November 16, 2023 County Board of Education Meeting

00120 23 to order welcome everyone and I'd like the cler to call Ro please trusty a Costa trusty ala trusty Estrada here truste Nichols here trusty Roth here trusty Sanchez here trusty Alvarez here President Van Allen here thank you do we have any board members needing to connect to us um virtually today thank you then um we'll we're now to item number two the Pledge of Allegiance and I'd like to ask superat please rise if you can face the flag ready begin I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you juses it's now time for approval of the agenda um and I want to ask for um particular thing the unfortunately

002we didn't actually receive all the necessary materials for the closed litigation session so um we'd like to table that until the December meeting um and I need a motion to table I'll take that motion I'll second motion by R second by estada to table close session it 5.1 and approve today's agenda all in favor say I I any opposed motion carries allk skipping the Clos session we are now in Open Session nothing report on because the Clos section so now is the opportunity for public comment this is a time for anyone from the public who wishes to address the board on items that are not on today's agenda and we ask that you limp your remarks for three minutes is there anyone from the public who wishes to address the board we have an online

003request for comment there was an online request however they're not in the form or they're not on Zoom yet and it was for something not on the agenda corre well um we're now to the consent agenda and um trust um I need any corrections from you or exceptions or motion was was uh something in the minutes about uh Lawrence Lane where where it said Lawrence and then Lawrence again so I I'll tell you what page I I have to look it up [Music] just finding I'm having trouble finding it I tell her later um yes I think it's on page 11 that's my memory just describe briefly what it referred to and then it uh referred to our appointment of Larry Lane to the was it the person commission there was a typo in that

004item yeah and I'd like a motion to approve the consent agenda with asking the staff to correct that type V that thank you motion by Nichols second I'll second second by Sanchez all in favor say I iOS motion carries unanimously now to correspondence is there any correspondence in addition to was in that no correspondent President Van Allen thank you preses we are now at section 11 reports discussions and presentation the first presentation will be 11.1 Williams legislation report on on Valley Unified School District on Santa Cruz City School District and um Dr sa you want to introduce I do I'd like to welcome Brian wall and Richard Reed who are going to be providing a presentation about uh the Williams legislation as you know this is part of our responsibilities County Office of Education to

005ensure that the basics the basic resources are available to our students and this uh this process has existed for quite some time we're fortunate to have the expertise of former deputy superintendent Brian Wall uh as well as uh our director of operations and um com to uh who um are the ones responsible for visiting schools ensuring that that those resources are available to to um all students they'll be providing a report to us this afternoon uh in regard to how our schools have done uh this year so I'd like to welcome uh Brian wall and Rich Reed well good afternoon nice to see all of you um you know basically this is my is the microphone on I don't know if I can hear but it's it's we need it for the is it working

006now all right now you're really going to hear me okay uh this is our yearly report that we do regarding you know the Williams legislation from from years ago um this year we um the districts that we visited were pvusd uh Delta Charter Santa Cruz City Schools San Lorenzo UniFi uh Pacific district and the SEC uh program the C you know the CAC and we'll talk a little bit more about that uh the things that we're looking for and Richard's going to talk a little bit more about the facilities after I talk about the curricular aspect of things U but what we're looking for really when we go is to make sure there's sufficient instructional materials at each of the sites for kids in the classroom and also to take home if if if necessary

007the other thing that we looking for uh in the core academic areas by the way and then the other thing we're looking for is um you know in the facility side of it really anything that's hazardous or could cause serious injury to students and we we've determined that there were a few things but but for the most part um our visits have been fruitful in the sense that everything we've recommended has very much been addressed by the districts and the schools so we're really pleased to see that that um you know something that uh people don't look forward to ends up being something positive in the end um the other thing that we do is we make sure that the uh the sarc um is you know the school account School accountability report card is

008accurate uh and it reflects the things that are supposed to reflect uh you know each year and we found that in each case that it was accurate the other thing that we want to make sure is that everybody has their uniform complaint policy posted and that um it's it's in a conspicuous place for um really for parents to be able to see and uh it's supposed to be posted in English and Spanish which which we found was the case in all the schools and then uh also we're looking for teacher Miss assignments credentialing issues and things like that one of the schools just actually had a marked the wrong column and ended up being visited a couple of years in a row um really only by happen stance uh all of their teachers are actually

009properly credential their principal just checked the wrong box and a report to the state so um we visit them because we have to but they're they're doing a fantastic job we'll talk about that in a little bit so basically um if you turn to the second page of the document uh you'll you'll actually see the school that we visited there were 11 schools total so we visited bayew Elementary Calabasas Elementary Delta Charter EA Hall midy Elementary Pacific Elementary PB High School Rolling Hills Middle School s Lorenzo Valley Middle School and then our our own uh CAC and uh you know just to point out that the only reason we even visit the CAC is because their graduation rate they're never going to be able to reach a certain graduation rate because of the the clientele

010that they attract and that they're educa so um it's a Perpetual thing for them but they're doing a fantastic job so just because they're on the list doesn't mean that they're you know they're not excelling at what they do because you know they're bringing in people that uh you know older adults that you know that missed out on a high school diploma so it's pretty hard to you know reach a graduation rate for folks uh when when you know it's kind of you know after the fact so I just wanted you to kind of realize that that's that's the case with the CAC so in each case um in all the schools um Everybody ranked fine with um instructional materials for every student um everybody had a uniform complaint policy posted in English and Spanish

011um on the day of the visit everybody was properly credentialed which is something very unique this year um in the past uh there's been huge gaps uh especially for for Pb USD they had a hard time attracting teachers for a while and then making sure that they were properly properly credential in their subject areas and this year there was only one substitute in the entire District that we visited that was a long-term sub and was going to be hired as a permanent employee within the week that we visited so that's a big big change for them and uh they should be applauded for um for their efforts in attracting uh properly credential people so I'm going to turn it over to Richard just to talk a little bit about some of the facilities issues that

012we may have seen uh and um we go from there and then see if you have any questions okay good afternoon everybody um we enjoy doing these Williams visits it's very collaborative it's nice to get out into the community and see schools and kids um we visit the same schools year after year so it kind of becomes like old home for us and it's nice to see some of the problems being corrected and schools improving because of the phits we only had one school that scored Fair which means that there was something that we noticed that we felt like there was a safety issue all of our other schools either scored excellent or good um and and really Brian did a great job of talking about what we do we visited 11 schools this year

013from a facility standpoint we're looking for things that are really related to school safety leaking roofs nildo issues carpet damage stuff that's going to trip or trip and fall and that was actually the thing that caused the one school to score fair is they had some holes in the playground that a student might hurt themselves if they were to step into and we were really concerned about that so that's the one thing that we did bring up do you have any questions for us good thanks thanks thank you both you have any further um no I don't think so than you thank you we now to item 11.2 this is the annual report from Collegiate School I'd like to introduce Dr Ron if uh it' be all right for me to provide a quick introduction

014as you know uh Pacific Collegiate School is authorized by this by this board as and so you are the uh Charter authorizers and so over the years we've developed a a really wonderful partnership with Pacific Collegiate and that is defined in in you and and of course in their Charter and part of that relationship is that uh is ongoing meetings with the charter committee that uh that we have as well as an annual report uh where we discuss a variety of topics and really take a look at at the strengths and some of the challenges that are faced and I would like to uh just share appreciation for uh the presence of is Al the chair of the board for uh for uh the charter who's here and other folks who are uh who are

015here present to in support of uh of U of Pacific Collegiate School so uh also want to welcome um Dr Ray Tano and as well as um aiyah Hatcher who's who's the uh director of of uh of school Equity I believe almost almost you'll help you'll help correct me that on that one but appreciate your presence and uh please take it away thank you Dr saah um President Van Allen board trustees and attendees both here and online um as Dr Sabah mentioned I'm Maria Rano head of school at PCS I'm pleased to be joined by our director of diversity equity and inclusion Miss Aaliyah Hatcher and as we begin I want to just pause to recognize and appreciate the leadership and support of our board of directors the tireless efforts of our faculty and staff

016who work every day to live into our commitment to preparing every student for college and career opportunities and that's really what we're here to talk with you about this afternoon it's our pleasure to share with you some statistics and information regarding our school as well as an update on progress towards the goals outlined in our 2020 to 2025 diversity plan and although we've been sharing as Dr saah mentioned updates of our work quarterly with the charter subcommittee we're happy to share with the full board today the ongoing work we're M we're doing to make sure that PCS is exceptional college preparatory education is accessible to students throughout Santa Cruz County I'm going to highlight some schoolwide data and background information for you and then Aaliyah will provide a more specific update on progress towards each

017of our five diversity plan goals and as usual we'll wrap up with an opportunity for you to ask any questions you may have um I don't know who's driving but very of that's you thank you you may recall from past presentations that PCS adopted a new strategic plan in 2021 and in support of that work we engaged hundreds of our educational Partners in an iterative process to revise and refine the vision mission and value statements for our school diversity Equity inclusion and access are intentionally for fronted in these statements as essential principles that continue to guide our community on the next slide our mission statement um you will notice that um these collabora collaboratively developed statements build on our tradition of academic excellence and stress the importance of what I like to call our true

018north which is ensuring that we remove barriers so that all students have Equitable access and the opportunity to benefit from our exemplary program on the next slide you'll see um our core values and these serve as a framework for engaging as a school Community we are committed to holding ourselves accountable for actions that Foster an inclusive School community in which students and families experience connection and belonging they're a strong foundation for a positive School climate and culture and the initiatives that we have underway including multi-tiered systems of support which Aaliyah will be speaking with you about and our work towards a positive behavior intervention and support or PBIS system for PCs they also feature prominently in our recently revised student recognition system which was developed by our Dei task force on the next slide you'll

019see the anchors of our strategic plan which is included in the report we submitted to you as appendix a and it anchors the work of our school in the five key areas shown here you'll notice that these are the same areas that are reflected in our diversity plan and in our lcap so we're striving to have alignments around those core values and ideals that we're holding ourselves accountable for this year PCS is also deeply engaged in a self-study to support our upcoming accreditation visit by a team from the Western Association of schools and colleges and anyone who's ever been involved in a was process knows this is an incredibly labor and time intensive process um that engages the whole school community in reflecting on our program our facility our staff our instruction our Student Life

020Learning outcomes progress towards goals and much much more and while that process is really helpful to us in taking the temperature and taking a moment to assess our progress towards goals it also takes a considerable amount of time and effort away from other initiatives um that we've been driving towards um in recent years and so I just think as we begin our presentation I want to frame the conversation that we're going to have um by noting that diversity efforts at any school ours is no except ception take place in the midst of challenging times for California schools who must increasingly do more with fewer funds find ways to help students rebound from learning loss meet the needs of unprecedented mental health challenges and for us an accreditation self-study I share this to help you understand

021that the critical work required to meet our goals is not a short-term effort rather it's a fundamental priority for our school despite the busyness of Any Given year focusing on Equity unpacking institutional racism and creating conditions that welcome and support each student and family is unique and nuanced and complex work we recognize that it will be our persistence and tireless commitment to this work over the course of years that will result in the desired changes and demographic shifts and we appreciate your partnership in those efforts so just a little bit of bragging about our school if you wouldn't mind verise the next slide um I'm proud to report that PCS continues to be recognized as a leading institution in secondary education we're recognized in 2021 as uh California uh distinguished School we've received high ratings

022for years through US News and World Report Niche the uh challenge index ratings and so on and so forth both at the local National and state levels um and we're proud that that tradition of Excellence continues we attribute next slide please we attribute the our success to small class sizes rigorous learning across an expansive curriculum and an exemplary team of Educators we've expanded our commitment to diversity in recent years as those of you who are continuing members of the board know by expanding our Lottery preferences to welcome a more diverse student population and by taking other actions we'll be detailing in the remainder of this presentation we're proud of our progress but there's more work yet to be done um just to give you a taste of recent success um and our current standings on

023the next slide you'll see um 2023 results for English language arts and these figures are differentiated or disaggregated rather of for our largest um subpopulations uh Latin and uh White students and by grade level so you can see that PCS students continue to perform well and the majority of our students in all subgroups are meeting or exceeding state standards in English language arts in some cases like 11th grade our latinx population is outperforming their white peers which we're pleased to see um so so those results and if you turn to the next uh move to the next slide please this is the visual one of the visualizations available through the coe's data portal and um as you can see here we we saw the same kind of learning loss and downturn in performance over the

024course of the pandemic and immediately following as other schools across the state and Nation um but we're really proud of the rebounding that we're seeing in um both English language arts and math um since that time which is telling us that uh our some of our efforts to um regain some of that learning loss um are are being effective on the next slide you'll see similar results for mathematics um We are continuing to see gaps in the performance of our students in mathematics that predate the pandemic so you'll notice that at each grade level there are dis dis gaps between the performance of our Latin students and our white and their white peers um those gaps were exacerbated during the pandemic as dis those um conditions disproportionately affected many of those communities um but if

