SMFCSD - Regular Board Meeting - July 30, 2020

001president Coro go ahead thank you everyone I am calling our meeting to order at 5:30 p.m and we will be recessing to close session for government code 54957.6 conference with labor negotiators agency designated representative Dr Joan DOA employee organization SMA csca and Oria as well as Government code 54957 employee Public Employee discipline dismissal release president Coro go ahead thank you welcome everyone we are um reconvening to regular meeting with nothing to report out of closed session and we will be doing our roll call Trust here trusty hitchc trusty proor here trusty Watkins here okay and I am present as well let the record reflect all trustees are in attendance moving on to approve Ral of agenda July 30th 2020 can I ask for some modifications yes what what would that be um I'm wondering if

002we can sorry um just because we have some lofty items on for tonight uh I know we asked for the task forward leads to present um and learn about the important work that they're doing along with the special education update um but I would like to give them the attention and time each of them deserve and I don't know if that would be able to happen tonight so I'm wondering if we can table some for next time what what exactly did you want to table uh I would the Equity task force the student resource officer the um pip and special ed any or I'm sorry I'm not I'm not understanding what spec what specific agenda items do you want to table 8.1 and 8.3 and then I don't know if others have any input or

003thoughts um president Coro I'll just chime in I I don't know that um obviously with 8.1 the the parent Improvement project you know we had staff stay on till like one o'clock last time and and I am sensed with the fact that you know there may be a time where where they might be it might be one o'clock in the morning again and so I'm wondering whether or not whether it's 8.1 8.2 or 8.3 the ones items at the end of the agenda whether we make a call now to sort of continue that to the next uh meeting or Andor as an alternative maybe we set a time check within our agenda like at 10 11 o'clock to see where we are and then continue at that time so staff and or anyone else who's

004listening can actually you know not stick around to 1:00 am till till we actually make that call I would be in favor of of a time check my concern about moving these agenda items is that I believe we are going to continue to have very busy agendas and I want to make sure that these agenda items that we get to them um I was going to make the suggestion um due to the fact that special education um has been um at the end of our agenda um for many to to move it actually to before the parent involvement project right after the fall reopening because we're going to be discussing special education in that plan and it seems like a natural transition to then move into special education um so I guess I can make

005a motion to approve the agenda moving special education to 8.1 um with a time check at 1 p.m. to see where we are so we can make a determination whether or not staff that are presenting later on should continue to remain just a clarification on the motion I I I would second the motion with one clarification that you're actually moving 8.3 to before 8.1 not replacing 8.1 yeah correct I'll second that motion okay roll call vote Rin yes trusty Hitchcock yeah chusty Proctor yes chusty Walkins yes great and a yes for me as well the motion carries moving on to approval of minutes for the June 25th 2020 meeting I'll make a motion to approve the minutes from June 25th 2020 do I have a second a second thank you roll call vote chust chin

006I yes trusty Hitchcock trusty Proctor yes trusty Watkins yes and a yes for me as well the motion carries moving on to our recognition for this meeting uh the Sanel Foster City Education Foundation we are really excited about this recognition this evening um I'd like to have um uh Peter kazanis bring forward our education um Foundation president call Sullivan and she may actually have someone else with her but maybe that's maybe that's all and she is going to tell us a little bit about the work of the Education Foundation this year and their donation which is really extraordinary so Colleen I'll turn it over to you okay I'm here but invisible um okay oh hi there um sorry I just got cut off so I'm back now um tonight is our annual presentation of our

007gift and it's something that the Ed Foundation always looks forward to and you know obviously it would be fabulous to be there in person or be anywhere in person um but I want to take this opportunity tonight to present uh virtually present our check for 1 million $298,700 20 school year and I want to take this opportunity to thank all of the families who donated um those who brought in matching grants the companies foundations and government entities that helped make this gift possible for us this year it was a phenomenal year um much much bigger than our little 200,000 last year that we were super proud of and we hope to carry this momentum forward um and help to touch all of our kids lives um in the school year 2020 2021 and we invite

008all families uh and staff to help us support our students in the coming year one of our goals is to increase our participation for the number of people who donate so that we are even more attractive to uh future donors and to um companies who are looking for or high participation rates from our families but thank you again for um partnering with us and helping us help all of our kids and um we as you guys know the money and the goods have already been dispersed over the course of the Year some of the things are rolling out in the fall um we have 13,000 science books that um science Ela ELD sorry excuse me English language arts English language development um books and some Library supplemental materials that will be going out into the

009schools at different points throughout this year and they're currently at the district office being unpacked and with labels inside and um we're just very grateful to be a partner so thank you well and while we've missed you being on the board I think we have really appreciated you taking up this leadership role and energizing the foundation and and working with a tremendous team you have a tremendous team working with you to do this work and it really shows in this this huge leap this year so congratulations to your entire team and and congratulations to you we really all all benefit and particularly our children so thank you yes we're all in this for the same reasons so thank you I'll turn it over to my my trustees they may want to say something also all

010right I'll start I wanted to say thank oh okay go ahead go go please go well I just wanted to say thank you this is a tremendous accomplishment and um you know really appreciate all the work that you are doing and um it's it's really a proud moment to see um this big check and so thank you for all that you do for all of our kids I I also wanted to say thank you um I know I sort of mentioned before at least in a different conversation um you know when I joined I think you guys were like at 180,000 or so uh and now it's like 1. two and it's just it's it's amazing how far you guys have come and and you know we talk about it takes a village in some

011ways or we talk about our Community Partners and and you guys are definitely helping to move the needle for everybody so um I want to thank you Colleen and and the rest of your team as well because they definitely deserve all the thanks um from us and from our school communities thank you I'll Echo what trustees Proctor and Chin have shared but thank you so much Colleen to you and to the rest of the board um and everyone that's been involved to Our Community Partners to our community members whether it's you know $10 or $100 or $100,000 right all of that got us to this point and so um you know I hope hope that this is great momentum to continue the work I've had the pleasure of being the leison to the Ed Foundation

012over the past year and I think you know what not everyone realizes is that this is you know a volunteer group of people and it's a small group of people that are working to engage in this on top of everything else um really just to support our kids most of whom don't have kids in our district anymore um and so I just am so appreciative of your dedication and for those of you on the line you know there are many many many opportunities and ways to get involved of course donating um but you know I encourage you to reach out to Colleen if you're interested in getting involved um you can reach out to myself for trusty Hitchcock if you're interested in getting involved in the Gayla which will be happening this fall and there

013are just a lot of opportunities to support all of our kids and to ensure that we're providing um not just core programming but all of the other things that we know make a robust education for our kids and you know it's unfortunate that we don't have the funding to ensure that those things are options for everyone but we don't and so that's why we have an Education Foundation that works to make that happen and that only happens with the involvement of every single one of us and so thank you all so much for really um empowering and engaging our community to be so involved and supportive and for the work that you guys have done and looking forward to seeing what we do this year a um I of course Echo what has already been

014said already uh that is one beautiful looking check by the way um thank you to all who donated um and thank you Education Foundation because none of it would have been possible without your commitment and dedication to supporting the success for every child um it wouldn't have been done without you guys so thank you so much I'll be brief um thank you so much colen for your leadership on the Ed Foundation um it's just amazing what has been accomplished by you know your small But Mighty team and um I just also want to recognize how um how Central Equity is to the Ed foundation and and how you go about your work and um so I just I'm deeply grateful for that and um yeah very proud of of our Ed foundation and um really

015excited for our kids that get to benefit from it thank you thank you so can I do one more plug and that Shara kind of led into this um we are a board of nine and we would love to grow so if anyone has a little bit of time we can make a use of you in any way you whatever talents you are willing to share we are willing to have you and one thing that we really would like to get started is to have a schoolly aison from every school so if you are interested in being just kind of the check-in person for us to help us reach your community you know if if you know the best way to um get information shared within your school um please reach out and my email

016address is resident at smfc fund.org or you can check us out on the website and and get me that way but we the more hands the lighter the load and um we can just accomplish more together so thank you very much um have an amazing meeting I will be listening to the whole thing whatever time it goes until and I appreciate all of your hard work and thank you thank you so much and my team is mighty I have to say thank you thank you okay we are now moving on to public statements related to non-agenda topics the satea Foster City School Board cannot act upon any matter that has not been included and publicly posted on the agenda except under limited circumstances as permitted by law the board May refer matters raised in this

017forum to staff for investigation and or action where appropriate please limit your statements to let me see how many hands we have raised before for those that might be joining us again this is the opportunity to address the board on non-agenda items non-agenda items currently we have two uh who have their hand raised president Coro okay let's go with three minutes okay okay up first we have uh Danielle McCarthy and then after Danielle will be Marcela Danielle hi I saw that the um sorry the fall reopening is on the schedule but I opened all the attachments and didn't see this addressed so I just wanted to say that I've been waiting to see a presentation on the detailed program instructions and expectations both for the hybrid while it will be fully in distance at home

018and when it's in the hybrid mode so I'm hoping we can have those DET well I was hoping we could have those details before we had to make our selection decisions but now I'm kind of just at the point where I personally am desperate to know the scheduling details so I can attempt to move my work schedule around to accommodate my young students schedule at this point and I want to emphasize that parents really need these details we need to know our cohorts we need to know the instructional schedules we need to know expectations for students teachers and parents so we can best support the process to the best of our ability so I just really would like to ask for this to be prioritized and put on an agenda as soon as possible so

019we can all be on the same page and plan accordingly thank you okay thank you Danielle okay my apologies I am embarrassing some technical difficulties next we have uh Marcel and then after Marcel we'll be Marcel okay my apologies hold on one just one moment okay here we go Marcel hi thank you um uh you've all received a letter from Fiesta Gardens from over 30 Fiesta Gardens families and there are more today that have signed on to the letter uh I just wanted to comment I'd imagine that most other schools have similar similarly committed families who care about the schools we're willing to help and participate in any way that we can to assist in this massive lift that is going to be required with this constantly moving Target um ideally we'd be given some

020specific parameters by the board as to what to expect and when driven by evidence and a consistent message but in the meantime I wanted to share that we are available and interested in participating as well as supporting our teachers our schools and our district so I'm asking the board to please l leverage our skills and revisit how you partner with parents as you continue to move forward I think unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures and maybe as a result of this pandemic this racial um Strife that we can establish new patterns and policies for how we collaborate and how we make our districts better I really have a hope that out of all of these challenges we can create opportunities to improve the future of our children and Inspire and Empower every student like we

021say we want to so again I'm asking the board to consider revisiting how you involve parents in these committees and in this discussion and please please take advantage of what we all are offering to support you because we may not all have money but we all have heart and we all have desire thank you okay next we have is Maria and then after Maria will be Randy Maria hi can you hear me yes we can go ahead Maria great um I just wanted to well I think that um the board should consider having a technical person per school not like you know a help desk but someone to help through the process of the Google Classroom because it it um last year in the spring it was very helpful and to see like our teachers

022did really well well you know the people that did use it we had a computer teacher at our school that was able to support you know the teachers and the parents so we if a parent or we or I was struggling um you know we were able to set up a um a meeting time um to troubleshoot whatever was going on um in Google classroom or how to get around it and um that was very helpful and I know that it helped the teachers a lot too um because you know things that you know they were struggling with that that you guys had problem with Google Classroom it seemed like um our computer person was able to navigate through that and um you know I found Google Classroom to be you know very you know

023it had its perks but you know with the teex support where she was able to explain it and it made sense to me um and how and the teachers were able to send the the the the assignments back and you can see the comments on there and things like that so I think that the board should consider having um a computer person at each uh School site that is an expert in Google Classroom to support the teachers and the parents and the students um if there are any questions um and also ongoing I think you should invest in computer teachers and get all our kids um techsavvy um that would really help um and then another thing with being with tech is a lot of school district districts are already um issuing you know Chromebooks

024or a laptop to each Middle School student um throughout the whole school year without covid you know so that's something that we should consider because that's really going to um that would solve some of the equity issues that would some solve some of the technical issues we are in the Gateway of the Silicon Valley and we have to have our kids text Abby to do this I mean my second grader was able to na through um Google Classroom because you know she learned how to do this in computer class she was able to pull images or whatever you know do Google doc or navigate through the system you know so I think you guys should consider that um going on forward um for each and every school to have a computer teacher to get our

025kids in computer labs um and but meanwhile get get some people out there um to help the teachers at each site um to support the Google classroom or whatever LMS system you guys are going to use thank you thank you Mar okay next we have D painter hello good evening um I wanted to um really Echo what um two speakers in front of me Marcella what she had to say about um once again parents offering their help and I would like to re-echo what truste Watkins has asked for now several meetings in a row about where does the parent Outreach and where does the parent input um come into this whole equation there is a lot of expertise um trusty chin has brought up several times how well parents their intent is to deceive and

026their usefulness is to um do things maybe perhaps out of the curb actually most parents don't have an intent to deceive most parents do actually have some uh expertise and some willingness to actually help for the common good and you have heard a lot of people say hey we want to help we want to be useful let us know how we can myself included um we don't expect you to be experts in health and hygiene we don't expect you to be experts in cleaning or Wellness we do expect you to be experts in education we do expect you to be experts in special education these are those things so how can we work together as a community um this is something that I haven't seen put forward and as a member of the community and

027as someone who is fully invested um it's frustrating to see and so this is something that I would like to see going forward is how are you leveraging the full resources of the community thank you thank you Randy President we have no other comments hands raised at this time oh my apology I had two just do we want to want to continue poro yeah Jennifer Lucas I'm gonna I'm gonna unmute myself sorry about that um I am a new parent my son will be attending uh lead Elementary for the first time this year so I just wanted to say uh hello and introduce myself and I'm excited to help in any way possible it's definitely different this year um I want to give an Applause to you all I I know this is very hard

028for everyone um but I'm glad I'm really appreciative that there's so many Zoom meetings and and ways that parents and teachers can communicate together so thank you so much for having this kind of open communication for the public I appreciate it thank you Jennifer okay uh next we have Rosie hi good evening thank you for um having uh this forum it's uh and welcome to the previous uh caller I'm also a parent at lead and we'll have h a son coming into kindergarten and as an essential worker I am really concerned about um I'm concerned about a couple of things and and I apologize because I just joined a call about 10 minutes ago so I'm not sure what's already been discussed and if I am repeating what other people have already said but I'm

029increasingly worried about people setting up like pods and all this other stuff that's happening right now um with certain families making alternatives to be able to support their kids when they're in a situation that they themselves might not be able to support the distance learning model I was really hoping that uh we would be able to open with the hybrid model and you know I understand why why we can't but I you know I'm an essential worker and it makes me worried that I'm not going to be able to support my kids distance learning I have to already pay for child care and I'm G to have to pay you know the child care I'm paying for I hate to admit it but it's it's not like super quality child care it's really just make

030sure my kids don't die during the day um and I can't expect that my um child care provider will be able to do the distance learning and you know I'm I'm worried about just how much more you know inequities are going to we going to come out on the other end of all of this and I just am wondering what what the expectation is I know that the board hasn't or our schools haven't I don't know if they don't have the information but we don't know what's going to be expected of us and I just you know I I want to make sure that um you know that to the extent possible that you really are you know identifying um you're identifying that the the bird and this is on essential workers um and you

031know I you know I don't I don't I don't take this virus lightly I know that it's that you know that it's wreaking havoc in the world and I also feel that I hate to say it but teachers are also essential workers and we need to find a middle ground where families with essential workers who can't necessarily do both things pay for child care and also pay for somebody to support their child's distance learning uh have you know I I don't even know what the alternative to that is um so I just want to put that out there that there are folks who are essential workers are already you know kind of tapped out because they're paying for child care and to have to add another cost to have somebody facilitate the distance learning is

032really going to be a huge burden thank you Rosie okay next we have is Valerie Valerie are you there hi hi Peter can you hear me yes we can go ahead hi wus um I just wanted to recognize quickly that I'm very happy to see that when I logged into the zoom and the meeting started uh G said V it's very important for us to have interpretation and I just want to command um you and the board and Dr Rosas whoever um felt that that was important that that happened this um this meeting I know that last week's meeting um you know presidenta Noelia really stepped in with that you know new mom Spanish-speaking mom came on and really didn't know kind of how the agenda worked but had a concern and that it was

033very helpful that um Noelia could step in but it's very important for us to have these interpretation Services whenever possible so muchas gracias thank you bie president Coro there are no other hands raised at this time thank you Peter okay moving on public statements related to agenda items persons will be called on at the appropriate time and we are now moving on to Foundation committee reports I since a couple weeks ago we have had um a couple uh LMI Labor Management uh initiative meetings uh where uh we basically received sort of a preview of some of the presentations that uh we'll see tonight um and the presentations were given to to staff and um to teachers and so that they could ask additional questions so sort of a preview for tonight uh additionally we've also

034had two Sanctuary task force meetings um one that I was going to share just today which was I thought was a pretty good win was is that um when we talk about additional resources for our uh immigrant families and those families in need uh the task force has created a uh a resource sheet that has actually been distributed to the principes to go towards the teachers so that when they are checking in with their students through distance learning if students if they have inclan of hey there's there's a you know a food insecurity issue there and they don't know where they need to get food or housing or some other things um that there's a resource sheet that they can refer to so that they can also help out and just uh sort of casually

035mention that hey in case you need some additional help there's some resources out there so that's being pushed out um and then also we had I know trusty Proctor and I had um a couple of bond um meetings as well so and some of the stuff will come out tonight um through those meetings so that's it um I can share that I attended the communications meeting committee meeting yesterday um and we talked about um several things including um communication um well one one topic was Beach Park Elementary Schools getting their website ra um updated and ready to go for the school year since that's a new school and um there's a lot of work being done there and then just talking about in general um reopening communication covid continuing um communication there so um a

036lot of work is being done we've we've all been getting all the emails and phone calls and text messages so the Communications Group is uh really working hard and then um also uh president Coro and I um attended a a Foster City liaison meeting where we talked about um things that are going on in Foster City the Ley project is getting started soon and we talked about um our facilities master plan and some of the things that we talked about at the last meeting and um I'm leaving my memory on what else we talked about but Jesse CIO can fill it in when she gets there thank you happy to fill in right now um yes so we also talked about um you know what's coming up on our agenda a little bit about fall

037reopening um sro's how that kind of plays into how that plays out differently in Foster City because we don't have a contract with them um but still you know just sharing some um well I at least shared some of like my my concerns um around that topic and um we also talked about how we could how we could collaborate to support our students we we we began that conversation and uh we'll be meeting again in two weeks to kind of Flesh that out a little more because it is time sensitive so hoping um to explore a model that um trusty Watkins uh shared with me around um like what basically what San Francisco is doing and how the their city is well they're all their City one school district so it's different but um you

038know what that collaboration looks like in terms of uh providing space and support to students through the city funds um yeah trusty chin gave a good update about our Sanctuary task force um I I'll just also we did talk about translation services and how that um the existence of of what those resources look like for teachers and and for schools and all throughout our our district um and how they can kind of advertise that more so people know that uh language and language barriers should not be an issue if you know how to utilize the resources that we now have for that um I think that's it for me any other updates yeah I'll go um I or the sedak is going to host their first parent training opportunity through zoom and that's going to

039be on Tuesday August 4th at 7 pm the topic is disability rights training for parents presented by Alex Gastelum of disability rights California's office of clients rights advocacy um so please check our website to look for sign up for that um and then also the sedak still has you know the four work group um up and would love some more um members there are four work groups one is inclusionary practices which work with the existing internal inclusion cohort um and provide and provides uh parent input and feedback there's the communication and Outreach uh parent education and the sedak development so I encourage anyone interested in special ed in any way shape or form or not uh to join um because it we can't make any progress if we don't have the members so thank you

040very much um and just another plug for the education foundation's Gala on October 23rd thank you um I believe that's everyone correct yeah okay we are moving on to announcements any announcements I have a couple brief announcements um Coalition Z the uh group of high school students that organized the Sano black lives matter protest back a couple months ago um is hosting a racial Injustice conference this Saturday um I will be speaking at that and talking about educ um so you can follow them on Instagram um to get more information I actually don't know what time I'm speaking but it's an afternoon kind of just session Open Session where you can pop into different speakers and topics of Interest so we would love to see familiar faces at that um I also wanted to highlight

041that on August 18th and I'll bring this back up but there um I'll be participating in a panel on Youth and policing with the samon police department hosted or facilit ated by um pcrc and so mark your calendars for that there will be more information coming out about that and lastly um trusty Coro and I um the uh sateo I'm GNA just had it pulled up and I'm forgetting the overarching umbrella um Commission on women I believe um is hosting the uh women's leadership conference which they do every year it was supposed to be in March and then was post at the end of March and was postponed because of covid they're hosting a virtual conference the week of August 24th and trusty Coro and I will be on a panel with um other women

042of color on the peninsula discussing how to be an ally an allyship so we can give you more information we don't have dates and times but just wanted to flag those as three upcoming events panels that may be of interest to folks and would love to see um our community support thank you Tristy Watkins anyone else announcement no okay moving on to superintendent report I'm actually going to make my remarks during the update on Fall reopening thank you thank you Dr Joseph moving on to our proposed consent agenda all items on the consent agenda are considered by the board to be routine and will be enacted by the board in one Motion in the form listed below there will be no disc discussion on these items prior to the time the board votes on the

043motion unless members of the board staff or public request specific items be removed and discussed from the consent agenda the superintendent and staff recommend approval of all consent items movement of any recommended consent item is appropriate at this time okay again those that are attending the meeting if if you have any comments on this particular proposed consent item please raise your hand now president Coro we have no hands raised at the moment I'll make thank you motion to approve the consent agenda as presented I second roll call vote trusty chin yes I'm sorry I didn't I didn't hear you sorry yes yes okay thank you trusty Hitchcock hi chusty Proctor yes chusty Watkins yes and a yes for me the motion carries moving on to item 7.1 Equity Task Force update tonight we're we're really

044excited to have three members of the equity task force and our facilitator present um information that they would like to share with the board about some thoughts they have about um various aspects of our program um I would like to introduce uh Nicole Anderson as our facilitator and um I see that she is here Diana harlick she is one of the members of the equity task force I see Geneva Williams is here Geneva is our student voice on our Equity task force one of our student voices and I believe Carla Rodriguez should be here with us but I'm not seeing her quite yet I am currently looking for her in the list of attendees all right well Carla Rodriguez is another member of the task force so um as soon as we find her I

045president I'm sorry uh superintendent roses I'm going to check something there's a person with their hand up El is this is this Carla yes there she is okay fantastic Carla if you could hold on just one moment there we go all right so we have all of our members now and um I believe that one of you has a PowerPoint um and I will just turn it over from here to you all right can you hear me okay I think I'm on okay here we go no you can't hear me S really far away you're real you're really quiet and I know you have a a a powerful voice that a little better there okay I was too far away sorry so um good evening uh fabulous uh board members governance team superintendent and all

046of your District staff who are behind the scenes making this happen um kudos to Peter who always uh seems to work it out with all of our issues techn technologically so thank you for having us here um I'm just going to kick it off real quick um and just um really just share a little context for the board um about where the equity task force is at this moment in time so um just want to you share you know I have the pleasure of joining the group um in January um and coming in to really help facilit at um the process with the group um part of that facilitation to provide some content building capacity building but also to help um try to organize thoughts to create this um opportunity to develop um and give

047input on the equity statements really do more research um and really kind of what we call unpack some of the equity gaps so that there can be some sound um action steps to recommend to you as the governance team um I want to also say you know just want to you know front with the governance team in terms of the vision for this I want to just recognize um noela and Shara for all of your time and dedication to this um kind of subcommittee work um that endless amount of time we want to recognize and your input was very valuable obviously Joan and your staff has also been very valuable in this process of setting the vision and kind of the tone um and I also want to recognize um that uh this thing called

048covid-19 came along and really created some interesting nuances where there were some pivots along the way and not that Equity work ever becomes um you know not a priority um which I want to commend your District on keeping it a priority um I have the pleasure of working with many clients and and Equity got pushed to the back burner and when covid-19 hit us and so I just want to you know commence you on that um and also with that being said the equity task force very much was um team players in terms of really wanting to support the school district leadership and weighing in on some of the hard decisions you had to make around adjusting going to distance learning trying to measure the impact of that understanding the equity implications for kids who

049may have not had access may have not had the best experience through that process and you know commending some of the comments that were made during public comment from some of the parents um I'm a parent myself you know definitely understanding there were some nuances where Equity uh gaps and issues were exacerbated during that time and and the group was very adamant about continuously trying to address those issues which is a hard task so with that being said um again the context of this group is really to help inform your board of course and weigh in on some of the important decisions you'll have to make to create systemic change in your District um which is a heavy task I want to just kind of um brag about the equity task force in terms of

050the hard work and engagement that they um really put forth throughout this year um in the dedication and all those late nights and and moments of frustration and dis non-closure as we call it um but also the real uh focus and intentionality of this work and so um one of the things I want to U just point out is that when we say the word Equity it's been used a lot this year and I'm just really proud that the group really came to a place of agreeing that when we say equity in SEL Foster City what you see on the screen is what we mean and and this has to continuously be unpacked and recognized as the lens by which we do all of the work in in this particular District um so I want

051to just uh bring that to your attention and remind you about um the recommendations that will come in the future um and still are being hashed out because these are some serious recommendations that the group is considering and really um wanting to provide you with a real concrete update tonight in terms of the subcommittee time that they have spent really looking at three key Focus areas um with this Equity statement and lens in mind when we talk about focusing on our lgbtq students and their needs also about staff Ing and ensuring that there is um um a diverse representation of staff that really can support students across the board and of course lots of nuances around academic programming and so this Equity lens we ask that the board really think about using this uh statement

052to continuously um inform your decisions around this Equity lens when it comes to policy that you're going to impact um when it comes to uh the work so I'm going to pass the uh virtual mic over and if we can go to our uh next slide and we're going to just break down the three um um uh Focus areas that we like the board to really um think about and understand kind of an update on where the group is going and some actual recommendations for the future um and the focus areas around that tonight again does not represent a key uh board recommendation for you to consider action on um this really represents an update and really kind of some guidance on kind of where the group is going um in this next uh school

053year so I am going to pass the virtual mic and mute myself okay so I think I think it's on to me is that right um good evening um board members District staff and the community I'm Diana harlick and I'm happy to be here tonight to represent the academic and program instruction work group of equity task force um so our group is a passionate and thoughtful group that includes teachers parents and students um with co- facilitations support provided by the director of curriculum instruction Alicia henigan and over the past several months um we have spent some time diving into data and learning about some existing District initiatives um we actually started with a focus on compacted math and the gate program but we quickly broadened that Focus to examine patterns of student achievement and current

054instructional supports more generally in the district and as we wrestled with the data and considered the many factors that contribute to opportunity and achievement gaps we began to discuss the need for an overarching framework to guide the districts work we didn't get there right away because we all kind of have our our issues that we're passionate about and we pivoted between big picture and little picture but we did eventually return by consensus to the need to have a common framework so this has led us to the preliminary recommendation that you see on this slide um tonight which is for the district to adopt multi-tiered systems of support or mtss for short um as the district's Equity framework so I'm sure you're asking what is mtss it sounds like a bunch of Education jargon and it

055most definitely is um but it also happens to be a pretty thoughtful framework that uses Improvement science to provide tools that allow School sites and the district office to examine and unpack both the structures and and processes that together work for or against student achievement so and I'm just giving a very kind of high level picture what what it is um but as an example of the types of things that mtss helps um districts and sites dig into and a pretty systematic way um these are some areas administrative leadership inclusive academic instruction inclusive Behavior instruction School culture organizational structures family partner ERS ships and district office supports and kind of underlying all of this is being also immersed in data and research um so um so our group was particularly drawn to mtss because it

056engages both the site and the district and complimentary change processes um at both the site and the district level implementing mtss starts with a self assessment um actually before that there is some training um but the self assessment allows sites and the district office to identify their own areas of focus and this is really important because stakehold stakeholders get to start where they're ready um it's not dictated to them there's the ability to differentiate um by needs at um the individual site um but the thing that really unites the work is a common framework and um we thought that this was really important in a district as large as Sam T Foster City that that that it had that balance um the other compelling attributes of mtss is that it focuses on the whole child

