001we are now live good evening thank you all for attending today's meeting of the san jose city school board opening this meeting wednesday may 25th 2022 we will start our meeting as we have done throughout this year with a territorial land acknowledgement and i'm going to turn it over to student board member georgia beard to present for us hello okay um i acknowledge the santa rosa city schools is on the traditional territory and homelands of the pomo people traditional territory in the homelands of the coast miwok people in honor with gratitude the land itself and the people who have stewarded it throughout the generations this land acknowledgment calls us to commit to learning to how to be better stewards of the land we inhabit by offering this land acknowledgment we affirm indigenous sovereignty and will
002work to hold santa rosa city schools more accountable to the needs of the american indian and indigenous peoples thank you georgia nicely done we will continue to honor the past and the president for the future of this land and for our school community with respect and gratitude everyone could please rise everyone in attendance please rise for the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right our hearts are broken horrific incident yesterday that took place at robb elementary school in texas is devastating it's hard to hear about these tragedies and not think about our own families our own students our own schools i usually take the time at
003the start of our meetings to give some grounding remarks but my heart right now is too broken even when we have so many things to celebrate the end of the school year graduations summer camps for the kiddos warm weather summertime activities my thoughts are not there today the horror of yesterday keeps happening no matter who you are it's gut-wrenching to think about the innocent victims children and teachers and what's going on in our society that could bring someone to commit such atrocities after incidents like these there's of course immediate strong reactions a lot of talk calls for action reform policy making blame always who's to blame but right now for me my emotions are too raw to speak of stupid political differences and opinions we need to get ourselves through tonight's meeting we need to
004get through the school year we need to hug our little ones a little tighter but right now we do what humans do when instances like this a moment of silence reflect and prayers for the victims of the families silence for mass shootings have become pretty routine and that maybe that's one more thing for us to reflect on tonight so we'll begin our meeting with a moment of silence for the souls of the victims and for the survivors whose lives are now forever changed thank you for the silence agenda item c3 report on actions taken in closed session and no actions to report c4 items considered in closed session for action open session no items to report see five statements of extension are there abstain statements of extension tonight seeing none adjustments to the agenda do
005we have adjustments board members omar yeah i think um under consent items i'd like to pull f5 f8 and f14 i didn't quite catch that omar which consent items f5 f8 and f14 five six and fourteen eight five eight and fourteen and fourteen all right thank you other board members um i would like to make an adjustment we have a very long agenda tonight um i would like if we could adjust e4 e5 and e6 and place these items at the end of the agenda following e11 okay seeking approval for these adjustments that's a pretty pretty big bite board members if you just give a nod okay all right um we'll move on to c7 special presentations for students of the month and certificated classified employees of the month president sheffield would we like to
006ask the members of the public if they wish to pull any consent items oh i'm sorry thank you thank you adina uh for any members of the public that would like to pull a consent item for public comment later on in the meeting please go ahead and raise your hand on zoom at this time and there were no hands raised thank you all right now we will move on to our c7 special presentation for student of the month and certificated classified employees of the month tonight we are honoring students and staff from procter terrace biella and san rosa charter for the arts the presentation will recognize our students for their academics their character and their praiseworthy accomplishments we will also be honoring our certificated and classified employees for their outstanding dedication and service so joining
007us from for these presentations we have principles from the schools we will start with proctor terrace we have principal davis [Applause] blue thank you all right better oh i can hear myself better okay so again i'm amanda davis i'm the principal at procter terrace elementary school and i have the privilege tonight of recognizing three individuals of our community i'm going to start with our certificated member miss carol forrest first grade teacher who's here with us tonight [Applause] carol horace is proctor terrace's certificated staff member who's being recognized tonight ms forrest teaches some of our youngest students on campus she brings so much joy and love of learning to our community the students in her classroom are always buzzing with excitement as she provides meaningful learning opportunities filled with exploration ms forrest is a dedicated teacher
008and her commitment to education is astounding she serves our school community in a variety of roles such as one of our lead teachers elac representative and pta representative she continues to build and maintain relationships with our families built upon trust ms forrest takes initiative and is a team player she helps supervise students when staffing has been compromised which provides the opportunity to connect with former students she teaches an after-school program for our primary el students as teaching students english is a passion of hers she celebrates students cultures making a community where all students feel welcome our proctor terrace community is fortunate to have carol educating students leading our team and inspiring all who work alongside her congratulations to miss carol forrest our first grade teacher congratulations carol we're big fans in my house and our
009next person to recognize tonight is our classified team member lexi prong the proctor terrace community selected lexi prom as our classified team member for the month lexi is one of our noon duty supervisors at proctor terrace she invests in building relationships with students and staff the students always know they can go to miss lexie when they need assistance or even have something special to share with her she is restorative in the way that she problem-solves with students and she supports them in using tools to communicate to overcome disagreements as a member of the noon duty team she actively collaborates with others and is solution based in her work lexi has been incredibly flexible and filled various roles in order to support our team she spent a lot of this year in the front office navigating
010all things covet while learning new systems and processes we appreciate her willingness to jump right in and be a team player with a positive attitude and outlook congratulations to lexi prom congratulations lexi and our third person that we get to recognize tonight in our community is mr ben hunter 6th grade student it is with great pleasure that the proctor terrorist community recognizes ben hunter as the student of the month for santa rosa city schools ben is a sixth grade student who has continued to learn and become confident young individual over the last few years his teacher miss hyatt has had been for the last two school years and states that she has witnessed a different been this school year one who grew not only academically but personally and emotionally ben became an eager involved leader
011in his sixth grade classroom we have never heard ben speak an unkind word to a student in class and in fact he has become unafraid to speak up for what needs to be done or injustices that may take place on the school yard his actions speak volumes he speaks in a way that can be heard to friends and adults alike as a result his classmates respect and admire him ben has requested to be the classroom runner for several months and he manages this job easily along with his regular workload ben helps out after school every day in the classroom and will help in any task big or small he has given up recesses just to help set up activities or to work out a problem he is respectful and kind to the teachers he interacts
012with and not only makes a delivery to another classroom but make sure to take the initiative to report back to his teacher any messages from the classrooms he's visited ben will take on any job big or small and to complete it with pride and a smile on his face ben is respected by his peers because he is kind reliable trustworthy and just plain fun to be around we are so proud of ben for bringing his a game to sixth grade it has not gone unnoticed by all who worked with him congratulations to ben and unfortunately he's not able to be with us tonight because he's out and mendocino at outdoor ed having a wonderful time but we look forward to celebrating you in person tomorrow thank you congratulations to ben thank you principal david thank
013you all right we're going to move on to biela and if we have principal trend is she is she she's not in the audience we could have her yes yes there we go hi everybody welcome joining from online i'm a little under the weather so please excuse me um today i get the opportunity to recognize three special people from our school site um our student of the month our certificated and our classified member um i would like to start with our student if that's possible and we're all joining in online tonight because a few of us are under the weather so if we can bring forth our student if the student award recipient for viola is present could you please raise your hand at this time and i see someone by the name of michelle
014um that is mom so yes go ahead and let them in thank you all right here's our student of the month elijah vang now elijah is a sixth grade student at biela and he was chosen for student of the month because he has the qualities of an exemplary student his teacher shares elijah is a young man deserving of recognition there are many things to admire about elijah but the thing that stands out the most is his empathy elijah can always be counted on to help another student who is experiencing a difficult day while elijah has strong opinions he's also open to other people's ideas and open to changing his mind if our arguments are logical we will miss elijah abbiela we will miss his smile conversation laugh kind words his love of history and inquisitive
015mind wherever elijah goes in the future he will be bring these traits with him making any place a better place congratulations elijah you have earned this award over the hard days and years you've worked as a committed student and just being an amazing person congratulations elia elijah this honor is for you today thank you so much [Applause] very humble here elijah we're also going to recognize um our staff member a certificated staff member of the month um and i believe she's joining us online as well um i guess we can bring her forward principal tran she's on her way over thank you so much all right we have our certificated employee of the month jennifer evans with us today jennifer evans was chosen to be bls certificated employee of the month because her willingness to
016serve students and be an amazing team player she's one of our sixth grade teachers and loves to guide students to love reading she has strength in building relationships with her students she once shared with me that the key to building relationships with her students was the fact that she treats each of her students as individuals and not little kids this academic year jennifer took an active leadership role for the betterment of our school she is currently one of our site leads and also helps lead student council she is approaching her seventh year as a teacher with confidence grace and a supportive attitude she's well deserving of of this honor and i'm happy to have her as a teammate on my staff this recognition is for you jennifer thank you so much thank you congratulations and
017we also have our classified employee of the month if we can bring her forward as well she's on her way over awesome all right annette so our classified employee of the month at biela is annette ochoa and annette was chosen to be biela's classified employee of the month she serves as our family engagement facilitator since last school year she has a can-do attitude and is always willing to do what she can asking what she can do to support our team we have increased our family engagement through her efforts through calling meeting leading discussions in elac and just much more she greets our english learner families with dignity and respect she advocates supports and provides resources for all of our families she goes above and beyond to support students families and her colleagues a net exemplifies
018what an ideal employee looks like and we are so fortunate to have her as a part of our bella team so this recognition is for you in it thank you principal tran thank you as well all right we will move on to santa rosa charter school for the arts and if we have principal vogel in-house good evening hello welcome our certificated employee of the month for santa rosa charter school for the arts is sally genoglio sally genoglio has been an integral part of the teaching staff at santa rosa charter school for the arts for the past five years as a first grade teacher sally engaged her students in lessons through her thoughtful planning incorporating her students interest into them sally created the calm and centered environment for her students ensuring that their needs were met
019so that they were ready to learn this year sally took on the role of tosa as our reading intervention specialist this was a role new to our school this year sally is credited with building our reading intervention program to what it is today from scratch at the beginning of the school year sally created an amazing reading lab on campus that is warm and inviting become proficient with the reading intervention curriculum thoughtfully added to the library to ensure that there were plenty of high interest books for students to engage with at both their just right and instructional levels many times students who are struggling in reading become embarrassed about their reading skills and may be hesitant to engage with reading or learn to present as stronger readers than they are well aware of this sally created
020a safe environment for all of her students to take risks in their learning she thoughtful and thoughtfully and strategically created and rearranged student groupings to ensure that students were properly being challenged in small group dynamics that would support risk taking in improving reading skills through her data-driven instruction sally was able to maximize the time working with her students by ensuring that student students were growing their reading skills and moving them to a more rigorous level at a steady pace in addition to being a strong teacher and reading intervention specialist sally is a collaborative and supportive calling to her peers she is always willing to be a thoughtful partner with teachers and staff sharing both ideas lessons and materials sally brings positivity to her work every day we are so fortunate to have sally genoa as
021part of our teaching team at santa rosa charter school for the arts she is a hard week working and deeply dedicated teacher congratulations sally congratulations sally thank you our classified employee of the month for santa rosa charter school for the arts is bianca hammeter bianca has been the elementary health technician at santa rosa charter school for the arts for the past three years bianca shows up to work every day with a positive can-do attitude it is clear that bianca cares deeply about the well-being of every member of our school community she's a team player willing to take on many roles to ensure the success of our students staff and families in addition to managing our covered protocols contact tracing and isolation tent bianca is willing to fill in for lunch supervision and support with office
022coverage when needed she does all of this with grace and kindness bianca has worked to build trust and rapport with our students when a student falls ill bianca is the first to check on them to learn more about what is going on bianca's efficient and gentle manner ensures that our students feel taken care of through her clear and compassionate communication bianca has supported our families in navigating the sometimes confusing and challenging changing quarantine and safety protocols bianca is a team player who significantly contributes to our sense of collective accomplishment on a daily basis congratulations bianca [Applause] congratulations our student of the month is dylan buchanani paris dylan has been a student at santa rosa charter school for the arts since she was in third grade dylan is now in eighth grade dylan is a student
023who encourages others and leads by example she always puts maximum effort into her work and contributes to class discussions she has had a great sense of humor and is an and is an active student in extracurriculars dylan plays intramural mural sports and is a solid teammate in both flag football and quidditch yes quidditch quidditch dylan is an active member in our student leadership club she helped plan our middle school dance a canned food drive and several spirit days miss buganyani paris has been a dedicated member of the restorative student council which is a select group of eighth graders who help resolve conflicts among the primary students on campus dylan is a student who values academics as well as a fun school environment during distance learning dylan kept working hard and made sure to complete each
024and every assignment the teachers and staff at santa rosa charter school for the arts are so proud of you dylan congratulations you earned it congratulations while polling for you to get that quidditch scholarship all right well thank you principals and congratulations once more to our students and staff we are all very proud of you we're going to move on to agenda item c8 school site parent organization updates and we have um representatives from these schools we'll start with um with proctor terrace and gina if we have gina hello genome hi thank you for having me i'm thrilled to be here representing the proctor terrace community we've had an eventful year at proctor terrace um excuse me we've had an eventful year at procter terrace with teachers staff and parent volunteers coming together to facilitate all
025the extra events and programs that make our children's school experience so special the year began with the return of tigerfest which is our annual fall carnival with students playing games showing off costumes socializing and winning prizes in small ships on the blacktop as covid was still in full swing if it is not and still in full swing long-time parent volunteer maureen ryan revived our art docent program in which parents come in and facilitate art lessons and projects based on a curriculum provided by the art docent program which is funded by pta students absolutely love their art docent days and it is the talk of pick up garden coordinator and master gardener carla barber sunberg has been hard at work as usual bringing our students a taste of farm to table and so much more in
026the garden students have the priceless experience of connecting with the earth and learning about nature and food production in a tangible way the garden team has also been diligently chipping away at the new habitat garden going in at proctor the garden will include a mixture of native plants which attract pollinators this year our readathon led by parent volunteer kate lewis was combined with kindness week and was both a great learning and fundraising success students had the opportunity to read to a dog to build confidence dress as their favorite fictional character and more our spring art show and open house featuring the students artwork was on the 19th students provided not only art but also beautiful music as a backdrop to further welcome families back onto campus and rebuild community students have been enjoying field trips
027to the sonoma county water agency and rancho marques even as we speak our sixth graders are returning from outdoor ed in monas in mendocino where they're deepening their commitment to be stewards of the environment of course none of these amazing things would be possible without the tireless commitment of our teachers they are truly the foundation of our school together with parent volunteers they make procter the magical place it is filling in the gaps where state and local funding are lacking to give our children the best possible experience thank you so much thank you and next up we have aaron from um viela she's on her way over great thank you hi erin welcome hi thank you for having me uh good evening my name is erin de kleva and i am the co-president of the
028blpta the mother of two current bls students and i'm an educator in the katana runner park unified school district i'm proud to report that the blf pta has been hard at work this school year we're funding incentives programs to help with behavior in classrooms we provide teacher supplies including some new kits for first grade science supporting staff and teacher appreciation weeks and we finished updating the emergency backpacks for the school and resupplying classrooms with updated water bottles and non-peanut-based snacks in addition the pta carried off a really successful walk-a-thon two weeks ago including a student art contest for the design of a t-shirt it was won by a sixth grade student who designed a really wonderful mascot picture so two herons on the front the t-shirt was then worn by students during the walk-a-thon they
029got prizes for laps completed and a fresh fruit cup snack donated by oliver's it was a really wonderful event that brought our school community together they were really exhausted after the exercise and the walkathon raised more than 3 500 for the pta it was a really successful event next school year the pta is really looking forward to pursuing a multicultural event and um we really want to host an authentic science fair event as well to support steam at yella so we can't wait for next school year and looking forward to future successes thank you so much and next we have representative from santa rosa charter school for the arts we have tara she's on her way over thank you hi welcome i'm tara renner a member of seiko the school for the arts community organization
030which is the pto at santa rosa charter school for the arts the 2021 2022 school year has been a year of rebuilding the board for us after returning to campus after distance learning we began the year with our annual seed drive which is the student education enhancement drive our community raised four hundred dollars for our teachers to purchase supplies to enhance the arts integrated education of our students our annual board with our annual budget was passed in november which allocated funds to various items including new art tables to our classrooms a kiln ceramic supplies chairs for our 8th grade chair project library improvements instrument maintenance the school garden science lab supplies dance room supplies and leadership supplies and many more we hosted a very successful book fair in february which funded even more new books
031for our libraries and classrooms the students loved the book fair as always the first week of may brought teacher appreciation week seiko hosted morning donuts and and coffee and then on another day lunch for the faculty and staff a couple of weeks ago we were ecstatic to bring back our annual art walk our version of the walkathon after missing out on it last year the students parents and staff had an amazing day of music walking prizes raffle baskets and time spent with each other we have currently raised twenty thousand dollars and are still collecting funds for a few more days looking forward to 2022 2023 uh we hope to grow our board to its 10-parent volunteer capacity we're also looking forward to planning the welcome back ice cream social to kick off the school year
032we've missed that for a few years and we know 2022-23 is going to be a great year thanks for your time thank you tara thank you all parents for your updates we're going to move on to agenda item c9 public comment on non-agenda items we do have a blue card from from gabriel good afternoon everyone welcome hear me thank you um gabriel bavera here principal lcl in high school i wrote a few things down i want to share uh it's great pleasure that i come before you to give you a brief history of the great work that we've been working at lc allen i know i was here in march a lot has happened since then i'm excited to share that with all of you since then our staff had approved the seven day period
033for our el students struggling students and offer them the opportunity to take more classes and all select the courses that our el students were not able to take as our community should know we have a the university program that offers free tuition to sonoma state university a partnership between san jose schools and solomon state offering a full year of college tuition savings of over ten thousand dollars we've also had our design team that have come and presented to the board and will come back again in june in support of a graduate profile that will give our students relevant pathways that integrate both cte and college prep courses as well as offer the academic and social emotional skills development support necessary to enable all students to complete the college preparatory curriculum at our school and we've
034also had stakeholder engagement in the co-design process engaging lcl and high school students along with cesar chavez language academy students parents educators and local employers to define what it means to be prepared upon completion of high school and to provide input on new models of education and learning validating lcl and high school's graduate profile identifying skills minds and attributes that they believe that the students need to be successful in our economy our community of life and we can't forget the vision that we had a few years ago to create sonoma county's first dual immersion high school that work included the transformation of lcl and high school to a model devoted to develop a multilingual multicultural literacy that celebrates the witness the richness of the students it serves as a resource that sustains and enriches the
035southwest center rosa community and also contributing to a pipeline of bilingual multicultural local workforce and who can forget the wasp accreditation that we just received for six years we've also applied for a 300 thousand dollar cde dual language grant our new school model grant of fifty thousand dollars is the cte foundation and with the help of the cte foundation as of yesterday we've been granted a 1.1 million dollar grant all right thank you dave we've got to wrap it up but thank you thank you there's so much to appreciate so and last thing i just want to thank this board uh along with the cte foundation uh superintendent tranel uh amber figueroa steven jackson the continuous support and love for our vision that we had a few years ago and uh i also want to
