Board of Education Regular Meeting-----------------------------------------------Video Recording & Closed Captioning provided by Zoom - Apr 09, 2025

001Recording in progress. Good evening. Welcome, welcome. This is the Solano County Board of Education regular meeting at 6 o'clock. Wednesday, April 9th, and… We'll lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance, please. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. To the republic for which it stands. Foundation for God. Invisible. Liberty. All right. Let's see. You want to get roll call, please? Trustee Coleman? Yes. Dusty Sharp? Here. Dusty Cheek. Here. Christy Cohen Thompson. Christy Dean. Here. Here. Trustee Lavelle. Here. Moving on, can we get approval and adoption Second. I was moved by Trustee Cohen Thompson and seconded by Trustee Dean. Roll call vote, please. Yes. That's T. Cohen Thompson. Yes. Trustee Dunn? Yes. Trustee Lavelle? Yes. Dusty Sharp? Yes. Trustee Coleman. Consent items. All matters listed under the consent items are considered

002to be routine and will be enacted by the board in one motion. There will be no discussion on these items prior to the time the board votes on the motion unless members of the board or staff request special specific items to be removed from the consent items for discussion and individual consideration for action. Are there any consent items to be Oh, can we have a… approval on the consent items. Second. Moved by Colin Thompson and seconded by Yes. A roll call vote on the consent item. Yes. Trustee Cohen Thompson? Yes. Yes. Trustee Dunn? Yes. Yes. Trusty Sharp. Trusty Coleman. Yes. Comments from the community, the County Board of Education is aware of the importance of providing an opportunity for community members to address the board. Regarding matters within the board's jurisdiction that are not on

003the agenda. Those wishing to speak are asked to submit a request to speak form or submit comments electronically in real time. Prior to the or during consideration of this item. Request to speak forms are located near the meeting room entrance. The board president will recognize those who wish to speak in the order in which the request to speak forms and or electronic comments were submitted. Are there any requests? There was. Moving on to correspondence. I have no correspondence. Moving on to superintendent's report Thank you, President Coleman. The first item this evening, as it always is, is our Student of the Month recognition. And this evening we are going to begin with Ms. Pamela Brinkerhoff, the program administrator. And Anna Marie Alvarez, the teacher And they will be recognized. Our student of the month in special

004education today. Hari Ranji. Good evening. Good evening, President Coleman. Trustees, Superintendent Estrella Henderson. Colleagues and guests. My name is Pamela Brinkerhoff and I have the privilege to welcome the SCO Special Education Student of the Month. Ari Rangey, along with family members present via zoom tonight to honor Pari. Ari's teacher, Miss Anna Marie Alvarez, who serves at Browns Valley Elementary in the SCO SDC program. Felt honored and proud to have PARI representatives goes student of the month. Alvarez shared. Ari is a bright and friendly sixth grader at Browns Valley Elementary School. She has the opportunity to join two regular education classes every Wednesday and Friday. Where she actively participates and enjoys learning with her classmates. Aria is not only smart, but also incredibly kind, always ready to lend a helping hand or share a smile. During

005recess, she loves playing hide and seek with her friends. Whether in the classroom or on the playground, Pari always makes sure to follow the rules, creating a positive and respectful environment for everyone around her. Her classmates and teachers alike appreciate her thoughtful nature and the joy she brings to school every day. Her favorite subject is art. She absolutely loves being creative, whether it's cutting out shapes, gluing them together, peeling colorful stickers. Or adding her own special touch with vibrant colors. Art gives her the chance to express herself in so many fun ways. Including peeling stickers and putting them on her face to make it look like a mustache. And she enjoys every moment of it. Ari has an incredibly bright future ahead of her. She shows a positive attitude that will take her far. Everyone

006around her can't wait to see all the great things she will do in the future. Congratulations, Pari, for being Solano County Office of Education. April's Student of the Month. Thank you very much. Maria's not here this evening, but we will make sure and make arrangements with you and her classroom teacher. So that we can make sure that we can get her photographed. Wonderful. Thank you very much. Our next student who is going to be honored this evening is Joseph Melville. And Dr. Garrett. I love it. That's exactly what we're here for, Joseph. Dr. Valerie Garrett is going to be introducing. Our student of the month from JCCS. And nice and tall. Sorry, we have to do positioning. Good evening, trustees. It is my esteemed honor to introduce to you The JCCS Student of the Month,

