001and ask Benise for a roll call and establishment of quorum. Trustee A Costa. Vice President Estrada here. Trusty Larson here. Trusty Van Allen here. Trustee Williams here. President Sanchez. Student Trustee Hopkins here. Student trustee Marcus here. Thank you. Were there any um uh requests for remote attendance under uh AB2449? There have been no requests for um remote attendance under AB2449. Thank you. First, Greg, I I would like to share that um Trusty Larson is uh at a remote location, not under AB2449, but under the traditional teleconferencing requirements. So, he is uh a he has publicized his location and his location is also a part of our board meeting and welcome to uh so he can participate fully in this in this meeting today. I could have done that. Add everybody over to my Yes, under
002the weird laws prior to COVID changing it. And as a reminder, since we do have a trustee that is on Zoom, let's be sure to use our mics. Thank you. Uh, Superintendent Sabah will lead us in the pledge of allegiance. If you're able to, please rise and uh, face the flag. 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, Dr. Swah. Uh, is there a motion for approval of the agenda or Yeah. or any additions. Uh motion by trustee Williams, second by Van Allen. Uh is it a is it a roll call or a It is considered a best practice to do roll call whenever there is a teleconference
003uh representatives. So we'll be doing roll call for all election today. Got it. Student trustee Hopkins. I student trustee Marcus. Hi, Vice President Estrada. Yes, Trusty Larson. Yes, Trusty Roth. Yes, Trusty Van Allen. Trusty Williams. Thank you. Passes unanimously. Uh, were there any requests for public comment? There have been no requests for public comment. Okay. Thank you. Is anyone in the public or on Zoom wishing to make public comment regarding topics not on today's agenda? Okay. Hearing none. Uh is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? Motion by Van Allen. I'll second. Seconded by Roth. Roll call. Vote. Student trustee Hopkins, yes. Student trustee Marcus, hi. Vice President Estrada, yes. Trusty Larson, yes. Trusty Roth, yes. Trusty Van Allen, hi. Trusty Williams, passes unanimously. Thank you. Was there any correspondence within 72 hours of
004the meeting? There have been no additional correspondence of vice president. Thank you. Student trustee reports for our amazing student trustees who have done amazing this past year. Uh I sorry I don't know how this usually works. Let's do uh Trusty Hopkins. Um I don't have anything to report summer. Having a really fun summer so far, but I would like to thank everybody for this amazing opportunity. I definitely will be taking this experience with me throughout my future and always remember it. But yeah, I want to say thank you and I really appreciate it. Thank you, Trusty Hopkins. Trusty Marcus. Yeah, I I share the gratitude also. Uh this has been a really amazing opportunity. Uh, I definitely plan at some point to potentially join a board or use these skills that I've gained throughout the
005year. Uh, and it's also just been a great opportunity to be able to contribute to the community and represent my peers this way. So, thank you all. Thank you, Trustee Mark. Thank you. And going off of that, on to item 8.1 of our reports, discussions, and presentations. We're going to have a recognition of our amazing student trustees presented by Dr. Sabah. Thank you so much, uh, Vice President. Uh it's uh it's really an honor uh to speak with the board and to recognize our amazing student trustees. This is uh been a year of firsts in some ways. Uh last year was the first time we had a student trustee. This was the first year this year was the first year we had two student trustees. And so, um, having a representative from our alternative education,
006uh, program, uh, with Natalie Hopkins and of course with, uh, Ruben Marcus, uh, who is representing us as kind of the student at large from all our our schools. And so having two student members, um, they've represented, uh, students across the county and in our alternative education programs with grace and, uh, with with just wonderful positive, uh, participation and, um, thoughtfulness. and we're so grateful for the time especially since uh we know that you have uh this is being having been your senior year all your additional competing responsibilities and uh being able to come in and provide us with reports and updates as to um all the all the things that are happening in your lives as well as as happening for students across the county. And so we're extremely grateful for the time and
007effort um and for being the voice of students across Santa Cruz County. So, uh, one thing that we wanted to do this year as, uh, a way of recognizing your contribution, it was the establishment of a special plaque, um, that is going to be, uh, uh, joining kind of be added to our plaques outside where we're going to be identifying all the student trustees that have been uh, have been representing us here at the county board of education. So, I'm gonna ask um Nick to uh share this. So, this is called a perpetual plaque, meaning that it's it's it's going to live on forever and ever. Yes. And so, you see that our first uh student representative on the perpetual plaque for 2324 was Oscar Alvarez Delgado. And this year uh representing Santa Cruz City
008Schools was Ruben Marcus and um and Natalie Hopkins for representing our alternative education program. And so this will be in the hallway uh to uh recognize your contribution as our student trustees. So congratulations. So so for each of you, we'd like to present to you a certificate of appreciation and recognition. And so uh uh I'd like to ask you to join me over here. If you could come on over here. And so this is um start with Natalie. And um so Natalie uh the county board of education and the county office of education would like to present this certificate of recognition and gratitude for your leadership, your advocacy, and efforts to elevate student voice as a student trustee in the Santa Cruz County Board of Education. Um, I feel like, uh, we've seen you just
009really blossom as a as a as a representative, as a leader here, um, with the board and we're so excited for your future and we know it's so bright. Congratulations. And then I'd like to ask Brun to join me as well. And uh again on behalf of the county board of education and the county office of education in gratitude for your leadership and advocacy and efforts to elevate student voice as a student trustee. Uh you are you I know that you are on your way to Duke University and uh we're very excited for your future Ruben and and uh know that uh we look forward to you coming back someday and and sharing your your wisdom and your leadership. Congratulations. So, uh, we're hoping to take a picture, um, for the full board, um, with
010if that'd be all right. If we could join us here in the middle and can have our student trustees, uh, if you wouldn't mind coming into the middle for a picture and superintendent, if you wouldn't mind right here. Edward. Yes. Yeah. Let's get let's get some comments from uh the board members. Yeah. Trusty Roth. I I would like to thank you both for the way you've expanded the role uh of student trustee and I look forward to those following you continuing in your path. You've you've created a good opening. So, and the best to you both. And I do hope that you will stay with a foot or two inside uh the public domain of education but being involved somewhat somewhere in the community that you reside in. Thank you. Thank you, Trusty Roth. Um
011I'll let Greg really quick, uh Trusty Larson speak. Great. Thank you. I just wanted to lend my congratulations remotely. Um it's been fun being a firstear trustee with each of you and to see Natalie, you just grow um in poise and character and presence and jumping in to do the presentations when asked by the legislative committee and by staff and others. just I really appreciated your stepping up and and really just how everpresent you've been in the community. It seems like at so many of the events I've gone to, you've either been performing or representing others and you always just bring such a positive, high energy spirit when you're in the room. So, I look forward to seeing both of you as you progress, no doubt, in many successful ways. It's been a joy to
012serve with you. Thank you so much. Thank you Trusty Larson, Trusty Van Allen. I just want to add to what and second what everyone else has said and also the you know there is this dynamic of age and um I just want to say I spent a lot of my life being the youngest one in the room whatever I was doing and you kind of have to push forward a little bit but it's worth it and so I just want to encourage both of you have done that to get to here. You may not have seen it that way yourselves, but it definitely shows up for the rest of us. But keep doing that. Don't let feeling like you're younger than others mean that you're not as important or as um insightful or as knowledgeable
013or as smart or capable, etc. So, good. Thank you again. Thank you, Trusty Vanal and Trusty Williams. Um first, it's been wonderful getting to know both of you. Um it's actually been really interesting. I get to see you guys out in the wild. You guys have both been really involved in the community. And I think I've seen you just as much out in the community at events, participating um as much as here in our in our board meetings. And we can see that you both have gotten really comfortable speaking and presenting. And we hope that you take all of the aspects of your experience to the next level, whatever that may be. And yes, we hope you stay involved in community, whatever that might be. Um, and hopefully share your experience and how we can
014better um, support individuals that will follow you. So, thank you and good luck to your next endeavors. Thank you, Trusty Williams. And I guess I'll close it out by saying thank you so much for taking the time, you know, the energy to come here to share your opinion, to uh make sure that there's always students in the room where you know these important decisions are being made. Um that you're not afraid uh to uh speak your mind and raise important issues and blind spots that we may have. And um I'm really grateful to have had your um your opinion, your uh perspective in the room and it's been great seeing you also in the community. Uh and I know you're going to do amazing things and I really hope that this has been a valuable
015experience for you. Uh and I hope that um you continue um doing the amazing work that you're already doing. So thank you so much. We we have been so blessed to have you and we're we're very grateful uh for you taking the time out of your uh mult sometimes multiple times a month to come to these meetings. So thank you. So one more round of applause. Okay. Up next, uh, COE summary of planned support for 202526. What a great way. But this is I'm we're going to continue having so much fun and uh I'm so sorry. This was this was just amazing. I think everything else we do is going to be overshadowed by this. I don't think we can match it, but let's see. Thank you so much. That's a lot of pressure. I
016know. If I could introduce uh Brooke Hopkins who is uh joining us from our ED services uh uh division. Marsha is not uh is not able to join us today and and uh Brooke has really been leading a lot of this work with in conjunction with with Marsha and of course is is Natalie's mom and so very special moment indeed having both both Natalie's parents here joining us today. Uh this is a requirement as you are going to be hearing about as we've done in the past that shows um how the county office of education um has served in the past but really it's about talking about our plans for the future and in terms of how we're going to continue to support school districts to serve on behalf of students with equity and excellence.
