001Good evening everyone. We're bringing to order the Santa Cruz County Board of Education meeting. Welcome everybody that is present and if there are any online, welcome. Um at this time we're going to do our roll call. >> Trusty A. Costa. >> Trusty Kyle >> here. Vice President Larson >> here. >> Trusty Raw >> here. >> Trustee Sanchez >> here. >> Trustee Van Allen >> here. >> President Williams >> here. >> Student trustee guan Martinez >> here. >> Student trustee Amore. >> He is here. Um you have quorum. President Williams. >> Thank you. Is there anybody that will be um participating remotely under SB77? >> There have been no requests for remote attendance. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Next, we're moving on to item two. We will now be adding a land acknowledgement to our the
002beginning of our meeting. The land on which we gather is the unseated territory of the Aaswis speaking Yupi tribe. The amu the Amamuten tribal band comprised of the descendants of indigenous people taken to mission Santa Cruz and San Juan Batista during the Spanish colonization of the central coast is today working hard to restore traditional stewardship practices on these lands and heal from historical traumas. We will now go into item three, pledge of allegiance. For those who can and are able, please stand as Dr. follows us. >> Ready? Begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you everyone. We'll go into the approval of the agenda. Are there any changes
003um in sequence or ads or suggestions? Great. Can I get a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Voice out. All those in favor? No. >> All right. Moved on to public comment. This is the opportunity for the public to address the board regarding items not on the agenda. We will give you three minutes. Are there any persons present or online? >> Seeing none, President Williams. >> Thank you. All right, we're going to go on to the student trustee reports. Do we have a volunteer to go first? Mine's going to be a little bit short cuz we did have winter break. I was at my house. Um yeah, but for my report this month it I was mostly at my house and working and we took the kids from the youth center to like a
004lot of different like field trips. So that counts as community work. I work, but I did the community service. And we took them to get free haircuts at a barber shop in Watson Mill um for food and other activities. And then I had my event at Empower Watson recently. I feel like that was very um fun. A lot of people liked it. And we got a lot of engagement from new like memor new youth that we've never seen at the youth center. A lot of people came for that and also Empower Wat we got a lot of engagement from the city and they want us to do another event and now I have to plan another event. Um also I keep I have more like upcoming things for my group at Watmo High, the student
005advocacy group. We keep having meetings um basically every week or sometimes two times a week depending on when we schedule the meetings with the principal. We talk about different um problems or sol or good things that happen at school. We just talk about school in general and um we're soon we're going to be doing like a flower wall. So, we're going to have like a shelf and we have a bunch of flowers. People like students could get flowers or a flower if they wanted to. So, that would be like promoting mental health. Um, and if you really wanted to, you could get get a flower, give it to someone else, make someone's day a flower. We have a teacher. I didn't know they they grow flowers. So, a teacher grows flowers. So, we're getting the
006flowers from them um through a grant that the school has for money, I guess. I don't know. I don't know how they explained this to me, but they have money, so we're going to use it. And we're we have more we got more compliment boxes. And the compliment bots have been really going really good. Some classes are not that going. They're like one or two. But I've seen other bosses where the boss is like the boss is like this big and it's full. So some classes they're doing really good. Others not. I don't know why. But maybe we have to do more like advertisement and or telling people what it is and what you can receive, what the pros are for doing it. Yeah. uh for my trusty uh student trustee report. I also was
007on winter break, so I didn't have the opportunity to do as much as I wish to do. Um, but recently I was like a few minutes earlier I was able to meet with Jen and talk about our plans for the dress code and uh going forth with that and just consulting with everyone. And uh also I made a sort of little list of uh intentions or that's what they're called uh because it's the new gear you know. Uh so for my as a student trustee my uh intentions for the new year is I want to visit all of the all ed sites and like you know talk to the students. I want to continue to engage in community like the community in general with like a focus on mental health and the LGBTQI plus community.
008for that I am for the focusing on LGBTQIA plus community on the February 6 I'm doing a speaking of like it's why you should care about uh gender affirming care I'm going to be one of the panel members I'm super excited for that was pushed back to February but excited that it's finally going on now um and then I also I am really looking excited to tour the crisis mental health center because I am to see it and talk to the people that are like heard of that. And I feel like there's a lot more mental health resources that could be available. The closest like places to get mental health resources really are like at least an hour away. um like over the hill, all the hills, you know, like very far away. Uh so
009it's not really feasible when I know so many of the people in the community struggling and might need like higher levels of care, you know, and it's just such a long way away to get the care and that they need, you know. Uh, and then also another goal is to finish the website, which honestly I did kind of forget about I need to finish my website cuz I'm super excited about that. And yeah, then um I guess just coming up uh school uh school started um like the 6, I think. Um and then uh Cabrio it starts on the 26th. So I'm super excited for that. I'm doing the EMT Academy uh course thing this year, which is super excited about. >> Well, even though you said you guys didn't do very much during break,
010it sounds like you were very busy. Welcome to the spring semester and we wish you guys all the best. Yes, >> that I did have like brunch with two different community members. Um the UPSA Mhm. >> Um and another committee member I forgot their name with other people. So Izzy, thank you very much. Um all right, we're going to move on to item 771, appointments. Do we have any appointment changes to committees? Any requests for changes or moving to Yeah. Okay. So, did you you that's right. We didn't you weren't here when we had assignments. So, um we do have a few committees that are open if you would like to join. We have the agenda committee, a budget committee, um policy committee, community outreach, legislative committee, and then um we do have some ad
011hocs, but those are those come on when circumstances um arise. Is there any particular interests that you have in any one of those in the policy committee? Okay, great. All right. Can we add? >> Wonderful. Well, welcome to the policy committee. All right. Uh consent agenda. Um any questions, clarifications, comments? >> One question. I don't need to pull them unless other board members wish to. But for 8.3 through 8.6, six, which are the ones that are submitted without the information from the state. When we do finally get the information from the state, will those have to come back on the agenda or will the updated reports just be sent asformational items? >> Generally, we don't bring them back, but we'd be happy to if you'd like to. >> I'd be fine just with anformational item
012to the board unless other board members want it back on the agenda. >> Is there Okay. Yeah. So, we could bring it back. So, you're saying bring it back with the once it's complete, once we have all the information. Is that what you're saying? >> I was saying it didn't really have to be agendaized. It could just be sent to the board and then maybe listed under >> correspondence. Got it. That'd be fine with me. >> Happy to do that. >> Uh, for that, would it be like a report sort of thing? Like we learn about it or would it just be in the footnotes? >> So, it would be correspondence. So, you'd get an email with with a report and then you'd be able to ask questions and additional information. >> Thank you. >>
013And let me clarify. I'm assuming once we get the information from the state, they have to be updated anyway. So, we're not creating additional work. >> That's that's correct. Yes. Yeah, we have to what we post um on our websites has to be >> Okay. So, just when that happened, if you could even send us a link to the website then. >> Is this a structural problem though with the data being leaked? No, I believe it's it's a timeline issue. So, it's it's we don't get the information ahead of time, but we have a timeline to get it. >> Is that going to happen every year though? >> Yes, I believe. So, yeah. >> So, is that something that needs can we can we can adjust not bringing it back maybe next year? >> Deadline