025you look at the next slide you'll see that in math as well when we look at that Equity dashboard you can see that rebound happening for all of our populations our work over the next few years is to make sure that those gaps are are lessened um and so we're doing that in a few different ways uh next slide please so we're continuing to address our accessibility um and performance gaps particularly for economically disadvantaged Latina and English Learners which we see specifically in mathematics or most dramatically in mathematics in a variety of different ways we noticed that Middle School math in particular as a starting point for uh the grades that we serve 7 through 12 at PCS is um a foundational time that we're noticing those initial gaps and so we want to work

026intentionally in those middle years or Middle grades rather to um address those gaps um so that as students move up through the math um sequence at PCS they're uh better prepared to perform um on par with their peers so how are we doing that this year we uh uh had a math teacher on special assignment with release time to explore and innovate what differentiated instruction looks like in Middle School mathematics to address the gaps that are identified for each individual student and Trends over the course of the Middle grades as a whole that particular teacher is not only working on differentiating math instruction in the classroom room but taking note of where we have persistent gaps um that we can redesign curriculum to address so that all students are moving through those grades ready for

027high school mathematics as strong of mathematicians as they can possibly be we have math tutoring support and additional learning opportunities available for all students at the tier one level in tutorial and after school four days a week we have adopted software technology that's responsive learning software that provides personalized practice in each student areas of growth that's a program called ISL and it not only identifies areas where students may have a skill or understanding Gap but gives them additional practice in that area so that um the teacher has support and a responsive tool to help each student be working on the particular skills that they need to um to shore up and be ready for the next math concept we're also in process um and nearing the very end of process and putting together a proposal

028for a revised middle school math program at PCS with multiple entry points and levels of support previously um all students who came to PCS started with pre-algebra we're noting particularly since the pandemic that there are a number of students who aren't ready for that level of mathematics yet um and so we're working on a system um that would allow multiple entry points so that by the time all students get to high school they've had the kind of learning that they need to be successful and and move into algebra and Beyond um if you look at the next slide you can see that our students perform consistently well on Scholastic aptitude tests and other high stakes College admissions uh tests above and beyond the national averages this is true year year after year at PCS and

029while many colleges and universities have recently adopted test optional admissions criteria we want to eliminate the barrier for all PCS students and so we provide uh PSAT SAT and ACT test preparation courses and materials for all students with no cost to families and anyone who's had a preol teenager recently knows that that can be a cost Savings of between 1,000 and2 ,000 um but we offer it to all of our students at no cost um on the next slide you can see our success in advanced placement courses pcss curriculum is aimed um at ensuring that students have multiple opportunities to take and pass um advanced placement courses before they leave PCS the requirement is five AP classes most students are average is about seven and we see this as an opportunity for families to save

030College tuition money and for students to demonstrate their capability um um with college level work long before they matriculate into college the majority of students who participated in AP exams last year about 78% of them earned passing scores of three four or five and so were able to apply for college credit on the next slide you'll see that this year we uh in response to our scores from last year received two different awards from the College Board One reflects that our curriculum offers opportunities for all students without tracking or prerequisites or any kind of entrance exam for AP classes and the other ref reflects the fact that students of color at PCS perform at levels similar to their white peers on AP exams demonstrating the success in our efforts to reduce those gaps and ensure

031Equitable outcomes for all students so what happens when kids leave PCS on the next slide you can see that um the class of 20123 headed in a lot of different directions um we had uh about 133% of our students went to Community College 75% matriculated directly to a four-year University program 1% enlisted in military service by matriculating to a military college and 11% sized to take a gap here I'm hearing a lot about travels and study abroad uh before starting College in short I'll say that we continue our commitment to high achievement but also to closing gaps and providing a college preparatory education that opens doors for every student that wants to be a part of the PCS community and with that I'm pleased to invite turn things over to our Dei director Aaliyah Hatcher

032to provide a more deep detailed update on how this work is going at PCS so um thanks for having me um I want to start by kind of reiterating um what Maria said in the beginning of the presentation and just sharing a personal reflection around what progress and timelines look like in equity and anti-racism work um when I began this work I thought that it would be a lot quicker than what it actually is and that's just not the reality of authentic um anti-racism work it takes time um which means that we're moving at a pace that frankly is slower than anyone would be comfortable with right and I think that's true across all schools at this point in time um this year we've definitely experienced some very real challenges that have impeded some of

033the process um and it's not it's not the end of the road for us we're continuing to move forward um but it is important to acknowledge the fact that budget cuts have definitely hindered our ability to support bip students to support students with disabilities to support students that are first college so on and so forth um and was also takes up a significant amount of time so the ability that we have to train our teachers to move forward um on the work that we've done over the past couple of years is definitely slower um this year than in previous years so we're very excited to be moving towards the end of was um because then we'll be able to get back into um into the meat of what we need to do so um in

034the next slid I'm going to talk about the five different goals that we have um and I'll start off with the Dei task force um so this is a group of approximately 15 different community members it's made up of students it's made of parents um staff members faculty members board members administrators and community members um and we come together to check in on how is PCS doing towards its equity and inclusion goals um evaluate our strengths and our areas for growth this year these are our main priorities We are continuing to complete our Equity by Design framework through finishing our Equity audit which I'll talk a little bit about in second um we are also last year completed a proposed extanded student recognition system so this year we're in the process of monitoring and providing

035feedback on the roll out of that and making sure um that it is coming into fruition um we are also in the process of um revising our community surveys and making sure that the questions that we're asking um actually allow for us to hear from the voices that we we haven't heard from in the past um and also reducing the number of those so that we don't see a so that we don't see fatigue from the people that are taking the survey we want as accurate um data as we can get and then the last thing that we are working on doing as a task force this year um is making a plan to address past harms um pertaining to Identity that we either exacerbated by our action or inaction or um that we ourselves

036were the cause of um that feels like a really important part of restoring trust um within our community um and making sure that people know that this is a priority for us and that we want their kids in the building um can you move forward please thanks um so for the expanded student recognition system um we use student voice we got approximately half of our student population to respond and share what they were wanting to see um in terms of how they would be recognized and what they would be recognized for so they wanted to be recognized for positive habits of mind things like resilience growth mindset um they wanted to be recognized for demonstrating the school values which Maria showed earlier um they also wanted to be recognized for extracurricular activities uh we have

037had a new sports director over the past year um who's done a really great job of expanding that um and our art department has also been expanding quite a bit and so they our our students are really wanting to be recognized for those things that they're doing as well um and then we also want to expand the opportunities for people to be recognized for academics right now what we have is a salutatorian um system and what we want to add into that is a Kum loud system and an honorable system which allows for more students to be able to be recognized for that um so the really cool things that come out out of the student recognition system is that students themselves get an opportunity to uh nominate their peers for demonstrating the school values

038um which we feel is a really important part of empowering students to actually live into what our mission vision and values are as a school um we also know that by expanding these opportunities um it allows for students to start to build their College rums earlier um and show really the full um wealth and depth of what they are doing as students and young people in this community next slide please I am not um so the other thing that we are working on is our Equity audit um the Dei task force has identified these different Focus areas um if you can click really quickly there'll be a little animation that pops out thank you um so for we're looking at whole and culturally proficient staff and faculty whole stands for wellness healing opportunity learning and

039Equity um we're focused on inclusive School cultures and policies culturally relevant curriculum student centered academics um and learning leadership um also whole resources for our students and families and making sure that we are engaged fully um in the Santa Cruz Community um we're currently reviewing our School culture and policies by looking at student and caregiver and staff experience surveys from the previous years that we've done them checking to see um what's going really well and where our continued areas for growth and then we're also um expanding our anti-discrimination and anti-racism policy so that they are significantly more clear as to what that means what that looks like um and how what families and students can expect in terms of a response when things come up uh next slide please so these are the five goals

040that we have for our diversity plan um we I'll start with uh goal a if we can go to the next one um okay so um much of this you all have heard about before we've updated our lottery pro uh preference um to make sure that 30% of our spots for seventh graders are open to traditionally underrepresented students that includes student that um are first college um and students that are receive free and reduced lunch programs um we also are working on making sure that our communication is inclusive so that means that making sure that all of our uh anything that goes out from the school is translatable um anything and that there's also multiple modalities that we're sending it out not just through phone not just through email using text um sending actual fers

041home in the mail um and really trying to make sure that we're having that one-on-one connection with our families um then also our bilingual Community liaison has been a really huge help um she's brought in or she has brought in a lot of different connections that she had when before she was working with PCS and that helped us to connect with a number of the different um organizations that are pictured up there including Mahala project um no Vista d report Resource Center um just to name a few um and those Partnerships look like us going over to um those Resource Centers and either volunteering um it also looks like us stowing and holding information sessions there um so that families throughout the county can know about PCS as an option for them and what it

042has to offer um um we also make sure that we hold our Lottery sessions bilingually um and that when we uh have our Lottery information sessions that we have technology there and people there to support people with completing the actual application because that can sometimes be a barrier as well um we also do accept our applications in paper um and myself and the Bing will Community leaon manually will enter those into the lottery system next slide please okay so um this slide is showing what our current uh enrollment for race is as it stands right now um as you can see 10th grade is our most racially diversed group um with about 50% of the student body being bipo students um the second most diverse would be our seventh grade um the reason why I

043point these two out is these are kind of the two touch points for our school 10th grade is oftentimes that's a when students start their AB classes um and so that's when the rigor gets much more increased um and we tend to see attrition at that grade um so we've been working really hard and diligently to make sure that we are bolstering those kids up and making sure that they have the supports that they need seventh graders also making sure that they are like well wrapped in and connected um one of the things that we've also seen in exit survey data is that students really want to feel connection with their peers and really want to feel connection with staff and faculty so um through things like home room um and game days and things

044like that um we're looking to make sure that students feel really connected um to the school because that's part of what keeps done there next slide please all right so this is our racial enrollment data over um since 2017 um I think this is a really great example of what slow Equity work looks like it's slow um but it is steady which I'm quite proud of um the one thing that I did want to point out is that since 2017 approximately when we looked at County and state levels of enrollment approximately 3% there's been approximately a 3% change since 2017 in their demographics which means that 3% increase in students of color um and a 3% decrease in white students um during that same time period for PCs um we saw the demographics shift by

0456.4% that is over 6% an increase in students of color with a corresponding decrease in white students um so this data demonstrates that PCS is making positive gains and efforts to diversify our student population um and since since we know that this word does take time um we're continuing to analyze and use this data the data that is on your portal um to identify what are those specific strategies that are allowing for us to see this accelerated growth um so that we can continue it next slide please all right um now these this is our multi-tiered systems of support we know um that it is every student's right to be support and have the resources and and access that they need to be successful at any school um at PCS this looks like a multi-tiered

046system um it's kind of hard to see from there but we are constantly adding in new supports to each of these tiers so this is what we currently have and are continuously building that out next slide please all right so um there is a lot that has been done here in terms of building our mechanisms for student support um but some of what that has looked like is refining the work of our student support and advisory team our SS team um it currently includes our vice principal uh myself the dean of Faculty a college counselor bilingual Community liaison um our social emotional counselor our director of special education 504 coordinator and now uh a Encompass uh representative which is a contractor that we work with to support students with mental health they also join that

047meeting as well um we're also looking to expand satsat to look at whole school data and identify trends that are happening there so that we can intervene on a larger level um currently what we do is significantly more individualized support to students um also our bilingual Community liaison um works and supports our multilingual students and their families um Sophia did a really incredible job of connecting with those families making them feel heard and seen um and she's put us in a really great place to continue that work um we have also expanded our services for English language Learners and our students that have been reclassified um as English proficient um and this includes having profession tutoring for them there's also a tutorial period that they have um two times a week where they come in

048and meet with our English language um development coordinator um and she she helps them to identify where are they struggling what teachers do they need to work with um if there's specific skills that they need to build um she helps them with that um and she also works with our general education teachers to make sure that they're integrating ELD strategies um because we know that those strategies are good for all students not just English language Learners um other things we as I mentioned before we also contracted with Encompass um and they are now able to provide us support for our students on a larger amount um which is really good as we've seen an uptick in the need of mental health needs for our students um we're continuing to work with our Avid Regional team

049um and also work with our teachers to make sure that they are embedding the practices into the general education classrooms because we don't yet have a critical mass of students that would fall into the AVID program uh next slide please okay so um as mentioned before uh we're in was and that means that has eaten up pretty much all of our time so far as it pertains to professional development um as we move into our second semester day we will be getting back on track with that and we'll be having teachers choose one of the four strands um they will then be working with myself or other school leaders um on specific things so for instance Dei will be looking at restorative justice practices um Universal designed for learning is looking at actually implementing those

