February 19, 2026 County Board Meeting

001Good evening everyone. We want to bring to order the Santa Cruz County Board of Education regular board meeting. Welcome everybody who is here in person and online. Thank you. Um we're going to go ahead and start with our roll call. >> Trustee A Costa, >> Trustee Kyle >> here. >> Trustee or Vice President Larson >> here. >> Trusty Roth >> here. Trustee Sanchez >> here. >> Trusty Van Allen. President Williams >> here. >> Student Trustee Guan Martinez >> here. >> Student Trustee Amore, >> you have Cororum. >> Thank you very much. Um, do we have anybody um for SB77 that will be participating remotely? >> No request for remote attendance, President Williams. >> All right. Thank you very much. At this time, we're going to read the land acknowledgement. The land on which we gather

002is under the unseated territory of the Asawas speaking up tribe. The Amoten tribal band comprised of the descendants and indigenous taken to mission Santa Cruz and Sanwa Batista during the Spanish colonization of the central coast is today working hard to restore traditional stewardship practices on these lands and heal from historical trauma. At this time, we'll ask Dr. SA to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. So, if you can enable, please stand. >> Ready? Begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. At this time, we are um going to um approve our agenda. But but before we do, I have a requested change of order. Um we would like

003to move item 11.1 just before item 10. Can I get a motion? >> So moveification. Second. >> That was to adopt with that. >> Y second. >> And we just avoid >> abstain. No. Passes. Thank you. Okay. So, next we're going to move on to the public comment. This is an opportunity for the public to address the board regarding items not on the agenda. Is there anyone in person or online? wishing to make a comment. >> Seeing no requests, President Williams. >> Thank you. At this time, we're going to go into our student trustee reports and we'll ask um Venta Gon Martinez to provide his report. >> Um I don't really have a planned speech, but I could give some upcoming events and events that I've done. Um, well, first and most importantly, it was

004my birthday, so I'm finally happy birthday. >> But I've had I've had a lot of appointments and stuff like physicals and driving license stuff to do. So, I've been pretty busy. But, I had a student listening session again at this time at Watimo High School. We had pretty good amount of students there. And um we talked about one of the most things that I remember the most. We talked about like the students wanting a water fountain and then we got a water fountain. So um we saw a pretty good turnaround from the two trustees that were there. Um, and then also I'm going to be speaking at the No Kings protest um for March 28th. March 28th I'm going to be speak. They asked me to speak so I was like, "Yeah, I'll do it."

005And been very busy with school and scholarships and stuff. Pretty much it for me. Thank you. >> Thank you. And happy belated birthday. Uh, which of the no kings will you be speaking? >> Um, I pretty much think it's going to be the one they're going to be downtown Watsono. 28th downtown Watsonville. >> Thanks. May see me there. >> All right. Um, next we'll hear from student trustee Ashimmore. um this past um sort of month, the major sort of community event that I did was I did an event of why you should care about gender affirming care and that was pretty cool. Um, basically we talked about what it's like um, gender affirming care and why it's super important for there to still be gender affirming care for everyone and sort of there were some

006like political leaders there and we just were able to talk about like personally my experience you know with gender affirming care and just a lot about what's going on. So that's exciting. And then um coming up next month, I will be able to get a tour of our alternative ed education sites. Um I'm also going to be doing a uh elevating LGBTQ plus inclusion for like workplace and um businesses event. So I'm excited about that. And then also um with I think it's the queer youth something. I'm uh Rob Darl invited me to go to the capital to um speak with policy makers and that's uh next month on the 25th and so I'm going to be doing that. I'm super excited to do that. >> I believe that's with the queer student union. >>

007Yeah. >> Amazing. Thank you very much. Thank you both. Um student trustees >> question if I may or comment. Um, I was at the reaffirming uh, gender care and Ash was being very humble in his presentation here, but he was one of four panelists to the room full of people about the importance of that issue and your remarks were very impressive and much appreciated. >> Thank you, Trusty. Um, okay. Uh item number seven, our consent agenda. Are there any questions, comments? And I get a motion. >> So moved. >> Second. >> First and a second. All those in favor? >> I stayain motion passes. >> And President Williams, maybe I should have made my comment before. I just wanted to throw out two kudos. one for the new minutes format, including the votes and all

008of that was was great. Thank you. And then also the comprehensive school safety plan. Every detail we could ever want is in there, which is great because it's that important. Um, and the trends were all good and I greatly appreciated staff presenting not only the current state, but how it fit into the trend line. That just makes it easier, I think, to review as a board member. Excellent. All right. Um we have moved um item 111 to our next. Do you have something? Oh no, my apologies. Um we have also um item number nine, correspondence. Do we have any additional correspondence other than what is in our packet? >> Yes. The only other additional correspondence um that was not included in your packet was an email from me regarding your form 700 completion that is

009due April 1st. So that was my also friendly reminder to complete that. >> Thank you for those reminders. They're extremely helpful. Right. Right. Okay. At this time we're going to do um one item of new business. Our resolution 2604 authorizing execution and delivery of certificate of participation. At this time, we're going to hear from Dr. Sabah and Michelle Kennedy. And >> yes, I'd like to welcome Michelle Kennedy, who is uh working with us in the uh business services uh department as well as helping us with uh maintenance and operations and doing an outstanding job there and kind of uh with a u one of the skill sets that uh Miss Kennedy brings is knowledge on construction projects. And so, uh, Miss Kennedy is helping us with, uh, the project at SoCal High School, uh, which

010is the, uh, development of, uh, of the new facility for our special education students. And so, we'd like to welcome her and thank her for for being here. >> Okay. Hi, good evening board, Dr. Sabah. Thank you for having me. Um, so this evening, I'm going to be doing two present or two resolutions for the board to approve. This first one is in regards to our cops loan. Um Leanne had previously brought forward uh to the board that we were going to need to go out for bridge financing until our financing came through from funding for the state for previous projects in the current project. So there's kind of three pathways we're going this pathway for this current resolution for our cops loan. The second pathway will be later for another resolution so that we

011can go into contract with the Sonio which is the firm that we selected to do our lease lease back. And then the third track that we're on is the additional funding from the state for modernization and new building funding. So kind of three paths at the same time. Uh thankfully I have our partners here. Joe Crump is from uh Dale Scott and they are the company there are our financial adviserss who are helping us put together this bridge loan as well as DWK who are the attorneys that we're working with on each of these projects together. So, uh, tonight I want to bring forward is our next step in the process that we need the board's approval for this resolution so that we can go out and accept the $7.5 million. That's what we're anticipating

012right now. We're actually hoping it'll come in less for the completion of the project, but we would like the board's approval to go forward with our cops loan at the 7.5 million. Um, and so that we can go on to our next spot, which is starting our building project, which hopefully, fingers crossed, we'll start working. This actual work will begin in about April. Um, so I'm here to answer any questions the board might have, and Joe is here to answer any financial questions I might not be able to answer for you. Uh, so is there anything the board has? >> I had a few, but I'll leave it up to open it up to the other trustees first. >> Does anybody? >> Great. Um, not really any question. Just thank you for all the information

013and two quick stories. Um, I've been involved, I think, in five cups before, all from the municipal side and never as a a policy maker, always from the staff side. So, it's interesting to see and read the documents from a different perspective, but they were all familiar structurally to what I've seen before. Um, I did focus on the preliminary official statement. I find that is kind of where it all comes together in terms of how we're presenting ourselves to the world for this this debt issuance. And it looked like what I've seen before and I was pleased to see the expertise um the county office is relying upon. The only irony is I've managed a couple redevelopment agencies in my career and I was aggressively against the taking of redevelopment funds, but now it's great

014to be on this side where we're getting to benefit from them to pay off this debt. So >> yes, we are from a school district's perspective, we are very thankful for redevelopment fees. So I don't really have any questions or issues um but comfortable with what was presented from other board. >> Um I just had a few and it's probably a little in the weeds so I apologize if it is. Um so the is this particular debt is it callable? like is it something that can how am I trying to say it? Um is it callable? Is the loan itself callable? And if so, when? Like is there you know can it be called back? I mean is there anything that would prevent us from like maybe paying in advance or any are there any

015restrictions? Are there any restrictions if we don't use all of the funds? Is it preventing us from using it in other capital projects? That sort of thing. >> So, I'll answer part of that and then I I will let Joe answer the second part of that. Uh the we made sure that we structured this loan in a way that there is an early termination or an early payoff. Um one of the things that we really wanted to make sure was that payoff didn't it could be in increments and not in a one lump sum at the end of a particular year. So that way we can pay additional amounts when that time comes or if our bridge funding comes in that I mean and our our I'm sorry our state funding to pay which state

016funding could take anywhere from 5 to 10 years as we've talked about in the past if that's going to come in and this loan the duration of this loan will last in that time frame. So yes, we've built in some safeguards to be able to pay off early if that that need arises but then leaving us the option of the full amount of time if our state funding doesn't come in in time. and then I'll let Joe speak to some of the uses which come up. >> Yeah. Uh thank you Michelle. Um yeah, I think Michelle's answer covered a lot of that. Um maybe getting a little more into the weeds. Um as some of you may know, um having a call provision is very standard for any municipal bond or cop or lease. So

017typically there is what's called an optional redemption provision which is usually 10 years. Um so in the numbers that we have modeled so far this may be subject to some some changes but the current optional redemption provision is 2031. So it's six years shorter. But then the idea would be there would be what's called an extraordinary redemption provision which is a separate item and that would be subject to the um the subsidy payments I think you're expecting to receive. And so that's kind of a more restrictive call provision, but it usually is repaid by subsidy or any kind of funding you're expecting. So I think the idea behind that is that would probably be three years um or the timing would correspond to whenever you expect the funds. And there's different ways to do it.

018I don't think a determination has been made. Maybe one way is make um the last few payments subject to that. So then you kind of shorten the term of the loan. Uh you could also make it so that all of the maturities are subject to that redemption. So you kind of call part of every maturity. Uh there were kind of pros and cons to how we structure that but there will be that real really short maybe threeear call provision. >> Let's see here. >> I think that answered most of it and I just Yeah. And I know that we've been talking about this for some time so we're prepared. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate that answer. Thank you. >> Is there any other questions? Okay. >> Sorry, I have a question. >> Yes. >>

019Um, I just wanted to verify that was this passed through our >> it was actually a late arising item that the came to the agenda committee to add to the agenda because of the April 8th deadline. So it hasn't gone through the finance committee which the finance committee for the COE typically focus on budgetary issues and while this will certainly play in the budget when that comes forward there wasn't any preemptive budget action necessary by us other than the approval of the resolution. In a previous board meeting, we had brought forward the um to the board that we were going to enter in and the board approved that entering into looking into the funding and this became then the next step of the board approving us now entering into contract basically if you would call

020it that for to draw down on the funding and finalize. >> That was the portion that I recalled. Yeah. >> All right. Do we have a motion? like to move resolution 26-04 authorizing the execution and delivery of certificates of participation etc. 11.1 second. >> Wonderful. Thank you. Can we get a roll call? >> Student trustee guan Martinez. >> Hi. >> Student trustee Moore. >> Trustee A Costa. Trustee Kyle. >> Hi. Vice President Larson. >> Hi. >> Trusty Roth. >> Yes. >> Trustee Sanchez. >> Yes. >> Trusty Van Allen. >> Hi. >> President Williams. >> Hi. >> Motion passes. Thank you very much. >> Thank you very much. And I'd also like to thank um Santa Cruz City Schools, their board, and all of their staff because in cooperation with the the school site and the

021district, we've been able to make this project come forward. So, thank you. >> Thank you very much. All right. Going into our reports, discussions and presentations, we have um 10.1 our LCAP midyear report um by Dr. Sabah and Dr. Gonzalez. >> Yes, thank you so much. Um like to uh welcome Dr. Jen Gonzalez to um the lectturn to provide the media report. This is a kind of a newer uh aspect of the local control and accountability plan. Um this really has come up with um from concerns that have come up in the past statewide about wanting to make sure that um that we didn't wait till the end of the year for board members to hear about what's what's happening with the LCAP process because the LCAP process really is a year- round process with

022with the staff working on different components throughout. And so this is a this is a midyear update. Um and we're gonna help uh uh Jen is going to be giving an overview of the process itself and how we're doing in um in when it comes to our alternative education program. Uh next after that we'll be um uh Sony Gerasansen who will be presenting about the the career advancement charter. So uh welcome Dr. Gonzalez. Thanks so much for being here. Can you hear me now? >> Yes. >> Okay, perfect. Wonderful. Um, so before presenting anything with regard to the local control and accountability plan, it's important we root it in in two main things. So, first of all is our alternative education schoolwide goals, which is um that we assist students in their journey to be

023more curious, conscientious, and confident. We developed these through our WASP process and it really emphasized our goal for lifelong learning um helping students grow into civic engaged civically engaged um conscientious individuals and to have the confidence to take the next steps in their lives. Additionally, the foundation of everything we do is um within our strategic plan for the county office of education everything is aligned. We are the largest department in the COE but we collaborate directly with um our vision for everything we do in every department. So it is the court and community school LCAP mostly. However, it represents our county office of education. So um briefly and just to say I um couple years I use similar slides and I revamped it this year. So if I hesitate it's because it's not the exact

024same slide deck I used last year. tried to make things a little bit more fun, a little bit of AI, um, and a little more information as we have new trustees and we have new student trustees. So, the LCAP, just to review, it is a three-year plan. We are coming to the end of our second year of this three-year plan this school year. It identifies goals and actions for our programs. It's aligned with all other plans. I'm sure you know and you're not surprised, we have many other plans aside from the LCAP that we write. Um, and the LCAP is sort of the the largest one and the forwardfacing one. Uh it outlines our funding from the local control funding formula and it requires districts county office of educations um to increase and improve services

025for what the state calls unduplicated population which means socioeconomically disadvantaged students, foster youth and English langu language learners. All right, the LCAP cycle. Wow, this slide looks a lot better than last year. Beerus helped me to redesign the little circle here. So as as Dr. First of all, I mentioned the LCAP cycle never ever ever ends. You are in it in every season of the year. So, let's go back to June. It never ends. It never ends. So, really, if we started the top right quadrant here in the summer in June, we um adopted the LCAP. >> And like I said, this is going to be the end of the second year. you adopt the LCAP and you reflect upon the past year and then you make predictions on funding and goals and actions for

026the upcoming year and of course we can't predict the future uh which is why we go through this cycle of implementation in the fall and then as Dr. Sabon mentioned although it's one more, you know, requirement that we have to do, I kind of like the midyear update because it really act has us reflect and then see, oo, this is exactly where we're at fiscally and programmatically. And then before you know it, I will be right back up here again in June to go through the full year and then to project about next year, which will be the end of this cycle. And I like the Kermit the Flo frog in the middle there. Um, and this is beating a dead horse here. Sorry, not if I can say that anymore. But, um, mid-year LCAP

027background essentially in 2023, it was it required that we do this. Okay. So, what are we going to talk about tonight? We're going to talk about available um, progress on metrics as well as our actions and expenditures. It is completely normal to not have complete data at this point because we are not at the end of the school year. So you will see things where it says in progress and you will see in some of the metrics we already have it for example the dashboard that the metric is based off on the dashboard did come out for that that we used just at the end of the last year in 2025. So some of the metrics are complete and it's not going to change in June when I show it to you again. However, some

028of them are local metrics such as our academic performance metric, uh, the star renaissance testing that won't be available until the end of the year. So, this year, I wanted to go a little bit deeper into what makes ju um what makes uh county office juvenile court and community schools, that's what JCCS stands for, what makes our metrics unique. So, as Trusty Kyle knows from working on LCAPS in in previous years at at district level, you they all kind of look the same. District metrics are very standardized. They use the same metrics from the dashboard. We have a lot of flexibility awarded to us because our programs are unique. So, we have students for a shorter amount of time. Uh we have students who move in and out of programs. And ED code really allows

