001A roll call. >> Trusty A. Costa. >> Trusty Kyle >> here. >> Vice President Larson >> here. >> Trusty Roth. Trusty Sanchez. Trusty Van Allen. President Williams >> here. >> Student Trusty Guan Martinez here. >> Student Trusty Omore. >> Quorum today. Corum. >> Thank you. All right, we're going to go on to item two, our land acknowledgement. The land on which we gather is an unseated territory of the Aaswas UB tribe, the Ma Mutsun tribal band comprised of the descendants of indigenous people taken to the mission Santa Cruz and Sanwa Batista during the Spanish colonization of the central coast. is today working hard to restore traditional stewardship practices on these lands and heal from historical trauma. At this point, we're going to have um our pledge of allegiance. So, if you can please stand and
002Dr. will lead us. Ready? Begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you everyone. Um, item four is approval of our agenda. Are there any changes or can we have a motion? have a first and second. Um, all those in favor of the agenda, I oppose staying. Okay, passes. At this time, we are going to open up to public comment. This is the opportunity for the public to address the board regarding items on the agenda. The board myself will not on the agenda. Thank you very much for that correction. We'll need to make that. Um board president um recognize any member of the audience who was not previously placed
003on the agenda and who wishes to speak. Um each person will have three minutes. Is there anybody that has requested to speak? No request for public comment. President Williams. >> Thank you very much. And item six, we are moving on to our student trustee report. >> Um, first I wanted to start by saying uh sorry for not being last meeting. I had a lot of things going on so I couldn't make it. Um, but this two months I've been working with Empower Watson. We're doing an event like a TED like we're going to go up on the stage and talk about a specific topic that we chose. My topic is going to be the importance of having student voice in um in everywhere. And there's a lot of other like substance abuse, u mental health,
004and there's a lot of other people doing like other topics. I haven't really asked them what their topics are. And I've been doing meetings with our principal at my at Watmo High because a lot of kids don't like to like the idea that they're building a fence around the school. So, a lot of students like asked me if we can make this um meeting with the principal and we did and he was just explaining to us it's for safety. Like kids were fearing that um it was going to become a like closed campus school. They wouldn't be able to go out for lunch and eat food. I like you know they're not doing that, right? Cuz it's I don't think a lot of kids were like that. So, no, he was telling us that they're
005not going to do that. And I've also had meetings with the student advocacy group. We've done we did a flower wall. So we went around different um areas of campus and we put like buckets of flowers and people could just get a flower or make a bouquet of flowers and give it to someone else or keep it for themselves if it was to promote mental health and um peace in our school. And I've also like been thinking a lot of where I want to go to for university since I have like a week and a half to decide. So I have to decide now. And I'm almost there, but I haven't gotten there yet. So but I'm almost there. Maybe next meeting I Well, I have to have a decision by next meeting. Next meeting
006I'll tell you guys where I'm going. Thank you for your report and we're really excited for you. We we're confident that you're going to make the best choice for yourself and um congratulations. That's awesome. Um we are going to go to um see our item seven, the consent agenda. We have any questions, comments? Um Okay. All those in favor. So we have no deferred items. And uh are there any additional correspondence that came post um distribution of our board packet? >> No additional correspondences. President Williams. >> Great. All right. Now the fun part, our reports, discussions, and presentations. We're going to go to item 101, which is our 202425 fiscal year annual audit report. President Williams, if would you mind uh skipping this item and until our our uh our presenters are ready to uh
007join the meeting. >> Sure. No problem. Problem. Okay. So, then we're going to move forward to item 102, which is um recognizing the Santa Cruz County Office of Education 2026 STEM Expo is winter. So, I'd like to uh just start us off uh first welcoming Dr. Marshall Russell to uh who's joined us and will be uh talking to us and introducing some some very special guests who are going to be talking about uh certain aspects of the Steam Expo. I'm really excited about uh and many I think several of you were also present of how the SEM expo has really evolved into a community event that allows students to be celebrated and uplifted and also to tap into their curiosity and their joy of learning um with uh lots of um opportunities for them. There's
008lots of organizations that are tableabling. There's um uh artistic expression uh of course a science fair and a variety of other components. And um I think this was uh one of the best, if not the best, uh expo that we've we've had. And that really comes down to the amazing work that Marsha and Nicole Silva, our uh science coordinator, uh did in collaboration with a lot of different folks um who really made this a huge success. And so we're really excited to share this report with you and and for you to learn about if you weren't there uh some of the great uh highlights of of that day. Marsha but congratulations on all of the increase. I mean, representation is everything and you know and we appreciate all the work that gets put into making
009sure that um outreach is done with our students and and accessibility is is made for them. But so thank you. It sounds like it was an amazing unfortunately I couldn't I couldn't make it this time but um thank you for the review. Is there any other comments from Joseph that? Thank you. How How does a robot know if the fire is real or not? Were you able to do field testing or So you designed the software for that. Impressive. >> And then also a question about the fireproofing material you developed. It sounds like you did some creative materials engineering there or something. Could you describe that? >> Yes. followup question. >> Um, do you plan on making a robot that is able to like go like out there and be able to extinguish fires? I
010have to ask, do you happen to live in Bonnie Dune? >> Thank you so much. Thank you. So identifying the blank face faces is probably accurate, but you did an amazing presentation of putting it in layman's terms for us to understand. It was an excellent presentation from from you know the baseline to what you expect to do going forward. So congratulations on all of it and thank you for doing that. Any other feedback, comments, questions? >> Where do you plan on taking your like re um discoveries? determine this particular project. Is there is it a personal or was just did research and said this sounds good. Let's do this. I just really appreciate the subject you chose because it's a really frustrating medical problem. So for your your presentation and your back. All right. Yeah.
