001e now opening the March 26 2025 meeting of the Santa Rosa City Schools Board of Education we will start with public comment on Clos session agenda items the close session agenda items are conference with legal council anticipated litigation student expulsions Public Employee discipline dismissal and Rel rele and public employee performance evaluation are there any blue cards there are no blue cards all right then the board will recess to close session for good evening everyone we are now reopening the March 26 2025 meeting of the Santa Rosa City Schools Board of Education if everyone could please have a seat and quiet down thank you um please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance and then remain standing for the territorial land acknowledgement I acknowledge that Santa Rosa city schools is on the traditional territory and homelands of
002the Pomo people traditional territory and homelands of the coast moak people in honor with gratitude the land itself and the people who have Steed it throughout the generations this land acknowledgement calls us to commit to continuing to learn how to be better stewards of the land we inhibit by offering this land acknowledgement we affirm indigenous sovereignty and will work to hold Santa Rosa city schools more accountable to the needs of the American Indian and IND indigenous peoples thank you all right report of actions taken in closed session there were none items considered in Clos session for Action in Open session we are seeking a motion on our student exposion cases um we have case number 2024 25-25 I'll move approval is there a second second right moved by trusty Casten second in by trusty maner
003roll call vote trusty Casten I trusty manary hi trusty Kirby hi trusty Jenkins hi president MCN I motion passes then we have case number 2024 25-27 move second moved by trusty Casten seconded by trusty Maneri roll call vote trusty Casten hi trusty manier I trusty Kirby I trusty Jenkins I president MCD I motion passes right we'll move on to statements of abstention are there any statements of abstention tonight trusty Caston he will be abstaining on G three um a potential client of a client is one of the vendor warrants all right thank you trusty Caston any others all right adjustments to the agenda um I know that for our School site um presentations and parent organization updates we will only be hearing from Hidden Valley Elementary we'll hear from Montgomery High School at a later
004board meeting are there any other adjustments to the agenda frusty Jenkins um I'd like to pull G5 and just G5 okay so G3 and G5 all right thank you trusty Jenkins anything else all right then we'll move on to our special presentation for a student of the month and certificated and classified employees of the month for Hidden Valley Elementary School what good evening everyone Brad costarelli proud principal at Hidden Valley Elementary School the the teacher staff and principal of Hidden Valley Elementary School are proud to announce Kiana agbayani as as our Santa Rosa city school's Hidden Valley Elementary student of the month Tiana is very deserving of this honor she is a true Hidden Valley Hawk Kiki is a conscientious curious and committed student who works diligently to produce creative quality work she perseveres through
005challenges and has a very positive attitude Kiki is also very reliable and giving she can be counted on by her peers for help Kiki has many talents and is gifted in many ways one of the most impressive things about her is the way she is supportive and kind to all of her classmates and teachers she was always willing to work with a student who needs help she has a sweet and humble nature that makes her well-liked by all at home Kiki is described as a blessing she is currently taking piano and recently won first place in a Bible quiz competition in an annual aana clubs event in Northern California she volunteers and serves as an assistant in her Church's program for children Kiki is an amazing patient and kind older sister to her two younger
006sisters and is considerate and respectful to her two older siblings she loves drawing reading crafts and loves learning and talking about her faith she is a very hardworking honest and well-rounded young lady we have no doubt that Kiki is well prepared for middle school and that she will continue to use her talents to make her future years positive and productive congratulations Kiki we are all so proud of you congratulations the for and then it is our honor to award Mr Carlos Silva as the Santa Rosa city school's classified employee of the month for hidden valet Elementary School Mr Silva works at Hidden Valley as a classroom instructional assistant Mr Silva is amazing he does it all at Hidden Valley he greets our families and students every morning at drop off he is constantly getting called
007on the radio to help in a classroom or support a student in need Mr Silva is out at every recess and lunch helping to keep our campus safe he works with small uh with students in small groups to support students in math and English Mr Silva helps with restorative practices our tier 2 team and is a member of our school leadership team Mr Silva is a respected and valued member of our school due to his hard work professionalism and true team spirit he has amazing people skills communication with parents teachers and students and cares deeply about improving our school as a bilingual employee many of our families feel very comfortable with Mr SAA as he has built strong relationships with them he has proven himself to be a loyal dedicated and passionate employee Mr Silva
008is an asset to our school our school district once again it is my pleasure to present Mr Silva as the Santa Rosa city school's classified employee of the month for Hidden Valley Elementary School congratulations stay right there we do one more and then and then we'll both on behalf of Hidden Valley Elementary School and the Santa Rosa city schools district it is our pleasure to award Mrs Debbie Winkleman as our teacher of the month she teaches fifth grade at Hidden Valley Mrs Winkleman is well respected by our staff students and parents Mrs Winkleman encompasses all of the quality of a teacher of the month she is warm and caring she creates a classroom environment that both welcomes and challenges her students to reach their goals Mrs Winkleman is dedicated to supporting every student she works
009hard to improve student morale in creating a positive caring Community atmosphere at our school and getting our fifth graders excited about math and science Mrs Winkleman builds strong Rapport in relationships with her students and families her students know that she pushes them to be their best in all areas she has high expectations for all of her students she is active in using our new steam lab where her students love working on science and math Labs two weeks ago her class and their buddies from first grade celebrated read Across America day they enjoyed a camp out and read by flashlight with their buddies this is the kind of excitement in learning that Mrs winlan instills in her students she can and does make a daily difference in the lives of our students it is an honor
010and privilege to award Mrs Winkleman as our Hidden Valley Elementary Santa Rosa City School's teacher of the month congratulations okay we're gonna follow Jones we're GNA follow J yeah you congratulations again to Kiana Carlos and Debbie thank you for everything you do um next we have our School site parent organization updates from Hidden Valley looks like we have Alex Suarez elect President and Nadia alari PFO president thank you Alex for ditching me again this year I don't see him oh there you are I'm sorry are you going first oh you can go first my name is NAD Ali and I'm the current PFO president here at Hidden Valley I would like to formally apologize to Alex uh I want to begin by thanking you for the opportunity to speak tonight and for the time care
011and energy each of you invest in making decisions that affect our children's education and wellbeing if I may be honest I'm not normally easily rattled or at a loss of ideas on what to say before giving a speech and sorry I struggled with this one after everything that has happened this past year it definitely didn't come easy and if we're completely honest it seems wrong to give a speech like nothing has happened at all how do I just ignore the fact that so many people are being let go and the schools are closing it feels impossible to find the right words because this year has been incredibly emotional for our community and although we're so grateful that Hidden Valley is not closing we're still saddened alongside those who are impacted as you know we've had
012several of our own staff members receive pink slips all of them whose heart and presence have meant so much to our kids the parents and co-workers and we're preparing to say goodbye to our beloved principal Brad costarelli someone who has led with warmth strength and deep care for our community please never forget that when you are ready to let them go I want to hope this decisions weren't made lightly and I sincerely do want to take the time to thank you the board for for the service and for the weight you do carry in trying to do what's best under these difficult Financial circumstances there's been a lot of debate about why this has all been happening low enrollment budget deficits but and Leadership decisions and frankly I don't pretend to know whose fault it
013is and maybe I am completely wrong to assume that this could have all been prevented but what I do know is that it's complicated and that the cost is felt in classrooms in staff rooms and in the hearts of families of our district last year when I had to give my speech here at this very spot I remember I really did believe that the district encouraged and appreciated working together with the PFO to help improve our school I remember how I thank the district here for all they did for us this year I'm not going to lie my enthusiasm did go out the window again I won't pretend for a second here that I know why what has happened has happened but I will take this opportunity to speak to you as the PFO president
014and as a parent that I've had interactions this past year with several District members that were belittling to us as a PFO and as a parent the disappointment is real but so is the opportunity so here I am still showing up still hopeful in my own way to say let's try again let's use this pain of this year to push us towards something better a stronger more honest partnership one where the voices of parents staff and students are truly being valued and not just listened to and then laughed off the PFO is already working the PFO is ready to do the work in helping the district help us making our schools better we are in the process of setting up a welcome committee to welcome new students who work affected by the school closures we're
015doing our best to support our staff and teachers the best way we know how in these difficult times we are here to support to collaborate and to advocate for our school and we are sincerely hoping that the district will wor work together with us to be able to help us support our school Community thank you again for the time your service and for listening good evening president mcnali uh superintendent Morales members of the board and the community and congratulations to our awardees both faculty classified and students my name is Alex sues I am the acting pres acting president of our elac committee at Hidden Valley um I also serve as a current D vice president and it is a pleasure to be here this evening to highlight the many accomplishments and celebrations of our unique
016school with only 51 students out of approximately 400 students stents that our school serves recruiting for our Ela committee continues to be a challenge nonetheless we still strive to meet regularly and to seek the involvement of new families in our small but dedicated committee our committee has met to discuss the very number number of topics and concerns including controversal topics such as school safety um including the SRO pilot program summer school offer and how this uh tend to exclude our students um in their design for our school not meeting Title One classification uh continues to be a concern many of our students are not eligible for summer school programs uh in addition to other programs in addition members of our community are active in many activities and celebration that our school organizes uh this include
017events such as the hakon our traditional Halloween parade uh which is loved by everyone in our community uh there's also the P Q event several movie nights and our family's favorite ice cream social plus summer read book swap nonetheless for the past few months our schools Community has been consumed with the closure and the consolidation process and many families have expressed concerns about the transition process our community has been very patient throughout this process more recently our district shared the unexpected news that Mr karelli our current principal will not be returning the following year our elac committee condemns the district's decision to dismiss Mr costarelli uh Mr costarelli has been with our district for many years and his leadership has been instrumental to build the community that makes hidden B what hidden B is today
018as it relates to elac and in the last five years I personally have been involved in our elac leadership our committee has nothing but respect for Mr karelli we have appreciated Mr karelli is always been on top of things been present and involved in almost every single elac meeting uh providing the necessary training the guidance and moreover securing venue uh for our in-person meetings facilitating Child Care Refreshments for our meetings he has been there all the time so thank you Mr Coster for your leadership and for your partnership on this note our committee urges the district to reconsidered the removal of our principal we should not be fixing that is running quite frankly very well from our point of view thank you for your time president mcnali superintendent Morales and the many and the members
019of the board our committee looks forward to continue to work with our school and our district to address the concerns of our english- speaking and English learning community thank you for your time thank you both we will now move on to the reports section of our agenda starting with the California School employee Association report president Mary Leman good evening can you hear me see if I can do this um good evening president MCN governing board superintendent Dr Morales student board member and cabinet members and everyone joining us on Zoom I want to thank everyone else for being here tonight we are Santa Rosa city school Community we care about all of our schools and the well-being of all of our students families staff teachers and admins CSA wants to congratulate the students and teachers of
020the month at Hidden Valley Elementary School we would like to extend a special thank you to our classified employee um Carlo Silva who was being honored tonight tonight I'm adding a special presentation it is for the district office employees of the month congratulations and a special thank you to our classified payroll techs Carla Pera and vieta Gonzalez for working extremely hard to ensure that over 650 classified employees are going to receive their 2.7% salary compensation and benefits March 31st all of us have been waiting for this and continued working tirelessly every day for the last nine months tonight superintendent Daisy Morales will receive a vote of no confidence from the majority of SRTA members voting right now CSEA must focus on binding agreements specifically B bargaining the effects of layoffs and school closures we believe
021that investing our time and resources into binding agreements is best for our unit at this time we are scheduled to negotiate this with the district April 3rd layoffs and involuntary transfer notices were distributed to classified and certificated employees by the March 15th deadline of the sum 170 to classified who receive notices many still have no idea where they will end up next year and at which site or job their seniority will take them the uncertainty and pain of not knowing is anxiety that each person carries with them to work every day until it is resolved it is a constant reminder to each and every one of us that behind every notice is a dedicated worker who is an important part of our community we must support each other throughout this process Santa Rosa city school
022is in the headlines every day yet not everyone is privy to newspapers or the Daily News parent Square alone is not the answer either but what other types of communication do we need to gain back our trust in the district how do we help our students move forward with the changes that are coming with a positive attitude we need to be the role models as we move forward classified are participating in the transition teams working with teachers and administrators planning the work of moving forward the phrase from chaos comes order comes to mind hopefully structure stability and positive change can emerge from all of this cs's csa's mission is to improve the lives of our members the students and our community we all must work together with honesty compassion and courage to create something like
023hash Sonoma strong let's create a hash Santa Rosa city school strong Community let's take care of each other in solidarity thank you thank you president L next is our Santa Rosa Teachers Association report president Katherine Howell good evening president mcnali superintendent Morales members of the board members of the community fellow teachers the members of SRTA have spoken with a 98% vote of no confidence in the district plan for next year the ability of the district administrators to lead us through the current crisis the teacher teers counselors nurses speech language Pathologists and school psychologists have made it clear that we have no confidence in the leadership of Dr Morales we ask this board to remove her from her position of superintendent and immediately commence a search for a new leader we have been vocal with our
024concerns since before this school year when we became aware of her vote of no confidence that saw her departure from her previous District Live Oak we've been vocal with our concerns throughout the grossly mismanaged and chaotic School closure process and we are standing United as teachers and Educators with our students and Community to demand a change in Santa the city school's leadership our students in community deserve better we deserve leadership that prioritizes stable and supportive learning environments we deserve leadership that listens to teachers and counselors and School staff and parents and students when considering making changes to our school communities that will drastically Al alter lives we desperately need leadership that can lead us out of this year of destabilization and into an era for Santa Rosa city schools that reestablishes trust and a common
