SRCS Regular Board Meeting - March 12, 2025

001e now opening the March 12th 2025 meeting of the Santa Rosa City Schools Board of Education we will start with public comment on closed session agenda items the closed session agenda items are conference with labor negotiator conference with legal council existing litigation conference with legal council anticipated litigation student expulsions and public employee performance evaluation are there any blue cards there are no blue cards or public comment on the closed session all right the board will now recess to close session now reopening the March 12th 2025 meeting of the Santa Rosa City Schools Board of Education please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance and then remain standing for our territorial land acknowledgement and we have Felicity Santo Domingo for our land acknowledgement hello I acknowledge that Santa Rosa city schools is on the traditional territory and

002homelands of the Pomo people traditional territory and homelands of the Coast Miwok people and honor with gratitude the land itself and the people who have stewarded it throughout the generations this land acknowledgement calls us to commit to continuing to learn how to be better stewards of the land we inhabit by offering this land acknowledgement we affirm indigenous sovereignty and will work to hold Santa Rosa city schools more accountable to the needs of American Indian and Indigenous peoples thank you Felicity all right um report of actions taken in closed session have a few here um the board voted 70 to authorize the district superintendent or designed to adopt resolution number 2024 25-57 uh to notify one certificated administrator that they may be released and Poss possibly reassigned from their position for the 2025 2026 school year

003we the board also voted 70 to authorize the district superintendent or designed to adopt resolution number 25-65 to notify one certificated administrator that they may be possibly released and reassigned from their position for the 2025 2026 school year um the board unan unanimously approved a settlement for case 12669 that's all for all right and then items considered inclose session for Action in Open Session seeking a motion on our student exposion case motion to approve second roll call vote trusty de laor I trusty Medina hi trusty Casten hi trusty Kirby hi trusty Jenkins hi trusty manieri I president MCN I motion passes okay moving on to statements of absten are there any statements of of abstention tonight seeing none adjustments to the agenda um we will be removing one contract the mother duck contract from agenda

004item G4 I say the number yeah which brings the total contract amount to$ 27525 are there any other adjustments could I request that we move F4 and F5 prior to current F3 just change the order I would prefer to keep F3 where it is I think the second in term is important context for the rest of the items on our agenda and can I move to adjust items F4 and F5 in advance of F3 if there's no second then we'll just move on as this is there a second thank you all right any other adjustments all right then we will move on to our special presentations for student of the month and certificated and classified employees of the month tonight we have Helen Layman Elementary School and Ridgeway High School good evening members of the

005board my name is Christina Senna and I'm the proud principal of Helen Layman Elementary School it is my great honor to present sixth grader Ruth mesen as the Halen Layman Elementary student of the month Ruth is an exceptional student both academically and in her behavior she is a leader and exemplifies our school roles every single day she has been a dedicated dedicated safe School Ambassador for the past two years is a committed helper in our lunch support program and a valuable member of the girls basketball team which she's actually missing her game to be here tonight Ruth teacher had the teachers had the following to say about her Ruth is a student who shows up for herself and others in all areas of life she is motivated and hardworking turning in high quality work that

006is well thought out and executed she can be seen always showing respect to others as she works in groups participates in our school girls basketball team and assists in the cafeteria during her lunchtime she supports others during class lending a helping hand to those who need it and is encouraging to others in class and on the court Ruth is a type of student who shows how promising this next generation is through her compassion to others her wide range of skills and abilities and her dedication to her learning Ruth leads by example engages in her learning and is a role model to her peers congratulations Ruth and thank you for being such a positive representative of the Helen Layman student body e so tonight we are honor honoring Jennifer Toscano as our classified Employee of the

007Month Jenny is one of our beloved instructional assistant at Helen Layman she has become an integral part of our instructional support team leading walk to read groups ELD groups and our newcomer club which has affectionately been renamed by our students as Miss Jenny Jenny's colleagues have the following to say about her Jenny goes the extra mile for students as an and is a team player on our campus she helps us progress progress monitor students literacy goals pulls academic data to reflect on supports students who need extra academic or social emotional support and helps our newest arrival students feel like they belong at Helen Layman by building strong relationships with them Jenny is current currently doing what should be the job of about five people she is everyone's favorite walk to read group everyone's favorite ELD

008group she gives up her break to let students hang out with her at recess and lunchtime or meet with them outside to play volleyball or soccer Jenny is welcoming to our newcomers and helps them feel very quickly to to very quickly create a sense of community and belonging at our school she has always helped with assessments and logistics for walk to read but this year she's also doing the majority of the Data Tracking and prep work for teachers due to having lost our toes Jenny is dearly loved by our entire community at Hen Layman our students adore her and our staff overwhelmingly voted to recognize Jenny's efforts at Layman by nominating her as classified employee of the month felic that is Jenny congratulations after it is my other great privilege to recognize Emily fredman as

009our certificated Employee of the Month Emily is our Beloved School counselor who gives endlessly of her time to support the Myriad of student needs at our site she leads our monthly life skills Focus during our student assemblies she brings toolbox and Kochi lessons to life in the classroom leads student support groups and overseas our tier 2 Team Emily has built incredible organization around our tier 2 support developing systems to monitor student progress and championing the whole child approach to intervention personally Emily has been an incredible support to me she's a strong collaborator and brings insight to our student Focus meetings I am incredibly thankful for her support her willingness to be part of my think T Think Tank and her wise counsel Emily's colleagues have the following to say about her I am frequently Consulting

010Emily for ways to support some of my students she willingly comes into my classroom and sits with a student who may have started the day on the wrong foot Emily has built long lasting relationships with our students they trust her deeply her investment in their lives is noticeable in the way they love her and seek her out seek out her guidance and support when they need it Emily is so wise I feel like I can balance ideas off of her she'll listen and provide a thought thoughtful and thorough response Emily is student- centered she looks for Creative Solutions for meeting student needs when limited resources are available we are incredibly blessed to have Emily as our school counselor she's an excellent counselor Advocate team player and collaborator congratulations Emily you deserve this honor and recognition

011congratulations to all our awardees from Helen Layman next we have principal gab Baldi from Ridgeway High School hello I'm principal galdi for Bridgeway high school and I'm accompanied with my assistant principal Mark McLean it is got it um it is my great honor to present 11th grader Andia or Andy Topia devalos as the Ridgeway High School student of the month Andy consistently maintains an impressive GPA of 4.0 demonstrating his dedication to his education and personal growth his hard work and perseverance set a great example for his peers and he continues to challenge himself to excel in his studies here are a few things Andy's teacher had to say about him Andy is the most academically consistent student I've had at Ridgeway in addition he is the only student who has ever ended the quarter with

012a 100% in my class he is self-motivated and routinely produces quality work academically at least in my class he is without peers Andy is very respectful to his peers and teachers he helps other classmates with the work if they don't understand something and he also has great self discipline without being told he always starts his work right away and is working the entire class period we are honored to have Andy as part of the Ridgeway High School family and we celebrate his hard work generosity and outstanding character congratulations Andy on this well-deserved recognition that okay Ridgeway continuation High School is proud to recognize our Julie petrich as our certificated Employee of the Month Julie's impact on our school goes far beyond the class classroom she is the heart and soul of Ridgeway school spirit engagement

013staff and more Julie has been instrumental and bringing joy and connection to our campus from organizing grad nights house competitions senior sunrise and TGF Gatherings for staff to Leading the student leadership Senate group and helping students take an active role in school spirit Julie consistently finds ways to make Ridgeway fun welcoming in a vibrant place for both students and staff one colleague shared this Julie is the reason I chose to work at Ridgeway her warmth and kindness during the hiring process made a lasting impression impression and the same energy continues to shape our school culture every day whether she's working with new staff lifting up morale or creating exciting opportunities for students Julie embodies the spirit of Bridgeway another colleague described her fectly she is a ray of sunshine she automatically makes you feel better

014with her presence Julie your dedication enthusiasm is unwavering commitment to making Ridgeway a better place and your um and you're deeply appreciated congratulations on this well-deserved award what okay our um classified employee of the month was unable to attend but we are giving this award to Mariela Tuscano sorry my glasses a Ridgeway continue High School is a continuation High School is proud to recognize Mariela Tuscano as our employee of the um classified employee of the month as our dedicated attendance clerk Mariela is a vital part of our school community ensuring that our students and staff are always met with efficiency and professionalism Mariela is highly organized and efficient she's always quick to help and jump in um to answer any questions or concerns or requests for additional um for information regarding students and or attendance

015data she often has Vital Information and shares it with sensitivity confidentiality in mind Mariela is a pleasure to work with her inspirational skills are highly developed in her um and she provides valuable insights uh mariela's self motivation and strong work ethic are truly contagious she is always present always on time and always working hard to support both students and staff her ability to communicate clearly with students helps Foster a welcoming atmosphere from the moment they step on campus Beyond her exceptional organizational skills making sure teachers are informed about student absences Mariela also creates an inviting space in the front office where it's through her thoughtful holiday decorations her friendly Greetings or the small but meaningful interaction she shares with colleagues her presence makes a difference one colleague put it best if everyone at Ridgeway worked

016as diligently as she does we would be thriving that much more Mariel is not just an outstanding co-worker but she is appreciated by all tonight we are honoring Mariela Tuscano as our classified employee of the month thank you Mariel hope you're listening for your dedication and the positive energy you bring to Ridgeway congratulations thank you thank you both and congratulations again to all our awardees next we have our School site parent organization updates for Helen Layman we have elac President yennefer Amaro and PFO president Jenna Glenn sorry hello my name is Jenna Glenn and I am Helen Layman's PFO president I have two sons that attend Helen lemman Liam who's in sixth grade and Logan who's in fourth grade I've been a part of the school since 2017 when Liam started TK this is my

017second year being a PFO in the PFO in the beginning of this school year I'm sorry in the beginning of the school year our 2023 and 24 president vice president and co- secretaries all decided to run again and were nominated and voted in our previous treasure had left the school before the school year ended so we had to find a new treasure our current officers are Nelly Elias as vice president Melinda siner as treasur Irani G gindo and Mariana Diaz as our co- secretaries and myself there is no way the PFO would be what it is without them this year we held our annual pada event at Christmas time where we had an amazing t out considering rainy and frigid temperatures we were able to have a food truck and turo truck on site for

018our Posada who gave us a percentage of their sales in addition to the trucks parents volunteered their time to make other traditional foods for us to sell we were very grateful to have local stores and restaurants donate food money and gift cards to make this wonderful event the ex this wonderful event the success it was everyone loves chocolate so we were able to do our annual SE candy fundraiser during Christmas we rewarded our top three sellers with Target gift cards we just completed our second coin drive for the school where classes competed against each other to bring in the most coins for a chance to win a pizza and ice cream party one of our sixth grade classes lost to one of our second grade classes by 31 cents they both got an ice cream

019party we are so grateful for Exchange Bank counting all of the coins so we were able to get 100% of the funds raised we've held a DIN and donate at Panda Express which had a great turnout and we have two more DIN and donates coming up in the remainder of the school year with the funds that we have been raising we were so excited to be able to pay for Bay folkloric dance lessons for our interested male and female students from grades 1st through 6th our first our first through third graders had weekly lessons from September until December with the recital at our Posada our fourth through sixth graders started their lessons in January January and will have their Rec at our open house in may we also have been able to help our girls

020basketball teams get new jerseys the support that our principal Mrs Senna our family engagement facilitator Daniela our student engagement activity worker parar the teachers and staff have provided the PFO support is so appreciated more than they know with having a year under our belt as the PFO officers it has made this second year a little easier we still struggle with getting parents involved with meetings and planning events but they definitely show up to our events and help fundraise we're so grateful for our families who help contribute financially to our fundraisers considering how expensive how expensive life is nowadays most parents hear about PFO either from other parents that are involved and by Miss senna's weekly Friday flyer that she sends out via parent Square we are happy to announce that our 2023 24 school year

021PFO officers voted to give $100 to each of our teachers for supplies that they may need which will be starting in April we're always open to feedback from the parents and the students of what they would like their hard-earned fundraising money to go to in conclusion continuing as the Helen Layman PFO president for the second year has been challenging yet rewarding as I get to be a part of my children's school's extracurricular activities and helping their friends and peers and meeting wonderful parents along the way thank you for allowing me the opportunity to come and speak to you to you and all the attendings of tonight's meeting to hear about how wonderful our school Helen Layman is Yan Amato our elac president could not be here tonight but I'm going to read her brief report

022on her behalf uh good evening members of the board my name is Yan fed Amad and I'm the president of elac at Helen Layman this year we have grown our parent participation we had a parent meeting in parent we had a parenting class in the fall to support our families on the topic of bullying in December we had a parenting class to teach about how to support our children with the elpac exam we did a lot of work this year around applying for the Community Schools Grant which we hope to receive for next school year at our last elac meeting we invited the parents from baella who will be moving to Layman we had two parents and the principal from baella who attended and our community was very happy to welcome them with open arms

023I am very happy to be serving our school Community that's from Yenni F thank you thank you next we'll move on to the reports section of our agenda starting with our California School employee Association report president Mary Leman good evening can you hear me good evening president mcnali governing board superintendent Dr Morales student board member cabinet members and everyone joining us on zoom and everyone of you that are here tonight we are all part of this community because we care about our schools and the well-being of everyone involved CA wants to congratulate our students and teachers of the month at Helen Layman and Ridgeway High School and give give a special thank you to our classified employees Jennifer from Helen Layman and Mariel from Ridgeway whose hard work and dedication throughout the year is being

024honored tonight I represent some 650 classified employees who work tirelessly every day this week layoffs and involuntary transfer notices are being distributed and mailed to classified and certificated employees remember that every behind every notice is a person with feelings a parent a friend someone who is important part of our community the uncertainty and pain that come with these notices for rightsizing the district are deeply personal and we must support each other throughout this process we look forward to the report item number seven regarding the school consolidation and transition update we support the following action items action item one the resolution recognizing March as the Arts Education Month and F2 the resolution recognizing March as women's History Month while celebrating W women's accomplishments throughout history it's serves as a reminder of the ongoing fight for gender

025and pay equality action item three Lisa augus will present the 2425 second interim Report with four scenarios using District funds in an effort to avoid a negative third interim report we continue to face serious Financial challenges we need to make some hard decisions to protect our schools we approve of discussion action item six to appoint an ad hoc committee to receive updates regarding leadership Support Services provided by sco hopefully they can help us rebuilding trust in our district this guidance will be crucial as we work toward a to create a more unified Santa Rosa city schools Community the following action items we also want you to support are the um classified employee calendar approval 226 and the tiebreaking criteria CCA believes in the strength of this community we know that by coming together sharing our

026concerns and supporting one another we can get through school closures and consolidation we have to take care of each other with honesty compassion and courage to face these challenges ahead together with the support of sco and our community we can make it through these difficult times we must work toward a future where every student staff and family feels heard valued and supported let's work toward building back this trust let's do it with courage and compassion thank you thank you president Leman next we have the Santa Rosa Teachers Association president Katherine Howell good evening president mcnell superintendent Morales members of the board and the community I'm Katherine Howell I'm representing about 900 teachers and Educators in the Santa Rosa Teachers Association first I want to say congratulations to everybody that was honored tonight from Helen Layman

027Elementary and Ridgeway High School it's nice to have something to celebrate in the midst of all of this confusion and change um thank you for the resolutions coming up celebrating arts and education month and women's history month it is a little difficult to celebrate arts and education while also looking at 12 layoff notices going out to vapa teachers this week uh thank you to our board for agreeing to work with sco thank you to Dr Carter at the sowa County Office of Education for providing support and lending the expertise to srcs that we will need as we go through this transition the transition is complicated it's filled with anxiety as filled with unanswered questions um and there's an unclear implementation through line we've got all these teams the empowerment teams have formed they're meeting they

028will meet they have met the negotiation team has met twice things are going pretty well slowly but pretty well um the seven-page transition document that's coming up on item seven shows a lot of decisions that need to be made and more teams so we've got the Empower team we have the implementation implementation team that's been renamed the transition team as far as I can tell the design team the ad hoc advisory committee the instructional leadership team which I honestly don't know what that is and all these teams working making hundreds of decisions thousands of decisions but we we don't really know is how these committees are going to communicate what they're doing and how they're going to coordinate with each other I just checked my email 10 minutes ago I got an update on parent

029Square about transition that said decisions have been made about the Athletics at middle schools I know what those decisions are but does anybody else right it says decisions were made it didn't say what the decisions were so this is something that we really need to worry about is not just the decisions are getting made but those decisions are being communicated out on a regular basis um we don't know who selfes conflicts that come up right I heard a description of the event of Monday Santa Rosa middle and Santa Rosa High School met I think they had a really good meeting they came up with some decisions at the end of it it was like oh so we made a decision did we make a decision do we have to check this decision with somebody who

030do we check it with right and no one was really able to answer that question I think their decision is a good one and I think it's their decision right but it's also was still really unclear what is the hierarchy of decision- making what happens when conflict arises and we don't know who's actually the decider right um this doesn't seem to be like a question that should be impossible but it has seemed impossible to answer and the chaos continues there's a lot going on all at the same time we know that we know that our families are getting an endless stream of emails as things change and there seems to be constant change but there also seems to be chaos in addition to the layoffs that President Layman mentioned we have about a hundred certificates

031ated Educators getting layoff notices this week almost 25% of them are counselors these counselors do the things that were celebrated in the counselor from Layman all of those things and More in fact the transition plan that says that these counselors are actually going to be expanding mental health and counseling services at high schools and designing academic transition supports with 25% fewer of them the second interim budget is being presented tonight with four different scenarios something so unheard of that I was asked if it was even legal I don't know I'm not an expert on that but it is something I've never seen before if scenario X happens then this happens if scenario this scenario then y happens the budget savings based on Staffing ratios that haven't been publicly presented and in terms of SRTA have

032not not even been negotiated again more Chaos two agenda items that serve only to revisit something that everyone thought was settled to reopen conversations that we thought were over and decisions that may impact the budget once again chaos that we don't need right now the Educators in SRT are strong we know how to get it done we know how to make it work we've you know been told multiple times how to build an airplane while flying it um but we're exhausted we're dedicated but we see this chaos in front of us and we worry about our students and we see the numbers of teams and committees and and the lack of communication between them and among them about what has been decided or hasn't been decided and we worry about our students we didn't ask

033for this we didn't cause this and yet here we are please help us calm this chaos please create an understandable process for decisionmaking that is clearly and consistently communicated not just the decisions have been made but what they actually are help us calm this chaos by making budget decisions that aren't questioned or changed constantly we are worried about our students we are worried about their families and we are worried about the future of Santa Rosa city schools thank you thank you president Howell Dr Morales do you have a superintendent report um mine is just real brief because um we spent our time putting the transition plan together so we'll talk more during that time and also working with um sco on their additional support and as well as the Strategic plan overview for our review

