Shasta County Board of Education regular meeting - June 25, 2025

001I'd like to call this meeting of the Shasta County Board of Education to order. We'll begin with the pledge of allegiance. Jackie Glover has agreed to lead us. Thank you, Jackie. Uh, it is now time for public comment item three. All public the board of education welcomes public comment. Um, we move all public comments to the beginning of our meeting and uh we encourage you to last speaking to the board. at the speaker desk back there. Um, and we welcome your comments. Start with the last time I was here and I was speaking Is it on? Yeah. Yes. Okay. I mentioned the run elementary school and I mention also mentioned the attorney who actually represents the run too and also represents the county office education which I tried to tell you guys multiple times but

002nobody seems to care because nobody cares about the laws. Everybody thinks that, you know, I'm wrong or anything. Nobody checks it out. But I'm telling you right now, this attorney is holding multiple petitions in the whole county, multiple schools, while he's also making money. So, I just want to let you know that I received a letter May 22nd, 2020, this this uh last month, and and I received it from the Oak Run because I reported some criminal activity. But I'm still have the right as a citizen or as a whistleblower on the sha county watchdog. And I know Mr. Robert Brown that you roll your eyes when I came in here when I start speaking and I don't like that you roll your eyes because that's how I'm annoying you or you just don't like

003to hear the truth or hearing me speak about your legal counsel here. But I'm letting you know that they actually asked me to destroy evidence And I doubt this was letter was Mr. Mark tellers who actually put the letter together and it had to be a legal counsel which is him. So because when I attended the meeting they he said that he had to sign. So that means in the way it's written there's no way he could had to be the legal he is the legal. So therefore it is a interest for him to hold that position. the gateway and he holds multiple you guys are not paying attention to these laws. So he they asked me to destroy evidence regarding vaccinations and regarding what Miss Livingston did and Lily Gonzalez actually was involved. That's

004what I discovered in the end she did was involve altering documents. I have copies of her cell phone everything that she provided to me and I don't have to turn them in. They're my evidence. You think you're going to try to intimidate the whistleblower? You're wrong because I actually turn around and responded to Mr. Teller Martell and I also submitted to the state in the attorney general and then I know it was you. So, and it takes a lawyer to draft this because I can see it. It's all there. But I'm letting you know your legal counsel is also invol criminal activity. and you don't care if you care about constitution rights of the citizens and the people you better pay attention to legal counsel. So I'm just letting you know this is ridiculous how

005people have to always fight for our rights but yet only applies to one side not to equally justice for all. When you say the pledge it says justice for all. It's not that way in this county. Little little bit of housekeeping. We are uh recording slashstreaming. So we do want to make sure that if we are having comments or questions that mics are on. So The next speaker card for public comment is Lesley Sawer. Mr. Board President, do you want me to do both my public comments at one time? Okay. So, those are separate. Yes. Okay. Perfect. But I probably won't need my full three minutes. Um, public comment. I think that especially since she was the ring leader on trying to censure Mr. Gorman before she was on the board that Jessica French needs

006to make a public apology and be censured for her posting about the board of supervisors where she talks about how tiny their male genitalia is while chewing her gum like a cow and dancing around and acting like she's so great. That was an appalling video to be posted publicly by a public official talking about other local public officials. She since deleted it. There's plenty of copies of it if any of you would like to see it. But since she made such a huge push for him to be censured over something that he and the person that he was censured over had a conversation about and resolved on their own. I think we should go ahead and take her own example and go ahead and censure her because that was absolutely unacceptable. I also have it

007on good authority that the post made anonymously on the Democratic Women's Group was her as well that lists the map of Florida and says, "Hey, I ran. This is where our president is if you want to come get it." That is treason. And if it is found to be her, I think even further action should be taken because if you are an elected official and you are committing treason, that has the highest penalty in our entire country when you look at the law books and that's for everyday citizens, not only elected officials. So I would like that to be considered by the entire board. Thank you. Thank you. Clarifying statement. It was not me that posted that. I have no access to the Democratic Central Committee Facebook page. And for clarification, the Tik Tok video

008is still present on my Facebook page if you'd like to go look at it again. Thank you. Um, we have two more speaker cards again. Lesie, if you wanted to speak on item 9.3.1, board, board president, county staff, I appreciate you taking the time to put this on the agenda. This is an important item. Okay. I choose to keep my kids in public school because I don't believe that the whole blow up the school system, blow up the education system is what our country needs. I think our country needs a public education system because unfortunately the society we live in requires most to have two working parents. I want parents involved in the public education system and I want the public education system working with parents and that way it will be successful. But this

009bill circumvents parents rights to choose the education for their children. This board specifically, the most you have to do in education has to do with these charter schools. You guys don't the everyday classrooms of the other districts. You touch mostly charter schools. So, this does affect you more than most of the things that I come up here to talk about. It also will affect all of our parents who choose to homeschool their kids and do so through an accredited charter-like program. This is California's overreach trying to get in there and force parents to put their kids into the public school system, which some parents don't choose to do. I do choose to do. I know that we have really great public schools available to us and that's why we have the choice in the open

010borders in Shasta County, which I greatly appreciate and I hope that we keep. But this letter regarding AB84, I really hope that you guys choose to send it out and I really do hope that all of you choose to support this. Thank you, Miss Lber, for bringing that forward. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Julia Knight. Thank you for entertaining more than entertaining the AB84 issue. It is huge and um since I've been in charters for more than two decades. Um I know that there's always another onslaught coming to try and destroy destroy parent choice and the charter world. What's being passed out right now is the initial charter school law. I think all of us And I'm not going to go over every item here, but we need to be yanked back to why charter

011schools and school choice started. So this is the beginning of that charter law, and it's just telling us the reasons. And the item G, one of the purposes of a charter school is to provide vigorous competition within the public school system to stimulate continual improvements in all public schools. And I just I I know our time here is limited, but um I I have to say it feels really hypocritical that so many people are fighting parent choice, school choice, in the United States because we are supposed to be this society that fosters competition for the betterment of products and the consumer. So parents and students are the consumers in the world of education and without competition I'm sorry some people become complacent and we could go to another country maybe and in that country you

012will shop at the state store and there are many countries where homeschooling or anything that looks like a charter school is actually illegal. Um I and then there are many countries in the world where if the kids don't pass a high stakes test at different junctures for instance 8th grade and then high school they have no choice no hope of going on to a college or university they will be doing out whatever they can digging in the dirt for the rest of their lives. and that that's not just an opinion, that is an actual fact. So anyway, AB84 undermines key components that make our non-classroombased program successful. As one example, and by the way, this would apply to perhaps items B, C, E, and F on that ED code vendors eliminating. So charter schools have

013for a long time been and comprehensive schools use vendors also. But charter schools, one of the ways they provide innovative or different types of abilities or opportunities is to contract with independent contractors. Now, just FYI, NSA has chosen to hire people rather than contract, except in one very important area where this would kill us and many other charter schools, special ed. We are not big enough, nor are there humanoid speech and language people or OT people available for us to provide the IEP services that we are mandated to provide that the children are entitled to that is wrapped into AB84 in the elimination of vendors. So that's I mean that's huge credentiing. So all of our teachers are credentialed. Charter schools must hire California credential teachers, they have to jump through the same hoops. Independent

014study does have the ed code. U we're lumped in with alt ed. So we do have some differences, but all our teachers are legally credentialed. However, under this law, the way it is right now, when we use concurrent enrollment or dual enrollment, Julia, can you hold on for a minute? Yeah. Does anybody object to me about proceed when our children go to concurrent enrollment or dual enrollment and I'm sure the board has been dashboarded to death in order for our children to be um considered prepared college career prepared almost always having community college course success is in the formula so for instance we're strong on CTE when our complete a CTE path, a two-year path. If they have not completed a college course at a C or above, they are not considered college career prepared

015on the dashboard. They are approaching prepared, but you know, that's kind of like approaching death or something. I don't know. Um anyway, so under this law, community college teachers would have to hold K12 credentials in order in order for our students to not only get credits for their high school transcript, but also they would have to have those credentials in order, and this probably the board hasn't been nauseated by yet. We have to go, we're going back to decades ago to time value determination. And so if the teachers at the college aren't K12 credentialed, then those college classes literally count for not in the high school world. And our auditor would be looking for the kids to do something else to say yes, they spent the appropriate time for us to claim attendance and get

016the ADA. Um the impact for us and many schools like us would be greatly on credit recovery, on the dashboard, college career preparedness, and in fact our student goals. We have students who, for instance, have taken college classes and literally finished being heavy equipment operators or being something else out there, one of the wonderful vocational programs that Chasta College offers, that would all have to go away. Um, in contrast to the AB84 credentiing restrictions that they're pushing for ELOP, so the uh education the learning recovery. We're not eligible for it because we're not classroom based. So there are a lot of things non-classroom based already get cut out of but under ELO those monies can be used for hiring instructors teachers who are not credential. So it's totally um then the restrictions on charter authorizers.

017So what they're proposing is that authorizers will need to have an ADA of 10,000. Does goey have an ADA of 10,000? I don't this legit I'm asking. Yeah. So who who in Shasta County would be able to authorize this is a huge negative impact on all rural and semi-ural areas. It filters the money and the power to the districts and it does not ensure quality. So, I actually consider our partnership with Skoey to be really beneficial. I hope in two ways, two-way track, but they're not 10,000. Formerly, we were with Whitmore. We had a transparent and symbiotic relationship with Whitmore until the charter law changed there. So number isn't it? And then just as to make a point on that there's recently been the Highland scout scandal. Has anyone heard of that? You can look

018that up. Um and the conclusion of looking into how things were misreported. The state auditor's office stated that the primary cause of misreporting was due to failure by those providing oversight. Um, and just so you know, charters are supporting Senator Ashby's SB414. Thank you. Thank you, Julie. I have a card here for Jim Barnett. Can I ask a clarifying question? You mentioned that uh many times it was going to cost a great amount of money for your school. Do you know how much? Have you had your um attorney figure out how much laws passed. Well, they're proposing cutting our revenue by 30%. So, our revenue is over two million. However, I don't know how much you make. Please don't tell. What if I cut your revenue by 30%. How's your house payment going to get

019paid? Oh, I understand. I was just asking if you know a number. I don't have a number. I I'm not I that. So, I'm not a speculator on that. I just know that the more voices speaking on behalf of I'm curious I'm curious to hear from you because I've had some some other experiences with with on the other side of of this situation. Um before I started a new job about a month ago, I was working as an education coordinator in um ISP schools that were uh working with troubled youth and essentially the children were being um shoveled to the ISP schools where they were left to die with their education so to speak. Um the principal, the superintendent, everyone felt the same way. They were getting ready at the ISP platform for that reason.

020And so these students, I would sit in a meeting with a teacher who had 30 students and three of them were passing the class and that's a disgrace. So when I say that my concern having seen and worked with these students myself, I felt like the system was majorly failing these kids and I wish there was more oversight. So when I've heard this bill coming to be, my immediate reaction was that it was a good thing to have more oversight and then last month Jackie spoke about the bill and how there were some negative connotations and may cause problems for other charter schools. So I just want to know your your honest opinion as a um administrator of a charter school here. What can Can you speak to the other side of the coin? Was

021that ISP program a charter? Yes. Okay. So, let me speak to this. I started my life in district schools. Been teaching for over 40 years. I left public school teaching because I was disgusted. Ended up doing private school affidavit with my own children and a whole bunch of others and then wrote this charter. I feel it is immoral to warehouse children. They have precious 18 years with compulsory education in a setting where we should all be doing our darnest to make sure that they are fully equipped to go into the adult world with options and skills to be competitive. Can I speak to what every school does? No. I know all the ugly stories. I I'm very busy at work. I can only handle my own backyard. But I know the ugly stories. I think

022they say that there is billions of dollars in fraud in California from these ISP schools. So how do we how do we how do there are billions of dollars of fraud from district comprehensive schools too? How do we fix the whole system? I don't have I don't have the answer. I was just idea. I my idea is I do the very best I can where I am and I do something like come forward to Scoey because I was attracted by the fact that Skoey is considering looking at the charter schools. I mean supporting the charter schools. I I think that the answers you seek is well you can start come for a tour at our school. I have one And I thought your school was great. I I do think your school is great, but

023I do worry about all of the children that I've worked with and the fact that they're being left behind to not get an education while their school collects money for them. I think it's a disgrace. So that's why the ED code. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. We have other people waiting to comment. Thank you, Jim Barnett. I'm sorry. I know I called you earlier. Good evening. It was established charter schools. And for the first time, the public school monopoly was broken. And it was broken not just to meet the needs of students and families who otherwise would not have gotten quality education problems. Special Maybe there wereforming kids, psychological problems that weren't suited for regular classroom environment. And so chartered schools, it's a great idea for families to partner with the local education outsid everybody

024back into the public school, which I think is wrong because like maybe most people fit into the standard model of 30 students in the class. Maybe that's fine, majority of the families. But if you consider the bellshapers and the high spectrum, what do we do with these people who can't treat opposing a public school? making it compulsory kids sitting around not learning anything. So yeah, we shouldn't compel them to go to a size. So that's why I think you guys ought to have Sacramento. can only charter schools. Thank you, Mr. Barnett. I I'd just like to make one point of clarification and that is charter schools are public schools. Okay? And that's why we have jurisdiction over them. So, out of cards, are there any other members of the public would like to address the

025board at this time. Afternoon. This classic overreach by the state. I had two out of four kids go to charter and One of them state champion and she needed special timing and specializer school. contracting with local vendor which is something of my son's friends that are going to disappear for our kids if 84 gets up here. So please do what you can. Stand up for our children. Primary responsibility is our kids. Best thing for them and appreciate it very much. Thank you very much. Is there any other member of the public who wishes to address this? Hello. I wasn't planning on speaking, but I can't help myself. Um, I am a mom of five children. They all schooled here in public school in Chasta County. I was raised here in Chasta County. I went to

026school public school here. And um gosh, when my big kids were um I think it was Northwoods Discovery School, it was a charter that Gateway opened up long time ago. They thrived there. It was different. It was unique. It was unique to them. And um then my little who's now 17, he was in um Phoenix Charter Academy. Super wonderful as an educator. I've been an educator for 25 years, been in education for 30 years. And gosh, I decided as an educator that my little needed um the homeschool charter school blend and it worked. beautifully. And now I have a little private school that um does not get any federal funds or um state funds, but these kids are learning to read. And because we have the freedom as homeschoolers to meet, these kids are reading

027and it's it's wonderful. I'm able to keep the class size super small, 15 max. And so I would just really to see those options stolen from our littles. So, thank you. Thank you. Are there any other members of the public who wish to address the president? I have a question. If there's no other comments, would we be allowed to move this item up since there's so many members of the public here? Will we be able to move 9.3.1 to right now or to next? You can move it in your discretion. It doesn't have a set time and there's no set public hearing. It's just standard action item. So you can move it if you wish. Is there any objections from any board members? Seeing none, we will move item 9.3 to right after public. Could

028I could I just ask that it be after our community recognition because we do have some some guests that we would like to recognize. Certainly, we will move it to right before Simpson crew. You owe me. Are there any other members of the public who would like to address the board at this time? See none. Thank you. We will move on to item four, community recognition. We have Simpson University School of Education, our community partner here today. Yeah. So, we uh we love this portion of our meeting. This is an opportunity for us to have uh guests. We cannot do what we do without it. Essential community partnerships and uh we've always had a a long-standing relationship working with Simpson University. Recently, there's been a couple of developments and we're going to uh bring up