029us to develop our own metrics. So it's important you'll note if you're used to looking at um many of you are used to looking at our LCP because you've been here a long time, but when you look at our LCAP compared to a district LCAP, you will see that we have the ability to use different metrics. >> Additionally, this goes into the flexibility of how the LCAP writer myself um determines when to use a a unique local metric and when not to. And I will say when I first started being the author of the LCAP many many years ago, we this flexibility was not emphasized and so we did write our LCAP with the college and career indicator in there and it was brutal because it just highlighted negative numbers that did not reflect the

030amazing work our programs do. Then through the years we've tried to really change them. Like for example, our college and career metrics, the um yes, the CCI indicator is there on the dashboard, but the CCI indicator is um looking at the end of a four-year cohort and a student and seeing did they complete A throughG or did they um do two college courses and did so like it didn't really work for ours. However, there are metrics that work for our programs. And so that's what we really try to do is to adjust this document and this plan to be impactful for our programs and our community. All right. So our current LCAP goals, we have five LCAP goals and goal four and five are sort of required goals here. Oh, there's a little screen right

031here. This is so nice. Sorry, this is a very new podium right here. This I'm kind of cranking my head that way. Um so our first goal is really focus on curiosity lifelong learning our academic programs cultivating a love of learning with students. Goal two is the social emotional support for our students and that's the conscientiousness related goal. Goal three is confidence that's um partnering with community based organizations that is supporting students with college and career readiness. Goal four is the required goal for county office of educations to countywide support foster youth as well as expelled youth. And then goal five is a goal related to our juvenile hall program where we get an equity multiplier fund. It's a very very small amount of funding that we get um and it it necessitates with with

032the new funding to have a specific goal for it. So to go through where we're at right now for goal one, you know, our highlights are that we are continuing, this is nothing new. We're continuing to have amazing programs, um, safe and maintained school facilities. Thank you so much to our maintenance department. We have curriculum and instruction materials. Uh, one update I wanted to highlight and emphasize this year that is different is that we were able to hire an EL teacher this year. Her name is Andrea Roth and she has been in a wonderful addition to our programs and um so in the previous years that sat at zero dollars spent and that's okay because we weren't able to hire for that position. We tried it didn't work out. We finally hired and we're very

033excited for the work that she is doing within our programs. All right. So goal two um highlights will be um so this is again social emotional physical well-being. Uh a metric for this that's used in two different goals is the graduation rate because graduation rate really um speaks to student engagement and wellness as well. And so our graduation rate rate has increased over the years and I'll I'll show you a little bit more specifically. There are some notice not noticeable differences that you will see. For example, um spending on extra food and clothing. It's traditionally it's a little bit less at this time of the year and then it kicks up. Uh however, we we are a little bit under what we budgeted but we still have a lot of the year left. Uh so

034I wanted to highlight here something also to discuss um looking at a metric because I want to show you how hard it is to write an LCAP and develop a good metric and I want to show you one that maybe I should do differently. I have two metrics that I'm kind of looking at that I'm struggling with. So I just want to show you here. We have survey data that's asking students if they have access to counseling. We have increased our counseling and our health and wellness team across all of our programs. We have more counseling and more support than ever before and students have access to it. But what I've seen over the years is students, it's a liyker scale and students when they read it and I've talked to people about it when

035they're reading the question sometimes they're asking like if they they're thinking does that mean I need counseling? So they're kind of answering it as no opinion as opposed to we're trying to gauge like did you know you have counseling like we have the flyers everywhere we every new student we're trying to say we do have counseling but sometimes when you read the question people a lot of people that what's increasing on that liyard scale is the no opinion. So that's where where it's looking like it's not meeting the metric. So I might adjust that or talk to people more. So, I just want you to know there's there are a couple ones where, for example, there's another one in goal three where it's a metric about um access to community based organizations and realizing you

036have to really spell that out. Access to mountains to see, access to the YMCA, access to that. So, it's a tricky process. It's not perfect. um we're trying our best with it, but I can say that we have a phenomenal health and wellness team and that's something that we have improved and we have counseling at every single school site. Uh so, uh go go goal number three talking about our community- based partnerships. Um I want to really highlight our college and career team. We have uh a college and career champion named Lynn Kohley and we have uh more students dy enrolled at more of our sites than ever before. Our student trustee, you've heard from trustee Amore before about all of the amazing classes and relationship with Cababrio and also hearing insight as well um

037from our student trustee and from other students has helped us increase dual enrollment access and success at all of our programs. Um you will notice that our funding looks, for example, our uh community based organization, it looks like we're spending a lot less than expected. That is because we have a few large contracts that pay that um invoice only at the end of the year. So at this point of the year, it's not going to reflect that and at the end of the year, it will um we'll be on track. Uh goal four and five. So for countywide um expelled youth plan and for countywide um support for foster youth as well as our equity multiplier, it's full implementation. I will say for the equity multiplier for the small amount of funds we have for

038that. We are um working on transitioning part of Lynn's um position. she'll be supporting juveninal hall students as well as uh we have the rising scholars um grant through Cababrio and additionally hired on a new person. So that's actually being paid through Cababrio through a grant instead of being paid from the equity multiplier funds. All that to say is that our students at juvenile in at Hartman in Juveninal Hall are receiving excellent college and career support enrolled in college and uh but the funding for that it's you'll see on there it shows the equity multiplier funds maybe not all expended but the but is actually imple implemented. Okay. Lastly, the budget overview for parents. We have the program side and we have the fiscal side. And uh this is a quote from my colleague Fred

039uh in Madera and at our statewide meetings he says don't he says budget a plan don't plan a budget and it really stuck with me because the main point of what we're doing here is we're coming up with these innovative amazing programs for students and we are working really hard to ensure that the funding is there for that and we work with our fiscal department on that we aren't doing it the backwards way and that's a strong work in progress because we will constantly be asking for to pay for more things to pay for more contracts to pay for more professional development and it's important that we have a great working relationship with our business department so that they go oh I see this that makes sense I know that's related to goal one goal

040two goal three and so that's like seeing the whole picture and that is so important um and I do get really interested in obviously the fiscal side as well. I stole this from my colleagues from first interim presentation in December which we all remember u and similar to the LCAP the budget cycle never ends either. So when we're adopting or when we are doing our estimated actuals and proposed budget in June we don't have the full picture. Additionally as you all know we're funded our enrollment is year round. So we don't end until June 30th. And so it's it's hard to have a complete accurate picture. So in the midyear LCAP report what we do here is we all and this thank you AI it looks so much better. Um what we do is at

041this point we show you on the left this is what is adopted in our budget overview for parents. Then after that a lot changed. The state budget was adopted for f for funding for schools and also our supplemental and concentration grants which are again um produced by how many students we have who qualify under those three buckets. That's unknown in June. We do a guess and we're a little conservative on that because it can fluctuate a lot. We need people to fill out the free and reduced lunch form and different things. So you can see here that what we what we budget or what we budgeted on the left is there. And then obviously we have um at this point in time what we're believing to happen and then that is it. That is what

042I have for the midyear update report. And I appreciate uh my colleagues here in the room. Um everybody else left and then it's fine. And then um I am here with any questions you have. Um and also any suggestions for June if there's anything else you some of you have heard the the spiel a lot. Again this is the end of you know we're in the middle towards the end of a three-year cycle but uh happy to answer any questions um or thoughts. >> I um have a comment but I'll leave open it up to just >> just a um comment for some of the newer members. um the you used a term that went by really fast in the beginning was and I wonder if you could say a little bit about that because

043that's such an important thing. >> Thank you Trusty Van Allen >> and as part of the never- ending story you know. >> Yes. As part of the never- ending story and that's a good movie. Um so the Western Association of Schools and Colleges is by far one of the most uh important things to us and processes and we do a huge self-study. It's a six-year process. That accreditation is what allows us to issue diplomas in our programs. And through that process this year, or when we when we did it two years ago now, uh when we did that process, we revamped all of our schoolwide goals and missions. And we that's how we came up with the three C's and that was from students and staff and our community. And the buyin now that we

044have for it is amazing. and we have utilized that to develop our portrait of a graduate and so many things. Um just it's it's been such a great and aligning tool and so just to make sure it's all it's all kind of our north star our our W was plan and the LCAP. So I appreciate that because we do throw around a lot of >> and that and that's good for um we got a six year. So we got a six-year and so all we have to do with no visit in the midyear. So next year we have to submit a kind of a midyear cycle like what this is to the uh committee and we have to say here's our here's our pro progress on all of the um items that we said that

045we were committed to. And I'm very I'm excited for where we're at now. Like I'm very confident in that midyear report for sure. getting a six-year >> is >> what they call it outpatientation or whatever is the the top score on you did well. >> We we got a golden >> the A+ of of >> Yes. Yes. That's good. >> I'd like to know where we stand with free and reduced meals. How can can we mandate that they >> fill them out? >> No, but we have done a really good job. And I'm looking at Melissa over here because um Melissa comes down sometimes and says like, "Did you realize how many forms you you all filled out this year?" Um, and so the increase in the percentages of the increase in the supplemental and

046concentration grants is in large part due to the high participation rate we have with it. Um, but it's a great point. We've gone through years where we've had key people on our team who who really went out there and pounded the pavement and talked to families. And so sometimes we have to flex that a little bit more. Um, but ultimately it is up to the families to to fill it out. Yeah. >> Has didn't something occur during co where they weren't as critical >> because um because we have universal free lunches and so what happened with that which is a and a wonderful thing but it then in turn you know we couldn't say oh we can't provide lunch unless we get not that we would say things like that but like you know what

047I mean it was everything's free why why do I need to fill out one more form so that's that is a very good point that that that is something where well it's directly tied to funding for our programs, but we are anticipating an increase than what we budgeted for our supplemental concentration grants. And maybe you could add new people a critical free and reduce how it's used throughout funding process. >> It's a it's a great suggestion. We also have wonderful community organizers um and support members who are closely connected to families. And so when we're tr when we're calling families to discuss like we need we're missing this enrollment form or this thing um that they're really well equipped to to have that conversation. So it's a great reminder to continue to do that because

048it it's extremely important. This isn't at kind of at the same level as English as a second language field. >> Yeah. Socioeconomically disadvantaged English language learners and foster youth and foster youth is the smallest group in that um pot or collection. >> No, you're one of my pet uh >> I don't know if it's a peeve but a troublesome >> idea >> with the districts. Do we supply any kind of to them to collect this data? >> You're talking about uh qualifying for free and reduced lunch. >> So um most districts utilize a process called direct certification which um comes from the county when families qualify for medical. So those families automatically qualify for free reduced lunch without the need for completing the forms. One of the concerns is in the current state, lots of

049families who used to qualify for medical are not qualifying for medical because of changes to Medicaid and and the federal government's uh um aggressive tactics towards towards uh vulnerable communities. And that would mean that uh more families or less families are qual sorry more families are in a position where they're not getting qualified for medical which would mean that um the direct certification to the districts is not occurring. So the importance of the completion of the free and reduced lunch forms is something that we've been talking about among with district superintendents because um uh the combination of direct certification and the fear that families experience with completion of forms and anything of formal at this point uh could create a situation where less families are going to qualify for a free deduce lunch. So this

050is something we're we're definitely paying a lot of attention to wanting to remind families that this is something that um is safe. it's not shared with um anybody um in terms of their qualifying for free and reduced lunch and it's very important for us to be able to get the the the uh the funding we need to provide services. >> And one more thing uh it it is sometimes difficult staffing wise for the districts to track down these >> and that was part of my question. Is there a way that we are helping out the smaller districts or even districts that are maybe missing staff? >> Um I'm not understanding that they track down the forms. What how do you >> get people to fill the forms, >> right? >> They get I think they

051go home in their what first day package whatever. >> But it's making kind of trying to make sure is some people don't want to fill it out because of social >> but it directly affects the district. >> Correct. Agreed. and and it is something that we um I think that this is something that all the school districts are looking at carefully and and are are working to um communicate with families through to let them know that this is safe and for them to complete this and in the case that they don't qualify for medical that they still uh can and should qualify for free reduced lunch and to make sure that they complete the forms. >> We're kind of under enough stress simple just the state should be. >> So, so just to clarify, so

052the the the what became available to everybody were the lunches. So um so those were but the the actual qualifying for free and reduced lunch is necessary to be able to um uh to for under the local control funding formula um making sure that those unduplicated students those students that qualify for either the one of those three categories which is um free and reduced lunch which is considered low soioeconomically disadvantaged um the second category is English learners and the third one is foster youth and that's how the local control funding formula gives us additional supplemental and concentration funding. And so you so the the challenge is that uh we continue to provide free lunches for everybody and we want to families to complete the form. Um so because there's no that that incentive that used

053to exist which would qualify is no longer there and the direct certification process can be somewhat compromised by this impact on medical. So all of these things as as you're I think both asserting clearly requires us to continue our efforts to make sure that families are completing the free and reduced lunch forms. >> Vice President Larson, >> first thank you for the presentation. Some of the questions I had you answered by calling out those metrics in particular. I was pleased you called out the counseling one because that popped out >> and it's not a challenge of performance. it's a challenge of the metric. And so that's that was great to clarify that. >> The other one that just stuck out to me and unlike Trusty Kyle, I'd never seen a LCAP before I joined the

054board a year ago. And this has all been a learning curve and the graphics were helpful. But uh now I see how important they are and many people probably approaching an LCAP think I'd prefer to go get a root canal. But um when you see how important it is, you know that that's not the way to approach it. But I was struck to see in an LCAP metric that we are thrilled. That's thrilled is not the word you ever expect to see embodied in an LCAP. But then when you explained it was for teacher Roth, who is one of my daughter's two favorite teachers out of her entire educational career in this county, >> it's understandable. Um, and then I assume that led to the performance metric up above, which was equally impressive, where you

055had a goal of five to 10 English ler learners being reclassified, and you're already at 15 midway through the year. I'm assuming those are connected. >> They most certainly are connected. Um, so Andrea Roth and Jessica Gonzalez Martinez um are our team for supporting our reclassification efforts. And reclassification is an honor when a student meets certain metrics so so to speak to be reclassified as proficient in English English language. For many years we had zero to one student. It's it's it's like everything's state related. It's it's a complex process. You've got to score a four on the LPAC. It is a hard test to score a four on. You have to be there and show up and do it. Um you have to have recommendations. You have to have an observation. have to do well

056on your local metric. Before it used to be the SBback or the the CASP and we have it on our Star Renaissance and be through a coordinated effort before spearheaded by Jessica. I definitely want to highlight her. But with Jessica combined with Andrea and um Crystal who uh Renteria who um runs our ELPAC testing with Jessica through this team effort, everything came into place and there was a beautiful ceremony held at Sequoia schools to honor all of those students and their and their families. And it it was a truly emotional and remarkable thing of of showing like this is a very important action to us and and I'm glad we chose that metric and I'm glad we have the people in place to make it come to fruition. So I I appreciate that. >> Yeah.