017And so Brooke, who's uh uh came to us from PBUSD, has uh been doing some amazing work for for when it comes to uh improvement for for our school districts and is going to be providing a report as uh in in relation to the kinds of supports that we're going to be offering our school districts this year. Great. Yes. Thank you for having me. Um it is a really a privilege and a pleasure to share the work that we've been doing this year around supporting our local uh districts and charter schools. And so this is a report that's required um to be submitted with the COE LCAP. Um and I'm just going to share kind of the overarching goals that we have. There are three goals that were focused on um in this plan summary.
018And a lot of this work is is going on now. So it's not only a plan for 2526, but we've really already started um and are expanding the work. I'm going to be providing you a um control in just a moment. Perfect. Thank you. I was going to like cue. Okay. So, just for context, um, when we think about the accountability system that we have here in California, these are some components that are really important for folks to know outside of the education realm. And so, the first one is the LCAP, which you've all probably seen and reviewed. Um, as you know, this is a comprehensive document that all districts and charters are uh required to submit. Um it is really serving as the strategic plan of the school district or we want it to.
019Um it is how they kind of outline their goals, their actions and align their budget and priorities to their strategic plan in their districts. The second is the California dashboard. And so the dashboard is a um tool that's used to monitor not only academic achievement but growth uh from year to year for districts and charters. We have differentiated assistance which is really the area that I work mostly in. Um and differentiated assistance is really supporting uh school districts that qualify for a more intensive level of support based on their outcomes on their dashboard. And then there's a statewide system of support which we're all in whether we know it or not. Um and that's the little graphic there on the right where our districts um are working with their county offices who are working with
020their geo leads which in our case are is the mid-state collaborative and then with the state of California and my job in a lot of ways is to disseminate the information from the state of California to the local charters and eleas. And so the first goal that we have is to approve all of our district LCAPS. And we are in the process of doing that now. Even though we don't approve them, as you can see on the slide, until September 15th, we are constantly working with districts to um guide them through the process. It gets a little heavier at times and then it gets lighter at times. Um through the year we have uh individual meetings. We have what's called the LCAP road show um where we visit all the school districts and we kind
021of get their feedback on how to best support them. We have large group trainings in November, December, January, and February. We have small group community of practices to help them with actually writing the document. And then we offer what's called early review. So I'm happy to say that I think all but two, well maybe three districts have not participated in early review. So most of them are already done well ahead of the September 15th deadline. And then um their districts approved their their boards approved them uh June 30th and then we approve it on September 15th with an official letter. The second goal is around providing technical assistance. So on this slide you can see the districts that we are providing technical assistance to this year. So, we're working with Live Oak, Pajaro Valley Unified
022School District, Santa Cruz City, San Lorenzo Valley, Alansza Charter, California Online Public Schools, Monterey Bay, and uh Saba Charter. And those schools have qualified for differentiated assistance in a various um kind of categories of uh student groups. So, students with disabilities, English learners, long-term English learners, which is a new category this year, um that that eleas can qualify in um and foster youth and homeless youth. They can also qualify for chronic absenteeism, academics, graduation rate, and college and career readiness. Um it the qualification is a little bit detailed, but they have to qualify in two separate uh priority areas to get assistance. And so the technical assistance assistance is in the word differentiated because it really is kind of what that district needs at the time. So it's not a one-sizefits-all type of support. Uh
023we try to target our assistance by having regular meetings with the school with the districts and charters um to examine their data and talk about possible root causes. Uh we help them create action plans. We monitor their metrics. We facilitate team meetings a lot of times um because we want the principles and the assistant superintendent to be participants, not so much having to worry about um facilitating the conversation. So that's where I come in. And then we also do provide a lot of professional development. We look at instructional practices and we guide schools that qualify for what's called comprehensive support and improvement. lots of um acronyms. All right. We also um provide support for the core instructional program, meaning the kind of core uh academic standards that schools and districts um are required to teach
024through professional learning, through networks like the multilingual network, through training and support with our SULPA director, Jessica Little. She provides a lot of support. Um, we're engaging in culturally responsive teaching with our director, uh, Melissa Roberts, in PBUSD, in San Lorenzo, and at Alonza Charter. And we coordinate monthly professional learning networks to bring together uh, leadership from across our county. And this year we just finished our big um first year of our large math initiative which has brought multiple districts. I I think it's every district actually um except for PBUSD is with us through this math initiative. So we're just we just finished year one. Uh the next slide is around the budget. So this is the amount of uh dollars that we use to support tier one and two practice uh two tier one
025and two supports. So tier one meaning we support everybody kind of um in in various ways. That level two support is for the diff uh the DA districts, differentiated assistance districts. And so these dollars support salaries, benefits, um indirect cost travel for um professional development in all these kinds of areas here. So everything from math instruction to leadership um and equity to uh root cause analysis and action planning. And then that last one um any districts that qualify for differentiated assistance have to have a plan in their LCAP. And so that's why that's listed there um under the budget. So the last goal is to provide support in implementing the LCAP. So we want to guide them in writing it. We want to provide um professional uh support and then we also want to help
026them in carrying out the actions that they have listed in their strategic plan. And so some of these activities may be looking at their LCAP to see where their needs are. again, the professional learning element, um the LCAP writing PD, and then the last bullet is a big one because we're really working in our COE to align support across our organizations. And so what we don't want is, you know, three different people working with the same district delivering different content. We want to make sure that it's streamlined, targeted, and really intensely focused so that we're not confusing um teachers and administrators, but really creating um a clear message and a clear line for our our PD um services. And then we have uh these are kind of the the groups that we um use to
027support our district. So CCE is one we're working with with PBUSD in kind of facilitating some of our meetings. We haven't worked with them since the beginning. We're really on a good roll with PBUSD right now doing a lot of support with them. Uh we coordinate with the CDE through webinars, emails, um CISK meetings up in Sacramento once a month. Uh Cessa is another kind of reference like a guidance organization that we use to guide districts. And then again, our mid-state collaborative led by Tuleri uh COE and our systems of support agencies, more acronyms, SIL, SIP, and CSLA. Well, I can give you all those explanations if you would like them, but um they're kind of organizations that help us with specific areas of content. And then just kind of a brief summary of what
028I've stated already and what we have going right now. Um, and I won't read all of them. We we've talked a lot about it, but I would say that um, we really want to the last two bullets are really important is that our metrics and our outcomes are now becoming well, what is our what are what kind of impact are we having on student outcomes? We want to see increased outcomes with the districts that we are working with. Um and so that means that we need to be hands-on and very involved and supportive of efforts. And then um oh actually I will speak a little bit to the first bullet around collaboration um and thought partnering. We really want to make sure that we're supporting um in a positive way and really coming to the
029districts with u an asset um value. So we want to give them the message that they are the people that are going are capable of you know increasing outcomes for students. We are not coming in and saying this is the answer. We know everything. We believe they have it in them to do the work. Um and then lastly uh we are expanding our support this year with data visualization. So really kind of figuring out how to support districts with looking at their data in a way that's accessible and sharable and actionable. And then uh we have a director of continuous improvement that will be starting with us because there is a lot of work to do and not enough time to do it in. So we're very excited to have uh that person start. And
030that's it. I if there's any questions or um I'm happy to answer them. Thank you so much. Yeah. Any questions, comments from the board? Uh Trusty Larson, I just want to say thank you, Brooke, for the tremendous presentation and the responsiveness to the questions I had a couple days ago. as a newbie seeing this for the first time, it all looks great and I'm impressed and particularly pleased that you highlighted for us kind of the changes for the next year because I think that's what as as a board member I'm always most interested in. So, thank you. Thank you. Just a comment um a plus one every time I go through or when I went through the presentation and the information I write down my questions and then every time I read further the answers
031are there. So very thorough. Thank you so much for providing such a thorough and report. Thank you. And I have a question on the uh California online public schools Monteray Bay. Uh, I have not heard of this and I looked around and I couldn't find it. I mean, I found it its site. Um, but it brought to mind a broader question which doesn't have to be answered right here, but how do we uh look at online schools and and are they judged by the state? It just brought up a whole question and it might be a topic for maybe a later meeting. Yeah. um I can share a little bit about that school. So I as well I'm a year into this position and I had not heard of them either and actually when I