029introduce Ryan Miller and he's going to take it from there. How about that? All right. Thank you guys. Uh so I'm going to start uh with a little bit of background and I'm going to bring up Dr. Darren Gordon who's the dean of the school of education system. So uh really the background is uh for my part Sha County Office education has had the Shassa Leadership Academy um a part of our leadership development program for about 12 years uh 11 years of that has been run by my predecessor Dr. has graduated over 300 administrators uh to serve really the greater Northern California area all the way I mean we actually have administrators that filtered into all through California but really our focus is regionally north of Glen County North uh along with our Shassa leadership

030academy you can go through the courses that we offer for the preliminary administrative credential but also the ability to add on the master's degree so you can continue your education we've had a a relationship with national university but really this year throughout our conversations Dr. McKenzie and I really started to say how could we embrace maybe a more local emphasis that's more targeted to our region and on Q and with I don't know how it happened just the stars align we got an email from uh Dr. Gordon at Simpson said, "Hey, would you guys like to work on maybe a partnership between Simpson and Skoey?" And so we started to develop conversations about what that partnership would look like for Simpson being our IH or institution higher education sponsor for our master students. So really

031um when we looked at it, the core values of Skoey and Simpson really lined up Simpson's mantra is gateway to world service and we really advocate for servant leadership and transformational leadership in our administrative potential. It's really training the the leaders that are going lead our schools and our students and our teachers um into the years to come. So those conversations were really organic and our uh priorities lined up and so really we started that process of seeing what the class u alignment would look like and and everything lined up and Simpson met all of kind of what our expectations were. We met all of Simpson's expectations and were able to sign anou just a little while ago with Dr. Norm Hall who's the president of Simpson University. We're looking forward to this partnership really

032to be able to um continue to empower our local teachers to move into that those leadership roles at schools because um as there is a teacher shortage that it really is trickles down to a leadership shortage as well and leaders impact schools. I think we can all remember those those leaders that we either work for in you know private sector or whatever context and we know that leaders make a difference where leaders in schools make a massive difference on student outcomes and really the possibilities that um our our students have in the future. So we're excited to work with Simpson and continue to empower our local educators. We also have a uh pathways option which is a separate uhou that we've signed with Simpson that I'm gonna let Dr. Gordon talk about. Freeman. Thank you

033very much. President, thank you. Uh, just want to speak briefly to our partnership. We're very, very excited. Uh, although I'm new to the dean position at school of education, not new to this area, although we've moved back and forth quite a bit. Um, my history with the school of education at Simpson University was always a strong pillar uh, the university but also the community. So going back all the way to Carol Whitmer when I was a student as she was the dean I had her in high regard and what she was doing in education in this area of course onto Brooks eventually. Um very very appreciative of all that they have done building school education with roots in the community to strengthen uh education in this state. So it's quite an honor to try to

034carry on that tradition and even improve the ways in which we're working together uh to increase and improve and strengthen uh education in North State uh both here in Chasta County but also uh in surrounding counties as well too. So the the other partnership that we've worked on and we signed anou relates to uh the classified employee grant that Skoey has received uh and is able to provide to classified employees that want to complete their bachelor's degree and a credential program. And so we're really excited to be a receiving institution now uh so that it provides another pathway for local classified employees to receive funds to complete their bachelor's degree. Uh as well as the credential program. Another exciting part of that is that we've made some adjustments because we're in the process of uh

035a proposal for a PK3 credential program at Simpson as well too. We made some changes to the uh liberal studies program in adult studies. So that's our degree completion program. Uh it will become entirely online. It's only been partially online. It'll be fully online. and it will also embed two education credentiing courses as part of the program. So it actually helps them to complete their program sooner. In addition to that, they can actually if they choose to take the rest of their uh credential courses as a part of their bachelor's degree as electives except for clinical practice. So they would graduate with their bachelor's degree with all of their credentiing courses completed except for clinical practice in the adult studies program. So that's another which we can speed up the process as well as make

036it more affordable for classified employees and any other students that want to become. So that's an exciting part of that uh part of the classified employee if you want have any questions. Yeah, we we' just like to we we'd like to recognize you for that partnership and preparing the next generation of great teachers and leaders in Sha County schools. We are streaming out. There are millions currently watching. Uh if there are young people, we want young people to see themselves in classrooms and partnerships like this help make that happen. So, thank you so very much to the school of education. I just wanted to say thank you as well for especially the adult studies programs. I think they're so important for uh growing families. I I went to Simpson myself in the Aspire program as

037part of the organizational leadership program which allowed me to get an education while I was working full-time and being a full-time mother to two children. So, thank you both for your hard work and appreciate Darren. Would you like to introduce your team and then we can uh present you with the certificate and take a picture? Yeah. So, not everyone was able to be here tonight. We have some that are on vacation, but Lexi Jones program coordinator for education and Juliana Crow is our credential analyst and then Becky Luff is our TPA coordinator. very very important helping teachers get through the LTPA cycle. and thank you Ryan, thank you Ria McFaden and Ada Rapaort Skoey team members for the work that they've done. Dr. Kim McKenzie as well. Uh now moving to the amended agenda item

0389.3.1 which is a resolution regarding AB84 which trustee prepared a resolution for Jackie. Good evening. First I want to thank everybody for coming out tonight to support this. I think it's an important piece of legislation um to to unite on. So thank you for the opportunity to present this tonight. I reviewed the most current text version of AB84 and I found that our resolutions key um points and provisions remain intact. I kind of freaked out a little bit after I worked on that resolution and sent it in and then there had been edits um to it in committee, but I did go through and um our key provisions being Office of Education Inspector General funding restrictions, oversight fees, credentiing requirements, and audit and contract mandates remain intact. This resolution isn't about charter um charter public

039versus public traditional schools. It's about protecting our students equitable access to programs that work for them. It's about maintaining the sovereignty to explore local solutions. Non-classroom based programs serve a diverse and often underserved population here in Chasta County, including students with special needs, foster and homeless youth, teen parents, students facing bullying or mental health challenges, and rural families lacking access to traditional settings. These students don't just prefer a flexible model, they need it. For many, it's the only place that they felt safe, supported, and successful in our county alone. Over in our county alone, over 2,000 students rely on these options. We all agree that accountability matters and that there is no place for fraud in education, be it charter, public, mainstream, traditional sites, homeschool. There's no room for fraud. But AB84 doesn't just target

040bad actors like the A3 scandal. It burdens every NCB program, non-classroom based program, with excessive fees and red tape, draining resources from students who need the most. This isn't about politics. It's about our students. Whether we're liberal, conservative, or somewhere in between, we can agree that every family needs equitable access to education that works for them. Let's send a clear message to Sacramento. Chasta County stands for local solutions and student success. I urge you to support this resolution. Thank you. more discussion. Well done. So, I think um I think you did a great job writing the resolution. It's really well organized, well written. I continue to have mixed feelings about the bill itself. Um and I think we talked a little bit about that last time. Um I definitely value charter schools. I think they're

041wonderful charter schools in Chast County and I really want families to have that choice, that option. Um, I'm a little bit concerned about some of the what was said during public comment like this is a an effort to go after charter schools or to force everybody into, you know, a very traditional school. I don't I think that the reason that this happened was because there was fraud to the tune of $400 million in San Diego. And when something like that happens, it's the legislaturator's role to step in and fix it. So, I I appreciate the legislature coming up with a bill that tries to address some of the issues and I think the bill itself was based on report from the legislative analyst office which was a nonpartisan approach to try to fix the problems

042that happened. So, um, at the other on the other hand, I do think that there can be an argument made that it's pretty heavy-handed. So, maybe this isn't the solution for everything. When I read through here, there are parts of it, pieces of it that I that I like. I like the inspector general idea at the state level to have that and really be addressing fraud rather than leaving it to the local DAS who don't have familiarity with um charter school. So I mean if I don't know how you feel about this but I I spent some time going over this. So I I think like in in your second whereas if um you were to eliminate the uh proposes to establish an office of the education inspector general and then number five eliminate that

043one alto together because I do think it seems like the key thing that's causing problems are these enrichment funds that are going to homeschooled families and they're just like hey it however you want and that's a concern. So I I mean I know we're not we're not writing the legislation here. So I mean whatever it's really gonna look at that point or not. So those are the things that I would because again I have mixed feelings. I I mean I really like charter schools. I don't want to hurt them, but I also really like the idea of oversight and tightening up some of these these problems. So, I think I could be convinced if we were to make those changes, I could look for the resolution. I appreciate that, Laura. as far as taking out

044in the first whereas taking out or the second whereas taking out the um office of the education inspector general that one in particular bothered me because the the um legislative analysts the nonpartisan legislative analysts estimate that that part of this bill alone is $10 million. Um and I do understand that there is fraud. I do and and I hear what you're saying about maybe our DA isn't equipped to look into those situations, but I do have a lot of confidence in the oversight that we have here, which you know, this is a bill for all of California and but my responsibility as a board member is to look at new legislation and see how does it affect my backyard. And so because I do have confidence in our oversight ability, um that piece isn't didn't

045drive that the resolution for me to be in favor of it. How it affects our county, but I do understand that there is. Um I I don't know if I would be willing to take that out of there because that is a big piece of the cost of this bill um that I'm worried about. And then the fifth paragraph, taking out Yeah, that's that's a piece I wouldn't be able I wouldn't be willing to take out either um because that really hits on the the innovation and the um the ability for them to to work with local vendors. I do just want to add one comment there in terms of the budget oversight for charters. Um we certainly do have the budget oversight um for the charters that we sponsor. Um but the majority of

046the budget oversight uh for charters falls with the district that is sponsoring them. Uh so there are districts in the county that the county office is not uh currently involved in that budget oversight process. Yes. And so when I said that I had confidence in this oversight, I wasn't just speaking about us but in the others as well. Thank you for clarifying that for the community. So, I just want to reiterate again for some people that weren't here earlier what my concerns are and it is because of my work previously as a education coordinator working with some students that are in very rural communities and um their educ the education system is completely failing them and like um the principal of North Summit said it's also happening in regular public schools too. But this is

047an accountability piece that is coming forth to try and provide transparency and I think that um that it should go ahead and I think that if there's an opportunity for the voters to vote on it that we should I don't feel like we I wouldn't personally support us sending the letter to um negate the law because of the experiences that I've had with personal children because those kids deserve to have an education too. when schools are literally committing fraud and not providing them education to kids and claiming that they are once one girl in particular I can tell you about um I won't say where she lives or any of that but she hadn't been to school for 30 days she was in a non-classroom based ISP school hadn't checked in for 30 days nobody

048knew that she wasn't in school nobody even called and checked to ask why she wasn't logging in and as the education coordinator that was my first job this hasn't been here for 30 days. No wonder she's failing all of her classes. And there was a agreeable problem with this ISP program from the superintendent, the principal, and me when I came there and asked all these questions. So, there is a big problem with fraud for these schools. And I I think there needs to be some sort of resolution, and I think that the voters should be voting on it. So, I'm gonna I would vote no to sending the letter. Can I also add that similar to Austin's point when we have charters charters have authorizers and it is the responsibility of the authorizers to be

049able to in those in those charter renewals have the conversations the board is very familiar with that process because we just went through it and in that process we have the opportunity to address some of the concerns that Jessica just shared. Um, and so I I I think that the system uh does allow for some of that oversight responsibility whether it's at the authorizer level or it's at the the county level. With that, I would add that part of what this looks to establish is the oversight of charter schools countywide, similar to the way that all districts countywide are under the county office jurisdiction for budget oversight. Um, and there is concern statewide by county offices about the capacity to be able to take on oversight of all the charter schools budgetarily. So, I'll just

050consider I just wanted to say one more thing. I forgot to address the whole point of that. My children attended charter school almost their whole life. So I I kind of resent the idea that this is an attack on charter schools that anybody that doesn't that supports the bill is against charter schools because we're not my kid. I have a son that has severe dyslexia. He required a different education environment. He ended up I ended up opening an ISP school just so that I could teach him because he was being he was failed by the regular public school as well. So um I wholeheartedly agree that should be parent choice for where the kids go to school. And I I don't know what will happen if the budget has to be spent um proving that

051they're spending their money correctly, but our schools will have to be smaller. And I don't know, but um again, I am in favor of this resolution because I think that there is enough oversight already. As someone that's been involved in independent study programs, I know that the requirements to keep track of attendance and things like that are already pretty rigorous, I don't I am in generally not in favor of statewide oversight of local schools. So, I don't I think it'd be better served to leave it up to the districts to supervise those things. And yes, there is fraud. There's always going to be fraud. But I don't think we need to pass laws that are like a one-sizefits-all thing. Instead, this seems too heavy. the state is doing. And I've since I've been involved in

052those types of things, I know that there is significant oversight and in what you have to put down on individual work samples and things like that. And I know people get around it, but I don't think we should just like smash down local control. Okay. I'm in support of our resolution. I am against more government overreach because I think California overreach is too much and this is another way to take away parental rights and I have to agree with everything that Michael just said. He just took it right out of my brain. Okay. Well, in my personal opinion, this The bill is a uh consideration level and for us to take position is appropriate. So I can start. I'll make a motion to pass the resolution. I'll second it. So, we will proceed with the

053roll call vote. We'll start with Mr. Warner. Hi. Jessica. Hi. Michael. Hi. Laura, no. Yay. And I affirm as well. So that is now move on to item five which is board initiatives. U you have the literacy. it off to you. Yes. So, the uh the literacy initiative is winding up and in the packet. Okay. I'll figure it out. Um in the board packet there's a specific report that details um the projects that the initiative has undertaken and has the money involved. Um but we're just going to kind of hit the highlights here with the slide deck. And I want to thank um appreciation to Holly King. She's the one that made the slide deck. So these are the um the basics of the literacy board initiative and the subcommittee members and members of our

054great staff. And those are our goals. And this um is one of our projects, the Ignite Reading Program. and the literacy initiative funded three students at Anderson Middle School and they we were helping those as part of SKO's differentiated assistance work with that. So if you look at these it's kind of hard to see the you probably see this better when the slides are shared with you after the meeting but the um pillars there um represent beyond students, but I think there are some 40 students in the county that use the Ignite Reading and it's really a very structured program where students have the same tutor, an online tutor, and they're working with them every day of the week. And it's for students who are very far behind in their reading skills. So, when you

055see that first column says kindergarten, that doesn't mean those are kindergarteners in there. That means there are elementary school kids who are reading at kindergarten age and all the way Some of them are middle school students. So then you see how that big band how it improved how they went up in their reading skills. So um that's a great thing for Shasta County and good to see it's it seems to be a program that really does move the dial on people's skills, students. So this is Reading Pals. If you're for some kid energy in your life, I would highly recommend this program. I had two I had two tutors or two scholars um that I worked with and they were both so different. So the one you see here that's with me that very much

056captures them. Anyway, we the initiative initiative um trial paid for the the program at two schools at um Meadow Lane and at Altamees Mesa Elementary and it didn't start um it took a while to get it going so it didn't start until March so it was kind of a short period but it did it was helpful in just um showing what it could be and I was really impressed with it. We had great tutors my fellow tutors at our school site were wonderful and kids I was kind of worried at the beginning like are these kids I really did enjoy it. It was fun. We read and we played games and it's a relationship building program and it's for students who aren't necessarily, you know, like seriously behind, but they're a little bit behind. So,

