001It is 5:30. I'd like to call this meeting board of education to order. We will begin with the pledge of allegiance. I'm sure all the trustees noticed that we added a new item on number three. We are now doing approval of the agenda. Um I'm not sure how this works though. Yeah, this would just be a motion second, but this is an opportunity if there are any ments that want to be trustees would like to propose be made to the agenda. It would be no. Any proposed changes? I propose we have dinner. That would be a good discussion to have under meeting feedback. Okay. Well, if if there are no uh changes, I'd need a motion to approve the agenda. I move approve the agenda as written. Second. I'll second. Okay. It has been moved
002and approve and seconded that we approve of the agenda. I and I as well. It's now time for public comment. Public comment for all agenda items and on matters that not on the agenda but are with County Board of Education will take place during this item. Members of the public are invited to fill out a speaker card and review the speaking to the board handout available at the checkin table. The board is not allowed by law to take action on matters not ages. Is there anybody uh here who wishes to address the board at this time? Seeing none, we will move on to item number five, which is a presentation, learning community success. Yeah, we'd like to welcome uh Kelly Rizzy and Cindy Hogue and they are going to be giving us an annual update
003on our learning communities for native school success grant work that they have been doing in partnership with our our districts across the county. I think it's working now. Yes. All right. Hi everyone. I'm Kelly Rzie. I'm a dctor with going on 11 years been involved in this work for inception and three years ago. Hi, I'm Sydney. I am the success coordinator and I am also a tribal council woman for the tribe of we're not going to take a lot of time this evening. We just want to share with you some of the successes of the activities of the grant over the last years. So this is just kind of a look at where we're headed in the next 10 minutes. Cindy's going to give us a little background on local history. We're going to talk
004a little bit about the lesson teams that have been in action for a number of years now. We're going to talk about our native school support team and having a little bit initiative. I would encourage you to Yeah, I would encourage you to make sure that the microphone does catch you because streaming to millions of people. Maybe not millions. Tribal entities of Northern California and just territorial tribal territories of the Pit River nation which are located in the upper corner there. Um those are not all of the people and they tribe of Northern California starts up at Mount Chast and then and so at the inception of the American Indian advisory we created lesson teams because having been an educator in Chester County for many many years uh teachers repeatedly asked we we feel completely
005inep to teach local history of our native tribes and it was a request that had continued to be brought to the county So we formed teams I led those teams and then three years ago when we were able to hire Cindy through our learning success she work so she's leading for the last three years but just kind of an overview we do have five teams these are the grades that are covered uh the reason that we chose those grades was because we decided to use the the California state standard social history social science standards to work so that we can connect it meaningful for students and for teachers but also have it be you know based on the standards that teachers have to teach anyway. Um so each tribe provides a knowledge keeper to co-create
006the lessons and then the lessons are taken back to approval. Um it's not this is not a very process. It is a delicate process because we want to get it right. We want to be really want to know that we're telling the truth accurately. City is of course of representation. So each lesson from the nth grade lesson each lesson has an objective. It does have an assessment. This particular lesson is a 42 minute lesson for a high school class. And in this particular this particular lesson took two articles was from 1899 and the other was students really. So with the grant three years ago when we received um you know go ahead to move forward we were able to hire Nicole Lawrence and Amanda Brown who are rock stars. I mean to tell you half
007the time when I'm meeting because of the impact they have with these families. They're a part of our team and they are um you know they they're available to all families in any any referral that comes in. Nicole and Amanda split up the referrals and they go out and they meet they they provide an element of relational health, psychological safety, practical tips and connections to services in our community that families wouldn't have otherwise and and truly Cindy's going to talk about celebrations and for some of these parents who have completely given up in themselves and community these ladies allow them to check in with them and they encourage them and they brea confidence into them and and because of that because of their absolute we've seen enormous successes which so the reason for 43.1% is
008unacceptable And at the end of 23 24% as far as referrals and contacts talking about school support team during just 24.5 school year we had over a thousand contacts. So that is that includes face to face but only amilies to schools meetings ask them to be there. Um this includes text messages going to so some of the successes that we had is our partnership with the local Indians for education for the life. The life center has been around 50 years in the native community and they offer tutoring. We had a graduation honoring our students. We hold cultural classes. We had we just finished and that we had youth leadership training institute facilitating. We had a gathering of Native Americans or we hold talking circles there and also schools where they show a we also attend
009meetings, foster youth meetings, meetings, Indian welcome tribes and student study teams talking circles are held bi-weekly at the juvenile court school. The largest number of resents find and then we had to so family 101 problem. The family was living in a tent school. We were able to find housing. The parent was able to get two jobs. Family 102 is a family that came from the area. It was an elderly family and they were living. And so this is a direct quote from 103. I am sure grateful for the work once they were to the right place. They made up their own mind. They wanted better school. I got to tell the judge that family 104. This particular daughter was not a built a relationship team members. Um she worked with her daughter for quite a
010while. The daughter was now going to school full time and dad said oldest daughter worked with grandma houses all very giving my kids extra support they need to succeed and also helping me navigate what that 106 being an advocate by being an advocate not just for the children but for the families as well as we help students and fill out forms for students high school. Our team presented at the 43rd annual conference on Indian education in Sacramento facilitate facilitate a blyucation meeting those are not every so they're able to share and yes um we were able to hold the celebrating indigenous event where we have books authors 80 schools and teachers authors. But before I go to the goals which are very brief but important um I just want to highlight the fact that the
011books in our libraries What what so much of the science shares is a sense of belonging and when our students in Shasta County see books in their libraries and books in their classrooms and authors who wrote the books who look like them who have similar histories as them. Cindy has heard from so many native parents about how for our youth and our schools and we can't thank you enough for your generosity and as a part of the board initiative around literacy that was a part of that was out and they don't have a real trust of the education system. And so one of the things I had to second grade and she said he came home and opened the book. And I said, "Oh, that's great." She said, "No, no, you don't understand. he doesn't