050practices and planning with udl in mind um integrated El is looking at constructed meeting strategies um we had a cohort of teachers that went to that training last year and so those teachers are continuing to expand um and build capacity across the school um and then our social emotional learning that is supporting teachers with understanding how to deescalate students when they are in crisis to notice what crisis looks like um and also what it means for them to support themselves and keep themselves healthy so that they're able to show up for their kids next slide please okay um in terms of our recruiting of diverse School leadership and staff um right now we're just continuing to build on our Partnerships um with local fouryear colleges and institutions that have education programs that we can try

051to build pipelines with them um that is a process that takes time as well um we also uh I work with the HR department um and make sure that we update our recruiting and our hiring policies make sure that all of our questions um are actually getting us at what we're looking for um and root out bias that we don't necessarily have the time to train out um and then then we also work um in long-term planning so that we're making sure that we address um the very real Financial issues that come up as it results living in Santa Cruz County and gets significantly more expensive that continues to be a barrier to attracting diverse um teaching staff uh next slide please okay so um for inclusive and supportive School cultures there are so many

052things that happen here um but we can't put them all on one side so I'm just going to highlight some of them for you um we continue to work on an equity Focus review of our curriculum and our instruction um in all subjects and that looks like both individual work um with uh the how do you call them the people that are watching the goals I guess like professional goals for people essentially evaluators evaluators thank you um and then in addition to that it's also looking at Department goals um each department is looking at revising their uh curriculum as well and making sure that it has diverse viewpoints in it um that there are strategies in there that allow access points for multilingual students um and first to college students we're also working with diverse

053student leaders to design culturally um cultural celebrations that are not tokenizing so some of what that looks like is our fall FAO celebrations um doing celebrations for Black History Month and I'll share some pictures with you all in a bit um additionally we uh conduct our annual student experience surveys um and a variety of other different listening sessions to make sure that we're constantly getting student voice um and making sure that what we're doing is meeting their needs um then we are also supporting students and staff in the creation of affinity spaces um and this the intent behind this is one to build community um Within These smaller enclaves um with a special eye towards our bipac multilingual socio um economically diverse and lgbtqi populations of students those are the ones where we see our

054um for students and staff um so just wanting to make sure that they feel held and supported um and then we also as mentioned before have expanded therapeutic services so that we are able to support a large group of kids um next slide please um so these are some examples of what our programming looks like so uh couple weeks back um our and Hispanic heritage Student Union work together to put up this beautiful lenda um they opened it up to the entire school and so there were students that were lot that were from all different backgrounds that were submitting pictures of their ancestors which was really beautiful um we also just put up a um display for Native American Heritage Month um we try to make sure that those displays are really interactive so we

055want kids to come and take things off of the board we want kids to come and sit at the listening station um and hear the origin Stories We want kids to come and look at the books um we also have as I mentioned before fall FAO which is a really it's just grown every single year um but it is an opportunity for us to hear from a local community member that identifies as queer um this year we got to hear from Adam spinkler is that his name um which was really incredible he came and he spoke to us about what intersectionality looks like like um and uh it also looks like celebrating the diversity that we have on staff already um and so like for women's history month we asked for uh we sent out

056a survey um and asked people or asked women on a different camp on our campus different questions like who are your role models what advice do you have um how do you celebrate women's History Month um so just making sure that those faces and voices are uplifted on our school camp campus and then also bringing in community members um these three lovely humans uh Murray bong Garden edth Colin and Peter KZ were gracious enough to come to our school last year in January for Holocaust Remembrance Day um and share a bit about their experience um so these are just some examples of what it looks like at our school in real time next slide please and then our final goal is is around refining data collection and assessment um and so this looks like our

057data tosa um which has release time um and that allows for him to engage in data analysis analysis and to support myself um and Maria and all other departments um with doing deeper dives into their data and seeing uh what can be gained from that um it looks like us revising our student family and staff input surveys which is currently happening in our Dei task force um it also looks like the development of common and local assessments which is something that our departments are working really hard on um and then using tools like ISL um and I ready as a way to identify where students are at and what their needs are in real time next slide I think that's our last one yes it is um so questions thank you um so trustees this

058is a opportunity for us to um ask questions or make comments on the presentation um and um our protocol here is that we ask our student trustee first if you have any comments or questions um trustee alvarez. I think I wanted to say is how um the inclusion of Latin X or Latinos in um and being able to bring them up because a lot come from migrants so being able to bring them up is I think very important to me as a Latino myself which um is very I'm very happy to hear thank you thank you trust comments questions trust Sanchez um so I just want to recognize kind of some of the improvements that are uh being done I think that uh well I don't think I know that uh 2020 was a challenging

059year and the after fact you know we're still struggling we're still trying to um get back to those pre- levels but I was really impressed to see that during the the report that we received um everything from you know suspension data to enrollment to School attendance has improved uh this year PRI when compared to the prior year it might not be at the uh you know pre pandemic levels but uh at least we're where we're getting there so that's that's good right to see where um that at least we're changing that Trend right and going the direction that we do want to go then I also well on on that subject you know I just wanted to focus on School attendance so that one is down but it's again has improved from next year but

060even then I think uh PCS has always done a really good job when it comes to School attendance um this year based on the information that we received 96.5% which is impressive um I don't I I don't think I saw any information or reference to Chronic absenteeism but I don't think that is uh doesn't sound like it's an issue for PCs I mean there are students who are chronically absent it's not a huge issue oh I'm sorry yes I mean like any school there are students who are chronically absent and we work really hard to re-engage those students and to work with those families to ensure that students are um re-engaging with school and um supported in the ways that they need to in order to be successful but it's not as um chronic a

061chronic problem as it as it exists elsewhere and um you know our best year for student attendance was during the pandemic during online learning because kids could just roll over and click on the computer now that they have to get out of bed and drive all the way to school you know we we did see a drop but we were still over 95% attendance so um we're pleased that our kids are for the most part are are there and with us and learning every day nice yeah glad to hear that's definitely a challenge that we're seeing in uh other schools not only here in the county but uh Statewide as well so any information you know any any any tips that you guys might have to help it definitely be be be well uh received

062and appreciated and then my last comment is uh yeah I just wanted to give thanks and show my appreciation for you know for Le for you being here really appreciate your honesty uh definitely a good um addition you know to to PCS and I definitely look forward to uh continuing to hear more from you and and the product that's being made thank you thank you Jus comments questions I have a few um in in general I I was searching through to find a phrase I read in somewhere I think not in the first part of the report um I didn't find it so I'm paraphrasing it does appear to me from your statistics that even though you have some larger gaps at the younger grades the gaps are closing as they progress and in general

063your scores overall are progressing as the longer they've been with PCS is that am I did I just make that up or is that no and I would say that was more the case um with the grad up to it including the graduating class of 2022 we actually saw that those gaps were eliminated in English language arts um little bit of a wobble last year we're not quite seeing that that overwhelming Trend but by and large we do see that the longer kids are with us the better they they're scoring in English language arts um I think there's a little bit of that in our math scores but as you can see there are gaps that persist and um we're really working hard to think about how can we do our math program differently that

064still allows every student to take higher level math and encourages and motivates them to take higher level math but provides them with the fundamental skills that they need to be successful and to have access to those courses so um yeah and I I you know I look everywhere I keep looking for those bright spots like who's got a math program that people that don't have those gaps and hard to find they're really hard to find it seems to be a pretty pervasive issue particularly post pandemic um so if you hear about another school that's reducing those gaps we would love to talk with them um so add to our learning we all will thanks um uh my second one um you have my total sympathy on the wasque process for the new board members was

065WC is the accreditation program that schools are subject to periodically they get investigated by by the people from was and then that determines whether they're accredited which is what helps students get so um very important and I'm sure Ferris and and um Bernie say can probably find some background information for you about was if you need it because it's a big deal for all the schools and again my it's an important process it's just always takes longer than it feels like it should but it's important so on the Dei um first of all um there's no way around it's a big hard problem that's not going to get solved as fast as we want and I appreciate you recognizing that and I also appreciate your determination to carry on because that is really the only

066way we get anywhere and um Dr Rano knows that I am one who tries to hold PCS to a pretty high standard with that and the reason is that you offer such a great educational opportunity for students that if you're not working on Dei you're just reinforcing status quo and that is not acceptable to this Bo to our community and I recognize see not at all yeah um uh so again hang in there because there's no way around that this is hard and and unfortunately it's going to take longer than we want um a couple notes about that first of all I do really appreciate the extent to which you're involving students in designing your programs and and coming up with what do they want to hear about what do they want to um have

067be recognized for and things like that that's crucial and that's a it's a Dei thing but it's also just a good way to De with students and respect them and include them so I appreciate that um and then this is this may seem a little odd but um I don't believe I've ever seen mission statement or the policy statement of a school have phrase anti-racist in it and I want to note that as very significant um I mean there's there's a couple places in the bay that do imagine yeah yeah but uh we're working on it yeah I just you know there's no way around that racism is one of the biggest deepest afflictions of our society and the world and if we don't address it in things like school mission statements we're missing the

068point so I really appreciate that that was all my comments and again thank you for your presentation trustees anything else um trusty Ro Bruce said awful lot of what I I will repeat because I don't think you could hear it enough uh having been on this board uh for a number of years and also uh around when PCS was founded uh the progress forward always been academically very successful but to see uh the Dei parts coming in and I know it takes a long time because I know how long it's taking me to Encompass the ideas even in my own head so um I appreciate the honesty about it because it's true I judge it myself um the uh the idea of trust is critical uh and I think for PCs uh it it's a

069big piece of helping your diversity uh because of the years that pass where it didn't have as welcoming um feeling and the support to students of different abilities Race c you name it and uh I really appreciate that PCS is doing this it is an outstanding school in the United States and as I have said before these are the student your students our students are going to be leaders and the more that they Encompass the reality of what America is um the better off we're going to be and I like that PCS is reaching out into our community and doing programs Etc because that is really great to help uh on the from my point of view on the on the trust um the I want to say the involvement of your students in uh

070your programs I really really like especially uh the different Awards and that they will be student nominated and that's hard to do I been connected with a lot of student groups and it's hard that it not be a popularity contest and all of that sort of stuff but I know uh that you will you are introducing these topics and it's it's it's wonderful for the students to have that responsibility in identifying and watching and seeing what they're their fellow students are doing um see and then one last thing if and I tried to find it because I know I I saw it in here you must take 48 classes and pass them five five okay even more five what about a student if they are not able to pass and I know you're doing a

071lot of student support does that mean they have to go to a different school to graduate um no no what what that tells us when we see student we monitor student progress the nice thing about being a small school is we can monitor student progress pretty carefully um and all of our courses are reverse design so starting in seventh grade for example they're already practicing the type of writing and Analysis they need to do on historical documents so that when they're ready for AP US History and AP World History they they had practice for three years of that kind of work so what happens is that when students struggle in those AP classes we we know it we know the kid we can Implement some additional supports um for some of our kids it's a

072lot of additional supports um and it involves a lot of one-on-one tutoring and coaching and encouraging um but yeah I mean we believe that all kids can be successful with that level of work with the right supports in place and you know and we do what we need to do to make that happen um so I mean I'm I'm picturing and my had some wonderful students from last year's graduating class that um you know it took a small village to get them across the stage on time because they just had some things to finish up um and and yet they successfully completed their 5 AP classes and we able to take those credits with them so um I don't I don't we don't see a lot of kids we don't counsel kids to leave when

073they're struggling we surround them with extra care just a clarification but if you were a bigger High School there would be more options but their their schedule is their academic plan requires them to take those courses because there's so many cor options so so what I'm hearing is is your approach to support them to be successful those classes say to find out of those AP classes correct I mean all 10th graders take AP World History because that is the history class we offer in 10th Grade so it we just don't have a large enough staff to offer a wide variety of different options um and because that's their only option we are obligated to provide the level of support that they need to be successful um I think we are obligated because of our Charter

074but I also feel like we are morally obligated if if we welcome a kid to our school Community we're obligated to help ensure their success and I would say that um I would say that uh that that there is like there are conversations that I have with families about like when kids are feeling like I don't know that I can be successful at PCS and really helping them to understand like what are the benefits of them being here especially as a BYO student um within the very highly competitive College world that we live in now um it's very hard to stand out um and so trying to help them understand the benefits of that and also supporting our Educators to make sure that they are like building enough scaffolds and accommodations and support so that