025vision for the schools that our students deserve we are risking losing the faith of our students and parents and seeing further drops in enrollment we risk more decisions without fully thought out execution plans and we risk losing our most trusted and dedicated teachers and Educators to more stable districts our financial situation has not improved there's no Assurance or trust that the school closures and layoffs will result in the $25 million in savings that are needed our school communities have been disrupted attendance boundaries have changed families have scrambled to understand new schools with the closures many families have chosen to leave the district rather than navigate the changes our support staff has been removed and Scattered with dozens of classified layoffs schools won't have restorative specialist family engagement facilitator cators yard Duty supervisors familiar office staff
026and countless other student and staff supports the depths of which we cannot even comprehend yet our middle school students are being sent to high schools without appropriate learning spaces or facilities science electives physical education and athletic programs are all needing to be reimagined because of the move to the model our site administrators have been reassigned without input from Educators or support staff or families or the Hidden Valley PFO it sounds like so now the families the staff the educators of these schools are in a chaotic moment needing to build new relationships with administrators who have no site experience and in the case of our 712 models administrators who never worked at a middle school H we're asking the board to help this city the families and students of our school communities the Educators the support
027staff and our site administrators help us create the schools that attract students to our programs not drive them away don't ignore hundreds of voices crying out for support and change we demand the Santa Rosa City Schools board hear our demands and bring competent and transparent leadership to our district so that we may begin the recovery process now thank you thank you president Howell next on our agenda is the superintendent report so thank you everyone for being here I want to acknowledge and express that I've heard the concerns raised by SRTA um president how and I met last week um a superintendent I understand that I represent the organization and the decisions being made um I take that responsib ability seriously and I want to also acknowledge that these decisions especially the ones in the last
028several months have not been made in silos these are the results of collaboration among District's leaders and Board of Trustees after lots of conversations meetings research and under a very tight timeline and while listening to all of the Community Voices the Board of Trustees made the decision for the district made the decisions for the districts that we're working to implement um I want to take us back for a minute to the town halls um in those Town Halls we heard oh just tell us what schools are going to be closing we know there is a plan and we kept sharing no there is no plan yet plans were started once the board was able to make a final decision and again under a tight timeline there are yet yes there are questions yet to be
029answered and we will answer those together as we build this together we do have areas to improve of course we are implementing a model that is new to our district and hence with the need for different voices the success of these decisions don't hinge on one person it hinges on us all working together and collaborating together success is achieved by with a team and when we choose to engage and have the mindset that we teach our students to have we haven't done this yet I value the role that SRTA plays in advocating for educators and I remain committed to the continued collaboration to address all the concerns I also want to take a moment to speak about the recent changes in school administration these CH these shifts can understandably understandably bring questions and emotions especially
030when there are strong connections where with our site leadership when making these decisions were're taking into account various needs our goal is always to ensure that schools are led by individuals who bring not only relevant background and experience but also the full leadership capacity to meet the evolving needs of our of our campuses this includes a I'm going to ask I'm going to ask the audience that we respect this includes a strong instructional Foundation the ability to create Implement future-facing vision for academics as well as for safety and operations and the ability to build capacity in others and ground programs and grow programs aligned with student opportunities especially with the focus on access and in the service of all students I want to emphasize that these personal matters are confidential I understand that this is
031not what people want to hear while individual employees may choose to share or not share their personal stories we must keep those conversations confidential as we Transitions and these transitions are not easy we are committed to navigating ating these together um SRTA had the idea that hasn't been tried before in terms of having a survey for all of our staff and Community around our Administration and that's something we're looking to implement again again we will have the opportunity to hear from members of the public that's what public comment is for I ask that you respect whoever's turn it is to speak so again we're we're looking to continue the collaboration and we're excited for what the school leaderships will be able to do in the coming years as we continue to support our students and
032our school communities and then in terms of what has been done in the last week um we did a lot of advocacy work this last week at the capital on Monday and Tuesday with the association of California school administrators we met with uh various assemblymen and um Senators who are the chair for the education committee um and our state capital talking about not only IM immigration but also all of the issues facing um funding for Education particularly wanting to safeguard our 98 our prop 98 funds and not shortcutting it by $1.6 million we've also really advocated for keeping our Cola and not shrinking it in the in the coming months we're also talking about with the advocacy team around making sure that the funding for the discretionary block grant is maintained that's one of the
033block CRS that were represented in the scenario during our um second interim report we're also advocating for our subs to be able to stay with us 60 days and not 30 days like currently is stated as well as we advocated for funding around enrollment and not just Ada this past Thursday Dr Castro and I met with Senator Maguire he in Santa Rosa um he asked questions about our challenges and he is looking for ways to support us um and then this week I also was was able to visit our warehouse and our duplicating department and seeing the work that they're doing there as well as being able to look at some ledgers from 1877 in 1904 and today I was able to visit Burbank and Brook Hill where students were um learning to read also
034using I ready and uh the team the students that are learning to play mimba and it was a great way to start the day this morning so thank you thank you Dr Morales right my report tonight is less a report of actions taken and more a report of my intentions which are to spend more time face Toof face with stakeholders and Community Partners during the closure and consolidation process I felt it was important for me to respect the committee's work and so I didn't want to show any bias so I was I wasn't spending time on campuses I would like to get back to doing that so um again I just I've said this before I want to ask if there's anything going on at your school site that you want me to see or
035you want me to know about reach out um it is I am a full-time teacher so I do have to take time off from work but I am committing to do that if there are people that want to meet with me um I know that recently president Howell asked me to meet I was unavailable but I made sure that two of our trustees did meet with her um and if there are further concerns I will make myself available now um the same goes to president Leman um if CA has concerns I'm always happy to meet um I've been in communication with Chief krian after last night's vote he and I are planning to meet when we can find a a time that works for us to work together on how our collaboration with the police
036department is going to go um I'm also hoping to meet soon with the mayor maybe some of our city council members so that is my commitment that I am going to I'm going to be working with you with our stakeholders with our Community Partners there other board member reports trusty Jenkins I just have a very short one um just with uh some stuff happening in Montgomery this week if I can remember what we're doing it is Unity week next week is that correct I'm looking at you Mr the France yes Unity week next week I'm very excited for the students um more importantly though is tomorrow night with our Anchors Away um welcoming in incoming 7eventh through nth graders I'm excited to be present at that just to kind of see um what's going on
037and uh I've I've been very encouraged by the support at the Montgomery campus with with um parents and uh staff and admin for what I'm hearing um with welcoming in the the seventh seventh and eighth graders on campus next week or next year excuse me and then Alumni Association is hosting their Penta feed this weekend too which is should be a good time and that's it Other Board member reports trusty Casten also just briefly since the last meeting um had the opportunity to meet with a group of art Quest students uh one of the parents hosted us uh in their living room and discuss some of the issues surrounding some of the things that happened over the last year there um it was really good to talk to them and hear their concerns and uh
038much of it stuff I'm actually going bring back to our work in the board policy subcommittee uh also I attended the San Rosa Middle School uh transition meeting uh with both the teams from sen was a high and Sen was a middle I thought the um Dr OK Conor did a really good job facilitating that uh and um the presentation and a lot the decisions have been reported out in other places but the meeting itself was uh positive I got to hear from many of the parents directly and lastly tomorrow morning um we have the first uh subcommittee meeting with the Snowman County Office of Education on the supports that they're going to be providing the district uh over the next six to seven months so that's my update trusty Kirby um just a quick
039reminder that tomorrow evening is the last um presentation for the uh uh srpd and violence prevention partnership um Road show about the dangers of fentol and gang violence it's at Maria Korea High School uh 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. any other trustee reports um student board memb Zuna do you have a report this list report but just to share I was reached out by three eighth graders from sers of middle khil Axel and Jose um and they wanted to share about a campaign they're working on uh called the reduced plastic method um and they reached out asking for our district to adapt ways and in reducing our single use plastic waste um to make sure this is huge for for eighth graders to reach out but to re uh to reduce or single use plastic waste
040um and find better ways to recycle and actually have places to recycle on campuses um because of how much how unaccessible sometimes these things can be and especially at the high school that I go to it it is unaccessible um and so I responded saying that we were working with Ed Burke the nutritional um adviser for the district um and have been trying to find ways to uh reduce our waste uh foodwise but also with the the ridiculously amount of a ridiculous amount of single use PL Plastics that are uh food is drapped in and so they also uh expressed concerns about the microplastics that are in the the foods they're eating because um because the EPA has has found um at least 15,000 sorry 1500 different species not including individual animals and humans with
041uh amounts of microplastics in in their bodies um yeah so shout out to khil Axel and Jose you guys are awesome um thank you and uh I will take action thank you next is our school consolidation and transition report the team comes comes to the table to answer questions um we wanted to highlight that we included in the assembly report a a drawing of how our teams are working together and collaborating and let me bring that up so again we wanted to bring Clarity onto how the teams are working together um and the flow of work and also the decision-making process we as we've shared in previous meetings we've really wanted to have a lot of the decisions most of the decisions take place at our Empower teams and Dr C can speak more to
042that work um and in in line with what the board has given in terms of Direction and focus for the work that they want to see done in the years in the in the months ahead and also in future years the implementation team is made up of our executive directors and the directors in all of the different departments they are producing um the documents every week in terms of what the work is being done decisions that are being made and the design team which really is like a steering team that puts together the weekly updates for the community as well as Works to schedule all of the meetings the listening sessions that we're doing the evening sessions that we're doing with families and that's how the information flows we really want the information to flow
043from the Empower teams and and move up in terms of us sharing the information that is being done by our our Empower teams and the boot on the ground and I'll turn it over to the team to talk about what the Empower teams have been working on I know spring break was last week so we're getting back into the swing of things and then um speak to anything else that will be happening in the next coming weeks and I know that um sped has uh something they want to share we'll be official more in a future meeting but we'll have to make some changes in terms of some of the moves so turn it over to the team I think one of the things we'd like to provide a little bit of an update on
044would be the elementary Readiness Plan we didn't have an opportunity to do that last time um between um the last board meeting and this one there were three work days so not really a lot going on in terms of on campus so but we did want to be able to provide that sort of work so I'm going to have uh Alisa Haley step in and provide a little bit of that information right now not sit on the you're not so um I just want to inform you a little bit about the elementary groups um they're going ho they're doing a great job um the principles have really worked with their teams to really figure out how to welcome the new students to their sites that they'll be going to so for example we sat yesterday
045with um a group of principles and they're deciding okay how what is open house going to look like how can we make sure that people feel welcome at their new schools I've got emails from teachers saying I'm not on the Empower team but here's an idea so people are like really um they're excited and want to make sure everybody's welcome um they're having every month there two schools that are closing Albert Vella and Brook Hill an event an event for the families um one example is May 9th I think it is looking at Pam maybe she knows um for Albert bellaa they're actually gon to have all the alumni back that have been there from day one they'll have all the old admin they're going to have a barbecue they're having movie Nights another month
046so they're all planning things like that and then another um I think is really positive is they're actually collecting all the data about students and saying um this student really works well with this student we really want to make sure they're going to be together in a class because we do not want any child to go to a new class to a new school and not feel that they have somebody safe to be with so they're really working towards that they're sharing information um and that's pretty much I think is doing a really good job sure um tomorrow we will be having our first empowered team with Montgomery and Slater so we're looking forward to that um Slater has done a lot of work with their team and Montgomery's done work with their team and
047tomorrow we get to do the work together that we' made yeah thank you show we've also um as part of the campaign in terms of improving communication we have a nice video that we've created um in terms of uh welcoming um students to the um junior senior campuses um Mr hudman can talk a little bit about that I don't know if we're prepared to actually share it but if you want to like say a few words about it yeah sure if you can pull it up on your a computer there you can share I don't know if you can um so there's a concerted effort right now to try to reach out to our community and and reach them and answer what they need so a lot of them are saying they want more information
048and so this past week I put together just a short little video clip uh with the principal Santos about the welcome event that they're having at mgy tomorrow night uh to kind of showcase that and welcome people to the campus and give them a sense of what school is going to be like next year uh it's on our YouTube page it's been put out by parents Square it's on our social media platforms and also in line with communication we understand that not everybody is on social media not everybody's going to our website not everybody's going to get a parent Square so this past week we sent out um the information that we released regarding to our Empower team updates and our transition and consolidation efforts we print uh sent those to each site and they
049were printed at each site in English and Spanish so they could be printed off and handed out uh to whoever wanted them uh and we'll continue doing that as we send out our weekly updates thank you I'm G to go ahead and uh you trying to pull that up going to try to pull that up as we continue to um present some of the updates um sure I can chime in uh Dr Morales alluded to a potential change in the plan with respect to sped um and uh I walked the campus with our program manager principal for the Lewis Early Learning Academy in in our current plan uh there had been a plan to bring our two preschool SDC classes to beella for the Bela campus I should say for 2526 upon a review of