007Joseph Melville. And I also want to take a moment to welcome Joseph's beautiful family that's seated right here in the first Two rows. So every month our department comes together to decide which student will be recognized as the student of the month. And we overwhelmingly chose Joseph. And I want to share with the board and our superintendent why Joseph Malbeau was selected as the student of the month. Joseph epitomized excellence with all of his work. He earned the most credits this past semester. On average, students earn 30. He earned 50 Six credits. This young man is kind, sweet. Just everybody that graces his presence feels how wonderful he is. And I just want to say to his family that's seated here today, you need to walk out of this room with your heads held a

008little bit higher because this young man Is going somewhere. Yes, you can clap for him. I mean, I could go on and on and on. I've said this before as an educator for over 22 years. Is students like this. That remind me of how important it is to light a match in the lives of our young people. And to our staff members who are listening and the other young people here in Solano County. Do like Joseph, you keep moving forward. You can and will do it. To the board of trust the trustees on the board and our superintendent You need to be proud that we have young people like this that represent the positiveness in Solano County. And on May 30th, 2025 at 1230 p.m. At 1000 Kentucky Street in the city of Fairfield, this

009young man will join the graduating classes of 2024 and 2025. On behalf of the JCCS department as part of the Solano county office of education family It is our esteemed pleasure to present to you The JCCS April 2025 student of the month Mr. Joseph Malvo. I warned them in advance that they get to get in the picture as well. Mary Joseph. It must be. And thank you to his amazing family and system of support. I know the thing. Yes. Oh my goodness. Love it. Congratulations, Joseph. Joseph, on graduation day, you wear that medal proudly around your neck along with your cap and gown. Good for you. Thank you also to his family for standing by him and being his system of support at home. Someone's missing a phone. Wonderful. All right, this is a night

010of recognitions. At this time, I will invite Mr. Manolo Garcia, Associate Superintendent of Human Resources and Educator Effectiveness. Who is going to introduce our winners of the Solano County Office of Education Teacher of the Year and Classified School Employee of the Year Program. Who will be recognized? This evening. Thank you very much and good evening. This is by far one of my favorite things to do is recognize our outstanding employees, our astounding educators and I know there is going to be congratulations I know there's going to be a level of discomfort for these folks who I don't like to be in the limelight Tonight is that opportunity for us to Shine that light on them and celebrate them. So first of all, I'm going to start with some instructions for those that are going to

011be recognized. We'd like you to come up We have some metal a metal that we're going to place around you if you're comfortable with that. We have some flowers to give to you. Well, you never know. We have some flowers. And then, of course, we're going to have some picture taking so Try to acclimate to that and adjust. It's going to happen. All right, so we are going to start out. We're going to recognize employees in various categories. One of our classified employees that we're recognizing this evening is going to go on. To compete at the county level. Versus those nominees from our school districts. So we think we stand an outstanding chance of winning both in the classified category and in the teacher of the year. So let me introduce first up. Raina Turner.

012So Raina, can you come up here, please? Let's give her a round of applause as she walks up here. Raina was hired at SCO as a paraeducator in 2016, so she's almost has 10 years with us. She's currently Anna Kyle Elementary in the Fairfield Unified School District. So she is our SCO winner in the category of paraprofessional services. So there are many things I can say about Reyna, but I've kind of distilled it down to A few words, so I'm going to read those and watch her blush and turn red. Raina is amazing. One of her school district colleagues said this about her. This is another paraeducator, not a SCO paraeducator, but one at the school site that she's at. There have been multiple times when Raina enters the playground with her class only to

013see me or one of my coworkers struggling to transition one of our students expressing expressing resistant behaviors. This is when Raina shows her magic. She first looks around to account for her county students Then walks over to me and asks if I need help to encourage the behavior I'm faced with I always say, yes, please. I've been trying for 15 minutes. This amazing woman addresses my student with a big smile. A cheerful voice. Anne tells him, you've got to go to class now. Come on. And I'm sure she says it much better than I just did. She tickles him and continues to escort us to the exit. And that little darling takes my hand And off we go. Magic done. Congratulations to Raina. She is our winner in the paraprofessional services category. Would you like

014anyone else to come up here? Congratulations. To work. Our next recipient is our next recipient Next slide. Is unable to be with us today. But I do want to recognize her in the category of technical services. This is another one of our classified employees. Tina Sanders. So let's give Tina a round of applause. Tina has promoted through the organization since 2012, so it's been now more than 12 years, she's been with Scope. Start as a clerical staff member as a secretary, promoted to secretary program analyst and then eventually found our way to our IT department. As a technology support technician and now in our current role. As senior computer support technician. So just a few words about Tina's remarkable work. Tina plays a pivotal role in contributing to the school community and enhancing the overall