036thank uh all the folks the directors uh debbie cardozo and elvis yamas as well as tim zelinar and kelly dillon so thank you guys thank you thank you and uh real quick tomorrow we have the mural celebration dedication for those that would want to come by we have an excellent uh a program for everybody thank you thank you thank you all right we do have a full agenda we're going to open it up for public comment for folks online and we're going to set it at two minutes if there are any members online that would like to comment on a non-agenda item please raise your hand at this time and it looks like our first speaker is diego oh hi um i'm a senior at center with a high school yeah could we have you
037state your full name for the record please oh i'm diego guzman barajas i'm a senior at central high school i just wanted to make a quick comment about uh parking um parking has been like kind of a challenge throughout the year not enough parking spaces and then a lot of people also take our parking spots i guess so i guess what i'm trying to say is like maybe designated parking would be uh appreciated at the school and uh if possible maybe more parking offered but i know that's probably not as big a deal i just might make it serious just having designated parking spots that's all thank you diego and president sheffield there were no other hands raised at this time wow all right we are going to well first of all thank you all
038to those who spoke with your issues and your concerns we are going to agenda item c10 special presentation for our outgoing student board member georgia good evening president sheffield members of the board our audience in person and online this evening is our board pres our student board president excuse me student board members last formal meeting of the school year and i'd like to just take an opportunity for everyone to give her a round of applause a lot of courage and determination uh as a senior at montgomery high school to balance her studies uh being a scholar athlete and also to balance the responsibilities of being a school board member so we have for you a little gift i'm just going to pass it down as a token of our gratitude um and the excitement for
039what's ahead for you we're wishing you well and we would love for you to open it here and also if you could share with us what your future plans are thank you [Laughter] get to the good stuff that's right so what we've provided to her is a beautiful leather journal so that she can do whatever she needs to do to document and be successful in her future endeavors it has a heart on it hi um my future plans uh i am going to the santa barbara city college and then hoping to transfer after two years um to a uc hopefully i'm not sure if i want to do ucsb but if i like it in santa barbara then i'm gonna go for that um yeah and i'm gonna play tennis i'm gonna play tennis a
040little bit in between not sure if i'm gonna play for the college but i've been training for 16 years so i'll i feel like i'm have a hard time completely leaving it behind so i'll i'll play here and there yeah i'm not sure what i want my hand you will do great wherever you go george i just want to say you know thank you for being the voice of our students and for representing the values and the interests of um of our schools and you have offered a lot of perspective and insight to all of us and um you're a bright star and we know that you will continue to sign so thank you so much for your dedication and and your commitment to this task thank you so much other board members anything you
041want to add i've gotten to sit by georgia for most of the meetings that are in person and it was a long time to meet you in person but as a as a viking you're doing a good job because really you know you got selected from your high school to be a board member so you've learned a lot you've contributed i wish you the best you're a thoughtful person congratulations thank you for being with us her whispers to me and back and forth she's so interested it prayed thank you georgia georgia i just want to say that it's very refreshing to see young students engage in our democratic process uh this is a this is not a fun position right we we ask a lot of you you've been here without complaining during your iv
042tests and i just want to say it doesn't go unnoticed i just want to say thank you and i wish you the best of luck for your future endeavors take care trustee manieri i see your hand raised thank you i just want to say i am so excited for you georgia and um you have demonstrated just a level of determination and perseverance um and it's just really inspiring and i know that you've inspired so many other young people to step up and and to do things and to be engaged so you definitely left your mark in santa rosa on montgomery high school in sonoma county and i am just so excited to see everything that you accomplish um as you head on out and and fly and spread your wings and i'm just i just
043can't emphasize like how excited i am for you um santa barbara is going to be so fun you're going to have such a good time and we just i wish you the best of luck and i know that you're going to do amazing things all right well thank you again georgia we're going to move on to our d items our reports we will start with d1 our csea president mary layman come on down mary welcome no really have to speak into this one we're in the back and i'm not sure that you asked for um public comment from people in person and i have meryl in the back and she would like to um public comment on non-agenda items in person all right we can do that before i talk before i give my report
044i don't know did we she's here let's go ahead let's do it can she go ahead yes please thank you good evening superintendent trinell president sheffield and members of the board i'll be on my tiptoes all night i'm meryl i teach fifth grade at monroe elementary school remember when covid was brand new and schools were shut down and students and families were stuck at home teachers and all members of the community were safe the past tense is what i'd like to emphasize because in this district i do not feel safe i spoke at the beginning of the month of urging you to look at the data points being collected by covid coordinators yet as another covet outbreak is surging there is no communications there's no communication to families about the current situation in my class
045alone there were five of us who tested positive within two weeks myself included in my family we are dealing with the lasting health effects of covid as my husband was recently diagnosed with a pulmonary right bundle branch block which puts him at higher risk of a stroke now in petaluma city schools where my daughter attends there are emails being sent out if there are classes who have reached the outbreak level based on sonoma county public health guidance and outbreak is defined as at least three probable or confirmed coveted cases within a 14-day period at her school there is rapid testing on site for those classes and temporary mass mandates there is communication between covid coordinators admins school staff and families why is there a lack of communication or urgency around these outbreaks in srcs teachers
046and school staff have been and still are on the front lines of covid and the pandemic we are the ones putting on a strong face for students while we are struggling through our own traumas and hardships we are the ones holding it down while the ship is literally sinking do you remember when you had small children imagine having 30 children and teaching them during a pandemic have you sat in a title one classroom all day recently students this year in our population have had more and more mental health thank you you're never before two minute time limit has been reached thank you very much thank you all right now we're going to our report and mary csva thank you for that good evening can you hear me now good evening president sheffield superintendent chanel directors
047student board member classified staff teachers students and the community our heart goes out to the families and community in tennis texas our thoughts and prayers are with them as we go through this difficult time on a brighter note we would again like to extend our congratulations to the classified employees honored tonight by their respective schools lexi prom annette ochoa and bianca hamilton and congratulations to the students and teachers of the month too we are looking forward to successful negotiations with the district tomorrow we support the approval of the memorandum of understandings with csea coming up in tonight's agenda discussion and action items e4 and e5 our chapter 75 will be holding special meeting holding a special meeting to vote in early june we are grateful for the classified employees professional development day happening wednesday june
0488th classified don't forget to sign up for classes our members continue to work hard as the end of the school year is just six days away while most of the teachers are off the rest of us will be working throughout the summer to support the 13 summer school programs offered beginning june 13th don't forget to sign up your students have a safe and productive end of the school year thank you thank you principal layman agenda item d2 santa rosa teacher association report we have president howell president howell's joining us online and i have just brought her over thank you welcome president howell thank you good evening um uh president sheffield and superintendent trunnell it's good to be with you on zoom tonight rather than in person um i know that um thank you for your
049words earlier president sheffield about the tragedy in texas i know that um all teachers hearts are there um today and um i appreciate the words of mary layman that our thoughts and prayers and and would emphasize that um what we need are actions and policies to make it so that our students don't have to uh practice lockdowns and active shooter drills and teachers don't have to worry about uh whether today is the day they put themselves between students and shooters to keep the kids safe right so um with that very somber thought i i want to move on and and say congratulations uh to everyone who was our honorees this evening the teachers the students the classified staff just hearing about the strength and the accomplishments of all these people you know allows us to
050move forward and realize that you know schools are schools are strong and that we do continue to push forward and educate the kids that that show up so um thank you to the slps tonight and i know there's um uh honoring our speech and language pathologists and also a huge thank you to our administrators this evening um this has been a really hard year for everyone at all levels students and staff and teachers and our administrators have also been asked to go the extra mile this year substituting in classes constantly doing things around campus that possibly wouldn't have been their job in an easier year so we're very thankful to our administrators in the district that made this made getting through this year a little bit easier for all employees and congratulations and a big
051thank you to georgia for your service um teachers are always happy and proud to see someone a student step up to this role and shine and so it's always great to just see the amazing students that show up at the board to be the student board representative and so thank you for that um last time i i mentioned a few things that we had hoped could get resolved and one and a few of those things have been resolved so a huge thank you to this board and superintendent trinell um the co the sorry the combination classes at our elementary schools are absolutely at a minimum district wide with some some creative use of finances and moving around teacher a little bit of not the teachers but the positions we know that our elementary kids will
052benefit from this and build a strong foundation so thank you so much for the effort you put into that there's also some efforts being put into making sure that our elementary schools get to keep tosas in their positions to give direct support to the elementary students so we know that all of this uh effort will lead to you know stronger elementary education which leads to an easier time in middle school which leads to more success in high school so we thank you very much for that it's definitely going to pay off we're working on an mlu around co-teaching for our students with ieps in the district it's not done yet hopefully it will be we're meeting again monday and we really want to see this mou finished before the end of the school year for
053a lot of reasons but the not the least of which is that we need to get this plan settled so that our students with ieps have the best possible educational services available to them when school starts to get in the fall so um looking forward to presenting that mou to this board and um that's my report for tonight thank you so much thank you principal howell thank you all right well tonight we have um an agenda item under reports d3 our district english learner advisory committee presentation report so we have adrian morris hello adrian welcome buenas tardes presidente superintendent good evening president sheffield superintendent neil members of the board and community my name is hadrian juarez president of gila it is a pleasure to be with you this evening to share these last few years
054have been very difficult for our children as well as foreign families we had to quickly adapt to living with something we had never been continues to work hard to find a way to implement the district english learner master plan within the budget that the district has allocated to this purpose department multilingual first we would like to thank you for the creation of the muslim world services department last year two english learners specialist physicians were hired and we appreciate that this year the teacher and special assignment decisions were added to expand support for our students um have been invaluable in supporting our english learner throughout the district we hope that this support will continue to increase presenters foreign our meetings to share information for parents such as the county advisory committee known as vhc's student presenters
055firmware services providers and solid state university students and staff to name a few thank you all for your time spent providing information for us [Music] late february the sonoma county office of education held the parent leadership institute for english learners and migrant students although it was a virtual institute to provide a valuable information for the parent solution [Music] as well to send an invitation for please view board members as well as to any administrators teachers staff and community who would like to join us and together continue graduating for the coming congressman we thank everyone and invite those who were unable to join us in the future in september to pretend is foreign for is um [Music] is apprentices apprentice foreign [Music] multilinguals thank you very much thank you president juarez and we do look forward
056to coming back we are going to pause briefly for an interpreter switch and then we'll return back to the agenda just let us know when you're ready okay um marcella can take over here we're ready i think all right we are back thank you um before we go on to the superintendent report i'm just gonna say because we're way out of practice with our in-person meetings so before we continue i just want to point out for those in attendance in person that we have a process for speaker these are speaker cards these blue cards so if you have a desire to speak during public comment we ask that you fill out these cards and we will collect them and um we'll get to you before we go on to the folks online um just as
057we're working our way through this hybrid model and back to being in person um i just want to point this out for anybody in the audience who wishes to speak to an agenda item all right now we're going to continue with agenda item d4 our superintendent report i'm going to turn it over to you superintendent trunell good evening you everyone for being here in person and online um i just want to take a moment normally we have about four people behind the scenes that are managing the in-person and online logistics and three of those people are out so adina is handling all of that this evening so i just want to recognize her and thank her for her patience as she's navigating it all thank you medina rockstar so i'm gonna make some general statements
058and then you all are lucky tonight uh because you also get to witness my first uh annual report as superintendent so bear with me i will try to be expeditious and also meet the obligations of my contract um before may 30th so um some of my normal starting comments uh today marks day of school for elementary and day 174 for secondary we are almost there um i want to just acknowledge the comments that have been made tonight regarding the tragedy from yesterday i won't go and reiterate the message that we sent out yesterday but i just want to echo the condolences that we are sending to the families and community of rob elementary school i did reach out to the superintendent superintendent harrell of uvalde consolidated independent school district just to share on behalf of
059the district our condolences and offer up any support if necessary i don't expect a response but i wanted him to know that we were that they were in our hearts and in our thoughts and prayers something that i want people to know because we've received some questions about what are we doing in the district to ensure safety of our students and our staff and we are following all of our safety protocols i will just remind everyone that annually we revise our site safety plans the board approved those in december of this school year and our sites practice regular drills on campus to ensure that students and staff can experience and practice safety measures if it's truly necessary a couple of other things that i do want to mention is that we are looking at the
060high view of all of our positions at school sites that have any supervision attached to their work and just taking a look at what is additionally needed in addition we are also researching what a partnership could look like with local safety services in our community for the future so we will continue to monitor what's happening in texas and we will be extremely vigilant along with and i want to thank our santa rosa city school police department who jumped immediately to assist with being more visible in our communities i received a follow-up reassurance this morning that the entire team there was ready to go and available so i just want to give a shout out to them for being responsive and being a member with us in this community effort something else that i want to
061recognize and there is one right outside the doors of this auditorium i feel like the peace polls that have been established at many of our school sites is a rejuvenated reminder of our commitment for peace and hope in our schools and in our community and i'm going to talk a little bit more about that in my uh report we are doing a summer crunch serial drive at all of our schools and also we will be collecting them at the district office so folks please bring boxes of low sugar cereal to any school site over the course of next week we are going to be donating those to the redwood empire food bank i had the pleasure of attending our native american education graduation last friday at piner high school i just want to commend elizabeth
062billy and our parent team as well as the site and our leadership uh who support the effort it was a beautiful ceremony and well attended and i was just it was very um i was very honored to be uh present that night so kudos to all of our graduates both those who were trans transitioning from eighth grade to ninth grade as an eighth grade promotion and then our high school seniors who are graduating um we are in the midst of still balancing um class schedules and and school numbers at our school sites and we've received some feedback on combo classes and perhaps some larger class sizes that people are hearing about and i want our families to know i want our community to know that we are still working through those numbers we are committed
063to minimizing the number of combo classes as best as we can and ensuring that each of our school sites has appropriate staffing i'm going to talk a little bit about student enrollment and declining enrollment in my report will lend itself to the balancing of those numbers i also just want to recognize all the administrators in the room and those who are online and we have a resolution tonight to recognize you i do want to just say that we are excited to recognize and welcome our next and new student board member once board approved this evening our student julie bowie from piner high school who will be a senior this coming school year we look forward to welcoming julie very soon um and now to the obligation of the evening for me my report so i'm
064going to share my screen and let me make sure i'm on the appropriate slide first okay is that clear for you out there okay great all right so i want to start with something that has been our motto um now over multiple years and that is connection before content um we believe especially with the recent trauma that we continue to experience being connected in our humanity before anything else is really deeply important to us i won't belabor but i do want to ensure that everyone does understand that we truly are moving forward with our mission and vision and we have a lot of work to do ahead of us our seven priorities that are a part of our strategic plan are very much aligned and in sync with the eight state priorities which is the
065circle uh there on the screen and we are dedicated and connect our work to the seven priorities we have technically 26 schools if you will when you look at the list and we are so proud of each of our schools for all of their efforts this year to ensure that our schools stayed open five days a week in person full time this is a representation of our staff we have almost 1600 staff members in our district and i couldn't help but to recognize our classified employees of the year through the sonoma county office of education as well as our california league of schools teachers of the year so now to our students right now for our non-charter schools we are roughly at about 13 395 students in the district and as you can see over
066the course of four years we are experiencing declining enrollment you will also see from our charter schools that while it has been fluctuating we did see a bump during this school year mainly contributed to the students who were attending cook middle school as the neighborhood school now within cesar chavez language academy we have a diverse student population as you can see here and we strive to ensure that every student in our system and in our district feels connected feels supported and feels that they can succeed i'm going to kind of start from the beginning of the school year and progress through some of the experiences that we offer offered our students this year starting with summer programs in 2021 what you can see is longitudinally over several years we have doubled and tripled our numbers
067of students who are participating in summer programs i also just want to recognize that the number of partners that we have that makes those experiences worthwhile and also available so i have developed a special friendship this year with a student at montgomery his name is uziel he invited me to come out to the school and then took on this complete hype man role for me as he encouraged me as superintendent as well as spoke volumes in positivity about our district we asked him what does it mean to return to school uh this year and i'd like to play the video i don't know if the sound is going to play i hope it will hold on one second sound bad how does this is [Music] i think it's going to be the reverberation um i'll
068see if my tech team can assist me with uh with that but otherwise i'm going to keep going this presentation will be made available he has some very inspiring words for all of us on what it means to return this year and i am looking forward to you being able to hear more of that we started a gratitude attitude campaign this year around october what was very clear in october uh was that we were sort of getting into a slump of energy and that is because we were continuing to experience kobit in different ways our numbers were increasing we were short on substitutes our administrators and other staff were having to go and be teachers not just maybe one day but sometimes weeks at a time and it was time to remember what is going
069well in our schools that's sometimes hard to do but as i visited schools in the fall it was very clear that there were shining lights everywhere and that we had good happening in all of our schools so we started this campaign i have provided the link to you if you want to go on and see all of the posts for the entire year up to now that have demonstrated that we're continuing this gratitude attitude speaking of the pandemic just looking at a snapshot of our data everyone knows that we experienced a spike right after winter break called omicron and while we are experiencing some higher numbers right now right now we're also seeing those numbers begin to decline so yes we do have cases in our schools amongst our staff those are starting to decrease
070as of today and as of this week so what are the ways that we've responded there are many i won't read this entire slide but it is clear that we have tried to communicate we send every monday a communication with information that is necessary for people to know our coveted case numbers are right on our website open to the public to view at any time so that you can stay up to date with us on how many cases we are experiencing and providing opportunities for people to be tested to get vaccinated if that is what they choose to do and we are going to be distributing we've received a new set of test kits we are going to be distributing those so that they can go home with students next week so that students and
071staff can have test kits at their disposal during the summer if necessary so meals over the course of three years as you can see here we have increased the number of meals that we have served over time i just do want to take a moment as well recently we had this school lunch hero day where we celebrated all of our child nutrition services staff i just want to commend them for their hard work we've also had some reductions in some of the staff for a variety of reasons and and so we've had fewer people to do a bigger job and we look forward to the potential of hiring individuals back on our team in order to continue to support this increased meal production and service social emotional wellness has been a huge priority for us