011That's Okay, thank you very much. That was um those are the best part of our board meetings honestly. studio presentations. We look forward to those. We can have one of those every month. It makes the rest of it digestible. Um all right, we're going to move on um to item 103, overview of our LCAP process and um board role. And this is going to be um presented, I believe, by Dr. Sabah, right? >> Yes. Thank you. And um I am going to uh be sharing some information just kind of an overview of the um of the role of the of the county board of education when it comes to um the LCAP process. And um I'll have uh uh Marcia and Becky uh help if if I if I say something incorrect, they can they
012can uh help uh help me out here. Um, so we wanted to talk a little bit about uh, you know, a a little bit about the separation, the difference between the role that you play when it comes to local control accountability plan for the county office of education versus the the the LCAP for the districts. And um and so I think it's important to to know that this is there's a unique process that um that the county office of education has with with um with our county board is very similar to the district one, but there are some distinctions that we want to we want to u share. And so um as you know that the local control and accountability plan was was part of the local control funding formula uh that uh uh has
013been around now for um it's 2007 I think 200 like so almost 20 years um and um and describes how the COE's um will use their funds and improve outcomes for students um uh uh when it comes to the students that we serve. So for the county office of education um we'll be sharing that you know we as you've seen we have the county office of education um LCAP for our alternative education program and then one for our career advancement charter and so this is for all the students that are included in our in our county operated programs and our court schools alternative education um and other programs as well as for um this the other one which is the one that is approved um because of the charter that you've authorized The distinction here
014you'll see on on on this chart if you're able to see it. Um so the the county office of education LCAP is is completed by our own staff. So let's think about our alternative education staff for that one. Um it's approved by you and um it covers all the the students who are served in our program. It's reviewed by the CD, but you are really the ultimate approval authority for the the LCAP. um and um and the it's under when it goes to this the California Department of Education and it's under the the authority of the state board of education um and so they sometimes give us feedback and and um but your role in terms of approval is is really very important. Now with the district LCAP um so that's done by completed by
015the school district staff um and it is approved by um first by the district board of education and then it is sent to us for review for the county office of education our ed services team and it is under the authority of the of the county superintendent which is different than your role as a county board. So uh as I share there is really two LCAPS that you review because we have two LEAs. One is the career advancement charter and the other is um our alternative education program. Um your uh the legal authority comes from the education code which is cited there 52064.5 and 52071 which basically states that the county board of education holds final approval authority over the COE's own LCAP and the annual update. And so you adopt the LCAP. Um and
016that happens in you know the the that process happens in June. Um then um we also are required to verify to ensure compliance um that we're meeting all the statutory requirements, goals and actions, expenditures and so on. And your role is also to represent the public um as as the voice of the public uh when it comes to ensuring that our county programs are are are meeting the the needs of our students and especially our unduplicated students because you know we get additional funding for students in the three categories of foster youth English learners and free students who qualify for career. And so the timeline as you're you're very familiar with um our our team works like right now they're working on on preparing the draft for and getting input from our our community partners
017and our our families and students. Um also during this time you get uh as we had pre recently I think at was it two board meetings ago I think we got the we had a midyear report which is from the current that's you know what's happening the LCAP that's for this year. Um the we continue to have uh educational partner engagement and review and incorporating the recommendations from our community into uh the plan for next year. And then in June is when we we bring the LCAP to you. Um there's two uh meetings that one uh where we have a a public hearing and that is the official way that we give an opportunity for the community to give input input and then um we bring it back to you with any changes and and
018get a uh your support for approval and then we submit it to the California Department of Education. And so, um, some of the things that you, uh, look for, uh, in your role are are looking for the goals for it. helping us. Uh so you look at the process and that's an important part of that. Um you also look at annual metrics and progress. Are we are we serving the students and are they making progress? And also uh you look at the eight state priorities and ensure and I think actually for I think it's nine for for county uh for the for the county LCAPS I should say nine state priorities and so you look for ensuring that we're we're meeting those those priorities when we present it to you. So, uh, as you're familiar,
019we also have to have obviously part of the process is that public hearing which requires notice and, um, and you we don't get a lot of folks coming here to to give us, uh, uh, their thoughts on it, but it is it's an important part of this process that we're incorporating the voice of our community. And then so when it comes to your action, um if you adopt it, um you make a motion of course at at that second uh board meeting after the public hearing. Um your vote is is is of course recorded and um and then it's submitted to the CDE. The adoption has to occur before June 30th and um and you can also uh you can incorporate amendments and changes uh but as long as they comply with education. If you
020choose to decline to adopt the LCAP um because it's incomplete or fails some of the legal requirements, you can direct the staff uh the superintendent and staff to return um uh the plan for for a subsequent meeting. Um there is no external disapproval. So um you are the final decider and when it comes to this this process, it almost never happens. This rejection is is is rare but it's um but there is a kind of process that that um that exists for for that and you have to have a good reason for that rejection. Um in in certain uh situations where there is um not a great working relationship between the board and um the county superintendent. This has been a place where um that lack of relationship has led to tension. So that's what
021one of the reasons we appreciate having a strong working relationship. And so the cycle you've seen before, although maybe not not quite in this um that cycle really is uh adopting the the LCAP implementation and monitoring, you then see an annual update and then you also um review the next year's LCAP. So the cycle continues that way. and um those and then of course there's also a u the CDE we also submit our our we can uh get feedback from from the CDE ahead of time so we they actually allow us to send a draft of the LCAP ahead of time for their sure that everything they agree with. So our the key takeaways of this process is that um you hold the final exclusive approval authority um over the COE's own program LCAP and
022um the public hearing has to be noticed um of course at least 10 days before you take action. Uh you uh review and focus on unduplicated pupils uh pupil goals, budget alignment, educational uh partner engagement and all eight though I think it's nine priorities. um questioning myself now. And the the board re-engages every year uh with the annual with the annual update. And so that's that's um that piece is is been added and strengthened and and that gives you an opportunity to be able to ask questions. How are we doing? How are we making progress? Because we because previous to having an annual update, there was concern that it took you a year to be able to get feedback and provide feedback for the next uh LCAP. And so that annual update allows you to
023give us feedback during the middle of of that process. And that is it for my report. I'd love to answer any questions. >> So just um I guess I should have given a little bit of background. We had asked um um Dr. to present sort of an overview of the ALCAP ahead of what the the deep timeline that we were going to get into and instead of having a separate learning session, he offered to do a presentation which I think is amazing. Thank you. A great summary the deliverables that we have. Um so thank you. Um, any other questions from >> I had a question about um theity advisory committee. I may have got the exact name wrong, but since you have two different LCAPS you're writing, are there two committees or representatives from both