057And just uh to close it out and then I'm I'm done. Since you mentioned AI, I I just queried how often is AI ever used in an LCAP and or thrilled ever used in an LCAP in California. And it said sometimes in the superintendence statement, in community letters, or in uh vision statements, rarely in measures and goals. So, >> yep. I appreciate you and and Trusty Van Ellen, I can always tell that um you appreciate the human side. Um every all of the whole all trustees do, but the we we're we're human and we speak excitedly when we're excited and plainly and real when things need to be changed, you know. >> Yeah. Or >> um well, first of all, this is my first time sitting on this side for an presentation and that was

058wonderful. So engaging. Um, so excellent presentation, very dynamic. Um, >> what I'm just going to reference back to is the um, the north star >> because that's sort of the perspective I always took from the LCAP is it's not just a hoop to jump through. This is our vision and our plan of action and where we direct our money and community voice saying where to direct the money. And so to hear you um link it all together in that way just makes me, you know, even more proud than I'm already to sit in this seat. But um you did an excellent job and it was um I'm one of those weirdos. I enjoyed reading it. >> Thank you. >> I have a clarifying question. You mentioned uh goal two in terms of expected annual measurable

059objectives. the survey that was used to talk about the access to counselors. >> You talked about there potentially being another way of measuring that or is a focus on wording of the actual survey itself. >> It's the f focus it it can be either. So um but the focus on wording the wording it is the first thing I'm thinking of that and the community based organization metric um because you can completely change it to studying how many people are accessing counseling over the years. All of those will be allowable to to use. But what I think I can do this year and to work on is to to just modify the understanding of it and the wording for it. Um, and it we just had our in January our statewide LCAP writers meeting in it

060and that was one thing that was really emphasized was it's not wrong. We used to think oh you can never change anything. It's not wrong to change a metric. You sometimes rule things out and realize well that did not work out right. Um, and it's also on me increasing awareness with every person when they're administering it to really emphasize, hey, I've noticed over the past couple of years more people are answering, you know, no opinion on this, like having that discussion with with our people who are sitting with students saying here this is what this is about. But mostly it's it's modifying h how it's worded. Because I feel like uh we might have discussed this in years past as well, but the like the school climate, right? When you're talking about a safe space,

061>> we're talking about like emotional safe where I can say what I want without feeling judged. Are we talking about like physical space where, you know, violence? >> Um I think wording, you know, plays a huge role in terms of what those numbers are and how people or students uh respond to them. >> It's true. Yeah. >> Thank you. um my fellow trustees asked and responded to a lot of the things I had listed, but I also want to congratulate you um and the team on um ex exceeding the goal um the 1.6 English learners uh reclassification. That's that's incredible. Um and thank you for addressing the um the counseling because I did have that one as well and it was brought up and the secondary question was asked by trustee there. Um so thank

062you very much. Um, I appreciate it and um, keep doing what you guys are doing because it's incredible. >> Just one one more comment. Um, >> yeah. >> Um, Dr. Gonzalez, I just really appreciated that you were very frank and open about how you're struggling with a couple of those measurements, those metrics. I've been in plenty of public situations where the staff person would never acknowledge struggling >> and it's real, >> you know, and it's >> yeah, >> somewhat dishonest, but the main thing is that this is a learning organization here that's fostered by our superintendent and you and >> that's a really important thing for us to know >> that something wasn't just something that you just, you know, pulled out of the computer or didn't give deep thought to and didn't have some

063struggles with at the time because we are trying to fit something from out, you know, the state into our situation here. It's not always going to be perfect. So anyway, I just want to appreciate the openness about that. >> I appreciate that. It's it's something I want to say for Dr. Sabah and Johnny Rice and my admin colleagues that um we talk a lot about in managers about who we are as as leaders here in the county office of education. And I'm inspired by being able to be my honest true self as as a leader in educational community. And one of the biggest things is is being honest and real and and and saying I I struggle with some things. We're trying and I know you you know we've got the you can come and

064see our programs and and you know everything's going well and and so I appreciate that because it's it's important to me too to work in an organization that believes in that. >> Really appreciate your time in the presentation. >> Thank you. Thank you. All right. Item 10 two um LCAP for our career advancement charter with Dr. SBA and um Denise Sansson. Yes, it's uh my pleasure to uh welcome uh uh the uh uh executive director for the um career advancement charter and and actually um well our cal's program which is our career and adult learning services program. Uh so uh Miss uh Sansen is is going to be Miss Gera Sansen sorry is going to be providing the LCAP for the career advancement charter. Um, and you're going to see some similarities, I think, because

065the two of them worked on them together, worked on these presentations together. Please, uh, take it away. >> Thank you, Dr. Sabah. Uh, good evening, trustees. Um, thank you for being here with us. And yes, it's it's really great to go second because Jen is more of an expert on the LCAP than I am. So, I get to follow her lead and she helps me a lot. So, I actually love to start this meeting uh with gratitude. gratitude for you all for your support um for our superintendent also for our business department our colleagues who are here uh maintenance and operations I got to give a shout out too to HR because they do so much for us um and I think that something unique here at the county office is that interdependence with our

066departments and the collaboration that happens so it's uh I wanted to note that um as said this mid midyear report really does give us an opportunity to assess to uh see where we're at. And uh I can say with confidence that the career advancement charter is doing pretty well. Um I'm going to go ahead and get started here. Hopefully this goes the right way. Nope. Green. Thank you. Okay. So, a quick overview of where career and adult learning services fits into the student programs division. We're still a newer department in student programs. Um you can see here along with our my colleagues here in alternative education uh career and adult learning provides services for adults and students uh in career technical education programs. So also high school students and a lot of the counseling initiative

067and uh mental health support we have is uh in collaboration with our student support services department and then of course our spe special education. So um as I said we're newer I want to say about 5 years in as a department for career and adult learning and so I wanted to share that with you and what we do in career and adult learning. Uh what I'm presenting today for you all is directly tied to the career advancement charter which is a high school diploma program for adult learners. We are a K12 charter so very unique and also struggle with some of the metrics and uh doesn't always fit for us. As mentioned the career tech magnet programs that would be like culinary um culinary and also we have an ICT course that we offer for

068high school students. Our fire technology so some of these are longstanding courses that have been part of the county office for for many years. We also have career training programs for adults. or a medical and dental assisting. I know you've you've heard or you know some something about that. Um we also have a wildland fire and a building trades pre-apprenticeship. You've heard me probably talk about that before. And then our Sweenyos program which is a work experience program for youth uh age 16 to 24 in Watsonville. So that those are the components of the department that I um get to to oversee. And also with my gratitude I got to back up and say that all of this work is possible. I get to be here tonight talking with you all and and and sharing

069the report and the highlights and the challenges and none of this could happen without the team that that is at the site right now. And so I wanted to acknowledge all of their hard work. Um everything that we've been able to accomplish in this little department that's grown quite a bit is because of the people attached and I'm proud to be part of that team. So the career advancement charter actually got these photos today from our COE photographer. These are photos from our January graduation. So, I updated um my slide deck with the most recent photos that I have. We don't have technically like a motto, but um we sort of do, and it's nastard, which means it's never too late. And so, that was actually branded by a student u who came back to

070earn her high school diploma as a a 35-year-old. Um and so she was sharing with other students like it's never too late here. And so that has become kind of our tagline. So the career advancement charter uh through our W was self-study which we also got the A+ in the sixth year and that was last year for us which actually lined up perfectly with the LCAP year 1 of that plan. So that was a unique opportunity for us. We serve adult students across the county. So these are the locations that we're at. Uh we have programming here across the street at the annex. We have uh Sequoia schools where I'd say the majority of our programming is. Did I leave out central? I think I did. Um we're at both probation success centers in North

071and South County. We also provide high school diploma and career technical education uh classes at the locked facilities, all three locked facilities in our county, Main Jail, Blaine Street, and the Roundtree facility. And what is not on here that I failed to include is our new school at 119 West Beach Central and we have uh quite a presence there as well for the career advancement charter. So Jen went through this um what is the LCAP? Hopefully you have some familiarity with it now and again this is the midyear. This is we will update you again in June if we need to. We'll adjust our goals. will change metrics etc. Um and so you also saw this um again kind of nice to go second >> right? Oh yeah a little bit different um the requirement

072here language around that and why we why we have to do it. So, same thing the metrics you'll, as you saw in the report, some of the metrics are complete or sorry, we're able to provide a mid-year update for you and some of them they are in progress and we don't have that data yet. I wanted to just mention that an added challenge for us this year is that we are piloting a new way of using our student information system, our uh power teacher pro. And so, I did have some difficulty accessing data that normally was really easy for me to get. And so that's part of the learning process. Um, and I've been assured I'll have what I need in at the end of the school year. So with our expenditures as well, as

073I said in the beginning, I do feel like we're we're pretty much on track, which is very reassuring. Our funding is a little bit different. It's very different than our alternative education colleagues. uh we are a non-classroombased charter school and so our funding is different and we need to the spending part becomes really important and so the midyear um it forces me to look at what how are we doing and believe it or not it can be really hard to spend money right to make sure it's all getting spent uh in the right places with whatever restrictions and limitations are we have um and so we're I'm I'm very proud of where we're at currently. Our goals are similar to alternative education. Uh we have a goal directly tied to achievement. Um our focus being

074that students will graduate with a high school diploma and demonstrate enhanced proficiency particularly in fundamental skills and as and also um expand their post-secary opportunities. So whether that be community college or a career training program, we really want to encourage our students to think about what is next. Uh our second goal is around student support and again uh making sure that we're providing opportunities for students to pursue those post-secary opportunities uh or advance in the workforce. Uh we have a transition specialist team that is directly supporting that effort. And then lastly, our third goal is around improving access and expanding services. And I think that over the last several years, we've done an excellent job. We've grown exponentially um in student enrollment and it just in the last couple of years. And the new building

075at 119 West Beach, I mean, we're we're already like sharing offices and we we're fully staffed. We hired a new teacher uh particularly for CAC at central. So it's uh all working really well. Some highlights for goal one and I do really appreciate this here as well. I don't know if you can see that student in the picture there, but the yellow stole uh says first generation. So first generation high school graduate for this student. Um some of the highlights highlights do include increased bilingual instructional support. something I'm very proud of the amount of uh bilingual staff that we have in the CAC. I think it's somewhere around 75%. Uh we hired two bilingual teachers this year full-time. Uh we have increased our FTE at our correctional facilities specifically at Main Jail and Roundtree. uh

076we've increased our ESL course off offerings and we are in the midst of a PLC which is a professional learning community implementation as a result as a result of our WASK uh self-study and that is teacherdriven um staffled. I'm I'm obviously I'm a part of it but it is it is um it's their initiative and so that makes it authentic and and real. Another highlight is that we presented at the CAPE the California Adult Education uh program I think it's program conference in November um as a model program for a an onboarding orientation class that we've developed. Some changes we've had a notable increase in our D our ADA um increased bilingual instructional support staff and we do have a couple of classified staff vacancies that have been difficult to fill. And so that's where

077that some of that making sure we're spending the money. Um so we have one vacancy actually we just filled the person will be starting in March. Goal two around student support. Um these are students in our cooking class at Sequoia schools. Uh some of the highlights are we're offering that foundations class the onboarding and orientation at both Centro Vance and Sequoia schools. We have a new class this year, a digital and financial literacy uh that started at the semester. We are offering um different class opportunities with our Prop 28 money. Um, and we have a full-time this year first year mental health counselor assigned to CAC and we do we are proud of the number of co-enrolled students that we have attending Cababrio College andor in our CTE programs. Uh, we also added a construction

078tech class at Sequoia for CAC students on Thursday nights. Uh, it's been very well attended. That was in partnership and ask through adult probation. Our last goal around improving access. Uh this is a picture of that class, the foundations class. Some of the highlights include increased enrollment, the student onboarding really um set up for student retention. So wanting students to make their way through the door and then stay. um and close partnerships with COE departments working closely with alternative education um the student services department etc. Very proud of that. Some of the changes uh we are we've changed how we track data to an internal method. We're no longer using community pro. That that was a con an adulthood consortium initiative that has changed. I mentioned our powers school project that's been that's been quite

079an endeavor and increase staff involvement for students in corrections. So adding teacher we've needed to add some support staff as well. So what I have here is the update on spending. So you can see our total funds that were adopted um and how much we've spent there. Uh 1.6 million roughly. We don't get very much money for our supplemental. We only get supplemental, not concentration. And you can see we're almost exactly at the halfway mark there. This concludes my presentation. Uh I want to thank you for your ongoing support and I'm happy to answer any questions or hear any comments that you might have. that truly one of your graduates. Yeah, >> it was a great graduation. >> Yes. >> I also wanted to say thank you to the trustees so for so many of

080you making it to our graduations in January and uh yeah, they were this was one of our larger ones. I think we had around 45 students. So yeah, a really wonderful event. My apologies. Um I'll leave it open to the trustes if there's any questions. follow up. >> Um maybe I guess it's a comment, but trying to look at the expenditures and seeing like how that is measured in terms of like success and I guess the way that I see it, I don't know if it's different or how you guys see it, but that is uh maybe like a minimum of what we at least want to spend on a specific uh line item. So for instance, I'm looking at uh 3.5 actions and measures of goal three. >> Uh talks about student outreach. Uh

081CAC program works closely with district partners, community agencies, local community college support um to promote the CAC program. I think budgeted we have 12,000 and we actually spent 20,000. So to me it's like okay, we're going above and beyond what we had >> expected. So to me I think I see that as a success, right? Is that is that a good way of looking at it? >> If I I'll I'll answer and then if anybody else wants to jump in, I would say yes. I think as Jen mentioned that some of this will need to be adjusted and so spending the money where we see the need being is what I think you're um alluding to there. And not all of the expenditures match up right at exactly the midway point. I mean, we are

082over in some areas and then under in some. Um, and so yes, I I hear what you're saying and I think that it is evidence of of doing that work, >> purchasing instructional material 64,000 versus like a 50,000 budget. Like that's that's good. That's what we want, right? We want >> And we're using material. >> Exactly. And we're using because our um our enrollment and ADA has grown, we need more materials. And so, and that's also been a push from me with the staff of like I want our students to have the nice consumable workbooks if that's what they want. Making sure we have enough licenses for our online curriculum, etc. Um, so some of those costs have gone up because of enrollment going up for sure. Yeah. >> Okay, that makes sense. Thank you.

