March 19, 2026 County Board Meeting

001And we want to welcome everybody. >> Roll call. >> Trusty A Costa >> Trusty Kyle >> here. >> Vice President Larson >> here. >> Trusty Roth. >> Trustee Sanchez >> here. Trusty Van Allen >> here. >> President Williams >> here. And do we have anybody um attending remotely? >> Excuse me. Sorry. Uh I have to do the student trustes. >> My apologies. Student trustee Gian Martinez. >> Student trustee Emmore >> here. >> Anybody that will be participating um with SB at 707 remotely. >> There have been no requests for remote attendance. President Williams. >> All right. Thank you. And for those who can and are able, we'd ask you to please stand as we do the pledge of allegiance that will be led by Superintendent Saboth. >> Ready, begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag

002of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Right. Wonderful. At this time, I'm going to ask if um we can have the approval of the agenda. >> So move it. >> You have a first and a second. Huh? Lunch. We're going to go ahead and take a small step back um and we're going to do our land acknowledgement. The land on which we gather is the unseated territory of the Waswas speaking up tribe. The Yamatmuden tribal band comprised of the descendants of indigenous people taken to Mission Santa Cruz and San Juan 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.

003And um I believe we have a first and a second for approval of the agenda. Those in favor I >> I. Any abstensions? No. Passes. At this time, we will open it up to public comment. This is the opportunity for the public to address the board regarding items not on the agenda. Um, each member will have three minutes on a specific topic. Um, do we have any requests for public comment? >> Yes, President Williams, we do. We have three requests for public comment. Starting with Sebastian Andriga Williams. Hello everybody. My name is Sebastian Drigo Williams and I am here on behalf of the countywide BSU and also on behalf of the race and equity committee of our school system. And I wanted to come here today to talk a little bit about our um advisor's

004history of the race and equity. And I wanted to first start in 2020 when George Floyd protest energized young Americans to demand and work for equality, fairness, and justice in our school systems. And that year that's when um the superintendent's adi student advisory on race and equity was formed to talk about you know the injustices that happen in our world and how that kind of contributes to our school systems. And now to elaborate on what I am here today to know speak upon with my fellow students right here is that we want to make recommendations to the superintendent on actions to ensure safe, welcoming and inclusive and supportive school communities for each and every student. >> Thank you. >> Next we have Leon Clark. Um okay so committee and recommen Okay so we um all

005right okay so committees and recommendations to board uh pass a resolution eliminating the use of the n-word and all hate speech revise the board policies on non-discrimination and harassment we have a copy of the Um sorry our resolution for each individuals of the board and for the um public. Um so we did group work um campaign and visual communication. Uh we had a slogan don't hate appreciate and also better work words and better world. uh students agree. We had a students agreement and pledges uh restorative learning and accountability education group uh PBIS lesson development board resolution and board policies and board presentation. >> Thank you. >> Next we have Pedro Nadier Camo. >> Hi. So my name is Pedro Camo. Uh, I'm a junior at Santa Cruz High School and I'm here representing Santa Cruz

006High Black Student Union. So, I want to talk a little bit about why does our res resolution focus on hate speech, specifically the Nword. So, students have not only made it clear to us, but to their teachers, their fellow pupils and their teachers that hate speech is an issue that is very real and that and that needs to be resolved. This issue, if continued, can form a culture that accepts and normalizes hate speech. Um um so yeah so our resol so our resolution specifically focuses on hate speech as it as it consistently impacts the culture and environment that it is present. This means that whenever hate speech is present the more it will be used and the more acceptable and normal it is considered to be. This causes hate speech to lose the intent behind

007it. And so as a result many students continue speaking it even though they do not mean to offend or have prejudice against anybody. Often when this begins to happen, as I have learned from personal experience, is that students of color begin to conform and accept this hate speech. Uh, which causes many mental health risks as well as it um at as well as well as it causes them to have to to sort of dislike themselves and be ashamed of who they are. Our resolution aims to kill this issue at its source and prevent this sort of domino effect from ever starting. If we are able to eliminate hate speech, we will we will give students the power to shape our schools and culture into something positive and beneficial for all. Thank you so much for

008your time. >> Thank you. I know we normally don't comment um on these items that are not on the agenda. Did you have some more to say or that we don't um we don't normally comment or make decisions or discuss? But I do want to thank you for bringing forth um this resolution. And although we can't act on it, we will be sure to take it to our committee of policies where we um can talk about integrating um your request here. Um and so thank you. It's we we always appreciate when students come to us with something that is important to them and we want to make sure that we're we're listening and we're we're understanding and taking the actions that we need to. this comment. >> Um, I would also really like to thank

009you guys. I have um seen firsthand and observed this happening and it really frustrates me and it's like completely inappropriate and I think what you guys are doing is a great idea and we definitely uh need teachers and schools to be more accountable for um all these people that are like saying slurs especially the nword. >> Thank you. Just more right. Thank you. Were there any more public comments for us this afternoon? >> No requests for public comment at this time. President Williams. >> Thank you. Um, at this time, we're going to move on to item six, which is our student trustees report, and we'll hear from student No more. Okay. So, this past month, I got to do um three major events uh that were pretty cool. So, the first event was um elevating

010LGBTQ plus inclusion for Santa Cruz County businesses and nonprofits. Basically, I got to speak to a bunch of local businesses about um sort of what makes a business feel inclusive, what like things they can do to make things more career friendly for uh customers as well as um you know the employees because I also share my experience working as an employee at um you know local businesses and what they can do to improve. Um, another thing that I was super hyped to engage in was the um 2026 Youth Civic Summit. Um, it was really cool. Uh, some of the things um were like that I got to do like I learned stuff that I previously didn't know or stuff added to my current knowledge. Some of the activities included uh giving pre feedback on our

011current government. Uh, I even got to speak to one of our supervisors on the county board of supervisors for our, you know, county and that was pretty cool. Um, I also really like I really liked doing a mock election, which I was very interested in. And one of the ones that uh got voted in the majority was uh 16-year-olds being able to like should we uh lower the voting age to 16 for voting in uh state like matters and the um everyone or the majority was yes. So, I thought that was pretty cool. Um, and the major thing that I would like to talk to you guys about today was I got to visit a lot of the alternative schools. Um, I would say the major problems or let me just say the major things,

012the good things first. All the students really like their schools. They like their teachers. They feel safe at school. They like their community. They feel like their needs are being met um with like their IEP 504s, like all that kind of stuff. Um, they really like their staff, which I think is like such a major thing at schools, and they, uh, feel like they're, um, like academically challenged in a way that's like not too hard. It feels good, and, um, they feel like they can ask for help if needed, uh, from the staff. Okay, now let's get to what needs work. Our major problem is food. The students hate the like school lunch that we provide, like the meals. they are calling it yucky and soggy and all these things and uh I don't disagree

013with them personally. Uh so every student except for um Cyprus uh had that issue but Cypress grows their own food and they have their own garden and kitchen so that is not an issue for them. Um but uh what the students would like is ingredients to um sort of make their own meals like for lunches. Some of the schools have like money for snacks, but that money for snacks doesn't last the whole month uh that they have that budget for and um the students can't be like just eating snack. There's a lot of food waste happening because the students like don't like the food and they're not eating it. So that's something we can do better on. Um, another thing that we need to do better on is we need um more accessibility for our

014students. Um, uh, one issue that we have in particular is at Star Community School, there's, um, a student there with physical disabilities who would like there to be buttons to open the doors. Uh, accessibility is really important. Um, and independence is really important for those of our students with um, you know, disabilities. And it's really important that we provide that. And also, there's another student there that has a fainting disorder, so they would like a bed to lay down on so they're not having to lay down on the floor, you know, when they pass out, which I think that's just common sense and we should definitely get them that. Um, and so for attendance, uh, most of the kids are like, "Yeah, I like coming to school now, which is why they have like better

015attendance, but uh, I talked to them. I'm like, hey, when you're not coming to school, what's the issue?" And a lot of the students they live kind of far from school or um like I know the uh for star community school they're like bus uh breaks down or um they uh just are not able to get there um quite right and um major issue for Cypress with their attendance is also being able to get to school. So, um, a lot of the students live all over the place and they don't have a reliable like means of transportation to get to school and so something I talked with them about is they would like a bus uh that could go to like the different counties and bring them there cuz they have like 70 plus students

016and I think it's appropriate for them to get um to school and it would definitely help with our attendance issues which I know for every person in school we get like paid and It's a big issue. So, I think it's important to help our students get to school with um a bus route. So, for the food, I talked with all of the students about this idea of um kind of making the list of meals that are provided, which I know some of them get their food from Harbor High, but the meals uh they can do like a survey about this is the foods I don't like, like please get rid of this. they can have an opportunity to leave a comment and give suggestions for food that they do like and also h have the

017opportunity to make a list of foods that they would like to buy from the store like to make their own food and also like I talked to them about there being we like us providing a class on food safety and handling that way they can get their certificate which could they could get credits for um making food and just I feel like that would be a great opportunity for them. Um, so I would say those are for like food. That's like kind of what's needing to happen and the students like that. Um, they agreed that that would be a good idea to do. So the students would like, you know, the ingredients for the food and also they would need a place to store it for like uh fridge spaces. And then the last thing

018I would like to say is um uh at Cyprus there are issues with slurs and racism. So um I think that's an issue kind of in general at a lot of these schools like I know it's kind like an issue at Esquila Katal and so it's also an issue at Cyprus um especially like saying the nword which we were just talking about. So I think uh those are like the main things I would like to bring up. Thank you. Um let's see here. Sorry. Um all right, we're going to go on to um item seven, our consent agenda. Um and if there are any questions or comments. If not, um move >> approval. We have first and a second. I >> I >> any nosensions? Passes unanimously. Thank you. >> If I could um just

019>> make a comment about Trusty Moore. I I just want to make sure that the board knows that we'll follow up with the recommendations that Trusty Moore has has put together. And I also wanted to share that Trusty Moore is going to have to leave early because he has uh been selected to receive a community hero award at the Warriors game tunings. And so if you see him if you see him depart a little bit early, he he's going to be uh uh being honored tonight. >> Is that what >> I think that's I think that's what it is. I believe that's the name of it. I'll check. I want to >> community champion. Sorry. Community Champion Award for for uh his efforts and on behalf of of the the queer students in in the

020community and um just just for being a champion for youth and for for uh for uh justice. Also, something I would like to bring up that I forgot to put in my report that I do want to bring up is um next uh Wednesday I am very happy uh I have the opportunity to go to the capital with other uh queer students in our county and we get to speak to um uh politicians about like legislature and uh like how they can help support queer people. So, I'm super hyped for that. Congratulations and good luck. Um all right. Um so uh correspondence are there any additional correspondence that came in after our agenda was issued? >> Yes. Um so I have attached into the board packet um updated correspondence that was received on March 16th.

