001i' would like to call the February's meeting of the Santa Cruz County Office of Education Board of Education with a roll call please trusty aosta trusty Estrada here trusty Larson here trusty Rock here president Sanchez here trusty Van Allen here trusty Williams here student trusty Hopkins here student truste Marcus here you have Quorum thank you now I'm going to ask our superintendent to please lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance excuse me um president Sanchez um agenda item 1.1 was missed okay do we have any requests for what attendance approval we did not um but we did get um notification from trusty a Costa that he will be not able to make it today okay thank you now we'll do the pled Allegiance if you are able to please stand ready begin I pledge allegiance
002to the flag of the United States of America to the repic stand Nation indivisible and for thank you I'm looking for approval of the agenda um I'm happy to uh make a motion to approve although as I understand item 9.6 um a the potential board policy we had a mistake in the committee and so we'd like to pull that from today's agenda and we'll back next month okay 9 9.6 so I would move approval of the agenda omitting uh item 9.6 there second uh no comments all those in favor say I I iOS perfect now we have public comments this is the opportunity for the public to address the board on any item that is not on the agenda each speaker uh may speak up to three minutes and we ask that you please identify
003Yourself by name if you choose to do you have anybody that would like to speak yes we have public comment requests from shellock good thing I'm just representing myself I'm not representing anything else um I to loud uh can your mic all right start the the time make sure it's green on the on that so click the button to make it green there we go thank you sh always supportive I love that um first of all thank you all for your service I appreciate it I appreciate how much that you show up in the community and are visible for our students in addition to that I'd like to um advocate for if you have the time to attend inside education some of you are doing that I think it's a great way to see what
004our school systems like the other thing that the board does when they participate in inside education is they ask a lot of questions that other people aren't comfortable and asking and I think that's amazing role modeling and a great way to put some of the faces with the names that you guys hear uh the other comment I want to make and it's sort of on the agenda but I want to talk about it vaguely and it's the concept of donations um really having another funding St Source people believe in what they invest and what they pay for and they want it to see success if there's a great way or an easier way for public to participate in being able to donate to the County Office of Education whether it's a program like I don't
005know like a PT for alternative Ed since alternative Ed does not have a PTA type program but having um another funding source that the community can pay into and have a um visible stake in is I think always a wonderful thing I think anytime someone donates they show that they really care about what is happening with that entity again thank you for your service thank you for your time shock thank you anybody else I'd like to address the board we have another request for public comment hi my name is Jim B I'm representing the Santa Cruz astronomy club by the way I'm shocked uh the Water Board has this I'm so sorry the very the timer for you this will not take three minutes the bad news is what I'm going to talk about is
006barely touching education so I apologize the good news is I don't have any complaints um I've been to board meetings um so here's my my question I just it's just a question is there somebody in the county that I can talk to about lighting around the schools specifically um there is an opportunity for us to help educate science students in the schools on astronomy and all we need is a dark sky so my proposal and this is just an idea is the astronomy club of which I'm the president uh could help fund motion sensor lights around a couple of the darker schools like San Renzo Valley or maybe mid Mid County if if I'm crazy just say you're crazy and that's fine but if there's someone who I can at least start the conversation with
007I'm not going to ask the school to spend any money we have we have funds that we can help with and again my only carrot to you is that um we have people in the in the club for instance uh the guy who runs the astronomy club at Cabrio he would help we could help your science teachers teach astronomy we have equipment we we have people who are used to speaking and educating and that's my my carrot to the county so my question is and if you don't have an answer that's fine you got my contact information is there someone I could talk to to begin conversations thanks Jim uh I believe we have your you well you mentioned we have our your contact information so we will follow up Mr President I just like
008to make a comment not a commitment I think this is very important actually not only for astronomy and science but for birds um birds are very affected um by nighttime lighting and it confuses them we have tremendous numbers of species and populations of both local birds and migrating birds that stop through here and nighttime lighting is one of the worst things for them in the urban context so there's anything our schools can do to reduce that nighttime lighting and but make it safe like the riding m center so when someone there there's a light that goes on I like this idea I appreciate that thank you uh anybody else from the public would like to make a comment none that I see President Sanchez and none on Zoom all right thank you moving on we
009have the uh consent agenda looking for comments or and appr I move approval second yes thank you Community Foundation Center uh first and second all those in favor say I I I me opposed passes unanimously correspondence do we receive any correspondence no correspondence other than what was included in the packet um from assembly member Gail pellerin's office okay thank you all right now we are in student trustee reports and uh we will start with uh trustee Marcus so uh I actually have a couple things for one the the county mock trial competitions yeah is this better so the county mock trial competitions are going on right now they're kind of in full swing and uh I just wanted to give a shout out to SAA K Mall she's the academic events coordinator because she's the
010one that runs all that she does an amazing job it's a a really smooth event and it's uh really effective I think it's a really productive event uh in our County so so that was one number two I also wanted to congratulate The Poetry at loud winner which was Brianna Venegas and um I I'm blanking on the school that she goes to somebody might know but I just wanted to give a shout out to that because that's another thing we did in the county that I think is really cool and then also the the school Community celebration was on Thursday uh February 13th and I unfortunately I wasn't able to make it because I was out of town on a school trip but I I wrote a little something that uh I think was was
011touched on during the event but I I wanted to have a chance to just uh read it a little bit because I think it'd be it'd be nice for the board to hear and for uh the audience to hear so it's pretty brief but it's just about my my journey with the the Coe and how how it's helped me and helped a lot of other students so over the past few years I've had the privilege of being part of several Coe programs and I've seen firsthand how much these initiatives helped students Educators and families across the county my journey with the Coe started in sophomore year where I started organizing and volunteering at countywide math events like the Julie Robinson math festival and the County math contest many of which were aimed at students from
012underserved communities from there I joined multilingual youth taking action a group within the coe's youth Le leadership Alliance drawn to its goal of promoting cultural understanding and celebrating World languages across our County as someone whose languages form a major part of my identity this group has provided a way to share this passion with the community by organizing an mcing for events like the world languages showcase where students share poetry and projects in different languages my experiences with the c programs ultimately led me to interview for and be appointed as a student trustee on the County Board of Education seeing how these programs are created and sustained has deepened my appreciation for the coe's work to support our community being part of some of its many programs has helped me grow as a leader and and
013a learner and allowed me to contribute to the community and I also wanted to thank all the teachers and staff superintendent saah and the County Board who have all contributed to the coe's mission and made all of its initiatives possible that was just a slightly summarized version of something I wrote for that event thank you written appreciate it thanks for sharing trusty Hopkins okay I wanted to start off by highlighting some things going on at Cyprus save the shores visited the environmental science class to talk more about the effects of plastic pollution on a local EOS ecosystems and the San Cruz beaches also the forensic science class visited the Santa Cruz coroner's office to learn more about the career and how the operation Works which I think is a really good opportunity for students to
014explore different career paths and possibly start spark some interest for the practice next I had the privilege of speaking at the school Community celebration I got to share my experience in finding the right learning environment and how building relationships between students and teachers is important for Student Success I thought it was a really fun event we got to watch some performances from a few schools around the county and I got to face my fear of public speaking so that was fun thank you thanks for sharing appreciate it all right uh reports discussions and presentations we will start with uh Behavioral Health Service and building fee schedule with uh Dr SAA friends thank you love well it is uh my pleasure to uh welcome uh uh Dr Michael Panner who's our executive director of student services
015and uh Lauren fine who is our director of Behavioral Health uh I have to say that this team which um that they work with and and partner with both within the Coe and and with a lot of districts and agencies has probably been uh working the most feverishly than uh than probably any of our programs it's been an intense uh kind of pace that has been being maintained to try to set up all the systems and structures for a coordinated system to be able to maximize the Behavioral Health Services in our County and that includes a new Billing System and um and uh just really maximizing the services that uh that our we want to have for all our students and so I've been it's been a pleasure I've been meeting with this team on
016a on a weekly basis and so I get I get updates and week to week There's always U so much that has happened from one week to the next so I just want to send my share my appreciation for for your leadership and uh for your just a lot of hard work um to get us to where we are today and and the I think that as we we look carefully at how much access has changed for students um even in the midst of a lot of the kind of challenging environment we are politically um it's it's going to be absolutely transformative for for how schools are going to be able to serve um students so I'm really grateful that that Lauren and and Michael are here to talk to us a little bit about
017what the system of care is looking like and how schools are at the heart part of that system to ensure students um get these these deserved Services thank you thank you FIS thank you Dr saah um and good evening trustees and friend Ferris and our leader Dr saah colleagues that I adore all of you in this audience and a new friend that joined from astronomy um why not uh the I had said guest I should have said guest right um and I'm just still moved I I that you you you've sitting here I don't know how we never did this this before it seems so like it should have always been happening and so I'm always impressed when I come and I haven't come too often but um just it seems so right that you
018guys are here and you give your reports and you share and you take this in um you will see there was a slightly a little bit different name on our slide deck but we view all of the um the services and sustainability as being an integrated effort here and you're going to see why and Ferris mentioned the dynamism of this work well it's you're gonna this will be our first pass I'll say and we are happy to come back more times answer in different ways and I said some of that in my notes here and so hopefully I won't repeat myself um but we can go we'll go quickly uh really what I wanted to do is give an overview tell you about student support services and then hand it off so we can go
019to I have a clicker point this way down about pointing it'll it'll work no matter what on downlo um so I'm really going to take number one and I'm going to um try to do it in a few minutes and then hand to through five over to my colleague Lauren fine and and as fah said I'm the executive director of the student Support Services Department which you may know is one of a half dozen I believe um departments I'm joined by a couple of my other wonderful departments here uh in the student programs Division and which feris overseas as well as being County super um so I'm going to set the table and then hopefully Lauren will provide all the delicious dishes for you to uh sample so if we go to the next board