032read their name I was kind of smiling because we we were just getting to know them. And um so they are an online charter. Uh they serve K12. They have I believe six campuses throughout California. One of them is authorized through Scots Valley. So that's it's a charter and they pull from like the Scots Valley Charter actually pulls from any county that touches our county as well. So they have a campus of about 500 students that are doing online instruction. They have some options to do uh well they have live classes every day um but they are optional. So some kids do participate and some don't. Um, we've been learning and collaborating with the the two administrators quite regularly, which has been really fun. I keep trying to get like hint drop hints that I
033want to go visit the classrooms, but I haven't gotten invited yet. But I too am curious about what that looks like. Um, much of it is asynchronous, meaning the assignments are given and students work on them and then turn them into the teachers. uh the teachers are shared throughout the whole organization and they work they may work with kids in San Diego or Northern California. So the the teachers are sort of everywhere in the state but the campus is located um in Scot it's it's authorized out of Scots Valley and so they um so the charter renamed itself so that that's why that name may seem unfamiliar. The original name was um California Connections. Thank you. So you may have heard of the previous name of it. When you said I knew Scott Valley did
034do this, but it rather just a broader question. San Lorenzo has a charter that's basically online. How do how do we correct? So it is it is the same charter as it was just they they renamed themselves. Um and they are held accountable uh by the state. There are certain uh specific um what we call them non-classroom charters. So they do they are held uh accountable for by the state and um and they go through the same renewal process as as all charters and and um you know they we provide support for them as well. That's this is the first year that charters are in incorporated as part of the um the differentiated assistance accountability system and so we do have charters that have been identified for differentiated assistance as well. So we will have
035a role uh if if um you know when charters are identified for for for uh improvement as well. And so does the does is it Sacramento what California CDC that ends them the charter or so they're authorized by Scots Valley Unified School District. So they're the same charter as California Connections that was approved by the by they just renamed themselves and so they would be they are authorized by Scots Valley Unified School District. Correct. The the specific Monterey one. Is that what you're talking about? It was authorized by Scots Valley or their whole statewide. The so just the Monterey Bay campus just the Monterey Bay campus. Correct. Yeah. But they do fall under the same accountability um measures. And so they struggle, you know, as you can imagine with things like standardized testing because it's
036difficult to get kiddos in, you know, to to take the test in person. But they've made huge uh gains just by just by changing their system a little bit. So it's been interesting to learn about them. And there is a challenge as as as Burke kind of inferred that where there's a centralized entity which oversees all their sites as well as a local entity in you know their site. Um and so it does make it challenging because you know most of the administrative responsibilities are in that centralized kind of mothership if you will uh component and so it it the accountability for um you know is is challenging. At the same time they you know locally authorized and so the rules all apply to them uh in this in the for this local site. And
037does that differ from San Lorenzo's their charter. Oh, so San Lauren Valley Unified uh school districts. Yeah. So that's I believe a dependent charters that's that's under their own um their that's under connected to a greater organization. No, correct. They develop all of their curriculum for online. You just my mind went crazy. Whoa. How do how do we look at that? Haven't followed California state law. Any other questions, comments? Okay. Any anything else? Okay. If I could just add, I just wanted to thank Brooke and and Marsha. I really feel like they've elevated the the level of support that we've offered. One, because it is there is kind of an expectation that county county offices of education um really I think the every year the California Department of Education recognizes that COE's play a fundamental
038role in supporting um uh school districts and helping them make improvements. And I just feel like we continue to make great improvements with all the support across all our divisions here at the COE working in conjunction um and really adapting uh listening and also providing a lot of expertise to the school districts to help them make improvements. And so I'm just grateful to to our amazing team. Thank you, Brooke. Thank you. Thank you so much, Director Hopkins. Thank you. And thank you for supporting my daughter this year. Proud mom. Proud mom moment. Yes. Proud mom moment. Up next, item 8.3, local indicators presentation for the Santa Cruz County Office of Education, presented by John Rice. Well, Johnny is getting uh up here. Uh did want to thank him for uh joining us. He's actually going
039to be presenting the local indicators for the local uh control accountability plans for both um alternative education program as well as a career advancement charter. And um and I don't know if this will help um but if we can put this up there just so that you have this in front of you that might be Oh, thanks. might make it a little bit easier. Uh so uh Johnny, thank you so much for being here. Take it away. Okay. I'm trying to figure out how to work the first. There you go. Middle button there. Green button. Yeah. And how do I go back? Top buttons. Yeah. Okay. You got it. All right. Well, thank you, Dr. Sabah. As as Ferris mentioned, uh I do get to talk with you y'all about a number of items today,
040which is great for me. All right. Thank you. Uh, good afternoon everybody. It's great to see you all and uh to to uh Natalie and Ruben. I just want to have the chance to to to thank you both for for your amazing service. Um you really have set a amazing example for student trustees to come. You leave some pretty big shoes to fill. Uh and thank you. And uh so with that, yes, I get to talk with you today first uh uh with the first item here. Um, I get to talk with you about the local indicators for the county office of education. The next item after that, I'll follow it up with the local indicators for the uh for the CAC. So, local indicators, what are they? You may recall that one of the
041tools that we use in conjunction with the development of our LCAP each year is a California school dashboard. The dashboard's made up of 10 local control funding formula priority area metrics uh that are used to measure how our schools are doing. Three of these are quantitative metrics collected by and reported on directly by the CDE. And for COE's, the other seven are considered local indicators. They're both qualitative and quantitative in nature are to be developed and reported on by the LEA itself using tools provided by the CDE. The local indicators are to be presented at a public meeting of the governing board as a non-consent item and then to be submitted to the CDE along with our LCAP. The 10 priorities are basic services, implementation of state standards and parental involvement, local indicators, student achievement
042and student engagement, state indicators, school climate and course access, local indicators, student outcomes, state indicator, and also expelled youth and foster youth local indicators. In pres in presenting to you today, we're pleased to report that the Santa Cruz County Office of Education has met all local indicators. Comprehensive local indicators report that's included in your packet is what will be submitted to the CDE uh for their review and publication. And you'll see these indicators marked as met on the updated California school dashboard when it comes out in November. As you can imagine, these local indicators are important tools for us to use as we reflect on and improve key aspects of educa of our education program. Hence, they directly inform updates to our LCAP each year. In order to meet each indicator and to measure our
043and report our progress, we utilize the state provided self-reflection tool which includes the use of surveys, self assessments, narrative reflections, student and community voices as well as partner agency collaboration and feedback. A few highlights from each indicator are as follows. For LCFF priority 1, basic services and conditions, we find 100% of students have access to standards aligned instructional materials both at school and at home, that all facilities are reported to be in good repair, and that our organization has strong commitments to ensuring safe, clean, fully resourced learning environments. for LCFF priority area 2 implementation of state academic standards. We find that we have some room to grow when it comes to ELD, science, social studies, and world languages curriculums as we're currently pursuing new adoptions in those areas. However, we also find that our teachers
044are well supported with professional development and collaborative opportunities and that we have strong focus on aligning materials and instruction with state standards. For LCFF priority three, parent and family engagement, we find that we foster strong partnerships between our schools and our families. We continue to focus on multilingual supports and studentled conferences as means of family inclusion and engagement. And our engagement practices are fully embedded in our LCAP goal three partnerships to support student success. That brings us to priority six, school climate. Here we find that uh across all areas, our healthy kids surveys and our local surveys confirm a strong alignment between student and family perceptions. And based on feedback from the surveys, we plan to continue to expand our mental health supports, enrichment opportunities, and community engagement efforts. For priority seven, broad course of
045study. We find that all students have access to a broad and individualized course of study. We note that we've seen increased participation in dual enrollment and CTE opportunities. And we continue to celebrate the fact that our programs are customized and tailored to meet the needs of our students and families. Two more to go you guys. Priority number nine, coordination of services for expelled youth. Here using the reflection tool provided by the CDE, we score ourselves in full implementation across all service coordination categories. We note that we enjoy comprehensive countywide collaboration for expelled youth, including alternative placements and data sharing. And we also celebrate the strong coordination we enjoy across the county when it comes to partial credit policies for our expelled students. Finally, a few highlights around our foster youth services. Here we also record
046full implementation in every category. The COE employ enjoys policy coordination, information sharing, and post-secondary planning across districts in our county. And we also note that we enjoy strong collaboration with many important community partners including child welfare, probation, and children's behavioral health. In conclusion, we believe that the totality of the Santa Cruz COE's local indicators reflect a culture of equity, engagement, and continuous improvement. We believe that we have strong systems in place to support student safety, academic standards, and family partnerships, and that we have a clear alignment between stakeholder feedback, and our strategic LCAP actions. With that, uh, I'd be happy to to take any questions you might have here. you just a clarification um on the list you have um priority 8 highlighted for local but that indeed is a state correct it is yes