024populations on the one committee? >> There's two committees. So both both um uh the population is different. So we focus on parents and students who are part of our alternative education program and other partners for the alternative education one and then our for our career advancement charter it's mostly students two separate >> and my question is along that same line but first thank you to the president for requesting this and it was great to have and very clear and helpful being new to LCAPS and all that. So, um my question was along the same line of public engagement and I understand CAC's from when I was active in traditional schools but the parental and partner and family engagement when I think about alternative education and we must have 40 50 different classrooms scattered from the
025Highlands to Watsonville all around the county single classroom sites and multiple classroom sites and given the population we serve, you know, you don't have an easy PTA to go to to communicate out, it just creates an extra challenge. And I was wondering any tips for conquering that? >> Well, I think uh you're you're absolutely right. It's it's it can be challenging. Um I think one of the nice things about having older students is that they're able to participate more more um completely in the process, which is which is great. We also have certain committees that are required like our like our ELAC committees, our English learner advisory councils, um our site councils and so there's these meetings that we're already working hard to incorporate and so they become that's part of the process is to
026make sure to incorporate them. Um also um you know as much as we can um we try to to have the students help us bring their parents with them and that helps. Um but I have to say it is it is um it is challenging and um to to uh get a lot of uh parent involvement and and participation in these meetings. >> Uh you mean like yeah like the parents or students I' I'd have to get back to you on that. Yeah, I could get you numbers because we also do surveys um as part of our process through parent square and um and and we try to be as uh you know kind of short, you know, quick ways of gathering information. U but I I think um also hearing from students is is
027really an important part. But I I'd have to get back to you on >> following up on the president um and something the superintendent said first. President um you evidence that every meeting like you did tonight you you can only manage what you measure and you track your performance. I don't know if you use any tracking paradigms for that level of engagement and input you get in every update but just something to consider in your process. And then the question for you that I had never thought about, I'm aware of site councils at the schools my kids attended. Do we have to have a site council for every campus even when it's a one classroom campus? >> So um so if you receive title one funding, you do have to have a site council. So
028we we officially really have two school sites. Uh so for our alternative education, our port school and our community school, we are required to have two Exactly. Exactly. Those are not they're they're different sites, but really they're part of the same school. They're all part of the >> trustee. >> Appreciate it. >> You ever participated in any community surveys? >> A lot, huh? Too many to count, huh? Good. I'm glad you're participating. The D is for district. So the district is DAC is the district uh advisory council. >> Great. Thank you very much again for the presentation. Appreciate it. >> Um I'm definitely going to save that and put it in my folder so every time I have to remind myself it's there. Um I'm going to ask do we have our representatives for presentation
029online? If not, we'll move to our new business. >> They are not on the Zoom yet. Um >> but I'm not sure if we should wait. I'll just I'll leave that to you, President Williams. Um but I will share that the upcoming um presentation is already on escribe and the LCAP presentation is on your escribe as well. So if you want to follow >> Okay. Well, if they're not online, I think we will I get a motion. Go ahead. >> Oh, >> it's such a clean audit. I'm comfortable proceeding. I think we have a consensus that it's good. Okay, that's good. >> So, we'll go back up to item 101. Um, our 2024 fiscal year annual audit report. >> Good evening. Uh, we use a firm named ID Bailey and they have been around for
030many, many years. Um, we have actually at the Santa Cruz County Office of Education been using a form I will say a form of ID Bailey. We started off as Vaverick TR and Day. They became VTD many years ago and then eventually merged with I Bailey and so we have been different representatives from their company uh for probably over 20 years different locations throughout California. Right now we're partnering with the Fresno that is where Samantha Moore is your auditor attorney. she is the one who prepared this. So the audit um there is a couple of phases for the audit process. There's the interim phase which where they start to do a lot of the sample testing and the internal department can attest to it's a lot of data gathering. Once we switched over about five
031years ago to our online system and were able to store a lot of the backup for all of our deposits and our positions and all of that online, we were able to give our auditors access to it. It greatly cut down on how much hand work some of our people had to do by pulling all of the records and such. So it it was able they were able to do so much of it remotely now where they used to actually and now they will say they're coming out for a week and they might spend two and they're able to. So that's the first phase of the audit where they do the school site testing and they set attendance. They do some federal and state compliance testing and some procedural life. And then the final stage
032of the audit is after we close the fiscal year, they come out and start looking at the rest of the information. And that's again the finishing up the state and federal compliance and the single audit preparing the draft audit report. The next is here's the components of the audit report. So, if you're wanting to read through the audit report, I assure you it's riveting. So, it's uh you start off with the independent auditor's report and that's their opinion on what they've done with the audit, the management discussion and analysis, the opinion of the audit and the financial statement and notes required supplementary information. You know, there's a lot of information that goes in and then of course more supplemental information and it ends with the summary of the audit results. One thing that we wanted
033to point out this time is that the Gazsby, the government accounting standards board, they are forever trying to make government organizations and nonprofits fit into the mold of traded companies. They're possibly come up with these new standards that will help align our financial statement. So this new one is the compensated absences. We have to actually quantify how much sick leave we have that we have not but that is a liability. That was a new one for this. Next slide is uh there's three different components to an audit report. the governmentwide financial statements, government fund financial statements and then starting with the governmentwide financial statements. It's looking at the statement of net position. So the assets and deferred outflows, the deferred liabilities of 65.8 our net position. With that, we have 21.1 million capital assets, long-term
034liabilities of the 47.5 million, which is a prior year. And then the net pension liability, this is the state portion of what they do this big. that creates the net pension liability. The state wanted to take it off their books and make sure the individual districts recognize their own that's 42.8 billion or billion sorry and compensated absences as I mentioned 44.2 million and then we had other debts Next we have government fund financial statements. So this is the statement of revenue and expenditures and change in fund balance. So for the county school service fund, this is going to be kind of broken up into a couple of different fund accounts. So county school service fund is going to be our fund one. We have revenue and other sources of 82.8 expenditures of 70.1 million which
035results in a marked or what they call it's basically restricted. So the special education pass through we have a fun district. So all of the money comes into our front end that is what you're see 8.8 8 million came in 8.5 out and so resulted in and then the non- major funds and so these are the funds that we have 11 the fund starts off with the 7.3 million in revenues 17.6 million in expendion and then the total Next slide is going to be the schedule of financial trends and analysis. So and this is revenues and changes to fund balance. We started in 25 12.7 million which is a change from prior year of the sorry increase from prior year of the 1.6 and 2.4 from the ending fund balance of 53.8 which was obviously