020chart of Staff Michael click okay look at that I'm getting professional third slide um in essence we're made up of about 30 uh staff which is a mixture though of full-time staff retired uh employees and contractors and so I have listed all of them here um at some point we can take this apart if you're more interested but really this is all folks that come with a myriad expertise in counseling teaching project coordination Health Services um and it's a as Farah said this is a dynamic um I sometimes like a startup in the middle of a bureaucracy because what we're doing is 90% Grant funded across about three dozen um grants with about 40 budget strings and so this staff has to just be nimble by its Nature has to be collaborative by its Nature
021has to be integrated and sustainable by its nature um so that's the staff one I won't linger here too long but you'll see the blue are in essence the people I supervise and three of those are managers one of them being Lauren here uh and what we're about to do well let's go Michael telling someone else um this is the same Department my department students support services but with programs listed rather than staff and on the left far left is lur and fine and and the behavioral health components which that will be what we focus on today here um to do this though we do partner with all school districts Charter Schools higher ed government agency probation child welfare Public Health Etc nonprofits at all levels State local National federally qualified Health Centers manag care
022more like we we have to be integrated into the community because our grants say do this work with other people to have good things happen and so um it's actually wonderful I love the fit and it's literally kind of built built in F built in what I say baked into the cake okay one last piece that I was feel a little nervous about but I I do feel like this is friendly and and I think most people know me um there's a metap piece you're not going to see on these charts right I this is into my slides and Lauren has a lot of technical really important robust complicated pieces but the how is not listed here and I just wanted to say that um I wrote some nice words so I was going to
023try not to read them but I might look back and forth here that I believe that the the Coe is a special place to work and the reason I think that is that um in student Support Services I aim for something called healing centered engagement and this came from Sean genen right who was a professor uh I think UCSF and he really talked about the idea that every intersection every encounter between two people is an opportunity for healing repair and insight and growth right and I and I keep wanting to look back at Sony and Johnny because this is the Kool-Aid that we drink and you know I've known them for two decades and it's a really good Kool-Aid so um if you like some I can prepare some for you another time but so
024and you know I'm speaking to the choir in other words to to people I know deeply and like a lot of professionals though in the education world um you know I think there's just too many tasks inputs requests for the time available which causes stress causes activation of your survival patterns right and so to me this this idea that our whole department everything you see up there is really aimed at um supporting families and students and I think also staff to have a sense of well-being to have a sense of connection thriving you know growth in the educational experience and to me it seems almost easy no I can't use that that's WR it just seems in congruent that's the word I want to not do that with each other along the way to do
025that for other people and that's what I'm calling healing centered engagement um so that we do it with our colleagues we do it with our you know um the people we supervise we do it with Partners um and I think that you can take care of business while you grow as human beings together and and I'm I think I'm saying that because part of it was to try to give I told feris I just want to give a hat tip is what I called it right to to this to this group here because the longer I'm in education the more I see how important it is to I I say talk on both sides of the iceberg waterline what's above the water line seen and known and obvious and public and viewed but also what's
026below and and how we are working through that which we often do only in safe pairs you know water cooler or different ways we have to do that I think when we move that into more overt conscious thoughtful processes then I think we just have a win-win winwin scenario um and the other thing this is this hit tip um I don't think that's possible without leadership that understands and supports that and Ferris just said we meet weekly I can you know under oath tell you that he understands and supports this and so I thank you I don't know if that was good about but um but also I think it also comes from the board right and I don't have as much exposure or communication with you but I think that without the board and
027the count of the superintendent of the educational entity or the Lea if they don't believe in that then I I feel like it just goes all the way down uh and I'm sort of next in line and then what I've seen other places unfortunately is Then I then I'm you know um I'm stressed I pass the stress on to the staff the staff dress to the students the students tell the parents parents tell the board the board tells the like there's this whole cycle that can happen right and I think my fantasy is that whole cycle could actually be healing centered engagement um so it is the dream I just want to say that we're doing a tiny piece in the corner far corner of the bottom floor here um and I absolutely know that
028my colleagues in other departments are doing the same because we've had deep conversations about this um so that was a little longer hat tip than I meant but um I would like to focus on the left hand column knowing that we operate this way we're gonna switch from heart to head uh and we're gonna have some delicious meals on this lovely tablecloth that I hope you enjoyed okay than y head there's some heart in there always um so hello everybody Lauren fine as Michael pter mentioned um so I'm going to start talking about that technical piece that yes oh sorry I'm a walker okay we can give you a handheld if you'd like to walk really okay if that's not okay well I'll start here and to respect your time but um so basically I'm
029GNA try to fit in quickly um a lot of different initiatives and so the first part of my presentation is going to be giving you information some's going to make sense some you might have questions about but they're all pieces that fit into our vision for our system of care here at the county offed so the governor recognized I don't know a few years ago that our children were in a mental health crisis right that was just exacerbated by the pandemic this isn't news for any of us right and so he invested four not him but you know the government invested $4.7 billion dollar to do a multi year overhaul for children's mental health and he took a whole they took a whole child approach and decided to put mental health where kids are schools
030so all of a sudden now schools are a piece they're sitting at the table right prior you had all of these other entities that were really where we went for our children's mental health and now schools are sitting there as well so in order to do that uh the governor has the initiative was called C High which stands for children youth Behavioral Health Initiative okay and there was 20 work streams with in there as you can see here we're only going to focus on the three in the Yellow Boxes however at the Coe we have engaged in other pieces of it but as we talk about what our system of care looks like we're really focusing on these three and I'll go deeper into them so of these three initiatives um in the top right
031corner you'll see the school linked multipay Fe schedule I'm going to get into a second of what all that means but basically it is for schools to be able to build insurance companies for mental health services which is fantastic right students are in schools well who's going to be providing all of these new Services schools do have staff that provide Mental Health Services but they need to build capacity so they created on the bottom left corner Wellness coaches and I'll talk about them more in a second but this is a certified position uh that would be for or sorry it's a c yes it's a position that offers a certificate right um it's a bachelor's and Associates level position um that would basically fill a gap in the behavioral health Workforce like pathway and I'll
032get deeper into in second but the idea was if we're going to have a fee schedule and we're going to provide more services we need to have providers to help fill in some of those gaps so the next question you probably already have is well that's fantastic but schools were not built to be Insurance Clearing Houses or to become mental health clinics so how are we going to do this and so the state offered one-time funding called the school all these names are very long uh the school linked Partnerships and capacity grants but we're going to just call it capacity Grant and each County was awarded this money as starter funds to help build the infrastructure and capacity and see where those gaps are to help schools be able to ready to build a fee
033schedule again these each could be its own presentation so so let's go deeper into the fee schedule so fee schedule means that it is a set uh set prices for services meaning that the state sat down got every insurance company on board and said we agree that for certain like for therapy it's going to cost this much for assessment it would be this much and we're all going to agree that that's the cost of the services okay multi-payer what that means is in this case the payer is the insurance company so it doesn't matter what insurance you have you can have Commercial Insurance you could have medical so every student who has Insurance can they can build a fee schedule okay this is huge this has never happened in any anywhere yet we are being
034revolutionary here and then School link that last piece what that means is that the services can either happen at the school site or can can happen in the community as long as it was referred from a provider at school okay so what that does is it means that not only is it for what's happening in a school but it expands that bubble for providers in the community that might not have been able to serve those students because of barriers around Insurance to be able to access this fee schedule and provide those services so who can access this fee schedule who does this benefit so it's basically students 0 to 25 um the fee schedule can be build by schools so leas Charters and institutions of higher education and there's no cost to the family there's
035no co-pay so that's one billing Avenue that we talked about right that's part of siib high and all of this I'm going to talk about another one so if you think about that is one Highway one way for us to create more services or opportunities for students to get Services another one is called enhanced Care Management and so in the medical world they went over uh through large reform few about five years ago called Cal aim and one of the things came out of it was a service called enhanced Care Management and the idea is that you have certain folks that don't either don't use medical at all until all of a sudden they're in crisis or they're increasingly high utilizers right and so enhanced Care Management I like to think of it as case
036management on steroids it's literally handholding students and Families to ensure that they get their needs met so you know I've worked with families for years and even the best meaning families you know it's it's overwhelming to navigate our systems right and figure out how to how to coordinate appointments make make it to um you know getting different resources met whatnot and so an enhanced care manager can work with that family to like literally help them drive them to each of those appointments to get the care that they they need and their families need typically enhanced care manager providers are the clinics the community based organizations all those other pieces of that pie that I showed earlier however we recognized an opportunity um here at the Coe to provide the service because um of the populations
037that enhance Care Management targets are a lot of the same populations that us and student support services are covering or supporting Foster youth kids that are experiencing homelessness kids with extensive mental health needs so there was a huge alignment and one of the biggest barri that folks have to accessing enhanced Care Management or providing those Services is that families actually have to show up to clinics first to get connected but we're already in the schools so it was kind of a no-brainer for us um and so this is only for our medical kid kids but it we saw is's another opportunity if we're looking at ways to sustain these programs that we at the Coe can braid and leverage these two both the fee schedule and enhanced Care Management to support our students okay that
038was the lesson part now I'll talk a little bit about what we envision here at the Coe so our ourvision really comes down to two buckets uh one is infrastructure and one is building capacity and building clinical Excellence so in infrastructure uh we've had an opportunity where as these awesome initiatives have come down districts don't have the bandwidth they don't have the capacity and they don't have the knoow to really get as involved as you need to be to figure out all these nuances of of this new siib high so they've said to us the Coe um all districts except for pbsd and I can share in a while you know what help us build a a collaborative system which is really smart because we're able to that capacity Grant I shared earlier we're able