014deadline. >> Yeah. Your deadline to approve it is >> sooner than getting all of the data. Ed code. >> Yeah, I was going to say that's beyond our control. >> For our student trustees, welcome to government bureaucracy. >> All right, >> move the consent agenda. >> All right, >> assuming no other >> second. >> All in favor? >> Stayain. All right, moved. Passed. All right, we are going to correspondence. Is there anything additional that any additional correspondence that wasn't included in the packet? >> No additional correspondence. President Williams. >> Excellent. >> All right. So, we're on to reports, discussions, and presentations. We're going to first start um with 111 with Dr. Sabah on presentation of COE's human trafficking awareness efforts. >> Yes. Thank you so much, President Williams, and members of the board. Um, it
015is a um pleasure for me to share some information about our efforts to address uh bring awareness to and prevent human trafficking here locally in our schools. You're going to be enter you you'll be looking at a resolution in a future um items in our in our action to uh for a resolution in support of of human trafficking awareness month. Uh so we were we felt like this was an opportunity for us to share some information about uh human trafficking. Uh also talk to you a little bit about the report that came out from the grand the grand jury and um to share with you what we've been doing, what we have strengthened and what we will continue to do to um bring again awareness, prevention um to address human trafficking. So the definition for
016human trafficking is that is the use of force, fraud or coercion to compel a person into performing labor, services or commercial sex acts for the purpose of exploitation. This is a definition is now consistently utilized in the United States and um and in by the United Nations and other international organizations. And so it's it's a pretty uh broad definition. And so um many times because of the media or because of news articles we think of only some of those like like the the uh sexual component is many times highlighted in a lot of in in when we think of human trafficking. Um and but it is important to to note that there are uh that it is a broader definition that um is as a result of force, fraud or coercion. Now when we look
017at human trafficking um we are identified as a hot spot for human trafficking uh here in the Bay Area from from Santa Cruz through uh San Francisco. Now um the res the research proves that human trafficking is chronically under reportported by the nature of its of of its it being something that it's make many times victims or survivors are unable to um to to report and and get help when they need it. Um California there's evidence that California is is one of those hotspots. That information comes from uh the national human trafficking hotline as well as um where California gets a high that one of the highest percentages for calls for help for that from that hotline. In addition, when it comes to the department, the California Department of Justice and looking at arrest records
018and enforcement activity by law enforcement, they've seen that the Bay Area is is a hot spot where there are higher numbers of of human trafficking incidents. I believe urban areas are known to generally be um more susceptible to have this as a in in the community than than areas that are not not as as dense. So again, those documented cases um and law enforcement activities are are um and also anecdotal information from survivors, including survivors that have come here. I've been to several uh presentations done by uh Rising Worldwide and also um by the uh the district attorney where survivors have talked about how um when they were being trafficked that that that Santa Cruz was one of the stops for for for many survivors. So, um, in, uh, last year, uh, the, uh, grand
019jury, uh, interviewed us to talk to look into how we were, uh, the kinds of things that we were doing for for to bring awareness about human trafficking and um, and also to to identify and make recommendations based on on the report was was made available uh, in June of 2025. five. And um the uh what they found was that trafficking occurs locally but is often unrecognized and under reportported as as it is nationally and across the state. Um that they recommended they felt that the county response not only the county office of education but the county's response needs to be have stronger coordination and uh consistent prevention efforts. And they recommended systems for identification, reporting and support should be strengthened especially across organizations where educational organizations, law enforcement organizations, uh mental health organizations to
020to work uh better in in uh developing stronger consistent systems. They they specifically identified in uh in education and in that there was inconsistent staff training and awareness in the school community and um um despite that there were required trainings and that there were available resources they felt like the implementation was and um we welcomed their their findings. We and that was our response to their to their report. We said you know we appreciated the fact that they were bringing this to our attention. We felt like we had been doing uh some good work in this area and we recognize that their their recommendations will help us um be stronger and have a more effective system when it comes to addressing human trafficking in our students among our our community and and um Santa Cruz
021County. So speaking of those um one of the things that we put in place uh is to mandate um annual human traffic related training for all COE staff um as part of our required compliance training. That's this is above and beyond the requirements of the law but we felt like uh we because there was some inconsistency um that that that uh we wanted to make sure that all staff were were receiving this training and so this became a new requirement. Um in the same way that we require mandated reporter training, we now mandate u human trafficking training. We monitor it. Our human resources department works with all the departments to ensure that all our staff are participating training. Um we um ex expanded our partnership with with uh rising worldwide which was a recommendation of
022the report as well. Uh we had already had that the partnership with them but we have expanded their their their uh support for us. They provide uh survivor informed classroom presentations uh including at at juveninal hall and in other classrooms. Um and uh to uh because it's it's so impactful when when you hear from from the voices of survivors. Um and we feel like that that um we're looking at expanding those that kind of relationship. Um, another component is that uh the the education code does require that we incorporate human trafficking awareness as part of our instructional program of our our um and that all students um are able to to participate. One of the areas they they identified specifically in the report was that our independent study students were not receiving. And so, um,
023we're we are, um, ensuring that that we're integrating, um, that training for all of our teachers, uh, classroom teachers as well as our independent study teachers. Um, and, uh, we also maintain and share a human trafficking resource guide for families, educators, and the broader community. um and um and also are sharing information about local supports and hotlines. So again, we feel like um uh you know, we we we had some systems in place. Thanks to the grand jury report, we've identified new areas for improvement and we're implementing those and we feel like that this is we are going to be stronger and better and doing a better job at this. We've also shared all this information with all the districts in Santa Cruz County and encouraging them to utilize this these resources and implement some
024of the same systems in place. We're also reaching out to agencies such as the um uh family and children services which is CPS is how we usually think of them uh to look at how we can uh improve our communication and feedback loops so that we're able to ensure that if um that we can work together to identify potential cases and provide as much support as possible to to potential young people who are being impacted. Um, so we wanted to share with you a poster that we've um have available. Um, right now this one has only been shared staff, but we're going to be putting these up for our students as well. And so you'll see that it has a basic form um to know the signs. It has resources and phone numbers to report