036an increase from prior year 14.3 million reserve fund balance as the board approved is a listed next finding and opinions. So part of what the auditors do is when they're coming in they're looking not only Do we have any findings? But they're looking at our internal. Are you doing what you say you are? You have somebody that you say that we have at least two people approving all requisition look at every single one but they will make sure that we say we are doing that we are doing what we say we are so right now for the financial statements they came back with no here federal compliance programs that were tested so they did special substance abuse mental health services project and then of course regional program of national significance and title there state compliance
037no findings finding prior year and then I want to give a big shout out to internal this questions. >> It's impressive after an audit like that that you have no findings and I think I recall from the reading that even the findings from the previous year they had no financial impact. They were already mitigated. So kudos. That's amazing. Thank you. um make sure there's no questions, comments. If >> I could just give give my thanks to the the business services team, this is the A+ of of uh findings and so congratulations on some amazing work. >> Absolutely. All right. Um we are going to go move on to the agenda. Um item 11, new business and action. Um our first is resolution 26:15. And I'm gonna hand it over to I think that's you >>
038trustes. We have a bunch of resolutions tonight. And the first one is um resolution 2615 eliminating the use of the n-word and all hate speech. And this was um brought to us by some students who organized and felt it was important for us to actually adopt this into policy along with what we already have regarding discrimination and so on. And um the resolution or the community outreach and legislation committee very happy to bring something forward and several of us took part in. Um, I just want to say I know that the students couldn't be here. Um, are they? >> Yes, Amara's here. Yes. >> Sorry. Let's please. >> Would she go in? >> We have one of the students um that initially brought forward the city of Santa Cruz School. >> Um, I'd like to
039just welcome Amara to to uh speak tonight. I I just have to say how inspiring Amara is and the and the black the students from the black student union. Um they worked with the equity the race and equity committee in Santa Cruz City Schools and you're going to be hearing about that work uh tonight. Um and not only are they have they um gotten this resolution in place for Santa Cruz City Schools, but bringing it to you um and presenting at the at the last board meeting. Um, I just want to just say how inspiring uh these young people are standing up for what is right in our schools, making sure that our students um and our community is is is really emphasizing that sense of belonging. And um so thank you for for your
040leadership and welcome Yeah. Okay. No, it's totally fine. Okay. So, yeah, I'm Amara Anderson. I'm the president of the Black Student Union here at Santa Cruz High. And I know some of my other board members came a few weeks ago and talked to you guys a little bit about this, but this is just our official presentation that we also gave at the Santa Cruz City Schools board meeting on March 11th. So, um, how do I change the slides? >> Green arrow. >> So, a little bit about our advisory history. um throughout this um committee we've gotten to work really close with Chris Monroe who's our superintendent and she's just been like a big part of helping us get this through and being really supportive. She um told us about how the advisory was created um
041after George Floyd's murder and um when there was a lot of unrest in our community, not knowing quite where to go after that. And that was kind of the birth of the uh race and equity committee and just a lot of the work that we do just protecting students of colors in our schools. So, our advisory purpose is to make recommendations to our superintendent to make sure that students feel safe and welcomed and included at our schools. Our committee historical outcomes are to establish a system for students and to propose curriculum adjustments and um content units of study and courses and to develop new policy and protocols and to provide input um on issues of race and equity for Santa Cruz city schools. But a lot of the experiences that get shared um we come
042up with um in our countywide black student union meeting is another space that we talk about a lot of this stuff. Um so just having those multiple spaces that are provided to us is super helpful. What we've accomplished this year is new curriculum adoption ethnic studies um which is ongoing. Um it's okay. um ethnic studies input, um creation of challenge statements and support of school's anti-racist and inclusion efforts, and just creating a safe space for students and having kindness week activities which take place in our high school. So, why language is our focus is because language shapes culture at our schools. um when you hear certain words in the classroom, it sets the tone for the environment that you're in. And um oftentimes when staff or students are silent when they hear hate speech, it
043can often feel like agreement to students of color because no one's standing up for them. Um and through the race and equity committee, we've just really given students power to shape the culture in our schools and in our classrooms. Um we've done a lot of group work. Um during our last race and equity committee meeting um in February, we broke off into different breakout groups and we had a group that worked on slogans and a group that worked on um maybe different approaches we could take to addressing hate speech. And then the breakout group that me and my board were a part of was actually sitting down with Chris Monroe and um some other people from the district and reading a policy that was originally introduced on the east coast and adopted over there and
044then reading through that and adding things that we think are important like the use of hate speech on social media and how that can impact a student's learning experience. Um and then also restorative learning and accountability. So, our recommendation to the board is to pass the resolution for eliminating the use of the n-word and all hate speech and to revise board policy on non-discrimination and harassment. Thank you. Well, I think um the board, we extend our sincere appreciation for your previous board members presenting last um last month um of the resolution that was passed by the Santa Cruz City Schools and for your presentation this afternoon um this evening um and the importance of passing a resolution that um focuses on hate speech and spec and specifically the n-word. Um, and by raising your voice,
045it's not just um contributing to meaningful, but it just brings awareness. And we appreciate as a board, hearing from students what's important to them, and it's important to us to listen and apply what we learn. And so, we appreciate that. And with that, our committee put together a resolution thanks to your your you and your board's work in bringing it to us and to our attention. I'll I'll pass it on to Bruce at this time. Thank you uh trustes. I'd love to have a motion on this. I would also mention that we have a policy amendment also on tonight's agenda which is accompanies this and fulfills the second item on the list that >> I will second your motion. >> I'll make the motion. >> And can we have a roll call, please? >> Just
046talk loud. Trusty A Costa. >> Hi. >> Trusty Kyle. >> Hi. >> Vice President Larson. >> Hi. >> Trusty Roth. >> Trusty Sanchez. >> Trusty Van Ellen. >> Hi. >> President Williams. >> Yes. >> Student Trusty Guan Martinez. >> Hi. >> Resolution passes. >> Thank you. Congratulations. >> And if I may, just one comment to Amara. Thank you for your presentation. You were so well spoken despite juggling lots of things, changing your position, stuff going on around you, yet you stayed solid and great in your presentation throughout. Thank you. >> Absolutely agree. >> Just say our next item is that policy change. So it's related to what just presented. >> So item 112 is the board policy. It's a first reading and aligning our policies with our core values and strategic vision for our students,
047educators, and um schools is essential. And so accordingly, we are updating a recently approved policy to explicitly reject the use of derogatory language consistent with the newly adopted resolution 2615. >> The change the addition is highlighted in yellow and >> do you have that open? Would you like to read it? Um the addition that because the whole resolution is quite long but or the policy um the addition is the county board of education believes that all forms of harassment and discrimination including the use of derogatory language, slurs and demeaning speech based on the characteristics outlined in this policy which had been previously mentioned in the policy directly undermine the COE's mission, vision, and core values. Actively working to eliminate such behavior, including racism and hate speech, within COE schools, is both a legal and moral