039to leverage our funds together to build one system when we're talking about billing it's going to funnel through the Coe when we're talking about our electronic health record where we document the services it would come to the Coe so that means any technical assistance onboarding training we would be able to support those districts that probably some might have opted out if we weren't going to help them and take that on for them we are also including all of them in all the decision- making um but I think that they're really looking to us going to all the state meetings really understanding this and then collectively trying to make those decisions together um so we have a couple areas where that consorti model is existing another way I talked about was centralized billing uh also being
040a conduit so as the district districts are recognizing where their gaps are in mental health right they have their own providers um we're also able to kind of be matchmakers between uh Community organizations and districts to figure out okay districts need these sorts of providers or these sorts of services here's Community organizers that are able to partner with so really being that conduit because I think that you know schools are over here and mental Health's over here and as the Co in the middle we able to really see both of those lenses so in building capacity and clinical excellence um we internally are looking at really how do we integrate the direct service providers in both of our alted and our student Support Services departments we have two pockets with lots of amazing mental health
041um activities going on how do we support across and ensure that they're getting appropriate professional development um and working within their scope and helping them to to Really strengthen those skills um and then like I said clarifying roles and then looking into internally as well of like how do we create a behavioral health mtss so that we're ensure that we're really giving appropriate level of care and we have um effective services at every level and so the way we're doing that is that starting capital I talked about so the schooling partnership Grant um we have $2.5 million we were given um the wellness coach employer support Grant this is a one-time grant that we applied for in a Consortium model um for four or 32 positions across every District in pvpsa and and we are
042also awarded a a starter grant called an IP Grant from the alliance for enhanced Care Management so that's our starting capital and then we're hoping to sustain it through the fee schedule and through enhanced Care Management questions I know it's a lot and I could have told more so we'll start with our student trustees questions or comments no questions okay other Tres questions or comments well I'm the newest so I can just say wow I'm just uh blowing away as I learn everything about the Coe and this program as well which I wasn't aware of so it's exciting uh both from a familial perspective as well as a policy maker perspective just to see that you're doing this work is is important um would love to see a copy of the slides uh of those
043to try to digest it a little bit more I totally get the funding stream issue that's kind of more my background in city government and it's hard to launch a new initiative or to expand it or to meet constituent student needs without having the resources to do so effectively in a sustainable way and it seems like your collaborative approach is trying to structure that not only for the Coe but for all the districts you're working static thank you Bruce well F excuse me first of all thank you both um I really appreciated uh what Michael said about healing centered engagement I think that speaks that's a really good way to describe a good a good approach to being people you know um uh um on the um one of the very last things Lauren that
044you touched on was our sites our schools we have a we have a lot we have almost two dozen places where our students are are so obviously each one isn't going to have its own Wellness Center would you say a little more about how we will cope with that in terms of our schools and you know getting a rep referral or having one place that several schools would be to and then how that actually sort of logistically work somebody have to have a car available get somebody over there that kind of man maybe that's maybe you haven't gotten to those questions here's what you're thinking is yeah sure so I just want to clarify it's not that um we're building wellness centers everywhere we're kind of creating the infrastructure and the capacity um but you
045know alternative education schools already have so many amazing counselors embedded into their schools and so it just might be an opportunity to um you know build based on the fee schedule and being able to build for services right or we're able to provide more professional development opportunities or trainings or things to that nature with the people already there yeah and it could mean that because of that we look you know again I'm just one half of it so I I I don't want to overp speake but you know we could look down the road and say okay wow so we're bringing in this funding and we're able to sustain this what is that mean you know what do we want to build next but um you know we're trying to be as thoughtful but Al
046and transparent but also kind of um we want to have appropriate pacing right because this is all really new and it is really exciting and we don't want to like over reach and then have to regress back you know yeah that was really my my kind of final thought is that this is complicated yeah and I think our Coe is the good entity to be trying to pull this all together we have the talent and the skill and the overview um but we should not rush even though we should Forge ahead as expeditiously as we can if you get what the distinction because has to be done right lean in the business department here this adds some things to her plate as as I understand it and so it's got to done right over there
047so I appreciate your you're recognizing that y go ahead I was I was wondering if you could share W with us what you how you think from a student's perspective how that's a year from now or couple years from now when these systems are are really coming to fruition what's going to be different what's what's going to be the fruit of of of this work um I hope there's a couple things one I think access you know right now Services look very different depending on the insurance you have maybe even what school you're at what resources are available and we're really trying to create more Equity around what that looks like in a few ways right like yes obviously the fee schedule it really creates a Level Playing Field of what services look like but
048we really one thing I didn't get really deep into is we really are also supporting districts like right now there's little pockets of of mental health clinicians at different sites they don't necessarily have clinical supervision they don't necessarily get a lot of training and we're really hoping to help create with the the starting of the the capacity grant funding is use that to help professionalize more of that's Michael's word he loves that word yeah um sorry I beat you to it um is to professionalize right because mental health clinicians are kind of like these round pegs and in square holes we weren't really created right for schools and you know what's remarkable to me is Michael and I are actually played only the two licensed um administrative folks in all of the county that work
049in schools so how do we help create ways that those services like we understand a child comes into treatment they work on these goals and then they come out of treatment where I think right now while there's a lot of amazing mental health clinicians if you ask any of them in schools they feel like they're drinking from the fire hose and so it's just kids coming in for crisis which really isn't a great model if you're looking to get kids like out of out of that tier three level of service so I think I answered your question but I think like Services look more streamlined I think you'll have better clinical practices I think there'll be more accessibility and I'm hoping it means that there's more coordination with Community Partners because we would be in
050a system of care so you have your psychiatrist in the community maybe your primary care physician maybe see a therapist outside of school that they start to see themselves as this treatment team or in the past schools kind of felt like they were a little outside of it go ahead I think the wellness center is a different initiative that was on the you know the program or chart that could be its own presentation and you probably saw Scotts Valley had a ribbon cutting right and so that initiative really aims at Comprehensive High School settings which is eight in our County that we counted and so in theory we're aiming for all eight ideally right now we have six sort of in our sites if you will um with Santa Cruz City hopefully being the next
051maybe ones you'll hear about um I do think what Lauren mentioned is that we as a shortcut think of this entire sort of like when you said Behavioral Health Services in schools we really are seeing two things that I feel like are our mission from Paris right which is how do you increase Revenue especially in these times right now with declining enrollment end of covid funds districts are starting to struggle right so it's really good timing and we're trying to like literally to your point we saying fisy goes I don't want to be in the back of the train but we don't need to be the the engine but can we be like maybe the second car or third car back so we're trying to find that sweet spot to like because Lauren has been
052at the very front at times and then States oh never mind the last four months we changed something and so we're finding it's not actually great to be in the very first cart but maybe the second or third so um so we're trying to work on the money part as fast as possible without making errors and what she called professionalization is there's if you sampled 20 different comprehensive analed settings right there's just different things happening every place what kind of notes they take what their assessments are what their screening is how they move between tiers what their knowledge of Leverage resources in the community and so Lauren has been working like over time how do we create a coherent what I'm starting to call ecosystem of care that can start to um I guess bring
053consistency across all of those Pockets right and so we see it as More Money More coherence that's literally our driving mission in this in this realm um and the last thing I'll say maybe to answer your your question which is I think on the technical side I agree with everything and then on the sort of you know when I went back to The Healing Center engagement sort of portion of the talk I would love we're working right now with child welfare and probation and they have a whole thing um the uh I BL that on their whole model of practice but they one of the pieces is called natural supports and they keep pushing for can every student that system involved probational child welfare have a person that is their Ally their support forever for
054free because often kids move through these systems and oh I don't have that social worker that therapist that you know like they're all they're all working but and so in my mind kind of another another uh sort of academic inspiration is Dr Bruce Perry who's like one of the forefathers of trauma enformed care um he says you know let's it's time for this Tuesday at four o'clock is your therapy session bottle up everything until that hour and instead can the students move through the day whatever arises you've had 12 interactions with adults on your campus or in your life every one of those interactions with therapeutic that's his vision of what trauma informed system looks like and what what I think and so wellness centers more therapist Wellness coaches like having more of this just
055infused and become normalized in schools which is going to take a minute um there's a lot of we didn't even get into culture and unions and all kinds of stuff but um it'll take a minute um that to me is what I would love to see and so I don't know that we might have to ask the trustees if they're if they're noticing that or seeing that but um that's that's the other vision I'm holding thank you any other questions or comments you know when you first called on me I didn't have a question now I do and it's more anotal um it seems like Insurance provided psychiatric and mental health care in this county is already constrained in terms of insurance provided how do we get around that for our kids so um I
056didn't go deep into it but basically the fee schedule and everybody yes I don't know how this happened is basically the state got all these insurance companies on board and so the schools won't have to build them independently there's a third- party administrator or all claims will go through and then come back and there's very few things that the claims would be denied for they're really logistical like wrong name and birth date uh code being used by an inappropriate practitioner so I think that in theory the state tried to remove any of these barriers because if any of those things were there I think schools would be like are you kidding me no way can't like you I I I I have a private practice and I know many Private Practice clinicians don't take insurance
