001and we will go to the regular meeting. We first we have the flag salute which will be led by students from George Hall. >> Everyone everyone please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. Oh, >> should Yes. Looks like we have a land acknowledgement for uh led by lead soon to be Cottage Grove Cove students. >> We the students of room 20. We the students of Lead Elementary acknowledge that our school stands on the land of the Ramataloni people. The Ramatic Shaloni cared for this land long before us, protecting the water, the trees, the grass and all living things. We have learned
002that their land was stolen from them and many aloney families were separated and hurt. >> We want we want to remember their story and honor their strength. >> We are grateful for this land and promise to take care of it with respect just as the Rama Shalonian people did. We hope to keep learning from their history and their connection to the earth. >> Thank you. And I apologize. I think there was supposed to be a an announcement about the translation. So Joe, if you want to run that now. >> Okay, hold on. >> Thank you. Okay. >> No. Uh, we will now do roll call. Trustee Ho here. Uh, Trusty Proctor here. Trusty Kim >> here. And I believe Trusty Proctor Oh, sorry. Trusty Brooks is virtual. >> Trusty Brooks, are you there? >> Okay.
003Possibly not. So maybe she will join us later. Um, and I'm here. So, uh, Trusty Brooks is absent for the moment. Um, next we will move to approval of the agenda. Um, I would like to pull um two items for discussion, please. 4 B1 and 4 C1 agenda. >> Oh, okay. Sorry. >> Motion to approve the agenda. >> Second. >> All in favor say I. >> I. Okay. Motion passes 40. Um, next we have approval of the March 26th minutes. Okay. >> Um mo um I believe there's some clerical errors uh that need to be fixed, but um I would like to make a motion to approve the March minutes after um some kind of minor clerical er edits are made. >> Second. >> Okay. Thank you, Trusty Ho and Trusty Kim. All in favor
004say I. >> I. Okay, great. Um, now we will move to public statements related to non-aggenda topics. We have the string quartet music performance. Um, so we'll start with that and then I think we have maybe one more after that. So go ahead. >> Wonderful. Good evening all. I'm Helen Groans from Burell Middle School. We wanted to bring the Burell String Quintet this evening to share some music. We recently got to perform at the CMEA Music Festival, California Music Educator Association at Cappuccino High School and we earned the unanimous superior for the chamber orchestra and the string orchestra. Thank you. And we were so proud of our performance and in addition to the orchestras, the bands performed and put on great concerts. So, we wanted to share a small snippet of all the musicians. This
005evening, they will perform Lab Bruha. Lord. might be. Heat. Heat. Oh, hey. Thank you so much. Um, okay. I think we also have uh Bal Can you all hear me? Okay. Uh, good evening members of the board, teachers, and families. My name is Bal and I have a child at Bowage Middle School. Um, first and foremost, I wanted to uh say thank you for providing us the opportunity to speak today about an issue that is shaping the lives of our um kids every single day and that is the use of technology. We are fortunate to have the support and um of the school district and uh management and leadership of our middle schools and we'd like to continue this dialogue. Uh we do realize that um technology is not inherently bad. It in fact it
006has opened doors to learning creativity and connections that previous generations possibly could not imagine. Students can research any topics instantly collaborate with peers around the world and express themselves in powerful new ways. But with these benefits comes a serious responsibility. And as we all know, I mean, every right does have a responsibility and we're concerned because this balance is seriously slipping away. Um, one of the most concerning dangers, uh, is the effect of excessive screen time on mental health. Studies have consistently shown links between excessive screen time and increased rates of anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem amongst teenagers, which in turn can distort their sense of reality and self-worth. Another issue is the impact of focus on learning. Many teens report struggling to complete homework without their devices and oftentimes it makes it harder for
007students to concentrate deeply. Over time, this weakens attention span and reduces academic performance. We do know I mean we appreciate teachers put in a lot of effort and a lot of hard work to teach our kids and we do not definitely want to undermine that effort um because the success of the students is a shared responsibility between the educators in school and um family and parents at home. There are risks that go even beyond the classroom. We're aware of cyber bullying, online predators, and exposure to inappropriate content. These are real dangers that students may not always be equipped to handle on their own. We agree that there is no easy solution and um what we do propose is for um the schools to kind of support and the families to play an active role um
008in educating the kids and uh helping them prioritize and teaching them about digital uh uh literacy, technical literacy and digital literacy. Um we of course don't have to teach our kids anything. I think they're smart. they probably might teach us a thing or two. Uh but we definitely want to emphasize um the impact it can have um on the psychological effects uh that social media especially can have and how to set healthy boundaries and also if we definitely would appreciate any support that we get about um having schools encourage uh phone free phone free classroom times. Um we do know a lot of schools um have the yonder pouches and um something like designated technology breaks encouraging offline activities as much as possible so that um they can promote real world uh interactions >> and
009in I'm sorry the time has expired. Thank you so much for your time. >> Thank you. >> Um thank you. Um next public statements related to agenda items. persons will be called on at the appropriate time. Next, we will move to foundation committee and PTA council reports. Do we have anyone from the foundation? I think I saw Karina. Thank you. Good evening everyone. Sorry, I'm gonna lift this up. Um, I just wanted to um share tonight that a week from Sunday is our Harlem Wizards basketball game. Um, someone asked me the other day like, "What if I'm not very into basketball?" And I said, "Oh, don't worry. It's not just a basketball game. It's also mostly a show that's funny and fun." Um, so it is on Sunday, May 3rd from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
010We have lowered prices this year to make it more accessible. So, it's $15 for students or kids and it's $18 for adults. Um, we also sent um four complimentary tickets to each school so that they could hopefully invite a family that might not be able to access it. Um, right now we have 26 staff players that are registered. We're very excited about that. Um, so just know that there will be likely someone from your school who's playing in the game against the Harlem Wizards. Um this Monday we had five assemblies. We did two assemblies at Burell Middle School, an assembly at Samonteo Park, College Park, and Highlands. And we had a Harlem Wizard come with us and meet all the kids and do some tricks and have the kids do some tricks. And then he
011gave out free tickets to kids who participated with him. And all the students had a really fun time. Um, so what we're encouraging is that if you're coming to the game, this is the first time we've asked this, we want people to wear their school swag or their school colors because this is really the only full community building event that we do across our district. And so it would be so fun if kids were wearing the colors or the swag from the school that they represent. Parents, you can do it, too. Um, and then lastly, you can go to the Ed Fund website. you can go on our player list and you can see which player is representing your school. We also have some district representation um in players and coaches and um also that's
012where you can purchase tickets. So, thank you so much. Hope to see you there. Thank you. Next, we have Do we have any committee reports from the board? Anything? No. Okay. Um, anyone from PTA Council either here or online? Joe, is there do we have anyone online? >> Checking. >> No comments at this time. >> Okay. Thank you. Okay. Well, we will move to um SMFCA. updates. Oh, um, you guys can rock paper scissors. I don't know. >> Joe, do you know if there's anything a presentation that's queued up >> or which one it is? Which school? Uh, I believe it's one for lead, soon to be Cottage Grove. >> Okay, we'll start with you. >> Um, good evening everybody. My name is Natalie Delahunt. I am the principal of Lead, soon to be Cottage