057it's just that nudge to get them up to where they need to be. And then so the good news is that um there's a lot of enthusiasm for this. So now we see that there's 10 schools in Chasta County where this is going to be happening next year. We have video. So I don't [Music] I'm part of the reach higher shassa literacy committee and in that committee we were presented with the reading pals initiative from Stephanie buyers and Holly King. In November, after hearing about the program and all the wonderful things that they are doing down in Chico, I decided to approach Holly and Stephanie and ask if I could have the opportunity to pilot the program here, reading pals at Altisa School. [Music] Our reading pals program started right after spring break or February

058break and um we have served about 27 kids uh twice a week with their own individual reading pile and their own individual books at their reading level. What's really special about it is to see the kids excitement when they come and they're bonding with their adult and the adult actually is looking like they enjoy it very much as well and it's really fantastic. It's just delightful to see. [Music] I've loved being a reading pal. Every week is a little bit different and we are becoming friends as well as partners in reading. I like reading PAL so far. It's the best activity I ever done. I am so delighted that my principal asked me to be part of this program mainly because I'm very passionate about reading. I'm a reading teacher and to have kids get

059another opportunity to practice reading with another adult is just fantastic. [Music] So, here we are at the Hopeville movie, and we've talked about this before in April. Um, the initiative paid for the uh community screening of this movie, and we had a nice panel by local educators talking about early literacy, an event, Dolly Parton, Imagination Library. Um, I am thrilled to see this coming to Shasta County. Just seems like We've been working on it for a long time and I think this is going to be so important for the community. It's going to um bring free books to children ages zero to five are going to have these books mailed to their home once a month. And the key partners are first five Shasta Shasta County Library Foundation and Skoey. And um the initiative uh

060we were involved with researching the program and really just getting the conversation going in Chester County. We also arranged to have Rachel King of the Dollywood Foundation uh come to Shasta County and give two presentations. So on tap um I think the there are two events in September where this is going to be really pushed out to the community. It's the reach higher is going to have a showing of movie sentenced on September 4th and they're going to have different literacy projects there that the community can support and the Dolly Parton library will be one of those. And then there's also a Champions for Children, a family event at Triple Bay Exploration Park that is planned on September 6. That is also going to be a way to push out the program. Laura, happy to

061report 600 kids on the waiting list right now. That's great. That's a great start. And then this is um the literacy initiative. This is the subcommittee's um latest project that we've approved. It's the University of Florida literacy project curriculum and um we've agre we agreed to provide funding for 20 teachers to be trained in this. It's a hands-on approach and it uses different manipulatives um and teaching the kids. And so the the costs that are associated with it that the um initiative is covering it's the $70 book and the different materials so that each teacher that does the training will leave with the book and with the materials and we'll be ready to go. So when Stephanie and um Holly, you know, put out word about this program and then there was a sign up

062date and when they posted this, everything was just going crazy because there was so much response from people wanting to do it. So now there are 75 educators who are going to go through this program and uh we're still Our funding is for the 20 teachers originally, but the the others are it's a combination of some districts are providing the funding and there's some other scing that is involved to cover the cost. So, it's exciting that that has received such an enthusiastic response. And when the slide deck is shared after the meeting, there's something down here that you can watch and we don't need to watch it now, but it just you're interested kind of techniques of how that strategy is. You can check it out there. Carmen has dropped the slides into it. And

063then that's our latest projects. And then this was our first project, the indigenous voices of bringing collections of books targeted to specific ages to um libraries in Chasta County. So there are 78 school libraries that have received these books and that's gotten a great response to. So I think um this slide here is just a reminder that the initiative work and the projects that we funded are very small sliver of what the Shasta County um office of education does in the way of literacy. So I think as the as the initiative fades, it just is important for the board to be aware that there's this important work that's going on and it should continue as a as a big priority for all of us. questions, comments. Laura, could you go on our podcast and talk

064about that? The Skoey podcast is that up and running because we could well, especially with those dates that you talked about in September, trying to push that out there. Um, so those dates that are happening in September, Wendy Dickens, first is a real workhorse on everything. So she will be sure to have plenty of publicity. So is that a no on the podcast? I think the podcast is already done. Laura, I want to thank you for taking the everything. Kind of took us a while to get our strike. Moving on to item number seven, approval of the consent agenda. For those of Um, item six. Oh, I'm sorry. I was skipping right over uh right over you, Vina. Sorry. Item six. Moving on to item six, which is the Association of California County Boards of

065Education. Uh, we have the president of this group who is going to Hello. Uh, thank you for having me tonight. I'm Vina Leavitz. I'm the president of the Association of the California County Boards of Education or ACC and I'm a trustee in Sack County and we call ourselves Joey too and I've been on my board for eight years. And one of the reasons that I got involved with ACCE is most of my work over the last eight years has been very local. And I decided that I wanted to kind of get the sense of what was going on around the state and connected around the state and really interested in empowering county boards as a force for change at the state level. And I enjoyed learning about how other county boards work. And so I've

066actually had the pleasure of going visiting the last few months and I will say that are going to be hearing AB 84. So I got a preview of what the conversation might be like. Um and we also have a literacy initiative and um I actually we don't our board our literacy initiative is run by our staff. So I love the fact that your board has really stepped up and created its own um strategies. So that was great. But anyway, um my purpose today is to explain who we are ACC, why we formed, what we offer county boards, and how excited we are to have hopefully have you guys join the ACC. So we are the only statewide organization created by and for county of education focused solely on county board's interest in the app promise

067students. We wake up every day asking how can ACCB advocate for advance the mission of and um improve the quality and effectiveness of county boards to best serve our students and their families. We are not unlike other single focus or uh associations like the California County Superintendent or the Small School Districts Association or the PTA. We empower, innovate, and advocate for county boards and the at promise students we serve. So, we grew out of the former CCB. That was um for those of you that are new, I hear you have four new county board members. Um CCB was the California County Boards of Education and that group lived inside of CSBA for 60 years. CC had a fair amount of autonomy. They elected their its own president, its own officers, approved its own due structure,

068um hired its own staff, had its own strategic plan and organized county focused events led by its volunteers. It created appointed all its own committees. And a few years ago, uh it was CCBE that brought to CSBA the idea that the 80 million the idea that led to the $80 million um in funds from the state that were going to go solely to county court and community schools. In December of 2023, CSBA decided to change the CCB structure and created something called region 14, which is really more aligned with the delegate structure within CBA CSBA. So, CC CCBA was kind of an anomaly to um the count to the California County School Boards Association. So, they created they took CCB and basically morphed it into something called and region 14 is advisory to this to

069the CSBA um and the former autonomy of CCP and our identity was changed under this new structure. So like Robert, I served on the transition work group and we met monthly during 2024 to advise CSBA on how to ensure county board members services remain strong post CC. And at the end of this year-long process, there were seven of us on the transition work group that concluded that being 58 voices in an organization with over a thousand K12 districts just was not We no longer set our dues. We did not have final say on our committees. We did not even have our own board. We were now under CSP. So the light bulb went on for some of us that it was time for county boards after 60 years to have their own organization and ACCE.

070So, in the late fall, a group of us gathered to decide to move forward as an independent 501c3. 100% of our board is county board members. Um, both current and former. We have a few folks who term ended during this transition, but they are they are still on our board. Four of them are CCB past presidents. So ACCB is by and for county board members focused solely on county board issues and the atro students we serve. We have four areas of focus. The first is um we advocate on issues that matter to county boards and the students we serve. The second is we are all about building coalitions and partnerships especially with the county soups association. We are about member empowerment, leadership, and peer-to-peer learning and networking. And we are about innovations that will expose

071county boards to ideas that can lead them to think out of the box and be forward thinking. The world is changing. Our students continue to struggle and we want to help board members see possibilities. So, here are member benefits and some of our accomplishments. And really, we've only been up and running since January. We we have launched an advocacy committee. We have five bills that we are supporting. Um we spent a lot of time developing kind of our criteria for analyzing bills and the process for taking positions. We've hosted two ledge forums, one with Assembly Member Marti, Assembly Ed Chair. Um and again we have the the bills that we are supporting. We are proud of our strong partnerships again with the county soups. We meet monthly with their executive committee and are developing strong

072partnerships with the small school districts association, UCLA, UCSF um center for dyslexia, UC Merrced, who's doing a lot of work around teacher prep, some key state departments, and a new group that we've recently connected with called reaching at promise students. We hosted 10 events to learn together and network. These events have covered career teched, apprenticeships, teacher pipeline, literacy, effective governance, and the future of education. We are very proud that Linda Darling Hammond agreed to speak to our group. We have quarterly county board gatherings and we have a series and I want to definitely mention this to you guys, um, a series for new board members called Starting Strong. And, um, recently we've kind of morph that series into what we're calling building tr building trustee excellence. It'll be a monthly series to to learn about

073good good practices, good governance practices, and we are also offering one-on-one mentoring. And finally, we're developing a resource library and have our our trusty handbook on our library. It's for free. And so for those of you that are new, and I can send a link after the meeting, um it's a free great resource around good governance and history of county boards, um some good case studies around. So here are some of our accomplishments. Um in more accomplishments, we have 27 boards who've now joined so far. representing over 60% of all students and of course we will hope you will be number 28. We ask boards who join to appoint an ACCB liaison and we just train 17 of these liaison for their role. And this position is a way to connect your county with our

074board and to have enable your liaison to be up to speed on what's going on so they can share that with you and then to bring your thoughts and um feedback to us back to our um and we're very excited that if your board were to join you would be your liazison would be invited to our very first in-person strategic planning summit that we're going to hold in August. And so what's on tap for next year? Sorry this is small. Um but just a few things I wanted to call out. Um I know you guys run court and community schools. So we want to do because county boards are school board of record for the court community schools. We want to do a deep dive with our county board members. It'll be a four-part workshop,

075two hours each over four sessions. It'll be like what's the landscape of county of court and community schools? Who are the state players? What are the what's the legislation? What's changing legislatively? What are the demographics? Um the second session will be on bright spots and effective practice. The third will be hearing from students and from some advocates. And the fourth one is helping ACCBE with the county board members develop an advocacy agenda that we can then use in 2026 for our for the ACCB advocacy agenda to advance and improve our court community schools and the outcomes for our students. We're also looking to have one inerson event sometime the balance of this year. We are planning on hosting a student board member convening um I can't remember. Do you all have a student board member?

076You have two. Okay. So, um it'll be an opportunity for student board members from our county boards to meet with uh county board trustees and um both to provide some inspiration for others to h to have county student board members, but also for us to learn from each other about what's the best way to support county. We also have a series with small small and rural districts. Um we did a listening session and a few months ago we teacher pipeline and teacher preparation was a big issue. So we already hosted a session on teacher pipeline and then electric school buses and transportation was another issue. So we'll do a followup with um so the first was a listening session and now we've moved into solution. Um, okay. So, we want to thank our 27 now

077founding board members. Some of them are not yet on there. And again, we're we represent about 65% of the students in the state. And you guys would be number 28. Um, you'll see the membership fee is pretty inexpensive. This is 1825 for your county based on your county size. This is based on the CCB fee structure from 2023. 23 24 and we will not be increasing the fee structure next year. We'll be keeping it till 2027. Um and we have two t you can join whenever but we basically have two times to join June July 1st and January. All of our events so far are at no additional cost. So once you join, all of the things I talked to you about are free, mostly online, but we are moving towards them in person. They're

078open to everyone. Um actually, even if you're not yet a member, but um at some point we will close it off, but and we also record all of our events and all of our events are recorded and online for free for you to go see if you need. So you know, basically we believe that SBA and ACCBE have value and most of us are members of both of those organizations. But again, we are an independent voice for county boards and we are open to all county board members who want to get engaged. Um, and we value both inclusion and collaboration. So again, we hope you'll consider joining us. Um, you'll see there are different ways to get involved. Join a committee. um you can just be a member, you can anyway you can see some

079different ways to get involved. And um so basically we see ourselves as a leading voice for California County Boards of Education advocating for bold systemic changes to improve outcomes for our appro students. And um I'd be glad to answer any questions and thank you for your time. questions. Um, could you just tell us what your budget is? Yeah. Um, so right now we are at about 85,000 90,000. We have a halftime um kind of project director who's helping us, but mostly we're volunteer driven. Um who are you advocating to? We advocate to the state legislature and um we um again we're new. So, one thing we've done is we've had these ledge forums and are inviting um that we invited Mayor Tuchi to that. We also just we're in the process of dropping a letter

080to every legislator introducing ACCE. Um and then we've written support letters on those five bills and next year we hope to you know grow that effort. Which five bills? AB927 which has to do with the act 959 which has to do with the administrative credentials. um AB11 I think that has to do with the requirement and AB 1224 which has to do with the teacher subs can you say the number again AB 1224 and then AB 1454 which is the literacy bill that and you wrote letters of each of these. And again, we used our advocacy committee to advise us and then all of their recommendations go to our board. Our board makes final judgement on that. And how many events do you have posted online? How many how many events are online? I mean,

081we've held 10 or 12 and they're all for the most part they're all recorded. Yeah. Yeah, thank you. More questions. Can I jump in really quick? Vina, can you uh I appreciate the context with the $80 million and the working from CCB at the time working with CSBA. Can you talk a little bit like what is the relationship between ACCB and CSBA for future advocacy partnerships? So we have approached uh we had a meeting with the president of um CSBA and um we have made it clear that we would like to be in partnership um and again like I said we are telling people join CSBA both organizations value I'm not sure that's fully reciprocated I went to a couple of your online trainings. They're really good and I did appreciate the history of county

082boards. That's how California set it up in the beginning as a constitutional superintendent of schools and how it evolved. Really thankful that you put that history all together. Thank you. Appreciate that. Any further questions? Yeah, thank you so much. I enjoyed being here and I appreciate your time, Robert. Item or discuss it at at the end of agenda when we get to board meeting feedback for this meeting. U item number seven, approval of the consent agenda. The consent agenda are routine items for which no discussion is anticipated. Um generally pass these with a single vote. However, any individual board member may pull any items from the consent agenda. Um, and before we go on, we are going to pull item 7.2.3 for Mr. Any other hearing? None. We will I do have something. So item

0837.2.2 to the resolution for educational protection council. Yeah. The spring consolidated application. Then uh we need a motion to approve the remainder of the consent agenda. That would be the consent agenda. Last item 2.2.2 Item 2.3 and item 3.1 motion to approve. Second. It's been moved and seconded that we approve the abbreviated consent agenda. Hi Jackie. Hi. Hi. Michael. Hi. And I affirm as well. Okay. So items that were pulled. We will start with item 7.2.2. The annual resolution for education protection account spending plan. Author. You want to pull this item? Yes. I was reviewing uh this. It's also in the budget and I had a couple questions about that. So the EPA, the education protection account spending plan says that we are collecting sales tax. Uh and then in the budget later on it's

084more of an information item, but we're passing it now. It talks about we budgeted $7,000 for this, but zero money was received. It also says this is only something that can only be spent on it. administrative fees. So, I was just asking for an example of how we spend that money and we didn't receive any this time. In the past, we've received only 7,000. Yeah. Thank you, uh, Trusty Gorman. Um, I'm going to defer this question to our, uh, senior executive director of internal business services, Lindsay. So it's budgeted and received as part of those funds to offset the services. Did we receive anything under the budget? When you're looking at the budget, I'm not sure it was $7,70. Is it for 256 budget? It's hard to not have what you're looking at. Do you

