001Good afternoon everyone. I would like to start the Santa Cruz County Office of Education's monthly board meeting for the month of April with a roll call, please. Trusty A Costa, Vice President Estrada here. Trusty Larson here. Trusty Roth here. Trusty Van Allen here. Trustee Williams. Oh, President Sanchez here. Student Trustee Hopkins here. Student Trustee Marcus here. You have quorum. And I did want to share uh President Sanchez that uh Trustee Aosta did uh notify us that uh he'll be here but is running late. Okay. Thank you. Did we get any requests for remote attendance approval? There's been no requests. Thank you. Next, I'm going to ask our superintendent to help us lead in the pledge of allegiance. Please rise if you're able to face the flag. Ready? Begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of
002the 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. I'm looking for an approval of the agenda. Moved and seconded. Okay. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Asises. Next is time for a public comment. This is the time for anybody in the public to address the board on any matters that are not on the agenda. Do we have anybody interested in commenting? We have anybody online? Okay. Next, we have the consent agenda. Questions, comments. If not, looking for an approval. Second. Okay, we got a first and a second. All those in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Passes unanimously. Any correspondence that we received? Two correspondents have been received since the um packet was published.
003One was from Trusty Larson. Um it was his trustee report as well as one from trustee Williams, her trustee report. Thank you. Moving on, we have uh the student reports and we're going to start with uh Trustee Hopkins. Okay, first I got to visit the LGBTQ event we had on March 21st. I thought it was a really cool experience. I sat in on a couple classes that focused on identity and the many ways that different people identify. Um, highlights. They had a student panel where they shared personal experiences as students in the LGBTQ community and students gave heartfelt advice on how to create a more accepting environment for all students. I also thought it was really cool seeing staff from Santa Clara County there. It showed that their support and their involvement. Next, students over
004at Sebrite went on a career tour to the boardwalk to show students that they offer jobs that last longer than the summer season. And students also attended a career panel at the county government building on Ocean Street to learn about potential careers and learned about the departments in the building. Thank you, Trusty Marcus. So, uh, first SoCal High a few months or a few weeks ago opened up the first, uh, new wellness center in the the county and then Harbor soon followed. Uh, just new facilities. Uh, I've walked around the one at SoCal a couple times. They're they're pretty nice and it seems like people are using them, too. People are enjoying them. Coming in handy. And then also yesterday, SoCal hosted the annual World Languages Showcase and I was there MCing actually. That was
005a really cool event. A lot of people were there uh from all over the county, a lot of different schools, a lot of different languages. And uh it was a pretty cool event just to showcase the language education that's going around in the county. And uh it's a really it's really good at just advocating for the the promotion of languages. Thank you. Makes me really happy to see you guys out in the community advocating for students and our many programs that we offer. Thanks for sharing. Next, we have our resp report reports, discussions, and presentations. And the first one is uh Association of California County Board of Education. We're going to receive our presentation. And here visiting us is uh Janet who will talk to us a little bit more about this topic. Before uh
006Miss Wgmouth gets started, I just wanted to to welcome uh her. I I got the opportunity to work with her uh in her role as a county board member in Monterey County when I was there as an associate superintendent and also as uh until quite recently the director of the uh California Conservation Corps here locally. And I believe I believe you're already retired. Oh, not yet. I got 89 days, but who's counting? Oh, wonderful. So, uh, thank you for for your your service and as a board member and and as well as all the amazing work that you're doing in our partnership with the California Conservation Court. Thank you. And I'll give you a quick update on the CCC since I'm up here. Um, so we just uh held our uh week training um this
007week and we um enrolled four of your COE folks and three of them are going next week onto the fire crew. So that's the line that they're coming into. Um I have I believe two currently on the crew already and one of them is waiting to hear back for a May potential May start date with Calire. So that just in this last year and a half or so that we've been working on this um collaboration together uh we've had seven of your folks actually come into our program and they are leading their way to a career pathway with CalFire. So it is successful. So pat yourselves on the back for making that one happen. But um more than anything, you guys are kind of the talk with the CCC because everybody's asking me for myou
008between us so they can steal it and try to build something too. But it's never going to be as good as what we have. But I'm just a little biased. Not too much. Um okay. So um good evening uh Mr. President Sanchez, uh trustee members, Dr. Sabah, thank you for the introduction. and cabinet members. My name is Janet Waggammuth and I am part of the Association of the California County Boards of Education and I'm here tonight to kind of give you a little overview of what it is that we do um and uh also presenting to you to to potentially um join the organization itself. Okay, I either went the wrong way or it doesn't like me. One or the other. Okay. So, tonight's um presentation really is about talking about our mission and our
009purpose of our organization. Uh learn how we differ from CSBA. Um and also discover how um our membership benefits county boards and the trustees that we serve and express our interest closely in collaborating with the California county superintendent. So CCBE um is by and for county boards. So it's the only statewide organization solely dedicated to you as county board members. Um the big thing is is that we want to empower, innovate, and advocate with our county board members to go out and make your voices heard. Um the we really want to provide you with those resources, training, and connections with other county board members that you may not be getting um directly with that of uh CSBA. Um we're developing solutions tailored to your county board challenges. As we all know, uh we are definitely
010different than those school boards. We have our own unique challenges to face every single day. Um and we represent county boards and policy dis uh discussions and decision-makings themselves. So a little bit about our origin. We actually were formerly CCBE which was the California county boards of education and we were part of a section under CSBA for over 60 years. um focused on networking, leadership development, uh advocating for our county boards, the annual uh conference, the spring training, and of course your trustee handbook. Um it was led by members of CCBE board of directors, we had a president, I'm a past president of CCBE. Um and the board was appointed and led committees and we had a strategic plan. Um CCBE had provided services through a budget annually of $175,000 um funded by dues that
011were set by the CCBE board and paid by your county boards um of education to support us. Um, we advocated for county boards and for an example, we worked very, very hard as CCBE to get you that $80 million in additional annual COE train funding that um, counties were able to receive. That was based on CCBE getting out there and doing the work. So, along came the transition and people ask why the change? Well, we got transitioned from being CCBE into region 14 under CSBA's rules. Um CCBE's independent board of directors, their committees, policy platform, and strategic plans were all eliminated and our budget of $175,000 annually and and our reserve are now controlled under CSBA. Our representation is limited to two out of 31 of the CSBA's board of directors, four out of 18
012legislative committees. Autonomy limited based on region 14 is an advisory. All appointments to committees by the CSBA president and all policy matters decided by the CSBA board. Access to the California County Superintendent significantly reduced and led by CSBA. So CSBA board um worked together on what they called the transitional working group and their recommendations. They were called the TWWGs. Um they focused on member services not the autonomy or the identity and county dues were structured was not part of that process. Seven out of 18 of our recommendations that we came up with were adopted outright. That's your new member orientation, your COE MIG, your board self- evvaluation gamut, and 11 of those were modified. Um, and the big thing that we took away was the county trustee handbook. Um, but we we figured with that
013we we lost a lot. So CSB or ACCBE launched our own independent association solely on representing you as county boards. Um with our elimination of CCBE resulted in fundamental uh recognition by county board trustees and the county boards of education throughout California and being an independent voice for county boards for education um is needed and that's why we opted to go this route. Um, we're an independent nonprofit led by county trustees focusing solely on the needs of county board members and the county offices of education they serve. Um, our big thing is chasing the identity to celebrate um the distinct role that we have as county board members and representing our 58 counties. Uh, leadership. Our board consists of current and former uh county board members. Um I fall into the former county board member
014um and I'm still actively involved with um this organization. The autonomy that we have supports specific interests and needs of county boards and gives us the authority to decide the directions that we want to go through with um our member engagements. So, some of our keys obviously is we want to a advocate um partners for success. Um we we're working on building a strong partnership with our county superintendent um association um as well as our small and rural school districts. Um we are engaging, elevating, empowering um our leadership boards and fostering um collaboration and peer supports. And what we're looking forward to in the future is also coming up with innovative solutions to address the everchanging challenges and changes as we have to face in the education division as well as those of us in
015the county um seats that we sit. So what what are the benefits? Well, first of all, you get to advocate and have your voice heard and be visible as a county board. Um, we have strong partnerships, like I said, with the superintendent and and their their group. Um we also are building uh a coalition with the small and rural school districts, CSBA, PTAs um working together to um coming through with the together to innovate uh through forums, workshops and webinars. And I know several of the members here have been on our our workshops or our webinars and I hope that they were able to take away some really good information from that. um regular network and peer support groups, mentoring and coaching. Um we came out with a um an interesting number this past uh
016year when we had elections. The amount of change that happened not only on county boards but school boards across the state and it was astronomical of how many new board members there were across the state. And so being able to identify that, we realize that there's probably a high need to mentor those new folks uh coming in because there's a lot to learn when you're a new board member without a doubt. And then we're providing you uh resource library to spotlight some of the great programs you're putting on um practices and policies that you're creating at county boards. Again, all this is on our website and you can um be able to see that. So, some of the things that we're talking about, um, we did the, uh, advocacy forums. Um, we've held a few
017of those. We're supposed to be having another one in May. Um, strong start, which was a new county board trustees series. We've had, um, three of those and we're having another one May 5th. Um, one-to-one mentoring and monthly coaching sessions for all the trustees. You don't have to be the new kid on the block. You can be a senior and be able to um, join in. uh quarterly sharing, learning and networking. Uh we had one March 17th which was a really good um program. And then we have um our advocacy and policy committee. Uh we just had that meeting um at the end of March. Um and then working together with our small rural districts uh listening session that was held in March as well. It was great to hear what their struggles are and