025a concern including child protective services, the district attorney's office for human trafficking and the national human trafficking hotline. Uh it talks about the the signs and then there's a a link for more additional information on our website. So, these are going to be you're going to be seeing these in our classrooms going up um this apply to um private schools, charter schools, homeschooling. >> So, the report this is all county office of education schools, right? And so our uh what we do in this kind of case and the grand jury report only looked at the the county office of education schools. Their questions were only but we recognize that this is not something that only exists in our schools and and um and that for that reason we're sharing um our systems with with all
026schools. We have we are sharing this with private schools as well. >> Um two comments. one, there's another nonprofit, I don't know if we want to link into it, but Pedal the Pacific >> is an allwoman's college ride that goes from, I think, Washington to Southern California, which >> Alaska Alaska to >> and it raises funds to combat human trafficking and they come through Santa Cruz every year. So, Morning Rotary, as you well know, is involved with that. And then second, just given some of the communities that are particularly impacted by human trafficking, do we do signage like this bilingually or even in multi- many languages? >> Yeah. Well, uh so once we this is this is right now for for staff. So, uh once we uh create the templates for our students which will
027go up in our classrooms, those will be So that is it and and of course uh with your support we would I hope you would consider approval of the resolution uh for uh recognizing uh human trafficking awareness month and uh which is later on in your agenda. Thank you so much for your time. >> Um just one comment on that. um is I think it's incredibly important that that that this information gets out because I think it happens more often than we know and I think it's such an an important um information to understand just as as parents and not just as the COE and staff and that it's a the greater community is aware right when you hear the story of the survivors it hits home differently And it is it is gut-wrenching. Um
028but it's also very eye opening that we we have to be observant and having a tool like this just available so that we can pass on in the community I think is incredibly important. I think when the the resolution comes out passed but thank you for that presentation. Are there any other final questions comments >> regarding this? Just a comment. Um I appreciate the timing of this given the Super Bowl coming here and I know that there's concern of increase of this um activity. Um in Santa Clara County had uh law enforcement, DA and hotel organizations around for like a summit to prepare for it and to sort of spread this information and be on alert. And I don't know that if Santa Cruz County has, but I know we're a destination spot for Super
029Bowl visitors. So, it's my hope that the county has has done that too. And I don't know if you know if that's taken place or not. >> I don't, but I can check. >> Oh, Bruce, did you have a comment? I saw >> share the concern both in terms of labor Thank you. Uh moving on to item 112, the interim financial certifications and COE review process with Dr. Zabah and Rebecca Ulker. >> Yes. So this uh presentation was really came from as a request from from the uh from the board. Uh we you first asked if how districts were doing uh for first interim and we shared uh some information about that and and um the official officially at this point there is one school district that has uh been identified as qualified today. We
030are notifying them that we agree with their uh their certification and so we're certifying them as qualified. And so uh uh Rebecc Becky and I are going to be sharing some information kind of hypo not hypothetically but um kind of abstractly what this means. What does a qualified uh designation mean? What what happens? How does what process do we utilize to to evaluate first interimm reports? Uh what are first interm reports and so on. And so it's kind of an overview of our process. Um just to to so that you you're aware of of the steps that we take and and how we provide support to to ensure that um that's that districts remain solvent and and that we do everything we can to ensure that that they they continue in a in a in
031a positive direction. And so I'm going to um we're gonna I'm kind of I'm going to turn it over to Becky, but we'll I'll be jumping in here and there. Um the uh first we again we're providing a little bit about what AB1200 and what the state law requires of uh the county superintendent and the county when it comes to certifications and inter welcome >> oh >> welcome to the table we are so happy to have you here thank you so >> I'm so sorry before I turn it over to our interim deputy superintendent And I am so sorry. Sorry, Becky. I I forgot that this was your first meeting. I I have to do an introduction now. So, I'm going to take Thank you for that. >> Yes, please, >> President Williams. Uh so,
032yes, we are so grateful to Becky Ore, who has uh stepped in as our interim deputy superintendent. Uh Becky has been with the county office for >> I think 13 years. >> 13 years. uh brings a wealth of knowledge um in in many aspects of of uh the business services department and and um and especially in the external part which is the work with the school districts and um which can be quite complicated as you you'll see in this in this report. And so we're very grateful to Becky. She already has joined us in cabinet and um is uh is going to do an outstanding job. And so thank you Becky and welcome to uh the board for your first meeting. you all very much. So, um I'm just going to talk a little bit
033about what our process is. Uh you know, we work with the districts. They're required to turn in two interimm reports a year. So, the interim report is a substantial bit of information from anybody who has ever worked in finance. A lot of times we call it like a monthly close. It's a little tiny look at what you're doing each month. This is a deep dive into what you are doing and it's done twice a year. What your actuals are through October 31st and then what your projected budget is through the end of the year. The second one is due in January. The report is through actuals through January 31st and then it is your actuals through the end of the year. So you're always looking at where are you now, where are you going to
034be and those have to be presented what they call 45 days after close. And the close are those two actual dates I mentioned. October 31st has to go to board by December 15th for the January 31st. It has to go to board by March 15th. And then the COE has 30 days to review that information and to respond to the district. So part of our review is we're going to look at something we call the criterion standards. It's kind of a dashboard. They put a lot of information in there. It's multi-year. They put in prior year data. They put in future year data. And it it kind of assembles it into a dashboard for us to look at and say how is a district doing? Are they doing well compared to the state averages and
035are they doing well compared to what they have done? And then they have to kind of explain where they are out of sequence of those trends. So we look at all of that information. We look at their attendance. We look at their localations. We ask them to submit all of the information that comes in assumptions as well as what we call a multi-year projection. Part of all of this is they have to submit not only the current year budget but two subsequent years always looking for two years out >> and these are the same reports that we present to you for first interm and second interm. So they're they're just uh so we submit them to the state and um after you we get your approval the districts submit them to us for review and
036certification >> and we go through the same process as state does with us. They look at all of the reports they ask our assumptions. So that's kind of what we do as the external portion of the district of the county office. We re review all of this and we have a whole list of questions that we go through and ask, you know, what is their ADA and is it on trend with this? What are they projecting for the future? And do they have a rationalization for it? Are they using somebody to project ADA into the future? So we ask all of these questions as we are doing our review and we take all of this into consideration and what we are doing is we're trying to determine the status of is a district positive qualified
037or negative. Positive certification is that they will meet their obligations their fiscal obligations for current year plus two outy years. A qualified certification is that they may meet their obligations for current plus two outy years and a negative certification is they will not meet their obligations for current plus one. So in the negative we're only looking at the one out and and that a lot of that is based around cash. So you know you always hear the expression cash is king and that is especially true in school. You can have a fund balance that says we are sitting with $10 million but if nobody has actually paid you that 10 million you can't payroll you can't operate. So it is cash is what is really driving some of these indications. So um the timeline as