050the site um the classrooms that had bathrooms were not preschool appropriate bathrooms um and we working with facilities we made a determination that it would be best to wait till uh 2627 when we plan to bring the four preschool classes from that are currently at steel Lane over to beella as well and bring them all over at the same time that would give uh maintenance and operations a chance to uh develop appropriate bathrooms at the site Etc in addition to that um the bla campus has PODS of six classrooms which we think would be perfect because we have six SDC classrooms at the preschool level so um we wouldn't have to move them after a year uh this will be brought to the board I think in in a couple weeks uh most likely um
051one other piece that I can update with respect to special education um we've been working with sco and and I have met with selpa and sco recently to determine ways that SC selpa can support us in this transition and um we've come up with uh several ways coming up relatively soon we plan to have a community meeting for special education parents um hosted in Santa Rosa we're looking at sites right now where to host that but in mid April um we had a parent meeting at Sela before so this is another opportunity to potentially answer questions and lay the concerns of parents who may be transitioning to new sites in addition as as you probably know we're bringing a number of students back from SC so we have transitions there and then the last piece
052as we do on a yearly basis we have a number of students transitioning from from feeder districts and this will be an opportunity to again answer questions we have almost all the sites um completely identified and set in terms of facilities there's some question marks on a couple of them and so we're in discussions to to finalize a couple of spaces as I've learned the most important facilities issue in my world right now is the availability of bathrooms and uh that is determining a lot of site placement um at this point but in addition to that I I've asked Salpa to support us in terms of Behavioral training for classrooms and and teachers as students transition to to new schools and uh they said they'd be able to do that this year and and in
053the fall um one more thing on my end before I forget um to battle the constant barrage of of misinformation that you get sometimes and that we um are dealing with we created a frequently Asked question sheet so as these questions come in we're actually going to be answering them and posting permanent answers there be able to put that up on the website that we have now for the transition and um as questions come in we'll just be permanently posting responses for the community to go to so that they don't have to keep going back over and over and over to the um you know and it'll hopefully a lay and a some of those concerns as those questions come in um from wellness and engagement it's been an incredibly busy uh couple of weeks
054we closed the final window for intra District transfers and we received this year um around 1280 transfer requests um to attend a school other than their neighborhood School in Santa Rosa um this is uh higher than it has been in the last few years however it's really kind of getting back to the 201829 years where we were during those times receiving over a thousand transfer requests as well um but uh just a couple of talking points that are um kind of interesting within those two windows both back in October and the March 1st um all of the families who were um able to turn in those requests our goal was to be able to notify families of the outcome by the end of spring break we were actually able to do that by the Tuesday
055during spring break so it was a lot of effort a lot of heavy lifting but we were able to do it of those 1280 requests um about 10 about a, 1,38 were approved there are 276 transfers that had be placed on waiting lists at two of our schools both uh Santa Rosa high school and Maria koreo and um families are requesting appeals and we are setting those up for the week of April 7th um this is going to allow us to both protect the space that's necessary for um neighborhood students at the schools as well as honoring students requests and desire to be with their siblings or participating in special programs our facilities team excuse me is working with our purchasing group and there will be coming forward on April 9th a pool of moving
056companies that we will use for this for these moves coming up as well as into the future one of the things that we want to be very cognizant of is that we are um going through a vetting process and a competitive process so that when we are looking at including costs for potential reimbursement from State matching funds that we've gone through that competitive pool so that will be coming forward to the board on April 9th and um we will have information out uh hopefully by the end of this week a timeline regarding um packing materials and dumpsters recycling things like that um for school sites to be ready so um I know Dr xan is is not U here available so I will share that we did meet with SRTA yesterday related to our bargaining
057on the impacts of closure and consolidation and we will be um as uh Mary lemon um talked about we will be meeting to to negotiate impacts with them as well excuse me um I'll go ahead and change uh hand it over to James to give a little more on the communication and we will close with the the video I am able to share that all right and so I just want to add to the web page that we uh put together and we're going to be adding to it it's on our uh main page of our website in the center you can click on it called transition plan and we have a fe frequently asked questions section there and at the very bottom um I know it's all in English there but we're going to
058provide a Spanish there as well if you hit submit a question here you'll pull up a Google form that's in English and Spanish and anybody in the community can go there and ask any question that comes to Transportation programs education uh Staffing uh whatever question you have please ask and we will do our best to get those questions answered in a timely manner and we'll add them to the fact on our on on that web page thank you board questions trusty Jenkins I had a clarifying question for John um just to make sure I heard this right are you saying that we're we're are we leaving baa empty for a year is that the new plan I'm going to segue to Lisa on that so at this so at this point it may be that
059it's more effective for us to leave that as not in use so that we can actually do the construction that's needed there the renovations to make and move everybody at once from the Leela campus the steel Lane campus and our partners or it may be a transition of some of the partners first and then the remaining later we want to make sure that we have adequate facilities there and the issue is again around rest the number of restrooms in the classrooms for the because if you remember the the Leela they're the the really little so it is a little bit of a facilities issue I'm concerned that that sounds like a lot of money again as we wouldn't be operating it it's actually because we would we do have solar there we would actually be
060selling back to pg& at a likely net profit um for that for that year there would it would give us the opportunity to do to make facility adjustments and it actually would not necessarily be anything as far it would be more of a savings than a than a loss like Leela needs to Leela we wouldn't be able to move everything all at once with we had talked about transferring transitioning that partial one year and the rest the next year so really what it does is it keeps us from operating two facilities and consolidates it into one while we do the upgrades and then move everybody at once so it's actually likely a more of a cost savings to do it in that way is it more like the the steel Lane Littles would go to
061Leela for this no the steel Lane the steel Lane Litt would stay where they're where they're at at Leela because they they weren't going to move until that second year anyway so they would still stay where they're at I thought everybody was moving them no no it was going to be TR because we knew that it wouldn't be ready for everyone in that first year so it was a two-year transition it's likely just we would have it all in the seconde transition for the littles right so so the plan would be all six move it once originally we had understood that there were two bathrooms available rooms with bathrooms available at um at beella hence potentially moving the the two Leela classes and then again upon walking the site uh it turned out those bathrooms
062weren't adequate at this time and so again as as Lisa mentioned we would be moving all six preschool uh classes at the same time instead of a staggered two and four other questions trusty Caston just want to follow and I recognize those was three work days uh in the last two weeks for everyone but I I'd very much like at our next meeting to have a part of this be the discussion about the work around the 504 accommodation Transitions and what we're doing to capture the 504 accommodations that we currently have in our database and what we're going to do to make sure that those students are not lost in this transition um unless you have the update today in which case I'd love to hear it we I've had one meeting with a coordinator
063about that um since we last spoke he's working on it yes so if we can have that Fuller update on that as part of the next one I just I'm going to continue to worry until one of these written reports actually has 504 in it and it's not a part of a zip code I actually told him that so yes perfect thank you trusty Kirby um one one other followup uh I know it was short turnaround with spring break and the um an enrollment just closing but uh perhaps for the next meeting if we could get a uh further breakdown like the in inter intradistrict interdistrict transfers as well as uh site specific like how many students are in and out of each of our sites is that is that possible for the next meeting
064is it possible to get that um if you'd like I did bring a couple of slides that we could review I I didn't know about the amount of time we would have but we do have the ability to show some slides yeah sure if you could show that now that'd be great thank you enrollment District so it is important to know that what I'm not here to share tonight is information about the um projected enrollment of each School sites I just start with no no sorry she opened the wrong one it's the 2526 there that's there we go um let's start on Slide Five all right so uh again just reminding all of us that in a traditional normal year we only have one open window for open enrollment and that is from October 1st
065to November 15th and that's when all transfer typically closes and then we try to inform families by January 31st because of the um strange situation this year next slide um we actually opened two windows this year we had one window that allowed families to request a transfer between October and November like we normally do and then in February the board reached some conclusions on closure and consolidation we opened a second transfer window from March 1st to March 15th and while the families and uh students were enjoying their spring break a team from information and evaluation and myself analyzed the requests that we received and by the 19th we were able to notify families of the outcome of their transfers so um it is important to and we don't have to go through the process of
066the next two slides just talking about um what is an open enrollment intra District transfer actually can you back up one slide we did make an adjustment under administrative regulations 511 6.1 to adjust the priorities so as we shared in previous meetings we wanted to make sure that when we look at the number of transfers there is often not always but often uh the uh situation where there are more requests than space available at schools and we have used a priority system where we uh approve transfer requests in waves allowing continuing students to stay where they are and what we've done this year is make adjustments to elevate because concurrently enrolled siblings used to the fifth place or the fifth priority it's now the second so that we could ensure that students got to stay
067with their concurrently enrolled siblings we brought uh schools that are impacted by closure and consolidation to the third it didn't exist before because we didn't deal with that we uh moved children of both site and District employees to Fourth displac to natural disaster we felt it was important to keep that even though it's a very very rarely used one now after the impact of the fires back in 1718 and 19 and then honoring the students that are accepted into specialized programs the seventh is kind of the catchall any other reason other than the ones that are listed there and if declined as always through our administrative regulations and policy families can suggest an uh request an appeal and we have those uh that Channel being created and we plan to do that after the 10
068days closes on April 2nd so the next slide next slide um this was just a slide kind of listing some not exhaustive of the specialty programs that are at each of our high schools next slide and so what you see here these are the actual requests by each school um so what were the schools that received the most number of requests what you see here is that uh schools like koreo and Santa Rosa high and this is nothing new this year as in all years they tend to get the most number of requests um and you see just you know column by column how many requests were done at each school so the next this uh attempts to capture the main reasons that people were asking for requests the highest number of requests really do
069fall into the all other reasons and then this year as one of the newest areas students who were impacted either by boundary changes closure or consolidation so that is that that second highest number of requests um students in the feeder District students who have a concurrently enrolled sibling or are continuing their enrollment all of these are the different transfer reasons this looks incredibly similar to the same information that happens year after year next slide yes Sarah sorry trusty Jenkins I apologize that is okay uh can you go back one where would like I know we talk a lot about the midd um but if people like had a preference to stay with 78 versus going to the 712 where does that fall in here well um most of the students that would be requesting that
070were students who were impacted by closure and consolidation so that would fall under category three impacted by I if I had written all boundary changes consolidation and closure you wouldn't be able to read it so it cut off at the boundary part that's where those families fall in that makes sense thank you unless they had a sibling and then they chose other reasons the reason that CH families chose is at their discretion and with 12200 I will assure you there was hundreds of them that would call me and ask which should I choose and we did a lot of counseling and coaching families about where they might fall but um most families self-describe the reason behind so this is just showing you that information of time that I was alluding to that this year is
071a high number of transfer requests but if you go back prepandemic it was relatively similar to what you saw in both 20189 and 201920 um you can see some of those Trends the reason that learning house is on there is because during the pandemic Learning House existed it did fade out but we want to capture it as part of the information next slide um this is looking at it over time one of the things that people sometimes ask is why do you see continuing students twice why do you see concurrently enrolled twice that's because the top uh little table was during October and November the bottom little table that was during the March 1st through March 15 next slide so this is one of the most interesting little pieces of data and I really enjoy
072looking at this table because it gives kind of a a big picture of what we see from each of the schools and what this shares is how many students are wanting to go to a school as opposed to how many students are requesting to go to a school other than their neighborhood school and you are able to see that there are some schools that have more students asking to stay there and more students in other schools the ones in the red on the balance where we have more students asking to leave the school than to attend there um these Trends are relatively stable there are a couple of schools that always get more requests to attend than leave there's a few schools that will go through slight dips or um you know like two or
073three year Trends but you can see here that there are some schools where there are more students asking to exit than enter and some that have more students asking to enter than exit you will notice that none of this includes any of the charters because the charters have their own process next slide and then this was just the summary that I shared earlier the fact that we were able to honor over a thousand requests to transfer was um I think that that's wonderful because it honors the fact that our community has specialty programs and connections to a school that may not be the one that's their neighborhood school but uh unfortunately with our current situation we were not able to say yes to everybody because we have to maximize our enrollment at all of the
074schools we are now working with families to get them registered and it's the most important part because some of our uh families who have applied are applying from outside of our district because they're now becoming ours and we need them in that student information system as quickly as possible so that's the work that uh Mr Hodgman is doing to try to get that information out there we've been on a number of different radio stations in addition to the newspaper and uh email and flyers thank thanks again for putting that together I I really appreciate it and uh I know it was a short time frame to to get all that information together and I think it's important for our community you know transparency just to see what's uh what's happening with all this consolidation that