018how we can help them as we know there we all serve those districts as well. Here are a few of the the county offices that have joined us. Um so we currently have um we currently cover 55% of the student population right now in the state of California just under some of these um and they are from very small to very large. Um, you know, we have LEO in there and then we have small districts like Delort um and Calaveris County. So, we'd love to have your logo up there as well. Not that I'm selling the pitch, but we'd like to have your logo there. Um, all right. So, uh, again, um, we value the work that CSBA is doing and we encourage you to maintain your membership with CSBA. are not asking you to
019separate from them. Um, however, the county boards of education need that independent voice. Um, it's kind of like I've told them, it's a one-two punch. CSBA is there supporting the school districts as well, but here comes the county voice as well, especially on hot items like, as we know, our court and community schools, funding, um, your special needs, uh, folks, you know, all that money. It's having more folks coming in there and supporting and having a stronger voice gets things moving through uh Sacramento for sure. Can't talk about DC, but Sacramento we're trying real hard on. Okay. So, how do we get involved? Um first of all, become a member. We're asking you to pass a resolution to join. Um you can participate in any one of our online sessions. you can join one of
020our committees. Um we are all happy to have you. Um I think I jumped over there, but um your fees based on the uh I know in your packet you received information on the fees. It was based on your um 23 fees that you were paying to CCBE and that's what we're basing it on for you this year. And the amount is $2,700, which is pretty minute compared to what we're paying for other things. So, um, and we based that on your your overall budget. So, oh, and I did skip stuff. I thought so. Um, so yeah, it's, uh, fee based. So, again, it's on your 2324, um, fees. Um, right now all of our workshops, um, seminars, whatever that we're doing online are all completely free. There is no charge to you. Um, uh,
021we are looking to, um, put into a second phase for your um, trustee handbook. I hope folks have gotten their trustee handbooks can re you know go back to that read it um understand um the different parts in your roles as being a county board member because as we all know it's very challenging. There's not a day that I wasn't a county board member that we didn't face our own set of challenges. So um yeah that's pretty much my presentation for you. Um I will be more than happy to ask questions. there is our website and um our current president. So, thank you Janet for taking the time to uh present to us today. No worries. Questions or comments from the board? Yes. Hi, Alan. Thanks for the presentation. Um uh one question that came
022to me is um have you or has the the board been discussing um future sources of revenue other than dues? Yes, we have. Um we are searching for um grants. Uh we are also searching um uh some obviously um sponsorships, those types of things. So we are looking at that as well. Um we've had um uh uh LA County uh supervisor has actually um donated as well. So we're having other funding streams as well. Thank you very much. And my question was kind of the same thing flip side though. So many professional and representational associations rely on conferences and seminars as a major source of their funding stream. And I was pleased to see how low the membership dues was. But if there were to be another conference, that would be five times the cost
023of the membership fee that that starts to become. You don't plan to compete with CSBA on the conference workshop? Not at this point in time. We are not going after that. Like I said, there's some great things that CSBA does, kudos to them, to put on the the annual conference and of course there's the county conferences and stuff like that. We're not competing against that, nor do we want to. Um, having served as the CCB conference uh chairman, um, I hate to say this, but the conference actually cost us money than we made money on. even having sponsorships and things like that. Um that's why you saw how much you're paying for a conference and that didn't include your rooms. Um it's not cheap. I mean even the AV to have four of those conferences
024are in the neck of the woods of about $10,000. Um we were very fortunate one year that we got a $100,000 donation from um the owner of Zoom and um we were able to build out a conference and then actually hire an employee to build the toolbox program which they went on to work in the department of education. So, we're not competing. Um, but we really want to provide good um information on what you got to see on our website um the forums. I should have disclosed I've attended two of your Zoom workshops over the last Yeah. And so those were those helpful and my only concern in person just adds a Sure. Sure. And we we we realize that and we also want to be um very cognitive of your your time because we
025know when we pull you off to go to trainings or conferences, it takes away from your your duties as well locally. So having those um and hopefully the time frames uh are pretty manageable. They're only a couple of hours, so it's not like super bogged down, but we've we've had a lot of good good reports. Anyone else? Hi. Uh, how are you going to be involved like CSBA in advocacy state? Sure. Um, so we are working on building that piece of it. Um, not so sure how far we're ready to tackle DC at this point because that is a huge cost. Um but we are building a um a team right now. I'm on the advocacy and policy platforms. Uh right now we're looking at certain bills that are coming out and how they affect
026county boards themselves and um making sure that we are reaching out to the authors and you know either providing our support and those kinds of things. Um it's still early in our organization time frame um kind of thing. Uh but we are looking at potentially in 26 of doing a county le uh type of advocacy day on the at the capital as well. So we looked forward to putting that together so that county boards specifically are out there in the front. It's not being you know also with our school board members and the county members as well. It would just be a all county kind of day. So we are working on that but I'm foreseeing that being a uh time frame and one other thing is is is it going to it's redundant redundancy
027[Music] are you going to try to duplicate everything that CSBA does for you know our regular. No, no. We want to be separate. Um, that's why one of the things that we are obviously encouraging you is to keep your CSBA membership. You know, they do things differently. They do things that we can't do. Um, and um, but we're not trying to duplicate things like we're not going to put on a county MIG program, for example. We're not going to be putting on the same types of trainings. We're doing stuff a little bit differently. Um, and part of that is again we brought in for example the the team from the apprenticeship program that I thought was enlightening for those of us that you know we're were supposed to be working on building our CTE programs
028and um how many of us knew about how different internships and apprenticeships were. We brought that stuff in. And that is something that I in the nine years that I've been associated with CSBA never heard never seen anything about that department in California. So it was a very enlightening uh type of thing. So we're trying to be different in that aspect of you know bringing you different things and also having different presenters to you that you're not getting in the big picture under CSBA. I hope that answered your question. Okay. You're very welcome. Any other questions or comments? I'm curious what our expectation as a board is for. We don't have a resolution on today's agenda. So, comfortable moving forward and and the purpose was to just uh was to learn, right? It's a presentation
029was just to hear. We have an opportunity to ask questions, to learn more, ask if we have anything that is uh we're uncertain about uh to provide you guys that opportunity to to ask those questions. If if I could, I I would say that that this could be a recommendation for the the uh board president to put this if if that's the request to put it as an agenda item uh for action in a future board meeting. And if the board um chooses to participate, we would incorporate it into we would we would make that happen. No other questions or comments? I guess I'll say I have mixed feelings about this um just because it's an additional thing to add to ouries and so on. Um but um counties really are an arm of state
030government primarily. We implement so much that is really totally founded in state legislation, regulations, budgets, so on. So, um, having a stronger voice for the county perspective does seem like a desirable. Um, I'm a localist, you know, I don't I don't go to lots of state things or national. I like to down here where it's where so not doesn't feel that important to me, but I don't not to discount, right, what what everyone's efforts are. Um, so I'm kind of mixed about it myself. If it were on the agenda, I'd be happy to talk about not at the stage of advocating for M. Thank you. Thank you for your presentation. Yeah, doesn't like you. It really does not heaven. Okay. Am I am I good now? Okay. Um, thank you for the presentation. Uh I
031kind of wanted to say that I I you know I recognize how different our our authority is and you know going to CSBA conferences you know and listening to CSBA I mean sometimes half of the things that are being said are not applicable to us at all. we're not involved in, you know, the decision- making, the intensive, you know, management of day-to-day operations. Um, a lot of the stuff is applicable to, um, you know, our elected superintendent. Uh, so I I think it is really helpful to have to be a part of an organization like this for, you know, especially as a as a newer uh, member, you know, really getting accustomed. I as I as I started, we still had CCBE like the very tail end of it. Um, and that was super helpful
032really getting a dedicated focus of like you might hear this, this, and this. Don't worry about that. That doesn't apply to you. This is what you need to wor worry about. you know, you have the authority for budgets, you know, to approve and, you know, it's not you're not really um in a position to, you know, manage that budget. It's advisory approval uh consent kind of position. I think that's really helpful. I think it's something that would be a great loss if we weren't to join an organization like this just moving forward in terms of you know years down the line the institutional knowledge that would be lost. I I think that if CSBA really isn't investing in our unique authorities and position and you know rights and not rights and you know things like
033that authority and not authority I think that would be good a big loss for future county board members. Uh so I I'm just speaking as someone who I think this would be really helpful. CCBE was really helpful for me coming on. Uh so I think I think this is a great opportunity and you know we don't need to do everything right all of us you know have our own schedules and already know maybe some a lot of this stuff. So I I I think it's a great supplement. I think it'd be really useful moving forward. So that's just my perspective. Thank you. Well, if there are no other questions or comments, I just want to thank Jenna again for coming. We really appreciate it. Appreciate being here and uh feel free to reach out to
034me. Um I'm reachable. Uh and you know, in a couple of months I'll be retired and totally reachable, right? I heard they I work harder in retirement than I did when I was going to be working as a job. So I keep hearing that from retired people. So I'm like, do I retire? Do I retire? But I appreciate everybody's time and really do hope to see you guys on our on our Zoom meetings and I hope the ones that folks have attended have been beneficial to you and uh we look forward to it. So feel free to reach out to me. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Next we have a presentation recognition of National Multilingual Learner Advocacy Month. And for this item we have Dr. Russell and Hubner that will