038I mentioned is that you know after they adopt the budget in J in June July 1st we open the year we look through October 31st is when they are looking at actuals through that period so it's the first quarter of the year how have we done so far then that goes to board December 15th and of course it's looking at projections through the end of the year and then we have to the CE looks at it we do our own review and do we concur with everything that the district has presented to us and then we write a letter back to the district with our review information. So this is just again kind of the step process that we go through. We when as soon as the information comes into us, we review all of
039the forms and we review their email to did they include all of the forms? Have they completed it? Did they fill out the information in their local control funding formula in all three years? and did they fill it out accurately? So, we start to go through that. Then we go through and look at their entire SAX report that we present to you. Same type of report. We look at the criterion standards. We look at their form. And as we're doing this, we're asking ourselves all of the questions about this. And then after we've validated that and we start to look at their multi-year projections, we also look at their ending fund balances in their reserve. So, as you know, the state requires a minimum reserve amount, not only the current year plus the So they
040for districts that are in the size that we are that all on the county. If you are below 388 it's a 5% minimum or $88,000. That$88,000 will adjust every year. If you are above that but below I believe it's the exact numbers it's a 3% minimum reserve and then when you get to the size of Los Angeles Unified it's a one. But one thing to kind of keep in mind is that reserve amount is about two weeks of payroll. It's not a significant amount of money that we're asking. The state is requiring them to set aside. But we look at all of that and that is the minimum that they have to have. Once we do all of that, the next step is the collaborative problem solving. Top one, number four. This is what we
041kind of pride ourselves on in the um external department and the county office. We have a very good relationship with our districts and we work really hard to work with them on all of their questions and how can we help them be fiscally. So it just is a lot of back and forth. We ask a lot of clarifying questions and they work with us to provide information. They deter they have already certified they self-certify as a qualified or negative and we will either agree or change it depending on the information we reviewed and then of course like I said we do our report and follow out to. >> So in most cases, if I could add, in most cases, they say that they're they certify the tenant goes to their board and they say it's
042positive and that we agree with them. In some cases, like in this in this case with Bajar Valley School District, they say that they're qualified. We agree with them. In the case, for example, of Live Oak a couple years ago, they said that they were qualified and we flipped them to negative. when when that occurs a a series of things happen it basically means that we have concerns about their process this process that that that Beck is describing um we disagree on the fiscal health of the in this case though um we or PBSD they they have shared they've certified as qualified and we we are agreeing with This is just a little bit more information as what we mentioned the positive qualified and negative and then kind of what we also look at as
043we're going through this. So positive again we are assured of their reserves that they have it and we continue to do risk monitoring just through the regular budget review just when they're qualified. It does trigger a few more steps involved and that they could be required. It's a lot of it is up to the discretion of the county superintendent of what we're going to require of them. They could be required for example to submit what we call that's an additional report after the second inter are is the district's budget still in the same and so and then of course the negative comes with even more restrictions at some point where we get state involved and then there's another organization crisis and management assistance and they will come in and do something that they call a
044fiscal health risk analysis. Go through and ask believe it's something like 14 and they require backup documentation for all of it and just to determine a lot of it's about internal controls, processes, procedures. Are you requiring purchase orders before you go out to do any purchasing which is basically permission to buy something as opposed to everybody just buys what they want and turns in receipts and then you don't have a good control over budget because you don't know what's being spent. That's the type of thing that they ask and they routinely all of that information. So again, this is just the outcomes like we had talked about if the COE is going to confirm with the district of their self certification then it is filed with the state and everybody is just kind of going
045on status quo what we expect if we are changing it then we have like I said until January 15th I know it says 75 days but that's the 75 days from October 31st we go to January 15th to tell them that we are flipping them and then they have five days to issue an appeal and they're issuing the appeal to the state superend the state superintendent has been based on. So this is just a little bit of the ed code and such that requ that that allows us to look at all of the information and then requires us to request fiscal stabilization plans. So again, under a qualified budget, one of the things that we can ask for is something called a fiscal stabilization plan. What are you going to do in order to reduce
046the deficit? Some of it could be just deficit that you have a one time expected unexpected expense. But what typically happens when you get into that level is something we call structural deficit. You have built-in expenditures that are greater than the revenue that you're getting in just as something that continues whether it's offering raises or offering. We have a a gentleman that used to work in school services many years ago and he used to always say never offer onetime money to things that need. So you don't want to use onetime dollars on people because dollars go away but the people don't. >> If I could add uh so an important aspect of this is that the the first interim report process is looking into the past. So it's a report about you know actuals up
047to October 31st and so and then the second interim goes up to January 31st. But a fiscal stabilization plan says, "Okay, you're based on our your projections and whatnot, your current state and your your your multi-year projection shows that you're going to run out of money." The fiscal stabilization plan gives the the district an opportunity to explain how they're going to change a trajectory that they're on. So that is how they say, well, okay, we know that it looks like we're going to run out of money, but we're going to be making these changes, these cuts, these reductions, or bring in more revenue this way, and this is how we're going to get back on track, and we're going to be in a positive. So, we we're going to be asking for PBSD to provide
048us a fiscal stabilization plan as part of the qualified process, which is pretty pretty much a very standard process for them to be able to not only share what's currently happening, what has happened in the past, but also what their plans are for the future. And >> just to follow up on that, a lot of times what we do with a lot of our districts, especially the even the smaller ones that don't have a lot of flexibility when it comes to making decisions, is to already come up with a plan like this. If you were to lose some funding, what will what is the first thing you're going to cut? And we also do the reciprocal. If you were to get some onetime dollars, what is the first thing to add on? Because of course,
049everyone's going to come with their hand out. You want to be able to make that's partly what the fiscal stabilization. So then this is again going on what more our role is with regards to they are in fiscal distress. So it's and without and also not being in fiscal district just throughout the course of the year. So we do a lot of uh support with Sachs. We do a lot of trainings. Um I hold something that is called a financial information group meeting. We do these meetings every month that just shares with the districts all of the changes in statute and anything that is coming out from the state as well as any support that they might need to complete their reports. We do a lot of early monitoring when we're looking at some of