072this year there was a there were been a couple of presentations this year to help highlight those efforts but we've got data now that in multiple ways that helps us to understand where students parents and staff are coming from and namely our students getting a bird's eye view into what they're thinking and feeling right now so that we can build appropriate supports for them one of the efforts that we did make is hiring of additional school-based therapist and i believe we hired perhaps three more this year to add to our team so we have 15 now of school-based therapists and supports for all of our school sites to utilize so some of our program highlights this year ethnic studies is still a priority for us we continue to offer crush training to cohorts and we
073will continue to do that tonight we have additional courses that we're asking the board to consider to expand and grow our ethnic studies opportunities as well as something that principal um uh album excuse me gabe the principal alba vera um has shared some of the highlights from his school i just want to demonstrate uh are efforts for dual language immersion at both ccla with the world house model as well as lc allen high school with the new school model which includes the expansion of cte programs at elsie allen and are also our french american charter program expanding back their 7th and 8th grades for this coming year and being in partnership with slater middle school we have a lot of cte industry and standards alignment in our district and i've provided a link to the
074flipbook that online that provides all of the details around those programs please go there we are dedicated to increasing bapa music programs such as our music music blitz i can't speak tonight music blitz program and we are continuing restorative practices and mtss interventions lastly but not least we are building early literacy planning we have a committee that's been doing work this year and we look forward to rolling out some additional efforts of intervention for this coming school year infrastructure wise just to highlight a few things as as many may know we implemented our aries student information system this year for the first time we have hvac and roofing projects that are ongoing and as you will hear tonight we have a solar pv technology a project that we would like the board to consider for
075future implementation i do want to highlight something that is bittersweet as some may know in the tub spire of one of the facilities that we lost was the santa rosa high school barn off of alba road alba lane alba lane excuse me and we have broken ground actually and we are rebuilding so we look forward to an opening ceremony this fall of 2022 i mentioned earlier about the peace polls these are just some examples around the district where these are being erected if you will on school campuses in spaces where they are visible i know santa rosa middle school held their ceremony today and we look forward to celebrating all of these as a demonstration of our commitment to peace and hope at our school sites and in our community of course it goes without
076saying in order to do all of these efforts we have to have fiscal planning so what i have demonstrated here is that we have had ongoing conversations throughout the year from august until going into june of all of the ways that we are engaging in conversations about our budget and our fiscal our fiscal stabilization i started this year with a superintendent's entry plan due to time i'm not going to go into these things but this work will continue i never intended that this work would be a one and done for this school year relationship building continues our assessment and data management continues relationships building with the board continues and stakeholder engagement also continues a surprise for our student board member i do have a statement from her as well and we're going to round out
077the presentation tonight with some of her comments which rand am i able to okay oh can you see my presentation can you see it no it's just black sorry i don't want to belabor this somehow i've lost my presentation so on that note i want to thank you for your time in listening to my presentation and i will entertain any questions from the board but if there are none i look forward to continuing to support this district as your superintendent i want to be a listener as much as i am a leader as well as a learner and i look forward to continuing this work with all of you thank you thank you superintendent chanel board any questions all right we have um trustee flores uh thank you um superintendent to now uh do you
078mention summer school programs uh in the past we received a report about upcoming summer school programs and i don't see it on the feature agenda items uh and we're gonna get one soon it's actually in the information items okay i see all right thank you interesting phone would we be able to see or hear and watch the two videos when we're going back and looking at the recording i will try make it available to us yeah all right other board members okay we're going to move on agenda we are on board president report for those following along agenda item d5 i am going to forego my report tonight for the sake of time move on to d6 our board member reports yes we have um dr beard hello again um once again i would just
079like to thank everyone for having me tonight it has been a truly wonderful experience being on this board and it has been an honor representing the students of santa rosa city schools on that note i would like to add my condolences again in the condolences of every student in santa rosa city schools for the tragedy that happened yesterday in texas it was terrifying to hear and our hearts go out to all the families of victims that being said as well we have finals going up going on for our san jose city schools and i would just like to wish all of our students good luck and to push through to the end of the school year we've made a lot of progress we've gone through a lot this year and everyone's effort is deserves to
080be recognized because it has been a challenging and um full of endurance school year for everyone so i would just like to thank everyone for their effort i would like to thank the school board and just say again what a wonderful opportunity this has been so thank you so much thank you georgia all right trusty manieri thank you um i will i will be very brief um i just want to congratulate elsie allen high school on the approval of their arpa funds um i can't emphasize how monumentous it is to receive those funds from from our county um there were over 80 applications over 80 applications and of those 78 were eligible and of those only a little bit some somewhere between 20 and 30 i think it was 27 were selected um and so
081i just really want to congratulate those who made that possible mr alba vera the cte the cte team at our district um the cte foundation um that it's it's just an incredible incredible moment and um i'm just very excited for what this means for elsie island high school and for the community of elsi island so once again congratulations um on on those arpa funds um i also want to thank the ccla parents who are um helping to coordinate the eighth grade promotion um and i thank you for inviting me to be a guest speaker at this really exciting event i'm really really looking forward to it next friday that same day i will be at montgomery high school for georgia's graduation and the graduation of all of our students at montgomery high school so i'm
082very excited for that as well and i i want to reiterate um you know it's been said in in many meetings um and we heard about it today but um kovid that there's a really big surge going on in our community um i am home today because i'm recovering from coped and it was not a pleasant experience so this is not over um and we we really still need to be vigilant and careful um i'm concerned that i will have you know long-term effects from this because i'm as i'm speaking i'm having a hard time breathing um and that that's not normal for me so um i just want to reiterate um that we we need to all still do our part to keep each other safe and to keep our community safe and um
083and it's it's very real right now i know way too many people who um are are suffering from covered right now um and i know that that includes students and staff and families um in our district so um just a reminder for safety and lastly i just want to add my voice to just the pain that we're all experiencing um in in the aftermath of this tragedy that happened in texas i can't even bring myself to have words to describe how i'm feeling other than it's just really painful and i know that we're all just really struggling through it and so it almost feels kind of weird and wrong to have um a board meeting today um because there's just no time to grieve for all of these losses um and it's not just texas
084it's you know it's buffalo it's the two-year anniversary of um george floyd's murder and there's a lot going on in our community and that is a part of our wellness to take care of our mental health and to take the time to process and to heal however we need to do that so i just want to encourage folks to also just take the time to do what they need to do because it's a really hard it's a really really hard time that we're living through i mean i just want to acknowledge and voice that um and to i just want to thank all of our staff for doing what you do every day um and for going to school and for being the front lines of these tragedies in our classrooms and safety is a
085conversation that this board needs to continue to have i fully recognize that and and i look forward to hopefully having those conversations in the near future thank you justin manieri trustee flores thank you so uh this last weekend i had the opportunity to to see the rooster of the fellowship which is a school initiative that looks at ways to increase student achievement through data uh and and the definition is kind of boring but uh what i learned is that i said with the pioneer uh high school people and uh one of the uh student initiatives that they're doing there is what is consent and what does consent actually means and what does it mean for a girl to consent and what does it mean for a quality consent and these were great conversations that were
086you know being had at the table and i just want to uh you know give a shout out to the group that is actually organizing this because it is something that you know we need to discuss uh i don't think it's it's something that it's it's it's discussed that often so um uh and i was there with superintendent trinell and i just want to say thank you for the invite um i learned a lot from our students from pioneer high school thank you thank you jessie flores dusty fong this is really a message to our staff all of our staff you who are sitting here you online and those of you who are safely sleeping or resting all adults on our school campuses and our students cannot imagine what it would be like to have
087somebody come in and shoot your class all your students nineteen fourth graders and two teachers and then we react but we as a we as a district thank you superintendent and former superintendent kitamura for doing the kinds of things that really protect us and what really protects us or not fences and not cameras right and not even policemen on campus what really protects our relationships and i know that you guys make those relationships every minute every day every single person on campus do that with our kiddos because that's what it takes and then finally schools we are reacting to a national crisis right this is a national crisis our entire community our entire nation needs to to get in there because we're talking about economic disparity we're talking the lack of health care we're talking
088the lack of good wages right we're talking about shelter and food security that we have to have serial drives it's insane and so i really am very proud of this district part of what i do when i'm not sitting here is actually i go around and i'm i'm helping other districts and i'm talking to their teachers and principals um across the county and we are doing an amazing job this district is a pillar this district is an example this district is a model for what everybody is doing in terms of sel right social emotional learning i'm very proud of what we're doing and what you guys are accomplishing at your school sites and the directors and coordinators and our assistant superintendents and our superintendent so i'm very proud of our district please know that you
089were doing a really good job so thank you so this is really a message of love and care and concern and empathic hugs for you guys i'm talking to you guys sitting here because you're in person so i want to read you something really short which of course went away it's amanda gorman and she said she said something about monsters the monsters are coming in and it's insanity of course but the real insanity is that it keeps happening and we don't have the political will i think california does sonoma county certainly does we don't have the political will countrywide nationwide to get 50 senators or 60 senators to vote for gun control and mental health so you know i want to say let's just drop everything and do everything we can just to start working
090toward more mental health in our country and better wages and income disparity right anna you can fix all that right all right thanks again for letting me rant thank you trustee phong justine mccormick thank you um just want to say i had a wonderful opportunity last week i got invited to attend um from principal tran um at biela their first in-person elac meeting that they've had we're gonna stick with this one sorry okay um so i got to attend their first in-person elac meeting that they've had in two years and i got to wear two hats at that one i was representing the board and the district in support of their meeting but i was also representing our made in santa rosa foundation and um myself along with our executive director lisa alexander we got
091to present um principal tran and elac with a grant check to support their bilingual book program and students will be able to check the books out and take them home and read them with their families so it was wonderful to be at the meeting and meet some of the parents meet some of the students and just to deliver that grant so it was really wonderful and thank you principal tran and biela for inviting me excellent thank you trustee mccormick all right board members any other reports none we are going to move on csba report do we have a csba report tonight no report all right we're going to move on to the e discussion action items again we made adjustments to the agenda to move e4 e5 e6 to the agenda and we're going to
092start with um with agenda item e1 an action item public board meeting via teleconference ab 361. you guys by now know the routine i'm going to turn it over to superintendent trunell thank you board president sheffield members of the board staff and community uh we bring forward each meeting the uh public board meetings via teleconference per ab-361 i will not be labor i will also mention though that we are poised to be in the city chambers for our june 8th meeting so that we can get a feel for that and have a soft transition potentially back into that space we will keep everyone posted on that if we do that we will continue to offer hybrid the city has upgraded all of the technology in the chambers is what we understand so it will continue
093to be in hybrid per the board's approval this evening and with that i hand it back to you thank you superintendent trunell this is an action item board um we will um first i'll ask if there are questions on the board questions for the board first nope okay we will go to public comment do we have any blue cards from folks in attendance all right we will go to public comment virtually if there are any members of the public who would like to comment online on item e1 public board meetings via teleconference please raise your hand at this time and there are no oh we have one hand oh they lowered their hand there are no comments at this time thank you all right bring it back to the board um make a motion all
094right susan that we will continue conducting public meetings virtually moved by trustee fong seconded by including hybrid thank you seconded um let's see that was uh trusty medina second all right we are ready for a vote director beard director phong director medina aye director manager aye director mccormick aye director flores aye president sheffield aye motion passes all right we are moving on to agenda item e2 resolution recognizing may is the month of speech and language pathologist the board will consider approval of resolution 20 21 22 61 recognizing may as better hearing and speech month presenting the resolution to the board tonight is executive director of special services steve mizera welcome steve hi thank you very much president sheffield and thank you board and superintendent turnell for allowing me to make a recognition of our speech
095and language pathologist uh is with gratitude that we express to uh the over 20 speech language paths that work with us for the things they have done this year to return our students back to school as you can imagine uh speech and language uh has been a very difficult in a pandemic and a zoom world the work they have done this year is goes over the top for the things they have tried to do to bring students back into not just not just alignment with their ieps but just all the daily things they do to communicate and bring things together um just as a quick moment you know the the things that a speech and language uh pathologists do they work with the ideas of articulation voice fluency receptive language expressive language and pragmatic language
096and pragmatic language is the idea around trying to understand speech in context and in light of our increasing disabilities with students identified with autism is a very growing and very important part of the work of a speech and language pathologist so with gratitude again i appreciate the board taking this resolution to talk about month excuse me may as the month of uh better hearing and speech and superintendent cornell i wanted to take a moment to recognize last time we recognized our school psychologist you noted a important personal connection to a school psychologist that is a spouse of yours similarly i would like to recognize a close connection to myself my beautiful bride of 35 years is a formal speech and language uh so with that i have a very close connection in affinity for you
097guys uh for for the rslps and again thank you for your recognition board and with that i'll turn that over to uh president sheffield thank you so much executive director mizera um board members are there questions all right we'll go to public comment blue cards any blue cards turned in did not see any all right now we'll go to online if there are any members of the public who would like to comment on item e2 resolution recognizing may as the month of speech and language pathologist please raise your hand at this time and there's one hand race our first speaker is shelby pryor hello can you hear me more okay thank you very much for taking the time to listen to me today i think it's interesting [Music] sure if can you hear us we're
098having a hard time hearing all right let me yes sir i can hear you just a second sorry you can keep the time running this is going to be short um basically what i'm trying to express is is that we recognize some of the revolutionaries who made changes within our community but we don't recognize others um it continues to be interesting to me that malcolm x's birthday happens to be may 19th and three states in our country go ahead and actually celebrate that portion of time um we continue to go ahead and exercise our ability to do certain things in this community and want to recognize i don't consider trivial things but things that are not necessarily things that impact the community in my personal uh belief system we continue to go ahead and negate
099all the things that are going on around us and we want to give these uh hypocritical lame acknowledgements to certain trivial things when we're not recognizing the things that are at hand i didn't have a chance to try to comment earlier where i really wanted to go but this is where we're at thank you for your time thank you mr prayer do we have other comments from public joining us online um there are no other hands raised thank you radina we'll bring it back to the board for discussion further questions or emotion i'd like to make a motion um that we approve the resolution recognizing may as the month of speech and language pathologists moved by trustee mccormick secreted by trustee flores we are ready for vote director beard director phong hi director flores director
100maniyori hi director mccormick aye director medina aye president sheffield aye motion passes all right thank you again mr mizera we are moving on to agenda item e3 another action item resolution recognizing the school administrator the board will consider approval of resolution number 20 21 22 60 recognizing the school administrator this resolution hasn't come before the board um since 2019 which is arguably the last time we were all relatively sane but with the immense role that administrators have taken this school year in particular the board will um have a moment to acknowledge to give respect and praise to all administrators for their service and support i'm going to turn it over to superintendent trunell to present this resolution to the board thank you president sheffield members of the board our staff and community we have several
101administrators in our district here and present this evening if you are a school administrator a district administrator i could ask you to please stand and if you are with us online if you could also stand administrators are among the hardest working yet often least recognized individuals in education administrators set the academic tone for their schools departments and divisions and it is their vision dedication and determination that provide the mobilized mobilizing force for students having equitable access to educational programs and achieving success santa rosa city schools and the board of education seeks to honor these unsung heroes for their tireless efforts in pursuit of excellence in education for all students the board annually is asked to approve a resolution recognizing these contributions i feel like this year more than ever hands down the best administrative team
102i have worked with your unsung hero-ness is seen you are seen and recognized even though you make tireless efforts we know it has been exhausting we know that you have sacrificed we want to thank you for all of your efforts and also for all you do for all of our staff in this district as they too have bent over backwards this year to ensure our students have everything that they need thank you so much thank you all right board this is an action item do you have questions i move this forward we're going to go to public questions at all all right public comment first and um we will go to the folks joining us online if there are any members of the public who would like to comment on item e3 approval of resolution
103recognizing the school administrator please raise your hand at this time and there are no hands raised all right back to the board we have uh trustee fong with a motion i move approval of the resolution recognizing the school administrator for the entire year last year the year before and next year too yes all right moved by trustee fong seconded by trustee mccormick you're ready for a vote director beard director fung hi director mccormick aye director monierry aye director flores director medina aye president sheffield aye all right the motion passes thank you again for everything that you do administrators all right we are we made some adjustments to the agenda so we are going to um to move beyond agenda items e4 5 and 6 and go to e7 so for those of us tuning in
104just now we've adjusted the agenda and we will jump to agenda item e7 we will not pass go we will not collect 200 dollars and administrators are leaving while i am moving my notes down get some sleep thank you all i know go get some sleep bye everyone good night everyone the administrators have left the building all right we're moving on to agenda item e7 e7 is an action item approval of the removal of plaques from the santa rosa city school campus the board will consider the approval of the removal of plaques from the entrances of four school sites in santa rosa city schools presenting this agenda item is superintendent chanel and turn it over to you thank you board president sheffield members of the board staff and community we bring forward for your consideration
105tonight the approval of the removal of four plaques on four of our school campuses in the board cover you can see that there are plaques at the entrance of santa rosa high school montgomery high school proctor terrace elementary school and santa rosa french american charter school these plaques are representative of the native sons of the golden west organization ranging in dedication dates from 1935 to 1949 to 1952 and 1958. the history of this organization includes opposition to many groups of people including chinese mexican and japanese we stand firm that our equity board policy states the santa rosa city school santa rosa city schools does not discriminate on the basis of race color religion sex gender gender identity and gender expression sexual orientation marital status national origin ancestry disability medical condition genetic information age denial of
106family and medical leave denial of pregnancy disability leave or reasonable accommodation of the perception of one or more of such characteristics in any of its policies practices or procedures removal of the plaques from the four campuses symbolizes santa rosa city schools unrelenting commitment and dedication to serving students families and the community furthering the district's mission mission and vision we recognize and value each student's individuality and our community's cultural wealth i do also want to state that we have experienced advocacy on the part of our students and some staff for the removal of these plaques and i just want to take a moment to recognize student board member georgia who also was among that group of her class her history class and teacher who were also adamant that this take place and with that i hand
107it back to the board thank you superintendent trunell board members do we have questions at this time questions all right members of the public joining us virtually oh i'm sorry director sorry i have a question i know um director medina also raised his hand um i'm i'm really curious um i want to hear from georgia actually if i can ask you georgia what did you learn through this process what what is it that we're really like talking about right now if you don't mind sharing not at all um so what i learned was there were a lot of things that we passed by um in places that we've been a good part of our lives that we have no idea the actual past behind them and we kind of tend to brush over things that