047okay all right I apologize and uh uh um is that in the uh uh in the the document that you have I'll make sure that we fix it before we uh before we submit it it's it seems to be correct in when you list it out in the separate sheet but just when they're listed together it's different. Okay, thank you so much. I'll make sure and take care of it. Any other questions, comments? Okay, on to uh the CAC. All right, on to the CAC. Okay, if it's all right with y'all, I'll I'll skip the introductions and just move right into the highlights. Okay, so for priority one for the CAC, pretty similar to prior priority one for uh alternative education, 100% of students have access to standards aligned instructional materials at school and at
048home. All facilities meet uh the good repair standard and teachers are appropriately assigned. Whoops. For priority two, implementation of state academic standards, we find that we have strong implementation, especially in the areas of professional development across most academic areas. But like alternative ed, there's room to grow around science, history, and visual performing arts, especially as they relate to new curriculum. Additionally, we're proud of our continued efforts to strengthen our partnerships with Cababrio College, the adult education consortium, and other community partners who support dual enrollment and CTE opportunities. And as to priority three, parent and family engagement, we find that the CAC has strong systems in place to build relationships with students and families. Of note is our student advisory council that supports student voice and leadership within the school. And also of note are the
049barriers that were able to remove for students and families using flexible scheduling, providing child care and meals, as well as bilingual supports. Within priority three, we also note a few areas for improvement. We continue to focus on increasing participation in school enrichment opportunities such as Spanish literacy, ELD course offerings, and dual enrollment possibilities. We continue to work at strengthening partnerships with community organizations to support underrepresented families. And we continue to focus on outreach using multiple modes of communication. That brings us to priority six, school climate. An analysis of data and feedback reflects a high level of school connectedness. We also find that child care, transportation, mental health, access to basic resources certainly all remain challenges for a number of our students and families. And we affirm that the data collected from from these surveys and
050advisory committees directly informs our continuous improvement efforts. For priority seven, access to a broad course of study. We find students have access to a broad and flexible course of study, including academic, CTE, dual enrollment, ESL, and transition services. We find that barriers for some students, student groups continue to include work obligations, family obligations, past traumas, homelessness, incarceration, and long-term gaps in education. And those findings lead us to our future plans outlined in the LCAP to expand tutoring, ESL support, and counseling services, to increase CTE and dual enrollment offerings, and to strengthen basic needs supports, early care options for young families, and student onboarding to improve retention. In closing for the CAC, we find that all local indicators have been met and that our reflections reveal our ongoing commitment to equity and access for all students,
051strong community, and family partnerships, continuous professional learning, and continuous school improvement, and a student- centered approach to academic, career, and personal success. We'll continue to use data and student feedback to meet the needs of our diverse student population. And as a reminder, the local indicators once submitted will be reflected when the new dashboard is released in November. With that, I'd be happy to take any questions here. Thank you so much. Any questions, comments? And Alan, trying to think trying to picture how the CAC's work fits within the sort of framework of doing these reports. Um it seems a little challenging because our students are not there on a set program with certain requirements that everybody has to meet to get an official graduation. But um uh is anybody else doing anything like this? Do we
052have anything to compare our indicators and our outcomes to at this point? If I could. Um so the yeah so the model of having kind of an adult charter that is mostly not classroom based is is relatively common um in many county offices of education. Um I think that uh that we actually based our charter on some similar charters that had uh been started at u in in other in other county offices of education. And um so so there is there we do have some partner um schools that we're able to kind of work off of. I do think that the LCAP uh process and sometimes the way that that these uh programs are, you know, their these accountability structures are not perfect, but um but the local control and accountability plan and and these
053local indicators do allow us. They give us the flexibility for us to be able to identify the kinds of outcomes that we want to look at to me to to help measure ourselves in addition to the state indicators. And so that this idea of local indicators that was just presented really serves that the purpose of that the uniqueness of the school. I agree with that 100%. Do we ever see comparisons with other similar schools as far as their indicator? It seems like they would be not necessarily direct. be interesting. Yeah, I don't I don't think I that we've we've looked at uh similar schools like like the CAC's data, but but definitely would be very interesting to look at. I think that's a great recommendation. Thank you. Any any other questions or comments? Hearing none.
054Thank you so much. Thanks, Johnny. Thank you. Okay, on to new business and action. Starting with item 9.1, ALCAP for the COE, presented by Dr. Sabah and Director Rice again. So, this really isn't a presentation. As you know uh at our last board meeting we presented the local control accountability plan as well as our our uh our uh budget. Uh so the the idea the way the process works the reason we have two meetings in in June is so that we can present this to you and to the community to get input if we do from staff from the community members from students parents and of course from the board um and allow us to be able to make any changes if necessary. we did not really get a uh uh significant meaningful changes that
055would alter it. And so it really is the same uh document that was presented to you two weeks ago. And so at this point we would uh ask you to you know if you have any questions and um and ask for your support in approving our local control and accountability plan uh for the Santa Cruz. Uh, Van Allen. Well, in great appreciation of the work that goes into that plan and the importance of it, I um congratulate the staff and move to approval. Okay. Motion by Van Allen. Second. Okay. Seconded by Williams. And we will do a roll call vote. Student trustee Hopkins. Hi. Student Trustee Marcus. Hi. Vice President Estrada. Yes. Trustee Larson. Yes. Trustee Roth. Yes. Trusty Van Allen. Trustee Williams. Passes unanimously. Thank you all and thank you for all the work.
056Uh and then on to LCAP for the CAC. Were there any changes? There were no other uh changes and and would would appreciate your support for approval for our local control and accountability plan. There any motions? I'll make the motion to accountability plan for the CAC. Okay. Motion by Roth, seconded by Vanna Allen to approve the LCAP for the CAC. Roll call vote. Student Trustee Hopkins, hi. Student Trustee Marcus, hi. Vice President Estrada, yes. Trustee Larson, yes. Trusty Roth, yes. Trusty Van Allen, hi. Trusty Williams, yes. Passes unanimously. Thank you all for all your effort in this process. On to item 9.3, COE 2526, budget, presented by Leanne Reyes. Thank you very much. So, um I have another 35 minute present. Just kidding. We did that last meeting. We had held our public hearing and
057the staff did not receive any recommendations or comments and or or requested changes on the budget as presented at our June 12th meeting. Therefore, uh my recommendation is that we would approve the 2526 budget as presented. Thank you. Is there a motion? Okay. Motion by Williams, seconded by Van Allen. Roll call vote. Student trustee Hopkins. I. Student trustee Marcus. I. Vice President Estrada. Yes. Trusty Larson. Yes. Trusty Roth. Yes. Trusty Van Allen. I with great appreciation. Trusty Williams. Yes, thank you. It passes unanimously. Thank you to the business services department. Thank you so much. Okay, on to resolutions. Item 9.4, resolution 2521, recognizing community partnerships and impactful action in addressing the fentanyl crisis. Presented by uh Trusty Larson, Dr. Sabah, and Dr. Thompson. If I uh uh could Oh, I see that. Uh Trusty Larson,
058would you like to get us started or would you like me to? Just a a quick introduction to the three legislative and community engagement committee items. Um we have three items coming before you. Uh one can all of them are new. They have not been heard by the board in previous years and staff brought forward and will be presenting the first one which is this item on your agenda and the next two deal with recognizing um services for disability people with disabilities month as well as the workforce housing bills through the state. And I've asked the other committee members, uh, Natalie Hopkins and Bruce Van Allen to present those later items as staff will present this item since it's hard to do that by Zoom. So, sign off there. Thank you so much, Trusty Larson.
059Wonderful. Thank you. I I would like to uh introduce Dr. Dr. Heather Thompson who is leading our school health uh effort and specifically our fentanel effort here at the county office of education. Uh as you know and you'll be hearing a little bit about really this is an area of crisis for uh for our community and it is also an equity crisis for us in a way. Um we've done some really amazing work and I I'd really like to credit uh Dr. Thompson for bringing together um working in partnership with a lot of wonderful agencies to bring awareness, bring solutions, bring resources to our community and um and help reduce the uh detrimental effects of fentanyl and opioids in um here in Santa Cruz County. And so I'm um grateful for Dr. Thompson to be
060here to talk to us a little bit about what that has looked like um here in Santa Cruz County. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you uh County Superintendent Dr. Ferris Sabah and board of trustees. It's my pleasure to be here before you to uh see what you think about this uh perhaps approval of this resolution. Uh it is entitled uh recognizing community partnerships and the impactful action in addressing the fentanyl crisis and I am here tonight to present to you all uh about the past two years of our work. Thank you. So, I thought I'd start off with a quote to just sort of orient ourselves when it comes to what is a community. Uh, I'm really proud to tell you I've lived here for over 17 years. I have three children.