035present. Barbara Hubner is our multilingual achievement coordinator who's going to have the wonderful opportunity today to be able to share with you some of the work um that she leads across the county um in recognition of this month but of course throughout the year. Hello everyone and it is a privilege to be here to share the work and I'm excited to have this be my second time. Um so it is multilingual bilingual learning learner advocacy month. Um and there's so many benefits of multilingualism cognitive social emotional economic um Alzheimer's sets in later for people who are bilingual multilingual. There's all kinds of really interesting research about this. Now, so I'm pleased to say to share some facts with you about language around the world. So there are over 7,000 living languages in the world, but
036only 351 languages are used as the medium to instruction. As of 2020, over 2,000 languages are in danger of becoming extinct. And according to Anesco report published in February, one language disappears every two weeks. Focusing zooming in to the US. Um the US is home to 197 indigenous languages. One of these lang one of these indigenous languages Hawaiian is an official language and part of the country. Guess where? Hawaii. Um of the 197 indigenous languages in the US, 193 are endangered. The United States was also home to 49 indigenous languages that are now extinct. In addition, 37 non-indigenous languages are established within the country. One of these, English, is the official language of the country. So, I was zooming into Santa Cruz. 40% of our students are multilingual. After Spanish, the language languages most spoken
037are Otomyan myster languages. The third most spoken language is Mandarin. The fourth is Arabic. However, there are over 50 different languages spoken by our multilingual students in our county. Let me give you a moment to look at that. Um, are there any languages that are unfamiliar to you? I know they were first for me. I had to look up where southern Al Thai was. I'm like, and I'm like, oh, southern Siberia. That was really interesting. We have last year 2024 379 recipients of the state show by literacy here in our county. These are all the schools that have that program. All these schools that value multilingualism, all these students who value this multilingualism and the language is also where they earn their state by literacy. I want to point out and give a shout out
038actually to Watsonville High who had two students who earned the state by literacy and an indigenous language. Also um San Lorenzo Valley High you can see a bolded Korean and Thai and those are students who for their their home language Korean and Thai. So they were able to earn the state by literacy in their home language. So we're going to zoom into some zeroing in more closely to our alt ed students who are our our county students um county office students. But before that I just want to go over some terminology because in education we love our acronyms. Um, so you can see how English learners and I actually made an addendum because um, as of June uh, 2024, um, where it says TK, it would only be K12 because our transitional kindergarten students are
039given the home language survey, but they are no longer tested in the initial ELPAC if for they answered another a language other than English or American Sign Language in the first three questions of the home language survey. and they're tested when they arrive into kindergarten. So we have our reclassified students who have gained proficiency after they've met the four criteria. Students who are initially fluent, those would be students who scored a four on that initial LPAC. Um and of course we have native English speakers who are learning that second language and they are also multilingual students. our young students um we are referred as dual language learners in our county office uh all dead programs you can see the percentage of English only students the students who are reclassified students who are considered English learners
040they have not yet reclassified and the percentage and also the number count of students who are initially fluent as English speakers English proficient Before we zoom in a little closer, I want to add one more term al a term that's been added. This group's been added to the California dashboard as a group of and there's two definitions. uh ELELD that term has been um in use for a long time and it refers to students um the top definition as English learners in grades 6 through 12 and who are not progressing or lost ground on their ELPAC on their English assessment and also are not meeting proficient or um have below basic uh probably below basic on their English language arts. So basically they're not doing well academically um by different measures and they're all students
041who are 6 through 12. The dashboard has added a new definition and strictly is by time students who have been enrolled for seven years after initial um class uh classification. So if we zoom in now to our all dead students and these are just students I've taken out the English only. So now we're just looking at our multi our English learners and we're you can see we're conly referred as ever eel they if they've ever been um termed as English learner. So that would include our reclassified students our long-term English learners our initial IIP and then where it says e 0 to three years those are primarily newcomers. So students have been here um few years or less. And we can see that the bulk of our students are reclassified or long-term English learners in
042our ALTE programs. And um because I am the multilingual achievement coordinator, we're looking at academic achievement because that's what as educators we're interested in in supporting. So this is from our dashboard and we can see how um where our students are landing then how far they are from standard, how far they are from um from reaching proficient or um prof uh proficient scores. There's the English learners and then as I said the long-term English learners is its own group now. And the good news is it's in orange and that's because it's gone up. It's increased their performance like 20 35.7 points uh 26 points. So that's good news, right? Yes. So there's work to be done for sure, but moving in the right direction in both English uh language arts and in math. The bottom
043measure is how they did on the LLPAC or their English language assessment measure. And that shows if they're making progress, how many what's the percentage of students who are actually making progress on their on that ELPAC test? And um there we have 28% 28.3 28.1 English learners and 28.3 are long-term English learners. And um also you can see that there's many more students because more students take the LPAC than the CASP um which is given in the 11th grade um for English language arts and in math. So they're also changed in effects numbers. And this is interesting data because it can we can see how our students are doing from before the pandemic, right after the pandemic, and now we've been back for a couple of years. Purple is good. So we can see how
044we have more purple. Those are students who are making growth, who are making advancing a level. So that's really good news. So that's actually even higher than 2019. So there's a lot of growth happening around that. And then um and also we have we're seeing that less students, you know, so it's it's um moving in the right direction, shall we say? I've been a bilingual educator for a long time. This is my 29th year in Santa Cruz County. And I know times are complex right now, but I have never felt more aligned with state policy than I do now. And I came into teaching in the mid '90s. So this gives us a little history. There's always tension and pull, you know, movement and how things are happening. And last year was the 50th anniversary
045of the Lao versus Nichols. And that was a landmark decision that um started the necessity for schools to provide support to to students who are learning English as a second language. So just giving them the same as everybody else was deemed insufficient in um breaking the against civil right. Um so and next year 19 uh will be the 50th anniversary of the B California's bilingual bicultural act and that was the beginning of bilingual uh education code in our state. But since then things changed. There was like push and pull. Um, we can see that in the '90s, midnight 1988 with Prop 227, we had um beginnings of No Child Left Behind and and English only type movements. But um, come again, the pendulum always swings. We're back in when uh, Prop 58 was voted by
046a overwhelming majority um, California 2017. that really brought back um I think the values that we have in California of valoring multicultural um education val and being um valing being more inclusive. So with that um the eel road map was our state adopted policy and it's kind of taken a little bit to get to grow roots. Um a lot of things happened since 2017 to now that kind of detracted some work but Assembly Bill uh 2074 passed um this last September. So making the eel road map here to stay and I'm going to talk about the eel map in a minute but first you know that you are I felt like I um I just have to share this because I'm like h the blue box that's part of the bill and I was reading
047the bill and I actually got excited and I heard I said out loud oo I like that. I'm like oh my gosh who does that? I think a lot of us do that when we start reading stuff. But I got excited now about legislation. And what I got excited about this one is says as a comprehensive aspirational assetsbased principalbased policy, the eel romap policy differs significantly from previous English learner policies as it requires the involvement of multiple roles, departments and functions within the school systems as well as alignment across initiatives and levels of the system. And that means all of us, right? School boards, classroom teachers, families, administrators, classified uh personnel, all of us. And so what used to be very siloed as the one person's job, the ELD person's job is now really the
048work of us all. And I think that's why I said out loud, oo, I like that. Um, so what is the English road map? Really briefly, it has four principles. The first one is all about assets oriented need responsive climate culture seeing our working with our families um in partnership our English learners with disabilities um and also where it says English learner profile what that really means is understanding that English learners are very diverse as any other group and we can't treat them all the same. We have to really think about who they are where are their strengths where are their needs and how are we going to uh leverage those strengths and respond to their needs. Principle two is all about what's happening in the classroom. Rigor, high expectations, standardsbased instruction, integrated EL and
049designated ELD, having program choice. Uh principle three is all about systems. Leadership is and leadership is at the top because really we need leadership to be doing part of this work, right? Can't do it in isolation. Um articulating our res asset, our adequate resources, assessments and building capacity. And principle four is about having alignment articulation. So our multilingual students are experiencing a coherent educational experience K12. Oh, it says from LEP to EL to ML. When I first started teaching, we referred to multilingual students as limited English proficient, which is a very deficit language. And then we got to English learner which is less deficit but still deficit because an English learner is being defined by what they lack not by what they bring. We're all English learners. We're all learning new acronyms, new words, new
050ways to speak English in more proficient ways. Right? So I love multilingual. All right. So lucky lucky me. I work here at the Santa Cruz County Office of Ed and our strategic roadmap is in perfect alignment with the EEL road map, our state policy and which is really lovely and makes my work very coherent. Um you can see how principle one coordinates with our our priority of support safety and wellness and joy and well-being and identity. uh priority two what happens equitable achievement in the classrooms and uh building sustainable systems. So what does this look like? Here are some examples. So last night was our um world language showcase and um we had Soel High Pacific Collegiate School, Harbor High, Pearl Valley and Watsonville High School students participate. Um we had students from um multilingual