015school climate through our active involvement in both formal and informal activities. She consistently creates an inclusive, positive, and supportive environment for students, staff. And families. Tina regularly checks in with colleagues to offer her support. And by doing this, she has created a respectful working environment contributing to a high level of staff morale and job satisfaction. So congratulations, Tina. Our next employee is in the category of skilled trades services. Jerry Gonzalez. Come on over, Jerry. In 1989, 35 plus years ago, Jerry started with the Solano County Office of Education. He started as a custodian. Up until 2022. When he joined the maintenance team. As a maintenance worker before becoming before filling his current position as maintenance construction tradesperson. So Jerry has also worked his way through the organization and promoted. And well deserved. A few words

016about Jerry. While Jerry has the respect of all of his coworkers. This is particularly true among the custodial staff. With over three plus decades of experience in taking care of a myriad of different types of flooring and services, Jerry has so much knowledge to share. All of the SCO custodians come to him for suggestions and tips. For issues that arise and Jerry is never too busy to lend his knowledge. Jerry has many sayings, but one that every custodian he has ever trained, has heard is Just because the facility is old. Doesn't mean it can't be clean. And well maintained. Congratulations, Jerry. You wear that at the maintenance yard tomorrow, Jerry. Show everybody. Bring up your family. Where are all the kids? Oh, my God. Raina, I did not give you your medal. Word in your

017classroom tomorrow right now. Congratulations. We can change, go to the next slide. Perfect. All right. Our next employee in the trans transportation services category. Is Tranika Ross. Let me have Tranika come on up here. Come on down, Trenika. All right well It is a pleasure to have Trenika up here so I can read a few very nice words about her. In Trinica, I'm going to place that medal on you. Don't let me forget. All right. Ms. Trenika. Has been a school bus driver. Since 2018. Ms. Trinica is reliable. Trustworthy and dependable. Someone you can count on to complete assignments on time and to a high standard. She's a good communicator, able to convey information clearly and effectively Which helps to improve teamwork customer service and the overall culture of the department. She's a person of

018integrity and good principles She's honest, friendly, and a very respectful individual. That is from her manager, Terrence Johnson. Nika, congratulations. Very proud of you. Well deserved. Yay, Jamaica. Something everyone may notice is there's a little ribbon next to Trenika up there on the screen. And that is because Trinica is our classified employee of the year for SCO. You are representing all classified employees at the county level. I totally surprised Ms. Tranika. We did, yeah. Yes. All right. Wish we could do this all night. This is our last employee that we're going to recognize. I've given it away now. So you see the blue ribbon up there. This individual is not a classified employee, but one of our wonderful certificated staff members So let me have Maricela or Marcy Shrunk come on up here. Give her

019a round of applause. All right, so Maricela has been part of SCO since 2012 and a special education teacher for 12 plus years. She's currently at Gretchen Higgins Elementary School in Dixon Unified. So I'm going to read a few words. There was so many that I could have said. It was difficult to figure out what to pull out Let me say these words. Marcy's ability to balance her students emotional behavioral needs With high expectations is remarkable. Approaches each child's unique development trajectory with both patience and understanding. Fostering both academic and personal growth. Her classroom environment encourages students to flourish as she authentically celebrates their budding skills. Helping them build self-confidence. Any love for learning. Marcy, thank you so much for everything you do each and every day for your students. Give her a round of

020applause. Yay! It keeps getting closer and closer. Congratulations to all and we wish Marcy and Trenika all the best. And hope that they bring home the hardware for SCOPE. Yay. Outstanding. One second. Just to, I wanted to recognize supervisor Monica Brown, who's joining us tonight. Welcome, Monica. Thank you, President Trump. Thank you so much, Mr. Garcia. And congratulations to all of the individuals being recognized tonight. All right. Our next item is the Solano Youth Coalition and California Friday Night Life Partnership presentation. And we have Kelly Birch, the Director of Career and College Readiness and Youth Development. Johanna Nowak Palmer. Who is our program manager, and Becca Floyd, who is our project coordinator of youth development. And also Miss Lori. Hi, Miss Lori. Good evening. Thank you. I happily am representing the team tonight as they

021are on spring break. As many of our youth are as well. So I'm just going to take a very quick moment. Thank you so much, Board Trustees, Superintendent Estrella Henderson, cabinet members and guests. For giving us this opportunity for our students to share with you the work that they've been doing Out in the county with Friday Night Live and Solana Youth Coalition. And so I'm going to bring them up and let them introduce themselves. You don't want to hear me speak anymore. It's all about what they're going to tell you. Good evening. My name is Nathan Bitrago and I am a first year student at Sacramento City College. Good evening. I'm Natalie Salinas. I'm a senior at Vanden High School. Good evening. My name is Leonardo Lopez. I am a freshman at Cairo High School.

