this week actually again our Infinity group our African-American Infinity group went with parents and kids and families in elementary school middle school and and CSM I think this is part of what we need to do and just to hear that we got this grant is just so impressive

157so congrat congrats and thank you for us to do this because I think it's critical um whatever we learn and whatever we Implement I want to know about it because it needs to spread it needs to go to places other places to to take care of this because it is universal I mean it's happening too many places and I'm just I'm done with it and I'm trying to like as an administrator as a principal I'm trying to go what can I do to get this to stop because it's so pervasive and you've hit it on the head when you talk about bipo you know there other groups that are doing it and kids and and why and how and how do we get this and then there's even this innan conversation about a versus r

158at the end and what deal and one's different than the other and what does that mean and you know and it goes to what you're talking about with history and song and and and it's not acceptable at any level so I'm just very impressed and happy to see this in action so thank you very much um I I was I kind of saying earlier that was not on our original agenda whatsoever but when we sat in our community community Circle and we were kind of um introducing ourselves and it just naturally came up because it is such a um a problem and actually took up um the rest of our time after lunch us sitting there and um and discussing this so trusty Chavis thank you um I want to say thank you for the

159presentation and congratulations on the grant that's that's I mean that's a lot of work get you know applying for the grant and writing that up and pushing forward and thank you for trusty Griffin for for um pushing for that or suggesting it you guys did the work trusty Griffin can suggest it oh you the grand oh thank you Dr K you gotta get credit all around here thank you for that um that's great so I wanted to mention a few things one of the one thing I wanted to mention was that's great that you organized the barbecue I wanted to mention that I don't really talk about where I work too often because nobody like I don't really talk about where I work too often because no one likes to pay their electricity bill but

160I will tell you um I've been there almost yeah 30 years um we have about 10 employee groups right because everybody likes to hang out in a group even though you're too busy to work but you organize things on the weekends or you do you know you have celebrations so we have several employee groups um Latino employee group women's Network group Pride group Asian group access group to help with those with uh disabilities and to advocate for you know um every but I want to tell you that and I'm G to botch this I know I have it wrong but I have this piece right our longest standing employee group is our black employee group and I think it started in the 50s that's the I'm not sure if it was in the 50s or

16160s but it's been over about 50 years and they are strong and I think that I just wanted to mention that I wanted to mention that little bit of a tidbit that that that's the old our oldest employee group at pg& and you should be very proud that you started the barbecue the nagor barbecue think of a good name though I was trying to think of one but I can't but but on a more somber note because that was more of um of congratulations um I I don't like to hear the nword just like nobody else does and I have teenagers well now they're 18 and 20 but when they're in middle school and that's where it starts you hear the music and you can blame them music but you can and you can't because

162you can hear something and you can change the channel you can turn it off um but and then when you start to repeat that the NW that's where I say get out of my car you know turn that music off I'm paying for Apple pay and or friends will come in the car I don't be rude and disruptive but we have to disrupt that they're not saying the nword in my car but you putting on a rap song they'll tell me it's a black person singing it it's okay I don't know what we can do I know we can't solve that here at at this at this meeting but I think and this is where conversations get crunchy as a society we have to say that's rap music it doesn't matter if a black person

163is singing that song that doesn't mean that you can say it you can sing the song that that's what I've been telling my kids and so I mean my kids aren't yeah they're not singing the song I'm telling you the sometimes I become the person who brings everyone's kids home right and then they got music playing from their phone and I'm just like I'm like turn that off turn that off you know also um the I think people get the um idea that a lot of black people themselves use that word because people cuz black artists use it in their music um when actually black people don't say the N word a lot either okay um and so I think that's actually uh not a Mis Mis um perception of the music but that black

164people themselves use the nword a lot um which um at least the black people I hang around with we don't um yeah so I definitely think it is a um the perception problem as well of the music it's a you're absolutely right you're spot on and I think that um my daughter I mean now I won't have my ears right there because her friends my daughter you know for all of our parents in here sometimes you get more information from your children's friends so that I would ask them questions and one of them told me that you know earlier this year there was a teacher school that was offended because someone said that word and I said you guys need to stand up for what you know is right now no one wants to that's

165where um you have to look in Inward and and and stay true to your moral compass and speak up you know and I told it to my daughter's friends and so but I didn't want to cut off the information because otherwise they're going to say well she's going to preach to me about you know but they know to do the right thing um so I do think it's it's a problem in all of our school sites and it kind of starts with middle school so Greg if you get on that I'm just kidding I was talking about that earlier I'm like I want to learn from them it starts there and when it comes to the high school it's just perpetuating and you can't go to the workpl you can't walk out in society and

166say that in a grocery store you can't say that at a workplace we have to and think about all the people that are being hurt by this we have to I don't know I don't know the answer but but I want to say that I'm glad that we're looking at this and it's one of those crunchy conversations that's hard to have thank you thanks thank you for doing this thank you so much um it was a great presentation I really like the strategies that you came up with to disrupt this language it's so confusing to me because I feel like I've known for just so long that you're not supposed to say that I don't it's hard to understand how this has creeped into our culture so uh I don't know so much but I

167I appreciate you creating this group I believe that it's very important for people to have spaces where they can come together and feel safe and where they're with their people and um so yeah I appreciate that I'm glad people had a good experience I hope they come back you get more my daughter's best friend is uh black she and she goes to cappuccino and she has had I don't think the nword said specifically to her but she has had some very racial in incidents that were very hurtful to her and the teacher saw didn't do anything we absolutely have to have more training um we have to I mean you said teachers don't know what to do they they feel uncomfortable and um so I'm glad that you recognize that as a problem and I

168think putting that that in the E ethnic studies curriculum is a great idea too because that way everybody gets it in ninth grade and anyway thanks thank you well thank you for your presentation um you know just knowing you as a teacher you um you know you're you're really impactful and um and you're very um very committed to educating people and I think this is really important how this is going forward in our district now please invite your fellow afro Latinos too because we're all part of the same Community there were a couple there cou awesome excellent excellent well I really want to join and I want to come and uh uh join the barbecues too because that's the that's the best time um I wanted to um also ask about the parents and the

169families um are you all engaging the parents as well well um how do we how do we communicate this stuff to our families and a lot of this is is learned behavior um whether it be through music or through what's going on at home um your environment so I guess maybe what are some like what are some tips maybe or some like ideas on how to talk with parents or maybe some examples have you had these conversations before with parents so I can certainly defer to miss Thomas uh but I think you know we know that there's like a family strategy necessary here I think it's connected to our broader efforts around racial equity in general right just kind of informing our families about that so and you're a part of the equity advisory and

170so we've talked about um some more Outreach that needs to happen um I think we've we've in fact I was just talking with Dr kmy about this earlier today that we really need to kind of take our show on the road I think to families around a lot of the different dimensions of what we're engaged in I kind of put it on that one slide as one simple way to talk about it probably need to get Miss choc to help me make something more fancy but um but I think it's uh I think we need to do some Outreach to families and and the nword would be an explicit part of this I think um I don't know if do if you want to say anything superintend Brooker but yeah um I think you want

171to add anything in terms of Family Outreach um I don't know much about Family Outreach about the N word and I'm not a parent so that's why I didn't want to comment on it I do want to say um a lot of black um employees they had a lot of questions about what the district is doing and Brian was able to be like oh they're doing that and um it was amazing to have uh Jonathan and Dango there because they also have kind of like an Insight on like oh the district has this and has that but black teachers and black especially if you're classified they don't know so I think also sharing you know we and that's why I said announcing that this is or saying that this is a problem and here are