034and decision on when that timeline would start and so that's been the focus of our work in the last two and a half weeks so I'll leave it at that because we'll have more to say during those items thank you Dr Morales um now for my board president report if you were at our last meeting you got to see me throw at my back trying to plug in my charger I'm still embarrassed but my back is mostly better I'm glad to be back here today um since then I was able to attend the first meeting of the board's subcommittee on finance um and I'm really excited about how that committee I feel is going to bring more fiscal transparency and just allow us to look further ahead with our budget planning um and then I

035also met with the executive board Dr mores and um the leadership team from sco but I believe we'll talk about that more in one of our action items so I'll leave that for later uh other board members reports I'll go to Let's do manary deor and then we'll go from there thank you president mcnali um I just wanted to give a couple of thanks um last week I had the opportunity to talk to Santa Rosa Middle School parents um all of whom were Spanish-speaking parents about the recent decisions and changes that the board voted on I was also able to talk to talk to them about um kind of the history of of what we're experiencing here in Santa Rosa city schools and our financial situation um and I made sure they have my phone

036number and my email um in case they want to reach out and have more questions so I just really want to thank um assistant principal lpra Miss Martinez and Miss Brie for the invitation to um talk to their parents there at Santa Rosa Middle School um yesterday I also attended the lcen high school town hall um I really appreciate and and want to thank those who showed up to voice your concerns your frustrations your questions um your voices are are really really important and they do matter so to all the parents all the students all the staff who are there thank you for showing up and to the district for um providing that opportunity and along with president mcnali and clerk delator was also part of the sko conversation that we're going to have later

037today so thank you deor thank you very much um I just want to start by thanking Helen Layman for having me um beginning of the month and this is my first time to particip at as a guest reader with uh read Across America and I had the opportunity to read with four classrooms um danzic Ramsay Lee and brocco um I was with kindergarteners third graders fifth graders and first graders um I brought them uh dragons love tacos and Dragons love tacos too and just love seeing the their faces light up and having conversations about the stories and what they're reading and how they're reading progress ress um is progressing and whether you know and sharing personal experiences and stories with my family and why to have confidence in reading and it's okay if you're not

038a confident reader right away and to keep working at it um and all good things come in time um just really great experience loved being on the campus loved having that opportunity so thank you Helen Layman it's very much appreciated um really important other visits I made uh this week was to be Slater Santa Rosa Middle School Brook Hill beella Santa Rosa High School Montgomery Mar Creo High School Hidden Valley Steel Lane Piner and lsie Allen um we are going through so much transition and changes and we have had the heartbreaking decisions to be made to close some of these campuses that have been with us for decades and now is not the time to not continue Community engagement and keep your feet on the ground and show these staff and teachers how much they

039are adored and appreciated and acknowledged for all the hard work that they are continuing to do even though their site will not be there next year so I really want to extend my great gratitude to the staff and teachers on those sites and really staying steadfast and strong and having an emotional capacity to continue to connect with our students and provide the best opportunities for their students forward um I would love to make sure which I believe it's already happening but to make sure that our district is supporting um any opportunities for those campuses to say goodbye in a proper capacity to give those students and staff and family uh the proper sendoff to respectfully um for any of those campuses are closing um perhaps we sponsor a time capsule or something else for those

040communities to be involved in on those sites but I think it's really important that we honor and respect um the sites we are closing uh teachers staff administrators please reach out with teacher meeting dates or other opportunities that um board members may be able to be on campuses and share some FaceTime with those communities um we are not hiding from any of this responsibility these were very gut-wrenching hard painful decisions had to be made but we support you we care about you and we're still in this um I also had the opportunity to be at Piner High School last night for the collaborative presentation from srcs and srpd um that is was at Piner last night and it'll be at the other four high school campuses Thursday at Montgomery and then we've got three other

041campuses after Spring Break um and it was an opportunity for engagement and education on the violence that we are experienced on our campuses and not just our campuses but our community um what the police force is seeing how we are working with our Community Partners the violence prevention partnership face to face the drug use the ODS some really real painful things that are unfortunately right here in our community that we're experiencing now and these presentations were a collaborative effort to educate and inform our families and our students on what resources and opportunities are available what to keep your eyes open for what to stay away from how to continue to engage and have these tough conversations with your children and uh the value of the stop ad app to call attention to these situations so

042they could be properly addressed and we can avoid losing lives and we can protect lives so I really appreciate that those opportunities in those presentations and look forward to more of those coming and again as uh president mcnali and vice president manaria said Thank You SC for the opportunity to have a meeting last week and look forward to hearing more about what that'll look like tonight and how we continue to partner with very important collaborators in our community to do this right and to do it well and to move forward forward Jenkins and then Casten all right so um Lots going on these last two weeks Monday the 3D was Montgomery's um monthly parent meeting I went as a parent however I was uh very pleasantly surprised at the um the inclusion of feeder schools

043and feeder districts um at that meeting so typically what happens at these meetings is it's a monthly meeting for parent organiz ganizations happens on the first Monday of the month um they have athletic boosters MEF the Montgomery Education Foundation uh project grad and alumni are there it was just great to see how um how welcoming the community was and the additional parents in the room from other schools um and principal Santos did an incredible job welcoming everyone in uh Thursday I attended the Montgomery band Spring Showcase and fundraiser under Mr Perez's leadership and supported by Band boosters as well as the Ceramics classes amazing talent there Saturday morning was the board member boot camp put on by sco for trustees oliv Sonoma County while our district is going through major Transitions and restructuring it was

044reassuring to hear how broad and far-reaching budget and enrollment issues really are it is one thing to hear this information from Lisa August and Dr Morales however hearing this same info presented to all of our districts in the county um sits differently it was interesting to hear the impact on different size districts as well I'm hopeful that in the future we'll be able to move forward move excuse me in the future we'll be able to work together to consolidate some districts reelect trustees and cut overhead while providing effective educational experiences for all of our extended communities in the county another takeaway from this meeting was the importance of supporting site administrators and I'm hoping this can be prioritized as we move forward later on Sunday excuse me I'm not Sunday at Saturday still later on

045on Saturday I attended um srfax Carnival fundraiser in Gala and holy cow you guys they know how to throw a party um between the glitter the Glam and their auction online silent and in person it was really something else one of my favorite parts of the night was the dessert auction this is key for people I had no idea this was a thing was so cool and what they did is they um they had these really fancy desserts and they did a live auction auctioned them off and people bid on them for their tables and one of these desserts went for $1300 isn't that amazing I I was so impressed um nice work uh this week so the 3X3 meets tomorrow regarding Sr uh the need for SRO on secondary campuses could not be clear

046it was agreed upon over a year ago to start a pilot and here we are without one in place and weapons and violence incidents continuing to put students at high risk for continued trauma whether that be directly or vicariously site admin needs the support and our students need to be able to learn in a safe environment this Friday is Pi Day another one of my favorites time to celebrate numbers eat pie and participate in your site's festivities um additionally it's track season in secondary right now for anyone looking to be inspired by the determination of our youth I encourage you to go to a track meet specifically in middle school and stand at the Finish light Finish Line this has been one of my most cherished experiences as a parent and once you witness it

047you may agree finally it's almost spring break please be safe and read a book or two a favorite recent read of mine is Malcolm gladwell's revenge of the Tipping Point thanks Jesse Casten thank you also busy two weeks uh for me first just I want to comment to all the staff that are getting notices and my household dealt with this for many years in a row um my wife received notice every year as a special education uh teachers assistant it's I I understand the pain I know the uncertainty um I know it's like to not get called back in May and to have to wait to June and it's my strong hope that the decisions that we make now make it so that we do not have to continue on in this pattern in future

048years um but I just I sympathize and I understand and I really really want to make sure that we do not return to this practice again next year at this scale um I also want to acknowledge the teachers who and staff who are being disrupted by the changes um I know there's teachers who have been asked after many decades to uh depart their classrooms and to move to New classrooms and to accommodate uh um the changes that we approved and you know that transition is also very difficult and I want to appreciate um what I've heard has been a very collaborative environment but also Echo uh Katherine H's comments about making sure that we're clear about the decision making and that we're uh not having to revisit those decisions as well we need to make

049sure that this ends with some level of certainty as for my activities um I started the uh last week off at the parent meeting at ccla which I I want to greatly express my appreciation to W with the violence prevention partnership uh who attended as well as folks from Verity um Gustav and Eric from our team um to support the parents there uh it was a very it was one of the longer coffee chats that we've had for obvious reasons and I think everyone that was there and supporting that Community um I thank than you all for that uh we had the first on the same day we had the first finance committee meeting uh very specifically we went into depth on Salpa which is the uh special education local plan area and that's where

050we get our revenues for special education um and we received an update on the multi-year forecasts that meeting is online I understand we had some audio issues uh those will be improved for next uh for next meeting but you can go and receive that up updating that information um I also had the opportunity to join uh superintendent Morales uh superintendent Carter and principal Anderson uh with uh greeting State superintendent Tony Thurman um inition to him giving probably one of the more entertaining Elementary School rallies um at a school that I've been at uh he also uh spent time touring and talking with us about resources um that the state may be able to give us for the transition to 712 um among other elements of that and I appreciated him coming and being available for

051that conversation uh I participated in read across American at Leman as well uh we had a lot of fun in sixth grade class reading When I Grow Up by Weird Al Yankovich um and I hope to have more opportunities like that it was a necessary experience to recharge my soul as much as I think it was entertaining for the for the kids when I told them I actually have a client that traps scoffers uh which no one had thought of as a career either so uh I appreciate Dr Carter making herself available separately from the other board members to help uh fill me in on some of the supports and um I appreciated the time in order to prepare for today's meeting and lastly I am in the middle of a two-day course with the

052California School Board Association on finance and uh governance as part of their masters in governance um conveniently today we covered uh a lot of the material that we've actually dealt with over the last two year uh two months sorry it feels like two years two months um and uh we we're going through the second inm report um as I was reading our agenda item again because of the additional information from that so uh busy two weeks uh I just want to put out there I have multiple parent meetings lined up and I've had teachers reach out to meet with me either individually or in small group groups uh please use my email I'm available uh I will be happy to come and meet with folks that have concerns um and you know continue reaching out

053thank you trusty Kirby and then trusty Medina uh see the past two weeks I was able to visit all of the comprehensive high school campuses uh I was conducting interviews for the American legion's uh boys and girl State programs um just a fantastic group of uh students that were put up by their teachers and and counselors for those uh positions for the uh summer program over in Sacramento State um I also went to the LC Allen welding event uh just a fantastic program really highlighted our CTE programs uh all the local schools um attend as well as other High School welding programs from the from the Bay Area just a um really warm my heart to see uh these kids out there they they had timed uh W welding races um they they did equipment

054tool giveaways and drawings and some of the students even received uh welding uh scholarships uh from this uh Academy so uh again hats off to our CTE team for helping to uh to make that happen it was a it was a great event um lastly I just wanted to uh do a quick shout out to the uh Maria koreo women uh girls soccer team who won the U the NCS division three Championship so uh go Pumas uh trustee Medina I'm going to have to ask you to wait it is 7:00 we need to pause this meeting um to transition to our special board meeting I I just wanted to um if we could just have it go on the record that I don't think having this type of meeting in the middle of a meeting

055is okay legally speaking so I just want to make sure that's noted in the minutes thank you now opening the March 12th 2025 special meeting of the Santa Rosa city school school's Board of Education please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance all right first is public comment on the agenda item only I have one blue card you will have three minutes Angel Ortega thank you for having me my name is Angel Ortega I'm staff in alni velan high school it has come to my attention that our restorative folk are on the chopping block given that members of the board and District have voiced support to make our schools safer I'm confused as to why we're cutting the people that actually make that happen I have deep reservations about police in this country but even then

056I still believe an SRO could be a productive member of an intervention team but how can that happen if there are no intervention teams anymore in other words with our restorative folks ffs and other intervention staff the violence we are seeing on campuses is going to continue and grow regardless of police presence I'm aware the harm that has been done cannot be undone I solely ask the board and district for their support at our sights and to please come up with a contingency plan that doesn't rely on the police thank you thank you now we have Dr xans presenting okay um thank you president mcnali Dr Morales um members of the board members of the community and those listening online um I know this is a very unusual circumstance that we would have a special

057meeting in the middle of a regular meeting um to explain a little bit about the resolution that I'm going to be bringing forward um we were presented with a notification from um CSEA that um has forced our hand a little bit in terms of having to negotiate we have full intention of negotiating the place of the restorative specialists in our um system however because of the tight timeline we are having to come forward with a resolution to reduce or eliminate the remaining eight restorative specialist positions and so that is the resolution that I'm bringing forward to you today um we do have a plan for going forward but as I said um because of the March 15th deadline for preliminary notices and our inability to be able to negotiate with CCA prior to that time

058we are having to bring this resolution forward best AR thank you Dr zans um just quickly is it possible for you to share a little bit more about um the situation that has forced our hand just so folks are aware um and I just want to clarify this is State csca not our local CSA chapter correct yes okay so that that first part and then if you don't mind just sharing a little bit more about the plan moving forward that you mentioned okay thank you um yes it is State CSC a that presented us after hours on Monday with a cease and assist order for um the elimination of the restorative specialist position stating that the move from a site-based position to a district based position is um in essence a new job and um

059we were not able to although for the last week and a half we've been asking to meet with CCA States CA I want to be very clear State CSA our local CA is wonderful and the people that we deal with are wonderful um but for the last week and a half we've been trying to meet with State csca and they have not agreed to meet they presented us with a cease and assist at 4:50 in the afternoon on Monday um which was addressed actually only to Dr Morales was not addressed to me um so I received it from her on um Tuesday morning so that did not give us any time although we did attempt to get a meeting and our local CA did reach out several times to State CSA for that um we

060were not able to meet yesterday Our Hope was to have that taken care of yesterday and not have to bring this resolution forward and the plan moving forward so I I want to make it clear that there is nothing in this plan asking the board to eliminate the restorative Specialists um like our public comment we fully agree and believe that the restorative Specialists make a difference in our [Music] community both with our students and with our staff but in times of fisal Crisis everybody has to tighten the belt a little bit and we would like to reorganize the position so that the position is more agile and responsive in the creation of the student safety advisor position which was also given restorative uh practice responsibilities we are um suggesting that an increase in the number

061of student safety advisers to be available to uh organize and administer the tier one restorative practices and restorative kind of the proactive side of restorative will free up our highly trained restorative Specialists to be able to navigate the tier 2 the tier three and the training aspects and that having those be able to be more agile will result in improved continuity of service will improve our ability to identify essential standards and ensure that the schools are receiving those on a more consistent basis and these are things that the board has been looking for over the last two years and asking us to address so while it will mean fewer restoratives we feel that this organization this reorganization of the position will allow them to be more responsive when we have areas of need and the

062tier one side can be lifted by the student safety adviser position so is the hope to continue negotiations and then pull these layoff notices back yes for the uh the eight positions that will give us enough to be able to be both supportive and agile trusty Caston and then trusty deor and just to confirm our Loc csca folks are not the ones who brought this forward that they're working with us in good faith on all of this and this was has no bearing on them correct our local CSA um was also attempting to get the meeting before tonight's meeting and um is very willing to negotiate this um before our May 15th deadline but hopefully much sooner than that so that people that are affected know the fate of their positions sooner rather than later

063I just want to make that clear and I appreciate their continued work with us I just want to ask to ensure we did our due diligence and check the legalities or conferred with legal to ensure this is what's needs to be done to properly negotiate here forward and we've covered those basis this action and the special board meeting is on the advice of our legal councel thank you man um I just want to make sure that we're also you know communicating with our restorative staff I got messages you know people freaking out and being really uncertain about what's going on and so I just ask that our district be as empathetic and real and transparent as possible because these are folks lives that you know are being affected as are all with the riffs um

064and this is is just like you know unexpected and so it's it's kind of different circumstances so I just ask that communication happen as quickly as possible as strategic and empathetically as possible um and I just you know want to say to folks who have been in this district for decades and and for many many years that you know this is this is nothing anybody wants to do um and it's really unfortunate and we're all feeling it and again I know I already asked this but just to be really clear if negotiations go well we get the adjustments we need all eight positions all eight notices will be pulled back those people will not lose their jobs all eight positions will be pulled back upon successful negotiation of the change of location for the restoratives

065thank you seeking a motion trusty Casten I move revised resolution 2024-25 d102 and wa for the reading of the text is there a second second right moved by trusty Casten seconded by trusty Kirby roll call vote trusty Casten hi trusty Kirby hi trusty Medina uh for the sake of consistency no trusty Jenkins I trusty deor hi trusty manieri hi president MCN I motion passes meeting adjourned we will now resume the regular board meeting uh trusty Medina was your turn for to report thank you um taking off where uh trusty Kirby was talking about the uh welding event at LC and I I I would agree that was a great event um he mentioned that a few students received scholarships and I did want to highlight that the three students from lcen that received scholarships all

066participated in the nextg Trades Academy that happens at LC Allen um so I just wanted to highlight that there's uh the application for this semester is currently up and it closes on the 16th so if there student students that are interested go to NextGen elc.com to apply um so you could enter that program that's limited to 20 students um additionally I I did want to um touch based on on a few things La last week I was at the cafesito at LC Allen early in the morning on Thursday originally it was scheduled to be with uh principal ala um I got an ear load from a lot of parents very upset parents um and justifiably so in my opinion um I just wanted to share that I I hear you I heard you that a

067lot of people feel that Prince paa um should still be there um I just want to say that I share your concern that I I I wish I could do something but I can't um he's valuable individual individual and some folks said that it feels like he's being put out like a criminal which he is not that he's someone that should be celebrated and I agree he's someone that's created great relationships on the campus let build a great Community a great family on campus and we should celebrate all that good that he did so I just wanted to express that because I heard it from you from the community and and it's something that I think should be elevated additionally I know that over the past few months there's been a lot of stress in

068our in in our country um especially for for our undocumented individuals and families and I was really saddened to hear um that the family members of one of our students in our district were taken by ice so that was really saddened saddening to hear and I just want to highlight that because that's another reality of the things that our students are having to deal with um and it's really hard and I know that I could relate to it because I've had family members have to deal with that as well um so to remember that and I think I also wanted to just um SRTA president how just say that I agree with so much of what you said there's a lot of chaos it's really crazy everything that's happening we need to do better I

069think there's room for improvement one of the things that we really need to work on is communication effective clear communication repetitive effective clear communication um and I think the order in which we do it is also important make sure that we start off with our staff at least first so that when it goes out there to everybody it's not like they just found out at at the same time that the whole Community found out um it's it's important that we do a good job at that if we're going to be be successful in a semi- smooth transition cuz it's going to be a bumpy road no matter what I think we we have a lot of room for improvement I really want to express that um aside from that you know we've got a lot

070to get through I'll leave it there I could talk all night thank you all right our student board member Zuniga is not here tonight so we will move on to the school consolidation and transition update so I want to thank everyone for their patience as we put this living document together um we really wanted to honor the board by presenting it to them first we also after their decision had a very as you're all aware very intense 12 days with multiple things happening around the city and so the team has now come together and I'm going to ask Stacy are you are you able to share um or no if not I I will try it's just hard to speak and share at the same time yes the transition plan that's on the assembly and