013Grove. Thank you for having us this evening. >> Good evening. I'm Shannon Tumi, assistant principal of Lead, soon to be Cottage Grove. just introduce yourself. >> Hi, my name is Natalia. I'm in lead suit to be in Cottage Grove learning in Miss Glickbark's class. >> Hi, my name is Angel and um um I'm in um lead turn soon turning into Cottage Grove and I'm in Miss Glick Park's class. That's a mouthful that we're looking forward to shortening very soon. Next slide. So, yeah, our school highlights. One of the big things we accomplished this year with the help of the board and the superintendent and quite a few folks here tonight is changing the name of the school and working on our new mascot. You can see that's us right there, the Cottage Grove Cubs. We
014are super excited about this mascot. Really cute. We're already looking at merchandise and things going forward, stickers. Um, I know there's a new sign ready to be put up on July 1st when it's official. So next year it's an official thing and we don't have to say lead soon to be Cottage Grove. I think it's going to be Cottage Grove formally lead but that may taper out over the year but this is a big highlight for us as a community mainly because it was done with a lot of stakeholder involvement and everybody feels really proud of it. Next slide. So every year, I think the board knows now, I I choose a theme, a book theme for the school year. And this year's book theme was under the big umbrella or the big umbrella. And
015we did a lot of work around this. Basically, the message is simple. There's always room for you at our school under our umbrella of the school. Um, and we did art projects. Um, every teacher has a giant red umbrella that says that that there's room for them. Um, and we just do fun little things surrounding the theme. It's a way to bring the whole community together. And the other day it was raining. Two days ago it was so lovely to look out on the yard and just see just masses of red umbrellas opened up and kids huddled underneath them and it just it was a wonderful way to sort of end a rainy day. Next slide please. Um another really huge success and um special event that we did right at the beginning of this
016year with the help of one of our one of our community partners was uh cuts and cones. And so we had um a bunch of barbers from the area that donated their time and came to our school the day before picture day and they were able to provide brand new haircuts. Um and what was really neat was it wasn't just the students. They were they did all family members that were willing um male, female, they did not care. And then we had um ice cream cones. So it was something that Miss Dela Hunt and I had really wanted to have at our school. So we were super excited when we were able to do it this year. Next slide, please. And then this was another really um special thing for this year. Um we have
017a very large um Polynesian community at our school and especially in our neighborhood. And this year they created their very own club with the help of an intern social worker that was at our site this year as well. And so they didn't want to call it the Poly Club, they wanted to call it Pacifica Wellness. And it's been really incredible because she's been able to infuse mental health um also for the students and so she's working with students during the school day one day a week and then the every Wednesday they come together their parents come on site they have food they're currently planning a show for our variety show and it's been a really incredible way to just really bring another part a large part of our community together on campus. So, we were
018super excited for that. And we'll leave the stars of the show for next. Next slide, please. >> This school year, we did something new. It's called PBL. PBL is a newer, funner way to learn. We do pro projects, art projects. We gathered the school together in the NPR so they could see our hard work >> and we get to show off or when I get to with fifth grade all all the little kids we get to show off our work our hard work. So so they'll just learn stuff about about us or like what we've done during these all of these years. >> I think that's it. I think we are done. Next slide should say Yep. Thank you. Thanks everybody. Thank you. Next we have George Hall. Okay. >> Good evening everyone. Um I'm
019Justine Deaggi. I'm the principal at George Hall Elementary School and I have with me some fifth graders who are going to share just some of their reflections and their time at George Hall since their time is coming to an end pretty quickly. Um, and then we have some first and second graders from Mrs. Papus's um, class who will be singing a content language song. And um, weirdly it's really connected to Earth Day that happened yesterday. Um, but it's just content language songs and poems are um, an ELD strategy that we've been learning about at a site our site level. So we are excited to share that with you. But um, first let's hear from our fifth graders. We have Alex and Troy. Good evening, school board members, Superintendent Nachoa, and members of our community. My
020name is Troy. I'm a fifth grader at George Hall, and I am our student body vice president. My name is Alex. I'm George Hall's student body president. We have both been at George Hall for the past six years, and we can't believe our time here is coming to an end in just a a month and a half. We are proud to lead and represent our school and we wanted to take this time to share some things that make our school special. Students at George Hall are inclusive. We celebrate our differences and find ways to support and work with one another. I remember a big project we did about ecosystems in third grade. My group had very different ideas, but in the end we combined them to make sure everyone's voices were heard. Students support each
021other every day in ways like this. >> Our teachers are kind and truly care about students. I feel safe and supported here because I know I can talk to any adult if I have a problem or need help. I remember in second grade, I had a really hard time coming to school. My teacher took the time to help me feel safe. She listened to my feelings and understood what I needed. This is just one example of the many ways I've been supported over the past six years. This year, our teachers and staff have been focusing on and learning more about designated and integrated EL inclusive and resorative practices as well as writing. We are excited to introduce some students from Mrs. Papa's first and second grade combo class. They will be performing a content language
022song she created about changes in the earth connected to their current twig science unit. We hope you enjoy. There we go. It's a fast change. It's a fast change. It's a fast change. An earthquake makes the ground feel strange. The earth is our home. But erosion moves the dirt so slow. Oh slow. Oh so slow. Weathering breaks the rocks. You know the earth is our home. The coine meets the salty sea. Salty sea. Salty sea. Naturally, the land meets the land. We build a seam all the way to protect our stand. He's a river in river in river. Let the sand begin to grow our beach again. >> Sandy holds the grounds with roots so deep and seeds round. The beach stays down. But sometimes waves are just too strong. Just too strong. Just retreat
023along to a place to stay. >> Thank you. So much musical talent today. Um, okay. I think that concludes um the SMFCA update. Um, if we can take just like a one minute break in case people want to quietly exit. We will not take it personally. Up to you. Or you can stay for the whole meeting. Do you love Okay, next we have U CSEA update. >> Oh, she's here. Okay. Long time no see. >> I know, right? >> In person. >> I'm sorry I'm not Brienne. Hi everyone. I'm Alicia Aragon, a chapter president of CSEA. Um I actually came here for one reason and it's not the first thing I'm going to say. Um I didn't realize the the layoff resolution was on here, so I do need to mention it. Um, it is
024always unfortunate if someone is being laid off, but I do want to twist this around another way because I know this district tried really hard to rehome this person. Like, um, Aaron and HR definitely tried hard. I know the sped department was involved. So, there was a huge effort made. So, nothing against anybody, like we 100% understand. We We're good. Um, positive. We're going to be positive. But the real reason I'm here is actually exciting. Um so our chapter was chosen to participate in the ACE program this year through CSEA. Um we are one of 10 chapters throughout the entire state of California that was chosen by association president Adam Weinberg. So we were very honored to receive this um nomination. Um what the ACE program stands for I know I'm turning red. I'm sorry.