075we're doing so thank you again for that work any other board questions okay I just want to make absolutely sure that I don't accidentally skip a public comment is Patrick aeson here you originally wrote D7 but you looks like you may cross it out okay are are you comfortable with waiting for non-agenda items okay we will get to you all right so I don't see any other blue cards on this item president MCN would you like me to show the video oh yes please do let me see if I can get to it now sorry just trying to make sure now I'm oh my goodness me try this one one more time let's get in here and zoom Sor right okay have to do it this way I think no never tried doing at this
076I to welcome everyone the an THS March 27 7:30. is to welcome C maybe you could tell us where to find the video instead yes it is went out on parents Square all right so if you go to our website can you pull up our website right quick I'll show you guys where this is at on our page go to our main page it is on our YouTube page but I don't think a lot of people in this room go to our YouTube page anybody go to our YouTube page I got a couple hands all right all right so transition plan right there at the top click that one for me you scroll down this is It's it this is also in the works we're adding to this each day so scroll down and hit
077till you hit secondary uh redesign and engage scroll down and hit play right there tell me it's got audio maybe not okay I'm sorry folks but if you go there that's where you watch the video and she she's actually speaking and if you go back to the the website the transition plan page uh yeah scroll down I want to point this out to everybody keep going all the way down to the very bottom keep going keep going keep going where it says submit a question here click that for me all right that'll pop up that survey so if you have a question and you can submit your questions in English or in Spanish please please submit your questions all right there's no question that's not a it's a silly question want to make sure we
078capture everything that's on your minds please share your questions thank you all right well thank you for showing us that and it sounds like we're going to try to move that up further on the page all right okay so we are going to move on now to public comment on non-agenda and consent items um I want to say before we start I know some of you are here to comment on particular administrators and I am going to allow that tonight but I want to ask that in the future um if you have a comment on a specific administrator we actually have a close session agenda item where we discuss um ad administrator performances so I want to ask that in the future if you want to bring those comments please comment on the Clos session
079agenda item before close session close session is the only time that we get to discuss Personnel issues um so it's more helpful for us if we hear your comments before we go into that Clos session but I want to make sure that everyone is heard tonight so for this meeting we are going to take those comments during um non-agenda items um for tonight let's see based on the number of cards I have I'm going to allow two minutes each and I'm going to alternate between student and non-student cards I'll read three names at a time when you hear your name please go up to either of our podiums um I think that's it so first is going to be kayn Wen followed by Martin Resnik followed by Rodrigo roas okay uh good evening my name
080is kayin w and I'm current Junior at CIO as well as a member on Dr morales's student council this Friday marks the point where the two weeks have been have passed since our peaceful protest on the 14th a students man managed to Rally together over 500 people in less than a day to come out and show up to your office and none of you bothered to come out and acknowledge us even now after two weeks we still have not heard a response and we faced even more Cuts including our assistant principal and even my teacher we clearly can see that your team is very set on your current plan and that layoffs make economical sense but what is economical versus what is beneficial are not always the same removing the current staff from not just
081CIO but other students or other schools in the district at a time like this is wrong and replacing them with new staff won't fix the connections you've broken replacing them with an entirely new panel of Staff won't it makes no sense when we have a panel that works you don't try to fix what's not broken as Junior as Juniors my peers and I have been trying to focus on College in our futures which seems impossible when our minds are occupied with issues like this why is kuo designated as the only school with zero confirmed counselors and administrators if you believe that uprooting our staff is in the students best interest you're are completely misguided not only are you expecting us to accept the change that you're enacting but also endure its consequences you're asking too
082much from your community though I don't know why these mistakes are being forgiven I do know that my peers and I deserve to have our incredible counselors like Miss beish by our side for our future endeavors I do know that more students deserve to learn more music from Mr Boker next year and I do know I was meant to shake principal whis's hand at graduation thank you thank you next is Martin Resnik followed by Rodrigo roas followed by Casey mtoa is Martin Resnick here Martin all right we'll come back to him later so um Rodrigo roas hi my name is Rodrigo Roos garfias and I am the vice president of MCHS and a member of Dr Morales student council two weeks ago from tomorrow we found out that our principal Miss whis would not be
083returning to Korea next year and was told she was not a good fit for Korea I can tell you my peers and I were shocked and quickly mobilized the protest by lunch I had received a message from Dr Morales asking for an emergency meeting after school for my fellow members of the MCHS student Leadership Council at the meeting I asked superintendent uh Dr Morales uh Point Blank why the district decided to lay off principal West and why she was not considered a good fit for Mar koreo Dr Morales responded that she was not in the room for the meeting U where do or Dr xans officially told miss whis that she will not have a job in the Senate R city school district for next year Dr Morales was not aware of which of the
084four notices principal whis received as as to why she was being let go the only thing Mor could confirm is that the decision was for the safety and interest of this the safety and interest of staff and students which as a student I could disagree more I couldn't disagree more and the same could be said from any student staff or family from Mar Cel as of now I have been the only member of M Cel that includes staff and students that has been contacted by Dr Morales about the recent administrative and staff layoffs I think it is very interesting that Dr Morales has was not present during the meeting where they released Miss whis and once again surprised to learn that she has not reached out to anybody from our school Community to check in
085with the school I believe and ask that our sites deserve more communication from the superintendent to further explain just how all these decisions are in the interest of supporting Maria CIO and the students so we could begin to trust the people and process that put us in the situation thank you thank you next is Casey Merena followed by Cali followed by Nick Allen good evening um I'm here to support Sarah Conor who has led santaa middle school for almost three years with grit Grace and an incredible unbreakable Spirit her ability to stay positive and focused on solution-based conversations is amazing I am concerned about the early years of the 7 through 12 model and how quickly it can go astray if our leaders do not lead with the convincing positive Vision that Sarah has been
086able to guide us with these past few years the importance of staff buyin is imperative Sarah can get this the honest thoughts being thrown around include a ton of disbelief that the 7 through 12 model will work and many in many feelings of betrayal keeping Sarah on board as we move as you move most of us from Santa Rosa Middle School to Santa Rosa High School will keep a team that is thriving because of her together and working hard teachers are not teachers are going above and beyond to support students in so many creative ways because Sarah shared a vision has built trust Among Us and continues to model what it looks like to lead with love for our students I hope that you look at our youth truth survey we are in 17 out
087of 18 categories on top we had 100% students 100% staff and the second highest families um turn in the results please consider Sarah Conor and keep her with us as we move to santaa high school thank you thank you next is Callie Ritter followed by Nick Allen followed by Max cook is Cali Ritter here hi I am KY Ritter the senior class president at Maria Creo high school during my first year at MCHS I was introduced to the idea of a Wellness Festival a space for students to access numerous local resources that support them through any stress they may be experiencing ever since I look forward to working with our school therapist Megan and our school psychologist Darcy to hold this annual event with the counseling department settling the restorative center opening and more events
088being held to help students academically and emotionally it felt like Korea was making amazing progress in expanding and strengthening student support systems especially during a time when it is known that adolescent mental health is declining in fact according to the World Health Organization one in seven adolescent experience some form of mental health disorder this should not be something this should be something you are very familiar with yet you still have chosen to cut all of the counselors at MCHS who are helping fight this issue by learning to understand the Puma Community leaving us vulnerable and uncertain about the upcoming year this is the best this is in the best interest of the students is a rationale you have used numerous times to justify your actions but please explain to me how stripping students of the
089counselors they are already built relation ship with and found consistent support with is at all helpful to us explain to me how taking away the people that the students depend upon and need the most help from is in our best interest if you want to achieve this transition as a United Community then please reinstate the staff who have continually brought us together and start giving clear answers as to why we are taking these drastic actions thank you thank you next is Nick Allen followed by Max C followed by Trevor Brady good evening my name is Nick Allen I'm a special education teacher at Kio for the district Rise program The District Rise program supports students with autism um on the big campus and we're a we're a magnet program from non-public schools to our campuses
090we have a high school program at Piner and at Coro and we have a waiting list for a third classroom next school year and part of that success I think is the stability and the consistency of our admin at koreo uh with people such as uh Caleb Brady long and and Mrs whis um they not only know my students very well welcome them by their names they know what supports they need to keep that safe environment and that consistency on campus um I I just think the chaos of entirely new admin team would be very difficult uh for my students to be to be successful um I I'm not being GLI when I when I tell you and I tell my students that it's okay to make mistakes that's how we learn but when you
091have the information such as the overwhelming support of the admin team um it takes strength and courage to re-evaluate your position and fix the mistake thank you thank you next is Max P followed by Trevor Brady followed by DJ Shay I expected a little bit less time so this is going to be shorter um but seeing as all these decisions have been made with students in mind I think it's time you hear from us um so this is my student perspective of M whis um every morning m whis is the first person at school to greet me by name and with a smile she does this for as many students as she can doing her best to ensure that we start our days on a positive note like all of our administrative staff she's incredibly
092approachable and has been going above and beyond in all of her duties since day one even as Vice principle students see this I see this why can't you the effort that she's put into Creo shows just how much she cares she volunteers her time for dances and athletic events never shies away from greeting Puma Ames as I've worked with her in these spes I've been able to see that she loves what she does she loves our students and it is this passion that has motivated me to give more of my time to this community her leadership is spectacular and makes every student feel welcome and included she is a great fit and is disrespectful and simply offensive to say anything else thank you thank you next is Trevor Brady followed by DJ Shay followed by
093Charlene Simmons hello my name is Trevor Brady and I've been an educator at Maria cre high school for 13 years I come before you tonight with a deep sense of disappointment regarding the Personnel changes being made at Maria Creo high school and across the district the decisions have been made seem to create more uncertainty and Chaos in an already uncertain time for Santa Rosa city schools as of now none of the four administrators of Maria Coro have been notified that they will be returning next year the anxiety this creates for all involved staff students and Community is immeasurable for new admin this means scrambling to learn the culture and procedures of the new school for staff it means adjusting to the new leadership new expectations and uncertainty about the direction of the school and for
094students who rely on stability and strong leadership it means spending yet another year uncertain about who will be guiding them this is not just about muray Creo as every site is feeling the weight of administrative reshuffling and program losses this is a request for the human resource department to reconsider the impact of these changes not just Creo but across the district our schools deserve stability not upheaval I also urge the board to demand more transparency from our district leaders in explaining how these actions will lead to better outcomes for students and schools I continue to read and here from Dr Morales that we are to trust the decisions she and her Council make however trust is not something you ask for rather trust is built through consistent thoughtful actions over time trust is about doing
095what is right and doing things right right now these decisions do not instill trust they create fear confusion and frustration our students staff and Community deserve better thank you thank you next is DJ Shay followed by Charlene Simmons followed by Tyson rustler y hello hello can you hear me um hi my name is DJ Shay I'm currently the a be president our Mur carea Miss we has proven time and time again how she has navigated us through all kinds of struggles serving as vice principal with her seven years in the koreo family she assisted through covid several fires and campus violence Beyond Student Connection our you truth survey results just show how much of a positive impact she's made from the feedback both from students and parents our school is the only School in the
096district with a positive trajectory in student enrollment attendance safety education mental health and even participation in extracurriculars specifically according to the uth survey question MCHS is now in 84th percentile in terms of student belonging and peer collaboration of all California schools in her time as principal families have reported a 20% increase of the statement I am proud of my school from 71% to 91 % she has also made a significant impact on staff as they have responded with 40% increase in the statement where my school is managed effectively from 49% to 84% in agreement in her time as principal staff uh responded with an 18% up to 61% increase in school safety now in her time as principal families response to my children my child's learning environment is saved improved from 28% this was from
09752% to 80% additionally even with the Western Association of schools and colleges an accrediting body that provides accreditation to public and private schools that ensures a focus on quality and education and continuous Improvement recommended that Maria CIO maintained consistent Administration so I don't know what you mean when you say Miss is not a good fit but we have the data thank you next is Charlene Simmons followed by Tyson russler followed by Margaret Boon hello hello my name is Charlene Simons I am a teacher at Maria Creo high school and a parent of three graduates from Maria Creo high school and I have no idea as to who my Administration and my counseling team will be next school year and right now at Creo we have a great administrative team and a great counseling team I
098have no clue why the principal Amy whis is being taken away I hear from Dr Daisy Morales and Dr Vicky xans that Amy whis is not a good fit but I am on campus I teach there I with my fellow teachers my students I know that Amy whis isn't an awesome fit at Maria Creo High School principal Amy whis has been a wonderful principal this school year as well as a terrific vice principal for the previous six years at Maria Crea high school and I knew her even before then when she was a really great principal at rinken Valley Charter School seoa campus where my students my children went to so Dr Morales you're in your first year here as our superintendent and you're learning the role of how to be a superintendent here in
099somoma county and I hear that we should give you a chance but yet that same Grace is not being offered to principal Amy whis in her first year in her role as principal at Maro high school and principal told Amy whis as you heard from the data thank you DJ Shay and from all the speakers that she's already demonstrated what a great Awesome Fit she is from Rio Creo so I ask you why is she not offered the grace thank you why not next is Tyson rustler followed by Margaret Boon followed by Ashley love lace uh my name is Tyson Resler I teach nth grade at Maria Creo um I'm here to call on the board to reinstate the admin teams at all Sites we all understand that we're facing challenging and difficult times ahead