051youth taking action and seeing they've also been part of designing the pro um the certificates and helping plan with the program. Um one of our MC's is here as student trustee Ruben Marcus. Um we also had a student uh photographer from Soel High. We had two students who were videographers from Harbor High. We had Borico from Pahro Valley students. So, it really was a student full event. Um, and it was I got goosebumps listening to the poems and the students. It's like one of my favorite um events, one of my favorite parts of my job. Um, these are just pictures from last year. Last year I showed you pictures from the previous years because we're always last night to hot hot off the presses. Didn't have time to add them in. But I do want
052to point out one thing. The bottom picture is the student with his uh poster and he's talking about native change the identity right native identity and the I just want to point out that the students really presented on very deep topics very personal very and in a really impressive way right so this was it fulfills principle one in the sense that talk it allows a space for students to um share their full identity and also principle two because there's a lot of rigor in this as well. Another example of the work I do that we do here at the COE is um providing opportunities to grow in our craft as educators to better serve our multilingual students. the year we brought Jeffers who's a renowned um expert on academic oral language and we provided um
053a PLC series where over 100 participants including vertical teams from all of our districts that participate in multiple sessions and I think what's powerful about this is that you do more than once it takes a lot of time to change your practice you can't just go to one conference go back to your classroom and then you're even even you don't just change and implement that right you ongoing support. So, I'm really proud that we were able to do that. Um, and I've had lots and lots of feedback of of it already happening in classrooms and sharing. So, there's a picture of a of a picture on the right, that's a school team. He brought that principal brought his a big team of his to to learn and then take it back to his staff and
054then they and then I supported them and doing personal development at their staff to bring the rest of their staff on board right at a systemic level. So it's very um impressive the work they were doing. Another important piece of the work we do is the multilingual leadership network and we have all these discos have participated. We call ourselves the mycelium network because a lot of the work we do helps uh the fruiting that's above but we do a lot of work that's underground that feeds one another and feeds the forest or our students our educational system. Um and I also partnered with uh Suzanne Denim from um social emotional learning and we talked about trans uh transformative identity agency and how that's really important in this work. One of the things that we did
055this year that was really powerful was bringing leveraging expertise from the field. We have so many great things happening right here in our county. And so having different presentations um at each of our network meetings to share what they're doing and then what was very was lovely to see is seeing then people taking pieces from each others and building them in and folding them into their work and then presenting it further on. Right? So, we're really seeing how having an opportunity to learn from one another and um support leadership is really paying off. Just yesterday, I had a teacher from SLV, one of our schools in SLV share how she took an idea presented from Julie from SoCal and used it schoolwide um for road to reclassification for conferences and piloted that this year. So
056there's other many things that um we do here at the uh COE to support um our multilingual students in our districts pro I provide ELPAC examiner trainings um unpacking the why why we do it. I get to go to Sacramento and learn about new compliance and mandates and making them meaningful right because ultimately we're here to deliver on the promise of the quality public education for all our students. And sometimes when we get a mandate, we don't know what that means or why it's there. So I love that part of my work is to make that meaningful for others, right? and build that, help them build that into their why. Supporting schools with their data, uh providing um support as needed, uh technical assistance, and advocating for multilingual academic achievement by collaborating with other COE,
057multilingual advocates, our counselor, COP, our family engagement collaborative, with SULPA, with our science and math and coordinators. Um and yes, so that's uh some of the work that we've been doing here and um thank you for the opportunity for allowing me to share. Thank you. Questions, comments from the board. Yeah, I was always to I was always told growing up that um someone who's bilingual uh is almost counts like two people, right? You have access to communicating to more people in that aspect of it, right? It's it's and I'm very thankful because I grew up in primarily a in a Spanish household. Spanish was my first language. And when I enrolled in school, my parents wanted me to be enrolled in English. And because my mom because my parents wanted me to learn English, but
058at the time the principal really pushed for me to be in a dual enrollment. Uh, and I'm really glad that we went through with that because it gave me the opportunity to really embrace to really uh learn both, right? And not lose not lose my Spanish because that is something that definitely happens if you just speak English. And um, as you get older, you know, your TV's in English, uh, school's in English, your friends speak in English, and there's definitely a lot of value in in uh, multilingualism. So I'm very happy and I'm very excited that uh we have this seal and I have a question in terms of how is this promoted is do students know that this seal is available or or how do does a student go about in obtaining this seal
059of bi literacy. So that's a great question. Um I think for the most by and large they learn about it through their counselors um or through their world language um teacher. So students espe I think it's a it varies greatly from school to school right and I think some schools position it as a very important part of their work um and push it out in various ways and others differently right so I'm I'm interested actually in learning more about exactly what you're asking how are students informed and how to support more students to gain the seal of biiteracy right along that pathway to bi literacy right So that is definitely I think something we have a lot of students who earned it and I'm excited to find out how many earned it this year and
060how to continue to promote. Um and I think some of the schools are doing a phenomenal job like they're having 50 60 students doing it. So finding out how what how they are doing it, how are they informing students? Um well I think is one way for us to learn how to like promote it, right? What might work for other schools as well. Okay. Thank you. If there are no other questions or comments, I want to thank you again for taking the time to present and share with us. And I would just like to add that just a gratitude to to Barra for for uplifting multilingual students and and really celebrating uh this this important part of our community and and uh all the great work of of uh not only creating opportunities for for
061young people to shine uh but also helping uh all our all our districts and and making these these these conditions available for students. So thank you for all your great work. Thank you. It's my privilege. Okay, next we have the environmental literacy initiatives update with uh Dr. Russell and AMD Sandage as well. Pleased to introduce AMD Sandage who's going to give us a brief environmental literacy update including some very exciting new things that we've have. Thank you. Um it is such a pleasure to be able to celebrate uh Earth Month with an environmental literacy update today with you. Thanks for having me. I'm Amity Sandage for those of you who I haven't met. I'm the environmental literacy coordinator here. And um I like to start off with a little bit about that term because it's
062not like a math coordinator or a science coordinator. People are like what is that? So, um, oh, wrong direction. There we go. Um, so in the context of schools, this is the definition from our California blueprint for environmental literacy that came out of our superintendent's office, the state superintendent's office in 2015. Um, and it states that an environmentally literate person has the capacity to act to support ecologically sound, economically prosperous, and equitable communities for present and future generations. So, it's not what often comes to mind when we think environmental education. Um, and we're expected to be providing classroombased lessons, experiential education, and outdoor learning in order to help students analyze environmental issues and make informed decisions. So, you can see across that definition, you've got so many different content areas um that are anchored in
063a context that is extremely meaningful and relevant to our lives today. So, it's a very exciting um position. Barbara and I were joking about it being like a contest of who has the best job here. We we're both vying for it. So, um we'll see who you vote for when you get to the end of the voice. Um a little bit of the context for our county. Um our county office of education, if you didn't know, was actually the second county in the state to create a position for environmental literacy. Um, and now 12% of county offices across the state have a position like mine. Um, and more to come. There's a robust community of practice statewide for county office staff and a fellowship that we co-f facilitate. Um, and in Santa Cruz County, 86%
064of our schools have gardens. 50% of elementary students have garden education as a part of their core curriculum. These are percentages that you don't see in every county. Um, and our outdoor school provides that amazing immersive outdoor science program for 90 over 90% of our students in our county, which is also not seen in a lot of places. And I think the other schools that um aren't in that 90% do go on a program, just not our program. So, we are in on fertile ground, pun intended. Um but um oh I keep going the wrong direction with this. There's um much more work to do. It's more relevant than ever. Our youth, I'm sure you all know, are spending less and less time outdoors and connecting with nature. Um we're down to 7 to 10
065minutes a day of unstructured playtime on average for children. And so much research shows that time outdoors as well as um time in nature, both those things, even just time outdoors that's not in nature, have in significant benefits to health for humans, um mental health and physical health. So the students that are not getting that time outside, they're missing those benefits. And I share this because we have this incredible opportunity as schools to be the place where students can get their outdoor time and their nature connection and that will bring those multi-faceted benefits to them for physical health, mental health that then help combat the the urgency you see on the other side other side of the slide that I don't need to dwell on because I know you all understand how urgent it is
066that we give our students a path toward a hopeful future. Um, and this is an image I like to share of what that can look like in schools. Like when you're talking about a school that has all those things, if you were to walk on a to a campus like this, it's very cartoony, but um, and if you want to get into the slide deck, it's actually an interactive poster, so you can click on it and all these things pop up that show you what's happening that's sustainable. But you can see at a glance there's um solar panels, there's daylighting, there's kids in gardens, and there's human scale transportation and recycling in the classrooms and all these things that show that the people there care about the environment are connected to the environment and the
067students are involved in all of it. Um and the interesting thing about it, um oh is and also all of those things connect back to our road map. um our strategic plan, that wellness part, like the feeling joy and being outside and connecting with nature and getting that wellness. Um having an incredibly inspiring context for learning helps with the equitable achievement, empowerment and preparing students for careers in the sector that is the fastest growing in careers, green careers. Um and then we are literally building a more sustainable future when students are involved in action toward the environment on their campuses. So the alignment with our strategic plan is um amazing. And then we also have this framework that we use that goes with that image I was giving of uh how we think about schools.