085have a page number on that budget packet that you could reference? It's on one of the slides in our budget. We haven't specifically we haven't received any of the funds for the 256 yet. So that will come in as part of the funding. So last year we only received about I think last year it was just under 10,000. If we ever get to that 7 it's 7007,732 and then we're using that money to help other schools with service. We use that funding to help offset the cost of the services that we provide to the district as a fee for service. So their business services. So it's not a great amount, very little. It varies year to year, but in the past we've received upwards of 40,000 years ago. Current budget is almost Any other discussion

086to approve? And we have a second. I'll second that we approve item 7.2.2. Jackie. Hi. Teresa, hi Michael. Hi Laura. Hi. And I as well. Item 7.2.3 is the temporary interf. Thank you, board president. Uh staff removed item 7.2.3 annual resolution temporary interfund cash borrowing. Uh this has historically been an annual resolution that has become before this board. Uh and after staff was able to do further evaluation, uh we've determined that the resolution uh is not relevant to our plans for this fiscal year. Uh and as such, there is no need to request approval at this time. Uh should the need arise in the future um for us to consider um action on this resolution, we will bring it back uh and add it to the agenda at that time. Um and I apologize it

087for I apologize for it unnecessarily being included in your agenda. had a question. How how often in the past have we had to move funds from one to the other? Yes. So, this is a historical thing where uh as you've seen in our presentations, we have several funds, right? The two largest funds being ECS fund 12 as well as general fund fund one. And so, the way that ECS operates is that they are primarily grants and contracts driven. And so depending on when the cash is received for those grants and contracts, there are in some years a necess a necessary time for us to be able to do interf borrowing from the general fund where we move funds from fund one to fund 12 to cover uh costs generally associated with uh salaries and benefits

088for ECS staff. And then when the funds are received on those grants and contracts, uh we would credit the uh we would debit the credit that was made uh in fund one to recover those funds fund, but we don't anticipate the need to do that in the 2526 school year. And so we are pulling this item at this time. What would happen if the board said they didn't want to pass that resolution? Yes. So if uh the board did not designate authority uh to county office staff to do that interfund cash borrowing essentially if the need for that interfund cash borrowing arose uh it would come on an agenda and we would discuss with you the reason why the inner fund cash borrowing was necessary and then you would approve that inter fund transfer at

089that time. So, does this need to be tabled then like to vote to table it or can you just pull it and leave it like that? We're just pulling it not to be considered. Questions, comments. So, we will not be taking action on item 7.2.3. Item 7.3 the spring consolidated application author. Yeah. So I was looking under this. I think this is the first time I've seen it but maybe you guys have seen this before. Uh so it talks about the 2025.6 consolidation application on page 18 highlights schools and trainings uh of 35 students also talks about uh 90 students 72 high school credits and eight diplomas. Uh is there someone that can speak to the instructional services here today or so your question on page 18 is regarding the numbers. This is solely for

090our students that are in our juvenile court school. Um so the consolidated application comes annually to the board and this reflects our students that are enrolled throughout the year in juvenile court have earned during the time they were in the court school, these credits or the diplomas um or at the time thereafter. Am I understanding your question? Yes. So, it says uh that we will comply with the reporting requirements. Is that what we're you're asking us if we will comply with the reporting requirements in this resolution? I'm just wondering why we're passing this resolution just as why Why isn't this just like standard operating? Why is this like a resolution? Am I missing? It's the application. Oh, okay. Um annually these are um funds. This this shows how we distributed the funds, the categorical funds

091that we earn and annually it comes to the board for action for approval. application. It's something that you guys can't apply for unless we approve it. I'm just I'm just wondering why it comes before the board for us to do anything with something. So, we're asked to vote on it, prove it. Yes. Is it something that we're actually responsible for with jurisdiction or is it something that Mike is It's for our schools and our programs that the that we run as the county office and it it does it does the spring consolidated application does require board approval in order to apply for these federal title dollars. In the past there's things that you can apply for without us. Yeah, federal dollars need to the spring application does need to come here. That's why I mean

092it is on the consent agenda because there is well CDE in the past has been a little late, right? This is called the spring consolidated application and here we are in June. But this is an annual this is an annual thing that we bring to the board for approval specifically for these title dollars. Like I said in the There's things that you bring before us that are justformational items like oh okay these are grants that areformational items that don't require board to approve and be like something that it is a little complicated um these dollars you know as Mike and Claudia have mentioned because of the federal requirement the you know because we are an LEA right it you know there is a designation that requires that board approval um the funding that you're I

093think referring to we've talked a lot before about the ability for the county superintendent to engage the county office in grants and contracts. Um, and those are things that do not come before the board for approval. Um, they come by way of information items and so it is a little bit of back and forth, but this one is one that is designated for approval and not every questions, comments. Make a motion to approve. Second. I'll second that we approve item 7.1 consolidated 526. We'll start with Theresa Michael. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. And I make it unanimous. Moving on to item eightformational items. These are items that are are purely forformational purposes. Does anybody have questions about any of these items at this time? item information items. There are no questions about any of these items.

094Question about 8.2.3 So, California Community Schools Partnership Implementation Plans. Okay. So, a question about item 82.3 California Community Schools Partnership Program Implementation Plans. Yeah. So, under So, there's 42 pages there. We got a lot of pages this meeting, but on page 27 under goals, it says uh that the teachers will implement or integrate CBL into their instruction. So it's page 27 and goals and it says that 75 75% of all educators will integrate CDL into their instruction. elaborate what that even means. Oh, it's their classroom based learning project. It's a methodology that's used for learning. I mean, a lot of classroom based learning projects are hands-on projects. I'm not sure what the reference is if there's a specific curriculum in this case, but but classroom based learning is a term that's used in education. It

095was just like a one liner in there under goals. I was like, "Okay, well then it didn't explain what that even meant." So it's instruction. I mean, it's instruction that's related to content. And so it's not a particular content. It's how it's delivered. So how does that how does that get measured? 75% school 75% of 30 schools that are involved teachers will how do you measure that? Um so it's the participation in the professional learning that 75% of the teachers at that school would have participated in at least one of professional development opportunities. Does that make sense? So each but how do you know that they integrated? Um we don't know the integration. That's a really great question and always a a challenge frankly. It's just attendance at the at the professional development opportunity. I

096think to the effort to work with administrators that are in support of the classroom instruction. Yeah. I would add, you know, these are our schools, our programs that we have oversight of. And so that particular site administrator, that would be something that they would monitor as they have their staff attend and promote this professional learning. And then as they're on the site monitoring classroom instruction to ensure that they're integrated and provide supports as necessary. It doesn't say classroom based, it says community based. Oh, I'm sorry. And I think the idea there is just connection with real world community engagement. So like working uh developing professional development to help educators with real world application of what's happening in classrooms is the kind of the pedigogy around that. I'm just a nurse. I always love to see

097like hands on like how does it in real life like you give me an example what that even means? Well, I I think it's I think that nursing is a perfect example, right? So, you're learning science-based and in the delivery of that science curriculum, you would then be looking for real rural world community-based connections and maybe bringing in some of those opportunities for students in classrooms to be able to see why am I why am I learning this? How how does this apply to to to life outside of class? So, I think that that community based learning The idea there is around engaging with community and what does this what does this look like, right? Whether that's uh opportunities in construction, opportunities from science to to healthcare. I think we've got um we've got opportunities

098uh trying to build up even looking at retire Shasta and doing some things with internships and and some of those things like right now actually we have a we've got a summer program that's happening with kids that are engaged in early childhood education uh internships over the summer. So just looking for what do those opportunities uh are our community school staff working with folks in that region to be able specifically here for our schools. What does it what do those community based opportunities look like for our Excel students? Um I can give an example at our juvenile court school and I know that there limited you know obviously setting those students um some students will be allowed there's a garden that developed. There's a garden stand where they have sold some of their produce. And

099so really trying to then integrate some of those skills that um you know are used in the community or you could there could be a civic engagement type of activity. So that would be an example. Yeah. When you read through all these pages, things pop up at you and you're like, "What is this? I hate a great question. When you're looking at this, I hate to tell you, next month has Lcaps and budgets for the schools that we authorize coming your way. So get ready. So I would like to take this opportunity to reiterate to leadership team that give us these reports to read and they have acronyms in them to know what those acronyms mean. acronyms are spelled out. So like if you look in the report, CBL in parentheses is provided the community

100based learning. Yeah, it's always always right. U moving on to item nine. I have I have a few questions. I'm sorry. Who in the same area? Who are the community partners? There's three different schools, right? So there's independent study, there's Excel, and there's juvenile court and community school. So those those are the partners. No, no, no, no. So the the partner programs would be unique to, for example, to Claudia's example around gardening. our our our juvenile court school will be working with community partners that are approved through probation to be able to come onto campus um to the probation campus to be able to work. Excel would be working at like what is appropriate what would be a appropriate community partners for for their community and then independent study would be a complete unique different

101probably set of partners based on the programs that they're they're offering if that makes sense. Yes. No, that was just a question partner. The other one is who's the stakeholders in the consortium? The stakeholders in the consortium. Yeah. Um this so with where are you referencing that at just in general with the I mean here it's with our schools. So each of these plan there's one plan per school. um the stakeholders would involve the you know site site council for example the parents the educators okay um that are involved with the school I wasn't I didn't know anything about till I came in in December so I'm like okay I'm seeing all these and I don't know who they are I don't know who belongs to these you know these titles so that was just

102it the chief business officers are who who are our fiscal um folks. So the so the fiscal from the school site for so for us it would be our staff. Okay, Lindsay the CBO she was asking for our program and for a district it would be their CBO that they have. So that's a common term for the lead physical person. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions under the number one non-discriminating county schooling programs and activities is that so we have that substitute teacher that was on our list last year inerson would that fall under the non-discrimin that This document is in alliance with um it's in compliance with board policy um that was attached 4010 and so for our programs that we're ensuring that there's access just later on under board area could you guys

103give us an update of whatever happened that yeah so this particular non-discrimination is not related to like discrimination in employment practices or uh of that nature. Um given that particular incident that that individual was removed from the the substitute list managed by the county office of education is no longer employed working kids. Further questions or comments? It's approaching 7:30. I think we should take a short break. back at 7:40 and Okay, we'll move on to item 9, which is the action items. Item 9.1.1 is to approve the 2025 2026 local control accountability plan. Well, we we uh we spent plenty of time last week talking about Claudia, I don't know if you had anything that you wanted to add to this agenda item, but uh we included as part of our budget study session last

104week, the uh the sharing out of our 2526 LCAP draft, and uh in all of its glory, it is here for board approval. Now, discussion I didn't have discussion on this. So when you move back to 8.1.1 it talks about general fund early childhood services and financial report when we were approving the LCAP and the question was is the early ECE budget not included in our LCAP because we don't have signing authority anymore. We gave the signing authority away at the beginning of the year. Would that if we didn't do that would that be included in the LCAP? No. Our LCAP is driven by Sorry buddy, you we can chime in but uh LCAP is driven by local control funding formula, right? Yes. And this is a plan for our three programs that we have

105for school age children. So it's for school and in child caps for preschool. I move that we approve second. It has been moved and seconded that we approve the LCAP. Hi Jessica. Hi Michael. Hi. I I I and I affirm as well passes unanimously. Excuse me. Items 9.1.2 is the reading difficulties risk cell academy. I do have some slide deck for this item. This is an item that you may be familiar with that is based on Senate Bill 14. Um came into effect January 1st and is now part of ED code for it screening screening all K through two students for reading difficulty. Um the intent of this is try trying to um identify students who may have difficulty reading to provide interventions and supports early on. So that was what I just described. There

106were four approved um screeners from the state and so each LEA is to select from that list of approved reading screeners. Our program So this is applicable only to our Excel Academy because that's our only program that serves kindergarten through 2 grade students. Um they've selected these two. So we have an option to choose one or two of the screeners. It doesn't mean that we use both of them. Um and these are the two that we are selecting from that approved list from CDE multitudes and this gives a little bit of information about each of the screeners. This one comes out of UC San Francisco um developed here locally and then the other is ROAR which is both of these are online programs that students um are administered. So, a screener is really intended to

107be a very quick sort of dipstick, right, to check like let's check really quickly where's the oil level? Are we needing more oil here or not? For example, so it's really a quick check to see the kinds of support a student may need. Um, if it's showing that a student needs support, I would it would be hope that then um the school would investigate a little bit further in terms of what areas would that student need support. These screeners screen for early literacy skills. So these are really decoding skills to help students access the text um read the words and you know on the page. So that's what they are screening um in order to hopefully catch them early to provide interventions. So those these are the two that our program um would like for

108you to adopt. Um and this is a little bit of information about the timing and the implementation of it. So all students are screened um by October and or within um 45 days that they enroll if they not have not already been previously screened in another school. So for example, if we have a second grader come into our program, but they've already been screened at their school, we would not administer this again. Um and then the screening information would be provided to parents 15 days in advance. Parents do have the option to opt out. Um there may be students who are already eligible um or have IEP services, for example, and so they may not opt to have their child screen. This does also screen for dyslexia. Um and then parents will also be receiving

109results within or have access to them within 45 days from the date that they're administered. and information. So, right now the CDE is developing a toolkit and in part of that is information to share with families to help them understand how to read the results and what it means because this is not an eligibility for special education at all. This is simply just to see if there's any kind of difficulty. Okay, we need to investigate a little bit more to see what kind of support the student needs and hopefully to provide very timely intervention so we can get that the skills, you know, help them learn the skills right away so they don't fall behind. And this is not to be used for any high stake purposes, not to um retain a student, promote a

110student for any grades, for example. So, it's simply just to hopefully identify kids who need support. The um teacher have to sit with the student while they're taking the test or the student, you know, each of varies. So, some of them can be given in a small group with the teacher there. Some of them are one oneonone and so it depends on the tool on the instrument that they've selected. Um, one so some districts are choosing then to have a you know a sub in the classroom so the teacher can sit with the students. So, ideally, yes, there's an adult that would help to monitor especially with young students and if it's, you know, an online platform. Are they really screening kindergarteners? I mean, I don't there's not very many kindergarters that I know that

111know how to read a book yet. Yeah. The screening for kindergarten would look like letter sounds for example. That was especially early on in in the year. It might be repeating back what they hear to see, you know, if they're hearing the sounds, what sounds they're hearing. Okay. So, they're age appropriate. They Okay. Okay. Yeah. I was just kind of wondering I don't really know very many kindergarters how to read. So is it mean like awareness then for kindergarters and beginning readers? Yes, that's a lot of it. Exactly. A basic skills test type thing like letter identification, letter sounds, things like that. Exactly. All right. So for me my only um kind of concern and you did you did all to that a little bit. Thank you, Claudia. Um, but if you look at those

112four steps for screening and intervention process, step one, initial screening results, step three, needs assessment and intervention, and then four is an IE meeting. I think just looking at it here on paper, there's a lot of space between three and four, right? Um, and so I just want to make sure it's not a fast track for ID. If it's needed, of course. Absolutely. But do you see what I'm saying? Like there's a lot of space there. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. I agree. And I think the key piece there is that there have been interventions that have been provided and tracked. And so that's always essential with any kind of intervention. Did we implement with fidelity? Um is a student responding? If not, do we need to layer another intervention? Do we need to try? Um so