172some of the things that we have going on um because I think sometimes the perception is the district is doing nothing and that is not necessarily true right um so sharing things like this grant which i' I've shared um with blacks uh faculty and staff but also just other things that the district has done behind the scenes or on other fronts um just to let the staff know that we know this is a problem we hear you and this is what we have going on and we're going to continue to work on this well it makes me think about also the the ptso um I know that there's folks on the ptso that I know that do some of this type of work as well so it'd be great to partner perhaps with some of

173them um I know there's a woman over in at Mills the Mills ptso joy joy she's amazing and so I'm sure she would love too um to collaborate um and then with the parent the Latino parent groups too I mean we have a lot of anti-blackness in our own culture lot of colorism everywhere right and so it would be great to talk about that because we do have some afo families in our in our group as well that could also be part of this so um maybe we could talk about like even having some translators at some of your yeah that kind of have some folks come and um join that maybe wouldn't feel comfortable because they don't speak English um yeah so yeah thank you thank you very much for doing this thank you

174for your presentation um oh yes sorry go ahead I just have one more comment I know we're kind of pressed for time but that's why you have to say well this is really important um I like the but I like the fact of mentioning incorporating this into the curriculum in in ethnic studies could be a starting point because I was just I was just thinking when when you were speaking uh trusty and Zuna that and I I mentioned this before um last month when we talked about dehumanizing language and I mentioned that my daughter and her friend um they were in it was an elective class this semester but still um some some boys bumped them and made some derogatory comments about their weight so that was dehumanizing it wasn't racially motivated but it was

175dehumanizing and they didn't feel comfortable telling an adult at school they felt embarrassed and I mentioned this at the LA at one of our meetings uh last month and so for the next few class classes they kind of they kind of ditch that class now it's an elective doesn't matter if it's elective or not you st should not skip class but I understand from a mental awareness point of view they were they were they felt so bad that they didn't want to go to that class so they waited till they felt better to go right um I was just thinking and I'm not an expert this but if during the ethnic studies class if we had obviously it would need to be somebody who felt comfortable and maybe it's synonymous but just some writing of

176some students how they feel around how how it makes them feel when they hear the nword said to them right now of course no one's going to want to go go say that right because these are teenagers but I just meant like anonymously or something districtwide or maybe there's um I don't know a community resource where there's other folks within the community or just I just think that if students knew how much hurt like if those two boys knew what the hurt they caused to girls in the class to feel that pain to want to come back to class for a couple of class times right I'm thinking that we're all human and we're not we don't want really want to see anybody get hurt right so I'm just wondering if students really could understand

177the pain that it caused if that would help them to understand the pain that would cause and that they that they would care so much they wouldn't want to cause any pain but that would if that was if that could be put somehow into the ethnic studies class I'm not sure there is something like around um I don't remember if if I don't remember who who said this but there was um with like uh Victim Impact stuff okay um like talking with people that you're hurting yes you know like do we do anything like that well if you go back to the mental health yes talking about restorative questions those are the first questions that go out I think I I think what I'm really happy to hear and it's kind of nice to hear

178from both the mental health and what was going on there and also Grant here because you take it from both an academic approach and talking about management and how do we deal with it and address issues but to also the mental health issue of how are the victims feeling and how do you reconcile that and how do you create an a safe place an environment to really help them understand what their impact was yes you and I think you know maybe that's something you know that was one of the things that my vice principal and I were talking about was well how do we have an adult you know talk about that impact of that NW word and what that has done and what that has done to their lives and you know really make

179an impact in some way and sometimes kids have a hard time expressing themselves of how it impacts yeah yeah whatever I mean what they do is just kind of blow it off because oh yeah that's a cool whatever and it's and it's not it has to go deeper because it's institutionalized and so you know you're trying to break that so it's it's not an easy answer and I'm I'm glad you're bringing it up but I think this grant hopefully can really reach deep for this yeah and especially through our communities I mean our our kids not only are experiencing at school but in the environment and our society like there was a letter sent to the city council in Sano recently that was really disgusting um very very very heavy in white supremacy and this

180is in s Tao so there's like posters and stuff put up all over all over the community um really stupid nasty posters and so like our kids are seeing that they're walking home from school they're hanging out with their friends they're going places with their families and so not to mention like what that does to an entire family right that's very um it's very hurtful and so and that's partly why I was asking the questions about the influence on the mental health of people and racism you know it's completely related so um I I really really really love this so thank you thank you thank you great are there any comments from the public there are none great okay thank you um all right um going on to division of Human Resources all right I'll

181do my best to impersonate Dr Black and we'll go quickly here uh tonight we have three items excuse me on the personal consent agenda we have personel actions andou with Design Tech for Teacher induction and an approval of a side letter for new uh new teacher at Peninsula and make a motion to approve the human resources consent agenda second okay we have a motion by trusty land and a second by Tristy uh Griffin all in favor wait a minute we need comments yes we need comments board com board comments no Board of comments uh public comments there are none okay and since we already approved then we'll move on to the next item uh before we do I just want to recognize for employees that submitted their retirements uh Michelle ganella Adult School teacher effective

182June 30th she's been with the district 7 years and 11 months uh Ron Clayborn School plant operations employee at Aragon effective May 31st and he's been with the district 19 years and eight months wow Sandra merto college career and financial aid adviser at Mills High School effective June 6 then she's been with the district 16 years and three months and Elizabeth Walters instructional assistant 2 at Hillsdale High School effective June 30th and she's been with the district for two years thank you okay next we have our Personnel actions addendum uh and and that's a a full packet with classified certificated athletic coaches substitute employment and such I make a motion to approve the Personnel actions addendum hold on a sec we've got to do um we got to do comments first me out here um

183comments from the board comments from the public there are none thank you okay motion thank you motion by trusty Griffin excuse me trusty land second by trusty Griffin all in favor I I I thank you next is the approval of Declaration of Need for fully qualified Educators we do this annually um no surprises here whatsoever okay great um scroll up for me uh superintendent Booker can you scroll oh I'm so sorry good you're good there we go yep I know Dr Black's not here but I have a question go for it so when we do this do we are these including waivers of St teachers out of credential it could be so what this is saying is these are certain positions that we're anticipating we may need and when we indicate those it gives us

184flexibility in the future now we haven't had to do that in the last number of years but it does give us the flexibility of authorize outside of credential thank you but we haven't we have not utilized that for years and years to my understanding understandable I think we just have one waiver okay um let's see comments from the from the board comments from the public there none thank you I make a motion to approve the Declaration for Need for fully qualified Educators second okay motion by trusty land second by trusty Griffin all in favor so when we talk can we slow down a little because our ASL interpreters are trying to catch up thank you okay uh approval of the newcomer position yeah so this is really exciting uh this is our way of really

185developing a program and a system to support our uh newcomer ELD soccer league so this is an approval of a new job description the soccer league coordinator position thank you are there any comments from the board comments from the public there are none thank you uh can I get a motion so moved uh motion by trusty land second trusty Griffin seconds all in favor I thank you okay um approval of counselor in response to the daac and the elac recommendations a 1.0 FTE intake counselor and instructor for newcomer students job description has been developed uh to address the extra time and support our newcomer families and students need when they first arrive in the US and specifically at the CER Union High School District thank you comments from the board comments from the public there