050this information. That's partly of our asking questions. Your ADA has dropped 5% every single year, but you're actually projecting to increase next year. Can you help us out? That's the type of thing that we're looking at when we're looking. And then of course the uh corrective action is the stabilization plans any budget revisions is so one of the other things that's required by statute is if they settle negotiations for example they have a certain like six weeks to get those budget revisions into their budget to say yes we can afford it. Here is the proof that we impact is that is actually the end of the slide. Um, I have some comments actually. It's not particularly about our personal um, interim report, but it's about a situation that I've heard of for one of the
051count the school districts in our county who is not currently making the like status that is needed. Um I have heard a bit about their plans to and I'm not trying to say call in anyone I mean a little bit but I don't have any power in that sort of way but um it's their plan is to take I think 50% of them is taking from special education special education and mental health and I would just like to say that uh special education people in special education and students uh that for receiving mental health services are already um like at more at risk students for not being able to succeed as much in education and especially for special ed students there are many individual needs for each uh student like there's IEPs and like for
052example some things are oneto ones like some students need one- on-one care and when taking away staffing based on a sort nationwide standard of what people normally have or I don't know if it's nationwide or statewide. Um that does not keep in mind like what student need what students need for that particular situation. Like think of the national poverty level like I think it's like 30 something,000 is like uh poverty level but that's nowhere near what would be needed to support someone here today. And so it's kind of like that idea in mind is what I'm sort of saying is that it's just really taking from those who are the most vulnerable. If >> I could um kind of um connect the the the concern that that uh student trustee Moran has shared with the
053with the presentation. So the AB AB1200 um really gives the county superintendent, the county office of education a lot of leverage when it comes to ensuring that school districts stay in a positive fiscal position. When that when we start seeing signs of that happening, it it gives us authority to be able to intervene in different ways to be able to also work with the state to again ensure that that the schools get back on a on a on a positive footing. the uh we have less um authority when it comes to decisions that school that school districts boards will make in how they come about with those solutions. Right. AB1200 really is about to create kind of gu uh guard rails for uh fiscal solveny. However, we do have some authority in that area. So
054um so you know we do provide support to help schools make decisions uh when it comes to the kinds of approaches that that that what in terms of how they're they're looking to to maintain their solveny. So, it's not quite um related to the AB1200 kind of roles that we have, but but we will be sure to to uh support, you know, PVSD and other school districts that are looking at making um tough decisions when it comes to ensuring that we're uh working towards the the the the best the kind of the well-being of students and and ensuring that uh that the district has all the support they need to make to remain in a positive standing. go to >> okay thank you first thank you for bringing this to us um as very you
055know I thought I understood it this provided much more clarity so thank you for that two questions one I think I know the answer from but in the staff report you had the chart of how this has played out since 2324 and the two prior examples we have in live oak their first interim was negative and then the following year qualified. But by the second interim they got the positive which is I'm assuming what we hope happens every time that even this year when a a district comes in and it's qualified we hope that by the second interim they've recovered with the additional inducements I I guess and support to to get there. So that's obviously the plan or the goal I assume. >> Correct. and and that's exactly what we are trying to get
056them all back to. So they just need to work with our board in order to come up with an approved plan that will allow them to get there. So that's when they can go back and regain. And then second, just given the changes happening statewide, do is there any statewide data yet that there's a lot more qualified or negative first interim findings across the state than in the last year or two? uh for this period I don't have the 2526 first interim data yet but for the prior yes we do have a few more that are falling into the qualified and for the first time in district that went into receiver >> so it appears like it might be escalating but we don't have this year's data yet >> perfect thank you >> um we
057I I'll be able to share the somat does uh I'll be going to through the I'm on the FickMap board and I'll be they provide us a so we'll we'll I'll be able to get that in um it is um I would say that there have been some increases at the same time there there relatively small number of districts out of the 1,100 or so school districts that end up even qualified maybe There there are increases but at the same time it's not like a very small fraction of the um what I would just like to say back about that is I would very much recommend a more in-depth review of what the particular students need because the whole point of our education system is we really want to help kids grow and learn and
058it would not only be unjust but unethical to um make sure to like not have everyone get a good education who like deserves a good education. Everyone deserves a good education and that's what the public school system needs to provide. And so I suggest doing an in-depth review of students needs uh especially because a lot of people need specific IEP needs. Um so knowing the students needs and also speaking with students about like what they think um they need to keep or what they think needs to go because really the whole reason of the school system is to support our students and help them with their education. And I understand money is like a massive part of it because money is a massive part of everything, but really everything is for the students. So I
059think that's important to keep in mind and have them be able to like share their voices. >> Thank you. Just more disagree. Um, I have a couple of just more of of of process and hopefully it's not too much in the weeds, but you were talking about the process of they're qualified and then one of the things that could be done or is going to be done is the FSB. um during that first qual we've qualified them um and they might provide a a plan or we be required to provide an additional report at some point at any one of those points can their status be changed let's say for instance they come back with um you know a new update and it's still the same or worse could it be changed or If you
060deem maybe the FSP not adequate to bring them out, could it be changed whether for the better or the worse? You know, whether it be the status of a district can't be changed outside of the review per the um interim reporting period. So, it would have to wait until the following reporting period. There is something that is called a lack of going concern. So if a district is making financial decisions that are not their best interest, for example, they are already qualified and they want to do a outstanding a substantial raise for their employees. That's not something that they can afford. We would declare lack of going concern, which basically also comes with something called the stay and resent and it would allow the county office to go in and overturn some of those decisions
061to help stabilize the district until better decisions. That's postqualification or can it be ret >> that can be declared at any time throughout the year. Got it. So I had heard of a district a county office that approved a budget and then turned around and declared their district lack of going next because they had heard of subsequent events that >> Thank you. Thank you. That answers my question. >> Are there any other questions comments? >> I have a question based on your question and Justine Morris. Um I probably don't have the right language but that uh stay in was >> yes stay in resend can the COE probably the superintendent or the business office uh trigger that option for inequity. So say the cuts are inequitably hitting a certain demographic or um area. Um, is
062that a a possible something or is that just too much in their business? >> Not really. Yeah, that it's it's important that in the same way that you have to be careful in your role as a county board when a when a you know interd district transfer comes to you not to try to to run the district's decision when it comes to a certain process. You really are just reviewing the process. Um the the a lot of the authority that is given to the to the superintendent and the county office is based on that fiscal protecting is ensuring that uh school districts from going into insolveny. The that's really where that so how you're doing it is it's a much it's uh you know saying we you know we don't like how you're doing it.