021It is the email it is the letter from our auditors as well as the audit report findings. Um, so that was emailed to you on March 16th and added to the board packet after then. Okay, moving on to our reports, discussions, and presentations. Are there any public comments on any of our agendaized items? >> We will leave leave it open as well. >> No public comments have been submitted, President Williams. >> Wonderful. All right. So, our first um presentation 101 labor negotiation sunshine for Dr. Sav. >> Yes. Um, it is uh my pleasure to uh welcome Rory Bruce who is the president of our CSEA chapter 484 who's going to uh be joining us uh to uh propose well to sunshine certain items that will be a part of our negotiations and bargaining unit. Uh,

022as always, I I like to uh uh share with the board how um important it is for us to have a a a positive um and thriving working relationship with with our with our our our negotiating units or our bargaining units and just really grateful for the leadership that uh that that both CSEA and and our our teachers association are are demonstrating. So, uh Mr. Bruce, would you like to join us and uh and make this official? >> Thank you so much, Paris. I really appreciate it as and thank you all board members. I appreciate the opportunity has called this my annual pilgrimage to the to the speaker I call it um to come to the Hill and let you guys know I just want to say very briefly how inspired I am by everybody's

023comments from our students and uh tonight. Uh and that was really uh heartening. It really reinforces what we're all about. And um I'm here today to let you know about the folks that help support our students, the 170 or so members that we have in in CSCA where the um uh the California School Employees Association for our classified staff. Every year, as you all probably are aware, we open up two articles per contract. We open up paying allowances and health and welfare benefits. That's articles 11 and 12. Um they're fairly self-explanatory. Um article 11 pay allowances. Um we're proposing um a modest increase to the classified salary schedule that meets the recent increases in the cost of living to our members. We would also um like to increase the rate of pay for longevity increments

024from 2.5% to 3%. Um that's for article 11. Article 12, health and welfare benefits. All we'd simply like to do is propose a continuation of uh the annual 8% cap um on increases the cost of insurance and I believe that affects all of our employees. So, it's something that we like to share with the teachers and and and other staff as well. So, those are our two automatic opening uh things, but we also per our contract are allowed to open up two additional contracts. Um, and this year we're going to open up per member our member survey. We survey all of our members and we get all these comments back. Um, uh, this year the negotiation team uh p wants to pursue opening article 9, hours and overtime. We'd like to propose a two-week notice

025be made in writing to employees when their shift changes. So, if someone's working first shift, say in the maintenance department, and all of a sudden, you know, they have to take their kids to school, if they just need a little bit of notification, we'd like to propose a two-eek notification for uh for for changes uh to that. And uh we're also um we'd also like to propose since this article is open that employees all be paid out any unused compensatory time worked and the July 15th payroll. And I had a lot of support from our payroll department on that one. Um the other article um that we want to open up this year and uh uh is holidays which is article 10. Um, for years we've been talking about ways to honor the families and

026the people where our students come from. We have so many farm workers um in South County, people who their parents were farm workers, their parents want their kids to be something besides farm workers. We want to honor that. We want to honor the workers who have um really created this county. And so we would like to propose that um and I wanted to share before I say I'd like to share Dr. Ferris Sabas you know indicated how closely we we work together. So this past year we joined the holiday committee at the invitation of the administration. I just wanted to show you and point out how we cooperate so easily. We talked a little bit about this, but anyhow, we want to propose that we consider uh uh the farm workers day be included as

027considered as a potential holiday along with indigenous uh andor indigenous uh persons day to honor our community, to honor the people who lived here. Um we felt that that was a really strong statement we want to make considering all the political hoopla that we've been hearing in the news and everything. We want to show what our local roots are about and be more in in uh in tune with some of the other districts that have that have chosen these as as holidays uh for their employees and students. So asking for consideration. So I would like to again thank you all so much. Thank you for your cooperation. We're so proud all of us to be able to work here for the Santa Cruz County Office of Education. This has been for most of us some

028of the best opportunities we've ever had in our life. So, thank you. Any questions? >> Thank you all. >> Thank you so much, Rory. >> Um, we'll move on to item 102, Sunshine with Santa Cruz County Employees Association with Dr. Sepa with the introduction. >> Yes, thank you so much. So, uh, when we sunshine items for negotiations, there's always two sides. the uh our bargaining unit members identify articles uh for for negotiation and we uh uh also the administration also identifies articles for um for negotiations and so Becky's going to share the articles that we've identified uh which are the same ones we we always include uh as part of our process. >> Good evening Dr. Sabah, President Williams and members of the board. So tonight I'm going to be doing the COE's portion of

029the sunshine uh per the ROA act. So we want to acknowledge our great relationship with CSEA California School uh employees association chapter 484 and we would also like to reop to open article 11 which is the payment allowance and article 12 which is the health and welfare account. do this out of respect for the employees to show them how much we value all of their hard work and make sure that we have a really wonderful relationship. >> Yeah. Thanks, Vicki. >> Um, on to item 103, Labor Negotiation, Sunshine, Santa Cruz County Education Association. Dr. Sabot. >> Yes. Um, I'm sorry. Oh, wonderful. All right. Um, so, uh, as as we shared with our, uh, great partnership with, um, with, uh, CSEA, we also have our teacher association, which is Santa Cruz County Education Association. And,

030uh, I believe that Elizabeth Bernham Growl, who's are the president of our teachers association, has joined us. Um, also, uh, great pride in in the very positive working relationship, always working to resolve any any challenges that come up at the at the at the lowest level and and, um, really create a thriving, supportive working environment and and, um, and really to, um, honor the uh, the the amazing staff and teachers that that that uh, uh, are really the backbone of our of of our COE. So, welcome, Miss uh, Bernham Grow. Thank you so much for joining us on Zoom today. >> Of course. Thank you. Good evening. Um, thank you for those kind words, superintendent. Um, I have the honor of representing the certificated unit this evening, and I'd like to start by just expressing

031my gratitude, to Superintendent Sabah, to all of you on the board of education, to the administration at the Santa Cruz County Office of Ed, to our incredible support staff, and to all of the community members here tonight. Um, I'd also like to take a quick moment to express my family's gratitude for allowing me to Zoom as it allowed me to attend our youngest child's last middle school soccer game. Your commitment in encouraging and supporting a community, student, and staff centric atmosphere is part of what makes Santa Cruz COE such a beautiful and empowering organization. In these times, gratitude is powerful and our unit wants to lead with our gratitude for all of you. The SECA chapter 236 chooses at this time to exercise its right by law to sunshine the following contract articles for revised

032certificated employee successor successor agreement for the July 1, 2026 through July 30th, 2027 cycle. Article six, compensation and appendix I, the certificated salary schedule. Um, that's all we really have. So, if there's any questions, I'm happy to answer them. We just really want to express our gratitude for all of you. >> Wonderful. Thank you. Um, are there any questions from the board? You right. Um, moving forward, we have item 104. >> Yes. Again, this is um the administration's sunshining of uh uh for our negotiations uh process. And again, I'll ask for uh Miss Hulker to uh to sunshine the items that we've identified. you. So, we are going to be uh once again in negotiations with our wonderful the Santa Cruz County Education Association uh the teachers union and we want to open up article

033six which is compensation. We would that also uncovers the health and welfare. So, that's all within the same article. Then we would also propose to open article eight which is the certificated personnel evaluation. That's just to get everything in compliance. statutory regulations, make sure everything is fine. And again, I wanted to express my extreme gratitude for the relationship that you established with the unions. >> Thank you so much, Elizabeth. Thank you for your leadership and and for representing your your your unit members. And Rory, uh, thank you for your leadership and for representing your your your unit members. We it's an honor to to work with both of you. Thank you for those presentations and we'll move on to item 105 which is the 2026 exhibit summit recap. Dr. Sabah and >> yes uh I'm

034going to be introducing uh both uh Andres Ortiz and Nikki Vra who are going to be presenting uh a summary of the youth civic summit which took place just a just a few weeks ago. So this is very very fresh for us and we were so excited to be able to uh uh partner with some amazing partnerships which you're going to be hearing about and to create an opportunity uh for students to learn about to share to engage and to think about that civic process. Um it's I I believe that you would probably agree with me that this is uh there couldn't be a better moment for this kind of work and um our youth are so inspiring and and so passionate and it was wonderful to to share this civic summit time with them