100that's why we need the stability or all the stability we can get our schools all need the experienced and trusted admin teams who know their sites who know their communities to guide them through the coming changes the firings and movements of our admins only serve to create more needless chaos when we can least afford it this year for the first time in my entire career CIO finally had a complete team of admins and we've improved by every metric but now my school has no admins no counselors for the next year and we've received no explanation and no communication from the district office about their plans for us to be frank an incompetent superintendent and district office would occasionally make the right decision by accident they've consistently made the wrong choices and I can only view
101their actions as malicious at this point if one wanted to destroy our schools this is exactly the damage would choose to do I have no confidence in the ability or the intent of Dr Morales or a district office to lead us effectively or fairly I will hold my thanks until after you've acted to protect our schools and our communities and president mcnell I invite you to come and visit with our admin team and see how amazing they are yes thank you next is Margaret Boone followed by Ashley love lace followed by Stacy mcgarva good evening I'm sharing comments from our teacher who teaches our newcomer students pton fredes she said with the inclusion of Slater our site will have the highest population of newcomer students in the district and Mercedes Thompson is the only administrator
102that speaks fluent Spanish with no ffs on campus it will be essential to have her for this among many other reasons I wanted to add my two sents as well having a strong administrator who has worked at both Slater and Montgomery campuses already should be enough of a reason to keep Mercedes Thompson add to that fact that she is bilingual I teach the map class I have just nine students and six of them whose parents first language is Spanish my class might be a little higher than average but our school is already at 54% Latino and that number will be increasing with the addition of Slater we need as many bilingual people as we can get and even more so someone who's a strong administrator who is able to help bridge the gap between our
103two schools as we move to the 7 12 model if we want this model to succeed and we really do want and need this to succeed we should use every tool in our toolbox Mercedes Thompson is an essential part of that process and while we'd be lucky to get Miss Brady along koreo is her home and they want her there as you can see by the signs here tonight listen to the parents students and teachers and let us keep the admin we have and let the schools keep the admin they have at CIO rink and middle Santa Rosa middle and Hidden Valley thank you next is Ashley love lace followed by Stacy mcgarva followed by Moren Cecil good evening my name is Ashley L and I'm a teacher at Hidden Valley I wanted to First
104say congratulations to our student and staff being recognized tonight our community is so lucky to have you I would also like to recognize and say thank you to our principal and all of the staff at Hidden Valley that make it such a special place this school year we've we've heard of the importance of school culture and how much it means to our students our staff and our family our families this is built through trust with site leadership and AD administrators as a student as a staff member we know that during transitions like these that you are asking us to make strong leadership is essential when I learned of our own principle being let go I felt like it was a huge loss to our Hidden Valley Community to hear from my colleagues that their site
105admin were also being let go I was angry how can we expect leaders at sites who do not have the experience or relationship with our families and students to say trust us at a time where we are transforming our district families and students need to have someone with whom they have a relationship to lead them through this transition please restore the administrators to their sites and support our families and students I want to personally ask each of you to go to the bottom of the agenda and to read The Hidden Valley site report I'm not going to do the work for you but I want you to go look at the data and watch the video and watch the passion which with our principal presented with and look at all of the data that our
106students provided and our family provided School culture is a huge part of Hidden Valley in every single campus and you've heard from everybody tonight how important that is and you've seen it with how many people have stood up and clapped for each of our administrators and presenters please do the right thing and bring our administrators back right now there's no trust in our district so saying trust us is empty words thank you thank you next is Stacy mcgarva followed by Moren Cecil followed by Kelly Merrick good evening my name is Stacy mcgarva this is my husband Josh mcgarva we are the parents of four students at Maria Creo high school I'm also here tonight as a representative of the deep frustration being felt by so many families in our community I first want to draw
107attention to an online petition to remove Dr Morales which has already gathered nearly 5,000 signatures in just over a week that should show how strongly this community feels about the mistakes being made by DR Morales and District leadership we have watched in shock as superintendent Morales has removed trusted and effective School leaders including our own beloved principal Amy whis without warning without explanation without any plan shared with staff or families at Coro this came as our school was turning a corner improving in student engagement safety and overall culture across the district other well-respected principles and vice principles have also been removed with zero communication to the people directly impacted teachers students and parents to this day MCHS staff and families have been given no reason for the mass removal of our administrators and no information
108about who will be replacing them not a word from Dr Morales to add insult to injury a parent Square message was sent during spring break trying to paint the district as working so hard during their break but for them not a regular Work Week meanwhile many of us who were actually on spring break spent the time organizing writing meeting and fighting to hold District leadership accountable for their mistakes parents teachers and students are losing trust these Reckless decisions are destabilizing our schools at the worst possible time during major closures and restructuring we need transparency we need accountability and we need leaders that build not destroy our school communities in the last 10 seconds I want to say one thing in addition to being Stacy's husband and being the father of four kids that I'm very
109proud of leaders at koreo I'm also a business owner here in Santa Rosa and the reality is the buck stops at the top and that includes the leadership in this case of Dr Morales and maybe even more specifically the current and past president that voted for her and pushed her through and the one other member that voted for her now the four additional members who have an opportunity here to do ask you fill out your own blue card if you'd like to make a full comment next is Moren Cecil followed by Kelly Merrick followed by Will lion I think I think you called my name Moren Cecil yes okay Moren Cecil I am a parent in this District I'm also um a teacher at Piner High School I am the French teacher at Piner high
110school and I'm here to talk about the French programs um because they are near and dear to my heart not that I don't feel everything else but there are four full-time French teachers at the secondary level and a few two sometimes three part-time teachers that might make up a fifth um last Thursday before we went on spring break in the middle of my second period class I got told that my French program would be being phased out why because the numbers are too low well sad to say well I shouldn't say sad to say great to say my numbers this coming year are better than this year's so that doesn't make sense second of all the Maria not Maria k Sorry Montgomery High School French teacher full-time um was given a riff notice then the
111Santa Rosa High School French teacher full-time teacher has been also Rift and that program has been closed for next year so that leaves only two high schools actually it leaves one high school with an intact French teacher and the other one unknown on top of that I have also been told that the only two French programs will continue at Montgomery and Maria Creo high school so the other three French Co programs sorry other three high schools will now have no French program they will no longer be a comprehensive high school because they will only offer one language and not to point fingers or to point things out but why would you choose to close down programs that are thriving where students want to be there and take another language thank you thank you next is
112Kelly Merrick followed by Will lion followed by Ola King clay hi my name is Kelly Merrick I'm the current parent Association president and I'm here on behalf of the parents the parent community and the Greater Community at large also with a petition that has been signed and all the information is in there equally I'm not going to do the work you guys can read it it's all been delivered to you guys as well but um first we would just like everyone else has been saying we would love to know in what ways and in how are the decisions being made in the best interest of our students from our angle all of our successful cohesive and loved Administration and counselors have all been and rift why there's been no New Vision shared with us we
113have no you know we we're thriving in all the metrics as you've heard so there must be a new vision for our school that we're unaware of because all the things that you've given us to thrive in we're doing so what's the new vision why what what is going on here and there's been no parents or students involved in new assignments which is really a break in practice that's been in place for a really long time we have been asking questions sending in letters attend ing meetings but there's been no clear communication regarding anything that we've questioned please get back to us with the questions we asking not with these long drawn out parent squares that I don't even understand half of we've given the questions we want to know the qu the answers to
114the questions that we're giving you please respond thank you next is Will lion followed by Ola King play followed by Megan kovi I'm will Lon English teacher and parent at Santa Rosa high school with a tremendous amount of respect for the past and current board last June the school board implored the community to give Dr Morales a chance even though she had just been fired from her previous district and had a strong no confidence vote from their teachers union our Educators gave her a real system sustained chance and made every effort to work with her on the problems she inherited and now she is Wrecking the place with problems that she has created the straw that broke the camel's back was firing beloved long- serving site administrators some with dozens of years of outstanding service
115to our students staff and families and then shuffling the decks with those remaining administrators in ways that added to the chaos with so many horrible decisions it begs the question how can the board or the Community Trust her going forward do you know who would be a better choice to lead us in an interm Superintendent at least in the short term Brad costarelli belli is a 26- year veteran he's got Elementary experience he's got secondary experience he has a heart he has a soul he loves this community as much as we love him and we need him or someone like him to keep this ship afloat we're asking our current School Board to be the heroes now and stop at least this part of the chaos that Dr Morales is causing as we work together
116on the rest of it our students deserve the best and that starts at the HP thank you next is Ola King play followed by Megan cvy followed by Leticia contas okay I want to share with you a few words of wisdom I see trees of green red roses too I see them bluing for me and you and I think to myself What a Wonderful World I see skies of blue and Cloud CLS of white the bright blessed day the dark and scary night and I think to myself What a Wonderful World Santa Rosa city school used to be that wonderful world but not now things are falling apart at all levels no one knows what the other ones are doing the focus has gone from the students to what people are trying to Le but
117they don't know how the sun is not the sun is no longer shining on our beloved school system the thunder and lightning of confusion is taking a hard hit on our school system we need to pause and think about our actions for each action there is a reaction leadership needs to listen to the people in the trenches no one knows better than those that live it each day the wrong decision will have a negative effect on our future stop watch and listen the colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky also on the faces of people going by I see friends shaking hands and saying how do you do they're really saying I love you I hear babies crying I watch them grow they'll learn much more than I'll ever know and I think
118to myself What a Wonderful World yes I think to myself What a Wonderful World it would be clean up Santa Rosa thank you thank you next is Megan kavi followed by Leticia contas followed by Patrick atcherson hi my name is Megan kovi I work at Slater Middle School it is absolutely outrageous that the people evaluating our school administrators are not the ones who actually work with them every day instead these decisions are being made by the executive board Dr xans and Dr Morales people who rarely see how these administrators interact with students family or staff how can these decisions be informed with any sort of Integrity if they are being made by someone who works in an office across town when someone is labeled not a good fit I have to ask myself not a
119good fit for who for the students and staff that they support or for a district office that seems to Value compliance over courage admin like Mercedes Amy and Brad were strong compassionate leaders who advocated for themselves their students and their staff they were let go while admin who have received numerous complaints are K kemped and simply moved it's disheartening it's dismissive and frankly it feels like the exec board is letting their own personal feelings and biases run these decisions instead of educated data I urge this board to reconsider the evaluation process for administrators teachers and staff have the Insight that you need to determine who's truly leading with integrity and proficiency and who isn't right now it seems like if an admin dares to advocate for their team they risk being labeled not a good
120fit that is not leadership that is silencing and we and our students deserve better at a time where our district is faced with an insurmountable amount of change we need our strong admin more than ever teachers need admin they can feel that they are supported by and most importantly our students and family deserve admin that they know and trust thank you thank you next is letia contas followed by Patrick aeson followed by Jackie Elward my name is Leticia contas I am appalled school board and superintendent office at the lack of empathy and pursuit for chaos School Board Kirby Jenkins and deor your refusal to IGN knowledge racial inequality should be reasoned to have you removed from your position dror Morales instead of making a connection with your fellow teachers students you just hide in your
121office the community doesn't want you the teacher union doesn't want you so you should just follow suit and resign thank you for your time thank you zoom viewers thank you next is Patrick aeson followed by Jackie Elward followed by ER Erica leanovich hello my name is Patrick aderson and I'm a sep teacher counseling gridge program teacher at LC Allen High School so as a teacher I'm often told how lucky I am to have breaks throughout the year how great it must be to enjoy the first days of spring without work but how can I rest and how can any educator rest with riffs school closures and the loss of our administrators since November of last year the board and District's messaging has been inconsistent and its decisions erratic it reminds me of 2019 when the
122board ran through an 18% pay raise for the then Super intendent and the do admin in the middle of June safe from the significant public outcry the board received during the school year decisions cannot be made like this again you are officials elected by this community to ensure our best interests are met we need less buzzwords more clarity and a road map for the future we only have April and May to determine the shape of the 2526 school year and Beyond we can't go into summer vacation without a plan and still worrying about District politics we don't need any more surprises please be fully transparent going forward these decisions have to be made before the summer holiday thank you thank you next is Jackie Elward followed by ER leanovich followed by Madonna feather Cruz Jackie's
123not here okay so Erica leanovich followed by Madonna feather Cruz followed by Lorraine Perez hello everyone my name is Erica leanovich I'm a mother of two kids at Hidden Valley elementary school on March 14th I said goodbye to my first grade daughter as I walked my TK son to his classroom we stood in the rain but after the second bell rang and his teacher still had not arrived D parents started disseminating the news that teachers weren't coming parents who were still there looked bewildered childrens whose parents had left were crying because they didn't know where to go realizing my daughter may be impacted I walked to her classroom to find her teacher was also not there a neighboring teacher told me displaced students could go to her classroom but made it clear that we would
124be best to just take our kids home because there weren't enough yard duties that day were enough teachers to safely watch our kids furthermore I was told that they would not be taking attendance that day which made me feel like my kids would not be safe if left at school it's my understanding that my kids teachers requested days off unrelated to the protest but their substitute teachers were not there or didn't come or we're late it's also my understanding that our office manager and principal also requested the day off but it seems their substitutes were also not assigned or didn't show up I don't know the lack of administration in our office didn't seem to help the situation parents didn't know what was going on it was up to us as parents to call each