108we're not super aware of and doing that has consequences we ended up my entire class what we found which was really shocking for us is that we passed by a plaque that stood for racism pretty much every single day of our days at montgomery and feeling like we walked by that every single day was kind of a reset for how we will look at everything in our lives how will question and how we'll keep working to move forward and to address issues that need to be addressed and to hold everyone accountable for addressing those issues um i personally had not had a large background of knowledge in the area i learned a little bit about it in my history class um in sophomore year i believe but i never specifically learned about the organization so
109doing so learning um how they used racist language how they affect the internment camps for japanese americans during the war i learned all of that in researching about the plaque that i saw at montgomery so i learned more about the history of the war in general um during this process but yes most importantly i learned just not to brush by things to question um plaques that i see to question monuments that i see and really do research and really appreciate the ones that stand for good things like our superintendent mentioned earlier about our peace poll i remember seeing that go up at montgomery and there was a huge crowd all around everyone had such a positive reaction towards in it it was so motivating and so inspiring and those are the things that are also
110important to dig down into and to really learn about and um just my history teacher mr rudiso he's our ib coordinator as well but yes a big thanks to him because without him i mean i would have never known about any of this he brought the article to mind as well because a student at west county was the one who initially recognized the plaque at her school and that is who truly got this whole thing going i only read about it through the article that she inspired in the press democrat so yes um i was just doing my best to carry forward the message that i heard from my teacher and from the student of west county yeah thank you so much georgia justin mannier did you have any questions any other questions no other
111questions thank you georgia for that um summary um and for taking action so thank you for for being a part of why we're talking about this today trustee medina thank you um i just had a question for superintendent trail um first off is there do we have like a cost associated with removable plaques and if there's any anything going to replace them like the cement or is there any plans of like maybe rededications of buildings that those buildings were done dedicated or is that something for the future to consider trustee medina i just want to make sure i understand the question you were asking if there's any cost involved with removal and then also if there are any practices we're planning for replacing them with something else is that correct yeah well not if there
112are costs like do we have an estimated one on the cost and are there plans uh for any replacement or what will replace them just concrete and also if there's any points of rededicating because i thought all those were dedicating buildings and if there's any idea or thoughts of rededicated buildings to something thank you um right now we don't have any additional perceived costs i don't know why i'm getting that echo okay trying now are you muted on your zoom yep thank you sorry having all kinds of issues tonight um i do not uh we do not know of any perceived additional costs associated with the removal i do see deputy superintendent edson if i am misspeaking i but i do not understand there to be additional costs associated with removal at this time there
113isn't a plan for any kind of rededication i think right now the priority is to remove and we could certainly explore some additional options if that is the interest of the board okay do we have a plan for what to do with them when they are removed that's a great question maybe we can have discussion on that that's a great question our first priority is for their removal um we have had some internal dialogue about what would be appropriate i think what's just important to remember is that we are removing these plaques from display and we want to be cautious about turning them into a subsequent display for the benefit of perhaps a different lens display is display right now they sit silently in walkways and on a wall and if we choose to remove
114them and redisplay them what is the message so i think we want to be careful some are interested in having the these as learning pieces and i think that could be accomplished carefully with with a lot of thought and deliberateness to the planning other questions from the board all right let's go to public comment if there are any members of the public that would like to comment on item e7 approval of the removal of plaques from santa rosa city schools campuses please raise your hand at this time and we have two hands raised our first speaker is shelby pryor thank you board i must say that i really actually like the idea that ms trunell went ahead and proposed about the idea of turning these into learning pieces at first i was a little bit
115frustrated at the removal and the hiding of the history of this location sonoma county is known for being a sundown county if you were black you were not allowed to be here after dark i think it's very interesting that by removing these pieces if they go into a closet and never get talked about again the history gets hidden and i'm sure that's what a lot of people want to have happen they want to act like certain things didn't happen or this place wasn't built as a european colonized 100 percent utopia for people not of color one of the best things we can do is make this a learning experience not just removing it but creating a history behind it so that we don't repeat it if we continue to just hide the history and put
116it in the closet and act like it never happened we're going to continue to repeat that history thank you for your time and our next speaker is david carey mr carrier muted i'm i keep clicking on mute and it pops back up i'll start over again my name is david carey i'm an outsider i live in sebastopol and i'm a campus supervisor in sabbath school at west county high school also known as emily high school i'm making this public comment just to inform not to advocate for any particular action about a year ago i made the first request to remove one of these plaques from the sebastopol campus last week my district removed all three such flags from its two campuses last night i wrote an email to all of you about some of the
117issues my district encountered while considering removal of these flags the those issues are still at various stages of resolution in my district support came for removal from staff especially from students and from the community particularly to community groups the japanese american citizens league of sonoma county and the asian american pacific islander coalition of northern california i want to commend this board and your staff for addressing the issue of native sons of the golden west plaque so soon after it first became public on the issue of high removing them being hiding history or not i want to emphasize that for us uh this was not a matter of trying to erase history or hide history it was a matter of raising awareness about really some forgotten history in terms of the native sums of the golden
118west and the student advocacy for the removal came from some really wonderful teaching in their uh ethnic studies classes about these classes once once i pointed out some of the history behind it and i in in my district at least it is very much encouraged that after removal um there is there is a widespread consensus that they should continue to be used in school to teach about the history and used in the community to teach about this kind of forgotten history and um what what you folks do is will will be something that will be up to you thank you mr carrie your time is uh thank you mr and our next speaker is sheila walker good evening board and superintendent trinell president sheffield um just and also uh board member george beard i just
119want to um express um my thanks um for your service on the board and also for bringing this up i think it was just at the very last board meeting my my one comment um i think this is um you guys decide what you want i think the previous speaker um had very good uh feedback but is that this this particular item was brought up just maybe two weeks ago and here we have an action item for the board when there are members of the community myself included other parents other teachers other administration even students that have been asking for more safety and security on our school campuses so i would hope that the board would take such an aggressive action on making sure that we can get our sros or even getting on an
120agenda it seems like things can move fast when you folks are all behind it so please consider bringing back our sros put at least putting it on the agenda so the community can see that you are taking action um thank you thank you miss walker and there are no more hands raised thank you adina bring it back to the board for discussion for further questions or emotion trustee phong i never like to unilaterally make a decision without consulting with the people who put the plaque up in the first place or that organization and just to let you know that i have reached out to them and so did the west county board president which i had checked with him and also uh this the pr principal as well um and there hasn't been an answer
121back there was one answer back and then there was no uh number given it was a blocked number no name no number couldn't call back they didn't call back again and the more statewide organization did not uh return my couple couple of tries to try to get a hold of them you know i wanted to know what they had to say so we could do something restorative even but yeah i appreciate it nothing's happened definitely but no response i'd like to make the motion if there's no other discussion board members any other all right we'll entertain a motion okay it's been moved by trustee fong seconded by trustee medina we have an action item to remove these plaques from our school sites we don't need ceremony to do the right thing but we do need
122an action to make amends superintendent true now i think you you summed it up when when you stayed at san rosa city schools we celebrate diversity equity and inclusion we're ready for a vote director beard director phong director medina director manager i director mccormick aye director flores president sheffield aye motion passes all right agenda item e8 fittingly this is a discussion item on ethnic studies implementation the board will receive information regarding an update on the san jose city schools ethnic studies program and provide the board an opportunity to discuss the growth and development of ethnic studies presenting this agenda item we have executive director zalinardo and we have some guests with us tonight as well i turn it over to you tim good evening thank you for uh having me here tonight we're going to
123organize ourselves and pull up a little information to accompany my speaking so thank you very much appreciate it um i do want to begin by saying good evening superintendent trunell president sheffield members of the board hope you're doing well tonight i also want to say welcome to our families of course and our larger audience of the santa rosa community which i know is listening and partaking in the board meetings often virtually thank you for once again providing time for us to provide a glimpse into the implementation development of ethnic studies in santa rosa city schools before we begin let me share a few key items kind of about tonight the hope was there would be three uh individuals that would be speaking with you this evening one of those would be mr curtis acosta who
124works diligently with us to be a cost educational partnership unfortunately due to family health kind of matters he will not be here with us this evening also one of my colleagues heather garcia rossi who is uh dedicated tirelessly to the efforts of implementing ethnic studies in san jose schools is also begging yourself from a little leave just due to health concerns and just trying to make sure she's well arrested so that leaves myself to represent what is a large endeavor by many people so um we tend to be a visual culture that tends to mistake iconic moments you know for like speaking for multiple people that's not this i'm not that person i speak from a voice of many so let's consider who's involved before we even get into looking at any slides or considering
125any of that ethnic studies is a reality in santa rosa city schools right now there are classes that will be occurring tomorrow there are classes that occurred today with students and with teachers and to make that effort a reality takes a lot of moving and interrelated parts so how does it become a reality well one thing is our students and our families have to believe that the content and the curriculum and the classes have meaning and relevance to their lives and they have to want to engage in them they have to want to be in them and we do have students who have elected to take ethnic studies courses and we have families who are pleased to make sure that their students have that opportunity so that's the first thing that has to happen to
126make this a reality the other individuals that help make this a reality is our teachers who work tirelessly to inculcate new practices to refine practices to design curriculum and if you've had the pleasure of designing curriculum in your life it's one of the most enjoyable parts about preparing to work with other learners how can you get them to engage with and feel kind of like immersed in a topic and our teachers know that takes time and it takes energy and thought and so i want to thank our teachers for all of the efforts they've put in to take on the endeavor implementing ethnic studies in santa rosa city schools but of course it can't just stop with families and students or teachers it has to continue to consider all the enveloping circles that radiate from
127out of there so that would also include critically as i mentioned before some of the staff in educational services all of my colleagues are wonderful and i feel very fortunate to work with them but i also am greatly honored to work very closely with heather garcia rossi who is not here tonight she implements uh with the tact and a care for what it's like to be in the classroom from the lens of a teacher on special assignment she understands and intuits things before teachers ask for them she goes in with a keen and nuanced eye for what's occurring analytically with students engaging with the curriculum and their learning and all that distills down and gets reflected back into how we move forward and makes us a better system for it so i'd like to thank
128her publicly for that i also want to make sure we're clear that of course our departments don't function without superintendent trunell's ongoing support for equity initiatives in santa rosa city schools it takes leadership from all aspects of the organization and especially from the seats of a superintendent to make sure that implementation and programs continue to grow and be supported it's also a reality that students were in ethnic studies today and they'll be in those classes tomorrow because our board of education prioritizes and appreciates and supports the opportunity for students to take part in classes that they believe will be enriching and meaningful and without that support we wouldn't be able to move forward but also includes our community organizations santa rosa city schools does not work in a bubble it works within a thriving community
129of people so we've partnered with other school districts we've spoken and started projects with sonoma state university we've begun to reach out to other organizations like the redbud resource group and all of them lend themselves to building deeper expertise in santa rosa city schools so that we can do better all these things make the reality of ethnic studies something i can actually speak to tonight which i'll do in just a moment but in short um which is not exactly what my stature is nor am i speaking at this moment it is because of many caring and passionate individuals working through systems and institutions to transform learning in the lives of our students that this is possible so as i said ethnic studies is in our schools now and so maybe what more is there to
130say so thank you for having me tonight i'll take any questions from the board no i'm just kidding thank you for your patience as i began because those thank yous are really truly relevant to the work that's being done and with that i would like us to progress a little forward to a definition then for ethnic studies you can read the definition it's not my place to read it to you um but i do think it's important to point out the essentials of what's embedded in the definition we heard some of these words tonight i think we'll hear some of them again some of the language that this definition represents is empathetic empathetic consciousness also in this definition you see things about study and analysis and you see ideas of action in our community and
131making a difference by taking up a topic and taking some kind of purposeful emotion on it so the definition grounds us so that we can have a clear sense of what we're trying to achieve and when you look at definitions then you have the ethnic studies mission statement that was written by the steering committee a few years ago and coupled with the last definition it's the kind of mission that is embedded as a you know smaller circle within santa rosa city schools larger initiatives and the most important thing there is that the commitment the mission statement makes is ongoing and it's continually expanding its commitment by increasing the implementation of ethnic studies so we should be into details but we have one more grounding piece before we get there which is um the fact that
132one key aspect that we have to pause and reflect on is in the work with the acosta educational partnership that santa rosa city schools has done it began by grounding us deeply into what superintendent trunell was talking about earlier which is culturally responsive in sustaining and humanizing education there's a lot of professional development done around that very beginning of our equity initiatives and the purpose of that goes along with the statement here so when i'll get into more details in just a moment we pause now to kind of highlight the founding belief or maybe the founding orientation or maybe the founding mindset that kind of guides ethnic studies implementation and to be clear it is one that advocates for deep empathy it is one that advocates for deep respect it is one that advocates for
133a love of human beings and humankind and most importantly when we other people whether it be inadvertently or purposefully the key is to turn to humanizing others and in the per in the process rehumanizing ourselves so that's where santa rosa begins with its implementation of ethnic studies and with those grounding principles not in our rearview mirror but alongside us for this journey we'll go to a little bit more specifics what was going on in 2021 2022 a lot a lot of different things in a lot of different ways for you personally for us institutionally but in terms of ethnic studies and courses we specifically have the an elective ethic studies course we um i shouldn't say had we have right now an english language arts ethnic studies course primarily embedded in the 11th and 12th
134grade years and we have a statistics for social justice course and students have been in those courses um learning this year and i've walked into those spaces i've seen the uh the depth and breadth of thought and uh careful critical analysis i like to use the word effusive the learning in those spaces has been effusive it fills every little orifice and nook and cranny of what you're looking for for people deeply engaged in educational enterprise by which you are not trying to coax learning out of them but they're willingly engaging in it but if we were just proud of ourselves for our start and then decided to take a bit of respite it would be a shame upon us there's more to do so these are our numbers that we had or have currently in
135this academic school year and it highlights the sites at which these courses take place you'll note just on the side that you see the letters that align to the a through g college going expectations so that you can see that students are achieving both their ethnic studies graduation requirement at the same time they're also completing e3 requirements to move into higher education i did include in there also for our knowledge and benefit kind of a snapshot of where we are with our student demographics in terms of enrollment you would find that if you looked at our ethnicity information you would find that the numbers line up fairly well with our 2021-2022 enrollment information and that is just for your own edification and public knowledge to share with our community so what's coming down the pike
136what are we doing next what's happening well um you see in here that we have schools that are highlighted kind of in a shade of blue just to call out the fact that those schools will be offering courses next year and we're not um currently this year and you also see our numbers for potential i put potential student enrollment because as we know classes um have to fill and when they fail they may always let's say be at the maximum so this is just kind of the potential enrollment but if if you look at it you'll note that it's an exponential jump from where we are this year to next year the opportunity to increase the amount of students actually experience in ethnic studies and their daily academic lives as a course that they get
137to look forward to being involved in is ramping up and if you looked at a you know a chart it would be kind of like scaling up quickly it'd have a nice arc or curve to it which is nice to know these numbers represent actual student interest for next year good question they do not necessarily represent full actual interest let's say in a course request they represent potentiality of students who take the course if we fill all seats to the maximum all right so let's talk in a little bit about these things are going on how do we ensure our system is there to actually give the resources needed to continue to support the efforts so i'm going to highlight a handful of things well actually two handfuls so the first um would be that
138we work closely as i mentioned before with the cost educational partnership with red redbud resource group we also have done some work with facing history and so basically we have ongoing immersive and rich professional development if you do not afford professional educators an opportunity to enrich themselves with professional development particularly a discipline that they're going to take on that they may not have had let's say some background in college in a very deep way then you're not going to be able to support them in delivering the most effective classrooms possible so that's one of our key commitments professional development and we're all learners in education so it's not like we do it with some moros you know kind of like slow sadness to our step we thrust ourselves into it and most people seem really
139joyful to be involved in it because it's enriching and they can carry it directly to the classroom practice second we have a teacher collaborative we decided early on that no teacher who is taking on teaching the course should feel alone now any educator in this auditorium or at home or in the larger public listening virtually and taking part knows that teaching can be a lonely experience education by itself is designed in such an institutional manner that it's kind of a factory model so what do you have to do you have to get educators together and the number one thing you see that happens when you do that is they build off each other's capital knowledge so we committed to educator collaborative it met monthly it was uh primarily run with the idea that share your
140practices share your wisdom share units share lessons and continue also bringing opportunities to meet with professional development providers in a one-to-one atmosphere where you might have someone from the acosta educational partnership not with 30 teachers but with five who are actually teaching tomorrow so they could get direct feedback and support and feel like they had a chance to really dig in on something like counter narratives are to consider let's say you know i'm cultural wealth even deep more deeply in an extensive way third in the process um we've tried to make sure that we don't leave out the culturally rich historical knowledge of what's going on in this movement this doesn't go back to like yesterday everything in our culture and time including plaques that may be soon removed has some kind of historical tradition
141to it and in the tradition of academia ethnic studies comes from a rich background and included in that is a whole host of resources and information about mindsets pedagogy experiences and so we've been collating and collecting with some help from a sonoma state retired professor some really well academically reviewed peer-reviewed journal articles about the background history and kind of knowledge by ethnic studies and we want to collate and prepare that for our teachers so when they step into the classroom they have that richness to support their conceptual knowledge so they feel like they're more experts in this in the field itself and for professional development participants have been resoundingly appreciative you can read the comments yourselves but you see things like you know changing my practice fundamentally or you see things like how it commits
142to changing kind of um and connecting us democratically you notice things about how it touches the soul of teaching teachers aren't going through professional development in relation to ethnic studies and feeling like it was some kind of perfunctory exercise they're engaging it and feeling enriched and boiled by it and lifted and wanting to give back to their classes with that same spirit of interest and civic pride so it's really meaningful there's some other handful of things i want to mention and i appreciate your patience and interest and i want to make sure i paint a clear enough picture so you understand what is occurring daily in our district so obviously there's also classroom visitations and observations those occur for two key reasons one you can never suppose what's happening in a classroom you can look
143at any plan you like on paper what you have to see is whether students are leaning forward in their seat what you have to see is they're speaking over each other because they want to share their opinion or insight so deeply on a topic and so in going through classrooms you can see is that vibracity there is it electric do students want to be in that space but you also can reflect on practice and efficacy of program you can intuit and measure if there's something that teachers may not necessarily told you they need that you see would help them do an even better job if you could just provide them with it gives you a chance for reflection and also just like hey how are you doing nice to see you how's the year going