061My husband's a teacher and, uh, we moved here from Mountain View, really looking for a place to call home and a change in pace. uh a a true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It's really about feeling connected and also responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community and every one of us plays a really crucial role. And this quote is by Yita Berg. And so this board resolution tonight is really a story. It's a story of how we in Santa Cruz County have come together to mobilize um and address the fentanyl overdose and accidental poisonings happening here. And I want you to know that not one dollar has been exchanged for this work. It's truly been a labor of love. It's
062truly been a moment in time where our momentum just continuously gathers and districts and schools and administrators and our education partners are really invested in this. Um, and I also want to tell you I'm going to get a sip of water. Pardon me. I just wanted to also let you know that this is not easy work. It is not easy to talk about kids doing drugs. It is not easy to talk about kids who are self-medicating because they may not feel good in their own skin. It's not easy for parents to talk to kids about high-risisk behaviors and experimentation. Um, and so these past two years, community- based organizations, our school districts, our government agencies have really mobilized for the greater good. And we've done this so that our school communities were not only educated
063but that our school communities are prepared and that ultimately our students can make informed decisions not only impacting their lives but also the lives of everyone around them. And so our why our why is because according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, the third leading cause of pediatric death in our 15 to 24 year old population is overdose and poisoning. So how do we do this? Narcan. Um and I I put some fun pictures because I want to lighten it up a little bit and not make it too dreary. Um so I want to point your attention to the middle slide. Uh that was our first event. This is how it all got started back in April of 2023. I know you all remember Inspired Diagnostics. And we leveraged that resource, y'all, that testing and
064vaccination site. And they were really good at drive up events, drive-throughs. And so it was Santa Cruz Community Health. It was Santa Cruz County Office of Ed, of course, and um really Safe RX through Health Improvement Partnership, who is our coalition here for harm reduction and opioid overdose. And we had a great time. It was sunny. It was a vibrant blue sky. And Ferris looked at me and I'll never forget and he said, "You know, we're bringing this to South County." And I said, "Absolutely." Every single car that pulled up to our tents, the first thing out of their mouth, "Thank you so much for doing this." And I think that we really all involved felt this motivation around altruism, but also how important the work was. and it was just getting started. Um, from
065there on the right and the left, those are Watsonville High School. So, true to Ferris's words, in June, April, we were at Cababrio. In June, we were at Watsonville High School. And this is when we just started to get started. Schools were having town halls in advance of the Narian popup events because a lot of families don't know what Narcan is. They don't know what fentanyl is. And so we didn't want to, um, ask them to be somewhere on a Saturday when they didn't understand why or what it was. And so, uh, just reviewing my notes to see. Then in September, we were at the Tri Valley campus. Ferris was also there, of course. And, uh, all of these events were distributing between two and 500 units of Narcan, providing a ton of information. And
066we couldn't do this work alone. We all had to be there. So many folks unfortunately were coming up to the tents and they were in despair crying. Uh they had just lost someone and that's when Santa Cruz Community Health really thrived. They had a lot of their addiction medicine providers out there and we know that uh if you look at the hot spots with regards to data um it was Dr. Dr. Gail Newell, our former public health officer during COVID, who really taught all of us that for opioid prescription management, the most biggest like areas are Pahara Valley, Watsonville, and San Lorenzo Valley. And we don't know why, we just know that it is. Um, and so this has left led our efforts. And little did I know then it was at New Brighton Middle
067School in SoCal Union. So, we did four popups in I don't know, a very short amount of time. But what I want to tell you is little do we know the work was just about to get really good. And that is when Fentanel High was first debuted in May of 2024 at the Rio Theater. Uh this, as you probably know, have I'm assuming you've heard of Fentanel High, but if not, it in essence is a 75minute documentary. Kyle Santoro at the time, Los Gatus High School uh student, and he was really tired of hearing the sirens and seeing paramedics rush students away and not to be seen again. He really felt like this is difficult subject matter and created a film with high school students at from Lascatus High School, but also a lot of
068professionals in that county through public health, through the EMS systems. Um, and it was a very uh important and potent film. Okay. So, some of the highlights have been not only uh was it pretty rad that Kyle Santo came out and was on our panel of experts um and answering questions, but these panels consisted of local subject matter expert experts from Salude Palente, Santa Cruz Community Health, Watsonville Community Hospital. We had Empower Watsonville there, our youth group who focuses on substance use and misuse uh from Watsonville speak. And we also had uh a mom who lost her son. And she is an Aptas High School graduate and so is her son Tosh. And actually Tosh's dad is the owner of Jim's Wheels, that like skateboard shop. And there's a beautiful mural. If you're ever at
069staff of life and you park you and you look kind of towards Jim's wheel uh Bill's wheels, sorry. Uh there it's it's his quote in his picture along with another student uh River who was also lost from this. Okay, so next slide. So a lot of things get distributed at these events um and at the Narcan distribution events. What does a fentanyl overdose look like? Of course, everything is in English and Spanish. Um, and the other thing that's a really cool resource, and we've been sending these to all ninth graders, and also these are in our school offices. Our district school nurse teams have these. Um, we just had a a district SLV USD. Um, they had a parent night for incoming fifth grader in fifth grade families who are incoming to sixth grade. and
070they've been handing these out and these booklets are powerful. Um they are all about how to have difficult conversations with your kiddos um around high-risisk behaviors. And what's I'm really happy to present, no one knows this yet, but um they're in English and Spanish. They're for middle and high school. Uh Safer RX has paid for a professional voiceover, a woman in San Francisco who has middle school children. I got to go to the studio. So, we're going to have an audio book in the fall in English and Spanish. And uh I think that's pretty cutting edge. And then we're also working with Marine Health and Youth Partnerships who created the the booklets and they're very uh excited to hear how many thousands we have uh distributed here. So where are we going next? Well, there
071are some new state legislations, it turns out, and we're going to assist schools and districts with providing resources and supports. And these new legislations are really around health and safety and uh substance uh for our for our students. In addition, we created a users guide that will address these new laws and it's entitled school-based interventions for substant use and overdose prevention. And we have gone to great lengths to have our community partners and local agencies review the document to make sure that their contribution is in there as well. Um, I also am proud to present that we were just awarded a 32-month grant from California Opioid Prevention Network that will continue to mobilize our efforts and the momentum. And I'm really proud um Natalie Sto, who you may know from Calciano, she presented. She is
072here to show her love and reverence for this work and how mental health and addiction are a combined and overlapped um issue that that we're facing. And also, we're going to be hiring a 12-month FTE from Americanore. Just had the privilege of interviewing her two days ago, double major, go Cal, 3.8, and she wants to go into law around substance legislation. So, I was like, we hit the jackpot. Um, so, thank you so much for your time tonight. I'm really pumped for next year. My small but mighty school health team is growing. Um, and I'd like to um before questions just really recognize and honor Dr. Sabah. It's his vision. It's his momentum and he knows the importance and the data is telling us this. Thank you for your time. Thank you so much, Dr.