012like to read. I mean, this is a a big victory. So, these are our goals moving forward. Um, we're going to continue our work with the life center. It's been a very successful partnership. They have access to families that we don't have access to. Um, we're going to expand the tutoring, which is exciting. We're going to work on increasing family engagement through our future work with literacy. The ignite reading program is going to be offered. We're we're setting goals to increase graduation rates, decrease suspensions, uh local history and science lesson development. That's the next expansion of the lessons. We're doing history, social science now that we're one of our goals is to move into science and then to continue the education series. Um every other month we offer an online education series. And then the
013thing I think I'm probably most excited about is the youth leadership All the research has proven that when we have voice and agency, we see engagement in school. We see lower chronicism rates. We see higher graduation rates. So, thank you for having us today. I appcate I was just gonna ask if we can have those slides emailed to us. And then thank you for your service. I really appreciate it. And just wondering if there's any events that you can just send us an email so you guys Oh, yeah. I want to go. Yeah, we we can definitely um some of our virtual trainings have been shared out with the board and some trustees have actually joined into some of those those learning sessions, but we can we can take community upcoming community events and I
014can include them in updates. The slides have been added to your online. Yeah. We have more questions. I did have a couple comments and a question. So, one of them was I did participate in one um advisory board meeting and I was really impressed by the amount of organizations that are involved in that consortium and I just thought that would be something interesting to point out because I don't know if people realize I didn't even realize that the extent of how many people are coming together to support students. So, I thought that was wonderful. Um, also the community connectors. I have a personal experience that I want to share with you with the community connectors. I have a son that was struggling and I was referred to one of them this year and um I
015know all the resources and I can refer myself and I I know all the things. But simply having her to communicate with when I was overwhelmed with things I couldn't share with anybody else was. And it was I mean I can't even put a price on what that was from my mental health and just having somebody there to be able to talk to and and acknowledge and they really were just so friendly and I knew she cared and that yeah authenticity was so important. And so just personal thank you for that as well. Yeah. And she I mean to speak to that, she did have to text me like 20 times before I told her because I was like, "Yeah, I'll call you this day and then I'm busy. I'll call you. I'm busy." But
016she never gave up. She kept trying to connect. And then thankfully when I did respond with her, I was like, "Oh, wow. I'm so glad we connected." And then she followed up with me a couple more times. That was But it was wonderful. Yeah. And then my last thing was there is still extreme discrimination happening with Native American students here in Chast County in our schools. And I'm just wondering if there is anything that is being done to address that um with the schools like the one that had the um the federal complaint made against them for discrimination. Fall River Yeah. So that staff, one of the things that I experienced up there that was completely shocking to me was the the name that they use for the continuation school up there. And um I
017thought that is there somebody from the um Pit River tribe on the board. Yes. Okay. I thought it would be when you were talking about um somebody that was what did you call them? The story keeper knowledge keeper story. So um I thought that finding someone like that to to keep that information about how that came about like to to keep that story of what happened there and then um and then working to change that Cindy and I met with a tribal elder who is auntie of the chairman Thank you guys so much. Thank you. Hold on. Any other questions? I had a few comments and a couple of questions for Cindy. Um first, sorry. Um so, um first of all, cutting the chronic absenteeism rate in half is incredible. Way to go. Okay. Well,
018I mean, whatever you're doing, it's working and and and it's obvious because you don't make changes like that. You don't see demographic change like that. So um two questions sorry when when you were here the last time we we talked about the knowledge keepers. Okay. So, so have the tribes genuinely engaged that effect process or were actually engaging in a given When are you going to have that back to our council? I like that. So, well, you might like it, but you know, I spend a lot of time on the phone at home. Oh, well, but it's still it's still I I I like it because that kind of engagement Exactly. One of the She's really excited about this. Absolutely. And and the third place I wanted to go to and I'm going to combine
019these into one is family engagement, youth leadership. Okay. Because the way to get grow youth leadership is to model effective leadership and and you can do that through family engagement. Um and I was wondering just um are any of the youth leaders interested in becoming college teachers? You have in my my sonology right now. That answers my question. Okay. Um, so yes, I because I teaching the next generation and keeping that tradition going is is is the way to build culture and the social division. Thank you for everything that you're do that you're doing and everything you will and you too. Thank you very much. We will now go on to item number six, board initiatives. U each month we do a board initiative and I see Jen's already coming forward. So I know that
020it's substance use prevention this month. Thank you Jen. Um so with substance use prevention just because it is the summer Before I get into the things we have been involved in right now, our staff is reviewing all of their presentations, making sure information is up to date, making sure it's on track with Iro 2865 and 249. Um, and so we're reviewing surveys, editing applications. It's a whole time to just get ready so we can get the ground. So that's what our staff is doing office right now, but there's some highlights that I want to share with you all of that, our students also. Uh we got the chance to speak at the city of U city council meeting and so we had six students with three speakers and we were asked to attend to speak
021on behalf of or in favor of more strict regulations for the tobacco retailer licensing. Um, and so put together. So, a common assumption is that students who are star athletes with good grades would never lay a hand on tobacco products. I'm here to tell you that is far from the truth. I witnessed firsthand my peers using tobacco products, particularly vapes, as early as junior high. The average age of beginning tobacco product use in Chasta County is 13 years old. Even the smartest adolescents with good grades and bright futures are ahead are susceptible to addiction to tobacco products because of their accessibility. Limiting access to tobacco products in local retailers is the most effective way to reduce accessibility. And I urge you to consider making that change. When I attended Shasta High, some students would cut
022class or go during lunchtime to nearby tobacco retailers and buy products there. The ease of accessibility with the close proximity of tobacco retailers, Shasta County schools is a disaster. If we work together to solve the problem, we will help benefit our community and help our youth grow into healthy future leaders and citizens. It's hard to drill healthy choices into young minds when there is a tobacco store within a,000 ft of over 54% of Reading City Schools. Shasta County's rate of students using tobacco is over twice the state average. The root of the issue is the alarmingly widespread access to of tobacco to minors. Tobacco retail licenses have been an effective means of restricting youth access to tobacco in other areas. Before a tobacco retail license was implemented in Orville, the youth sale rates were 22.6%.