075all students can be successful because it's not just about like the student sometimes it's not the student that needs support sometimes it's the adult that needs the support right um and so that's the other portion of what it is that we're doing too um and there is also conversation amongst our staff um last year and this year around like what does what does anti-racism and Equity work look like as it pertains to the AP system how inclusive is the AP system in the College Board in the first place um so those are conversations that we're having and it's a longer longer bigger conversation I think for us when um a student and their family decides to not continue is it on the basis of what what they face with the AP classes there's a lot

076of different reasons there are so many different reasons um some of them oh sorry I forgetting some some student uh we survey students when they leave PCS um and we're actually at the beginning stages of a an nutrition study to kind of dig deeper and find out more but uh from the past what we learned is that um students leave PCS for a variety of different reasons some of it has to do with something as simple as like I want the traditional High School experience with football game on Friday nights and cheerleaders and the whole nine yards we're never going to have a field well I don't know about never but probably not in my time at PCS um and so there's certain things we just can't offer right and don't offer and and that's

077a reason people might go elsewhere um sometimes families you know are commuting a long distance and I I worry that with all of the additional Construction in the corridors that run north south in our County there may be some families who simply cannot make that Comm I mean I drive from Watsonville so I I'm very familiar with the fact that it's now taking me an extra half an hour um so that that's a reason um some families choose to leave PCS some students have you know um anxiety that makes them feel like it might be too big of a fight for them and they'd rather take a um participate in a high school program that was less rigorous which is a reasonable decision I mean one of the things about being a school of choice

078is that families get to make that choice based on whatever their unique circumstances and needs are and it's not unusual for us to have one student in a family and not another based on the needs of those unique children um and so yeah I mean there's lots of reasons that people might choose to move to another high school um [Music] yeah two other things uh I have worked up at UC for close to 20 years and to have watched the change in diversity up at that school is absolutely amazing and it has taken a long time it is not complete but it is happening so keep going and sometimes the faculty are the hardest ones to get you not as far as a diverse faculty um see I think I've absolutely forgotten the last one

079except that I really appreciate the learn the uh listening and implementation that I have seen at PCS so you thank you and thank you for your partnership in this work the the County Office of Education staff have been tremendously supportive um Ferris is always wonderful if I have a question and he doesn't know the answer he'll find somebody who does and help to support this work in an ongoing basis and I know we'll be talking again at our next Charter subcommittee um but if any of you have questions and you're not on that committee and you think of them later um you're welcome to come visit us at PCS or to give me a call or send an email anytime I think we had maybe had one or two more com turn yes green like

080minute okay um in a sea of information and and words and numbers and charts and pictures I I think I heard or read the words seal of biliteracy and I don't think you talked about that in your presentation but um I I wonder whether any of your students have gotten that seal on their diplomas many pardon many many many um usually it's at least a third of our graduating class ear in the Seal of by literacy and sometimes it's as many as half this criteria mentioned in this report the criteria for for being able to uh uh award a seal of of biliteracy bilingualism to the students I didn't mention it here because that's not established by our school it's established by the state but um for example the most direct pathway would be for

081a student to uh pass an AP language exam and also demonstrate four years of success in in English um we have quite a few students who um every year earn a seal well they don't have it but they earn the Seal of by literacy uh as being proficient in three languages or more um so we definitely do see that um quite a bit I know the criteria is very high it is it is um our language studies program can start as early as seventh grade so quite a few of our students will complete the requirements and go all the way up through AP studies in a language and then take a second one so it's not uncommon just thank you um uh yeah I want to thank you for um this presentation and all of

082the work that has gone in to um de a um the a um I I love adding that of accessibility uh and prioritizing access um I had a question about the proposed math changes that are kind of bubbling up um with um adding more um entry points um uh how how how are you going to make sure that that doesn't uh I guess kind of solidify those gaps like it's not like they're going to go into a track of like okay you're starting at a lower level and you're going to stay there it's trying to kind of catch them up right I kind of want to just clarify that yeah well that work is currently in process so I can't tell you definitively but what it looks like is we currently have a pre-algebra class

083and then an algebra one class um and so some students test out of that pre-algebra class and start with algebra 1 but what we're finding is that um the when when you overlay the um common core standards for pre-algebra in seventh and eth grade um there's actually if you focus just on pre-algebra a number of math skills that are missed in the middle years if we start with just a pre-algebra class and so what what the math department and our math tosa are suggesting is that we create a 2-year sequence in Middle School um where students can start with I don't know what we're going to call it but let's say prealgebra a and pre-algebra b or middle school math A and B I don't know what they'll be called um the idea is that

084uh we're catching all of those kids up in middle school so that they're ready to start algebra one in high school right away it's not unusual to have students in a variety of different math levels for for a number of reasons at PC s in different grade levels um there is opportunity for students to accelerate if they want to take math over the summer so that's not unusual what what we really want to focus on though is that that opportunity to start with algebra one and hit the ground running um is available to all of our students um and so what we're finding is that if we take extra time to build those skills that students may be missing so that in past they might have had to take pre algebra one or two times

085while they bolstered skills that were really pre- prealgebra skills um if we help them bolster those skills over a longer period of time then they're able to catch up with their peers or at least that's a theory so we'll let you know how that works thank you working or I'll be meeting with the math department after fall break um to work with them more closely on it so we'll have more to share later okay great I'm I'm super excited to hear that and um I mean it sounds like a good a well-intentioned really good plan and so I look forward to to hearing more about it um and I also wanted to highlight one of the points that you mentioned about housing and how that is a really difficult um it's really difficult here in

086the county to attract um really good talent when it is so expensive to live here um and so um definitely um I'm thinking I just want to kind of put it out there that you know the state definitely needs to be investing a lot more in Workforce housing for educators and paths to um owner literally um and you know that all of the you know efforts that we that we try to do um for diversity and equity and incl and access um does rely on you know or for faculty really relies on you know and for students yeah I know our families are going to get pushed out pretty soon it's expensive like it's ridiculous yes I know that like and yeah just the Dynamics of Santa Cruz County and the fact that yeah it

087is such a long commute from South County and the the you know historical and racial Dynamics inherent in that and the accessibility of that so I just I wanted to put that out there mention that and you know thank you for everything that you've done to try to bridge those those gaps you know in um in equity so let's partner and figure it out because that's fting you all any further comments or questions I just one little thing I'm very interested in your attrition study and just want to ask that you um uh bring it out with the with our subcommittee that meets with you quarterly and they will be interested well I will be because we're partnering with Dr saah in that work so others needs to learn on that subject right I have

088to say uh Drano actually asked for this several months ago and and I've been lagging a little bit so we'll get on it and make sure to share that with you very soon great good okay well thank you once again very much um really appreciate your work thank you for your presentation as well and good luck finishing all the well not finishing but carrying on with all your hard work thank you so much and like I please come visit PCS anytime thank you to the board members community members who showed up trusties we are now to item 11.3 this is um for us to consider a um a bylaw Amendment regarding meeting conduct um uh mainly having to do with how we deal with public participation and I wanted to ask Dr salad could you

089say a little bit about current correct so as a result of uh of the pandemic and and some of the the the limitations that were for access if you recall we adap adopted uh some changes to our policies to allow for people to be able to join via zoom and to be able to uh provide public report a public uh comments through via Zoom however there have been several incidents uh recently where folks um where different entities like this the city council of Watsonville as well as Capa experienced uh Zoom bombing which is a term for people who utilize their access to be able to uh uh to make inappropriate commentary racist commentary insulting commentary and because of the nature of Zoom um there was really very disruptive it took time and um and was

090was very distressing to those who uh heard those comments and there's obviously a delay in being able to um you know take somebody out of the meeting and and try to make sure that they don't they they don't return and so I uh the reason this item is here is for your consideration to modify the policy so that public commentary would be required to be in person um people would we would continue providing Zoom as a uh as a a way for people to have access so that they're able to hear the meetings and um but we would remove the aspect the virtual aspect of the commentary so that people would not be able to um get on Zoom and and be able to make that contract and of course as with all things there's

091always a give and take right we're we're eliminating the access uh the potential access of people who might utilize Zoom to be able to and they're unable to make that report but it is uh something that several folks have been several government agencies and brown act uh help agencies are are implementing so we didn't want to wait until we had our own negative experience with zoom we thought that this might be a a preemptive approach and um and then if people needed to make commentary they'd be able to come here and do so as they have in the past this is a where we need to talk this over and figure this out so let me first see if if uh trusty Alvarez Delgado has any thoughts or comments and you can come back to

092so I just want to clarify um convenience with zoom to be able to address the board to make any comments um isn't really the only way uh to address it not in person that's a weird way of saying it um people can still write in right whether it's email whether it's a letter and receive it in the board and then if we determine that it's not uh it that does mean our policy then it can be read out loud right so even if a person can attend the meeting they can still be able to um address the board uh with means outside of Zoom that's correct so there's really two different uh methods one is the traditional correspondence which would be when when the the the board President says is there any correspondence that was

093uh communicated in in between after the the packet went out and that you that in some cases is read to the board um and then the additional piece which is included uh if you read the I think it's still there look at the the first page of your uh under public comment there is a um a paragraph that says to submit a comment to be read aloud on your behalf either listed or not listed on the meeting agenda please send a comment no longer than 300 words to very's email no later than 2m on on the date of the board meeting and so that would be an an opportunity for people to utilize email to submit a a message and as long as it's appropriate it would be read the record other comments or questions

094should that be included in the policy or which the uh 300 words or less correspondence um rather than just on our agenda I wonder what the origin of on the agenda believe that I mean this was taken you know these were some of the the practices that we took during during the pandemic but it's a good point that we possibly our entire procedure including the emailing a comment should be mentioned in the bylaw yeah yeah we can include that in there this is definitely above and beyond the the minimum requirement of the brown act which re somebody to be here to to speak so these are additional steps that you've taken to allow for the public to be able to comment I have a couple thoughts yeah um there um yeah I I think it's

095really important to prioritize is accessibility but also protect the public and us from really you know this vitriol that is in society right now really Amplified um and so I I also just wanted to highlight maybe the the inaccessibility of our meetings right now for a lot of Working Families uh being that we meet at 4 p.m. um um and I I I I know it works for me better because we get out of here earlier and we're not here until 9 o'clock at night um but also I wanted to bring that up uh and I know that Rose previously and she mentioned to me that it was something of a priority for her to have that changed and so I wanted to bring that up in this as well when we're you know reducing

096the accessibility of folks to virtually comment uh during you know the meeting if they want to um maybe we should revisit the visit revisit maybe for you guys but visit for me for the first time considering um making this meeting more accessible to Working Families uh so I wanted to mention that as well I'm open to talking about we actually did talk about it right when Rose left so it's it's very recent that we it over and what we had but but it's good something we December revisit in December yeah that's when we said our officers and so the year so um see well I I actually can think of three possible ways that someone remotely could engage a little more than having to send their comment before the meeting starts which then doesn't give

097someone the ability to hear some testimony and then want to chime in about it or give additional information um one way that I've heard of is that anyone that would want to participate by uh more than just watching and listening so by submitting comments or testifying or something would have to pre-register there would be there would be like a web form and they' pre-register give their name and email and stuff like that so there's accountability for them and then we can allow them in so that's one and I've heard groups doing that um so that's one a little more Administration to that I recognize to do that um secondly um uh some groups such is like the city council in Santa Cruz they let you email them during the meeting and someone is monitoring the

098emails now that's a little trickier but because the timing has to be right someone has to be almost like constantly watching so I don't know the mechanics of how they handle it but some public bodies do accept email commentary in in the m in the middle of the discussion it obviously that's tricky someone has to then get the message and read it someone would have to read it ahead of time to make sure that it's not the negative stuff we don't want tricky area um the third way that I think we've actually done here but maybe I'm just mixing up a a too many Zoom meetings is where there is not the um you know the sidebar with the anybody open up make comments but there is a question box and you pose your question

099the question goes into a moderator and they can filter and so they can decide whether that question goes out to the whole group or to the panelists in this case to the board or so on so and that's that's built into Zoom that's some kind of like a webinar set up into Zoom or something so again a little more set up and keeping an eye on it as it goes but it would be a way you know that we so we wouldn't completely cut off the ability of a person in good faith offering information because they can't get here from wats so any I I'm curious what you think about that from the staff point of view and then also board members because I'm I'm a little concerned that we we had a couple awful

100experiences a couple years ago during the shutdowns and I don't want that I don't want that ever again and I and so very concerned with that but I want us to not sacrifice the the ability of the public to be with us as many ways as they can I personally like the first uh option of pre-reg but I don't know if we can enforce that um I'm assuming our current bylaws were based on CET and the way that it's written in public participation specifically states that we cannot request anybody to sign in complete a questionnaire or otherwise provide their name or other information as a condition of attending the meeting no just that I don't remember that but that's so so we might have to look at that if we can legally do that virtually