073Thompson. Uh, any questions? Oh, uh, I see, uh, Trusty Larson. Thank you the very much uh vice president wonderful presentation. Uh the committee saw the resolution and loved it. Hearing the presentation and bringing it to life just makes it so much more powerful. And as a recipient uh earlier this year of the Let's Talk book myself um and going through it, I just want to say thank you for bringing that to the county and the work you and your team and Dr. Sabah have done. And with that, I'd like to move approval of this resolution. Thank you so much, Trusty Larson. Second. Okay. Second by Roth. Uh but let's have a comment. Yeah, we I think we'll go through comments before we vote. Trusty Williams, you ready? Okay. First, thank you very much for the
074presentation. Um saw the movie Ventel High back when I probably I think it was in Watsonville. um very moving and so important for us to be sharing it throughout our county and all the students. Um and um a recipient during that process and watching the movie of getting a couple packets of fentanyl high or the um thank you um and sharing it with my student. It's like keeper but like it's always important. Oh, and I didn't want to get really It was on. It wasn't on. It was on. Okay. Um and so thank you very much for doing the work that you're doing and um um actually one really quick. Are these going to the pamphlets um be available in the wellness centers at the high schools? Absolutely. We're working to build the capacity of
075the wellness navigators um and getting them trained up in Naran and connecting them with their district school nurse team. They order the medication. Thank you so much. Thank you. Any other questions, comments? Thank you so much. Um Oh, we have one. Okay. I was I was thinking if I had any questions actually. Uh possibly. Yeah. A question. Um so I'm reading in here. So all uh county, middle, and high schools are equipped with Nlloxxone and trained staff. Um is there any is there any centralized tracking of distribution of that and like restocking and how are we exactly involved in that process? Yeah, it's our duty to uh at county office of education we're keeping a log and fortunately uh Dr. Sabah and I meet monthly with our school nurse consortium. So, uh, we actually to
076receive the Narcan for free through the Nlloxxone distribution project through Department of Healthcare Services, you not only have to log it and they're very um precise about the medication because it has a shelf life of three years, it's also quite expensive and we order the most every year, 2400 units, and the pallet arrived last week. Um so we always have intention of making sure that all units go out into the community and the other responsibility that we have in this log is to also uh communicate with DHCS if one of the units reversed an opioid overdose and and we've had two so far that we know of. Thank you. Saving lives. Thank you so much. Okay. So, there's a motion on the floor. Roll call vote. Student trustee Hopkins. Hi. Student trustee Marcus. Hi. Vice
077President Estrada. Yes. Trusty Larson. Yes. Trusty Roth. Definitely. Trusty Van Allen. Hi. Trusty Williams. Yes. Passes unanimously. Thank you. Thank you, Heather. and congratulations on all the amazing work this last two years. Okay, on to item 9.5, Prop 28, Arts and Music and Schools annual report presented by Dr. Sabah and director Rice. All right. So this is a another requirement as you know the arts as have been prioritized in the uh in in the state uh through Prop 28 providing resources to be able to ensure that the arts and music are being offered to all students. And so, uh, this report is, uh, to share a little bit about how Prop 28 funding, um, has been used and and will be continue to, uh, provide, uh, for visual and performing arts for our students. That
078sums it up. Thank you, Dr. Sabah. All right, Paris. Uh, good good afternoon, everybody. It's me again. Um, as as Ferris mentioned, uh, this item is to request approval of our annual Prop 28 arts and music in schools grant report. Whoops. Go back a page here. This is a standardized report to be submitted to the state annually through their portal and requires these fields only. A brief narrative of arts programming being funded. the number of full-time equivalent teachers, classified personnel, and teaching aids included with the funds. The number of pupils served, and the number of school sites providing arts education programs with the AMS funds. Oops. Wrong way. All right. The report to be approved and submitted is just the top form of the report in your packet, which looks like this. Uh you'll notice
079however that the report in your packet contains a good deal of additional information that while not a part of the approval request seemed like future planning information that you might appreciate hearing about. So if it's all right, I'll I'll just talk for a few minutes and share with you where we're going. All right. In order to ensure appropriate use of the funds, we did conduct a needs assessment which pointed to our strengths and areas for growth in our arts program. As far as strengths go, we found that we have strong partnerships in the arts community. These partnerships provide student access to a diversity of perspectives, talents, and media. Art programming is often collaborative and connected to novels, texts, themes, and ideas, and are often jointly developed with the classroom teacher. Many students and families reported
080an appreciation for experts, and for new skills learned. And some students and families have even reported renewed engagement in school due to art connections. Feedback also provided us with some needs. Identified needs included requests for additional artists and certificated itinerant arts teacher. And while art opportunities are relevant, more opportunities and a focus on relevance is always welcome, as of course is more time and supplies. This led us to our plan for the 2526 school year. I'm happy to report that we have now succeeded in hiring a8 FTE art teacher who will add to and guide our artist teacher partnership program. The artist teacher partnership program connects alternative education teachers and their students with professional artists. Through the collaboration, artists and teachers work together for a semester or a full year to integrate culturally relevant art
081into the school's standardsbased curriculum. This approach centered on student interests aims to boost student engagement, success, and understanding. And this is where we plan to continue to leverage our Prop 28 funds going forward. As you can see here, not all funds were expended this last year due to the unfilled arts position. However, we do have a plan uh to fully expend our carryover this coming year in the following ways with a point8 FTE certificated teacher with additional artists contracts. a small contribution for support from the Santa Cruz Arts Council as is allowed by the grant uh by materials and supplies and also a small contribution to indirect costs. And with all of those together, I I think that will bring us uh uh back into balance going into the 2627 school year. With that, I
082just want to say thank you. I'd be happy to take any questions you might have and I'd like to request approval of the single page document entitled Prop 28 Arts and Music and Schools Funding Annual Report fiscal year 2024 2025. Thank you, Director Rice. Uh, is there a motion? Okay. Motion by Van Allen and a question. Oh, question. Okay. Um, I'll go ahead and ask a question before Yeah. Um, so it showed that there's a need for more artists. Is that for teacher formal teacher artists or are you talking about community artists? Either way, we seem to be in a community of a plethora of artists. So, just curious about the outreach for fulfilling those needs. Uh, let's see. I'm going to try to microphone, please. Thank you. Let me see. I I think I
083got about three ideas to to mention there. Um it refers to either uh um any we we look to work with uh any professional artist that connect with can connect with our students uh and uh instruct them and help them grow. Uh so whether whether they're certificated which we did succeed in in in bringing on a certificated teacher, we also can we also contract with a number of professional artists uh uh that are not certificated. We continue to look for more and that's one of the reasons why we contract with the the arts foundation and why we're connected with uh the the uh director of of arts uh or the coordinator of arts uh in our educational services area. I think there was a third part of your question but I I would like to
084if I could add to that answer that that when it comes to Prop 28 however it is uh the majority of the funding has to be used for salary and benefits for art teachers. And so we've always we've had a a tradition of contracting with um agencies to bring the arts to our students. And um however, when it comes to Prop 28, one of the reasons why there is such a huge demand for art teachers right now, probably second only to special education teachers in California, is because Prop 28 requires us to hire uh credentialed art teachers. And that's uh very difficult right now. we're all kind of fighting each other to get a hold of these folks. And so that that was the the third part of the question there is uh uh um
085if we got so many artists in such a creative community, why you having a hard time get picking them up? And that's exactly why is because everybody got the same money we did. You have a question? Um, well, sort of mixture. Um, one of my earliest, uh, involvements with the office of education here was when I was director of a program that placed professional artists in prisons and in juvenile hall. And we had a program, the community youth arts project with local schools, including All Dead. Um, uh, that was back in the late 90s, early 2000s, so a little little while ago. What we saw both with artists working with inmates in the state prisons and with youth in in incarcerated youth was not so much that doing that made them into artists, but that
086the process of creating art was one in which they would gain insight into themselves, greater self-nowledge, alternatives to how to express their feelings, including their strong feelings without violence, for example. And so this is just so important to me and just to have it come around in this particular incarnation. Um I like the idea of hiring art teachers, certificated teachers. But my question about that is is there any um provision either locally or in the state for helping professional artists get that certificate? Because that's a challenge in any topic. But if you're a professional artist, you're self-employed. Probably you have a whole different life setup than than what a teacher on a professional teacher career would would expect to have. So it seems challenging to me to get that that pool of teachers. And at
087at a at at some point this year, we would love to do a presentation about our ed path um opportunities for folks to get their teaching credential that we have several programs that would that um can help let's say a classified staff member or a somebody who has a bachelor's degree to complete um their teaching credential in this area. And so um that's definitely something that we're we're looking at and and and promoting and encouraging. I would like to second the motion. Okay. Actually, so was that. It was just a question. Sorry. Uh, Trusty Rock. Uh, back in the dark ages, we had something called Spectra. And, uh, I I know they weren't teachers, but somehow, uh, it was a wonderful program. But my question is uh like with CTE they don't have to be