083>> Thank you. If I could just add something, I I also think this also highlights the collaborative nature of the work that we do that that uh that Sony mentioned earlier, working in collaboration with our business services department and and um all our departments to uh adapt our programs. We our budget is our best guess at how things are going to look and um things change um in in some cases that there could be an increase in in needed resources. And so uh we do our best to adapt and not let um kind of the that process slow us down from being able to deliver those services. And that seems to result in some of the the increased enrollment where you're almost um at your goal mid year. So obviously some of those other expenses

084will increase, right? >> And so the ratio makes sense. So congratulations on that. >> Thank you, Trusty Williams. >> And actually following up on that, just the ADA going up so much and the enrollment kind of on track hopefully towards your end. the ADA is through the outreach and and having the central available. What do you attribute that to? >> That's a great uh question. I think I have a theory that definitely we're still feeling the impacts of the pandemic and so we have increased in the 18 to 24 demographic. Um so we have more younger students for us because we do have students into their 60s. So we've seen an increase in young adults for for one and then uh we have a great reputation and we have a great team of people who

085when they meet the student at the front door it's really about how can we help you and so we hear that from our students that you know they've had experiences elsewhere and they come here and they feel seen they feel supported they feel like naard like maybe I can do it here and so I think all of those things combined this really I I don't know customer service isn't the right word I guess student centered this approach of really meeting people where they are and um offering that that second third 10th chance >> there's so much I was pleased with you know as I saw when we toured just thank you for that tour this year and going to the graduations is always inspiring um having the child care for the programs I think is

086essential and and you called that out in your report having the strong bilingual staff that you mentioned that's also in the LCAP is great. Um the area that it looks like you're focusing in is the career technical. I mean adding the construction trades and some of that that's kind of the only metrics that look like you're trying to move move further along. >> Right. Right. >> So that's great. >> Yes. Thank you. And we we have been focused on also the co-enrollment to our medical and dental assisting programs for CAC students. And we're looking at a possible uh certified nursing assistant program that would also be another opportunity for CAC students. So yes, trying to bring more opportunities um to them. And I'll just add that this week I I don't think I even shared

087this with Ferris who knew that we were planning um our dental assisting students had class at Centroce for the first time on Tuesday. So, we had our 12 traditional pathway students show up and um our apprentices will be there next week. Um and so the classroom looks beautiful. Big shout out to M for their support and business. It's it's a group effort. It's it's it takes us all. So, yeah, very proud of that too and proud to have more services available in South County. I was at that graduation and one of the things I absolutely adored was how family oriented it was, but also the children and there were babies. Uh, and they were all so respectful >> even the little the little guys. uh and I think this is a beautiful presentation of this

088program to everyone who is who is there and that will be transmitted out into the Thank you Trusty Roth. We also have a QR code on the back of our um graduation program. So for people who are interested, you know, have a family member so they can sign up do an interest form right there at graduation. So yeah, >> you're right. That was unusual. We had we had many student speakers that evening. Yeah, I I forgot about that. Yeah, absolutely. >> Any other follow-up questions? >> My perception, I can't on it, is that a lot of the increase is word of mouth. It's people telling other people about what it's how great it's been and or people hearing about it or maybe having a friend or a relative go through it and and realizing it's

089not too late. >> Yeah, absolutely. I mean, we do go to the career fairs, you know, we'll do uh partnership events with Cababrio, the the adult consortium. I wouldn't say that we do a great job of advertising. I think it really is word of mouth. And then, of course, our students in corrections make up about 60 students of our total student body. I also work in alternative education and I often say like we don't advertise, right? And we're we're yet we're we're always full. Um so I do think it it is um a commentary on the great work that we do. If I could add to that, I yeah, I I I would have to agree that, you know, we don't spend a lot of time uh on the outreach component because we've been so

090successful uh because of that word of mouth and um people find us because of of that experience and the reputation that Sony mentioned earlier. So, it's been been very very positive that way. And also um I do want to point out that we recognize that there's also tens of thousands of people in the community who do not have their high school diploma and um who can benefit from a program like this. And so we want to continue uh making the these opportunities accessible to more and more people. And so um I think this is this program is is um providing a really safe supportive environment and um creating new opportunities for folks and the need is great. And so it's it's been it's been it's been wonderful. And I'd have to say also for alternative

091education program with the previous presentation um you know people come to us in many cases saying we'd like an alternative for for our our children. It's one of the reasons that program is one of the most successful programs in the state of California. And I will say um we um Trusty Kyle and I were at um this SoCal Unified School District meeting last night and um we were talking about the programs and they said, "Well, share with us a program that sticks out with you." And I brought up CAC and the wonderful graduation and the experience that we had with, you know, the range of students um that were going to the program and graduating. And I think there was a comment that's like, "Yeah, that's a great program. It's never too late." So, I

092just thought it was, you know, appropo and um so we're out there advertising for you. >> We're marketing for you. >> That's great. Thank you, >> Lammore. Jesse more. >> Um I have a question that I don't know if you're able to answer. Uh it's kind of about the last presentation we had about our supplemental food and clothing uh money that we have to spend. Mhm. >> Um, from what I've heard from my classmates at the people at Elnito, there is like a big difficulty with the food that is being um given their like a lot of people aren't that interested in it or not liking it or if there's especially for people that are lactose intolerant, they're not able to eat anything. Um, and so I'm wondering if it'd be possible for us to

093uh talk to our students that are in our alt ed programs about like what they do like for the food because I know there's been a lot of food waste and I think there's something we should do about that. Um, yeah. >> Yeah, I can try to answer that. Um, and yes, it was from the last presentation as I mentioned I also am part of alternative education and I would be happy to have more conversation about that. I think that a student advisory committee would be a great idea for Centro and include students from Esqual as well as El Nido and get their input. Um, as we talked a lot about the lunches, they we we do provide a um a warm- free meal daily to students and sometimes it's not what one would want

094to eat, right, or prefer um and so we could we do have supplemental options and I'd be happy to set something up where we could talk about that further. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, of course. >> Following up on somebody first. Okay. Um, following up on what Superintendent Sabah mentioned about the 40,000, I think it is, people in the county who don't have their high school diplomas. The first time I heard that number kind of shocked me. um was at a a meeting with some state officials and the state officer was sharing how you know rapidly growing need because of the aging of the population thanks to me and a couple others up here um is for health care being provided at all levels. And so I was ecstatic to learn about your medical and

095dental assisting program and how that strong that is. And you mentioned tonight going into I believe it was a certified nursing program kind of the next step up. >> What I did hear this officer talk about was just not having enough IHSS inh home uh social and medical service staff. >> And I just think about that being an opportunity not just going up but making sure we're providing the broad range. So much so that the state's looking at taking over the statewide bargaining to ensure there's adequate compensation to engage people in that occupation which I think maybe there's a need there that we could fill given the success of your other programs. >> Right. Yeah. >> I if I could uh respond to that I that's a the great point and one of actually the

096highest demand uh positions right now is are those inhome service providers. The challenge is that they they currently pay minimum wage. And so um so we uh we have a a set of criteria that we look for when we develop our programs. And one of those is to try to get us to help create a program that can lead to something that could be family sustaining, a wage that is family sustaining. And so we try to uh steer away from uh from helping folks get ready for minimum wage positions. But so we're excited about the possibilities that the state is going to look at increasing um the the wages for those positions and because we could see that then as as part of this this um these sackable certificates that could lead to a a

097highpaying career and we recognize as uh that the need for for inhome care is going to become more and more important as time goes on. Thank you for bringing that up. >> Next, Mr. Costa. >> Thank you. Um, I've heard nothing but great things about the program. Um, so, you know, you guys are doing a great job, your team and all. >> Um, I have a question with regards to um, the alternative uh, career. Um, I I think that's great. Um, living coming from South County and, you know, growing up in a large egg community, have we thought about other programs that could um, an impact like automotive repair or food safety? I mean food safety quite honestly just coming from that it could be the basics of food safety so many students could have

098just opportunities >> present themselves. >> Absolutely. >> Yes question. >> Yeah. No I appreciate the question. So in our culinary class students do have the opportunity to earn their food handlers. We also are doing that in our locked facility at Blaine Street. Those students also participate in the food handler certification. So that is one umert that we do offer. Um as Dr. Sabah mentioned, we look at building CTE programs where there's interest, where there's funding, and where there'll be a livable wage. Um, and so some of these programs unfortunately are very expensive. Like auto repair is is something that requires a lot of equipment. Um, however, we do we definitely have um different resources to inform us about what might be um something that we can build. Like so right now our big focus really

099is on health careers as as Trusty Larson was just talking about the the demand is great and so we look for occupations where there's high demand and then high interest and and some money to match um for the funding piece. So I think in terms of agg I don't we don't have that hasn't been a a strong focus for us right now. Um but certainly could be in the future and looking at partnering with some of the larger um industry partners in Watsonville to see how we might be able to work together. I don't if you want to add anything Ferris. No, I I think that um you know that criteria that we described which is really looking at at um we look at the um local data when it comes to what positions are

100available and um I do think that the a sector offers a lot of exciting opportunities. Uh of course we we also look at what positions are available in the in the community that are that are um paying at at at higher levels. the focus on healthcare has been kind of our our our area of focus right now. Um, but I think we're we're definitely open to different kinds of positions. They they manifest and meet the criteria that we look for when we're looking at creating >> and I only bring that up just coming from the other from the A side. Um, I know that you know I'm sure there's somebody else from a here, right? Um we we sometimes dip into the colleges to look for people that maybe don't have but have >> taken

101classes or have experience in egg and they have internships and some of these students that have internships end up wind up working for the larger companies. Yeah. >> Um, so they get that that that step in the door and they get the experience and the opportunity just opens more doors for them and maybe they're thinking about going to um to a university like Calpali possibly and you know that >> I just I just I sense that we're we're we're we're just missing it just a little bit. That's all. I'm just putting it out there that you know we should entertain the thought >> whatever that may collaborate with our community partners. There's a lot of community partners out there. >> Absolutely. all the, you know, they they we don't have to reinvent the wheel. >>

102They have it all. >> Yeah. And a lot of our students, adult students do work in a uh I appreciate your input and I think it's part of that commitment to um having that growth mindset and being innovative and and looking for those opportunities. Absolutely. >> Uh speaking of the medical field, I think that definitely having your CPR certification is a great thing on your resume. you can really help people get hired. Would it maybe be possible to host a sort of course to help uh people get CPR certified? Because I think that'll definitely help with um getting a job, you know, in many places, especially like in child care or something. >> Absolutely. I do know that the county office CPR uh in several different venues. We also um provide CPR in our building

103trades um program as well as our medical and dental assisting. Um but I know that we offer it to as a standalone through the county office, >> right? >> That is correct. Yeah. Our our own um uh um the childcare team here that that that uh offers a CPR training that is available on on weekends, I believe, and and evenings in Spanish. >> We can make sure to to share that information. >> Yeah. We've offered them in Watsonville too. >> Any other questions? Any more questions, comments? >> Wonderful. Thank you so much again for your presentation for your presentations. Thank you so much. >> If not sooner. >> All right. Next, we're going to go into item 10.3, escribe meeting management software overview. And we'll hear from Dr. Sabah in the amazing great awesome Vinesa.

104>> Yes. I'd like to introduce our presenter for uh tonight's uh presentation uh newly renamed uh Venice Figeroa who is going to be leading a training on this new software uh uh product that we're utilizing for uh for our our keeping us organized with our board meetings and ensuring of course compliance with the Brown Act and other requirements. And so we thought it was important to uh be able to present this information to you um and to support you in in your uh so this is just a a quick overview and then um we'll also be offering some additional inerson trainings if if if you would like them. >> Thank you Dr. Sabah. It is an honor to now officially be presenting to all of you trustees in my five years in my role in

105this role. This is the first time my name has been on the agenda as a presenter. Y >> so please be nice to me. Vanise Valentine has never presented. Neither has >> you told us they each have a hard question. >> I know. I'm very scared. Okay. So why we need a software? So again, I've been in this role for about 5 years. And I think um the way that I've been doing bud um board agenda and packet development has been the same even prior to me arriving to this position. And board agenda development has really been centered on Google Drive and Adobe Acrobat. And so it is not the most straightforward because you're using multiple different tools. It's different accounts, different folders. not straightforward for when um other individuals want to step in to

106assist. Files can be misplaced, mislabeled and just a mislabeling of a file can throw off the whole agenda. And so it is very time consuming. It's a very manual process. Um if any staff members come in with a last minute change to a report, it throws off the whole system for me and I have to start all over. Um so version control is very difficult. So for all of these reasons, we need a better system. um and why not now? And so the goal of this new tool is to really centralize the board meeting packets. It improves transparency in accessibility and I'll explain more about that on my upcoming slides. And it will definitely reduce the staff workload for myself um and also make it easier for others individuals such as my colleague Nick um

107to step in and to assist with the board development. Oh, I will add, sorry, before I go into there, um before we landed on escribe, we did um meet with many different vendors. I believe we met with three different um companies that offer very similar software and board meeting management systems. Um and this is the one that made the most sense for our needs um as a government nonprofit, as a government education agency. Um, and so that those meetings were involved in myself, Ferris, and our Nick, and then our chief technology officer, Jason. So, this is the one that won all of our votes, and I believe Abel was actually a part of some of those when he was president. So, Escribe is what we decided on. Um, it is very focused for the government

108agency. So, it's very has strong understandings of Brown Act. Um, and its Brown Act compliance is built into the system. And so the highle features are for meeting management. You're able to build agendas with templates. Um so I'm able to right away when I create a meeting, is this a special meeting, a regular board meeting, is this a inner district transfer appeal or is this a um a county committee on school redistricting? I'm able to select which one and it creates that template outline exact straight for me. Um it allows for uploading documents. One issue with the prior the Google Drive and Adobe Acrobat was that I was getting files sent to me as Google Docs or as PDFs or as PowerPoints and then it makes it it's an extra step for me to convert

109them all into a PDF file the way that I need them. Um, so with this new system, staff can send me documents in whichever format they want and it will automatically create it into a PDF without me having to do that extra step. Um and so with one click I'm able to create a packet um a board meeting packet through PDF or HTML. Um I will also add um because trust or vice president Larson gave kudos to the new meeting minutes. Um those were created through escribe and so as well as after board meeting minutes I'm able to upload my quick little notes and it rewrite rewrites it to be very pretty. Um and it one click I have meeting minutes. So, makes that part very easy. This is um for security and compliance. This

110is role based access. So, I'm able to create different accounts and make sure each account has access to what they need and not one has more access than the other. I'll go into roles a little later. Um encrypted document storage is available on here. Um which becomes very important when we're doing interdist transfer appeals. So, hosting student data. Um and then it has a retention and archive feature. So, I'm able to also go back in there and as well as you are all able to go in there and search like when was the last time we brought in board policy 5125. And so, you're able to search it and it brings up that agenda packet and that agenda meeting. So, it makes it very easy if you wanted to go back um for communication and

111collaboration. It allows for real-time updates and this is one of my favorite features. Um, so obviously the board agenda needs to be published and posted to um to the public and to the board 72 hours prior to the board meeting. However, some of the packet materials such as resolutions can be updated within those 72 hours as long as the public and the board receive it in a timely manner. Um, so with real-time updates, I can lock it so that nobody can move the agenda at that time. However, for like if staff wanted to correct one of their alcap media reports, they can do that themselves and update that document and it sends a notification to you and to all the public that document was updated. Just that one document was updated and that also allows

112them to upload their own slide decks. Um, it is very hard to create slide decks very early in time because there's often little tweaks you want to make or if a trustee asks a question, you're like, "Well, now I want to include that in my slide deck." Um, so they're able to also upload their slide decks earlier in the meeting. Um, one feature that I think all of you will enjoy a lot is that there's commenting and question and answer options on this new program. And so it allows you to personally annotate the packets for your own needs. So you're able to highlight certain areas, flag certain pages, and only you are able to see those comments. So you're able to write soon as the meeting comes up, open up your escribe account and go

113straight to that comment you flagged or that page that you highlighted to ask a question on. So it's all those notes are encrypted or are saved in your program. You're also able to assign tasks. Um so if we're example working with the resolution committee, I can assign be like as a reminder trustee Kyle you agreed to do this part of the resolution. So I'm just assigning you that task. Um, and your deadline is this date. Um, so you're able to assign tasks to trustees. You're able to assign tasks to staff as well. So I could say I could sign Dr. Eisen Gonzalez, I need your slides. So it allows me to also send reminders that way. Um, and then again, notifications and reminders are encrypted into the system. So I can still be sending you

114emails. However, you should be expecting emails in the future. All coming from escribe. Oh, wait. type. Okay. So, I spoke a little to all this. So, board member access there is um you'll be able to have the whole board packet sent to you and you'll able to see all the whole agenda as an entirety, but then you're able to select on each agenda item the items of your interest and the attachments will pop up on the side. So, you no longer need to scroll through 200 and something pages. I believe this board packet was about 400 pages. >> 45. Yes, it was a lot. I know. >> And I used escribe to create it. So, I was very happy I did not have to go through every single one of those pages as well. >>

115Speaking of which, having the page numbers here, >> it wasn't until I was halfway through the agenda because I since joining the board, I was always the page number in the left with the circle so I could find it >> and escribe did that. >> It's already there. >> Yes, escribe did that. So, escribe is making my life easier and is clearly making yours easier as well. Um, so you're able to select the agenda item you are your sorry agenda item that holds interest to you and the attachments pop up right on the side. You don't get to even lose your place. It's on the side. Opens up a brand new window. Again, as I shared, you're able to annotate your own items, real time updating, and you're able to access this um program on

116your laptop or on your tablet. Unfortunately, it's not an app yet, but they are working on app development, but you would be able to open it up on my Safari or Google Chrome browser on your tablet. So, before I go on to when a meeting is posted, I just want to review some terminology that escribe uses. So, there are participants and that is what all of you are as the board members and student trustees are considered participants. There's contributors which are COE staff um who prepare board materials and board reports and then there's subscribed visitors. So this is a unique feature where if there's anybody from the public so for all of our fans um if they would like to subscribe to our board meetings so meaning as soon as I publish a board meeting