186are none thank you I'll make the motion thank you motion by trusty uh Chavis second second by trusty Jacobson um all in favor I thank you approval of the CT Pathways yeah the district reest requests board approval of the revised CTE pathway lead stien from $5,000 to $8,000 due to the increased responsibilities thank you any uh comments or questions from the from the board comments or questions from the public there are none thank you motion makees a motion second motion by trusty Chavis second by trusty land all in favor I I thank you okay approval of the memorandum of understanding and job description yeah the district's uh bay university adult transition program accommodates uh students transitioning into adulthood adulthood um and this is anou and a job description for a new uh basically head position

187for Bay University department head position thank you comments from the board questions comments from the public there none uh motion I will move to approve the the uh which one was this one theou for the yes for the bay University second thank you okay I made the motion uh second by Tristy Griffin all in favor I I thank you okay uh there are there's nothing from division of student services uh anything from division of instructional yes thank you so um this item is the professional development contracts for the 2425 school year um aligned to our Equity work we are proposing to continue contracts with several providers many of these we've been in um community with for three to four years some of them longer um includes uh Shane saf and Joe truss um we've had

188a ongoing um partnership with them um originally we um went into contract with them because we had put out an RFP for our Equity work um to train all staff in anti-racism and develop language around um how we talk about racism uh we started out with a fairly large contract this is uh much reduced and really it's um for two schools that continue to request their coaching PD coaching so that's Mills High School and Middle College both still use um specifically Joe trust so he's working with their PD team coaching their PD team and then giving direct professional development um to them uh the satisfaction rate from both the administr Traders there who he's coaching their teams and the staff has been really positive um the middle college team in particular has been really happy

189with the support they're pretty small staff so um they really you know it's nice to have somebody help with their facilitation they're doing a lot of visioning I know now um they also will do two days with our ilt teams so as you saw for the two days of professional development um it was a whole effort by the whole I team that included Brian myself savy Marlo all of us were facilitators um in order to continue our work and facilitating professional development we also need support in our own learning so we've found um both Shane and Joe are helpful in that because they have a lot of the district contacts so um that's one of the contracts there so it includes work with Mills Middle College and then our I team um the other contract

190is restorative Equity partnership they provide direct training for our student Equity Council so again this was a fairly large contract three years ago because they helped launch the student Equity councils um we've reduced it quite a bit because we've um you created some internal capacity with our student Equity coordinators um and really we're just using them for onboarding so they support onboarding new students so oftentimes that's our ninth graders and then they support the kickoffs um then we have two um professional development contracts with um Sano County Office of Education um they're providing udl specific for supporting teachers who have mls in their classes which is almost all of our teachers and then elel aieve elel achieve I think um our partnership with them actually predates me I think we've been in Partnership for 10

191years um so they are are kind of one of the experts in ensuring that we're creating structures in classrooms for multilingual support um so there are contracts for each one of them effective use Solutions is coaching um support for our tier 2 teams at the schools we've been using them for about three years um and they have a really research-based way of ensuring that we identify students who need tier 2 basically students that might need a little additional support and maybe not a full support class matching them with appropriate interventions and then we finally there's a small contract we usually put that on consent but because we had all of them here is with jice Butterfield she is a reading specialist specialist in ELD um supporting our work around addressing the disproportionality so believe that's

192all the contracts that we have on this we kind of do this annual moment because um you know we're at that point of renewing them all so that is the over I don't have a presentation for it but all those contracts are attached thank you Dr kimy thank you um are there any questions or comments from the board there just have one quick comment and I I can't find it and I may have dreamed it up although I doubt it um that guy that that was written in terms of pricing and structure and how you looked at things I think really helped oh yeah that was included I think in earlier information I don't know if a weekly I think yeah so we we have like average we look at the average going rate of

193a lot of these contractors and all these contracts are in the going rate I mean if you get some big names you can spend a lot more on a keynote if we Hada Hammond for example who's a pretty big name in um the education world she would cost us a little bit more um but most of these are well within the average range for the work the daily rate thank you for your work with all this yeah um trusty Jacobson yeah uh I have a question can you tell me like how much the Joe truss and Shane Safir were involved with the development of the instructional framework and as opposed to how much was done by our own ilt team um ourt Team put I don't know upwards of 40 hours probably in the work

194of visiting classrooms the Shane Safir and Joe trust um what I would say is their contribution is they help facilitate some of the thinking and brainstorming around all of the data coming together and thinking about how we put it in to um kind of a more concise Vision but almost 99% of the instructional framework has been done by the ilt team so um as you heard at the professional development a lot of it is from actual visits to classrooms and most of the ilt time is actually facilitated by Marlo um the couple days that we have with Shane Safir and Joe truss really are to support our the the team's growth um so that Marlo doesn't have to think about facilitation he can be thinking about being part of the team on those times so

195I see well um I just want to share with the with the board um some insights about them I attended the professional development day in January of 2023 where Joe and Shane did the uh keynote um my impression was not very favorable uh I felt that Joe trust relied on emotional ulations of pity fear and shame to win recruits rather than with substance Shane's presentation was quasi religious in nature um I felt it was inappropriate for a professional setting um she had video of student interviews that was good um since then I've spoken to a number of teachers and I know you shared that they had some favorable reviews I have some unfavorable reviews that maybe were unafraid that were afraid to come forward um some said that it's obvious that the move to hire

196them was reactionary and um some said that their message was preaching to the choir and it was prepackaged rather than adapted to our specific needs that it lacked substance included false claims present Ed flimsy ideas as absolute truth they report that many voted with their feet or their keyboards to avoid these professional learning sessions one teacher told me that the language of white supremacy culture and anti-racism turned a lot of people away I've also read articles written by Shane and Joe and I agree with the criticisms that I've just spoke of I see a number of problems with their approach beginning with the fact that a lot of it's based on narrative and not on fact um it doesn't it also just doesn't make sense that many non-white people perform exceptionally well in a supposed

197white supremacy culture the very phrase is a microaggression on non- bipo people but in the Paradigm of anti-racism there is no such thing as anti-white racism because they've redefined the meaning so that only those with power and privilege can be racist which is unfair in his writing Joe truss uses capital letters for all Races except for white and intentionally uses lowercase for white people and this is dehumanizing but the biggest problem is that it is impossible to dissent with the framework of anti-racism because dissent is easily dismissed as white fragility denters are intimidated into silence out of fear for being labeled racist do we really want to be a district where staff and students self-censor out of fear and that forces compliance through intimidation these Consultants operate in a single story framework of anti-racism with

198a single story problem white supremacy culture and a single story solution which we must pay them to teach us there are many thinkers white and people of color alike who openly reject this anti-racist narrative promoted by people like truss and um I also would add that the reading list that informed the instructional framework was very single story um if we want our students to engage in open inquiry and civil discourse we need to do it ourselves so I suggest that we broaden the scope of experts that we look to and that we not renew that contract I also suggest that we not renew the contract for the restorative Equity Partners I looked at the curriculum for the um the students the Liber uh Catalyst leadership liberatory curriculum and I feel it has many of the

199same problems that I just outlined so that those would be my recommendations to the board the other contracts look good to me c could you give some examples of what you mean like by what some of those things were um I didn't get the same reaction you did so I'm just trying to understand like what were some examples um and what you described that made you feel uncomfortable sure um so for example Joe truss in his presentation we spent a lot of time um paying respects to Tyrie Nichols who had just been who had just died from wounds inflicted by police and he said that it had been a few years since George Floyd had died and that we need to keep the movement going um it just came across that he was using this