057because it's such a headache so why would schools and so the state really kind of came on this bigger level to say let's remove as many barriers as possible and not put that burden on schools to have to figure out just one quick follow is Anthem Blue Cross won the state award to be their their third party administrator and will process the claims for all insurance companies including medical and it's um known as we go through availity but it's really Anon Blue Cross Lauren put together an RFP to we're going to start even next week I think start looking at our own electronic health record and local third party administrator so we'll have these two different levels where we're hoping that clearing house will deny all that stuff will be taken care of um and
058we're about to choose that thank you try Rod uh yes there are no federal funds this is all state at this point I mean medical right Sor it's not a joke I know putting aside medical which is its own massive concern everywhere in California right um which would impact thousands of CH of Youth right and students here um all the rest in theory is not it's Commercial Insurance right so if you have low Medical but High Commercial Insurance this is going to be a game Cher where historically we've experienced that high medical often had much better Services because it was known you could navigate it you know could embed it commercial insurance has always been just a couple arms length away and families had to kind of figure it out um and so I think
059there is is legitimate concern about medical when this is rolled out but that's no different than the overall umbrella of medical concerns and all of our startup money I'm thinking real quick the IP is coming from the our managed care plan which is a central Cal California Alliance for Health which is only medical so if again if medical getss hit there's going to be all kinds of Ripple effects that occur um and and that would enh that would affect the enhanced Care Management side of what we showed you uh I don't I mean I think we're already getting the money but but we could still build the commercial insurances under that mult school linked multi-payer fee schedule because somewhere I heard over the past fews this may be under uh stress that that may not
060occur oh for school this one this multi-payer PR schedule I don't know I it's just there's so much going on and I me and I was wondering uh if that is this a sure know you know funding I would just say in every meeting I've been through and this has come up they've reassured that there's no concerns um the grant funding we got is all state level we've already received a lot of it and you know so I you never know but at this point I haven't had any um inkling of concern and it the in do you wna get yeah I mean so this is I know this is the superintendent question right um what we've been saying is that and Lauren's done some more and more exact model Lauren went to okay you
061District you have this me people who could bill if you had all of them bill you could generate this much money if their productivity rate was at 50% right so there's a lot of variables but where we're kind of aiming towards I think we're going to give districts a menu and say here is the possibility now let's see what can manifest meaning here's everyone who could bill here's everything you could bill for here's a productivity rate that seems reasonable if that all is true you could have this much money and that would be new revenue for your for your District um if lots of things could come up in that but if we do that math then in theory and you aggregate because in our thinking say you have 17 people and you have four
062or five that are really at risk or that are doing a certain thing that are Grant funded or something or like our Wellness Center staff right if everybody is billing that should be enough if if they already are in budgets what I'm trying to say is it should be enough money to cover at least half of those roles that you don't have right now and so we're hoping that will sustain all the additional roles in wellness centers or the current Staffing they have I don't know if I said that clearly enough but with again the potential then then where the hard work is going to be is to actualize all those potentials variables I just laid out but we do feel like it's going to be probably seven figures is possible in this County for
063sure if we can put all this into place um and again where where we're worried is maybe only medical might be affected at some point way down the road if what you're worry is about in the the commercial insurance would not so yeah just to add a add to that I I think that that it's a we if all of the systems that were described earlier are in place then then I think that a a a portion like 50% or so um would would actually be covered so a person um so a school district would be able to get you know that P the cost of that person they would save that amount amount of money um so that would allow them let's say to either double their productivity or half their their cost for
064that one person so it's it's a significant impact but it's not 100% paid for by this funding source another aspect of of what was shared I think is is the Partnerships the fqhcs for example the federally qualified Health Centers like salup lente and Santa Cruz Community Health they have been they're going to be great they're going to continue to be great partners as well as nonprofits like like uh Encompass and bajara Valley prevention and so all of these systems are the idea is that it's not only School folks as as as Lauren said earlier who are going to be doing this and these collaborations are going to again create more access for for students and um I did want to just um I think Sue's question I think we're going to be asking that a
065lot is is this at risk and and and uh Michael and Lauren have their own kind of world that they that they navigate and and I I do as well with the county superintendents we haven't heard as we have in some other areas that this area is currently at risk and that we should be worried or anything like that we haven't gotten any of that messaging um from that and of course we we never know but um but the and you know I think as with most things we're going to continue doing what we need to do uh and assume that things are going to be present because if we you know if we walk away from from it now or or or slow things down or or you know put a halt on things
066then we may we may miss out on this opportunity to be able to serve students and so uh but we haven't I haven't gotten any um information from any of our sources that that to worry about this this program at thank you Tristy will Tristy Williams okay y Mr um so I I work in homeless services so calaim was very much of my alley um and I will speak to what Sue was talking about um I I think you're referring to when the payment man system for C or for medical was kind of down for a bit because of the funding freeze uh so it they quickly clarified that that shouldn't have happened and so I don't expect that they will be touching that anytime soon because they tried to clarify pretty quickly after the
067memo came out that that was not uh or you know uh wasn't going to be impacted but um yeah I just wanted to say I really love this so far um I think it's great to supplement you know uh this expansion that we're getting for student mental health uh I think it's it's a much needed investment and I like how you said that it's kind of this missing gap of you know medical is very you know uh easily accessible uh and out there but it's very hard now private insurance and figuring out who is covered who isn't um so I think I think this is a great Gap that's being filled U so how it turns out I'm super excited thank you nice I have uh one final question and um really glad happy to
068hear that we can build medical providers for our services for the work that we do and what we provide but in terms of equity I just want to clarify that the resources that we do offer to our students are the same regardless of uh insurance that they may or may not have yeah so um you know we can't one of the things we're doing is we're creating a communication plan for districts because they're not experts in this right and they need to go out and and share with with their families and students and whatnot like what all of this is and one part of that are uh things for them to consider right I don't feel ethically okay to make the decision for them but one of them is what if a student's undocumented doesn't
069have insurance or you know any of those things will you still serve them right obviously the best practice is yes but because I'm not on the hook financially and the districts are like I want them to come up with that works for them but I would imagine and hope and every District I've spoken to so far says they're going to serve every student independent of whether they have insurance because also parents have to give their insurance information there are going to be parents that are going to opt out right and so to create that Equity we have to work with schools okay so how do you leverage the students that you are receiving payments for for those that you aren't right and how do you budget for that percentage that aren't okay thank you yeah
070appreciate it well when the county does that now right like the county even in medical I thought had a small sliver of O we cons serve these people we're not billing for it because they're not eligible that they build it in and so that think that's we're trying to replicate that mod Encompass used to do that too head I think so sort of a known process and we're trying to replicate that so in theory that the youth should have no never think about am I covered or not do I can have services or not it's it should be blind to them they just need something and it's there that's that's another twoyear hope for fa sus perfect thank you appreciate the the the conversation really happy and proud to have you guys with us the
071good work that's being done 8.2 now we have the local control accountability plan uh supplement for the Santa Cruz County Office of Education with Dr sabat and Johnny rice yes it's my pleasure to uh welcome Johnny rice our executive director of uh of our alternative education program I think this is might be the first time that you've come to present the lcap an lcap uh component is that is that true [Laughter] there we go yeah all right you can tell I'm a rookie so this is uh the mid year report which is uh you know as as the lcap has been developed they've been adding kind of new components and and to ensure that you're up to date about our and so uh Johnny is going to be presenting uh the uh the mid year
072report for alternative education and then Sony Sanson will be presenting after him with the uh for the career advancement Charter good away Johnny thank you Dr feris well it got a little hot in here once you sit up there huh Johnny I know what you mean all right you know as as as Dr F saah mentioned there uh uh Jen my my colleague and uh your familiar fearless lcap leader uh can't be with us this week so I've been asked to to step in and provide you with our alternative education elcap mid year report a pretty big choose to fill but I'm going to do my best all right to get started uh let's see the the as as Ferris mentioned the lcap uh local accountability local control accountability plan is designed around goals and
073actions aimed at doing our very best for our students so I thought I'd take just a moment to Center us in our purpose here in alternative education as a network of small schools designed to support each individual student in their journey toward graduation and Beyond and as part of our wasque process and our commitment to continuous School Improvement we Revisited our mission and our schoolwide goals this last year we redeveloped our Collective mission to read the mission of alternative education is to create safe supportive community- based environments where students can grow academically socially and emotionally to become agents of their future and we connected the our our mission to we we attempted to uh essentialize what we do for our Educators and our students down to three words we believe that in alternative education we
074all become more Curious more conscientious and more confident the the first C curious gets at our academic identity while the second C conscientious gets at our social and emotional and relational identity and the third see confident gets at our Readiness to take on the future as we go through the elcap midyear report here you'll see that there's actually five goals in the midyear elcap report but you'll notice or I hope that you'll notice that the first three align directly with these three C's the other two equally important goals of course are additional state required goals that we'll talk a little bit about Buton all right oops so just a reminder a quick reminder what is what is the lcap you'll likely remember that the lcap or local control accountability plan is a three-year plan updated
075annually it contains goals metrics actions and expenditures that are aligned with our other plans such as our was accreditation action plan and our school plan for student achievement our current LC cap was adopted by this board last June but we're always paying attention to it the lcap cycle go uh is is really year round following approval in June we immediately began implementing and now we find ourselves uh at the the midyear evaluation point so that we take this information and uh um begin planning in to bring you a new plan in June while this cycle hasn't changed the midyear report is a fairly new requirement I'd say uh while new it's actually a pretty nice addition in in that uh it gives us this opportunity to to stop midpoint and really reflect on how we're