023And after zero. Woodland was at 32% and dropped to 8 and Davis went from 30.6 to 12. If these other cities can see success, kids in Reading should get that same opportunity. Every child growing up in Chasta County has the right to a bright future that shouldn't be dimmed by tobacco use that could have been prevented. So, as you can see, two of those Caitlyn and Sophia were part of our youth. Audrey is a student who graduated from Shasta High and then came back because she's really interested in advocacy. And so being able to be in the room for that was really cool because you know they're up there. They're sing I was just my heart and they're just really cool kids. So um and they put those speeches together. They actually uh shervel And
024so the result was uh that the city council rejected the ordinance and uh opted for a broader enforcement. So they want stricter regulations. Um and so right now this next Tuesday or Wednesday, I think it's Tuesday. Uh that will come back before the city council and they will uh revote. So they um yeah, I mean with the city council change, but right now and talk about how it started at our students. So, usually we get to but anyway they should go on but I can right now our students aren't speaking at that one but they are going to and then two other summer opportunities that we have our staff is presenting at camp and so they're presenting opioid and underage presentations the anticipated reach is 100 middle school students um and that at silk camp
025we're also able to give out applications and so present to the students but then the counselors there also say hey we see you're interested in leadership we have this great opportunity or simpson Yeah. And then we also have our peerto-peer education in our project shared summer programs. So we don't have all of our students who are peer educators available during the summer. Some of them have already moved to where they're going to college, but we have a few that are available. They'll be going out to Happy Valley and that's for the third through healthy life choices. Thank you and thank you for whoever put that video together because I happened that I to see it. That was really awesome. So proud of those kids. Um and grateful for city council to work with them to
026teach them how to do that. Um so can the commission keep us updated possibly maybe when that final ordinance does pass if we can get that d that the final ordinance once it passes? I'd love to see it. Thank you. Anyone else have any questions for Jim? Thank you so much. I would just love to throw a highlight on the Jen and her team have done and this is the power of think of what the board initiives the potential of that. I just I love I love the students. One more question. Have we invited our current um student board members to attend or that meeting on Tuesday? I think can you also send us emails? Oh, okay. One more question. Sorry, I'm questioning. No, that one. Okay, moving on to item number seven, approval of
027the consent agenda. The consent agenda is comprised of items that are uh routine in nature and are expected to be passed with a single vote. Any board member can pull an item from the consent agenda. Um, so does anybody want to pull anything from the consent agenda, please? I'll make a motion to approve consent agenda. Have a second. It's been moved and seconded that we approve the consent agenda. Um, we will start with Jessica. I author Teresa. Michael I Laura I Jackie I affirm as well motion carries 61 item eight is information um items u I'm not going to read through them them all it's budgets from all three of our our charter schools and their LCAPS from all three of the charter schools and it uh but item one is the general fund and
028early childhood services snapshot Does anybody have any questions aboutformational items? We'll move on to item nine, which is the action item instructional service DS eligibility for Shasta County Independence Day. I'll turn over. This is an item requesting your approval. It's an application that comes forth every three years. Basically, for the dashboard alternative school status and it's a status that is then noted on the California dashboard. Um you may recall Carrie mentioned it um during her health presentations um using the word DOSS. Um it's something that California allows um so that schools can have that status on the dashboard and in addition they can qualify for funding like comprehensive school support for example and also look at a one-year um graduation they call it a one-year graduation rate which includes graduates um there's a formula for
029it I can give you the handout if you like but it includes 12th graders in addition some early 11th graders, not um only students that earn diplomas or fourth and fifth year graduates that earn diplomas, but also students that earn other certifications. And so that information is also on the California dashboard under school details. And so every three years we come forth the application. This is for our independent study program because our other programs do qualify by virtue of being a juvenile court and the other being a special education county run program questions I didn't have question I didn't know if this was what program it was for so when it said I was thinking most of these fit the highrisisk category so I was wondering % further questions then we would need to approve
030the eligibility for county school to approve and a I'll second been moved and seconded that we approve item 9.1.1 eligibility for county independent study roll I affirm as well motion carry 7 item 9.2 two administrative services. One under this is board policy and administrative regulation 1250 visitors and outsiders. This is a first read. So explain that very quickly. We we uh typically uh discuss this over the course of of two meetings uh any kind of of board policy or change and uh can the second read after we have discussed it at this uh at this meeting. So, can I just make a correction? There's a word missing in the last sentence of the first paragraph on the AR. There is. Okay. Thank you. There should be immediately hereately register. Um and so uh as everybody
031here knows uh we have a safety director that was hired during last school year and as a part of uh the safety director's task has been kind of like reviewing reviewing our policies and procedures and one of the things that we've been looking at um is visitors uh to school campuses but as well as to our administration buildings. and we found a gap where we do not have an adopted board policy that addresses uh visitors uh accessing either of those sites. Um and so Aya Tucker, our safety director, uh took on the task of drafting uh the board policy in the AR that you see uh before you here. Uh included in the packet, you'll see uh because we didn't have a previous uh board policy, this is a new board policy for us. We
032did take the CSBA uh draft that was provided and then we gave you a redline version so it shows exactly what we took out of the CSBA language, what was added to that language and then a clean draft of what we are proposing. And with that, I will turn it over to Aya Tucker uh to be able to describe a little bit what went into the policy and the reasoning behind it. Thank you Tucker, safety director. Um good to be here for my first time. So just background. Um, as echoed in the cover sheet when I first started my position only about three months ago, uh, one of my initial goals was really to review and have a lay of the land of what we have internally of SCOE. What policies and procedures that fit
033into the general category of safety, it's kind of a big umbrella term for a lot of different things, but also emergency preparedness and response. So, as Austin had mentioned, this was an item that I identified as um really being a standard across districts and county offices of education uh that we did not have. And so, my goal was to draft this, bring it to the board, uh so that we can really lay that foundation. I think some of the important aspects, yes, it is utilized after the CSBA sample, but I think it's important not just to copy and paste what an organization provides, but really provide that review and see what other areas um and districts are what have they implemented as well. So within this review and development of the proposed uh draft that
034is here before you uh includes a review of the districts. So the county um not districts I'm sorry county offices of education that includes surrounding counties sys Trinity View Taha um all the way down to about Glen County and Yolo County to ensure you know really what what do they have in their drafts? Are there things that are missing from the sample that we need to take into consideration and also the unique factors that that our county may experience. I also reviewed district policies. Um, for the most part, the CSBA policy sample has been adopted. There are some slight variations, but overall this is really a standard policy across um, leas. Uh, one of the other aspects I think is important to highlight as to why really visitor registration and having this policy in place
035is really accountability. So during emergency response um events, so whether that be a fire, any sort of event that requires an evacuation, a lockdown, or a flood, as we've seen, you know, in some other recent events across the country, it is really, really important to have accountability of individuals and members of the public that come into our spaces so that we can ensure when we're evacuating that we're doing it thoroughly and that we're not leaving people behind and that our procedures match our policist. across the programs and services that we provide. So with that, I will go ahead and pause and see if you have any questions. Thank you. That's a lot of work to put it together. I know I know going off of from sample policy and then tailoring it to your area