200most recent death as uh an excuse for keeping up his job security and I felt that that was disingenuous and manipulative but not really because we feel that like in in in seeing that for me it says a lot I mean it it validates my experience also in this in this society and it validates the things that have happened to our communities for so long it actually names it so I think the difference in the perception I believe is based on your own lived experience through this so we I don't believe it's fair to devalue that because you don't experience that but other people have and so I think that I think that is that's devaluating and that's it's just it's not it's not Val it's not validating the experience of of people that have

201experienced this stuff well I would also add that uh I mean I also gave some other examples about how he doesn't capitalize white but he capitalizes other races the the term white supremacy used over and over again is a microaggression on white people it is offensive how how is it a white how is it a aicro aggression like give me because it makes I'm shaking right now just talking about it so okay um I think we we need to it's also it's also a problem that we say that we value all cultures we respect all cultures and that everybody is welcome and then we demonize white supremacy culture specifically but why wouldn't we why wouldn't we why wouldn't we think that that's a bad thing white supremacy culture well because he says that white supremacy

202culture is everything that we that it's the water that we swim in everything it feels as though um the default American Western capitalist project is being rejected that's how it feels that is my experience when I hear those words trusty Lan go ahead I I'm I respect both opinions at least what you're thinking from your own perspectives my my perspective from an academic standpoint is I was looking at the acsd article that Dr kmy and Truss and Shane put together and in reading the article I mean the philosophies that come out I mean just stay the course listen deep listening centering voices you know taking things from the margins I think opening up to new voices is important and I think the strategies that are coming across through this training is important it's not easy

203it you know I I can't address the w i i don't I agree with you on that I don't think if if everything's one way and it's going to be the other you're you're just trying to react to something and that's not something I approve of you know you want to make change and you want to bring it up so if that's happening I don't think that's appropriate um and it's one example that I understand but I think um but I think overall I think the training has been good I think it's been you know well received I think it's something that we need to continue is it uncomfortable in some ways yes I don't think I think Supremacy is a word that I would not want to use um I I think um and

204if that's the case that's what we're talking about is established issues of a culture that needs to to change and and I think that's the whole point of what we're trying to do here um but it shouldn't demean anyone and it shouldn't demean anyone in my I'm I'm consider myself I think what's hard for me is I understand both sides because I'm both white and and and Hispanic and Latino and I have a variety and people look at me in both ways just by the way I look and so um I I'm reminded of a conversation where someone in the audience or online years ago accused uh both Bob and I of being white and whitewashed and that was insulting in in itself um so things are not going to be perfect but I believe

205this this is this is what we need to keep going I so I approve and I agree and thank Dr kimy for putting a comprehensive list together I know it's altered from from previous uh PDS that we've done we've removed some and and I and I respect that and I think this is where we need to go so I'm going to make a motion to at some point in time when we're done with this discussion to approve the list of contracts for PD oh was it I don't think like the recommendation is that it's it's approved right no it's moving to consent to consent yeah so okay so this is the first reading of it and I would move it to consent is what I'm gonna say is the motion come up this way before

206we have this process in place but I do want to um just say a few words because this is uh as superintendent Booker says we've we've crunchy conversations and so I think it's about you know respect um everyone's opinions which I know we we we that's our Mantra is that we respect each other's opinions um and and I do want to say that you know trusty Jacobson thank you for I mean I know it's it's bold and brave to to say everything you said and I commend you for whether I agree with all of it or some of it or part of it I commend you for being brave and saying that and you also mentioned that you heard from teachers and um staff members MERS who you know had those feelings so I think

207feelings are are legitimate and I think my understanding and the way I feel is that white supremacy anything with Supremacy you think you're better than somebody else because you make more money or because of the color of your skin any Supremacy I I don't think that's I I I disagree with with that I I disagree with that um with anybody who says that they're better than somebody else because of the car they dve Drive clothes they wear the money they make where they where they grew up what country they grew up in um I disagree with that because we're all individual and we are who we are we're not um I this is hard too to say for me but um I see both sides like like trusting land you know my my kids are

20850% Latino so I I'm I think I'm partly Latino just because of my kids but um that doesn't make me Latino though I'm I'm 100% white but I think that we have biased we have what's the word um unconscious bias or conscious bias implicit bias or is that the same thing as unconscious bias implicit bias yeah so we have bias I mean look at us here at the table would you know that I'm the person who was homeless when I was six years old for four months family of four leaving in a car you wouldn't think that because of my the because of my skin so sometimes I grew up thinking that I was oppressed I grew up on on food stamps I lived in a car for four years when I was six years

209old whenever I heard people talk about oppression I I thought that was me until later on in life as an adult that's when I realized People Are People some people whether it's conscious or implicit they think that um where am I going with this I know I'm getting emotional they they they think that the oppressor is always the white person but growing up I always thought that I was oppressed because of of our friend financial situation um our socioeconomic condition of my family so I I just think that um anybody I think I don't like any I'm against um Supremacy whether it's white monetarily any of that so but I would just want to say that I I I just want to say I'm proud I'm proud of of you um Having the courage to

210say what you said tonight well I just want to make it clear to everybody here that I'm not trying to defend white supremacy culture I'm trying to debunk that as the Boogey Man thing that's keeping us from achieving more equality that's what I'm I'm just trying to differentiate so please don't misunderstand my words as saying that I'm trying to uphold white supremacy because that's not what I'm saying and what I'm trying to say is that if if this culture um that we're all swimming in without realizing it is actually racist then why is it that there are many nonwhite groups who thrive in this culture that's not that doesn't make sense I just want to bring up the the the fact that I I get what you're saying I just feel feel like I'm glad

211this is being brought to the attention and that's why I think we should you know this this is a good thing that we're having a controversial issue and we're talking about it again Supremacy has to deal with establishment and and breaking down what is established syst because the systems and trying to go beyond the systems of privilege and and and that's what you were talking about Terry you know when you really think about it who is oppressing you well the system system and who is in charge of the system and how is the system working these are all questions and things that we want to children and students to really question and figure out and break this cycle of what was going on why do we use the n-word you know why do kids do

212that what what why is the society why is it still used why is it still used just remember that it's used by nonwhite people that did no but did you not hear what Candace was saying that it's not just not the but where did it come from like that's the whole thing it's it's that's not true that is a stereotype um it's misinformation so here's the other thing sorry I I am I apologize for interrupting you please finish the difference is our experiences yes Terry you were oppressed I completely hear that but when you walk into a room and when I walk into room it's different it's completely different being in this wheelchair you walk into the room and I walk in the room it's completely different that is supremacy that is supremacy and I

213don't I people might not agree with me whatever but that is that is an experience that it's it's very real and it's not just with me and so when I when we talk about that and we want to bring that to light it's because it's the validation of our EXP experiences when my parents go to the store do you do you the way that they're treated it it's it's it's based on Supremacy and it's still happening the flyers I talked about earlier that are all over sto right now it's white supremacy and that's what we're trying to call out and I'm sorry if it if it's uncomfortable but how do you think we've felt for all these years being stereotyped as gangsters and and and thieves and and and uneducated how many people tell me

214that I speak very good English well no duh I was born in this darn country it's like and and even if I wasn't what is that supposed to mean microaggressions all the time right so it's just I it it it it it it bothers me because that is completely invalidating what we're feeling and what we've experienced this this Proclamation we we read today that's not just from a hundred years ago that was that's happening now I'm not denying that it's happening now I know and I was going to say that um my my friend I had her meet me at at a at a at a store we were shopping for clothes and my friend well my friend's black and she got there before me and she whispered to me she said there's two people