101but I like that idea I personally would to see that so um I mean with that is that just for just for attending but not commenting right but we can still require maybe some pre-registration to H have the ability to comment uh is that a possibility or no I think the pH he was quoting in our byw is basically if you want to you could be in in the room without identifying yourself but if you want to address the board you have that prohibits us from requiring them to identify themselves well I I think it's confusing because the word participation what is participation is just listening or is speaking as well I think there kind of that oh maybe I read and if I if I could add to that so um there we've been

102advised by attorneys that if somebody chooses to complete the card that we have the cards that bares has and they choose not to identify themselves that we would not um tell them they can't speak even though that is our protocol that we can't tell them while you haven't identified yourself therefore you're not allowed to speak and so um again though I think that the brown act that's the minimum of brown act those are the requirements for somebody who's I think everything that you do virtually um is above and beyond that as long as it's not considered a discriminatory practice I think that having something like here you don't have to identify yourself however we do have an additional extra option that goes above and beyond the requirements of the brown act and so there isn't

103a um a zoom based uh process to require somebody to pre-register uh would not violate the part that says you can come here and participate in person and you don't have to identify yourself and how do we verify that information because anybody could just come in and give a fake name and address and burn I mean in person or yeah in person or online as well one way the pre-registration works is you submit your information and the system emails you back to with the email you gave them and with a confirmation or a ticket or whatever it is that gets you into so if you're not the holder of that email you're not you know Ming someone else you're not going to get that email so that sort of make sure at least we know

104who it is but but you know people disguise themselves all the time so and you could make a fake email and I mean there is it's none of these systems are perfect and I think if somebody really wants to um figure out a way to work around them really is just creating additional uh layers to make it more difficult for for for uh somebody to to misuse it yeah but in the same vein if it it's coming over the Internet or through Zoom we can also just cancel them and from what I not cancel but you know silence and remove silence and remove and once they have been removed they can't come back in it's the way I have understood it if you formally use zoom's control to remove then Zoom blocks them yes yes

105they can just uh create a new Zoom account or have M come back in stop that that particular one and if they come in the next meeting and do the same thing it's not like stopping someone from speaking publicly that's far more intricate you know in person yeah so um how should we proceed here um so what would be useful I think could be uh possibly to for this group to direct the policy committee B on what you'd like to do um it could be that the policy committee spends more time on it working with staff and brings back a policy change that could be brought unto the December meeting and you can make a decision support that you could give a a head you know give it some direction right now as to which

106way you want the policy committee to if there's if there's feelings like we want to uh limit the zoom option for commenting or if you'd like a pre-reg ministration uh so really I think that the the appropriate step would be for board to and for the for the president to give some direction to the policy committee as to how you'd like to proceed a member of the policy committee along with Melissa um and there's a vacancy on the committee um I I I like that I'm going to put a little time in and um I I wonder if also if there's anything out there in the way of new legal advice that we might be able to find not the only ones trying to go and I know that the city of Watsonville and city

107of cap have justement policies yeah csba might be or CCP doing something what are there new policies well they they eliminated the option to to comment on they sort of did what you described initially the yeah basically you can watch what you can correct you have to come in in person to participate yeah um will the policy committee um draft maybe multiple um like you know so we can have a selection of we we have these different ideas of maybe a pre-registration or possibly you know eliminating um Zoom participation totally and just have it view attendance um could we get that like multiple policies that we can kind of compare and see which route we really want to go or are we going to have to decide today what route we want to go definitely

108don't have to decide today and my thought was the committee might work and it might reach just a like oh here's the perfect idea that incorporates what everybody has expressed and then bring back one idea but if we can't then we bring back Alternatives and my goal would be that we try to do that for the December meeting which by the way is going to be early but a week early um but that's I think we this settled so and I'm willing to put a little time in before and policy uh there's usually two readings of it you know first we can accept if we want to but if we yeah playing around with words so there's it's not you have to do it right now okay so I had one other thing uh to

109consider for the policy is I do I do not like that we go till 103 um I I think that's an appropriate and I would like to suggest depending on what we decide next month as our time is limit our meeting to three to four hours or I mean I think have have we ever gone to four hours here I know not in our not in my time I mean the only time that we've had a lot longer is when we have a long list of public comments and usually that's you know it's kind of a controversial topic of some kind where there's hundreds of FKS and we can always extend it like it says you know by vot of the board go have 15 minute increments or whatever but I think 4our meetings and

110my my brain is you know sunk to size of Walnut could you email me as chair of the policy committee and with that point I'll make sure that we bring it up in our discussion if you don't mind doing that okay thank you so then as board president I'm going to direct the policy committee to take this on and and do its best to report back at the December meeting President sorry President Van Allen with the vacancy in the policy committee do you want to in your Authority appoint someone someone to fill that vacancy this moment there's someone interested yes I am interested good thank you um okay then um as a side action of this meeting um acting as president of the board on appointing to the policy committee and you have options to

111join other committees as well by the way so thank you I'm honored so um uh maybe very say you could kind of set up a meeting of the three of us and with whatever background information you guys can find if any if there is any and a copy of the existing Bible great thank you um okay board we have more things to do um we're now to section 12 new business the first item is 12.1 the school plan for student achievement at the our alternative education programs and here is Dr isan Gonzales hello good evening um I just wanted to first uh say Welcome to our new trustees uh this is the first meeting I've been here with you all and so it's wonderful to have both of you here and part of our team

112and I want to thank you in advance for your all of your support for our programs because I know probably one of the big reasons why you joined this was uh to support our court and community school programs and our career advancement Charter which is such a big part of this organization so thank you so much um so we're here today to talk about our school plans for student achievement for all three of our programs our court School our community school and then my colleague and friend uh Sony will present on the career advancement Charter and I believe I have a small slide deck for us today all right oh yeah no problem um so uh I can jump right in so I wanted to do a little bit of overview uh regarding funding for

113our programs and what is this school plan for student achievement today uh so our programs are funded uh there's a big pie where there's a lot of different funding streams that come in um including lcff funds other state funds special education funds grants and title funds so title funds that are in the very slim plans that you see before you are probably one of the smallest pieces of this pie but it's also the mo one of the most regulated pieces of of the P because they're federal funds and we earn these money from our students and it is uh the reason why there's a plan that goes with it and the compliance is because they're really uh designed to meet unique needs for students and so they're they're small funds but they're very special to

114us and they Pro and and to send the funds we get a lot of input for them and so that's the background for funding I also wanted to highlight uh a few overviews uh overview and Chang that are coming up additionally uh with with our funding for lcff funds the lcap there's a new requirements you'll see me in February presenting a midyear report about the lcap before our traditional um meetings in June for the new lcap also there is a new template for the lcap this year so you'll learn all about that which is exciting and lastly I wanted to piig you back on um pcs' presentation because it is also our Bost year this year so you will also be hearing about our revised schoolwide goals um and all of that uh in early

115next year and we'll have our visit in March so if you're new to the board you get this is a great year because you're going to learn a lot about our programs all right and the next slide please um and so I did I already covered the sips overview these are small federal funds and it works in conjunction with lcap so if you look at the lcap and you look at the sipsa this is the end of a three-year plan for the lcap and our goals are aligned and then we'll have new elcap goals next year and some more revisions and go ahead for the next slide please all right I wanted to honor our community and give a lot of gratitude for not only our internal employees but also our families our students Our

116Community Partners so this picture is a recent picture this is at seoa schools uh we had about 12 families in attendance and our amazing Community organizer um our South County Administrator Crystal um our counselors or families uh came to the table and this is this is part of the development of the sipsa plan that you have before you tonight uh we also will have a North County meeting similar uh in December and so just really want to honor the people that make our programs so special starting with our students and our phenomenal team too we have just a really great team and so next slide please and this year I won't read all of uh all of the data here but this is this this is the data that the plan was built off of

117because we're current in currently in our data Gathering phase where we are doing our surveys early this year so we are doing all of our lcap we we call it an lcap was everything survey so we ask all of the questions we revised it this year and we're currently getting it so this plan was built off of this feedback which came in the spring of last year and overwhelmingly um our students feel safe at school they feel supported they have access to counseling um and they want more of that they want more opportunities to be in the community more more opportunities um for support and I will say with uh since the pandemic we have had an increase in Staffing which is excellent so we have um increased our counseling staff and we've increased our

118biliterate team and so we have more more people more caring adults on campus now I would say more than ever which is f all right next slides here okay so this slide deck also is for both the community school and the court school if you look at both plans they're nearly identical and that is because the vast majority of our plan our schools is is our community school with a very small number of students in our court school and so the the goals the overarching goals are aligned and we do have our students who who go sometimes to the court school program and then come back out and come to our community school program so they are intentionally the same um so our first goal the bulk of our funds um our Title One funds

119uh go to our personnel and so it is our goal to have um classified instructional staff and additional team mbers on all of our sites so every single program has um assistant in the class who support our students and that's that's that's a big big part of our program is that we have instructional AIDS at every program so we have small student to teer ratio and lots of support and professional development so title two part A is really about it's called improving teacher quality it's really about continuous professional development and so those funds help us pay for opportunities for our team members to attend things like conferences different trainings there's always something new uh to learn so this is our first goal for our court and Community School uh programs and the names there are

120are are names of people who are are funded by these these These funds there's a face to to to all of these so and that's U goal one and then we have just one more goal for our court and community school program and that is on the next line um so we do provide um funding for our foster youth program through title fundings and so this helps support our um Foster youth Liaisons and they are throughout the county not solely in alternative education programs they support Foster youth throughout Santa Cruz County this is this is a picture from from last year at this time when they presented the inside Ed and it was just um it was a wonderful presentation and their program model and that will take us to the end of this um

121presentation regarding school plans for student achievements for our community school and for our court school and it is wonderful to see everyone again and I'm here for any any questions if you have any regarding this plan or anything yes juste Alvarez I just wanted to ask what the l cap is like you explained it but I don't really know it is could you explain it I so appreciate that question and and anytime you have any questions about our continuous Improvement plans I'd be happy happy to discuss them with you so the local control accountability plan is a three-year plan that um basically focuses on the lcff funds that we get and so we get base funding and then we get supplemental concentration funding and so at the heart of the local control accountability plan is

122ensuring that you're listening to all of your community members your educational partners and that you're designing a plan to meet the needs and it outlines the funding that you receive and the dollar spent and it focuses specifically on the supplemental and concentration funding which is funded from um students who qualify as being under uh lowi income these are the the terms that are used English Learners Foster Youth and so you get a specific you know boost in funding for for certain students and then you need to account for well how how are you using funds to to address uh student needs in in all student groups and specifically those and so it's a it's a big plan and I'll present in February you'll get to view the current plan and our progress that we've made

123on our current plan so that's actually kind of good timing for for your joining this team and then in June is our new plan based on all the feed back we're getting this year and through our was process and then that'll set the stage of how how we're using our funds for next year and and setting goals for three years and we present it in in conjunction with our awesome business department because it goes along with the Coe budget so the two have to go together um so really it's a it's a big part of it's about funding and then it's um how how your programs are using those funds to meet the needs of students okay thank you very much problem accountability is the key word in that lcap y lots of accountability other

124questions comments I think you know how much we value you and this is once again been a great reward thank you yeah this is the best and you all join the best best board too so it's it's it's going to be fun so if I if I could so these are action items we only need uh a motion I believe for um approval of the uh cpsa for the community school it could be the same motion to approve both one for Community School one for and Court school um or two separate motions I can see the Simplicity of one motion to cover both um uh and this is on item just to refer item 12.1 which is the school plan for student achievement you know for the alternative cour School in the community schools we

125haven't come to the Charter yet get every so I need a motion to approve and it'll be on a roll call I'll make a motion to approve motion by Nichols second second by St call it please and then can I get a clarification if the motion is for approving both at the same time or one I did not that was the I was trying to is encourage it to be made yes let's do it together okay thank you thanks for your clarify student trusty trusty Alvarez delado yes trusty alter yes trusty Estrada yes truste Nichols yes trusty Roth yes truste Sanchez yes president Ben Allen all right motion carries unanimously all pres before uh before uh Jen asked epis so I want to thank her she actually spent the day at Harbor High School there's

126we've had some uh unfortunate activity with some gang activity in our in our community and um and Jen has been uh supporting the Santa Cruz City schools and was there all day uh supporting the school with uh supervision and ensuring the safety of students so I just wanted to thank her for that she had to reschedule her day to to be able to be there to support the school I appreciate that I was an honorary pirate today and they were so welcoming amazing program there so thanks Bes are now at item 12.2 the similar School plan for student achievement for um the dister there for the career advancement Charter and here is sens good evening welcome new trusties I'm Sony Garis Sanson I'm a director here at the County office and I'm here this evening