036um is challenging. So, thank you for taking the time to do that. Um I think that I just the only thing I saw was the missing um the missing word register. Um but you already caught that. And then also I was wondering there's a lot of verbiage about the registration process but then for some reason we we took off the registration procedure from our AR and so it's a little confusing because it says you know we will post the requirements for for um how to register and the procedures but then our AR has no procedure in it at all. So I don't even know what that's going to entail. What are they going to be asking for um and whatnot. I I I'm just confused as to why that's not in here. Yeah, absolutely. Happy
037to elaborate on that and for pointing that out because that that was intentional in removing that language. And the reason I did that is because or I'm proposing that is because a lot of our sites are different and there's different requirements in different populations that are served. So for our facilities where like for our school sites, let's say for example um Excel, those registration requirements may be different based on the population that they serve. And so alternatively at Magnolia to come in and let's say you are a contractor and you're there to pay the fees that registration requirement is going to be variable or variable between those two sites. And so instead of having this long policy, the intention was really to create a foundation and let each program and service that we provide across
038the agency tailor it to their needs. So the public knows when you come there is going to be a visitor registration process and the goal is not to make it more ownorous than it needs to be but really bare bones. Um which is really my my personal approach when it comes to policies not to go over the top and list everything. Let's do a foundation. Um make sure it's comprehensive but not ownersome to the programs the members of the public and the processes that are in place already. Thank you. That makes sense. And um I just would like to ask legal counsel. So that doesn't that's okay that we don't have I mean it's an AR and it's laying out procedure but not laying out procedure. So if someone was to visit a site and
039say hey you said there was but why are you treating me differently? Could we just put registration procedure site specific maybe in our in our AR or is that not even necessary? Do you see where I'm going Tom? Great question and thank goodness I just read that penal code a few minutes ago while Kayla was talking. So the part that Kayla has uh has deleted the penal code says you can get as much of these information as you want. So you can see it name, address, age, purpose and all that. So those are the things that are allowable and I believe you know strike it out that's fine. You can still request whatever information you want. And I would expect I haven't spoken about this on the spot, but I would expect that for school
040sites, you're generally going to want to see ID, but as you said, if you're just a contractor paying a fee, you might just say, "What's your name?" Yeah, generally that that is the intention. You know, there's going to be sites that have more sensitive populations and we want to take that into consideration versus where it is really just maybe a business action that they're conducting and you don't necessarily need to the full further questions. Maybe there's multiple pages. So this is the final one. So as uh President Brown mentioned, it's coming to you as a first read which gives you the flexibility to either take action tonight or to provide direction based on revisions and then we can bring back Uh we did already have one revision that we need that we know we need
041to make in terms of the addition of that word. Um so that is at the discretion of the board in terms of uh the first read and the way it was listed on the board. You have the option to go either direction. Yes. This would be the administrative regulation at the top. Yes. There's also That was my question. So I did send it was late but I sent Robert I was just trying to clean that up. Yes. And I I don't know Austin if you have that specific language, but that was shared with me. Um and from my perspective, I have no concerns about those proposed verbag language. I agree. Um it looked a little bit more cleaned up after you proposed that language and it was streamlined. So, um I could forward that email
042to the board, but uh the proposed language, the replacement would be non- studentents and non-staff members must register as visitors immediately upon entering the county office of education's grounds or administrative sites. The designated staff member shall provide visible identification for all visitors to wear. further comments. I'd be okay waving a sec second read just those two changes. Okay. So, I mean the way this will have to work if we're if we're going to approve it tonight, somebody has to request that we wave the second. I can't I do we want the proposed board policy to come back after the revisions or make revisions tonight. Oh no, there is no We usually with board policy it is the first read with the the second read and when there's consensus with the first read the second would
043be there would be a motion to reflect that in the board me that sounds to me like we are not going to the second that's what you We will bring it back next month for approval. And that email from author with the proposed language has been forwarded to the group. So So let's bring this. Can I ask a question? Is there any reason that like is going to mess you up if we slow it down a month and kick the can a little bit or because it's just two little small edits, we could pass it tonight. You know, either way, I think that's at the board's pleasure. um predominantly the practice is already in place across our facilities. So really this was just codifying the procedure. Um, so if it were to come back for
044a second reading and a vote, I don't personally have anything that would be held up by it. I thought we were stumbling on the process, but it seems like we would approve it tonight with the changes, but then it would come back for a second. So there we still make a vote to approve it tonight. I think Mr. Freeman stated it uh correctly. If there's a motion to wave the second reading and approve it with the changes, then that motion will carry and it'll be approved today. So, it's just a question of which motion the board desires to approve. And if Laura wants to make a separate motion to have it come back for a second read, then if that motion carries your board bylaw does give you the option to second Correct. You can
045vote on it. It'll be approved tonight. So, I'll try. So, I will make a motion to approve it to bring it back. Is there a second? So, it was approved tonight and then it came back, would it be coming back as an information item at next month meeting? Well, Austin, actually, some boards put it back on information, some put it on consent for the second reading. Okay. Seems to me that you put it on consent most of the time. Sorry. We're we're we're discussing things when when there's a call for a second on the table. So, We need a second so that we can discuss this or we need to table this entire discussion. Sorry, Mr. President. Do we have a second? I make a substitute motion um pass it tonight with the changes that
046we just made and have it come back on consent. I'll second that motion. Okay. Thank you. Would that satisfy your It sounded It's It was very similar. It would wave the second read. Is that correct? So discussion floor. Okay. Well, if there is no discussion, it has been moved. Thank you. It has been moved and seconded that we approve Approve the board policy 1250 as amended tonight. Um wave the second read and bring it back for review. Is that correctly? Is that correctly stated? as a consent item, right? So that would make it an action item. No, no. If it's on the cons how the board wishes to proceed at this time. Thank you. Okay. So, we will turn to Hi, Michael. Hi, Laura. Hi, Jackie. Hi, Justin. Hi, and I affirm as well. 70
047Thank you very much and it's good to see you again. Item 9.3.1, uh, Association of California County Boards of Education membership. This has been in the works for some time. Yeah, I'll jump in. Uh, included in your uh, agenda were the slides that Beina presented in our last meeting. Uh in those presentations, uh information about the dues and the amount uh to join ACCB was included. We've recently included uh in your I believe in your meeting materials. Uh and online would be the actual ACCB invoice. This is an action. So, there was only one thing that I didn't get an answer for and it was my fault because I should have reached out to How do you pronounce her name? Is it Vina or Bina? Yeah. I should have reached out to her sooner. But
048the one thing I'm waiting for is um a list of things that they have lobbyed for to date as a CCB. Um I kind of did years back into um CSBA and basically it looked like the CCB portion of CSBA just kind of mirrored whatever C lobbying was or legislative um advocacy. And so I was just curious, she said they were going to continue the lobbying and advocacy, but I was wondering if they were going to continue to modern mirror CSBAs or if they were going to take on their own kind of flavor of advocacy. Um and so I was waiting for somebody has that now. I don't I don't know, Robert. No. Okay. I I I have some of of of their things that they advocated for, but I don't have a complete list.