057meaning that social emotional success is given the same importance as academic success and it likewise focuses on all types of Learners including both traditional learners but also children with learning differences and special needs so you'll see with MTS mtss tools and protocols that there are principles of um Universal Design for Learning embedded throughout okay so um so you can see that what we have identified is a tenative goal a full implementation of mtss within five to eight years at all School sites beginning with training and the self assessment process um mtss is not a quick fix um it is deep work uh it's not you know another initiative layered on top of many other initiatives it really is a systems approach um if there are quick fixes to equity issues we would all be doing

058them so what mtss acknowledges is that addressing root causes of aaps really requires digging in around multiple factors for institutional change to occur um so as I wrap up I just want to point out that um this recommendation is quite preliminary we have not had a chance yet to present it to the full task force for input um and while we're presenting this kind of broad recommendation our group really remains very eager to engage more deeply on other more targeted issues including those that you see listed on the slide such as the need to focus on the district's youngest Learners and aign instruction across preschool and early Elementary the need for common District assessments especially in the area of math the need to address the unintended consequences of the gate and compacted math programs and

059the need for rigorous data and evaluation to undergr all of this in order for the district to identify and harness its own local best practices um so that is the update that our um work group has for you tonight we really look forward to partnering with the other members of the task force and the District staff to continue this incredibly important work all right so next slide please I believe uh Geneva will be next hi my name is Geneva Williams and I'm an incoming 10th grader at Aragon High School I've spent all my Elementary and Middle School years through the San Mato Foster City District and I'm here to talk about uh lgbtq plus students um so some of our goals it are to First improve upon keep indicators of mental health challenges and more

060positive psychological outcomes on par with non-lgbtq plus students in non-marginalized students as well another is to eliminate the stigma surrounding lgbtq students and families through education and ensure that they feel safe and accepted in their school communities and last to celebrate the accomplishments and contributions of lgbtq plus people through adhering to the fa Fair Act all these goals are super important but I heavily stress the last one because the Fair Act is often put pushed to the side and I have not I've never to to put it frankly I have not heard about one lgbtq plus person in my entire School uh career and I know a lot of students feel the same way and repres representation doesn't matter so the the third one is very one that's very important to me and so to

061continue so we were planning to desegregate data from this California healthy kids survey and identify indicators of safety and mental health fact uh of lgbtq plus students we we were on track to do this however covid-19 hit and it has been pushed to the sides side for now and we plan to resume this then uh as soon as possible and uh we were planning to engage lgbtq plus students and families in learn about their experiences possibly reaching out to Rainbow or GSA clubs for focus groups um we we were on track to do this however covid-19 hit and it's been pretty difficult it would be very difficult to do this online so we are a little bit unsure of where the next steps are to move on with those two items and some Focus area

062uh areas we have for board recommendations are uh a funding allegation we need mental health CL clinicians counselors and training for staff to better serve our students which is really important and we need uh to update District website the district website to include resources on Equity so students and families are able to re uh take these their this matter into their own hands and learn a little bit more about Equity because that's very important thank you thank you Geneva and next slide please our our last uh focus group Carla will be presenting hello thumbs up if you could hear me yeah great um good evening board members it's a pleasure to present to you this evening the Staffing goals of the equity task force um again a mighty team of brilliant and dedicated individuals who

063have committed um lots of time to really be thoughtful in our recommendations our team is um led by facilitated by Sue Weisner assistant superintendent of Human Resources U for the district who has promised to be standing by to answer any difficult questions that may follow up um I just wanted to start off with just emphasizing why Staffing is so important um the we know that quality culturally and the linguistically diversed educator and teaching Staffing is the single greatest in school Factor related to student achievement and just a quick personal fact I could completely attest to this I'm a daughter of Salvadorian immigrants my mother is this monolingual Spanish speaking um and I know that the connection she had with teachers um while I was growing up was instrumental in the success I had in school

064um so we appreciate um the opportunity to put forth recommendations to um that are in progress so we have two overarching goals um to close the achievement achievement Gap most prevalent amongst um eth marginalized students um number one is to increase Staffing diversity to reflect demographics and spoken languages of students and families in the district this is invaluable in many ways it creates a sense of a belonging uh a connection um supports positive identity development and um teachers are able to have a deeper connections with families um when they represent the families that they serve uh number two create an attractive and supportive and inclusive work environment to retain quality teachers this is invaluable we know that we um often attract them but then they leave and move on um due for many reasons and

065we would like to just maintain a really rich um continuous relationship with quality teachers that become embedded in our school district community and the families of the students that um we serve in our schools Equity Challenge and data we looked at initial demographic data discrepancies uh for example Staffing disproportionality in comparison to student demographics so this includes years of experience ethnicity language is spoken really U trying to see if we how much we can match and again it's more than just getting um the ethnicities to match it's really about having the Deep wisdom of having um cultural humility anti-bias education to really be able to check those biases and truly make authentic connections with children the students and families um we would like to uh review recruitment processes such as screening interviews professional development mentoring

066and coaching and evaluation um systems um really with an equity lens so just really assessing if there's tweaks and enhancements we can make to really um best attract um a diverse pool of applicants to bring into our um teaching community and leverage and build new Partnerships we're really excited excited that um to hear this um the district is already have U made great strides in this area there's um Partnerships with aler Graduate School of Education San Jose State University and non-traditional Affinity groups um non-traditional Affinity groups are extremely valuable especially when attracting um faculty teachers and staff in our language emergence schools um we would like to make sure that there isn't a shortage that where we aren't struggling that there is um a great pool of quality staff that um continue with us and

067enhancing um the learning in Spanish in language emerging schools Focus areas for board recommendations um implications to achieve goals include funding um for financial assistance and incentives excited to share an example that um we're currently the district is currently offering um special education credential tuition assistance um we be we would like to support more um funding opportunities like that to again continue retaining the teachers that we have policy and practices related to Recruitment and Retention really examining what are the barriers to um recruiting and retention and removing those barriers um practices supported by professional development as I mentioned really examining um what what we could do to enhance the PD currently offered and um given um the heightened um just critical consciousness of the importance of racial Justice it is key to have PD in

068anti-bias anti-racism teaching to um again um really close that achievement Gap that we're seeing um most prevalent among uh students of color and um so I just wanted to just close with that um the educators are not only um help shape the educational path and life of students but they become part truly part of the families and um and to so really again echoing comments that came um before me in public comments that really um this partnership and connection between teachers and families is so key and by having a diversity diversifying the faculty in our school district will also help in enhancing the relationship and connections with families so thank you very much and that concludes my comments so um in closing um I think we want to open it up if there's questions for

069the group but I just want to close and just thank um the three ladies for joining me and sharing that um kind of update and obviously you can see they're very passionate very um informed but also recognize there's a lot of work to be done and this work definitely is a long-term Journey it's a go slow to go fast um but I would do want to add one comment for the board in terms of obviously that's an update and not official recommendations but you kind of see where where the the train is going but I do want to say as a board what you can do now is continue to keep your focus on Equity that you have been doing using your study session time to really unpack some of these key Focus areas because

070there a lot of work to be done a lot of data to understand so working closely with obviously Joan and and her staff to ensure that you have a really good understanding of what the equity issues are and and obviously there's going to be budget implications and some of the things that um may be recommended down the down the line so just really keeping these things as a priority but obviously knowing that you have to reopen schools in an unprecedented way so we recognize how hard this is for the board but just want to encourage you to just always keep Equity at the Forefront and utilizing that statement as your lens by which everything you do every decision you make that you use that Equity statement as your lens to really measure against is this

071something that is Equitable and going to be good for all kids based on their needs so with that I'm going to um pass the virtual mic back over to I believe Joan and um or open it up I guess for questions possibly for um our group and also I know there's some staff Liaisons on the line to possibly help answer questions as well actually now at this point it goes back to our president um but I do want to thank everyone for the presentation and the valuable work you spent a lot of time together thinking about this District to come to this place it isn't a simple it isn't a simple answer it or it would have already been done so you have really given a great deal of time and effort and the whole

072team has we do thank you for that and these are very valuable recommendations that are starting to take shape so I will turn it over to our president because um she will lead us from there thank you thank you for the presentation um so why don't we open it up now for clarifying questions from our board then we can go to public comment and then discussion any clarifying questions I just have one uh clarifying question um I know that uh I think it was a couple years ago um the principal at aabon had instituted MTS in their throughout their um school and um during our presentation at our side visit it was it was really um it was great seeing the work that needed to be done and the direction that they were going I

073know that there's been a principal change there and so I'm not sure if they they have kept it but I'm wondering whether or not and maybe this is a question to Joan whether or not any of our other schools have implemented uh mtss uh to this date and whether or not we can also gleam from that um as we move forward with this so there are several that have worked on mtss um and have been in training and some that are implementing different pieces of it it's not systemic though so that's what I think our the team is coming forward and saying you know if you really want the strongest um um positive movement from it it needs to be systemic across the across the whole District thank you any other clarifying questions okay let's

074open it up for a public comment okay at the at this time if you would like to address the board on this particular item please raise your hand okay president Coro currently we have uh two hands up to for this public comment how much time would you like to give let's go with three minutes okay three minutes uh first will be Maria hello hello you guys hear me sorry go ahead mask um yeah I was just so I know last week you guys were talking about that school in North Central and I thought I was thinking about how we can close the gap um and I think this kind of goes in line with Equity I think a lot of times there is this um disparity in the learning because they don't get a head

075start um some kids don't have the Head Start in preschool and that just kind of sets the tone right so I was thinking with that school the north central school is to run a subsidized preschool and the newcomer English language school there to start it with um so that way the kids will get a preschool and then when they enter kindergarten they won't be so far behind that's all thank you Marie okay next we have is Rosie hi again I just want to acknowledge the the work that Equity task force is doing right now and just you know reiterate that I think now more than ever um the role of the equity task force is like the most important um it's ever been and so I want to applaud uh superintendent uh Rosas for just

076making sure the task force you know just keeps plugging along and I and I know um I'm actually a member of the task force I've been a a little Mia but I I have been reading notes and I just am really happy about how proactive we've been in terms of responding to the current times and as far as um you know one thing I I I know that we don't get into uh too much uh but something that the previous caller just spoke about in terms of preschool um you know I've I've said this and I always voice my support for the PIP program um in equity task force and really what that program does for so many of our families um and how important it has been for pip to be in the neighborhoods

077um is is so important and I you know as we move forward I know times are changing but you know it's really important to still maintain some sort of uh preschool program at the neighborhood level um as opposed to centralizing it in North Central and that's all thank you Rosie okay president Coro we have no other hands raised at this time thank you okay opening it up for discussion um I want to thank you all for um being on the task force and all all the work that you guys have done um Nicole I want to thank you as well for for coming in and helping out as well I can um through the equity and NW work are very familiar obviously with your work and I know that you've you've been able to help

078us uh guide us in the direction that we want to go um I know that we sometimes have asked and pushed to number things down to the task force to to really take a deep dive in and I'm really glad that at least we're looking at some of the um direction that you guys are coming out with some of the recommendations so um again I just want to thank you guys for all your hard work and um and I'm excited to see um the additional fruits of all your labor so thank you I'll go next um thank you e Equity task force addressing um equity and inequity is a large and multifaceted topic and it's not an easy one to tackle and I really appreciate you um taking on this necessary important and challenging feet

079um and I appreciate your student voice Geneva thank you very much [Music] um I I'm excited that I feel there will be actual um positive changes and I look forward for those implementations um and in the presentation it says five to eight years but um I'm hoping that it starts now and again just I really appreciate it and look forward to um the next steps that this brings hi I was just going to turny in briefly um wanted to thank everyone for all the hard work I mean um just looking at this presentation alone you can tell how much work and thought is going into into everything you're doing here so thank you uh for all of your work um Nicole we just met recently at our at our board study session so um I

080like you know am keeping in mind what you say that you have to go slow to go fast because um like trusty Hitchcock I'm like ready to you know like what's the next step and I think you said it I you said it way better than this but um leaving the conversation like unsettled is something you have to just kind of um come to terms with so I've come to terms with that but I was just wondering um in terms of the Staffing and this is more of a question but it wasn't really clarifying it was just more of thoughts and I was curious um in our area is there any are there any barriers that are unique to our school district in terms of attracting Diverse Staffing or is this just is this something

081that's um you know across the board in this area or is there is there something specific that um that we can address there that's maybe unique and then also my second question was just and it's just first thoughts um the challenge for retaining staff was mentioned and I was just curious um have we started to support our staff by providing that anti-bias training or training on inclusive practices and um how we're going to incorporate that um going forward because I know we talked about that a bit at our study session as well so those are just things that kind of jumped out at me and I really again really appreciate everybody's work here so thank you can jump in no well and I serve as Lees on to the task force so I know I'm

082been a little bit quieter than normal um which is why because I I am have been involved in in some of this work and seen this progress so um you know I think um this is a perfect example of a variety of stakeholders in our district working together parents students teachers staff District leadership um you know across the board working together on um really important issues and topics and as we all know you know these Equity issues are deep and they're complex and they're systemic and you know we've we've talked about this before and I know I've said this a thousand times right but our our education system was designed to produce the inequities that we see and so you peel back the layers and it's at every single layer and it feels overwhelming and

083you know and that comes to light and when when you get in when you start engaging in this work and when you start discussing this work and that's a big part of what's happened you know over the course of the year and a half or so um almost two years that the task force has been working together you know um there's so many places to go there's so many places where we see an equity where do we focus where do we dig in um and even when you start to G dig in then it's so big um and you know and it's it it feels overwhelming and a lot and that's hard but then you want to move it forward quickly and that's hard right and so there's just so much to it and and

084you know it's a group of really dedicated individuals that again are volunteering their time um because they care about our kids all of them they care about our kids that have continued to be Left Behind um you know by our district and um really working to bring some of those issues to light and to work on you know taking steps in the right direction to move it forward and so I feel like you know this is this is exciting there's been so much work happening and I think we don't always um you know we talk about lots of different things and we have you know we address lots of different things as a board every week now I going to say you know twice a month every week um and um um you know and

085this is something that's been happening the whole time right there is it has not slowed down it has not stopped if anything they've ramped up you know in the midst of their own lives and dealing with everything that's going on and it's um you know I'm so appreciative to everyone and to Nicole for leading the group and to you know all of the um you know the students that are studying that have been studying for exams and still attending meetings and coming after practice and um you know we keeping them until :30 at night and their parents are waiting outside and you know all of the all of the parents that aren't at home to put their kids to bed right all of the and and our District staff that are staying late um and

086I think you know it's it's been it's it's really powerful that that the the group of stakeholders can align around the importance of this work that our district is committed that they're they've been in their room so they also know what's coming in terms of some of the recommendations right which means that they can start to prepare for some of that work um should the board you know um uh take the recommendations and then you know direct District staff to move forward with some of um these elements and so it's just you know this is one of those moments where things are kind of coming together in a way that the group is able to share with our the rest of our board and and show kind of um some culmination of of of the

087many many many many hours um and work that's gone into this and so um I just you know I remember us talking about the resolution and just you know and wondering what would happen um and this is what's happening and so um you know I than everyone for everything you know from the board and the support of the board around the work to you know everyone that's been involved in this and so thank you to those of you that were here tonight to share what kind of where you guys are we're looking forward to hearing next steps around recommendations and to begin to start laying the ground work um you know this work doesn't stop because we're dealing with um lots of other things and I appreciate Nicole sharing that too right because it's really

088easy to set some of these other things aside because of all of the other things that have been added to the plates of everyone and instead I feel like what we've done is really dug into the importance of it um and continue just to push forward so thanks to everybody this is the work thank you Shara can you all hear me you can okay now something happened and we can't now we can you can hear me okay okay um yes thank you everyone for presenting I know that um I know that there there we want to get to the full recommendations and and we're so close um but you yeah as someone that's also been a part of these meetings and has seen the work um from the very beginning um yeah I'm also just

089very grateful for all of the all of the time everyone's invested in really just sticking it out um these initial um this pres presentation and and the initial recommendations um that were shared and and um they're just I just want to like stress like how impactful they can and will be once we um you know we we get to the point where where we give full a little more in detail recommendations um I know there are many times during throughout the process where we have felt like we've been going slow we've been going slow when are we going to go fast when are we going to go fast and like we're right there so um yeah again just grateful for that um I do want to just say that you know our our board continue

090our board and our superintendent continue uh to the equity task force and the work that it has and and will continue to do um that being said there's how long let's see Joan do you remember when we started was it J January 2018 I don't even know now no I'm wrong it's not 2018 car will remember when she I think that was right yeah I think because Kyle was itty bitty baby wow time it's been a long road um but I think like someone mentioned before if these things were easy to solve they would have been solved already um I I want to just share um kind of my hopes for the future work of the of this group and also recognizing that folks have committed a lot of time at this point you know

091potentially years and um you know there will be an opportunity for uh open spots on this task force and um and so if you're really passionate and committed to equity please um you know stay in touch you can watch the meeting they are um they are public and um just start getting informed on on what that work looks like um yeah thank you thank you everyone oh one more thing sorry um one of one of my hopes for for the for the future of the task force um and I know this is a little off topic but we're it's not many times that we get to have the opportunity to have our some of our task force members here with us um I just hope that we can um get to a place where we're

092having even more in-depth courageous conversations and and really get really uh honest about how um race and economic status and just different um is issues affect our students and what that looks like um and and I know we've we've started doing that and and I just you know I definitely want to want to see that through and looking forward to to working with everyone on those things okay anyone else I think I was the last one thank you so much everybody for presenting okay so we are now going to be moving on to our next agenda item we have our school resource officer program item 7.2 yes so for 7.2 um Dr Sarah drinkwater will introduce the item and we do have two guests um from our Sano Police Department we have um Dave Norris

093and Kimber Joyce who are coming aboard and uh I believe um uh Peter you're going to have to find them coming on now okay and um I'll let Sarah better introduce once we've got everybody here good evening it's nice to be here this evening um to speak with the Board of Trustees Dr rosis colleagues and the community and as Dr Ros has just mentioned we have two uh guests this evening Captain David Norris and Sergeant Kimber Joyce and I will be um sort of laying the context uh for the presentation that they will be sharing with you uh so if uh Peter can bring up my slide deck that would be great so um as I mentioned um two uh colleagues from the San mono police department will be here this evening speaking about our

094relationship and the school resource officer program that we um have been collaboratively working together with him over many years so uh the agenda for this evening for us um is to share a little bit about uh the SRO program with San Mato police department and describe a little um about Foster City just so that you get a picture of the support that we have both in Foster City and San Mato uh how they support our uh students um in teaching uh a program called great and uh how they also support the district in general so I will um show a few slides and then C Captain Norris and Sergeant um Joyce will come on next slide so the teaching component uh that we're engaged in with both Sano and Foster City uh police departments is

095the great program or gang resistance Education and Training and uh it is uh both Foster City and San mono police departments uh work with sixth graders and the Foster City Police Department also does work with fourth graders at the uh Foster City Elementary Schools um the grade curriculum has three components uh that are a part of it and um the first component is providing students with life skills to help avoid criminal behavior and gang membership it also provides uh students the opportunity to interact uh positively with law enforcement in the classroom and uh uh the program also expands into helping students deal with issues such as bullying or peer pressure and making um good decisions next slide so so uh General support from uh Sano or Sano Police Department specifically is that we have um

096a District School attendance review board or sarb as it's known for short and uh one of the officers sits on the attendance review board with us we meet um with families who uh are dealing with some serious um con uh issues related to their children attending school and when we bring a group of um staff together to problem solve with the families it is uh very nice to have an officer um as a part of that giving suggestions uh they may know the student um or family and they've been um an important member of the sarb they've also been an integral member um on our threat assessment process um they've helped provide training and the threat assessment process itself includes um a law enforcement component when um a threat assessment is being completed so they're

097actually a um member of that uh team that um goes through that assessment and um the officers are also trained um in how to conduct that process uh they have also supported um The District in conducting Wellness checks whether it be with counselors um or our prevention coordinator uh sometimes it's been difficult to make contact uh with a family and a a small group uh two or three may go out to a family to see what kind of support or resources might be needed they've also done um trainings at the middle schools uh for families about um drug use and and vaping things to recognize um related to children and um paraphernalia that their that their children may have they've also been um very instrumental uh in working with me and student services and with

098Diane in Communications during emergencies it may be an emergency that's in the community um for example uh earlier in the 201920 school year there was an incident around Burell and I was um contacted very ear Early in the Morning by one of the SRO officers uh at about 6:30 6:40 in the morning so that we could begin planning how to um assist barell in uh opening school when it was all uh happening in that neighborhood at the same time um if it's an emergency um within the school um we communicate with the uh Communications officer with the police department in uh developing Communications that um may go out um to our families and uh community so it's been very invaluable in that way they have also um they do site checks of our campuses when

099we're closed sometimes um uh Gates or uh fences might be scaled and um things happening inside the campus so if there's been graffiti or other damage um they do help us out when our um campuses are closed in addition um our connections uh and our collabor ation has helped um HR the superintendent office and student services um in some of the uh work that we uh need to do or some situations that arise next slide So currently with uh Sano Police Department um the SRO contract is paused um during distance learning as you know we went in shelter in place in March and so there have not been uh students on campus students or staff on campus um and so we have not been charged for those uh Services it would be um a really

100good time to take advantage of re-evaluating the contract in our relationship um with Sano police department and we're planning uh to conduct a survey with staff and students to find out um and obtain their perspectives on the great program and the support that has been provided to schools and students and families so um with that um I would like to introduce Captain Dave Norris and Sergeant Kimber Joyce of the sananto police department and they will be presenting uh their uh slides uh for you thank you Dr drinkwater for that introduction and I'm gonna go ahead and uh work on sharing my screen so that I can get you to to the presentation here hopefully you all can see that um so uh again my name is Dave Norris I'm a captain with Sam T police

101department and um I have been involved with of the youth services component what we've been doing here for about the last 16 years um over uh various members of staff and administration at s Foster City School District and through various different uh uh job titles and responsibilities that I've held I've been uh fortunate enough to be kind of pretty close to tide with um our engagement with our youth and and how important that is to Sano Police Department so uh the the SRO program itself has been with s PD for nearly 20 years uh we have evolved from a single officer deployed to a single High School uh to really a compreh comprehensive team of school resource officers outside agency partners Youth and Family Resources dedicated supervision and a mission driven by a healthy and

102positive relationship between the police and the community and uh today's really distinctive Staffing model that we have includes a unique set of Partnerships that place our officers on campus on all three s middle schools public middle schools as well as the three high schools that they feed into and just a little bit about the mission uh I I think that doctor drink water gave you a lot of really good information already uh but uh but these are really kind of our our main bullet points here uh first a close connection at the leadership level and and I think again we've talked about this uh very close working relationship with the administration and and especially um the uh the the inclusion of of off hours participation in that on the on the weekends and overnight uh

103when things are going on or we anticipate things are going on whether they're in the schools or whether that's police activity that may then evolve into uh some type of relationship to the school population uh we're in contact with our with our admin Partners over on the Middle School side and uh and then also synchronization of communication I don't think we can do enough to emphasize how much we do to make sure that the messaging that's going out from the school district to parent groups which we know is is almost as good as a press release itself and the and the public information that we're putting out from Police Department that all of those things are in synchronization so that there aren't any uh pieces of information that fall through cracks there's no uh conflict

104of information and we do the very best we can to decom put that uh through that relationship the connection with the students uh obviously this is really the Cornerstone of what we're doing in our uh in our work as the school resource officer team and the E Services Unit Al together um both formally and informally uh with the the police officers are in contact with the students and this really builds not just bonds with the students but it builds trust and places um our experts who are are police officers who are really experts in you know reading people and recognizing crisis um at at its very onset right in the midst of our most cherished and vulnerable community members in our youth and uh the the key piece to that again Dr drinkwater gave a

105really good description the great program prevention and early intervention through great uh really allows our officers to help students build valuable confidence and skill and an environment that develops uh familiarity and Trust uh not just with the police with the community in general we'll talk a little bit more about that in a few minutes um and then campus safety and I think it that that also you know cannot be emphasize too much uh this places uh police officers ready and on campus so that we can be uh you know Chief communicators in the time of Crisis um so that and our school resource officers are certified uh trainers and experts in not only the big five but also in you know active Intruder type events and preparing our faculty preparing our students for you know

106what they can do to help themselves and also to uh to increase safety in the event that crisis strikes uh we hope we never have to use those lessons and those tactics but we are very thankful that we have a really good team of school resource officers who help uh work with faculty to make sure that that our folks are as prepared as they can be so this is a a little bit of an illustration that shows you kind of what uh what our organization looks like and and like we said this is this is a kind of a unique partnership it's it's the school resource officer program itself is a three-way partnership between SEL Police Department the SEL Unified High School District and SEL Foster City School District each paying in a third uh

107to create this three officer team but what you get for that investment is much much more than just one full-time equivalent officer so you have now a team of three officers who are deployed uh throughout the Middle School System here in s who communicate with each other who have direct oversight from a supervisor whose only job it is is to support the Youth Services Unit um and you get uh you get all of these other peripheral benefits so the connection underneath the Services Unit to samon tail police officer or sorry samon tail police activities League uh and all of the resources and services that are connected to Pal um all under this umbrella we also have through our youth services Bureau program uh a case manager and a a counseling service and that's a critical

108component we'll talk a little bit more about that a little bit later on but you can't have a supportive program with youth without having a counseling component that helps to uh work with these youth to get to the to get to the heart of whatever problems are coming up and then the the really interesting part that that we're most proud of is this uh partnership with Sano County Probation so we have a Sano County probation officer in Sano Police Department who is dedicated to Our Youth Services Unit and I want to make sure that that you all realize that that does not mean extra prosecution what that means is that probation at the at the Juvenile level at the Youth Level is all about rehabilitation it's all about turning youth away from the justice system

109getting them diverted back onto the right track and what that provides for us is uh a direct conduit to extra resources that we have to keep those kids on track um so all of those things are what you get in addition and in in benefit um as you as as you invest in that one full-time uh police officer and that's school resource officer team and I would be remiss if I didn't uh identify this and recognize this and be a little bit blunt about it that it's a it's a very delicate and complex system that we've put together and uh we know that there's a lot of discussion about what this looks like kind of on the back end uh we're certainly in in an unusual and challenging time not just with covid but with

110a lot of uh discussion about uh racial Justice and racial Injustice and what that means to policing in general and and we want to make sure that that we are an important important part of that conversation and just because we're in this time of covid and we have we have stopped kind of the formal services that are coming through the SRO program we have not stopped serving our youth and we have not stopped being dedicated uh to making sure that our youth are the most supported that they can be and that we're connecting with especially those students that are having the most trouble um and are connected to fragile families that really need help and services and we continue to to work in support of that so great I won't spend too much time on

111this slide because I think that Dr drink water did a really good job of explaining exactly what great is and all the things that it does um I will just say that that uh this program is evidence-based it is a 13-week curriculum that is rigorously structured to provide a lot of great information and lessons for our youth um every sixth grader in Santo Public Schools is getting this program and that is that's a lot of Youth and we now have as of 2019 classes of students that are graduating the high schools who have been um brought in early on as sixth graders and and taught the great program and now have made their way all the way through uh through the 12th grade and graduating uh with that foundational set of social defense skills that

112we that we teach you're great we're very very proud of that and I think that there are a lot of results that show from that um the key lessons that that we're talking about with the social defense skills anti-bullying anti- gang uh good decision making trouble recognition anger management conflict resolution lots of things that really provide good tools that that uh kids not only will benefit from in the schools but benefit from uh outside the schools and and Well on into their lives and uh I want to share with you a little bit of information so um I know that that Dr drink water talked about doing some uh some surveying and some and some exploration on the back end about about what great does and how uh you know how great benefits our students

113and the families that are involved uh we have done some some after course surveys that uh that have gone out to our students that have been involved in great um these the results that I'm about to talk about involve uh somewhere in the neighborhood of 800 students who who we have gotten through over the last couple of years through the great program 80% of these students report that that they're using these skills daily including at home uh 94% feel that the great program has improved their decision making and again this is out of about 800 kids uh 90% feel less positive about gangs and and understand the dangers of gangs um and 93% feel more positive about their relationship with police and uh and there's another uh statistic that goes with this too that that

114uh we found a higher Collective e ethicacy higher Collective efficacy I and that was a phrase that I I wasn't familiar with so I had to look it up myself and and essentially what Collective efficacy means is that uh you are part of a community and you're contributing positively to the community around you and it's associated with lower crime rates in certain neighborhoods and so you know this is this is a a really important program that is producing really important results uh a little bit so I I know that we that we want to give you all some data to uh to digest on this so this is representative of the last several years as we we started great right around 2013 uh we started it kind of on a smaller scale with officers who