113I um this needs assessment isn't going to replace any of that fidelity, I guess, is my concern. You know, it's like, okay, now we have this approved screening program. We're going to do it and then at risk and straight to an idea. No, the needs assessment would be either a further diagnostic to identify the particular skills. It might be identifying an appropriate intervention. So we saw the youth live for example that's um actually curriculum that is designed to teach funological awareness. Um and maybe that's placing a student in one of those to receive that instruction in a smaller group with a smaller ratio for example. that's what that needs um assessed with. And through throughout these entire all of these conversations, we've been working closely with our SLPA director and Sulpha director's been talking to

114superintendent uh because that was his concern as well initially. uh making sure that we have Claudia mentioned resources that are developed in order to communicate what this is and what this is not to parents to make sure that it's not hey we ran this and now your student is in need of an IEP and overqual over assessing right this is not part of that assessment process yeah the intent would be the opposite actually so that there is an awareness early on that we have students if you will, you know, they need support and that we respond rather than so this is only for the students that we don't have kindergarten through 12th grade in our other two programs. So it's only so for our program are there any students at Excel that are not currently

115online? No. I thought However, they may have an IEP with behavior, for example, versus academics. Um, that has prevented them from learning. And so, we do want to still assess those skills to be able to provide that targeted intervention instruction. Well, hopefully interventions, right? The simpler the intervention and quicker it's the faster one I think zooming out this conversation is happening in all districts that serve K through two uh in the state and the uh the requirement to adopt an approved screening tool by the deadline is is so what it looks like in our world is Excel handful of students what it looks like for enterprise elementary school reading school district it's it's a different conversation what I worry about with new software development is a lot of people collect data in the background and

116then they sell your information so are these programs that you guys are implementing the d selling third party services or do you guys know that well that is um that is part of um are when there's programs like this there are measures that are put in place and I don't know all the acronyms I look at tech director COPA and there's others that that pro protect that privacy of um students and so we ensure that those meet those standards in order not to the way that we've done that is um recently um in the last few years we've added um our IT director to the contract and agreements routing form. So all of our contracts and agreements that go through the county office have to go through several levels of approval for review. Uh and

117we each have different responsibilities in checking those contracts and agreements that they have the appropriate safeguards in place based on our specific category. and the IT director was added to that routing sheet for that purpose. Uh Trusty Gorman um where anything that is agreeing to any type of a technology service platform uh so that he can evaluate the agreement and determine um if it's appropriate for us to move forward with the language that's in that agreement and then if there's we don't feel comfortable within the agreement that we would pull it at that time. This would just be utilized in the classroom. It's not they would be doing at home devices at home compromise our system. Yes, that's correct. And there is no data submission to the state. This is for local data and the

118students at Excel would be assessed. Would they be screened annually? Yes, because it it changes based on the grade level. I'll make a motion to approve the uh reading difficulty screeners of multitudes and roar for Excel school. Thank you, Laura. It has been moved that we approve item 9.1.2 reading difficulties. I'll second I 9.2.1 is approve the 2025 2026 budget. Thank you, board president. Uh first, I would just like to thank um all of our trustees for your engagement in the budget study session last week uh and for the thoughtful questions that you had regarding our budget uh both at that meeting uh as well as uh those that have been received via email uh in the days since we had that budget study session. Um, and I hope the opportunity that you had uh

119to review our budget uh over the last few weeks um has been helpful for you uh leading up to uh our request for you to take action on approving uh the proposed budget here tonight. Um as well as the many, you know, we talked about how big the packets are here tonight. Um and there's no shortage of information included for you regarding our budget. And so we hope that the forms uh the narratives as well as the pres the the presentations um have helped demonstrate that we are in uh good fiscal standing uh to be able to meet our proposed obligations for the 2526 school year. Uh and of course uh approving the adopted budget is only the first step in this budget process right uh we will be again back uh looking at this

120budget at first and at second interim uh ating it based on actuals against what our projections were. Um, and as we mentioned in the budget study session, uh, the budget is very much a living document that is updated regularly. Um, and so there will be more to come on this budget. Um, but at this time, uh, we would ask that you approve the proposed adopted budget of the Shast County Office of Education for the 2526 fiscal year. Thank you. Discuss I had a couple questions. So on the budget there's property taxes and I was under understanding that property taxes usually were collected from us and then distributed to the school district from which the person was in. Do we actually collect property taxes for our own services? Yeah. For student programs, there's a small uh

121number of dollars that are generated by property taxes. Um so you're correct, the majority of those property taxes that are generated go directly to districts. Um but we receive a small percentage of that to support our student program. Is that something gives us back? I'm just wondering something. So the property tax is a part of the LCF calculator in terms of revenue that's generated, but it comes from the state because it's collected and it's not something that's collected locally. There's a sorry I didn't write down it but there was a file under this one that had 32 pages page 31 of that attachment talks about medical and then it says there's an ending balance of123723 so my question is there's some people that say they were not billing medical and in previous meeting I know

122that we said we were going to be billing medical. Looks like we have so how many medical billers we employ? Yeah. So um prior year medical billing was primarily generated around uh IEP eligible services and out in fund balance a significant portion is actually uh selpa dollars that they have um and that the sulpa is in direction of those medical dollars based on medical eligible services that are provided through IEPs and that's happened for a long time um as far as the transition um and some of the proposals that the state has to integrate more medical eligible services. Um there are not currently medical uh billing services that are happening outside of what has traditionally been happening through those qualified IEP services. Um and so that number that's in that fund balance um has more

123to do with we talked about where the administrative uh unit for the SULPA. And so the SULPA dollars for countywide medical eligible services get parked in that fund. um you'll generally see a high number of medical dollars stacking up in that fund um because the state of California does audited lookbacks, right? And so they will pay you what they feel like the reimbursement rate is for medical dollars at the time, but then three years later they could come in and do an audit of that and they could say, "Hey, we overpaid you by $300,000. We're going to invoice you for that." And so districts take a cautious approach with spending those dollars to make sure that they get through those look back years of the audits. And so that get uh until they get through

124those audited years where they actually spend the dollars. But majority the funds that you're looking at are there because we are the administrative unit for the dollars generated from our department. And then how many years does it look back? Three years. Um, I would have to defer that question just in terms of like the specific years of the look back with the medical audits. Um, but I do know that those can go on for several years. I'm not sure what the actual year is, but um, there's hesitancy to spend those in the years immediately after they're received because those audits are not final. Um, and they could the funds could be asked to be returned to the state because of overpayments. Correct me if I'm wrong. I don't know any other mechanism to take money

125back from us. That one seems like that they can take money back from us there, but there's not really other mechanisms with fun. I mean, it does happen where um if uh it happens both on the federal side and the state side. Um you know, there's the LCF unrestricted dollars and then there's grants and there's contracts. If we not fulfill the spending for a grant or contract on the federal state side by the spending deadline. Um they some of the grants the money is provided up front and then they actually would invoice us for those dollars back. Um other ones they withhold a certain percentage of that until the completion of the project is done and we demonstrate that we spent it and we kind of front the dollars and then they reimburse us. So

126it depends on the specific contract grant revenue source. Um but traditionally speaking when we're talking about LCFF dollars and that restricted revenue. That's just the funding formula that comes and then if we don't spend those dollars, it would just carry forward in future years. I move we approve the 2526 budget. We'll second and second that we approve item 9.2. Hi. Hi. Hi. Can we just jump on and thank the team that put the hours into the development of that budget? That was a lot of work. I know you. Yeah. Thank you. And uh you know, as I mentioned at the top of this agenda item, I I really appreciate uh the trustees and the diligence that you put into reviewing that agenda and the thoughtful questions in this process and we look forward to bringing

127back the budget at first interum and giving you update of where we're at at that time of year. Thank you. Moving on to item 9.2 um 2985 Shasta Hall refed bid approved resolution number 253 regarding designation of a specific brand trade name invitations to bid and request for proposals. Yeah, I will I will do my best. Uh what we're looking at here uh it's we're looking at an informal bid uh to go out to be able to retrofit the build the room that we are sitting in um to be able to improve the technology, equipment, and capabilities here. Um a lot of that to do with um a it is aging infrastructure in this room regarding technology that has been on our deferred maintenance plan. Um but we have kind of uh accelerated the process

128because we've heard the concerns regarding the audio issues that we have during board meetings. Um and so we've done the work to be able to figure out um what the cost projections would be and what we would need to be able to get this upgraded so that we hopefully don't experience those same issues moving forward. And so essentially what this is is that it's with the informal bid threshold. And so uh public contracting code says that uh we cannot go out and specifically request one product, right? And so we just have to specify what it is that we want and then a contractor provides the bid using any product or materials that are available them to them to meet the specifications of what the ask is. However, there is the ability for us to come

129forward to the board and request a resolution that uh allows us to seek a specific product. Now, the delineation there is that we are not taking one specific vendor. Anybody could provide a bid using the specific product that we're asking for. But what it does for us is especially with technology items is that it ensures a level of quality that's going to be installed as we use specific technology brand equipment uh throughout our facilities which helps it be able to learn one system and be able to learn how to maintain that system, how to upgrade that system rather than if we just went out to bid for each of these things and we had a different technology system in each of our buildings. Right? And so that is why we're coming here to the ask

130today. It is not about being able to go to one specific vendor and say you. It's about within the bid that goes out to be able to say we request that respondents to this bid are responding using this specific product. Um so that we have an ability to do that and create consistency across our programs. Um and then the other piece is that you know I mentioned that this one is kind of outdated. um we will be looking at upgrading it with the uh the product um that is currently in here, but it'll be like the next generation. Like think about like if we have like iPhone 10 in here now, maybe we're getting iPhone 15, but it's still the same product, right? Um and so this would be our first time buying that generation

131of product and it allows us to use it as a pilot program to determine if we still like that product where we would want to retrofit our other facilities with that same product moving forward. And so essentially we're asking you uh to pass the resolution uh designating our ability to request the sole source uh for the project of retrofitting the Shasta Hall. Well that was clarified. Can you tell us what the specific product will be at this point? So with that, I'll turn it over to our IT director, James Osp. So we will be requesting we'll be requesting shore mics specific mics as well as switchers and associate gear that also allows us to maintain the same look and feel across the as well. So that not only does it Do you have a budget

132for this? I mean, you're asking us to pass a resolution without a budget. So, yes. So, the uh informal bid um the superintendent has the ability to uh engage in the bid process for the county office of education. Um, and so this is kind of a unique thing in the code where uh the superintendent has the designation uh through the informal bid process to go out below uh the formal bid threshold uh without there being a budgetary line item passed. Um and so because we are below that formal bid threshold um it'll be an informal bid where we will be going out and conducting that. Um but we aren't able to do the sole source without the board approval. And I would uh ask Tom to verify that uh my understanding is correct on what

133Austin said. Will be coming back to the board for No, I just just wondering if you have a general idea. Yeah, you probably looked at how many mics you need and how many cameras and all that. Probably thought, well, this is the price of you guys. the estimate that we have without having gone out to bid. So, you know, when we're expecting that this project to be in about the $135,000 tariffs, you're just asking us certain product, but you'll come back to us later. Is that what I'm what I'm telling you is that the county superintendent has the ability to award informal bids that are below uh formal bid threshold. And so we regularly go out for informal bids without it asking board approval for that. uh this specific one we can't move forward on

134an informal bid with the sole source designation unless we have board approval of the soul source designation. Basically our yes vote today would be saying as trustees I trust that the the assessment it made on on what we think would fit best with our system currently is is indeed what we need. Correct. That's it. That's all I'm saying. Correct. that we are demonstrating the necessity to designate a specific product in that ask when we go out to the vendors because it is what is used in our other facilities and there's a benefit to the IT department to be working with common technology and so it's really asking your approval in that informal in that informal bid for us to be able to say instead of just saying we want this number of mics and we

135need whatever this thing's called that Crestron does because they could product that they choose, right? Because there's many companies that makes mics and then make whatever is over here, James. Um, and so instead of going out and having anybody put together the lowest bid, that could be subpar uh technology equipment that we would be able to say no, anybody's willing to respond to this bid, but in your bid, you need to be including the use of these specific products because that's what we have requested. But we can't include that in the informal bid unless you the allowing us to do so. What is the formal bid threshold? I thought it was 175, but I believe it's been raised to 240. Thank you. That may not be the correct number, but it's in the ballpark. Yeah.

136And there's some variances with Cupka in terms of if if you're a CUPA member or if you're not and what that formal bid threshold is. Um, but you know, that 240 number just kind of an off the cuff number that I threw at you just there. Um, but what I can do is I can follow up you with that specific information about that uh formal bid threshold. So you didn't soul source it can just $24,000 correct through the informal bid process Mike would be able to award a uh contract or a bid um below the formal bid threshold. Um and The difference is is that uh there's an informal bid threshold and a formal bid threshold. And below an informal bid threshold, it allows us the ability just to contract somebody for a product, right?

137We had I think Mike's going to cover it in his superintendent report. Um we have preschool moving into the Magnolia location. And so with that, we needed to bring a contractor in to do some restriping of our parking lot there to provide designated walkways and designated parking spots. drop off that was a several thousand project that did not not require a bid and our M director could go directly to this company and contract with them for that service. Then you reach the informal bid threshold where Mike has the ability to call for an informal bid and we must collect bids on that. But below the formal bid threshold, we collect bids through the bid process. We keep records of having done the bid so that they can be expected for public purposes should somebody ask

138for that. And we are still required to provide the lowest responsive bid in the informal bid process. We just are not required to come to the county board to ask approval for the informal bid. If we get to the formal bid threshold, then there must have been uh budgetary action taken to approve that bid. If I could, the informal bid is really separate from what we're asking about today. Informal bid to informal bid. What we're asking for is when we go out for this bid and we ask for so if you were to say no we can't do that then we can still go out in the same way it would just be we would get out so I don't think I think the formal versus informal is sort of separate and another piece just

139to add is that the funding for this project coming from we talked about in the uh budget study session last week um the allocation that goes to IT for renovations and enhancements of technology. So the funding for this project is specifically coming from the IT budget as well as the IT reserves where they in some years they don't meet that full allocation that's provided to them because some years we have bigger projects some we have smaller projects in that maintenance process and so they also have a reserve of funds that gets added to when the full allocation in a year is met and then those reserves help us meet the obligation of a year where we might have bigger technology needs and so the full fund of this project is coming from the IT budget.