068So all my work gets organized into these um buckets that we're trying to integrate. So schools have their campus facilities, their teaching and learning and the curriculum pillar and all the community and culture support we give. And often those are very siloed. Um but with the environmental literacy programs, you can interconnect them um in ways that magnify the benefits. So if students are able to be involved in the greening of their campuses or use the opportunity to calculate the benefits of a change on campus as part of their curriculum, then you're making that curriculum learning much more relevant and engaging and then having taking action goes into the community pillar and builds stewardship habits. So um this is how we structure our programs with our teachers and students. And this framework also matches with the
069green ribbon schools uh recognition award framework. It has the three pillars. They really emphasize health um in the community and culture pillar as well which aligns with our strategic plan very well. And we um I'm very proud to say the COE was the first county office in the state to receive silver level recognition um as a Green Ribbon School in 2022. And we're going for gold this year. We reapplied. Um and reapplying means you get to find all the things you're doing. And I saved you. I'm not giving you the full report of whatever 47 pages. Oh, sorry. Back the other way again. Um, this is the highle overview I've saved you. Um, of curriculum, campus, and community culture. The underlined things in your slides are things you can click through to see more details
070if you want them. Um, but we're working in the curriculum pillar really to integrate environmental education and outdoor learning rather than have them be an add-on cool fun thing to do after all the curriculum is done because then it never happens. So, integration through our teacher leadership institute for sustainability um and supports for access to outdoor learning for students in a variety of ways on the campuses. Super proud that our county office received green business certification in 2023. Um that helped us learn what it takes to do that so that we're supporting the schools to get green school certification. and we created this green workplace challenge program where our staff can opt to uh commit to new sustainable actions at their workplace that they're not practicing already. And we have over 60% of our staff
071participating in that which we're really proud of. And um in the community and culture pillar, we took that green workspace challenge program and made a classroom version so students and teachers can have a list of actions they can take and commit to five for the year and then make a new habit and next year do it again and add new habits and have that culture of stewardship grow across the campus. Youth for environmental action I think you're all familiar with. So, I'm not going to steal their thunder by sharing any of their projects right now. They'll present to the board later, but we do have their summit coming up, which I'll touch on um at the end. Um and then working with so many community partners to try to bring in and partner them with
072the schools and the high school youth to add capacity and help them make their visions happen. Um and just a snapshot of impacts from that green classroom challenge and teacher leadership institute. Um in the first year of the green classroom challenge, we had almost 2,000 students commit to those new actions in their schools, which ends up being almost 10,000 new actions happening. and and it's really cool to see through the form what actions are popular among the students and share that back with the teachers and celebrate at the end of the year. And the teacher leadership institute for sustainability is a deeper program where the teachers develop an action project connected to their core curriculum that their students uh carry out. And um that program really gets students outdoors more too. We found that on
073average each of the students spends 85 hours of outdoor learning time while they're doing those projects. Um that's the average. And we also just saw teachers really um feel like they built their capacity to do this integration work. and linked in there. Each one of them creates a green classroom profile that shares the story of their project. So, you can look at them and they can look at each other's. But I'm just going to share a tiny um bit of that out of the 97 teachers that have been through the program in the first three years. This is one little story um from Bransford Middle School. uh the sixth grade science teacher. Her project was um you can see that picture of her classroom with just cement out front and she really wanted to be
074able to have her students have um access to living things outside for science lessons and the garden was too far with the bell schedule. So they um with the class they built a container garden um outdoor classroom just outside the door so she can send out small groups to gather data or do work in the garden classroom. And um they built birdhouses this year. There's birds nesting in the houses right outside the science door. They went out to do some lesson and they saw the birds going in and out and um she's just thrilled with having this laboratory right outside the door. But what struck her and she what she decided to share in her highlights was this slide. She put this together um which was all about the impact on the students. I'm just
075I get emotional. I chose a few to read because it's too small to see from there. but she had the students doing a lot of reflection out in the pollinator garden. And these are just a few of those quotes. So, one says, "The pollinator garden makes me feel peaceful and optimistic. It makes me feel inspired to do something to help people or change something I don't like." These are sixth graders. This area gives me joy beyond imagination. And this one says, "In a world full of war and pain, there's always going to be a happy place where I can put my mind at ease." They're all like that. Um, and so this is what we can add to our schools. Like this classroom just did this as a project last year. and she'll share it
076with her other friends and teachers and there are 97 other projects like this. Um this year this teacher is spreading it across the school. This the students are this slide is actually the students created this as their green space expectations that they're sharing with the whole school of how you need to be when you're out in the nature spaces on campus. And so it's really creating a culture of care and community and an environmental stewardship. And you can hear more of those stories on April 27th when all of the participating teachers from this year, there are 40 teachers that'll be sharing their projects, including Erin, if you wanted to ask her any questions about hers, um, in a dynamic share fair. It's kind of poster session where every 15 minutes six or seven or eight
077new teachers have tables where they're sharing and then it swaps out. So we'll be doing that um on Sunday, April 27th from 10 to 12 and then have a recognition ceremony for the amazing accomplishments of all these teachers and all the teachers who did the green classroom challenge. Um, so you're invited and you're also invited to the Youth for Environmental Action Summit, if it's not too late for you, is this Monday up at our outdoor science school campus. The youth have planned an amazing event um and uh are really focusing in on transforming the school waste system as a climate solution. So that that is happening all day, but you're welcome to come for even just a part of the day if you're interested. You don't have to stay the whole time. I know it's
078late notice. And wish us luck. The Green Ribbon Award announcement is on April 22nd and we hope to have good news to share soon. Um and thank you so much for your support. I like I said, I can't imagine this is a dream to have a job like this so meaningful. Thank you. Thank you, Emily. Appreciate it. Questions, comments from the board. Quick comment. Looking forward to volunteering at the Clean Classroom. Thank you. And the youth environmental assignment and I'm glad we get to stay and observe. So, that's wonderful. Um, I started my management career creating a department of environmental services at the city of San Jose, the first municipal city in the country that had the first city in the country that had that combined solid waste and sewer and water and energy. I
079probably worked with you back there then. May way back when we created back in the 90s. Yeah, exactly. Wow. Yeah, they were a partner when I was at the Children's Discovery Museum. Oh my goodness. Yeah. Okay. Well, We'll talk uh Sunday and Monday if we're not too busy. Um so this is great and I can see uh both your jobs would be too hard to choose between them. So you both got thumbs up and and that's great and it's just wonderful to see what you're doing um in the community. I must say the Brans of 40 school I also was struck how the students had peer review with other student clubs. It's hard to get adults to do that. students doing it in the fifth and sixth grade. Yeah, it's amazing how um how much
080thought they've put into those agreements and all the reviews they've gone through and yeah, really amazing work. Any other qu Ross? Yeah, my question um is related to children out of outdoors and the relationship to to being out there. the sports count at all in when you're assessing? Yeah, not that seven minute. Um that's unstructured play. Uh 7 to 10 minutes. Um but being outdoors for sports definitely is beneficial to physical and mental health. Like there's there's a lot of research that shows benefits of just being outdoors regardless of if it's in nature. And then there's other benefits that you get from being in proximity to nature. Um because both are valuable in planning schools or rebuilding them. Uh I know that we are we were advised to look at the green space. Yeah. There's
081so many they don't you don't always do that and you asphalt over everything. Yeah. And they've found that it improves academic performance. It improves attendance. Like having green spaces on campus is associated with with both those things, not just health benefits. So yeah, the more we can do it, the better. It was just a Yeah. Thanks. Any other questions or comments? Thank you so much. I I do have one question. Um, maybe slightly off topic, but uh I know there was some questions or some concerns with the Coonia campground a while back, but were everything is fine in terms of re renewing and using that space for the summer outdoor camp. Okay. Yeah, we haven't had a had any issues with the event. I'm not aware of any. That might have been a um something
082for outdoor school which is separate Yeah. from from my use just for the summit. Right. Okay. If I can follow up, Mr. President, because that was something you mentioned that I had no clue. So when my kids at Westlake Elementary went to their science game was through a COE support. Yeah. Yeah. That's our own program. Two kids go through it and had no clue that this entity helped make that happen. So it's a yet another unsung story. You'll have to have Heather come in and present. Yeah, it's amazing the work they do. And I believe our high school cabin leaders. Yes. Yeah, they'll be tableabling to get cabin leaders at the event on Monday. Um get those high schoolers signed up as community service. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Appreciate it. Before you walk away, AMD,
083I just want to also thank you and and I love that I love this idea of of uh folks wondering who has the best job. uh because you know but um just the amount of support you know you you you're such a a respected person across the state and um often statewide agencies come to AMD to talk about how to how to accomplish uh how to connect with students and schools and school districts and really bring people together to make uh really deliver on the promises of of environmental literacy and sustainability. And so thank you for all all the amazing work you're doing. Um it's really transformative. All right, we're moving on now to uh new business in actions and we're we'll start with 9.1 the second reading of board bylaws. And for this one
084we have trustee Van Allen, chair of the policy committee. Trustees, this was before us last time and um uh unfortunately Trustee Williams I think was the one that asked that it be held for a second reading. So I'm have a little reservation about acting on it without their input. Um but so do you want to table it for next month or question? Did I think she wanted it to go back to the committee? Did it go back to the committee she's on? She as I recall she had comments but I think she wanted to make them being today is what I thought from last time. you know more for any um trusty van Allen um so the or to clarify trusty Larson's question the policies did go to the policy committee we did meet I
085think about two weeks ago on Zoom we discussed the policies changes have been made to the board bylaws um they were highlighted on the packet the changes that were done I don't recall though from the meeting that Rachel had any additional comments she wanted to share with the board other than just wanting to from March's meeting wanted to make changes and differences. Um, I know in the process of creating changes and updating these bylaws, we did review board bylaws from different counties such as San Mo County. Um, so we did do some research and creating what you see before you, but I don't recall her wanting to specifically. You've actually reminded me that we did have that conversation and I I think she was satisfied with it. So, um, as it's presented today, it does
086have the amendments. All right. That's what I'm here for. Memory. So, my only concern. So, yeah. Oh, I'd recommend that we adopt this um for the final reading. The 900 series 9230 orientation 9240 board training. Yes. The the changes were highlighted on the board packet. Correct. There were not very many. There were there was only a few changes I can bring up. Give me one moment. Any questions or comments from the board? I'll move that. Okay. We have a first and we have a second. We don't need a roll call. Okay. All is in all those in favor say I. I. I. I. Any opposed? Passes unanimously. I'm sorry. And the student trustees. Okay. Perfect. Pass unanimously. And uh so now we're going to do through the 5000 series uh 5144.1 suspension and expulsion with
087uh Bruce Van Allen. These again were changes essentially um reifying what's been coming down from the state with with revised policies and um there was very little in this that we have much discretion over is what I remember said you want to remind me what else I've forgotten. No worries. Um yes so the policy committee did review this policy. Um it is recommended by staff that this get approved. the changes have been highlighted um such as on page board packet page 62 there was a large section on or not a large section but there was a whole section on on campus suspension added um and then other few language changes so again I recommend approval and um I'm comfortable with it with it only being a first readable uncomfortable with waving the second pardon if
088you'd like to include waving the second reading. I'm comfortable with either actually that a motion. I think he made the motion. I think if you make a friendly amendment, Edward, or I will. Okay. So, I'll make the motion and accept an amendment to have it included or to wave the second reading. I'll second and then you second. Yes. Have a question. Uh and it's about imitation firearm at an instant years ago. Student brought good job on it. But uh brought it in early in the morning and saw it tried to follow the student and everything shut down. Um what this brought up was what if a student brings in imitate imitation firearm all the time? uh had a problem. I mean, our custodian could not tell the difference and if a student has a say
089a squirt gun or whatever, but there some of them are very realistic to um I think this what are we gonna maybe I'm looking but I know if you Most people could ask for clarification. What what aspect in relation to imitation firearms firearms? It makes it sound like it's okay to bring imitation firearms. Um, so just to clarify, so education 48900M uh is one of the suspendable reasons why students can be suspended for if they bring imitation firearms. It's a suspendable offense. Oh, so it is. I And so that's an education code. It's um um so I I want to make sure that there's nothing that is in the board policy that's somehow different than that. Is that um I believe Trusty Roth is referring to page 62 in the packet. Could you tell me
090what it what it says so that I as I pull it up? Um as required by law, the superintendent or principal shall recommend expulsion and the board shall expel any student found to have committed any of the following mandated mandatory recommendation and mandatory expulsion acts at school or at a school activity off school grounds. Number one, possessing a firearm which is not an imitation firearm as verified by a certificated employee unless a student had obtained prior written permission to possess that item. Is this taken from med code? Yes. It's cited at code 48915. Correct. So 48915 are are the required they're the mandatory expulsions. And so it's explaining that um that the mandatory expulsion which is for the most severe uh behaviors uh is for a real firearm as opposed to a an imitation firearm.