025Um what the ACE program stands for I these kids are so good and then I come up here and I'm like it stands for acknowledging classified employees. So, traditionally that's done during classified school employee week. You guys already do a resolution. Thank you. That's one check on the box. Um, they do give us some money to acknowledge our employees and uh we do throw a party for them right before classified school employee week. But here comes the fun part because this requires partnership with all of you. Um the the thing that CSEA really likes about this is um partnership with the district. Um, it's mainly management positions shadowing classified school employees. And they say for a day, but that's ridiculous. You guys have jobs. So, if if people could come out maybe an hour or
026two to shadow classified school employees, we think it would be great. Great way for you to acknowledge the hard work that they do. Boots to the ground doing it with them. So, I'm claiming you, sir. >> I spoke to Dr. G already. She thought it was a fabulous idea. Um, but I would like to extend this invitation to the school board, to our deputy CBO, to our assistant uh, superintendent, to our directors, executive directors, coordinators, principles, and assistant principles. The only ask we have is that you do not walk out of your office and sit next to your admin because they're going to get really upset at me if you all do that. We want you to come to a school or go to M or go to the central kitchen. Mark Everett, our pony
027driver, would love someone to ride along with him. That's that would actually be a fun one. So, we would love to make that happen. Brienne Bishop, who you usually see here, will be sending out um I believe a Google form for you guys to fill out and say which school you'd like to go to. Um and we're really excited about this. So, you're all bobbing your head yes. So, I'm assuming you're in. So, # Thank you. >> Thank you. Next, we have >> Next we have Smeita. Hi, I'm here tonight on behalf of the educators of SMIA as we move through April. This month brings several important opportunities to celebrate and appreciate the people who make our schools work. Yesterday was administrative assistance day and I want to recognize the incredible work of our off
028office professionals. They are often the first point of contact for families. They keep our schools running and they support both students and staff in countless ways. Thank you to all of our administrative assistants for everything they do. Looking ahead, the week of May 4th is teacher appreciation week followed by classified employee appreciation week. While these recognition weeks are meaningful, the truth is that these dedicated professionals deserve our appreciation every single day. These weeks simply remind us how critical every role is to making our schools work. From teachers in classrooms to custodians keeping our spaces clean, cafeteria staff feeding our students, instructional aids supporting learning. Every person plays a vital role. On behalf of Smeita, thank you to all. We appreciate our dedicated, classified, and certificated professionals. Thank you. Thank you. >> Some very excited >>
029kids outside still. Um, >> they love board meetings. >> I know. It's It's so fun. Um, all right. Next, we will go to announcements. Do any board members have announcements? No. Okay. Superintendent report. >> All right. Um well, I'll start with just an appreciation for the students who performed tonight. Um if you haven't, you know, worked outside of K8 school district and you don't understand how exceptional it is to have middle schoolers play the kind of music that our students can play. Um they're obviously very talented kids, but they're part of a pro part of a program that starts in elementary school and then once they get to Brell, but you know, really all of our schools, they have um dedicated professionals who invest in them and mentor them and um coach them. Um, and
030so it's just it's a big, you know, um, message to the community that that we value arts education and that we see it the joy that kids bring when they play. I also just want to make a personal comment on just um, loving the musical choice. I just think it really it really spoke to me. never heard that song played by students in a venue like this. So, it was really beautiful to hear that song be played. Um, and then also all these uh first graders, they're going to remember that song for 20 years. They're going to impress their parents uh in in family parties 10 years from now and say, "I know a whole song. It's not working. I can't get it to work." I tried, but it's not working. Um, I also um
031want to follow up on on Lisa's remarks about um recognizing our educators and and May is a month where we have both classified and certificated employee recognition and um it's it's never enough to recognize um the people who do this work every day for just a week or two weeks. Um but it is a moment to pause and think about it because all of us um are so involved in the work and so embedded in the work. You have to be reminded to think about You have to be reminded to stop and think about the impact that a school librarian has on a campus and to think about the impact that somebody's English teacher who introduced them to a book that they've fallen in love with or um the first math teacher that helps you
032understand math and make you feel smart and make you feel like you can do it. um the office assistant who treats you like you're one of their personal children, not just a child at the school. And we have those kind of examples all the way um in in really every part of the school campus. So, um just a note on on even though it is just a short week for our CSEA and our certificated employees, it is a good time to pause and to really think about that. Um, and I want to encourage everybody to just um, drop that person a note um, stop and thank them during that week. Um, because it is a time for us to to pause and remember. Um, and last night we had a room full of 44 uh,
033stakeholders in here which were students, teachers, classified staff members, administrators, and community members. Um and we were doing some really important work on the school district's uh vision design process and um these are 2hour long evening meetings from 6:00 to 8 and it's just always beautiful to see I kind of have to shoe people away at 8:30 even though the meeting ended at 8 cuz I want them to get home and and get ready for for the next day. Um but the group of people that have been doing this work together, we have one last meeting May 6th that will also be in here. Um and we believe that by the end of that meeting, we'll have a draft uh vision statement for the school board to consider in May. Um, and what we were
034doing last night is we were taking almost a thousand pieces of survey feedback from students, parents, and staff and we were holding that survey feedback against the initial draft of the vision language. Um, and we feel like we we were able to really improve the language. Um, and that vision those vision statements are just going to be really strong when we bring them to the board. uh back in in at the end of May. So, just a big thank you to everybody on the vision design team. I know they're watching um the meeting tonight and Lee will go into much more detail about it. Um and that's my report for tonight. Thank you. Next, we will go to the proposed consent agenda. I believe board member wanted to pull some items. >> Uh thank you.