035and and to learn with them and and to grow with them. So, we thought it would be great for the board to hear about this because we're hoping this is going to be an ongoing annual tradition and uh we want to make it bigger and better and and uh we're hoping to share a little bit about what that experience was. I believe um Miss Williams and Mr. Larson were there and were there am I did I miss anybody? So, thank you both for for being a part of this and and uh and and really being able to to share that moment with us. So I'll turn it over to uh to Nicar Andreas to uh give us an overview. >> Thank you Dr. Sabad and good evening president Williams and members of the board. Um

036it it is great to be looking at you all from this view with the beautiful new dis. Um I've been looking for an excuse and great to be here with our student leadership and engagement coordinator Andreas Ortiz who was our staff lead on this event. So before I hand it over to Andreas to tell you more of the details I wanted to tell you a little bit about our goals for the event and some of the history. Um, our goal for this event is really to provide a nonpartisan day of learning and empowerment around civic engagement to give students the tools and encouragement and empowerment to understand the voting process, their role in it, and some of the skills around voting in politics and how to navigate that environment of information and misinformation. This event

037actually has its roots back in 2017 um before I was here at the COE. That was when it was our office co-hosted it back then. Um, and it was a great event. I had a chance to attend. Um, I was at the Santa Cruz Sentinel at the time. Um, and you can still find that that article online if you're curious. Um, awesome event. And it went on until 2020 when we all know that the the pandemic disrupted many of these large in-person gatherings. Um, and our priorities shifted more to public health and behavioral health. Um, and we've been thinking and talking about bringing it back for a while and this year was the right year to do it. Uh, because we have an incredible partner in the clerk's office. Um, and there there's a lot

038to talk about that's new in terms of youth voting rights, some of the programs the state has launched and really the interest that we see from youth in um, in raising their voice and engaging in civic empowerment. Um, this was the right moment. So, that was really our goal. Um, but rather than than tell you more about it, um, let's for those of you who weren't able to make it, we wanted to share a quick clip. And if you could Oh, yeah. Go ahead. Press play. Oh, sorry about that. I came to learn about how the voting process worked and how I could get involved and make a impact in the place around me. I learned that you can pre-register at 16 and 17 and that the city council is open to anyone who wants

039to uh let their voice be heard. Next slide. Oh, I got the clicker. >> There we go. Um, so, uh, as you can see, it was a wonderfully vibrant event. Uh, lots of students. Um, I also want to, um, acknowledge our student trustee, Asha Moore, who was participating as a student, um, during the day, too. So, thank you for being a part of the day. Um, but I want to go over the structure of the overall event. Um, so we opened up with a keynote introduction 30 minutes long. Um, so as to not drag it out, one of our main missions was to was for the event to be more interactive. Um, you know, frequently when we get feedback from students about, you know, different activities that we host around the county. Um, the one

040of the common refrains is that, you know, they don't like to be talked at a lot. Um so after that introductory session um we then had the students rotate between three different breakouts. Um and as Nick mentioned this was very much a team effort. So um it was organizationally we partnered with the elections office uh with uh uh United Way of Santa Cruz County and of course Hartnell College which um I'm sorry Cababrio College wrong county um uh that provided us with the awesome space. So um aside from Cababrio College um each of the organizations hosted a different breakout session. So our breakout session the COE's uh centered around media literacy and helping students identify how to tell real information from fake or dis or misinformation. Um as well as how to identify where their

041sources come from. Um the elections office hosted uh a breakout session called elections 101 which featured a mock election um that students where students um got to vote on three different uh mock measures. Um and it was a really cool experience because they basically set up a voting center on stage in the Sampar auditorium. Um and it it looked like a very real voting center. So, the students, you know, came up to the table, um, registered, uh, they got their ballots, and then they went to their their voting stations, and they actually got to fill it out by hand and then turn it in, and then they got a little I voted sticker at the end. Um, and then the votes were counted throughout the day. Um, so we've got lots of pictures. In future

042slides, you'll see students, you know, putting um, uh, putting their their ballots in the box. Um and then after that we had um county clerk uh Trisha Weber answer questions um that students had about the election process and how votes are counted and then they actually got to see that play out in front of their eyes as uh members from the elections office went through and counted their votes uh during each session or each rotation. Um the other uh the the third session was um centered around the youth the children and youth bill of rights. So, United Way of Santa Cruz County brought in several local elected officials and um those elected officials took on a co-f facilitatorship role um where they uh led students through the children and youth bill of rights um and

043answered questions that students had about not only the the um Bill of Rights itself, but how students can be civically engaged if for some reason they cannot vote, if they're too young or um due to their uh citizenship status, right? How can they still be a part of uh the civic process in in in their communities and >> got disconnected? >> Oh no. Do >> you mind go to the next slide first? >> There we go. Thank you. Um so a little bit more about student participation. Um we were able to get all four secondary uh high school districts um to be a part of the event. Um, so I we threw their logos up there, but as you can see there there were uh many schools that were able to join uh and be

044a part of the day including uh PCS and several of our alternative education programs were represented uh throughout the day. Altogether uh we had about 29 students from uh just from our programs alone. Um overall we had about 150 students. It's kind of hard to tell. Um, you know, we base that number um off of the amount of votes that were cast in the mock ballot, but you know, certain student groups get there late and so on and so forth. Um, but yeah, uh, we had about 150 students. Um, and uh, it was a great day and so we look forward next year to having all comprehensive high schools and then growing that number even more. Um, our goal I and Nick will get into this in a in a few slides, but our goal

045for next year is about 200 students at the very least. Um, next slide please. All right. So, these are just some photos like I was saying of students participating in the various breakouts. Um, that's the So, the photo in the middle is where students uh registered and then the one on the upper left hand side is where students actually got to fill out their ballots. And then the other three are from United Ways breakout where um students got questions answered by local elected officials. I believe the one on the bottom left is uh Trusty Williams there talking to a group of students. Um you'll you'll see it bigger when you see this when you see the slideshow. Uh next slide, please. All right. And so um actually I'm going to turn it over to Nick.

046So Andreas mentioned the mock election and one of the things that I really appreciated and respected about partnering with the clerk's office as Andreas mentioned is how official the setup was. So this election was certified with the signature of our county clerk. It was cast on official ballot material on the actual paper and electronic ballot options were provided as well. So this was the full election experience and students were voting on three issues um which I'll just tell you in brief were um lowering the voting age to 16 as you see um that that measure carried with 75 to 66 with one over vote which as we know is when um somebody marks two um two answers on the ballot. And the second question, measure B was allowing redistricting outside of the dennial census, which

047we know has been a hot topic. Um, and students there voted no that they believe that that redistricting properly belongs within and following the dennial census. And finally, a ban on cell phones at school, which we know our state has recently um taken an opinion on. And here students perhaps someone unsurprisingly voted that they would prefer to keep their their cell phones and I think back to you. >> All right. >> Um so we did get um some feedback from the students uh which is necessary in terms of helping us shape and adjust um for future events. Um we had several learning goals tied to the day. Um and so I just wanted to share a few of them. uh most of our learning goals centered around the individual breakout sessions themselves so that we

048could gauge how effectively um students are retaining the information. Um but this uh this one I thought was particularly interesting. So um after today I have I have a better understanding of the election and voting process. So as you can see with uh based on the graph um we had about 60 respondents which um which I I consider to be a success but of those 60 respondents 90% of them um agreed with this statement. And then um there's a really cool quote here that we pulled from our comment section of our feedback form which says I really enjoyed being in an environment that has been listening to me the whole day and understanding my perspective. Um, and I think that just really encapsulates um, you know, one of our main goals of having uplifting student

049voice um, and having their perspectives be heard by, you know, not just their school administrators and their teachers, but the decision makers in their communities, the the their community leaders. Uh, next slide, please. Okay. And then here's another one. After today, I have a better understanding of youth rights and civic participation. Um, we had more than 93% of respondents agree with this statement. Um, and I I I think that that right there to me encapsulates like the success of of the day. Um, we really, you know, want students to understand not only how they can participate, but the different ways that they can participate and how to navigate through the systems. You know, so often we have students that, you know, they, as we know, they have um, you know, really big concerns and and

050and they're really great at articulating those concerns. And I think one of our goals as educators is making sure that they understand how to work within the systems, our democratic systems to enact um that change and to have that change be longasting and not just short um that something that can be, you know, overturned or changed in in a few years. So, it's that's that's really encouraging to me. And then I love this comment uh from a student that said uh best non-amusement park field trip I've gone on. So, I consider that five stars. Thank you. Next slide, please. And I'm going to turn it over to Nick. So, where are we going from here? Um we had a lot of excitement both from students and our partners. We had a recap meeting um with

051we've talked to our three partners and we are all excited to bring this back in 2026 27. So we're already looking at dates um in in possibly in February. We have yet to confirm it, but we're very excited to continue this tradition and build on it. Um and our goals for moving forward are really to listen to the student feedback. We had extensive student feedback that Andreas summarized some of um as well as from our partners and also just to now that we have replanted this flag, you know, we lost some institutional memory since 2020 um and we didn't get it on the district's calendars until the summer. So, um our goal is really to um work with all of the school districts and all the local high schools to give them more of an

052opportunity and make it more accessible for the schools who were there and some of the schools who weren't to send even more students next year. Next slide, please. And you know, I we would be remiss to if we if we didn't um thank the the many people who contributed to this. We mentioned our partners, Cababrio College, United Way of Santa Cruz County, and the elections department and clerk's office. Um but we had also more than 35 volunteers, including two of our trustees. Thank you both for being there. um and more than 12 other elected officials um as long along with our student trustee Ashmore as he mentioned in his update um and of course our planning team here at the COE um Andreas myself and our superintendent Dr. Sabah who um among his strategic leadership