140James, really quick. In the AV world, this is not unusual for us to be having single source conversations, bit monitors. Uh we want to walk into every office and see the same setup. In the world, we go out firewalls. I think the the rev for me as a trustee to approve the soul source resolution is just um you know I just I just want the staff to see it's a big ask because you know I could say okay yes we're going to soul source with just these items I don't really know what this technology is and then I'm out in the community and I there's this new tech startup doing AV and they're like hey you know and and they have another product and they're telling me the one we got is crap like it

141just puts me in a in a weird Um, and I just wanted to share that. No, I totally appreciate that. I know that the alternative is whe And I appreciate that as well. And I just hope that in this conversation we all feel the trust we have in James and his crew. Right. because I I Austin did a great job explaining some of these things that I couldn't even Right. I I think that we have specialists that specialize and I think that James we really do appreciate the work that that you do that Cole does that our content folks do because that that's what that's what makes this excellent board members point of clarification. The informal bid threshold is 220,000 formal one. Informal. Yes, correct. And then the the the informal bid threshold is that

142220. So anything above that would be formal process. Um and then anything above 75,000 has to go through that informal. So the informal is 75,000 to 220 and then the formal kicks in at just so that we could tell our people out in the community, none of us have a relationship with control equipment or share microphones. Like my grandpa used to sell computer equipment and you would get like a kickback like if you sold so much you get like you know trips or whatever as a saleserson right so I'm just making sure we don't have any kickbacks coming to us from these organizations. No free cars, no watches, none of that you know. trips anywhere. They don't. That'd be form 700, right? That's right. Mr. Gorman raises a good point. It's always a good idea

143for board members if there's any question about whether you, a spouse or a family member have any financial interest in a vendor, ask questions ahead of time so we can clear out any potential conflicts. They come up very often because anybody's doing anything wrong. because people have relationships, financial interest. So, we're not we're not going to go out and buy stock afterwards. I'm not sure that our stock questions. question. So, this might not be on the right topic, but are is the public able to use this room? Like, can people rent this room and can they benefit from all this equipment that we're using through rental and post their own educational trainings or is that Yeah, through the civic use permit act. And so, uh they would need to go through our facilities request form

144and then uh it's evaluated based on the type of entity that they are. um and what the purpose of the space is. Um and based on that evaluation, uh there's either a nominal uh fee applied to the rental of the space. Um or it is provided free for particularly educational institutions of those agencies of that like nonprofits, things like that sort. But it would be through a facility uh use request and that's available on our website. And has anybody rented this space before? Off the cuff, I wouldn't be able to tell you specifically who um but we have had um organizations use this primarily as a training space um where they they fill out request. You know, they have to provide a uh liability insurance certificate. Um so that anything that were to occur in

145this room would be on there. They have to demonstrate that they have insurance. So there is a little bit of a process but from time to time we do get parties that are interested in the space as well as our other facilities on Hilltop Magic. Thank you. And board members, just so you know, the Civic Center Act applies to all eleas in California and we are all required to make our facilities available to the public, all comers essentially. And as Austin said, as long as you fill out the right paperwork, provided liability insurance and all that. Typically, county offices and schools reserve their facilities for their uses first. So, this is room is in demand. So, we schedule it first. But, you know, any off hours or vacant periods, it's very to rent facilities from

146schools. This is an action. A motion to approve. Thank you, Teresa. It's been moved that we approve. Is there a second? has been moved and seconded that we approve the resolution 2025-03 regarding designating a specific brand or trade name and invitations to bid and request for proposals long um start this one I I is very educational. I item 9.3 9.3.1 we have already approved the letter regarding assembly bill. So we will go on to item 9.3.2 which is our membership discussion. Like the other people, it's only less than 2,000. This is over 7,000. They just they just raised it on us. It's over 9,000. 9,000. Oh, yeah. 7747 plus 1743. Sorry. That's over 9,000 included. Uh included in your information there, I believe in your blue folders, is a membership brochure of what is included

147with the CS. All those lovely daily news roundup emails that you love, right? You love daily emails. Yes. How much are those events that we go to? They're not free, right? They're pretty expensive, correct? registration on average uh 4, 500, 550 a person. Yeah. My feelings going to be hurt if you said it wasn't worth it because I did truly enjoy the last time we were together. I think it'd be a lot cheaper if we just did our own little thing down there. I'll meet you down there at Cheesecake Factory. All right. That's $500 cake right there. You pay that. It was worth it. Didn't work. Awesome. Awesome. Discussion on the issue. We can always come back to CSVA if uh ACC doesn't work out. Is that right? Yeah. Vina in her comments, she she

148advises both in her presentations to the county office. All of the members of all of the current members of ACCB are also members of CSP. And in the past when when ACCB was CCB, we did pay for both. Right. Correct. I remember those were good discussions to have. Yeah. I'm kind of surprised at this jolly little letter that makes it like it was optional and just a temporary thing because that was not how it was portrayed last year. So last year we paid for both butt. Yeah, that is correct, Laura. And I took that that protest to the CSBI delegates and this year they have suspended the county board services. So this the membership dues for school district I don't I can't I do want to point out that uh in prior meetings we've taken

149action to uh to decide to attend CSBA events. And so those CSBA events uh would not be available to us if we were not CSBA members. And some of those registration that that registration process has begun in in some of those instances. And if we are not CSB me CSBA members then we would probably be assessed a penalty of cancellation of the events that we have registered for. I think it's my experience over the years is that CSBA has been really valuable and so it was interesting to hear this presentation tonight because the county association before has definitely been like the uh less of an experience I would say they just at their events they haven't had the kind of keynote speakers or now so they they were just pretty I don't know phrase exactly,

150but they they didn't live up to the standard of the CSBA trainings and conferences that we've had. So, there were a few years where this board decided not to be part of that county uh group. We didn't pay the dues and we didn't really seem to notice that there was any problem not being with them. But, I mean, I was impressed tonight with her presentation of It seems much more of a on the ground group with volunteers and just really focused. There's good energy and stuff. So, I would be open to that. But I'm just bringing this up that um I would not want to drop the CSBA membership. I think it's really valuable. I have to say I enjoy their emails. They have they share a lot of information. I don't know if it's

151worth the $7,000, but I do enjoy the email. They do put things specifically about education and they do a fairly good job of being bipartisan and really advocating for children and services. I think my only concern is the politics behind all of this. um because CSBA, you know, was in in competition partially um and then not because now they don't offer the county services. Um so the last thing ACCBE wanted to do is go out and sell a new product and everybody jump shipped from CSBA. So I feel like there was pressure for boards to stay with CSBA as they made a transition to ACCBA. I don't appreciate being felt like I need to vote to stay with the membership um just because of that. That's where I am. We choose to go with both

152CSBA and So, um the CS conference. I learned more than I do. You've got to district Um, but the CSB all of them. Um, these are things. I also don't want to lose the work that Robert and Vina spoke to. the uh transition work uh work group uh gave recommendations to CSBA listening to county board voice and so those recommendations have have been uh been implemented or are in process of being implemented. So hopefully our uh unique status as county boards um will still feel like we're receiving relevant services from CSP because they've heard us. um point of order, like a real quick question for Tom. Would it be totally illegal like go to jail if they if we added ACCB to this agenda item and just could the board say I I would I

153would make a motion that we add ACCBE to the CSBA dues and approve or do we need to do it in separate? You need to do it at a separate meeting because it was listed as a discussion item. Yeah, but nice. Okay. So, I'm I'm my only request if I vote yes on this is that when this membership comes up again, I'm going to want to see more concrete like we actually did use $7,000 worth of this product. That's all I'm going to want to see next time. Thank you. Thank you, Jackson. I think they that's a good point justify this expend. Um so be not over $9,000. I'm just telling you you need to get your dollars right 9,400. Hello. Thank you. With my caveat with my small Motion to approve. To approve second

154membership for the CSBA for 2025. Hi motion carend. All right, if we can queue up my slides, so I'll be quick um because I know that uh we've we've had we've had a long meeting already and we're not quite done, but this is this is just the uh the good times that have been happening in May to June. Lots of things to celebrate. I just want to commend the board for your attendance, participation in graduations. Uh I know that it was a lot between the schools we authorized and the school programs that we run. I hope that you felt uh some reward and some satisfaction as we saw kids cross stages and uh and go through some of these transitions. It was a great celebration for me. Uh I don't know if if uh if

155folks um saw it, but the local media coverage and our own uh Carrie Shudy and the communications department uh that those initiatives are are meaningful. Laura did a great job reporting out on some of the progress of literacy for the substance use prevention education. We actually had kids from our youth commission presenting to city council and talking to them about the problem with tobacco retail locations close to schools and nearly let's see more than half of Reading schools are within a thousand feet of a tobacco retail and so that's a problem. uh we had powerful student voice indicating why that's a problem and uh the end result was the proposal for uh restrictions move forward with a 4-1 vote and we'll come back uh for council approval uh in July. So our our kids held

156space in settings uh to be heard from their particular perspective. And so I just I I commend the group. I commend that board initiative for for moving and making policy that keeps kids safe uh in in reading. So powerful power. You'll see that's that's Caitlyn, right? went from here to like city council chambers. Talking to them was powerful. Uh on the excellence front, uh we uh we had an opportunity at Spring to celebrate all stars and celebrate retirees. Obviously, transitions and and saying goodbye to the 2425 school year means we're saying goodbye to some amazing people. We've had the ability as an organization to make succession planning a priority. Uh the the young man up in the top right is Sam Dodson. Katie Martin is our transportation director extraordinaire. She's retiring in October and we're

157happy to welcome Sam Dodson as our new transportation director and I just want I want to scream that from the rooftop. Uh in Katie's own words, Sam Dodson is this is a standup man and is uh one of the best men that she knows. And so I'm looking forward to working closely with Sam. Of course, it's hard to say goodbye to the Katie Martins of the world and the Dr. Kim McKenzies of the world. some of the folks that we recognize. You've seen this you've seen this group change through the 2425 school year with with uh cabinet level positions and folks retiring. So that succession planning is key to that organizationwide culture of excellence that we're trying to build. Uh I want to thank all of the departments that are jumping into an improvement science

158cohort. So we're learning that science of of of how to get better. Uh we've got um early hoods there. James, you have a team there, right? So, I think it's I think it's going to be powerful. And again, that gets into some of the things that we talked about with those superintendent priorities and the ending fund balance. So, uh I don't want to spoil things, but we do have a golden bell application that we're submitting. And I don't know if you if you guys are keeping score, but we have three. We have two in this building, one in community schools, and maybe we got a number four coming soon. I don't know what I was thinking, but I signed up to be a Golden Belt judge and those applications are coming to me to judge

15915 or 20 of those in July because I don't have anything else to do like kind of a glutton for punishment. But the Golden Bell is just innovative programs that are doing great things, making great things happening and we've got one maybe coming soon. So, uh, really quick on the planning on that culturalwide uh the organizationwide culture of excellence. Last week we talked a little bit about what uh options are available to us with this ending fund balance and that ending fund balance se a couple of opportunity couple of areas to explore actually came out of some some email exchange and so I think that where we have uh the ability to to plan for that 2526 when we hear Austin and Lindsay talk about the budget being a living document we are going to

160have the opportunity to work with districts to work with our board to be able to come together and look at what does what do we want to do with that ending fund balance that is responsive to those needs. Uh Laura, when you were mentioning literacy literacy uh fading out as a board initiative, the work doesn't fade out. That work is still being held. What could we do to take its place as a board initiative? and then how might we be able to designate some of those ending fund balance funds towards those towards those initiatives. So those are all opportunities for us um as we look ahead to 2526 and and beyond. Um I I want to shout out to uh I've already talked about the youth commission, but that was that's pretty fantastic. Ayla Tucker,

161who we do need to connect the board with Ayla Tucker, so maybe we can make a note of that. She's going to be at our July meeting uh talking about uh some new safety policy. Beautiful. So, Ayla Tucker is our uh is our safety director promoting and and and supporting internal with our own sky programs and external with our district partners. From the district partner front, she's looking at uh things like a coalition newsletter coming out from our office, but including voice of law enforcement experts. So, it's not just county office talking safety. It's county office with safety partners talking about safety best practices for districts. Uh, you'll see a safety series that will be coming out in 2526 that uh has topics that are relevant for districts. Uh, we have a prioritized need from

162districts to provide technical assistance and training and then looking at capacity building. So, those are some of if Aya was here, she would say those are her four buckets when it comes to working with district partners in the area of safety. And then I just want to shout out to Cole and and his uh M team for some of the facility improvements. Uh I don't know if you noticed, but we have beautiful rocks out here on the corner and they look gorgeous, but they also uh they also prevent a car driving through the window, right? So those those serve as purposes. If you think about it, we had some facility we had some facility inspections and those facility inspections gave us gave us some You guys are all like, "Oh, can that happen?" Yeah. Yeah.

163So So now we have these beautiful rocks. On your way out, if it's still light enough to see, uh, check out those rocks. Um, we also have some improvements happening uh over at U Excel and independent study. And then a Austin mentioned our Magnolia Cottage is is our Magnolia preschool is back in business with little ones. So, you can imagine some of the improvements that we need as we're looking at traffic flow and drop off patterns for two year olds, right? So, I want to thank uh I want to thank Cole and and and Austin and the support uh fiscal support as well to make some of these projects a reality. It's just cool to see as we get ready for 2526. Yeah. So, Magnolia, right next to the mothership, Magnolia's office, that first building

164is uh it's a it was formerly a preschool and it will be populated with preschool preschool kids starting actually the 30th Monday. So, you guys park a great Where are we going to park? And uh yeah, upper lot and we'll get trick-or-treaters at Halloween. That's what I've been told. So, are they going to fix the That road is roughly talking about Magnolia. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, you know, this is kind of a birdwalk here, but it's kind of exciting. Um, and I I really would just like to give kudos to our M director. Um, because we have known that this project was coming for about a year and a half now, and it is a arduous process through state to get a preschool license, right? So, we've been working through the licensing project. ECS has

165been doing that. In the meantime, in advance of knowing that there was going to be a preschool here, um we engaged uh the city of Reading in conversations um about we don't have a school zone in front of Magnolia. Um and that is a thoroughare for people to cut through between Pler and Eureka and it is not a slow thorough fair. Um and so we engaged the city in conversations around that. Uh they did some studies, they put some of those, you know, those uh cameras, whatever it that monitor traffic and speed and those types of things. Um, and our our, uh, facilities director is currently in the final steps of working with the city of Reading on implementing a 25 mile per hour zone in front of the Magnolia Cottage. And so, um, to

166that point, it's kind of a cool thing that we were able to engage with them in that way. So, that's on the safety front. When we talk about success t, like I like I started, uh, we just had an amazing opportunity, graduation season. graduations galore. Uh we had all-star student recognition with our own student programs in an AXA event. Uh summer project share is happening. Uh it happened it kicked off uh last week. I mentioned 600 people 600 kids on the Dolly Parton Imagination Library waiting list and then um the Magnolia Cottage Preschool opening up tomorrow. On the supported front, we are reacha trying to get kids to climb instead of slide. Right. We kids leave school in that summer slide of like losing uh reading proficiency and losing some of the skills that they

167had. So, um supporting working with some partners there. You got Simpson. We got our tier one program. We had a screen time matters episode 10 of the podcast. Jim Cloney retired recent recently. So, that's 17ear superintendent leaving Chasta Union High School District. And uh that's going to lead us into some of the supports that we're that we're looking at. Um we're uh more SSDA membership than last year. If you remember, we provide an incentive uh that there's a $500 discount to SSDA membership uh based on our level of membership. And so really kind of going uh lots of it looks like there's a lots of lot of buy in around SSDA. And I I commend the board for that discussion because that that idea came out of out of our time together. So I appreciate

168that. Uh man, that third bullet that's breaking news or that's not quite ready for press. So I might be a little premature here, but our team uh works to develop a legal consortium pay rate, a pay a fee structure so districts can buy into a consortium and have access to legal services across the county. and our team uh put together their heads and we've come up with some uh we've come up with a proposal that we're in the process of sharing with districts that are actually our concern was big districts need to be in our consortium because if we lose the bigs the whole thing crumbles and we were actually able to build a fee schedule that is going to be less for everybody all districts will actually pay less into the consortium than they

169did this year with an increase in the legal rates because things go up, right? So again, we have an opportunity. We have any fund balance that we have options and that gives us the chance to be able to say, "Hey districts, we'd like to do this and help you out." So I see uh Trustee Gorman going for his microphone. I would just like to add a couple of bits on that. Um the legal consortium that is provided countywide uh is not all the legal services that districts require, right? It is a consortium which allows districts to benefit from uh legal things that are impacting all districts, right? And so anything that is specific to a unique district, those things are handled within their own legal counsel and through, you know, they have to pay other

170fees for legal counsel, uh the consortium is really driven at uh topics that are impacting all districts at the time. Sometimes it's new legislation and how to implement that new legislation, but it provides a roundt opportunity where districts have access uh to Tom runs the legal consortium uh to be able to bring questions forward. Tom's uh in the county one day a month to be able to provide uh meetings for districts beyond district campuses regarding the consortium. Uh but the consortium is not all legal services for districts. They have other legal services that they need. Um but in terms of that subsidy that we're providing uh for all of the districts uh the legal consortium there's a base interest entry fee of $2,000 for any district any size you want to be a part of

171the legal consortium it's $2,000 and then over the years there's been a per ADA allocation that is added to that. This year the cost of the legal consortium was going to be $7.76 per ADA. And you could see how that would quickly impact larger districts against smaller districts. And some of the larger districts may be considering is the value of the legal consortium worth me putting $24,000 in the middle of the pot to be able to make this thing flow. And so what we were able to do was re-evaluate that per ADA cost. And so we what we at SKO have committed to that legal consortium uh is we are going to pay match dollar for dollar uh the ADA cost for districts. Um, so for all of the districts within the ADA rate that's

172applied to them, uh, it'll be $383 and we will pay the other $388 $3.83 83 cents for countywide ADA um to be able to support that consortium and keep the legal consortium cost down for districts um to help support the equity of the way that the ADA is applied to districts um as well as the continued viability of that consortium all the districts in the county consortium. So this is where Mike said this is hot off the press. Um so couple of different things. This is more of a birdwalk. Um we experienced a 24% increase in our legal consortium costs over the year uh this year over last year. Um we have been the benefit of not having an increase for several years. Um and this year we needed to have that legal consortium increase.