144what does this mean to you what's working what isn't how can we be helpful what do you love about this what would you change fourth or actually fifth now um there is a course writing collaboration that goes on um there's a deep belief here that organically teachers have to craft course outlines and courses they have to know them intimately and they have to generate them if we say santa rosa city schools educational services has somehow crafted a course for you that you should go teach without any input from teachers and what they believe their practice should be we do a disservice to our students so what we've done is we make sure we offer paid time for professionals to come together at night on the weekends we've done so and we write courses together we
145provide models from other districts we give feedback and insight we leave people for a short working period or we stay with them as elbow partners as they ask and we make sure that courses are being developed that will speak to our students and there's nothing as lovely as seeing a course that may be three or four or five pages on paper you'll see some tonight exist for 20 hours of robust dialogue about how best to address an issue about indigenous peoples in sonoma county and enlivens kind of how you feel as an educator it makes you want to be engaged even more deeply in the work the resources continue though because if we can give more we can engender a deeper systematic change so we have an ethnic studies community committee it's existed for a
146good while now it provides us an opportunity to say hey here's where we are in the process you've been with us how are we doing any questions about it but even more importantly and this is a huge hallelujah moment the community committee members bring things to us they say can we help you build that teacher reader can we help you build an agenda for the next meeting to facilitate some reflection on how the year's going can we go ahead and help you build a study so you can speak to students and learn for how things are going from them so it's a great beautiful thing it's definitely a two-way street it's not a cul-de-sac it's not the dead and alley and this year there's been a little work done on a course writing handbook because
147you don't want educators to wonder well i i would like to go help write a course but what exactly does that entail so um you might recognize the name of elizabeth evans who is a retired director from santa rosa city schools she worked closely and diligently with heather garcia rossi to put it in writing for a how-to guide so it's totally transparent and easy to access furthermore and really exciting and i'll give some caveats for for kind of where we are exactly where we want to be but i love where we're going um we've worked with asia leduc from sonoma state university if she's uh on tonight watching thank you asia for your efforts i greatly appreciate them she basically was like hey we need to capture some of what's going on besides just informal
148conversation with students and why don't we do it through an official institutional review board submitted study let's get some qualitative student feedback and her primary interest is the efficacy and the quality of santa rosa city schools programs she was on sabbatical this year and she spent a lot of time meeting with us she could have done a lot of other things with her time but she prioritized the partnership with san rosa city schools to get this underway it currently as a study is in the irb's hands we hoped it would be done that tonight i would be sharing actual feedback qualitative feedback from our students that had collected through a formal study it's coming we're going to probably do most of the steps either in the early summer or in august our students won't lose
149their memories and their experiences will remain and they can share them with us it'll be focus groups one-to-one interviews surveys those kind of things but in the long run going forward we also want to do a longitudinal data quantitative study about academic outcomes in relation to ethnic studies because the picture being drawn across the nation is that this is influencing students desire to continue to endure to push through and maybe achieve higher than if they hadn't had opportunities to take ethnic studies we would like to see if that's true in santa rosa city schools as well and so we hope to do that too but i will bring to you some anecdotal stories and i'll share one key one when you talk to students about their ethnic studies courses as you're in a class as
150you're sitting kind of peering over their shoulder as they're doing work as you've just witnessed a discussion and the teachers are gracious enough to kind of say please talk to them and you ask questions or you kind of inquire how things are going you hear the word relevancy every single time how's this class going for you huh it's going pretty good i like it well what's what works for you what we talk about is really relevant to my life it's about issues that are happening now it's about historical things that connect to my life and my family other things you hear are about critical analysis thought you hear a lot about speaking about cultures ethnic groups that maybe are missed in typical curriculum packaged by massive companies like holt and you hear students say things
151like i look forward to coming this class more than any other one i want to be here again tomorrow or this motivated me to come to school this week so i was leaving one class i was walking down the hallway and this young lady came running out came running out of her class i've been in education for 20 years i've had students run out because they're having a hard day i've stepped out when i'm having a hard day i don't know if i've ever had a student come running out to share with me their impression i heard you asking people what they thought i want to let you know this class is what made me look forward to my senior year it's what made me want to come to school this year and though i'm
152disappointed which i appreciated the fact that she was honestly telling me i'm disappointed that i didn't have multiple of these opportunities that kind of is too bad i can't wait for every student who comes behind me because they will have multiple opportunities i want a fortunate thing for them and then she kind of you know thanked me and smiled and turned around just went back in the classroom i thought wow what a wonderful moment it's just a beautiful beautiful moment which brings us to then like well what does it mean to keep going forward so that people are bushy-eyed and you know bushy-tailed and want to tell you like i want to keep doing this there's a lot it's not simple it can't be put in a box and it can't be conveyed by a
153few bullet points or me speaking but i'll do my best it relates to program course integrity if we're going to scale up ethnic studies and we're going to make sure teachers are organically involved in building courses and we're going to make sure educational practice is true to the discipline we need to make sure that we're careful and thoughtful and deliberative so we are working with the acosta educational partnership as i've mentioned and we've discussed with them the idea which you see occurring in multiple districts that are getting involved in this endeavor some kind of micro credentialing the idea that the district itself will provide the experiences knowledge expertise and academic understanding to be true to the discipline number two it can't just be a secondary implementation and thank goodness we have elementary teachers all over
154the place in the professional developments talking to us and building curriculum but obviously there's a laser-like focus on 7 through 12 because we have a graduation requirement and so therefore it takes a little precedence in that manner so you kind of get psychologically focused on that and so we've discussed about with supporting those teachers what else do they need going forward and many of our elementary teachers will tell you that um it's an endeavor for them to look at their curriculum and one thing they need is time and some collaboration what else do we need to consider moving forward in that sense of curriculum development we're building internally there will be the day that there are readers produced under some kind of state kind of you know sanctioned here's the curriculum but each of you
155on this board and all of you who are educators who are still awake know that the following is true the curriculum is not a textbook are the materials you bring into a class the curriculum is the lived experience of your students engaging in learning so to build curriculum you have to make sure the experiences are rich and we're going to have to take time to continue to provide collaboration without pre-digested readers and other things out there we're kind of on the forefront of this so we're going to design it ourself number four we cannot lose our community connections i mentioned some so i won't spend much time on them they need to continue we need to deepen them let me pause here i am almost done i thank you so far for your patience with
156me but it was asked probably four times i might be wrong could be more for an update and i don't want to give you short shrift by going ahead and rushing through this so i am going to be a little slower and it is going to take some time just feel good moment here's some teachers here's some educators here's some administrators and the administrator group is on the left they've been just as involved in the professional development and every time we do a circle and the teachers say what they really appreciate there's always some teacher who says at the end of a professional development i appreciate santa rosa city schools and i appreciate that my administrators are going through this professional development as well because i know at my site if i begin to implement
157curriculum they will understand and support me in that and that's a really huge thing to hear and it means something when you recognize the hard-working individuals here tonight to know they're dedicated to so many programs and initiatives and this is one of them four more key things to consider for implementation obviously we'll continue the professional development i mentioned why that's so important before the irb research we would like it to be longitudinal long-term qualitative and quantitative and i think knowing this board of education and knowing myself and knowing what we are committing ourselves to do we don't collect data that speaks to us about the experience we're not really being thoughtful and comprehensive we must continue the teacher collaborative we'll have more teachers teaching next year than we have this year so therefore it's incumbent
158upon us to be even more responsive that feels challenging because to talk about curriculum and learning in a deep and meaningful way is not a sound bite in the hallway it's a two hour discussion about everything you've learned in your craft and how you're going to change it but we want to make sure we continue to offer those spaces so deliberative long-term conversations can happen then lastly as you know we want to expand course offerings at a pace that's rich and meaningful but also once again maintains fidelity to the discipline of ethnic studies so the courses are as rich as they can be and do not lose any quality in the process so we started somewhere and you're like huh we haven't moved off slide one what's tim zalinardo doing he's reminding you that each
159and every one of us is responsible for this effort we all play some part in it and so i want to return to a thank you to our students our parents and guardians who are listening now and even those who didn't join us tonight i want to make sure i'm thanking our community members because they embolden us and they work with us to make this work i want to thank each and every one of our staff i want to thank our cabinet for their tireless efforts and the board of education for the support it takes each of us to be committed to a long-term project and program implementation ahead of state requirements to do so well i threw in something that wasn't in the actual board cover i don't know if i have to include
160it in some other way but i received a beautiful powerpoint today from one of our teachers at montgomery high school who took her students down to san francisco as part of her ethnic studies course and they went through an area that contains many murals and all the murals are about social issues there was a host of them i got to gladly sit there and look through all like 20 slides or whatever today and read about each one and each mirror was accompanied by a student reflection about what they kind of learned understood or took away and the the host of issues was myriad you would you know you're having to be spinning it's tons of topics it was amazing but i wanted to share one that you could read there's been some other photos in
161this small snippets little tidbits a little hansel and gretel breadcrumbs there's a lot going on out there and a lot with meaning which takes us to the end but really the continuation of what we're doing um can't pass up a chance to praise angela davis but what i do need to make sure i also praise is the following one more flip of the page and i'll be there this quote speaks to transformative but so does the santa rosa city skills mission written by this very board of education it's easy to say that word the directors a few years ago met in a retreat and we asked ourselves what does transformative mean a student who can come out literate and able to analyze political rhetoric that's transformative a student who's able to come out and understand
162mathematics at a deep engineering level or change our social platform so we really have community in the future that's transformative it's also transformative to be able to live up to the following santa rosa city schools ensures equitable access to a transformative educational experience grounded in the assets of our students staff and community we nurture the whole student in an engaging challenging and safe environment we recognize and value each student's individuality in our community's cultural wealth living up to our promise this is me now that was the board's language and thank you living up to our promise and our mission statement in reality si se puede e no soto nos torres somos thank you and i'll turn it back to president sheffield for any questions or discussion by the board thank you tim this really was
163a great presentation and update we get a chance to see everything that you're doing all the incredible work and thank you and thank your team and i'm going to just turn it over to the board if you have questions on the presentation questions of mr leonardo i see um trustee medina's hand raised yes thank you hi um first off thank you for the great presentation um you know going back to like 2014 when this community organizing efforts really pushed for this started and hearing you talk about that student today was just like so impactful because that's kind of like the division of what i expected to happen those experiences um but one of the questions that i have about something that you brought up was this micro credentialing um because i think it's really important
164to really build that um not only professional development but i think well i hope that lots of the students that go through this will also be motivated or inspired to also then go on and teach and so in terms of my credentialing is it just something that would be internal to a center of city schools or are we looking at like collaborating with like sonoma state or someone else to to have some sort of like um credentialing that that could be carried on forward somewhere else um or is there ideas of maybe in the future developing for the past that students could maybe also build on getting that similar training to teach from from what they learned here and might be inspired first of all good evening nice to see you mr medina hope you're
165doing well let me move this uh hand sanitizer bottle so i can direct the screen a little bit better thank you for the question okay so yes yes yes so um in terms of this we've talked about it internally we talked about what could it be like to recognize something for professional development and requirements by working with the acosta educational partnership and going through multiple years of cohort that scales up your learning over time we've talked about internally what's it mean if we could recognize work time out of a professional development that correlates to salary scale and units of like um work and then that brings us to a relationship with sonoma state we've talked with some estate a little bit asia leduc primarily about would that even be possible something to kind of moved
166down that road where he could recognize it um and we've kind of discussed with uh we've reached out to other counties and other districts san mateo and davis unified who are also kind of contemplating similar things because everyone's kind of finely attuned to the sense that we want to make sure we not only have the preparation and the support for our teachers but also once again the discipline is respected with equality just like you would expect for a high level kind of social science or you know chemistry course etc so we've discussed all those i can't say we're in enough firm ground to say exactly what it will be except for right now we are requesting that our teachers be engaged in our ethnic studies professional development and be at least in one of the
167cohorts if not into multiple years of it before they can actually take on a course so that we know they have some requisite background and experience and knowledge so there's more to come and we'll have to explore that uh mr medina so we'll see and in terms of the irb um i heard you mentioned that something is almost ready but is is this something that will continue ongoing as it further develops yeah that's the plan so once again the qualitative that we're going to start with will just be about student voice and what's the experience like um you know obviously we have all the requirements which is the beauty of uh institutional review board um approved study it's gonna maintain confidentiality there won't be like any critical feedback or evaluating teachers from it it's just
168kind of to gather program efficacy and understand experience that right now is written in such a way that we can capture this year's students and we'll also be able to work with students and capture the qualitative feedback for next year um in the long term we've already began discussions and kind of started to talk about what it would look like to map out that longitudinal data study and that will be kind of the next step so the plan is to continue forward and to make sure that we have data all along the way that's informing our understanding and our growth of the program um just i mean i talk a lot about you know efficacy and program quality but i mean most of all we want to know does the experience have impact and meaning
169are students still saying it's relevant and they want to be in there and number two we want to know kind of like does does does it have impact in terms of a student's kind of educational outcomes that is part of the supposition we've made that is a conjecture that we can't carry lightly and often in education we move through initiatives so quickly we don't take the time to actually tell ourselves if it's working but to add on to your question we've also discussed about gathering feedback from teachers and moving to a more formal data gathering information from teachers about their experience as well so not only would it continue and it would go on and you know longitudinally with us but it would also um increase its scope for more voices and feedback and you
170just touched upon my my my final question for now as it relates to educational outcomes um i was interested in well i think it might be too soon for um like grade that how are students doing like in terms of grades in these courses and if over time we are able to see um students that take these courses how it might be impacting their um their grades and other courses because to me the the relevancy point that you made was kind of like a key motivation for me really pushing advocating based on my experience but to me it's also motivated for becoming more engaged in school overall and so any data that could come on that i think i'll appreciate it but if you guys have some sort of way or a plan on how
171that will be collected and presented that'd be great to know yeah i look forward to speaking to that in the future i think that's really important i don't know if we have it all you know mapped out every step of the way in terms of that because that is a complex nexus of different things that drive motivation right and outcomes and so we'll have to be careful and that's where we'll look to having colleagues who work in that formal kind of you know ability to kind of look at data studies and how to put them together to help guide us like heather and i ourselves have actually taken the actual courses to be investigators along with asia leduc so we are certified because we don't want to just be on the outside of these conversations
172we want to be in the middle of them and make sure that we're kind of understanding things both kind of from an empathetic kind of intuitive lens and from a very analytical kind of thoughtful like data crunching in and yeah we look forward to more on that and sharing more at the board as we find more plans thank you for those questions thank you trustee medina um other questions from the board all right seeing none we'll go to public comment uh questions from the virtual community out there comments if there are any members of the public who would like to comment on item e8 ethnic studies implementation update please raise your hand at this time and it looks like there are two hands raised our first speaker is shelby pryor good evening steph again we're
173back at the same place we always end up where we talk about ethnic studies i went to vallejo high school and in the seventh grade they taught me that we had six black presidents i was told that they looked like me being a biracial black male that we had six our history doesn't reflect that period how are the people in this situation going to teach lessons to our youth about our history when they don't share our history how are we going to continue to wake the the woke crowd up and continue to push these agendas based upon individuals of certain ethnic groups versus others true equality and equity in these ethnic studies is going to be something that you guys don't put through some micro lens through one group or another and try to figure
174out how to unify unify us and not divide us by putting us in these small boxes and places that you continue to put us in you create more problems you continue to give us the same issue i don't want people teaching me from a textbook when they have absolutely zero qualification to be doing so and have no background whatsoever in ethnic studies other than reading a book get into your communities of color and actually learn something from them go take them to the alley in san francisco where they show the palestinian art of the palestinians being oppressed in their own country go show them the fact that reparation still hasn't been given to black people show them all these things show some real actual potential growth in our community and figure out how to not
175divide us not comments your time is up and our next speaker is lynn sato hello it's um lynn sato first of all real quick i want to thank superintendent tranel for reaching out to texas i think that's amazing very appreciative thank you so much for that on um tim i met you a couple times in the office of hidden valley so you gotta know me but wonderful programs um and i was looking at um superintendent chanel's programs and i have a question about the alps program seeing all these programs and i see absolutely nothing for alps yes i've been to the two meetings and it was a slideshow your students in the alps second meeting it was about the doctor talking about the welfare mental of your child in elps program where's the resources that
176kids that are excelling to keep them excelled and we have all these wonderful programs for kids you know helping them but it used to be back in the day the gate program it was a wonderful program and the district was getting money for that so we need to know if the district is getting money for alps and on that we need the transparency of the funds from the tubs fire from the satellite school burning down where's the funds for that and yes i've emailed several of you and think you're working on it about our teachers for next year at hidden valley and no combo classes and more teachers and waiting for a response um on that and the state budget surplus we have a whole list of everything i'm going through and our school lunches
177so there's a lot of resources also that we need to get to so we need to hear any answers on all my questions you can reread our email because i'm not the only parent at hidden valley there are several of us waiting uh for responses and i appreciate everything so thank you and there are no more hands raised at this time all right thank you so much adina we are bringing it back to the board for further questions discussion this is a discussion item i would just like to thank uh tim and heather garcia rossi and all the teachers who are doing ethnic studies that they are doing with such heart soul advocacy and real real excellence so i think this district is leading in ethnic studies in the state as far as i can
178see good job excellent work yes thank you so much and thanks to your team make sure that uh those who aren't uh tuning in are aware that how appreciative we are moving this forward was a big task and i'm glad that we're getting to um a point where we could sit back and look it was something that um trustee medina had brought up which was um maybe finding a way to track how students do in other courses and this was something that came up um i might have come up back when we initially were putting this together this um but or i might have heard it i might have heard it elsewhere but um you know where ethnic studies programs have been implemented they found that there was an increase in in student engagement and
179even attendance went up when there were were programs courses around ethnic studies so that's something that's really exciting i think that's something that um when you come back to us again i hope you can share some of that with us i'm trustee medina you i i just wanted to add um kind of in part to something that i heard in comments that um to me the greatest part about this is that the greatest educational resource in these courses are the students themselves and the stories and experiences that they bring to the courses um with that said i just want to say that i'm really happy to hear where we're at i'm satisfied of our progress i still feel we got a long way to go but i just want to say thank you to everybody