125other to tell each other to pick up your kids I don't know how the situation works I don't know what role the district is supposed to play in making these sort of situations when these things happen but I think our families would really appreciate knowing what went wrong that day to leave our kids in what seemed like an unsafe situation but also what went right to see what you did correctly so that we know that we're learning from our mistakes um I just would really like to know that nothing like that ever happens again at our school or anyone's schools thank you thank you next is Madonna feather crw followed by Lorraine Perez followed by Katherine rout is Madonna feather crw still here okay then we'll go on to Lorraine Perez followed by Katherine R
126out followed by Hannah Morales good evening board members my name is Lorraine Perez I'm a Community member and a proud educator at Piner high and I'm here to Echo the concerns voiced by many here and by President Hal but more specifically regarding school safety due to the current budget cuts uh today I became aware that out of the 28 restorative counselor positions three will remain three three that will be shared among the entire District three for thousands and thousands of students restorative counselors not only restore after conflict but they prevent conflicts from escalating prevention and Care equals safety due to the mismanagement of existing funds we are dismantling the support systems at our schools our counselors our beloved administrators ERS and our campus supervisors we are taking away caring adults at Piner High We Thrive
127as a community and we build trust with our students because of our unified and caring staff and because we have the staff to do so next year will look differently as most of those supported roles will no longer exist safety equals better school outcomes safety needs to be first and foremost the cuts are concerning and I or urge the board to reconsider their decisions thank you thank you next is Katherine rout followed by Hannah Morales followed by Rachel Gunter hi I'm Katherine rout and I have two kids at Hidden Valley Elementary School and two more to come I'm asking the board to request a root cause analysis from the district regarding a school safety issue on March 14th at Hidden Valley there were in inadequate staff on campus resulting in children as young as 4
128years old wandering the campus not knowing where to go there was also a lack of instruction despite administrators staff and teachers following proper protocols to notify they would be absent this occurred and the district administrator did not show up until well after the school day started parents were not notified and many of us did not know that this was going on until we picked up our students uh from school at around 1: or 2 p.m. this seems to be a failure of protocols and present a significant safety issue for our children what if an unsupervised four-year-old wandered out of the TK yard on to chanate Road what if a child was injured without adult supervision to help a root cause analysis to understand where the failures and following established protocols to cover staff absences where
129new Protocols are needed can prevent this issue in the future I my understanding is similar issues happened at Maria cillo and a middle school that day but at Hidden Valley I mean these are really young kids um I also want to mention Brad karelli our principal he's a wonderful and trusted administrator he's a really humble and compassionate leader I really hope he stays and if he can't stay I'm sorry to cry it's just let's call it pregnancy by um but he's he's just he touches our hearts and our fam so much please find a place for him thank you thank you next is Hannah Morales followed by Rachel Gunter followed by Sarah uh Derick good evening my name is Hannah Morales and I am the President of the PTA at reey elementary school in the
130Mark West District a p a proud parent of two children in that District a local business owner and a longtime resident of this community I speaking tonight to express my deep concern and disappointing disappointment regarding the recent decision to redraw School boundaries and direct that will directly impact my district and the long-standing feeder schools which our student attends the next and the next part of their education Journey along with the decision the poorly made decision to place seventh graders on a TW with 12th graders on the same campus my child and daughter my both my children have been thriving at reeley elementary where they have built strong relationships with teachers and peers within the east side of Santa Rosa they engage in academic and extracurricular programs tailored to their needs and develop a sense of
131belonging and educational path based on the Mark West District situated in the Northeast part of Santa Rosa the sudden decision to uproot their education path for Middle to high school at this stage would not not only hinder their academic career but also create unnecessary stress and disruption this change will negatively impact families who rely on existing Transportation arrangements and establish support systems that are not easily transferable I am concerned that this board did not do its du diligence and consult with our district about potential impacts that change that will happen with the change of boundaries as a parent I understand the challenges involved in making decisions that impact the entire Community but I cannot stress enough how upsetting this changes placing seventh and 12th graders on the same campus disregards the unique thank you your
132time is up next is Rachel Gunter followed by Sarah Derick followed by Kristen colgrave hi my name is Rachel Gunter I've been a teacher for over 21 years the last 10 of which have been at Maria Creo high school and this year I'm also a CIO parent with all the changes that are impacting our koreo community I keep coming back to one question why with all the uncertainty due to school closures why would you create more chaos and uncertainty by dismantling not just Korea's admin team but also those and other schools across our district why has Korea lost for sure three of our admin out of the four and not even guaranteed the fourth when the district knew that we were already facing layoffs for every single one of our counselors this leaves us with
133very few returning experienced staff in the front office and why would we lose an administrative team that's been praised by the entire Community students parents staff and has proven this through the youth truth survey I know that as a community member a teacher and a parent I have lost faith in the school district to make appropriate decisions because there are no good answers to my questions the only possible solution to these problems is to immediately reinstate all of our admin and rehire as many of our counselors and staff and do it as quickly as you can thank you thank you next is Sarah derli followed by Kristen kve followed by concepion Dominguez good evening my name is Sarah Derick I have a student at Maria Creo uh some at Santa Rosa city schools seem to
134have forgotten that there was a fire in 2020 we lost our home in that fire my son who's a junior mostly lived in a tent for three years but he has thrived at Maria Creo high school because of Miss Bower's music program because of Coach fog because all of his amazing teachers and of course because of Mrs whis um last year some of you were here when I mentioned that my middle schooler had a student threatened to stab him in the neck with a pair of scissors during maker class and that the administration at the school refused to respond and the district refused to respond well that administrator was given a promotion she became the vice principal at a high school the year before that you had a student attacked and battered rvms and you
135magicked away that Administration and he's coming back to be the principal at rvms next year so you don't have an interest in safety in the decisions that you're making I don't need more information from Santa Rosa city schools I need a district and a board that will make reasonable decisions none of these decisions are reasonable you have metrics and you have data that say that we're doing well so if you want to change that you have an alternate agenda thank you thank you next is Kristen krove followed by concepion Dominguez good evening I'm Kristen kgve office manager at Hidden Valley Elementary School I'm here to say their names tonight the names of our beloved staff who've been given reduction and force notices at Hidden Valley Elementary the names of our the names of those who
136are being ripped from our school family Michelle kesa daycare and yard Duty for 15 years she's had two kids go through Hidden Valley and Santa Rosa city schools Elise Dunn recently hired yard Duty who has three kids three kids at Hidden Valley Carlos Silva this month's Honore for classified Employee of the Month you've already heard this evening how valuable and amazing he is three kids currently in srcs side tip Karn restorative special who's a rock for our kids they rely on seeing her daily and know that she's there for them no matter what 10 years in the district eight with Hidden Valley and has two children in the district Ali Fardo family engagement facilitator our bilingual liaison to students and families who make them feel welcome engaged and valued in our school Community an integral
137figure in assuring our El Community is informed and included with kindness and Grace has a current student at Hidden Valley Debbie winlan this month's honor for Teacher of the month Rift and rescinded but not before great Strife during what should have been her much earned spring break only rescinded because she had to point out hr's error in her seniority a week from hell for her she has three children in our district Ellie Rosco our councelor who was placed at Hidden Valley this year by no choice of her own due due to an HR debacle she settled in fostered trust with our students and made a huge difference in the lives in their lives in less than seven months now they have to mourn her loss and learned to trust a new counselor again Ryan valo
138second grade Lisa Skinner fifth grade Mary viant sixth grade teachers who've worked to Foster for our students and collaborated with their grade level cohorts finally Brad costarelli principal for seven years steadfast leader supportive Mentor trusted Confident by staff and teachers 23 years in the district but let go for no reason next is concepion Dominguez con Dominguez Morales okay hi my name is conception Dominguez I am very sad to hear um many teachers and and principal are being laid off um it's even more sad for our children and our community and especially for our sorry I'm going in um and especially for we are demanding for our principal Alva to come back um and to let it clear let it be clear in our changes in the the maps and for our schools and for LC
139Al I have informed many parents and teachers before everything uh to for sorry to let the teachers and parents be informed before anything um is being decided and I and I keep saying that I am not agreeing with implementing the police in our schools and our last thing is for Daisy Morales to be out thank you thank you I'm just going to call one more time for the people who weren't here Madonna feather Cruz Jackie Elward Martin Resnik are there any other blue cards all right then that concludes public comment for tonight um I am going to ask the board that we take a 5minute break thank you everyone it again oops we're going to get started moving on to our uh discussion and action items starting with acceptance of the 2023 2024 independent audit
140report thisa August go ahead superintendent Dr Morales members of our board and our srcs community I am here this evening to um happily report that we have again for the sixth year in a row zero findings in our financial audit um I just want to share that this really speaks to the work uh that happens across the district from our school sites through our collaboration with other departments and our fiscal team so very happy to report that I don't have a presentation to share and if there any questions or specific items in the audit that you would like me to address I'd be happy to do so board other questions uh trusty Jenkins of course I have a question but it's not a super exciting one um just to clarify what it is being the
141first time around with this um so I'm assuming it's just checking how the numbers are going and checking the numbers that are being reported out um because there I saw saw a lot of parenthese numbers which I don't like to see uh but it it really is just to to make sure that everything's in check correct what it what the audit is is a report on the accuracy of what we're reporting so it's to go through and make sure that our financial statements are correct that um as they're pulling they pull sample you know um transactions for vendor warrants for um you know requisitions contracts when um work is recorded as paid in the correct year especially when you look at um facilities projects you know those may cross years and that's a lot of
142times where you'll where you'll find something that oh this should have been paid in the prior year or the current year depending on when invoices come in or or work in progress is completed so it's really just checking on the accuracy of that so it's actually really important um it's also um making sure that we're following our processes as laid out in um board policy and in our procedures other questions trusty Caston not a question just two comments one uh for folks not this coming Monday but Monday after at the finance uh subcommittee uh one of the things we'll be talking through is the whole audit process and how it integrates with the board so if this item was really exciting for you we're going to be talking about it even more at that finance
143committee meeting to um see how it integrates with our finance process and then just a little detail and I apologize for not getting it out to you earlier but um in the reporting entity description they just say that we have a board of five elected officials it's on page 36 uh we should just change that to seven thank you I did not catch that in my review of the 116 Pages um but it popped out so again I caught it as I was reading it again before we came in here so you change we will we will ask them to amend that um thank you any other questions I have no blue cards so this goes to further discussion or a motion are we accepting or receiving accepting all right I move I move to
144accept the audit report with the amendment with the amend well with requesting the amendment it's because we're accepting yes second all right moved by trustee Casten seconded by truste Kirby roll call vote student board members Zinga hi trusty Casten hi trusty Kirby hi trusty Jenkins I trusty manieri I president MCN I motion passes thank you thank you Lisa all right moving on we will consider the addition of flag football as a new sport have Dr Castro thank you president mcnali superintendent Dr Morales and members of the board uh students staff and members of the community s rosa city schools um bringing to you this uh proposal um is um ed services and um to give the specifics former extracurricular coordinator Ryan Thompson currently vice principal of Piner and um part-time athletic director for CER R
145City School Ryan Thompson uh hello board superintendent student representative and everyone watching um so we are excited to put this forward we understand that um there's a lot of things that we're focusing on but we also feel that this is something that can bring uh some positive opportunities for our students um it's actually been a work in progress for about uh two years I would say of like fact finding research looking at the information that interest to try to bring girls flag football to our five high schools um currently um as you guys are aware I mean it it's in the agenda item but uh girls women's flag football and girls flag football is growing nationally and in our own State uh as well as even locally in our own North Coast section where the
146North Coast section just had its first girls Flag Football Championship Series this year in 2024 and is expanding um rapidly so what we want to do is propose bringing this sport opportunity to our school schools um not only to provide additional opportunities uh for our female student athletes but also in hopes of either preventing and or bringing uh students from leaving our schools because of lack of opportunities but also in hopes of bringing some back because of the fact that we are now going to offer this opportunity along with many of the other schools around us that are joining in on leagues um even as soon as next season um in the fall uh so a clarification item on this is it is for girls flag football um I know the item says flag football
147but is for girls flag football would it be possible in the future to consider adding both boys and girls at the middle school level that is something we have discussed many different um sport options also along with like um at middle schools and high schools um I know there are many other schools around us like in West County and whatnot that do have Middle School flag football leagues um so we'd be open to exploring any of those additions it's going to offer opportunities for our students it's just a matter of the timing and the interest level make sure we have enough absolutely trusty Kirby could you just speak to the uh fiscal impact of this please and how it says title four funding can I can speak to that can you talk to that please
148yeah um one of the things that had um been um delaying on my end was actually finding that um this has been something that has been pushed on me for like over a year um and um one of the things that I've been pushing back on was that but um in doing some research we um are able to use a title four title four is actually perfect for this it is a restricted resource um it is used for increasing um student engagement it's for um well-rounded schooling for after school attracting and re bringing students back um we are using um carryover for it a onetime funding this is the sort of thing actually doing research research that actually can actually be a revenue Source um my daughter actually plays it and I know going to
149tournaments that actually you people pay to to come watch these games um and from a camp that we held last year with the 49ers um 50 to 60 students came to it and unfortunately very few of them were from our district actually most of them were coming from surrounding districts and all the way down to Marin asking why we didn't have um teams like this um so we've identified this resource and we're hopeful and with the interest level that we have at the five high schools and the energy building around it we're really hoping that this is something that can be like free branding for us and bring um a level of excitement that mirrors the traditional American football um during that season um and really take off and actually be a revenue source for