076doing and uh to have some midye celebrations which I think is great too as mentioned our our elap has five goals each with a number of metrics and planned actions connected to expenditures at this point in the school year we can categorize each metric as in progress known or unknown and we can categorize each action and expenditure as in progress completed or not yet started these are the the five goals that I was referencing uh I certainly won't read them to you but you can see that the first one is our curious or academic goal the second is our conscientious our social emotional and relational goal and the third is our confidence or future preparedness goal goal four has to do with expelled Youth and our youth in foster care every county office is required
077to have a goal that includes these two groups and this is ours and finally our fifth goal has to do with College and Career preparedness for our court school students this goal has to do with Equity multiplier funds new to us as of last year schools that receive those funds are required to have a goal specifically tied to those funds right so rather than take you through all metrics and actions and expenditures that are in the report that you have my hope here is just to uh summarize give you a few highlights and especially point out anything that uh um looks different than expected so for goal one our curiosity call even at the midyear point we're meeting most of our metric objectives there are two however one having to do with local assessment data
078and the other related to English learner reclassifications that are still unknown at this point uh and that's because the data is simply still being collected during the year both however look like they're they're likely to be achieved by June While most actions and related expenditures for this goal are on track you'll notice probably two in particular that are underexpanded the first has to do with expenditures for curriculum a large amount of curriculum here's the explanation a large amount of curriculum was purchased at the end of last year using one-time School funds uh which slowed expenditures for the first half of this year they're fully expected to to pick up especially we're prepare we we try to get prepared to to be ready for the beginning of next year so I think we're even even though
079it's unexpect unexpended uh we're on track as far as that goes uh the second notable expenditure has to do with an ELD teacher we searched last summer for a strong and experienced ELD teacher but we just didn't find the right person uh so uh we asked our teachers and our instructional staff to continue to come together and bring their very best for our students who are learning English we're getting a much earlier start this year in our Recruitment and I'd say that things are looking good for next year for goal two our conscientious goal the midpoint indications are pretty strong our graduation rate is trending upward The Chronic absentee rate in special education is down percent of students feeling safe at school continues to increase and our goal for students feeling that they have enough
080access to counseling is in Within Reach of where we want to be in terms of actions and expenditures you might notice in this goal that uh We've underexpanded on the category of supplemental food and clothing and I think uh the the same explanation that goes for curriculum previously can be explained here in that uh we had a number of um one onetime funds last year that we utilized which slowed our expenditure from this fund this year though I fully expect it'll pick up for the second half for goal three our confidence goal while survey results in all areas look good I I want to I want to say that the most noteworthy is the percentage of students who feel they have access to college and career opportunities we have an incredible staff highlighted in the
081actions and expenditures that are moving this initiative forward for us and while contract uh uh and and as far as actions and expenditures go while contract expenditures look like they're lower than uh they ought to be at the Midway point during the year that's because a number of our our contractors will end up building uh for the lump sum at the end of the year so again we're we really are uh on track goal four as I mentioned has to do with supporting our expelled Youth and our youth in foster care we're fully implementing our expell youth plan and collaborating with all districts and we're fully adhering to our with districts around providing supports to students in foster care and we're truly grateful for the support that we received from our student Support Services Group
082and their Foster youth support team and finally goal five has to do with College and Career Readiness for our court school students in particular and as I mentioned it's directly related to our Equity multiplier funds we're focused on supporting our court school students in enrolling and being successful at Cabrio and community colleges this is included a new partnership with the rising Scholars Program located on the Cabrio College campus our College and Career Team and our community organizer team referenced in goal three are bringing their full support here as well we're still collecting data but it's looking pretty good finally we want to make sure that that we touch touch on the uh the Bob the budget overview for parents and uh you may recall that in June of each year with the support and collaboration
083of our amazing and truly appreciated business department there there there you go there there's the uh the the stars of the the business department there with uh with alternative education you know is there a heartbreak between program and fiscal is that what this is one of those charms that you can break so you take half and I take half we always have our part when we're a part but when we're together they fit like a puzzle all right June of each year with the support of the uh of the business department we provide a budget overview based on budget projections lcff funds uh frequently change however from projections uh and last year was no exception our initial lcff budget adopted in June was about 36,9 180,000 the final state budget revised this amount to 3,452
084similarly our June projection for supp on concentration funds was about 2.9 Million but the actual amount is now 4.3 this midy year report updates these figures and explains the resulting adjustments we're currently reviewing our base lcff funding to identify expenditures that could be reclassified uh to accommodate the increased supplemental and concentration funding with that we reached the end and I'm happy to take any questions that you might have thank you for the presentation questions comments Larson good time first time through good job first time through good job first time through I appreciate it a good time too every Kudo I wanted to throw and you covered in your highlights and every question I had you covered in the question so I'm good I like that Greg thank you any other questions comments students TR these
085no thank you Johnny really appreciate you sharing it with us appreciate you guys too next we have the uh local control accountability plan supplement for the Santa Cruz County career advancement Charter and this one is with uh Denise Sanson welcome yes welcome Miss Sony Sanson thank you so much I I was going to use my fir your first and last name as Johnny used it several time for me uh but uh but uh so we're going to be you're going to be seeing a very similar presentation for our career advancement Charter um this is one of part of the wonderful Partnerships that we have uh and and also I think part of the long long-term leadership and um that Sony shares with Johnny and Michael and and others is that it's we have a very
086collaborative uh you know organization and also in many ways career advancement Charter is kind of like the I don't know older sibling of the alternative education program older yet younger you know younger in in Years yet it's we serve an uh older population of folks but uh but we're all one big happy family so thank you for being here to to uh share your media report thank you Ferris and good evening trustees um I had to put on my student programs jacket because in listening to the presentations tonight in the collegiality and Johnny and I actually went to grad school back in 1999 together so we've known each other for a very long time and have worked together here at the County office for like 17 years um and so thank you for that welcome
087Ferris I'm going to take us through the career advancement Charter midyear report will be very similar um and I will highlight some of those differences as well um because I I wanted to provide this overview of just where career and adult learning services lives that is the department that um that the career advancement Charter is part of we're actually separate from alternative Ed though when the charter first started it was actually part of alted um and there is so much crossover and I I stand with often one foot in both in both departments um and we share students uh in the in the different departments staff uh there's a lot of crossover and there's a real benefit there as well um and so in student programs that's where the CAC lives in the career and
088adult learning Services Department um and I thought I'd provide just a quick overview for you all of of what that means what is Cals or Cal's and it does include as I just said the CAC our Career Tech magnet programs which are for high school students across the county we also have career training programs for adults which includes our medical and dental assisting programs that are happening across the street right now our Building Trades pre-apprenticeship program and our Wildland fire academy and uh lastly our sweno program is a um a program that supports youth ages 16 to 24 develop their workplace skills and that's located in Watsonville or seoa schools building I wanted to start um or include this photo from January's graduation um and tell you a little bit about who are our students
089in the career advancement Charter we have uh an informal motto if you will and a a student term or coined this phrase a couple years back and and she was telling some of her um other students in a class that that it's never too late new students who are coming and and she was you know our students are 18 to I mean we've had students in their 60s that n Saturday is never too late and so we we like to use that um phrase our LMA in Spanish um for our students to to encourage them that it's never it's never too late so our students are parents they're Guardians they're artists entrepreneurs uh employees both full-time part-time their immigrants their former alternative ed students their leaders their volunteers they represent all different um walks of
090life and and many many different identities and and make up um our school we're currently serving about 240 students in the career advancement Charter we also serve students in our lock facilities at every locked facility in the county we have programming um and so where we are as I just said um here across the street we have high school diploma and high school equivalency programming at the annex we have three three teachers one full-time and two part-time who who work out of the building across the street uh uh we have a large Presence at seoa schools um at both probation success centers these are adult probation centers in North County uh right attached to Maine jail near the courthouse and in South County on Freedom Boulevard right near the uh Starbucks there at the round
091tree Correctional Facility in Watsonville Santa Cruz County Main Jail and then the bla Street women's facility which is also behind the Santa Cruz main jail and so again high school diploma or equivalency so if a student wants to pursue um a proficiency exam the highet is what we offer that's much less common than uh students pursuing a high school diploma and our schoolwide goals were this is also a was year for us and so um that's almost finished I plan to submit that next week um we've come up with engaged Empower expand so similar to alternative education 3c's uh we're using that alliteration there with the ease um and our efforts with adult students that those are our intentions there this is a repeat slide just a quick review of of what the lcap is
092the charter the CAC does have our own lcap um same responsibilities same timelines and I'm very grateful to to our colleagues in in the county office who um email me or chat me and say hey don't forget about that midar report that's due um and so we do there's a lot of collaboration across the Departments to to support each other again a repeat slide here so we're there on the bottom left at the plan monitoring and we'll be gearing up for more of that plan development as we move into the spring we are aligning our was goals with our lcap goals because it makes a lot of sense and they're very similar uh and so you'll be hearing more about that soon another repeat of the new requirements so this hasn't been around too long
093it it is very helpful though I would say it is it requires us to stop and pause and uh self- evaluate and reflect on how we're doing with those goals that we set you have in the report an update on our metrics many of them many most of our uh metrics are in progress and so I'll be reporting those to you in June at the end of the school year as well as our expenditures we um also many of those are in progress um we're making I think excellent progress on our expenditures and um have a plan for making sure that we're able to to achieve all those actions lining up with the expenditures before this year is over so ourl cap goals are here um I'm not going to read them to you I'll
094just simply synthesize goal one is generally um what it is around achievement and so so you see bolded you know the graduation demonstrating enhanced proficiency and uh with a real we changed this goal this year to include a focus on postsecondary opportunities so not just um college but that does include vocational training it includes uh employment so any kind of postsecondary opportunity goal two is focused on student support and so uh that really speaks to that comprehensive support um we would love we're we want to hire a mental health clinician just thinking about Lauren and Michael's presentation we see the need as well and goal three is really about access and expansion um there's a demand for our our services in the county and so really focusing on those Partnerships and of course sustainability so