071so as um they bring that up I wanted to share the various structures that we're creating and there's there even though it's maybe not seen But there is continuity in in what we're doing so our our base of operations or our home base of where all of the work is really happening is our empowered teams at the site level um we want to as much as possible honor the work that they're doing there and I'll let the team speak a little bit to kind and how how the work is being done um particularly being led by ed services and our um ed services team and so I just wanted to share that's where we want as much of the decisions to happen and I've I heard the the clarity of what that decision tree is

072and we'll include it in the next time we update it um the next level is the implementation team and that is is made up of all of the executive directors and directors across the district whether they are in Child Nutrition or if they're in um you know in maintenance and operations so it's all of the leaders of all of the Departments as well as all of the directors that are overseeing the ed services team they're coming together to make sure that we're on the same page of what's being done there's various ways we are tracking all of that data and then the team the design team that is made up of about seven members is one represent ative from each of those departments um is also helping us to kind of it's more of a

073like a steering committee designing what we're going to be putting out now that the plan has been shared with the board we get board input as we make changes forward we will be sending out weekly communicat as to what is being done and we'll start to get more specific as we have more solid information to share and so I will open up to the team to share what your teams are doing and then the board can ask and give us direction as we go forth I can go ahead and start with the Empower teams as I had mentioned before the entire um empowered teams have been formed at the elementary middle and high school levels um they're going to actually go into effect um when um they are the the need is in terms of

074the work that they're doing based on when they actually have to get started on their work and so even though the elementary teams have been established in the middle and high school teams have been established what you're seeing right now is actually the work being done immediately by those that are um um that would be the most affected most uh immediately which would be the 7 to 12 teams and so what you're seeing right now on the last couple of weeks uh you're seeing a meeting this last week with Santa Rosa Middle School and Santa Rosa High School right there on page three you've seen the work that's has been done in the last um few days key the goal with um being ensuring a smooth academic transition and the key actions are those Six

075Bullets there developed a communication regarding the 7 to 12 model alignment of the electives between the schools professional development to align academic initiatives coordination of athletic schedules working with the counselors to design academic transition um and supporting um both of the schools with the Empower teams um in general for the transition of 7 to 12 um now more um informally describing that kind of work um an example of that between um San Rosa Middle um and San Rosa high school they met for an entire day this week and really started to flesh out some of the questions that both of those teams had um the intent there for us is as uh Dr moral has stated to really defer most as many of of the decisions as as possible to the sites and respecting that

076um they are the ones that are affected and so anything that is um going to be affecting students and teachers in the classroom we really want to let them be the ones that uh flesh those out as much as possible of course um all the while understanding that certain items need to be negotiated and so they began to build out a spreadsheet of questions at the beginning of the day that they might have in concerns for that transition and really worked throughout the day um to um hammer out first some of those concerns and those questions um I think it's important to point out that um it was uh a really uh there were some really um nice um efforts made by both staff and some really um uh endearing um um efforts between the

077two um um to show that they were willing to work together um and an example of one of those decisions that was made locally was where they walked the campus together and determined where they wanted the um seventh and eighth graders to go to really have a real Middle School experience um when that decision was made they put it to a straw uh vote they checked in with cabinet and we said you were going to make that decision and we're going to respect that decision that you make at the school site they actually checked in with um the maintenance and operations to make sure that that was something that was going to work work and um Everybody gave the thumbs up and that's the kind of process that we would like to be able to

078replicate throughout this process deferring as many of those decisions as possible to the school sites and having these two sites work in collaboration um to determine what are the concerns they have what are the questions they have make a list of them start to hammer them out one by one um only checking in with us um as needed um and um moving forward in a spirit of collaboration and getting to know one another and um really trying to make the most out of this process for both sites um the next step is uh for uh the um Slater and Montgomery families to come together that's going to happen in about a week and a half um to replicate to the extent as possible it's going to be a little bit different because each Community is

079going to come together a little bit differently um but this is um basically the process that we would like to um replicate um all the while like I said deferring as many of those decisions as possible to the site as possible at the same time as making sure that they're able to separate whatever is negotiable so that we are able to um bring our bargaining um Partners to the table when they are um they are needed so Dr Castro since you brought up empowerment teams is that the teams that will hold space for teachers and staff to be part of this process or is that going to reside somewhere else that that that's exactly the the team okay I just I cannot say it enough how important it is to ensure teachers and staff are

080part of that process and the empowerment teams are actually empowered to be able to make decisions because they're the ones we expect to implement this work and I want them to be a part of that build so that we know it will actually be successful yeah and and I and I know that um it's for some people it's hard to believe like we had um they called us a a couple of times and said are we really the ones that are going to make this decision about where our students are going to be and we said yes so I was um we met with um a a team yesterday was it yesterday yes yesterday um and they you know one of them shared concern and said we've been in the past we have spent a

081lot of time in committees and making these decisions and thinking we're going to move in a certain way and then they're like and then the board changes their mind and does it another way and we've spent all of this hours invested in doing this this work and so I I mentioned I'm like I understand and so I just want to let the board know that we are trying to empower the empowered teams to make these decisions um as long it's in with fitting the criteria that we need as well as you know following the the guidance that the board has given in this process but as much as possible they are making the decisions they're checking with you know you know facilities and all of us and then we're saying yes go you go for

082it so just wanted the board to know that that there is some um concern from some staff that it might be overturned after they've put their heart and soul in you know and they've bought into an idea so the concern is out there I'm trying to reassure them but I wanted to share that with the board that we are really hoping to leave as much of the decision- making there with ultimately if there is a hiccup or there is a process that comes to cabinet and we collectively make a decision if I need to you know Loop in um president MCN I will do that but that's that's the goal because we saw it in action on Monday and it it went really really well yeah and and one more example um met with the

083um athletic directors from middle school um heard their concerns about what it's going to take to have the Middle School athletics um and I approved what the requests were um took it back to Cabinet just to get an additional approval then I heard from one of the uh directors said that the paper had put something out and they're like what is that have to do with the um the decision the cabinet made I'm like you're going to listen to us or you're going to listen to them and um uh put in an email today um is this true are we going to be able to do what you said and I said yes you're going to go with what we're saying you are going to be able to use your facilities at the middle school

084and if you need Transportation we're going to provide it for you and um and that's the way it's going to go so we're trying to do everything we can to be able to reestablish that um that trust and that um that that um belief that commitment that we have that any decisions that we can possibly give to the community and the people that are being affected that we're going to give to them and that's that just following up on that specific example because I received phone calls and text messages on it uh pretty immediately um I really appreciate how quickly you're able to resolve it and I know that there was a lot of work that went into figuring out the leasing of Vans and things around making it feasible um I'd encourage to make

085sure we're communicating with all of the um all the folks whether not thinking of it as middle school or high school because I know one aspect of just the Middle School athletic directors that were involved and the high school ones hadn't actually been fully in the loop when the parent Square came out so if we can make sure that we're recognizing it's one um operation we want to have that alignment not just in I appreciate the call out for alignment of electives and alignment of academics but also that we're doing the alignment of the Athletics absolutely I'm referring to how it affected the the Middle School site but yeah yeah yeah no um that that would do it for the any other updates from other departments um sped sure um our first priority was to

086identify classrooms uh because we had quite a number of of classrooms as you know that were at uh closed schools in particular uh five ESN classrooms that were housed at Bella and three rise classrooms that were housed at Brook Hill in addition um Slater has a couple of ESN classrooms and Santa Rosa Middle School has a SE classroom on on top of this um we are returning a number of students that had previously been served by sco and working very closely with sco over the last couple of months so we anticipate having to uh open additional classrooms because of those 30 to 35 students returning and I'm happy to say working with uh Dr bardelli and and Eric Odin we were able to find barely but we did we found classroom spaces for um all

087of our programs um there are significant number of factors that have to be looked at such as in many cases interior bathrooms and so forth but we were able to do that uh this week uh letters are going home to I will say most parents there are some uh students that we will have to wait till after an IEP meeting to determine where the most appropriate uh placement is and we are now at the point of walking some of the sites identifying um additional rooms OT rooms sensory rooms um Etc uh in addition working with Montgomery um and Santa Rosa High School I think we're fairly well set where the classrooms uh will be and we're having discussions on locating our additional ESN classrooms um from Slater uh at Montgomery uh and then finally this

088is I may segue over to Stacy here uh because um there's a change in the priorities for uh intradistrict transfers because there are many parents when they have a student who might be in a special program or a special ed program they want the sibling to go to the to the same school do you want to comment a little bit about that yeah all right so um much like uh all of the other departments we've been focusing our work um if uh Ed Services is looking at empowerment we're looking at Embrace and bringing uh communities together with health and healing and the um number one Focus for most of our families right now is the process of understanding what what's my school now and so uh almost 247 our team is responding to questions with

089families about um you know can you help me understand what my school is how do I navigate a transfer at this time of year and so one of the things that we did in um the as a Cabinet as an administrative team is that we did update our administrative regulations on prioritization of student intra District transfers and we did that because we know that many families are being impacted through this uh transition for closure during consolidation and we know that one of our highest priorities is ensuring that families can suffer the least disruption while we manage this transition so rather than a uh concurrently enrolled sibling being priority number um five it has now been moved to Priority number two so when we consider all transfers our highest priority has not changed it will be

090to ensure that students who are already at a school have the ability to continue um the second is ensuring that siblings can be together our third priority will be supporting those students who are directly impacted by closure and consolidation the fourth would be specialized programs the fifth are children of School site employees who would like to have their child at their own school and then the last uh priority is all other reasons of course um we must ensure that we are not overloading any campus so that we can protect that a student who moves in in July or August or September still has the ability to attend their home school um so we are leaving the window for transfer open until Saturday and then unlike our lovely families who will be enjoying a wonderful spring

091break I will be working with information and evaluation to evaluate all School sites and notify families by the end of spring break or by very early that following week of the status of their transfer applications because we want to be able to put one little piece of anxiety to rest for families and by allowing a student whose placement is directed by their IEP to have the comfort of knowing that the family can be together was a high value of ours we're doing some other things working with Community organizations to invite um brainstorming for uh warm and inviting and welcoming gestures um closure Ceremonies for those campuses that are moving on we're working with Community organizations like risis and um working with um School staff and Community organizations like Community matters and restorative resources just to

092try to deal with the ongoing impact of the difficult conversations we've been having and again with communication cannot be emphasized enough so a lot of the board members are asking about it and talking about it clear repetitive transparent communication as soon as it's readily available we have so many families that are concerned that we're going to a completely different model and then we see the layoff notices and that staff and resources may not be there for these opportunities so you guys are doing an amazing job you're doing a lot of really hard work in a very short time frame but let's make sure we're communicating um as often and frequently as possible clear and transparently well and and I'll steal his because he's not here at the deis uh James Hodgman our PI is working

093on a number of different information campaigns including the Embrace engage Empower enroll campaign where we will be talking on kbbf and wine country radio I think it's Wine Country radio nod to me thank you um to be able to get the information out there not only about um you know what does school look like but um we want you to come we're ready for you to be here and we're excited that you're here and to that um piece there I know James was made informed last night so he's priority on it but there are a lot of families that don't have social media and we may need some paper copy Flyers as well to ensure this information of what to do is getting out everywhere possible because we cannot communicate this enough it's going to

094take a while for this dust to settle and nobody's able to see through the dust yet so we have to communicate however possible yeah Dr Morales is assisting with our nine feeder districts we have the social media campaign we've got the radio campaign and we've also got the um just word of mouth that's getting around I've had four people call me in the last 24 hours saying I saw your flyer or I talked to a friend and I hear you're the person who has answers for me so it's getting out there not as fast as we would like but you know it's getting out trusty Jenkins um regarding the prioritization list and directly impacted by a school closure consolidation does that include um the Middle School families or even entering Middle School families who their

095school has gone from a 78 to a 712 do they have choice if they prefer to go to like rvms or comto for the 78 specifically um SP we have to always use the phrase um you know with space capacity availability and but we do have two Middle School models that are continuing for the 25 26 school year both rvms and Comstock for those families who may be interested in that and that's included in that level of the priority priority list yeah that's the consolidation families as opposed to the closure families trusty Caston and then trusty Medina uh three questions I might jump back a little bit on the last item as well uh I I see in here discussion about planning the transition for IEP students you talked about a lot about the classrooms

096can you talk a little bit about the transition plan for students with IEPs that are transitioning uh to another school without an classroom being moved okay so this just to be clear on this this is students who may be transitioning to another school but they're not in a classroom that's being moved correct it's not a sped classroom that they're moving with but it their their IEP needs a transition it might be reading or oh sure sure sure sure okay [Music] um as much as possible we're going through the process that we've gone through before the complication has been um identifying the schools that they that they would be going to with the boundary changes Etc that said as we speak um teachers are setting up transition IEPs as they have in the past and I

097want to add one more piece uh that has been consistent over several years we have a number of students coming in from sixth grade from our feeder districts uh our coordinator uh Kathy Weiser is meeting of last week this week next week with the special ed directors and coordinators of all those districts uh because we need to find spots for all those students and uh sometimes it's the case that our program aren't exactly the same as say from right or or or rosand U Etc um so uh at one level meeting with the special ed directors we determine if those students might need might uh for to have an offer fa might be in a program or um maybe just in a resource placement or a co- teing placement and and and so forth so

098again I think we're a little behind because of the school closure than we have been in past years but it is going forward as as it has in the past and know you and Dr Castro have been doing more collaboration on this next question so I'm not sure who's right to ask it but the same question but for students with disabilities with 504 plans what's the transition plan the warand off making sure that their accommodations can be accommodated at their new classroom in school okay I can speak a a little bit to that because I've been um involved with a a couple of folks in Dr Castro's department and information in evaluation um and one of the issues that we've had in the past is identifying students who have 5 Force because there is not

099a computerized system as there is with IEPs where um it's identified through wi say Etc and it's not identified through through calpads that the sorry if I'm getting too technical the student has a 504 PL uh plan so uh a couple of pieces to this um one we are reaching out and then information in evaluation to the equivalent folks in our feeder districts to um get lists of students who have existing 504 plans at the feeder districts and then those will be uploaded into into areas with respect to um students coming from districts that are not our feeder districts uh that's going to depend on literally a paper review uh when the the Keem Files come in and parents will be asked if they have a five of four as well but it's going to

100need a paper review to do that in addition to that when students with 504 plans are coming in the first piece of it will be for the school to contact the parent determine if any significant changes need to be made in the 504 plan because again as you move to a new site you may need a different sorry I'm tagging with my hands uh you may need a uh 504 plan that more closely aligns with uh the new school and then if NE meetings need to be held then they would hold meetings at the beginning of the year um and if they don't uh then they would do a more simple Amendment to the 504 plan to update the school and uh hold meetings on the regular cycle my understanding is that we house our

101504s so if a school's closing the 504 plans that currently exist would be in Aries already uh yes they are uploaded to Aries so very specifically when more about that but when we're thinking about this a lot of 504s will have things like access to a quiet room in order to take tests um things that require certain space considerations and so is that a part of the transition and consideration for a student placement yeah I mean absolutely uh in in my special ed World we're not quite there yet but we need to identify all the spaces we are going to need and I think it's a point well taken that this is not exclusive to students with IEPs um and typically that those spaces are for accommodations that are uh equally as prevalent in 504

102plans as iep's access to a quiet space separate room for testing and and and so forth so that needs to be part of the conversation so I appreciate you bringing that up thank you and I'd love to see it actually specifically referenced in one one of one of your sections in the plan for the 504 transitions I I think that's that's a good point we can make that happen Okay acknowledged yep yeah thank you and then my last question is um go back to the psych and all the work you're talking about I we're going through a lot of Staff transitions as well and so I don't want us to promise more than we're going to achieve and so I just want to know that everything that we're saying in this transition plan is something

103that we're confident the school sites the Empower committees actually have the capacity uh to carry out and um I want us to dream big but this is a place where I want to make sure we're promising what we're going to deliver so is this is this all within our capacity of our empowered teams and and the staff that we we have working on it what in particular for example um just the review of our 504 plan and our structure is something that we began at the beginning of this year so like the paper review and the process we need we've been working on that in general so I'm glad you're bringing it up we have to keep working on that yeah no no and I I know you've been doing a lot of work on

104it so I know adding that one is great um I'm specifically meaning all the bullet points referenced under section two and three uh on this transition plan so key actions and what's happening next two weeks so the the very specific deliverables that we are committing to as far as alignments and Logistics um that that's what I'm asking if these bullet points are resourced yes yes we are working to make this a reality absolutely yes thank you um we were talking about communication earlier I just wanted to again say the family engagement facilitators are good at making phone calls I think contacting parents via phone whenever they can because a lot of them don't use social media as was mentioned earlier um don't have that access phone calls has been an effective way to communicate with

105them um I did have a question as to um particularly at Santa Rosa high and Montgomery High how are things looking in terms of capacity we talked about not wanting the schools to be so packed um but the numbers that I saw were concerning initially so as the transition moves forward how's that looking so again that will depend on that's where we'll have to be very careful with the number of of Entry inra District transfers and so once they determine how many are requesting to transfer in versus how many are requesting to transfer out that will be something that we can update you on at our next meeting as far as exactly where that capacity is um definitely accepting or taking making room for additional ESN classrooms affects what what we can do where on

106a School site so those are the things that that we've been working at C working on Cross departmentally um to make sure that we can prioritize in that order and make sure that we have enough space for Resident families coming in because we know that we'll have feeder students coming in as well what is the buffer like number that you're hoping to have is it an actual number or percentage um we have an annual resolution that says that we stop accepting transer ERS when a school is at 90% capacity and so when we take a look at and that's kind of a little bit of a floating number between the uh staff ratios you know one teacher can have you know 33 students in a classroom so five student five teachers can have you know

107165 that kind of thing um and uh the actual facility itself so it's a bit of a floating number and that's why no one Department looks at it individually information and evaluation and Facilities play a big role in determining what a particular school's capacity will be and then we multiply by 0.9 and that's where we will stop at the transfers so given that the deadline is the 15th at the meeting at the 26th we should have an answer yes thank you Esty delator and then trusty C Kirby I also want to bring to the Forefront ensure that we see a lot of different teams and committees um during this school consolidation and transition plan and it's I'm understanding that some of those teams will be on a different timeline San middle and San High School

108had an opportunity to meet Montgomery and Slater um will be happening later can we ensure there is a clear line of communication amongst those teams and that um you know we're the vital structural discussions and decisions are not being asked to be duplicated um or reworked if something has been decided that we know is going to work it may be able to work for both sides just really important that these teams have the ability to communicate with each other however that needs to look um and that there are check-ins and a clear transparent line of communication amongst them and that information can be shared with the other consolidation and transition teams so we're we're on a timeline we're on a very short timeline and I don't want people to have to put extra work in