063We have some authority to really look at that and say we want to partner with you on that. But really uh most of our our of the kind of the strongest authority we have over school district is really to stop them from from making decisions that will lead them to become assault. So um so we it would be it would be a mis application of AB1200 to say well you know we we are we find lack of going concern not for fiscal reasons but for the approach you're using to you know I mean something let's say if you don't if a school district were um uh in their hiring practices if they don't have controls in place systems in place to ensure that that how how they're hiring folks. Um that could be a lack
064of growing concern. It's not necessarily um you know directly fiscally related except it is if you don't have control uh over the who who your your position controls are not in place and your hiring you know you that will that could lead to insolveny. Right? So there is a direct correlation that links us to that. But if it's more of an equity issue, there's other aspects of the education code that allows us allow us to be able to intervene, but it's not with the same authority. And it it is we are we have to be very cautious not to try to um override the local authority of school districts unless absolutely necessary. like like like to be able to to to intervene because uh uh to say and rescend a decision by a by a
065uh school district. That's a pretty big intervention um and would only be done if it's absolutely necessary because we feel like the the decisions that are being made are so the risk is so high um and the negative consequences would would lead to damaging the the fiscal health condition. Thank you for the presentation. That was very enlightening, very helpful. Thank you so much. Thank you. >> Um there's no more questions or comments. We're going to move on. >> Great job on your first presentation, baby, isn't it? >> All right, now we can move on. Um item 113, disposal of personal property worth less than $25,000. again. Um, centers Rebecca Ulker and Michelle Kennedy. >> I wanted to make sure I talked as much as I could tonight. So, this is a disposal of a couple
066of um portables that we had over on Swift Street and they were some buildings that we had used for special education. We are, as we have presented to you in the past, um, building the high school at Soale High for our special education department. So, we're part of the agreement is that we are agreeing to let go of these portables, which are old, not in good repair, and would cost more to do anything with. For example, like we said, it's it's going to cost about uh 20 to $30,000 just to demolish them, get the whole thing moved out. So, part of the agreement is that we gave these to Santa Cruz City Schools for a dollar. That allows them to sign the lease to us at South High for allows us to build the So
067this is just us letting you know that we are entering into this agreement so that we can move forward with the lease affordable >> and it and their their age and their as as uh as Becky is sharing is these would not meet um current standards for it couldn't be used or transferred over and that's why But they have a use for it. >> Uh >> no, they're demolishing. >> They're going to demol They're going to >> They want the space. Correct. >> That's that is the the location where um they're going to be building the um workforce housing. And so we believe we understand is that that location is going to be used for staging the equipment. >> Um moving on to new business because we haven't heard from her enough today. We just
068love hearing from you. You're doing a fabulous job. Thank you so much. We're moving on to item 121. Um Rebecca Oler. >> Okay. So, this is a resolution that allows any of the districts in our county to do any short-term borrowing. As you know, a lot of our districts are reliant on property taxes and property taxes come in in December and April, which kind of sometimes affects cash flow district. Part of what Ed code says is yes, they have this ability to borrow to borrow from what we call a county school pool, meaning the county treasury has pulled all of its money together, allows them to borrow from each other if they need to or other funds until the last Monday in April. After that last Monday in April, until June 30th, there are no
069longer allowed to do that and they have to the only other solution is to borrow from the county office should we allow it. So, we um have typically in the past set about $5 million aside and we kind of allow it on a first come first-s serve basis should anyone need to harve and in my 13 years here we've had this happen once. So, it's not a good occurrence. We just do it I always call it, you know, kind of a security blanket. We just like to have it in place should anyone need Student Trustee Guan Martinez. >> Hi. >> Student Trustee Amore. >> Hi. >> Trustee Kyle. >> Hi. >> Vice President Larson. >> Hi. >> Trusty Roth. >> Yes. >> Trustee Sanchez. >> Yes. >> Trusty Van Allen. >> Hi. >> President Williams.
070>> Yes. Um item 122 resolution 2602 proclaiming January 2026 human trafficking prevention month. >> Thank you. This resolution speaks to the issue that Dr. Sabal was addressing earlier and um we do have one little thing that I want to look at the text and make sure we got right um which was there was a wording in there was the use of the words is and as I think Pony got it correct in the final draft. Yeah. So um in the second paragraph it's where it's basically giving the definition human trafficking. Yeah. Okay. It's correct. It's as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act is a blah blah blah. So, it's the resolution is is correct as submitted. And then um uh we added some stuff related to the World Rising um organization since we're now
071partnering with them. The language and looks good to me. So, I would recommend approve Student trustee guan Martinez. >> Hi. >> Student trustee Amore. >> Hi. >> Trustee Kyle. >> Hi. >> Vice President Larson. >> Hi. >> Trusty Roth. >> Yes. >> Trusty Sanchez. >> Yes. >> Trustee Van Allen. Hi. >> President Williams. >> Yes. Right. Moving on to item 123, resolution 2603, recognizing February as Black History Month. >> Van Allen. >> Thank you. Um, this resolution we've um had before. We do have a couple um adjustments or changes to it for this year. Um, we especially wanted to mention the previous superintendent, Michael Watkins. And then I suggested um in addition to the mention of black grad and the reason for that is that you might recall that every year when that happens somebody
072gets all in a huff that why are they getting some special consideration some special graduation ceremony. Why aren't some other group getting it? Well the point is they're this is not a replacement for the actual high school graduations. Those are those happen normally. every student is treated the same within those and this is an additional celebration because the advancement of black people in this community is an important criteria or priority. Um so anyway I thought this phrase which again Nick word smith into a I think effective phrase just tries to address that not that it solves the whole problem of prejudice but um why not at least you know frame it um way that mitigates that. So that was my thought about and of course I recommend passage >> second >> whatever >> second um
073trusty Roth >> trust or student trustee guan Martinez student trustee Moore >> trustee Kyle >> hi >> vice president Larson >> hi >> trustee RA. >> Yes. >> Trusty Sanchez. >> Yes. >> Trusty Van Allen. >> Hi. >> President Williams. >> Item 124. Um, approval of the 2026 27 budget calendar. Becca Fer. uh we have to establish a calendar at the beginning of every budget year that just goes through and explains what we're going to be accomplishing at each period throughout the year. And so this is just the updated calendar for this year. So we're already starting to work on our budget. We're going to be attending the governor's workshop. Next week is Tuesday. The three of us, Michelle and Melissa and I will all be in Sacramento listening to January governor's budget. And then
074from there we go on to just accomplish all of the other tasks throughout it including meeting with the budget committee. >> Any questions? >> Yes ma'am. Yes. >> As a member of the budget committee when we do our meeting um after the May revise comes out if that could be as early as possible. I know you need to do work after the May revise comes out, but not just a day or two before the board meeting, but um preferably a little bit earlier. >> You know, again, it's a lot of it's determined by the timing of things. >> Understood. Just if possible. Not asking for a date, just you say May or June. So the early side of that. Thanks, Is this a voice? All those in favor? >> I oppose. You All right. Next,