095that we can keep going so goal one highlights um our highlights do include our increased bilingual instructional support so that's both certificated and classified so hiring teachers who are bilingual as well as our instructional support staff um our cus implementation the cus is an adult assessment I think i' I've talked with you about that before I want to add there that we have started this year our paper assessment and Corrections and I'm really proud of that it's been a a big lift but we're doing it um and then the implementation of an online curriculum with English courses and Spanish courses I'm very proud of that as well and that we uh started just about maybe four months ago and it's going really really well students are engaged and it's working for our program um some
096of the changes or things I wanted to highlight for you as noteworthy is our increase in Ada um I think we projected at 150 and P1 or uh the first report was 223 I think so that's that's quite a significant difference which you'll see in the budget overview an increase in our lcff funds because of that increased Ada um we have had some trouble with Staffing or filling vacancies and some movement in our program so um that that has been a bit of a challenge but we are fully staffed currently and then professional learning opportunities we haven't contracted out with anybody that's been inhouse as I mentioned it's a was year and so most of our profession learning time has been dedicated to that was self study which is is very meaningful in go to
097this is a picture of um a new class that we added this year it's a baking class um taught by our our culinary instructor vinda quo it's called badal which is the Artisan Bakery um and so that happens on Monday nights we also are piloting a photography class this year so wanting to increase our enrichment opportunities those are two things I wanted to highlight for you we have child care services available from 3:00 till 7:30 Monday through Thursday um I just received a text with some photos of the they like to send me you know what's happening in the evening we have nine nine children in the center tonight and then active case management so more than just making the referral like following up and really helping the students um advocate for themselves and really
098close those Loops so active case management through our transition Specialist Team um because one one thing that we're working on is increasing student participation so in this midar review and looking at the metrics that's I mean I knew it also but it's something that we're working on to increase student participation if we have these things to offer we want to make sure people are um that our students are attending and then lastly goal three um this picture is just from a couple weeks ago and there are 23 students there in that photo and they are attending what what we're calling our foundations class this is a new pilot project that we started in November I want to say it's it's only been a few months and um the model is that students on board for
099six weeks and in those six weeks they are participating in an online class and we feel like that's really important because if or when our students go on to the Community College they will have to know how to navigate an online class it's it's essential now and so we're teaching them how to or you know a learning management system I should say um and so they're all enrolled in a in an online class um they're learning the Google Suite how to email how to craft documents Etc and they're learning about time management and their Community Building um this group is a little bit younger we we noticing these 23 students and so there's a different energy uh in this in this section um so I'm really proud of that and I'm really grateful for the
100staff who are working so hard to make this happen and and the students are showing up and so we're we're really proud of our foundation class and that's at at seoa schools um it's happening every Thursday night um we also have an orientation process where students are invited in groups we we've moved some things to groups instead of doing one by one just because of the the increase in enrollment and and some of the changes or some of the things we're working on is we're we're maxed out on space at the seoa site um and here too actually we're we're pretty crunched here at the annex and so that that is an identified need uh as well as the use of a referral system that is shared across our adult education Consortium um it's called
101Community Pro and we're evaluating its Effectiveness and so that's something that um I'm not sure that is sustainable for our program doesn't seem to be working very well so I don't have any hearts or pictures here um however their hearts aren't broken yeah I want to um acknowledge Melissa Lopez for helping me and always responding to my chats and um getting getting it done late at night and early in the morning I just really appreciate you so thank you um and it certainly is a partnership with program and fisal we can't get what we want to get done without without their support and Leadership what you see here for our lcff is an increase of about $900,000 that's attributed to our Ada increase um the supplement on concentration we only reive supplemental funds and smaller
102increase there of about 50,000 and so we're planning we we've already addressed how we want to spend the supplemental funds and are looking to make some um decisions about Staffing and instructional materials Etc to spend the uh some of those additional lcff funds and with that um this is a picture of our staff and so on behalf of the career advancement Charter I want to thank you all for your ongoing support um and our our website is linked there and I'd be happy to answer any questions if you if you have any thank you Sony questions comments Ben Allen well thank you um I'm so glad this program and S school and the charter school are there it for me it makes our um provision or stewardship of PCS okay because we're balancing kind of
103the other end of the educational need Spectrum it's so important that we do that so I'm really grateful for your work thank you that we have this program and baris's vision for the charter school it's really paying off I was worried initially about 8A Break Even point of about 44 and so you're way above that yeah and it's a charter renewal year actually so we've been reading through that and it was it was 45 students was the projected Ada for year one and today in power school we're over 240 and so yeah we're we've grown quite a bit just even in the last year I did want to make sure that our newcomers know what was is WC because this is such a big deal for us and maybe Ferris could give a quick summary
104of its importance sure yeah so the way that uh our schools and universities um get the official kind of proof that they're effective uh schools is through evaluations by different agencies um and the one that covers this area is the Western Association of schools and colleges and so they come out and they basically well they first our staff have to put together a report that's that tells that describes how our students are doing what are the shrinks what are the areas of growth and then a team actually comes out visits and interviews the staff they classrooms they look you know under the tables and looking to see if the report is accurate and then they give us an accreditation which um the best accrediation is when you get a six-year accrediation which means that we're
105so confident your schools that's like the A+ you so confident your school is is a quality school that that we don't have to worry about coming back to visit for another six years and um and our schools consistently have been getting six-year accreditations and one of the steps that we took and that uh Sony helped us accomplish um was to get the School accredited because until Sony was leading uh the CAC was not un accredited which meant we didn't have a was accreditation at this point and that is like a stamp of approval so when our students s our diploma um when they go to the Community College when they um people know that that's a that's a that's an accredited school which means it's a qualities that they've got anything you'd like to add
106to that they'll be here in April so I'll they're back I'll be sharing and I'll be sharing that with you and then again I'll be bringing the charter renewal to yall in uh hopefully in March that's our plan great looking forward to it thank you persons again thank you so much I learned a lot I particularly liked one of your early slides that outline the four components of your program so the charter schools one that just helps me start to understand it again you answered all my questions and saw the Kudos in there I must say as a newbie still at hard for me to understand and this is on page 122 the agenda packet how enrollment is went down but Ada just so dramatically enrollment dropped striking to me and create such a complexity
107for school funding and Staffing and facilities and everything that you deal with and then the only other one that I'd mention is the child care for your South County for the evening of education important as you try absolutely and food is moving R uh you you mentioned it and it was the uh imunity Pro platform uh I what what is it and why isn't it working uh not to bring up PCS at Pacific Collegiate they're having kind of similar problems of attracting students Community Pro is a it's an online system that is used to make referrals between the Community College The Adult School in pbsd uh wasi and ourselves so it's part of our cons it's a it's a tool for our Consortium to use so the adult education Consortium we're we're member and this
108tool was selected um as part of a a three-year plan that we write for not I write but that is written on behalf of the Consortium and um it it is not an expensive tool for us because we don't have that many students and they they charge by per student it is it's just another thing to learn is what we're what we think and people we use power school for our student information system and we rely on more of a warm handoff of of direct dial and and helping students navigate and this is you know so and so is going to come see you on Tuesday it just it's clunky and also the the system doesn't talk to power school and so if we want our students to be in community Pro a person has
109to put them in and so we're we're in communication with a company again it's not a large expense it's going to be a Consortium decision uh if we're going to continue using the platform and if if the decision is yes then you know we'll commit and and make it work um but as a Consortium member you know I we get to express our concern and um observations of how well or how well it is not working yeah I hope that interesting because it's so it's something uh get the information Community right yeah any other questions or comments if not thank you appreciate it thank you now we're moving on to new business in action and we'll start with resolution 25-3 recognizing February as Black History Month and for this one we have uh trusty Van
110Allen thank you trustees um we have a few significant resolutions um uh at this meeting and the first one is recognizing February as Black History Month um and um this is a resolution we have consistently um adopted um and um this this has been updated um for this year and as I understand it um trusty Larsson would like to oh okay okay so well I was almost done um so um introducing the resolution um I would like to see the board approve it and and continue our commitment to recognizing our our black community locally and African-American black people so that's my my presentation of the item and okay guess that the chair call on commissioner trusty Larson Larson well thank you so much um I obviously and fully support it but since we're all Educators
111or at least supporting Educators I want to do a quick show on I was given this painting 40 years ago by Jacob Lawrence uh one of the most famous painters of the Harlem Renaissance um and it was given to me 40 years ago and I've tracked Jacob Lawrence ever since and it's images of Labor and so I was ecstatic to see that this year's Black History Month is tying the history of our african- American Community with the labor movement and it's just so powerful and I pulled it off my office wall to bring it tonight as sh and you can still sort of see his signature faded on the very camera is over here pointing it's pointing to the I've not missed an exhibition of his work since he passed away I'll make a motion
112to approve thank you any other questions or comments I'll second says our new Vana questions or comments none all right can we get a roll call vote please yes vice president Estrada yes trusty Larson yes truste Roth yes trustee Van Allen hi trustee Williams president Sanchez yes student trustee Hopkins I student trustee Marcus I passes unanimously thank you next up on the list we have 9.2 csba delegate assembly ballot for sub region 9A and for this one we have Dr Sabah who will speak to more detail on the item all right well um as you know the uh the California School Board Association is a um is an organiz ation that is a representative democracy and requires the selection of representatives from local school districts in different areas to represent the interests of the School