035I would like to pull items 4 B1 and 4 C1 for discussion. >> Okay. Does anyone else have any items to pull? No. Um, does anyone in the audience want to pull any items? Okay, Joe, can we check online for public >> comment requests? >> No public comments. >> Okay, thank you. Um I guess I will do we have a motion to approve the cons proposed consent agenda with the exception of 4 B1 and 4C1. >> Uh motion to approve the um consent agenda um pulling items 4 B1 and 4C1 for discussion. >> Second. >> Um thank you Trusty Ho and Trusty Proctor. All in favor say I. I. >> I. >> Okay. um 4B1. >> Um thank you. Um so I guess I had a question about the um reduced workload program. Um I
036was you know kind of spending a little bit of time reading um ED code 22713. Um and you know this is just kind of you know part of it is just trying to understand a little bit more. Um in the ED code it was sharing that you know the reduced workload shall be equal to at least 1/ half of the time the employer requires for full-time employment. Um and I'm noticing on this document here that some of these employees are asking um for less than a.5. And so I just wanted to understand a little bit more about this. >> Yeah. So what's showing here on this item is the amount of the leave for the employee. >> Thank you for the clarification. clarifying questions about this item? No. Okay. Uh, any impersonal comments? No. Joe,
037can we check for impersonal comment on this item? >> Checking. >> No public comments. >> Okay, great. Um, well, we can move to approve this item, I think. Yeah. >> Um, making a motion to approve item 4 B1 of the proposed consent agenda. >> Second. >> Okay. Thank you, Trusty Ho and Trusty Kim. All in favor say I. >> I. I. >> Okay. Next. 4C1. >> Um, so 4C1, you know, talks about um um the elevation kind of support system for our English learners. Um so first want to say I am very supportive of you know software that supports our English learner community. Um I guess I specifically wanted to ask about you know these two organizations specifically elevation and curriculum associates. You know I think knowing that it is going to be serving our
038e community. I'm very interested in protecting the personal information of our community. Um do we have any kind of language in writing that you know these organizations will not share or release our students or our famil family's um personal information for example address or school of attendance to you know ICE or you know other organizations. >> Yes. Good evening uh trustee David Chamblas here. Um I can I can pull the contract language to to inform you specifically. Um there are asurances in any of the contracts that we sign uh about the um the privacy of the data that is held by um uh Curriculum Associates is the organization that supports the elevation software. Um, but I can get you the specific language um of when I have the opportunity to to pull the contract. >>
039Great. Thank you so much. >> Is that it? Okay. Um, any other board questions about this item? Okay. Uh, all right. So, um, any inerson comments about this item? No. Joe, can you check online for comment >> checking. >> No public comments at this time. >> Okay. >> Um like to make a motion to a um approve for C1 of the proposed consent agenda. >> A second. >> Thank you, Trusty Ho and Trusty Kim. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Okay. Next, we have human resources. >> Good evening, board of trustees and superintendent OOA. this item for consideration of adopting a resolution recognizing classified employee appreciation week May 17th through the 23rd. This item provides an opportunity to acknowledge the invaluable contributions of our classified staff who support daily school operations and ensure
040a safe, welcoming, and effective learning environment for all students. And with that, Trusty Trin, I'll pass it back to you. Thank you. Um I think we typically read these out loud, so I would love to do that. Um guess I'll start. Um this is resolution number 11/2526 classified school employee appreciation week May 27 to 23rd 2026. Um whereas the week of May 17 to 23rd, 2026 has been designated as classified school employee appreciation week. And whereas Santo Foster City School District classified employees bring their expertise, enthusiasm, and heart every day for students, staff, and families. And >> whereas Sanonteo Foster City School District classified staff support students and families by welcoming them with a warm smile, making phone calls to encourage school attendance, providing translation during meetings, and managing independent study work. And >> whereas
041Sanato Foster City School District classified staff support students social, emotional, academic, and physical well-being by providing highquality child care in the annex program, conducting ELPAX testing for students, assisting students during sensory breaks and serving nutritious meals. And whereas Sonteo Foster City School District classified support staff participated in meaningful collaboration with the district. And whereas Sonteo Foster City School District classified staff create a safe environment and foster an all-in mentality on our school campuses, the custodial and maintenance team keeps sites clean and attractive. And nursing staff help students stay healthy so they can attend school. And >> whereas Sano Foster City School District classified staff go above and beyond by participating on committees and task forces including the vision design team. And >> whereas Sonteo Foster City School District classified staff have been role models for
042students by saying yes when anyone asks for help, showing empathy and kindness to others and through their can do attitude when faced with difficulty. And whereas the Sanonteo Foster City School District recognizes that these are only a few examples of the classified staff's dedication and commitment to students. And whereas the Sanonteo Foster City School District community recognizes the extraordinary undertaking and hard work of its classified staff in educating its children. >> Now therefore, be it resolved, the board of trustees extend its sincere appreciation and gratitude to the San Monteo Foster City School District's classified staff and proclaim the week of May 17 to 23rd, 2026 as classified school employee appreciation week. And >> be it further resolved that the Sonteo Foster City School District Board of Trustees strongly encourages all members of our community to
043join them in personally expressing appreciation to our classified staff for their dedication and commitment to children. Okay. I think we will take a we usually do public comment on these. I guess >> I'll do it. Yeah. Okay. Uh did you any questions? Probably not. Um, are there any inerson comments on this item? >> Alicia's back. >> I mean, I'm here. >> We just wanted to say thank you. So, thank you. >> Um, thanks Joe. Are there any online comments? >> Checking. >> No public comments at this time. >> Okay. Thank you. Uh, guess we'll if there's no other comments or does anyone want to make comments beyond this? >> I'm going to comment at the end, I think, to just wrap it all up. >> Okay. Um, I'll take a motion on this one. >>
044Motion to approve the adoption of classified school employee appreciation week. >> Second. >> Okay. Thank you, Trusty Ho and Trustee Proctor. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Okay. Okay, next we have adoption of certificated employee appreciation week and day of the teacher. Um, so we will read this one as well. Um, this is resolution 13/2526. Uh, certificated employee appreciation week on May 4th through 8th, 2026 and day of the teacher on May 5th, 2026. Whereas the week of May 4th to through 8th, 2026 has been designated as certificated employee appreciation week and May 5th, 2026 as day of the teacher. And whereas Sanonteo Foster City School District teachers and certificated staff have committed to continuous learning by participating in expanded summer and schoolyear professional development in content such as foundational literacy effective strategies
045to support multilingual and special education students, mathematics, implicit bias, and restorative practices. And >> whereas Sanonteo Foster City School District teachers and certificated staff have committed to building positive and safe classrooms and schools by listening to students, engaging families, teaching social emotional learning lessons, connecting families to resources, and supporting colleagues. And whereas Sanonteo Foster City School District teachers and certificated staff have gone above and beyond by tutoring at lunch and during prep time, teaching after school and during school vacations, substituting for classroom teachers, and participating in leadership teams. And whereas Sanonteo Foster City School District certificated support staff are recognized for assuming responsibilities outside of their regular duties as coaches and athletic directors, ELPAC testing coordinators and PTA schools site council and ELAC representatives to provide a robust school experience for students. And whereas Sanonteo
046Foster City School District teachers and certificated staff embrace and prepare for the future by serving on committees and task forces, including participating in the vision design team. And >> whereas Sanonteo Foster City District teachers and certificated staff participated meaningfully in collaboration with the district. And >> whereas Sonteo Foster City School District recognizes that these are only a sample of the ways that our dedicated educators positively impact students, staff, families, and the community. And >> whereas Sanonteo Foster City School District community recognizes the extraordinary commitment, hard work, and dedication of its certificated staff in educating children and supporting families. Now therefore, be it resolved, the board of trustees extends its sincere appreciation and gratitude to the Sato Foster City School District certificated staff and does hereby proclaim the week of May 4th to 8th, 2026 as
047certificated staff appreciation week and May 5th, 2026 as Day of the Teacher. And >> be it further resolved that the San Monteo Foster City School District Board of Trustees strongly encourages all members of our community to join them in personally expressing appreciation to our teachers and certificated staff for their dedication to their work. >> Okay, thank you. Um, do we have any in-person comments on this? >> On behalf of the certificated members, thank you. Joe, can we check for online public comments? >> Checking. No public comments at this time. >> Okay. Thank you. I will take a motion on this one. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Okay. Thank you, Trusty Kim and Trusty Hoe. All in favor say I. >> I. I. >> Okay. Um, next we have um 5C, approval of resolution
048for reduction of classified services for the next school year. We are bringing forward the board's consideration for this resolution regarding the reduction of a classified staff member and this recommendation is aligned with applicable laws and district policies and we respectfully ask the board to consider and take action on this item and I'll pass it back to you to Trusty Kim. >> Um okay. Um are there any board questions about this? No. Okay. Um, any inerson comments? Joe, can we check online, please, for comments? >> Checking. >> No public comments at this time. >> Thank you. Um, okay. Uh, any comments? >> No. Or Okay. >> Um, just a quick comment. Um, Alicia, I really appreciate you sharing kind of that background about that there was a lot of effort made to rehome this um, employee.