075we have the superintendent reports. >> Yes. Thank you so much, President Williams, and the members of the board. Uh uh you all have seen the news for the governor's proposed budget which looks very promising for education. Uh just a reminder that this is just a proposal. There will be a May revise and then of course a process for approval of the budget in uh by before July 1st. Uh however, what the governor has uh proposed is a a big a larger investment in education and um and so uh including uh differentiated assistance uh funding uh including increased uh funding for uh districts, especially those with high um unduplicated uh student counts. And um and so we're um hopeful that this is um going to be a a positive uh budget. We've invited you to several
076trainings and information I believe including the one by capital adviserss which is our favorite one. And so we'd encourage you to participate in that um as they kind of dissect the proposal. There are some concerns about the methodology that the state is using to defer uh funding from future years uh or from you know from from kind of creating uh future debt with you know with with this funding. And so um it it would be good to participate and to learn more about about this proposal. But uh but generally speaking I think the reaction from the from the TK12 community is very hopeful. uh wanted to share of course I want to thank you for for those of you who have been able to participate in in uh the career advancement charter and as well
077as alternative education graduations. We've had a couple already and and more uh for tomorrow. These are the midyear graduations which have um have been wonderful. very excited to have our students uh demonstrate their success and and in many cases uh graduating early uh and uh many of them who have completed a lot of coursework at at Cababrio College um and moving forward with their with their educational success. We were we're excited to share that uh that Ste Stephanie Sumarna who uh works in our technology and innovation department has been identified as a titan of tech which is a great title and so we're very very excited for Stephanie uh really recognizing her efforts to uh in educational technology specifically uh she is a leader that u also works not only with school districts providing uh
078direct support to teachers and administ ministators, but also leads our um our Yeti uh youth. Oh. Oh, Andreas, you're gonna have to help me out. Youth >> uh empowerment through through technology innovation. Thank you so much. Looks like Nick was about to jump on there to save me as well. So, we got I got good backup over here. Thank you. So, Stephanie is is the adviser to that group and um she's just such a she's always available to support in in in a variety of ways. And so we're we're really really uh uh very very proud and and um and not surprised because this is very she's it's a very well-deserved honor. Um if you are interested in in joining us to go to the to the award ceremony, please let Varane know and uh
079so we can get you tickets. Uh you've uh received a reminder from Verice on the COE board self-evaluation uh survey uh and which is due in a in a couple of days and so we encourage you to get that done. I know that uh almost everybody is has completed at this point, right? No, no, more work is needs to be done. We're not going to we're not going to uh put anybody's name on the board, don't worry. But uh but we encourage you to complete the survey and self-evaluation to help us. I did want to provide uh some federal updates. As you know, we track this carefully. Uh yesterday we received a notification that from the uh SAMA uh grants which is the substance you abuse and mental health services administration that they are cutting
080all funding to California. Uh but then today we found out that that has been rescended and we received a subsequent letter saying that that that the funding had been reinstated. This would have represented about uh $ 1.5 million in mental health funds to our school districts and and to our programs. And so, uh, we're it's though we're we're relieved that the that their cuts have been rescended, it's still very disconcerting, um, uh, to for that because it it it puts into question their commitments to, um, honor the the the funding that they they've they've they've pro they have uh that we've applied for and been awarded. We also learned, of course, that the Health and Human Services um uh has the intention to cut child care subsidies to five uh uh states that are identified
081as blue states, including California. Um and that effort is on hold by the courts because it's uh the states have sued the federal government to stop this effort because it does seem politically motivated. um and it is currently um being fought in the courts and is on hold at this at this time. We did communicate to our uh the early childhood community um our understanding of the current situation which basically is that you know there's a lot of uncertainty but but to continue providing services as there has not been a direct effect on to our programs here locally at at this time. And so uh we want to make sure to minimize the um the disruptions to these services disruptions such as the cuts to um Head Start uh that where when um encompass relinquished
082the grant we have been even though um uh I didn't put a put it put it on here that the we are working with the community development um incorporated which is a nonprofit organization that works um under uh the authority of of the Head Start program, the National Head Start program, they are working diligently to try to reestablish those programs here locally. um and then transition those those programs to a a competitive grant that would um I did want to share with you that we are working with the board of supervisors to consider an ordinance uh similar to one that was approved by uh Santa Clara County um Board of Supervisors that um the ordinance would not allow ICE to utilize school resources for any of their operations such as staging or um and basically
083um in some way symbolically and assertively uh share that we do not want them to have any contact in our schools whatsoever. Um this would uh involve an ordinance by the board of supervisors and we may come back to you with a a request for a resolution in support of this ordinance. Uh we would want to in to notify and and uh communicate that that our schools are and all our resources are not to be used in any way to support the um the efforts of immigration enforcement anywhere near our schools. More more information on that one. Some exciting upcoming events. Um so of course the graduations which you are are occurring today actually yesterday, today and tomorrow. Um we we love it for you to join us at um the Pajar Valley Prevention Student
084Assistance Soup for a Cause community event um which is occurring January 22nd and um we have a table that is ready to be filled with your uh with with you to enjoy some delicious soup. I'll be uh serving the soup with Dr. Heather Contreres from PUSD and and would be and also the new uh president of Cababrio College is going to be there serving soup with uh Blanca Baltasar who's the vice president there and so they'll be also serving soup there. So you'll get a chance to get some delicious soup from some and and our student trustee Visente is is going to also be serving soup as well. So that's wonderful. Um so the governor's uh January budget workshop uh will be here on January 29th. This is by uh capital adviserss and so we
085would encourage you to to uh uh come and join us for for that. uh a lot of amazing student and community events um including poetry out loud, our the Latino role models conference which we uh work on in collaboration with um Cinderos. Uh the mock trial uh finals and awards is on February 24th. TK prek community forum on February 26th. Our civic summit which we are doing with the county clerk will be on February 27th, the steam expo March 28th and the uh world languages showcase on April 14th. So this uh much many of these are are uh run out of our ed services uh division and so uh very exciting and also our student leadership uh department. And so, uh, this becomes February especially is becomes the peak of, uh, a lot of these