022Hi, I'm Dakota Kelly and I'm a senior at Public Safety Academy. I'm going to be talking about Friday Night Live. The active programs. Friday Night Live where… Programs were established in 1984 with the goal of reducing unrage, impaired drinking. Through its success and expansion, it has evolved to address broader youth-identified issues through evidence-based youth development principles and practices. The program is driven by positive youth adult partnership That is the old part of her community actions to create lasting impacts in the lives of young people and their families. Fnl programs are implemented in 49 counties with chapters in schools. Community centers, local agencies, and nonprofit organizations. Solano County currently has nearly 200 students participating in ethanol chapters including the Solano Youth Coalition. Plus, two ethanol cross-age mentoring sites. In addition, we have active members of the

023California Youth Coalition which is a statewide ethanol chapter. Next slide, please. Finra is built on four core components. First core component is chapters. A group of committed young people and a minimum of one adult ally working together. Second component is opportunities. Any safe environment or avenue in which youth and adults complete a project sharing in power and ownership The third cord. Outreach engages adults youth and systems and building partnerships creating positive and healthy youth development. And lastly, the fourth core component skill development through its purposeful activities and opportunities promoting or resulting in building skills resiliency and core competency. Now I'll give the slides to Natalie. So every Solano SNL program is founded on a positive youth development framework and is informed by a strong evidence base So basically at the end of every school year,

024every year. A survey is done to kind of monitor on the different FNL programs in our county and county I'm sorry. As you can see on the screen, a lot of the people who are involved in these FNL programs they learn a lot from these. I definitely learned to build more community relationships. They're able to learn more about drugs and alcohol and share this with their peers and communities. So not only is it helping them learn, but it's also giving them a chance to teach their community and make a lot of new strong connections because of this. So for this year, the Solano FNL programs They had excellent reports from the survey. As you can see on there, over 90% in all of them They felt that they were able to form new relationships. They

025were able to get more involved in their communities and their schools, learn leadership skills. And they felt that SNL really provided them with a safe environment to do this, which is amazing. And as you can see. Fnl programs serve so many different kinds of youth from people of all different gender identities, races and ethnicities. So really everyone benefits from this. Every group is represented and everyone gets benefited from the impact that these programs have. Okay, so SYC is made up of four different committees that each specialize in a specific talk. Topic and so the first one I'll talk about is AAP, which is Abuse Awareness and Prevention that focuses on Abuse, but mainly dating violence and youth. Their main presentation that they do is That's Not Love. Which is about relationship violence. So the second

026committee is ATOD, which is alcohol, tobacco, and Other Drug Prevention. That focuses on drug and alcohol prevention and youth. They have a presentation called Clear the Smoke that shows the effects of substances and abuse in those with those substances. So the next committee is mental health that obviously focuses on mental health. And they present a presentation that is called Messing with Stressing. And without Thanks Trill, the different types of stress and what to do to manage stress and other things like that. The last committee is Social Justice social justice and racial equity They have a presentation that's called Each One, Teach One. It uses each one teach one principle where you share what you learned with others In their presentation, they discuss A few main topics around privilege, equity, and social justice. While these committees

027have recently presented at the statewide FNO conference down in Anaheim and as well as the Teens Tackle Tobacco Conference in Berkeley. So FNL chapters around Solano County have been dedicating their time to alcohol, tobacco, and other drug education. These student-led chapters work on doing workshops, town hall meetings, Red Ribbon week activities, pledges, and media and poster campaigns. So the ones displayed on the screen are just a few that have been created on vaping and cannabis, fentanyl, and alcohol to be used for prevention. So SNL members have always had a large focus on mental health. Connecting to their communities and healthy relationships. Solano FNL staff have worked with each site to incorporate social and emotional learning practices and activities to support SNL students. Fno activities expanded to include guest speakers from the Mindfulness Project. And to