150us not only bringing like I said Revenue but attracting students back that do leave because we don't have an option that's really um flourishing in other districts surrounding us and if I can if I can add to that too just to clarify like within the first year is where the biggest I guess Financial hit would be um after that just like many of our other inter Scholastic Sports um you know through ticket gate funds and um fundraiser efforts by the clubs it would be relatively self-sustaining at the site level to where um like League dues and officials fees and all that kind of stuff would then be absorbed into the regular cost associated with other sports activities um and and sites would be able to generate as Dr cter said revenue from tickets and even
151we've even talked about in our athletic director meetings uh possibly holding like a an annual tournament uh within our our district to offer to outside schools also to help raise funds for that um just for General Athletics in general but also to promote this and so at some point the or after the first year the financial burden would be significantly less than the first year just to launch it so just to be clear the the $55,000 that that's not coming out of our budget when you save absolutely not Financial impact I just want to make sure that so it's no cost to the no that's a restricted resource Federal resource title four and it's carryover just wanted to clarify that thanks trusty Jenkins so I'm super pumped about this um I am curious though if
152we can find funding for girls flag football is is there a chance we can find funding for boys volleyball and I mean there's other sports that have an interest as well but those are kind of the top two that I've seen and Lacrosse of course would be so much fun um I personally played rugby so I love rugby but you know that's we have our club support uh yeah absolutely I mean as I said earlier we we're open to there's a uh since my uh when I first started my role with with Dr Castro two years ago year and a half ago um I came up with a list of different areas we can improve and sports we can um add um as well as our athletic directors have done lots of research and surveys
153over the many years where we have some info on that um this one in particular we focused on just because of the rapid growth um in the survey data that we have uh just from in 2022 23 for example our ads launched a survey on what sports they'd be interested in girls flag football was not on there at all and um boys volleyball was in there along with like lacrosse and some others um and then the first year women's or girls FL football was added in the 2324 survey it instantly Rose to the top um along with the uh La Olympics um hosting women's flag football for the first time um as well as our Title 9 participation so between uh for the last two years not including this one the data hasn't been run
154yet um but for the last two years we have significantly higher levels of participation in athletics on our male side at the high school level anywhere from 5 to 600 student athletes more so adding a female sport would help to raise that level to be a little more equal um so but we would definitely be open to adding more Sports in the future of course based on student interest and financial feasibility and all that the next one in line would be bo vable trusty Casten so what is the process and and where is the decision made on interest and feasible because well that's the question so where is financial and feasible determined in order to say yes we're going to allow this Sport and I I'm thinking of individual campuses not just all five like
155well in terms of Interest I suppose it would be the the survey that was done um in terms of feasibility that's where I've been dragging my feet on this because of the the the well obvious priorities that we've been dealing with but having identified um this carryover and having been present Ed with a a a timeline um that I was presented by the North Bay league and CIF um that was brought to me by Mr Thompson I felt it timely to bring to us because we can actually begin participating as early as next year and seeing that we have an opportunity to actually bring some really positive um I guess publicity to the district and possible um individual um positive opportunities to bring people to our district immediately I thought we could capital on this
156at this moment I I think ALS sorry if I can jump onto that too I think also when it comes to feasibility and it it's also sustainability so for example in those survey data uh boys and girls lacrosse came up as one of the items to add and that was one of the ones that was on our list of that could be exciting and fun to bring um when we looked at that the level of interest at all the schools wasn't necessarily there um as well as you're looking at reconditioning gear the cost of the gear so that initial cost and the sustainability of that cost was also higher um while there is a level of interest there um versus like girls flag football in this one for example every single school was right on
157board with it um the the startup costs was lower as well as also the um ongoing cost for like equipment gear that kind of stuff so especially in the financial landscape we have we figured this was going to be um not just as an opportunity for female student athletes but financially would be yeah and I appreciate app this item and supportive of it we need to be adding this I also want to see this added at the middle schools um for both both boys and girls and what I'm trying to get at and I think you were saying there is at all the schools why is that important if we have interest in one school why are we not actively pursuing having a CIF sports program where there is the interest so we can stop
158losing students to the other districts that are offering those we do have interest at all schools at all all the high schools for for girls fight football is that what you're no I'm saying for the other sports so like la like so you said lacrosse we don't have it at all the schools so let's do it at the schools where there is the interest yeah that and that doesn't necessarily mean that we wouldn't pursue that it just when it also came to uh like I said feasibility and sustainability um but also with the the rising Trend I mean lacrosse has been around for a while um and that's just an example right um more of an Roi thing in terms of how much you're investing versus how much you're going to get back if you're
159going to invest in one school in terms of Lacrosse you could do that right but if you're investing $55,000 in a sport that's going to get all five schools and um possibly get a much bigger return on investment it seems like a better investment than investing in one school and one sport right so I guess what I'm trying to understand is where we can have that conversation because I support this and we should be doing this but you know we have volleyball up and Windsor that we don't offer at the Freshman levels and above we have freshman teams and sports we do offer there pulling our students away from us we aren't competing in CFA CIF sports that neighboring districts are and so we're immediately losing students by not doing that and having the investment
160even if it's at one campus instead of all campuses it seems like it has an immediate Return of the Ada that we're losing by not offering these yeah we could I mean it would be a little awkward I think for me and if I would I guess put this back to the board just to bring um a sport and introduce it at one school though so we could do that we could have that conversation but okay I mean I I think it's necessary because different parts of our city have different interests in different sports and I think we need to honor especially as we're working to theme on the academic side I think taking that same concept in for our sports program and if we have interest in students in one Community we should embracing
161that and offering it to them and if a different Community within San Rosa has a different sports interest like we should do the ones where everyone wants to participate but we also need to get more nuanced about this so I do I do want to move forward with this tonight but I also want to challenge this concept that we wouldn't and have this item come back as soon as possible because I think it's a core part of our attraction and retention efforts is actually offering students what they want even if it's not throughout the camp yep and if I if I can add to that like as as when as we continue discussions to look at you know further improving our Athletics offerings um one thing that we should that Dr Castro and I have
162been working on examining and whatnot is how we can support them through our athletic directors and our athletic training staff as well um because with added Sports comes added responsibilities for those professionals and so we want to make sure that their time and their energy is supported as well um so that's another factor to play when when you add a sport um the the amount of you know student athlete clearances concussion screenings um all that kind of stuff that has to be taken into account so we also want to look at that too Jesse manieri um I'm I'm also really excited about this um now that we kind of know the process and have been able to identify funds just kind of going along with the conversation what might a timeline look like or how
163long might it take to be able to get something like boys volleyball um up and up and running now that we kind of understand how this how this um how we implement this so uh I'll use this sport as an example right uh it depends on season of sport and kind of when things happen so the timing of this the timely timing of this one is that uh the North Bay League which is the league that a lot all of our schools participate in they're working on drafting a schedule um as early as in the next couple of weeks for next year's flag football season which is in the flaw which is in the fall um so the timeline can be relatively quick but it it also is going to take some work um and
164some consideration for facility use and management especially um as girls flag football plays on a flag football field or a football field and we have our football teams in the fall as well so athletic directors have to work on managing that so the timeline can be quick depending on the sport and what other factors are in there or it could be a little bit longer again depending on what other sports compete with it this sport in particular um the turnaround time could be quick and that's again why we're pushing this forward tonight is if it goes through um the goal is to have uh to get together like a coaching position get athletic directors to start flying the sport start working on the clearance process over the summer because practices do start um as early
165as right after graduation so yeah trusty Kirby just one more quick comment um you know we've actually been trying to get competitive cheer uh well before this which also I would think have very little startup costs but I just want to keep that on your radar too because that's uh uh you know we've been trying to get that in our district for quite a while so if we can find a way to make that happen as well yeah well for fully support of that as well we've been having discussions on that one of the first things actually that I had Mr Thompson too when do when he came on board was get all of the paperwork um associated with that under control because we had some um issues with that but we that definitely are
166supportive of competitive chair student board member Zuna I think this is so cool I'm so hyped even though I'm graduating like I can as a as a as a senior Friday Night Lights are like the most amazing thing and even though we can only do them for boys um football now that we there's like a possibility that we can have it for girls flag and have more Friday night Friday night light Friday Night Lights and having those like end of the the week um first semester nights which are like the most fun I have during that entire semester getting to like hang out withs you come back for it wa yeah yeah you have to come back yeah as as an Alum right yeah absolutely well I will say too if if if you don't
167mind like after our athletic directors even did their survey uh just the informal interest gathering in the winter of 2024 a few months ago um they were reaching out to me with uh students even the students on my own campus are we doing it does this mean we're doing it parents emailing so we're doing it now right like so the excitement level E is echoed by the community as well as yourself so yeah I think it I think it's amazing and I think um like just me but my peers if I told them that like there's going to be flag they're going to be so so hyped did you see the commercial during the Super Bowl oh yeah that was a nice commercial right I do have a blue card um are there any other
168questions before I take public comment all right um so Anna Diaz you'll have two minutes good evening board student board member U my name is Anna Diaz and I am from Rosland I'm I'm actually an alumni of the school district I attended Lawrence Cook Middle School Herbert Slater Middle School and I am a graduate of LC Allen class of 2015 I just wanted to uh emphasize that you know this agenda item is very important as Sports and school functions suring Athletics is super important to our student culture and achievement so I do appreciate that this was actually on the agenda tonight however I do want to go and also acknowledge Maria cio's cheerleading team for winning the state championship just this year I mean it's such a great my I mean my my niece is
169a backspot for the Maria uh Creo varsity cheer team and I mean it was such an excitement overall and I do think that this board um needs to do a resolution or you know something to acknowledge the girls because they put so much time effort and dedication just to make people back home proud of their achievements through their Athletics so I really encourage for you guys to reach out to their cheer coach and to organize something with them even if it's like a pizza party or you know just having them come up and accept a resolution from you guys and a photo here in the city's Chambers I mean that would be great um I do know that some parents and the cheerleaders they don't feel acknowledged by this board so if you guys could
170do something to make them feel special especially for this achievement from the state that would be greatly appreciated thank you you thank you all right this comes back to the board for further discussion or a motion I move to approve a second moved by truste Jenkins seconded by trusty manieri roll call vote student board members Zinga I trusty Jenkins I trusty manieri I trusty Casten I trusty Kirby I president MCN I motion passes thank you all right we will move on to F3 approval of M memorandum of understanding reached with Santa Rosa city schools and supervisory and unrepresented employees regarding service recognition good even good evening board superintendent mores uh I'm sitting in for Dr xans I'm Jesse olon Human Resources Director with the district so I don't have a presentation tonight but rather a
171memorandum of understanding for your consideration um as it relates to our supervisory and unrepresented employees service recognition um specifically regarding their um Ker's retirement uh benefits all right are there any board questions trusty Jenkins yeah I'm curious so new person um hi I haven't met you before I'm Sarah hi Sarah with the so is this just for the benefits or is this oh it is a 5% increase in their salary 5% increase uh does it go with so new to this so 5% increase to salaries is it a with and their benefits are increasing too or just strictly no yeah so the way it works is there are supervisor unrepresented employees um after it's basically longevity pay that they earn so after 9 years 14 years and so on and so forth they get a
1725% pay increase which has been um on the books for a while what we're looking to do is right now um in terms of their Calpers retirement benefits once they do retire those 5% increases are not being considered when they do retire so it's no change in what they're earning in terms of their longevity pay it's just once they do retire right now Cal pers isn't considering that longevity pay um we did a a similar moou for our CCA employees um a while back to address that but because our underrepresented and supervisory employees are not part of cssea it required um a separate mou so it's not um it doesn't impact our budget this year no it no absolutely does not impact our budget no it's no it's not a u increase in pay for
173these classifications it's simply for their retirement benefits through Calpers so yeah yeah absolutely trusty hasten are there any public comments on this item I have no blue cards I'd like to move approval of theou for supervisory and unrepresentative employees wait for the reading of the text second all right moved by trusty Caston seconded by trusty manieri roll call vote student board members Zinga is absent trusty Casten hi trusty manieri I trusty Kirby hi trusty Jenkins hi president MCN I motion passes thank you thank you all right moving on to our consent items seeking a motion on items g 1 2 4 and 6 through 11 moved second moved by trusty Casten second and by trusty manier roll call vote student more members in Ina absent trusty Casten hi trusty manieri I trusty Kirby I trusty
174Jenkins I president mcnell I motion passes uh all right who pulled three I have to abstain okay so seeking a motion on G3 so moved is there a second second moved by trusty manieri seconded by truste Jenkins roll call vote student board members Zinga absent uh trusty Maneri I trusty Jenkins I trusty Casten same trusty Kirby hi president mcnali I motion passes all right and then truste Kirby you pulled G5 no Jenkins trusty Jenkins yes just waiting for my thing to load that's not it um so I requested it be pulled because um some of the summer programs are are being renewed but I'm wondering I'd like to get a little bit more information um because there are costs associated shoot um the ones I'm curious about are the land paths Excel for Youth and
175the LBC Camp um I know a lot of the contracts do not have a fee associated with them and so I'm just looking to um to get more information on like who we're actually serving is it are these things open to everyone uh things of that sort if you could just kind of walk me through it so thank you very much good evening Michael Rymer a director in Educational Services great to see you all so thank you very much for the time and the questions this evening we're excited to uh uh launch summer programming for 2025 um and just to update you briefly we did a soft launch a number of weeks ago uh to targeted groups across the school district and then our general launch just happened on Monday this week so we're excited