127to share with you the Sia for the CAC very similar to what you heard now from my colleague Jen and also some differences that I'll highlight um I wanted to start with Excuse me our students this is a photo from uh our culinary class this fall some of these students do make up our student advisory committee uh which informs us around what is working and what they'd like to see changed um we are an adult high school diploma program we also offer high school equivalency for adult Learners so 18 and up we have uh programming here at the Coe cross the street at the annex we at seoa schools we're also at the probation Success Center North and South County and we are in our Correctional Facilities here locally so at the main Gil at

128Round Tree and at the bla Street women's facility so um we have the highest enrollment ever this is reflecting 2223 um over 320 students enrolled and then what we measure is what we call persistence data meaning that those students were enrolled with us for at least one semester and that number was 186 students so we're really proud of those numbers many of our students come and go um particularly in Corrections they they might start with us and then leave come back Etc um and then I added here that many I would say most of our students are working either part or full-time they're caring for young children and balancing adult life responsibilities uh the next slide is just a quick overview of what this document that you have is um again reflecting the commitment to

129continuous Improvement and providing the accountability um for those funds that we receive next slide please and the way that your plan plan that you have is organized is outlined there um which includes a description of how we involve our community address resource inequities and then the goals there as as Jen stated they're aligned with our lcap which is our big plan around accountability um and then lastly at the end of your plan you'll see the budget summary we receive CSI funds comprehensive School Improvement funds which are based is based based on our graduation rate so how our student achievement is measured I I laid it out here for you um the dotted line indicating the metrics that work best for us so as I stated the CAC is an adult uh high school diploma program

130it's not the same as court community however I would add that a lot of our court community students um from alternative Ed who need more time or who stop and then come back to school school do do find us at the CAC so the metrics below the line again are the ones that are most meaningful for us because the cast science test is not a meaningful measure for our adult students although we do we do participate in in those assessments and so some of the things you've heard me mention around the persistence data we also use surveys to measure school connectedness and we look at credit acral which which is uh the percent of students earning 45 credits or more per year and then lastly the first bullet um is our costess assessment it is

131the the measure for adult ed programs here in our County and and elsewhere and so we have a developmentally appropriate assessment tool that we use for our adult Learners so on the next slide goal one is around engagement and so um here we have needs outcomes and then the activities what we're using the money for essentially um and so around engagement we're committed to removing barriers uh increasing opportunities for students and so some of the things that we use our CSI funds um are to staff a bilingual administrator two bilingual transition Specialists a bilingual Community organizer and a bilingual guidance counselor and I felt it was important to include that bilingual in front of those uh job titles because uh many of our students prefer to speak in their primary native language which is Spanish

132um and I'm very proud to say that about 75% of our CAC staff is bilingual um and so we really are committed to meeting students where they are in goal two um around achievement we we have there again needs outcomes and strategies and in those outcomes you see the costess is measured there or sorry mentioned there so that's how we we look for gains to see if our students are improving every student uh takes the costus test upon enrollment some of the activities there on the right the funds help us to um staff an ESL teacher who teaches two sections at our Sequoia building we're looking to add a section here um and then provide instructional Aid support as well student workshops are something that we've added to the CAC over the last eight or

133nine months and some of the um Workshop session names are there for you to see and then lastly Community engagement is our third Big Goal um this is really a focus on Outreach and and uh partnership and so we look at how we're reaching our students and and measure enrollment attendant attend and attendance data um on the right that's a picture of our CTE culinary teacher K and she um has her own business outside of outside of school and so she tabled at our career fair event last spring um and that that's something that we did to provide that focus on Career Development and exposure for our students we also um have our transition Specialists doing the Outreach and we're part of the adult education Consortium here in Santa Cruz County um and so that

134again those are the activities that we use the CSI funds to help um to help pay for and then next slide are some of the significant actions that um that I think I've highlighted actually through the last few minutes um that we have allocated our CSI funds to provide counseling and Outreach the intake is a really important process a really important part of enrollment where we get to know the student and learn learn about them what they need and what their postsecondary goals are um we continue to need technology equipment so we're um having to um not refill replenish as as things get broken or aged out um the transition Services I've mentioned with our transition support specialist ESL teacher and then of course our instructional Aid [Music] support um and so I didn't say

135this I think it's in the budget it's about $200,000 is what we get for CSI money so as Jen said it's a small piece of the pie but the CAC is small and so we we can we make that money go far um and then lastly I think we will always get that money because it's based on our graduation rate and our grad rate is around 30 to 33% and that's not a reflection of how well our students are or are not doing that's a reflection of the program design and that every student who comes in is listed as a 12th grader so we don't have the traditional cohort model um we typically graduate close to 80 to 100 students per year um so our real graduation rate is actually higher it just doesn't always

136it doesn't reflect on the dashboard and then um that last slide is a thank a thanks to all of you for your ongoing support um that is part of our team on the left and that is um a student well she's not a student she's a baby of a student who's in our class which is the Spanish literacy program uh and her name is Annabelle and she's there in our early care classroom while while her grandma is next door um learning to read and write in Spanish so I wanted you all to see that and then just lastly we have contact information on the last slide and if you have any questions I'd be happy to answer them thank you prust comments or questions and PR Al delado WR other comments com I just want

137to say how impressed I am by the fact that enrollment is not only not going down but it's the highest it's ever been I think that is unusual I think that's even unheard of you know especially in in these days but I think it's a good Testament as to the program and the quality of the program also very impressive is just the fact that we don't really promote very much and it all seems to be word of mouth so students are not only attending but they're liking it enough to tell their friends their family their neighbors about it and we have this amazing program in our own Community that's is is not following the trend you know across California but if anything leading leading the example so just wanted to call that out and to

138congratulate you and the team because I know it's not easy there's a lot of work that goes into it but I definitely feel like the the results reflect you know the the program itself so so congratulations thank you trusty Sanchez I just love that we have CAC and PCs and we're serving uh a spectrum and uh I agree with that your enrollment is going up yes thank you thank you trusty Roth and it is not a was here for us just for the reference that's next year I want to say the same thing that that it is such an interesting thing to me that we have these two Charter Schools kind of even at opposite ends of our County sort of you know and they speak to a really different things but it's about educating

139and giving people the chance to do better in life and whether they're you know fresh out of junior high or middle school going getting into a a high school program that could get them into Harvard that's one goal I guess or whether they's someone that wants a better job and needs a high school you know credits to be able to do that or just to speak better or just a right those are very different things but they are in many ways the same thing because it's about people getting a chance to do better and so I really appreciate this program and Dr sa um leadership forming it and um sing your work on being such a great leader a great a really important school thank you trusty vanan appreciate that and if I could add

140the kudos to Sony and her leadership um in the design this really is a program that is represented it's it's it's a a representation of our commitment to equity and uh offering access and opportunity to our community and and it continues to blossom and grow and and um we were recently featured on k k uh Sean Patrick who uh teaches a pre-apprenticeship program which is kind of one of the programs that we offer uh for Construction Technologies was recently featured in The Round Tree facility and um and one of the students in that mentioned that this was a second chance at life and that this was something that was and um I think that this program is is designed really to build on the strengths of our community and what they bring and and open

141up as many opportunities as possible so really grateful to Sony's leadership and the amazing team that does everything they can to support this the these wonderful students of ours congratulations thank you Ferris yeah you are all part of changing lives for sure and having great impact um in our community so thank you thank you for your support we need a motion to approve this plan I'll make the motion to approve this plan motion by R second by Nichols and we need to roll call this is item 123 PSA for the truste AL student truste Alvarez delado yes trusty ala yes trusty Estrada yes trusty Nichols yes trusty Roth yes truste Sanchez yes President Van Allen I motion carries all president thank you thank you pres we are now to um some resolutions um first one

142is number 12.4 recognizing November as National home homeless youth awareness mon and um I think there was a little glitch in getting the resolutions out to the do you want to report on it I I'll say that I got them um really when when Veron posted this all online I was able to access what resolutions were coming forward and and I was so busy this week that I I I didn't read them until I I sent them to to you and Ed so yeah comment on this particular one I think you oh well it hurts that there are homeless Youth and and that they're they're in that situation and I uh I I feel like um my heart goes out to these homeless people that we see all over the place and the youth I

143mean I I assume it's it's the whole family that's homeless and and uh hopefully they support each other and and uh and you and get get the benefit of of programs that uh help them be supported um I just think it's uh if we if we uh if we were not to recognize National homeless youth awareness men we'd be doing a disservice to this community so I I I hope that you'll all join me in in supporting this with a yes vote I'd also like to recognize Haley Newman from the who's the coordinator of the school climate and this program you want to address US you're welcome to but you don't have to I would love to is that okay yes do the microphone please it's good to see you all again um and Welcome

144to our new Trustees of the board uh my name is Haley Newman I'm the school climate and wellness coordinator um i' I've been up here talking about wellness centers all kinds of things um today I'm representing our students in transition program um at the Santa Cruz County Office of Education that is under our uh student support services department and so with this particular resolution um in 2017 our Congress passed its first resolution recognizing November as National homeless youth awareness month to build awareness of the issue of Youth homelessness including its causes and potential Solutions and highlight the need to work to prevent homelessness among children and teens since then November has been a time to elevate the issue of Youth homelessness applaud the efforts of businesses organizations and volunteers dedicated to meeting the needs of

145the student population also known as mckin vento students and grow the commitment to intensify efforts to prevent and end homelessness among young people in the United States the US public school system enrolls more than 1 million Children and Youth experiencing homelessness each school year more locally an estimated 2,000 79 mckin vento students in Santa Cruz County were identified in the 2022 2023 school year we know that students experiencing homelessness continue to face challenges due to high levels of school Mobility residential Mobility educational disruption unmet basic needs and homelessness related trauma and stress at the Santa Cruz County Office of Education the mission of the students and transition program or sit is to implement the mckin vento homeless assistance act which was put in place to ensure educational rights and protections for Children and Youth experiencing

146homelessness um our sit program is run by our homeless project coordinator Erica Cortez who is amazing and has Partnerships with our agencies and our community to help support these students the students in transition program envisions a county in which Kento students have the resources they need to regularly attend and succeed in both school and extracurricular activities this board resolution is vital in elevating this work and the experiences of our mckin vento students so on behalf of the sit program thank you for considering adopting this board resolution thank you I move approval of this agenda item motion by nigles this is resolution 23-36 recognizing November as National homeless youth awareness month I have a motion a second second by Alto and will call please student trustee Alvarez delado yes trusty ala yes trusty Estrada yes trusty

147Nichols yes trusty Roth yes trusty Sanchez yes President Van Allen motion carries unanimously you all present you're now to item 12.5 this is resolution 23-37 recognizing special education day you want to say anything about this yes um just a the importance of of recognizing uh a part of our our student population that is continues to grow and uh this is also uh a part of our community that in our schools is is chronically underfunded and uh when I look at uh some of our districts has been speaking to our superintendent about now between 15 and 18% of students are not qualified for special education that's significantly higher than it's ever been um and the uh the amount of funding that goes to serving that student population is also significantly higher than what is being provided

148um and we want the very best education for those students and we uh continue to add for for full and proper funding for for our community um we we feel our our special education students are are absolutely part of our strength and part of our our wonderful diversity in our schools and we um are want to celebrate them and also Ure that they have the very best program that they Com or questions or [Music] motions okay uh I wanted to say um you know my my support of this resolution and of all of the work that I know the board has been um been doing to support services that support um students in special ed um programs uh and how important it is um you know the the strides that we've made um in society

149in in this country uh for um folks with disabilities who were folks who require uh special education um and the Investments that we've made uh and look forward to you know supporting and uplifting those um efforts uh and continuing them um so yeah I want to say that oh and also we we weren't able to speak on the last one um saying comments real quick but I I want to say you know also you know uh youth homelessness is also a really incredibly important um you know um role that we have uh as Educators or you know as uh FK as folks who support you know uh educating folks who are you know uh underserved uh and as someone who works might day job as many on the board know is um working for um

150homeless veterans uh housing homeless veterans uh and uh you know seeing um child childood homelessness and youth homelessness um you know it's a really important um uh mission that we have of you know supporting our unhoused youth in in the county so thank you for for than I apologize if I missed you wanting to make a comment really okay so still waiting for a motion I'll make a motion to recognize I'm sorry I had trusty oh yes I'll I just want to say I completed my public education before the 1972 act came and it is our schools uh they were you never saw a child that required the services that we provide and sad but we weren't even aware uh and that the graduations for our special ed students are my favorite are absolutely my