109that's not needed if decisions are already been made so there are um there's overlapping people on those committees to make sure that we have that through line of communication so for instance um there was discussion that director Odin is actually working in those Empower teams when they're meeting to look at facilities we have our you know it's cross- departmental and even within the school itself so we're making sure that we have CNS our custodial and our maintenance and you know our our certificated staff everybody is working together and then we have lines both vertically and horizontally for communication back and let's use that sanar high Sanara middle meeting as an example to make sure that worked appropriately and if not make adjustments as necessary to ensure everybody feels like they're getting the information needed and

110it's understood and we can keep moving forward like let's let's not make any missteps on that if we can and one of the things we're also going to going to be doing is um with the idea from um president how and SRTA we are having a note taker at each of the Empower teams take notes and we're building a page where all those notes and presentations will live that will make it available to everybody so that everybody could see what's happening in the meetings even though they don't attend so that is coming as well um in the next week we're I think we're all working next week so it's something that we're going to make sure that it goes out with next week's update um the transfer prioritization just want to make sure that's easily

111found on our website everybody can go and it's easy to spot the only time it's difficult is when people don't just look on the main page we wanted to make it super obvious so we put it on the landing page and uh occasionally families are saying I clicked and I clicked and I clicked and couldn't find it and I said go to the front page and it's it's right in the middle of the page and it's in English it's in Spanish and it's right next to how do I register my child which has embedded in it how do I find my school so we we wanted to make it glaringly big the only thing we have not created yet is a popup but that's just because there's only 12 hours in the day okay thanks

112I'm glad to know that that's hopefully easy to find um you mentioned the wine country radio so I just want does that include all of their platforms I know they've got two latino stations and hopefully that uh we're getting that word out to the uh does this thing work hey I'm on all right great hey it's really cool to be down on this table um so why Wine Country radio that's going to start this Friday we're going to start running ads on them they have like six different stations we're going to be on four of them two of their English stations and two Spanish stations uh so we're going to be reaching hopefully a lot of people uh through that marketing campaign okay perfect thank you anything else for me that that was it for

113that part um lastly the I know there been a huge concern obviously with this consolidation about the Bell schedules obviously we can't all eat they can all eat and at the cafeteria at the same time so are we looking at standardizing that across all of them or each site uh coming up with their own plan what what are they how's that working out so far so in our in the um SRTA contract the collective bargaining agreement it's not something that we get to decide at a district level there there's collaboration and each site does create their own and then there's concurrence and so there are some things that we are working on with that providing some information we already if we if we move to the business one um you know all of the support

114operational services are related to the how we get things done you know all the all the things that that happen on campus to to make it work um and one of those things is that we started a meeting actually with um in collaboration with Educational Services and West County transportation to talk about okay from a transportation side of it what works and and what are some hiccups or some issues that we could run into and so we've shared that information um through our negotiations with SRTA as we talk about you know the impacts of school closure and consolidation there's we have those discussions in there but those discussions also need to happen at the school site and so we're working through right now exactly how they get to that schedule and um so that's Again

115part of that negotiations piece as far as how they get there to to that but definitely something that we want to be that we're very cognizant of and that there are lots of conversations okay thanks follow up to the bell schedule question it's going to be across the board for 78 though to be on the same schedule correct so we're not like if we're missing we're not going to just mess with 78 and the 712s to just want to make sure the 78 schedule for seventh and eth graders in our district not just the 78 schools are going to have the same schedule they do not already that's but they're similar like the same amount of time not I know like bus schedules they have to be staggered and stuff but we're not going to

116just automatically instructional minutes yes thank you that information is in our bargaining agreements okay great are there more departments to present just real quick just let you know that we are in the process of negotiating with SRTA we met um yesterday and um we are working on anou and one of the things that I want to mention and I don't want to take too much time is just to know that we are working on um bargaining the movement of the teacher from the Middle School site to the secondary site as a group should they choose we have a mechanism for teachers who choose not to move with the rest of the school site but we wanted to make sure that the students in the seventh and eth grade that were moving to those secondary schools

117saw familiar faces saw familiar teachers that those teachers still had their colleagues with them and that sense of family even though they're moving to a different site um we we need to negotiate that through anou because that's not how the collective bargaining agreement is written any other board questions trusty C just I clarify that one so that is our aspiration and we're asking SRTA to work with us but they may have reasons or concerns around that and we need to we don't want people leaving here saying that's how it's going to be we um came to a conceptual agreement and we they wrote theou for us and I thank them very much for doing that because that is um really time consuming um so they brought the draft and we are now negotiating little details

118of the draft but um the teachers being able to move as a group is not one of the details where we are not in agreement excellent thank you and for business services again that covers um facilities operations Finance uh nutrition services technology purchasing Warehouse duplicating information and evaluation so essentially anything aside from the people is um when we're looking at support services and so really it's as we're doing this we're trying to make sure that we are ensuring Financial stability and proper resource allocation as we as we go through this so looking at you know closure and consolidation those moves what should be paid for with bond funds as part of the facility's master planning and shifting to the new site and what needs to be paid for out of regular general fund um so

119looking at those things with facilities maintenance and operations again we've talked really about what we've started working on there fiscal it's again about making sure that we're paying attention to the details when we're looking at consolidating sites and and merging campuses there are funding applications based on some on grants or different allocations that those are things that we have to be really cognizant of which um it matters if we keep a CDS code open for a year which is basically the identifier code with the state so those are are some of the things we're working on there um if we want to scroll a little bit so I can get our Stacy could you scroll please thank you um you know one of the things that we were talking about is um Child Nutrition Services

120as far as what that looks like in the serving lines and 7th and eth versus you know 9 through 12 um with technology you know we were talking today our we were very appreciative ed services join several members from Educational Services joined our business department team meeting so we could talk about the logistics of what does moving curriculum look like what does you know all of these little pieces that the little things really matter like what we've heard over and over from our teachers who went through moves before like this were don't make us beg for boxes let us be able you know make sure we have enough dump space and timing and so those those are the things that that we're looking at with how do we collect the Chromebooks and work with our

121you know imts and and Technology around that um you've heard a lot about um information and evaluation and what they've been doing with the school locator please and and working on that purchasing so all of the arrangements for um movers and boxes and and dumpsters all of that happens with our purchasing and Warehouse department and then the things that were you know over the next couple of weeks we're updating those items and I appreciate very much um Ed Burke because he has um he's not as impacted by as many of the day-to-day issues behind this he's actually our representative on the design team from business services so he's he has the um bandwidth to be able to collect all of that information and be the go between um with us to make sure that we're

122all working in that same direction so really appreciative of that and just um cross the team thank you Cas one really quick question you said the facilities master plan connected to reallocation of the bond funds from the closed ones will we see that and I assume that there is going to be an urgent need for bond funds for this year's movements versus our need to reallocate the full master plan are we going to what's the expectation for that you will start seeing contract conts on the bond contract list um related to movement you know Moving services and and things like that as we as those start coming forward so we will be getting you an update of here's what we expect as part of this um when we look at the facilities master plan updates

123those will really some of those are going to be urgent based on space and and some of the movements that are projected for next year and the following year but then there's longer term plans that need to really have that that Community input at each of the sites um you know for okay now that we've moved or we are moving our middle schools onto our high school campuses there's obviously those funds don't need to be then put back into the middle school that needs to be shifted to another site and so that those are the things that we would be looking at with this and for the context of the ones we'll see before that community outreach is done and we're in the full um Recreation of the master plan none of those funds that

124we'd be seeing would impact planned projects and the facilities master plan for existing for for sites that are remaining no it wouldn't be taking away funds from that it's really it would be kind of rolled into what that overall cost is allocated to that site because no one's when we're making those approvals it's not a it's not going to necessarily take a project away from a site that is remaining correct thank you all right I have one blue card on this item Caitlyn Casey you will have three minutes hello superintendent Morales and members of the board I'm here tonight as a school-based mental health clinician and also a parent of two current steel Lane Elementary students who are also prospective Hidden Valley elementary students as our boundaries have been redrawn for this coming year I'm

125commenting because the last of attention and concern for elementary students is distressing to me to other parents to the students and to many Educators I've spoken with about the upcoming changes many of us were dismayed to hear that such minimal discussion around the closing of three elementary schools it seems clear in this transition plan that the primary concern of the board and administration is for the middle and high school students I want to remind us all that Elementary School students are forming their identities as Learners and their impressions of school that will stay with them through their school experience and into adulthood our youngest Learners will soon be our next middle and high school students and their experiences in elementary school shape the students they will become if they learn early on that they are

126unimportant and can be moved or relocated without support they will take that impression with them to high school and be less invested less trusting and less engaged as older students all of our elementary students have experienced so much disruption in their lives due to the pandemic with all of the disruptions and crises school has also become an unstable environment for many students this year alone my two children started at steel Lane with no principal and have since had several substitutes and temporary principles until finally Mr jablonsky was moved over from bellaa my older daughter has had three teachers this year alone in her third grade class I can see both of them losing faith that school is a safe and dependable place that they can count on I know too well from my professional experience

127and training that losing this trust in school can have extremely detrimental effects on student well-being and behavior Elementary School students need support for the transitions including events that facilitate visits to New School sites with new teachers social stories and discussions with counseling support in the classrooms this year families need clear communication and support for these changes as well please consider our elementary school students with the same level of attention and concern that the middle and high school students are receiving thank you thank you and thank you to the team for your presentation anything to add yeah I if if I can just um actually all of the items with support on their under Business Services that's AC that is across the board that is not only a applicable to 7 through 12 um I just

128want to make sure that that the board understands that and I'm sorry I didn't share that um leading leading up to it I think that's that is incredibly important that it's across the board supporting all schools and students same for the Elementary in terms of IT services it's just it's not such a structural shift but we actually can provide documentation and we actually have our executive director um here and we can provide an update next time if necessary as well that would be great for next time thank you absolutely all right we will move on to public comment on non-agenda items um you'll have three minutes each I'll call three names at a time so when you hear your name you can head on up to one of our two podiums first is Laura Martinez

129followed by concepion Dominguez followed by Adrien harez is Laura Martinez here how about concepion Dominguez Adrien harez all right so we'll start with Mr harez followed by Leah Keen followed by Leticia contas up there oh yeah for my name is conception I'm here to tell you I'm very disappointed because you weren't able to close the school ELC Allen like you wanted to and now you got rid of the principal Mr ala without notification to him the parents of the families without even letting them know what was happening in the school and you're in fact violating their rights it seems like it's a big plot to seems like a plot to just put the police back in the school and we are demanding that you to let him return to his work because it's an injustice

130what you're doing to the students and I hope that you understand the situation and the concerns that are the greatest for the families involved and in particular who's going to be there when our children and our young people graduate thank you next is Adrien followed by Leah Keen followed by Laticia contas mag imp in IND Gra good evening president Mony director Morales members of the board and also the families and the community my name is Adrien Wades I'm the president of the committee of deac uh this evening I'm presenting to you a few points of great importance for our parents first within the district there is a master plan for our students that are Learners of English we already know that you're not really implementing completely uh this plan for a variety of reasons as

131parents we have students that are learning English and we would like some accountability in in regards to this plan and also to implement in the district uh this plan and not cut positions in programs that will in the future affect our students on the other hand provide training tools uh personal uh refinement in regards to the teaching that's required to provide programs that really help specifically students based on their level of academic understanding and accomplishments the second point we know that we're in a economic crisis a budget crisis and we would like to know how to work as a team with you all to minimize or minimize the impact to the greatest degree possible for the district but in particular our students that are learning English and students that are benefiting from individualized education programs

132these two groups of students have always been this valued and the resources that were provided as far as help we hope that our ideas in the meetings that we have for elcap would have an positive impact we invite you to attend our meetings so that you personally can feel the concerns of the parents and the family that are involved with this education system by means of a variety of committees thank you Mr next is Leah Keen followed by Laticia contas followed by Emma Thompson is Leah here right we'll go on to letia contas letia contas pres on the eve of mailing out the notices pink slips I ask you District who is going to tell the children and the students who is going to be there for the staff and the teachers I ask you

133or will you or will they all have to fend for themselves as we have seen in the past that this is the practice I am grounded I was born and raised in Sonoma County as a resident of Southwest Santa Rosa for over 20 years I ask you District are you going to act or once again are you not prepared there are a lot of people that are not grounded and why because the future is unknown to them all the workers from the school's closures and let's not forget the most important group The Children the students and their families so District I ask you again will you be there when they tell the children and their families we just witnessed a delay of the district to act when they pulled a principal and so Bor now

134I ask you will you be the one to step over the boundaries get out of your comfort zone and challenge yourself this is your opportunity to begin the healing process and take a con and make a connection to the community you swore to serve as I ask you again will you be the one to step up to the plate thank you for your time thank you next is Emma Thompson followed by S am followed by Liliana Santiago thank you I'd like to make sure I have everybody from the district cabinet and the board's attention before I begin thank you we are pulling up the anchor we are letting down the sales we are plugging in our navigation we are fueled and ready to go we are a ship without a captain how do you expect

135us to make these expedition of change and greatness for our students when you can't provide us with a study Captain a crew can only do so much a crew who is fighting for our school family a crew who is fighting for our students a crew who is passionate and a crew who is tired cabinet and board we are once again begging you to help us help our students help our community help our district stop making last minute changes start thinking through the actions and the lack of actions you take it is starting to get very difficult to be a good role model for my students and to help them practice and preach you get more flies with honey than vinegar when I have tried being kind when my school has has tried being kind and

136yet here we are again struggling we are exhausted and soon there will be places even a great C Captain cannot get us if there is no crew left thank you thank you next is so am followed by Liliana Santiago followed by Sarah Williams good evening my name is SAA I come here today as a proud and love night of Elsie Allen High School and an extremely concerned Community member for years the stated before Els Allen has faced scrutiny inequality inequity and hardships from both santaa City School's district and surrounding communities I'm sure there's still some still in Rage and possibly hoping for the downfall of Elson high school and the closure the district often States school closures were to save money yet the other schools up for questions have allocated more expenses than we have

137and yet continue to fund expensive programs and have new buildings being constructed the district continues to bat an eye on any instances happening on other campuses other than ELC Allen Santa Rosa High School Montgomery High School and Maria Coro all had incidents but have never made headlines like us I've heard of gang fights stabbings possible gun threats lockdowns drugs and assault at these other campuses but where were the coverage on these it really feels to see seems like someone is trying to control The Narrative of the students and environment at Elan High School is Santa Rosa city schools district trying to phase out Elsy Allen Mr Gabriel Aliva was fired abruptly and we were told an investigation was set in place for a while not too sure if this was premeditated since some board members

138wented Els into close previously whether this is true or not firing our principle in such a difficult time for the students staff and families is a direct attack to our community I question where was the risk management in this decision where was this investigation occurring even though Elsie Allen staff and parents were not aware of where was the humanity and consciousness of the harm you will be all putting on the students you gave Elie Allen a year for Progress Improvement yet set us up with a plethora of obstacles to to prevent us from doing so we need transparency honesty and the best interest from the district towards eluna high school I will always advocate for the safety well-being and education of our youth but it is very now apparent that the the district and some

139surrounding community members have never felt the same I am confused I am disappointed and I am tired like the many of us thank you thank you next is Liliana Santiago followed by Sarah Williams followed by Barbara Hernandez bues Elementary School brill good evening president mcnali director Morales members of the board and me members of the committee of the community excuse me I'm in front of you you tonight to represent deac we're asking you in this time of uncertainty to give us a little bit of confidence confidence that our students that are learning English will be valued taken into account respected and that their rights will be protected just like every other student we understand the challenges that come economically that we're encountering so we're asking to work together unified in one objective for the good

140and well-being of the progress of our little ones by means of revisions Corrections implementing strategies and transparency of the plan of the lcap this local uh lcap we would be failing our students um of yeah ya yaos we already failed our students of Brook Hill and baa um no fight but we haven't failed um we haven't failed uh yet uh those that are learning English I would just say please don't let don't fail now our English Learners students thank you thank you next is Sarah Williams followed by Barbara Hernandez followed by Pam Kowski to yeah okay is Barbara Hernandez Gabriel laen VTO director gracias my name is Barbara I'm a mother of two children from elsc Allen I come here to make my voice heard and to ask for concrete answers and not lies in

141regards to the principal Gabrielle alvara I don't want you to ignore us just because we're Latinos Or Hispanic and I don't want to be treated anymore like dumb people I would like you to make a further investigation of everything good that he had worked on to create and help the school of LSC Allen because right now what I see is a lack of understanding I would ask you the favor do your work well we want the director Gabrielle ARA to come back thank you thank you is Sarah Williams here yeah I got skipped I'm here though go ahead Sarah hi I'm Sarah Williams Slater Middle School teacher um there's a couple things I wanted to talk about tonight um I also have a student here tonight that's waiting very patiently to talk about the board

142res resolution about the Arts and speak about their experience um but I wanted to talk about some very important budget decisions that you guys have to make as we consolidate schools so as an arts teacher I've been going to meetings for years preparing for prop 28 funds um and music teachers in the district have spent like years going to meetings about this because we know how important it is to revitalize our Arts programs and expand our current Arts programs um if we keep our middle school budget codes in existence we'd be able to continue using thousands of dollars of funds for existing prop 28 sections that will go away if we get rid of our school codes um it is student based the funds that we get so when we consolidate we will get more

143money at Montgomery like if Slater and Montgomery combined however the classes that are currently being run with prop 28 money that are supposed to be funded indefinitely by the state um each year we get new funds and they they continue funding these sections that are separate from the funds allocated each year if we lose our school code they told me you lose all those classes so all of the stuff we have built up those classes go away I talk to the California Department of Education in charge of prop 28 and they I have stuff I can send you guys if you um would like some more details on this um and I feel like that would be a huge loss to lose these Arts programs that we have built the past couple years um I

144also would like to request that you protect our existing Visual and Performing Arts program CT other electives Athletics and any other special programs that we have at our sites I keep hearing ideas about adding new things when we consolidate cons consolidate talking about like we can do all these cool things if we're on the high school campus but I don't hear enough people talking about protecting the programs that we already have built I'm begging you for the sake of all of our students to make concrete actions towards protecting the programs that draw students to our schools the reason that students some some students only show up to school to go to music class to go to culinary to go to shop my dad went through Slater in Montgomery and he is a contractor now and

145he said the only reason that he showed up to high school was to go to his shop classes with Mr desider so these programs that we have they change lives they change Futures if we do not protect these programs it destroys if we take away the middle school programs the high school programs die they are all connected we feed into each other if we don't protect these we are losing the things that make all of our schools important thank you thank you and next is Pam Kowski good evening my name is Pam Kowski and I am a PE teacher at Brook Hill and baella elementary schools I wanted to be here tonight so you could see a face of an employee who works at both sites that are closing after this school year I have

146some questions um on a couple points my first point did any of you before making such a big decision of closing elementary schools see our schools in action with students and teachers on site did any of you look to see what the buildings were like what the parking situation was like what the campuses look like correct me if I'm wrong but I do not recall seeing any of you I felt as if you were so invested and not closing high schools that you forgot about us at the elementary level it was a done decision for all of you when it came time to vote on what schools to close that is at least how it feels as an employee at both of these Elementary sites that are closing now my second Point have any of