215who have been following me around the store so I went up to them and I and I said she what oh she's with you okay I said I'm not shopping here you don't do that to my friends well she's the same age as me I I agree that there's microaggressions and I agree that there's Sarah what I'm saying is I'm against white supremacy and I feel bad that just one two older white men running for president right now two older white men you know Sor I'm sorry I just want to say this one thing again I'm going to refer to this article that the three in Dr km's part of the writing in this is they they they bring this up and they talk about it and in in one of the paragraphs it talks

216about racial battle fatigue and what what I hear Leia talking about is this is going on with me all the time and I have not as as a person who's been perceived as white does not really get the same problems and it doesn't experience the same thing and I think as a white person I need to recognize the fact that my experience is not the same and how we need to change and work on it so again what I'm going to say is I approve of this PD because they're actually pointing out the problems that we're talking about and arguing about here both sides both sides both sides and I was just saying here that I I agree with you that still happening now because as soon as they saw me talking to my friend

217and that she's with me they backed away and I went up to confront them to ask them what do why are you why are you doing that this is you know it's yeah anyway I am not denying your experience or anybody else's experience I'm pointing out that in this um that the people that I've talked to we've had these these consultants for three years I believe four um the the message is being re has been received the teachers that I spoke to said we don't we don't need people to try to get us to buy into this most of the people already buy into it we need specific tools which is what the IL team ilt team is providing what I saying is I don't think we need outside Consultants at this point to come

218in and deliver the same message we have the expertise in house that we don't need to spend the money on these um Consultants at this stage of the journey but that's what we did we had them come in and they taught and and I'm saying I don't think we need to do it anymore Dr You can disagree with me that's I'm just saying my PE you know it's uh a real pleasure to find this crunchy stuff real late at night and um yeah what you know we're I guess my first concern is when are we supposed to be talking about agenda cut off and stuff 10:00 okay uh 10:30 or 10:00 10 10:30 it's 10:30 10:30 it's 10:30 well anyway we we'll be here at 10:30 be 10 maybe they change it to 10:30 okay

219well anyway I'm not the the expert on the bylaws but you know I mean trusty Jacobson you make a good point and I mean you know the what we're talking about here is capacity building you know one of the things I'm trying to trying to sort through this is it the message or is it who's delivering the message because the message has not changed because the conduct and the issues and the challenges that we face has not changed now whether that message gets delivered by some you know some of our staff and you know the the instruction comes from them or whether it comes from a you know a a paid consultant I think can we do it inhouse um and would it be the same or different so I mean that part I think

220is is maybe it's a it's a valid question um along with and I don't have I didn't get enough notes and all the issues thankfully this will be on consent agenda but I would like to hear the points that trusty Jacobson has and also you know get that with feedback from the administration I'm not married to these Consultants I mean you know I'm not just like okay we got to have these these people um but I I don't want the content and stuff to be watered down as a result of who's delivering it so um and in terms of you know one thing that is just I too have black friends I too know the difficulty and you know I'm being sarcastic I mean this is you know I mean we all know we face

221every one of us faces some sort of discrimination some sort of racism in our daily walk I mean you know and what we're trying to do here is to get context to share views to get empathy for the shoes the other people walk in that's but and that's what yeah that's what trusty was saying right I was saying to Leia that when she said she's still experienced it I said yeah I I see it firsthand when I'm in a store with my friend I see it and I'm and I I and I was just so mad that I said what are you doing and I'm not buying my stuff here but but you're but what Bob is trying to say is you're not in his shoes I you're next to his shoes you're not exactly

222experiencing the same thing it's empathy which is important but it's not but I mean having keep pushing this you're really going to try to understand total imp you where it's not just I I I understand it from my perspective but how do I understand it from another person's perspective and my friend was explain not an easy lesson no no it's not an easy lesson in fact and my friend was expl explaining how she felt and that and I was agreeing with liia that we it's still a problem today that's my whole point of sharing that story is that it still is a problem today not that I have a black friend like you said we all do and we all should well and watering it down I mean what are we saying this isn't what

223it down no no that's that's why I'm saying if we can do it in house you know or whoever the consultant is I'm not so much enamored or committed to the consultant I'm really what is the message I don't want the message Jac's message was about the cons as the only one here who has been to PD with yeah trust and without I've been others before we've been I've I've been to two days of professional learning with our staff delivering it and it was so much better and that's I think what the point was I mean Dr kmy can you clarify was that the point of getting them to Train everybody was for you all to do it eventually right that's correct so the current contract is really um working more internally so some PD

224coaching which was requested by those PD teams the teachers who are teachers on those teams at Mills in middle college and then the ilt team in which the whole ilt team is very appreciative of their support for the work that they're doing um I think we've got a comment from the public um if we can rest this conversation then well and then take some comments yeah there's no vote anyway I think it's it's um going to consent okay um uh can we take the comment from the public please thank you go ahead hello everyone my name is Marlo bik I am the pl coordinator I just wanted to request some time here some of the things I heard said um just as a person who's been in the district for almost 10 years and um

225passionately serves um representing both Peninsula and now the district I just I hope I hope I hear everything that's being said but I'm highly concerned because at the end of the day we're serving kids and we're serving all kids and we understand where our gaps are where our vulnerabilities are and I want us to understand that there's so many silent voices um that have gone gone unheard and that's what this work is that's what keeps me driving to do what I do to serve every single one of our students in our district at all at all sites and this is what it's about I hear that there's some politics or whatever is happening right now in the discussion it's highly concerning because this is about the education of kids and I've served them I've served

226them at the margins I've served them at continuation high school knowing the Brilliance and the Excellence that they could bring and all we want to do is to surface that for all the kids that are scared to come to scared to exist and so we know that there's problems in the system and so when there's commentaries about Joe and Shane and the contracts um and some of these ideologies that are coming through I think what we should reel back to is is it helping kids and yes it is if you listen to the kids if you listen to their voices it absolutely is I sat in a focus group with the board reps and everything single one of the student board reps said it's amazing about what we're doing because it's creating community isn't that

227what we want we want to be able to come together to coexist without disension without Division I just want us to consider that seeing witnessing this from a board that I've literally served my like almost my entire career it's disheartening right now in public education we need passionate teachers and that's what I'm serving and that's what I hope to continue to do and I really hope that you guys could get it together can I say thank you yes so again interestingly I'm going to go back to this article the participation of this and this is a quote the participation of Sano superintendent and board members in district-wide professional learning which I totally remember being a part of was crucial in signaling that we were all in maybe it's a time that we need as a

228board I mean I will reflect on maybe not putting it on consent because I think maybe the Board needs to be brought in and talked about and we we need some education as well because we are the leaders and we have to be part of this and we have to be able to be on the same page or at least have some sort of consensus and right now we're not in consensus I mean we all have very strong opinions and I respect that and I like that but we need to be able to come together at least in agree what direction the district is going in and I think right now we're having some real faltering you know and I'd want us to have some sort of like let's coming together a little bit maybe

229maybe some sort of maybe some sort of PD again for us is is important again I know you look at me like that but I think maybe we do as a team just to hear the same just to hear the same stuff because I'm hearing I'm hearing what Jennifer's saying and she's gone to these things but maybe we as a group need to be together to do this so we can all hear it at the same time and talk about it because I hear what she's saying and I want to try to understand and I think if we did it together we might be able to move forward in a better way because right now we're just coming from different angles our own experiences and we're just not on the same page Ag and I