053I just want to point out um ended up driving students back to campus when one of their buses canceled. So, they got a they got a ride from the county superintendent um which which I'm sure was another great >> I don't know how much they appreciated it but it was fun for me. >> Depends what kind of music you were playing >> but we appreciated it. So, so just thank you and I and I also just want to close by saying thank you to Andre Ortiz again our lead planner um on our staff who has really been working this since the summer on all the outreach um and the details around managing an event of this size. So, great job and thank you Andre. And of course, happy to take any questions. >> Yeah. Um,

054I'll leave it up to the the the trustees that weren't able to make it and ask questions and then we can hear from us. >> I am really pleased that this is happening. I can remember back in the dark ages when it was sponsored by a uh political party and um it was even back before the split that we see today it was difficult to get the students. So I I'm really proud taking this on you know being having more love This looks just fantastic and I would have loved it when I was in high school. Um, I'm hoping I can go next year. So, I look forward to great presentation. Thank you for bringing this back. >> It was as good of an event as they uh made it seem. It was The energy

055was great. I only got to attend two of the breakouts, but they were both well done and handson and just the students were engaged and it was great. Um, just looking ahead to next year. Love that you did the survey, you're getting the feedback from the students. Are any students going to be involved in the planning of the next one? >> That's a great question. Um, we have of course consulted with students um as part of the planning as as we do, including our student trustees. we didn't have them involved in the planning team. Um, there are some scheduling complications to that, but I think it's always something we're interested in and open to. So, we'll take a look at that. >> Um, equally, thank you for the presentation. It kind of brings it I

056mean, the one thing I didn't know was what the goals were and it sounds like you guys accomplished them all. It was I did 10 back I think in 2017 2018 as a volunteer handing out books, free books. Um, so I was really excited to see it come back and um, and I think it was a success in the sense that the students were really involved, really engaged and I had the benefit of being able to just kind of go from, you know, each of the events and each of the sessions. And um I thought it was particularly interesting um during one of the voting sessions that I went into that you had a group of students before they were voting. They were all discussing it and you're like you could hear like no I

057don't think it means this and you know and they would they were discussing and I thought this is amazing. It's getting the conversation going. Everybody gets their opinion heard and then they make their own decision. Um so I think on so many levels it accomplished everything that it sounds like you wanted to accomplish. So congratulations and we can't wait for next year. Thank you. >> Thank you. Great work. >> See here. Okay. So, we are going on to item 106, the Santa Cruz County Office of Education. The second sent I'm sorry, second intram financial report. Um, and we'll hear from >> Excuse me, President Williams. Um, I just wanted to share with the board I have uploaded the civic summit presentation to Eastcribe. Um, as well as the presentation you'll be hearing next. So, if

058you want to follow along in Eastcribe, that's available. >> All right. I'll I'll uh introduce Becky uh who's going to be uh uh starting and I believe we'll have some uh other members who are helping out with the presentation as well. Correct. >> They can do a song and dance if you'd like. >> Oh, okay. I guess not. All right. All right. do take requests any >> so our second interm is as you know an important milestone when it comes to our budgeting process and it's it's that milestone that really looks at the budget through January 31st and uh gives us kind of a progress update as to how well what we're doing we update our our uh the numbers of of our revenue and expenditures and and really get a clearer picture of of

059how the year is coming along and it also provides updates for our for kind of the our three-year window, our multi-year uh kind of projected uh uh budgets for the future. So, uh we're ready to share that information with you today. >> Yes. Thank you again, Dr. Sabah, President Williams, members of the board. We're going to talk about the 2526 second interim. First, before we get started, I want to just give a big thank you to our internal department who has taken so much time and effort to put all the numbers together. So internal business it consists of Natia Ambrosie, Tara Lee Sha Placencia, Brook Roso, Michelle Kennedy in the lovely coral and Melissa Lopez in the lovely floral dress over there. All this long and hard work >> they are just giddy with excitement

060that we are finally done. >> So the budget process I want to go through a few topics for today's meeting. It's going to be the budget process, the overview of the second interim report, key differences that existed between this report and the first interim, multi-year projections, which is how we're looking in 2627 and 2728, what's next, and what the recommendations are. Think we am lying to you. I got so apologies. So the budget cycle so just to start off so you're aware of how the budget goes. We are adopting the budget in July which we've already done. We go through our first interim which is actual December. This is what we call our second interim. So this is actuals through January 31st. So we are going to be looking at how we are expecting to

061spend the rest of the year. Based on the information that we have available please the various certifications available is positive qualified or negative. Positive means that you will be able to meet your financial obligations in the current plus two fiscal years. qualified is a may be able to meet your financial the current plus two fiscal years and a negative is a >> so I apologize so uh trusty Larson shared that I hadn't up I didn't reset the slide so there was an extra slide there um I assume I don't know if you want to go back to it or or just move move forward >> no that's okay I think it so the uh apologies the negative certification will be may not be able to meet or sorry will not be able to meet your

062financial obligations and current plus one. So they're only looking at the current year it's the third year out it's always going to be a qualifier. We just don't have a lot of visibility into that far out. Next slide is I keep looking at that TV that keeps going green. I apologize. So uh we do have a positive certification. We are happy to say that we have uh every confidence that we will be be able to meet our financial obligation in the current plus two and this is including reserve for economic uncertainty in all three years and the board has approved a resolution to actually set our reserves at 5%. State has a required 3%. We have agreed to go a little bit above that because as you know 3% is roughly two weeks of expenditure.

063not very much money. So, normally what you're looking at with reserve for economic uncertainty, it's about cash flow, a little bit extra on hand in order to be able to meet your financial obligations. So, you have a 5% reserve and then of course we have a positive ending cash balance and all. So the summary of the updates that we have going to be going through a lot of these in a little bit detail on some of the future slides but just to give you the high level overview we updated our interest earnings we updated the school-based medical administrative activities this is a pass through we are what's called elect the local education system which means we get money in from the for this program and we distribute it to all of the members around not

064only our county but surrounding counties part of our lack. So, this is not money that we actually get to keep, sadly enough, but you will see changes in our budget because we're still recognizing revenue and expenses. Special education, we had some prior year adjustments. So, there were some changes there. The student support and professional development block grant or what we started have affectionately been calling the spud bug. We had some money come in for that for the 2526 fiscal year. the community uh schools and partnership program have a bridge grant which is from the Sacramento department of education. This is also serving as kind of a pass through money comes to us and we are sharing it with throughou and then we have uh increased participation in our new teacher program as well as the

065outdoor science school which caused a little bit revenue change. Next slide please. just to do the highlevel overview. We're going to start with a combined general fund for fund one. And if you want to follow along on the Sachs report in the form 01, I believe it's on page 45 of your but we're going to look we're mostly comparing it between first interim and second interim. So starting at the top of column two or which is D in the SAX report is your second interim. is the revenues that we're projecting projected to come in at 78.219 million. The total expenditures and transfers out and that mean transfers to other funds is 81879 million which would result in a deficit spending of 3,659. Then we have a beginning fund balance of 48,746,000 and after the deficit

066spending it will leave us with 45,886,000. So I say all of that as to give you a kind of starting point as you're comparing it to first. So at first interim we had slightly lower revenues. So, we have increased our revenues by $538,000 and we have managed to decrease our expenditures overall by $872,000. So, this net effect created a change in the deficit spending of 1.4 million. So, we are projecting to deficit spend a little bit less than we had been. That will create an increase in ending. Some of it isn't restricted 74,000 and then this is going to go on just the unrestricted side of the budget. So that one was everything. This is just the unrestricted side. So again starting the second column which is the second interim we are looking at total

067revenues and transfers in is of 31* 35,4,000 total expenditures and transfers out of 38,353,000. So a deficit or projected deficit at this point of 2.9 million with the beginning fund balance of 30,93,835. This will result in a projected ending fund balance of 27 and 109,37. I keep using the words estimated and projected because we are still not quite through the entire so the difference if you go to the far right column revenues are projected to increase 1.1 million as compared to first interim and a lot of this is coming down to as I mentioned the schoolbased medical that money was going in there as well as the interest and then we had a slight reduction in the need for uh contributions So results in a slightly higher. And then we did total expenditures and transfers

068out which was a decrease in spending of 200 and that resulted the com combination of the two of those resulted in an increase to end balance of one. So this is the restricted side of the budget. So the restricted side of the budget changed just ever so slightly from first interim. So first we were projecting 43,350. We are now projecting 42,770,000. The total uh expenses and transfers out for second interim in the middle column there is projected at 43,526,000 which would result in a deficit of 756. This is slightly down from first which was projected at 830,000 giving us a net change to our ending fund balance of 743. So some of the um items that go into this budget. So we are looking at the assumptions for not only the current year but for

069the two outy years. So those outears we have to look at what we have done with negotiations. So as you heard we have just negot column in there. So right now certificated step and column is estimated at 1.3% and classified as 1. These are the projections that we are using budget. Stirs is in there at one at 19.1%. FUR rates uh change each year and they are estimated at 26.81 26.4 and 26.9%. Health and welfare estimates right now we are looking at a 7% increase. Those are in the budget. And then we have also adjusted for any one-time dollars. We have some grants firing the outear. They're removing. And then the cola that we have decided to use, as you are all aware, the state issues the cola changes throughout. Some of their projections go