086activities and kind of, um, I'm not seeing the, um, the spelling be on here. I think we missed this, that one this time. So, that one's coming up soon. It's on us >> is on January 24th. So, it is right after your special board workshop. >> Ah, yes. >> And at UCSC, so very conveniently located. >> There you go. So, we can leave here and go over to the spelling be awards ceremony. Wonderful. Thank you so much, Bernice. >> Particulars on that one. >> Yes, we'll send additional information and and um and you know, it's it's these are in some ways they're culminating events which are are very exciting and but um there's a a great deal of work by the students and by the uh by the staff and and parents and everybody involved
087in doing that. So, it's it would be really wonderful to for you to continue to to be present at at at some of these of these events and and we'll definitely be uh you know, thank you for being there to joining us and and so that you could see the great work. Um and really students shining in in so many different ways. >> Any questions for me? And the last item, I do know periodically I've seen emails go out to all of COE, which includes us, asking for volunteers at events like volunteering at the mock trial, not just going to the finals, which I think competed with the board meeting last year, but doesn't this year, but volunteering in earlier night. That will be an opportunity again. >> Absolutely. We would love and absolutely can
088use your help and at a lot of a lot of these these events. Yes. Do I know which soup? No. I No. I hope it's a good one. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's some amazing >> one that no one wants because they just walk right past you. >> I know. Thank you. >> You get no traffic. I know. Word spreads quick, doesn't it? >> Thank you. >> All right. Thank you, Dr. Sabah. Okay. Um let's see here. We've got trustee reports. Um, and I'll go and start. We'll just go right down the line. Mine's real short. Um, attended the agenda committee meeting. Um, attended with um, a couple of our trustees uh, Leanne's retirement celebration, which was amazing. She was glowing. We're so happy for her. And, um, attended today the alt ed graduation at
089Cababrio and will be attending two of the ones tomorrow. Um, and I'll jump in and like the student trustees, I took most of December off after our last board meeting. Uh joined my first ever agenda committee meeting on the road driving home from San Diego safely. Um just loved got to join two of my uh the other board members for a tour of Central Ace last week in Watsonville on Friday. what an incredible facility that you've pulled together and student focused and oriented in just so many ways. So, that was exciting. Leanne's farewell, the additional comment I'll add to the president's was um just seeing all the other school superintendent in attendance to to honor and respect, plus the incredible work of the staff team that worked with Leanne directly. It was a an amazing
090event. It was just tremendous. I also attend the CSBA webinar on the 26th governor's budget proposal review. Um ACCBE did an input forum on the state board of education's portrait of a learner and graduate initiative. Um when I get the slides, I'll forward it on to to staff. uh joined council or trustee Roth last night at the uh charter advancement committee uh belt CAC whatever it is um CAC uh graduation last night as well as the graduation today and looking forward to the ones tomorrow. I had a couple committee uh work although policy committee is still trying to convene a meeting but we're we're present um and um uh got to have the very enjoyable tour of 119 the the charter um and um didn't actually do much else. I've been totally immersed in some
091uh programming work. Um, I don't have a paid client at the moment, so I just do my own projects. And I just hit a milestone, which isn't really that relevant except that I just published my very first open-source software >> yesterday. I've I've been developing software for 30 years, but I've never decided to take it to that step of actually publishing it to share with others. And requires a lot of I have to have a million tests to make sure it'll work for someone else when they install it and stuff like that. So it's a much bigger burden to to than just writing my own code using it my own machine. So I'm I'm I've been afraid about doing that for a long time because I'm not a college trained you know computer science expert
092years of doing it and I I feel very inadequate most of the time even though I do good work. I know people tell me I do good work but anyway so this was like a scary thing for me to do and I pushed through it and did it. So >> perseverance. Yes. >> What what's it called? >> That's big. >> How do you refer to your the software that that >> Well, it's just a little utility that helps when you have um a complicated program where there's various inputs and you want some of those inputs. Some of those are required or the program won't work or it'll blow up if they're wrong. Others are optional, but you want to catch them if you can. And then you got to send those inputs to different places
093like they have a website where there are users who s have to sign in to use the website. Um there's actually authentication which is one process storing their user data which is a different thing and there is their session when they log in that has to be tracked and managed so that they don't have to log in every time they click a button or something. So those are three very different things, but the input might also might all come from one web form where they fill it in with that different information, the password and their name. And so this utility that I designed, I'm surprised nobody else had made one. It grabs the information, makes sure what's required is there, makes sure what shouldn't come in is rejected, picks up the optional ones, and then
094funnels them to the the purpose that they're designed for. It's really fast. That's the main thing because that's like just one step in a long process as fast as possible. But it >> you only have the fields you want, the the data you want, then you're going to do less validating of the data. >> Thank you. >> I also took most of winter break off. Um, but I was the third board member on the tour of Central and that was an amazing facility and we had a lovely tour guide. Um, and uh, I went to today's graduation for alternative education program. It was my first graduation. It was very inspiring. Highly recommend. And I just wanted to add um, or remind the group that the second screening of The Mask You Live In is next,
095no, sorry, is January 28th at 41st Avenue Cinema. So, that's the one I'm going to go to because that's right near my house. So, >> just pass the mall. >> It is at Silux Capola, right exactly where you described on 41st, right by the new leaf. I uh was at home. Uh but I did attend the answer for uh uh went to graduation last night and I'm confused on the times and dates for tomorrow, but I will you and um I was call for jury duty my husband goes is that what you want as a juror. >> So anyway, >> in my just one event uh this past month and that was the Leanne's retirement party and now I have retirement fever. Um, can't wait for the day to arrive. Looking forward to it. >>
096That's That's my report. >> Oh, wishful thinking. >> Didn't you just get married? >> Not return for a while. >> She might have something to say about that. Just saying. All right. Um, we're going to go into item 15. Uh, the ad hoc. Any ad hoc committee reports? >> Going once. Uh if one >> thanks >> one request to go to the community outreach and legislation committee. It's too late for this year but for next year. The United Nations has adopted January 27th as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. And the California State Department of Education also recognizes it on their web page. So, I'd like the committee to consider that for next year in light of the San Jose Mercury News on Sunday had a front page top of fold story on um acts of discrimination
097and holocaust denialism including in Santa Cruz County. So, >> it's the UN adopted date. Oh, it's the uh liberation of Um, what was the date? August. >> January 27th. >> Oh, January 27th. Okay. I would I agree 100% with you. And I was like, why can't we do it now? Um, but it's something we got to get to >> plan. Okay. >> Yeah. I 100% agree with you. >> All right. Item 16, scheduling of meetings. So, our upcoming meetings. Uh, next one is January 24th, which is our special meeting uh here at 9:00 a.m. on January 24th, followed by our next board meeting, general board meeting on February 19th. Um, and so forth. Are there any final comments? Thank you all who stayed around um and joined us for our board meeting. And we wish
098everybody a very good night and meeting is ajourned.