115were retired who we brought back to you know teach great in schools and connect with kids on a smaller scale and then fast forward to the uh 2015 2016 school year where we actually started to deploy three school resource officers to all the middle schools and really get every sixth grader involved um in these in these cases and so the the um the numbers that you're seeing here the blue bars on this uh represent uh contacts that are school resource officers have with students that necessitated some type of documentation and all contacts don't end in documentation in fact most of them vast majority of them don't uh the vast majority of the context are just are just you know welfare checks um check-ins how you doing how are you feeling about this uh conversations just

116bonding time talking shooting the breze talking about the sports over the weekend um and whatever but uh but there are contexts where you know students are struggling they're having a hard time there maybe behavior issues present and some of those require documentation and so the the blue line is the documented cases that our school resource officers are doing and you can see you know as we get into 2017 2018 and we now have school resource officers in all the middle schools that the level of documentation goes up that's just because the level of contacts are going up uh but what you also see is a steady decline from the time that we had three school resource officers deployed at the schools to now and and you know with with the understanding of mind that the

1172019 202 we're showing essentially zero referrals for action or prosecution um has something to do with covid but it also has a lot to do with our SRO and the way that they're handling and dispo these cases and trying to find ways that are alternative to sending a case up to uh either the District Attorney's office or probation or both for further action and more intense supervision finding ways through the conversion program we're finding uh ways through restorative justice practice is and the number of cases that we actually have to send on and and uh kind of place uh Place kids into a little bit more of a system are going way way down I wanted you all to see what that trend line Looks like uh the gold bar on this the yellowish bar

118um those are the Middle School cases that were identified for diversion um that does not represent all of the kids that are in diversion obviously with with the high schools also involved uh there are more numbers than this but these These are the numbers that and and the the uh the types of cases that we are sending to Diversion so a little bit about specifically about our diversion program because again this is something that we're very very proud of um this is an important part in in uh coordination with the great program of you know prevention and early intervention diversion and trying to make sure that our kids are on track in school out of trouble and heading in the right positive direction uh the diversion program is is designed to curve and prevent atrisk

119behavior and keep our youth faced in a healthy positive direction um as they learn and grow and not uh and design to keep them from having to be placed into a more restrictive system that that sometimes is really ineffective and the most important part about this and you see the phrase wrap around here the the idea of incorporating what we call wraparound support wraparound Services um is we know that uh that we have to be trauma informed in how we handle these types of cases and we know that very often uh if if youth are either acting out or they're having issues or uh they're committing some some small you know behavioral um infractions that um that often there's something else going on that uh whether it's at home whether it's in their relationships with

120their friends or whatever it is that's that's helping to uh to create that issue so having wraparound support that's in terms of having Counseling Services also in terms of uh of having um some some family interaction um and making sure that that we know what's going on with these youth is really important for kind of getting to the heart of the issue and figuring out how we can best serve these youth um the program services are provideed very very broad um but the uh but the the front end of that where we're doing you know evidence-based uh needs and risk assessments through through a uh through a wellestablished assessment tool is important and then identifying you know what what should we identify for certain counseling um and we do uh broadly you know family check-ins

121it supports uh School check-ins to make sure that our needs are on track um community service is an important part of this because uh this gives them a sense of responsibility within their own Community which which really helps in uh getting them back on track and seeing the broader picture of what's important um the trauma informed care we talked about pal membership getting uh getting these kids involved in youth activities um for two reasons number one sometimes that's that's really something that they need uh to bond with other with other youth bond with police officers um to get them in in environment where they're doing activities and they're a little bit more comfortable talking about things um but it but it also you know we find that that in some of these situations you have

122a couple of parents who are working many many hours a day and there's uh very little for these youth to do after school so we so we have this opportunity to provide some things to help bridge that Gap and then there are a lot of other classes but uh you know conflict resolution uh good parenting and parenting skills uh some some mental health awareness Suicide Prevention gang awareness and prevention in addition to what we providing great um cyber safety which is sometimes really important some of our some of our team youth um start exploring on on computers and talking to people that they don't know who they are and so some of these lessons are really important um and then uh Career Development and goal setting give them something to look forward to so they

123can start really putting a good comprehensive plan together how they want to get through uh the the issues that they're that they're encountering now really improveed so a little bit about threat assessments uh we we talked I think Dr drinkwater touched on this a little bit and I won't get too deep into it because um I want to make sure that there's plenty of time for questions and commentary but um but we have a couple different levels of threat assessment and then we also have kind of a a collateral uh asset when it comes to threat assessment that I think are all important to talk about so all of our school resource officers are trained in threat assessment um for the for the purpose of making sure uh that that they can work with faculty

124with the student the student's family to put together either a safety plan or some type of plan to address an immediate issue that's kind of what we call level one assessment if it's a little bit more serious than that and it's a little bit more complex or involved uh then that we can take that to a level two assessment that's actually done through County Board of Education um and has a whole team that's designed trying to take kind of these higher level threats and and uh and identify the issues and and address them um Sergeant Joyce who's who's with us here tonight is part of that team so we have a sanon PD asset on that team uh that can help advocate for and make sure that we're taking care of not just the youth

125who we may be doing these assessments for but also anybody else who's involved in and communicating with our school resource officers to make sure uh that that the faculties in the campuses have a level of connection any of those issues and in the addition of the adult threat threat assessment team I think is important to note because uh sometimes sometimes there are there are parents who are um having trouble in some type of Crisis need some type of assistance that gets identified sometimes in in these either diversion programs or through the grade program and conversations with our youth um we have we have a team that can that can address uh adults who may be connected somehow to our you and posing some type of threat and uh we have a we have a team

126that's dedicated that can address that and then also from time to time we do have faculty members that um that have also benefited from this type of threat Assessment program um I'm GNA hold off on the on a Case example of of the threat assessment just for the sake of time if we have some time later or if we want to do it during Q&A well we're we're happy to uh give you a little bit of an overview and practice of how that works so this is General statistics uh we took the the the 201829 school year as as our example on this because um well as as many of our of our speakers already tonight have said because of Co and what Co has done to kind of uh really change the way that

127we're dealing with everything uh so in a typical school year when when we have everything kind of running on all cylinders and going the way that it's supposed to go um we we handle about 460 uh so somewhere in the range of 450 to 500 contacts with our youth um and only about 60 of those go to police reports as I said it's a very small number um but uh but we also have these the restorative justice Wellness safety and other things that we're that we're doing um somewhere between five and 10 threat Assessments in typical year uh diversion referrals at the middle school level about 10 or 11 students um that we refer every year the SAR meetings I think Dr drink water already spoke to that we we are part of that team

128uh that looks at school attendance because we know that that's one of the major markers of some type of atrisk thing that's going on in the environment uh and then Crisis Intervention and and meeting uh meeting attendance in the car's meetings so uh really listening to what the behavioral Trends are uh really understanding that and then paying attention to cues within our within our youth about any type of Crisis that might be emerging progressing that quickly um and then the the 5150s are the the you know 72-hour evaluative hold for people that are in some type of Mental Health crisis uh probably a lot more students than than uh than maybe you might typically think you know somewhere in the in the neighborhood of 30 students that we do on an annual basis we get

129them uh to some type of service that that is a mandated evaluation because we think it's that important um and then you know the welfare checks that we do over 200 incidents a year um that that may be you know there's an indicator that maybe there's some kind of uh some kind of abuse situation going on outside of of uh the maybe the school system and maybe within the families uh or within within other influencers within that youth's life um we do about 200 welfare checks where we just check to make sure everything is okay on that uh on that note and then Conant interaction multiple opportunities sometimes like I said passing in the hallway uh shooting the breze during during a recess period spending some lunch periods with the with the youth making sure

130that that we're in contact with them in a neutral setting that's not just uh either teacher student like it is in great or uh some type of an authority setting like uh like like what normal police officers have to do when they respond to a call uh we want to do things on the outside that and then we do the restorative justice meetings student parent meetings and consultations with faculty um on all of the things that are happening in between um that aren't that aren't arising to the level of some type of action that we would have to take formally uh so what happened during covid-19 I think it's important to just reflect a little bit about this and talk to you about it because like I said you know the the the fact of

131students showing up on campus had stopped but our dedication to youth has not stopped during that time uh we have uh our school resource officers have done welfare checks at home for students um who the the schools have advis us are not paying attention to and not and not adhering to the distance learning requirements uh we did some continued communication coordination not just with the district uh but um but with with the faculty members and and and all the folks that are involved that have uh some type of of an interest or observation or influence uh with our youth um and then and then really the big thing is partnership with police activities league for food delivery um keeping some you know some families are seriously impacted by covid and if the families are impacted

132through their work life and they're you know they're out of a job or they're on some type of Hiatus or they don't have the income coming in that they would typically have um obviously that has Ripple effects and it impacts uh their families and it impacts the students that that we're trying to serve through the schools and so we recognize that we we work very closely with pal to make sure that we're doing uh regular meal distributions um and then our police police officers Association worked together with police activities League really at at during during that holiday weekend it was I think it was Easter and it was Passover and uh we were hitting you know kind of hitting the stride of covid where people started to really realize this is this is real and

133this is going to be impacting us for a long time uh to get out there and get them a smile deliver some Easter baskets and and uh and give people an opportunity to interact with us um and then the counseling continued it continued virtually the parenting instruction and and and help continue virtually and then activity boxes also really important uh kids are doing their distance learning but other than that they're stuck in the house with nothing to do so are the families so pal helped us with bringing some interactive tools um and games and things that the the parents and families could do with their kids uh to help with that boredom that came with Co and and then you know keeping an eye to the Future that we're g to get through this we're

134gonna have activities on the back end we are going to get there we're going to we're going to have a time where we can all see each other and interact um in in a way that uh that we're we're stuck and we're unable to now at this time so uh some questions have been asked about the school to prison Pipeline and I wanted to make sure uh that we addressed that um I'm gonna first read to you this quote so uh Police Executive Research Forum is a um independent kind of uh Think Tank and research organization that really seeks to uh find the the very best in um elevating the professionalism in the level of uh connection between police and the community and elevation of safety through that connection um and so uh they did

135a study in 2018 of the Denver public school system which had uh a a unique program with their school resource officers that you will see is very very similar to some of the things that we do and came to some conclusions about that and this is a message from Chuck Wexler who's the executive director of Police Executive Research Forum and has been for many many years very dedicated to this connection um and to elevating safety through community relations uh with such high stakes related to court involvement at an early age law enforcement agencies and school administrators must ensure that removals from school by suspension expulsion or arrest are strict ly options of Last Resort careful integration of SRO within a system of Educators service providers and Juvenile Justice System Partners may have the potential to

136ensure school safety and promote better educational outcomes for students uh I you know I could just probably put that quote up there and say that that uh that we are closely aligned with that that would uh be almost all I need to say uh but I want to just emphasize you know on these on these four key recommend ations um that uh that I pulled out these are the four major headings but this is about you know Eight Pages of key recommendations that came out of the study uh the first one encouraging school resource officers to engage with these in neutral non-threatening situations and settings um this is the oncampus mission of our school resource officers to make those connections and to do that in a way uh that is so different than a typical

137interaction with police um and that has that has been our practice uh since we have put school resource officers into the schools and will continue to be our practice to be dedicated to having a relationship with the youth in the schools that is not a uh police officer uh and suspect on the street type of contact this is much more of a collegial contact it is a bond building contact it is a trust building contact UM empowering students families and and victims to work collaboratively and determine the best path forward following student misconduct um this is what the comprehensive wraparound services with YSU really is all about um making sure that uh that there that it's a collaborative effort that there are many different factors that are considered and many different uh type of instrumentalities

138in order to address these factors and then monitoring School discipline and jenal Justice data to avoid racially disperate and consequentially disproportionate outcomes um that's uh a lot of what we do in in the um partnering with the faculty on uh beh behavior and attendance issues the great program with prevention early intervention um help us address this this type of thing early and and keep these things from being a major issue and in addition you know our staff uh here within you Services Unit um multiculturally aware multilingual um and able to serve you know multiple different uh folks from multiple different backgrounds um in the way that best suits them and we're very proud of that and and uh at that you know that's a critically important part of this is to make sure that that

139the inclusivity and equity which I know are really themes of everything that that we've heard during the first uh the first hour or so of this uh of this meeting really important to the district as well and then you know comprehensively identify and address students unmet needs by working collaboratively with community service providers um Partnerships with police activities the YMCA through counseling and the the partnering uh non-governmental agencies like like Samaritan House like some of our other uh agencies that that serve people who are needy um those are all Partnerships that are part of this comprehensive new Services Unit program so you know really we feel like we're we're meeting a lot of these recommendations and I wanted to share that information with you because uh you know these are things that are published and

140these are things that that are established and and and uh they're not talking about us but they are talking about us so we want you to be aware of that and then finally I will tell you that that I haven't changed this slide uh from the last time I stood before uh all of you not not not all of you but but most of you and did this presentation and the this is this is about the relationship between our department and our community's children and we just we can't emphasize how important that is to us um and I know we have a we have a new police chief this year um none of that priority has changed this is just as important if not more important to our new police chief and and our entire

141staff all the way down as it as it was under uh Chief manheimer in in the past Chief barbarini has been a real champion of Youth Services and wanted to make sure that that we maintain this unit and continue to serve uh our community's youth in in the most effective way possible um the presence of our school resource officers on campus uh it's important not just not just to our students and the school staff it's important to us it provides uh significant connection uh 24 hours a day seven days a week over you know overnight on the weekends um our officers know that they can pick up the phone and talk to a school resource officer and and get critical information that will help them address youth issues any time of the day or night

142and I I can't emphasize how important that is um and and this is an investment in our future we know that that if we have great relationships with our youth and we have great relationships with the family that's raising those youth that helps us with great relationships with our entire community and helps with our officers being sensitive to any of those subtle cues and and issues that that come up within our community that we can that we can address our our uh our our school resource officers as well as the rest of our staff you know we're not afraid to uh so to speak open up a can of worms and a lot of times when we we deal with you who are at risk um who have a lot of things going on uh

143we we take the cover off of some uh sometimes really difficult things to look at and it's important for you all to know that that first of all that that police officers are uniquely qualified to pick up on some of those cues and nuances and and some of those things might not be picked up on if they didn't get picked up in that way and that and that our police officers are Relentless and that when they uncover things like that they understand how important it is to the safety of the youth and safety of families and to uh and to continue to investigate to make sure that uh that that if there are people that need to be held accountable that they're held accountable or that if there are issues that need to be addressed

144they're addressed in the most effective way and with that I'll thank you for your time and I'll then I'll take any comments or questions thank you for that presentation do we have any clarifying questions I had a few um and they're kind of like quick questions so hopefully um you could just answer them um right after I'll just say each one so um my first question was um when an SRO comes on the campus are they in uniform and are they armed answer to that is yes uh for a couple reasons uh the first the first reason being that uh that these are police officers in the course of their duties and uh we don't we don't have police officers that we send out on duty who are not flipped in the same way way

145that other police officers are with with police officer power and authorities and uh and they they're so yes they are armed uh the other reason behind that is that the great program itself um one of the things that that is a requirement of the support that we get out of the great program is that officers in uniform are teaching these programs and so the the uh the curriculum itself is required to be teach taught by uh by a uniform police officer okay thank you then how I know I saw on the slide that um they split their time between the high school and the middle school so how much of their time is spent like on middle school campuses I'm gonna I'm gonna ask Sergeant Joyce to chime in she has she's a lot closer

146to the the sro's day-to-day operations and she can give you a little bit of perspective on that uh I would I would be just guessing so uh we don't I'd have to go and track actual time but they're really split so I would say most of the time spent on the middle school campuses are teaching great and then responding to um things that the the administration our teachers might need and then also they find times in the day for the care meetings and for um normally they're there for the break so for the the brunch and lunch time to just interact and mingle but I couldn't say if it's 25 or 50 I'm not sure but they they definitely spend their they're taken to some kind of other incident at a different school um they

147try to balance the time at all the at all the schools okay you kind of touched on my next question which was um how much of their time is allocated to the great program versus just interacting with students outside of the classroom I'm sorry right when uh you said the question it cut out sorry um how much of their time when they're on a middle school campus is allocated to um the great program versus being outside of the classroom and interacting with students so uh we I think in a in a normal year and not a covid year we're spending over 500 hours uh teaching great so uh any other time um on campus would be interacting with them doing the uh the care meetings and then um assisting with any kind of um incident

148that might need law enforcement there okay and then um I just have I think one more question um you mentioned that there were some surveys done um on the great program and I was just curious in terms of like I get that you asked like how do people feel about um gangs and the police and all that sort of thing I was also wondering do you have do you evaluate the data on um like the relationship between the great program and incidences of gang activity or is it all just um kind of a informal survey or formal survey done after the program uh this was just an informal survey that we did um we tried to keep it pretty simple uh because we um so it's a yes no answer uh and we can definitely

149expand on that if there's certain questions that we want to ask um and Dr drinkwater can can help help us figure out what we should ask too I'll let um the others ask questions if they have I I have one question for uh Dr drinkwater um the on your slide I think it was the very last slide you had mentioned that there is a survey that is being planned to I think our staff um do you know when the timing of that is and you know I read that as just to the teachers but are the principles included in that survey um it uh our plan would be to do it early in the in the school year year and to include staff and um the administration at the school because they often um interact

150with the SRO officers as well and then the students so yes all all of those groups thank you I have a couple clarifying questions though most I think probably fall into comment questions so I'll try to um stick to the clarifying ones I had a follow up on the survey as well um so I had a question about when it planned to go out I also had a question around is that something we're developing um that you are developing or we're developing in the district kind of who's who's developing that it uh in the district and we uh are would be getting help from Cameron um our um assessment and and Survey um coordinator that's out of ed services to help with that um organization since he's done a lot of uh surveys in the

151past so it would be in-house in that way okay um I had a couple questions around data and just if we have access to some of this data um uh the bar graph that was shared um detective Norris um the do we have that data broken down by race I think the the short answer to that is I don't think I have that information right now but uh we're happy to go back we you know we we took that information and kind of something to illustrate uh for this presentation but I'm happy to go back and and see if we can dive a little bit deeper into that data and and I anticipated that might be a question you all would be interested in so we we'd like to go back and take a look

152at that as well okay um and then are we um so I you talked a little bit about kind of the evidence-based program around grade I'm I'm wondering how we're I guess tracking that so um you know some of the things that were brought up were around Gang Related activity involvement in bullying those areas um are we tracking participation in great program and then involvement in those things and if so what does that look like I think Kimber can probably answer that a little bit better than I can in terms of what we're tracking uh we we are not tracking uh the things that you would ask the things that we are tracking is as uh actual uh cases that are getting reported and uh sent for potentially for prosecution or diverted so um it's

153more on the grander scheme that we're looking at but not the not those specific questions that you had asked or those specific topics okay and then I just had one last question um from just a pure Financial standpoint can you talk a little bit about why um so my understanding is that many of our other local police departments actually don't charge for the SRO program and so I'm just curious as to the rationale or kind of why Sano Police Department um why it's a why why there's a charge associated with it sure well just to kind of go back a little bit historically we we had um the original school resource officer position which I think was in 2000 or 2001 was a grant funded position that had a requirement that we would keep that

154school resource officer position going uh for a couple of years beyond that but it was one officer assigned to one high school and so uh a lot of these a lot of other agencies that have a school resource officer have one school resource officer that they assigned to one school um what we are trying to do and accomplish with this partnership is to broaden that and have uh an ability to to work with and and uh and bond with all three of our middle schools and all three of our high schools and have connection with as many of our youth and public schools as possible and so that that we can't do without trying to at least uh supplement the funding that we have dedicated to it because uh historically we've only had funding for

155one school resource officer so to have three really requires that kind of partnership thank you I think those are my clarifying questions for now any other questions Rebecca did you have any questions yeah I have questions and I'm not sure um who would be answering these um but in regards to working with the school administrators um to implement the effective strategies for school safety um and be a part of the planning for crime prevention and Emergency Management is that a scheduled meeting and is it every year I can um answer that um in terms of meeting with uh this the both police departments we meet um about every other month it's a regular schedule that we set at the beginning um of the year and we even continued um during covid and and had some

156catch-ups during the summer as well so um sort of a a formal meeting with the um Middle School administrators and um the prevention coordinator uh Lori fukumoto uh and myself Diane uh Willoughby is also a part of that group so that's a regularly scheduled meeting that um happens throughout the year did that answer your question it did thank you very much okay um and let's see for the families and children identified um by the school or is it the SRO sro's sorry um or is any family in any child able to contact the SI SRO for help or information and if so how how do they know how to go about um seeking such help I can speak from the school district side and and I don't know if um Captain Norris or um Sergeant

157Joyce have uh sort of the perspective on the other side um when in the in the school um the students who um get to know an officer through the great program or um having um run into them in in the lunchroom or whatever would be able to initiate a conversation um you know with the officer uh in terms of contacting an officer for particular situation it could be a school administrator um who who does that because they have the assigned SRO officer and they have figured out a way that they would um communicate so there isn't a a direct line between the family and the officer um related to the things that are happening at school after um if there is some sort of um sarb meeting or whatever where a family then comes to

158a meeting and would get to know um that family um so I don't know uh Captain Norris if you have additional information I think that your answer was pretty clear on that and I think thorough um you know we we have regular interaction with all of our with all of our youth through the school resource officer program so sometimes they will initiate those type of contacts sometimes uh they will need to have that conversation in a much more confidential Manner and they may go through faculty and try and uh facilitate some type of a private meeting so that they can have those conversations and then we we provide our contact information to the faculty so if the if the parents have a question or concern off there and I would think they would reach out

159through faculty and get in contact with our school resource officers and uh route it that way as well as when calls like that come in uh to the police department during times when our school resource officers are working we try to make sure that if our school resource officers are available to address uh issues that involve students that they're in contact with that they that they take those calls and they take those those opportunities all okay thank you um and then you mentioned that the class of 2019 is the first year of graduates um from the great program how far out will you monitor monitor these children um in you know just kind of to see how well the program worked and for how far out I you it's a great question and I don't

160know that that we have an immediate answer for that but I think that sounds like the uh Foundation of a really interesting study that I think we should do so uh so I'll take that as as really interesting feedback that that we could explore and see if we can find a way to do that I'd appreciate that thank you um and then again and regarding like Financial stuff um the contract states that if I read it correctly that the school district pays for the police car maintenance um and I don't know if it's necessarily a question but I find that interesting um and then also to are the vehicles used at any other time other than School duties th those three vehicles that we have in our police police department Fleet are strictly dedicated to

161school resource officers because of that partnership and because of the way that the finances work okay um thank you and also for the vehicle maintenance it looks like um from what I see it $3500 a year and I'm wondering I don't know much about car you know maintenance but but I don't pay that much a year so I just wondering if that is accurate I think it's certainly something that that as we you know as we look at the contract on an annual basis that we could talk about and value okay thank you um and I don't know if again what um who would answer this but um regarding the contract um can we modify it or do we have to um adopt it as is this contract was already um a two-year contract that

162was approved um and so as we're it's on pause right now no one's being charged okay so um you know at some point in time it can be brought back to either continue or not and you know we can look at any of the areas but this was the one that has already been approved okay thank you very much I appreciate um knowing that it's not you know with lack of services we're not being charged sorry um and that we there is a possible uh time to possibly revisit the contract thank you that is all I have thank you um I was wondering and maybe you said this already but just for the sake of clarity would you mind um reminding um us Captain Morris about what do Sr SRO do over the summer sure

163I know we we haven't talked about that so uh thank you I think that's a good question to ask so uh during during the summertime our school resource officers um do two things number one they they operate on a rotation for summer school so the high schools Run summer school very often it is at Sano high school and uh and even when it's not uh we work in rotation with other school resource officers who operate within the high school district to make sure that we are uh handling matters during summer school um our our officers also typically they try to they try to take their their vacation time uh when the kids are on vacation so often that's that's also their time uh to take some of their scheduled vacations and then other other than

164that uh they are typically uh reassigned to help out either in Patrol uh or if there are some specific youth oriented details that that we can assign them to we assign them to that um so mostly community policing um to the best degree that we can but uh but typically you know summertime is there time to try and find some time off and uh and recharge just like the kids are and uh and also work through the summer school and and uh know if there are if there are youth that need extra attention and check-in so we make sure that we stay on top of that as well thank you um I'm wondering if you would be able to go over the like do do srl's get any special training for working in our schools

165or do are are they trained in the same way other op are trained I got let Sergeant Joyce talk speak to that a little bit they do get some special training above and beyond uh to exha yeah they they definitely receive more training so when you become an SRO there's a a I think it's a week-long training specific to school resource officers that they they attend they go to um there's a yearly conference um that's put on by um I'm forgetting the the name of it that they go to to regularly they go to the um the violent Intruder trainings and just recently went to trainings so they could actually be the trainer so to go back to a different comment um not only are we meeting with the um the district um staff and

166the administrators were were also regularly giving trainings and we were scheduled uh to I I don't know if we did got to it because it was in March it was right around the time that uh we shut down but to do trainings for the staff for the actual teachers um at the school at the school sites uh they do trainings and restorative practices um I don't have the list right in front of me but the the short answer is yes they they definitely receive a lot more training than your average officer regarding youth contacts and I'll just add to that briefly and say that that the association acronym that that Sergeant Joyce is looking for is California juvenal Officers Association and also the national juvenile Officers Association and they provide uh regular trainings um and

167uh and regular bulletins that have to do with campus safety so they stay on top of all those things uh but I also want to add you know in addition to um the the uh the training that they get that's specialized in directed towards youth you know our officers in Sam also get uh an extra week-long training and Crisis Intervention uh is above and beyond any Academy training or any other formal training uh that our officers receive all of our officers get that um Crisis Intervention training and so that is something that is an important asset um within this County that uh that is done in coordination with the national uh Miami the National Association of mental health um as well as uh some of our County resources and county you know Behavioral Health Recovery

168Services to make sure that our officers are specially trained in Iden identifying uh times when we need to really change our approach uh to match up with someone who's in a serious crisis um if I could um add in here too because I know the um special training that the SRO officers go through um on you know on occasion um an SRO officer may not be available for a situation um that's happening with a with a student um at a school and the um skill of a the SRO officer coming to work with a youth um and having that skill set and training um that they do is different than um a patrol officer who may not often um interact with somebody who is six or 10 or 12 um and so I just thought

169I'd add that in um where you can see the difference thank you um the reason I asked that question was because um so I've worked with with youth um in my career uh specifically Foster Youth and um you know youth involved in the in the juvenile justice system and a lot of the training that I had to do uh really revolved around trauma informed care and the development of the Adolescent brain um and it was just so important to understanding um you know H how to work with you and so that's why I asked that question um thank you for clarifying um I was wondering because this is actually something that I experienced when I was a young person younger person um in in our community when when when our when our students are out

170in the community after hours you know after school hours um nighttime hanging out with their friends at the park um is it still a practice of the PD to like kind of like detain them and take pictures and then what happens like is that something that SRO are informed of um because I know that PD does do that or they did I'm pretty sure they still do and um and doesn't necessarily have to like inform parents or uh or make or file a police report but it goes that information goes somewhere right so would you be able to speak to that uh I can speak to it to a to a small degree and I can I can assure you that that um that I can you know share some additional information with you so

171um to to answer it in part um we have we have some very strict policies and guidelines when it comes to photographing people in the field um those have evolved over time and I think specifically uh president Coro for some of the reasons that you've articulated um those policies have evolved over time to make sure that officers are are do are documenting um and articulating any reasons for taking photographs in the field and uh and also uh you know when we deal with with our youth and we deal with juveniles uh making sure that that we are accountable to uh reporting anything that's important uh to a parent is critical um as part of that juvenile contact uh but the uh the policies that we have at Sano Police Department are publicly available they're online

172I'm happy to share uh with the board to link to those policies and I will identify the policy number because there's about 700 pages of them and I don't want you to have to page through the whole thing uh but I'll I'll identify the policy number for you to look at in terms of photographing um so that you have that you can ask any clarifying questions or provide feedback thank you um but just for the sake of clarity um so what you're saying is that that doesn't happen any longer the photographing of Youth well I can't give a blanket statement that photographic youth does not happen any longer what uh uh what I can tell you is that our officers have to have a good reason to do that and they have to articulate that