180for all your hard work to get us where we're at today i'm i'm very satisfied and very happy to be a part of everything that's happened here so thank you all right well thank you i'm again forward to seeing you come back all right we are going to move on to agenda item e9 this is a discussion action consideration of the feasibility of school improvement bond measure for san rosa city schools the board will receive information regarding potential placement of new general obligation bond measure on the november 2022 ballot that's this fall um the board will also be presented with information regarding a contract with tv wbh to conduct a feasibility assessment prior to the deadline to qualify for the november election um presenting this agenda item will be superintendent true now and i welcome
181deputy superintendent edson as well as he will probably do most of the talking on this item but thank you board president sheffield members of the board staff and community we are bringing forward information tonight for the potential of a school improvement bond measure for santa rosa city schools for the november ballot for your consideration tonight i do want to just reiterate what president sheffield just said what we are doing tonight is providing you some information about the potential and then also as an action item asking for your consideration to approve the consulting agreement with terrace barnes walters boygin keith lester incorporated aka tbwbh for your consideration tonight and i will hand it over to deputy edson for more information thank you superintendent tranel good evening president sheffield members of the board uh joining me tonight
182uh i'd be remiss if i don't introduce him immediately after forgetting about him last time i'd like to introduce greg isom who is joining us via zoom tonight who is our bond financial advisor and has been so uh since uh 2014 or before when the district went out for a and l um as our reminder uh that we all know major inl were passed in 2014 november of 2014 measure i for the high school district uh approval of 175 million dollars uh general obligation bond to be used on facility and technology improvements uh and other items throughout the district major l was far elementary school district 54 million uh for for the same uses uh within uh our elementary schools uh going forward on that uh two major projects started immediately that was technology infrastructure
183and santa rosa charter school for the arts and at that time the board elected to complete a facility's master plan uh before moving forward with other bond items uh the facilities master plan was finished in approximately april of 2016 and the remainder or the work to date really started the summer of 2017 with the bond program since that time we've done many projects including upgrades to technology uh hvac systems roofing systems uh athletic fields etc uh we are nearing the end of our available dollars for that bond as we move forward i'd also like to note during that time period costs have escalated significantly uh and since 2020 they've increased even faster and now dealing with supply chain issues uh across a broad spectrum of projects that would be accomplished by the bond uh we're
184looking at how we're going to implement the last monies of major inl through this time period so with that we also know that with the uh facilities master plan creation the facilities master plan not intended to be a document solely for the major inl bond program but needs to exceed the bond program identified approximately 1.4 billion dollars in 2016. so with cost escalations the need is even greater now uh from a financial perspective and also uh additional age and wear and tear on facilities and infrastructure so with that uh uh we are uh we went through an initial process of evaluating the eligibility that mr eisen will talk about in a few moments on his a short slide show uh what uh the district would be eligible for both the elementary and high school district
185through uh additional bond measures uh and then we'll also talk about a potential timeline with tv wbh uh on polling uh so that can be brought back to the board uh for a decision uh prior to the final filing date for uh entry if you will on the november ballot so that i will share my screen uh and turn the presentation over to mr isom thank you rick uh good evening school board superintendent admin team uh greg eisen with isim advisors um and i'm gonna talk to you about the mechanics a little bit on just how bonds work and how we get to the actual numbers um and while that 1.3 billion or six billion dollar number is gigantic um everybody's school facility master plans normally are an extremely large number that not just one
186bond measure can do it normally takes 20 30 years to kind of implement the program based on what they have um so rick if you want to just turn the page to the very first slide i'm going to discuss the elementary school district first and and realize that how i describe the process for the elementary it's going to be the same for the high so i'm not going to go through the high school and repeat everything i just said i'll just hit the highlights of it but if you take a look at the right hand side of this of the slide here this is the history of the district of the elementary school district uh where they passed the bond in 1997 12 million a bond in 2002 19.1 million and then the 54 million
187dollar bond in 2014. uh second bullet point says district has no remaining authorization that means that the district has no more bonds to sell um and so they are currently i believe you know in the process of spending down the the remaining funds the combined 21 22 tax rate um for the elementary school district is 33 and 50 cents per 100 000 of assessed value what this means um is that uh property owners um in your district on their tax bill for the elementary side pays 33.50 so if their property is assessed that's a hundred thousand they're paying 33 bucks if there are properties assessed at a million dollars they're paying 330 right um so an elementary school district can ask its voters to approve a tax rate of 30 per 100 um so how
188do you compare to some of your other elementary districts you know in the surrounding areas you know bellevue's tax rate is you know they've done a few bonds but their tax rates you know over 60 dollars right school district spawns right um districts right around 30 roseland's closer to 60 mark west is right around you know 30 dollars pioneer right around 30 so everyone's kind of at the same amount there's a few districts that have higher tax rates because it's always important to know how you compare to your neighboring districts are we over taxing our community are we under taxing our community how do we fare right um and so that that chart in the middle of the page where it says you know historical assessed value um this shows what all the taxable value
189is in the in the boundaries of the elementary school districts you can see it's approximately 11 billion dollars um and it has gone up you know quite nicely since the district dot did respond in 2014 um almost as i said 46 50 percent uh which means that you know while we told the voters it was going to be a higher tax rate because your tax base has grown so much more and new buildings happen and property's been reassessed um the tax rate has actually gone down dramatically uh from what you told the voters it was going to be uh in 2014. uh that bottom bullet point is a term called bonding capacity and the term bonding capacity is a number that the the state of california gives school districts and says you're allowed to put
190your your tax base into debt um up to a certain amount and for your elementary school district it's one and a quarter percent of the assessed value so if you take the 11 billion multiply it by one and a quarter percent it gives you 137.9 million and the state says you have to subtract out your outstanding principal which is 47 million which gives you a current debt limit um or your true bonding capacity of 90.9 million dollars so every single year generally this this number of 90.9 is going to go up um one because you're going to be paying outstanding principal off into your tax base as you can see has had very significant growth though on average of three and a half percent this includes the um the fire is that one and this
191includes the recession okay um so overall you know in a couple maybe two years your body capacity is going to be over 100 million dollars you know five years 110. um so that's kind of how bonds kind of are set up um from the the property tax value component and from tax rates and right if you turn to the next page this kind of shows you uh different tax rates and how much they would generate on the elementary school district you can see on the left hand side of that chart where i have tax rate of 19 25 and 30 and then you can kind of see series a b c and d 20 22 20 24 20 20 29 um and then the total bond amounts on the right hand side so if the
192school district were to do a 30 tax rate per 100 000 assessed value right now it could generate up to 124 million dollars remember we don't get all 124 million in one chunk um you sell in in tranches or series as they call them so you can see you get those you know 32 million in 2022 and 29 and 2024 and the reason i gave different tax rates um has to do you know as rick was alluding to with the voter opinion survey because you know generally speaking when service go out and community members are asking what would you be willing to support what tax rate would you be willing to support i wanted to give you guys an idea if your community said yeah thirty dollars is a little too rich for us but
193i'm okay with twenty five dollars or your community says i will only support nineteen well a nineteen dollar tax rate will still generate you know close to eighty million dollars okay we're using annual growth rate of 3.75 percent typical 30-year bond terms you know if we wanted to go more aggressive growth rates and maybe assume you know four percent um as opposed to 3.75 you know we could get up to 136 million um so as i said you know shockingly you know eight years later you can generate almost twice as much money as you were in 2014. um next page rick so this is the high school district the history of the high school district on the right hand side so as you know they did a bond in 1991 about in 2002 in the
194bond in 2014. you've sold all your bonds from the 2014 election all your other ones so you have zero money to bond money to sell right now and the combined tax rate for the high school district is 28 and 50 cents per 100 000 of assessed value the the maximum that a high school district can ask its voters to approve per election is dollars so the fact that you guys you know did three bonds and you have two still on the books and it's less than thirty dollars that's a pretty low tax rate um for a district of this size um you can see the year over year growth from 2011 to 2022 so you know if we went back you know five or ten more years back to 2001 you know your your percentage
195of change would probably be closer to four and a half percent but we just kind of took a snapshot of the last 11 years which shows that your um overall tax base has grown at 3.6 year-over-year that second bullet point where i talked about bonding capacity high school districts are also one and a quarter percent like elementary school districts you have 162 million dollars of principal out there um and so your current debt limit right now is about 289 million dollars which means that at this exact day you could put your community into debt today of 289 million okay uh and once again uh paying off old principal you know paying in your tax base continuing to grow that 289 for a district of this size um is you know probably next year is going
196to be over 300 million dollars the year after 315 million okay uh so if we go to the bond proceeds on how much does your high school district's tax base generate you can see with a 30 tax rate it generates 400 million dollars okay a 25 tax rate generates 334 19 tax rate generates 253 million um this is using assessed value growth rate of 3.75 if we wanted to just take it to four percent you know you could generate you know close to 440 million dollars but once again at the end of the day we don't know 100 this is this is all just numbers that you you plug into in an analysis and it spits out how much a 30 tax rate would generate within these time frames um at the end of the
197day you know what what it really boils down to is is what is your community willing to support do they want to do a bond and what appropriate tax rate is there uh so right you want to go to the next page so this is the facilities um feasibility assessment for the bond so you can see um right now you have the august 12th deadline coming you know so you got two and a half months or so um and you can see in that purple versus feasibility study okay the first thing to be done right out of the gate is doing a a community opinion survey a poll right the purpose of the poll is is to do a couple of things one to assess uh what the community thinks of the school district right
198you know do they trust the district with its bond dollars how do they feel about you know the district's finances you know some ideological questions you know do you believe that you know schools you know good schools improve property values you know you want to kind of get um how the community feels about certain things uh you're then just going to kind of test the actual bond question and say you know the district's looking to do a um school improvement bond measure um on the november 22 ballot you know considering doing a measure right let me read you the proposed language they typically will read you know 75 words similar to what would be um in front of a voter going to the boots um and they say would you vote yes or would you
199vote no or or are you undecided uh people then give the responses if they say they're undecided generally the person says well are you leaning yes or are you leaning now you know we really want to figure out um where you know this this voter is leaning towards um generally a bunch of questions are asked about facilities you know would you be willing to support a bunch of views going towards this what about this what about this project uh what about this one you know sometimes they're very specific and sometimes they're very broad um because you're just trying to figure out what really makes the the community tick right now what are they open to what are they completely against you know um you know do they really want to support the ricketts in you
200know gymnasium you know i don't know why ricky you name it after yourself but for some reason i don't think they'd support that one um you know so you ask a bunch of facility questions you then sometimes will then ask the question yeah well hey now that you've heard all these cool things that the bond's going to do would you vote yes or would you vote no okay um you then get into you know tax rate questions would you support the bond if it was 30 what if it was 25 what if it was um and you're you're really trying to fine tune what is an appropriate tax rate that your community is willing to pay you know maybe they're totally fine paying 30 maybe they say nope too rich i don't like what's going
201on in the world right now i'll do 19 you know um and then you ask a bunch of tax rate questions some some negative questions well what if you knew you know that inflation went to this would you still vote yes for the bond um and then you kind of ask the question again towards the very end you say now that you've heard all this information uh about all this the projects and the costs would you vote yes would you vote you know and you kind of compare the two and that kind of dictates you know how your community is feeling are they pro project are they yeah you know are they tax sensitive and that kind of gives you a good gauge um on one as you can see under this purple feasibility study
202one is the timing right now good for your community you know the purpose of the poll is to take away that gut feeling or people say i don't know if now is a good time to do it you know i i have no idea right now either and that's why you asked the community you know i don't know if the bond amount is is a big bond scary to people are they willing to do 399 or is that scary maybe you need to take it into the 200s i don't know um tax rate what's going on with the 30 25 19 nobody knows until we ask the question and mind you when you do the survey the survey is not to you know just call up you know four to five hundred just random people
203uh the purpose of the survey is to contact the demographic of the exact voter who shows up in the november election so if somebody has never voted before yet they've been registered vote for the last 30 years they're not going to call this person because that person's opinion you know it doesn't matter when it comes to this measure because they're not going to vote you know so they're generally calling high propensity voters that match the age demographics and political party demographics that show up in november um you can kind of also see feasibility study the political landscape we talked about that it's an issue about you know are there issues about inflation is that scary what about covet is cobit still a thing uh competing issues you know competing issues you know need to figure
204out you know is the college doing a bond at the same time if they are maybe you want to survey something like that and say well if you knew that the college is doing something would you be more open to approving the college bond or the high school bond um and then potential controversy kind of turns into well what's going on in the school district what's going on in the communities is there something buzzing well maybe we can figure this out and and determine is this going to hurt or harm your bond okay and based off of these these bullets right there under the feasibility study kind of tells you is this a green light is this a yellow light is this a red light if your survey comes back extremely negative we just pull
205the plug and say hey you know your community's not open to it right now you know and we've done a bunch of surveys where i've had to deliver that note that news you know to a high school district recently i said you know what your community doesn't want to do it but then conversely i had a district you know 50 miles away say guess what your community does want to do it so truly every community is different okay but if it's a green light and everything looks super positive that's where you can see build consensus where you write the resolution um you get the projects down the project best you put the ballot question you know based off of you know some of the results of the survey um and that gets brought to the
206board sometime to vote on before august 12th uh you'll see there's non-advocacy communication sometimes you know it's it's good on the district's part to sometimes send out um some informational mailers you know just kind of you know telling some of the positive things that the district's been doing for the last eight years or two years or last year right and then consensus building actually means you know what if there's a bunch of you know key supporters let's start rallying some of these troops right now and get people excited for for what's going to be taking place and then you can kind of see once the board calls for the election it turns into the advocacy campaign um where kind of you know everyone puts on their campaign hat school district can't be involved in anything
207campaign related and so all this stuff is set up by the individual campaign committee um and that takes you to election day you know in november um rick is there another pager is that it getting started i just did all this [Laughter] no so um yeah so that's that's in essence that's the mechanics of how a bond works from the tax base to the budget to information to the survey um you know taking you all the way to august 12th we did a great job mr iso thank you um board members questions i have one question i just you know and and this might be actually or rick um and when i first came on the board in 2016 um this was after inl had passed there was a facilities needs assessment or it was
208determined that boy we had a lot more needs than a bond would even scratch the surface on and i know you know since then we've really gotten on top of and we've been very efficient with the use of these bond dollars what's our assessment now are we i mean you know our greatest needs give us a sense maybe not at this meeting but um i'm not asking for a a um a huge explanation but we have needs we have a lot of needs we didn't cover those needs from 2014 to now and so maybe for the public to give us a sense of what our greater needs are yeah uh president chef i'll be happy to to prepare something to share with the board in the community but but i will say you know just
209on on the the top level if you will to your question um you know our buildings have not gotten any younger um we've been working on you know hvac and roofing primarily right because that was a huge identified need uh at all of our schools it still continues to be as we still go through those projects uh there's other buildings uh there's a lot of internal facilities work that needs to be done with modernization of classrooms right and updating classrooms uh and creating different learning environments that i know many board members have a vested interest in doing uh but just you know basic i'll say not basic maintenance right making sure the lights turn on but just basic upkeep over a long period of time uh with buildings that are aged that weren't designed for
210technology uh that weren't designed for other aspects of what's happening in classrooms today uh that all needs to be looked at again i would say also with uh moving forward on this it would also be appropriate to update the entire facility's master plan by including the priority list um that you're speaking uh to uh and about uh president sheffield uh in order to say hey we did do these things they're not a priority anymore here are some new priorities or here are the priorities that were there they didn't get to because of cost escalation factors inflation uh et cetera during that time period or during this current time period thank you trustee medina thank you um well first off was i corrected hearing that we're limited to thirty dollars per hundred thousand dollars of assessed
211value is that correct so you are that's the max that you can ask your voters to approve per election okay so so to me it sounds like um because we're both in elementary and high school district that overlapping area we're able to in essence sixty dollars thirty four each that's limited okay um thinking long term um one one of the questions that arrests for me that i'm interested in maybe knowing is one of the discussions we've been having is about district consolidation and what would happen to to to bonds if that were to occur um specifically with us if we were to consolidate into just one district would there be any adverse effects to those bonds or would this be um kind of like grandfathered into to that one district i don't know if that's
212information we have or we can get it um but the other the other part um that i'm interested in is the i think it was august 10th board meeting deadline um i i don't know what the specific timeline is in terms of getting back to us but but i would hope we'd maybe be able to see something before that meeting that's right by the august 12th deadline so we can have time to really evaluate and digest some of the information that we receive um do you have an idea if that could be possible before then so from the survey perspective the survey you know if you guys were to approve it it'll be done in the next two to three weeks um so that would probably be at one year june means to you to
213even to give you the idea of hey is this worth pursuing or not right because if if you know if your story comes in at 50 forget it we don't need to worry about anything if your survey comes in at 63 that's a great center it's like hey let's let's proceed and that's probably just like let's get your your facilities list updated let's get the the numbers you know updated and then you guys can really start talking about certain things um in regards to consolidation you know there's multiple times in california where school districts have unified or there's an elementary and a high school district and the unified um and the bond rates and the bond everything just kind of gets molded into that new unified school district so there's no issues there's no you
214know somebody's getting screwed over one way it's everything just kind of stays pretty much the same it's just like moving forward this is what it would turn into and in regards to the needs assessment and this is maybe for breaking possibly president sheffield um it it prior to whatever is presented to the board would there or is it normal for like maybe an ad hoc committee of the board to be part of like maybe um feeding into or commenting on that before it comes to the entire board in terms of how big that list may be or what may be on it it certainly could uh director medina you know one thing that we do have for us is our still our original needs assessment so that will be updated uh and then you know
215through uh other things that we know have come up during that time period and then other desires could also be added to that needs assessment either through committee or through different forms of feedback on that that could then be determined through uh the staff committee or an ad hoc board committee right to look at that before final language went in uh with that uh and what mr heisen said is absolutely true that the polling uh will be relatively quick if we move forward with it uh where there would be a couple of opportunities before the august 10th meeting um to to discuss things at different stages right um through uh potentially that first or excuse me the second board meeting in june the july board meeting et cetera and just one last question in terms
216of the uh estimated cost um the the hundred three thousand dollars and mailing information that's mailing to for the feasibility is that's like get some sort of feedback or what are we mailing now or is that later on and that's so correct from wrong rick this is for tvwb yes they're they're whatever you say their name um i think that's probably probably goes in a stage to where if the survey looks good and then it's a matter of you probably want to inform your community of what you're doing rather than just have to surprise them on election day you know so it's a matter of being transparent it's a matter of providing good information answering questions that community members might have um but that's that's probably that they wouldn't that 100 and you know whatever
217cost to do mailings might not happen if the survey were to come back negative thank you i believe based on the information that we sent out with the bond uh in january february this cost would represent uh four mailings two to the elementary and two zero high school district okay trustee flores you have your hand raised yeah so what is the uh passage uh threshold that we're looking at for a bond 55 okay so uh and i'm a little bit worried about the time frame you know uh during uh four bond measures uh according to csba uh they do ask us to do a 12 to 18 month sort of uh period and we have six months left so um i know you're crunching everything in the next six months so uh what what street