173Um and so actually our CSA group, the countywide superintendent asked us like, hey, uh this is a lot to swallow. Um and so have we looked into alternatives for this? Uh, and so we collected two additional bids from law firms across the state of California, both that were significantly more in lines with services um that were provided in the original bid. Um, and so that kind of delayed our process a little bit, but uh we had agreement on uh the law firm that we were going through for the legal consortium for the 2526 school year. And yesterday, actually today, um we sent out the updated proposed fee schedule uh to the districts. And I think as we sit right now um we have about 15 of the districts that have confirmed their participation and uh

174we're hoping to hear from the others soon. So uh 24 districts have all approved their LCAPS and they all come here for approval. Right. So that LCAP review process is underway. That review looks also like at programmatic and fiscal. So our program people are looking at those re looking at those LCAPS our responsibility is to approve all of those LCAPS and so our funny fact our LCAP that was approved here tonight actually gets sent to CDE for so that's a little as a county office uh continue conversations with THON expelled youth and looking at uh 2526 them being the placement for expelled youth uh in in Shasta County and that is fiscal that is payroll. That is some detailed conversations there. But um I I think that uh I just commend my team for the

175way that they are jumping in. I think everybody understands the priority of trying of meeting the needs of districts specifically in the area of expelled youth for next year. self. What happens if for some reason responsible for their actions if they're self-certified? We we approve all LCAPS and if but okay let's let's back up. The development and coaching and conversations that we have throughout the spring in the development of the LCAPS is a higher threshold than actual approval of the LCAPS. So our team is basically like did you follow the instructions? Can you afford what you say what you're including in your LCAP? So there's there's four or five criteria that are the approval criteria for our LCAPS and that's what our team that's what our team does. So our team does not say that's

176a lousy use of those funds. They are simply saying do you have proof that that's an effective use of those funds? If it's not effective have you had the conversation of removing some of those actions and editions to your talking and all that kind of stuff in San Diego. a district here in county board, but they checked all the boxes for us to send it off, right? And would we then be responsible for their bad actions? No, not not for the the implement. We are not responsible for their implementation or lack of implementation or illegal activities as a result of implementation of the I I think I've been updating the board in board updates as far as like what new superintendent radar looks like in Shasta County. You can see that there are several districts

177that are going to be welcoming in new superintendent administration. So, uh we are working as a team for Shasta County Office of Education to come alongside those new superintendents and and provide that support. Some might be just new to the place but have superintendent experience and some are brand new to the superintendent position. One of the things I want to I want to thank my team for doing is we've actually built a a contract uh summary document that captures everything that county office does for a district because as a new superintendent when you sit down with Shasta County Office of Education staff and you say what what do you guys even do for me? And so instead of having a conversation, we can actually give them a Google doc with links to sign contracts for

178those services that we provide for that district with renewal dates, expiration dates, lead contact for Scoe personnel, like who is in who is my SKO lead for that particular program. And so like that that was a that was a huge undertaking but I think it's going to be very helpful especially when we look at music transitions. And the last thing on the support front is uh I was able to have a little presentation to grand jury. I present I prepared like 40 beautiful slides and then I led with any burning questions and an hour later I was still on slide one. Grand jury had plenty of questions. You can imagine the questions why so many districts right like all of those things. So we had a great great discussion at the grand jury level. That's

179it. That might be the last time we see that maybe anything is possible. So on the on the on the sur the surplus front, I included in the last uh in the email response to questions that the board has that we will have the opportunity to address some of those potential areas and explore some of those areas. in that September we have a whole day that's September planning uh September 24th September 24th we'll have the opportunity to explore some of those uh possible options. We'll also have the opportunity to report out district needs for some of those ending fund balances. And if you remember, one of my slides was looking specifically at some of those funds that we're just not spending down and how what we're beginning the conversations around allowables to be able to

180maximize those funds. So I want all of you to be thinking well down is a relative term, right? We don't want to deplete them. We don't want to spend the entire think. We could finish. We could Every child library. What we're also looking Are the ideas or the proposals are they one time in nature? Right? Because we're not use any fund balance is a savings account. Savings account isn't used on things that eat and sleep and right. So we want to make sure that we're having guarded conversations as we go into this. I know it's scary when I end something with anything is possible, but this is not like hey blank check, let's go change the world. This is we have options available to us to explore possible new initiatives. When you guys brought Rocky

181up, I know he went to a couple schools or Mr. Brown, different motivational speakers were talking at Anderson, another one at Central Valley and all the high schools invite the whole for the football field to experience the same coincides with our strength. We also need to be thinking about attendance. I would love to see something about math or STEM or combine the two. Like I would love to see Well, I mean, in in September, we're going to have Well, and we can actually we can incorporate some of the things in the leadup, right? We have se we have a couple of board meetings and so we might be able to agendaize as a primer for that September. Okay, thank you. Item 11 discussion. Item 11.1.1 the report report on the results of the local indicators

182in the development and adoption of the 2025 26 local control. two items. This is an item that was touched upon in the LCAP presentation that presented last month. So these are an annual report that comes to you to share the progress on the state priorities. Remember we have 10 state priorities. Um and it is mainly a self reflection tool and now this tool is embedded or uploaded of California dashboard as well and so it provides a bit more comprehensive picture of both the state and local indicators showing progress in those priority areas. I don't know if you have any questions about and these were used. Carrie shared these to inform the development of the uh ed code requires us to bring them to this meeting as an information so that we can share the reflection.

183And the second item is another item that we bring forth to you as part of the ED code which is annually we bring the summary of the differentiated assistance um and LCAP support that we will be providing in the coming school year. So this is the plan for 2526. The biggest, you know, part of this, the goal is to provide a system of support to support our districts and our schools and helping to meet the needs of students and building their capacity. Um, in addition, the um goals you see there's three main goals in here and um one of them is the approval of the LCAPS, not just approval, but also providing support along the way. And the other in addition to that school system support for all is providing assistance or differentiated assistance to

184schools that qualify based on um the indicators. And so those indicators include academic part of the California dashboard. You got a little bit of preview of that when Sher de had shared attendance and suspensions. And so currently we have 11 districts that qualified and five that we are monitoring in year two. They've extended the the state has extended the differentiated assistance period from one year to two. Thank you, Claudia. Does anybody have any questions on either local indicators or different systems? Good. Okay, moving on to a light up item 11.2 from member of the public regarding social media post member French. I would like to request that that item removed from the agenda outside of our post on my personal Facebook and not disclosure. This item is a discussion about whether board bylaw 9005 is

185or is not followed. So it's policy discussion about behavior board members and it's appropriate for a board agenda. So are we saying that any Facebook post made by any board member is going to be put on this agenda if asked by one member? I think that's a discussion to what you feel is appropriate for I just feel that it's inappropriate for my to use this platform as a political stance like I shouldn't have to come here and talk about my political beliefs on this board. That's not what this So if I can just I shouldn't have to defend my political beliefs on this board. If I can just a little bit of context. I would like some context also because my other problem is that there is a massive lack of transparency in the way

186that this came about on the board on the cover sheet. It says that it was going to be presented by Robert who says that he did not request for it to be put on and in fact he didn't agree to it. There's an it says that one of our board members wanted it put on here. Their name is not announced. There was an email sent out by a community member whose name was redacted. There's a lot of lack of transparency which I've experienced the complete opposite of when I was a constituent and reported the same thing and my name and my entire email and everything was given to this board. So I want to know why the difference is happening right now and I want to know why the lack of transparency. Yeah, I can

187I can if I can speak to it. Um so the the prior was an was an action requested by you as a member of the public as an action item. I received an email from a concerned member of the public followed with and with that concern I had that concern to bring to the agenda setting meeting that we have scheduled with president vice president of the board and secretary myself. Uh the day of the agenda setting meeting I believe I received an email from uh board member from a trustee indicating that they too had the same concern. So I took public concern trustee concern to the agenda setting meeting with Robert and we decided that it would be looking at board bylaw looking at past practice and what we did do in that particular instance

188that you're talking about. So that's what landed us here as a discussion item and it was it was agreed upon. I shared those two things public comment or public concern trustee concern with Robert in the agenda setting meeting and it was decided that this would be a discussion item for the board in tonight's meeting. So um my concern was is still the way that this came to the board. So, let me make one more comment. I forgot to mention the fact that the email from the constituent did not ask for it to be placed on the agenda for discussion. They simply said, "This is an inappropriate post I saw on this Facebook page of this board member, and I don't think she should be speaking like that." They didn't even ask for it to be

189placed on the agenda. Correct. So why the escalation of this issue be placed on the agenda when I'm coupled with trustee concern? But I'm positive you've received a whole lot of messages about other people's conduct on the board and I didn't see anybody. So we are here because public concern coupled with trustee concern led us to as a board we are all associated one with another. one person has concerns over the conduct of another and we have board bylaw 9005 B number four act with dignity and understand the implications of demeanor and behavior that's a board bylaw so that is why we landed here as a discussion item and I say we in that agenda setting this is not my personal thing this is this was brought to an agenda setting meeting and it was

190decided that in the June 25th meeting, this would be a discussion item. That's what leads us here. And I'm just hoping to Tom's point that we could have a discussion to calibrate what does that B number four conduct with dignity and understand the implications of demeanor and behavior. The law already states we have a freedom of freedom to speech. One person speaking at a time. Sorry. Okay. So, um the uh agenda items that come to are supposed to be sent to this was never. So, my perspective. Um, I need to come to Facebook. I showed you at the meeting. Okay. And so from my perspective, I don't want to with regard to the entire question of I do not We first address this issue two years ago. That was consensus of the board at the

191time that we simply do not. Okay. That's very very strong. So this whole thing simply state when we members of the saw the other trustees And that's all I have to say about it. I think if you if you are in a position of community leadership, you need to model integrity when you're in the public school. So the definition of integrity is different. Um I just think crudess and immaturity that's not a good look and it does reflect on the whole board. So I don't think it's not about stopping speech there. You're perfectly free to express your political opinions. You think there's been an injustice in the community, you should speak out, but you don't need to do that with profan profanity or vulgarity. Um it's just it's the immaturity of it that bothers me.

192And so I don't um yeah, I don't want to be policing other members actions and behavior. But it's disappointing. I mean, that's what comes with being an elected position. You have to think like, okay, you did it from your own uh your own Facebook page, but people know that you're on the board. And so, when you're in the community, people know. So, it's not that you're acting on official business. It's just there's a standard of behavior. So you you view it as an act of immaturity. I view it as political activism. They're two different things. When you make when you make a point, which I don't want to use this platform again to talk about my politics, but since you are forcing me to, I will. I am using an extreme example of a metaphor

193to prove a point to a group of men that sit on a board and have very tiny little egos. That's what it was meant for. And people brains don't work well enough to realize that it's a political activist move. I am infuriated with the way that our county government has been run for the past three years. I have sat in almost every single county board meeting for several years. I have put almost all of my free time I am still talking. No, we're still exactly. I wish it wasn't. I will respond how I want. This is not a That's why I'm calling for a point of order. the discussion is going on to your political activism and not what brought us here, which is the way that was done. That's interesting that requesting for a

194point of order. If you want to g me down, that's fine. One person, I'm asking for a point of order that we get back to the discussion, which is the way the message was delivered, not what the message was. I was called immature and I'm explaining why it's not immaturity, why it's actually a political activism. And I have the right to say that. I asked for this to be removed because it's not under the jurisdiction of this board. You all have said no and you want me to explain. So, I'm going to explain myself. That is my point. I've been I have a right as a human being and a citizen of this county to stand up for whatever I want politically here and I will continue to do it however I see fit. And

195I do not care who thinks it's profane. What I think is profane and vulgar is the way that our county is being ran right now by the board majority sitting on this board. I think that's much more vulgar. And for anyone to sit here and act like me using a cuss word or saying a different word that offends you is more offensive than what's happening to our county, that our 18-year veteran from the elections office is getting fired when she's done nothing wrong. I have a right to stand up for that. And that's why I was elected because I use my voice. So that's all I have to say about that. I agree that you have a right to say it. I just think it's unfortunate that the take away is that you've done some

196way. Well, there was one person here speaking about it and 30,000 people viewed that video. So that tells you something that maybe not that many people think that it was a bad move. And if you go to my Facebook and read it, guess what 200 comments are saying? Thank you for standing up for things when nobody else will say it. Thank you for not caring what the news media says or what other people are going to say and still speaking. So I don't know what else to say to you guys. We're not going to agree. Your idea of professionalism, your idea of vulgarity are different than mine. And that's okay because it takes all kinds to make this world go around. I have a friend that told me that she thought my post was classless.