117you'll get an email such as the screenshot attached saying a scribe meeting the date and that the materials are available. So all the participants will get that, all the contributors will get that and all of our fans, subscribers, visitors will get those as well. So it's a direct email notification. For the non-subscribed individuals, the packet is still available. They just don't get an email. Um, so they can go to our website and I linked it there or I like wrote that whole URL there so the public can see. Um, and so it's a calendar we've embedded onto our website and that's a screenshot of it where it shows all the upcoming meetings. So, and this is in list format. We can do it in multiple formats. Another format is calendar formatting. Um, and you can

118see if there's sorry the screenshots's a little small. Um, but at the top there is the agenda PDF link, agenda full package as an HTML and as a PDF. I will go over all of this in like the individual board trainings, but this is just kind of like an overview what the public can see. Excuse me. HTML is just is my recommendation for the public and it's the one I'll be highlighting and sharing more with the public. Um, however, PDFs are still available for anybody that does request them. It does make printing a lot easier for anyone that does like to print them. Um, and it also would u all the PDFs are um my gosh, I can't think of the word right now. have passed accessibility checks. So implementation timeline. Um so from now

119until ongoing um we will be doing staff and board trainings um all up before the March 19th board meeting. Those will be trainings of no more than three trustees. Um my including myself and then um a tech member will be there for extra support. for the March 2026 meeting. I will be providing their packet fully through escribe. Um, and I will be sending you notifications through escribe. Um, so that's going to be a new change. I will send you an email to just let you know I did send it through escribe just for this beginning part just that that flags into the system. Um, and then something I had not mentioned is that escribe has a live stream feature. We have not going live with it yet. Um it does require a lot of work

120um on textbar because it would be involve installing a new driver and a new software system and embedding that into our Zoom that we currently have. Um but what's unique about their live stream feature is that it'll begin to timestamp the board meeting with our board agenda. So even making it more transpar um increasing our transparency and making it more easy or make it easier for the public to follow along. So if they only had interest in listening to this one resolution, they can go to that page. they'll see right there and they'll also be able to be click the timestamp so it'll go straight to that item. So, it's a very new feature that we're very excited about. It also allows for subtitles. Um, but we're planning on implementation in fall/inter just to make

121just probably when I come back. Um, we'll be adding that and then also in the timeline we will be adding the personnel commission into this program as well. um those are that's our um board or brown act um compliant um group through HR and so they'll be getting added into the system as well. Um so supports offered throughout this whole process is every single week since November we've been meeting myself, Nick and Jason with e staff escribe staff weekly about for about 30 minutes every week just touch base touching base checking up on the system answering any questions. So honestly at this point I feel very wellversed in the whole escri process. I've had a lot of handholding throughout this process more than I've been used to when get learning new tech to the point

122where the staff members have been very surprised by how quickly Jason, myself and Nick can implement the new system. Um so that's been great. They offer a lot of quick reference guides. There is a help desk available. Um, and then there is, if you'd like more additional trainings, an escribe academy training. Um, it's very similar to like a Keenanban based model. Um, where you're able to just click through different like modules and they quiz you at the end to make sure you're following base. Um, so what I need from the board, um, I will need you to confirm your account access and log in before March's meeting so that I know it's all working. Um, I would like you, I'm going to say optional because I don't really want to force you to do anything.

123Um, participate in an onboarding training with myself. I'll send you a schedule of potential options um, next week for potential meeting dates in March. And then, of course, always provide your feedback throughout this whole process. Um, this is a learning experience for all of us. And so, any feedback or any thoughts you have, feel free to share them with me. And as again I said, I meet with the ESAF team weekly. So anything that you're seeing that's coming up as an issue, I can always ask them and they can always customize different parts of the features for us. And that's all I have. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. >> I think we should have made you stand at the podium. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm gonna open it up to any

124questions, comments. Um, you mentioned the ability for I guess board members, maybe others to um, put comments by particular agenda. They're encrypted that no one else can see them. So that would prevent us from a Brown Act, you know, serial committee thing where people see all the comments. But what is the status of those comments as far as the public record goes? because I know there are some things where if I if I have correspondence, you know, with you or with Ferris, that's public record. My emails are public record is if I'm maybe you don't know right now, but it'd be good to know >> if I make comments, >> especially if I make some snide comment that I regret later. Um, is that going to show up somewhere or is someone else going to

125have access to it? >> So, I believe that uh that those kinds of comments are kind of like your written notes there. Those are not official documents. They're they're your notes and so they are not uh part of the the the formal uh record. >> Correct. >> And and like if you were to write notes on them on your agenda right now, uh those are would be considered personal notes that would not that are not part of the are not considered required. U now if you were to share that with somebody else, you know, then it becomes more formalized. But uh but the idea is that it's it's those are individualized um notes for your for yourself only. Then are does this help us? Um we make very extensive use of Google Docs, Sheets. This

126I'm on a trend of way out of that although it's pretty hard because it's free and so many people use it but >> this removes some of that for us and I don't know if you even share that goal but >> I would say probably not. It's this is really uh replacing the paper and PDF version of what you've been doing. uh and so um you know the only the only uh change could be those personal notes of yours that you could you can save onto that but I don't think it's the collaborative work that we sometimes use for example on using Google Docs that probably will continue I don't see this as as impacting that >> just um excellent presentation very well done um you had me at reduce staff workload so I am

127fully on board and in fact when I was going through your slide deck uh before the meeting um I am wondering how many school districts in the county have moved to something like this if not specifically this because I think you're a model and I would love to see if you're willing to help support other district um admin assistants to tackle this. This is not your problem. This is a widpread issue that you maybe have done all of the research that they could benefit from and then be the lead on helping support other staff members in the county on this. I don't know if you have interest. I'm just I mean you don't have to even respond. It's just an idea and I I will throw out there. >> Yes, I will share there is

128a lot of variety um across the district or across the county. Um there's other districts that use one program we did look at um board docks um We weren't a fan for that of that for our own reasons. Um I won't criticize the districts that use that. Um other districts do also use CSBA's version of board meeting management systems. I believe it's Gamut. I'm not I quite can't quite recall that name, but we also did look at that one. Um and for other reasons as well, that one just didn't work for us. Um and then there are many that use the PDFs uh that I do. >> Yeah. So we we did uh you know part of our process one is it's it's a software product that you have to pay for and so that's

129one of the limitations that would not make it transferable to another district unless they also decide to invest in in this product. But part of the the I think we our team was really thorough in looking at those different options. And I think that once you start using this, you're really going to like it's the the interface is very simple and straightforward and um and it's it's really done from a from a user point of view whereas some of the other ones just seem much much more cumbersome. And so we I think when we share it, one of the things that the um we're going to be sharing this with our SECA board, which is um our special education uh board, and all the superintendents sit on that, and they're going to get access to

130this. And so I think once they take a look at this, they're going to realize this is probably um and and in many cases this was more affordable some of than the the ones that they have invested in. And so possible with the next budget, they'll they may consider switching over and we'd be happy to provide support for them. All asked one of my questions. Um, the archive feature I had picked up about it. Are we going to be uploading a couple years worth of documents so that they're searchable in there or will this be building the searchability going forward? I just don't know the capability or the value, >> you know, and the workload involved with it. >> Yeah, I've um only been planning to keep starting now and moving forward. Most of I

131think I have everything dating as far back as 2017 already on the Google Drive. So, it's already a pretty good archive. Um, prior to that, it it is paperwork. Mostly I was thinking for the committee I used to be on the policy and legislative seeing well what did we do with this resolution three years ago that'll be going to the Google drive or staff >> instead of through this system and I totally understand that workload management not trying to upload all the historic stuff but it was just a question. Um, you brought up the superintendence uh uh group. I was wondering about is the North County SULPA CAC whatever is that Brown Actable? When I see their agenda, it seems like it is. >> I believe so. Yeah. The the >> So that might be

132another one after the would be another one. Yeah. So the the the SECA is the special education that is ex that is a Brown Act and we do utilize I believe they just use PDFs um currently. >> Correct. And so we we're we're uh going to get them on board with this as well. >> Then the last one's a little bit facicious, but since he's here in the audience and is at every meeting, um I don't know if you've started assigning subscriber numbers, but maybe number one could be a shock. >> I haven't, but I will definitely >> put them on our subscriber visitors. >> He's earned it. >> The caveat with us, they have to opt in. I can't op them in them myself. >> That's actually a good question. Is it our DOE

133login that works for describe or you going to send us an email? >> Oh, correct. Yes, thank you for the question. It is your Santa Cruz COE login. Um, which is why during our onboarding I'll have staff there. um because you will need to log in through your Microsoft account um because they did a big upload of everyone's emails and make sure that those um emails sync in with your um your password sync in with your email password. So, it's all one password >> like teams or something. >> Yes, Teams. So, it all follows in with one password. So, every time you change your email password, your escribe password will change with it automatically. So, they did a lot of background work. I'm sorry, this is beyond my knowledge. a lot of background work um

134with the escribe tech. So that's why if there's any problems logging in, I will have tech there for the trainings. >> Thank you. That's really great. Um I got a little taste of it because Dr. Spa sent me a link. So I was doing some of it just kind of following along and um I think it's going to be really beneficial for all of us. Thank you for all of the background work. I know what it goes in to researching, testing, implementing, training new software. It can be very arduous and so thank you for all of that. Your presentation was great. Um, one as far as um getting some of our older archives, even maybe 12 months back, getting it uploaded might be very beneficial. I was just thinking about it cuz um in one

135of um our 11.1 when it came to the resolution 2605 we were trying to think well I know we talked about it we had originally um discussed that this was coming up and um and we approved for them to move forward in researching um the loan and and so forth and that would have been a great thing to like oh yeah this is the last time we kind of looked it up. So um if we haven't started thinking about that I think that it might be a really great benefit for it. Um likewise for policies and and other things that we might need little refreshers on. Um thank you. Any other questions, comments? >> We're excited. >> And congratulations on your first presentation, Mrs. Figawa. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> The baby was kicking

136me throughout this presentation, so I was trying to keep it cool >> and for the days. >> Yeah, that's right. >> Oh my goodness. >> All right. Well, we're up at 112 and I'm I'm feeling bad because we probably should have combined it with 111, but um 112 resolution 2605 with Michelle Kennedy and Dr. Sabah. >> Yes, we should have combined them. I also saw that and and we apologies uh Michelle for for that. But this is uh another aspect of the um of the same process for for the uh for the SoCal High School project. and Michelle um has uh some information about this resolution. >> Uh yes, thank you. 111 was great. Uh Joe Crump was coming in from San Francisco, so he generally appreciated being able to go back earlier. So, thank

137you so much. And this one's on me. So, well, I'm here till the end every time. So, I'm good. I want to do birdwalk for one second because the comment being made, the never- ending story. I've been in school education for over 30 years. And the first thing that popped into my head was the movie Nodding Hill where Hugh Grant is walking through the the farmers market when the seasons change. >> That's I think how we all feel in finance. We we pass through the seasons as they come and they go and we do them over and over again. Um but every year we learn something new. So I just really appreciate our our industry. Um we were just in a training the other day where I told Melissa, I've been doing attendance since the

138day I started school finance and I learned something new. So every day. So this I'm bringing to the board. This is our official lease lease back agreement. Um if we go back a little bit and start at the beginning of our SoCal High project um with our newbed classrooms. The first step in the process was um coming to an agreement on a 42-year loan with Santa Cruz City Schools. So that first step began with us releasing the portables that are on Swift Street. And that that was brought to the board at their last board meeting. With that, Santa Cruz City Schools was able to enter into a lease agreement with us that they took to their board already and their board president has signed and is now with us. So, with that in place, we

139technically can enter into a lease lease back is what it is called because we are leasing the property from Santa Cruz City Schools and we are going to lease it back to the construction company that we are going to enter into. And it's a method of construction um widely used as and that's how it is referred to as lease lease back or LLB. Um with that we're we're using the um guaranteed maximum price. So it's a negotiated price as we work through this process. So we have chosen Aonio as our construction company that we are moving forward with. Uh we went in um we end we had our RFP that was published back in October. We had a mandatory walkthrough of the site at so at Santa Christie School's SoCal High. Uh we had 14

140people show up from eight different um companies. Uh we had in the end uh five different companies that put in a bid. We then narrowed that down. Uh when I say we, I mean um retired deputy superintendent Reyes, myself, um Shay from our business department, and Brian from our M department, our coordinator of uh M. We looked at all of the proposals. We weighed out all of the options um and all of the information they put in their RFPs, which is a request for information or a request for proposal. We then narrow that down to two, Kent Construction and Estonio Construction. We then asked them to come in and give a presentation each of the companies to us and our architect Ralph Laru was stacked. Uh we then rated each of the companies based on

141all of the information that they presented and in the presentation that they gave to us for their proposal. And in the end, we decided to go with Asonio based on all of the information that we received from them. Um, we feel that they are the best fit for this project and to work with. So, I'm really excited. They are not a company I've worked with in the past. Um, just as a side note, we had Santa Cruz Builders, JLC, and Magguire Hester were the three other um larger construction companies that we um received proposals from. And so, with all of that, we followed this process. and for that next step to begin as we ask the board to approve the resolution for our cops loan for our financing loan. Now that that is in place

142that leads us to be able to enter into contract with Aonio so that they can begin the process of bringing in our subs and the actual modular company. They are not the modular company just for clarification for the board. Some of these companies do both. this this particular company is the like general manager or um construction company and they bring in our subs and they manage them through this process because they become the lease holder as the lease lease back dictates. So this is what I'm bringing forward to the board to pass this resolution so we can enter into contract and begin negotiations. Do I have any questions? >> Questions from the board? No. Just so you know, we um I saw the 90 out of 100 points and then later on you provide the

143detail of where eight of those points came out of the price points. Um and so that led me to wonder how far was number two? Were they 89 or were they down at 80? Was this a tight a close call or a yes easy call? >> No, this was a very close call. Uh we as I said the six of us interviewed both candidates. Uh we had discussion amongst the six of us and then it was discussion amongst myself, Leanne and Ralph Laru to go over the the components and what we are looking for for each of the levels that we're grading them on. And then ultimately it came down to Leanne and I to make the final decision. Um mainly I say Leanne and I specifically because Leanne was retiring and this project was

144going to be my baby. And so we we wanted to make sure we were all on the same page and so giving them the final rating at that time. But it was a very close they both made really good presentations. They both are strong companies. They come with a great background in this county and in Monterey and San Bonito County. So in the end, like I said, they just were a better fit for our project and both um general contractors. They meaning that they did weren't doing the use of the module units. And so they were both general contractors. >> Yes, they both uh the one only one of the five I believe JLC they are and I have worked with them in the past. They are a modular they are um JLM and JLC.