218i'm assuming you're a political consultant firm right um what sort of strategies do you have to make sure that if we're at a you know let's say 52 percent you know disability on your uh uh polling what can we do to get the willpower or the uh you know the campaign to make sure that we get that threshold 55 percent you know probably my recommendation i think this would be the recommendation of charles heath as well as if your survey comes into 52 i i don't think it's worth pursuing this november i i personally think that the only way we should be you know or you guys should i would recommend moving forward with the bond or charles would be is if your survey is you know 59 or above and so you know when
219it comes to you know the 12 to 18 months 18 months is pretty pretty far i mean maybe that's part of the process of you know getting your master plan done but there's a lot of scrutiny like most school districts don't have a master plan and that thing takes months to to get to and so if there's a school district that already has a master plan well then that timeline of 12 to 18 turns into you know six to 12 months type of a thing um the most important component right now is is your community open to doing this you know and i always say kind of you know in the business it's like 59 or above you know if you're like 59 to 63 that means hey odds are pretty good you're gonna win
220and if you're 64 and above you're you're most likely gonna win unless something crazy happens you know before election day that nobody has any control over like a new covid comes and everything gets shut down right um you know if you're 55 to 58 you know that that's that's dicey and i'd say unless you guys are are dying to do a bond this november um you should probably wait until you know 2024 and if you're below 55 as i said i i'd say your community is not ready even though you guys really really want to do this maybe your community doesn't want to do this right now and you're better served getting everything ready because the survey will also tell you where you're lacking you know if it's a matter of the community doesn't trust
221you if the community's anti-tax you can start kind of working on things in the next you know 12 to 24 months to address the issues that the community has with whatever perceptions exist out there okay so um in terms of what's my next question here um it looks like we already have a master plan uh do we have some major major projects that uh do you that you think might be of interest to the public i know certain projects are more attractive than others i would say you know building or my computer just died here not building but maybe remodeling like the uh the arts projects or or you know our quest or or something in particular that might be a little more attractive in other projects to make sure that we get that sort
222of pool yeah uh there certainly is director flores i mean one one of the things uh with the bond majors that we're doing now right is there's not a lot of curb appeal admittedly with hvac units on top of roofs and roofing systems being implemented primarily right you don't go by the school and go wow that's a cool new roof because most of the times you can't see it right you know um you know are probably our biggest you know curb appeal projects you know i've been chartered for the arts the athletic fields etc uh pioneer lights right that's very visible um you can see that from a long way away something that wasn't there a couple years ago that is there now uh there's plenty of need on all of our campuses um uh
223you know probably charter for the arts will be at the bottom of the list uh with the new buildings and construction uh modernization that happened there but you know there are classrooms in every school at this district that that need help uh there are buildings and facilities at every school that needs help um you know there there's a number of majors that could be uh highlighted as priorities that uh to your to your question uh and the path you're going down director flores would be you know uh i i i appealing to [Music] to me this is the funnest part of the community poll is really seeing what your community prioritizes over other things right you know and and while rick where you said you know roof people can't see roofs generally in almost every
224community in california that does a survey for school districts roof repair or roof replacement is almost always top four because there's a lot of us who even though they can't see it they would say well you know what if i had a leaky roof or if i that would be one of the first things i spent my money on if i had a problem like that and so they sometimes will put that hat on when they're answering surveys you know and and i have seen wild responses all over the state you know where boards thought for sure this was going to be the number one project and ended up being number eight on the list or boards that didn't think one was going to be good and they ended up being top two i've been
225surprised um and so you know and this is where you say you know truly every community is different and there's no way for anybody to know what the answer is until you ask that question or questions about specific projects excuse me president sheffield we need a time extension uh yes i am going to move that we extend the meeting until 11 o'clock second all right um all in favor moving the meeting till extending the meeting until 11 o'clock chopin's hi okay continue please we're going to we're going to say goodbye to georgia who has to go home to study for a math final thank you again so much georgia thank you best of luck thank you thank you georgia okay so um i'm gonna stop but i i i hear that what you're saying is
226that this we can do it within the time allotted because of the mastermind okay so um and okay thank you okay um other questions from the board okay seeing none we are going to go to public comment we do have a blue card thank you redeena um we have um margie rgbradylong in the audience welcome oh we might have a little assistance with the microphone i know sorry it was all lit up i thought it was working thank you for allowing me to speak um i think we have an incredible opportunity here to get all our employees on board to help push for this if we can create an inclusive process that is transparent about decision making for how we're going to spend this money um and i think that's the nicest way to say
227what i would like to say tonight so i hope you can seriously give that some consideration thank you thank you all right um do we have members of the virtual audience who wish to speak to this agenda item if there are any members of the public who would like to comment on item e9 consideration of the feasibility of school improvement bond measures for santa rosa city schools please raise your hand at this time and it looks like we have one hand raised from sheila walker hi yeah i just think this is a an area where critical outreach to families that's i feel is really lacking it's going to be difficult to get support um that's just my opinion uh from someone who's probably supported every bond measure that had to do with schools that i
228voted on um it won't get my support because i see how coveted funds and other funds are being spent and i don't feel like they've been directed to our students um and the kids that are in the buildings thank you and there are no other hands raised thank you dina bringing it back to the board for further discussion questions and we're also seeking a motion to approve the consulting contract with tbwbh i move there we approve the consulting contract one second all right moved by trustee seconded by trustee um my mouth doesn't work mccormick thank you we are ready for a vote director fong director mccormick i director monierry hi director flores aye director medina aye president sheffield aye motion passes thank you mr iceland thank you rick thank you for moving on to agenda
229item e10 this is a discussion item on solar photovoltaic technology project presentation uh district staff have identified an opportunity to install uh solar tea photo voltaic technology at schools throughout the district that will provide significant cost-saving benefits these solar arrays would be funded at no cost to the district power purchase agreement and could potentially have a cumulative savings of 35 to 40 million over the life of the installed systems presenting this agenda item we have deputy superintendent rickettson and director eric oden turn it over you vic yeah thank you president sheffield members of the board uh the community that's still in attendance are watching uh joining me tonight is eric oden i believe this has even brought over am i missing him sorry do you know i didn't put eric's name on the list can
230you bring eric oden over please thank you we got him thank you uh joining me tonight is eric oden our director of maintenance and operations also joining us is scott meinzen from cyzerco along with gabe johnson from ciserco who will be here uh if they turn their cameras on to uh answer questions uh on behalf of seiserko who we have partnered with on this uh in a moment i'll hand the presentation over to mr odin to introduce this uh this is i'll say the last stretch of a project a group of projects that started in 2017 with cyzerco with prop 39 funds we transitioned into looking at other ways that we could save the district uh money uh in the short term and the long term uh in 2020 i believe it was i don't
231have it right in front of me uh in june of 2020 uh we did enter and or send a letter of intent to cyzerco uh if they could come back with uh scenarios and ideas uh for a solar project that we would entertain those um fast forward to may of and they'll talk about this briefly and eric will uh address some of this uh certainly the coven 19 pandemic took a toll on a lot of things including some of our timelines for getting this work done uh but tonight uh with eric leaving the show uh will be a presentation on a potential solar project uh through a power purchase agreement uh and then be happy to answer any questions uh with the expectation that we come back at a subsequent board meeting uh with a
232proposed power purchase agreement for the board to consider for approval so with that i will hand it over to mr odin thank you deputy superintendent edson um can everyone hear me okay okay great i will um share my screen and i'm hoping everyone can see that okay [Music] thank you superintendent trunell president sheffield and members of the board thank you for allowing me the opportunity to talk with you today about bringing solar to our district today i will discuss the energy initiatives background project summary site plans and the next steps in the process of bringing solar photovoltaics to our district the district worked with seiserco energy solutions to complete energy audits at all facilities and identify opportunities for energy efficiency improvements a list of opportunities was created and the first project was a district-wide comprehensive
233led lighting upgrade and hvac improvements project this project was completed in 2021 and will reduce the district's overall energy consumption by 35 resulting in an annual savings beginning at 745 000 per year the next step in the district's reduce then produce energy strategy is to install solar pv across the district in locations that are aligned with district preferences and acceptance the estimated savings for the district is between 35 to 40 million dollars over the life of the system there are still future water and other electrical opportunities to come santa rosa city schools and cyclical energy solutions propose installing 4.5 megawatts of solar across 20 of our district sites over the past year district staff has been working closely with seiserco energy solutions to identify and design solar pv systems aligned with district goals the district
234has identified locations at each of the 20 schools that provide the best overall value to the district both financially and logistically site locations have been reviewed and approved by staff in many instances the proposed locations of systems have been presented and approved by on-site staff and principals except for one solar rooftop system at santa rosa charter school for the arts all installed solar pv systems will be carport structures that will be independent of existing facilities mounted on steel structures that provide shade coverage for vehicles and parking lots and students and staff and outdoor lunch and recreational areas this project was funded by a power purchase agreement also called the ppa which will require no out of pocket costs the district to install and maintain this project has preliminarily been reviewed by sonoma clean power financing
235and installing a solar array can be complicated due to the many parties involved however a solar ppa is the ideal financial structure to eliminate the primary challenge of going solar with the ppa our district will not be required to provide any upfront capital instead santa rosa city schools will partner with a private solar investment company which can monetize the federal tax programs unavailable to a non-profit organization the investment company will then purchase develop and manage the solar array construction on santa rosa city school district property once completed santa rosa city school will be able to buy the generated power at a fixed rate over the set term the market will determine the ppa pricing local incentives and rebates solar energy is a fantastic way to lock in reliable electricity costs for decades while reducing our
236organization's impact on the climate the district has an existing ppa on three sites ccla lc allen and maria creo this ppa was board approved and installed in 2008. it was a 20-year agreement and had some built-in problems for the district the main one being that the annual escalator is too high at 3.56 percent it has raised our rate above current pg e rates some of the benefits of the solar project are providing shade protection for vehicles students and staff predictable fixed electricity bills and the local generation of power these next slides show each of the sites including where the solar array will be located and connected and the electricity offset for that site the electricity offset will never be 100 because pg e will not pay for any power the district produces that is not
237used we will also need to leave room for other future district energy saving measures to save some time i will show all the site slides but just highlight a couple [Music] here we see abraham lincoln elementary school as you can see here the solar array will be located on the east side of the campus covering 21 parking spaces this system will be sized at 97.2 kilowatts and provide a 76 electricity offset here you see albert biela elementary school another parking lot system this is brookhill elementary school this goes over the playground area this is hillyard comstock middle school another one that covers parking cesar chavez learning academy covers up most of their parking lot the district office ridgeway high school in the back uh mostly parking spaces this is elsie allen high school again in
238the student staff parking lot this is how lehman elementary school and they'll have a solar array sized at 72.9 kilowatts and since it sits at the edge of the playground it will help provide some shade since for staff and students it has a 58 electrical offset there's hidden valley elementary school again over the play area james monroe same thing in the back uh the lewis opportunity school it's technically over the playground but it actually is parking as well maria creole high school both staff and student lots on this slide you have montgomery high school this large solar array sits in both the student and staff parking lots and will cover 162 parking spaces the size of the system is 558 kilowatts and will be offset the electricity or the the site's electricity usage by 91
239here you see another large system at piner high school covering staff and student from rincon valley middle school behind the tennis courts back there here's the only rooftop proposed system at santa rosa charter school for the arts on the new metal roof santa rosa high school up in the main student staff lot here's santa rosa middle school we have a solar pv system that will sit over part of the field along the 5th street side of campus this system will be 145.8 kilowatts and will offset the site's electricity usage by 41 herbert slater middle school up in the main parking lot and finally a ceiling elementary school back over the playground in the back there are significant benefits to our district going green as you can see here the proposed 4.5 megawatt solar array is
240equivalent to removing 133 093 tons of co2 from the air almost 2 million tree seedlings grown for 10 years and over 26 000 cars removed from the road there are three sites in our district that are not shown here burbank elementary french american charter school and procter terrace elementary where there is not any viable location for this installation relative to the size of a solar array to the point of interconnection so those are left out next steps will be the competitive solicitation to ppa providers which is already underway after that the best proposals will go to the deputy superintendent and superintendent for approval and then that item will be bought for final board approval construction could begin sometime this summer and depending on some supply chain issues and readily available materials the last site could
241be completed in the fall of 23 and thank you for allowing me to present to you this evening we have a couple representatives as deputy superintendent edson said from seiserco energy solutions here with us tonight to help answer um any questions with that i'll stop and just i just want to make one one point on that that we're learning about uh as every day goes by the expected completion data fall 23 is now looking at fall of 24 because of supply chain uh and uh all of the things that we talked about with the bond majors as well right supply chain escalating costs manpower uh so that may be pushed out that will be determined if we move forward with this but but rick if we did move forward projects could still potentially begin this
242summer it just would push out the the yeah it would push out it for sure uh president sheffield and if nothing else you know we'd be in line for those products to come into the school district for installation okay all right well um welcome sizerco i see we have some uh hands raised we have trustee medina uh thank you uh my first well i have two questions the first is around um you know after the fires uh we had the power safety shutoffs and i think one of the issues that came up then was that even though we had a solar solar voltaic system installed we didn't have batteries that can handle power when there was a power outage um do any of these systems include that is that something that if not can it
243be considered is that something that we want um any any comments on that that's my first question well i'll i'll start uh director medina and i'll elect eric gabe or scott jump in um that would not be included with this uh project as is but those are discussions that we have had in the past that uh we're not at a point to bring something back with batteries but it's something that we are evaluating and my second question is you know again thinking to the future 2035 when a vehicle sold in california have to be zero emission um as part of these parking spots are we thinking or planning maybe for electric vehicles to be able to be charged there as part of these uh solar systems or is that anything that can also be included
244yeah we are evaluating that right now please correct me gentlemen we have one school that qualifies uh for some assistance with putting in uh electric charging stations that we hope would be expanded in the future um and we're we're also in the process of evaluating that um and how we could uh leverage that maybe not directly with this project but indirectly because of this project thank you um trustee flores uh hopefully this will be a quick answer in the summary or the abstract it says that um depending on the type of ppa selected uh we can expect to generate a savings of 175 to 320 000 per year so what uh what do you mean by the different types of uh ppa options selected i mean which one will yield the most savings do you
245want to handle that guys uh with the the difference sure i'll i'll take the lead on that um rick the um the ppa providers really provide three different variables with their offers for the projects and those are the the initial rate of electricity that the district will purchase electricity from the ppa provider at the second is the escalation rate which is the amount of cost increase on an annual basis as eric pointed out we expect that to be somewhere between zero and two percent and then the third variable is the term of the ppa contract and so we're going through an exercise excuse me right now of taking those different variables and putting them into cash flow scenarios and sharing that information with mr edson and and team so that they can review the different
246the different offers with the different variables from the ppa providers and then move to select a ppa contract that has the most favorable conditions in terms of those variables for the district so when we put together this presentation we had a range of savings that we thought we could be able to um capture for the district and now we're going through the exercise of looking specifically what the different options are so that we can help the district choose the best option that gets us closer to that the higher end of the savings as possible um yeah you know i have a question i think mr odin brought up um the a slide that that sort of showed us the potential of exploring future energy efficient opportunities and i'm wondering a little curious to know um
247are there other efficiency measures that the district could be investigating to help us use less carbon do the right thing save money we've already seen with this proposal that there's tremendous savings what's the we with you guys and and thank you so much cyzerko for what you've done this far we've sort of captured a lot of that low-hanging fruit what are other energy efficiency measures that we should could be taking along these lines if it's okay with you rick and eric i'll answer this question dave if you want to get that that'd be great yeah um so over the process the course of working with the district over the last couple years we've done some pretty in-depth analysis of of looking at the various schools site by site and trying to identify different energy conservations
248that continue to exist that haven't already been implemented like the led lighting et cetera that's already been implemented so we do have a master list so to speak of different energy efficiency measures that can be implemented that will benefit the district things like refrigeration controls building envelope measures transformer replacements things like that that can reduce gas consumption natural gas consumption and electricity kilowatt hour consumption and so we've been having some conversations with pg e you may be familiar with a recent project we did with the district that used pg e's on bill financing program to to fund some of those energy conservation measures we kind of tapped that program out we thought originally but pg e has come back to us and suggested that they may have some additional funding that can be applied to
249the district to implement some more of those measures so we're very much aware of them and we're in the process now of trying to work with pg e to try to capture some additional funding so that we can apply those to the additional measures and help the district benefit even further than where we are today thank you gabe board members other questions all right looking at the time seeing none we're going to go to to um to public comment there are any members of the public who would like to comment on item e10 so solar photovoltaic technology project presentation please raise your hand at this time and there are no hands raised thank you okay bringing it back to the board for any further questions discussion [Music] all right well it sounds like um hopefully
250we will have this come back to us as an action item we want to thank you guys thank you rick thank you um eric thank you gabe and scott um and thanks for sticking sticking around this late in the evening more discussion to come have a great night everyone good night all right quickly we are going to move on to agenda item e11 a discussion item the governors may revision update to the proposed 2022-23 state budget um this is a discussion item so i'm going to um well we've got hello welcome um i'm gonna i'm gonna turn it over to joel oh can i start please oh hi rick yes i was wondering where this was going so yeah uh joel's in the house tonight uh i'm i'm via zoom uh good evening again uh
251board members uh president sheffield and superintendent to now uh we we want to share we know in the interest of time we'll make this quick there'll be much more information um at the public hearing uh of the budget on june 8th but we did want to share some highlights uh from the may revision we often talk about it uh we spoke at length uh you know through uh fiscal stabilization plan uh second interim report etc about what could be in store for us with the may revision um i'm happy to say that is predominantly good news uh unlike uh may revisions in the past where you weren't quite sure this one certainly is good uh there are still some large question marks uh of what will be finally approved in the governor's budget by june
25215th and subsequently the omnibus trailer bill uh which will lay out a lot of the ways uh some of these dollars are are allocated and if there are or not strings attached to them with that i will share my screen there is a lot of information in the presentation that we included [Music] in the board packet i promise you we're not going to go through all of it but i'll hit a couple of high notes uh and turn it over to joel for for some specifics regarding our budget uh and then we will uh incorporate what we can uh for the public hearing uh on june 8th so with that very familiar slide the green star is now around may revision uh going into june with budget adoption uh in preparation for the 22-23 fiscal
253year um the the next few slides uh are really about uh the california economy uh and [Music] uh the increase in surplus or excess uh receivables the state got um almost quadrupled what they estimated uh from the january budget proposal to uh may revision uh so as you can see here uh [Music] the blue on these slides is the january governor's budget proposal the yellow uh is the updated numbers that made a revision uh and as you can see across the board uh from the big three um where the uh the bulk of state revenue comes from are all significantly higher than the january governor's budget proposal which means um there was more money uh to allocate to k-12 uh in the form of lcff cola and some other factors that joel will speak to