048imperative. The COE affirms our commitment to actively recognize and intervene in violations of this policy and to cultivate an inclusive and supportive environments for all students and staff. That's the addition to the policy. Um, is there any way like we could get education on why those not for us but for students um elementary like higher levels of elementary, middle school and high school to why those words shouldn't be said because I feel like um it is important to say you can't use these words but why it's important to not say these words at PV high school last year. Yeah, last year we had um this group of um youth that started a presentation. They started a group care bears. I think that's what they called it. And they went around they went around classrooms. In
049each classroom was a different topic. When the first classroom was um about the nword um f word, s word, and a bunch of different words that you could say that are not allowed to be in school. So, I feel like education on why you shouldn't be saying these words is for is important and then we could say don't use them, but I don't think people know why they shouldn't be saying it or they don't really um care. >> I think um Trustee G Martinez brings up a great point. One of the part of the projects of what the BSU students um have been working on is in fact creating material and some video content to be able to uh bring awareness and understanding for students. And I think that that as our student trustee is
050is highlighting, you know, setting a policy is only one part of this. We have to help students recognize the harm that is being done when when these words are being used. Amara, would you mind sharing just a little bit about about some of the work the work that you you've been doing with with the BSU on um making content and kind of learning content and um maybe you can sit down right there. That way you're Yeah, >> we're in the table. >> Yes. Thank you. >> Yeah. So BSU this year has been working on a PSA video addressing the use of the n-word in schools. Um but also the race and equity committee as a part of our policy also is working on rolling out slogans, pledges, and more education materials for schools as well
051as possibly some trainings for staff on how to handle hate speech use in the classroom and how to address it without um making it feel like it's allowed. Um and then the slogans and um the pledges will go into more elementary middle school areas and then kind of more of the trainings and some posters and um things like that will go to the high schools. So presentation of some of those materials particularly for the younger uh grades, elementary, maybe junior high. Um will those materials and presentations be done by students or or adults? Cuz I mean I feel like maybe students to younger ones might be more wellreceived, but I'm just curious about what the delivery is the mechanism is going to look like. >> Yeah. So the ideas and pledges and slogans were all
052created by students. um I could definitely bring up to our BSUs and to Chris Monroe talking about having students be the ones to bring those materials into the classrooms. I think that's a great idea and definitely a possibility. >> Um yeah, that's what they did at um my old school. They got students to give the presentations and feel like it works like that because I feel like students are going to listen more to uh older peers instead of teachers. Also, I was just going to wonder I was wondering, do you have any like examples of the slogans or the material that are creating? >> One of their slogans, and this was the first time that we had, I believe, middle schoolers at our um race and equity retreats. So, one of the slogans they came
053up with was don't hate, appreciate, and better words, a better world. So, we're talking about putting those on posters and putting those up around Another uh part of the work that we're doing is um Amara mentioned talking about how to intervene in a classroom when and so um we do um um uh we have uh a program that uh Melissa Roberts uh uh presents at Marvel and KOS which is the antibbias anti-racist um program and it's a kind of a learning community for teachers to talk about um kind of supporting each other and and fig and developing skills to knowing how to respond uh when when because in a lot of cases uh as was mentioned earlier um by not intervening it's allowing it to perpetuate and so um we have uh uh these learning
054communities occurring in both um the Santa Cruz area and the Watsonville area they've been very well received by by teachers and we think that's another you know there's all these different parts because this is such a a concerning thing and and as as uh trustee and Martinez is mentioning, it's something that we need to be thinking about starting as early for our students. >> Is there current procedure? Um and if so, what is the current procedure to teachers if there is these type of words being said in their class? >> It's not a procedure. uh skills of of uh intervening basically making it very clear that um that this is unacceptable. Um and also um helping uh young people, you know, we believe in a restorative approach to help young people recognize the harm that
055they're that that that they're doing. Um in some cases students aren't aren't aware of of and so um part of the training is to is looking at different approaches uh depending on the context and depending on the situation what to do in the classroom to to make sure that it's clear that to everybody that this is not something that is allowed but then also following up with students possibly involving parents and and um helping students recognize the harm they're doing. I believe we might have a public comment on this agenda item. >> We do. We have a public comment from Kaley Campbell. >> See, join us. It's a conversation. >> Um, thank you. Um, my name is Collie Campbell. I'm actually a math teacher at Santa Cruz High. And, um, it's nice to see you
056guys. Thank you for letting us be here today. I just wanted to comment on that wonderful like community of practice that Melissa Roberts and Marvellin um do. I'm the only uh teacher from Santa Cruz City Schools who attends that in the entire district. There is a very great representation of um Tira Pacifica student or teachers, sorry. They come on their teacher staff meeting and it's great. They're all there and I'm the only one. Rishi has come a couple of times. Um, but Rishi doesn't teach at Santa Cruz High anymore. Um, and I just really wish there was just more people that did care about this because I really hear what you were saying. It's like, well, what's going to happen? What's going to change especially if we don't have the tools know how to deal
057with this like in a maybe in a classroom or to have the uncomfortable conversation. So I I really hope that more thing more education can happen for how us teachers can have maybe more uncomfortable conversations or at least you know so um I glad that you highlighted that. I really want more people to come to that and also more people maybe if it was phrased also that it's like antibbias again sometimes it's not just racism it's antibbias anti-racism we all have biases I do too um and so part of that is just examining that so I'm really hoping that there's more education for teachers on how to deal with >> Thank you for your comment appreciate you >> testing testing >> all right at this time >> testing Yes, of course you can. >> Absolutely.
058>> Um well, first of all, to me it's it's super important that you've kind of focused on language because um I mean it's someone could think well that's not the same as physical violence or something like that, but the language is the environment that we live in and that we get our ideas and our understandings of other people in. So it's not actually disconnected from violence and and other forms of harm. It's part of a bigger picture. And so working on the language is really important. And I just wonder if there isn't um an educational opportunity for students, families, and staff and teachers to have a time when we focus on language, not so much about somebody speaking Spanish or French or something like that, but about how language shapes us. And I just wonder
059if maybe we could think about some kind of a event or an activity or something that gives the community a chance to grapple with want to change how the lang how we operate within the language environment by eliminating terms and the and the thought process. I don't I'm just this is a vague very vague idea, but it seems to me that continuing to push on this in all areas, including education and it could radiate out to the wider community is part of what we want to be doing, I think. So, anyway, just a >> Okay, then at this point, I'll take a motion on um the updated um board policy 5145.3. Thank you again. >> All right. And we'll have a roll call. >> Oh, there's voice. Okay. All those in favor? >> Any oppose?