070out many years and they are it's a little bit volatile. So we decided to be a little conservative and use a 1% cola. go on to the next slide, you'll see some of the rationale for that. So, this is what the COLA kind of looks like through the course of its lifetime, so to speak. So, if you go up to 2526, the middle column there, starting at the top, way back in 2324, the January proposed budget had assumed that the cola for 2526 would be 3.31. Then each time that the the state releases a new iteration of the budget, they adjust it accordingly and it can go down, it can go up to based on the information. So the cola actually consists about six different pieces of information. It takes until April of the current

071year to actually gather and finalize those. That's why some of these numbers are a little bit more volatile cycle. So in 2526 although we had started with a 3.31 we actually ended up enacting the budget at 2.3. So that's why we decided to be a little conservative and just moving on to the next slide. We are the other assumptions we're using is what we call our funded ADA. So as you know we have the the ADA is either going to be based on current year prior year or three prior year average that was changed back in 2324 for county offices of education. Districts actually were able to use that bit of a buffer back in 223 and that created just a slight softening of the decline they were seeing. them a little bit longer to

072adjust. Well, gives us a little bit time more time to react. Starting at the top, you can see alternative education. We closed last year with 96 students. We are currently at 896 students for the year. We are projected to decline 866 for 267 and then 850. Special education is projected to remain flat for all of the years and these are the district students that are attending Boston and then career advancement charter. Right now we are looking at at remain relatively flat from between 2425 through 267 and then projecting to increase and countywide as you know countywide a lot of the districts are declining in enrollment. While some of them may be declining a little faster than others again with the three different options EDA is being calculated, it does give them a little bit more

073time to adjust. So the estimates that we have right now are the three prior year average or whatever is the most effective for each of the districts. We do have a few districts that are actually in this point in time. We are projecting about a 2 to 300 EDA decline. Next slide please. So this is the three-year unrestricted section second interim but we've already looked at 2526 for all of this and this is how we are proposing 267 and 27. So you can see starting at the top we will be having seven a 20 million beginning fund balance. That is how we had are expecting 25 26 today. So looking at the revenues we have a slight decline in revenue in 2627 that is due to the slight declinement for LCF program and then the

074expenditures and transfers out slight decline based on sometime expenditures that we have removed from the budget. We have a deficit projected at 2.9 which would leave us with an ending fund balance in 2728. We are expecting revenues to remain relatively flat at 33.8 million. Expenditures are projected to also remain relatively flat at 36 with a projected deficit of 2.8. leaving an ending fund balance of 21,396 estimated restricted side of the budget. This one you'll see a little bit uh bigger swings because we have a lot of one-time programs and 27. So we have already talked about the first column which is the 2526 budget. the 2627 budget like as I mentioned the revenues have declined that is health grants wellness grants and then the expenses are also kind of but not quite carryover that we're

075spending out why you can see the deficit spending We also have in there that we're projecting to purchase the property at at 119 Beach Street. That is still projected in 2627. Then in 2728 we have a total revenues which are relatively flat a slight decline because we are projecting another program to be ending. Project descent is projected to end in that year. The revenue sorry the expenditures are projected 37 million,000 slight decline programs ending. We have removed with resulting in a deficit of 3,2 balance of 7,800. So the next slide please both of these. Next slide is the special reserves for economic sorry special reserves for other than capital outlay which is our concept. As I mentioned earlier the board has a resolution that sets this at 5%. This is where we actually right now

076for 2526 we have 3.7 million in there. We are projecting 2627 to go up slightly to 3.8 million and 2728 to be at 3. And these numbers will be screwed up at the end of the year when we close the books to ensure there's 5% reserve. >> So I want to go over the uh criterion standards. So as you are aware that we refill out the criterion standards that basically judges our potential report against certain levels. >> Yes, of course. >> I apologize that was an old slide that wasn't updated. It was for a different presentation. Yeah, >> you're so there are slides that were shared with you that were actually skipped uh which is that's why they're not appearing but that's by that was done uh >> confusion >> apologies. Yes, >> that's that's

077okay. is would there be a time where this would be this particular slide would be updated with the current information diving into unrestricted or any of the desk deficits. >> We yeah absolutely we can certainly do that at adopted budget if you want to see >> perfect criterion and standards. So, as we're going through the criterion standards, as I mentioned, we fill out all of information and the state has its own levels of what they call dashboard checking to see if we are within certain ranges and if our def spending, if our revenues, everything adequate coverage. it on form uh CI which is the certificate of interim name to basically say have you met or not met each of these dashboard indicators. We like to highlight which ones that we have not met just to

078kind of tell you exactly what is going on with these. A lot of times the not met does not mean anything other than either add data that we didn't have before could be something a slight change. So just to start at the top to kind of where we are with this dashboard data. The very first one that we had as a not met was the ADA for current or subsequent year changed by more than 2%. At first dinner there was a typo for lack of a better word. We accidentally entered information into the wrong cell which made our ADA look like it was declining at second. Was just a clerical error. So our ADA has not changed since first. The second one is number six which is the deficit spending unrestricted deficit spending exceeds the

079standard in any of the current. So we have the the state has its own metric for how much we should be able to be deficit spending. We are slightly ahead of that. So we are still very aware of our deficit spending making sure that we are doing the next one the S5 is contributions changing by more than 20,000 and by more than 5% in the current or two subsequent years. So actually in this particular case we reduced our deficit spending over what it was at first interim. That particular case it is showing up as a not met because even though it was a reduction it is still wants me to shut down. So, we will just speed through the rest of these. So, um yes. So, even though it was a reduction, it is still

080giving us the not met category. County offices. So, 7A S7A county office provides post-employment benefits. We do. We provide an oped for our post-employment benefits. And then A3, the county operations grant ADA is decreasing in both prior and current fiscal year. That is also true as we have said that there is a lot of declined employment throughout Santa Cruz County in the top five statewide. And then A5 is a salary increase exceeds the state funded cost of living adjustment or the COLA. And that is because the COLA for the state came in at 2.3% and we had a 5%. Then of course the change in CBO superintendent and that was because she's off enjoying her retirement in Hawaii. So the next slide, what is next? The governor's proposed budget is going to come out for

08120167 is released in January, but the May revise actually is coming out usually about the middle of May about May 14th and we will begin at that time to understand what the f further impacts of the changes seven will be. There's still a lot of negotiation going on at the state level. And then we're going to continue to ongoingly monitor the revenues and expenditures as well as any other information that we can build the budget. You remind me on the formula for the house. work with the we get to choose each year which of >> it is the greater of >> oh I see >> it's always the greater of so the calculation actually does it for you current year your prior year average it's always the highest calculation No, that was just a newly

082enacted report used to be current year and prior year and then based on the pandemic a lot of people were stuck. So then legislation was passed back so far unless the legislature changed. So just to one of the one of the benefits of that is that it slows down the declines but your if you do have as your numbers go down your average and your highest will will also go down. So it slows it down but it's still it doesn't it doesn't prevent um the losses as a result of the planning enrollment. >> Thank you for the budget committee meeting. I think that was two days ago. So that was great. Thank you. Um, wonderful presentation, very clear. It was easy to follow. Just uh, thank you for that. Um, a couple things early on

083in the presentation. The le from out of the county or where the le for out of the county is that both Monteray and Santa Clara or one of the >> Exactly. It it's Santa Cruz, Monterey, Santa CL. It's it's uh I honestly don't know what the whole parameter is, but they a lot of the districts can choose to join. They have to be part of a LE. They can choose to join the LE of their area in order to receive this school-based medical administration. Yes, it is a very wide area. I believe it's region five. >> Oh, so it's okay. It's larger. And then the outdoor science increased participation was just is that for this coming year or for this year? >> The current year. Yes, it was just a little increase. It was believe

084it was about $50,000. So, >> okay. >> A few more schools that were able to >> but we are anticipating increases for next year because the um Santa Clara COE has has renovating their facilities and so we're looking at if we're we would have the capacity to absorb some of those students. Um, and I uh heard that California and Oregon are the only two states that have this kind of I don't know if that's true or just a rumor for my Oregon daughter. >> I'm I'm not sure about other states. Yeah. >> Yeah. And I forgot to mention the presentation was great. The only thing was the expectation that you were all done at the start of it when it's a continuous cycle. So you get maybe one day break then you're right back at

085it. >> Melissa has we'll go back to this uh to this >> never ending cycle. >> It's never ending and it's very possible you're currently living in two to three years at a time. >> Yeah. Um and then you know some future discussion items when it's a an innovative program like Ascend and we are knowing it's grant funding and we're looking at a sunset of that grant funding. What's the appropriate transition and manage with that? I know you're probably thinking about it already. >> Yes. Uh so that is a five-year grant and it does have the option to renew the ascend program and so we're hopeful that uh with the successes that we're having that we'll be able to renew it. those restricted uh programs that uh that Becky presented on the restricted side, many

086of those funds are, you know, are are in fact expiring and those big reductions are as a result of of them sunsetting. And so uh when we hire people with with those grant fundings, we'd let them know that uh they're hiring can be contingent on uh availability of of funding and uh and but we do we've done a pretty good job and we have a pretty good track record of bringing in funding. In fact, our um over the last uh 5 years or so, our our funding has has increased significantly as a result of many many of our efforts to bring in additional grant funding to provide more services. So, we're we're uh hopeful that we'll be able to continue to do that. >> And then on kind of the flip side, saw for the