151favorite thank you Sandra for bringing this forward but now a motion motion by I think didn't you make the motion Sue she made comments that com I'll make the motion and we'll call please student trustee Alvarez delado yes truste Alto yes truste Estrada yes trusty Nichols yes trusty Roth yes truste Sanchez yes President Van I motion Carri jly all pres if I since I'm giving shout outs would it be all right if I just pleas thank hay Newman she's uh ha's been working with schools in building positive behavioral uh intervention supports and uh is also helping us with the wellness center effort and so she's really doing an outstanding job um here representing the the students in transition but uh but we constantly get feedback about her expertise she's also a professor at uh at

152csumb helping new teachers to learn about what PBIS and what building that positive School climate is is is all about so we're really fortunate to have as two I 12.6 resolution 23-38 to commit funds for high priority Capital needs this was kind of a learning experience uh because I didn't realize that uh uh that that uh the funds there um there's a county school facility fund it's called code 35 and uh that uh if there are funds left over for one project they have to go back into high priority Capital facility needs I I I didn't didn't realize that that was the uh would have been the case I thought maybe it should that money could be shifted around but no that's secure that it's a facilities money and and that that's uh that if

153we save money on one project we need to give it to another project that's a a high priority Capital facility like um Le R if you want to here a comment on this res I just want to introduce our Deputy superintendent in charge of Business Services Le is going to be talking to us about exactly just that um one of the one of the we do have several projects that are related to uh to you know capital projects um construction projects that we're we want to position ourselves and we're in a very fortunate uh place where we are able to access funding from the state and so uh Lan has a strategy for us to maximize that the way we can access that funding and so uh we're going to be um having several kind

154of uh some action that's going to be going on over the next few months that we'll be coming back to you with additional pieces of this process because we want to make sure to get as much funding as possible that the St is making available to county offices of Education which is really exciting Le thank you for that great recap um yes very much so um accessing State funding and getting the state to pay for our projects is kind of like I'm referring to it as the massive Jenga Cube and you don't want to pull out the wrong piece of the cube and have everything fall down in you and kind of mess up your chances to be able to maximize your future funding that the state will pay for so you will be um

155and over the course of the next couple of months we are going to be bringing um several items to you that are more in the vein of facilities which I know is probably you most most you hear me talk about budgets but this is a very large part of my uh my job here so the the first Jinga piece that we're going to pull is for fund 35 and as you properly recapped you're right um when you have savings that are residual from a prior project um the state there was a recent lawsuit that passed less than a year ago that allows you to retain your savings for other high Capital need facility projects we're one of the first County offic of Education to benefit from that lawsuit so I've been in very close contact

156with opsc making sure I follow all the rules because I don't want to lose that funding so as a result we have about $737,000 left in residual fund 35 about um $600,000 that was residual from believe it or not the seoa project and we were able to settle finally with the state and we're now able to retain and the remaining difference is the amount of Interest we earn so um by passing this resolution this is an approach you've heard me say this before I think the belt and suspenders approach um making sure that the state knows 100% we are going to use those dollars as we are required to use and so by passing this resolution that puts the BT and suspenders on this money for us in turn then we can now use and

157access these funds because by exhausting these funds it opens us up to access more and new funding if we don't use these funds first on the next project that we want to do the state's going to say you have money left over we're going to deduct how much we're going to send you so we've already identified a high priority project um you've heard us speak briefly I think in the past about the Ada issues we have with access to our building and also electrical charging stations that project alone is probably going to take at least 75% if not more of this money secondarily we have a roof that needs to be put on the building as well it'll probably take out the rest as you know construction and inflation on construction's been crazy in the

158last year just like everything else so again by passing this resolution we we will be ensuring that the dollars will be using in accordance with the regulations set out by opsc and um which is the office Office of Public School construction yes the Office of Public School construction and this is also in um accordance with gby 54 which allows you as the highest Authority to set aside or commit funds for very specific purposes and therefore it cannot be used for any other purpose thank you was a good recap of questions or comments from J where did the money go before last year back to the state we were holding it right but would what what did we what were we able to do with it they would have deducted it from any future money that

159we would get right we weren't doing anything or spinning it on anything else we were hold literally holding it it wasn't I don't the question is what was the protocol prior to this L what Bruce just said we would have either had to returned it or we would have had of immediately um deduct it from a future project but now we're able to spend it and that gives us 100% of the next round of funding that we're apply for wow thank you I would just say that making this facility our facility is fully ADA Compliant it's a very high priority just in case anybody wasn't sure of that so trust we need a res motion I have a question so we're talking about existing facilities right not new ones correct but that does help open

160up the road for us now for some of the new projects that we've been looking at and trying to prioritize and that's part of the next few meetings that we're going to be having we're going to be bringing some presentations to you about some of the needs and waiting list that we have for alt Ted students and the opportunity to potentially put them in better facilities um the needs for our special ed students at SoCal High School that are um they're okay but um if we have an opportunity to access State money and do something better for them why wouldn't we so um there's been site visits and a lot of things happening in the background we just didn't want to bring too many pieces all at once because I want us to have like

161a nice linear linear thought process of what we're doing and why we're doing it and so there'll be more to come so don't miss any board meetings coming up uh I will first say thank you so much for your everything that you do and suly explaining it to all of us so because I know it's a lot and I know you do a lot so thank you so much and I move to um approve the resolution resol 23-38 second sorry I did so a motion by St second by Nichols and roll call please student trustee Alvarez Delo yes trusty ala yes truste Estrada yes trusty Nichols yes trusty rth yes truste Sanchez yes president B Allen I moous all present and we are now item 13 superintendent report Dr s yes thank you so much

162uh president of vanal members of the board uh it's a pleasure to give you a an update I this image here is from our participation at Theos moros event in Watsonville which is something that we have been supporting in conjunction with the Watsonville fil cust it's really a wonderful event I encourage you to participate and and join us uh really an opportunity for for the community to come together and and uh uh and express themselves in music and dance and of course in the uh uh the uh the altars and and other kind of aspects of of the celebration it's just a wonderful aspect of of and and and it's really growing it's become something that is uh jam-packed and and a wonderful event and part of our our effort is to celebrate cultural events

163for for our community I wanted to uh share with you that uh this week we've been uh we've been a part of United against hate week and um we have uh thank you to thanks to nikiara uh working with local Partners to put together a toolkit to uh stand against hate we are hearing uh about a significant increase across the country and and and and Beyond of acts of uh of of hate of anti-Semitism of islamophobia and um and this is I think more timely than ever for us to be able to uh State uh without question um that uh we are uh our schools our community are not places for hate and that we're going to do everything in our power to to ensure that that our students feel safe that they can bring

164the whol sales to school and um and that we support the public expression but never if it's going to um tear down somebody for for who they are what or the faith that they have and um so uh school districts have been sharing that information also we've been uh uh working with uh with other organizations that are that are uh utilizing this but and um and Nick help me out with the organization Santa Cruz Santa Cruz County United for a safe and inclusive Community yes so wonderful organization that um has been organizing a variety of events that we promoted in our newsletter and Nick has been working with them and and we see this as as we do with many of our our our efforts it's really symbolic that it's only one week because we

165want these efforts we want these uh uh these activities and this commitment to continue throughout the year and uh it is an opportunity for us to to uh be reminded of our values to be and to recommit to them uh also I shared with you already that we were in the news uh where they highlighted our pre-apprenticeship construction program with some graduates and we'll send you the link to that to that uh that report uh it's just a wonderful you know how our many Partnerships kind of are are resulting in in opportunities for our our students in our community and uh and that's part of what we we pride ourselves is that is that when we see a need when we see an opportunity and uh we will use our resources to ensure that uh

166those programs are available and I think it uh it feels really uh empowering for or it is empowering for our students who are able to leave these lock facilities in this case for this one program and to have a career opportunity for them ready to go after comption of our program and and we anticipate that if we were to look at the recidivism rate for for the students to participate in a program that is much lower and that they are much more likely to be successful as a result of the support programs were offered I mentioned earlier that we have been seeing a significant increase in gang activity uh in in our County you've been I'm sure hearing uh news reports about uh violence in uh in uh in the Watsonville area as well as

167in other parts of our of our County over the last three days we have seen uh some activities specifically at Harper High School that was of of concern and um these are students that are coming from different schools different school districts including from our schools and uh unfortunately uh trying to trying to have uh um you know incidents or or violent incidents with with with other students um and we were working with law enforcement to Ure that we are addressing the immediate concern but also be looking at that kind of the longer term those positive cultural uh you know School culture uh incentives for students to be able to to uh to uh get support to so that they are not a part of of uh making any poor decisions we do anticipate that the

168you know as part of this is many of these students who are participate in uh this kind of activity in school end up getting expelled in some cases depending on the seriousness of of their behavior and end up coming to the County Office of Education for services and so uh or either at our at at the juvenile hall or in one of our other programs so uh part of our role is not only to support the school districts and figure out ways to create that that those systems of support to minimize the lik L of this happening but also be ready for when those students come to us and supporting them and helping them make better decisions for themselves and so that includes our our uh our Bosa program where we provide counseling for students

169who are have some sort of affiliation um but we are seeing this as we're seeing this as a Resurgence of gang activity that we had seen kind of a reduction and we're seeing it uh increasing not only for for young people but we're we're seeing it for for um older older adults as well I wanted to share with you that we are also partnering with uh uh with many partners in something called the regional k16 collaborative and this is a new model for how funding comes from the state instead of having individual school districts or county offices or universities applying for funds they're saying no we're going to give it to large regions and so we're part of the central coast region which goes all the way from Santa Cruz County all the way down

170to ventur county that's a big region so they've divided California up into multiple regions and they said okay uh you can apply for for funding to support uh Workforce Development creating opportunities for people to have uh training and increase their their their their their Workforce uh opportunities and so uh this is k16 which means it goes from well really it should be TK tk16 meaning that it starts with our youngest students and goes all the way up through the university system foure University system so our Partnerships are with UC Santa Cruz csumb um Cabo College all all of our districts but also UC Santa Barbara uh K12 across this region community colleges across this region and uh so we're partnering with this large group of folks we applied for the grant and we received the

171grant the whole region received the grant so it's $18 million uh now that sounds like that be a lot of money if it was localized in in our little area but we're talking about Santa Cruz to Ventura County and so we're not exactly sure what it is going to represent for us we are hiring a position to help coordinate the grant that is one of the things that is being funded but a lot of the efforts that are coming from the state are using this Regional model so one of the reasons why we embraced it and are participating in it without knowing exactly how that's going to translate to the funding for our programs is that we are hearing that future funding opportunities are going to come through this model now the four this grant

172is supporting four Pathways uh Healthcare um opper jobs stem education meaning teaching um you know math science engineering uh teaching education uh computer science and um science and fourth one is it's also kind of a tech one um health care and I'll come to me I remember what the fourth the fourth bth is um but so we're again going to be continuing this collaboration and seeing exactly what the funding is going to be able to do for us but I do think that you're you're going to be seeing a lot of these programs that are going to be aligned with what the community college is doing and what the what the what the four-year University is doing um I just returned today from the breaking barriers conference with 23 people that came from Santa Cruz

173County who went to this conference and um we were the biggest County represented in the room which is pretty cool and so we had County Behavioral Health we had um school districts including Chris Monroe was there from Santa Cruz City Schools we had representatives from PBC we had representatives from incus from pvpsa from salup lente from Santa Cruz Community Health centers uh all of these folks we're all talking about how we're going to improve our Mental Health Services to better serve our students and um uh Haley was there with with me and and other folks from our our County Office of Education and it really is the term that the title of it is breaking barriers because we all work in silos we're the county office you're the school district you're the County Behavioral Health

174and the idea is how can we let let go of of these barriers these silos and say we have a student who needs Services let's figure out how we're going to work together so that those services are seamless for them and so it's it's really exciting I think it also it's completely aligned with our with our wellness centers effort uh which are which is moving forward in a very positive way and it's also going to help us be prepared for when more funding comes down um and uh the focus is of this group is to look at school-based Mental Health Services and so we're really excited about about how we're going to be able to improve the the access for students as well as the quality of those programs and make sure that we don't

175have barriers as we interact with all these different agencies so more more to come on that um I did want to share with you that you received a summary of new uh legislation it's it's a lot of different bills and so um what I would recommend they're all organized in different categories and so if you want to in that email you'll see ones that are related to Student Services another category which is on construction another category on you know and so uh on human resources what I would recommend is you go through those and just take a look at what if any of those pieces of legislation um I mean there's dozens so you could easily get lost in it when did you send that to us in an email today today yes so so