147you felt a tug in your heartstrings to reach out to any of us that are at the schools that are closing any of the teachers staff students families I thought for sure some of you including you Dr Morales would have come to our sites to show some compassion some empathy some respect to us whose lives are about to drastically change this has been an emotional roller coaster I go to one site it's sadness disheartening I go to another site it's sadness disheartening I been waiting since the decision was made back on February 19 to see at least one of you on my school sites but that doesn't happened I know Mr deor you said you came to our sites but I don't know if you acknowledged or checked in with any of us teachers could

148all of you at least have sent an email acknowledging that you're thinking of us to say I'm disappointed hurt and feel a lack of respect after dedicating so much of my energy my love my heart into this District the last 11 years is an understatement but I'm a pretty positive optimistic person so my thought is it's never too late to show that you care because we all are waiting thank you thank you are there any other blue cards all right that concludes public comment um we will now move to our discussion and action items or board do we need a break no all right so we'll start with our resolution recognizing March as Arts Education Month thank you superintendent Dr Morales members of the I'm sorry president MCN members of the board student staff and

149Community sen rosa city schools tonight the board will consider approval of resolution 2024 25-48 declaring Mars March as Arts Education Month in Santa Rosa city schools go ahead and turn over to executive director of Elementary Educational Services Lisa Haley good evening president M Dr Morales and board members I first want to acknowledge River for being here since six o'clock and it's now 8:30 which it's past my bedtime so I can't imagine if it's past hers theirs sorry um and so I first would like you to hear what it's like for vappa for them and I want to acknowledge actually their mother um Dana Alexander who is in a fabulous um choir teacher does Honor Choir in I think for the state too all state um at Montgomery High School and Sarah Williams who has led

150river through um many things at Slater hello uh my name is River I am an eighth grader at Slater and throughout my time at Slater I have been very active in the music and Performing Arts programs at school I play clarinet saxophone violin Viola and I also am a singer and at Slater we have the only full-time middle school music program in the entire district with five unique class offerings students are able to choose from beginning band Advanced band Orchestra choir and guitar we also have a jazz band club as well we are the only Middle School that offers this many choices and all students on campus can find a place in music at Slater no matter what instrument they play or what level they are coming in as we are the only middle school

151with a choir not only in the Santa Rosa city schools district but in the entire city of Santa Rosa we get to perform with Montgomery High school's choirs and it is really fun to work with the older students and build connections with our future choir friends I have been a part of the advanced band jazz band Orchestra and choir at my time at Slater I've had Miss Williams for five years from fourth grade through the eth grade I started my instrument on zoom and Miss Williams made it fun and learnable even though the circumstances from the pandemic were certainly not ideal in elementary school I found lots of friends in band and most of them continued on with me to Slater at Slater I have seen the music program go from only one period of

152band as the total music program to last year when the Bandon Orchestra were sharing a class time to finally this year when each group has its own period and throughout that time we have added quoir and guitar programs as well without Miss Williams the music program would not have been able to expand this much and it would not be as fun she has put a lot of effort into this program and I hope that the middle school music program will continue at Montgomery and music classes I have found a place to be able to expand my musical knowledge beyond what I had before going into Middle School not every student has opportunities or time for private lessons or outside of school groups so it is really important for students to have access to learn an

153instrument or how to sing at school without having to pay a lot of money or spend time outside of school when they should be doing homework I have made a ton of friends in the music program and could not have asked for a better Middle School experience than what I got at Slater the band room has always a place I knew I could go for a safe environment and to have a good time with friends band and Orchestra are my passion and the skills I've learned from Miss Williams have helped me to Branch out into more advanced groups and lessons outside of school when I was able to do that the community is very supportive kind and unbiased which is something that I really needed to know it has been confirmed it has been comforting

154to know that there are other nice people in the Performing Arts and it has gotten me through really hard times in my life I am looking forward to being a part of the Performing Art program at Montgomery next year thank you thank you River so I'm going to do a little more bragging so in Visual and Performing Arts AKA vapa uh we have dance music theater media Visual Arts a few highlights we offer over 410 sections of vapor program 7th through 12th grade serving 5,815 students through 12 all first through sixth grade students at elementary receive music at the elementary level they've had holiday performances and sing alongs incorporating music into assemblies they use technology to write their own songs they have a blitz program which gives fourth fourth grade through sixth grade which gives

155opportunities to try various instruments to learn how to read music and sing it builds to carry forward into the middle schools and high schools they have um dance showcases instrumental Showcase in April students from elementary sites come together for honors band at high school the theaters program many of the theaters prog theater arts program attended lanaa theater Festival they won several top Awards including Spirit of lanaa award which was awarded to Art quest in January we were privileged to have on our staff development day Maria Cero's jazz band and Elsie Allen's mariachi band on on March 8th Santa Rosa High School uh Sy symphonic band went to Carnegie Hall that's pretty impressive and the rose parades coming up we have over five schools that will be marching along our vocal Mo our vocal music teachers

156have brought back the bar clay Memorial concert with students from every High School vocal music programs being represented it continues on an on gring part we continue an ongrowing partnership with Luther Burbank Center for Arts providing staff developments which also includes people from all over Sonoma County to come to it so with that I am recommending that Santa Rosa School Board declare March March as Arts Education Month through a well-planned instruction students develop creativity they're able to use arts for self-expression and reflection they develop different ways of thinking questioning and expression that carry over to and utilized in their core content areas it has been recognized as a part of a quality education by higher education institutions through this resolution the importance of Arts education is celebrated and valued and benefit and the benefits it

157brings to our institution Santa Rosa city school providing students a well-rounded education board any questions youor forever thank you so much for your presentation it was beautiful I love your Decor this evening you look amazing lots of hard work into all those pieces um thank you for bringing this resolution to the board thank you for the opportunity to discuss it um as a parent whose art has saved three of my children's lives and has been an impact from day one I cannot say how heartbreaking it is to also be having this discussion of having to lose opportunities to have all these amazing programs that you just listed and possibly not have some of these teachers that have these opportunities so we cannot celebrate this without also mourning some of the loss that we were looking

158ahead at and I want that to be heard that you are seen you are respected you are loved and I wish there were opportunities to not have to let any of that go so thank you for the resolution and my main pieces that just just wish we didn't have to lose any of it trusty Jenkins thank you so whoops there we go thank you so much for being here um and thank you Miss Williams as well I do want to just make sure that yes we are celebrating this I do want to make sure someone is looking into the prop 28 and school codes situation um because be the concerns are echoed as far as um needing these services in our schools in all of them and so if combining schools and school codes is

159going to be an issue it just needs to be looked into because we want to keep as much as we can um I was at the the Springs showcase at Montgomery and I've been to a lot of the Slater things and their the programs are just amazing and so keep up the good work and thank you guys for this resolution trusty Medina thank you um River thank you for your presentation all your bracelets make me wish I was wearing one of my Swifty bracelets but um I I did want to um also add that I love the Arts to me the Arts is a great opportunity for students to express themselves creatively to be someone they're not um some shy students could then be a whole new character through theater um I've seen it a

160lot and it's it's very valuable educationally and I think also from mental health um when I was at the cafesito last last uh Thursday um students from from there were heading out to Luther bear Bank to field trip to um I forget I think it was a dance a dance show or something I think we need to have those opportunities for our students um I did also want to add that um ccla and band have been invited to perform at Disneyland and they're still trying to raise money for that trip um I was excited also to learn that um well first of off I love theater I got to watch uh the 25th Annual putam Spelling be at the JC this weekend um which is an awesome play and uh um I'm hoping to tomorrow

161I'll check out the always running at L Island at 3:45 or Friday at 700 p.m. um that that's by Lis Rodriguez who was a book that I really connected with when I was a student here um back in 8th grade at Cook um that this District almost banned from curriculum um but it's good to see that students are connecting with that story stories that I've been able to connect with and these are stories and and plays that they could relate to um and so the Arts are incredibly important and I think that recognizing that and March's Arts Education Month is something that we need to continue to do and continue to do whatever we can not only as a district but with partner organizations to provide these opportunities for our students Ry Casten so thank

162you River I greatly appreciate your enthusiasm presence here and this resolution um I think often we think of art as something that is extra or leisurely and it's not um I myself followed art into college and would not have come back to school after having not graduated from high school if it hadn't been for the Arts and through that it led me to having a career that has nothing to do with the Arts that I studied but the Arts are what kept me going so I greatly appreciate the resolution and River thank you for being here great um do we have any public comment cards on this item okay I just wanted to make one comment one of the reasons Miss jenin Jenkins that we actually were strategically looking at the CDs codes and keeping

163them open was for um programs like this we're sensitive to that and we um look very carefully at different grants and um we understand that certain grants are tied to CDs codes and so we have people looking at things like that we know that if we close a CDS code certain grants go away with them so we have to strategically keep certain CDs codes so that that grants don't evaporate with them and then we use that year to see how we can use the grants um criteria and obligations to um and I can get into more specifics um behind the scenes but supplant and the supplement and supplant use their own rules to be able to continue and extend those programs through our um reorganization great well seeing no public comment cards this comes back

164to the board for a motion motion to approve the action resolution regard recognizing March as Arts Education Month second that was motioned by director delor and seconded by director Medina roll call vote please trusty D theor hi trusty Medina hi trusty Casten hi trusty Kirby hi trusty Jenkins hi trusty manieri hi and president mcnali is absent thank you thank you so much next we'll move on to next we'll move on to our resolution celebrating March as women's history month and presenting this item are associate superintendent Lisa August assistant superintendent Vicky zans and executive director Stacy desider thank you uh superintendent um Dr Morales vice president Annie AR so I took me a second here and re reorient myself um members of our board and srcs Community excuse me it's our pleasure um to and our

165honor to um bring this resolution for forward to you this evening um I will share that Dr luzelena Perez our executive director of second of um sorry secondary schools actually had um prepared some information but she was not able to be here uh related to what is going on in our schools related to women's history month so I'm just going to share a few of the things um that she uh excuse me that she um wanted us to to bring forward so a few examples of how it's uh specifically addressed at our middle and high schools at Slater the 8th grade US history class does a three-week unit on women's history they teach the class thematically and this is one of the themes they include as many famous women as possible when there is enough

166researchable information as choices for Renaissance people reports Elsie Allen High School provides a fairly extensive series of lessons about the changing role of women in the United States in the 1920s suffrage Flappers changing social roles economic changes for women the M the uh Maria CIO High School apus History unit focusing on the 20s depression and the entry into World War II coincides with women's history month and they focus on how women contributed to each transformed American society and established political and economic independence um they wanted to share she wanted to share that uh the courses that the department chairs um reported about focus on incorporating as many diverse diverse voices as they can into all of their units and when there is limited content on a specific group the class has a discussion about why

167those voices are missing so I think that's one thing that's really important about what's going on in our schools specifically with women's history month and the voices that are missing from the from those books Stacy do you want to move on to the next piece thank you um therefore we would like to ask that you uh approve the resolution recognizing March 2025 as National Women's History Month whereas women's History Month began as a local celebration in Santa Rosa California by the educational task force of somoma County Commission on the status of women which implemented a women's history week celebration starting in 1978 whereas the Consortium of women's groups and historians led by the national women's history project now the national women's history Alliance lobbied in 1980 for National recognition and whereas in 1980 President Jimmy

168Carter issued the first presidential Proclamation declaring the week of March 8th 1980 as National Women's history week and whereas in 1987 the United States Congress passed a resolution annually to Proclaim March as women's uh History Month in order to recognize the many crucial contributions and and whereas women of every race class ethnic background have made historic and significant contributions to the growth and strength of our nation and state in countless and recorded I'm sorry countless recorded and unrecorded way whereas women have played and continue to play critical economic cultural and social roles in every sphere of the life of the nation of our state in the nation and our state by constituting a significant portion of the labor force working inside and outside of the home and whereas women have played a unique role throughout

169our history providing the majority of the volunteer labor force of the nation and state and whereas women were particularly important to the establishment of early charitable philanthropic and cultural institutions in our nation and state and whereas women of every race class ethnic background served as early leaders in the Forefront of every major Progressive social change movement and whereas women have served our country courageously in the military and whereas women have been leaders not only in securing our own right to suffrage and equal opportunity but also in the Abolitionist Movement the Emancipation movement the industrial labor movement and the Civil Rights Movement as well as other movements especially the peace movement which created a more fair and just Society for all and whereas despite these contributions the role of American women has been constantly overlooked and

170undervalued in the literature teaching and study of American history and whereas Santa Rosa city schools district and the community also recognize the importance of understanding the history of this area particularly with regard to honoring the significant and long-standing contributions that women have made to to this nation and in California therefore be it resolved I guess I get therefore be it resolved um let's see now therefore be it proclaimed by the governing board of San Rosa city school district that March is designated as women's history month and that srcs calls upon the Schools staff students and families to observe March as women's History Month by celebrating and recognizing the countless contributions made by women throughout history Bo any questions okay I have no blue cards so we can move on to further discussion or a motion

171I'd like to move this resolution celebrating marches women's hisa second further discussion trusty Medina yeah I think is uh I definitely support the resolution um but I didn't want to take a moment to just highlight um as part of women's History Month um we talked about American history and I feel like we're really living a moment of American History right now with very powerful woman um Claudia shamon ble who's been elected as the first North American leader of a country who's doing amazing things for women women wom's rights and tearing down sexism institutionalizing women's rights in the Mexican constitution if you don't know she's the president of Mexico and she's so inspiring and so powerful and I think um she could help Inspire so many young women with what she's doing um so I I'd

172really Inspire um all young women to to look at her as as a leader um yeah very moving delor thank you very much for bringing this resolution forward for us it is imperative as Educators that we remain Resolute and steadfast in continuing the fight to lift up and celebrate and honor and respect women um I want it on record that the strongest smartest most empowering people I've ever had involved in my life to get me where I am today have all been women from my mother and grandmother to my wife and daughters and colleagues it has been women that have led the charge to be the citizens that we need to be and in a time in our country women are currently under attack again for their rights and as Educators we must continue to

173tell the story of what women have been through what they're currently going through and how vital and important it is that we stand by their side and lift up up and advocate for them so that this country this world continue to grow and Thrive with women leading the church all right we have a motion moved by trustee manieri seconded by trustee Jenkins roll call vote trusty Manny hi and before we move on I just want to make sure that we all also are on the same page that this this is an inclusive resolution for women who are also part of the lgbtq community right we have our own resolutions for that Community but we're also inclusive when we talk about women it's all women I trusty Jenkins hi trusty Casten hi trusty Kirby hi trusty

174Medina I trusty de laori hi president mcnali I motion passes all right moving on to approval of the 20242 second interim budget report just joining here into the webinar so I can share my screen try this again sorry I'm having a little issue here one more time okay thank you president MCN superintendent Dr Morales members of our board and our srcs community um thank you Joel for joining me as always as we present the second interim budget update and just our list as you know most of the items um or the items that you you'll see tonight um we're attached uh Sunday morning to the agenda the presentation has one page updated which we will share when we get to there the new presentation has been uploaded so just a reminder as we go through

175this process and I will try to move a little quickly because I know we're running a little bit short on time the uh budget reporting cycle is a it's a cycle and so right now we are in the second interim Financial report which provides information from July 1st through January 31st it incl includes assumptions based on the the governor's January budget proposal as we are presenting a qualified uh report which we'll get to in a moment we will be coming back to you in May with a third interim financial report so with adjustments um between now and then and then in May the governor will also put out his uh revised uh proposal for the next budget year and then in June you will hear the lcap and budget adoption a reminder the lcap actually

176drives the budget so we cannot create the budget for the following year until we have created that local control accountability plan and we will be working on soliciting input uh for revisions based on our um current fiscal changes um over the next over the next month and that will be coming back to you okay again I share that we are um self-certifying as qualified what that means is that in either the current or subsequent two fiscal years we may not be able to meet our financial obligations and that has to do with the um whether it looks like we can maintain that 3% reserve and have fiscal solvency so again because we did um recom recommend and the board did approve stepping into phasing into the school consolidation um and implementation over two years um

177that definitely has an impact on us being qualified versus positive and what that means is that over the next little bit of time we need to monitor very closely and we will be you know that's again another area where we can make sure that we are improving our transparency and communication around what our current fiscal situation is um and so we'll get into kind of the the particulars of that as we get into the multi-year projections uh just informational as far as what assumptions we used in developing these scenarios so the different um things that are similar or actually that are same the same across all of the different scenarios that we ran um are in the top box there the top category the second the scenarios for one and two was what the base

178um projections were for that and then scenarios three and four I do want to share that the reason that we provided four scenarios scenario number one is essentially our adopted scenario so it's what okay this is what we are saying we're planning for scenarios 2 three and four are possibilities depending on factors that are currently unknown and so it's actually a best practice that when you can when there's a lot of uncertainty to provide contingency options for things that go as expected or not as expected so there's a lot of um there are a lot of things that were included in the January budget proposal that we would not feel comfortable including in a projection it may look our fi may make our finances look better than they are and so we chose to to

179put those into other options as scenarios um scenario options rather than in our primary we figure it is better to plan for increasing rather than planning for a decrease okay um so our fund 01 so again our general fund operating budget revenues we do have a difference um between first interim and second interim of about $973,000 and the majority of that actually comes in GR grants and one-time funds um specifically a medical reimbursement so we have activities that we get reimbursed for over a number of years for providing services to students and we received a large payment for that this year we also have some changes in um some grants and a um a some onetime funds related to special education at the local Revenue um level and just breaking out as a reminder um

180as we look at our unre at our uh fundo one our general operating budget we have a combination of funds are unrestricted so General operating there's not there aren't limitations it's essentially for any educational purpose and then our restricted funds which these basically have the the red tape assigned to them so lots of strings we are limited in what we can spend them on many have certain timelines that they have to be spent Within and the way that we recognize and budget for those revenues and the corresponding expenditures are very different than in our unrestricted funds so the two of those combined are what give us this total um general fund operating budget down there okay expenditures are differences here you can see the um recognition of the CA um bargaining settlement that is where

181you see the difference here in salaries and benefits uh when we look at books and supplies this is actually related to um Lottery funds for the majority of that services and operating expenditures this is mainly in our uh restricted funds specifically within special education our Capital outlay that's related to um an infrastructure grant for um kitchens and you there's not a huge change on on the others when we look at indirect costs those are um costs that are actually seen as revenues into the unrestricted funds out of the restricted funds so it's our kind of cost of doing business and that's actually how we fund many of our Support Services like Business Services that's where costs come from to support that and again the unrestricted and restricted and here you can see that difference between

182the revenues and the expenditures and a large you know that is split between our unrestricted so that's the deficit spending in our unrestricted general fund versus the spending down of onetime or Grant funds so those are two different things they they end up looking the same in the bottom line but there is a difference between restricted and unrestricted when we're looking at SP at spending okay and we'll go ahead and talk about quickly these um multi-year projection assumptions in scenario one so this is our base scenario this is what we would say is our general assumption going forward and so you won't see any changes in highlighted and yellow up here because those are assuming that everything is as it is as projected this does include um reductions from our f School stabilization plan that