087career adult charter that enrollment goes up and projected in out year two from 200 to 235. That's positive enrollment. Is there a new program that we're seeing coming to fruition then or just has you had great growth over the last year or two and that that continue future years? >> Yeah. So, um if if when you have time, go to our data portal. We actually have a a section uh on engagement and shows the the um uh the increases and there it is very impressive the increases in enrollment and we recognize that there's 30,000 people in Santa Cruz County who don't have a high school diploma and so we anticipate that that's >> great. Thank you and thank you for the committee meeting too. If I could give a shout out to to Becky and

088our amazing business services team uh both Melissa, Michelle who are here with us and and all the other folks. This is uh you know part of it is a cycle. So there's it there's never a time when we say, you know, it's it's uh uh it's really harder now than it's always the work continues, but it's very important work and we're really grateful to the met meticulous work that uh goes into preparing um ensuring uh that you're able to maintain your fiduciary responsibilities and and uh and oversight of the budget. So thank you so much to our team. student. >> All right, thank you very much for that. Um, we're going to go into um our new business in action and we have item 111 um the 2020 2627 student program calendar. >> Yes. Um

089so part of our our process is of course every year to bring the the uh the calendar for your review and approval. Uh this is there are a few changes that um in this calendar that are a little different than what you saw this year. Um so the first day of school for 26 27 would be on August 6th for our COE. Um there is a a oneweek break in November. So for uh for that Thanksgiving uh week and um and a 3-week winter break which is uh different than the twoe break we had this year with the one week in February. uh that was we were trying to match one of our districts and uh we feel like uh everybody agreed that the three-week break in the winter would be a better solution for

090for our families. Uh so uh spring break is aligned with almost all the districts in the county and uh we would uh because of the earlier start in August we would anticipate our our graduations ending at the in the end of May and um the you of course received a a u copy of this um and we're happy to take any questions. >> Everybody taking Um it it is a popular option. So I would say most, but um I'd have to check to verify if everybody is doing it or not. It's become a more popular option over the years. >> Yeah. >> All right. Um >> you need a motion. >> Yes, we need a motion, please. >> Option 627 COE in a second. Second post voice. So all those in favor >> I oppose

091passes unanimously. Thank you. 112. All right. So we have resolution recognizing April as national bilingual multilingual learner. Um this was brought forth by our um team. I always get that part wrong. Um and so um this particular um board resolution recognizes April 20 26 as National Bilingual Multilingual Advocacy Month highlighting the value of multilingual learners um stating that 40% of the Santa Cruz County students TK through 12 um students um promoting educational equity. The resolution also commends the Santa Cruz County Family Engagement Collaborative for supporting all of these students. Um and uh let's see here we have um highlights diversity students speaking 50 plus languages most common Spanish Mandarin and Arabic um affirms strengths of multilingual learners as assets to our community and future global citizens. emphasizes six or emphasizes equity and access to ensure

092academic success and biiteracy and multi-iteracy development. Um also showcasing the COE efforts of professional development and educators, ELAC toolkit and family engagement resources and events like the World Language Showcase. And I think I had like a comment on this one. So I'm just going to look really quickly. Um, and I know that sometimes we recognize in some of our resolutions um, some of our um, youth um, le programs. And so I think at least in our in the bullet points we're recognizing the multi-use multilingual youth um, taking action and annual showcase um, as al as well as our seal of biolitery. So I wonder if we should note that also in the resolution. >> Believe it does. I I believe that. Uh can we check to verify that because I think that's why the bullets

093are here that that that means that the resolution in fact >> it it it is showing >> all of all of what is reflected in the bullets is in the resolution. I don't believe um so the multilingual youth taking action has been um is kind of in a transition year as um >> a different student group. So, I don't know if they're specifically named because of the recent name change, but the world languages showcase that they >> All right. Perfect. Okay. All right. If there's no questions, comments, got a motion. Oh, >> we are doing a roll call vote. Trusty Kyle. I >> Vice President Larson. >> Hi. >> Trusty Roth. >> Yes. >> Trusty Sanchez. >> Trusty Van Allen. President Williams. >> Yes. >> This is unanimously. Thank you. Our next resolution 2612 in

094recognition of National Child Abuse Prevention Month. And um we will be recognizing child abuse and neglect as a critical community issue requiring collective action highlights the role cross- sector partnerships in education, health, community organizations, law enforcement and families. Also affirm commitment to the prevention through education and awareness and supportive environments. And we also want to acknowledge that the Santa Cruz County Office office of education u mandated reporting training established reporting procedures and collaboration with the county family and children's services. Are there any questions? I just had a comment which I support the resolution obviously that um been so painful how much see in the news about people and it's primarily men using children whether it's violence or abuse or or sexual attack. So all the more reason that we should be speaking out about this

095and making sure that we are doing everything safety for awareness self-defense a whole bunch of things and some of it is tricky because it's you know it means reaching right into families right into work situations but I think we just have to this is extremely serious and it's damaging people has been for centuries whatever but we shouldn't continuing it. So, I there's been so much news just lately such as this. I'm just I'm in pain and tonight. >> I agree. I'll just say plus one on that. And I'm really appreciative that the um the COE continues to provide education and identification um training for teachers and staff because I think that a lot of times that's where you know students are met you know and identified and so I really appreciate that aspect. second. Um,

096Jesse Roth and we'll do a roll call. >> Trusty Kyle. >> Hi. >> Vice President Larson. Hi. >> Trusty Roth. >> Yes. >> Trusty Sanchez. >> Yes. >> Trusty Van Allen. >> President Williams. >> Yes. Uh moving on to item 11.4 resolution 2613 recognizing April as National Arab American Heritage Month. Whereas we're recognizing the significant contributions of uh Arab Americans across the sectors including in education in business, government, arts and technology. We celebrate the rich cultural traditions, values, and diversity that strengthens our communities and acknowledge ongoing challenges including the misconceptions and discrimination of anti-Arab hate, civil rights concerns, stereotyping and bullying, emerging concerns tied to recent federal policies and immigration impacts, and emphasize the importance of education, awareness, and inclusion to combat bias and promote equity. And we affirm a shared vision of safe, inclusive,

097diverse society for all. There any comments discussion? Yes. >> In the committee meeting, I proposed an amendment to the second whereas which is highlighted in yellow here. So that's in >> um if it is not in the handout then you need to make a motion to >> wasn't it? >> Yes. Trusty Van the comments um that you've made um have been reflected on the resolution. They should be highlighted. >> I believe that's the wording you >> the since migrating tonight to the >> Yeah. So that's what I want. >> Yes. Okay. Then it is reflected on the resolutions. >> This original phrase just was Yes. It currently reads since migrating to United States, Americans of Arab. That what you were looking for? >> Yep. >> Want to make sure it was in? >> It is.

098Larson and roll call. >> Trusty Kyle. >> Hi. >> Vice President Larson. >> Hi. >> Trusty Roth. >> Yes. >> Trusty Sanchez. >> Yes. >> Trusty Van Allen. President Williams. >> Yes. >> Unanas. Thank you. Our next um item 11.5 resolution 2614 recognizing Earth Day as and environmental education week. Whereas recognizing Earth Day um as April 22nd, 2026 and environmental education week, the week of April 19th, we're highlighting the importance of the environmental education, sustainability, and student engagement. We showcase uh COE's efforts, including green classroom initiatives and a countywide student participation, green classroom celebration at STEM Expo, and the youth for environmental action summit led by students. Affirm that the need to address climate change pollution and environmental inequities especially impacts and underserved our underserved communities. Notes emerging concerns due to recent federal policies, funding

099and staffing changes and encouraging sustainable school practices that support both environmental impact and cost savings. We also recognize youth leadership in advocating for advancing environmental stewardship. We have any comments, questions, discussion. >> All right. No comments and discussion. Can I get a motion >> and a second? And Trustee Sanchez. We will have a roll call. >> Trusty Kyle. >> I. >> Vice President Larson. >> Hi. >> Trusty Roth. >> Yes. Trusty Sanchez. >> Yes. >> Trusty Van Allen. President Williams. >> Yes. All right. Pass this unanimously. Thank you very much. And we're going to item 11.6. And I'm going to pass this over at this time to Trusty Van Allen. Thank you, trustees. We have a set of policies or actually board bylaws um tonight that all revolve around our meetings um notices, how the

100public's involved, how we conduct ourselves. And two of these are being updated. Um they were bylaws we already had and they're being updated in light of changes in the ED code and so on. And then we discovered references in one of them to some of the others and when we looked at them it made sense to us to recommend those as well. Um and so that we're sort of presenting it as a package. Um the board has the option to either adopt only for first reading and bring them back next meeting or to wave the second reading. That is what I recommend to adopt them. waving the second read unless anyone has questions or things that we actually the topics to um that are discover that are excuse me covered I think are fairly clear

101to everyone as to what they're about. One of the um big changes was in the one about remote meetings um and spelling out in a lot more detail about how that there is also a a not sure if it was changes in the law but changes certainly in the way we organize our policies. closed meetings in particular. Um we are now um requiring forms for closed sessions um that spell out more clearly um and they're in the packet um what the reason for the closed session is and and how they work and who made that. And this was part partly for the sake of the public and also for clarity with our own. If if you want I can go into each one sort of hoping everyone had a chance basically how we as a

102board pick up clarification just to make sure I had no quibbles with any of the concepts and the reason Why? I just wanted to clarify in the cover memo, the two that are stated as not adopted, those are kind of the new ones. Those affected the other ones that have the yellow highlights. >> It was that the one that we were going to be changing referenced other board policies that we didn't have and we went and took the CSBA >> adopted. >> So like board committees says not adopted and there was nothing highlighted in that one. So, was that a brand new policy? >> Basically, we didn't have a bylaw. >> That's okay. >> That's just what I'm clarifying. So, >> that's what not >> those two are new and they impacted the other ones