060Passes unanimously. >> Thank you so much, Amara. >> Thank you. All right. Um following we got we have several resolutions um 2616 through 2022. I don't need to introduce each and every one of them. So I'm going to leave it to the committee chair to take it from here. I'll just do that. The next one is 11.3 resolution in support of Dave the teacher. Not sure I need to advocate very hard for that here. I think the only thing that I would say is um I've often said I have a a deep respect for two professions um and that is educators and farmers um mostly because they um are foundational to our communities. They require a significant level of commitment and um they do it without a significant financial reward many times. And so, um,
061I think, uh, you know, honoring a day, a week is, it's kind of one of those things is like we should be honoring them year long, but I appreciate, um, you bringing forth this resolution. >> Um, any questions? I don't want to sit here and make all the motions. >> I will make a motion. >> Thank you. >> All right. We're going to do um I believe we have to do a voice vote for this one. >> Roll call. I'm sorry. >> Roll call. Yeah. >> Student trustee Guian Martinez. Trustee A. Costa. >> Hi. >> Trustee Kyle. >> Hi. >> Vice President Larson. >> Hi. >> Trusty Van Allen. President Williams. >> Yes. >> Resolution passes. >> Likewise. 11.4 in support of classified employees week. They get a week. >> Wow. Um, same thing. Any
062any questions or comments? >> No, but just to say thank you because they make all of the work that educa the educators do possible and sure that our schools are safe. So, thank you. I'll >> move that one. Student trustee Gian Martinez. Trusty A Costa. >> Hi. >> Trusty Kyle. >> Hi. >> Vice President Larson. >> Hi. >> Trusty Van Allen. >> Hi. >> President Williams. Resolution passes. resolution 11.5 say I like the escribe but whenever it opens a resolution it opens it in markup mode so if I try to scroll it it puts a highlight on the page >> I have to remember to undo the I don't know why it opens that way but >> for you anyway >> so sorry >> well this this recognition of Asian-American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander
063Heritage Month we've done before. Um I believe this is um essentially what we've done before but um dated with any anything that recently changed and ties in right in with some of the other subjects we've just been covering and inclusion and recognizing our diversity and our contributions to everybody. But it's about and this is the month for it or coming up Student Trusty Gian Martinez. >> Hi, >> Trusty A. Costa. >> Hi, >> Trusty Kyle. >> Hi, >> Vice President Larson. >> Hi. >> Trusty Van Allen. >> Hi, >> President Williams. >> Yes. >> Resolution passes. >> 11.6 is a resolution in recognition of Jewish American Heritage Month. And I think I said last time, what really bugs me about this is that when I was a kid in the 50s, World War II had
064just happened. The Nazis had been defeated. The Holocaust was over. And although not really um and I I as a young person thought that anti-semitism had been eradicated, had been utterly discredited. No one was subscribing to it anymore. No one was promoting it anymore. And it took me into maybe junior high or high school to realize that wasn't the case and really just seeing it happen around. Um, so this is to me an incredibly frustrating area, but it's also really crucial that we address it again right now in a time of increased anti-semitism that it's not actually about I won't realize but just to me seems very important for our board to once again speak up and >> important to recognize the heritage and celebrate it. Motion from second. >> Student trustee guan Martinez. >>
065Hi. >> Trusty A. Costa. >> Hi. >> Trusty Kyle. >> Vice President Larson. >> Hi. >> Trusty Van Allen. >> Hi. >> President Williams. >> Yes. >> Passes. >> Proceedes 11.8 Eight is um >> 11.7 >> seven. Yeah. Um recognition of mental health awareness month. It's something that I really appreciate our COE and our board for recognizing the importance of this for our students and our staff and our teachers. Awareness of mental health challenges is part of how we deal with them. And if we deny it or not recognize it in other people, then it's a failure, doesn't doesn't help the person's condition. So we have some amendments here that are designed to sort of add to it and strengthen it from >> I would just say that I to appreciate that um it is
066a part of our culture to recognize it and because the fact is we all know someone who is struggling or who has struggled with mental health and um it's particularly difficult when we see it in our students and in their struggle. But I'm also very proud that um our county offers a myriad of resources for both students and adults. Any other comments? >> Student trustee guan Martinez. >> Hi. >> Trusty A. Costa. >> Hi. >> Trustee Kyle. Vice President Larson. Hi. >> Trusty Van Allen. Hi. President Williams. >> Yes. >> Resolution passes. >> 11.8. Proclaiming May 2026 for flying the rainbow flag and honoring Harvey Milk Day. I was on the city council when Harvey Milk was in office. worked with him and some of the other people in Bay Area that were um trying
067to bring forward the which at the time was radical and disrupting to bring forward the rights people and so on and um Harvey Mil did not deserve to be assassinated for his incredible work. So to me this is a important personal thing as well. is just something that I know our COE and our teachers and staff are tuned to and again it's the kind of thing that backlash happen increased attacks from some years ago um on LGBTQ plus people and um and the whole idea that somehow the government shouldn't be support been promoted from the national level so again it's important I think for us to reinforce this point of Just a quick comment and especially given some of the actions that have occurred at schools um both in Santa Cruz County and in Santa
068Clara County over the last three months which I think has been emboldened by by federal dynamics that are all the more important to do this. A question for the superintendent. I believe at some point in the last few years you started the practice of flying a pride flag from Harvey Milk Day on through June which is the resolution we'll deal with next month. Is that the practice this year as well? >> Correct. Uh we're scheduled to do this on May 5th and um so we will the flag raising will be right out here and we would love for you to join us for that and uh we're also encourage all the schools in the county. We we're one of the counties in the state that uh I think in terms of the number of of
069schools is one of the highest percentage of schools will fly the pride flag during the month of June. And so we sort of start it early and and keep it keep it flying through June. >> I'll move this one. >> Student Trusty Gian Martinez. >> Hi. Trusty A Costa. >> Hi. >> Trusty Kyle. >> Vice President Larson. >> Hi. >> Trusty Van Allen. >> Hi. >> President Williams. >> Yes. >> Resolution passes. >> Proceeds 11.9 is um stimulated by recent events in Santa Cruz predator who's being parrolled. Such people do deserve to be able to reenter society. But I think recognize that people do not always recover from their will be dangerous or at least inspire fear that they are still dangerous. So given what happened in Santa Cruz and Watsonville recently, this came to
070us from several directions of people asking out. And so we evolved this this resolution to address that and not only to be specific about those local positions particular person but to state to do that legislation mentioned and me this seems like a very hard thing but I think our responsibility calls for expanding the existing set of rules about those placements to give a little more protection. that like the child places where kids >> I agree that making the focus not just on two major cities in our county but in places where children and families gather is important. Um we can focus on a specific person in a specific circumstance but all of our students Thank you for making it much more inclusive. Are there any other comments? >> Just a not a professional one. I
071served on the California State Sex Offenders Management Board for three years. An incredibly tough issue managing it. I was the speaker's appointee and it was incredibly challenging. I really appreciate the sensitivity you brought to this issue and the framing you've made of our role here protecting students and their families from both reality of danger and the fear of danger. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Okay. Thank you. I'll end. Yes, correct. >> Thank you. Student trustee guan Martinez. >> Hi. >> Trustee A Costa. >> Hi. >> Trustee Kyle. >> Hi. >> Vice President Larson. >> Hi. >> Trustee Van Allen. >> Hi. >> President Williams. >> Yes. >> Resolution passes. >> Thank you. And that completes tonight's epic resolution. >> All right. We're moving on to item 12, the superintendent report. >> Thank you so much. Uh
072so just a few important updates uh to share with you. A a recent decision by the Supreme Court has um impacted our uh some of the rules and uh uh protections for students who identify as LGBTQ in our in our community. Um so the Mirabelli Vivant decision and uh we'll share with you a a presentation about this uh which we're sharing with folks um was a lawsuit that was brought forward by parents who were opposed to legislation that passed in California to protect student privacy when it came to their gender expression specifically. And uh this was brought forward by parents as well as by staff. And um there was a current uh recent decision by um the Supreme Court which removed an injunction. Uh but the bottom line is that um when if parents uh