183was approved in November so this is these are the current year or upcoming year closure school closures and then the additional um Staffing reductions and um approved in that fiscal stabilization plan and the other items that were included in there this right here does recognize the additional reductions based on what we think will be happening on according to ratios and current projections for um the additional layoff notices of Administrators certificated and classified staff when we get to 2627 you'll see the additional clo the continuing why you why you see this recognized in each year is because it's an ongoing reduction so we do recognize that in our multi-year projections as being reduced from what those planned expenditures were so you'll see that as well as the addition of the um phased in closures the continued

184savings from those fiscal stabilization items and those reductions in force and in this scenario we are assuming that we continue to decline in enrollment that we do not receive any one-time funds and that we do not recognize any increase in enrollment based on any changes in Charters so this is assuming nothing happen happens with any of that that means that we would then because we would be continuing to see a decline we would have additional Staffing and programmatic cuts that would need to happen in order to become fiscally solvent and maintain that in in the future just a quick question on the numbers for closures the the dollar amount for each closure I'm curious because I don't remember the numbers off the top of my head but for the middle schools if we're just moving

185an entire campus onto another campus and using those other campuses for athletics and such how are we saving any money other than the lights so actually the majority of the money is saved based on actually consolidating services so when you think of those are the certificated reductions they're the duplication of the administration of the CL of the additional classified support the actual facility operation are not a huge part of the savings when you consider 85% of our unrestricted budget is actually Staffing and so the majority of it has to do with being able to consolidate services and and staff on one site versus having them spread out across multiple sites and having duplicated Administration and and all of those pieces so yes we will still see some of the um operating cost like the maintenance

186side of things and that is actually out of the restricted funds so there there are things that are still covered out of restricted funds as well so these numbers are different than say like the numbers that were proposed with closing and then Distributing those kids to other campuses this is what we expect the net to be perfect thank you scenario two recognizes the potential for about $3 million it's actually proposed to be a little bit more but we were you know saying okay what do we think it would be um in the January budget proposal um there there was a discretionary amount um projected we were not um encouraged to include that in our multi-year projection and you know since the uncertainty around that especially because of the fires um we kept it here as

187an option so this scenario too is only if we receive additional one-time funds that basically helps to offset that it falls to the bottom line to the reserve it's not that we spend an additional $3 million on other things it's that it helps us to get closer to maintaining our Reserve levels you still require reductions in those out years because this does not assume any um increase due to any changes in Charter practice scenario three does reject not receiving the $3 million in one-time fund so no one-time funds but it does recognize some recapturing of um of enrollment through changes in Charter practice so that is what you see there beginning in 2627 and that ongoing difference there and then scenario four is of course the best Outlook that we have and none of these

188really have a huge impact for 25 26 um you'll see when we get to our multi-year projections we are still on a razor thin um you know line there as far as making sure that we are monitoring things very closely for next year um but scenario number four does include um the 3 million onetime funds as well as um you know recapturing some of the some of the charter enrollments so as we move into the multi-year projections this is scenario number one and again this is our and this is combined between unrestricted and restricted so that full 27 28 million is not all from unrestricted that is including spending down of funds that were required to spend um but you can see we move back into the black projected in the 26 27 year assuming

189that we continue to to adjust um Staffing and programs to be able to meet the needs of the of the students that we have versus you know continuing to spread those out over a number of of sites and here's what you are not used to seeing from us and that is it dropping below the 3% required reserve and this does include transferring in again a larger amount from other funds to keep as that Reserve to make sure that we meet as much as we can um again this is a razor thin margin so we are not negative but we really need to watch our finances and pay attention to any changes in Trends um very closely anything that we can um look at to adjust between now and the end of the year of course

190we'll make that look a little bit better for next year um and those adjustments always do happen as we go through the especially once we get to third interim that will be much closer in these multi-year projections I know we've asked this question before so I'm kind of expecting the answer but are we taking into consideration any changes to Federal funding no at this point we are not and the federal funding that comes to us is restricted it is not unrestricted um it also is not a huge percentage of our budget um but there are impacts um especially right now um I know there was I think it was $660 million in USDA funds um that are expected to be cut and so we don't have guidance yet on what that's going to look like

191um for food surfice um we do have a healthy surfplus in our in our fund 13 um food service so we will have time to make adjustments so our current current year were about 75 million over in terms of that that we were expecting I think it was about 234 right or 20.4 before an now 27.9 million combination of restricted and unrestricted so some of that is actually spending down because remember the way that we have to budget that we have to budget is if we're going to spend spend it all in one year and get the revenues in one year and then we have to put it back as far as what actually happens but yes there was an an increase in the unrestricted as well mainly related to increased special education costs as

192well as that um the agreement with CSEA so that was not in the original projections if you if if you recall and in terms of reserves like we have a legal requirement to have 3% so what happens if we don't that's that is actually why we are here presenting a qualified is because it means that we may not be able to meet our recommendations and we need I mean our um obligations and we are required to make sure that we have a fiscal stabilization plan um we are also working with sco that's where they provide additional support and so you'll hear from them tonight this was something that you know I think I've shared um before so to reiterate that um their um their Chief business official their Deputy superintendent Greg menichi as well as

193Sarah lampenfeld and I meet regularly and this was one of the things that um Greg and I did speak with Mike fine about um with fmat at following the CBO Symposium about okay what happens if we end up you know at that time that was when we were looking at positive for December and okay right now we don't need to bring fmat in but as we get into second interim if we go qualified there may be a need you know to go that next step for support so this is not unexpected given our fiscal situation and the let's say about 1 and a half% would equate to about how much off the top of my head I I mean we're looking at at probably if we were to get back up there probably about for

194about $4 million thank you okay question before you leave that slide um so we have the yellow lines for some anticipated potential Revenue savings what about the cbhi funds is that anticipated in here so the Cy bhi funds were included as part of the um fiscal stabilization plan right um it it could depending on the actual bill from that that could actually improve there are several factors that could actually improve our standing but we don't want to overpro um revenues and for the notices that we've given they total an amount that would have us in a positive and so there's an assumption in here that there's a certain amount of staff that we're recalling absolutely can you walk through what that assumption is in this inm and then compare it to what it'll look like

195when we see the Third inm report so by the time that we get to the third interim we will have a better idea of what our enrollment projection looks like of you know where each of those assignments are going to be um will have negotiated impacts and some of those changes in positions that we've currently been working with with CSEA on um there's actually one that's not mentioned in here which is um a particular type of health aid that would be um that we're looking at as a new position that could be funded from those medical funds that would actually free up things that we're actually Contracting Services for right now so there are ways that we are looking at making those adjustments but we don't want to essentially overpromise in a in a second

196interim when we don't have details yet so this is a conservative budget based on those things still being in the works and the assumptions for the notic ism for folks we're going to call back is that based off of Just contract ratios or legal ratios or do we have an ability to say for the next year or two that we may not reach an internally set ratio that you know we're we're going to decide to give ourselves a little bit more money for the reserves and well exactly and so some of the um the reductions that were put that were put forth that the that the board approved um are not our optimal operating levels for some of our Support Services um the reality it is is we have to look at what is necessary

197to actually operate versus what's nice and it helps us to operate more effective more efficiently um provide some faster response times there is a difference between those two and so yes it is going to be a heavy lift for staff who are who are left um and those are things that we will have to look at and as time um and our situation improves through future planning um we expect to be able to adjust things at to a more appropriate level but yes in the next couple of years we will be running very slimly I see that our cow Pur rates are different for 25 26 and 26 27 than they were when we originally adopted the the budget did something change and yes given the way things are going should we expect it to

198change again so those change regularly um based on on current conditions there are projections that are put out typically around the time of each interim um reporting period calsters is set um you know there it's it's tied to actual legislative action for more than a you know than a small increase versus cers is adjusted Up and Down based on on the need and so yes those are going to change every time that you see a a report from us it's going to be with the most current um adopted um projections and again their projections it will change so in um you know June July we will know what it is going forward so the adopted budget may look a little bit different and then again you'll see an update for the next year in first

199interim and our task is to adopt an inter budget right and we have these four scenarios I don't see how it makes sense to do anything aside from Scenario one because it's the only one with no knowns and the other ones are all just very hypothetical so can you maybe elaborate on that yes so um that is our assumption is that scenario one is what we are recommending for adoption the other scenarios are there for information um just as a here are the different factors that we're looking at and some and some possibilities that we can potentially adjust to and again you will see changes at third interim and budget adoption will look different the only time that we have final numbers that our numbers are solid and real is at un audited which is

200in September after the prior year is closed and it's a backwards look so these are always going to be changing are there any assumptions on reassignment of lcap funds now that we've done consolidation or would that be something that would happen between now and the next interm and if we reassign some of that the lcap funds I could change this yeah that that will happen between as we revise the lcap so we'll be going out in um I think they start in either the last week in March or in April um the input sessions with the community as we're revising our lcap so yes that will happen later it won't it won't be part of this it'll actually likely not be included in third interim because the lcap won't have gone through the hearing process

201and those things yet either so that will be coming to you in June um for the hearing and then adoption and if we but if elap was um revised in order to prioritize some of the things that we're looking to bring back from the noticing that could change this Outlook if it was prioritized for that fund those funds it doesn't give us any more money so all it does is shifts where we spend the money so it might affect a specific category but it wouldn't affect the bottom line but we can make choices in there to prioritize particular programs or or things over others or positions yes on salaries and benefits it's looking like we're about 5.2 million over what we expected for this year I'm wondering is that all restricted is I mean I

202know there's the CSA amount right here it's 192 um which salaries and benefits under expenditures right there's a sorry I'm just looking which slide so I know which one to pull up oh yeah good question um let's see I was looking at the other one um uh page 22 oh wait I'm looking at wrong scenario but still should be the same um yeah page okay so we're looking on the multi-year projections and scenarios so these are combined restricted and unrestricted and which scenario are we looking at so expenditures salaries and benefits for for this year 2425 mhm okay it's 182 474 I think the original budget was 1872 something so that's about 5.2 million difference that and I know we probably added into the csca I think was around 1.2 but that's still quite a

203few million over I'm wondering what accounts for so much of that so again part of that has to do with the UN with the restricted and the spending of those funds so that's a big portion of it along with this the CA and other actual filled positions versus vacancies where those actually come in at so there's always those adjustments that happen because you Project based on an average and then once you actually fill positions that may be higher or lower so there are a lot of different factors in that but yes all of you know staff increases and actual placements and filling of positions along with restricted funds to clarify the answer to Nick's question about bringing people back in notices I might understand that so we've given hundreds of people notices and this is

204with the assumption that we're going to be operational so okay yes yeah it assumes that we meet our you know classroom ratios and and th those things that are within bargained things and then others are based on efficiency what we can or can't you know have a certain level of Staffing at and what's appropriate in the Staffing ratios like for um the administrators we have those those Staffing ratios the there are some positions that will that that will be increased While others are decreased based on what the actual operations are that are needed at a school site for for an example just going back to the difference when we look at the increase decrease in the fund balance is that combined restricted and unrestricted or yes okay okay enrollment question with the changes you mentioned

205that there is um I don't know the exact word that you like wiggle room around um uh looking at declines um can you say just a little bit more about that is that just the standard declines with birth rates or are you are we taking into consideration attrition and people leaving I know we'll have better numbers in a couple months but with this where where does that fall I'm still new and all this Bud stuff no worries so for next year um aside from from Charters which are you know different funding you know different fund but um enrollment or your funding is based on the highest of either your current year Ada your prior year Ada or the average over three years and so it's essentially like a cushion year for next year so we

206project what we think it is and then we can make a j that's why if we don't see those changes we would need to make additional reductions after that so that's where that could go one way or the other depending on what actually ends up happening with enrollment but we have kind of a like a a a hold harmless kind of a thing for next year basically we've got a little bit of a cushion to make additional adjustments for the next year and so for the next whole school year okay not like next perfect yeah yep we operate on on fiscal year not calendar year what do you mean by a hold harmless we're so when we're when we look at the 25 26 funding even in scenario one you don't see much of a

207difference um you know between year one and in um sorry in scenario one between 25 26 versus scenario 2 or three in the lcff resources because we have a we're funded on the higher amount the higher Ada of the current year the prior year or the average of three years and so that's part of the lcff calculator um that Joel spends a lot of time working on um and running different scenarios with um so essentially we we shouldn't see a huge swing one way or the other in 25 26 unless of course we saw this great increase in enrollment which we are not projecting right now I wish that we were but that is that is not um in any of our scenarios as you can see um so we are projecting that hold harmless

208for next year and then looking to see what act what actual enrollment comes in at and what happens with any changes um based on the um board policy that you adopted on the 26th related to Charter authorizations so what you will see is that in each of the scenarios there are varying times at which we start paying back or transferring back because we don't have to borrow those funds from the interest they could just be transferred and used that's not the intention that's not what we've shared we want to do so as you see those dollar amounts decrease in those years that's as we're paying it back to those funds in the future so we the plan is to use it to make sure that we are meeting our obligations and then to transfer it

209back to what we originally intended to use it for and so those scenarios vary in when those are paid back and what the impact is on that Reserve um down there at the bottom and of course so sorry scenario number three we realize that the attachment that we originally uploaded did not include that larger transfer that we had talked about um when we when we did the um phased implementation so we did make that update right there so it now matches scenario one it's the same because the only difference was in the out years in 2627 related to Charter and then of course um The best scenario is number four where I mean it still does not meet that minimum 3% none of these do for next year um but then you can see that

210we actually are able to start paying that back and to get to where we could increase our revenues or I mean our um reserves and or redirect funds the um you can see the second interim um ending Reserve uh ending balances projected for each of the other funds and you will see differences related to um Charter Schools you know they're remember they're funded on current year versus any of the others as well as Joel do you want to cover what the other difference was there yeah they're also spending down reserves as they have them restricted resources and as well yeah the cafeteria is um increased purchases due to uh also Reserve reserves in that fund for kitchen infrastructure and special things and also just actuals through January 31st and the bond fund is just updated

211through actual through J January 31st as well as the uh fund 40 the things that we do need to monitor um as uh as uh trusty manier vice president manary uh spoke about our federal programs and funding um collective bargaining um these do not currently include increases there so that's something that we will need to monitor um and plan for um economic Trends um enrollment versus Ada funding legislation we've talked about um that the implementation and continued fiscal stabilization work um you know the board has made a lot of really difficult decisions our community has been involved um and the work needs to continue to make sure that we can make the changes that are really needed structurally going forward um as you know the special education study and implementation plan updates with the governor's

212um May revise um lcap and prioritization that's going to be a big one how that will impact um making sure that we do are restructuring and reimagining well that we implement it well because that will have a huge impact on people choosing to come to Santa Rosa city schools we know that's important um and that includes our staff as well um changes in Charter practices with the authorizations and renewals there are lots of things that we can that we can impact and that we can do right and it's really important that we put the right procedures and processes in in place um obviously intra and interdistrict transfers um matter and then making sure that we maintain our support for students staff and the community just a preview of the things that we still have coming

213up in the months ahead and I will stop sharing I don't like it it looks really ugly it does this is the ugliest budget I have ever presented I I will share that this is it absolutely is Trusty Jenkins and then trusty Casten not very reassuring it doesn't mean that we can't get through it it means we have to be really careful and it's going to take everybody on board to make it happen not just on board but everybody yes um my actually it's more of a comment than a question but with the elcap meetings coming up this is the place for parents and community members to show up right so prioritize what they want their teeny tiny pennies spent on um for the students right can we shout that any louder please show up

214to the elcat meetings yes please do that it we absolutely need Community parent student input and then actually I guess I do have one it's another clarifying question so you've already said it but I'm sure that people have been looking at this and are like what are these scenarios so scenario one is what we have approved that's what we're doing scenario two is with possible onetime funds scenario three is the charter stuff possible influx of people and then scenario four is perfect world situation when the stars align yes okay thank you thank you it was going back to the other fund ending balance I know in first in trim there was a transfer from the Self Insurance Fund 67 what's the amount that we need to hold in there is there an additional ability to

215transfer based on the actuals from um you know through the end of this last year I don't know that off the top of my head that's something that what that we can get back to you but essentially we have funds that our our members aren't using all of the benefits every year and so we want to be careful we want to make sure that we preserve those funds um but when we have access they can be they can be transfer and now that we have new actuals I I'm wondering if there's an ability to transfer even if it's a little additional amount in order to help the reserve fund um that would be a question to come back with it doesn't have to be answered today yeah we we can look into that other questions

216JY Jenkins um I have a lot of questions all the time welcome to my world um fundraising I brought this up at another meeting uh but want to reiterate it so again I guess it's not a question it's more of a comment to the public in general get involved in your schools get involved in the ptas pfos pto's mefs education foundations of All Sorts boosters because the schools all need our support right now um there was a question in there where did my question go should have been related to fundraising oh but I don't remember what it was Shucks um well if if it comes back to me I'll just blirt something out so thinking along the same lines Sarah and um we have talked about fundraising and we understand the amount of parent groups

217have been extremely supportive over the years throughout our sites and programs um parents had asked when we were considering closures and consolidations can we have a bake cell to sell a school to save a school yeah you can and be one heck of a bake sell but technically you can so this is the opportunity if there are programs that are important and opportunities that you don't want to see loss make connections with the district on what could be done by community support and we could use help with grant writing and other opportunities to try and bring in funding this is a time to communicate if you're serious and you want to help us get involved and help so that we can help rate the ship together I I do want to caution that we um

218we wouldn't want to put out there though that if you donate you can save this particular position things like that because that's not something that not positions but opportunities and programs we not not staff that's different it's just if there a lot of people are seeing a lot of stuff going away abely and there are still parent groups on these campuses that support opportunities and Equipment um that stuff that could be fronted for and support in absolutely and we have seen amazing support for for our schools and that continues to come in and we are very appreciative of that um so you see those in the local Revenue projections I remembered what it was and it wasn't that much of a question it was about Partnerships in addition to fundraising it was mentioned before about

219um partner ING with the health centers about after school appointments instead of in the middle of school appointments and making sure the kids are going to school but then also Partnerships with um like boys and girls club and the other Community Partnerships that can kind of take some of the the financial load off by kind of redistributing um stuff so just the Community Partnerships in addition to the fundraising to support the students um because it's going to be rough and I think at first interim a question came up from the board about parcel tax or things like that we haven't projected anything with that that is something that should the board or the community wish to bring forward that's something that could always be addressed as well at this time we because that what did

220not look like it was going to pass we did not um move forward with that I don't have any blue cards so further discussion or a motion I'll move to um on let's see to approve the 2024 2025 second interim budget report scenario one second who said that okay moved by trusty Medina seconded by trusty Caston roll call vote trusty Medina hi trusty Casten hi trusty Kirby hi trusty Jenkins hi trusty de laori hi trusty manieri I president MCN I motion passes thank you all very much thank you can I move to extend the meeting to 11:50 believe we have a motion to extend to 1150 is there a second adjust it to 11:30 if possible fine is that is that a second I'll second okay um all those in favor I any opposition all