103that have highlighted changes. >> Actually, four, but yeah, Bernice, did you want to add some? >> I was just going to share the same thing. Those three, it's three um bylaw 9130, 90 9320.1, and 9321 close session complete CSBA sample adoption. So there are no highlights but we do not have them. >> Perfect. >> There any other comments or questions regarding any of these? >> I would make a motion to Oh, you made the motion to present them as a first and second reading. Is that correct? >> Yes, that' be my motion. I'll >> second it. And can we get a roll call vote? Trustee Kyle. Hi. >> Vice President Larson. >> Hi. >> Trusty Roth. >> Yes. >> Trusty Sanchez. >> Yes. >> Trusty Van Allen. >> Hi. >> President Williams. >> Yes. >>

104Thank you. Passes unanimously. Thank you for all of your help for that. Did a lot of work on that for us. Um we're going to go into item 12 of the superintendent report. >> Yes. Thank you so much uh President Williams and members of the board. I just wanted to give you some updates uh about some important news related to our schools and also some updates about our programs. Uh there was an important decision in March 2nd uh known as the Mirabelli vibbont decision. This follows another uh Supreme Court decision Mahmud v. Taylor that have impacts on the rights of parents as it as it relates to um the um their ability to be able to direct and guide um the uh rights and services for u LGBTQIA plus students in our in in our

105schools. And so I wanted to share this with you because um we are working on guidance as uh because they're these decisions which are complicated because it's layered with multiple layers of courts and stays um but they are they they do provide us some direction as to how to um uh how we how California law is going to be influenced when it comes to student privacy and student rights. uh the the voice and power of of parents in guiding the schools and and providing those services. So, I just wanted to bring that to your attention. We're working on some guidance that we're going to be sharing that we're getting from a variety of different sources, including the California Department of Education uh to be able to to um implement and ensure that uh we are

106fully compliant with uh with the California law as well as these these decisions by the by the Supreme Court. I want to share with you that I attended the um uh the break groundbreaking of the new housing facility, the first in Santa Cruz County, which is Santa Cruz City Schools. Um they passed a bond to be able to create to build about 100 units uh which will be uh utilized to rent out at um 60 to 70% I believe of market rate uh for educators in the county. Now they shared uh that 95% of the employment uh kind of refusals when you when you offer a job to somebody is as a result of housing situations. Many times people from outside of the area accept a job or uh and then come back and say

107we can't actually afford to live here. And so their hope is that uh this is the beginning of a measure to be able to uh create opportunities for for folks who have livable uh facilities that that will allow them to stay in the Santa Cruz city schools. We're also excited that the the Power Valley School District is looking at at uh uh you know some some housing for for educators. uh ways off but uh one of the one of the things that they're looking at >> um I did want to also share with you a survey that uh was has been making the news which is that 45% of California teachers sharing that they plan to retire in the next 10 years. Um as we think about uh we have declining enrollment which means we

108are going to be needing less teachers but in many cases uh those teachers are not evenly distributed. We have a big uh demand for special education teachers, bilingual teachers, math teachers, art teachers, and um and so we are concerned what this means. We're the number one state in in the union when it comes to the numbers of of of uh uh percentage of of teachers who are planning to retire. and it uh emphasizes the importance of the work that we have been putting in place um our different programs to create opportunities for people to complete their bachelor's degree for people who have completed their bachelor's degree to get funding to be able to get into a teaching credential program for those to get teacher residency opportunities to be able to create that pipeline. And last

109year we also launched our uh first educators for high school students to and so we are going to be expanding that program this year. So, we're uh doing our small part to try to address this, but we recognize that this is a big challenge that's going to have uh long-term impacts on on educational system. I did want to share the good news as well that Bransford Middle School and SoCal High School are being recognized as the 2026 California Distinguished Schools uh by the California Department of Education and uh very excited for uh Santa Cruz City Schools. and also to let you know that the the deadline for um uh you to nominate somebody uh whether it's a classified staff member, a counselor, a teacher, an administrator, or an organization is is by March 20th. And

110so uh so it's uh tomorrow. So uh we encourage you to consider doing that before the deadline and and uh because we're excited to celebrate with these folks and it's it's one of the highlights of this board meeting in in May when we celebrate with them. Before you move on to the next item, going back to the Santa Cruz um housing, um >> can you talk a little bit about um what if any the COE was involved in any of that? >> I would say that um our support has been you know this really was a bond measure. Um I was one of the signitories and supported of course the uh the bond measure. This was really as a result of community support to get the funding measures K and L which were um what

111brought the funding to uh Santa Cruz City Schools. And so I don't think we can take credit for any of it but absolutely been supporting this and and encouraging districts to look at uh utilizing bond measures for for this. It's impossible for districts to be able to um fund these kinds of projects out of their their LCFF local control funding formula funds. that has to come from from community support. And so I think this is one of those creative ways that uh that school districts are um are and now that we have a model, I think um uh Chris Monroe, the superintendent, is is talking to other school districts to help them understand the complexities of navigating the system of of building. Um you know, you still have to work with with the department of

112state architects. Most of the districts do have property. We don't have property to a large degree. Some of the districts have large amounts of property. And so as declining enrollment uh continues, the spaces on on those properties are are are you know, and that's a that's an important uh savings as as uh you know, as part of this process. So um so I think uh our our role has been to be cheerleaders and to be a support and and to encourage the passage of these bonds as well as to facilitate um uh the um kind of helping to to um uh kind of the wisdom and the learning that has that has come out of this these this process is to be able to encourage other districts to do the same. an opportunity as um

113us as individuals and as a board to support these type of bonds for our teachers and um students. >> Absolutely. Yes. And I think that the that this this idea that as um our federal government um steps back from supporting our communities that the need for local community involvement and engagement and uh uh is more important than ever. Our schools are more important than ever. Um so uh just some just a little tidbit of some program updates. I wanted to share with you that we are um partnering with uh Cababrio College to uh launch a certified nursing assistant program uh in the fall. So we're really excited about this and this would be completely free to the students who are able to do this. It's it'll be a short-term project that will not give folks

114a livable wage right off the bat, but it will help people um on the um on uh to get into the nursing program. It it gives you more points in the lottery system that Cabrio College has to get into, which is a very impacted program. So, we're very excited about that and more information to follow on that. Um Rishiilal has been working um with all our schools um as our director of school safety. uh the standard command response. This is the where we um uh call for a lockdown or uh we we um talk about evacuation or you know it's a system of of safety and and how we respond to emergency situations. We're excited to share that all school districts and um even our schools uh uh in Monterey County, so like uh Hall

115District and and Pajaro and Aloney schools are all now utilizing this one unified system. So, all law enforcement agencies in Santa Cruz County, every school district in uh in the in the county and every school, including the ones in Monterey County, because we worked with law enforcement on the Monterey County side as well to um align all our systems. Um so, we're excited about about uh our progress in having a unified safety system. I want to share with you that next week is um AI literacy week and we feel it's important for our our schools um our educators to learn about AI, the challenges that that um uh and concerns as well as developing the skills necessary to to utilize um the the the benefits of it in in educational setting. And so, uh, there's

116lots of opportunities next week for for folks to for educators to participate with our technology and innovation, uh, team to learn about AI tools and and, um, and and what it looks like in the educational setting. We're also excited uh, about a collaboration between our family engagement team and our ed services team. um they developed uh resources for schools to implement um ELAC uh tools for their and ELAC is a English learner advisory council which was something that I had to do when I was at the at aptas high school as a teacher. Uh these are monthly meetings for teach parents of of multilingual learners or English language learners and these are required meetings. Um and it was always a challenge as a teacher to know what to do and how to engage families. And

117so um the our uh Denise Pitman Rosas and Barbara Hunner developed a uh collection of resources to make it uh extremely easy to have very engaging very uh uh family voice centric uh presentations. They went to uh Cababe which is the um the conference uh California bilingual education conference and um and it was a huge hit and um so we'd love to uh share those resources. We're really excited uh about this being a model for how we can make work easier and at and um by delivering highquality resources to our to our uh education community. And so this is something we're really excited about. Um, also I wanted to share with you our alternative education. Our students from Cypress went to a field trip to the MoMA in San Francisco and uh we continue to

118create lots of engaging exciting opportunities for students. We believe that learning doesn't just happen in the classroom and that uh we want to uh ensure that we're we're creating as many opportunities for students in a variety of different learning contexts. Lots of exciting events. This is a very busy time for for us not only in the business services office but also in uh in our other departments. So our steam expo uh which is we are really thinking it's evolving into this very exciting family uh family event that is going to be with lots of opportunities to have fun and play and learn and also there's a science uh the the science fair as well as uh invention convention and a variety of other uh components. So that's on March 28th. We have our annual celebration

119this year on April 2nd, which is where we'll be celebrating our school community. This is the big uh party, if you will, that uh celebrating our students, celebrating our community, talking about our programs. We have um uh Erica Padia Chavez. Um we also have uh Vicente and uh and Ash who will be presenting as our student trustees. Um and uh I'll be and also uh Mink Brooker from Miss Mink Brooker from uh Parro Valley High School will be there as our speakers. Um and it'll be at Sequoia High School. So we would love it for you to be there and to be honored and and recognized for your your uh your the important role you play in supporting us. Um our world languages showcase is April 14th at Harbor High. our uh youth for environmental