230want to try to figure out how to do that so my recommendation is maybe we as a leadership group need to get back on this and and hear some what's going on and what's being taught I invited you all to do a set of modules about how to how to talk to each other and everybody shut me down well maybe Terry didn't well I'm not talking about that I'm talking about the subject matter nobody shut you down and um usually I'm busy but I mean here bringing it here and we need we need to move on I was just going to ask trusty L are you are you suggesting because I know they're just looking for direction are you suggesting that we move everything to consent except for this one contract that we want to

231discuss further no I'm I'm willing to move them all to consent I just think my recommendation is I think the Board needs PD as well because I will let's go back in time the csba or Sano csba put together an equity Workshop where we participated as a whole group and that's what we did as a board this board has not done that and I feel there's a lot of lacking because of it we're not on the same page but years ago we were all on the same page because we went through the same training and maybe we didn't agree with it maybe we challenged things maybe we question things but it gave us some ideas to Center us and bring us together and I think we've kind of not have that right now and we

232need to go back to that because again going back to this article that you wrote years ago you know was it a couple years ago or 22 Yeah okay anyway really talks about how we were and where we've got to this point and I feel like we've made some great strides I mean even the speaker was talking about how we've been and I think we've kind of need to reassert that and get back to that so that's my recommendation because I do want us to be at least respectful in the way that we're working together and and I think we were respectful and night listening to each other I mean I might have got excited I think we're not on the same page okay but but we're respectfully listening to everybody's opinions and I think

233I don't disagree with that I think we've come a long way I mean we're not going back to the boom boom boom and attacking that's not where we are but we still need to kind of experience the same things together and that's something that maybe I think we need a little bit of because I'm respecting what Jennifer I'm really listening to what you're saying and what you went through and and what you heard and I haven't experienced that so I can't judge one way or the other and I'm just using what I know and reading the Articles and reading the research and doing what the the the background to say I think we're okay with this so that's where I'm at and the direction is to put everything on consent including that one um yeah

234and maybe add some PD for us on this well and early on when I was first on the board I did participate in one of these um with with Shane and Joe and it was a lot more intense um I don't know if you remember Dr kmy this is this is lighter than it was so yeah um and with uh with superintended Booker um we've had conversations about bringing in uh someone to talk about implicit bias and all that stuff so maybe we should do that um I think that's a good idea all right so um we've gotten comments from the public uh I'd like to entertain a motion to move this oh to consent dire just Direction you don't need a vote oh it's just Direction okay okay all right so what we moving

235to consent then I thought we had to vote on that no no just like board operations when we move uh specific board policies to consent we don't take a vote um I think you've you've heard all of us I think you know where we need to go if we need to do some adoptions or changes or whatever do it if it needs to go on consent or you want to talk about it in a weekly and bring it back that's yeah I mean I I've taken three pages of notes and and uh one of the things I think we need to do is provide to the provide the board uh you know I'm looking specifically at the details of this particular contract and it's really working with Mills High School Middle College and our instructional

236leadership team those are the three the Mills High School and Middle College PD teams one uh professional development with middle college and Middle's High School teachers too and our uh instructional leadership teams so I'd like to get us some feedback from those three specific groups back to the board Bob you asked for this um how they've been received how effective have they become how does the ilt team feel moving forward uh with this work do they need these cons because this is the last year of a four-year contract what's in front of you is really an outline of a foure contract and they they give you a little bit of a summary over the last three years this is the last year of that contract specifically to those groups um but I think leading up

237to next Schoolboard meeting I want to get you that data attendance data things like that to help build out um answers to some of the questions so this this this one and I don't me to interrup this one vendor is just for what you specified for their Mill so so different School sites are using different vendors for their PD days when they asked for that right those School sit these two schools continue to request that support are other schools um use their internal PD coordinators but these two specific schools have requested to continue the support thank you for clarifying that thank you I mean that's good to consider because I if they're asking for it then I mean what else could we offer them I I would also make a recommendation it's obviously up to

238the board I mean we're going to have many things on the consent agenda for a June 20th board meeting every year the last June board meeting there's tons of things there if if we put all these contracts on there only to have it pulled right to talk about more why don't we just agendize it just just to talk about it yeah putting it on the consent calendar based on this conversation I just see it pulled to discuss so all the other ones kind of what I was saying it's like you guys know what to do do it um I don't know how I don't feel like I need to discuss anymore I just would vote it down I no I understand no that's not what I'm saying I understand that no but if it's on

239consent then she'd have to vote down consent you pull it off yeah you'd have to pull it okay that's that's fine yeah okay I mean the only thing I I need to understand what trusty Jacobson was saying I mean I didn't I mean I just you were saying facts and stuff and so I just want to consider all this all the both sides of the issue and and you're also saying teachers and staff had spoken to so it wasn't just the M this contract is for Mills but it wasn't not necessarily Mills all of them right right because they were uh conducting the PD day for the entire districtwide I guess is that right yes yeah yeah yeah okay then I'll move I'll I'll place all these on consent and then when we get on

240for the June 20th and when we get to that item if there are um if there are board members that want to vote on a particular contract separately we would just pull it because voting no would mean voting no on all the con items I don't think we want to do that so could you could you get some information on those sites and like what is it about it that they want like they maybe why do they want that direction from that particular group or what helps them I don't know but it'll give some clarity maybe put that in a weekly one of the concerns that I had that Jennifer brought up was about the W the the the capital versus not if that's going on why need some justification or understanding um because that

241concerns me it does but is is that in there is that in the stuff that they're bringing to the district well I just know where listen I will explain where it came from I read the contract I read the proposal in The Proposal he said these are the things that we're going to be focusing on and he referenced an article that he' written for Education week I clicked on the link I read the article that's where I saw it so that he said this is what I'm going to be focusing on and it's right there in black and white see I was reading the other Artic and the wasn't capitalized okay so it' be nice to know what's going on there all right um let's move on okay moving on moving on sorry I'm finding

242there all right it's 10:30 so point of order I'm it's not 10 yet almost three minutes so what do we want to do do we want to to what is it uh postpone some of stuff well we we're not permitted to postpone the public hearing on the annual budget or the all cap uh or the excess of minimum reserve requirements so take a break do you want to take a break do you want to keep going so you have three public hearings coming up for the rest of this let's just do it we don't have to present it's just open hearing right yeah let's do it B break two two minutes then Brio break whatever okay I need to stand up I was jealous that Jennifer was standing up earlier e e e I have

243some gummy bear I'll turn it off for you thank you got it all right um and we're back so going on to the local control and accountability plan um go ahead yeah this is a a public hearing um and what we've attached to the agenda is our local control accountability plan there's an executive summary and a number of documents Associated uh this will get moved for approval at the June 20th board meeting but tonight we're required by law to hold a public hearing so I'm happy to support you with that if you'd like trusty thank you okay I will now open the hearing are there any questions or comments from the public there are none okay I will now close the public hearing okay so we'll be moving that to um uh open Agenda at

244our next meeting for discussion and approval thank you all right going on wait wait I got a few questions just kidding are you serious youor okay division of buiness services Mr Hawkins are you serious right thank you so much um all right so I will endeavor um to be as quick as possible but I want to make sure that we're we're going over some important items uh so the things that I will kind of skip through just to let you know are the things that have already been approved by this budget uh along the budget uh uh uh the budget development calendar so um with that uh I want to thank um Valerie Miller and Vanessa castano um I I note this uh most every time uh they do 99.9% of all the work here