073um contact the school and want to know um absolutely anything about students including the gender expression plan, it's it's it's uh required for us to to share that information with parents. Uh in addition, uh the um uh part of the lawsuit uh also includes the uh ability for staff members to speak with parents um about students gender expression, the pronouns are using the um any chosen names that they've they've identified. So, as a result of this, uh, we think it's important for students to know that if they come out to, um, our staff and if we put together a gender expression plan, that that is something the parents have access to. In addition, if parents ask us not to utilize students pronouns or their chosen name, we have to honor the parents request. And so,
074those are some of the changes that are in place as a result of this of this uh this decision. We also received some new guidance from um the uh uh attorney general about um for early childhood education providers when it comes to immigration rights, how to um to respond to um if there was any immigration action taking place inside uh in in in a ECE facility, a preschool or or or a childare facility. And so we put together a training that we were sharing with our early childhood education partners is very similar to what we've already done in our schools. Um with the exception that our protocol at schools now is that if um immigration officials are coming onto campus, we go into what we call secure campus, which is to lock the facility and
075have um a district office representative or a county office representative engage with with immigration officers in the parking lot outside of the facility. And so um this is something that hasn't occurred in anywhere. And so we're we're but we have a a plan in place and and are providing training and support for folks uh with regards to um this. So those that uh presentation is also uh will be shared with you. I did want to sh uh share also that the US department of education is is uh continuing their effort to dissolve the office of the department of education. Uh specifically, they've dissolved the Office of English Learners at the federal level and they um the White House has put together a new federal budget uh being proposed. Um there we go. This is what
076I wanted to show you. Uh might be a little bit difficult for you to see, but um the the first column is the name of the programs. Title One Part A is is one for students who are socioeconomically disadvantaged, students who qualify for a free reduced lunch, for example. So, you'll see that the budget uh last year was $18.4 billion. This year, $18.4 billion, and what they're proposing for next year is $18.4 billion. Migrant education is being proposed for elimination. Um our Title One Part D program is uh identified uh is being zeroed out. Um, and you'll also see that there is a new term here which is MEGA, which is a new block granting that the White House is proposing for make education great again. And it's a block granting um of many of
077the support uh programs that have existed historically. The migrant education program in which I worked for many years, for example, has been around since 1965 um and has always had um bipartisan support. Um impact aid is is flatfunded. Title two is being block granted. Title three, which is for English learners, is being eliminated. And these other programs, state assessments, education for homeless, uh 21st century community learning centers are all being block granted. Um and uh um and title one um IDA part B and um which is our uh some special education funding is there's a modest increase there and um the office of civil rights is um being downgraded um by about 50%. So this is what's being proposed. Uh just like the the process locally in in California, you know, goes to the that
078there's a house budget, there's a Senate budget, then there's a reconciliation budget, and then it goes to the White House. Uh but this is uh helps us understand um the priorities of the current administration, which are in many cases uh eliminating uh the uh programs that are designed to support specific groups of students. Um and uh and anything that again that has any what they consider to be any relationship to diversity, equity, and inclusion are generally being block granted into this mega category. Um so just a a reminder of what the federal administration is proposing for next year or actually this is uh this year's budget. So this is how money was spent. You'll see that uh military defense is 14%, the education is about 3%. Um uh there's uh debt is about 13% and
079then social security, Medicare and uh Medicaid kind of add up to about 50% of of the total budget. The military budget is going up from about 850 billion to about a trillion for next year. And so that percentage is anticipated to go up and the education is going to get thinner and smaller because they are making uh billions of dollars of of reductions. Uh$2.9 billion dollars. Oh, no, I'm sorry. $76 billion of reductions, which is 2.9% of the education budget uh being proposed for reduction. Um, I did want to share with you that um uh lots of the news has been related to uh PVSUSD uh news, some some positive news about uh student art exhibits going up. Uh there's also been an effort to bring awareness about pesticide use around schools and um and
080uh also uh lots of news about uh the reductions that are impacting uh the PBSD community. Um some important updates to share with you. Um Live Oak School District is going to be welcoming a new superintendent soon. Um uh um the current superintendent is is going to be leaving in in um by June 30th. Uh we're also continuing our effort with negotiating with our with our bargaining units and that's those the conversations are are moving positively. And I did want to share with you that the county is is um uh going to establish a youth commission and having young leaders um to participate in supporting the county and advise them. And so, um, really excited about young people like like, uh, uh, Vicente here, our student trustee, being involved in in, uh, in in in
081leadership activities, and I hear he's already thinking about running for office, uh, in the near future, which is very exciting. Um, I did want to share that we have updated a racial equity and justice website and um it's a it's a Whoops, that's not what I it's not the link I I I think is not is not working right now, but um it's uh we um uh uh have updated the resources and curriculum for a variety of different areas and and so we'll we'll send a link to you to be able to check it out. So, um, new enrollment numbers were recently, um, made available to the public that show where we're at as a county and, um, for the first time in several years, we have seen an improvement or a, I guess we,
082I would say a smaller, uh, declining enrollment number than than we've had. Um, so our county declined um, only8% uh, uh, from last year. So we're at 36,980 students and um and so the state for the first time in many years we actually declined less than the state which declined at 1.3%. So this is this is um welcome news of course for um you know this is also higher than the anticipated projections that we get from the department of finance. So we're we're hoping that this is going to be the beginning of a trend. Well we'll we will see um le smaller reductions. We've um this year I believe we had uh about 300 students less than the previous year. Um we usually lose about 2% of our student population every year and we've done
083that consistently until this year. So this is welcome news for us. Some program updates I wanted to share with you. Um our team uh hosted the Basque which is the committee. It's a a committee that's part of the is the it's the is the a committee that works under the county superintendent that it focuses on business services and our team hosted the Basque uh uh conference virtual conference this week um with over 200 COE employees and um from 58 from all 58 COE's across the state. So it's very exciting. are um we've launched a new uh uh process for safety which the stop it program which is an anonymous reporting program. We put it on all our students um tablets or their um their Chromebooks and um also having posters and this is allows them
084to to provide anonymous reporting for both staff and students um to share any concerns, anything safety related and um um this is also in our um with our special education programs. We've been uh working on um helping to develop vibe coding skills. VIP coding is using AI tools to create solutions. And so we've been having uh really fun engaging activities where folks come together who've never uh utilize these tools before and actually are creating solutions, programs, games. Uh teachers are creating some amazing innovative uh solutions with their with the skill set. And my son who's in in college told me the correct term is pro prompt engineering. Um, so I've been trying to switch to that from vibe coding just sounds so much cooler. But vibing, you know, but uh but prompt engineering is the
085term they use at least at the university. Uh we participated uh I believe that uh Trusty Larson and Trusty Williams were present at the World Languages Showcase this last uh Tuesday. Wonderful having lots of students reciting poems in five languages. I got to recite a poem in Arabic. My first time uh in in uh were very exciting. But we had students reciting in Spanish, French, Mandarin, Hindi, and um Lati or Latin. Latin, not Lati. Um I thought that was a language I didn't recognize. Trying to I wanted to I wanted I thought it was going to it was going to come off really really smoothly, but it was Latin. It was Latin. Sorry. Um and uh so uh we've been focusing a lot on uh opioid education lessons and um and we've piloted some new