049She shared she shared a brief list of bills. I asked that question. I do have notes, but I think there's only two. Be okay passing it tonight, but that is just one thing I still would like to see. I I also would like to see that. I do remember when Jessica asked the question. I think there were two or four bills that they were supporting right now, but I would like to see it as well just to make sure they stick to education related issues. Well, the uh um agenda item that we have uh for tonight is to approve our membership with ACC. So, need a motion. I move that we approve joining the ACCE. Second. It has been moved and seconded that we have approved the uh membership with ACCE discussion. Then we will
050proceed with a roll call vote. I have a discussion. I personally feel like um they're just too Thank you, Joseph. Robert, it seems like a lot of them have been on that committee that you were on. So it's kind of like a not a splinter group, but a group that's devoted to county initiatives instead of local. That's correct. Yeah. No, I mean the uh people who have uh formed this group are dedicated members of the county board of education. Um, I'm thinking I I haven't actually crunched the numbers, but just thinking of of four of the seven people have overund so um and uh they've been very active on the uh with CSBA when it was uh CCP was our county board with CC CSBA. They were very active on the uh with CC on
051the legisl are very trustworthy people who relationship the county boards in California with each other and I have full confidence. One of the one of the other things that I was just pondering was their like I do value the um their collective wisdom and their years of experience on county boards but it seemed that they just lack diversity because they're all board me they're all county board members where is full of not that we need to make a difference, but I just appreciate a more diverse group. Well, I mean for for to to my thing as advocacy for county boards, we are focused ACC is focused on what county boards do, right? Okay. CSBA is focused on school boards. Okay. County boards are right, but they have a lot of I'm I'm very very well
052connected with CSBA performs this function as well and yes they do a great job but that there is that hazy middle where some of the school boards and county it's a little over little confusing And uh uh so so for the ACB ACC uh to focus solely on county board issues seems to be like a very Oh yeah, I agree that it's that it's positive to focus solely on county boards, but to have to have the people running it be solely their experience solely on county board. There's not there's not um there's not outside thinking coming in. It's you know there's a lot of they know how to do things the way they've been So there's not an opportunity for new thought. Well, they want us to provide someone as well. So I mean if
053you want to provide that new thought, no, it's I I understand your question. I just Are we going to join this group? That's the question. That's what the motion is. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Just to clarify, we're just adding this CSBA. We're keeping CSBA. We're just adding this as an addition. That's correct. Still be represented by CSBA. I think I'm a little bit jaded because CCB is not that great of an organization. It was kind of just redundancy. But I when was here I heard that there I mean I heard some new energy with it and it seemed like it was more on the ground kind of work and so I think it would be worth giving it a try. I like the idea that they weren't going to be charging for every little
054webinar or whatever they they put on. So that would be so I think you know go into well let's see let's see let's join it see what we think after years thank you any discussion we will proceed with vote Hi Laura. Hi Jackie. Hi Jess. Teresa. Hi. And I affirm as well. That is 61. Item 9.3.2. review of board bylaw 9323 conduct in our last meeting uh the the subject of Robert's rules of order came up and so as part of the followup from our last board meeting it was requested that board bylaw well not specifically board bylaw 9323 but the topic of Robert's rules of order as a as a procedure uh for conducting board meetings was asked to be brought back as an agenda item. As we reviewed our board bylaws, we see
055uh a relevant board bylaw being 9323 is a place to add that if the board so uh so wishes. Um I'm sure Tom has has a some legal guidance as far or lack of legal guidance as far as specifically requiring Robert's rules of order. I think we've heard it, but we'd love to to again and it is here for possible action to uh to add language to board bylaw 9323 of the board solutions. Good evening everyone. Um pardon me if I am repeating brief comments from last time. Um interestingly the Brown Act doesn't say anything about parliamentary procedure. It doesn't even use the word motion. Um and the education code Affirmative vote of the majority of the members of the board, membership of the board, four out of seven is required for action and that's
056all. Um, in your current board bylaw just says will you'll conduct your meetings in accordance with bylaws and procedures as specified. Um, so there are um, you know, Robert's rules of order. There's the alternative um set of rules, parliamentary rules, the name of which is escaping at the moment and those are all fine choices and within the board's discretion if you want to do it. My personal preference uh if I may be so bold is that Robert's rules of order can be complicated. Um experienced parliamentarians have to read it full set of Robert's rules of order has 13 articles and 70 rules 70 rules. So most of the time when I for people that are using Robert's rules of order. What they're in fact using is a three, four or five page summary. So those
057are my thoughts. Um I think it would be acceptable to leave it as is practice of motions and seems to work. think it would be acceptable to adopt or say to staff and myself a couple questions. This been my experience with groups that use Robert's rules that we spend more time discussing rules than we do the substantive issues that we discuss my observation statistics. Just what I've noticed over the years is that walking process I think we need some kind of procedure set up because sometimes we have discussion before, sometimes we have it after, sometimes people are talking over each other and so I think something formal needs to be adopted. I I like Robert's rules of order, but I do see how it could get bogged down too. I do see how that could
058happen, but I do like it because it's formal and there's clear set guidelines. So, I don't know how anyone else feels, but that's just my thought. Yeah, I I pretty much um echo what you're saying. I do like Robert's rules, but it is a lot. I've read all of it, and to try and do a meeting like that, I don't know. That would be really challenging. But my idea was perhaps like my couple of things were talking over points of order and discussions. And so, maybe if we gave staff like I mean, for those of us that care about the things, um maybe just had them come up with some type of shorter procedural that included the things that we so far have experienced that we don't like. Maybe I think that would be good.
059I mean, if we just had a set order for like, you know, are we discussing before the motion is made? Are we discussing after the motion is made? And then points of order. really do need to be something needs to happen when those are raised because I can think of a couple different examples when things happened and then they're just kind of brushed aside as if it didn't matter and so I think we need something. So I'd be fine with giving you know asking Tom or someone else to come up with maybe five five or six things just to help meetings run more smoothly. So to to be clear here u what you're asking for is a process for the procedure action item. Is that correct? Yes. Okay. And the points of order discuss and
060points of order because those could come up at any time, not necessarily just an action item. Well, you could um as part of this meeting conduct called bylaw, it has procedures. So, it seems like that could include I mean I also I feel like order are so fussy going out but sometimes you just have trouble even doing a roll call vote or something like so I I think it's hard to think you know I agree with your thing that you're going to end up focusing so much on the process and that. So, I'm not I'm not in favor of Robert's rules of order, but I can I do go with the idea of um clarifying what our best practices are. I like that. What I what I would like is just a fair process and
061that's why I really because it gives you rules to operate within. And in the boards that I've been on, it actually just gives that your your position, you would call on the member and then they would speak and that person would have an opportunity to speak and then when they were finished, then the next person would be able to speak and then everybody would have an opportunity to speak. So the procedure is very nice and then it allows for debate and discussion to be had without other folks talking over each other and if we all know the operating system that we're within we can work within those rules and so I find it that it would ensure every member has a fair voice in our discussion and maintain a high level form and professionalism in
062our daily business and provide a structured framework for respectful debate during moments of intense discussion. So those things happen. The point of order is very nice because it slows everything down. Let's stop, reflect, let's look at the rule. Okay, we want to hear what you're saying, but now we need to move on to the next board member and follow the system laid out. So, I really like Robert's rules of order and I would like to make a motion that the Shasta County Office of Education adopt the most updated version of Robert's rule of order as a parliamentary procedure for all of our meetings. Can I clarify your motion? Shasta County Board of Education Roberts. Shasta County Board. I also like Robert's order. So, I will second it so we can discuss. Okay. Well, let's discuss.