245and I just want to thank them for their hard work their professionalism and really their skill with the budget uh we're incredibly lucky uh to have them uh so where are we in the budget development calendar um we in January we approved the budget development calendar for the year uh the board has already approved the enrollment projections uh those Drive Staffing uh in the district um so that's an incredibly important uh piece they've also uh approved uh all of the Staffing as well as the other main budget assumptions at our early May meeting uh they've reviewed the governor's January budget and the May revise um and now we're at the point of the the required public hearing for the budget so the agenda of the things will be going over uh as part of the

246packet there is a full set of the budget guidelines and here's just a few of the highlights but I know the board knows uh these guidelines because they gave us to us many many years ago okay we went over the governor's May revise in the end of May okay just hitting on a couple of um key assumptions our assessed valuation uh in this public hearing budget is 4.7% that was the amount as of last Thursday when the board report was due I just do want to note that we have seen an uptick uh in the last a couple of days so today it sits at 5.16% and we will continue to watch that move forward uh one change from the budget assumption is that we have included a 3% salary increase uh in in the

247public hearing budget um uh along with our negotiations with our labor Partners um and the workers compensation rate is at 1.52% which is in line with this year uh I do want to note though we just received information that smig Sig has done a one-year uh small about 2% uh rate uh decrease for 2425 only uh so at the next uh the June 20th meeting we will reflect that onee only uh a decrease these are the enrollment projections districtwide that have been approved already by the board these are the Staffing that was already approved in the budget assumptions meeting uh the stirs rate uh and total statutory rate for our certificated employees this is in line with our budget assumptions uh same with pers although we have the exact Pur rate which is a tiny

248tick under uh what the projected rat were going to be for 2425 um one thing to note is we have about a one and a half% projected increase to the purs rate over a three-year period um while that's not great uh it is better than as you can see any of the threeyear periods over the last 10 uh this is the same one-time funding uh slide that was included in the budget assumption so we do still have onetime funding that uh is slowly going away we do not expect significant additional one-time funding uh in the next few years given the state's budget situation can you go back just for a second yeah just the sr3 corre yes it's going to be done in and sr3 learning loss those disappear correct that's what we have left

249and we need to spend them by September 30th yeah it is it is on track to be spent by September 30th really leaving the the big one as that learning recovery emergency block grant as the last kind of covid fun that are remaining lasting yeah the others are separate somewhat related to co but not specifically uh this is the previous Board of plan um to step down those covid expenditures after feedback the board um updated uh and approved a new uh reduction plan uh to support the retention um based on that feedback um so just a couple of changes since the May assumptions meeting so this is an important tab our secured property taxes have continue to tick up Tick up um by the AV uh tracker from the county uh the Sela funding I

250do want to note this is uh this is a hit to the district we received the projection for the uh funding for 2425 and it was 600,000 lower than the previous uh uh funding we are looking into all of the details um for that but it looks like uh that they've they actually have been making mistakes in the past um and so uh we will continue to work with the county on this but it's looking like we will see an ongoing reduction in special education related funding of about 600,000 uh moving forward uh in terms of expenses salary and benefits that's the 3% that were included um in there uh we saw some uh instructional uh departmental budgets updated um and then um based on our projections and our discussions with pg& um uh and

251uh then we do see an increase of about 300,000 needed electricity damn PG we're hoping to offset some of that by the new solar that will be uh implemented but uh we're not going to calculate that until it's there good question before you move yeah secured property tax obviously you're saying this is a change of increase of Revenue is this what you're talking about with the assess valuation going from 4.7 to 5 uh no that's what you will see on June 20th you'll see this is from early may this gets us up to the 4.7 so we actually will be increasing that number yes you'll see it a little bit above that right but we'll need it because I'll where we'll get to in a second um overall this is the um this is the

252overall budget you have second interim you have our budget assumptions from uh early May and then we have our current projected estimated actuals in public hearing um due to the changes noted above which include the 3% uh offset a little bit by some of those other changes including the property taxes I am bringing uh to the board a budget that is seeing an unrestricted deficit of around 2% um and so that's the largest deficit that I've brought uh to the budget now we're going to continue to monitor um uh you know our assess value growth you know how our negotiations go but I do not see that being um you know that to be uh wiped out I do expect us to run a deficit in the in the next year unrestricted um and this

253is an important reason why we keep a strong fund balance in this District because we don't have to jump right away when we are projecting a small uh or medium deficit which I would call this of a to 2% um so what it what what is this message we need to we need to be not in expansion mode right now if we're looking to add something what probably means we need to start taking something away um and I know there's no lack of great ideas and wonderful things that we can do for students uh you know but I go to the old CBO line that uh you know it can also be used they use it on superintendence but they also can use it to the board is that you can have anything you want

254you just can't have it all and so I think it's going to be really important as we look um you know in the future is that we're really going to have to look at opportunity cost around the things and then we're also going to have to start you know probably flipping around the edges to get this budget back in line and so that means some difficult decisions and you know truthfully uh this District hasn't had to make a lot of you know we're really lucky that we haven't had to really make you know tough decisions uh you know so hopefully we'll get it you know tightened up a little bit but then you know over the next year two years probably going to have to make some decisions uh around that um and so I

255do wantan to do want to note that um but really when I come at first interim that's really going to be a time where we're really going to know we're going to know our actual staff we're going to know how many kids we have um and we're going to know where that assess value in those negotiations and then we're really going to have to address what we're going to do like I said though this is why we have a strong fund balance so that we don't have to jump immediately when we have a 2% deficit but we have to look at it we have to acknowledge that it's there and then we're going to have to deal with it you know over the next year to two years so you're de so you're decreasing well

256the costs are decreasing our reserves so it's not as high correct but there will be a time at one point where the a structural deficit like this has to be addressed and recycled or readjusted absolutely and the earlier you can address that the better because okay that will allow your fun you're not red lighting you're not you're not the bells and whistles and Sirens are not going off yet you're saying okay we just need to slow down I can I answer that absolutely the bells and whistles are going off for me why I because I don't feel comfortable with the 2% deficit I I think um uh we're lucky that Kaiser rates are projected to be quite the the the rise quite low we're Super Lucky um so we've got some time and space to

257address this and to do it over a couple of years to develop an over a couple of year plan rather than not address it for some time and then have to hit the axe I disagree I I get what you're saying I really do but I'm also a little less I'm a little skeptical because we have such a huge Reserve so I but I'm listening okay what I've experienced here so far is and I know it it hasn't been like this always here in talking to both you and and trusty Griffin uh we don't have a culture of fiscal restraint here right now right now we we've had it yes but we don't have it right now and so getting people to kind of wrap their head around a culture of fiscal restraint I mean

258we cut 1.2 ft of something this year and it's as if we cut 15 FTE I mean the reaction to cutting 1.2 was much stronger than I would have anticipated and so it's it's it's and this is why I'm saying we need to address a culture of fiscal restraint over a couple of years and my recommendation to to go back to the way it used to be is present ideas for how to reduce not to say here it is do it we could do this we might do this we do this that will help us get to where we need to be because then we're cutting it the way we want to cut it but if we just kind go well here's what I want you're going to get push back but if you get

259we could try this we could try this we could try then I'm I totally we can't just tighten the about we have to say here's five things that we can do we need to keep these three and eliminate those two or as long as we eliminate something right and you saw that we could do a step down program I mean we actually did say yes to that and then we compromised exactly anyway I I I think that's just what I'm trying to say about this um all right um all right I will I will move on uh in terms of next steps uh on the 20th uh we will bring forth to adopt the budget in the lcap um obviously we're going to continue to review the uh the assess value tracker um we will