173reason and document that reason so uh there is always information to be able to fall back on to provide a reason why if those that that photographing is occurring okay and so just I'm going to pose like a hypothetical scenario here so let's say we have a a young person that's already system involved um is photographed over the weekend for whatever and um does this information like would would an SRO like know that I feel like maybe like last year when you presented or the year before we talked a little bit about this um but I just want to clarify for us right now like is that so that is that information let's say let's say there are photographs taken and an an incident or or not like not like anyone's detained or arrested but

174something happened right some interaction that goes into a database correct right some of some of that uh if if there's an interaction that results in some type of a significant contact that that goes uh into the database in terms of either notes that the that the officer is articulating in the computer dispatch system system or a police report if it if it comes to uh the level of of a detention uh or for some reason we're we're going to you know hold that youth there for a period of time um and then that documentation you know absolutely goes through Youth Services through the juvenile detective and then through Sergeant Joyce so that there would be a level of awareness that would go to our SRO okay um and so okay thank you for that my

175next question is is around our youth that are potentially um uh influenced by gangs and like and so there's a system right there's like a like a database that I think it's a is it a Statewide database that PDS have access to that is for inputting suspected or confirmed gang members I I think that the the restrictions on that information have become ever uh Tighter and and while while there is intelligence information that's collected on our criminal Street Gams yes absolutely um and uh and that knowledge is important not only for the officer's safety but uh but to identify the activity that's happening within those criminal street gangs uh certainly there is some compiling of information that occurs uh I'm happy to come back to you and give you a little bit more of a

176comprehensive uh overview of that I'd be kind of pushing the limitations of my personal experience to give you a guesstimate of exactly what happens with that information uh because it is very specialized and it's kept you know very secure and very tight and it's not something that every police officer necessarily has access to they have to have certain rights and reasons to know thank you um the reason I asked that question is I guess like I would be really curious to know whether let's say we have a young person um in one of our schools who is suspected of being involved with a gang and you know like I guess my my my big concern is like how young are the youngest kids that are in this system that are like flagged and like tagged

177in that way and in a way that follows them that that that they don't even aren't even aware of right um yeah do you I I think maybe won't be able to answer that question but that's where the intention behind my qu question is trying to understand that piece I think we I think we'd love to set a further meeting with you or we could try and uh you know dive into that a little bit provide with the more detailed information that you're looking for okay thank you and then um just one more like general question um because I I know like I just like our board got you know Outreach from the Community around um policing and sro's and and uh you know there's a lot of oh no can you can you all

178hear me my computer is freezing we can still hear you okay great um for me I think like it's it's always been kind of um I I guess like did you guys get a lot of Outreach around um SRO specifically from the community I we we didn't get uh a lot of Outreach I I know that there was some originally there was a little bit of negative commentary about school resource officers and one of the reasons that we uh were thankful for this opportunity is to help you know in a very public forum uh provide some education on what that SRO program really looks like um because I'm not sure that that uh commenter had the same perspective or the same historical understanding of what we do here in Sano um but uh but other

179than that there there has not been a lot of talk in on on uh if you're if you're kind of asking about like the defunding side um and the defunding arguments that we've heard not a lot of uh of requests along those lines other than some of like I said some of that early information uh early commentary that we heard that that I don't think was was based with um any kind of background on what we do specifically okay thank you um I think that's it for my questions I'll save everything else for discussion um so unless did did everyone get a chance to ask questions yeah okay so uh why don't we go ahead and open it up for public comment okay at this time please raise your hand um if you would like

180to make comment to the board regarding this particular item president Coro it looks like we have six attendees uh with their hands currently raised um what time limit would you like to give for public comment okay there's eight let's do two and a half okay two and a half minutes all right first up we have is Randy painter Randy hi good evening at the December 17th board meeting when the board voted on its revised policies I brought the following concerns to you and then I brought this back to you a few months ago and I'm bringing it back again in the revised policies that you approved the following is stated under the board's policies for questioning and apprehension by law enforcement says in except in cases of child abuse or neglect the principal or design

181shall attempt to notify the student's parent or Guardian as soon as practicable after the law enforcement officer has interviewed the student on school premises as a parent I am alarmed at the thought of my children being questioned by a law enforcement or an SRO without my prior knowledge consent or presence knowing that even as bright as they are there are still children that are in grades k through eight and my children happen to have a lot of privilege they pass as white they don't have any known disabilities they have English as a first language they're middle class and they have parents with Advanced degrees there are many many many of our students in this District that face barriers in terms of racism language socioeconomic opportunity and disability that could influence their interactions with law enforcement

182I know you know this shouldn't we protect our students especially our vulnerable and marginalized ones instead of exposing them to potentially permanent harm I brought to you recommendations from the ACLU of Northern California and I followed up by email and I hope that you go back and refer to those but there were some simple recommendations for revising your policies like showing a legal warrant Consulting with the principal to explain the reason for the interview and um the reason that that interview has to be done at school um not doing the interview during instructional time notifying the parents and Guardians immediately and asking their sent prior very common sense things to us as parents our district can protect our children better than this you can do better than this please hold yourselves responsible for creating better

183policies and leading with Equity let's spend our funds on thoroughly trained providers not paramilitary trained Personnel working as wraparound service providers for serving and protecting our students thank you Randy uh next up we have uh person identified in Zoom as DF and then after DF will be Julie MacArthur okay if you could DF initials DF if you could unmute okay let's us more chance okay we're g to leave the hand raised and come back all right uh next we'll have Julie and then after Julie will be Julie good evening everyone um my comments and questions tonight kind of fall into two categories first on the financial front um I recall that the SRO program is not an an inexpensive program and so um I'm wondering why it is that we would share this cost evenly

184between the high school and San M and our district when we only have four middle schools that was my initial reaction and then you know the more I thought about it why am why why are we as a school district paying for this twice as a taxpayer in Sano I pay for the police department and my expectation is that they provide services to our communities um my expectation is that they are there in a crisis and my expectation is that they all should be trauma informed Med peace officers that they all should be trained in Kinder gentler practices when it comes to dealing with youth because the likelihood of having an interaction with a child outside of school Remains the Same the other category that my question falls into is there was a lot of

185discussion in the presentation around wraparound services and um trauma informed practices and the statement that was made that really bothered me was that the idea that a police officer is uniquely qualified to do that I don't believe that to be the case I think I would much rather see our school funds being spend supporting social workers and additional counselors um we don't need an armed police officer on our campuses to get to know kids especially since they can't be there every day all day um when you compare that to putting a social worker on these campuses as part of the staff who could be there all day every day making important connections with students and guiding them down the right path social workers who could connect them with the services that the SRO are saying

186they could connect them with I just don't think that we should pay twice I'm certainly not interested as a taxpayer in paying for police vehicle maintenance but furthermore I feel like there are more appropriate resources we should be putting in place for our students thank you thank you Julie okay uh all right orders changed a little bit let's go ahead and try again the person that's identified as DF within Zoom DF are you there DF okay let us go on um next we have uh mercy and then after Mercy will be Pamela uh Mercy hello um so I mean I have a a few things that I want to ask but really what I want to focus on I notice y'all talking a lot about like gang activity and gang involvement and y'all intervening there

187I'm wondering about what y'all's criteria is for um gang activity how do y'all deem someone like a gang member especially like children in Middle School um and I think the who said it um oh I think I lost her but one of the board trustees was talking about cow gang so I think she couldn't think of the name but that's where you input gang members or suspected gang members and I wanted to know if that's something that you all use so Ellie cor yeah if that's something that you all use um and will enter students into once you determine based on your criteria that they're involved in gang activity um I'm also wondering about like if you're familiar with somebody's family members and you know that their family members dads uncles older brothers are involved

188that also leads you to be more um I guess like hypervigilant um with youth um yes so those two things around the gang activity so how do you decide that and are y'all using cow gang and entering folks into that there's also one that's specific to the county so I want to know if y'all are entering folks into that um and then y'all talk a lot about like diversion and so this is a question more so for like I guess it would be Sarah with student services um have y'all ever considered other methods of diversion um when you talk about like I guess what y'all would call deviant Behavior or whatever that y'all think warrants police intervention have y'all considered other methods outside of sros um yeah so those are my my three main things

189right there okay um I'm G to interrupt for just a minute I'm sorry Peter is having technical difficulties and so he's trying to um come back into the into the meeting I'm sorry to interrupt we're trying to Joan I I think I actually heard him but I'll also just take this opportunity to clarify for the public real quick that public comment like you can ask questions but we won't be able to to answer them direct directly but our board me like the trustees can integrate that into their discussion so thank you yeah that's a good point so thank you for bringing that up at this time okay so at this point I hear you Peter I can hear everybody can you bring our next speaker in completely Frozen I can't do anything in the zoom

190but I can just hear people if we could give me just one minute as I try to um try to fix this my apologies um if you can just give me just a couple of minutes as I I work on this computer do you want to try to take a break then for a moment or sure let's let's take a I I'm not sure how much time Peter might need but give me five minutes just to kind of try to try to do a couple of things okay thank you everyone for your patience my apologies we'll come back then in five minutes thank you what's good y'all I I think someone's not muted so we abolish the police get them off the campuses boo they suck no but for real though we don't need them

191they don't do anything did y'all people how officer no don't really know nothing only miss Joyce she seems to have more knowledge I just I just want to say that can hear everything you're saying you're not you're not muted Mercy you're you're still actually on live with the board right now if you could do me a favor please as I try to on these technical difficulties if you could please mute it would be appreciated and then I'm working hard to try to get back to the board meeting sure thing Peter I got you e also forgot one more thing sorry when I was was asking my question um do y'all have access to the data on high schools and could y'all make that available CU y'all only presented the data for middle schoolers and I

192suspect that the rates of incarceration and like prosecution are probably much higher for the high school students have been brought up by other people uh I I have some personal concerns uh having toured the police department in the past seen paraphernalia that uh serves to increase bias about how the behaviors of students of color um May uh may be impacted with this uh with this particular policy I am uh there are scores of research that indicate the perceptions of behaviors of black and brown students may lead to punishment discipline and involvement with police in a way that impacts their future trajectory I'd love to um have the equity task force be involved with this area and have a discussion as to how this partnership um as Pamela commented on is experienced by various uh students

193so I appreciate that a survey is being conducted I'd love to hear from the teachers and principles as well have they experienced a difference in climate um and I hope to see that those results are uh shared with the public and inform future practice and I hope that the survey takes into account data based on ethnicity language status Etc uh I also want to just comment I think it's unfortunate that a publicly funded service is charging another publicly funded service that are both intended to serve a common good um and I I'd love to know and I don't know that there's a way to know but how much of the decreases in cases sent for prosecution are more of a function of officers getting to know the students instead of um actually decreasing prosecutorial Behavior

194Uh and with those orange and gold bars on the chart I'd love to know what the ethnic makeup is of those students the diversion program looks great but I wonder why this program requires the police department instead of um social workers or other resources and many of these things I've written to the police department as well um but but I did want to highlight that the police presence is experienced by very very differently by very um diverse populations and we have diverse populations here I also wanted to highlight that a lot of what was indicated in there as positive um were also resources provided by pal and um I recognize that uh pal is the police officer uh league but I uh I think that because pal is funded by a separate program uh if

195we didn't have srl would pal not have provided the food deliveries or Easter baskets are counseling um to our families so just some thoughts thank you thank you Marcel okay after uh next we have Danny C and then after Danny we be uh Tracy Danny yeah so uh my name's Danny um but it's not really important because I think um for me I am a formerly incarcerated queer person and I think um as soon as I hit sixth grade I started getting monitored by the police specifically at school for tardiness after this this escalated to me um being labeled in the cal cal gang database and further kind of perpetuating this notion of having family members that were G related or supposedly getting related and then kind of continuing the cycle of incarceration until I

196reached the age of 18 um after that I think there became the thing revent of like all these preventative measures um we can say like pal I participated in that um all these things kind of furthered me into the justice system as a youth because this um became an indicator to police of how to recognize me how to take pictures how to continue this kind of violence that was um destroyed my teenage lives and still affects me as a person today so I think that's definitely something that I want to bring to this conversation um specifically in our County uh and just throughout kind of the national level of the storytelling of the directly impacted people that have their lives have been destroyed by the police um not just when we're at school but also

197when we're at home and um how we will never have the childhood that we had because um of us being incarcerated and us being um legalized slaves if you will um so yeah I think I definitely want to Echo um what Mercy said abolish the police because we don't need them and I'm sure as hell don't need them in our schools thank you thank thank you Danny okay next we have Tracy and then after Tracy will be Susan Tracy hi and thank you for um I guess enduring this conversation at this point um in listening to the commentary a lot of my sentiments have actually already been expressed but as a parent who um of three children who are currently in the elementary school system here and a person of color it is disheartening that

198the police are being hired to do a job that social workers mental health um clinicians psychiatrists should be employed to do so um and and also to know that I I also found the statement offensive that the police are uniquely um equipped to deal with children when unfortunately the biases that uh their parents experience unfor filter onto what our children experience uh since moving to Sano almost 10 years ago I have been encountered by the police more in the last 10 years than I did in my previous 30 years living somewhere else and so unfortunately the image that my children have of the police is of me being pulled over for a reason that they usually do not know why and I also do not know why my children are biracial and they also don't

199necessarily um identify with One race or the other right now again because they're trying to figure out who they are in this world but the perception that the police give us um not only in our children in the schools and outside of them unfortunately this program I just do not feel as if our school fundings should be spent towards militarizing police when we should have mental health and social workers doing that job on campus instead um Al although the police do do do for some people um provide that security blanket that makes them feel safer it does not give that feeling to everyone and who lives in Sano so please reconsider even funding this particular program and hopefully using your resources in a manner that would actually sustain Equitable you know what you were talking

200about before um to everyone and not make some of us feel like we're more isolated thank you thank you Tracy okay next we have Susan then after Sudan Susan will be Aiden Susan good evening thank you for taking um my comments uh sorry I'm sorry Susan can you hold on just for one moment yes superintendent roses sorry I thought you missed over Kathy but but that's no I actually have a written uh written all those that raised their hand and I've been trying to order from when I had technical difficulties so um Susan go ahead my apologies yes thank you um I think whatever decision is made um whether to retain the great program or not to I think my concern is the transparency and the lack of parent involvement in this program it seems

201to me that it should rise to the level of maybe the district's sexual education program where it was heavily parently parent involvement um this is actually the first time I'm hearing that it was a 13we program I knew my son went through in sixth grade had at least one um Workshop but I was not aware there were 13 and so it's a little bit of a shock to I I don't even know what he learned I mean it's really important to bring that information home um and extend those conversations to home I mean are we a community of prevention or what are trying to achieve here and just leave it to the students to provide feedback I I mean I would you know appreciate being more informed about these type of programs that are happening

202so that I can extend that conversation at home and and be part of the solution um so that that's my concern is that it seems to me to rise to the level of sexual education in terms of you know what kids can get into um and who however it goes however it program goes is one thing but really informing parents I've looked back at all School news I don't see anything being informed as a parent that this was occurring and then just one other thing because this is the first time I'm seeing this program um I just want to mention that to me when I saw the logo and this may be kind of esoteric but it looks like um if you were to take a look at it maybe reconsider the logo for the

203great program to me it looks like an assault rif rifle so if you were to take a look at that it looks like an assault rifle and so I think that um more parent involvement it would be really um something to think about and consider thank you thank you Susan okay next we have Aiden and then after Aiden will be Kathy Aiden hey everyone um my name's Aiden I just graduated from Hillsdale High School um and from my experience having police at my high school did nothing to make me feel safer or feel like someone who I knew and trusted was G to take care of me having especially in my senior year we had three different officers on campus essentially a revolving door of strangers who we didn't know who didn't really seem to

204be trying to build ties with any of us simply sort of just walking around with guns and sometimes giving very distressing frightening active shooter drills despite the fact that we hardly know these cops coming into our classrooms telling us what to do with someone tries to kill us all and all that really seems to do is create a student body of people who are frightened and uncertain what to do um uncertain how to handle a crisis and just like left more fearful and anxious than they already are in 2009 as a lot of you know there was an attempted attack on Hillsdale high school and that was not stopped by an armed police officer it was stopped by the brave efforts of a teacher and the principal who were connected to the community who were

205actually willing to risk their life to protect the students unlike we have seen school police officers do like in the case of Parkland where while a shooting was going on at that school the school resource officer simply stood outside and did nothing to save the students of that school so I ask all of you to cut the school resource officer program completely there's no need to have armed strangers constantly revolving through our different schools making us feel as if we're in a war zone instead of a place where we need to learn and connect with our communities thank you thank you Aiden okay then we're going to have Kathy and then after Kathy will be uh via Kathy Kathy are you there I am here can you there you are okay um thank you my

206name is Kathy and I attended um Middle School in the San Matel Foster City School District um I attended Bayside specifically um and that's where I was um introduced to the criminal justice system um by the policing on campus and um and now I'm 35 um and I work in public health and so I want to read to you the American Public Health Association statement on policing um that was written in 2018 and summarizes data uh by public health professionals um that has been released over the years uh so physical and psychological violence that is structurally mediated by the system of law enforcement results in death injuries trauma and stress that disproportionately affect marginalized populations including people of color immigrants individuals experiencing houselessness lesbian bisexual transgender and queer communities individuals with mental health issues people

207who use drugs and sex work and at a time so at a time when public health is at the front and center of what you know folks like you are considering and making decisions I think it's incredibly important to divest so to follow the direction of this Public Health Association and divest from law enforcement and one way that you can do that is by terminating any contract that you have with law enforcement and removing police from schools I agree with many other comments um that police are not the right folks to be um attending to the needs of students um and the last thing I'll say is that uh as a public health professional today I'm deeply concerned that the data um the disaggregated data has not already been considered um has not already been

208looked at and evaluated um this program has been in place for many years and so I'm concerned that you know we haven't been evaluating these types of programs in our schools um ever and um and so I think uh police contact what we know what the science tells us is that police contact are not uh they produce worse outcomes for students and particularly students of color and um policing in schools is part of the school to prison Pipeline and there's no lack of data that that will give you more insight into this thank you thank you Kathy next is vika yes hi can you hear me yes we can go ahead so I would like to say thanks to police enforcement um in 1990 um I went to high school and we had great program

209and it was really informative for all of my everybody that I went to school with about drugs about gangs about everything and I think that kids really benefit from this nowadays and my kid both of my kids are in middle school right now one of them is going to eighth grade the second one is to seventh grade and my eighth grader would like to say a few words uh my name is Alex and uh I'm in eighth grade and I think the great program is really good like because they teach us about all this stuff and um it I think yeah about the drugs smoking uh gangs and I think it prevents a lot of kids from doing all this stuff so thank you very much and police we would like to thank you for

210being on campuses does not matter armed unarmed and we want to support you 100% thank you thank you P president Coro there are no other hands at this time for public comment thank you okay we're closing public comment and I usually tend to wait and let other people talk first talk yeah talk first but I think I'm going to take the floor now um so um most of our board knows that this topic has always been um a sensitive one for me um just because of my experiences growing up um a lot of my family uh was getting involved I um witnessed a lot of different things um I had police contacts myself when I was growing up a lot of them um I was a little bit involved in the Juvenile Justice System I

211think it was like informal probation but my point is um I [Music] I when when when I was growing up and with my own uh family great SRO um that's not what that's not what made the difference for them in fact you know if if I would have looked you know several years forward um a lot of my you know I have family members that went to prison that went to C that were in juvenile hall in and out that went to Camp Glenwood and I kind of experienced all of those different things with them um in in a way right going to visit um and when I have gone to visit um prisons all kinds of places um it's always primarily black and brown people in those spaces and that is not a mistake

212um that I believe truly believe that has been by Design which is why I've always been concerned about having SRO um in our in our on our campuses and and being compl licit in that in in the school of prison pipeline um you know things have shifted and in in the past couple of months there's a lot more attention and support for um defunding police and and just looking at other ways to create or to support already existing systems that that actually will help people so if you want to talk about gang prevention then as a society we need to look at you know alleviating poverty we need to look at addressing um homelessness and all of these things that we know are what causes a higher risk for people to be involved um in

213games and and you know I think one of the the real risk factors is is not having a sense of identity or a sense of belonging in um you know in in our community and that is is something that um that gangs are are able to to provide in a weird way right um so that's part of my lens and how I kind of walked to the world right like I've I've I've had those experiences I've witnessed many um I myself when I was in high school um you know I I I got in into an issue and the SRO who I had a very positive relationship wasn't able to help or do anything for me and so um I'm just sharing that I think I'm I hope that people know that all of my

214like in the previous years where I've raised questions and I've I've shared concerns I haven't ever really gotten this super personal about why um but that that always has been part of part of my why and um and you know I I did that on purpose because I didn't want to make it personal I didn't want to be the the young Latina woman who has gang members in her family who's you know like but but you know what that that is part of who I am it is it's it's it's you know I can um I it's part of the way in which I walk through the world and um it's also part of it's also something that I have had a lot of Shame about in my life and um and you know when

215I think about my family and how they were affected by the Schooler prison Pipeline and and all of the ways in which if they had been given the right support while they were in school like how many things could have been prevented or or could have turned out differently um I think that's really what we're talking about here right like like you you know schools we as a as a as a district we also have our own work to do around what does the data say say around our own discipline uh processes and how we um you know how we are helping or hurting some of our young people who are more at risk um so I I I really you know if I honestly if I could have ended our SRO contract two years

216ago when I first saw it on our agenda I would have done it then um we're not going to be able to do that tonight because it's not up for a vote it was an it's an informational um presentation but that doesn't mean that we can't do it at our next meeting if our board is leaning in that direction um I'll just kind of echo what some of the speakers also said around you know there are other ways that we can provide our our school schols and our students with the type of support that the great program or you know the SRO seek to provide um and we could probably do it at a like much more cost effectively right like unfortunately we know like you know look at how much police officer makes how

217police officer makes and then look at how much a teacher makes right or like look you know there are there are issues in our society around how we financially value certain professions and that's a whole other issue but um but I really do think that we can use these funds in a different way and I appreciate you know the PD prevent uh presenting the information that they did and you know just as I have felt in the previous years I I I never feel like it's the kind of data that I really want to see and someone else said it really well like you know where's the breakdown of the data around around race around age around you know more specific disaggregated data um and I that's something I've asked for for years and you

218know we we just we haven't seen it and it's always uh been a big cause of concern for me in terms of not knowing exactly um you know what what what we're funding um I also do think it's just really problematic that you know we have seen um year after year Police Department budgets increase and education you know over the past like couple decades has been defunded and we're kind of leveling out a little bit and luckily our district isn't in a horrible Financial spot right now um but all the more reason to you know to to think about how we can how we can use those funds in a different way and some of the the areas that I would really like to explore are you know me like a mentoring program more more

219social workers more counselors um but also just you know partnering with um Community organizations that already do this kind of work right like even even like our local Boys and Girls Club or you know there's there's other ways that we can go about this and um I'd even be curious to explore like creating a a position within our district that would be able to focus on um um you know like diversity and inclusion and and equity and um and giving those supports to our most at risk um students and student groups um I'll also just say that I appreciate everyone's public comment um these are this is a topic that hasn't always been popular or you know something that has been easy to discuss um which is you know I want to give credit to

220the black lives matter movement and and the way in which they have um you know really created a very very strong movement that um you know is is gonna help absolutely the black community but also other um oppressed communities and and so um yeah I I I personally am very interested in our board um ending this contract and also exploring because police do exist in this community and so we're you know there might be situations where where where they do need to be called and it could be something as simple not simple but something for example you know an angry parent or a custody issue right like these there's lots of different scenarios and so we still have to work um with the police to a certain extent but I do think that we can

221you know we can start by ending this SRO contract at a future meeting we can then go and look at how how we are how what our discipline um data looks like and and who that affects disproportionately or not right we we're not super clear right now um but in order to get clear like we need that data and we need to analyze it um and then you know looking at how we can make changes in our own system and then um you know if there is going to be a relationship with the police department what that will look like how it would look differently um yeah that's it for now anyone else I'm happy to go next um so at a high level when we engage in conversations around policing the school to prison

222pipeline the current landscape I'll just say I'm I'm disappointed in where we are in the conversation both as a district and as the conversation that we're engaging in right now with the police department around how we're bringing race into that conversation because that is the conversation that we need to be having um it was briefly mentioned in the school to prison pipeline section by Captain Norris so I appreciate you for acknowledging the reality that there is disproportionate impact um but this needs to be driving the conversation that we're having um I I um you know I earlier tonight it's something I talk about a lot right the systemic implications um systems that have been created in certain ways I talk about a lot with education the same is true for our justice system our our

223law enforcement system it's not a problem any of us created this isn't a problem our police department created our sro's created right that's not a problem but it is our problem to solve now um and so I I think for me right now I'm I'm my dis appointment lies in where we are with our ability to have a real conversation um driven by meaningful data around this program and our schools and policing in our city um you know I asked this in my question but our data has to be broken down by race this is a race uh conversation it has to be who exists in each of these bars um who what do what is what is the makeup of those individuals um I'm sad that I don't think I'd be surprised but I

224want to know um and that makes a huge difference in terms of how what decisions that we make moving forward and who who it's working for and who it's not we don't know that um based on any data that we have now um aside for aside from what we know about who law enforcement typically works for and who these programs typically work for and I think some of that is evident in public comment that we receive in thinking about communities um for whom this has worked and those for whom it hasn't um so I'm just I'm I I feel like you know I I talk a lot about data um and I'm missing a lot of that in order to you know make datadriven decisions um starting with race we don't we don't have that

225we don't have data around success right when I ask question question around um you know it's an we talk about an evidence-based program but we don't have evidence um so that makes it hard um again to make databased decisions um our district survey has to be aggregated by race when we send that out we have to know what those how those responses come in and who it's working for and who it isn't we cannot look at a blanket survey teachers staff students and families and be able to move forward with this conversation so I'll say for me that's where like the real frustration is it's not in that we have a system this have this system that none of us created it's in how we're choosing to move forward with discussions about the system um

226that that really need to be much deeper and I know it's uncomfortable to have race-based conversations and to put data out there about where we really are but we can't move forward together on this if we can't do that first um I think a lot of what was sh a lot of what's shared in the approach in the program and the approach to Youth and you know I I had multiple conversations with Chief manheimer you know over over the years the way in which we are thinking about how we're approaching Our Youth and working with the community and all of those things of course all of those things are things that should be happening they shouldn't just exist in our schools we should be um thinking about how we're providing services and and how we're

227um you know diverting and all of those things are things that should be happening so I'm I'm grateful that those are the conversations that are happening and those are things that are important to our Police Department um and they shouldn't just exist in our schools which I think was one of the common comments that um was made I I think I would love to hear more about what have been identifi we talked about a lot of things that are going really well um I'm curious to know what's been identified as what needs Improvement what what have those conversations looked like um because I think that also kind of similar to my previous point I think the the depth of those conversations and those kinds of conversations knowing what that looks like again helps to know

228kind of where we are and our ability to have these authentic real conversations about what's working and what's not working for whom and why um I think that those are the pieces that have to really be in place in order to to to to build a partnership that's going to work for all of our kids we've talked a lot over as we're thinking about distance learning and as our board has prior prioritized Equity around really planning for and thinking about our most vulnerable students in mind that has to be what drives this conversation too and I'm I'm just not hearing that um I think regardless of how we move forward with the SRO program um a couple of things the schoolto prison pipeline isn't solved because we don't have SRO in our schools so that

229is one piece of a very complex program problem that trusty Coro talked about um they're complex systemic problem s that require complex Solutions um I know Dr roses has shared with the trustees a resolution that interesting enough uh comes from DPA Denver public schools which was referenced earlier um that was passed by their board I want to say almost two months ago um but that really contains a holistic approach to discipline this is a a a systemic problem where we really need to think about how how are we um how are we responding to discipline who who and to and and who are we responding to in what ways um this comes up in everything from NPS NPA contracts and who we're identifying as being emotionally disturbed all the way to what we're having a

230conversation about right now which is you know who who gets who gets um kind of pinged as needing um you know intervention diversion Etc right so it again it's not just a law enforcement conversation right this is also a con an an us conversation in terms of what we are or are not doing um that I think really um any work that we do around this has to address all of those components um I did want to briefly address the point that Randy raised um around the PD questioning which um is actually a part part of of the resolution um which is around the questioning which in uh comes from California Ed code so this isn't a a Sano Foster City School District thing um and I know I asked Dr roses to check in