145They have a modular component to their higher project. Um they are just a different model. They each have very different models. >> Thank you. There are no more questions. Can I get a motion? >> Larson. We'll give it to Sue and we'll do a roll call. >> Student trustee Gian Martinez. >> Hi. >> Student Trustee Amore. >> Hi. >> Trustee A Costa. >> Hi. >> Trustee Kyle. >> I. >> Vice President Larson. >> Hi. >> Trusty Roth. >> Yes. >> Trustee Sanchez. >> Yes. >> Trusty Van Allen. >> Hi. >> President Williams. >> Yes. >> And the motion passes. Congratulations. Thank you. >> Thank you. All righty. Thank you. Um, all right. So, we are going to go into some um board policies. We have a couple of first readings. The first reading is 11.3

146um in the thousand series relating to community relations. We are presenting this as a first um and second reading if we do not have any objections. Um, and do you have anything to add here? >> Um, not really actually unless people have particular questions about these in particular these two on this agenda item. Um, we are improving privacy and and security and we're um taking a pretty strong step in relation to immigration blocking basic. >> Thank you. Are there any questions, comments on the Yes. Oh, um BP 1340 or 1445? If not, may I get a motion? Second. Hey, Kyle. Jesse, Kyle, and a roll call. Oh, and we're going to do Yeah. Voice vote. So, all in favor? >> I >> abstain. Passes unanimously. Thank you. The next one, 114, um, is 5,000 series

147regarding students. This is BP 5125 and 5125.1 presenting as a first and second reading. Anything to add? >> Again, I think these are fairly clear what they are. There's also a third um policy here that we are proposing to delete um because it's become obsolete and was replaced by some more recent ones. That's um on the next page 51 145.13. >> Correct. Thank you. Thank you for that clarification. Um, are there any questions regarding the two that we are doing a first and second reading 5125 and 5125.1 uh trusty Larson I'm sorry trustee Kyle question on BP 5125 uh top of page 412 and reference to social media I'm just wondering and I'm guessing the language probably came from CSPA place but the first line says information from the social media of any COE student

148may be gathered and maintained Um, would it be appropriate to add public social media profile because I don't I don't know that they can get private information, but I think we'd want to clarify that we're not allowing um any information be gathered that's only on their private sites. Um, let me see here. um information from a social media COE student may be gathered and maintained provided the student parents are first notified about the proposed >> um I feel like the way that it's oh um the way that it's reading is just for for the COE gathering the student information I don't think we have access to their public we're not gathering any of their that what you're asking >> yeah I just didn't know if we needed to call out public social media profile >>

149so somebody gives us a photo copy of a student's private page now in our possession. How do we control? >> And that's a good point that I hadn't thought of. What if there is something uh that needs to be raised to attention that only was accessible through private? >> But this is this is really maintaining the data. I mean, whether or not they're sharing, it's not necessarily that we're going to collect that as a a data point. if they're sharing it as a point of concern. >> So, um if I may, so this is um it references education code 49073.6 six and I'm looking at the and so uh that education code um defines social media as an electronic service or account or electronic content including but not limited to to videos, still photographs, blogs,

150video blogs, podcasts, instant text messages, email, online services or accounts or internet website profiles or locations. So that's the education code and that that this is referencing. So we wouldn't want to make a distinction in our policy between public or private. We we would want to um stick with what the education >> ed code. Yeah. Okay. Makes sense. >> Great. Thank you for clarifying. >> It's a great question. Thank you. Um and thank you for the followup. Any other questions or concerns on any one of those policies? >> Okay. Great. Can I get a motion first? Kyle and thank you. All right. Um all those in favor I >> oppose abstain. Motion passes. Thank you. >> And to clarify, this is for first and second. >> This is first and second. >> Thank you. >>

151All righty. Thank you for doing that. Okay. Going. Um, so we have a second reading on our board policy 11. Okay. Item 11.5, second reading, board policies. This is for BP 5145.3. Um this is um a second reading and is referenced in above policies. Um do you have anything to add? >> We had a lot of discussion about this and um I think uh Trusty Kyle would like to propose a amendment to it. >> Okay. President Williams. >> Um yes. >> We're open for comments. We're open for comments. >> Describe what we mean. Exactly. >> Sorry. >> We are open for comment. Um my uh comment is on page 418. It's under application of restorative justice practices. My concern with the paragraph is that it's limiting it reads as though it limits the application of

152restorative justice practices to only incidents of racist bullying, harassment, or intimidation. And so I would like to without detracting from the emphasis on those incidents um I would like to propose adding a parenthetical comment um right after that description I just gave racist bullying harassment or intimidation parentheses or any circumstance described in paragraph 3 above. Okay. Um and like trusty val said we've had a lot of discussion about this. So everything just so that everybody knows that everything that is highlighted in yellow in our policies are those that are recommended by CSBA. Um it also that paragraph is being referenced to also another education code. So we'd have to go back and read that to see if there is if we divert from it if it affects that in any way. Um, we can also

153go back to CSBA and say, is there a reason why it is not all-incclusive um, with other forms of harassment that we would require or offer restorative practices? Um, so your request is being that if we can change it or add to it, do we have anything um that we can add for the education code? >> Yeah, I'm looking at the education. Could you repeat the request? You'd like to modify it from what to what? Um so inserting a parenthetical comment after the phrase racist bullying, harassment or intimidation um before the comma and the school administrator. So in between >> paragraph that has the title application of restorative >> right the first sentence. So she's looking >> so in between intimidation and comma would be um >> or any circumstance described in paragraph 3 above

154which is where we talk about all the different incidents of uh discrimination, harassment and bullying. >> Since it's a May engage, I think that would be would be fine because that goes above and beyond the education code. And so I think that that that um would be appropriate and and and something we would be able to implement effectively. Okay. So, in in essence, it would it would be that our administration would offer restorative practices in any one of those in >> or have the option to. >> All right. Well, I like it and it meets the need and exceeds our needs. And so, can I get a first move? >> Second. >> Oh, second of um trust Moore. And we will do a verbal. All in favor? I I >> Any oppose? >> Any abstain?

155>> Wonderful. Thank you. Passes. Excellent. All right. Um and so now we will go into item 11.6 CBA 9A delegate assembly ballot. And it says I'm the presenter. So I'm just going to read through this. CSBA delegate assembly serves as a key government body that ensures um the association reflects the interests of our school districts and our office of education. Um we are um enclosed and attached was a ballot um of materials included for a candidate and includes the biographical um information on the one candidate that would represent um our district 9. I believe um if there is anyone that knows this individual would like to add some information if there is any comments, questions or but basically we would be um making a motion to support the candidate listed or I have a motion

156of supporting the listed candidate. >> So move. >> Wow. That was enthusiastic. >> I hope he doesn't. >> Um, do we have a second? >> I'll say. >> All right. >> Sure. >> Trusty Roth. All right. All those in favor? >> I post. That's all right. Oppose. Abstain. Motion passes. Thank you. All right. Um 117 resolution 2606 recognizing March as disability awareness month and um Trusty Van Allen. >> We have a lot of um kind of uh socially related resolutions today. Um and so one of the ones one of the areas that our office and our board and and our school system has I think done a lot of good work on is providing for people with disabilities and this kind of recognizes that and brings it out to the public as a concern. Sure.

157I will make a motion to support it. >> And we have a roll call vote, please. >> Did you have a question? >> Um, I have a comment about this. I think this is a very important sort of resolution. And I'm wondering if there's any way we can include in sort of the send out that we do for the community with uh Dr. Sabah sort of information about IEPs and 544 plans because I think a lot of um parents and students don't know about IEPs and 504 plans or the fact that they are able to get uh an IEP or a 504 plan. I know a lot of times it's very difficult to try and get that. And so I think um awareness about like what they are and what they can help a student

158with and like how they get one could be good >> to highlight during this >> I I'm trying to think about how we would do that. We would definitely be sending out information about uh for with our newsletter with the disability awareness uh month. Um and maybe we could add links to to information about that. I think that's that's uh because there is always opportunities for families to know more about. So, we'll I think we'll we'll work on that. Thank you. >> And perhaps just adding on because it's a really great point. Um anytime we have resolutions, you know, added and maybe those are ones that we share um on our public social media with links to, you know, maybe information that goes along with it. Um so, at this point, we'll do a roll

159call. Student Trustee Guian Martinez. >> Student Trustee Amore. >> Hi. >> Trustee A. Costa. >> Hi. >> Trustee Kyle. >> Hi. >> Vice President Larson. >> Hi. >> Trusty Roth. >> Yes. >> Trusty Sanchez. >> Yes. >> Trusty Van Allen. >> Hi. >> President Williams. >> Yes. >> Motion passes. Thank you very much. Item 118, resolution 2607, recognizing March as Women's History Month. Ben Allen >> Christ, this was one that um we've done before. Um and the draft we started with was pretty much the same as what we've had in past years, but um both trustee Kyle and I were um didn't feel that it really reflects today's circumstance. Um, and so, um, I give it some thought. And so, some of those early paragraphs did not appear in previous ones. And I hope it's

160okay with everybody, but I I actually tried to make it to do within staying within resolution. So, I hope it's okay. And to me, it's really important. It's part of my lifetime has been supporting that change. So, this is important. I recall the one from last year and so I I did notice that there were some changes and appreciate the extra effort and making it relevant to our current time. So thank you. >> Can we get a motion? >> You want a motion? Trusty Amore second and trustee Kyle for a second and a roll call, please. >> Student trustee Gian Martinez. Student Trustee Amore. >> Hi. >> Trustee A. Costa. >> Trustee Kyle. >> Hi. Vice President Larson, >> hi. >> Trusty Roth, >> yes. >> Trusty Sanchez, >> yes. >> Trusty Van Allen. President

161Williams, >> yes. And resolution passes. >> All right. Um, item 119, resolution 2608 recognizing March as arts education month. Trusty D. >> We were given a draft from the state and it had a big focus on the state, so we kind of reworked it to focus more on. And again, this is this is so important. Um, and the COE has pretty much been there with the arts. I mean, the money hasn't always been there, but our commitment to it a long time and recommend approval. I just wanted to say Student trustee Gian Martinez. >> Student trustee Omore. >> Hi. >> Trusty A. Costa. >> Hi. >> Trustee Kyle. >> Hi. >> Vice President Larson. >> Hi. >> Trusty Roth. >> Yes. >> Trusty Sanchez. >> Yes. >> Trusty Van Allen. President Williams. >> Yes. Um

16211. Item 1110, resolution 2609 prohibiting the use of Santa Cruz County Office of Education indoor and outdoor facilities and parking areas for any forms of civil immigration enforcement staging processing or basis of operation. Thank you so much for this one. >> This is the one that gets us put in jail. So >> hope we can get it down for it and and that got added to the record as well. Thank you Van Allen. >> Thanks for putting it out there. >> No, but I to me the our schools have got to be safe and it got to be place that people want to come to get their education, to connect with their friends, and to work. And that's just got to be absolute. We've got to take every step that we're allowed at our level

163of legal clout and so on to be able to do >> well. I think it's definitely important to point out that one of our primary responsibilities is the safety of our students in school. A safe place physically, emotionally, just being able to come to school and be ready to learn. Um, and they can't do that if they're in fear. Um, so whatever we can do to make them feel safe. >> Um, two comments. One is I think you were going to make a change based on our conversation with Nick. >> Oh yeah, there is a um >> trusty Va. >> Yes, Vines has has the >> I have the language as well. But before we go on to with board um discussion, we do have a public comment on this item. Okay. >> Um so

164I will call up Sherlock um for public comment. Hi guys. Thank you all. Thank you all. Thank you all for your service. You guys actually started to say a lot of things that I wanted to come up here and say. Um for the record, I'm not representing anyone else but myself and I have the honor and privilege of working with young people. And one of the things that come with that is being exposed to seeing the fear in their eyes and hearing stories as what did you do over the weekend? What was your break like? I didn't leave the house. hearing that when you want to go on field trips that they don't want to take home the thing to get signed because even if they are American citizens or what have you the melanin

165color in their skin they have learned from the news as we are old people we have wisdom but our young people are seeing this and are terrified. This resolution has to pass for the reasons you guys stated. This resolution lets our lets our community know our schools are our safe places. It backs the walk up and lets them know that we will not let our schools be weaponized. So, thank you so much for putting this resolution forward. As a person who gets to work with our young people, it gives me another sense of pride in being able to support them when they are so terrified of what they see on the federal level. >> Thank you. >> Thanks. >> Thank you for those words. >> So, there's a proposal to change the opening paragraph. Bernie,

166do you have that? Are you able to project that up or >> Yes. Um I could drag it one moment. >> Yes, please. >> This is an amendment which we're left. >> All right, perfect. Um so you can see here is a um recommended language by Nick Ibara for the first paragraph. I'll give you a moment to >> Did you read it out loud, please? >> I'll read it out. Oh, sorry. Whereas the Santa Cruz County Office of Education, Santa Cruz COE, is committed to maintaining safe, welcoming, and accessible learning learning and work environments for all students, families, and educators, regardless of race, ethnicity, immigration status, religion, political belief, and any recognized protected status. Point of this change is that the original language refers to us as a part of the California education system which

167didn't quite seem the right. >> This is our this what we're doing. >> So I would like to propose that as an amendment. >> Okay. >> Jesse Kyle, did you have a comment? >> I have a question about the resolution, but I don't know point of order with the amendment. Uh we we have an amendment. We can I have well motion. I will make a motion to accept the the amendment. >> So yours was about something else. >> Okay. Then sure. Yeah. >> Okay. Um my question I will be voting uh to support this resolution. My question is about enforcement. So Dr. Sabah, how do we enforce this resolution? That's a that's a a great question and um actually Trist Moore asked me about the role of law enforcement. Um if uh ICE agents were

168to break the law, what would the role be of of um our local law enforcement because they're required to protect the rights of everybody um even if another law enforcement agency is violating those rights. And um and so when it comes to to um in enforcement, uh our understanding first of all is that if we were to be notified of the possibility that ICE was planning on utilizing, we would absolutely not give our our permission and we would contact local law enforcement to um help protect our rights uh when it comes to if if they choose to violate that uh if and and utilize our facilities or resources. There is a a point in there that it's um that states um that we will not um interfere or obstruct and that's the language that is

169utilized. If we do um interfere or obstruct um ICE agents, it would it is a felony to do so. And so, um, we would follow our recourse through, uh, by contacting law enforcement and then, uh, utilize the, um, the courts to, uh, to remedy, um, any violations to to to this and any other laws that are broken. >> I have an out, but it gets us so that none of our staff members say they want a block of work would then be sub. >> Yeah. Yeah. And this and this particular one is them utilizing legally utilizing the facilities versus entering in utilizing by staging and utilizing so not necessarily entering the property. So um were there any more comments? Um this is a question um somewhere in my history of of education we are responsible

170have been responsible for a student from coming from their home to school and school to home is not even thought about >> so That that that's absolutely true. We um uh we have local parents uh for students from the moment they leave their homes when they're under the care of their their uh parents on their way to school and and and back. Um and um so but this this resolution is not related to that. It's really related to the utilization of our of our resources. the idea that uh ICE agents conducting an operation would utilize our our parking lot to to stage to prepare for some sort of action. And this is a resolution stating affirmatively and clearly that um we do not authorize that that use and that we we find that to be

171a violation of our mission and um and our legal rights to to um and that we are not going to allow them to do that. But can I just throw that question in proper and you can think about it for later? I mean is there way we could pro >> could could offer some not protection per se but come in saying that agents taking a child on their way home or coming to school u this that is outside of this particular resolution though. Yeah, I realize that, but I'm just saying um >> it's a pass on >> might be a question >> perhaps for for a future discussion >> discussion. Yeah. >> Um Trusty Larson, you have >> question trustee more. >> Uh isn't that in the proposed policies BP uh 5145.13 response to immigration

172enforcement? I think it said something about including our uh transportation uh stuff like that. Yeah, good catch. So I believe that um you mean the I guess I'm trying to understand do do you have a comment trust more about >> is I think what um trusty Roth is saying like it might have been mentioned in that like writing cuz I was looking at it earlier. I think that >> that is correct and it was one of our previous policies for um I believe it is in the 145 but I'm not sure if it's the.3 where we do talk about um transportation and um the protections of students when they're on a bus or in in transportation with um you know uh staff that sort of thing >> that's not this >> that is not this

173so I want to like finish discussing the the resolution that we have the four of us I I have a question >> back on this. Oh, >> go ahead. >> I have a question kind of changing the topic. >> Uh and I don't know if we have the answer to this, but I believe uh immigration informs a local um sheriff's or the local police department if they plan on being in the county or in the city. Is that true? >> They're supposed to, but >> as a courtesy >> as yet as a courtesy, but >> that is off the topic. I want to make sure we stay on on topic with the resolution so we can like pass it. Um, but I wanted to make sure if there was any other comments regarding this. >>