221right meeting extended to 11:30 okay our next item is an action to maintain LC Allen High School as a comprehensive high school with its own independent boundary maps for the foreseeable future this item was requested by trusty Medina so I will turn it over to him thank you um so I brought this item forward because well I've been trying to since the vote on the 21st which I thought was a good vote to maintain all the high schools open I think the the one thing that um isn't good for our district is the removal of the boundary for LC in high school and I think the the important thing to recognize um one is the the savings that aren't being achieved by the transportation that was talked about before on the 19th based on how

222the maps are two I think there's the issue that's been brought up that we can't ignore um I think uh one trustee mentioned it at I believe the meeting on the 18th that families don't necessarily send their students to Elion you know they're still all the ones that do go there but we can't ignore the 30 years of history that exist of how the communities perceived LSC Allen and to expect that to just change in one year because what was said is that it will now be a school for the entire District right and to expect that to change just one year to the next is very unrealistic it really feels that this idea of eliminating the map for that school is setting that school up for failure that that needs to be recognized it

223needs to be acknowledged I know folks on the campus are feeling it people in the community are feeling it there wasn't an opportunity to comment on that when when this was brought up the public never had an opportunity to comment on that but it's something that's very real um you've heard uh people um speaking in public comment today feeling like there's this plot to to have that school fail and this is a part of that sentiment um I think you know we received emails from people from the Santa Rosa High School map now that are concerned about how the maps are changing because of the impacts it'll have on that Community I think it's really important to not only maintain Elion as a comprehensive high school but to maintain its boundary Maps um to not

224do so is is in my opinion um not only a mistake that it'll negatively impact the school um on on various levels but I think it's also um wrong from a civil rights perspective um concerned about what's happening with office of civil rights in the Department of Education right now but I do see issues arising towards our district because of this I I think that voting to maintain the maps and maintaining Elana is a comprehensive High School ongoing is a simple action that we can take to prevent a lot of future headaches and also to just give them some stability and knowledge that there's going to be a a set of of something that you could how do you say of consistency um there's going to be a lot of extra work required for for

225people to make that adjustment to decide schools I think it's important to recognize the lessons of of closing cook and Cesar Chavez of how the expectations of what we might think might happen won't necessarily happen you know I'm I I was part of that decision but I also recognize the lessons that that that we have to learn from that decision and what went wrong um I think it's something critical that we need to do is is just make that small adjustment for the future of LC Allen it really this idea of of what the program will be like in the future I think all those things are things that are happening and that can done well will be done well um without the need to having to eliminate a map um I think that map

226is very critical and very important and and I would love to have questions from you all as to maybe or or comment as to why that shouldn't be done now that I'm able to actually participate in the conversation try delator so I have major concerns about this being brought forward at all of revisiting something that we've already voted on and this is it is a comprehensive high school next school year um that has not changed it is the restructuring in year two that could be discussed at a later date but we don't have the timer and resources to make changes on something that was already voted as we have motions and planned to try and make changes again to something that took us so many months to get to so um the votes been made

227I think we need stick by it and not attempt to change things weeks in while there was so much work ahead of us to try and figure out next school year um with those changes think out loud that I I did try to have it that first meeting on the 26th but it wasn't brought forth as I requested because I recognize the the criticalness of the time one of the things that was presented is that in this next year the the planning for the third year would already be starting to be made based on maps um where students would be placed and and so that's why I think it's important to to have the maps for that third year already set because next year the planning for that third year is going to be happening

228based off that map that's already set for the third year that's how it was presented right so that's why I think it's it's of essence to bring it now if I if if I thought that it could wait I would totally wait but because of the way that that was presented I think it's critical to have it now so that as the planning is happening it's planning accurately and with boundary Maps I'm not a big fan of what we decided on um I think we all need to look through those and ensure that we are properly zoning all of our schools appropriately a lot of changes went in really quickly but as a board we can make those changes next year we don't have to try and make more changes on top of the changes

229are already made right now is where I'm coming from we it took a lot of heartbreak and effort to get to where we are um I don't think it's appropriate to try and make changes right now during this school year while we're trying to figure out something that we've never done before um it's just there's not enough resources best Casten yeah and I I just want to be clear that this isn't a conversation about we decided to keep it open and now we're going to talk about revisiting the compromise that led to us keeping it open this is a conversation about un doing the compromise and the process we did and that means closure is still very much a part of this conversation and that comes to the fact that creating this alternative a argon

230Ed magnet school with Project based learning gives us the ability to compete in a way that we're not currently able to compete we have ads popping up I got two ads sent to me from folks people in our area competing for our students one of them is 100% Project based Learning Academy some an offering of Education that we don't currently offer so the compromise that was made in order to keep the campus active was to offer something that we need to provide and it's also an educational model that serves students with disabilities that need higher differentiation in their academic access it serves students who don't want to participate in a comprehensive High School um and want to instead focus in an environment where it's more project and work oriented so this is a conversation that

231is hey let's make a small change um this is going back to revisiting the closure conversation and if that's what we want to do then let's put all the options back on the table we can re agendize it we can discuss closure again because we need to have the money available to launch this type of program we've heard it from stacer health and wellness reports about why this type of program is needed for our students districtwide and if we want to locate it somewhere else I don't think that's something we should revisit I agree we have our work cut out for us for next year but this program needs to be funded and the compromise was that we were going to put it at LC in order to continue being able to operate an education

232program and give priority to students in that neighborhood to have access to that program and that's how we got there but unwinding all of that is totally inappropriate would would you not agree that you could have the Project based Learning Academy on the school that has the map I would I would agree that the compromise we voted on to not close Elsie is what we need to execute and if we want to engage in a conversation about school closures again including the elate campus then that's what we're doing right now so you're not denying that it could still exist with a map I am telling you that we do not have the money to continue maintaining a full Comprehensive High School and launching a program that's needed to serve our students like to hear from

233the other trustees truste manary you know I I understand why this is being brought forward um when the you know it's been coined as like the 11th and a half hour scenario was brought to the board um I obviously had a lot of questions about specifically around the boundaries and how uh removing the boundaries would fundamentally really alter how we're serving our students in Southwest s Rosa and asked for the district to look into an automatic enrollment mechanism for students in the current attendance area for the same concern um and so I think what I'm struggling with a little a little bit is is is really the fact that we haven't had an opportunity to talk to our LC Community about it like I know you've probably heard from a lot of folks um I've

234only heard from like a handful of folks about this um and again like I understand the intention and theoretically I support it um I just want the opportunity to talk to people about it um before taking action trusty Jenkins I guess my position on the situation is that while I was the no vote we have a decision we put our community through so much for so long we have a decision people are moving forward with things so for either of these items on the agenda is kind of a slap in the face to the entire Community because people are moving on I also feel this is undoing uh trying to undo what we've already voted on and uh I know you you director Medina you you mentioned during your opening there about you feel this

235is setting the school up to fail and you also mentioned it you posted I think online about thinking that it's going to set up the school for failure um so I just want to know if it's your belief that the school is going to fail and thus that's going to affect your possible employment at the LC Allen Foundation can you publicly explain why you feel you don't have a conflict of interest on this and you would not feel necessary to recuse yourself from this conversation I think in in in that context [Music] um the school would remain open for a few years probably longer than the rest of my term on this board uh the thing that I think is essential is to to really recognize the reality of our community and what we're doing

236and what this history has proven to show right are when when you eliminate that option you're you're going to be leaving this entire area without its own local community Comm School based on where you live right anybody that lives in that entire area will have to be bust to a whole complete different area right I I know what people are feeling because they've told me and uh also because I feel it right this is being done to those people to them to us that's how it feels that's how people are feeling that's how people are seeing it right maybe there's levels of privilege that I think um are trying to see it in a this different light but we got to look at history and you know we we could revisit the issue in the

237future but I think we we can't deny reality and if the board chooses not to support it that'll be that but I think the reality needs to be at least brought up I'm bringing it up because it has to be brought up to not bring it up would be completely wrong right this is I look at it again from someone that has lived in this area for 30 plus years this is not okay this is not okay you could have these ideas of this magnet school and all that invest in the school make the school do well it can do well it will do well I know that because no matter what horrible conditions this body creates for it I will constantly be fighting for my community to do the best working with Community Partners

238to do the best but instead of keeping us where we're at you're pushing us down you're squashing us down even further making it more difficult making that mountain higher to reach that's what's being done that's what it feels like okay and that's what these kids are feeling right now that's what these families are feeling right now you're doing this to them and then on top of that you take their principal right their Captain as it was put so that's why I'm fighting job or no job that's why I'm freaking fighting people voted me in here to freaking speak up and that's what I'm doing I hear you trusted me Dina I respect you I respect your passion for the community for the culture things you are SP we did not take the principal away from

239from that community that it was human resources and a situation that we did not create or do those were choices and decisions made you talk about the 30-year history of that campus the community gave up on us for 30 years in that area the community that we are fighting so hard to save a campus for and to throw a lifeline and to find other opportunities to keep that campus open in that community so there is a school there nobody is turning their backs on a community and squishing and squashing anybody down and walking away we are trying to keep a campus open in that community and provide opportunities for students and families to grow and Thrive and we need that community support for that to happen well I have words that the community does not

240want to go to school there came from the southwest community it didn't come from any other community it came from my community engagement for opportunities to save that campus I won't send my students here my neighbors won't send their students here my won't send their students here that's from the southwest community and we are trying to keep the doors open to give them an opportunity to have proper education however that needs to look so they opportunity is there otherwise the other choice was to close the campus and we're not having this discussion we did everything we could to keep the campus open to provide opportunities and and and I hear you and now you're saying now nobody's automatically going to send their kids there and that that's the part that's the that's the setting it

241up to failure in my opinion right because now everybody's already going somewhere else and it's not my opinion I'm repeting what others shared with me words from the community not me saying don't go there I want I want lell and have 1500 students that'd be amazing and and I've heard what you've heard but I'm saying and now the systemic vote that this board has taken now is doing that automatically no student is automatically in that school it's a whole extra step that you got to do and that's the part that feels is one small step towards failure because you're adding an additional obstacle well trusty Medina I think that is what trusty manier and I both questioned when the scenario was originally presented and trusty maner do you want to speak to that yeah um

242I was just there were two things I wanted to say one is with all due respect trusty delator you know the Southwest Santa Rosa Community is not homogeneous in the way that all of our communities are not homogeneous and so you know to say that that that message is coming from the southwest community it's not everyone in the southwest community there are thous kids who go to LC whose families have chosen that school and so you know just I just want to put that out there right like that's that that is not the only message coming from the southwest community and that's not the only thing we've heard in this process um two going back to something tristine Medina said earlier about history right like we can take ceser Chavis Language Academy as as a

243great example of what happens when we remove a public school from a community um from a disadvantaged community historically marginalized Community um and see the impacts of public education in that Community right we have students in Southwest Santa Rosa who are busted to commstock or who have to go to Santa Rosa Middle they have to go to a school that's not Lawrence Cook Middle School their neighborhood school because of the choices that our board made um and so I just you know to to your point we have we have examples of history and I think that that's where a lot of the concern comes from for me and and I think I'm I'm hearing that also from tristine Medina and so I think this conversation I want to move this conversation forward um this is

244listed as an action item for tonight and so I want us to get to that point because we have you know other business to get to also um and so I just I I want to voice support for this action because I see it as a as a boundary uh conversation that I think we need to continue having not just about Elsie Allen um and and for for the reasons that I have already voiced that you know I'm I am concerned about uh history repeating itself um and and the fundamental changes that we're making to public education in southwest anosa and if this doesn't pass tonight I know that there are people who are experts in civil rights who are watching these conversations who are looking what at what's happening um who are paying attention

245and um I I am really thankful and appreciative for those folks who are really paying attention to this so I'll move to maintain Elon High School is a comprehensive high school with its own independent boundary mats for the foreseeable future a second um yeah before we go to a vote I I just want to say for myself um well first I think it's important my understanding was that neighborhood students will have priority they will not have to apply also I'll say that the magnet idea I was not a fan of but it was the Compromise that we needed in order to get a majority vote um I I would like to re revisit it in the future but I'd like to do so when we have when things have settled with what we're trying to

246do for year one and um when we have more information like I'd like to be able to ask our staff for some projections on how this is actually going to play out um so I hear you and I want to revisit this I just I don't know that I can support this vote tonight trusty Casten and I just want to add the comparisons to ccla isn't the same because the barrier to entry for this model is intended to not involve an application and Outreach but when you're choosing which school you want to go to during open enrollment this is going to be one of the options that you have and that's how it's explained and it's not a charter that's not what we were doing when we created this you know I lived for 9

247years walking distance from Elsie Island during the 2017 fires I volunteered there I you know currently live a few blocks north of Highway 12 on the west side and I'm in LC's District still and I believe that we need to have this campus operating but I also see that we have consistently not innovated to meet the needs of our students throughout the districts district and this gave us a solution after we had a committee recommendation and data saying that to make our numbers we needed to close a campus and this gave us a path forward where we can compete we can offer solutions for students that currently aren't being served and have historically not been served despite the fact they have disabilities that would benefit from this type of educational model so yeah there's a

248civil rights issue in this district and it's been happening for a long time and I'm hoping that we correct some of it by moving forward tonight with this model um and I I mean I have faith in the fact that this is going to be able to attract and become a vibrant educational location so we're coming from different perspectives I don't think this is going to kill it I think it's going to revitalize the campus and give our district an ability to stop losing so many students to other districts are doing so much better at innovating than we are um so I definitely don't support this motion um I don't support us having to come back and relitigate something that already took us a lot of pain and Agony in order to approve and I

249hope that we can stick by our guns and make this um a reality for our district because there's a lot of students that need it and we're not doing it for them right now any other discussion roll call vote trusty Medina I trusty manieri I trusty Casten no trusty Kirby no trusty Jenkins no trusty de laor no president MCN no motion fails all right we will now move on to discussion and possible action to consider approval of making ELC Allen High School a 7 through2 Campus beginning in the 2025 26 school year again I'll hand it over to trusty Medina uh so so I brought this one up um because when you know I was watching everything that was happening even though I couldn't be present there was very big concerns about the savings that

250were lost in that final decision clearly we're having issues with savings now um especially around the transportation um the other concern which is what I asked about earlier is capacity the numbers that I saw for Santa Rosa Middle School and U Montgomery High School um well s High School and mcgomery High School the numbers in terms of capacity just really seemed like an issue I would prefer this not to be something to bring up at this point especially now I I don't see it passing anyways but it was to really highlight those two issues and again it was in hopes that it would have come up on the 26 but there's big issues around capacity with the middle school students and there's big issues around transportation and with the maps that are all tied together

251with this so that's why I had it put on the agenda so I'll go ahead and make the motion to approve of making Elion High School 712 campus beginning 25 26 school year if it doesn't get a second well then we just move on I'll second it any discussion roll call vote trusty Medina hi trusty manieri hi trusty Casten no trusty Kirby no trusty Jenkins no trusty deor no president mcnell no motion fails thank you where are we go come on down so as they as our scope Partners make their way to this um table um I just want to kind of open up the introduction in terms of their reaching out me reaching out to them us meeting kind of jointly talking about how what supports they can provide for us um that conversation

252led to some strategic thinking between Dr Carter and I and um her coming with her team and calling on our executive board to come together around how we can strategically partner during this time of transition to ensure that we're successful but also we're excited to potentially be a model for other districts in the state as well as the collaboration that we would be establishing of the board approv this so Dr Carter thank you thank you team from scope for being here thank you superintendent uh August is right around the corner as you know and uh our community is asking some critical questions how's this all going to work what does this mean for my student uh and as Leaders we don't just share their concerns we feel that urgency and it's Noma County with 42%

253of our students uh attending school right here in the Santa Rosa city schools or one of its feeder districts uh we feel that there is a obligation a moral responsibility for the Soma County Office of Education to step in and be our partners in this work so given the unprecedented challenges that you're facing uh superintendent Morales and I talk through uh some of the scope of work that's being undertaken uh and uh we've reached a point where you can see on the attachment that there are six projects that the somoma County Office of Education would like to support Santa Rosa city schools uh in uh focusing on this partnership is of course not a state takeover ship this is a partnership uh sco is going to work with within the structure of the Embrace engage

254and Empower uh initiative that's already been drafted to you to Aid The District in this effort I'm pulling together resources that I'm able to access in my position as the county superintendent uh to help this team includes uh our fiscal crisis Manager Management assistance team in the State uh and Mike fine is has um is in support of this partnership and we'll be allocating staff if we move forward uh the special education local planned area the selpa Elizabeth englen uh is also in support of this plan and is going to be allocating staff to support if we move forward the Redwood Empire School Insurance Group here with Cindy Wilkerson uh is in support of this effort and will be uh on hand to lend support in the effort and here at the table with me

255I have Dr Christine Olstead uh who has been deployed from the California collaborative of educational Excellence uh thanks to mat Nao uh with 30 years of experience uh she was really part of the architects in the state's multi the mtss initiative multi-tiered systems of support uh she's served in county offices uh and done some some work in merging school districts together additionally uh with we reached out to an expert in the state of California Dr Vincent Matthews here to my right uh Dr Matthews of course uh we know retired from the San Francisco Unified School District additionally he worked under the state superintendent uh to support uh the Englewood District uh when they were in receivership and has supported the Oakland School District as well so he's really knowledgeable about these issues and is coming

256into support additionally members of my uh sco Team uh we've already been notified on Deck to be deployed to to help and be thought Partners in this work and what I'm asking the board is to establish an ad hoc Committee of three members of your board uh this temporary ad hoc committee will periodically meet with me Daisy uh and the team here to hear updates about these six projects what's happening uh how's it going that will allow them to advise me as I direct my team in support of this effort uh and this Aid of course will come at no cost to the district the Sona County Office of Education uh is funding the entire project all six elements that you see there and my role really as County Superintendent is to be your partner

257especially in times of need uh and this is not about diminishing the leadership of this District it's about strengthening it our aim is to support long-term stability so students Educators and families can move forward with confidence I therefore ask the board to take action tonight to create this ad hoc committee and give their support of this short-term narrowly defined partnership on behalf of students staff and families thank you board questions I need you all to be more clear with your hand motions trusty Caston uh I just have a few first off thank you so much Dr Carter for this and um you know I obviously appreciate the offers of support I just want to make sure that as we enter anything we're clear on what we're entering uh two of the priorities on here stand

258out to me um as being like immediately yesterday important uh and that's the one around the 712 grade configurations um and kind of helping with scoping planning and modeling on that and then the other one related to campus safety and implementation of trainings as we're looking at this uh partnership what's what is the role of each of our organizations in setting those types of priorities and feedback um are we asking and you're deciding um are are we jointly meeting and collaborating and what happens if we don't agree because for me I'm like we got a deal of safety today so parents feel like in August their kids are going to be here uh on our schools and safe and we you got to make sure that the 712 model gives confidence so what's the how