088credential teachers but there's some kind of credential they get can that I don't believe there is a career and technical education art credential I don't think that's uh one of the ways I think they have to get a more traditional um but maybe that's pathway yeah I I I think that they have to get an an arts education uh credential under Prop 28. That's that's the requirement of the funding. Uh rid of them all, right? All of our art. But we do we continue to partner with with um uh you know the uh Parro Valley Arts um Parro Valley Arts, somebody help me out here. Foundation. Foundation is it? Um and other organizations that bring in artists. Uh we have mural programs that um with artists who are not necessarily fully credentialed. But again, when
089it comes to the Prop 28 funding, which is one of our funding sources, um it does have requirements that limit our ability to work with non um uh certificated art teachers. This uh William James Associates, this is one of the organizations that we work with. That's the nonprofit. I used to be the director, right? Yeah. We continue to work we we continue to work with Williams. We continue to work with Williams. They're not credentialed. They they are a nonprofit and they make arrangements to get artists contracts with agencies. So they they bring in professional artists or whatever the situation. vision. Yes, we continue to work with William James and the Santa Cruz Arts Foundation and Po Valley Arts uh in order to to bring other artists into our classrooms and to work alongside of our
090teachers. And this is really not off topic but a statement. Uh, I read a book called Earworm and it was about Alcatraz, not Alcatraz, San Quinton and bringing in the arts program there and what happened and it was now San Quinton is a prison that uh actual prisoners want to go to because of the educational facilities that they've developed. But it's an excellent book and I think I'll I'll try to remember I don't have it in copy but get the name to you for all ed program. Terrific. Thank you Sue. I'll definitely check it out. Significant. Uh and Trusty Larson has his hand up as well. Um, I just first want to say thank you to Trusty Van Allen for bringing up that clever idea of um, supporting the certification of teachers and I look
091forward to the report back that uh, Superintendent Sabah mentioned. My question is one and I sorry Johnny I didn't get this in beforehand. the 20,000 contribution to the Santa Cruz Arts Foundation, is that for uh services specifically? And if so, is it like the services you were just discussing? Um could you clarify that? I sure I sure can, Greg. And yes, it is for for services. Uh just as um we just just as as Rachel um talked about how difficult it is to how difficult it may be to to find artists. Um contract providing a small contract with the Santa Cruz Arts Foundation is one more way that we can bring in uh other professional artists from from around the the county. The word contribution surprised me. It's actually basically it's going to be an
092agreement for services. That's that's exactly right. Yes. Contribution is probably the wrong word. It'll be anou. Thank you. Okay. Now, I should have I should have started with questions and comments. Now, is there a motion? Okay. Motion by Van Allen. Second. Seconded by Williams. We'll have a roll call vote. Student trustee Hopkins. I. Student Trusty Marcus, hi. Vice President Estrada, yes. Trusty Larson, yes. Trusty Roth, yes. Trusty Van Allen, Trusty Williams, yes. Passes unanimously. All right. Thank you. Thank you all. On to item 9.7. Is it 9.7 or 9.6? Okay. Okay. 9.6. Resolution 25-22, usage of funds generated by Props 30 and 55, education protection account, presented by Leanne Reyes. Thank you very much. This is part of what I refer to as our annual housekeeping items. This resolution um is a requirement of Prop
09330 and 55. We must adopt a resolution annually that details out the intended use of our education protection account funds or EPA funds. Um these propositions mandate that EPA funds to be spent exclusively on instructional purposes and prohibit their uses for administrative salaries or other administrative costs. If you um refer back to your board packet, however, the attached document is for the current estimated actuals, which is the incorrect information as this resolution is to support our budget that you just adopted for the 2526 uses. Therefore, I'm presenting to you, which I'm going to smile at some of my board members. For you young student, trustee students over there, this is something you will never ever ever see. But tonight, we're going to treat you to this special thing. It's called blue sheeting. When you have
094something that needed to be put in your board packet, but it missed the deadline or it got missed or in this case, the current year data was attached, but not the budget year data. So, when somebody says blue sheeting, literally, we like to print it on blue paper. That in and of itself was a challenge. We don't have much blue paper. Um, and we'll pass this out for you. Okay. So, here comes your blue sheet with the correct information. And this is a first for me, by the way. I just got to say, well, not much blue paper because you do such an amazing job at getting paper. We like we do everything period, right? Well, hopefully we won't have to order a big stack of it from here on out. And it is a
095first for me as well. So, here's the document. This probably looks more familiar to what you saw last year at this time in the in this particular format. So um the funding implication also for the budget year um and this particular the top page is strictly for the alternative education for Santa Cruz COE the amount is 3.2 million 3 million283 and483 um and it's going to be used for the exclusive purpose of instructional salaries. Hopefully that stack's making its way around. That's all I have to say. And also for to clarify, so this was also communicated to Trusty Larson uh who is here virtually. You will need to be emailed the updated documents. I'll have um Melissa Lopez do that for me. Okay. And I apologize, Mr. President, if I could abstain from this item
096when the vote happens. Okay. Uh since I don't have the document. Yeah, that sounds that sounds good. Were there any questions, comments from the board as we're looking it over or should I give us a second to to look it over? It's pretty simple and straightforward. There's only two lines on it. Um the first line talks about at the top where it says LCFF revenue. Um that's just showing how much revenue we are are budgeting for which was that $3.2 million number. And then the lower half of the form does sort out that uh all the monies will be spent on one line item only which is that of instruction which is function code 1019. And further it's well not disclosed on this actual form but what I also disclosed to you was that we
097uh use it for salaries instructional salaries. Any questions, comments or motions from the board? I motion to pass resolution 2523. Okay. Motion by Williams. I believe it's 252. The next one is 25. My apologies. Okay. Motion by Williams. Was that a second by Van Allen? Okay. Roll call vote. Student trustee Hopkins. I student trustee Marcus. Hi. Vice President Estrada. Yes. Trusty Larson. Trusty Roth. Yes. Trustee Van Allen. Trusty Williams. Yes. Okay. It passes with uh four board members, two student trustees, and an abstension by Trusty Larson. Thank you so much. Okay. Sorry, now I have blue papers on top of my agenda. Okay, on to item 9.7, resolution 2523, usage of funds generated by props uh 30 and 55. Uh this one, okay, the last one was for the COE and then this one is
098for the CAC. Okay, got it. I was like, did I did I accidentally say the same thing twice? Okay. Uh, so that was the second page of the blue paper that we got. Any questions, comments, motions? Would just like to add that it's the same music, just a little bit different lyrics. It's for the CAC and the dollar value impact for them will be approximately $43,000. Is there uh any motions? I'll uh I'll move to uh resolution 25-23 uses usage of funds generated by Prop 30 and 55. Second. Okay. So, was that that was a motion for approval? Okay. by Roth and seconded by Van Allen. And we will have a roll call vote. Student trustee Hopkins. Hi. Student trustee Marcus. Hi. Vice President Estrada. Yes. Trusty Larson. I'm stayain. Trusty Roth. Yes. Trustee Van
099Allen. Trustee Williams. Yes. Okay. It passes with four uh trustees, two student trustees and an abstension by trustee Larson. Um Mr. President, if I may, I just wanted to clarify the numbers given by director Reyes make perfect sense. I just didn't want to create a problem since I didn't have the document in front of me. I'm not abstaining due to any concerns. It's simply because I'm I couldn't be there with you all tonight. So, thank you for clarifying on the record, Trusty Larson. Okay, on to item 9.8, resolution 2524, recognizing July as disability pride month, presented by uh student trustee Hopkins. Okay. Um, so I'm presenting resolution 25-24 recognizing July as disability pride month. In the United States, 70 million adults and 3 million kids both uh have both visual and invisible uh disabilities. And
100this resolution celebrates the history, culture, identities, and contributions of the disabled community. So, I think we should pass this resolution. Thank you so much, Student Trustee Hopkins. Uh, are there any questions or comments by anyone on the board? Thank you for bringing forth this resolution. Um, I think it's an important one. I think we all um perhaps know someone who struggles with some kind of physical or uh otherwise disability. and I think it's important to recognize it and I move to Thank you so much Trusty Williams. I'll second with the comment that um first of all thank you also Natalie um the um thing about disabilities it could happen to any of us and in some ways almost any time given the possibility of accidents as well as diseases and kinds of other circumstances. So
101this this really is for all of us. That's the way I hold it. Thank you, Trusty Van Allen. Are there any other questions or comments from anyone else on the board before we move to a roll call vote? Okay, seeing none, uh, roll call vote. Student trustee Hopkins, I. Student trustee Marcus, I. Vice President Estrada, yes. Trusty Larson, hi. Trusty Roth, yes. Trusty Van Allen, Trusty Williams, yes. It passes unanimously. Thank you. On to item 9.9 resolution 2525, support for ABA uh 1021 and AB1381, Advancing Educational Workforce Housing Solutions, presented by Trusty Van Allen. Thank you, trustees. Um you all know as we've talked about before the the challenge that teachers and education staff face in uh paying for housing not just in our community but all over the state and around the country. And