231on how we can adapt board policy to over essentially override Ed code and and the legality of doing so so that'll be something that we'll follow up on but um it's something that happens exists across all of California schools um it's a part of Ed code so there's definitely advocacy work that could happen on that level in terms of how that happen so that's a little bit of an aside the other thing I'll just say regardless of how as a board we move forward is that we have to have a relationship with our Police Department in some regard um if they are in our schools or if they are not in our schools they are interacting with our students and our families um and it's incumbent upon us um to work work together in some

232capacity to yield the experience that our students and our families deserve and there's a big part of um thinking about how we help to drive that conversation and how we help to drive that experience and we have a critical role in doing that and so um I think that that's an important piece to remember what that looks like potentially different I I agree I think that um I think there are a lot of services that we talk about being provided right now by our SRO that I believe would be more impactful and better suited by other individuals um so I I Echo what trusty Coro said with that um but regardless of that we need to determine and take a and really reflect on what the relationship looks like moving forward um because there has

233to be one so um I think those are my my big my big bucket thoughts I'll jump in here um I um I I thank um Captain Norris and Sergeant Joyce for the presentation I think that there was um there was a lot of information there that was um helpful um but yet we still have further questions um I also want to thank president Coro for her Insight um you know Noelia we've had conversations you know and I think that part of your experience makes who you are and it it brings a really good piece to to the board and so I really appreciate that it it does in some ways humanize us and and and how we go about things and so I really appreciate your um your convers ation and your honesty about

234everything in your life um I also want to recognize that you know my My Lens when we talk about Equity lens is is definitely different I I did not grow up in the same sort of experience that you know others have and so I'm trying to make sure that I not change that lens but make my lens larger so I can incorporate everybody's uh feelings um when it came to public comment I I really felt like you know one thing for us is like we should definitely not have there should be none of our students there should no student of ours should have to come to our schools that are uh that are afraid whether it's because of police or something else it's just you can't have student come to our schools and not feel

235sort of welcome and safe and so I I I do want to make that statement I think that you know regardless of what we do I think we need to really look at that um you know when I when I think about these things I think of like how did I always think about how the evolution and how we got here and I and I in preparation for tonight's meeting I think about you know how did PD how did police get onto our school campus and and how did everything evolve and I kind of go back to you know the Coline shooting that happened and after the Coline shooting you know there was a real push to make sure that we had police on campus and in some ways they were like a deterent you

236know they they had guns they were there to make sure nothing happened whether or not that that was a benefit to the our Hills High School situation a few years ago or not I'm not sure but I think that the reality is that you know things sort of evolve and I think that our police whether it was in previous presentations or in the presentation tonight I think that there's you know just like policing has evolved you're not just chasing down you know bad guys playing cops and robbers and and chasing the the bank robbers you know we're asking our police to be sort of the counselors and the ones who check in and everything else and you know maybe that's not the role that that we want them to be in I think um part

237of the um the black lives movement um matter movement is you know one of the things that they've talked about is you know the resources that we have for police should go towards you know counselors and social workers and one of the things that we have done and what the voters allowed us to do through measure V last year was um there was a little bit of money that sort of set aside and left over and we have now for this school year are making sure we have a counselor at every single school so before counselors were shared and and you know maybe they weren't there but we are going to have more counseling at school because that was a big issue mental health was a huge issue so you know you kind of wonder

238whether or not you know with covid happening whether or not we have the ability to sort of take a pause or reset and look at you know what we want you know I agree with trusty Watkins where it is a partnership and we need do need to look at you know how are we all working together whether we're we have everyone on campus or not um the survey I am I am very curious about when that survey goes out and I would agree with trusty Watkins that that we definitely need to look at that um we need to you know have more data I think that there were a lot of members of the public tonight who were really angry and upset and I think it's you know rightly so because of their personal experiences

239um but I think we do also need more data um one of the things as as we all think about about this and as well try to expand our minds and and and grow and and think about everything that's going on in the world I um I I know that some of us you know had the pleasure of participating or listening into uh the NCAA that's NCAA um the NAACP a local chapter a couple days ago uh where um the president of the chapter brought in Dr Holt uh who was a a national leader on um racial Justice or Injustice and you know at the end of the meeting she talked about you know exactly how like trusty Watkins raised how there was you know it still a partnership regardless you know we are you

240know two government agencies and we still need to work together you know it was in some ways reminding me of a three-legged stool and how the police are one stool the schools are one and the other one is community and she's talked about how we all still need to work together and she claimed that in order to really make move the needle for uh you know trying to solve racial Injustice um is you need to work together and come up with a plan and she said you know it'll take two to three years to really dive in look at the data come up with a plan then it'll take five years to really sort of analyze it and then really to really prove whether it's successful or not it's like a 10year program and that

241sort of resonated with me because you know just like Nicole Anderson was talking about in some ways about our equity tax Tas Equity task force you know she constantly says we have to go slow to go fast and so you know my point about this is that you know maybe Co and the fact that we aren't paying for um the SRO at this time and considering how you know are the police involvement on our campuses have evolved and that we're adding more counselors to every single School you kind of wonder whether or not it's an opportunity for us to sort of reset and say hey let's take a look at these issues whether it's the policies that you know Randy had mentioned which you know are really really important that we should we should look

242at uh whether it's actually the scope of work uh or it's called scope of Duties in our contract which when you look at it and you look at the bullet points they tend to be more heavy-handed and you know maybe we want more you know softer softer issues or software language um I just feel like you know maybe what we need to do and and who was I think it was Marcel in the public comment who said maybe bring the PD or the police into the equity task force um president Coro and I sit on the sanctuary task force and maybe there's an opportunity for police involvement there maybe they're not actually sort of active participants but you know a lot of times when you're sitting there and you're listening to all the issues that

243we have you kind of wonder whether or not there's an opportunity for them to help as well well I I I'm not sure this is just this this is a tough situation um but I kind of Wonder like regardless of where we go I I feel like there's an opportunity for us to look at where we've come from and actually where we want to be you know to really work together and find out you know how do we want this do we want this and I figure you know whether or not we have to create another at hoc committee or something else I feel like it's an opportunity for us to actually work with everybody and really not solve the issues but really tackle them in a different way and so um that's kind of

244where I'm at at the moment I may be all over the place but um but this is a big issue and um so I don't know that's it um I'll go uh thank you very much for the presentation and your time um and I appreciate those students both prior and current who spoke about their direct experiences um and to the trustees who already said so many powerful thoughts and comments I I think that there were powerful statements that need to be um addressed um I think we need to decide what it is we want you know from the SRO and what are we trying to accomplish um with or without SRO I do think it's clear that the contract and program needs to adapt to the current needs of our of our district um again

245whether that's continuation or not um I also you know having SRO on campuses can be a positive thing but it would require you know a revision of what the program would entail um as some other trustees mentioned some ideas um they it's a lot of and then on the financial side it's a lot of money um with also an increase um for this upcoming for the second year um you know and as another trustee said are those funds could be better utilized for our teachers um social workers and other resources for our students um and I just think it's definitely this is something clearly we definitely need to um discuss further and go deeper in thank you hi I'll just be brief since um everyone's kind of said what I think but I did want

246to make a couple points um uh one being that I know um trusty Watkins talked about that we don't have the data um which is true but I do think we know that um there are other service providers that can that specifically focus in some of these areas such as mental health services bullying um Etc which I think um in my mind we should be um using those services to address at least those um those types of areas um I'm also I also wanted to say that um you know I just back to ry's point I don't personally feel comfortable as a parent having my children um questioned by police officers I certainly don't want feel comfortable with them um being having their picture taken and so I wouldn't feel comfortable for that to happen

247to any any children and especially in our district and so if there's a way to get around um um some of those policies that we have I would be interested in talking about that a bit more I also don't feel comfortable as um having our schools be kind of one of the Avenues for for children to be introduced to the criminal justice system um so you know I I do support um possibly looking at another way to support our students I know we have a lot of work to do um internally with equity and and just making sure that we're supporting all students so I think um I would be comfortable um maybe moving away from this and and um taking a little bit um more internal approach and also um my last comment was

248oh two more comments actually um so we talked about doing a survey to teachers and students um I think parents should definitely have a say in this um it's you know it's fine if if kids love the program or teachers love the programs that are being provided but um we've heard from at least one parent that wasn't even familiar with what the program entails and so I think um more communication and possibly finding out from parents if this is something that they that they support and um that would be a good idea and then my last comment was just in terms of also looking at this um from a foster City perspective because I know um it's a different Arrangement but um in theory it should be you know similar um conversations um I'm just

249GNA take thank you for your comments everyone um I just kind of want to restate a little bit um I think on a surface level like having a survey on this is is good we would get more information I also just want to name that when you think about surveys and who answers surveys and who has time to understand surveys and who already has more um you know who's more techsavvy who has more access um we can't forget that piece if we're going to be talking about an issue as important as this one um and I guess what I'm getting at is that if we send a survey and we have primarily higher income folks who are um you know primarily white and Asian and highly educated we're we're going to be looking through that

250lens and and we're going to be um kind of making a blanket statement for for all of our students and and like that I think is what is coming up for me I'm a little I'm just a little concerned about that I and and obviously having uh info demographic info uh questions in the survey would be great but but that but like if we're not actually like we already know that we have uh families that are harder to um to engage in doing surveys and so I'm just imagining like our right now like our school district is is has a lot of work to do I think that this is kind of a an appropriate time and space for us as a board to make a decision and and move forward with that without giving

251our staff um like 10 other additional things to do on top of trying to get prepared for reopening in uh next month or um I'm sorry for distance learning next month and then all of the additional barriers that um that Co has pres presented um so that's that's coming up for me I I just want to I just want to say that I think that we can and should as a board make a decision on this um like I said earlier this is for presentation only tonight any decision that we would make would be at a future board meeting um and um and another thing that I I just wanted to share because um it's just something that that I think is maybe valuable for some folks that are listening um putting myself in the

252shoes of a young person who um who has uh who faces a lot of barriers a lot of struggles like poverty possib gang involvement in their family like L you know lots of things that they could be facing and like putting myself in that perspective and sitting in a program and here's like this great program and here's this police this police officer telling you about how things are bad and all these things are bad and then like you know think about what it would feel like for a kid that has to live exposed to certain things that they are going to be affected by and and like I don't I just just imagine like how isolating that is for a kid you know to be getting these Mi mixed messages of like like you know

253without the without the complexities or the the reality of of like what oppression and poverty does to people and does to communities and um you know the Legacy that those things have have left on certain communities it's just um yeah I just it just doesn't sit well with me um so what I think about when what I think about what we could do with funds that we could save from uh potentially ending an this SRO contract I think about you know how could we use those funds specifically for for the students that that really need it the most um something that I uh am very aware of is that you know we have um we have students in our school district that don't have a lot of examples of um you know of um of

254people that you know have come from their background have been um and and that I don't want to like okay how am I going to say this I'm not trying to make like blanket blanket uh statements for everybody but I'll just speak just kind of make it more personal then from my perspective for me growing up I didn't have a lot of examples of people that looked like me talked like me had experiences like me came from where I came from that were successful that were able to obtain an education that were able able to like navigate between two different worlds because I feel like that's what I do you know like I I I'm here on our board in these meetings I talk to talk we you know we take care of business we're

255talking education and then I go back to my real life where like I'm still uh you know very much working class I'm still struggling I'm still having to deal with um you know somewhat a little bit the criminal justice system in my family like you know all of these other things um and and that's hard and it's and and a lot of kids don't have examples of people that that like they know like oh someone else like over there did it this Superstar right but like I know for a fact that in our middle schools you know specifically let's say Abbott they they have struggled over the years to you know to have um they used to they used to have like these career days where um folks in the Spanish imersion program at Abbot

256uh like you know Spanish speaking folks would come and talk to the class and talk about you know their work and what they've been able to do and they've always struggled to get people to be able to do that for the kids and you know when you think about resources and all the resources that other kids have you know like their parents are doctors their parents are lawyers they have access to all of these resources and and like a lot of kids don't they don't have those examples and they need those examples and they need mentors and they need teachers that believe in them and they need counselors that believe in them um and so I'm just rambling at this point I'm going to stop now but my point is that I would really like

257encourage our board to you know we're not here to solve the police department's problems and how they engage the community or how they restore issues within communities that have been overp policed or um you know involved in the school the prison pipeline or in the criminal justice system we are here to educate kids and um part of that I think part of that responsibility is giving them you know as many resources as we can and those are the things that we can control and there are things that are proven to be effective in gang resistance or you know um uh diversion and and so I just would encourage us to make a decision as a board as you know we have the authority to do and then think about what we could do for for

258our kids that really need more resources and more support um so I just want to be super clear on that I um I hesitate a little bit to to say let's create these this other committee and this other thing because um we have a lot going on right now as a board to be honest um and as a as a district and and this is a an easy thing that our board can do and we can own it right we don't like we don't have to I mean I appreciate I I I care about parent perspective I care about student perspective of course um but but we we can also make our own decisions um so I I'll end there and I don't know if anyone else has anything to add I know we've been

259on this topic a while now okay so we're gonna Dr Ros want to say something or go ahead I just wanted to thank our guests for coming and appreciate their time and the presentation and um uh and we will be in touch with you um so thank you for sticking with us this evening um we are at 10:40 we had talked about having a time check at 10:00 uh we do have a facilities master plan plan and bond resolution that both are Ed for a vote this evening followed by our um update on the fall reopening pip summer school special education so I just wondered where we are with with our timing can I make a proposal um my proposal is that uh we move forward with the facilities master plan our resolution um we

260do the district respon to co with a specific focus on um I'm wondering if some of the components around the hybrid pieces could be postponed um and we keep in special education um piece to the update and then any updates that you have kind of around more of the immediate distance learning components I think some of the hybrid pieces we can bring back at a later date since we're not going back until October um and then that we keep the special education update 8.3 and move parent involvement and summer program update to next time that's my proposal uh let me double check that I would understand the 7.5 there were four I was going to present some information about distance learning so I can do that there were folks that were going to talk about

261logistics cleaning and special education and wellness Wellness does have some aspects that would be incorporated in distance learning so then wellness and special educ and keep the other I'm just saying I think the hybrid pieces we don't it's going to be late I don't think we need to cover them today and it'd be better to let staff go now um you know than to have them be presenting that at midnight so that's my suggestion but I'm open to other board comments on that of course I'm I'm sorry sh can you repeat which items you wanted to um move postpone 8.1 postpone 8.2 and post postpone the two presentations Logistics and cleaning that have to do with the hybrid model do we need a motion for all that um um well so we think that we

262can't get through everything is that what is that why we're I think we can do it I don't know if we can do it it's almost 11 o'clock and we still have some uh presentations that you know are going to take up some time I do worry that staff that had been previously on the call with us all the way to one and then we continue it then would likely end up staying on the call all the way and then once we get to one o'clock we may end up continuing them again so I'm personally supportive of Char's trusty Watkins proposal um at this time I don't necessarily know if we need a motion or not we I believe we do we DOA I'm also fine to push through Dr russes you would have a

263better sense of what staff would prefer it it um I think it's already 11 but um I'm just saying if people really wanted to present and they want to present at 2 am we I I don't I don't I don't suppose that Carrie Pam and Alma well it would be Pam Carrie and Pam would mind um if they knew now rather than staying up till two yeah that's fine also it would be Logistics is uh Stephanie Gibson and Mark Herrera so there's four people who um we would let know know that they do not have to stay on if we want or or they're already prepared to be here I mean they already are on the line be beyond the staff I know that obviously there's a lot of parents and and public um that

264would probably want to comment on some of these issues and I feel like we may not get them to provide comment because they may drop off and so I worry about that but I'm happy to push on if if everybody wants to push on with it I'm fine with postponing them I just if there's like direction that we need to provide for like pip or for sped like I hate to keep putting that off but um um sped would go ahead is that what you said sorry yes gotta okay is there is there a specific direction that the parent involvement project needs from us or it was just information correct uh yeah um information and what she's doing right now okay I'm so I'm fine does somebody want to put a motion on the floor

265and we can vote did we say we needed one yeah okay so I'll I'll make a motion to um amend our agenda um I don't removing Logistics and cleaning from from 7.5 and postponing 8.1 and 8.2 to the next board meeting do I have a second I'll second roll call vote trusty chin yes trusty Hitchcock yep trusty Proctor yes Jessy Watkins yes and a yes for me so motion carries and we're moving on to item 7.3 facilities master plan for the new decade all right so we brought a facilities master plan to you last board meeting uh it had been work that had been done uh over the um spring and summer and finalized this fall as we're entering into the fall and uh we worked with uh site leadership site um teams and also

266with um District teams including uh Joel cadis Patrick Gaffney Tish Basel and um Adis architects who crafted the final document and um put together the matrices that show areas um for um priorities we brought that to you last week and you had um discussed um some priorities that you had so the team went away with those in mind and melded basically the Practical important uh immediate needs that are happening in our district with some of the aspirational needs needs that you have put forward as this is a 10-year plan so what are things that we might wish for in 10 years so there's been a melding of of that and um staff worked madly to bring back an updated report for you and so um I'm going to turn with that as background I'm going

267to turn this over I believe the Tish Bell um Al though I see that you're joined by our Adis architect group thank you for staying up with us and Joel also so um Tish do you want to take that away not very prepared to take it away I apologize good evening members of the board and Dr roses and members of the public and staff who are still with us tonight um as Dr Rosa said we have been working over the last three weeks of board meetings and over the last nine months to bring you the facilities master plan that you requested um with a great deal of community involvement tonight's outcomes are really fourfold one to very quickly review the changes made in the draft master plan since the last one you saw on July

26823rd and I'd like to point out to members of the public others who are watching that the revised master plan is is posted as an attachment to the agenda item as well as the Matrix that we would be speaking to and secondly I want to review um for you with you uh the immediate priorities that were part of the recommendations on July 23rd and then as Dr Rose has pointed out um we have um pulled together additional possible immediate priorities that were identified by one or more board members last Thursday as as I said potential additions to the immediate priority and then lastly for your consideration tonight would be a motion to adopt the July 30 Master facilities master plan after identifying any changes in either the immediate priorities or in the additional identified priorities

269so that's where we're headed for tonight um prior to your consideration of the bond resolution and before you go any farther Tish um you're showing us your whole screens of uh I'm not uh I'm sorry I will take responsibility Joel could you change the screen well because it will show a bigger slides will be bigger if we just see the slide and Joel and Joel I appreciate this very much as you all well remember at 1053 weeks ago I couldn't even get you to be able to see the slid so Joel is the helper on this um and thank you very much and Peter is back up if needed so can you all see it now can you see the PowerPoint no you need to go to you need to go to the slideshow uh

270it is on slideshow in my screen okay I'll tell you what I'll take over Joel go ahead and stop presenting okay I just thought I just thought it would be bigger because you can see the words better so I thought it would be simple right we won't start from the beginning okay there you go there you go thank you let's go I just talked about the Flor out outcomes for tonight let's then go to the third slide Peter all right so very briefly third slide please go back one um very briefly the changes that we've made it since the July 23rd draft is the inclusion of the board's uh desire that night to have what's being referred to as aspirational goals I think one or two of the trustees use that term and we have

271um put into the draft for tonight page 18 which we're calling beyond the facilities master plan uh trustee chin was um very correct when he identified that what the master plan is right now is um the needs that exist within the district and are projected to exist over the next 10 years um we included this additional page as a draft for you to look at to talk about one what would be on what would be Beyond a project by project approach which is what the master plan is now and we included two different types of commitments on the part of the board based on our understanding of your conversation and discussion last week one was to incorporate that while considering the implementation of the facilities master plan that you would not be losing sight of

272um Equity across facilities that certainly was a major criteria for us in recommending the immediate priorities the second one is to continue your commitment uh to resolve the issue of the future of nolles and thirdly to continue as you have been doing as a board looking at and pursuing a resolution to housing for staff who need it then the second group is really U more of the aspirational um to incorporate things that you were talking about um this last week either as individual members or a couple of members first of all Energy Efficiency and uh keeping an eye on that Target and developing actionable plans over the next several years secondly continuing to reflect on educational research which is ever growing ever increasing in terms of what are the kinds of facilities that students and

273staff need to have the most effective teaching and learning for all students and then lastly uh to focus and continue the focus on health and safety as well as Equitable opportunity for all students in terms of facilities themselves so when we get to the question and discussion portion of this you may want to uh ask some questions about this or have some discussion we're recommending that this page be added to the final uh master plan then Peter if you could go to slide four please next um these are the immediate priorities that we reviewed with you on July 2 3r uh grouped by category um with the dollar cost estimates that have been done very rigorously as as thing do explained um so that you get a sense of both the categories themselves as well

274as their costing including soft costs so science classrooms and Labs water water water bottle fillers and handwashing stations the multi-purpose rooms for the four schools the four Elementary schools that still have the very old very outdated LGI that is uh lead Parkside Highlands and metal Heights um the sinks uh to be added where needed or repaired if needed and then adding hot water electrical systems which include an upgrade um to both support existing uses where needed as existing needs were needed as well as to support expanding technology particularly um not just due to covid but more importantly when students are back in school there's an increasing use of technology and certainly um probably something in my view that that um is a positive part of the covid crisis in that we have more and more

275students on um and more and more um teachers um uh using technology as a support tool and another instructional tool within the classroom and a learning tool then um the carpet replacement for health and safety and then next on this slide and then the following Slide the three parts of HVAC replacing and upgrading uh starting with uh grades 6 through 8th at um the schools that have grades six through eight including the two monor programs and the Bayside Academy as well as the middle schools and then uh moving to the Pod schools which would be um aabon and uh C Park the next uh slid start starts with the addition of air conditioning and hva well we have the HV systems but the addition of HVAC systems to classrooms um and schools that do not

276currently have them with air filtration included then the third category uh relates to the existing HVAC AC systems where there is air conditioning and that is to improve the air filtration on them and moving next to technology um with what was recommended to you last week there was a limited upgrade on the um UPS systems um the uh Power Systems to expand um the power that is available uh separately should the electrical grid go down or some other failing in electricity then plumbing and Sewer upgrades restrooms modernizing them um both student and adult restrooms and then what we've grouped as other priorities you can see them specifically on The Matrix and you can also see them in section four of the report on a school by school basis of specific schools specific needs including the

277rest of the U bage monetization costs when we brought this to you last week and what was included in the draft plan was a total cost including soft costs of 419 sorry $ 49.9 million subsequently to that um as you I think are well aware we have a lot of recommended projects um and um we continued to look at questions that you raised about whether or not we had omitted something or did something in duplicate and we found about two what netted to be uh Peter if you could go to the next slide please uh about $2 million worth of um uh changes that we needed to incorporate on the immediate priorities and those are Incorporated in the um section that you receive the sub the slip section that you received and basically those were

278a couple of additions that we had neglected to have have highlighted and also there was a unit cost um uh in square footage that was um by accident overestimated so we've um tightened up that estimate itself now let's next go to the items that you raised last week um as possible areas of interest that you um might want to see in the immediate projects uh Peter can we go to slide seven please thank you um these are not in any order in which you raised them but more as groupings so there was um a lot of discussion about any places where schools had asked for maker space art and music stem or sensory rooms um as additional spaces on their campuses because they didn't have rooms for those we have included those um and for

279the estimated cost we haven't included them they're on this list for an estimated cost of six almost $6.8 million um there was interest expressed by I believe one board member um and perhaps shared by others of uh adding Vape detectors at all schools with grades six through eight then um another trustee asked about uh trying to achieve the one:1 ratio with Chromebooks whether it's in school or out of school and the student tech devices the Chromebooks that we've added for 2.5 million would be for the 5,000 additional Chromebooks that would be needed according to um Peter uh to bring the district to a one:1 ratio I want to make a special note here that because everything in the master plan has been built from a site basis up that we took the uh 5,000 Chromebooks

280and spread them for costing purposes only across all of the school sites um so there'll be different there'll be school sites that will have different needs to get to one: one but for the purposes of master plan we spread it equally I believe it's 238 units per site at a cost of $400 a unit then um you wanted to uh look at including the Landscaping the irrigation repairs and the upgrades including student Gardens and you can see that that price tag is about 4.7 million and then uh two additional items that uh I believe trustee chin raised and others may have supported includes solar power for all Sites except NES and excluded in that cost is the two pilot sites that were part of the original immediate priorities so the total cost is higher than

28110.25 four um but that's because it's back in the uh other priorities under immediate priorities recommended last time and then um we have it a educator housing to the uh last item the last category um with a note of cost to be determined because as it was pointed out last time by a board member we the district does not have an identified site doesn't have has not given Direction U for any site in terms of the number of units or how big those units would be so it's very difficult to cost all of these as you may recall last week we um said that are there construction costs their soft costs and then there is a total project cost so taking all of these together um the construction cost that is literally what the bid

282would be would be $24.5 million or under hopefully uh soft cost subtotal at 35% again the amount that we're applying across all schools and in that as Mr doe talked about last week um there will be be undoubtedly some savings because um I think he used as an example it will not take a 35% soft cost to install water bottle uh fillers and so adding the soft cost we get to the additional immediate priorities project cost of 33.1 million and if you decide tonight that all of those should be added to the immediate priorities uh Peter would you go to the next slide please and thank you very much Peter if we take the original revised total of this of the seven of the July 23rd recommended immediate priorities of 47.2 million and add all

283of these additional immediate priorities if that's the board's direction we would have a total of 45.3 million identified as immediate priorities so with that if we go to the next one Peter please um this we would be happy to answer any board questions and certainly look forward to your comments and your direction we believe it is possible if if you were to give direction in the form of amendments for you to uh consider adoption of the facility's master plan tonight and then with your uh direction as amendments we would then produce the final plan um that would be the final printed printed plan so with that I will uh put it back to president Coro thank you Tish for that presentation um so let's open it up for clarifying questions one quick one um I

284have one okay um in terms of the facilities master plan being a 10-year document how like obviously we never saw this year coming if something else came up that we thought was a priority does it get updated or is that just something we keep to the side or what happens if um like within the next 10 years we have other priorities so I I'll answer generally on on about what school districts do and then I'll give you a specific example from San mono Foster City um so this is a blueprint for the future uh for the future 10 years um certainly things may come up uh just as if this had have been adopted a year ago um um many things the board might want to have done of a change in Direction on some

285items to be able to address some of the co is issues for example um and generally school districts adopt a blue plan a blue sorry not a blue plan but a blueprint and as things change then make changes in it does that mean that a whole plan is thrown open no uh I think generally when immediate priorities are set that's pretty clear about what the next steps forward are in terms of this specific District um I've had experience twice during my career with the district and then once that I know about since I left the district and I'll talk with that one um because it's the most recent example um the last master plan from 2013 did not have nearly the emphasis on security um as then became the case and basically in 2013 2014

2862015 when there was um um a serious incident that resolved itself well at a school um the priorities were changed by the board to immediately put up um security fencing around all the school campuses and um that was a shift that was made and that is the board's right to do that that's why you'll see in the bond language um that's in the next agenda item that the a variety of specific projects or kinds of projects are included to give a board the greatest flexibility in being able to address specific events that come up and yet at the same time as you understand better than I I'm sure um there is accountability uh to the voters and to others who um are expecting that their priorities are being addressed Senator no Patrick if you'd like

287to add anything to that or anyone else on our team no I I think you did a good job again when we get to the resolution uh the resolution does provide a description of the projects that be funded by the bond and there's a very comprehensive list of projects that gives you some latitude but also gives some Focus as well too I just wanted to be clear I wasn't asking um in relation to the bond I just meant like years from now less than 10 but um but thank you I have two questions um and one I guess we can talk about this when we get to the bond remind me of the but it would actually be helpful for me in thinking through immediate priorities remind me of the total um uh the Total

288Bond not cost isn't the word I'm looking for but you know what I mean so Patrick do you want to respond to that 409 million is I believe on the resolution 409 409 409 okay um and then my second question one of the things and I was just reviewing again maybe I missed this but um bage and the the possibility of a rebuild that's not included in any of the costs that we currently see correct it is not included in the current costs we do uh Mr do uh did do a cost estimate for us since this last um since the last board meeting when the question was raised and um based on recent rebuilds um and looking at square footage and and taking the additional needs that we have that are already funded under