063I think I've made it pretty clear that that I don't I think it's it's it's too honorous. I'll be brutally frank here. This is hurting cats up here. So, I appreciate your desire for process. I don't think the process should be governed by 70 rules. 70 individual rules in one of debate that have the length of this meeting into the we hours of the morning especially since we're starting at so um I I think having it structured is a good idea. I don't think it should so structured that it's rules that must be followed. Well, if we're going to vote on Robert's rules of order, I think we really see it and look at what some of the rules are in there. I'd also want to do this look at I can't remember the name
064of the other one either, but there's another one that is not as an at Rosenberg's. Okay. But the motion on the on the table is for Robert's rules, right? So, I'm just saying like if we're seriously considering doing something like that as a board member, I would want to really take some time to study what those what Robert's rules of order includes and then be interesting to know what this other one, you know, have a link to it so that kind of peruse that and see how that varies. I don't know. It's like there's no need to adopt it tonight. I think it's something that we should inform ourselves more. Yeah. I I'd also think I'd also like to point out that if we do adopt this, all of us are going to have to
065spend time over the next several months attending classes here. Point of order. What's a motion on the table? Sure. What is it? The motion is to adopt Robert's rules. And that's what you seconded to adopt Robert's rules tonight. Okay. All right. I hear what you're saying, Robert, about it extend debate, but it can also end debate fairly quickly as well. So, if we're getting too bogged down and discussing something for like 30, 40 minutes, there is a mo there is a way Robert was to end the debate immediately and vote. So yeah, I guess it could extend but it could also end it fairly quickly too. Call in the question ends the debate. So I appreciate the flexibility of the fact that you're not um required to use Robert's rule, but I also um see
066the struggle that we have sometimes with each other and having conversations, but also um the public. For example, last week when we had a community member coming up um speaking about things outside of the cur of this board and spewing, you know, untrue allegations against me and personal attacks against me and there was nobody that spoke up and said, "Hey, this is against you know, the purview of what we're doing here." And I feel like we are responsible for taxpayers money and what this board is supposed to be used for. And we should have a way that we can stop that kind of um commentary from happening and protect the board members up here also spoken against. Um they're not we have policy that's against their game allegations. Well, that is not as long as
067Laura is correct. The Brown Act specifically says we can't prohibit criticism of the board or employees and that's a pretty broad rule even if the allegations are or inaccurate. So, it's pretty pretty rare when you can g someone down. The number one example that comes comes to mind is if someone is here asking for a zoning variation. Zoning happens at the city county, right? And and here's a a thought if I may. I don't want to interrupt your discussion too much, but some board members are expressing a desire to become more informed about it. Consider whether staff with my assistance send you um Robert's Robert's rules of order, the full version, Rosenberg's rules of order, full version, and some samples that we've seen over time that are just summaries because some boards will will take
068the main chunks out of Robert's rules of order without it being so long and just have, you know, those same basic concepts as as Mr. Or was describing, motions, tableing, order of discussion, and things like that and have five or six or 10 pieces of Robert that are digestible and don't cause us all, you know, to have too much homework. Just a thought. Can I ask so then if that were given to staff and Gloria, you made the point then we would be looking maybe at including that language embedded into board bylaw 9323 as a possible alternative to the motion that is on currently on the floor. So if this motion fails, someone else can make another motion to do that. Right. I wouldn't want to steal bits and pieces from different moving forward. You
069can just go online. Most of the time it doesn't change that much. Pretty much the same as far as parliamentary procedure. It's just nice. It's already resource. Further discussion. Then the motion on the table is to adopt rules of order. Whose turn is it to start? I'm gonna start with you. Jackie, yay. Jessica, no. Author, yes. Teresa, yes. Michael, I vote no as well. So the motion is four in favor, three opposed. So just point of clarification then really quick. I would then work with Tom to get the current Robert's rules of order and I would include that in the regular board update. As far as I think every board member is going to need something a formal um train something and it's going to be interesting and I think there is a Robert's rules
070for dummies just if anybody wants to get a little head start on it or if you haven't seen it at all um it's kind of a good little jump start into it um they also have a little condensed version too that gets you mostly familiar with the rules that are used most often because all are rarely used. Um just just for my board members. So just for clarification earlier you said that we would be required to attend training here in this building on Roberts. Is that what you mean? It you know what I mean? We've never used Robert's rules. I mean I personally can can anybody quote me the first one Robert's first rule? I understand. I mean, we're all very busy. So, do we have to take the train or not? We have to
071take train and so we agreed it's part of our bylaws to train on the items that are are the business of the board. Now, we've adopted Robert's rules of order as the method of conducting our board meetings. So, yeah, we're all going to have to take I would say it's not here at this location wherever you like and it's up to the individual personons. So you didn't want to take it here. We could provide a training that would enhance everybody know but it's not I if I could just say too I think that I could see board members coming back and requesting items on the agenda if they feel they need training then it could come back as an agenda item with a motion and approval and then that could get us into a place
072of mandatory required I'm sure but like I think we to share the resources that have been shared in this discussion with the board. I think in our bylaws we do have a commitment to develop ourselves in preparation for your role as a trustee and I think that if anybody feels like whoa this is big I think we need some training that could come up as a future. Well, Tom, since this is dropped into my lap, I would like to request some time with you. Yes. And I can work with staff to provide the board a variety of resources. Know there was a Robert's rules for dummies. So, thank you, Jackie. That sounds like the one that I need to read. Just as a point of clarification, I I'm not opposed to the training. I'm just
073saying shouldn't of it. and a two3 vote on a seven person board is 4.666. So that'll be fine. Moving along to item 9.3.3 creation of a board bylaw revision subcommittee. Um Michael, this was your uh request. Yeah, I think we there are several board bylaws that we need and policies possibly that we need to discuss because some of them like that 9005, there's some things in there that might not be relevant anymore. Like it says you can't eat any food that's not provided by the staff. Well, they ever have cookies over there and I'm not really a big fan of just eating cookies all the time. And then just some other things seem very subjective like demeanor or in things like that that are really up to interpretation. So, I think we need to review
074several of our bylaws and possibly several of our policies. I'm sure some of you saw that CSBA email that came out that we have like 20 different policies that might need to be reviewed or modified based on that Supreme Court decision that just came out. So I think a creation of a subcommittee that could work on that then bring it back to the full board might be a good idea discussion really quick included in your packet is recent bylaw revision work that has been done by the board. I know that the board composition is when that bylaw revision work was done but it is a I think it's a helpful resource helpful summary uh it was a it was a very time consuming work and Laura spent a lot of hours in those bylaws and
075it tries to that summary captures some of the language that was revised and we felt like instead of sending you all of the bylaws we would share this document with you as kind of a recap summary of recent board bylaw work that has been discuss I mean I like the idea lots of organizations do it involved in a couple that we just have a bylaw committee so having this would be very good especially when you have to update things. I know CSBA tries to update and then the staff has to bring the new CSBA thing to us and then we review it and sometimes uh you know we get our agenda on Thursday night or whenever we get it and we have about five days to review it but we don't actually get time to
076sit down to discuss as a subcommittee each policy that we'd like to update and bring as a majority decide if we want to change it or keep it, you know. So, I think it' be a nice addition to what we have. I do too, but I have a question for Tom. Tom, the agenda item is for a subcommittee for bylaw revision, but we're also mentioning revisions possibly to policy. Um, is it out of order to make this bylaw and policy or can bylaw encompass policy? No, I don't think it's out of order. I think if the board wants to expand the committee as you suggested that would be accepted. One other point for the board's information standing committees are generally subject to the Brown Act. So this as well unless you made it ad hoc
077correct and did you do you know the difference in this Michael ad hoc and so with with a subcommittee you would be you would have brown act secretary whatnot with an ad hoc you have person um from the board chairing and so you wouldn't have to be like the substance abuse or literacy. Well, you have minutes in those initiatives too. The number of board members matter. Uh no, it's not the member number of board members that's determinative. It's whether it has um standing agenda or a fixed um purview that lasts over time. So um board bylaw or board policy committees typically are subject to the Brown Act, some budget review committees, other committees like that that are created by board action regardless of the number of members. And as Jackie said, ad hoc generally means
078limited time for one or two projects. So ad hoc committees could be things like review of potential facilities plans for remodeling this building. So that that's a good point. So the difference being a short-term fixed um and you mentioned those chunk of policies. I think CSBA listed 20 or 22 19 20. Um, the fastest way through that in my opinion would be doing an ad hoc for the for that chunk of policy so you can move through them quicker and present them to the board um to expire when you finish that chunk. But just an ongoing subcommittee for bylaw and policy I think would be also a good idea. I just wanted to throw that out as an option. I mean Robert, you were also interested in forming this sub. Well, I mean they did
079the bylaws are something that probably contin to come out suggestions for revising the bylaws I think is we did it was it 2023 years ago and came up with some some good but doing it on constant basis it's not conductive to or conducive to doing work which is making sure that every student in this county and the opportunity for public education. I don't see a problem at all committee a standing committee I think doing periodic revision of the bylaws policies is something that we should do as a board Mr. President one option to consider if I may um you can have the standing committee that is subject to a thing that that exists over time and it doesn't need to have a fixed meeting schedule and it can still meet on an as needed basis.