049Um, you know, I I think when we hear it from district staff, we we believe it, but when I'm hearing it from you, I really believe it. So, um, thank you so much for sharing that background. >> Okay, I will take a motion on this one. Motion to approve. Second. Uh, thank you, Trusty Proctor and Trustee Kim. All in favor say I. >> Okay. Um, next 6A. Thank you. Um, Joe, do we have Lisa queued up? >> Awesome. Take it away, Lisa. >> Great. Um, thank you, Superintendent Ooa, and good evening, board of trustees. Um, as Superintendent Ooa mentioned, the vision design team was revising our community vision last night, and I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone in this community who has participated in this visioning process. Whether you've just read an
050email or filled out a survey or participated in a focus group, a listening session, I know that there is so much work that goes into running a school and a district and teaching young people. And it can be really challenging to step out of the day-to-day and think deeply about an aspirational vision for future students. Um, but the input that we've gotten over the course of the year is what's going to make our vision really strong. And I know that I really felt that in our vision design team meeting last night when we were um, revising the vision. Um, so I'm just going to pull up um, a little bit about the feedback that the vision design team was um, leveraging last night. Um so they were revising the vision statements. Um and at the
051third community vision meeting last month on March 18th, we had shared out the draft vision for learner experience. And at that meeting, each school community at the meeting took notes and shared their feedback on the vision statements. But we wanted to make sure that anyone who couldn't be at that meeting, though there were a lot around close to 250 people, um that anyone else could was able to give feedback on the vision as well. Um, so we shared out a survey with the broad community and got nearly a thousand responses. Um, almost 40% of those being from students and about a third of respondents were hearing about the community vision for the first time. And I think that's important because that tells us that we are reaching new people in our community, new voices, which
052means we're getting more perspectives as we continue through this process. And I think that's why this iteration that we're doing with the vision design team and with our community is so important because we want to make sure that this is truly a communityowned um vision for our district. Um and what was really great to see is that this vision resonated with the majority of people. I'll just pause on one um part of our vision which is says that every learner is welcomed into a safe and inclusive community. And the green bars here show the number of or the percentage of commu community members who agree that they would be proud to be at a district with this vision that they feel it's aspirational enough and that they are interested in helping to make this vision
053a reality. That all falls within the 60 to 80% uh range. So that tells us that it's resonating with the majority of people and that we are headed in the right direction. But there is still work to do. So that is what the vision design team was working on last night. Um incorporating the feedback from the communities to help us get closer to that 100% bar at the top of this graph. We also shared the draft vision for instruction with educators. Uh most school sites uh engaged with this on the PD day on March 27th. Um and you better believe that educators gave us some really great feedback on that vision for instruction and the vision design team was grappling with that as well. Um this work is really hard uh to get feedback from
054so many people in the community. Um and I just want to again express appreciation for everyone in this community who has been involved with this process and invite anyone who has thoughts about our vision to raise their hand as we continue through this um iteration work. Um, and a huge thank you to the vision design team for the time that they've been dedicating to this um, and continuing to do so over the next uh, month or so as we lead up to the board meeting to approve this vision. Um, I'll pause there. Thank you so much. Thank you. Um, do do we have any board questions or Superintendent OOA? You seem like you have something to say. Um when we when we began the process and and put out a call for volunteers to serve
055on the vision design team, we had a lot of people uh volunteer to do that. And it was hard to figure out a way to develop a team that was going to represent the whole district. So the the 44 people I mentioned earlier tonight, they represent every single school in the district. And that's hard to do when you have 22 schools. But they also represent students and they represent um uh classroom teachers and TOSAs and they represent middle school teachers and elementary and title one and you know it's just a very very diverse group of of folks that are doing this work. And we really didn't start uh typing up any draft um vision language until just a few weeks ago. probably like six or seven weeks ago. And so in that time, being able
056to have a really big community convening and have several hundred people remark on it in person and then go out to a survey and get almost a thousand respondents to that survey. The people that wrote those statements that everybody was giving us their opinion about, I mean, these people have been coming to meetings for 9 months. So, I think it was a little bit like, "Hey, you tasted my soup, but you're trying to change the flavor of it. Um, because we we're we feel invested in it and protective of it and we care so much about it." But honestly, the feedback that we got just made the language better. I mean, the the feeling in the room last night was we could tell that this language was getting stronger and we were getting more clear.