289major X um the cost of a rebuild would be um in excess of $110 million at this point in today's I actually I think Peter you moved that I mean thing you moved that uh up to a a start of construction date didn't you so it's not just in today's dollars but move forward a little bit this bond has in it and it had that cost estimate includes a new gym uh an additional gym uh as well as the six classrooms that we're adding um are going to bring to the board to add as part of increased enrollment as well as other instructional spaces as well as the full replacement cost for everything um that is there with the exception of the multi-purpose room um okay and we currently oh sorry we currently we currently

290have in the facilities master plan um $65 million for uh bage which includes the 15 million for the additional gym uh using the same standards as the three gyms that are under construction and including the one that's almost finished um uh now but doesn't include the measure x 16ish million correct uh it does not include the TW the 19.5 million that would be that would be added uh to that um could be added to that 65 million uh which would give you about 85 million if the immediate priorities for bage stayed the same and um I know it's it's hard to separate the bond conversation always with the facilities master plan but the bond language um allows for that to be a discussion that's continued correct it's V correct okay that's in fact it's it's

291very generally written as Patrick will go through that that that could be done at any number of campuses it's not it's not limited to bage yeah I think that that's something I'd like for us to continue to explore um and partic if there's other interest I know last week when I mentioned it it seemed like there was so for us to continue to explore what might make the most sense with that site um I I still do have the same concerns around kind of um just feeling like it might be a little bit more upfront but longterm I I wonder if it's just a better um investment um so I think that's something that we should return to any other clarifying questions yeah and I'm sorry if I didn't understand this earlier but I'm I'm

292not hearing you anymore Rebecca I think you hit mute thank you um regarding the Chrome books um does the required funding um include the amount of um the check that was just donated or presented to us from the Education Foundation I believe uh Peter um that the resulting 5,000 from your it already takes into account the Ed Foundation is that correct it took into account some of our existing inventory but I do not believe it took into account uh the because if I remember correctly Tish when we were talking about that number we were still finalizing the purchase requisition for the 140 I'm sorry with the 1,400 um again those are Ballpark numbers depending on increase enrollment decrease enrollment it's just looking at our all approximate 12,000 students and providing um Chromebooks for all of

293them each and every one so it it's kind of a play on numbers so to speak um depending on where we are and even with potentially other funding sources I also know that a majority let me let me also say that Peter um you've you're making a another purchase but we also know that um we're all uh that some of our Chromebooks are damaged yes so um there's expiring yeah expiring expiring um and so there is some need for the replacement so I think to answer Rebecca's question it it the 5,000 is for additional Chromebooks that we'll need beyond what you just ordered from the Ed Foundation due to the fact that we are going to see over that period of time expiration also coming into play and uh correct me if I'm wrong superintendent

294roses uh also the Ed Foundation a lot of that money was also to go towards the T-Mobile hotspots that we currently have to provide internet access to our students during covid-19 and Sheltering in place so a lot of that money will go specifically towards um towards that internet access um that also is pretty costly at a monthly uh recurring charge so you know yeah there's lots of Technology around correct thank you thank you um for both of you I was just curious because if we still need about 5,000 Chromebooks that's a lot um I don't know it just was not necessarily a question it's just mine it I don't know it's a lot needed still and I feel like we we came so far you know we did so much um and we're able to

295provide so many but 5,000 is basically half of our population still so so so remember that's to do one one to one Chromebooks so yeah yeah okay thank you okay um let's open it up for a public comment all right those who have joined us and are still with us uh please at this time if you would like to make public comment on this particular item uh please use the raise your hand functionality within zoom and actually uh president Coro if you wouldn't mind I would like to also take this brief opportunity we lost Kenya our translator during some technical glitch so I'd like to just take a brief minute to see if I can get her back um as we wait for those that might want to raise their hand for public comment there

296she is Kenya are you there I'm here can you hear me yes we can okay I'm going to turn on the interpretation again again which means we'll have should have two channels thank you okay and I'm just doing a quick test if I can I get a thumbs up from all those participating as panelists thumbs up if you can still hear me please fantastic I think think we've got it going on great uh thank you for that brief break I'm sorry I'm not able to see the the language button so you're not able to see the language button Kenya how about now I got it now fantastic thank you thank you all right president Coro we have two attendees uh that have their hand raised for public comment um first one will be Pamela and

297then after Pamela we'll Evan Pamela hi yes thank you um I would like the board to consider again I was present for this presentation last week but I'm not sure the questions that were raised were answered or at least most of them weren't answered I still don't know who these projects are going to primarily serve and how demographics and um inequality kind of plays out in some of these projects for the next 10 years um you know I I'm not sure if like people were surveyed or or if that's even a possibility at this point but um can some of these things be re-evaluated considering all of these different circumstances and different priorities that we have now given the circumstances not just pandemic wise but um just future changes like can we have Community computer

298centers with support systems you know like 5,000 people are still missing computers and that's what we're going to roll out our education plan in the next few weeks you know like these things need to be a priority and I think the Board needs to really have that in the purview um as you consider these next you know these plans for the next 10 years um the other the other thing is uh it you know the information that is um presented is again it's difficult to to synthesize for someone if I am coming out of work you know like working class and I'm trying to synthesize the information it's not very um it's not condensed you know I can't really synthesize it information from that I can but it's not condensed enough for the public and

299you need to consider that um when you're presenting that there needs to be some sort of standard or expectation in terms of the presentations and the time um thank you for your time thank you Pamela next we have Evan and then after Evan will be Marcel Evan hi there board thanks for uh staying up tonight and working so hard um my only uh comment or question here would be when you're looking at a facili plan and you're talking about consumables which is how I view computers and something like a Chromebook um I would hope you would take great caution to avoid uh situations such as happened at Los Angeles Unified with the infamous iPad 2 uh purchase of billions of dollars and then years later them actually arriving so please just uh be cognizant of

300of things that depreciate faster than uh the the than you may be able to make thank you thank you Evan next we have uh Marcela I feel like this is a repeat only a couple hours earlier um I want to Echo Pamela's comments uh last week it was stated that there that we wanted to make sure we had an equity mindset and as someone who participated in the super attendance chats that then turned into the uh feedback uh Loops for the for the facilities plan I very much feel like um when people don't know what they can ask for they don't necessarily ask when people haven't been given um or have been used to dealing with less they ask for less and I still don't see that that was addressed and I don't know how

301that can be but in reviewing the revised um plan I saw no uh significant changes for our school um and in terms of priorities I also did not see a shift uh for statements that we even put as our priorities uh recognizing the needs that our students have so I just wanted to bring that up again um because the way that it is worded is is that that uh suggestion to pass the facility's master plan the way that it currently sits and I don't know that the way that it currently sits is truly Equitable thank you thank you Marcella okay President corza we have no other hands up for public comment thank you can you hear me my screen froze again yes we can thank you um let's open it up for discussion um I'm

302just wondering is going out for a bond contingent upon our approval of this facilities master plan um Bond Council has let us know that um a bond is a bond resolution runs a parallel track to a facility's master plan you don't have to finalize a facility's master plan um before uh going out for a Bond however they also did warn that they do need to be tied because the bond is clearly to pay for projects that you've identified in the facility master plan so you don't want you do want them on a parallel track you don't want them diverging because then your bond is not um set up to pay for the facility needs that are listed in the plan so it doesn't have to be exactly on track no but it does have to

303have strong overlaps okay I hope that helps yes thank you very much John Dr roses I had one um I meant to ask this before one of the things that we talked about last time was um some of the PTA funded um facilities pieces and integrating those into into the overall plan is that something that we were able to do I I had forgotten that you asked that question um we don't have very many PTA funded ma facilities master plan projects there are a few um they were brought up um mostly they were brought up at the last meeting and the um the most recent being the uh library at Baywood so I can get you that and I apologize I forgot to get it for this meeting can we just um I know that

304I know if we if we move forward with the approval of this we can approve with amendments so that would be something that we could include as an okay sure I think Joel may be able if you'd like um Dr roses to answer um what's been done generally in the last three years with PTA projects they're very minor um mostly related to landscaping and painting well and illuminated signs before I came on board right yes illuminated signs so there's not very many projects right PT are mostly St anything else that you can remember without pulling the paperwork out Joel did you have anything else you could remember no they they are mostly um Landscaping projects uh parents painting rooms uh in schools or restriping the play area playground stripes so those are really mainly uh

305PT funded projects but I'll pull that for you I forgot to do it okay um I have um just a few comments maybe just three um one I want to thank everybody for you know for your work and adding you know page 18 into the master plan um the one addition I would say is and I sort of mentioned this last time so this is just my my squeaky wheel or whatever you want to call my me talking about broken record about solar um I wanted to clarify that when I talk about a 100 renewable um it's it's really there's a phrase that's called you know Net Zero Energy and basically it means that we will generate you know at least 100% of our electricity so we become Net Zero um so as a school

306district that also means that you know where we have solar sort of at every site it doesn't mean that you know all of our sites are actually very different um and you may not actually be able to put solar on every single site to actually generate the amount of electricity for that site but we have a whole bunch of sites and you think about our district as districtwide as 2122 schools um count Turnbull and everything um you know the idea is as a district we can become sort of Net Zero Energy and so my comment is on page 18 when talks about Energy Efficiency um really I would replace that and let I mean there's probably more Energy Efficiency conversation but my phrase would be you know to become a Net Zero Energy school district

307and when I talk again it's just it's a school districtwide and the reasons for that is again because of climate change because of sustainability but then then again just fiscal responsibility the idea that if we are able to do this we could recoup probably close to $2 million a year annually so that that's my one sort of addition um the other thing is um I really you know one of the commenters from um from the public talked about shade at Fiesta Gardens and I really I looked back at it and I think you know honestly I would love to see whether we could add that in there um when I look at the whole amount and how it adds up to about $450 million I'm okay with that partly because when you look at the

308cost estimates and everything else you know I think that there there's some efficiencies that you can get you know whether you hire one contractor to do all the s um the sewer stuff there's going to be some efficiencies as we move forward um one of them specifically is again solar like if you actually put up shade structures that actually have solar on them you know then you're actually meeting both needs and so you can kind of combine those cost estimates there um so honestly I would really like to get shade at Fiesta Gardens so to add this solar to get Net Zero to be a Net Zero Energy school district and then ultimately again I'm okay with the 450 million um but in the on page 18 when we sort of bullet point these uh

309these sort of ideas for the next 10 years I would just want to add a little bit more of a description for them you know as trusty Watkins talked about bage um well actually that's not really here maybe we need to actually add that but you know the idea when we talk about Equity across facilities last week we talked about is it like a matrix is it what is it you know could is there a study there that we had to do when we talk about NES it's obviously we're going to have some sort of study session or something make some sort of description that we're GNA do something you know and this is sort of the aspiration within the obviously the next 10 years um same thing with Workforce housing about like well we

310know that housing insecurity is an issue and so we are going to do you know have a study to talk um talk about it you know these are sort of things just in the bullet points that I love to just flush out a little bit more but um overall I mean I I want to thank everybody for the revisions um I'm I'm okay with actually exceeding again the 409 because I do think that there are ways as we roll out you know we may get grant money from you know what is it prop 39 for Energy Efficiency again for light bulbs or something or maybe we'll maybe the federal government and their heels or Heroes act comes forward with their covid response that pace or the handwashing stations or something like that um I think

311that there over the next 10 years I think there's an ability for us to sort of make up some of that cost so that's my two cents I was just going to make a comment um um just in regards to what trusty chin just said about the shade structure at Fiesta Gardens I'm not opposed to it um but I do think it it does um lend to us meing this kind of Matrix because now we're just picking one school that said that they want shade structure and then it opens my mind to say well which other schools really need it as well and so um I'm you know it's fine to have shade structure there but um just looking at the bigger picture of are we being Equitable across all schools is like what else

312is there out there that people would need for shade structures and then you know just looking at the bigger picture across the board um and I guess it's like I was kind of using this um spreadsheet with all the dollars as kind of a matrix but I guess that's not really it's not really what it's intended for so um I would like to see um something where we could just map out every school what it has what it needs and see um like where we're missing I'm fineing with what we have here but just for for knowing I'll Echo uh what trusty Proctor said that was a concern that was raised for me too not because I don't think that that there shouldn't be a shade structure but just I think we need to be

313really cognizant of how much um um it we just need to be looking at it holistically so I would want to look at shade structures across all of our sites and then make a determination about whether or not that's something we need to upgrade or include at all Sites um uh first um I did want to um I agree with actually the the public comment around the Chromebook piece of things I do not think that that should be something that we include in a bond measure um I know it's we're not saying that we're saying that it's part of our facilities master plan but might be a part of our bond measure so I guess maybe I'm merging the conversations again um trusty chin were you saying that you believe all the things that were

314added as immediate priorities are things that you would like for us to include in in our priorities as a part of the bond measure so I guess we're mixing the bond measure and and they're kind of related right because all of the immediate priorities are things that we're saying are going to be a part of our bond measure so it's kind of hard to talk about them completely in isolation I I know I was going to say my comment for the bond for the bond but I mean they are they are related I mean they're completely related I think that um that in my mind I think the facilities master plan really lays out you know a direct kind of covid-19 response in terms of how we're going to handle you know what the new

315normal is um so you know in regards to just Chromebooks I kind of feel like you know we you know the bond is allowed to pay for that so then you know maybe we actually go with that but um I in regards to the stuff that sort of listed on page 18 that was mentioned I think in my mind the bond language that we'll hear next is is so General that actually it has us the ability to as we move forward let's say we talk about bage in you know January you know and let's just say the bond was successful then we we can actually do something then like we could use some of that we could go back and study it again I think the bond language sort of has that that capability I'm

316not sure am I answering your sort of I just wasn't sure you were saying you're in agreement with the 450 million and I just wasn't sure if you were saying that all the things that were listed here are things that you wanted to move forward with um yeah Clarity sorry I I am at the moment yeah I mean I'm I'm welcome to changes too um I just you know I'll just say my concern around the additional pieces in general is it feels a little bit like kind of sh like we like I I feel like there was a lot of strategy around kind of the first pieces that were brought and these ones to me don't feel as not that they're not all important and I know that you know this was provided you know

317with with direction from the board and so that's fine and I know that there are things such as solar that folks feel really strongly about so I'm not saying I'm opposed to them I just wonder I just feel like they weren't as strategically kind of thought through as some of the other ones which just gives me a little bit of concern in terms of how we approach these conversations and topics so um I the other thing I'll just say to no me go ahead no I I was just gonna say you know I agree and and I think the thing is like in my statement last week you know the idea on the the spectrum of facilities Master plans there's that you know the ones that are very Visionary in some ways and then there's

318the ones who are just like a project list and we kind of got that at the project list which is what we need for the bond but what happened last week was you know we as a board finally got to give input into what we were looking at is what we cared and so that's what page 18 sort of came out of yeah and so that's what is sort of listed in the green um and you know the question is if we don't sort of adopt the facili master plan with that then you know like as you know president Coro said s of this is our Legacy and some ways like you think about the next 10 years you know I highly doubt that we as a board over the next year or at least

319two will actually come back and say let's update the facility master plan again I think that if it's not actually listed here then we may not actually do anything about it yeah no I'm not disagreeing with it being listed I think it's kind of again merging conversations around what gets prioritized for our bond and what gets included in the facilities master plan the only other comment I'll make um in relation to public comment I I think the point around um just the equity piece of things and folks knowing what they can ask for is really valid um I will say that when we think about this Bond we're not we're not at a place in our district right now where we're able to do the above and beyond things we're talking about like basic health

320and safety features right now across our district we are not talking about things that really like are on people's wish list so that's that I think as we think about if we and when we get to a place where that is the conversation that we're having I think it's a really important point to take into consideration but right now we're talking about like access to clean hot water and ensuring that we have you know correct um filtration systems in air right like that's where we are um and that is so uh I just kind of wanted to acknowledge the importance of that in in terms of how we move forward with conversations with the fact that as we're the things that we're looking at right now um don't even really get there so that's all

321I have I'm I'm kind of good where things are and I appreciate everyone staying up late again and for all of the work on this and and turning these um suggestions Etc around quickly so I think we have a really good plan to work from over the next 10 years thank you truste Watkins um I feel like everyone's done a really good job of covering everything so I'm gonna end my comment here thanks everyone anyone else okay okay so um moving on um this is for vote oh this is for vote oh oh I'm sorry okay so either you can v um on it tonight or if you feel like there was some change that you wanted uh maybe with the addendum of a few things that you've asked for this evening or you can

322ask for it to come back with those things on August 6 so either way um we need to do something I can make a motion I don't know if there was let me folks let me know if there's something that I'm missing but I'll make a motion to approve the facility master plan um with the addition of the PTA funded facilities was there anything else and Ken had asked for more of a description on page 18 of the bullet points and more of a description on page 18 of the bullet points I'll second that can I as a what do you call it friendly Amendment to the motion I forget what the technical rules what sorry it's getting late Robert Rules of Order or whatever it is right um with when regard to um page

32318 and just my little thing of the Net Zero Energy School District would be great if if TR need to remake the motion well I no I can just ask if that's okay as a friendly Amendment and I think that is okay as a friendly Amendment JY chin okay uh sh put a motion I gave the second roll call vote trust chin yes trusty Hitchcock yes Rusty Proctor yes trusty Watkins yes and a yes for me the motion carries moving on to item 7. for resolution number 2021 ordering a bond election and establishing specifications of the election order all right so um on that uh we have um Patrick Gaffney is going to do a little bit of information and we have um chat here with us along with um Nick Huer is supposed to

324be here and or um David um coka I don't recognize Chris hayatt Chris Hyatt uh works with um Chad so Chris is here got it so we have Chad and Chris okay hi and then um Nick is here can you grab him and Nick was David able to join us David Casa Nick you're on mute if you're speaking I think David's unable to go 10 tonight so will you be able to respond to questions then okay yes all right then in that case we now have our team assembled and we really appreciate everyone staying up with us so late um we have crafted a resolution that would call for a bond um election and it has the projects in it from the work done on the facilities master plan and I think that um Patrick

325Gaffney was going to present a little bit of information about all of this and then open it up for any questions I believe is that right Patrick yes thank I just walked through the uh the components of uh What uh Davis cocha put together for us um the obligatory components of this uh information that's embedded in the resolution and it's uh captured for you in um there's a great synops for you on the cover sheet and it walks through the different components and as Dr Rosas said um the resolution does um meet the statutory requirements for describing the projects to be funded with the proceeds of the bond it also provides you with a 75w summary of The Measure as it will appear on the ballot and it also has some BL components as well

326as going over things such as authorizing the preparation filing a tax rate statement it discloses what the tax rate is associated with the bond um and then there's also Provisions in here as well that um speak to that it's a 55% voter approval and in conjunction with that 55% voter approval there are obligatory components as well such as having an independent annual Financial audit such as the prior bonds that we've done in the district as well as a Citizens Bond oversight committee um and uh so that's all called out in the uh cover sheet for you and embedded in the resolution itself and the resolution uh as we spoke a little earlier uh does um site the different projects to be funded by it there's a very extensive list of those projects as well embedded

327in the resolution and rather than reading through all that be happy to um to answer any questions you might have um and so it's a recommendation the superintendent that the the board adopt the resolution so we can call uh the uh the election in the uh November is it November 3D I think it is yes no November 3rd of 2020 I have a question on um appendix B um or exhibit B I'm sorry this is my first time really really reading through one of these in great detail on B2 I was curious what's the like what are we getting at here because it talks about like improving aging classrooms and there's a goal that talks about HVAC but then the projects listed talk about like stem and other things is this all supposed to be

328part of hbac or I'm I'm scrolling through Alison to to section B2 just give me a moment please it's page nine of 12 if you're on the PF thank you if I may please Nick yeah please here so beginning on page page two the projects are are grouped together in different categories and there's you know a broad heading to sort of organize different projects um so the first grouping is improving aging classrooms infrastructure um School repair upgrade projects um funded by money that cannot be taken by away from by the state and then there's goals and purposes and those goals and purposes are outcomes to help better explain to voters what the district hopes to achieve through the bond projects so they've been the projects have been been organized into these different categories to sort

329of better Express the outcomes that are desired to be achieved okay because I was just C like when I read this and maybe this is just how it goes um I read the goal to be about HVAC and then I read down below we talk about um replacing drink drinking fountains or um replacing sewer pipes so is it all supposed to like I'm not seeing where you're pointing I don't see it that way where where you're under project list on the on B and are you looking at page two okay B2 is the page and then where it says goals and purpose yes it says it talks about heating and air conditioning right and then down below it there's a bunch of bullet points that talk about like leaking sewer pipes I see I Windows

330yeah so I was just curious if those are supposed to line up and similar question on the very on the next page by the way okay those Nick do you see what her confusion is there and is there a way to fix that yeah so um you know I think part of the answer is that you know the goals and purposes aren't meant to Encompass everything that might be below the goals and purpose and the second part of that paragraph um is broader in its scope and that it says that um even if you do not have school aged children supporting Quality quality education is a wise investment since good schools maintain quality of life in the community and protect the value of our homes there s of a broader scope in that sentence um

331and these are phrases that tested well with voters in the voter opinion survey so the idea was to group sort of like projects together with a broader goal and purpose um so why one of the goals and purposes is is more narrow in scope the other one is sort of more broad to to Encompass um many different projects that could fall so to address her concern though that the goals and purpose don't Encompass the bullets below is there a way that we can expand that language so that it says that maybe a a main goal is of course because as we know this is the heating and air conditioning situation is what led us to this whole project to begin with so it is a main goal but it does not Encompass the goals below

332is there something is there a way that we could reword that um in some Manner and then maybe even uh the second page to address her question yeah the second the next one it talks about um allowing students to work more efficiently from home and then there's topics about you know upgrading libraries or um right you know that kind of thing so I just I just have never really done this before but right so maybe one of the things we could do is um simply um pull the pull the goals and purposes those two statements that don't Encompass all of the bullets below and just say um we could just pull them out and simply go with um um School the goal the above it says School repair and upgrade projects so we could use

333that as the goal and then the next one could be project that improve student safe student safety and success maybe use that as a goal do you see what I'm saying yeah yeah we can make amendments as as you see fit I think um but I but if we vote on it I want to be sure everybody is clear about what I'm saying so on B2 it says improve aging classroom infrastructure we could put goals and purposes could be school repair and upgrade projects funded by money that can be not that cannot be taken by the state um and then just um make sure that that heating and ventilating is in the bullets that it has to be in those bullets because that's what brought us to this and then on the next one goal

334and purpose projects that improve students safety and success and just ensure that computer technology and all of those pieces are there if we wanted to maintain those Concepts one suggestion that I might make is if you wanted to move the broader statement first yeah the second the first one second and then amend it in such a way that it could say you know one of the board main purposes is to provide air conditioning because it it's not really an umbrella for the bullets however the reason that those were highlighted like that is because of the necessity that that's why they were pulled out in that way but they're really not an umbrella so if um so I understand why it was written that way it was written to really point out these issues um but

335if it if others are reading it as an umbrella it's not and if that's a problem then we need to address that I I don't I don't see it as much as a problem but if you do um the trustees do then that's fine we could do something with that I think it's I like the idea of the detailed bullet points because I think people need to know what we need and see how dire the situation is no absolutely right but one two three but that fourth bullet point in um you know to support stem really one it's seems out of place and and two is that not what um measure V was to uh include um the fourth one down where oh sorry on B2 the fourth bullet point um actually on this one

336um there are schools that have specifically requested makers spaces and this is to address our science labs in our middle schools there were some very serious um in interest in this in particular and I don't so it's not it's not completed with measure V okay I just when I saw it and saw the the stem art music um my brain immediately went to wasn't that what measure V was for and so I just don't want if others are viewing that as well for them to say didn't we already vote for something you know I don't know that's just my thought right but the difference between measure V just sorry the difference between measure V and uh this potential bond is that measure V was sort of operational cost versus this is more infrastructure and I

337think that that's that's the the big distinction just in terms of stem thank you I appreciate that so I'm just going to follow up I I do think that that maybe could be clarified because I do read it in some ways the same way that trusty Proctor um does the one one additional addition I would make is that the bullet points in B2 you know when when you talk about the goals and purposes it just starts right versus on B3 there's actually a sentence that says schools will benefit from a variety of safety and achievement projects such as colon and then it goes ahead with the bullet points and so I think it sort of is missing that because I feel like it's just goals and purpose and here's some bullet points and there's you

338know obviously there's nothing there uh no but I don't want to word Smith everything so it's a good addition I think to put that in there something there okay did someone get that then you know honestly it's this is a tough situation I mean I I I like how like at least on B3 it starts with everything and there's the basically in addition to the projects and list everything you know that we could possibly do with the money we sort of you know play this delicate role here of you know what pulled really well you know sort of include that language and sometimes include that first and then what really are we trying to achieve in some way ways and and that's where I'm um I mean that's where I think we're just sort of

339playing sort of wordsmithing here and in some ways I mean as an example obviously you know the exhibit a just in terms of the paragraph the actual paragraph It's You know to upgrade upgrade classrooms or science for stem basically scored the highest I mean they pulled the highest but in my mind and as if if this does pass I mean for trusty and paror and I to go ahead with Bond I mean really what I look at it is this is a a covid response this is a health and safety sort of bond and you know yes there's other things in there but to me it's it's health and safety and I I know that didn't necessarily resonate or maybe wasn't worded enough in terms of the polling but to me that's how that's how

340I look at this Bond so um I don't necessarily know if that means that we should change the language because I don't because the polling said we should do this but I also don't want it to seem like it's a b switch which it's not because when you think about it the majority of the money is health and safety so um I'm sorry it's it's late I'm starting to ramble can I chime in um in order for us to um create the maker space um areas and update the science labs and whatnot um we need to address the health and safety first in order to provide those things so I think I can look at it that way thank you so um I yeah am I I'm I'm I need to make sure I'm hearing

341this correctly um are you asking that the actual bond election language that would actually go into the um voter pamphlet that it be changed so that it does not start off with the science technology engineering math piece that starts off with health and safety that that that is what I heard you say yeah I I know there was you know a bond commit and I I mean that's what they are for is to dedicate the time to create this and I trust their um thought process and opinion so well actually um trusty chin also mentioned the thing so I'm you know so I'm just uh checking with all of you as to where you stand with that because we need we need very clear Direction um if you want that Rewritten I'm honestly I think

342that it's it's written a way to to go to respond directly to the poll and considering that we're you know pulling at 10 points higher than passing I kind of feel like that's how it should be I mean but when it comes down to it you know you look at the numbers and you think a lot of it is health and safety and I just I'm I'm okay with the way it is I'm okay with the way it but I I think we all need to be really clear that we don't write we don't write a bond we don't go out for an entire Bond because it pulled well we we check a polling so that we can see if there's interest and what resonates with people but we know what we have to have

343for our children so and we do know that these specialized spaces which actually came up in the last conversation are highly um sought after by our staff they want the Extra Spaces to do these maker spaces they want them for art music Art In Action rooms that they don't have these are things they do want so yes it resonated with the poll it resonated with people it was also listed in the facilities master plan now completely correct you are all completely correct we were driven down this path because of the covid-19 and the fires and the air quality and our whole hva system so that is what led us down this path so it's true that is a high priority if you could just put them both side by side because it's not one without

344the other you're not going to have a great maker space if you don't have good air and air conditioning I mean ex so it's side by side so I mean we can we can write it however you want but I I I I I would really want you to not think that we just wrote it to answer a poll it's to answer a need no I I completely completely agree I I just um no you're absolutely right and I I'm not saying that you know it's not a need um it's it's fine I'm I'm okay with it okay so now the other thing so now the other thing is that I do see where if someone really is reading all the bond language the goals and purpose is not the um it's it's a it's

345a big goal but it's not the umbrella goal so we can look at those two and maybe bring back more of an umbrella goal with the bullets that are more clearly tied to it um and we can work on that now um I think with the changes that you're looking at and I want to make sure we capture them all tonight that it might be wise for us to T to to rewrite and bring it back one more time we have the ability to do that now boy we better not have any problems with it that night because it has to go up to the it has to go be filed the next day August 6th August 7th it has to be filed so um we have done it that way before where we've gone