086curriculum um and also uh providing uh Narcan demonstrations at our alternative education sites. We also supported uh students as who are part of Empower Watsonville um and PVPSA to develop um videos uh talking about mental health and um and also about uh uh substance use and and the and and getting help when when when students are struggling with mental health or or with substance use. And we are really excited about the youth for environmental action summit which is taking place on Monday. We have the biggest signups ever, 250 students. And so, um, this is really exciting. We'd love it if you can join us. It is a little bit of a trek up into the into the mountains, but, uh, but really a wonderful, wonderful opportunity to connect with students and learn from all their
087great work. Here are some additional events. I already mentioned the Youth for Environmental Action Summit. Uh, the United Ways United and Purpose Awards um is on April 23rd. I don't do we have any space in We still have space. Um, uh, our own Nikki Bar is getting the volunteer service award. Um, so we'd love it. There's going to be a train ride, so very exciting. Uh, fashion teens April 24th. We are hosting the Queer Prom again at Sequoia Schools, which is always a lot of fun. And, um, we are there's also going to be the Live Oak School District Farm and Food Lab benefit dinner taking place on May 1st. and cultivating hope. Um, a collaboration with United Way and our youth youthled leadership alliance is taking place on May 2nd. And then as I
088mentioned on May 5th is when we will be having the flag raising and oh, there's a whole other page of stuff. All right, here we go. Okay, so flag raising on May 5th. Uh, we have our all staff appreciation picnic on May 6th, math contest on May 9th. Uh, the queer youth leadership awards on May 9th as well. So busy day May 9th uh Santa Cruz Food and Security Symposium um which we are uh supporting um our black grad event is on May 24th and um and our graduations will start the last week of May between the 26th and 29th and we'll also be participating in Santa Cruz Pride on June 7th. So you'll see more of these at our next board meeting as well. But uh would love it for you to to be
089a part of these events and um happy to answer any questions you may have. Yeah, a lot going on. >> We'll start with students trustee. >> Um, I was just like thinking about the the funding that they're per proposing for next year. The federal government, if they do take out the migrant program education, would that like make it so next year there's no migrant program? >> Um, that's a great question. So the the funding that is being proposed is on the federal fiscal cycle which is different than most of our funding starts on July 1, but their funding starts on October 1. So the migrant education program is funded through the end of September. Um if and in fact they do cut it, that would mean that the program will there wouldn't be funding for
090the program on October 1st >> because that that program >> that's about it's about three $3 million I believe that they're funded. >> That program is really good. I'm part of that program. >> Oh, wonderful. >> It's not on the agenda, so not a discussion, just a question from a prior report. I know we had to do a backfill for the Head Start program and I was just wondering maybe in a future meeting you could report on the status of that on a go forward basis. >> Yes. Yes. Uh that we'd be happy to do that. Um the uh the community development um incorporated I think is their title is a group that is they're still we just met with them today and they are working on um starting up the the programs. They've started
091a partnership with PVSUSD and we'd be happy to give uh an update. They're still working on on reestablishing the Head Start program. >> Uh my question goes back a few slides back um about the launch of the mental health like report or the um the safety reporting. Is that just with the COE schools or is that countywide? It's uh so it is a COE schools uh but most of our school districts have um there's really two main ones stop it and another one that sound just like stop we tip that's it we tip and so most of the school districts already have uh a reporting um uh so but this was only for the county office >> okay be interested in as it's you know post launch and after some time to see what you
092know if students are utilizing it that about safety like facilities or or more social? >> It could be anything. Um, but it's it's anonymous and so students have an uh students have a an opportunity like if there's a bullying situation and they want to make an anonymous it could be about a staff member, it could be about really anything. Um, there's a there's a whole protocol that we've developed that will go to different folks to be able to uh respond quickly. Um, students are able to identify themselves if they wish, but it's it's an anonymous We'll get a copy of your present uploaded email. Perfect. Perfect. >> Oh, not yet. Okay. >> Because there was a lot of dates there. I'd love to attend. Um, are there any other comments or questions? >> Did you
093say the Stop it app? >> Yes. >> Um, well, we like I've heard a lot about it, but um at Watson Ohio High I've heard that it doesn't really work. like the staff that don't really like pay attention to it. And I I asked the people that told me that it doesn't work. I like have you tried to put something in it? They said yes. So, I don't know like if the staff really like pay attention to it. And if they don't, that would be something for us to like tell them they should cuz if people if they're like um describing this as a resource that they could get resources or um something's happening and they could tell them and it will get resolved, but they're not actually doing it, then no one's going to
094be using it. >> Agreed. Agreed. Yeah. I think it's it's only as good as the the the people who are are responding to it and I'd be happy to reach out to um the principal at WS but we do have um we have a safety committee um and so we um so the part of the safety committee include administrators from our alternative education program as well as a superintendent's office and so there will be multiple eyes on any complaints ready to responding quickly. Um, all right. We're going to go on to our trustees report where have few minutes to report on what they've been up to and Williams. Um, since our last meeting, primarily related, um, I've been been to lots of school sporting events and I've done a lot of volunteering at my kids
095schools and, um, and then spring break we went down south and toured four colleges. So, that was that is pretty much my report for the last month. >> Thank you. I I had um well I went bunch of committee meetings and I were at the name celebrating education event last year >> final celebration >> which was really fun. >> That's pretty much it. >> That's okay. Trusty Larson got to use it. Um well the next morning very early after our our last board meeting I left on my son's spring break not visiting colleges we went to three amusement parks and two caves on the east coast. So uh but um parcel tax oversight committee for Santa Cruz city schools. I'm a boardappointed member of that. Um, Scuzzba met with a presentation on AI and um,
096several districts spoke about their staff's work and appreciating the CSBA staff support or as they've been developing their own AI policies. So, it was nice to to hear that coming from the schools we work with. Celebrating our schools was great. Um, let's see. Last Tuesday was kind of a or this past Tuesday with the for the youth environmental education summit on Monday they had volunteer day so I was in the office just putting stuff together which was fun and then I attended the vibe coding training that was offered to our staff and Nick explained the story that people who aren't in the business call it vibe coding those who are call it whatever it was prompt engineering because that feels less insulting into their world. Um, it was amazing though. It was it was I'm
097gonna try playing with it. So, that was fun. And then the world language showcase, the highlight being, of course, the students, but also the superintendence poem that he wrote and recited. So, both both sides of that was it was a great poem. Um, now I'll stop there. >> Voting world vibe. Cody definitely has it. It's like demeaning of their work. Oh my goodness. >> Prompt engineering. >> Exactly. You're like, "Nah, I'm pass." Um, well, I had a light month mostly because both my husband at one or myself at one time or another were having some health issues. So, I was pretty low-key for the month. But I was really excited to join the world language um day at Harbor High and um amazing students, the bravery and just the creativity that they um that they
098shared and it's incredible the languages that are spoken as well as you know their learning for the first time is just so I was that's pretty much my report. Um and so with that we will go on to any reports from any ad hoc or standing committees. Do we have any any reports from Sh say at all? N. All right. Um so um item 15 has a list of our upcoming scheduled meetings. Our next board meeting is May 21st and so on. And with that, we want to thank all of um our staff members who stuck with us. We appreciate you. And with that, we'll adjourn. >> Thank you.