260continue to manage the one-time funding um hopefully we will finalize our negotiations with our bargaining units uh in the next few sessions that we have scheduled um um and then as I noted in the fall we'll look we'll look and see our final enrollment and Staffing uh we'll analyze how our long-term management plans aligned with our District's goals and outc caps um we'll manage our fund balances uh and uh this one is the one that trusty Griffin loves we will resist using future projected dollars or onetime Monies to justify paying for ongoing uh expenditures we will resist it so uh with that I'm happy to open it up to any questions okay I will take questions and comments from the board do you have questions have you run your multi-year I know you have you

261got your multi-year uh what do you just a lot of times cbos just show break even in the out years yeah it's always that third year oh my God we got five anyway so I just signed off on the final adjustments for the June 20th uh meeting which means I'm going to get my final uh uh I'm going to get my final uh myp uh in the next hopefully 24 hours what I do expect is we include a 3 and a half% assessed value growth a year in the uh multi-year projections we also include steping column so you know we're we're getting the the regular things what we don't include because they haven't been authorized or approved by this board is a salary increase so what do I expect on the multiyear projection I expect

262that three and a half% assessed value growth to bring probably by the third is well the second oute the third year in my multi-year projection that we will move from a medium siiz deficit to a smaller deficit to a somewhat small positive but I will also be very clear that that would if that happens that would mean zero increases you know um with our labor partners and I also don't see that as realistic with a three and a half percent assess value growth each of those years so I I I I would expect by the probably the third out year it to be either close or a small positive you know but with the huge caveat that that doesn't include any increases uh to salaries and benefits which I do expect that the district will

263want and will give you know to some degree the um we're you know every government that's adopting budgets or everyone is have struggling with these same issues whether they're in education or just local government or Special Districts um to some degree our fortunes are tied to the state economy and I don't see it turning around um you know in the next in the next three years so I kind of think we need to be we need to get started on that diet I mean you know and I agree okay just I'm with you just just you know just it's it's there I mean you know and so because you you pay me now or you pay me later you wait till later it's really hurt you have to pay more but is there a way

264to go slower I mean I I I hear what you're saying but and I hear what Greg's saying because you will get pushed back if you do it right at like all at once just no more spinning right so is there like do you have any recommendations for like a gradual um and then could you give us those recommendations absolutely so for good or for bad um in every District that I've been in before this I've had to run you know a prioritization process around making reductions um we've just been lucky in this District not to have had to do that significantly there has been I've looked back in and over the last 10 years there has been reductions here and there so there there is that muscle that can be worked out but districts

265across the state with covid money really since 2020 really have not had to do that and so I get it once if you stop working out your muscles yeah you know you you got to start working out again and so uh president Andrade SGA yes we will bring options here I'm not g to throw out different options right now because you know I think probably coming to you with a process is is more likely what we will do um and then it as trusty Lan noted you know bringing 10 options and saying well we don't like six of them but four of them we don't like either but maybe we can consider and so uh you know we'll look at that like I said at first interim um you know we will uh absolutely know

266kind of really where we are and then uh you know we'll bring some more information then uh to do that you know I just had an epiphany about the budget advisory committee I think you know and I remember we're sitting on that maybe with trusty Rogers or somebody and we had the standing list you know that we kind of talk to you know to the business services about the the kind of thing so I don't know who's serving on that but that uh no been meeting well yeah who is time to get on that that's part of that's part of starting to you know stretch and uh work those muscles so I'm I'm definitely in agreement with you trusty Griffin yeah work up a new joke I I got I got I got a good

267one so yeah so couple questions so I know this is not huge but I kind of want to know the financial impact of it the governor changed his Cola from a py 3.8 38 whatever to a giant 1.07 how much money did we is that going to be we usually refer to it it's budget dust I mean yeah it's it's I just it was it was the only positive thing that changed everything else was cut cut cut yeah you know okay no I mean you know to two uh to state funded districts you know when it's their lcff right it's calculated it's a little bit more than budget dust although not that much more for them either um but for us it's truly you know it's a rounding it's a rounding error okay um for

268our overall budget it's not it's not doing anything but hey we'd always rather go up than down right right okay assess valuation yeah it's up at five point what 5.16 5.16 as of this morning where do we think it's gonna end this year I'd say it I'm remarkably surprised because I was like you I was thinking you know 3o whatever and we're finally slow down and yeah the county the county projected generally across districts that it would be around 5% so if we got to five and a half I could see that but I don't expect it to but I I wouldn't be I wouldn't be shocked okay I don't see it going over six unless there is just so much information at the county no more5 but this this assess value tracker this year

269has been wilder than any of the other years in terms of swings so okay uh you know I'll know a lot more on 620 because after about June 15th the tracker pretty much stops so and and even though I'm keep talking about all this optimism and positives I I really I really do understand that we need to start getting on a diet so I understand that so let's figure out what kind of diet we're going to do and how we're going to do it so are there any other yes I want to say thank you for the presentation I mean there's a lot that goes into preparing these numbers and I want I know Vanessa and Valor are still sitting back there and I want to thank both of them you said that they do

27099.99% of the work but I know you're you're I know it's great that you recognize your staff as as we went to as well but you're part of the team and you're team is is amazing you they are amazing but you're right my 0.1% is is is very you said 0 1% actually it up to 0.1 sure no this is great and and I think that um it's it's it's good to take a look to see if uh if we need to go on on a diet I I think that um that nobody wants to fund future projects with using onetime money because then you can't maintain that project going forward yeah yeah so thank you for that reminder any other comments or questions from the board do we need to do a public hearing

271yes yes we'll do that right now okay I will'll open up the public hearing questions from the public there are none all right I'll close the public hearing now thank you very much thank you too one more public hearing uh so oh sorry no no go ahead so this is just a required by law public hearing around our Reserve levels um this came into effect when the reserve cap uh uh started at the state level when it was brought in at the 11th Hour during budgets um and so we need to hold a public hearing around our uh Reserve levels all the information that is needed is in the packet we have an excess like lots excess no just saying this is a you know that's what this is about um the the board the

272yeah what's show on the agenda that the board boliz um that 12% and I think we're almost at 15% right what you just showed us uh yeah yeah the required minimum is the 12% by board policy we just showed I think we're 15 about 15 right it's that's about that level yeah what are we exactly I'd have to go back it's the slide he just showed us the SL here here right I saw one yeah yeah it's slide we already did the we did that last public hearing twice but well [Music] um oh second inter 16 now it's 1499 14 1464 that's okay it's it's almost 11 now yes okay I'm opening the public hearing any questions from the public there are none all right closing the public hearing thank you Mr thank you okay

273going on to board operations yeah we've got some specific board policies and admin regs uh from March uh and we're requesting that they get moved to the consent agenda next me not sure can we agree that we'll move them to consent um the policies can I pull it if I feel like because I don't know what's on it I did not look at this like I'm sorry I yeah help is there anything well usually I ask Kirk is there anything significant change on these are all based on new laws yeah there's has a question he can all right ask later no worries all right so if you have questions later you're I'll I'll let somebody know in advance before it goes crazy okay all right um are there any questions from the public or comments

274from the public look there are none okay we'll move with these on to conent for the next meeting uh future board agenda items CTE Pathways instructional leadership update and board retreat June 27th we are now adjourned thank you oh sorry no no no I didn't take public comment for those you yes do you all have comments or if we have recommendation on future board huh I don't but the question okay how about about public there are none okay now we're adjourned thank you