176to kick it off again for for students across the district just quickly on your questions I can provide you a high level overview on on those particular programs we're of course bringing forward contracts this evening for um different cbos and partners that we have uh they are all renewals so existing relationships um we've worked with all of them before successfully and um just summarizing quickly the land path program is a a unique program I think for our district and our students it offers students in ele School an outdoor experiential situation um outside of our schools off campuses uh at local um outdoor uh classroom spaces if you will um although they're they're not classrooms so students get a chance to go out to places like Preston farm and uh Bohemia preserve and learn uh Environmental
177Education um and we've done it for a number of years and thank you uh in the past we've enjoyed great comments and feedback from some of our students including I think one of your your board members did that one is it is it the same offerings that they offer for the general public in their summer camps and and why if that is the case then why do we have a partnership with them through San Rosa city schools thank you um so it's different than the other programs that that organization uh offers the broader Community this one is unique to Santa Rosa city school students and if I may add I think is important it's funded using a restricted um uh resource a title one monies and so if you look carefully at the registration application
178it focuses in on a particular uh set of schools and a set of qualifying criteria for the students that were really targeting there um and you know the rationale there of course is to provide supplemental opportunities for underserved students I think across our district um being that it's Title One monies um are those schools that are being targeted are they offered the outdoor education programs that are commonly found in like fifth sixth grade across elementary schools I'm just making sure I just want to make sure that those opportunities are to to everyone you know I I'd say that they are enhanced uh I i' I'd say that there um opportunities that are more indepth and are for longer periods of time and what I mean by that is this year if you read that that
179particular contract carefully students have week-long experiences um at those locations which is different than uh what I understand that organization does with other schools uh in the area and what I mean by that is typically when they work with schools during the school year it's a one-day experience uh whereas here it's you know uh much longer do you know if those targeted schools are offering and are um are are participating in an outdoor Ed program for like during the school year for those fifth and sixth graders uh not to this extent but are they particip do they do they offer those I know not all schools offer The Outdoor Ed in the later years I don't know on all of the schools okay that's the land path one um were there questions on that or
180should I can explain the other ones yeah the other ones if I've got it down correctly are LBC that's our partners Luther Burbank Center for the Performing Arts um they have had a a long-standing relationship with our school district for the summer program it focuses of course on Arts education it runs for three weeks in the summer it has a a blend of different classes a fine art uh I think a little bit of Ceramics dance Mariachi is as well and uh it culminates with a a performance a community performance um that ends at LBC at the end of the summer school uh Student Art is showcased and sold and uh it's a very well attended event a great celebration I think for the community and finally um LBC uh the final one you had
181asked about was Excel for youth this is a unique partnership I think we're very lucky here to be partnered with Sonoma State University uh on this one and helps to strengthen um you know I think some of our Pipeline and partnership uh with that organization uh and what we do at the summer school is Target um elementary students again um and build out mostly enrichment experiences here very unique class offerings uh I think throughout the summer uh last year they had a crime scene investigation class um so they they really put together very creative offerings some arts and theater some acting classes um a nice blend of offerings and um it's very popular every year are these programs are is there a cost asso Associated for the students and families for these um activities en
182all of our summer school programs are offered for free and include uh meals and when we say meals we mean uh breakfast snack and lunch so it's um complete for for all of our programs but these are different than our typical summer school offerings I'm sorry they're different than what the summer school offerings like they're not the same as a typical summer school offering or are they these so all three that we've talked about are um cbos community- based organizations that partner with us to help us with our summer school offerings yes I think I think we might be at the question might be in comparisons to Credit Recovery oh yes thank you um sorry when I say um summer school offerings you know last summer we offered 17 different programs and served uh 3,000
183students um so under that umbrella term summer school offerings you see a wide variety of programs everything from forgive me very academic Credit Recovery um or early literacy program for elementary students all the way to the Other Extreme if you will uh enrichment and here we see things more like uh Arts education experiential outdoor opportunities so we try to offer a complete site s um you know just depending on the interests and needs of the student I guess the reason that I bring it up is As a parent and trying to navigate summer activities and summer enrichment um opportunities I mean it's expensive right I mean you're looking at summer camps that are $400 to $500 a week easy meals or no meals um you have more than one kid and you know your costs
184are doubling and no one has that kind of money to be perfectly honest um but I am I know from from personal experience off in roles offering programs like that um that families in the past when I have been in those roles um most organizations are very generous with scholarships um and funding opportunities for those who who have the need and so my concern is that I I also want to see funding going back into the school year for um into the schools during the school year uh that's kind of that's kind of why I that is why I brought it up is um because it it seems like these offerings can be if if families go toward the program and request scholarships that often times they will be granted them in my personal experience
185um so I just want to just bringing that up so one of the things that is that we are actually required to offer additional services and time outside of the school year okay so it's actually nine hours of programming during the school year plus an additional 30 days of nine hours outside of the school year for our expanded learning opportunity program can you say that just differently it's not sure so 9 hours of programming during the school year and an additional 30 days outside of the school year so that can be over breaks and the summer and so that's because of the the um requirement of the expanded learning opportunities program and so to be able to cover the robustness that we that we need to do because we have to Target our unduplicated pupils
186for those Services first and then try to offer supplemental to others as well that's very helpful thank you um can I ask a follow-up question then on the what was the other one the other one uh the springboard program yep um is that and I'm sorry I don't have everything right in front of me but does that one I know that's TK through fourth right more for uh reading spec literacy correct yes very very important obviously yeah um but I don't have the numbers right in front of me mostly because I have too many tabs open but the number of kids who are receiving that specific Service uh just because of the we talk a lot about the pipeline to prison stuff and there's my my understanding is that third grade uh literacy is so
187incredibly important so I I just want to make sure that there's a huge focus on that and that we are offering that to as many students that need it thank you that's uh it's been a we've worked with springboard now for three years and seen uh fantastic results actually from that summer school program we've also integrated it depending on the year into the after school program and just quickly one one thing that we celebrated during the fall board presentation was reading gains of up to 5.0 months from a five-week summer school intensive program so at one site we saw 5.0 months of gain at the other site last year we had two sites 4.7 months and when we went to Crunch the numbers ourselves we saw statistically significant increases at both sites on multiple metrics
188simply I'd say that um it is a very strong it has a very strong Foundation when implemented with Fidelity and shows uh you know growth I think for our you know our our youngest Learners in such a critical area reading and writing um one thing if I may uh I'll just note just on the on the funding part A number of these Partners um have actually come down in their costs together uh with us and as they have explained it to me as we've gone back and forth is some of them have gone out and worked their philanthropy channels to offset so you had asked Miss Jenkins about uh funding coming back into our schools I'd say yes indirectly uh through through their work and their efforts to keep our costs low for the summer
189program I know that's true particularly with springboard and also one that's on the docket here this evening is the our new partnership relatively new with Santa Rosa City School uh Santa Rosa City wreck and parks department so that has been kept very low too offset through Bond money and VPP funds so um anyway not our B Bond money by the way yeah yeah yeah through their do we call it Bond or initi trusty kby initiative money um I just a quick comment about one of the other programs listed there the North Bay trades introduction program that was one of the ones listed there um I really um like this program obviously uh it's about trades women you know and a camp for them to learn con construction possibly getting into the trades um I guess
190my question is it looks like we sent 13 students there uh for the camp last year how are we um advertising these programs to our students and and getting the word out that this is available I'd love to see that class filled up I mean but uh other than the parent square that went out 5 hours ago was it on there I I've tried not to look at my phone too much yeah I'd have to get the specifics from um director cardoo on that I know you had asked a question and I reached out to her to get some of the um answers on um how they were actually selecting um individuals for that um but I can get you that information with respect to how they're reaching out to um the um to solicit
191that for their students I think a lot of it has to do very similar to that event that you attended over at LC Allen where they pull directly from the classrooms and they're pulling the boys and girls from the classroom um equally um they just bring basically them out when they have like that group um I forget what they were called Blue Collar whatever it was and they came by and they basically just grab the kids that are in the classes with them and they show them what a career would look like and then actually involve them in the work directly um with the um um the individuals that have been doing this for a couple of decades right there and they see how interested they are and and see if they can actually you
192know get them you know right into the pipeline right away so I guess that that's kind of what wasn't clear is that are we pulling students from all of our campuses for this camp or is it just at one campus that's I can like I said I can I can get the definite answer for you there but my guess would be that it would be from all because that's the way the Debbie works so okay thank you yeah I want to remind the board this is a consent item if we want more information on summer programming I'm sure we can bring that back in a future item trusty Caston question in that direction actually when when is it that we would be looking at the overall Sumit programming strategy as a board when does that
193normally come up to us in the past we've presented an update to the board and celebrated the opportunities in April sometime so um coming up soon I believe I don't know when it's going to be agendized though is that before or after the decisions have been made on it as far as as far as what we're reviewing like I'm wondering if we need to ask for a broader strategy conversation where we can understand the Inon connectedness of all these offerings um or if that's already something that regularly comes to us each year and then because one of the things we've talked about with consent items is that they should be following a policy discussion we've had and so I'm trying to figure out when we have the policy discussions so that we then know that
194the consent items are following that discussion yeah at this point um it would be after because we have to actually have summer school um rolled out so we joined in December so I'm thinking for next year so I figured something occurred before we were soring in what month is it that that thing happens so that we know when we're talking about the next summer so um the cycle usually goes like this in the fall we report out to the board typically um October early October on the summer and celebrate to kind of showcase the activities um that took place in the summer and then right away immediately we start planning for the following summer so that October presentation is when we could give broader thoughts on preparing for the next year yes okay yeah and
195oh go ahead and we come back to the board and and and give uh provide a quick update in April as well prior to the launch just prior again and uh just last question for for Lisa is it's coming out of restricted funds but restricted funds are still accounts that we need to be managing the health of um how healthy are they is this are these accounts that are in reserved territory what's going on with that so again with this most of most of the summer programming is done through the expanded learning opportunities program which has to be spent on that um there it is also braided with other costs other other um funding sources like Aces the after school um CNS I'd assume for the lunches CNS it's that's part of of what we're
196paid for with with reimbursements so it's a braiding of funds um all from restricted sources but we are noticing you know the hit and we are what we're down a third um in terms of the funding I don't you can get into the specific so specifically we when we were looking at the l cap so that's part of the supplemental in concentration and the way that we have to identify services for our unduplicated pupils that's who we're targeting typically in these in our summer programming whether it's at the high school level or at um at the um elementary elementary can only be is the only level that can be served by our elop funds the expanded learning opportunities program because it's restri it's received for TK through six and we're the two seate districts so
197we can bring back information on specifics on the way that that funding works so that may be something for the finance subcommittee and will that naturally come to us anyway through the elcat process for in the middle of yes perfect thank you seeking a motion on G5 I move to approve second move by trusty Maneri seconded by trusty Casten roll call vote student board member Zuna hi trusty manieri hi trusty Casten hi trusty Kirby hi trusty Jenkins hi president MCN I motion passes thank you very much thank you moving on to approval of minutes seeking a motion on approval of minutes of the regular board meeting held on March 12th 2025 I move approval of minutes of the regular board meeting held on March 12th 2025 moved by trusty manary seconded by trusty Casten roll
198call vote student board members Zinga abstain trusty manier hi trusty Casten hi trusty Kirby hi trusty Jenkins hi president mcnell I motion passes seeking uh a motion on approval of the minutes of the special board meeting held on March 12 2025 I move approval of the minutes of the special board meeting held on March 12 2025 second move by trusty manary second in by trusty Caston roll call vote student board members Zinga abstain trusty manieri hi trusty Casten hi trusty Kirby I trusty Jenkins I president MCN I motion passes all right are there any board member requests for information trusty manieri yes um I would like to make a formal request for um a timeline um and an item on on boys volleyball to come back um and I'm sure there might be some other
199some other ideas on that direction but specifically I'd like to to call in the boys volleyball and I know the the clerk typically records requests for information and he's not here is someone are you taking notes on this great uh trusty Casten I could just take that and expand it to the strategy of our entire Athletics program um the strategy of our entire Athletics program across the district and then also uh and I'll follow up in an email on this as well but um PL student trustees uh report if we can also get an update on policy 3510 z uh the Green School operations in there we already have policies around reducing single reducing waste and having organic food services so if we can take that entire report from our student justy and turning that
200into a future discussion item to get an update on those um on how we're actually implementing that policy any others uh trusty Kirby um I would like to get the dates for the um the USDA uh National School food study site visits that are happening in April and to see if if I'm around if I could it's okay to tag along on that I would like to do that superintendent did you get what uh trusty Kirby just asked yes USDA visits in April so that you they're coming for yeah they're scheduled to come to a site visit but they they said sometime in April but they never said what the date was so any other requests all right you'll find our information items at the bottom of the agenda meeting adjourned