091However, 4900M which is a list of um reasons why you can suspend a student um you uh one of those one of those reasons a student can be suspended is for bringing an imitation firearm. the example that you gave um where a student were let's say to repeatedly bring an imitation firearm um and so let's say the first time they bring it and that the the school provides support intervention counseling you know all the kinds of things that we would put in place if the student were to continue to do that um they're um there's another part of the education code which is uh 48900 um uh B2E2 which says that other means of correction have not um have have not led to improvement in the behavior which is another reason why you can expel
092a student. Obviously, we don't ever want to expel students and we never actually expel students from our alternative programs, but um in some cases, if a student is doing very serious offense, as you're describing, bringing an imitation firearm um or any other kind of repeated offense, then it probably it could mean that a a uh traditional uh comprehensive placement for that student is not appropriate and they need a a different kind of placement where they can get additional support. It just wor you get in trouble. Yeah, that that that um specification that it's not an imitation firearm. It's just to clarify that this very serious mandatory expulsion is for real firearms. Yeah. Times have changed. Any other questions or comments? I believe we have a motion and a second. So, all those in favor say
093I. I. Any opposed? Trustees. Nice. Thank you. Passes unanimously. Next we have 9.3 resolution 25-10 proclaiming May 2025 for flying the rainbow flag and honorary RV milk day. For this one we have Trustee Larson. Thank you very much. Uh we have six resolutions coming to you tonight. It's the rest of the uh structured agenda. All of these are resolutions that the board adopted a year ago. There's not new items coming forward. Just turns out April is a very or May is a very busy month. Terrific. And so let's jump into the first one. And I've called on my colleagues on the committee, Natalie and Trusty Van Allen, to assist uh in some of the presentations tonight. The first one is number 9.3, item agenda item 9.3. And all of the resolutions are the same as
094last year with updates to dating some non-substantive editorial fixes. Plus, we've added the new federal clause that we started last month, which for most of them reached some variation of, whereas recent changes in federal policy, funding, and staffing are creating new concerns and uncertainties for whatever the substance of the resolution is. So, you will see that added. Oh, thanks uh to Nick and Vet for adding in the highlights to the changes to the resolutions to make it for board members to see changes from prior years. So, thank you for doing that the last minute. So, for this resolution, we have no other change other than that adding that federal clause, but it is timely as we approach Harvey Milk. Recognize the challenges and uncertainties that so much of our LGBTQIA population facing nationally and locally.
095to adopt this resolution tonight. As chair of the committee, I'll move adoption of it. Second. Any questions or comments? All right. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Says roll call. Is that Oh, sorry. It is a roll call. Sorry. I apologize. Can we get a roll call vote, please? Um, can I get clarity on who made the motion? I'm sorry that happened really quickly to me. Second, student trustee Hopkins. Hi, student trustee Marcus. Hi. Trusty A. Costa. Hi. Vice President Estrada. Yes. Trusty Larson. Yes. Trusty Roth. Yes. Trusty Van Allen. President Sanchez. Yes. Passes unanimously. Thank you. Next, we have resolution 25-11 in support of Day of the Teacher. And for this one, I'd like to call on trustee, student trustee Hopkins to present this resolution on behalf of the committee. Sorry.
096Uh, this is the same resolution the board approved last year. Each year, California designates a de day of the teacher to recognize and inval the invaluable contributions of teachers. Resolution 25-11 reaffirms that the Santa Cruz County Board of Education appreciation and support for the work of teachers and s certificated staff across the county. This resolution acknowledges the vital role teachers play in shaping the future of our students and communities and urges community members to join in recognizing and honoring educators on May 14th, 2025. Um the only change is our students and other committee community members should be encouraged to consider meaningful and rewarding careers as teachers. I like that. I'll motion. Okay, perfect. Now second. Any questions or comments? All right. Can we get a roll call, please? Student trustee Hopkins. I. Student trustee Marcus.
097Hi. Trustee A. Costa. Vice President Estrada. Yes. Trusty Larson. Hi. Trusty Roth. Yes. Trusty Van Allen. President Sanchez. Yes. Passes unanimously. Thank you. Next we have resolution 25-12 support of classified employees week and I will uh present this one. It is very similar to the day of the teacher that was just presented by trustee Hopkins and it's to recognize all our classified employees. As we know, um, all of our educational services are dependent not only on teachers, but on all the other staff that provide the support for our educational services to be effective. And I like the parallel structure of having the support for the teacher and support for classified employees occurring in the same month because as a board, we're all dependent on both sets of employees working hand on hand to take care
098of students. And I will pause very briefly and say thank you Natalie. Thought it was particularly appropriate for you to present the teacher resolution given you're a student and and benefit directly from those. So thank you for volunteering. So um with that the changes are identical to the ones that were in the resolution that Natalie just presented. So with that I'll make a motion to adopt this resolution as well. Perfect. We have a motion and a second. Any questions or comments? If not, can we get a roll call vote, please? Student trustee Hopkins. I. Student Trustee Marcus. Hi. Trustee A. Costa. Hi. Trusty Roth. Yes. Vice President Estrada. Yes. Trusty Larson. Yes. Trusty Vanet. President Sanchez. Yes. Passes unanimously. Thank you. Next, we have resolution 25-13 recognizing Jewish American Heritage Month. Thank you, Mr. President.
099Again, this is a resolution that was adopted last year by the board with two changes. One was the federal clause that I mentioned at the beginning for the first resolution and some clarification of one of the warehouses to the particular issues facing um Jewish American population and to make sure we're not we're focusing on Jewish American population as what is being recognized by this month. That was language that was proposed based on other resolutions that have been reviewed. With that, I'd move approval. questions or comments? Get a roll call vote, please. Guys, are going through these fast. Okay. Student trustee Hopkins. Hi. Student trustee Marcus. Hi. Trusty A. Costa. Hi. Trusty Trust. Oh my gosh. Vice President Estrada. Yes. Trusty Larson. Yes. Trusty Roth. Trusty Van Allen. President Sanchez. Yes. Passes unanimously. Next, resolution 25-14
100recognizing May as Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. This again is a resolution that was adopted by the board last year, and you'll see in the packet. There's lots of changes to this one, but they really come by from one broadening of the community that needs to be recognized for all that they've done for uh education and and society and culture and commerce. and it's adding Native Hawaiian population to the Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, which is a common uh change that's being made for these resolutions uh across the state and I believe the nation. Nick did some work on this for us. So, it's it's the new language that's going forward. So, most of the changes are related to that. The other change is adding the federal clause and it's just to recognize
101the importance lies with the Jewish American community of their services and contributions to education in our society. Actually, this is the the Asian-American and Native Hawaiian like the Jewish American one. Excuse me. Sorry, it wasn't clear. It's and it's been moved. I'll second questions or comments? If not, can we get a roll call vote, please? Student trustee Hopkins. Hi. Student trustee Marcus. Hi. Trusty A. Costa. Hi. Vice President Estrada. Yes. Trusty Larson. Yes. Trusty Roth. Yes. Trusty Van Allen. President Sanchez. Yes. Passes unanimously. And the last resolution 25-15 is recognizing mental health awareness month. In this final resolution, um I've asked trustee Van Allen to present and there's an additional change coming. This again is one that we have passed in previous years and um as uh Trusty Larson described we've done a little bit
102of updating. I additionally wanted to add a second um uh whereas addressing the national picture and um uh has been good enough to project it up. But I want to the point of this is that it isn't just that we're getting concerns but that the stress of the national picture could actually be making it worse for some people that are susceptible to mental illness. um the economic stress, the um seeming chaos of decision- making at the national level in particular and the all the headlines about crisis just adds to everything else and that can trigger or exacerbate a mental health condition. So I would like to add that clause too. Proposing it. I'll move it. I'll second it. Yeah. Any questions or comments? Can we get a roll call vote, please? Student trustee Hopkins. Hi.