120action summit on April 20th and fashion teens on April 24th. And that's just one month worth of exciting activities uh to share with you. Would love it for you to be a part of that. And I think that is it for my updates and I would love to I'll entertain any questions that you may have. >> Thank you. All right, we're going to go into our um trustee reports um where we each give an update um of our activities for the month. Um I started that way last time. I'll go this way this time. Um all right, so a busy busy month for March for me. Um mock trial finals. I continue to be ever impressed with our students who are so professional. I cannot believe the things that they can memorize and just present

121just beyond impressed. Um the civic summit, we all heard of the presentation. It was exciting and I was happy to be there. Um also attended um the Santa Cruz City Schools parent leaders meeting. It's basically a them covering the ALCAP with their their parents. That was uh very um great information. Unfortunately, it over overlapped with the CSBA budget meeting, so I'll have to put that up a little bit later. Um we had the um agenda and policy committee meetings. Uh ALCAP training um offered by Pler County Office of Education that was that was great andformational. I believe Trusty um Larson also attended um and a couple of events uh her story um that was co-sponsored by the COE. always a great event um honoring women who are doing amazing things in our community. Monarch Service

122Gala and a participant at the CSBA legislative week. Um I missed the first with uh Senator Lair, but was able to um log in for assembly member Don Addis and um the wonderful all-informative training with an escribe. I love the new system. Thank you so much. Um, and that's my report for this month. >> Certainly the highlight was the escribe training. So, >> so thank you. Look forward to uh using that for everything. I'm turning in my COE iPad and just using my laptop and it'll be great. So, I'm going to kind of split this and start future even and go back. Um, so I'm on the ACE planning committee. I mentioned it. We just spent two days this week up at a our first our only in-person meeting planning the fall session. There's 15

123members. I'm one of two county board members helping to plan the conference which is going to be early December down in San Diego. I promise you it will be great. Um we did work through the strands. We're still refining the language, but there's six strands. There is going to be a real focus on trying to make sure as many of the strands are open and of interest to county board members as well as student trustees as well as executive assistance and just trying to to reflect all of that. Um I learned that the they didn't tell us till after they'd fed us lunch that the real work comes from having to review all the session proposals that come in. But the one perk we get is we get to just encourage people we know to

124submit proposals. So any proposals that come from any board members or the Santa Cruz County uh COE or even school districts in this county, I won't be evaluating just to keep it clean. Um but I do want to encourage all of our districts to submit proposals and the opening date for that will be next week on the 30th. So or week and a half on March 30th. uh is the opening date for that. Um let's see. Uh the week before I attended the CP CSBA Spring County uh conference um which it was titled governance. It wasn't so much on governance. It was more on foster youth this time. Foster and homeless youth. Um was most of the the sessions and speakers which was fascinating. and I shared some materials with the superintendent. And then there's

125a series of breakouts on transfer appeals, disciplinary appeals, um getting a one of the gold awards that we got a couple years ago. Um yeah, the golden bell rules um and legislative and budget advocacy. the day before, which was the real reason I went, is they've launched the first county masters in government's training for the first time in several years. And I know our president was also interested in it, but couldn't make it. They may be opening it up for a hybrid to catch up on the first session. So once we get the details on that, I'll circulate it through staff to the full board if any of you are interested. It was very, very interesting. It's four all day sessions. Um, and I will tell you, they also announced, and we should be getting

126official notice within a week or two, that the bigger county uh governance training session will be September 24th and 25th in Marina del Rey. So, if you want to slot that on your calendars, that's what's coming up. So, kind of two weeks busily involved with CSBA. I won't mention things that others have already mentioned. uh universal prek community forum. I attended as a volunteer actually, but it was a great program and just seeing all that the COE does to support not only preK and and and kindergarten, transitional kindergarten, but preK as well. in reaching out to child care service providers and just the the learning about how statewide TK is impacting impacting preK because they've basically lost a quarter of their student population basically that hopefully now in public schools and great reasons for doing

127that. I'm not questioning that at all but it was great just to see the enthusiasm in the room for what the COE uh brings forward to that community. Then going to right after our last meeting uh that Saturday was a very busy Saturday. Attended the Latino role models conference uh that morning just as an observer. Then that afternoon at the resource center for nonviolence there is the year of the firehorse honoring our local Chinese American legacy. And then that last and that night, uh, my family went to see Dream Girls put on by the African-American theater arts program up at UCSC. So, it was a pretty pretty busy day. The next day, Sunday, attended the Five Branches open house. While it's not in our jurisdiction at all, it's a pretty big educational services provider in

128the county. And I thought, since I'm now getting acupuncture for my knee, I might as well learn what it's about. So I I went to that open house and then uh Coastal Watershed Council also hosted a firehorse celebration at 418 project for uh other local Japanese or Chinese American leaders. Stop there and I'll try to get back to written reports next month. >> Thank you. >> These guys are impressive. Mostly this month I got busy with other work but the policy committee and the resolutions committee policy committee is in gear now so we'll be back >> uh I finally went >> oh I'm sorry I also I just have to add >> yes >> good and he's a master of it and he's good >> I think that guy sitting He wasn't in my training.

129>> I heard there was some support there uh towards this coming forward. Um I finally saw the mask uh you live in that was presented up in Scots Valley and I certainly hope that we do this every year. I was I was I talked about it for probably two weeks. uh pretty incredible and it was well attended out there but more maybe um the board uh budget committee meeting. Thank you you uh escribe and I'm only having one problem. Uh I can't find out how to annotate. hours. Hours. No, >> that's why I didn't have as many questions. >> Yeah. Well, anyway, I I really appreciate that we are using it and uh it's a very fine addition. Uh, I too saw Dream Girls and I thought that it was uh quite uh a production

130uh for UC Santa Cruz because it the number of black students up there is not great. You know, there's not a huge amount. But the interesting thing that was reported was that UCSC was the first group in California or in the university system to have a black u performance art uh group. And I think that yeah, I mean I just what? So, and then uh saw a crazy thing called Newsies uh with I think a hundred kids up in Scots Valley. It was a local production, but they used students from all over. It was really cute, but I think the director was crazy. I mean, but no, I mean to undertake something. She had two complete casts of children because they performed over several weeks of the time. Oh, thank you. I attended the annual

131your future is our business lunchon which was the same day as the civic summit and I'd already RSVPd so I went to that one. Um I attended the semmitus advisory committee meeting where Dr. spas as well. I attended my first CSBA legislative action visit with Senator Leard this week. >> Um, and then we had our budget committee. I attended uh it's been a while since I've been to one and I don't know why I don't attend them more often, but the uh COE all staff meetings, highly recommend it. It's I don't know, it's just a good environment to be in and to get updates and hear what's going on, being able to I really enjoy like the breakout sessions that that happen as well. Opportunities to get to know each other, opportunities to de-stress a

132little, disconnect. Uh I just think they're all well done. So uh I know there's a lot of staff that goes uh thought that goes into it. So thanks to everybody who puts that on because it does feel like it helps me stay more more connected, right? Like I wish I knew more I could be more involved and and those COE all staffs are convenient because it's virtual one and um they happen pretty frequently as well. So attended that one last week and again encourage everybody to attend if you can as well. For the uh ACCBE uh there is they're starting to do in-person conferences. There is the next one is in Southern California Riverside April 10th 11 a little bit far. The one for Northern California is May 16th and 17th and it's in Yukaya.

133>> It's a little far. But I am very happy that the people, they call it the true north, right? Like we think of North California, uh, Northern California, you think of like the Bay Area, but there's a lot more California that's up there. And, uh, smaller counties in terms of population, but still COE's up there. So, I'm I'm really glad that um they are holding, you know, inerson events up there for uh people who typically might think it's too far to travel to the Bay Area. So, happy that that's happening. And then also, you know, again, virtual make uh that's also very convenient. There's two that are coming up that I wanted to mention. Uh April 23rd is uh literacy in action. Then April 28th, county board role in building whole child supports. So, if

134you have time, again, they're both virtual. They're both at 7 PM. Um, I recommend or highly suggest that you guys uh sign up for it. And if you forget to sign up or if you can't make those times, all of the virtual meetings where they do have certain topics like these are archived. So, you can go to the ACCBE website after the fact and take a look at them at a time where it's most most convenient for you. And that's my report. I see Larson has one thing >> following up on. I promised last year I'd judge at Steam, but it's also spring break for my two kids at college, so I'm going to miss Steam this year and it was a highlight for me last year. So, I won't be able to do Steam

135this year. But uh the other thing I will be able to do remotely and it kind of follows on the superintendent's report about Supreme Court rulings. I've been invited to join the Bay board for those of you who know Baycheck and I'll be attending next week virtually for my first time as a board member. And for those who don't know, it's the the leading uh LGBTQIA+ civil rights advocacy group um for the broader Silicon Valley region. I'm excited to join that board >> for all of those reports. Um thank you for sharing about attending um Jesse Sanchez about attending the COE all staff meeting. I didn't think it was a thing for me to join. So thank you. I will I will log in now. I'm excited. I always see it on my calendar. Was

136like, ah, that's for the staff. They don't want us there. So now, now I'm gonna now I'm going to join. Um, all right. Um, are there any reports from our standing committees or ad hoc committees? Okay, we'll move on. Um, so our scheduled uh meetings and upcoming events, our next um board meeting is April 16th. Um and then um on the on your packet and also on escribe you'll see all of the dates um listed. And is there any last comments? >> Well, I have kind of a a vague one. Okay. I was at a party or a lunch over in Santa Clara and this woman who works for uh which I didn't know works for Santa Clara County um started talking about us over here and how innovative we were and anyway I said

137well I'm on the board she said anyway she really commended us and she was speaking mostly to DK and migrant workers and she said we were blessed. >> Yeah. >> I said come on over. >> Thank you. That's a nice >> Thank you.