080Does it need to have a fixed membership? No, you you can have, you know, one or two or three board members as appointed by the board president, however you want to do it. So you what you would do for a standing committee is typically just say we're going to have three board members on two board. And if you really want a standing committee, you can say we're going to meet every month, we're going to meet every quarter. But you can also have a standing committee that would be we're going to meet when the board requests them to review policies. So it's going to have an existence as opposed to the other option which Jackie brought up which is we're going to do a short project. We're going to look at a bunch of policies and
081then we're going to stop. So I guess it's up to the direction. And I didn't present this. I'm okay either way. I just wanted to make sure because you presented it that you were clear on the different formations. It would just be whatever motion was made either adop or standing please. It would just be whatever the motion was and if it was moved as a ad hoc committee that's what we vote on. If it was moved as a standing committee that's vote on right. Yes. I'm just trying to wrap my head around. So, so what we're saying is that if it is a standing committee, you have to abide by not a majority members on standing committee, but if it's an adoping committee and it's subject to the Brown Act, it um doesn't matter how
082many board members are on it, you're still going to have to, you know, even if there's only one or two or three board members on it, still have to post the agenda and follow the brown actualities. If it is a standing committee, then um other members of the board could attend if they wanted to audience members because you're already following acting agenda. Correct. And that's why it needs to be limited in time scope. example I gave earlier looking at facilities plans or looking at a specific topic of a couple of policies less than less than follow up with that. So then our board initiatives are an ad hoc or are they a standing committee? So we want to do a standing standing committee agenda it out there having regular meetings if that's what someone wants
083to motion if we want to do ad hoc. It's just what we've been doing initiatives. It's kind of working by just to clarify Tom in the mo to Michael's question if an ad hoc is a is moved does the motion have to provide the scope if it needs to be limited in scope how is that limit defined I I would recommend that yes if you want to form an ad hoc committee we say something like it's going to exist for four to six months and it's going to look at topics A and B further discussion questions comments you wanted to make an hour wants to do that. Like I said, I think it's a good idea. I do want to point out the Whitmore Mountain Union will be taking up that footprint with some county
084committee meetings. So, you can back it up further and have that sub. We could always do an ad hoc and then come back. decided that it was needed more permanently right after like four to six months. Oh, I know what you guys want to do. I guess I move that we create an ad hoc committee to review the board policies and bylaw subcommittee. I add to the motion for a period of six months. Yes, I forgot to put this. Thank you, Jackie. Okay, so the motion is for an ad hoc committee with a termination date of six months. Yeah, bylaws and policies. Can we put it on to the ones that were sent out to the CSBA that we want to that they recommend we look at those 22, I think, policies. Okay. So just
085to clarify, this is the we're moving to create an ad hoc committee with a life of six months to review board bylaws and policies. Yes. The recommended CSBA22 policies and also board bylaw 9005. Is there I will second. It has been moved and seconded that we an ad hoc committee to review bylaws and policies and uh terminate it after six months. Discussion. Yes. No. And the one that sent out those 22 policies. Yes. because yeah already further discussion Jackie Jessica I author Teresa hi Michael I Laura and I as well thank Does anybody want to take a break before we go to the superintendent report? Yes, please. I heard it. Yes, please. We're going to take a 10-minute break. Really quick, how do we establish who's on that? That That's what I was after the
086break. to be on this board bylaw and policy revision subcommittee uh ad hoc subcommittee. So I'd like to volunteer. There's one. There's two. We can have two people. Want to volunteer? I'll volunteer. Oh, never mind. Either way, Michael, Jackie, Okay. Item 10, superintendent report. Mr. Freeman. Okay. I'll go 1.5 speed. This this does look a little different this time around because number one, we were just here two weeks ago and schools out. And so instead of having the conversation around excellence and safety and uh successful student programs and community partnerships, we're going to just provide some updates um of some things that have happened since the last time we got together. uh from the wind bin. Uh we want to do a quick shout out to Lissa Rodriguez. Lissa Lissa worked in dispatch and went
087off to uh and I'm talking about things maybe other people might know a little bit more about. I don't know. But uh from our transportation department went and became a certified bus driver instructor. And that was a grueling three-w weekek process. And we are super excited to have Larissa there. And it's great to folks in our department grow into new opportunities. Very challenging. How did I do awesome? You did great. Very good. Huge step for her. We're excited. Uh also uh just on the from the wind bin celebrations right down the road from our Magnolia office. We now hear small preschool children. The Magnolia preschool is has been uh reopened and we have how many? Uh 14 13 to 14 students. Um young guys in the uh Magnolia Preschool. And I I just want to
088shout out to our M team, to our IT team, to our preschool staff. Uh it was a very smooth opening happened on the 30th. Uh we have striping, we have some parking drop off procedures happening there. So it's it's it's a great thing. And I'm told that now we will have trick-or-treaters at Halloween. They'll come through magnets. Is that somebody else? No, that is our program. That is our that is our our program opening sites and we're always looking for sites to open. We're always looking for uh our our folks are looking at Bernie. We're always looking at how we can expand preschool sites. Speaking of preschool, this was some huge good news. I know our budget team worked really hard to come to the board in June and present. Uh Bianca was here presenting
089ECS and then news dropped that uh we are going to have a continuation of the hold harmless funding for our preschool programs through 2526. That is a breath of fresh air because what hold Harmless does is that allows us to receive our full reimbursement rate for the entire contract regardless of uh regardless of attendance. so that we are able to meet the needs of of our students of our families of our staff. The rationale for this is we are constantly waiting for the state to negotiate rate reform reimbursement rate reform and in lie of that uh coming to agreement the uh the concession was that hold harmless would continue. So we've been under a hold harmless for uh several couple years and uh That was good news that that's continuing through next year. So that
090does uh that does allow us to uh revise and bring some of those budget revisions back as appropriate within that 45 days. So stay tuned for that. Actually preschool and then there were some addition not necessarily hold harmless but some of our UTK UPK funding was extended as well. Uh speaking of money, uh you may have heard recent media reports. Uh KRCR, Record Search Light. Uh we have a situation regarding some of our federal title funds. They were they were scheduled to be distributed to districts across the country uh Janu July 1st and across the country districts received an email june 30th indicating that they were being frozen. founded held uh the federal the federal government is doing a review of these I don't know what that means but they're doing a review of these
091programs uh specifically that those programs that are impacted by this would be uh districts use title two for professional development they use title three for English language learners title four gets into some of our afterchool programs in our high schools uh so we currently hold uh an afterchool grant for schools in the Anderson High School District and that funding is currently frozen. So kids coming back to school six weeks from now are coming into and expecting services that uh we were expecting to use federal funds to pay for. So we are trying to pressure uh anyone that can help us unfreeze these things. Um and we're closely monitoring the status of of these funds. We're working with uh we will we will be working with our districts that are impacted by this. Everyone will be