102um the there is a movement to um expand what what's now being called educator workforce housing. And a big piece of it has to do with the schools themselves making use of resources such as spare land. And to build the housing, especially if it's below market rate, to be affordable for the average working person, you either need money or land, one or the other. And districts that have some land have an opportunity here. So that's a lot of what these bills address along with just other things that districts can do to help promote um development or conversion of housing for their staff and teachers. Um so that's what this resolution supports. The these two different bills in the legislature address um aspects of these concerns. Um I do want to mention that um oh there's
103one really very minor typo where in the second to last the therefore be it resolved it should say these important measures rather than this important measure but I want to draw your attention to the almost end there um which is a very crucial thing when you're taking positions on legislation where we only meet every month legislation can change quickly sometimes bills are completely transformed into other topics and So this last this near last clause here that we are basically by passing this resolution authorizing superintendent Sabah to correct our endorsement stance if necessary if there are changes in the legislation. And so to me that allows us to feel confident that we can take this position now and we're not stuck with it forever if if the law if the legislation evolves into something that we
104don't like. So based on that, I would hope the board would support the resolution. Happy to take questions. Thank you, Trusty Van Allen. Are there any questions or comments from Okay, Trusty Larson. Thank you. Uh Trusty Van Allen, great presentation. Uh this is an item we said we'd be bringing back to the board repeatedly. Um, there was a question that trustee Williams and I heard from Santa Cruz City School Superintendent about uh some concerns with the legislation. I did talk with their trustee who is lead on this issue and he doesn't oppose the legislation. He just felt it doesn't go far enough to meet the needs of Santa Cruz City Schools. um he saw no problems with it, just that he'd like further steps taken in the future as well. So, I'm fully comfortable with
105supporting the resolutions and the legislation is presented. And I wanted to thank Nick for inserting that clause um that Mr. Van Allen uh reflected. I think that's very important in all our legislative actions and in fact would like to recommend in the future that the policy committee look at adopting a policy that specifies that on an ongoing basis so it doesn't have to be included in every legislative piece. Um, oh, a question. Um, how would, um, thank you for that recommendation for the policy committee. Also, how would that particular cause work? How would the communication go if something were to change and we gave authority for it to be changed sort of on the dime? What would that look like? I think the way it would work uh it would be that if let's say
106there was a u significant uh modification to the legislation that I would that I would be authorized to be able to say pull your support back and then I would report to you at the next board meeting that that was that that that occurred. So communication would occur at the next board meeting versus like an email that would go out and saying, "Hey, this there's a change and we're making pulling our support." I'd be happy to maybe that's what I was asking just what the what that that procedural thing would look like. I think uh an immediate communication and then a a board report would be appropriate. Al also board members can contact Ferris say hey I just heard they just modified that bill and it's gonna be terrible for our county you know and
107we can do that too I mean I some of us do monitor it's an affliction but we do and council or trustee Williams if I might add in the city work that I used to do that was exactly what happened and that's where this model comes from where if any agency identified a change in the legislation, the city manager would be empowered to kind of pull the city's name from being an endorser until the council or in this case the board has a chance to reconsider the matter. And typically, I think that as the superintendent indicated, the manager or superintendent would immediately notify the governing body if that were to occur and then bring the reconsideration back at the next meeting. Thank you very much. I would second the motion. Okay. Um, I will also
108say just my own comments that I think that uh legislation that advances housing uh uh development in an area like Santa Cruz especially where we are so incredibly rent burdened and there is such a tight supply. Um I think that you know each sector um of our economy and uh each um you know avenue that we can to develop more affordable housing I think is is much needed and welcomed. So um I'm I'm glad to see you know some efforts in the legislation or in the legislature. Um so yeah so uh there was a motion. Was there a motion? Bruce. Okay, Bruce. Motion and second by Williams. Uh, did you have a question? I was gonna second it if Okay. All right. Okay. Roll call vote, please. For the last time, student trustee Hopkins. Hi.
109Last time, student trustee Marcus. Hi. Vice President Estrada. Yes. Sorry, no clapping. Trusty Trusty Larson. Yes, but with a softening heart for losing our student trustees. Trusty Roth. Yes. Trusty Van Allen. Hi. Trusty Williams. Yes. Passes unanimously. Thank you. Thank you to our student trustees again for all of for all of your eyes and nazs and votes with us. Thank you. Okay, on to the superintendent report. Since I uh provided a comprehensive report at two weeks ago, I was just going to share just a reminder about some of our upcoming events. we've launched our our student trustee academy and Andre Ortiz and also uh PBSD former PBSD tr uh student trustee Daniel Escada uh is joining us as a as a co-presenter and is doing an outstanding job. Uh so uh today we had our
110second meeting and we have uh 14 students participating and who are very interested many of which have shared their interest in applying to uh uh try to uh fill the shoes of our amazing trustees here. Uh so uh we would uh if you are interested in coming to uh you know drop in it's taking place at Cababrio please let us know and we'd we'd happy to welcome you. And of course, uh, as always, Trusty Van Allen is going to be, uh, working with the students on their public speaking skills. Uh, love for you to join us for the Stuff the Bus campaign. Um, we're starting our launch, um, on July 1, but the actual Stuff the Bus event is taking place on August 2nd. So, you're going to be seeing a lots of information that,
111uh, Nick and and our communication team is is putting out there. Uh and then for the beginning of the school year, COE all our staff kickoff is going to be on August 5th. Our uh county board uh uh conference, county board conference, oh CSBA uh CSBA conference is taking place uh September 5th through 7th. And um and then Santa Cruz County Administrators kickoff is on September 11th. And and then the state CSBA annual education conference is going to be I don't do we not have the dates yet or we didn't put them in there. I think we have the dates but um they're not on there yet but they're usually the first week of December. So uh would love it for you to join us and and thank you for for all your support uh
112and all your the decisions you made today. Any questions for me? Uh will you be asking for donations monetary stuff? officially of course but yes uh no I mean should we do that through the COE or directly to for the are you talking about the stuff the bus um Nick why don't you give us an update on that thank you for the question trusty Roth and yes of course um all donations go to United Way however the COE does have a custom campaign page that we share internally with our staff and we will be sure to share that with the board as Thank you, Nick. And that is it for my report. Thank you so much. Thank you so much, Dr. Sabah. On to trustee reports. Uh, I will start off by saying next month
113will be my last meeting because I'll be moving to Philadelphia at the beginning of August. So, next month is my last month here in Santa Cruz. Uh, which is bittersweet, but it's been amazing. Uh, so yeah. And, uh, talking about things, I I not much has happened in the last two weeks, so I think I think I'll I'll leave my report at that, but I'm excited. I will still be here for the stuff the bus. Um that will be that's a couple days before I leave in August. So for that my trusty report. Well, I don't have any activity report, but I will say that it's um I think we've been we've known each other since it's been for like six, eight years through the dcc, but it's been a pleasure being a sitting partner
114here on the board and learning from you and we'll certainly miss you and I'm I'm sure you'll be by hopefully to to visit us and give us updates on your your progress. We're so proud of you. We're so excited for you. That's all I have. pretty much the same just like saying goodbye to some great people that have been here one more time and I really appreciate your service and I pretty much have nothing to record either to Well, actually I got to wear the cool new t-shirt. Yeah. Um, I too will really miss you and I expect great things of you and you and you uh out there somewhere. Please stay in public eye. Voices like yours need to be heard. Uh, there will be a going away party for Edward on July 28th.
1155:30 to 7:30. Sesba is uh doing it. It will be at the um Abbott Square outside. So anyway, uh and then um just going on into September and we need to think about who will step in for Edward as Senator County School Boards Association, but there will be a hybrid meeting on September 8th at 6:30. It'll be here in person and nothing. Thank you, Trusty Raw. Any ad hoc standing committee? Oh, Greg, I am so sorry, Greg. Hey, I I hate meeting by Zoom. I look forward to being back with you all for our president, vice president's final meeting, and I'm assuming we'll have additional opportunity to sing your praises and well wishes, thanks, and how much it's been great to get to know you at that time, but I've sort of said now, but
116I'll also say then. And the only thing I wanted to mention is that uh yesterday um CSBA did sponsor an inside look at the June policy update. Um that was an online webinar which I could do from here. So that's my only activity report since I've been traveling since our last meeting. Thank you so much. One other thing I was wrong on the title of the book. It's called This is Ear Hustle and it's written by Nigel Core and Woods and I will get that information to Johnny San Quinton. Yeah, sorry I speak from a busy brain. Thank you, Trusty Roth. uh any ad hoc standing committee reports or actions or Okay. So, if I could just be brief, Mr. President. Yes. For the legislative and community engagement committee. Um we don't have any items
117specifically planned other than recurring items from last year. But I did want to just take this opportunity to also single out um Trustee Hopkins for twice now stepping up to present resolutions and doing a great job both times on behalf of the committee. So Thank you, Trusty Hopkins. Um so next uh schedule of meetings our next meeting will be July 17th here at the COE uh for our regular July meeting and then there are following meetings every other month afterwards. So do I just say this meeting is now adjourned? This meeting is now adjourned. Thank you all.