057I mean, we were down to the point of like debating words. What did we mean by this one word? So, Lisa, you know, could have gone into more detail about this, but for reasons having to do with making the presentation um tonight comprehensible to to a person watching this for the first time. When those thousand survey responses came in, one of the tasks that took a long time was figuring out how to categorize the feedback so that we could compare it to the language. So we saw like in in one example um students who responded wanted the language to be more aspirational. So, one of the the conversations that happened at all these tables last night was what could we do to this existing language to make this more aspirational to respond to those couple
058hundred student uh comments that said make this more aspirational. And I think we got there and so now next week we have a meeting with a small component of the 44. There's another group called the vision leadership team and these folks, these 13 folks, we're going to go through and parse all the work that happened last night and distill it down into new uh language that we bring to the May 6th meeting and then that 44 is going to go over it. So, it's just a lot like our brains are kind of like we were running the marathon with our brains. Um, so it is, you know, very exhausting, but it's it's very rewarding. And I want to thank Lisa. Um, I want to thank the Bay Ed Fund who've been our partners in this
059process from the beginning and and everybody um involved in this process because I think um what it's setting us up to do is as a board once you all see this language uh during our May meeting and you all will discuss it, make recommendations for how the board feels we can improve it or change it or adopt it. Then what that will do is we'll spend the next 9 months putting together teams of people from this community in who include teachers, classified staff members, um administrators, parents and students to develop the action plans to deliver on the new vision. So it's it's really really important work. Um, and I think I speak for the vision design team in saying it feels like we're at the doorstep of of a really fantastic process and and um,
060tonight will be your last uh, you know, sort of summary update because the next time we we come to the board, you're going to have something to really chew on. Um, and with that, I'll pass it back to the board. >> Great. Thank you. Um, okay. Well, I think we will now Thank you, Lisa. Sorry, she probably jumped off already. >> My pleasure. >> Okay, thank you. Um, okay. So, next we will move to board member request for future >> Oh, yes. I'm sorry. Um, do we have any questions or comments on um Yes. Um um first want to say, you know, Miss Joseph, thank you so much for the update. Um, you know, I feel like when I see kind of that, um, slide that you have where it's like, oh, here's where we
061are, you know, where we are in the in the process, right? The little like we are here thing and and it keeps shifting over and it's like, oh, it's so exciting to see us go through each of these stages and getting more and more feedback. It's kind of like that leadup that kids have before their birthday, you know, and like when we finally get to see the, you know, the vision statements after all these iterations, like it's it's very exciting. Um, so thank you so much for all of that work and that planning. Um, I was just curious when you were sharing that like, you know, 30% of the responders from that survey were hearing about this for the first time. Um, could you tell me about like who was represented in that 30%? Like
062was it mostly students or parents? Like what what was that 30% made of? >> Um, that's a great question. I would need to look back at the data, but I'm happy to look that up. Thanks, >> Lisa. Just want to thank you again as I always do for all the incredible work that you do. I don't know if I'll compare to a birthday, but I think uh the fullcourt press that we've seen with this effort and I think even acknowledging the fact that in spite of all the incredible efforts we've made to engage folks, there's still a lot of people in our district who weren't aware of this effort. And so, I think seeing every single step of the way, we're never kind of satisfied with where we are. We're constantly pushing to be better.
063And I think that's very indicative of all the work that you've done at the Bay Fund and others have pushed us to do. I was curious specifically about slide four relating to the the vision and the the columns that represented those in neither agree or disagree or even disagree altogether. I'm curious what the comments were cuz I imagine the statement itself isn't offensive to anyone who would read it. Was there was the consensus view for those that it wasn't ambitious enough. what were some of the comments that we received for those who didn't necessarily agree or align with the the specific phrasing that we put forward? >> Sure. So, last night um we we kind of summarized the feedback themes. There's like sort of eight themes that came out of um the feedback. One of
064them is around not being in uh inspirational enough like we want we can shoot even further. Um there were questions um and this came up more in the vision for uh instruction as well is being more clear about when we were talking about technology like what does that mean? I think bringing in language like age appropriate, developmentally appropriate. Um uh I have the documents from last night uh somewhere in my office here. But >> if I can chime in, Lisa, if I can chime in. Um, specific to the the slide four, one of the um, one of the biggest debates we had last night was there was a conversation about what it meant to specifically name subgroups of students in our language. And um, so one person sitting at the table said, "Well, I think
065it's powerful to name students with disabilities. I think it's powerful to name multilingual learner students. it means something to say black students, Latino students, LGBTQ plus identifying students, etc., etc. And I think at the table we all understood that perspective. And then someone across the table said if we do that, it's a way of implying that they're not part of they're not normative. it sort of suggests that they're separate or different or not the core or the main student or the student who's is included. Um because we have a a a belief or an intent when we write the language, but frankly the four of you will interpret it differently each of you. And so those were the kind of very very hypersp specific um uh comments that were included. But one of the one
066of the strengths of the survey was we allowed so much just open feedback. And so we were able to to really sift through all of the qualitative feedback. So it wasn't just like you know percentage points or 1 2 3 4 5. It was really people's ideas that and some people wrote a whole lot and others wrote simple comments like this isn't aspirational enough. This sounds like the school my child already goes to. How is this the vision for the future? So, and that was actually also something um that was discussed last night. um some some concept of schools like for example that do a lot of monastery um approach to teaching and learning look at the components in our vision for instruction and say we think it could be more aspirational than that and
067that was actually a remark that the principal of Parkside said at the very end of the meeting and then afterward he said is it okay that I said that is why literally why you are here because you know he's at a school that is fundamentally rooted in student uh agency and voice and engagement and research and um and as you saw a couple months back when they came and presented to the board, the kids talked a lot about how important it was for them to go to a school where they were given choices and had a lot of agency. So, um I think that Lisa, that's probably, you know, you and I would need to shuffle a whole lot of papers in order to get into like the really really specific uh feedback because we're
068talking about very very significant qualitative uh responses from our community and and we think and what we were able to do is pull those out and actually integrate them into the conversation. So, the members of our VDT got to see the actual quotes that people wrote. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> And I think the one thing that I'll add which is a great bridge to where we're headed is a lot of the questions were okay this looks great. How do we make this happen? What are the steps? What are the resources that we're going to put toward realizing this vision? And those are all questions asking about what is our strategic plan? Um and that is where we're heading next as superintendent mentioned. And I guess then following up on that question, is I guess what
069we're going to see in May going to be largely similar to kind of what we've received in updates thus far? Do we anticipate any further changes, rounds, revisions? Um, and just speaking in a personal capacity, I think I think I would comment. I know the statement looks great to me. Um, I do wonder personally if it could be more ambitious and kind of looking at I guess what you said agency growth partly because I think for the last year and many of the board members commented on this. I think safety was emphasized because we felt like we were under attack in public schools in publication uh public education for the most vulnerable students that we serve. We felt this constant state of threat and I think for that reason safety well-being has been really at