092uh impacted proportionally. Uh these title funds are uh aimed at they're formula driven and they're aimed at the media the media students. So socioeconomically disadvantaged students with disabilities, English language learners, and so this this is a continuing continuing situation that we'll we'll be uh sharing updates as it develops. Yeah. So, our assets program, so currently uh there's an afterchool program uh in the Anderson Union High School District. Programs that are funded by these sources would be at West Valley and North Valley. approximately 370 $370,000 uh we were was approved in March by by uh by Congress and is currently being held by the federal government. Yeah, I I can I can speak to it. I can have Claudia speak to it. It looks a little Obviously, these are high school programs. So, we're not talking
093Project Share. This would be specific to assets. The high school programs, it's there's organized sports that they can attend that are separate than the after school programs. And so, there's it varies. There's one that has different pods that teachers help run. So, it might be credit recovery, it might be um driving permits is another um elective robotics, you know. So, there's various different types of activities that they could engage in and how it's structured. I think that yeah, I think that the key thing would be families are counting on those services for for their students start much might be much to do about nothing. I know that uh there are a lot of organizations that are pushing uh for these funds to be released. Um, I also know that there are state attorney generals that
094are combining and they are trying to work through the courts to be able to get the funds that I I think that the challenge is just the timing because these funds were approved by Congress in the spring and therefore districts incorporated these funds into their budgets. I have a couple questions. Do you do the administrators how many spoken with them and do they have plans for how they're going to handle this? If there is no change from the start. Uh that's a that is a great question and again it does go to the the variability across 24 districts. Uh 20 some districts may be looking at using some of their ending fund balance and their reserves. Uh and that's why we have them right. So budgets are living breathing documents and we do have the
095ability to make revisions and they will be bringing those revised budgets to the to their board if if those services are continued. Um but again looking at the federal impact and looking at every district has a different reality when it comes to their reserves. So I think that um it would it is all proportional to the number of students that these individual districts North Cal Creek is not going to have the title two funds coming that a reading elementary school or an enterprise elementary school would have. Uh, that's hard to say. I mean, I don't know if I have uh West Valley, North Valley are relatively new programs. Um, I want to say that across the Anderson Union High School District, I believe there's 1,200 students that have participated in their after school program, but
096that that's a I would have to fact check that honestly. And that's including Anderson High School. just program that those would just be the after school programs. You think that um it would be wise to make some sort of decision to write a letter or something to that effect. We've reached out. I've reached out um on behalf of myself as a superintendent, also all 58 county superintendent, uh the assoc the California the Association of California School Administrators, uh California Teachers Association. Uh if if folks are involved, they are they are pressuring. Um it's just a matter of what does the federal review mean and and honestly what will the courts will How about um organizing some sort of a letter campaign like a link where we can families can send a letter themselves quickly? Uh
097I can I can I mean we can look into that again. Um that would be a conversation that I would need to have with with superintendents and we can we can have that conversation. It is also July 9th and so having conversations with superintendents who submit their LCAPS and head to Mexico or Hawaii or vacation. I think the timing is a challenge. So that's the federal funding freeze and we will uh hopefully have some good news and an update there. I did want to also give you some follow up on the Whitmore Mountain Union. As we discussed in our last meeting, we do have a contract for consultant services to help us with that proposal review process that we talked about with Eric Stevens in that timeline. And uh we did reach out to our
098uh joint superintendent, right? Tony Mavis is the superintendent for Whitmore and for Mountain Union. He does have he had a conflict for this meeting, but he will be joining us August 13th. We will be inviting you. Uh that is our regularly scheduled board meeting and we're just going to back it up half an hour before that and call a county committee meeting. Uh so we will we will make sure that that uh Barb Ely will get that invitation out to uh out to folks. That will be uh five o'clock on August 13th and and he will simply be there to help us understand the rationale as we begin to explore this uh this proposal. And uh just a quick update. I'm excited. Uh I know we've had conversations about small school uh district association and
099we feel some traction with our district's uh joining small school districts association. If you remember, I shared in the fall that we increased our membership to allow for a discounted due rate uh for our our interested districts last year. This year we're all in. So, Shasta County Office of Education will be will be we will be paying for the SSDA membership for all of our districts in Shasta County under 2500 and that is all but three. So, we will be into our small school districts association across the county. That gives us actually a discounted rate when we are when we are at 100% of eligible districts. And that also gives all of those districts membership access to They got a remarkable uh board policy came up tonight. They've got a remarkable tool for board policy
100review and update for districts. They're working on one for county offices, but right now they've got one for for districts. They've also got uh facility master planning for schools looking at bonds and prop two and uh fiveyear master plans. And so they've also they've also got a slate of calendar and professional development events. So that will give them access to that. is my report. Thank you, sir. Moving on to item uh 11 11.1 board reports, correspondence or comments. Anybody have any reports, correspondence or comments? talking with some people at break. So last meeting you guys told us to get creative spending$10 million or thinking of ideas to do that. So I went out and reached out to all the teacher friends that I knew and asked them what they would like to see. They said
101well amazing thing would be pencils, erasers, glue, scissors, paper, office supplies. Uh they said if you were to give them500 to be like going to Disneyland being able to in their classroom that they've never been able to get. So that was my correspondence with a bunch of teachers here county grant or service or something so that they wouldn't have to spend their own money in their class directly involved in getting materials and education classroom. FYI, we will be discussing that in I think on September 24th. Yes. I would just love to qualify that conversation with some parameters because I love the the one time nature of that proposal and we would just want to make sure that as we are thinking about what we could be doing and what options could be available to us.
102We would want to be considering a possible board initiative as as we as we transition from literacy and we would be wanting to definitely look at things like one time grant type 24 is a full day planning session. Any other reports, correspondence, comments? Moving on to item 12, reminders of upcoming events. Uh August 7th, uh at 8:00 a.m. is all call out at Shasta College. Uh September I'm sorry. August 13th, we will be doing a county meeting. Uh September 10th, we have our regular board meeting right here in uh in this room. Uh September 24th at 8:00 a.m. and it will run from 8 to 2 or 3. We will do a special board planning session. That's a uh September 24th starting at 8:00 a.m. I believe it'll be next door. And uh those are
103all the upcoming events unless I miss something also a regular board meeting. Correct. Thank you. I did miss something. Um board member meeting feedback item 13. Feedback on this meeting. Thank you. Our next meeting is September, I'm sorry, August 13th, uh, right here in this room. With that,