254uh so we go through here uh this slide uh is important with volatility uh of what's going on in the economy uh as we all experience as we go to the store on a daily basis uh the cost of giving services has gone up significantly uh we're not paying what we once did for a gallon of milk in recent times and we're not paying what we once did for a gallon of gas um uh for whatever reasons uh behind that uh so there is some risk uh with this being the new standard uh i really need to look at this as uh we'll take what we can get this year and then we'll evaluate again next year uh based on what changes on a year-over-year basis uh as you can see on this slide the
255forecast uh going through 2025 uh is certainly on a downward trend uh not the continuing skyrocket that we are experiencing right now uh here you can see uh prop 98 uh that is how our district gets the majority of its money from the state in looking at the difference between governor's budget and may revision i know that was very quick but i think it's more important to focus on the impacts of santa rosa city schools for this meeting uh to incorporate those into uh the budget in uh june but it is safe to say california economy is in a good place uh the governor's budget proposal is in a good place to all go over the high level uh stuff that that pertains directly to santa rosa city schools and i'll make a few comments
256at the end so that joel thanks rick good evening superintendent chanel president sheffield members of the board thanks for having me tonight um like rick said since january uh revenues uh state revenues based on taxes have come in higher so with that higher revenues uh that generates more prop 98 funding for schools and this is how that increase funding to prop 98 affects san jose city schools so if you recall or well over 75 percent of our funding is from the state local control funding formula which is the cola the cost of living adjustment increases that level of funding over the prior year and if you recall in january the governor's proposal had a 5.33 colon if you also recall in january as well the legislative analyst office then predicted a 6.17 percent cola at
257our second interim in march we split the difference use the projection of 5.75 cola and then in april the legislature set the cola at 6.56 so with which the legislature sets that call at 6.5 that's the minimum cola by law so the governor has gone with his may revised the minimum cola by law of six point five six percent of the statute that was the statutory colon now there are cases that school districts can uh or that the governor can apply uh less than statute of cola like in 2020 21 when we got zero cola but in this may the governor's going with the 5.6 percent cola one other thing which is an improvement from our six 5.5 5.75 projection at our second intro now this may revision does improve the two out years from
2583.61 to 5.38 in and from 3.64 to 4.02 and 24.25 so that is generating some additional dollars for for um san jose schools which is good um i'll get into where the real dollars are coming into san jose city schools um from the increase in prop 98 in a couple of future slides now this may revise also continues to address the impacts to um our enrollment in ada from the coronavirus and the kovid 19 pandemic um if you recall january the governor predicted um a three-year rolling average in uh 23-24 or no 22-23 then the senate then there's some senate bills came out that were um addressing current year ada by using prior year or in the priors case which due to covid we use the actual 2019-20 ada report in so we were at
259in our second interim we used the senate bill projection of prior year ada as our current year report now the may revise has come out something similar to that instead of using that prior year ada report they've said we're going to use current year but instead of using the lat the prior year report we're going to use the prior year yield so that percentage compared to our role enrollment in the prior year applied to our current year enrollment is what's included in the may revise so with that we'll use our yield for this year and then next year that three prior year average there was another um thing included in the may revised that addressed charter schools charter schools will be able to use prior to your ada they won't report it this year they'll
260be able to use prior year because it's the greater of current year or prior year just like school districts do but that's every year school districts are able to use that so those are the big factors that are addressing um lcff state funding rick you can move on to others so here's one item that's come out with the may revise that is is good news for school districts for the first time in governor newsom's governance he is using uh one-time discretionary dollars if you can recall during governor brown's governance he was we're getting one-time discretionary dollars almost every year and they would come out in may we'd start off in january not knowing we were getting one-time dollars then in may we would get them and here we go again with governor brown these ones
261are fairly significant more significant we've seen in the than we've seen in the past uh these are projected at about fifteen hundred dollars per ada you can see for san jose city schools that's almost 18 million dollars in revenue now that is one-time revenue um but nonetheless um revenue that we were not predicting in january or march with our second interim so we will um conclude that moving forward in our budget adoption in june now that money has no restrictions and no deadline for spending it has some guidelines but they're they're not in law so you can move on to the next slide rick i i will just add to this slide um this is obviously uh great news for santa rosa city schools uh fifteen hundred dollars per ada uh based on p2 i
262do want to caution though that this is not final language uh and there is i'll say disagreement uh between what this money actually will be when it's said and done or if that money could be used for something else as part of the bartering that happens in sacramento during the budget uh negotiations uh between now and june 15th we know there will be a budget between june between now and june 15th we don't know if this dollar amount this block grant amount will be the same after that or with the implementation of the omnibus trailer bill so i just want to caution that this is the best information that we have tonight uh but there's not agreement uh amongst uh even our our alphabet soup of advisors about will this be the end result come
263july once i just want to caution everybody thank you yeah so that was probably the major area that um governor newsome addressed the increase to prop 98 in that one-time discretionary funding so now we're moving on to the transitional kindergarten implementation universal transitional kindergarten if you recall in 2025-26 we'll have to provide universal transition universal or glad to provide transitional kindergarten to four-year-olds whose birthday occurs um by september 1st starting this year though is the first year we're moving past what is it now i think it's december 1st we're moving that deadline out to february 2nd now it moves from december 2nd to february 2nd for the 22-23 school year and three additional months each subsequent year until it's a full-year implementation of four-year-olds in tk right now and so we have to admit and
264enroll those students into our into our tk program into our uh transfer kindergarten programs however we don't start generating any lcf revenue based on their 88 until they actually turn five and with the may revise um there is well not with the members this continues this was part of the the january budget but they're updating some of the tk ratio add-ons so that although we can't start generating ada they'll save 88 there will be an add-on once they turn um five associated with their ada of about 2 800 bucks and but the another um component of the transitional kindergarten is the two is the uh teacher to student ratio which is what 12 to one i got a little thing in here yeah 12 to one so it's going to cost us some money we're
265going to get a little bit more money and we'll have uh the impacts of that in our budget uh in june so calpers established their employer rate um you can see a little bit um better rate than we were predicting projecting in january and you can see that's gonna have a positive benefit to santa rosa's finances here with some savings of about you know a little over a percent next year a couple percent in the following year three percent in the third year so you can see those savings that not only san jose city schools is getting but all our charter schools as well so um however calstrs this may continues to use the rates that were projected in in january in one additional note on that uh the the governor's january budget proposal nor
266the may revision has any help to offset calpers or counselors directly the reduction in calpers is directly attributed to cal calpers board of directors uh voting and finalizing their rates uh in other years when this happens in the last couple of years we've had additional help from uh the governor's budget so i just want to make note that there is no mention of calpers or calstrs in the budget proposal or the may revision yeah so there were other areas in the state budget are in the may revision budget um that were continued but there were some improvements in the level of funding and those level of those the level of funding how that will impact santa rosa will have that information in in when we adopted good budget in june but for example the expanded
267learning opportunities program continues in the may revision it's ongoing money i think we have like four million dollars um in allocations and that continues in the may revision independent study so we're looking to see what changes would be in independent study in may uh may revise continues to expire that the current program at the end of the current school year but it did up for those who continue with it it did update timelines for collecting written agreements and things centered around how we collect ada and uh there are some new exemptions and and things that address independent study in the may revise but it continues to expire the end of the current year and that'll be including the omnibus trailer bill along with uh other programs and services uh that are listed here the majority
268of it is unchanged and does not affect uh fund zero one uh in terms of a monetary figure uh yeah so the reserve cap i i don't think we need to go into this tonight if if this becomes an issue uh we'll we'll talk about it at uh the budget public hearing and subsequent budget adoption sorry joel i'm hijacking a couple of these slides um there's a couple more items we have to get to tonight uh here i've already talked about pension relief there's no increase in transportation um and then universal meals and the unduplicated pupil count is a concern not just of santa rosa city schools uh but a concern of all schools in the state of california now that parents and guardians aren't required to fill out a meal application in order to
269receive meals on a daily basis so they're looking at ways to offset that uh this slide is just more for information these are laws that are going into effect that we are addressing uh including universal meals late start time that we've already addressed as a school district uh menstrual products in facilities at all of our facilities and then the requirement for students to fill out the fafsa on an annual basis goes into law as well so with that i will say that this is certainly a positive may revision we are still looking forward to further explanation of some of the items that we expect to come out with the governor's or the the signed budget uh or the budget that's past the governor on june 15th and then certainly especially with the discretionary funds uh
270if those come as is or if some are moved into a categorical like type program uh as part of the budget negotiation process uh and we'll know that for certain when the omnibus trailer omnibus trailer bill is signed uh hopefully by the end of june first week of july that we can implement into the 45 day revision with that uh that concludes our presentation we'll hand it back to the board all right thank you rick thank you joel crossing fingers do we have any questions from the board all right members of the public wish to comment on this item if there are any members of the public who would like to comment on this item the governor's may revision update to the proposed 2022-23 state budget please raise your hand at this time and it
271looks like we have a one public comment from anastasio anastasio could you please state your last name for the record yes hello my name is anastasia pallada rose can you hear me yes thank you yeah i just wanted to clear out on how ccla is going to be falling into this category because on one of the baby needs we were told that we weren't going to be able to use previous population numbers and categories at our school because cook and ccla combined and our previous numbers were not going to be granted with this new proposal so i just want to make sure that how is that going to be taken care of and that if we are going to include previous populations at our school or not thank you all right thank you and there
272are no other hands raised at this time great all right we're bringing it back uh to the board any further discussion on this item seeing none we're going to move on to agenda item e4 okay things are moving quickly guys thank you joel thank you rick agenda item e4 approval remember end up of understanding with csea chapter 75 regarding mandatory training we have um assistant superintendent shepard coming up on stage to help us with this the board will consider approving mou that was reached with san diego city schools and the california school employees association collective bargaining representatives regarding mandatory training turning it over to you thank you this agenda item is very similar to a mou we brought to you earlier in the year for srta this is allowing us to move forward with mandated
273trainings on the designated principal workday in august which will align with what we're doing with srta and also a similar resolution for this year csca members will be paid a stipend to provide proof of training and to acknowledge that this training needed to be done so with that i will leave it with you for any questions board member questions see none do we have members of the public who wish to speak to this agenda item if there are any members of the public who would like to comment on item e4 approval of memorandum of understanding that the california school employees association chapter 75 regarding mandatory training please raise your hand at this time and there are no hands raised all right bringing it back to the board i see trustee flores your hand is raised
274uh just a brief comment uh i just want to say thank you for bringing equity to the csca bargaining unit in terms of these trainings it go unnoticed i just want to say that thank you and trustee medina moves to approve the mou with csch under 75 regarding mandatory training second all right moved by um trustee medina seconded by trustee was that maniary all right we're ready for a vote director medina hi director moni eddie aye director fong i director mccormick hi director flores aye president sheffield hi motion passes okay moving on to agenda item e5 stay right there mike approval memorandum of understanding with cse chapter 75 regarding special education assistance initial salary step placement the board will consider approving the mou that was reached with santa rosa city schools in the california school
275employees association's collective bargaining representatives regarding special education and assault salary step placement turn it over to you mike thank you president sheffield this mou is allowing us temporary flexibility to normally we can only hire employees and csea on step one but in order to attract some needed employees in special education assistance this will allow us to place people with relevant experience up to up through step six and so with that i will entertain any questions you have trustee flores yes question how will this affect if you hire someone from i believe sco and uh and they would like to stay for next year so uh uh sacramento camp sorry sonoma county office of ed uh is reducing some of their special education classes and they've laid off some employees so kind of in partnership we're
276going to advertise for those employees they will have to go through a normal hiring process but we believe that they might go elsewhere because we would normally only be able to place them at step one this will allow us to honor their years of service and bring them in at up through step six and their seniority will be their actual date of hire with us so the only effect is uh their step placement i guess all i'm saying is that uh which we just have to be mindful in terms of what's going to happen next year in terms of making sure we retain them because if this sunset's in august then what happens thereafter excellent once we place them in their step placement that carries forward another question from the board public comment if there
277are any members of the public who would like to comment on item e5 approval of an mou with the california school employees association chapter 75 regarding special education assistance initial salary step placement please raise your hand at this time and it looks like we have one hand raised from karen wagner good evening everyone um being a special ed assistant myself um i do know that this is you know a heavy workload um it takes a lot of patience um and one of my i mean i'm all for you know being able to bring over sco you know candidates and everything um that are trained and ready to go my concern is a little bit about um being like if it's not the the board discussion or the human resources discretion if somebody comes in higher
278than what i'm asked and i've been almost 19 years i mean you got to kind of look at that equity there too so um step six is pretty you know up there um so hopefully a very qualified candidate would earn that step six that's all i'm just i just want to comment on thank you ms wagner and there are no other hands raised all right bringing it back to the board i see trustee medina move to approve the mou with csv chapter 75 regarding special education assistance initial initial salary placement this second moved by trustee medina seconded by trustee manieri we're ready for a vote director medina aye director monterie aye director fung hi director mccormick director flores hi president sheffield aye motion passes moving on to agenda item e6 approval of a resolution for
279governing board elections for november thank you mike thank you mike the board will consider approval resolution number 2021-2262 in preparation for the november 8th 2022 governing board elections as required by sonoma county office of education presenting the item this evening superintendent while i will not read as fast as you um thank you for president sheffield members of the board staff and community in order for us to move forward with the potential of filling three board seats that are sun setting or expiring in december of 2022 the board must take action on a resolution um to in order to fill regular openings um at the november 8 2022 election with that i will hand it back to you for president sheffield okay do we have questions from the board seeing none go to the public for
280comment if there are any members of the public who would like to comment on item e6 approval of a resolution for governing board elections november 2022 please raise your hand at this time and there are no hands raised bringing it back to the board trustee medina's hand is to approve raised number 2021 2022-16 preparation for the november 8th 2022 governing board elections as required by sonoma county office of education second moved by trustee medina seconded by justin flores we're ready for a vote director medina aye director flores director monierry aye director fong director mccormick aye president sheffield aye motion passes great we are moving on to our f consent items we had some items pulled and i have them on my notes but i'm not finding them if somebody could help me out okay we
281had uh items f5 f8 and 14 pulled thank you trustee medina you had uh requested items pulled well first uh would we make a well first off f1 is dr cruz's absence excused so we could improve f1 yes so i'll make a motion to approve items f one through four six and seven and nine through thirteen okay moved and seconded before i did for f consent items f1 through 4 6-7 9-13 seconded by trustee um flores director mccormick aye director flores director mani eri director phong director medina hi president sheffield aye okay passes let's address our pulled items okay first on um the i think it was nwea of the contract f5 um i i just want to confirm it talked about uh it being an assessment is this like an assessment of work being
282done or is it like uh like a standardized test type of assessment i just want to clarify that is the question about nwea time all right maybe we could restate the question yes please yeah i was just trying to clarify like it talked about the assessment of students like three times a year i just want to know is it like an assessment of like work being done somehow or is it like some sort of standardized test type of assessment that students take that's all i just kind of wanted to clarify on that part what type of assessment yeah thank you so the assessment if i'm understanding your question correctly is a growth assessment it's based on the ability to project kind of where students are in a trajectory and it looks like growth three times
283a year in the fall the winter and the spring it correlates and can add on to what's going on with the um any kind of interim assessment done by on the caaspp platform but it does a little bit more projection it also has a national norm as part of its uh standard and it allows you then to compare things kind of on a broader scale for how students are doing with learning and the second question on the second nwa contract there was two figures shown on the summary i believe it was 36 600 but on the actual contract it was just 36 000. um do we know which is the correct amount it's a little fuzzy on the audio for me why the two um different contracts one is for licensing one is for professional
284development no no no the the second the professional one on the contract summary it lists six thousand six hundred but on the actual hundred the the actual contract it lists thirty six thousand so there's a six hundred dollar difference in those two i'm just wondering which is the correct one yeah they gave us some an estimate on professional development at one point i received two different estimates so i believe the increased the services because we looked at the actual amount of teachers to be served for professional development it was at 600 that would be correct there's a larger number okay thank you thanks a lot move to groom f5 second uh moved by uh justine medina seconded by trustee manieri ready for vote director medina director monieri i director fung hi director mccormick aye director
285flores aye president sheffield aye your passes move on to the second fold item f8 i'm going to skip my questions on f8 and just move to prove that as presented second move by trustee medina second by trustee manieri ready for a vote director medina director monierry aye director phong director mccormick aye director flores aye president sheffield aye motion passes and the last pulled item f14 on the ethnic studies uh the the dance course i just wanted to clarify it looks like the pe and the visual performing arts courses are pretty much the same i just want to confirm that was accurate in terms of like the structure that was dance and performance art yeah well one meta physical education requirement one visual performance art requirement but it seemed like the content was pretty much exactly
286the same so i'm wondering if students then um have to choose either one or the other graduation requirements or can the course i know it counts as ethnic studies but can it count as both pe and visual performing arts or i just kind of wanted to clarify that that wasn't great question so the course um as you mentioned there's two different courses a lot of the content is the same for the one that counts as the vapa it does include meeting kind of common core standards in terms of writing in a research paper when students are placed in classes you will often have potentially two different courses in one section during the day and it will be important they are named a little different it'll be important that counselors are working with students and identifying
287what they're getting and what they're getting the credit for and then the teacher will be responsible for adjudicating that extra research paper angle and content in the class with the appropriate students and and this by by allowing it to count for two options that opens up another elective for students is that correct um could you repeat that the audio's a little fuzzy when you speak sorry i'm sorry it's okay by counting is two items this allows an additional elective to open up for students then is that correct what was the question by allowing say that again just one last time sorry most of it's clear but it's a little fuzzy by accounting for two um graduation requirements it then allows the opportunity for students to have an additional elective open that's correct well once again
288students will be taking the course as either the vapa or the pe so it will only count as one particular course um and then they'll have to that decision will be made in conjunction with their counselor for what they need and it'll be appropriately marked in the system for the teacher to do the do the work with them and then they'll you know have triple typical matriculation and choices but it will not count for two specific courses besides the ethnic studies and the either vapa or ethnic studies and pe is that clear thank you you're welcome sorry for the audio probably my end i'll move to improvement if 14 is presented second moved by trustee medina to move forward at f-14 seconded by trustee fong ready for a vote director medina aye director fong aye
289director mccormick director flores aye president sheffield aye motion passes thank you moving on to our g item thanks again tim um approval of minutes seeking approval a motion for approval minutes of a regular board meeting held on may 11 2022. second moved by trustee flora seconded by trustee mccormick ready for a vote director flores director mccormick aye director monity aye director fung aye director medina aye president sheffield aye motion passes h items uh board members do we have requests for information all right seeing none we are going to move on to our iot items listed in the agenda package and before we adjourn superintendent to now any last announcements good night well i want to say congratulations to all of our graduates um we made it the things moved very quickly within this meeting and
290i apologize for that we're trying to get done in the next 30 seconds so with that i am going to adjourn the meeting hug your kids stay safe out there everyone have a great evening