103Student trustee Marcus. Hi. Trustee Trusty A Costa. Vice President Estrada. Yes. Trusty Larson. Yes. Trusty Roth. Yes. Trusty Van Allen. Hi. President Sanchez. Yes. And before we move on, Sanchez, I did just want to point out for the board how rather than bringing forward a new resolution for screenfree week that's now been adopted at the state level, we thought it was relevant here to be placed under the mental health awareness month because of the linkage that was presented earlier by AMD and the state chose to make a screen-free week the first full week of May. based on her conversation, it really should be the week that overlaps April environment month and May mental health month because I did just we are recognizing a new week where we thought okay yes I just want to appreciate
104trustee Larson for um leading the effort on these resolutions and and of course you stay in Yeah, thank you. Uh, next next we have uh superintendent report with our own Dr. Sabah. Thank you so much, President Sanchez and uh trustees. This is uh uh as always an opportunity to provide a few updates. Uh I'm going to start with the fact that our strategic plan has been updated thanks to your support and to the involvement of a lot of folks. And so I just wanted to there not a lot of changes uh but one of the key changes to the strategic plan for the next uh really five years uh is a expansion of the values that we have here and those are the ones that are in the circle in black. Uh belonging uh is
105is something that has really come to become an important part of what we what we intend to establish for our students in the classroom, our uh our students in our community as well as for staff uh and for families in in in our school system and uh and and our community. uh relationships, uh innovation, uh datadriven decisions, having a growth mindset, a commitment to excellence, and to sustainability. And you'll notice that that spells out bridges, which is uh if you notice our logo that there's a bridge right there at the center. It's it's a way that it's a kind of a common theme that you see across a lot of different aspects of what we do here at the at the county office. Now you'll you'll notice that just like before we had a circle
106on the outside and a circle in the middle. Um the circle on the outside we refer to as our role and um and so you'll or our priorities I'm sorry. So those priorities are to support safety and wellness um to empower equitable achievement and to build sustainable systems. And so um looking at at uh you know how that is kind of a fundamental part of of the different dimensions. And you heard from our ed services team as they were presenting how you know we think about this when we do our evaluations. We think about it when we um uh when we are developing programs to make sure that we're in that that the organizational priorities are aligned to the work that we're doing. Right? It's they're kind of guiding principles. Um, in addition to that,
107you'll see that at the center uh of there's these kind of like uh jigsaw shaped uh items there. And those jigsaw items are um Oops, sorry about that. Um are really uh related to the um and um I'm just going to work off of this one then. So fostering collaboration and system improvement um providing support and oversight for educational partners and providing services and support for learners, families and communities. And so that first one is all about collaboration is bringing people together. Um the second one is uh about providing support for school districts and oversight for districts which is part of our of our kind of legislative responsibility. And then of course um uh providing services, direct services to our students and our families. So those are kind of the different modalities that we do
108a lot of our work um in and how and how we um offer services to to our folks. And so I wanted to share that with you. We've ordered copies of the strategic plan for you to have. So, we'll get those soon and we'll be sharing them with you and uh you'll get to see um some of the um not kind of only that big picture but also what are the kinds of things how is how does a lot of our work our initiatives how are they man how how do they manifest and kind of to show how we're committed to these to these guiding principles and and our our values and I think that um I hope that you'll continue to see representations of those values in every I want to thank you for
109for helping us with with developing this the strategic plan foration. I'd like to switch gears a little bit just to give you a little a few updates on uh federal action and its impact on our schools here locally. As you know from our uh previous board meetings, I've been providing an update to um all of uh to the board um and to other community partners about the impacts. We've been organizing um uh kind of them in into these different categories. funding cuts, policy changes, other actions and and the impact on our community when it comes to instilling fear and other concerns that um our our community is is experiencing. Uh so what I wanted to share with you is um uh one of the new challenges that we're facing um is the continued uh uh
110the policy when it comes to setting policy, the continued effort to um uh to uh attack our LGBTQ plus um and trans community specifically um with executive orders uh asking schools to out uh students um to require ire the notification of parents if students ask to use different pronouns at schools, for example. Uh banning trans students from using preferred bathrooms or joining sports teams. Investigating schools um universities that um that are allowing trans students to participate in sports. Uh fortunately, California law has really strong protections for this and these are not laws. These are executive orders that are coming and so they our California laws can continue to protect our students and our schools and our communities. Um and so at this point we're not seeing any changes in terms of our our practice to
111you know to offer support for our rear and trans students. One of the newer pieces is that um uh the you may have heard about this that um the state department of education in California received a letter and um from the department of education stating that uh we all eleas school districts, county offices, and state educational agencies had to complete a um affidavit, a letter that's that stated that we are in compliance with title six of the Civil Rights Act and that we are in compliance with or aligned to the priorities of of the current administration. The title six uh of the civil rights act was something that was it was uh part of the it was put in place in 1964 mostly to end segregation and um the the there's kind of a weaponization
112of the concepts of the civil rights act stating that any effort to support students based on a protected class isn't in itself a violation of title six. In other words, if you have a a specialized program to help students because their recent arrivals to the United States, that that in itself is illegal. If you have a program to help students um who may come from a have a uh maybe are students of color and who are underrepresented in university programs and you want to give them uh expose those students to the possibility of going to the university, that's a racist program. So, it's a it's an inversion of the the Civil Rights Act um to um to require us to verify that we are not doing any programs like that because that they might be
113considered in violation of Title Six, which of course none of our programs are violating the Civil Rights Act. Um, and what we've been directed or recommended to do by the the by the California Department of Education is not to sign the letter, but but let the state California Department of Education sign the letter on our behalf. When we get federal funding, we are required to provide asurances to the state department of education saying that we're not violating these laws or any other federal laws. That's a requirement. So, we already do this. Um, in fact, every time we get a grant and almost every single we have a list of asurances that we have to complete and the title six uh is one of those one of those uh you know those uh verifications that we
114have to do that we're not violating these these federal laws. So, um, so we stand very, um, confidently that we are not violating the law, that we're going to, um, continue to be able to offer the services that we need to offer. However, the threat by the federal government that we, um, may lose federal funding is is very real and something that we're wanted to share that with you just as an update because this is something that has been uh, being discussed. At this point, we don't have um we're not considering completing the letter because the California Department of Education did um provide the letter to the US Department of Education and and we'll see how that goes. At this point, there are four lawsuits that the California this that the state of California is
115participating in against the Trump administration. Some of which are related to economics, some of which are related to cuts. And um at this point really since they're the we don't work directly with the federal government uh when it comes to funding for education. They're really the ones that are are leading the way when it comes to uh litigation or legal action against the federal government for it's not really something that we would do ourselves. Um I shared this with you last time. I'm I'm not going to go into it again, but I do believe this philosophy of reassuring our community uh taking action such as putting new protocols in place. Uh there was a situation recently where the Department of Homeland Security um did have uh agents go to a school in Los Angeles. Um
116they were not allowed entry because the protocols, the similar protocols as the ones we have were were in effect and they were denied access. So this is the first example of potential immigration action uh to attempt to take place in in a schools that we've we've been able to verify although they were um homeland security so not necessarily ICE agents and so it's uh it's not clear exactly what they were looking for what their what their intent was um continuing to inform and prepare our community um and working in partnership with with our uh support network um advocate on behalf of our our students and our community. Uh I did want to share with you some exciting news. You already heard um from uh Trustee Marcus that uh that we celebrated the opening of uh
117our third second and third uh the first one was actually at Scots Valley High School and uh so the second one at SoCal High School and the third one at Harbor High School. So wellness centers being open. I absolutely agree with the comments uh made earlier that the current the current situation has really uh raised uh the concern for mental health for our youth and and so we're we're continuing with our effort to try to bring wellness centers at every high school in our county and that's something that uh we're still we're currently partnering with PVSD on uh one in Apas High School and with San Lorenzo Valley uh to have one there as well. Hopefully we'll get to all all uh nine high schools by uh six nine I believe it's nine high schools
118by by the end of the year. Um or not by the end of the year but but soon. Uh we did uh have a visit from the WASK which is the Western Association of School and Colleges uh visitation team that they just left yesterday. And uh so the way uh just maybe for for folks that that may may not be familiar, the way we get kind of the official stamp of approval that the quality of our educational programs uh is there is through uh the in our case the Western Association of of Schools and Colleges. They come and do a visit. They actually before that they they require a report. You they then come in and they verify that the report is accurate and then they basically say, "Well, you did a great job. we'll
119be back in three years to check up on you or you will be back in six years. So six years is always the highest because that means that they are so confident uh then that they won't they won't be back for six years. So we won't know for a while until they prepare the report and but they were their report out to us was very positive and we feel very confident um or we're very excited about the possibility that we might get a six-year accreditation or the career advancement charter and our career and technical education program. Um we uh participated in uh we helped um organize and and uh uh host the LGBTQ plus symposium uh which took place at at Cababrio College. It was the first uh effort uh to do a symposium bringing