070the forefront of our minds. Um, but I think a lot of conversations I've had over the past few months in particular, I'm wondering obviously with that priority, do we still want to, I guess, explicitly lay out something kind of beyond that, something more aspirational um, in addition to it? But I know this is something that's been very well discussed, extensively put through. But I was curious, I guess, from this point forward, are we expecting further iterations, tweaks, or is it going to be kind of consistent with a lot of the updates we received and just kind of in a final form? I mean, I think last Go ahead, Superintendent Joe. >> Yeah, I mean, you're going to see something that looks like a final draft form. Um, Allison, you were on the board 5 years
071ago when we adopted the what's now the current strategic plan. And one of the advantages of the board not being in our vision design team meetings is you will look at this with fresh eyes. We have been talking about this for 9 months. And when we held um similar types of meetings and brought language to our school board 5 years ago, our school board publicly deliberated and discussed it and made changes that night to the district's proposed strategic plan language and it improved it big time. They were the ones that actually insisted that we update all the language to say prek through 8 because we we chose language that was too restrictive. Um and a variety of other updates. And what will happen is the board will actually get and the community will put this
072out to the whole community after that May 6th meeting. So you'll have several weeks to sit with it and chew on it. Um, and like any other board deliberation, you can also just say, "Let's take another month to think about it." Um, you might not feel like you need to, but you could. And then that would just increase the board's ability to ask more questions, push for more um language that addresses concern A or concern B. Um, and and actually our VDT is prepared for that because we talk about that quite a bit when we meet with the VDT. and then Lisa, I'll pass it to you um for anything else. >> Um I don't think there's anything else I would add. I think last night the vision design team really brought the vision to
073the next level and I look forward to the vision leadership team doing the same uh next week. >> Great. Thank you. >> Um do we have any in-person comments on this item? Joe, can we check online, please? >> Checking. >> No public comments at this time. >> Okay, great. Um, we will now move to board member requests for future agenda items. Do we have any? No. Okay. Um, board member statements. Jean, or do you want me to I'll go. Mine will be short. Um, I did want to just um acknowledge and thank everyone in our school district that makes this place run from um administrative professionals to certificated staff and classified staff. Um, just as we were reading those things, the anxiety of like reading out loud and checking which paragraph is going to be
074mine like came out came to me and I was like, well, I learned that in school from um teachers and thanks to the teachers for even allowing me to be able to read. But really just want to thank um again thank everyone for what they do. It is um it is something that we should appreciate people every day. But I do think those those special weeks are really fun to um spoil our um the people that take take our kids every day and um bring them from where they started in the beginning of the year to where they are at the end of the year and um just excited to celebrate. So thank you. Um, just want to echo Trusty Proctor's statements. Um, I just want to say, you know, my heartfelt appreciation for um,
075our classified or certificated staff. You know, I think schools really can't function without one or the other, right? Like a student can't learn if they're hungry. And a teacher's classroom won't function optimally if it's not clean. And, you know, the person in the front office is is the one with the band-aids for the boooos, you know, when when they come. And so I just wanted to say thank you for caring for our our children. Um and we just so appreciate it. >> Um yeah, I I want to echo all of those. Um you know, it doesn't this is a team project, right? Like this is probably the biggest team project I've ever group project I've ever participated in. Um, and it really takes every single person to to make the experience for all of our
076kids um, what it is. And yeah, I just want to say thank you to everyone who's who's part of this. Um, another thing I want to talk about is um that Bor uh, Vice President Kim and I were able to go to Washington DC last week along with Superintendent OOA. I was part of um the coast to coast conference and we were able to meet with Congressman Mullen's staff. Um so it was great to uh talk to staff about um the various proposals that we have um that we would like to push forward that would benefit all kids. Um some of the things we talked about are you know what do we do about AI um and digital privacy and special education funding which has never been provided at the level that it's been promised
077um and and also um CTE career and technical education which you know is so important um because there's so many different ways that that students learn and can find meaning and joy and excitement in in school. And so, um, those priorities, we, you know, have a a really supportive Congress person, which is fortunate, but I think, you know, the immediate impact of of of the ask is to be determined. So, we'll see how that goes. But, uh, if Trusty Kim wants to add anything. >> Uh, thank you, President Tren. I just want to follow up on a few things. So, first I want to reiterate what we spoke about earlier and talk about my sincere appreciation for our classified and certificated staff. And I think that's been true for a lot of us, especially the
078work that we get to do when we get to go into classrooms, visit our school sites, see all the work that so many of our staff are doing day in and day out. But I think especially as I mentioned earlier in the past, I had to say two years or so when we've been under assault, I had the opportunity to march in San Francisco with Smeita teachers talking about protecting funding for public education. I'm very much looking forward to the opportunity to shadow some of our classified staff and get to be a part of that work as well. Um, and I think again as some of the other trustees I mentioned, we say this not only as trustees representing our district, our teachers, our staff, our students, but also as parents. We make a decision
079every morning to trust our students to the care, expertise and dedication of so many of our staff and our schools. And that's something that we wanted to do and trusted you to do before we ever joined the DAS. And so again reiterating that very sincere appreciation. It feels a little stiff when we're reading a proclamation from the dis but know that the words that we're talking about and the appreciation that we have were very sincere and come from our heart. I do want to echo what President Trin said about our recent trip with Superintendent OOA to DC. Uh many of you know that my past life I was a congressional staffer in DC for many years working in education policy. It's always great for me to go back there. Obviously not a great time to
080be in Washington DC but to see so many schoolboard members from across California. So many administrators from CSBA, from AXA, all speaking with voice, all coming together to talk about a lot of the issues that we talk about here, talking about the right way to talk about AI and education and to do that in a responsible way that also addresses some of the digital wellness concerns that we heard about earlier to talk about CTE, especially in a post AAI world and what that will look like and the types of investments we're making in our middle schools related to that. Um, everything related to digital privacy, funding for special education. Um, so many of these fights are ongoing and I think many of us have been frustrated um and disappointed by the state of affairs, but
081to see all of those members come together, all of those elected officials, all the staff members speaking one voice across the hill going to every single district office, um, it was just a great reminder that this is still part of our role is to continue to advocate and continue to fight for public education, for the kinds of doors that it's open for all of us and things and values that we still believe in. I also want to speak related to that to an event earlier this month. I had the opportunity to join our board of supervisors, our board president Noelio Corzo, um supervisor Jackie Spear, Congressman Kevin Mullen, and other leaders throughout Sonteo County to advocate for full funding for the vehicle licensing fee that's going to affect Sonteo County, take away more than $100