197Guess what? She's classy. I I am not that same way. I will say what I think no matter what it is. I will say something that will make everybody pay attention so that they will listen to what the message is that we have to say. And it worked. So, thank you. So then I guess we'll probably be here again since this policy doesn't apply to Jessica because she's such a powerful activist um that she can do it in in whatever way she wants with no regard for her fellow board members. I think that's really really sad. But thank you for telling us how you feel. So I guess we can discuss we want to continue Facebook and bringing every single thing that someone says on Facebook because it's actually ridiculous and I'm actually dumbfounded that

198you Jackie have anything to say about this because your Facebook post is full of vulgar stuff as well. So let's are bringing your stuff to this to this board and you're the freedom of speech queen over there. So what about my freedom of speech? Suddenly you don't care if somebody So I've been in a board position on this board and another board for two and a half years and and and Jessica, you actually did that to me when I was on the board as a community member. Can you let me finish talking please? And that was that was the process and I understand that and I have learned from that. And one of those things that I have learned is there are things that I will do that will cause dissension among my board and

199sometimes it's just not necessary especially if it's vulgar and against our current policy. And so all all that's all this discussion for me is about right now is that is that you just understand and I and I get your freedom. I get all that. I get your activism. I get it. I guess I am just looking and perhaps Laura I don't want to speak for her but it's just looking for a a common ground to say okay we understand that and we value free speech but we also have a position as a board. We have plenty of common ground together. We all work for a lot of the same things. Just because you don't like my one post on Facebook because it goes against the people that you like does not mean that it should

200be here on this board agenda and that we should be talking about it. That is what it's about. Period. I'm not I would like to know your opinion, Arthur, because you post similar stuff all the time and you believe in freedom of speech. Do you feel like giving me your opinion? I would say I do not post what you posted. Well, I mean comparable. Let's just say you might be offended by what my I'm very libertarian what I believe is freedom of speech and I don't really care what people say or what people do with their own post or anything and I don't think it should be brought to this. Thank you. I agree. Well, and I believe that that's the idea behind a discussion item, right? That calibrates action moving forward. I would just

201like to go and make sure that folks know that this is in no way any uh infringement on constitutionally protected rights. There is no action. There is no this was a discussion because there were concerns and we have a board bylaw that says act with dignity and understand the implications of demeanor and behavior. And I think that that was the purpose of the discussion item is to make sure that we all understand that people's behavior and demeanor have implications and that's it. So I'm looking at legal. Did any of this infringe on any constitutionally protected rights that Jessica or any of our trustees have? No, you are all exercising your rights to express yourselves on all sides of this issue. My my complaint is going to be that I am um being publicly shamed for

202my opinion on my political opinion and that even though I request this is not in the purview of the board and people agree with me it's still being spoken about and I was forced my political opinion here to defend myself and I do not appreciate it at all and I do not appreciate being the guinea pig either for this would say that I was the guinea pig okay if we if we want to I don't want to really dug up the past. But Arthur, that was a situation that happened in this boardroom right here with a parent. That was a different situation. Me posting something that something nothing to do with this board on Facebook should not be brought here. I was a constituent who constituent who genuinely was heartbroken for that person. And I

203witnessed it regardless of what Lesie said. I wasn't the leader of anything. I witnessed it with my own two eyes and I was heartbroken for that person. And so we have a poster on this damn wall somewhere that says no hate lives here. And then we weren't going to live by it while we sit here. I wasn't going to stand for that. So I asked what my rights were as a constituent to hold you accountable for the way that transpired. And I had to go to great lengths to get there because it was denied over and over and over and over again for me to get that on the agenda. And finally it was left. We talked about it. You were not censured. This board said they didn't they didn't think that you should be

204and it was dealt with back then. So if thisation because I did that as a constituent before there are two different situations. I know you didn't but I'm just saying there's no retaliation. Well there is because you were friends with Lesie. I know I'm not let's bring this discussion to an end. We don't need to relitigate things that happened two years ago in this boardroom. I agree. But it is important think it's important to talk about it because the person that came up here and spoke did say because I want I want to specify the big difference. There is no difference. I just told you the difference. The difference is I made Facebook post that has nothing to do with this board on my Facebook page. You in my opinion were grossly disrespectful to a

205parent right here in this boardroom. Your own opinion. Yes. In my opinion, other people have been offended by your speech. But I don't think that either of those things belong here. Again, this is not going to difference. to police justice. So if we can simply at this point and move forward, I would could I just ask for one point of clarification, Robert? Did you agree to have it on the agenda? Oh, yes. I I I agreed that it needed to come onto the agenda as a discussion discussion about demeanor. Okay. As demeanor. That's not what you told me. So I want to be clear there. I did not question. Okay. So, so but I still think we should have I still want clarification on if this is now the way things go. Are we now

206going to bring up everyone's Facebook post? I believe as a I believe as a result of the discussion the answer to that is no because we've had this discussion. Yes, we are not going to I I do agree with author that I very libertarian in what people should post on their personal page. I don't believe it's in the purview of the board to police people's Facebook pages. I think she was not acting as a member of the board. It was not in a public setting of the board meeting. And I am always going to heir on the side of free speech protecting free speech and I know You know, it's not something I necessarily would have posted in that way, but that is not my thing to someone else's way of presenting themselves. Michael, do

207you have anything to say? Usually when stuff like that comes up, I just kind of scroll on because it's not worth my time, but it still shouldn't be out there. Moving on to item 112.2 board reports correspondence and comment. Do you have any boards? I do. I'll talk about nice things that are okay. So, this last month was actually really great for me as far as working within the education system, getting to talk to some of our our public schools or our partner schools in in the community. In my job, I work with several count school districts and CHAS is one of them. Um I was able to share a lot of school programs this last month. Um I have been working closely with Chris Coach who's director of education services and OCR compliance at

208U Fall River Joint Unified School District and one of the we did a lot of um meetings with various administrators and things of that nature in her district and we were I was able to recommend to them um to get information about a food pantry because food insecurity was their biggest problem in the school and so um I contact information connect her with the food pantry now kids in Bernie are eating better so that's great um I met with the Indian native student uh leaison there who's absolutely amazing I just want to share that he teaches kids how to make leather fruit I don't know if you guys know this they get um They get unrip just the the level of like outside the box thinking was amazing there. They get um ripened fruit and

209they have it donated and then they probably in the class and they also do jerky deer jerky there. So I thought that was pretty amazing. And he has he has a culture hanging from the classroom and teaching kids skills that they can use in rural committee communities which I really thought was neat. Um, also I met with who else? Oh, Bernie Elementary. I was there and I referred one of their students to a community connector. So, that was pretty cool. Um, was a child struggling with behavior issues and they needed some extra support. I also was in Chiba and um also talked to them about community connectors as well as Foothill High School. What else? I attended two Um, Chrysalis and what was the other one? RT STEM Academy. And that was REM. I had

210been to Crystal. My kids graduated from there, so that wasn't a surprise. But our STEM was really cute. I love I love the enthusiasm of the kids. They were It just seemed like they were so tightknit participating. Thank you, Jessica. Any other reports correspond I attended the power of ceremony session that was back in May now with Dr. Michael Yellowbird of University of Manitoba and that was really interesting webinar zoom session and I also was on the graduation circuit. I love graduations so I did All three of our programs excel high school and I I think all of those are really meaningful because it's never really a given for some of those students whether they really make it to graduation. So I just really they were very heartfelt ceremonies and it made me appreciate the

211the leadership of Cheyenne Jill and Thank you, Laura. A couple things to the graduations as well. And then I went to Northern Summit Academy, the charter school. It was cool to see that all the stories of the kids that were there at the independent study that couldn't actually whether they could or couldn't, they excelled at that learning institute as well. everybody else independent study of our school and that was really cool to see too. I did have a question uh earlier. There was the soul for souls shoes and and I was looking at that and they're giving us a lot of shoes and socks, but how do people access the shoes and the socks because that wasn't mentioned in the board report how they actually get a hold of these shoes and socks. Those are

212um primarily they were donated for students that are experiencing homelessness and al also I believe foster youth. However, they are accessible to you know through connectors for example they can distribute them to families and um are that that's the primary way I would say with those um populations and then through connectors and needs and so getting that out that word out also to schools um to let them know that those are there to agenda uh yes we Yeah. Does that need to be another discussion? It will be an action. I don't think we need to discuss it more. And then the only other thing was I had a constituent reach out to me because everybody likes Elon Musk Doge. He wanted to do Shasta County. I was like, "Okay, well tell me more about what

213you're thinking." And he said that uh in his experience all all the government workers are in person instead of working at home. So they suggested that we had a lot of people working from home in other states as well. I was like I don't know we actually have employees in other states but then I was like well I'll ask we employ people that work out of state. We do. We have uh I think actually one of our employees here former um we high need um high need areas like uh fiscal and accounting. Uh we have we have um one person working remotely who joins board member joins board meetings uh virtually and uh and does does come in person throughout the year. And then um we have a payroll position I believe as well. really

214really quick. Proven track record of performance. Longstanding employees that were here, high need positions that uh have an opportunity to um move out of state and working through our HR process for teleawwork. We've got a we've got a process to make sure that um they are available when our customers need them. that uh we're meeting the the customer needs. Supervisor works closely with them uh to to monitor and evaluate that uh and can be revoked at any time. Uh it is a it is those particular positions have a history of not going filled with competent people. um as we post those positions, it's very difficult to find the level of skill that those people are able to do. And so those are the exceptions that is we are not seeking out opportunities and we're not

215advertising, hey, you want to you want to move to Hawaii and work for us, right? Those were those were situations that uh we explored on a case by case. So like uh just to add to that they are primarily in our business services department right the two so they are in our business services payroll um and so somebody because of their life circumstances is now going to be moving out of state they have been a longstanding employee of the county office that Mike has mentioned and they're in positions that are very technical and specific to the work that they do and they have risen to the level being able to have the capacity and do the work that they do over the course of their career. One of those people who is currently working out

216of state is now at the point where she is planning for her retirement in the next several years. And we are planning to recruit someone to work side by side for her for at least six months, potentially a year, so that they can download some of that information. And so if she would have just left out of state and we wouldn't be able to do that, there would be no ability for us to transfer that really important knowledge that she possesses about our systems and support districts. Um, and she's been a great employee. Um, and we want to be able to, uh, continue employ people that do great work, whether they're sitting in Chasta County or if the work allows them to be elsewhere in the state and districts are still saying that the support

217that they receive from that person is high quality. We want to be able to continue with those people. The other thing is I know my work, we just did our big employee survey and you guys probably do an employee survey. Do we access to the employee survey because I know every place has retention recruitment issues. I know we don't do any of the hiring here. We could actually share postings you guys have access to the employee surveying our staff and we will take those survey results for our administrative council two days of uh planning scheduled for July uh 15th and 16th. We'll be using that as a data point. Um and Then what will happen is we from from our AC uh our AC planning days, admin council planning days, uh we will be able

218to in that September planning day with the board, we will be able to come to you and share some of the findings that uh our survey gave us and the plans that we're going to do to be able to either expand the great things that the survey results are showing or uh opportunities. Um, one of the cool things that we've done is uh we have uh we've developed from our core values, we've developed promises that we intend to be keeping with our partners and those promises are giving us always behaviors and what we're doing is we're surveying our staff basically and saying are we keeping our promises? Are we living those core values or are they just words on the wall? And where there's opportunities, that's the work of our admin council to get better.

219And that for getting better and the results that are driving that will be shared as part of that September 24th. Yeah. I keep saying September 24th. Okay. It is the 24th. That's not the same day. No. Uh I don't think so. Fun fact that Robert will appreciate. Uh, in the invitation for staff to participate in the survey, I threw a threshold out there and if they exceed it, I will wear Niners gear at all call. So, to be determined, for the record, I'll bring any other reports. Comments. Comments. Moving on to item 12, reminders of upcoming events. Well, we have all August 7th out. If you haven't been, it's it's interesting. Hey, no, that's what I've got. I mean, you know, I mean, so so I mean, what all call is is an experience for

220all of the employees. County Office of Education to come together and celebrate for the coming year. And I appreciate all of that. We work hard to provide supports, teachers, and districts. And everyone wants to come to a party described as interesting. You're all invited. It's fun. I have a couple things I'd like to say about feedback and maybe a little bit better in a comment, but when we I I was fine with giving Julie a little more time to speak, but I feel like we should have let other people that spoke maybe have to come back up if they wanted to because she was she went for like five to seven minutes or something and everyone else was limited to just three. So I think if we're going to do it for one person, we

221should at least offer it for others as folks. And then I think when a point of order is made, a point of order needs to be ruled on rather than just I'm going to remind you that we do not operate according to Robert's rules. But even don't operate. Okay. I You can say point of order doesn't really matter. One trustee is restust. Okay. But it also is people were talking over each other and that was let to happen. So yeah, then that needs to more quickly because otherwise people watching are not going to know what's going on. No one can make their points and that's why we need to have some kind of formal structure. We're not if we're just going to be whoever's it's a freefor all then that's going to be chaotic agree

222with you Another parliamentary procedure. I would agree. We don't we don't follow Robert's rules per se, but I think it is in our policy somewhere. So I don't think I think too during the public comment we've always had this been our You can ask a clarifying question or get some additional information but not go back and forth. And today there was just a lot of it was getting into more of a back and forth between two people. That's different than I wanted to apologize to interrupting. I apologize to Mike for interrupting you. I apologize. I'm an interrupter by nature and I got to work on that. I do have one uh possible suggestion. Uh I have been in in the past I've been in board meetings and I think we even used to have at

223the top of the agenda is an approval of the agenda where if there are revisions or if there are changes that need to be made and I'm looking I'm avoiding Tom because I think he doesn't like this. I know where that came up because we did always have that And then we went to a Brown Act training by Tom and he was saying you don't need to have that. So I came back and said we don't need to have that. I just think uh so Jessica's concern about the agenda item, there's just been a couple of times tonight where had that been approval of the agenda at the top of the meeting, then like the 9.3.1 that I think we moved, uh those those little bit of housekeepings could give us to to maybe address

224revisions to the agenda at the front before we actually get Tom, you can correct in um I'm moving that one up. Like had there have been no one to speak on that one, I wouldn't have I wouldn't have asked to move it. You know, I didn't I couldn't anticipate that. I think you can scan the room and you can see that and and it would be great to have something at the top to be able to say, "Hey, we've got it looks like we've got some folks." Just a just a thought. I did ask Robert at the beginning of the meeting also if I could if I could request it to be removed in the beginning because for that I knew some people were here to hear about that and they can leave if it

225was informing you that we don't of the agenda item. So I mean I couldn't do that. Um I have a question real quick before you move on. Can is there anything preventing us from adopting something like Robert's rule of order to make it more orderly? We can put it on the I mean is there interest in that? part of the bylaws. Yeah, it's so complicated. It'd be really hard to follow. And then you just get into a situation where you're instead of taking care of business and substance, you're doing the whole protocol. So, I think that's why it does say somewhere in our but that keeps us gives us the flexibility not to be locked into And we are all adults here. We can keep quiet. Yeah. We could and als but also Jackie was

226saying point of order. We could just say we're not doing that. Exactly. I really like seven of us. people and if there's too much cross talk then other people can't hear what's going on. So this this board I mean we can hear each other out the crowd can't hear us and so in other places that I'm at we don't have microphones and there's 24 of us sitting around talking and people can't actually hear us at the other side. So if we're not using Robert's rule of order then the crowd's not really understanding what we're even saying. So the thought is that you should we should all be adults but sometimes things get carried away and we're not respecting the time. So we should be able to have some kind of parliamentary procedure like Robert's rule

227understand such things so that not I mean we can hear each other but out there they probably can't hear us. That's a conversation for bring it back for July for discussion so we can review Robert's rule order for a month and come back and discuss it. I don't board bylaw that does refer to it and we can bring that to the board. There's another one that's not so fussy. Um, what's the Laura? If I may, I'm going to reveal my personal viewpoint here. Robert's rules of order is quite complicated and I believe it's Rosenberg rules something that's used. It's a little simpler. And I've also seen boards just take a few chunks out of rules just so that everyone knows, you know, this is how going to conduct an agenda item. People speak one at

228a time. Motions are considered, you know, once a motion is on the table, it's considered before you go to the next one. You know, small handful of things, but it is of course completely discussion of those systems. Thank you, Tom. So, we will have the discussion about Our next meeting will be July 9th at 5:30 here at the county. down with that.