113Board Association um and so uh the um elections the ballots are due for you to vote and send to the delegate assembly by March 17th uh th those elected delegates are going to serve two-year terms um beginning on April 1st 2025 and uh they'll be representing their regions um their their their delegate uh regions and uh the next meeting is scheduled for May 17th um and 18th and as you know the the um these delegates play an important role in the governance of of this large organization one of the most powerful and impactful in terms of advocacy on behalf of students across the the state and so we have one uh candidate from sub region 9A which is uh representing us Mark Becker is a candidate from uh who's a school board member from San
114Loreno Valley Unified School District and um it would this would require action uh for you to uh determine if uh Mr Becker would be your if uh if you would want to um this select him is it a selection I think it's an official ballot so it is so it is a selection uh for um uh Mr Becker to represent region 9A so this would be your Vote or for Mr Becker since he's the only candidate you basically either choose support him or not make motion and uh I have worked with Mark many years through school district SK meetups so anyway wholehearted any questions or comments none all right all those in favor uh say I I any opposed passes unanimously congratulations Mark you got one vote all the best of luck moving on we
115have uh 9.3 now CSP delegate assembly ballot for the county delegate region 9 yes so this is now for the county delegate region 9 and um and in this case we have to select uh the board has to determine who to vote for and there are two candidates uh one is U Sur rooth who is a member of of our County Board of Education and the other person is Annette ye who is with the montere County Office of Ed and this would require board action to determine which of these two candidates you would like to support and um and it is appropriate uh for uh our for Miss Roth to participate in the discussion I would like to make a statement uh that uh an net is very very qualified would be honored to serve
116but I think like you're pretty qualified too right I feel like you're pretty qualified too yes but uh I would be very comfortable noted because it's a new position the SBA has made this uh position for the county Statewide they have been meeting as okay uh any questions comments from the board the just these none yes excuse me today I move that we um sure what the word is nominate or recommend or I think it's it's select selection process that we select um sub rooth um uh for delegate as our Delegate for region n i second perfect first and second I do have a question does this ballot go only to the Coes or do they go to the local districts do we know that I'm not sure but I I only counties I think
117this is the county process and the County Board repr okay okay perfect we have a motion we have first and a second all those in papor say I I you opposed perfect pass is unanimously congratulations the best of luck the best of luck a related question so for a future agenda um I'm confused about whether I should care about the alternative the the accb or whatever it's being called um apparently quite a few County boards have joined now according to their latest message um I don't know what the payoff is for us um and I just wonder if maybe we could have a discussion we did have a presentation a couple meetings back from person from them from there but um I didn't learn much that made ites were I guess that's what I don't
118know is what are the stakes so I just wonder if we could somehow find a way to discuss among the board and get some more information about I think the the the agenda committee and the board president can determined to put it on uh we could invite um somebody to present and uh and then you could take action to decide if you'd like to join or I I'll just have to be clear I don't have any feeling either way about it but you know obviously we want to be part of what the bigger picture is in the constructive way so if that's an and I do want to say a little point of order that we are discussing an item that's not on the agenda thank you not uh 9.4 we have another resolution this
119one is 25-4 recognizing March as disability awareness month again truste um we uh our board um feels it's important and I agree that we establish our positions and help the public understand the important things that are happening in our world and certainly recognition of um presence even but also the importance of people with disabilities in all aspects of our community is very important to recognize and so um we bring this resolution to the board this time questions comments is there a motion un moved you can have it you got a first and a second can we get a roll call though please student trusty Hopkins hi student trusty Marcus hi vice president Estrada yes trusty Larson yes truste Roth yes trusty Van Allen hi truste Williams president Sanchez yes passes unanimously thank you next another
120resolution 25-55 recognizing March as a woman's History Month Tres this resolution again is one of our cyclical ones it's a on an equally important set of questions um in my lifetime the rise of the second wave of feminist movement out of that really important that we continue uh trying to improve our country and the world have this resolution Willam motion to approve with a minor change um it shows doara was an American it more appropriate thank you uh do we have second I accept the change second okay uh questions comments none we get a roll call vote please student trusty hofkin hi student truste Marcus hi truste Estrada yes trusty Larson trustee Roth yes truste Van Allen trustee Williams president Sanchez yes passes unanimously thank you the next item 9.6 was tabled so that will
121be coming to us later so that brings us to 10 superintendent report yes thank you so much for uh the opportunity to provide an update on uh uh several of the things that we've been prioritizing since our last board meeting uh if you recall at uh we I spent a a significant amount of time at our last board meeting talking about our effort to uh support our immigrant community in Santa Cruz County and those who are impacted by the increase of immigration enforcement across the country as well as the removal of schools as safety locations or that would allow for uh immigration enforcement I'm happy to report that there has been no immigration enforcement at any school in the United States to our knowledge and we are monitoring that and looking at very carefully um
122there has been one case of a person who was deported in uh that was ret uh retained or was um arrested and deported within 24 hours in Santa Cruz County very quickly and quietly uh it's the only case that we're aware of of immigration enforcement since the administration took office uh five weeks ago um the um uh we have initiated a new partnership with cradle to Career which is a organization that uh really started with a big focus on live o uh School District or the live o area but now has is providing Services across the county they've been they've received training from um Community Action board and are uh ready to support schools that are asking for know your rights presentations these have been very popular in our community and most most districts have
123implemented them um one of the things that has happened is that there's now a delay in the ability to offer these trainings because the demand is so high and so we are partnering with CTC um to we created a a a curriculum and resources and um and uh translations and other kinds of supports to ensure that the kind of the integrity and quality of that presentation and we want to make sure that any school that needs a presentation um Can can receive it in a in a in a short time frame in addition we're making red cards and rapid response cards available the red cards are those the cards that on one side uh let community members know what their rights are if they are to engage in with with um immigration enforcement officials and
124then the other side it has the information to give to the that would be given to the uh officials asserting the right to remain silence and other uh rights as well um our the website that we launched and created uh Su the.info is pretty popular and is being used a lot we're we're we're getting about 200 hits a day um we continue to add resources but at the same time we're very cautious with what we're adding uh We've noticed that other folks are kind of dump long lists of resources and many of which are like letters and things that aren't necessarily useful to so we we keep an eye out with what is uh how what is a way to provide information in a clear succinct way and um and uh it seems to be
125working and so we're we're really grateful uh partnering with Community Action board uh uh Community Bridges and um lots of a Law Center in in maintaining and and updating that site and so please promote this site as well if if you can it's it's something that um I think uh is is a useful resource for our community I wanted to share with you that you know one of the areas that we continue to monitor carefully is is information orders and other action taken by the by by uh the current Administration um we received a letter on February 14th from the US Department of Education it was a dear colleague letter that was written by uh I believe a deputy secretary of the the Department of Education uh in that letter they um asserted that all
126services that have any kind of race uh component in other words any service that is uh designed or being delivered to a specific uh racial group is by definition racism and they cite a case where which is a case of a Harvard case that went all the way to the Supreme Court where Harvard was uh found to be um utilizing race to allow people U entry into the university and broadening in this letter they broaden that concept to say state that any kind of any basically equity-based uh services are in fact discriminatory and illegal uh everybody that I we've looked at um and many of our colleagues um at the state level um are in agreement that that is absolutely untrue and that this perception of of the work that we're doing um for marginalized
127communities is not racist it's not illegal and is absolutely appropriate for us to continue to do and so we of course disagree with with that um the one aspect of this letter and is that programs that continue to provide those these kinds of services and programs um will lose their Federal funding I wanted to share with you that approximately 12.5% of our budget comes from federal sources includes everything from some special education funding for our um our Title One Part D which which allows us to serve students who are in in a juvenile hall um Title One Part A which allows us gives us additional funding for students who qualify for free and reduced lunch and a variety of other funding sources and so you know cuts to these these programs or or even uh
128you know delays in receiving that that funding will have it would have a profound impact on our schools and this is the case for most school districts these federal funds are not a huge portion of but they are significant and would have a deep impact and so we're continuing to monitor the situation we know that our state officials have asserted uh quite vocally that they will take legal action if any cuts are uh take place um that um kind of conflate the administratives political objectives with um how we run our programs that that idea that federal government can dictate what and how we teach is is illegal and um and that there would be significant litigation from a variety of different um uh agencies if if if the federal government proceeds with with their asserted
129goal to to um cut Federal funding um I looks like I didn't finish my thought there on the last bullet but that nonprofits have been receiving letters um that say you need to sign this this this form um and if you don't sign this form that says that you are going to follow and Implement all of the Fed Federal um and be aligned to the federal administration's priorities you will lose your funding now that's kind of like a uh it's it's a um um it's a loyalty pledge basically where you have to put your signature and if you don't sign it then that in itself it's your funding at risk and so I feel like they're even more exposed many of them are mostly funded by federal funds uh Community College also is very concerned
130about um this communication that was received they get about 25% of gabrio college is is ferally funded um and so uh this is something we're looking at carefully and um and this also is knowing that there's steps being taken to disband or dismantle the 's Department of Education itself so a lot of this you know we try to do our best to separate the noise and the chaos from real action with real impacts and um and so I'll do my best to provide you updates on an ongoing basis about any any steps that are taken that are impacting our programs for our students um I did want to uh thank you for passing the res resolution all the resolutions and especially black issue month and I wanted to point out that we are relaunching our
131website for racial equity and Justice it felt uh important that now more than ever that we um assert our values um and of course not only when it comes to our our black community but also our lgbtq plus Community um our immigrant Community um and everybody who's being targeted at this point and so we're really excited about this I would I had hoped to have uh the website ready to show it off today but uh it'll probably be on Monday uh but we're having a bunch of new resources that are that uh for teachers um there'll be some videos from some of our students and uh and a new uh look and feel that I think you'll appreciate and um and just one more way that we can reaffirm our commitment to equity and to