082million that goes into our city's um schools and so many other critical services, especially during these times. And so I want to thank again all the leaders throughout the county who partner with our school district, our board, and others across um the entire Sanato area to bring us forward. And I know they're going actually out to Sacramento next week to continue fighting for this issue. And so again, even during these very challenging times, to be able to stand line with so many other dedicated public servants and leaders, fighting for our communities and fighting for those most vulnerable is something that I'm very proud to do. And lastly, taking a point of personal privilege, um I'm very honored to sit next to Trusty Proctor. Um to have someone like her who is a dedicated, you know,
083CPA who which always comes up whenever we go through the budget with Patrick, um who just survived tax season. I wanted to specifically call out something that happened last month that I forgot to do, which is that she was honored by the San Francisco Business Times as one of the most influential women in Bay Area businesses. I think a very well-deserved recognition and just want to call that out from here. So, thank you. All right. Well, I guess that's it. Um, future meeting. >> Yes. >> Hi. Um, I actually have a lot of parents online waiting to see if you guys will let me speak. So, I was wondering when the public announcement part >> Oh, I'm sorry. That was uh that was like very early on. >> Oh, okay. I thought it was from
0846 to 6. It was a non-aggenda, I think. >> It would just require a motion from someone to >> to reopen. >> Does anyone want to reopen? >> Uh motion to reopen um non-aggenda items. >> Second. >> Okay. All in favor say I. >> I. Um, good evening everyone. Uh, I am a parent of a student at Beach Park Elementary and um, I've come here to talk about some issues that have been going on since the beginning of the school year that have raised a lot of concern about children's safety in class. Um, and we feel like we are not being heard. Our concerns are being dismissed. So, um I've prepared a speech. Uh it has come to my attention that there are currently two contradicting education laws. Uh it has also come to my
085attention that only one law is being upheld at Beach Park Elementary. The law I'm referring to is the one that protects students with disabilities that are in regular classrooms that are not equipped for children with special needs. This law states that a student with disabilities is not allowed to be punished, removed from the classroom, or expelled for causing disturbances and/or aggressive behavior. The other law that I'm referring to is law AB1747, which states that every student is entitled to a safe, secure, and peaceful learning environment. A student in my daughter's class has been extremely disruptive and aggressive on a daily basis. This student has caused both physical and psychological harm to multiple students. My daughter told me that she has felt scared and sad on multiple occasions during class because of this. I myself witnessed
086that the teachers and students in this room are disrupted, disturbed, and put in harm's way by this student on a regular basis throughout just one lesson. Even though this student has two aids now, they are not preventing any of the violence or disturbances. Our children have been intimidated, threatened with violence, choked with headphone cords, punched in the face so hard that they had to go to the hospital. I myself did not feel safe during a music lesson where parents were invited to come watch. Our children have not felt safe, secure, or peaceful in class since the beginning of the school year. Since there were multiple violent incidents that happened after the school was already familiar with the students history, this is outright negligence. So I ask why? Why are our children's rights being neglected while
087while one child is being protected and prioritized? Why should our children suffer in silence while watching the child that traumatizes them get special treatment? Does their safety and mental health not matter anymore? Are we really left to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on private schools just to ensure basic legal rights for our children, the public school system in California is crumbling because of this. Not only do I not trust the school administrators to keep our children safe, >> I um the time is expired. >> Okay. Convenient. Um, do we have any I guess since um non-aggenda public comment is open, is there anyone else in the audience who would like to speak? Okay. Um, Joe, can we check? Oh, sure. >> I would like to continue on. >> Okay. You you will have three
088minutes. Okay. >> Yeah. I think she described the problem very clearly and very well to the board. Um, I myself came here last year, talked to some of you guys here asking for help and I'm not reading from my notes. Um, since it's three minutes, I'm be very quick. I came for help and saying that bullying is not handled at Beach Park Elementary School. After I came to you guys, I sensed the retaliation from the administration. I came back and plead to transfer. As that didn't work, both of my kids were placed in the same classrooms as she described with those students the following year. Both of my classrooms who were both of my kids, the kid that was impacted by bullying the second year, the administration knew exactly who the students are. They knew
089their history. They chose to put both of my kids with both of these children. And there yes they were impacted again. The following year we came the parents have got together there a lot of audience watching this because two classrooms a lot of students they were physically and emotionally hurt. We have gone to this district. We have email conversation. We have multiple and many many many of us have done with the school administration. Nothing can came out. And what I want to know my kid along with all the other kids have lost a year of education. Every time I ask my kid when did this happen? During zern during path during educational hours how can we support the safety of our kids? my kids, all the classmates and make sure the following year they will
090be able to with the expertise who can help them thrive and be safe and also learn and catch up with the educational loss that they had this year. We need an answer. All the parents are watching us. They had child care. They couldn't bring their kids here. They're watching us online. They want to know the same thing. What are the actions? We're not asking pointing fingers. We're not asking personal information. What are you gonna do for us, for our kids? This is a very sens Thank you everyone for listening to this. That's what I had. Thank you. Um I just uh I know that some um folks may be commenting for the first time. So, I just want to remind people that because these are non-aggenda items, we as a board are not able to
091discuss or respond to any of the comments. So, I apologize um in advance for that. Um Joe, do we have or do we have any other inerson comments? >> Okay, Joe, can we check for online comments? >> Yes, there is one comment. >> Okay, go ahead. Okay, Anisha, you can talk. Um, we can't hear anything. Anisha, perhaps you're muted. Would you like to start again? Joe, can you hear her or >> uh she's muted. We're asking to have her check. Okay. >> Uh, she dropped off. I think it's okay. Um, want to I mean, since they waited this long, I wonder if we just give it a minute in case she's logging back on. But um is there anyone else who's online? >> Checking uh she did come back up but her hand is lowered.
092>> Okay. Um in that case I >> Yeah. Um parents are always welcome to email us and or the superintendent. Our emails are listed on the website. So um yes and um and the same laws that prevent us from um responding about non-aggenda items will also apply in the sense that we can't respond to every like like we can't reply all. So um if a an an email comes in, it may just be from one of us or copying the superintendent. So, um I know it's a little bit of a strange um it's a it's different from how you know people usually operate, but we are bound by um public disclosure requirements. So, um okay. So, then we um I guess we will then close. >> Hello. Oh, >> uh her hand is back up.
093>> Okay, great. Well, we will let her go. >> Can you guys hear me? Okay. >> Yes, we can hear you now. Thank you. >> Yeah. Um, I mean I agree and I echo with all the other parents. I wish I could be here today. Um, so I think my follow-up question is since you guys can't disclose anything, it seems like no action is being taken. Like what do we as parents have to do to see action here? like what are the right steps and what are the proper procedures for us parents to get an answer from you guys to get some kind of action from you guys or at least even an acknowledgement on an answer. I think that's my question. >> I would um just make a maybe a request to the superintendent
094to follow up on this item and if there's something for us to participate in, let us know. Okay, thank you. >> Thank you. Is there any further online public comment, Joe? >> No public comments at this time. >> Okay, thank you. Okay, we will now move to future Oh, so we will close um non-aggenda public comment and move on to um agenda item nine, future meeting dates. Uh the next study session is May 14th on community schools and then we have a regular board meeting on May 28th. Um next item 10, public comments on closed session items. Are are there any in-person comments on closed session items? >> No. Okay, Joe, can we check online, please? >> Checking. No comments at this time. >> Okay. Um thank you. We will now recess to closed session.
095Thank you. Hi. >> Hi. >> Thanks.