346the next day because our board meetings are on Thursday night but um so but let's make sure we have all of it and then we'll go away we'll recraft a little bit bring it back for final um that's my suggestion but are there any other thoughts that you'd like because if we're going to rewrite let's get it all is is there a reason that the so I'm okay with that strategy is there a reason why um on is it just to emphasize on B2 and B3 the some of the bullet points are are bolded I mean it's just to to reemphasize right is that I mean now that was interesting um learning for me is that they do that um because what happens is that people who are reading quickly will catch the top of

347the the first couple of bullets in the last couple of bullets but they won't necessarily look at the middle um and so it literally is a way to help kind of force you to go through all of the pieces of it which I had never really fully thought of but it it did it did work for me on that particularly long one um um that's on B B3 B2 B3 doesn't have as many um bullets and so the most important one was um pushed uh as a as bold but it doesn't have to be that was um a suggestion just that's fine and then I'm okay with it actually being bolded I I just wanted to make sure it wasn't like hey this was Bold and the other ones weren't there was a reason for

348it um on B B3 just talking about public um the the Wi-Fi I'm actually okay I know it pulled well I'm okay if we sort of move that into the larger larger paragraph I don't think it needs to specifically called out unless we want to respond directly to the bond okay I mean the pole the poll okay put it more into the par into the paragraph below yeah okay okay other thoughts and and um Nick if you're if you're hearing things that shouldn't that aren't right please please speak up because I'm not the expert of writing these things I just I'm hearing what they're saying they see that yeah that that's a fine change we can move that those are all those are all workable things yes any other language that you folks saw that

349you would want to discuss thank you president Coro I just wanted to be really sure that I understood what we were supposed to do for next time because we don't have choice we don't have any time next time that's it yeah I completely thank you [Music] um okay did we already do public comment on this item no I do not believe we did President Coro okay so let's do public comment that was everyone's questions right I I hope I didn't I didn't have any so okay let's go for it okay uh for those that are participating VI the zoom please use a raise your hand feature to address the board on this particular item we have one attendee for public comment president corza um should we do two and a half or three minutes we

350can do three three okay uh we have Pamela W noes good evening um I again thank you for your time um I want to reiterate the same thing that I've been reiterating over and over um I guess I was unclear as to the other it was confusing as to um what these two things were so the facilities plan now I'm understanding a little bit more as to how this process works um I really think that the Board needs to consider again the priorities if this is a covid plan um you need to look at who these services are um providing a better circumstance for um again you're not if if you if you did this with the lens of um with the lens of just a few um participants a few uh parents and community

351members you didn't take everyone's perspective and so I ask again to for you to re-evaluate and look at the process and consider who you're servicing um and that's all I have to say thank you for your time thank you Pam I thought I saw another hand come up again Final Call for those that might want public comment for this particular item okay president Coro oh we do have one here we go Maria JY hi I'm just wondering um if it's wise since it's so late to have the board take those slides and and really analyze it a little bit before they vote on it tonight um just to make sure everything is correct and that's everything that that you guys want um and if there's any other needs that you guys think to add or

352or whatever um I don't that's just my suggestion thank you thank you Maria okay president corza thank you opening up for discussion any discussion I feel like we already had our discussion but no I just I'll just provide just comment I think so we are recommending to um basically not I guess it's continue continue this item till next week so that staff can come back with additional changes so that we get it absolutely correct is that is that correct thank you for the nod um and then just in terms of sort of the equity issue I remember last week we tal I mean I brought up the tier one schools and I think that there I mean basically every school is getting something um and I think that that's really good I honestly think the

353Chromebooks in terms of getting us to a one to one really helps out um but um that's just my two cents so I think um I mean I'm I'm okay with it at the moment thank you any other comments okay so just to clarify this is coming back next meeting and we will spend more time on it and we will have to finish it next week okay thank you I'm clear so we will not so we will not be voting on this item right now and with that we can move on to item 7.5 s Foster City School District response to covid-19 fall reopening update since since I'm sorry since the item was listed as a vote don't we have to actually vote to continue to the next um meeting or can we just continue

354it pro you could you could you could vote to say that you're not that um that you're holding it um that you're tbling it vote to table it till next week I'll make I'll make a motion just to to continue item 7.4 to um next week August 6 I'll second I'll second roll V yes yes bie proor yes bie Watkins yes and a yes from me the motion carries and we are on item 7.5 smfd response to covid-19 fall reopening update yes okay so now I said that I would be starting off this um piece with a little bit of information about where we are with the distance learning and I actually will be asking Sue Weezer to help out with that um piece of the of this presentation and then we'll move into um

355Winnie McMichael um who has stayed up with us to uh talk about wellness and what Wellness might look like in distance learning and then also um Alma Alma Ellis has stayed up with us uh to to talk about special education um so let me get my notes here so I think it's important to go back to why we're in distance learning at all um you will remember that on July 16th due to escalating cases in SEL County uh the board decided to begin the year in distance learning on the very next day July 17th the governor came out with a protocol for determining when schools should go into distance learning now that criteria was based on being on a watch list and presently Sam is on what's called an active engagement list and may go

356on the watch list by Saturday so by determining that we were going to start in distance learning we were able to better plan um for the start of school and also to better plan for the time when we can return to the campus so along those lines we've had task force teams working on logistics for returning to school there's been a variety of different groups working program groups to actually the um physical um safety of the of the building um and you you've heard about different groups um what the some of those groups we going to present tonight um and they will come back in another time to share so we also know that we have parents and community members that be of significant support to these teams we've heard um from them at various

357times throughout um this last uh month and uh we are going to seek their support uh through an upcoming newsletter uh where we will be asking our families who have particular expertise to share with our established teams so you um can be watching for that uh notification request coming up um soon now um now that we really are into distance learning for the beginning of the school year uh we have virtually finalized our mou with SMA to address that the distance learning piece of of our work um and CSEA is in process and then the hybrid portion of the work with SMA will also be it I think it is in process um so I um had asked Sue Weezer our um assistant superintendent for human resources to share a few points about this mou

358as it does clarify what um the teachers and students will be doing in distance learning so I'm going to ask her to do that then I'm going to share some additional information okay good evening board members um staff and Community um I am here to just provide some highlights and a little background on theou so SMA and the district did sign a tenative agreement for the full-time distance learning mou on July 21st um the mou is being ratified by SMA members and will be brought to the board for approval on August 6 um so just a a few brief highlights um the full-time distance learning will include daily instruction interaction U between teachers and students um and the the live instruction are actually interaction shall be substantially equivalent to what students will receive in the

359hybrid model in the inperson instruction which is about four hours a day so there'll be four hours of instruction and and interaction by teachers daily and for example in the elementary program it may include for example a morning meeting a community meeting to greet students there might be an opening activity a review of the work that's going to happen during the day at the at the end of the day there will be a daily closing activity or reflection um and in between um you know the day will start our teachers will start at 8:00 work till 3:15 and in between the morning meeting and the afternoon meeting there may be um a whole group lesson um there might be small group instruction um uh in those hours and there'll be four hours in total in

360the Middle School um they will also be following a schedule with um approximately 4 hours of instruction same thing there'll be a daily Home Room meeting um there'll be um daily interaction there may be some social emotional lessons in home room um all students will be and families will be provided with a weekly agenda or overview um the instruction could include new um curriculum content it could include some review and practice feedback on lessons um so in addition to that um the board did adopt online curriculum so they um there will be more um instruction with um with robust standards based instruction and training uh we are providing additional training for teachers at the beginning um prior to the start of school on August 15th um we did uh adopt a new board calendar um

361so you know in addition to offering the inst instuction virtually um teachers will also be providing print materials tangible materials as needed um to support learning um and there will be regular grading so um instead of the credit no credit that happened um in the springtime so [Music] um that is what I have to report at this time and I'm happy to answer any questions you may have okay so sue I'm going to ask um that you wait one moment so I can go ahead and finish and that we can have our other teams present also and then we can respond to questions okay but um another aspect of distance learning that I've been asked about quite a bit and I want to make sure that we're clear about this too is that um we

362need to provide support for our families around the technology the devices and also on education and we are working with our school sites to establish a way to support our families with the use of their devices and we are also going to be providing textbooks and kits that have materials in them for use at home for families who need them as we return to school so there'll be a pickup protocol you know we've done those at the sites before when we were in the spring so there'll be a a pickup protocol set up by the schools you're going to hear directly from your principles we're also looking at how to provide additional support to families related to the use of these um learning Management systems and our curricula um our education services division um is

363is working to set those those um opportunities up now I also wanted to talk about class assignments uh the schools have completed their Outreach for the model selection so in other words families were asked whether they wanted to stay in distance learning even when we can go back to the school site and those families who are willing and interested in going back to the school site when we can so we've done that Outreach we're also finishing the staff survey that went out and um we're learning which staff can be um who are able to uh go back to the sites which ones will need distance learning for the year now one of the things that's very um that we want to do is to match um obviously um dist learning students uh with distance learning

364teachers and we'd love for it to actually just work out perfectly where we have a certain number of teachers and a certain number of kids at each school and it's a perfect match and I I know I've said to you a couple of times that that can't be guaranteed um because of the fact that we might have one distant teacher at of school and but they there's 60 kids who need distance learning name so it may be some Cross School support going on we'd really like to assign these classes at at the beginning of the school year however I have been told by both ed services and human resources that indeed and student services I guess everyone is telling me that this is a very complex um assignment process and that we may need to

365assign as we had planned at the end of the last school year and as you you know you set up classes as you go out the door and you re just recheck them um in the beginning of the year and then you assign your teachers if we do that though if we do that though there will be a point in time when we when we are able to go back to school that students would have to be reassigned so I'm just explaining this that we're going to try to see if we can assign kids to their teachers one time at the beginning of the year if at all possible however the complexity of the situation may mean that we will start in one uh with one teacher and that there could potentially be a change

366so we are still working on that I just want to alert everyone to the complexity of what we're dealing with I also wanted to talk about child care in the distance learning model now we talked about child care in the hybrid model where we have paired days but now we're opening in distance learning that means everyone is at home all day so we are working as you know on opening a small Annex program uh basically located at four sites we would fill with our students who are subsidized by the Asus group followed by staff followed by essential workers and then if there's still room by returning Annex students as we can take them it would be a program that would run from 8 to 4 so it' be a full day program and Annex staff

367would help the students as they log into their into their classwork now um we are also trying to figure out how to provide extended hours but we don't have that worked out at this point now due to the needs of our families we have been working with child care providers in the area so I want you to know that we are meeting now weekly and making plans together to support all of our students these are child care providers that um you know they're not school related child care providers I can't vouch for their programs but by working together we can all understand where the district is and they can make a better program for the students that they've been serving who are also our students and they are working on all day full day programs

368also for the period of time that we're in distance learning and we uh are working um on a communication that we can all send out to our families regarding the work we're doing on possible child care options in the in sown Foster City um now um I have also been asked um by a trustee to review what happens with contact tracing as we return to school um that becomes very important um if a person on campus tests positive for the virus or is in contact with a case there's a countywide contact contact tracing protocol that must be followed if you are were possibly exposed you would be notified if if you were not exposed then you would not have been would not be notified once that we know about a case a contact or a

369contact with a case and we have um made those um calls that we're required to make to um the County Office of Education and the conversations that we have we then um determine what actions we need to take besides notification classes Andor schools may be shut for clean now obviously no names are ever shared because uh that is a medical situation but um that that is what would happen as we come back now um we're not in that place but I was asked to go over that um so now um I did want to go ahead and turn it over to two other folks uh for this portion of our meeting um Wendy McMichael is going to talk about wellness and particular about Wellness in a distance learning pattern and then Alma um Ellis is

370going to talk to us about special education so I'll turn it over to Winnie you're muted right now oh there you are there we go I did it all right and um I believe Sarah was going to help with presenting the the slideshow um so I I just wanted to start off and say um I'm very honored to have the opportunity to present information about um our Wellness reopening planning uh to the school board and to our community um and um I'll move into the next slide we had um a a a large group of people who have been working um on a main committee and in subcommittees looking at some different goal areas for wellness planning for the 2020 2021 school year um you can see um our goals were in the areas of

371um transitioning into the new school year Community Building social emotional learning um and supporting um student uh mental health and the people in our committees uh range There Are all uh District employees um from classified employees who are uh PE teachers and uh technology teachers to um to content uh grade level teachers of various grades to um administrators and school counselors and school psychologists um Etc so it's um a lot of a lot of really amazing people who care a lot about kids um working together to think about how do we go into NE this next school year um and best support kids given the situation that we're in right now um and I'll move on to the next slide um we um I I do want to just emphasize we're we're really um couched

372in the guiding principles of um of the district as we're approaching um you know going into the school year and those principles are health and safety um Equity um rigorous and meaningful student learning um as well um as a big one is the student community and connection um in ongoing learning and support for students families and staff um from from that Equity um piece we're looking at really um planning from thinking about key groups um with the most urgent needs so um when when we were looking at these guiding principles and thinking about what the needs are for students um what really became clear is that we we can't uh only think of the students we have to think of the adults who are working with the students um and it's really this uh concept

373that we need the adults to put their oxygen Mas on first right in a in a crisis situation when when we've lost oxygen in a plane before they can do it for the kids um it's a common um kind of um metaphor that we use when we're talking about working with trauma um and the adult Wellness is important so those goals that that I mentioned that our teams worked on uh we we thought about those for um staff as well um so we're starting even we started today at our administrator's retreat working on community building with our with our administrative team and next they'll be working on that with their school staff teams and then the staff are going to be working on community building with kids um and there are some things that uh

374were identified by team members that are really important um for staff moving forward to feel kind of secure in in what they're doing and and to support their their Wellness so I mentioned those guiding principles and they're really the vision that helps people feel um grounded in the work that they're doing um ongoing communication um about you know what the work we're doing which um I know we've it's been quite rigorous in the district um providing the um the teachers and the staff with time and with professional learning to prepare for opening the school year um and you heard about theou just now which um gives some time and some professional learning is it's spelled out there um and guidance as well as as Wellness Resources so um I'll be mentioning some of the the

375types of guidance that we're working on that came out of the recommendations as I move through the the presentation um and we'll go on to the next slide um so we're thinking about going into the new year and when I mentioned before one of the guiding principles about thinking about say key groups with most urgent needs um we're thinking even sometimes about kids who um have a really hard time transitioning and having that be one of the guiding uh things for us as we're preparing for kids to go into the new year um in in our distance learning environment and I want to be honest we also have had a lot of uh conversation and planning around hybrid as well um so um so this connection um with kids in order to to help prepare

376them to come to school is is something that that we recommend and that we're really emphasizing and I know that um a lot of teachers are already working on it um especially we're thinking about like uh transitional kindergarten kindergarten our sixth graders but all kids in general and we're starting from that base of who the kids are going to have the hardest time transitioning what do they need in order to transition into school well generally know kids really need to to know what's coming and we want to reach out with with Invitational language with curiosity and interest in them um and and and give them a a picture of what it's going to look like when they join into school on the first day um so that's uh that's what we're really uh working on

377right now um but also reaching out and connecting uh with families so School sites are right now looking at um the types of events that we would normally have at the beginning of the year well we're not just because we're we're not able to meet together to not have those events we're going to look at how do we do that in a virtual way um so schools are are working on um on reaching out and finding out ways to to um make school continue to be a community that families and students are are a part of even though we're not physically in it together um one of the recommendations that uh we also have is is really thinking about um connecting parents with each other so we would like to put out to parent organizations

378um that are affiliated with our schools um that something like a parent buddy program um that helps bring new community members in would be something that that could be really helpful and and continuing to connect people to their new community at the school um and we also would like to see if there's opportunities for parents to identify how they can help in the school Community including talents they could share for community-based virtual dropin activities for both students and staff um this already was happening at some school sites in the spring and I've heard um really fun things about um you know a parent doing a hola lesson or other types of things where staff and students could come and join in so we want to spread and uh spread that type of activity um and

379uh as we go into the hybrid um time but also it's already happening when when we're um at some sites in terms of building the community right now I'm really thinking about like hey here's what the School site looks like so having those virtual tours and classroom tours again especially before um going into hybrid if when we get there um and then another uh piece of it is parent education so trying to get information out to parents that can help them with transitioning their kids in as well and just general things that are helpful for our parents in terms of parenting kids um as a parent myself I know it's not the easiest thing to do right um so right now um we're working with star Vista one of our Community Partners they're going to

380be doing um uh can we go to the next slide please some parent education on the three Rs um routines relationships and regulation um and then we're also um looking at if if we can uh in terms of say the bullet points with this have some little Communications um that we can get out to parents as as we're preparing to go back to school and into the school year and we also have gathered a ton of really amazing uh resources for parents in the spring um and I think we want to continue trying to get those out to our families um can we move to the next slide please um earlier in the board meeting tonight uh mtss was mentioned as one of the recommendations um coming from the equity task force and um inherent

381in that concept of multi-tiered systems of support is the first tier of support is um you know tier one is universal supports that are available for all students so on this slide when it says Universal service is uh for wellness support for all students you know it's this concept of at the tier one level um these are things that are going to help support the wellness of of our kids first off which I've been emphasizing a lot is that focus on community building um and we are really excited um on on our Wellness team about the fact that uh the morning meetings and the afternoon checkouts um and the social emotional learning piece are part of our our mou we know like it's inherent in the structure of our uh distance learning environment that we're

382going to have um these spaces for working on community building um and um within that we'd like to have um a system of Wellness monitoring where inherent in the morning meeting um or another type of activity sometimes people are using surveys um where we have a a a daily check with kids just a checkin how are they doing um and then to have um some responses planned uh for if we're finding that kids are checking in and and we're really concerned about where they're at um that the teacher is able to check in with them but then also that they can get referred for for support um as um you have heard I think in the board meeting tonight too we're really really so fortunate um and so thankful that we have more counseling support

383at our schools than we have ever had before um and so I know we've got um and I was in job interviews for our new counselors I can tell you have like an amazing team of people um the existing and coming on um who are um here to support our kids so um looking at systemic processes even using that morning meeting and check-in system to make sure that kids get connected with the the support they need if they need it um another thing that um we really are recommending is looking for all the opportunities we can to uh increase meaningful participation for kids allowing them to have uh their voices heard in a part of uh the classroom Community environment so that's in in the morning meeting it's also part of meaningful participation is feeling

384like hey like what I need in order to to um function this in this environment is is heard understood and recognized and part of you know what we set up as a norm within our community so even with that initial uh transitional Outreach that I mentioned to students um we're recommending that teachers are kind of previewing these are the types of things we do for safety uh in the past with my class last year for kids when we're online with each other um so when we start school we're going to talk about those types of things and can you think about what you need to feel safe and when we start school talk about that and set up um some norms for our class where we all agree to to behave in these ways in

385order to feel safe and and share together um so that's one thing um that we're uh working on as well um and then um we want to just expand the online social interaction opportunities for kids um including like um having our pride clubs and gsas have ongoing meetings there some of our clubs Dr dropped off in the spring um and so we really want to try and get every you know as much as we can um back up and running um and have online you know recess or you know drop in Lunch Bunch groups um come up with some creative ideas for kids to to get online together um you know and have um some facilitated social interaction that's that's fun um and I want to change the slide I'm like pressing the button on

386the computer it doesn't work um so um going back to that idea of tier levels of support when we talk about tier two or tier three we're talking about kind more smaller groups of kids who might you know have more needs than you would find uh for the whole or or more intense individualized interventions um so um we we have had uh already in in the spring some you know pretty robust counseling it it continued and we did it it's called tellah health and that means that we're doing counseling with kids like this um we I just want to say we did it at the individual level um because there have been some real concerns about confidentiality in terms of holding groups online that are more um you know delving into therapeutic and personal things

387especially because many of our families live you know with many many people in a household and we can't guarantee confidentiality for um students students who um you know who might be talking about something personal and in another household there there's people walking around hearing it um but we do want to have some some groups um especially we want to think about identifying kids who are really averse to participating on camera and do some some desensitization kinds of groups get those kids together and do fun things where we're trying to get them used to being on camera to help them transition to bring that behavior into the classroom um we also want to look at um non- therapeutic groups for social connection for isolated students um and uh we set up a lot of um kind

388of referral process just for a check-in with school counselors that are online in the spring so we're going to continue those um and then I I also want to say we're developing in terms of um and this is um you know looking at if we're in a situation where we do go into hybrid learning and there is exposure to covid-19 in a classroom cohort and people have to go into quarantine um we want to look at that the way that we we have crisis response teams that help when there's a death in our community we want to look at this as as um you know also something where we come in and give some support so we I have I have a a team of people who are developing that kind of response where roles

389are laid out kind of who does what um and when and we're looking at things like well even let's check in with the teacher who was exposed to have a a check-in from a school psychologist or school counselor and then that person also being with the teacher when they have that first class meeting in distance learning after exposure um and they can help facilitate Circle discussion about how people are doing and how kids are feeling um so I um wanted to mention that as well um I think the other piece of it um in terms of that crisis response is being able to reach out to families um who might be more impacted to check in about needs around basic things like um if you can't work because you're in quarantine um access to to

390food and and perhaps rental assistance Etc um so those are um kind of I'm uh hopefully not too long-winded um the things that we have been working on um and um I'm not sure if this would be a time where questions are asked thank you did we were we GNA have anyone else P I thought you said there was two people right we have one more presentation in this um segment Sarah can you stop yeah there we go um we had one more um presentation in this segment and that was special education and and then um we can open for questions you need to unmute there Alma it's not we can't hear you yet there we go Alma Ellis director of special ed thank you Joan um good morning um Madame President Coro Board of

391Trustees um superintendent roses and and Community U members thank you for allowing me to proceed with our presentation this morning um thank you Sarah for um helping with uh the slide uh presentation Sarah did you have um Alma's slides you know what I have them up uh superintendent roses I will present all right thank you Peter appreciate it thank thank you Peter um oh we are happy to report what uh this the task force have been working on um as you can see I would like to provide some context why there is a combined um special education task force and leadership team members who have been working on our fall reopening plan um this ped task force was actually um created um uh to plan for fall reopening and the discussions um in this uh

392task force focus on how specialized educa Educational Services and related Services um can be provided in the different instructional models um be it in distance learning or in a hybrid model um so we welcomed um volunteers and eventually the composition of the special education um task force um include um RSP SDC at Specialists site admin administrators Fair Educators special education administrators and a general education uh teacher um on the other hand before I came to the district last year there was an existing special education leadership team which um was reinvigorated um when um when I came into the district and the main focus of the special education leadership team is actually um towards program development the composition of the special education leadership team include stakeholders from the different uh sectors of or units of special

393education inclusive of um the special education psychologists um Ed Specialists special language Pathologists occupational therapists and we have representation from the general education and um site Administration so while the task force was um looking into the different considerations for the different instruction models the special education leadership team members in each of the cohorts were also having conversations revolving around how it will look like for special education when we reopen um in the fall for that reason we decided to combine the two um teams um Peter U next slide please so the next slide uh pretty much outline the different task task force meeting dates we started meeting just uh for the sped task force and then eventually um we decided to actually combine the two groups um next slide please Peter uh so this is

394our scenario uh as far as um special education is concerned um when we start the school year in a full-time distance learning program that RSP services will be provided virtually in an individual and small group setting as appropriate um as you see services will be virtual and opportunities for inclusion will also Ur opportunities for inclusion may be that students with IEPs will participate in general education classrooms and students with IEPs include both um RSP and SDC students it could be that um there will be co- teing virtually between general education teachers and RSP and SDC Ed Specialists related Services providers can also co- te with Gen Ed or RSP and SDC Ed Specialists um please be informed that these inclusive practices have been exercised in the spring when we actually transition to um distance learning

395under the Sip um orders um par educator uh support will also be um provided skia means special circumstances instructional assistance who provide um intensive Individual Services to um some of our students with IEP Fair educator support have also been provided virtually um in the spring in addition the behavioral support team will Pro provide syn synchronous support and and it could be that um while specialized academic instruction is being provided uh oneon-one virtually that's um Behavior expectations and uh Behavior reinforcements are being provided uh while the um Ed Specialist or par educator is supporting the student on instruction there's a behavioral uh support team member um pretty much working on Behavior as well um it's uh the behavior support team also uh provided oneon-one and um Consultation Services while we were in um distance learning in

396the spring um next slide please Peter uh I know that um this is not something that we have to discuss um this morning but um uh and I guess I will pass on this slide and we can move on to um the next slide the some of the curricula outlined in this slide have already been utilized um in the spring and those are Spire uh which is a dislexia aligned um reading program steps to advance which is a modification of our Benchmark and the level literacy um intervention that some of our RSP um Ed Specialists have been using and the unique Learning System mostly utilized by SDC um Ed specialist providing support to students with moderate um to severe disabilities um for this year we are looking at a zern math intervention as an additional

397resource for elementary we're looking at trigger for English language arts and math Nation for um Middle School goal uh we have been implementing gobook which is an instructional tool um that will help in developing I goals and the corresponding instructional um strategies um in order to meet the goals in addition um for this coming school year we will be providing a professional development trainings on the preschool Learning Foundation which will serve as a guide for preschool SDC teachers to look at for domains um as they teach our um preschoolers um developmentally appropriate skills that will lead them towards um the um kindergarten common core standards uh Peter I think that is that will be uh the last slide but I think it will be helpful for um the board to note that um we are

398um replenishing the materials that um we have been utilizing in the past and um the rest of the curricula that we have recommended are in the process of uh being reordered um the special education fall reopening updates have been communicated to the special education staff as well as the calendar of professional development sessions uh we will continue to meet to solidify the other aspects of special education related fall reopening PL thank you and good morning so at this time we've um completed the presentations that we'll do tonight under this item and so you may have questions I'll turn it back to our president thank you everyone for your presentations um let's go ahead and open it up for clarifying questions I just have a couple of questions actually maybe yeah and I have comments later

399um Dr roses in your um report you mentioned child care and you guys are starting to meet on a regular basis um I've been approached by another Outside Agency that doesn't necessarily do child care but they want to um is this something that it's are you looking sorry maybe I should done this offline but is this something where you want to is it our existing Child Care um organizations or are you looking for anybody who wants to do child care with these meetings if there's someone who would like to have further information about what we're doing so that they could match their services to our services I mean we're not developing anybody's child care but we can at least let them know what we're doing and um they can certainly um send me a quick

400email and I can include them so thank you yeah again it's it's it's different providers who have um been involved with working with our families um and we're just trying to gather together weekly to review information and share yeah AB absolutely and I should have made that a more broader statement that I mean obviously I think that there are other chall child care providers that may be small versus our larger ones like Newton who may actually want to participate and so I'll just mention that publicly um the second thing about the contact tracing are we going to have um sort of our procedures um ritten down in some way are they going to be public or they are written they're in the pandemic framework and it's very clear how you have to um follow contact

401tracing so I I um shared that with you just tonight yeah but it is um it is a protocol that we have to follow great thank you I because thank you thank you I have a couple questions [Music] um around uh the distance learning planning we had discussed um I was going to say a couple months ago but it was probably last month um uh working on uh having the district facilitate sessions for families around kind of what this was going to look like is that still a part of the plan if so when will that be happening yes I mentioned that there would be um tech support and also family support for the managing the uh Learning Management systems and curricula uh ed services is putting that together now they don't have a um

402d is on the line but um we aren't ready to share that tonight but um probably have it ready for you next week okay I think I meant more around just like helping people understand kind of what was going to be happening um we had talked about doing kind of community engagement sessions right um so Diane is not on the line and I don't remember what she's got scheduled for me but um we are going to be doing a Spanish Outreach and then um another couple of coffee chats just to um make sure that everyone is aware of what's going on plus we're GNA we're sending out regular communication now after each of these board meetings with the information that's been shared so that's we're getting into more of a pattern we were at a

403place where we were just shooting out information as we were getting it it had no pattern to it and so now we're trying to get into a regular pattern of sending information after board me meetings Okay um Wellness a quick a quick question um just curious as to um the some of the sessions that you talked about so I know that everything that was presented were um I don't know this titled recommendations my assumption means that that's being inter that they are being integrated into the fall reopening kind of plans and I was just curious if um the great ideas for parent sessions Etc um are those something that are kind of already on the schedule in terms of or will be integrated into the schedule uh we're um I met with starvista this week

404and we reviewed a um you know a draft of a presentation so it's it's in the planning stages I do not have dates set yet and it will be in English and in Spanish so I think we might do two different ones um and and the the hope is to also record um and make that available um and you know I'm going to meet with um the with Diane uh will be uh the communications um uh director um I believe is her title but and we're going to talk kind of what's the best way to get this out or even if we do um record it would it make sense to do kind of more segments of it as opposed to some big long thing like how do we make this accessible uh more accessible