132our community in in these difficult times I wanted to share with you some exciting events tonight uh is the mock trial award ceremony so it's at 800m this evening which is in 32 minutes and uh so uh after we finish over here I will I'm going to rush over there to participate in that we're very excited and uh there's uh um two teams that are competing for the final and uh for for the final prize and we'll we'll know who's the winner and but we also honor lots of students are also nominated for a variety of different Awards uh and we celebrate them wanted to share with you that uh we are going to have a prek andk community Forum on February 27th and another uh viewing of fentanyl High to bring awareness awareness about
133uh f for of the dangers of Fentanyl and um and then our steam Expo is taking place on March 8th um which is on a Saturday and um and then we're organizing in uh with Cabrio College uh and uh with Rob Darrow uh a lgbtq symposium at uh on March 21st which is really exciting the first first of its kind and also for the 50th anniversary of of uh of pride which I think is going to be a a wonderful event so we would love it for for you to be a part of these uh these events are there any events that I missed from my list mice that you can you can think of oh nope later oh later on and I wanted to thank you um for those of you that U many
134of you came to participate in our in our annual celebration and and you know it was it was not as well intended as we would have liked and uh but it was wonderful to have so many board members represented um and and many staff members who are there as well so um thank you for for being there and thank you for being a part of that that thank you any questions for me um the mock trial did all the high school no um we um struggle to we worked hard but um I believe that that Watson and PV high school did not participate this year and um on the prek and TK is sorry sorry Baron uh is it going to be a discussion of the value of the programs or uh are can you
135opt in can you opt out is is that what it's well that's I mean I think that's that's one part of it but it really is about the programs themselves about learning about the programs and the the really to encourage uh folks to um you know to go from prek into the TK and start start their schooling in TK um we're we actually are funded by the state to help facilitate um the uh the implementation of prek universal pre and TK and across the the county so um it's really we see it as a safety net and so we're going to be talking about what the programs are um helping people know what they're about and what it looks like inside the classroom kind of demystify it and really encourage folks to to uh to
136to to sign up and for many families um you know TK is is free and and in some cases families have to pay for pre- depending on on uh you know which if it's a if they qualify for for State programs or not but um so talking about that as well is is also part of that and I can show I'll be happy in the invitation that I'll send you with these I'll I'll be sure to explain more about what we we have planned for that okay good other questions or comments if not we will move on to trustee reports and I will start this time and then we'll move our way down the table hard to believe that feels like it was a long time ago but it happened after our last meeting so
137I'm going to mention it graduations January 17th uh I attended uh some of the ones that we held the day after our board meeting in seoa in Watsonville and they're always amazing they're always great to to be a part of and to just hear from our students and to see them graduate and get their their degrees you know it's always encouraging and it always makes it worth it you know a lot of some of these packets can be long sometimes but seeing them graduate makes it all worth it right it's it's it's make brings me joy and makes me happy and glad that I can be a part of that uh January 25th we had our good Beginnings Workshop I wanted to thank everybody for making the effort to to be there uh I think
138it was very informative very helpful I always enjoy spending time with you guys and learning a little bit more about us uh what we're doing right what we can improve I think it was well done I I I found it to be very valuable so definitely enjoyed that one and the last item on my list is the wellness center ribbon cutting at Scots Valley High School was able to attend that and was just very impressed of the resources of the space that's just available to students uh I wish we had that um growing up I can't believe I just said that but uh I think it's a really good resource and I'm really happy the fact that we are focusing on Mental Health I think for the longest time we were told to just deal
139with it and now we have a space that's safe where we can um show up and be vulnerable I think that's beautiful I think it's amazing very fortunate and glad that we have that in uh Scots Valley currently and then rapidly expanding through other school sites uh within the county so super proud of the county for for that and with that that's my report uh Str uh I'll keep it short so you can get to the mock trial um the I thought the special board governance meeting was super helpful informative but a great bonding experience with everyone so really enjoyed that and uh I also attended theual cele celebration which was uh great great music as always great food as always um so it was a wonderful time and they they H they did a
140little play and everything with the little kids it was so adorable with a like building the railroad it was so cute really cute so uh it was great to great to be there I'm it sucks that the rain probably affected turnout for there but I ran through the rain in the parking lot as it was pouring uh and it was so worth it thank you Williams good evening everyone um so additionally um also attended the graduations um with President Sanchez um enjoyed as well the are the first for for me the annual um special Workshop board meeting and appreciated it was really a learning experience and an opportunity for us to kind of um hear each other's perspectives in different areas um let's here I did not attend the Coe celebration of schools commune because
141I was at my daughter's last mock trial presentation they were not expecting to be the final two so she knew it was going to be her um her last opportunity to um to be I believe she is prosecuting attorney for har and um it was a really nice experience for me because she has been doing it for three years and this was the first time I got to watch her um so that was pretty exciting and I believe their team will be receiving a few Awards we'll be able to make it um here um I've been attending a bi-weekly um attended the cba's immigration policy and resource it was a zoom call it had a lot of um really helpful tools of what schools ands are doing regarding um some of the in the immigration
142policies that are going around the governor's budget perspective workshop with that was really informative was my first time lots of information lots to take in see here Wellness Center Harbor High is going to be have opening their own Wellness Center so I'm really looking forward to I have a a unique perspective one because my daughter goes there two because I'm also the president of our booster and so we're trying to find support the wellness center on an on basis because we snacks or whatever it is that we can provide um our also anxious we're looking into it and finally been attending bi-weekly Santa Cruz County immigration Coalition meetings and join the um the children's safety plan committee so I'll be working with Sher cassid who is an attorney to help streamline some Communications and organizations
143volunteers I guess volunteers and trying to make with what they got because you know it's just um it's been a lot coming in so so she was looking for some help so so it's been busy but thank you then alen uh graduations uh which were sweet board retreat which I really valued and appreciate everybody um uh had a couple committee meetings um our event Community event was really wonderful I was really glad to make it um and the performances does never for get one of the singers who was only about this tall and had an incredible voice and ability to sustain a single note that was right on key and right in the rhythm of that song and just did just that person has a future that um anyway very sweet wonderful event um I
144got my button thank you hras um and um and then I had um the the fabulous fun of once again summing my way through my Bruce's tips and tricks on public speaking which I did to our youth Le leadership Alliance um a couple weeks ago and hope they got some value of it I'm really having fun doing that so I did it down to sequa was first time I got to do a teaching type thing at that building and that was fun for more opportunities thank you Barson I submitted most of mine in writing because I'm trying to get out there a lot so I won't go through all that I too attended the uh South County schools graduation with truste Williams and president uh Abel um let's see I just wanted to comment briefly
145on the open house and in particular the performances are great talking to people is great but I was most struck by Natalie's and Ferris comments they were both outstanding and you both spoke so well and so powerfully so congrats to both was the highlights of the evening for me was hearing you to speak so thank you um board governance retreat was great mock one this is our mock trial my first time attending it I actually probably saw your daughter because I was the volunteer in judge kot's room with Harbor High and PCs which I didn't know till after because you can't know it beforehand um so I probably saw your daughter perform um let's see but it was inspiring to see those kids do that every uh let's see the other ones I wanted to
146highlight were um oh ethics training Coe sponsored ethics training which we all have to do by the end of the year I attended Tuesday night it was great to see the other 40 local district school board members there and just connect with a bunch of them so that was good to go by that um and then you'll see on my list I submitted I'm attending a bunch of school things in my district and it's just to get to know the parent community and to see what's going on in the schools and I love it half the time I know people there so old home week so it's great I'll stop there thank you br uh yes uh did a lot of what everyone else has been doing I wanted to say that I was honored
147that we had Mike Walsh uh as the facilitator for our good Beginnings I've seen him from afar for years and uh was really great to get to actually talk and I do have a book that he mentioned called the age of grievance which I'm about halfway through and I will bring it and it's a very very interesting read that he mentioned I did attend the Scots Valley High School Wellness Center uh what was really cool for me to learn was that the students designed the actual facility and put in what they wanted and that it's been in operation for about two months and very very well received I walked into the school with the student body president and she was talking about how it just hit the ground and is in use all the time
148and I I don't know whether we want this or not but U it's what you have to sign to participate uh and um anyway as far as donations go they'll ex they will accept I'm sure Harbor will accept because they have games and uh cfts and whatever so um I think that that's it oh and the community meeting I really liked Paris that you talked about federal government versus naming uh or blaming um the person I'm not but uh I I just I really liked Focus the focus that it is the federal government at this point Thank you thank you okay sounds good um ad hoc committees any comments updates from our committees no real quick one I'm sorry uh the community outreach and legislative committee did meet on Tuesday it's Natalie Bruce myself with
149Ferris and verin um Bruce and Ferris gave us the history of the committee then we brainstormed what we want to do this year which is legislative resolutions like Bruce presented tonight Bruce is already chair of policy so he nominated me to be chair of this committee for the coming year um and then we also want to focus on community engagement how do we do that effectively for the board and everything the board does um we also had as so Community engagement legislation and then a third item which kind of deals with what's going on in DC it may just be a sounding board for us event or maybe a place to come up with ideas and talk about what's the appropriate response that should be recommended up to the full board on those issues uh
150the only specific action we took is we will be bringing forward to the board for the President and Vice President agree agreement a recommendation to endorse the workforce Housing Solutions act which is going forward in the city of Santa Cruz and will provide a background report and resolution for board consideration of that at your next meeting I may work in what a csba just put out today was their sponsorship of ab 1021 which is an education Workforce hous bill that may be our first legislative Bill there thank you next we have the schedule of meetings and upcoming events our regularly scheduled meeting March 20th and a whole list of different uh events that we have coming up I want to shout out this steam Expo on March 8th I know that they're still looking for
151volunteers I will be there been done that done have done it in the past really amazing experience it's fascinating to see students uh choose a subject choose a project really dedicate and then present it to uh the world you know and to compete in in that aspect of it our students tend to do pretty well we send students to State and most of the time they end up going nationally as well so definitely encourage everybody to attend that one or any of those other events that are listed up there and with that our meeting is AJ thanks everybody