174I'm fully supportive of the resolution. Just to start there, in fact, so supportive. I do believe there's another city in the county and maybe a school district that's already acted on similar policy statements. given our countywide role, do we have a communication opportunity here to encourage other school districts to take similar actions? Because as if we're unanimous and all the school districts are unanimous, there's safety enforced in those numbers. >> So yes, uh thank you for that, U Tissy Larson. So um the city of Watsonville has approved a resolution like this as and Cababrio College has also approved uh a resolution like this. We are also currently working with the um board of supervisors to for them to consider an ordinance that would be kind of strengthen this resolution uh that would also uh that

175in all jurisdictions in the county of Santa Cruz that the board of supervisors would issue an ordinance that would not allow for um the utilization of of any government resources. In addition, we've also uh worked with all the district superintendents and they have all shared that they um would hope to move forward with similar resolutions. So, I I I believe um it would be appropriate for for us to communicate uh if this resolution passes to all the school districts for consideration for their or the school boards to for for them to consider adopting similar resolutions. Then given that outreach is already underway and following up on Trustee Sanchez's comment, it may be appropriate to inform the county and local law enforcement that if they're ever notified that ICE is coming to do something, they share

176those jurisdictions that have taken this action. >> We'd be happy to do that. So your request is is that we communicate our resolution to local law enforcement so that they're knowledgeable about what our >> encourage all the partners to do the same. I don't think it's changed the resolution. >> Correct. Correct. >> Any other comments? Jessica say I'd like to move resolution 26-09 prohibiting the use of Santa Cruz County Office of Education, etc. Um, excuse me. Um, with the amendment as described earlier. >> A second. >> All right. First, Venelin, second by Trusty Moore. And we'll have a roll call, please. >> Student trustee Gian Martinez. >> Hi. >> Student Trustee Amore. >> Hi. >> Trustee A. Costa. >> Hi. >> Trustee Kyle. >> Hi. >> Vice President Larson. >> Hi. >> Trusty Roth. >>

177Yes. >> Trusty Sanchez. Yes. >> Trusty Van Allen, President Williams. >> Yes. All right. Motion passes. Thank you very much for every for the discussion and for passing unanimously. Um we'll move on to um item 12, the superintendent report. >> Thank you so much, President Williams, and members of the board. Um, I would like to start off by thanking you for passing a resolution um honoring and celebrating Black History Month, which we are in the month of February. And also, um, to share our sadness with the passing of, uh, Reverend Jesse Jackson, um, who was a such an important pioneer and and and, uh, who sacrificed so much uh, for the civil rights movement. Uh we continue to do a lot of work uh promoting our black student union and uh in addition to updating

178some information that I'll be sharing in a in a moment in terms of our uh racial justice and equity uh website and and information that we're sharing with our community. But I wanted to start with that and and I think now more than ever uh the importance of celebrating our um our African-American community uh their contributions both um nationally and locally. Uh I I feel I have to mention that uh the first county superintendent of schools was uh Michael Watkins uh who uh was my mentor or is my mentor and and preceded me in this in this position and uh we're we uh sometimes uh it's it's good to have a resolution and and a reminder although we know that we celebrate and honor um our community and our our black community specifically year round.

179Thanks for for allowing me to start with that. Uh when it comes to national news, I did want to share with you that related to the resolution that you just passed, there currently is a partial government shutdown impacting um uh the Department of Homeland Services and um and they're currently working on um uh or having discussions about approval for that um for those services. I wanted to thank you for considering and now approving the resolution to prohibit ICE from using our facilities. We continue to update um our federal impacts website which has a variety of different information including tracking um all immigration enforcement activities close to schools. There haven't been any uh verified uh activity on school campuses even though there have been some some alerts uh about that. However, uh we are tracking any

180mention of um ICE activity for where families are going to drop off their children and and um where things have have occurred that have impacted and I have to uh share my um my resonance with comments from Shell Cavanas about the impact and the fear that that this um that this campaign against our community has has has had. One of the recent uh uh uh news that that has come out of the federal government has been the approval of the discretionary budget which um included uh several um items that we were concerned about not being approved. And now this list is u most of the educational related funding and I know it's a little bit small on the screen um but that includes title one part A which is for students who qualify for free

181and reduced lunch. Um the good news is that in February the federal administration stated they were going to be eliminating many of these programs and they have funded all of them. So with some modest increases that last column are those modest increases. But the difference between um last year which is uh or or this year really fiscal year 2025 and then next year which is fiscal year 2026 is either maintaining those funding sources or modest increases which is welcome news for us. uh that that there have not been reductions as we were we were uh heard were were going to be occurring. Included in there is the migrant education program which was one of the first that was identified for cuts and it is being fully funded for next year. Um some additional updates. Um

182the um we received uh a visit from the BSC which is um uh the bureau uh the state bureau that that oversees Prop 47 funding which is what is funded our ascend diversion program. Uh this is the program that helps make sure that students who have any contact with law enforcement uh who are cited or arrested actually get an opportunity to be diverted into pro-social activities that will result in once completed they will not have um any justice involvement. They will basically not have arrest on their record. And so we received a visit from um the BCC and and they were very pleased with what they were seeing. We have every law enforcement agency in the county participating this program including the state parks and um and I mention them because they um are actually

183uh um issue a lot of uh citations to young people in our county um and it's uh so we're grateful to be partnering with them as well and and all these law law enforcement agencies have been very grateful to have a offramp for young people so that they do not have the this on their record or follow into a deeper into the justice system. I wanted to share with you that Nikki Bar um our director of communication is receiving an award at the United as a a United Way volunteer champion award. Um if you want to join us at the gala for uh for uh United Way, we would encourage you to let uh Mrs. Figueroa know and uh so that you could join us. I do believe we still have some spots open. >>

184Yes. >> All right. So u please send an email to Vanisa to be able to uh join us so we can honor uh Nikki for his accomplishments. Uh and then right now at this very moment um at Serra Hall in Cababrio College uh Rishi Lal who is the director of school safety is receiving a community hero award from the sheriff's office. And so it just it gives me great joy for our our own team to be recognized for all the great work that they're doing. and and it um and it's you know it's it's it's wonderful. Uh we also have two students from our Black Student Union um who are receiving her story emerging leaders awards um and that is going to be taking place on March 6th I believe at the mall. And so

185we would we would love it for you to join us um at that at that event uh coming up shortly. I wanted to share with you that if you haven't gone to our data portal which is at data portal at sanantaacrucue.org or um all our 2025 data has been updated in there and um in addition we have been updating um our racial justice and equity initiative website and I'm going to go ahead and click on that for you to um so that you could take a look at this website. This is one that we launched a few years ago. It has information um about um uh you'll see here that it has uh interviews with uh local leaders of color uh such as Elaine Johnson from the NAACP. Our we're currently working on uh on

186a um uh uh interview with Reggie Stevens who is a local leader um and he's he's going to be uh we're going to be adding his interview um there. Uh included on this are uh culturally responsive resources. It's curriculum for African-American students, Arab-American students, Asian-American, indigenous peoples, Jewish American, Latinx students. Um so if you click on any of these links um it opens up uh many many resources for for in instructional resources for teachers to be able to incorporate the stories and the the um the impact of of many of these of these groups. And um in addition um we have a part here that we are going to be expanding which is uh some videos produced by students then um student resources that we're adding here. Um, we're hoping that our student trustees who

187are working on their own uh projects will be able to post their projects on here as well once once those are ready to go. But what I did want to share with you is a little bit about the outcomes. And I have some data that I would like to share with you. And I'm going to try to get a little closer here so that um this is a little bit more visible. Not very visible. Well, I'm not sure how to how to um well, I'll just talk through the the data. Uh this is uh the student assessment data for language arts and each of these different color different lines with colors uh is a different subgroup. So the top one are the performance on students in the language arts test, the state assessment, the CASP

188test. Um and the first line, that orange line is uh the percentage of students who um identify as Asian and their performance on having at or above the standard in language arts. And so the first line is for Asian students. The next line below that is for white students. The green line, which kind of goes downwards, um uh uh is for uh black or African-American students. Um the blue line is for American Indian and the red line is for Hispanic or Latino or Latin students. And we share this data because we want to acknowledge the the the reality that our students the achievement gap continues to persist uh with all the hard work that we we uh continue to provide and the services. We recognize that we hold ourselves accountable for the outcomes and until

189um our students are all performing at the highest levels uh consistently. We're not we we we recognize we have a lot of work to do. When we look at our mathematics, you'll see a similar trend and um and I encourage you to check out this data. We'll send you a link to it and there's a summary on the left side um as well. and similar Asian students um then followed by white students then um American Indian black students and Hispanic students um in in that order and so you'll see that for example in math this is in mathematics you'll see that for the average for our county was um 17.5% for our Latino students um and compared to 53.2% 2% at or above center for white students. And so clearly this achievement gap persists and

190you see that um we started tracking this data before the pandemic and um we continue to see that same achievement gap follow through. Um I also wanted to share data about our chronic absenteeism. And you will um also notice that um students uh from our um uh Latino Hispanic uh group are at about 21% are um uh experiencing chronic absenteeism. That's when they miss 10% or more of school. And um and that's a fifth of our students of our our Latino students um are experiencing that. for our African-American students, um the number is 19% and compared to our uh white students at 14%. So again, an achievement gap there that that persists and uh you know missing uh 10% of your schooling is a whole month of school uh annually. You'll notice that there was

191a huge increase uh after the pandemic in 202122, but we have not seen great reductions in there in most of our our subgroups. We have seen it in some in our Latino uh group it has dropped from 34% down to 21% and for our American Indian uh students from 33% to 28%. But generally speaking, we continue to struggle with attendance for our students. And I did also want to share with you that looking at these bar charts, again difficult to to see on the screen, um you'll notice that there has been this is the asking the question if they've felt chronic sadness or hopelessness in the last 12 months for over two weeks or more. And the bar charts are each a different year. Um so the last the red bar chart is the one

192that is for the the the most the the the the most recent year 2025. And you'll notice that the numbers of students that are stating that they have felt sad or hopeless for two weeks or more in the last in the last year has decreased, meaning that students are there's less students who are sharing that they've they've had that experience. And um and that is welcome news. But we still have about a quarter of our students who are mentioning that they are experiencing that. When we look at students who have seriously considered suicide in the last 12 months, um you'll notice that um um and most of the most of the data that is on this website is is related to race and ethnicity. But if you look at this data from other um other

193demographic information, which you can do on on our data portal, you'd also be able to see uh some some some other kinds of patterns. But looking at our our students who have seriously considered suicide in the last 12 months, we'll notice that um the number is um uh highest for white students and American Indian students at 12%. Um and uh whereas our Asian students 8%, black students 9%, Hispanic students at 9% and native um native this is native Hawaiian Pacific Islander at 7%. And so uh still a very high number. However, when we if you saw this data looking at students who identify as um as queer, um the number is three to four times higher for that subgroup. So, um we see we're we find these this reduction in the number of students who

194are seriously considered suicide. This reduction is a very good thing and welcome news. Um and we're grateful for that. And we still recognize we have a lot of work to do and the mental health crisis is still very real and we need to continue to double our efforts to to provide services and and care for for our our most vulnerable students. All right. So I I wanted uh so thank you for allowing me to share a little bit of information. Um you can check out this website at justice.sancoe.org or you could go to the data portal um to just get way more data than you'd like. But it is up to date now for with 2025 data. So, we're really grateful to our um our technology and innovation team for updating all that information. Um

195I'd like to invite you to some exciting upcoming events. The Latino role models conference is happening this Saturday at 9:00 a.m. at Cababrio College. We also have a TK PreK community forum occurring next week on the 26th um at Seascape Golf Course. We're excited to bring back the civic summit on February 27th, which is a week from Friday from tomorrow. And um and so we would love it for you to be there and to uh we're working and in partnership with the county clerk uh to help uh encourage students to get civic civic engaged or engaged civically um to help uh utilize one of those one of the important uh ways of of influencing um our current state of affairs with with their vote and their their uh political action. the her story event on

196March 6th. Uh we're having an educator recruitment fair on March 14th, the Steam Expo on March 28th. Um and uh and then we're having a big celebration. We'd love for you to be present where we our annual celebration. Uh we call it celebrating our school community and that's going to be on April 2nd and that's where we do a year in review. We have lots of fun activities and um and it would be we would be honored to have you present. We'd love for our student trustees to consider speaking at that event. April 2nd, celebrating our school community. So, more more information to follow. All right. Um, so that is it for my update. I would entertain any questions that you may have. >> Thank you. First of all, do we have um any questions,

197comments? I it's a lot of the the discrepancies and some of those numbers are really heartbreaking and concerning um and particularly for the wellness of our you know of our students and um with budgets sort of being cut and being strained across our county some of the resources for our students get cut. Um, I know we work with partners to try to kind of um backfill some of that. Um, what efforts or what additional efforts can we as the county office of education sort of help backfill or what are we doing or what can we do to ensure that the students continue to get the support that they need? Well, so um mental health and behavioral health uh but more broadly including um uh support for students who are experiencing addiction um has been uh

198a huge focus for us. In fact, um, uh, with, uh, Director Melissa Lopez here, we were just talking recently about the significant increase in funding revenue that has been brought in to the county office of education to support the implementation of behavioral health services across the county. So part of what we do and what the student services division does um is really focusing on one uh creating the system uh to facilitate the creation of wellness centers, the ability to um bill for services, which is a new feature that um almost all the districts have been participating in. Um and also to develop the relationships with the county, with nonprofit agencies um to be able to maximize our ability to provide services. that system is complex and the funding is is you know multifaceted. Um and

199we've tried to do everything we can to simplify that process to make it e as easy as possible for our school districts. The challenge is that once funding um when districts that are struggling uh financially and are having to make tough decisions and cuts such as the valley school district that received a qualified budget. um this is one of the areas that um is you know they're considering reductions in. Now they are looking at shifting resources from full-time staff to nonprofit organizations to be able to provide some of those services. And so part of our role is to uh support the districts to ensure that those services are being delivered and that student services are not are not being impacted. Um with that said, I have to say that um you know the uh the

200ongoing you know the challenges that we face with declining enrollment um sometimes the instability that we experience because of state funding and the local control funding formula. Um the lack of funding for special education services or the limited funding that we used to for special education put pressure on these support systems. And so um just like in most situations we end up funding what we have to fund which is of course teachers in the classroom for a certain number of students and that can affect those other services that are not necessarily required to be in place. So we see our role as being a support um agency to to really help districts be as efficient as possible. And um and you did receive a presentation, I believe, from our from our our student services team

201that that gave more spec specificity uh that better answer your question. >> Are there any other comments? >> I believe more >> um what is it that Rishi L did to get that award? So um uh so Rishilal is our director of school safety and he um has done he facilitates our BASA meetings which um includes uh uh working with school districts and law enforcement agencies to be able to respond to the um uh to support students who um may be having behavior challenges and and receiving support. he was the one that actually wrote the grant for the Ascend grant and actually uh so the $6 million that that um came to us were as a result of his uh advocacy and in doing that is the partnerships that he has developed with all the

202those law enforcement agencies to build that program um is uh one of the things that that the sheriff's office has identified. In addition to that, he is the primary contact now for all emergency operations. And so whenever there is whether it's a weather alert or uh situation related to violence um in in the in the community, he is our our primary leazison with law enforcement. So he acts as a leazison for us. And so um those positive relationships that he's developed to create partnerships between schools and law enforcement in addition to creating a um the ascend program which is uh covers all minors in the county when when it comes to their potential involvement with law enforcement. um is uh is part of the reason why they've selected him for this award. >> Thank you

203very much for the report. Um and we'll be getting those slides right after. Right. >> Yes. And I apologize for the small the small uh charts on the screen. Uh but I would encourage you to check out the the both of the the uh uh racial justice and equity website as well as our data portal. We'll we'll be sure to share those those links with you. >> Awesome. I like numbers. All right, we're going to get into our trusty reports and we'll start with um Trusty Sanchez and just go along the line. Okay, so this past month we had uh or I attended to different events uh that many of you were in attendance as well. The first one being our self-evaluation January 24th. Um it's always good to have that and sit together and