259does that work I think a good reference point is ab1 1204 that says the county superintendent has a duty to superintend and I think that's a good way to think about this is the board has set Direction you have taken action you have established expectations for Dr Morales and I would come in as her partner in fulfilling the expectations that have already been established by the board so it' be through Dr Morales that the priorities were established between the two of you yes and that's why this ADC because because it's the sko resources that's how this ad hoc committee can help me if the ad hoc committee uh feels like there's um some additional supports that sco can offer we can talk that through and then I can deploy them uh but it's really to

260help advise me and my response to support the district and um for the partners at SOA and resig is that through your cont is that through your Rel ship than working with Dr Morales or is that separately advising Dr Morales uh so this is through the the ad hoc committee work to offer those extra resources okay thank you trusty Kirby um do you foresee the ad hoc committee uh getting together all at once or perhaps like I see you know the from the fiscal standpoint we have just set up our fiscal stabilization committee would that part maybe um you sco and us could meet at once a month at our committee meeting would that I'm just wondering if if if we can do it in parts or is it all just going to be one

261committee together talking together the model I'm following is one that's been used by other County offices within the state of California and so a good way to think about it is each of these streams of work we have uh so if you just look at the first one the fiscal crisis management so we'll be deploying uh fmat support for your your team uh that's working with your business office these meetings will be an opportunity for that team to report out how it's going are there more resources are there pain points that we can be helping with that that will hold true also for the safety team for the l12 the 712 build the merging of Elementary builds so that we're all able to collectively hear about one another's scopes of work identify any pain points

262uh Dr Matthews will be an experienced voice in helping us sort of calibrate our our response and the expertise from uh Dr Olstead those are all voices that will help us navigate this work but a good way to think about it will just be reporting those six streams of work checking in seeing where we're going seeing if we need to deplore more efforts uh or restructure anything in any way delator Dr Carter and team thank you very much for being here tonight thank you for waiting a few minutes to get your moment to share with us um can we be very clear and transparent to the community of what this partnership would look like and what the shared goal would be um the community gets a really nervous when we start talking about committees and

263teams and AD hocs and the ability of putting something forward just for somebody else to go a different direction or vote no against it and that's not where this is about but if you could vocalize that to the community and kind of answer some Temptation that they have of a partnership and how it could truly Thrive and provide educational opportunities and sustainability and proper implementation of what we had directed yeah and that's exactly the model that this is based on so every time we meet we'll publish the meeting notes uh it will enable your three ad hoc committee meeting members in these meetings to report out about the efforts that they're seeing but everything we're doing will be have that very forward facing we've already found a Communications partner that's going to help us do

264exactly that to tell this story for the community so they can really see the work that's going on thank you I just need someone to remind me do we need to vote to appoint the members or just to establish the committee and then I appoint the members I believe this would be appointing to an outside agency committee so we the board would have to approve those versus it being a subcommittee of the board okay so yeah go ahead how um what are we looking at for meeting as far as sounds like probably weekly every other week what probably every other week and it's fine to schedule these remote uh but I think once we get the work stood up uh hopefully we'll get to a little bit more regular pace and we were hoping that

265there would be more meetings up front as needed and then once the work gets flowing um that pair down but really focusing on getting that ad hoc together as often as possible to get this up and running um and make sure everybody's going in the right direction it it seems like we're in favor of creating this who's interested in serving on it trusty Casten do you want to say anything or if hold let's see how many hands I see raise your hand if you're interested okay I see more than three people so talk yeah I mean I would like to serve on this I think there's a lot of important work in here I also think some of this work is going to overlap with the finance committee's um creation of policy and other elements

266of things that we're doing within the finance committee so I think there's some benefit for uh cross uh cross-pollinating information we get through this process um for me as the chair of the finance committee in order to bring it into our policy and process development and then you know I I I greatly respect D Dr Carter but this is going to be an atog committee where the notes are being posted but it's not going to be a publicly accessible meeting and so I do want to um apply my rigor um of of questioning and and Analysis directly and you know to the extent of the board would appreciate that I'd appreciate the opportunity to serve try dor thank you Pres Al um I've look for the opportunity to um serve on this ad hoc to

267bring a um very Collective perspective to this opportunity not only as a parent who has brought children preschool through college but also as an advocate for academics Athletics special education IEPs 504s um and having a proper understanding of what our community is going through during these different stages of Education um and ensuring that that voice is always student forward and that our teachers and staff are being prioritized so they can actually Implement um what we're hoping to do um and that's a voice that I've had for the last 30 years and a voice that I'd like to bring to the ad hoc um also very safety forward as being a member of the ad hoc committee for the 3X3 with the city of Santa Rosa to work on the SRO mou um I think it's

268very important that safety remain a priority um and this will be one one more opportunity to Champion those thoughts Mr manieri um I was thinking along the same lines as trusty Casten as a chair of the policy committee I was thinking maybe there would be some conversations that we would have to bring to the policy committee to make sure work is is really getting done so that we can bring that back to the board and and keep things flowing and and moving smoothly so that's exactly where my mind went trusty Jenkins yeah I um I'm interested in it as a systems think um with hands in the police stuff through ccat as well as the mental health side but also as a new new member to the board and kind of new in the governance

269and really focused on moving us forward and reimagining and rebuilding and um in addition I'm such an information person and like to be um like to give information out to the community um and so I think I think it would be really helpful to get the information straight from folks to to get that out effectively trusty Kirby no am I allowed to make a recommendation so I would recommend this is partially based on people's availability I would recommend trustees Casten and de la Tori because they have a lot of time and they are always boots on the ground and I would recommend trusty manieri just as a more senior board member I love you trusty Jenkins it's just I have to pick three that that would be my recommendation um with an ad hoc would

270it be would it be possible to have like an alternate for one if um with meetings occurring a lot that would probably go into serial meeting oh oh that makes sense okay thank you for clarification so further discussion or a motion trustee Jenkins are you okay with the recommendation from the president then I'll move the recommendations as stated one second as that motion and second also approving this partnership that wasn't stated so yes okay right right so moved by trusty Casten seconded by trusty Maneri roll call vote trusty Casten hi trusty manieri hi trusty Kirby hi trusty Medina hi trusty Jenkins hi trusty deori hi president McNelly hi motion passes thank you Dr Carter and all of you go thank you thank you we're great and I want to thank Dr Matthews for being here

271on his birthday okay I feel like we need Dr xans now I'm sorry simly stopped loading for me so I'm trying to read this paper agenda um so we're on approval of memorandum of understanding reached with Santa Rosa city schools and the California School employee Association region 75 regarding the classified employee calendar yes thank you um so I will try and make this quick but um in addition to the instructional calendar which needs to be approved every year um there's also a classified calendar that indicates to our class classified members um when their start date is when their end date is how many days they work in the school year where their um their holidays are and so that calendar um needs to be approved as well um there's nothing different with the start date

272of school and the end date of school it just indicates where 10 month school year 10mon 11mth and year 12 month employees start their work year and end their work here questions discussion a motion motion to approve second moved by trusty deor seconded by trusty Medina roll call vote trusty deor hi trusty Medina hi trusty Caston hi trusty Kirby hi trusty Jenkins hi trusty Maneri hi president MCN hi motion passes right um okay so the next resolution that I have is to adopt the seniority date tiebreaking criteria to determine the order of terminating among classified employees with the same date of paid service so with um the number of layoff notices that we have issued often times there are two people that have the same date that they started working with us and we need

273some mechanism in order to be able to break the tie so we are proposing that um the tiebreaking criteria for classified be um after time in the classification would be time served with the district and if there is a tie between that then we are suggesting some sort of Lottery um which can as I've spoken before manifest itself in v a variety of ways one being drawing cards it could be drawing straws it could be that cute little thing that you do you know that app where all the names go in a circle and then you pick one so some sort of Lottery um to determine but um we currently don't have a tiebreaking criteria established for classified questions trust dtor so something that keeps coming to my mind is where if it does or

274doesn't where does Merit fall into place when it comes to these situations Merit does not come to place uh we're not a merit District we um are based on seniority so we could potentially have two employees with the same tenure and one is performing much higher but that would never be in consideration correct rest Medina what input or if any did our classified Union have into this or is this separate we worked together in deciding what we wanted the tiebreaking criteria to be thank you discussion motion I'll move to accept it I'll second uh trusty Medina's motion and just wanted on record that um to not be a merit-based district um is it's very disheartening when we have people putting so much time and effort into their craft and education to be the best of

275the best and we're not considering that when we have to go through these horrible calls right moved by trusty Medina second in by trusty deor roll call vote trusty Medina hi trusty deor hi trusty Caston hi trusty Kirby hi trusty Jenkins hi trusty manier hi president McNelly hi motion passes right another tiebreaking criteria yes um so this tiebreaking criteria is for termination among supervisory and unrepresented employees with the same date of paid service in the um classification and the tie breaking criteria that we are suggesting again is um ties in seniority will be broken by length of service with the district excluding years of service as a day-to-day substitute again if there was still a tie after that then it would be by Lottery trusty Jenkins why is why is the day-to-day stuff not included

276when a person is in a classified position they're not placed on the seniority list so they could sub off and on for a matter of years and then become an employee of the district and we no longer use um hours or days of service we now use the um seniority date as the criteria move to approve one second moved by trusty Medina seconded by trusty manieri any other discussion roll call vote trusty Medina hi trusty manieri hi trusty Casten hi trusty Kirby hi trusty Jenkins hi trusty de laor hi president MCN I motion passes thank you Dr xans okay now we have a discussion Bo strategic planning update um that would me I'm sharing the document that was on uploaded with um our board agenda this is an overview of what strategic planning would include

277um I'll let you know that it is a lengthy process um it has different components it it has you know the ideas to create a vision that is our our our North our North Star with clear um Mission which is our purpose as well as strategic goals that will drive the work for 3 to 5 years and then annual objectives that are could be done should be done on an annual basis so that you could refocus and revisit the work year toe that's how through annual annual objectives the the the vision doesn't die because it it is updated every year um and again it has lots of components the big component is bringing the community together to do a what is called a SWAT analysis which is analyzing our strengths weaknesses our threats and opport

278opportunities in developing that plan one of the also components of a of a strategic plan is having a district level graduate um profile and I know some of our high schools have it but we would like to have one that is um for a districtwide in terms of what we want our graduates to be able to do or be by the end of the time that they leave with us um so there each step is is a lengthy process depending upon how deep we need to go um we need to update our vision Our Miss we just updated our district values which are Embrace engage and Empower and so we would need to do further work on those areas I met um over the last couple days with um um vice president Maneri to talk

279about the equity assessment that we want to look at and so that's another component that we want to incorporate as part of this um I want to caution that this starting this while we're trying to launch the first day of school is is Mass it's a massive undertaking because it's the same team doing this work um I would recommend that we work on finding the equity assessment tool that we want to create and um I've already started working with the CTE Foundation to help us do the work around The Graduate vote profile that could work really well in line with the specialized programs that we want at all of the schools and I think if we can work on those two and then start really in the fall the Strategic plan um and by bringing

280all the community together I think it would work best because right now our teens I can't pull any of our team members to work on this and I know we wanted to do an in in house um and so that's kind of where I'm at so I'll open it up for discussions and what you're thinking trusty Casten so and I feel like when we first got on the board all Less Than 3 months ago um uh that going into a comprehensive strategic planning process was incredibly important but having now had the last two and a half months um transpire we have a lot of planning we've just done and execution that we need to focus on and I feel like we should plan to do this with a start date after the school year started

281but recognizing that there's two really important strategic things that need to happen this year and one is the theming and Outreach around or the theming for campuses because we have a process of picking which programs we're not going to duplicate at our campuses and then our facilities Master planning work that's needed for year one and two expenditures and so I'm wondering is there a way to do planning process for the things that we need to plan for now and then separate at this out to be something that we can do bigger and more thoroughly later um I think that would go really well in line with a profile of a graduate because one of the things that actually the team is working on for for us is um seeing all of the mapping out and

282charting out all the programs that are currently offered at all the high schools so we can visually see what those are as we start that conversation with um the team that's going to be helping us do the profile and we can see what is where and kind of the focus that I think that would go really hand inand with that process that we are starting like as soon as possible we can tackle the profile of a graduate um we just can't you know and if you'll see in the documents there's a place where it says include you know The Graduate of a profile the profile of a graduate as part of the strategic planning so we'll have that done as we build the rest of the plan how would U something of a timeline we

283complete that before June or probably even earlier because right you need to make program decisions and catalog and so like I said the team is working on charting all of that out for us and it's something that and I'm meeting with um Debbie and and I always forget his last name Roman from the scaling success organization that's actually the one that has worked with both of our high schools on the profile and so he's on board to help us with this and we're reaching out to CT to see how they can also help us incorporate um in that process so we're starting that as soon as possible I've been envisioning that the theming and the establishment of those focuses for each the high schools would get codified by the board in some way shape or

284form so you're starting as soon as possible it's also March I know so uh like what would the public be able to expect so she said Daisy when this is Debbie um RCT director and she was hoping to get it to um the charting done by this afternoon so it's literally I'll probably have it by tomorrow um I can share that with the board so you can see all of the programs I also want to bring in the principles into that conversation and so again in the next literally could have had it today it's not in my hands yet but it where when I'm saying we're working on it like immediately by the next meeting we should have an update as to where we are in terms of plan for that profile and all of

285the information around what programs are currently being offered at all of the sites and then that would give us time to do Outreach with parents teachers and then I'll having met with the CTE foundation and all of them what kind of is the goal for having the profile done which I'm hoping that is before the summer trusty manier um if we move forward with this kind of split work um that trusty kassen just mentioned I would just like to add for the equity assessment to also be on that um shorter timeline I think we really need to do that before we hit the ground running on a lot of the work that we're going to do starting in the next school year and yes so I need to meet with the contact that you mentioned

286that the city has in order to see what tool they've created um so that we can make it educationally focused in order to be able to have that tool that you know I'm glad to hear that for years we've wanted to have and so we'll that would be the two things that we could work on simultaneously I also want to add my voice to support those two being at the Forefront um again everything we do as a district should be Equity driven and the sooner we can get to a matrix um to help measure that then the better we'll be prepared to serve our community completely agreed JY Kirby um I just wanted to thank you for bringing this forward I know it was uh something I included in one of my goals uh for

287for you to help us guide this process so so important to you know with all the changes we've got going on to it's really hard to do it on the fly like we we're doing right now but um but yes we we absolutely have to get this started so sure thanks again for bringing it Forward you're welcome with the um just want to make sure that as we're planning stuff that we're are we capturing data right now about where people are choosing to go to school is that being captured so to certain degree and I think um Miss deser would would be able to give us more details but one of the things that sco is offering as part of their service is to do an analysis as to where students are going so they're

288going to actually hire a company that's going to help us do some of that digging so it's one of the reports that sco will be preparing for us beautiful trusty Caston building off trustee D tor's comments on the equity analysis is now the right time because I I would like to make sure there's a certain bread of scope for that analysis um do we need to give that now or is that going to be a process where so it's not an analysis it's a tool that we could use when major decisions are made so it's like a matrix that we would be able to look at the various components whenever making so we're we're looking to create a tool that would help us do analysis not an analysis but the uh the scope in which

289the tool considers um so I4 special ed uh two parent working households some of the things that are a little more detailed than we get just with unduplicated there's there's a a greater need for analysis than we get with just unduplicated and a few of the things we're currently getting so is that already contemplated or do we need to say that now so when we bring forth what the tool that we'll draft we'll look at it with those those kind of lenses of what else we want to include I've looked and looked for an equity Matrix in the educational realm I have not been able to find one um and speaking with um trusty U Miner she says that the city has one that they use and so the the County's office of equity the

290county okay so she's going to make you know put me in contact with that person see if they'll share what they've created um and I've put out my feelers to my network to see if anybody has one that exists I have yet to find one that is already made for an educational realm I just want so if anybody as you're looking and analyzing let me know if you find if you find one thank you any other questions or discussion this is a discussion item only no action tonight all right then we can move on to consent items um no items were pulled right so we are seeking a motion on items G1 through 15 motion approve items G1 through 15 second okay moved by trusty deor seconded by trusty Medina roll call vote trusty deori

291hi trusty Medina hi trusty Casten hi trusty Kirby hi trusty Jenkins hi trusty manieri hi president MCN hi motion passes motion approve minutes of the regular board meeting held on December 11 2024 second moved by Del Tor seconded by maner roll call vote trusty de Tori hi trusty Maneri hi trusty Caston abstain trusty Kirby i n you're abstaining you abstain sorry I abstain that was an old me trusty Medina hi trusty Jenkins abstain president mcnell I motion passes okay seeking a motion on the February 5th agenda or minutes motion to approve minutes of the special board meeting held on February 5th second roll call vote trusty deori hi trusty Casten hi trusty Kirby hi trusty Medina stain trusty Jenkins I trusty manieri hi president mcnell I motion passes motion to approve minutes of the board

292study session on February 7th 2025 second roll call vote trusty D theor hi trusty Casten hi trusty Kirby hi trusty Medina stain trusty Jenkins hi trusty manieri hi president McNelly I motion passes motion of approval of minutes of the regular board meeting held on February 12th 2025 second roll call trusty delator hi trusty Casten hi trusty Kirby hi trusty Medina stain trusty Jenkins hi trusty manary I'm stain president mcnell I motion passes approval the minutes of special board meeting study session held on February 18th 2025 roll call vote trusty deor hi trusty Casten hi trusty Kirby hi trusty Medina stain trusty Jenkins it was said 18th but on here is the 19th on the 21st oh gosh there's so many meetings I we had a lot of meetings trusty man I president mcnell I motion

293passes approval of the minutes of the regular board meeting held on February 19th 2025 second roll call trusty de laor hi trusty Casten hi trusty Kirby hi trusty Medina I'm stain trusty Jenkins hi trusty manieri hi president mcnell I motion passes I move approval of the min minut for the meeting from February 21st with one small amendment in the motion it states um experiential methodology and the motion was actually Project based learning in the um in the in the motion thank you I will make that amendment is there a second second roll call vote trusty Casten hi trusty deor hi trusty Kirby hi trusty Medina stain trusty Jenkins hi trusty manieri hi president mcnell Hi motion passes approval of minutes of the regular board meeting held on February 26 20125 second roll call trusty deori

294hi trusty Casten hi trusty Kirby hi trusty Medina hi trusty Jenkins hi trusty maner abstain president McNelly abstain motion passes all right are there any board member requests for information trusty Maneri yes um I would like an update on the implementation of the El master plan please and then just to make this a formal request um information around the school codes for prop 28 what was the second one I'm sorry uh School codes and prop 28 Trust Medina um first off I'm glad that we're actually going to finish one meeting for this year um I'd like to request information on the implementation of the uh California College guidance initiative um information sharing mou that we signed at the end of last year um with the California colleges program um I'd also like um an update

295on the status of the feature of the Magnolia project that currently exists at Santa Rosa Middle School what the future will be and how that's been working um and I think I'll leave it at those two for right now any other requests right we have our information items at at the bottom of the agenda meeting adjourned