405to people so okay thank you um I have a couple questions around the special education fall plans um my understanding was that there was going to be multiple um different working groups around special education um it seems like there was a presentation around one of those I I thought that there would there was also a specific team working around inclusion um potentially a team working around curriculum and instruction is that the case the different cohorts actually um included um assessments and so um the cohort that um our psychologist paent language Pathologists and occupational therapists belong to are now you know um engaged in conversations to solidify um work on assessments um the the inclusive practices is pretty much embedded there wasn't a separate inclusion group that was just discussing solely um inclusion so it was

406embedded um as part of um the discussion on how distance learning um will be provided uh under specialized academic instruction and related services but Alma you do have um an inclusion team that's been working all last year and they did not continue working over the summer so much they took a break but they're back at it again so um I'm assuming that they will be bringing up ideas for distance learning the inclusion cohort um yes that was actually um you know a separate cohort that did not actually um participate in the it wasn't set up for fall reopening but you had one that's continuing to work and you have a number of members on that correct yes um and yeah and um actually the the cohorts uh the the inclusion cohort um is um working

407towards we just finish our vision and Mission and from there we need to build on you know um a plan okay um I have a sorry can I just chime in real quick just to do a time check like are we still all okay with continuing just because it's 1: am and a bunch of parents have dropped off I mean we're in the this is agenda item right now I know I know so does that mean you guys want to continue yeah I mean sh needs to be able to finish her comments definitely and we're going to definitely finish I think we we committed to finishing this agenda item and then I believe we have one more and so we should just try to get through that okay sorry for the interruption Sharon thank you

408um I had a question around um the services piece of things um so what what are the parameters around services are are the service expectations going to be the same um in kind of the virtual model model as they would be on site um how how does that how does that work first you Watkins um you're referring to um special ed yes okay yes so um yeah it's um pretty much similar it's just that um if we are allowed to go back to um in-person instruction that's um there will be uh specialized academic instruction occurring um in the special um day classrooms and that um par educator support will also be provided um in person uh and uh I think that's a huge difference on the other hand for students um receiving RSP Support Services

409in the two days that they will be in school then um SII will also be provided um in person as well as par educator support but um uh related services will continue to be provided virtually in the full distance learning which is what we'll be going into in the fall what will Services look like are students going to be getting all of the services that they would be getting if they were in school in the same number of minutes Etc close to we will work towards um providing them the frequency and duration outline in each of their um IEPs but I I am not you know guaranteeing that um the services out the exact frequency and duration outline in each of the students IEPs will be provided as s transation back to distance learning because

410we have to adhere to um the 4our um instr instructional um time that uh we have to provide our students okay can you talk a little bit about assessment and what that looks like in this um in in in this model in distance learning um the general guidance that we are providing our related Services providers and psychologist is to complete as much assessments as possible virtually when we are allowed to do in person then um we will have a transition plan to allow for inperson assessments as um and the plan is that students would still be kept on assessments would still follow IEP cycles for individual students yes okay um and the role of par Educators in distance learning can you talk can I just can I just jump in on on that I I

411watched a um webinar regarding some of those pieces of assessment and there was um it was with um some legal teams that were talking about how you might have to uh work on on this because there are things that you can do remotely um virtually for testing uh and then there are things that are more difficult so um if you are doing um a child find for example and you're um have small children normally you do a face Toof face in a classroom observation some of those kinds of things don't happen so I just wanted to be clear that um assessment uh is tricky and there are pieces that can be done virtually and things that we normally would do that can't be done so um I just wanted to add that thank you um

412can you talk a little bit more about the role of par Educators the par educators will continue to um provide um instruction they actually under the supervision of the RSP um Ed specialist um they are or they have been scheduling um in the spring um to provide um virtual instruction and it was provided um on a one-on-one setting or in a small group setting and that will be the same for um this fall okay thank you those are my questions for now any other clarifying questions I'll ask some questions um regarding the virtual meetings um and the Staff Schedule or the schedule it said that teachers will be in instruction time from 8: to 3:15 but live instruction is only going to be four hours so I was wondering those don't add up and so

413I you're talking about theou yeah I gu okay Sue can you respond to that question so you have to remember that during the regular school day it's to um generally um third grade and under their well not kinderg but let's say for example first through third grade they're 280 minutes but the day is spread out um because there's lunch there's recess um you know in middle school there are passing periods and such and so um the four hours of construct U instruction is 40 minutes less than what is in a regular school day but the instructional minutes for the state has changed um during this um Co crisis and during the full-time distance learning so students are receiving almost the same amount of instruction um and it is being spread out throughout the day from

4148: to 3:15 as it is um during the regular school day thank you very much for that um does that mean students are required to sit in front of the screen for those hours or Are there specific times they need to be in front of their computer um the teacher will schedule specific times and depending on the age level and grade level of the student um many students are not able to sit four hours in front of a screen um that's not the best way to learn and that's not the best way to teach and so for example there may be a morning meeting um that starts out the day perhaps it's 30 minutes there's some community building activity there is a preview of what's to be done that day an agenda is shared um

415there's also going to be an afternoon meeting some sort of closing with reflection um that could be you know 30 to 45 minutes and then during the day there might be times where the teacher schedules say a language arts lesson and that may be for 45 minutes there's a math lesson that's scheduled and some of that could be whole group instruction but then there could also be um lesson schedule with students in small groups um and so for you know the four hours that the teacher is teaching in there are different types of inter um instructional activities and periods of interaction okay thank you so if a parent were to try to work out you know their work schedule and possibly Child Care um would they would they assume that it's their schedule is going

416to be based on the typical school day so typical hours from 800 to 3:15 so they would need care after 3:15 or are we looking at just um like an 8 to noon time I guess I'm just I'm thinking about how parents can plan ahead um there's going to be a weekly schedule that's shared um by teachers um so every family and every student um in theou it states that there will be um a weekly sort of agenda a weekly schedule um and you know generally teachers are working 88 to 3:15 we know that teachers work well beyond that and there are many teachers that are really trying to be flexible and accommodate families and so some of them are providing lessons later in the day some of them are providing video lessons because we

417know that some parents aren't able to um assist their students until you know much later in the afternoon or evening and so teachers are doing their best to provide flexibility um and but in general in theou the work day is from 8: to 3:15 but like I said teachers are working many many hours longer planning and doing other things to support students um yes and thank you teachers for doing that um so okay so then parents sorry again I'm just they're not going to know what the their upcoming weekly schedule hours are going to be until but if we think about what's happening is that the kids are at home they're at home right now and so when I'm working with the child care um group basically they're looking at an eight hour program um

418like from 8 to 8 to 4 or something on that order because it has to cover the time I mean that the child won't be at school child will be home all day and then and they the provider would make space so that the child could open up their computer at the time that that their teacher gets on so right now if a parent has to go to work um the child would need care for the day until we can go to the hybrid schedule or our two tway schedule and then they would be at school for 4 hours or so um two days a week okay sorry I'm just I'm apologizing in advance just because of the time and I get a little cranky um so sorry um so just to one more time

419parents are not going to know what the schedule is that their child needs to be be on the computer not right this minute they won't know right this minute they don't even because every schedule yeah every every teacher may have a little bit of a slightly different schedule depending on how many small groups they're going to have how much a full-time you know all a synchronous instruction there will be parents will have a schedule a weekly schedule but they are not going to know of a set schedule right now in order to plan Child Care yes you are correct in that thank you my next question is for the weekly like agenda that they'll receive I'm assuming they'll receive this before that week so they they can brush up on you know their knowledge of

420what to um how to help support their child um that's going be determined by the teacher the teacher will determine when the agenda goes out some teachers may do it on a Friday some teachers may do it on a Monday um but that's something that is determined by the teacher and communicated with families okay um thank you and then regarding supplies I know we touched on that um in ter of like the technology aspect and devices but I'm wondering um what about just typical school supplies such as you know color utens I did and I did mention and maybe I I just went breezing by it but I I mentioned that we do have um uh we have school are making purchases of commonly used materials that students may need at their home in order

421to be able to pass them out along with textbooks in some kind of a pickup protocol like what we had to do as we exited school back in in the spring so those um directions for the pickup will come from the school sites fabulous I love it um And in regards to the hard copies like a textbook are they also going to get hard copies for just the lesson plans for those children that need to hold something as opposed to and it's a textbook and kit pickup yeah so um each school and you know in grade level teams and teachers are planning if there are students that need copies of materials and such they are making arrangements to provide hard copies and materials as needed um teachers will have access to School sites um in

422order to prepare materials and they will um arrange for families to be able to pick them up awesome thank you and just because I know there's parents that are probably willing to help print out materials or and whatnot um and then in regards to the wellness um portion um I'm really glad we're focusing on that I would like to see or know when the parents um will be included in the community building um and just what their input would be in terms of the support that they think they're you know their child needs um I don't know if that's something to be addressed now or if I should just keep going so we had um shared some information um regarding that that um School sites do um a lot with their parent and PTA groups

423for outreach to their families for setting up you know events and that kind of thing so um there will be um involvement at the school sites I don't know if uh we can respond beyond that at this point well that'll do thank you and then I believe you touched on this but just wondering if there could be a little bit more detail in terms of um promoting social connection for students um I'm assuming it's going to be extended just maybe to include all students just because we know the importance of social emotional um development and regarding those kind of extra programs like a virtual like lunchtime hangout time and whatnot um or theme themed lunch theme discussions or clubs or whatnot is that something that would be determined by such site parent groups ptas and

424whatnot can I answer that um you know in terms of that that recommendation um I believe that was at um the tier one level Universal so something that's um that all students can access um you know in terms of actual clubs and and what happens it's going to really depend uh specifically on the individuals who are um you know involved in that school cycle um I can say that um you know we'll be working with um our school counselors around having kind of dro in activities at lunch uh uh for kids in terms of social activities or at at certain times um you know doing it in a way where they're able to balance that with all the you know other things that they'll be working on in terms of of supporting social emotional learning

425and and um other uh more tier 2 level counseling um but certainly working towards Universal um um you know uh social activities uh that will be available in order to to do it though you know also you know we're hoping that there might be some be be able to access some other people to help with that and um you know it might be school sites looking at um are there um people who because we're in distance learning don't have as much um you the regular things that they would be doing that they they're not as busy as normal can we have those people um help out or are there um if if we know like I I'm not sure yet about the protocols around fingerprinting or things like that when you get into distance learning

426but isn't an opportunity for parent volunteers to help with that kind of thing what do we need to put into place for that so there's more exp exploration that we need to to have to figure out that piece in terms of volunteers um but in terms of school staff um we want to look at at who's there and utilize what we can um and hopefully we'll also have some um other staff that might be able to help with um you know sponsoring groups the way that um they they do when we are physically on campus so things like gsas and other kinds of students does that answer your question yeah I I really appreciate that wiie thank you very much thank you um and I think I think that might be all I do have

427sped questions but I think I'd reserve them for the update or do you want me to ask them now so this um presentation tonight right now is about the fall reopening so if you had some questions for the fall reopening I do but I'm going to have to find those at the moment sorry I accidentally closed a window um no so I'll be done right now thank you very much um for answering my questions any other questions no not okay go ahead I was just um waiting to uh be able to add a little bit um more information that uh might be helpful uh regarding um sort of the level of services and if you remember in the springtime um a prior written notice was drafted and sent to families about the services um that

428would be substantially similar or look different for families going into distance learning when we went into shelter and place and another prior written notice will need to be drafted and sent to families about um what services will be substantially similar and what might be different as Dr rosis um shared earlier about um assessments um that there are some assessments that can be done um remotely or online with the student and we are in the process of purchasing um the online materials so that school psychologist and uh the speech language folks can do those types of Assessments online and um so the assessment process will be um more intact this fall than it was in the springtime when we moved so quickly so um wanted to reiterate after um Alma completed you know the information about

429Services about the prior written notice that will'll share with families um what services uh we will providing what will be substantially similar and what might uh continue to look a little bit different as we uh move into distance learning again thank you Sarah thank you any other questions okay let's go ahead and move to public comments okay for those that are still with us uh all 90 of you uh if anybody would like to address the board on this particular item please use the raise your hand function on Zoom okay president Coro we currently have two people with their hands up would you like to give them two and a half or three minutes for time oh we have a lot more we currently have seven let's do two and a half two and a

430half minutes okay all right uh first up is Julie MacArthur and then afterwards will be James good morning everybody thank you for hanging in there um I wanted I've waited a long time I wanted to speak tonight in support of my colleagues in special education um specifically my colleagues who are resource Specialists um over the course of the summer on the jened side teachers were given a lot of opportunities to um and a lot of work was done to provide new curriculum for us uh we've had work groups going where we've been learning the curriculum and curating lessons um but my RSP colleagues have not had that same opportunity um as of Monday uh the RSP teachers still don't know what curriculum they will be using for their RSP students um as of Monday they

431still don't know what online assessment programs they'll use or when they will be trained school starts in two weeks essentially and my colleagues don't have the resources they need to make sure that their students are being served we had six meetings we saw in the presentation there were six meetings and for them not to have any information about what what curriculum they're going to be using or the fact that they're we're still looking into zern and the other math program is frankly unacceptable my colleagues deserve better they deserve to be treated with respect they deserve to have the resources that Jen Ed was given and I would think that given the nature of our most recent special ed audit that the sense of urgency to do better by our special ed students would be greater

432and I am profoundly uncomfortable with the delays that have happened for my RSP colleagues um they should not have to stomp their feets so hard to get the attention they deserve they should not have to stomp their feet so hard to get the resources that they need so I would urge this board to demand that the special ed Department moving forward do better by our students and do better by our RSP teachers thank you thank you Julie next we have James and then after James will be Katie James good morning um my name is James I'm a uh director studies teacher here in uh the Foster City school district and the reason I call it director studies is because um when the kids go to High e i do eighth graders and when the kids

433go to high school and high school it's called directed studies it's not called RSP so I want I'm working on that transition process my frustration has to go what Julie said also I've been reaching out for weeks asking for the curriculum we're going to be using I'm reaching out for weeks am I going to get the material of the books the teacher edition am I going to get the uh syllabuses from each teacher when I say syllabus from each teacher I'm talking about I'm going to be getting 28 to 30 syllabuses was I have to do each student each teacher and so M it's multiple times during the day so I need to I like to get that in place also I like to know is how where is the director studies class to be

434placed during the school day it's going to be like during a day like in the middle of the day it's gonna be at the end of the day um during the springtime when we went into this distance learning I was as I was meeting with kids on the weekends and at nighttime to give them the support they needed now here's one big thing I learned this the biggest thing I learned in distance learning i' be sending emails home no response back I call home leave messages no response back I text home boom response back I started texting to the parents your child not going to class texting your child needs to get your student needs to get this work turned in I get responses the next day so this when I start school this year

435I'm gonna be texting these parents left and right they're gonna be you're gonna see text com from me all day long so D I'm just letting you know when you start talking about sending emails to parents letting them know what the changes are going to be what the uh how it's gonna be working I'm suggesting some way if you can send text messages let these parents know please look at your website please beware of emails coming beware was um when you do when I found out my daughter told me this dad text them you watch you they'll respond I did and it happened so that's my suggestion to get these parents involved and it could be no matter what level because the kids will not tell the parents what's going on I'm just telling you

436the truth they will not tell the parents what's going on on and my students need that extra support need that extra push need extra follow through and they know I will not stop until I get it and and regarding it being like a regular day trust me it's not a regular day it's not a regular day when I get when I know there's work to be done and a student doesn't have it turned in on in a regular setting I'd be running over to that teacher's classroom and getting that work I go get and bring it back and hand it to that student right there you're not leaving this classroom till it's completed James I'm sorry to interrupt if you could do me a favor please and just kind of wrap up the 200 two

437and a half minutes is up if you could just finish your thought okay last call Peter last call um support the students remember and I'm 30 this my 30 I am very frustrated and we're talking at 1:30 in the morning about special ed here we are again here's how we treat special ed let's just put them at 1:30 in the morning and talk about the services they're going to get the supports they're going to get and it's not and trust me special ed is not in theou okay have a good morning thank you thank you cams next we have Katie then after Katie will'll be Sandy Katie hi thank you very much um I don't want to take up too much time but I and I really um I kind of have a discombobulated brain

438at this point um but I do I have I have many concerns I have two um School a I have three children all of them are special ed two of them are in grade school in two different schools one is in RSP and I'm maxing out his hours um and with and in OT he's an undiagnosed ADHD child and I also have a mildly ID child who is in Middle School in an stdc uh when we went into distance learning I had full anticipation that no no nobody would be prepared for what was to come however I have some homeschooling experience because I was dissatisfied with um my daughter older daughter daughter's um schooling and lack of um teamwork with her special ed team uh so I did pull her out um and I just

439re replaced her last year um this last year luckily for us we had two teachers who were extremely extremely one was extreme prepared had the packet out printed out for every child sent home the day before we were called to shelter in place um the her other teacher uh came in in the middle of the year and was kind of flailing a little bit her General Edge teacher for her elective was flailing all over the place and it took me until the last day of school to get all of her work turned in for her because she could not upload things to Google classroom in a proper manner um given the way that everything is set up um I'm freaking out quite frankly um I'm scared from my kids that they will not receive the

440support that they need but all of my children's teachers have gone to different schools and we are getting brand new teachers this year for all of everything um they have no stability which is something that these kind of children need and to hear that it is still uncertain what curriculum RSP teachers will be using is just extreme and that just solidifies my uncertainty and my you know um being afraid of this whole thing now that standards are being pushed up and you know supposed um proper education will be um given um you know my apologies for interrupting but time is expired if you could finish your thought please thank you um I just you know I have to agree with James that this was this is I've been incredibly frustrated that the most important things

441on the agenda get pushed back to where parents aren't able to stay in there and when we need to know and when we need to have a voice um and I really stand with our teachers and I very much appreciate our teachers and I am a high advocate for my child so um please I beg the board to push for some more help or productivity in the special education area thank you thank you Katie okay next we have Sandy then after Sandy will be Marcela Sandy hi um I almost lowered my hand because I think sped stuff and the RSP curriculum is so much more important than what I have to say but I'll just quickly um make my two points one I know that you said it would be not the ideal situation but

442it's already going to be really traumatic for the youngest kids and so I really hope that it is a last resort that there would be a teacher change that would happen on them um I think that would be really hard for them to handle and then the other thing that I wanted to say with the hybrid model you were talking about like school is in the morning like 800 to 12 or 800 to 12:30 and then the afternoon is for Equity groups and I was hoping as a parent who has to work from home while the kids are here learning that it would be a similar situation where we would have like a 4-Hour window where they would have to be available to be logging onto the computer so that we could plan our days

443and I'm disappointed to hear that now essentially they have to be available to be logging on the computer between 8 and 3:15 based on a week weekly schedule that we get from the teacher it's going to be nearly impossible to plan how that I can work while they're in school and I'm the lucky one who can work from home um there's a lot of people that have it a lot harder than I do but that is that is quite stressful thank you thank you Sandy okay next we have Marcel then after Marcel will be Danielle Marcel hi I just wanted to make um two points I was very appreciative of the uh Wellness Focus thank you for looking at community building and transitions I did however in the recommend I did have some recommendations in

444the parent education um portion there are some aspects that appear to be um that maybe could benefit from some cultural awareness of cultural differences the regulation tab is set up for a very specific uh culture and home norms and the routines tab also kind of um maybe can be shared out in a way that where families feel that it's attainable I saw a lot of recommendations that included parent involvement and PTA and I'm hoping that um anything that you're asking of parents goes out as soon as possible so we can help set those up and so I'll end in the same place where I started 7even hours ago please tell us what to do and please tell us how to help and then following up on James's comment reach out to us outside of board

445meetings and emails thank you thank you Marcel next we have is Danielle hello I am still here so um I agree with every public comment that's made been made so far so I won't repeat um most of them but the one thing that I really wanted to talk about was that I really appreciate that trusty Hitchcock tried to speak up on behalf of the parent needs um regarding kind of the scheduling but I didn't hear answers that really teased my anxiety for the return to school it sounds like there's a big assumption that most children are going to be either in child care or have someone readily available to assist with their distance learning but as I think two speakers before me mentioned um like many other parents I am working from home and attempting

446to plan my work schedule and all of my work meetings around my students schedule and not having that set schedule is going to make that nearly impossible so not only are parents being asked to largely support our really young students in distance learning but we're being forced to have our work schedules in limbo which for some of us you know could put our jobs at risk and as the other speaker said I'm lucky I get to work from home I am one of the lucky ones but um this does put a lot of stress on families thank you thank you Daniel president Coro there are no other hands at this time thank you um let's open it up for discussion um I just like to push for like a little bit more proactiveness in um

447in terms of the special education curriculum and um getting them the support that they need I think we all agree that those students are um some of our students that have the biggest need and so I'm hearing the frustration from a couple of teachers that spoke out um is disappointing and I think one of the topics in the special ed audit was related to communication and so you know obviously I don't know um everything that's going on but I think making sure we're communicating with those that are teaching our children is um is really important so um I would like to just kind of like put an exclamation point on that and then in terms of um the schedule for um for students um I would I guess I would just push for a little

448bit more consistency um I know that somebody mentioned that some teachers May teach later and um you know I think this is a difficult time for everyone and so taking into consideration that um people have multiple children or work obligations um if we could even if you said it's 8 to 3:15 every day that we would need our kids to be available um I think even that would be helpful but as much clarification as we can get around the scheduling piece I think would be important thanks I I'll agree with truste Proctor I think you know obviously with bed we need to do a better job um at uh making sure that our teachers and everyone else is um is listen to and um and addressed um we just need to do a better job

449so I I think we can do that I hope we can do that um couple of just questions just Wellness um um wnie thank you for the presentation I actually think um when you think about everything that's been going on you know and I I just think from like my own kids and some ways I think you know mental the mental health of our students is going to be very different when they come back whe they're still in distance learning or hybrid um and I think you know the fact the other fact that we are hiring a counselor for every single school it really I think will help hopefully um so I'm glad that you sort of laid those things out um in terms of U mental health um the aspects there uh one question

450just you know beyond the the sped and the one um public comment about the um sort of the work schedule and the work um window um I never asked this before but um we have some schools that for kindergarteners are half days and then just I think at one or two that are full days when we're looking at the mlu um and you consider the four hours uh for the kindergarteners who are going to be going to that the the half days the generally the 8 to 12 oock I would assume that that's just like the full block that that's there four hours but um I just was going to clarify that or want some clarification so can you provide clation on theou for the kindergarten yeah um that wasn't specific in theou um and

451so I think that is going to be discussed at sites um with kindergarten teachers thank you um I yeah I think that's it thank you can I ask another question um regarding the special ed curriculum and the new platforms that um are going to be introduced I assume this is new um uh you know online platforms that the students will be using as well and so um I just want to be mindful that they might need even um more supports to get familiarized themselves um with them I guess it's not a question I'll I'll be go ahead okay I was just going to say um I think um you know a lot of points made in our public comments have a lot of validity to them um I'm I'm pretty concerned I feel like we

452have a lot of a lot of work to do still um you know these are students that have more needs and so they need more support and um we we just we need to do better I'll I'll jump in um a couple of things um start off with Wellness um just thank you Winnie for for um the presentation and for um you know just the focus and emphasis really important always um you know to be focusing on the social emotional needs of our kids and and particularly now when there's so much going on and so much uncertainty um and um you know there I I felt like it was a comprehensive uh overview and it was clear that there's been a lot of planning and intentionality and variety of stakeholders involved so um also really

453grateful that we have as you mentioned the additional counselors obviously we didn't anticipate this um you know but it's it's um it's great that we have that additional support um you know I'll Echo what um some of my fellow trustees shared around kind of the special education piece of things um you know I'm thinking about when we started receiving updates around the general education um curriculum and just how many presentations we've received around what that looks like and the depth of that um this idea that we're planning with the students with the most needs in mind um and and that didn't happen with special education and I'm not sure why and if there are ways that we can better support the work as a board um please let us know um because that that has

454to be a driving force in the work that we do and um those are the students you know one group of students in our district um who we should be planning with first and so when I think about kind of the plan that's been rolled out for general education and curriculum that's been decided and we're only now getting to that point with special education and you know that was settled so planning could happen and Google sites were set up and you know folks have been working on development and P and training was planned and you know all of these things were already in place and um you know to hear that that's not in place for our special education staff means it's not in place for our students means you know um they're they're all

455already um you know had um additional needs and needed more support and instead of that I feel like we're giving them less um I'll say too that I you know um special education's complex we all know that that's not a surprise right it's not there are no in the same way we've talked about a lot of complex things tonight there's there's there aren't Simple Solutions and so um you know things like here ing that inclusion team hasn't and I understand that nobody can be made to come back and I don't even know if that was an option on the table that folks said they didn't want to or if it just wasn't an option on the table um but to hear that that team wasn't meeting or that there wasn't a focus on that knowing

456that that's something that specifically called on the audit knowing that's something that we said we wanted to prioritize and knowing that because we don't really have a plan for that I'm not confident that you know that's going to be a robust program moving forward for our kids in the fall which again um you know these these kinds of things while we heard from teachers we heard from you know one parent um probably because it's almost 2 am um you know at the end of the day this is impacting our kids and um you know I'll just I'll just reiterate that if there are ways that we can better support this work um then we need we need to know that um but but where where we are now we really I feel need to step

457on the gas and um you know there are School sites that are starting next week with their PD and training and if our special education teachers don't know the curriculum that they're using um how can they be involved in those conversations in meaningful ways and that's just really not fair so um we can't turn back the hands of time and redo summer though I wish we could um but what we can do is make a concerted effort to prioritize these things um and ensure that we are building out a robust program for special education as our ed services team has has built out for our general education teachers um and and that we have teachers feeling as well supported as we've heard our general education teacher saying that they're feeling we do have another special

458education presentation um if you wanted to roll into that I uh I'll just um say that I I honestly think that we should agendize it for the next meeting or another meeting um it's almost 2: in the morning this is really important we want people to be engaged and I just don't think that it's the right time to do that right now I don't know how everyone else is feeling though I have mixed feelings because I don't want to put it off but I also know it's to and I feel like nobody has is going to be able to give it the attention that it needs um I feel like I don't know what what our meeting next week looks like already I don't know how packed it is um if it is really packed

459I would recommend that we um add another board meeting to address some of these topics that we can have have pushed a couple of times um or because I I don't know how else we're going to get through it and we're going to continue having these discussions at 1:30 in the morning and that's not you know not fair to our special education teachers and families to be talking about special education at 2 o'clock in the morning expecting them to wait for that um so you know yeah your next meeting is not as packed as this one was this one had some very heavy items okay so if we add this and pip I mean I think we need to move those things up further in the agenda so that they don't continue to get pushed

460if they fit otherwise I would say we should add another meeting okay well let's take a look at that when we can actually think again tomorrow morning yeah so we have Pip we have summer school if we do sped we have Bond um you know the question are we doing sro's again I I don't know um doing what SRO we will have the SRO contract and then you will have your uh resolution and we have the cleaning ke now and you do have your guest coming that's correct it's so I am going to propose that we do postpone that agenda item uh oh my screen froze I can't I can't see anyone but we can hear you oh okay so um [Music] I motion to postpone um item seven hold on I'm sorry I'm sorry

461item 8.3 do I have a second one second roll call vote trusty chin hello yeah yes trusty Hitchcock yeah trusty Pro yes can't hear you but I know you're saying trusty Watkins yes and a yes for me so we will be um postponing that agenda item and our next agenda item is for member statements and requests for future agenda items which I think we just discussed a little bit right now but is there anything else that folks want to add add to this piece no I'll just make the statement that I I think that you know we we probably need to look at the agendas and think like you know I think we kind of could have expected that we were going to go late this this late and we probably I mean really should

462have continued this item earlier I mean I feel bad it's 2 am I'm sorry I just it's you know maybe not thinking right but it's just you know I feel bad for all the people who are sticking around with us till this point anyone else no okay future meeting dates are listed for us um move on to adjournment do I have a motion to adjourn I make a motion to journ second second roll call vote trust chin yes trusty Hitchcock yes trusty proor yes trusty Watkins yes and a yes from me the motion carries we Jed at 158 thank you for hanging in there with us folks thank you have a good night night