204just to be able to talk. I really like the format as well. It's very open. It's very, you know, it's like a um uh self-driven, I think. So that it was good to be able to do that. And then we also met uh the 19th the charter no yeah no I got the day wrong. the charter committee. I forget what date it was, but we met um and be able to discuss about charters and what's what's what's coming up for us as um as a board. So, we had a really good conversation in terms of um the charters that we do oversee and uh the the plan that we have for this upcoming year and and sharing a little bit more with the the board kind of formalizing a little bit better so we can

205share more reports and have a little bit more transparency in terms of the charter schools that we do that we do oversee. So, we'll share more information as the year progresses once we do have that. Um, I do also want to take some time to uh talk a little bit about ACCBE um and some of the upcoming webinars that they have, most of which are virtual, which I plan on attending just because it's it's convenient, right? We all have an hour in the day to be able to attend them. And if we can fit them into our schedule, then I recommend that we all do so as well. But the next one that they have is uh February 26th. This is a Thursday 7 pm virtual meeting. Again, this is advocacy update and how you

206can engage with legislators. I think that's a big part of our role is advocating, right, and reaching out to legislators and getting our voice heard. And then the other one uh is March 5th. This one is from noon to 1:00 p.m. This is also virtual and this is building trustee excellence LCAP training. So who knows we might be able to um teach as well you know be able to provide our own input on LCAP in this specific uh virtual. So again I I encourage everybody to attend because it's a meeting with other uh COE's from the state and people who understand our language people who understand what we're going through and we can definitely learn a lot from from each other. So if we can uh we can definitely do that and we all should

207be receiving these emails from ACCBE but if you aren't we can work on that. That's my report. >> Thanks. Um attended uh the last of the DAC graduations. Really enjoyed it. I was sick on our board retreat and I'm sick that I missed it but I ran into Dr. Denver and as I was leaving the emergency room child >> validated illness >> we trusted you pulling a sick kid. Uh then uh I was still sick and missed the capital uh advisors, but thank you for the discuss. Uh I attended the uh Scots Valley Unified School District Measure Five parcel tax the I'm on their advisory committee and uh then also the charter uh committee meeting which I thought very robust good things rather than just by the your turn. >> I I have a long

208list this month. Um on MLK Day, I volunteered with my children um at Live Like Coco's birthday book prep, which I've done several times over the years. It's just a fun fun event, but it was their first time. Um I attended the PBPSA soup for a cause with some other people here. That was my first time at that event. had always wanted to go. So, I was super excited to be there and um found it so inspiring. Um really enjoyed our board retreat and I I just I want more um I'm going off the cuff now. I want more events like that where we can sort of get to know each other a little bit. I I really enjoyed that part of it. Um Santa Cruz City Schools is doing this parent learning series and

209luckily the I don't know if it was the first one. It was the first one I attended was at Harbor. So just you know I could take the eight minutes to get there and it was a presentation from a UCLA professor on the teenage brain. It was so interesting and it was so dataful that I just was my little researcher heart was pounding. It was so exciting and eyeopening. I mean just um I could share more but anyway so that was a fantastic event and it was the same week. It was like a Monday and then on a Wednesday I went to the mask you live in also in Capola so it was easy for me to get to and that just blew me away and I think anyone who is raising teaching or coaching

210boys needs to see that film. It was um made a list of all the people I wanted to talk to about it. Um let's see. I Oh, I was a participant at Shoreline Middle School's career day for the first time ever. That was an interesting experience. Also share more if anybody wants to hear about that. But I'd always wanted to do one and I finally got to do it. So eighth graders, um, no, not last Saturday, but two weekends ago was the CCS honor band I had been telling you all about. So the honor band and orchestra performed at Cababrio. Um, and it's just amazing to hear what they can put together. They get two and a half days of rehearsal and they're from around the CCS region. So, what Carmemell to Davenport and out

211to Hollister. Um, just fantastic. And then last night, President Williams and I uh jointly presented to the SoCal Unified Elementary School District board and that went really well. And that was part of um what we talked about the board retreat was coming up with sort of some talking points and common shared slide deck um information. We didn't do anything formal, so no slide deck, but we used some of the talking points Nick had shared with us and then tailored it to what they wanted to hear about and um and I think it went really well, but we're going to debrief and then we can provide some more substantive feedback. We'll go out and do that. That was my first time presenting to a school board as a trustee. So, um I thought it great and

212thank you for supporting me. Uh, I joined our our team at the MLK parade and that was fun as usual. Then a bunch of committee work. The policy committee finally got into gear after promising a lot for several meetings and we have more coming too. Um, uh, and the resolution committee I I we got some really substantive resolutions today. I mean, not that we don't other times too, but I felt good about that. And the board retreat was was great. I really appreciate it. I'll try. I've been neglectful turning in a written report for the past several months. >> Mr. >> Thank you. Thanks for the reminder. Um, President Williams and I were at many things together, so I'll try not to uh repeat those, but um, there was three more graduations after our last

213meeting, and it was a joy to spend the time down in seeing Sequoia for the first time and getting a tour of that facility, as well as attending those three wonderful graduations, Martin Luther King's Day parade. Um, I also attended my first ever COPA meeting, which is a community organizing and power together. I didn't know it was a Copa meeting. I was told it was a broader futuring discussion, but it was a great great meeting and I think we'll all be hearing more about those efforts over the next year. Um, I mentioned earlier a gathering of some state officials where the whole discussion about the growing health needs of the state came up and how the state wants to take more action on that particularly for inhome social service workers making sure their compensation is

214attractive and sustainable for them as families and members of our community. We had our periodic SCSBA meeting which is the Santa Cruz County School Boards Association. President Williams was there as well. Uh the big accomplishment was that was I ducked being uh nominated for an officer position. So I view that as a big victory. But it's a again it's worth going to those meetings once a year or so just you hear representatives from all of the districts talk about what they're focusing on and that that's interesting. It did dawn on me that there's no student representatives there and I'm not even sure they're ever indicted. So that's something in terms of student trustees they might and there is the zoom in function as well. In fact, you've you listen often >> just to so you

215know what's going on in all the other districts. Um, I'm going to actually let our president talk about it, but the single most inspiring event I went to this past month was the Titans of Tech and and I since you were more personally involved with our recipient or you work with their honor committee, I'll let you speak to that, but it was a powerful voice meeting and I'd never been to that event. It's honores and technology and there were two educators up there with university researchers and technologists. So it was in greatest speaker was ours. I'll leave it at that. Um the next day, the 29th, the Ed Voice um hosted a panel with Marshall Tucker, um Yolanda Flores from Families and Schools and Edgar Zazu of the Association of uh School Administrators just talking

216about the dangers we face federally. And kind of the one takeaway is as we've seen either the courts or even the president the current federal administration drop some of the assaults that are going on and at least in funding. Um I really got the sense there's palpable fear from people at the state level working on those issues that after the midterm elections all those will be renewed. All the cuts and loss of funding will come back in a year. So keep our vigilance up. Capital advisors program was was great. Um not too many board members there from any board uh there this year. Uh let's see. Um city schools is launching an endowment program and it was great to to go to that launch of their uh fundraising effort to create a $5 million endowment

217for the school as a starting point. mock trials. Volunteered at two of those. Continue to be inspired by the kids, the judges, and the COE staff that puts that together. Great program and links right into uh work we do supporting kids. In between the two mock trial nights I went to, there was a CASA lunchon which also had judges involved doing the handoff for foster youth support which directly links to our work. I didn't go to this event thinking it was related to COE. I just went because I've never been past the gate. And that's Younger Lagoon out by the Seymour Aquarium at the far west side of campus. It's a UCSC property and they're required to do three or four tours that are open to the public uh during the course of the year.

218Otherwise, it's a reserve to protect wildlife and and natural species. But coming out of that ran into the director of the Seymour Center who is really focused on nexties or youth on uh marine sciences and the like and really trying to get more involved and been has been working with the high school but wants to broaden that to high schools more broadly. So I'll share that with the superintendent. Poetry out loud, my first time ever going to that. And that was uh inspirational again to just hear students reciting their own and others poetry as part of a competitive process. Sure. Glad I wasn't a judge at that. It would have been hard. Um the gender affirming care session was inspiring especially I didn't know our student trustee more was going to be the speaker and

219as I mentioned he did great. Uh also attended the county office of ed first of three programs. So there's another one coming to the San Lorenzo Scots Valley and another one to Pajaro Valley District Environment for Youth effort and it's really to try to do outreach to solid waste or food waste management which trustee Moore also brought up earlier. Incredibly well organized, low attendance, but it was a beautiful sunny day in the middle of winter. So, I think that was trying to swim uphill to get people to come to back to school on a Saturday to talk and learn about food waste management instead of uh being outdoors. But it was incredibly well organized. Uh linked to the charter just because PCS is in uh the district I represent and I tried to go to

220their back to school night but I had COVID and so the new head of school reached out and said, "Hey, we weren't able to meet at back to school night. why don't you come and take a tour of the school because I hadn't been on campus in probably four years. So, it was great to meet the new head of school and see the new student murals. Um, last one I did want to mention and just suggest input. I I don't think there's a Brown Act uh violation with it. I mentioned before I'm on the uh CSBA's planning committee for the annual December conference. We had our first meeting by Zoom. We have our first in-person meeting coming up in a couple weeks in Sacramento and they're looking for keynote speaker suggestions. That's what they want

221us to bring to that meeting in in uh two weeks as well as theme tracks that we'd like to have discussed. You know, be it AI, that's kind of the one people are using as an example. And so given that's not action that comes to this board, I think it may be okay for people to give me suggestions or would you prefer it go through staff? I'm just >> um it's easy for me to ask other school boards. I'm just wanted to make sure I was following protocol to get suggestions. I believe that the the only possibility of a Brown Act violation is that if there would be a future action that could come from that then then then the public would have rights to know about all the the communication that that were occurring.

222My my recommendation maybe would be uh to maybe give it to one of the existing committees as a topic and as a topic and >> those folks could collect it and then we could um or we could treat it as um >> we could treat it as um um communication between board members. >> Oh, that's true. public to know >> really like your first idea and maybe when we get to the committee reports I'll make a referral to the pol or legislative committee is probably okay great um and I'll stop there I've talked I should have done it in writing I should have done it in writing >> that's okay that's okay remember he handed over his three minutes so those happy. >> All right. Um uh like many of the trustees has stated, we

223we shared a lot of events, attending events together. Um uh I was also invited to participate in COPA. I haven't been able to be in person, but I look forward to doing some of that work. Um had the privilege of attending MLK parade with the COE. That's always a great time. um PVE PVSA soup for a cause. I didn't get to stay long because I was attending a um a online um deal with the ACCBE um conference and it was starting strong and it was for new presidents of the board. So I cut out early from that to go to to that um that event. Um two things in one. So, yes, Texas Titan I I attended as well. Um Stephanie Sana um was a an award recipient for it. Um she closed out the

224night incredibly. Like she I was like, "Oh my god, they're they're going to present to her last and we have to stay here the whole night." But she just she she brought the house down and she was amazing. She is also um the one who um started her story and I'm on the committee I was on the committee the selection committee for that and so that was really great to um meet with other folks in the community and talk about all of the amazing women in our community and the work that they're doing. Um um attended the GUZO remotely. Um also a mock trial volunteer. Uh my daughter did it um for several years when she was in high school. So, it was really nice just to kind of be there and watch other students

225um do their thing. And they are incredible. If you you should just go, not you don't have to volunteer, but just go and watch. They are so impressive. They're so impressive. Um let's see here. Um attended the agenda, policy, and charter committee meetings this month. Um attended um the federal, fiscal, and political impacts on students mental health and wellness webinar. Um that was that was pretty incredible. that definitely comes in with lots of other um trustees from the county boards of education and sharing experiences and just really hearing you know how all um those the fiscal affects all the programs kind of talking about um and attended um the event co-sponsored by the CA I believe Rebecca Winthr director of the center for universal education and um her book and the discussion was um what's

226driving teen means disengagement and um what educators can do about it and it was very well attended very good ex uh discussion um lots of topics and discussion on AI and how it affects that those aspects of their engagement and what's healthy and what's not. Um and then of course um um as Trustee Kyle mentioned attended with her the So Kelly Unified School District um and they had invited her and I wanted to go and just support her um and be in the crowd and then she said, "Hey, why don't you talk?" Um but she did an amazing job. She said it was her first time talking to the board, but she she is a pro and she did an amazing job and she represented us well. Um what we did learn from that is

227is that districts want to see us. They want us to be present. And that was part of the reason why um we've started putting together sort of a a you know presentation hopefully into a packet that each of us can use to go into our districts and maybe go into so that we can support each other and um show that you know we operate as as a team, you know. And so um my suggestion would be is I went with her and then she'll go with another trustee to their a school in their district etc. Um so um and they were very pleased to >> and you told them ahead of time. Well, they had invited trustee Kyle to come and present and introduce herself to the board and so I just was going to

228go just uh >> in the in the crowd. >> I love the formalizing of it. I go to each of the boards in the area I represent at least once a year just to say I'm here, but it's under public comment. It's not agendaized. It's just >> I'm here. I repres >> When you've done that, have you told the superintendent or the board chair? um >> ahead of time. >> I don't want to get too far off of what we're allowed to do. I try >> because this is my time. >> I didn't get enough from him. >> I'm just kidding. I'm glad the discussion is great. No, I I really I really want to have the discussion, but about the formality of it, I think it's really important. I I I'd like it to

229be sort of an initiative that we do this year and formalize it. And I think it is important to let a superintendent know the trustees like we're going to come and if they invite us to speak to them it's like oh great why don't you guys then we're prepared and we're all talking with one voice and um and we're prepared with the information that they might love. >> Great idea. >> We usually try to let the superintendent and board chair. >> So that ends my report. Um, yes, more. >> Um, something I'd like to bring up before we finish is that Cababrio College is hosting a blood drive on uh March 3rd. It's from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. if any of you guys would like to join me there. I think it's a really

230good thing. It'll be in the Artos Cabrio campus in the cafeteria. >> Great. Thank you for that. Um, some of us have talked about it a little bit, but on I going on to item 14, any ad hoc or standing committee reports? Is there any of the committees that would like to add to what they've already shared? Um, I think that you wanted to share something. Just wanted to uh see if the legislative and community outreach committee might have time at your next meeting to just talk through issues that you think would be appropriate to share with me as a regional representative to the ACE planning committee. >> Oh, okay. Good. That's what you were mentioning earlier. Yeah. And I don't know if we keep a running sort of list um when we when trustees

231make recommendations for the community outreach or legislative like future resolutions. I know um other school boards and I think it'd be really great for us considering um that we live in a very high a um community is recognizing Caesar Chavez um day on his birthday. a lot of schools do a you know um the resolution for it and so maybe something for next year it's too late to do it this year it would be like March 3 so we kind of missed it but like I don't know if we keep a running list of like hey next year let's add it >> yeah but do we have one okay well maybe maybe then that's a good time that's >> all right maybe we did miss it >> what I would like is to not have

232to need like take a note in order to remember that. So I think you were sort of suggesting maybe we a little more of a system but for now if just parise who has notes I think could send us to to the as a reminder that >> No, that sounds great. >> I make a lot of notes but often when I get home this just goes in a pile. >> Sounds good. Thank you. >> Yeah. Um any other reports from any of the ad hoc committees? >> Okay, let's see here. Um we have our scheduled um of meetings and upcoming events. Um Dr. Sabah shared many of the event dates and um listed on the screen are our uh upcoming regularly scheduled meetings. Um and if there is nothing more we will adjourn.