120together students and other leaders uh to talk about how to support our LGBTQ plus uh youth and and community and uh really a wonderful event. Rio, our queer student union students attended the advocacy day for LGBTQ plus in Sacramento and actually spoke in front of the crowd and uh uh it was really wonderful for the for those students to be able to advocate on behalf of um all youth in LGBTQ plus youth in in in Santa Cruz County and in California. and uh really grateful for for the the leadership that those students are are we already talked about the world languages showcase that uh occurred yesterday and uh students got to uh share and and we had multiple languages uh participating. I did a a poem with with some Spanish and Arabic. We had Hindi,
121French, uh I believe um Mandarin of course Mandarin and Spanish. uh lots of wonderful languages and and Nick took some great pictures as well and and uh we also had a a film crew from uh um from PBS who that came and and did some filming and they also spoke to me as well and so uh really a wonderful event and um our youthled leadership alliance uh is being recognized as the organization of the year by United Way and so uh we'll be uh celebrating that. Are we how are we doing on on seating for the event? We have three seats available. Three seats available. And what day is it? Um it is next Thursday the Oh, okay. Yes. The 24th. Next. So, so Oh, wonderful. We have Trusty Larson, Trusty Roth. Okay. So, we
122already have some great representation from our board. Uh wonderful. We talking about Monday. Next, this is next Thursday, United Ways um dinner. I believe you're on my list. I don't know if it's is it on the um it's not on the Did you have a question? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. May have some you we definitely have a seat for you. Right. Excellent. So, lots of great events. Uh this Friday we have Fashion Teens uh occurring at the Rio Theater. Uh you already heard about the youth for environmental action summit which is occurring on Monday and um we have multiple teams that are uh working with our Xacademy partners that are participating the mate ROV competition. I think I'm trying to remember do we know how manybody remember off the top there how many teams I
123think we have something like eight teams that we're supporting. I think it's um yeah, it's more than five. Yes, more than five. And uh and the green classroom celebration that you heard about from from AMD. We would love for you to join us at the COE all staff picnic and um and also at the countywide black student graduation, black rat as as we refer to it. And then we have lots of graduations to celebrate. It's amazing that we're already coming into the end of the school year and uh there's only something like 45 days left or something in our uh school year. It's calendar days and um so we'll be uh we'd love for for to have representation from the board at at our graduations and we'll also be participating in the in 50th is
124it 50th anniversary of Pride? Yeah, it is 50th anniversary of Pride uh on June 1st. So, will COE have the parade? Well, we're definitely going to be tableabling. And so, we we haven't we've been talking about the possibility of actually having um especially with the 50th anniversary for us to have a a uh contingent uh to be a part of it. So, uh we'll we'll definitely definitely uh I think we have What do you think? We definitely have a booth. We have a booth. Yes. Verice has got the booth. uh she's working on on that. But but I think I think we we're going to we'll put the word out and make sure we have enough and excitement so that we can have a lot lots of folks there and uh and we we can
125have a COE COE contingent in the And um I want to add the black student graduation is at 3M that day. So I have a confirmed time. Thank you. And the picnic the picnic is most likely at 12 p.m. still working out the details. I I may ask uh the show actually is willing follow up with less because we have inside education. Maybe lunch could be at the picnic field. Maybe lunch could be at the picnic and well the picnic starts at 12 but it it goes it goes uh till about 4 maybe. Right. Yeah. So it's it because folks are working and so some folks can't leave until about 3 o'clock. And so, um, anytime you come, we'll be you'll be you'll absolutely be welcome. And there's ice cream. I'll be there. And that
126is it for my report. Any questions for me? A thought about black grad last year. There was some backlash and it was my view misinformed like how come they get their own graduation? You know, that kind of typical racist victimization attention. Um, but one of the things that I saw in a lot of those letters was it seemed to me a misunderstanding that those students also graduated from their own high schools. So, this wasn't like a substitute for the regular graduations. And I think the advanced publicity about this should highlight that this is students coming from all over the county particularly because this is important to celebrate their accomplishments but it's not a substitute or a placement or a better than or anything like that compared to the regular graduations additional. Oh, just in terms
127of thinking about the publicity. Yes, thank you. Thank you for that. And and it is it's it's an additional it's really a celebration in addition and so students are absolutely um participate in their in in their own high school graduation and and this is in addition to that there's an additional so um we'll we'll we'll uh take it back to to kind of think about. Do you think you want to add something? Just to make a brief comment on that. Thank you, Superintendent Sabah. It's also worth highlighting that this this ceremony has a really long and proud tradition here in Santa Cruz County of more than a quarter century and is consistent with purely ceremonial celebrations across the county. I mean across the nation at UCSC and in many other neighboring jurisdictions. I sat with
128two women two three years ago who were instrumental in starting it and they gave I I don't have their names but it might be interesting for Nick to get a hold of them uh because their story was fascinating. There was not one single black student graduating 25 years out of our system. That's one of the things I remember and this was their response uh part of their response at graduation. Thank you, Trusty Roth. And we we are in touch with um with that group and in fact Andreas Martis I believe knows more about this but we certainly are are very proud of that history and in touch with it and have invited um those founders to participate in the ceremony in previous years and in fact we actually uh celebrate them when they're able to
129come. So Madlin uh I believe it's Torrance uh Norman Tor Terrence Norman Norman Terrence uh is and um and um Nubra Floyd were part of the second uh Saturday network and that was the group that that that uh celebrated the very first Black Rad 20 over over 25 years ago now. So we invite them every year and and and whenever they do come we actually ask them to stand up and thank them for for starting this this event larger public stage. I think it would it dropped my job to learn what was happening back then and what they were able to do. Thank you. Thanks. So, with graduations coming up, um I'm sure like we do every single year, there'll be a spreadsheet that goes around to make sure that we can all uh sign
130up. It's very rewarding. It's very encouraging to be able to attend and I definitely recommend that each and every single one of us make the time to attend at least one because they are very powerful and very beneficial. Okay. Uh next we go to the trustee reports and I'll start with myself and then work down the table. I did not get an opportunity last month at our meeting to share, but I did want to mention the uh Steam Expo. I think it's one of my favorite events that we uh host. It's one that I've been volunteering at. They're always looking for volunteers for those that are interested in judging or just just helping out. It's very encouraging to see our students with a project and presenting and advocating and standing behind their own research and
131to see where that leads. We don't know what uh what field they'll pursue, but it it lights a spark in them to to question to get curious and um and explore, you know, different different aspects and and and joys that that they like. So, I definitely encourage uh again everybody next year to those that are interested to uh to to sign up for for that. It's very rewarding. And that's that's my report. Estrada, I don't have anything to report. I was out on vacation for a week and a half of this last month. Uh, and I but I'm very excited to join some future events over the next month. Uh, like fashion teens tomorrow night already. That snuck up on me. Uh, and the green classroom celebration. Anything that's outside of work hours will be
132great for me and I will definitely attend. Thank you. and Allen. Well, I managed to forget doing some committee work. That was the main thing I did this month. I'm um very involved in a political campaign right now. It's taking all my time. So, worth forgetting. That's all I did was some committee work. Happy to work with my colleagues on it. Thank you. Custom you Larson. I sent my submitt uh in writing just a couple I wanted to highlight. Um inside education I had two visits since our last meeting and that continues to be a phenomenal program. Uh right after our last meeting, we visited Vineh Hill and Mountain elementary schools. And this la just this week we visited Watsonville School for the Arts, Alansa Charter School of Dual Immersion and Cababrio Early Childhood Education
133and the Culinary Program. Visiting the culinary program means we get to eat at Pinoto. So that's that's a double victory. Um I did just given some of the agenda items tonight. uh Cababrio early childhood education program. I had no idea that was there and then we went into the peace library and kind of the structure for that that's foundation funded and there was a student from Cababrio working in there processing books and excited to do for do so and it was for very very young kids just learning their books and they had it in 14 languages which I was so impressed. happened when I was in elementary school. So that's that's wonderful. And then um mental the Harbor High Wellness Center opening. I couldn't make Scots Valley or SoCal, but I did make it to
134Harbor and that was so impressive. And then that night to have the COE sponsor mental health fair also at Harbor. Thank you, Trusty Roth. Uh One thing I did was uh the career advancement wonderful but also it was so affirming of our program student voice really make it so and also want to broaden that to say thank you to who get the voices. That's that's very at least to me very meaningful with Yeah. Oh, yeah. The uh that was incarceration aspect. Thank you. Oh, thank you. And yeah, I I think that there there couldn't be better ambassadors for the work that we do than our than our own students. Thank you so much for being there as well. Thank you. Okay. Uh we're at number 12. any ad hoc standing committee reports, actions that have
135not have yet to be mentioned. Next month is a busy agenda, I understand, at least when you look at past uh Mays. Um but the legislation committee will probably be having two items come forward, both regarding workforce housing. We've touched on it at our last two meetings. It's going to be our focus at our next meeting. There are two CSBA sponsored bills and CSBA just yesterday did a workshop. for members across the state why it's so important for CSBA this year. So that'll feed into our discussion and what we bring. Okay. Anything else? And at the end of our agenda, there is a list of scheduled meetings and upcoming events. So this is a good reminder of things that are coming up. And I do want to call out we have two meetings in June
136and I believe one of them is the LCAP, right? Okay, perfect. And budget. LCAP and budget. Of course. Of course. Yes. Two meetings for LCAP and budget. Okay. Probably be having a budget committee in the next Okay. So with that uh our meeting is adjourned. Thanks everyone.