176uh so please check check it out um and um and see if you um if you have any questions then this would be an opportunity for you to send and then we can let you know how we think this is going to be impacting us to the best of our abilities and um we have lots of upcoming events um I'm going to be presenting tomorrow night about uh gun violence and what we're doing to prevent that in our schools um the three approaches that I talk about is one is prevention which is mostly about uh mental health uh the kinds of things that we do to support students uh we also talk about the kinds of uh things we do to try to minimize um or or to properly respond uh if there is a

177threat or a concern that somebody may have and then the third area is kind of like the Thrills and trainings and active shooter type preparations that we do those are kind of the three areas and I think that uh you know we have seen some increases in in uh gun related discipline in our in our schools and um and we continue to uh you know work together with all our partners to try to minimize the risks for our students our staff is the public invited to attend that it is I believe so I'll I'll share the I'll share the uh link thanks I'd like to hear you talk about that wonderful uh we we have a uh PBIS um uh integrating rested practices to sh and P I'm not sure is that that open to

178the community or is that more of a staff uh we have a few Community Partners attending because it was shared in the community update I see okay great mostly School folks right right um also uh we you know vaping has been a big a big uh uh concern for us is very disruptive and has long-term effects on on our students and so part of our effort has been to with our teg grant has been to uh to bring more resources to our schools um to help prevent and intervene with when it comes to vaping and so there is a forum for for parents families and caregivers on November 29th and then I guess there's another PBIS implementation uh date on there um also uh pbsc um oh no this is our computer science education Community

179night at wattville high school I think it's in collaboration with PC and then one and in Santa Cruz uh on December 7th and um uh and then our C all and then we wanted to let you know that the California dashboards will be released those are those those um pages that tell you where schools are at red yellow red orange yellow green blue and um so the data for for last year 2023 is out and generally speaking um we're still seeing that we are not rebounding from from the pandemic for most of our schools we're seeing uh and uh in many cases we've seen some some some some drops on on the dashboard that does have some implications because as a County Office of Education part of our role for schools that have have a

180trend of neg of getting those red scores or those uh orange scores part of our role is to provide support to those uh school districts and soon charged schools and so uh they give us funding for that and so we'll be reporting to you about our differentiated assistance model which is helping the schools that are struggling uh to make improvements and uh we're going to be uh playing an even more active role in that process in the future um so uh you'll you'll be seeing that those uh you may be hearing about it in the media and we'll be sure to send you some links so that you'll be able to check out those TS any questions from the Consortium or whatever the Santa Cruz to ventoura yes the regional it um let me show

181you on six counties so um I'll show you a map real and while superintendent saal does that I can give you the fourth one so it is healthc care Pathways engineering Pathways stem Pathways and computer science path Pathways all right so let me see if I could find them M the engineering thank you for finding that [Music] so if you look at this map there it is so you'll see that this is the size of the Central Coast but you'll see that all of California is broken down into these different um into these different very large regions so this is us our uh this is s Santa Cruz County is part of is supposed to be in here so it does look like where the like it's getting cut off but but in fact it's

182all of san county and Hollister and I mean San Bonito and mo yeah it's it's exactly uh the same as the Girl Scout council the board I we know who created it [Music] wow funny so these are called the uh surf uh the the uh the surf regions is what they uh and so um so that we are wanting to make sure that we are kind of on board with this because it may be the way how how some larger some of the larger projects are funded in the future so it's difficult yeah doesn't seem to be population based either because Redwood Coast in Bay Area no it isn't and you got Santa Cruz then you have Los Angeles on that on that map and I pulled it up on the map it maybe incorrectly

183fluns Us in with a area so sorry I I also was looking at that so is that what we were talking about or um are we is the map in correct I think it's just that where this line is is is a little bit off because we're really this is a little bit further north because Santa call of Santa Cruz County is part of the central coast region okay okay just just clarifying that interesting that's it for my report great thank you Tres we're now to our own trustee reports um I can report I did a little committee work and I got another lost my protocol first um I have one more half of the meeting uh yeah I'd like to make a report and I'd like to make a I'd like to report an

184observation and something else and something more too an observation that I've made at my school um at PBI specifically is the arrival in dismissal times uh with the traffic that is going on in that area and that we have no monitors nor crosscards uh there so it's a very big danger to students and also drivers because I feel students and drivers don't pay attention to who's going in front of them where's there like who's going where I feel a monitor or a cross guard is a very big step into helping helping traffic in that area during arrival and dismissal time also um who participant well there was a student panel today but also the student panel on November 2nd of lgbtq plus I noticed the inclusion of student voice in the last month through that

185cuz I was a part of that uh student panel and I was able to hear what lgbtq plus um people say about being a friend and not just an ally being taking like making action not just saying words creating like sa spaces on campus also I'm currently in the process of connecting the student trustees from across the county each district and what I hope to do with that is collectively address concerns and challenges while working together to make positive changes in education policies practices and that'll be all for my report thank [Music] you did some committee work and I got a chance to um once again um uh share some of my little tricks and tips on public speaking with our meeting of our student leaders that was last weekend was really fun I think

186they enjoy it that's my uh you committee meetings and uh theend the diversity Center where our our Coe was honored in a glittery bright and fun way it was fun uh the there was a San Cruz County School boards association meeting and the next one will be in January and uh the topic for that at this point in time looks like it's going to be um about special ed so uh I'll I'll report on that again and and invite everyone to attend uh when I know more about it uh the person that came to speak to us was from csba Chris reath and he is a legislative director and it was excellent uh as far as updating it as where we are where the legislature is and um he took our questions and reiterated over

187and over again for us to develop relationships with our legislators that we do have a voice and a very important voice that includes students uh even more and um we talked about cyber attacks and so that's why I'm thinking csba may be working on on some of that too and um also uh working through legislature to allow retired teachers uh to cut some of the uh things that are holding them back from being able to step into the classroom um just to help us with the lack of uh teachers at this point in time and um you talked about zero admission buses as a thing that it's occurring before it's time and especially in California it doesn't Ser everybody there places where they uh don't even could even um actually have the amount of electricity

188needed to uh restore the batteries uh Scot Valley's partial tax passed at 73% please help them yep and uh the sanon valley is having some construction uh projects going on uh they're increasing their um student voice along with a student rep on their board uh So Cal has a new CBO and um uh let's see aaro looking at a possible bond issue and uh what they passed in 2012 was only half of what they needed and that was huge 40 million something like that it was big uh vog is looking at a bond issue at Workforce housing and but they are pursuing the electric buses they have electric connections to do that uh Claudia are the Santa Cruz City Schools they're also looking at Workforce housing at 80 units uh at believe at Natural Bridges

189the Natural Bridges site and um and then up on eune they've settled with their Union they are basic Aid District but just barely basic Aid means they get a certain amount of money it's not based on ada8 uh meaning average daily attendance they just get so much money but they're they're really struggling because I guess I look in and out of it and um anyway and his plea as always is that he's a superintendent principal and he's being ripped apart by the amount of reporting that is being required uh for a district of his size uh and he isn't where he should be or he's where he should be but he is not dealing with the school and the teachers and the students as much as he would like to be and this is 14

190we celebrated our 14th birthday 14 years of this and part of my thinking is that maybe the student Representatives either might like to join at or set up your own but it it's where all the districts come together we meet every maybe three three months and uh it's I think help bring our whole County together and hear the common commonality of problems and hey well we did this so but it might be something to think about we could talk thank you thank you so first of all I I want to apologize for the two our new trustees just because we do use a lot of acronyms in public education like a lot too many honestly it's so many and and we are so engraved in it that it just happens naturally and I feel like

191we don't even realize it sometimes so um I'm going to try my best to kind of explain when I we do use ACS just because they are so prevalent you know in all of our conversations that that we are using second thing that I noticed um I noticed that we don't have the owl anymore um y used to sit right here and it's gone would look at me for in our meetings and I didn't we didn't even get to name it and I don't know when it left or where it is but I hope it's doing okay it's still um my report October 25th um so we had the charter committee we met with PCS um and we discussed a little bit got an update about what they're doing how where where they're at and

192um kind of addressed some of the questions and provided some guidance to um for their presentation that they typically do on on a yearly basis around November and um another thing that I did uh on October 27 is um the city manager for Watsonville reached out to me Renee Mendes and he was just really interested about hearing from the community you know he um is approaching a year in in his position I don't know when he started but I want to say it's about a year um and just as a person from the outside it's always good to have somebody from the outside New Perspective noticing that maybe there's certain communities that might be underrepresented maybe there's certain uh people groups right that AR their voices aren't being heard so definitely reached out to me

193to to to collaborate and say how how we can potentially um get more input from the from from the community so um definitely enjoyed that I feel like that's a good um sign as to him where he's coming from what he wants specifically for um for for that City and that's my [Music] report I also participated in some committee work um but other than that uh first apologies for being a little late to the meeting today I was in San Jose cuz I am back working in education I was like thinking about talking about this and I was like I get like bubbly thinking about it um but as you know I used to teach and then I like not been in the education space and I find that like I am just so it

194everything we do with the board just makes so much more sense to my life and like there's so much more context when I'm on campuses um so I'm feeling very like personally fulfilled I work with like after school staff and training them to work with students and so I'm back like seeing kids all the time I'm back working with Educators and teachers so I'm feeling really good about that and I hope I can bring some of that experience um not only from our County but from Sant CL County where I was today to to our board and um hopefully that's like helpful context with some of the stuff we talk about but yeah that's it okay so I was going to talk about the glittery uh dinner party that that we went to on on

195October uh 21st it was the diversity Cent fund fundraiser and they had they were bragging about they had an auction and uh the um the entertainment was really good and and also just they had um their population had had uh really gone with the theme of the uh night was which was Allison Wonderland and so there were madh Hatters and and the the queen of Queen of Hearts and you know there were there were there were these people in fabulous costumes I didn't know there were costumes associated with uh Alison Wonderland that you could acquire this many costumes in this one County and that they were all at the uh Paradox Hotel uh and uh it was really a fun event and I got to sit at the Coe table with Ferris and his wife

196and wasn't Michael Watkins sitting at our table and his wife was there too I don't I don't think you were at the table sitting right next to you in a glittery red dress oh that's right bun that was you I didn't know we were supposed to wear glitter I just dress normally yeah that was really that was really a a fun fun rcer for that entity I think he said they had already earned brought $100,000 did you hear that yes yes that number spent you think it was the most they've done yeah yeah they uh I believe they said they surpass they surpass their their their their goal for the night and but I do I do the County Office of Education did receive an award and I I do want to to I think

197that's that's really important because you play an important part of that and the fact that um that the diversity Center which we work with and we have they provide so much support to us um uh and and U we've learned you know and continue to grow with them um provided that that that that award I think is was a great honorous uh I wish I went went to the diversity Center gala um but I I'm sure you guys had fun um you know on my behalf um and it sounds like it next year for you yes I you had tons of it uh with your red glittery dress um I am now on the policy committee I don't know if you heard um and um I'm not sure um what else I've done I've been

198you know looking into um csb resources um I know that um you know districts are are the ones that are in in our um you know funding landscape kind of uh tasked with providing Workforce housing because if we could easily um make you know affordable and nice Workforce housing uh we would do it in a heartbeat but I know that um you know there are lots of different reg regulations that we have to follow that districts you know um have different you know Authority responsibilities um but I've been looking into some other um potential resources recommended by csba for you know County offices of education and how we can help support um Educators and I've I've heard of some uh other um nonprofits that can help provide um down human assistance for educators and so

199I look forward to you know looking more into that seeing what I can um you know find that might help support our Educators because I know that it's an issue for you know Recruitment and Retention here uh in the county for um not just us but all the districts and so anything that we can do um to help in this you know housing crisis I think is really important so I look forward to seeing if there's anything in our wheelhouse that we can do to help support uh Educators so that's that's what I got to say for now thank you Tres um excuse me don't believe we have any um other I committee reports do want to mention number 16 on our schedule um December meeting um needs to be moved up a week so

200rather than being on December 21st we need to have it on December 14th and this to meet a legal deadline requirement we be having so it'll be the usual 4M on Thursday December 14th so we will require action to modify that oh we we need to vote okay so I'm sorry so we need a motion to actually shift the meeting time I'll make that motion motion Alto I'll second it did on my Jer second okay so we have a motion this could just be a v vote I mean a just a Voice vote so all in favor say I I I I any opposed say no motion Carri okay can we get an email sent out so that those that aren't here can all right have one announcement one thing I forgot to include in

201my update was that power Valley prevention Student Assistance is having a fundraiser on November 28th at 5:30 um so it's a soup for a cause and we have space at our table if you'd like to join us it's uh it's going to be in the in the Civic Plaza on the fourth floor top top of the the so if you're able to make it at November 28th at 5:30 please let ver great did a good dinner right this meeting is a j thank you