028provide an emphasis on exploration and healing through art. A great example of this is Sam Yato's FNL Club's project. Where they use grant funds to recognize every student on their campus through the purchase of a small gift card and greeting card that was gifted on each birthday. Next slide, please. Civic engagement and service learning has also been a very essential part of Friday Night Live. You can find FNL students at various local events like SCOE's very own Spelling Bee Competition. Arts showcase and academic decathlon This year, FNL helps support many programs such as the Public Safeties Academies. Cross-age mentoring program. A program where high school students are trained as peer mentors and are matched with middle school students who are struggling to connect in school. Show off our other contributions As for no club members

029at John Finley, Buckingham, and Wilsey Wood. Participated in the adopt a grandparent program Vacaville Powell hosted a neighborhood cleanup event And Vandon High School coordinated a holiday caroling event at local retirement homes. Fnl students have also had the chance to not only participate in local forums and meetings. But also to organize and run these head forums and meetings. Students have met and presented to school boards, city councils, and even the state capitol to express their concerns and offer solutions. For the issues they explored through Friday Night Live. On behalf of all of our SYC youth. And Johanna and Rebecca who do all of the hard work on the ground. Thank you so much for letting us share. This is not the end of our year. They're getting ready to participate in the Board of Supervisors

030mock meeting coming up at the end of the month. And they still have many other events that they're planning. They're busy all of the time and they're wonderful youth and you guys rocked it. You did a great job. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. I know that Ms. Nowak Palmer and Ms. Floyd aren't here tonight, but we send our gratitude. To them as well for all of their hard work and your leadership. As I mentioned the other night, stepping up and leaning in into the youth development work so The young people are amazing. I was so impressed by all of the projects and programs that these young people frankly lift up. They have amazing ideas and I think you mentioned the other day, our job is to get out of the way, right?

031But they are extremely talented. And as I said the other night to the young people. These are shining examples of our future and I am confident that we are in good hands. Congratulations. Thank you again. You're not going to stay for the whole meeting? No, I'm kidding. They're let go. All right. Our next item is the routine item is our charter school update presented by Ms. Jess Baines Wright. Our director of the Community Partnerships and Innovation. Good evening, trustees and Superintendent estrella Henderson The team will be sharing updates to our elite documents. We'll start with the narrative. Our SCO team was able to do a visit on March 28th. We're going to share some highlights tonight And one was when you walk into the campus and the hallways and the classrooms, you feel joy. Whether

032it's from the staff, the students, volunteers on campus. One of the walls in the hallway, if you go to visit. They have eight by, I'm sorry. Better. One of the showcases they have is In the hallway, they have an eight and a half by 10 picture of every single senior. On a wall and underneath showing what their next step is going to be. And I think that's really profound because every student in the school, kinder through 12th grade. Gets to see those students and where they're going and they're in their senior dress. So really, really great for all the school to see. And for us to see as well. It was shared that walkthroughs in classrooms are taking place every day. Ap courses are being offered. Elite hosted their fourth annual MLK oratorical competition at

033the Empress Theater. And they are thinking about hosting it there again because it was such a positive experience. The urban debate team. I got to speak to two of the girls that came up to me and shared about their experience and they're excited about competing again. We got to visit the three sites, the Eagles Cove at Morton Field looks great and they're hoping to host their graduation there in June. The elite public school district office space is beautiful and it's near the fields. And the Elite Clubhouse has a good amount of space for working out and also has workout equipment there in an area if they need help with homework. And the site was preparing for CASP test as we were visiting classrooms. They're practicing the interim comprehensive assessments, also known as the ICLA and

034they started their first boys volleyball team like a lot of the other high schools so Very exciting. Next, I will move on to our reporting schedule matrix. These are updates for items that were received after March 21st. Oversight fee for February and March were received today. Monthly cash flow for December and January were also received today. And the monthly bank statement. For February was received today. As of 5 o'clock today, the following items are past due. Our monthly bank statement for January, but they communicated that They did not receive it in the mail, so they will be going to the bank and getting a document and then sending it to us. Substitute log for March. Certificated staffing list for April and our master schedule for April. Those are the updates that are past due. And

035then we have no updates on the snapshot. Are there any questions? I have one. So the past due items, have we heard from them about those items? The substitute log, the bank statement, yes. The three, yes. I heard the banks. Yes. You didn't mention what their response was on the They're working on getting those to us as well. That's their response? They're working on it? Okay. Uh-huh. Thank you. Thank you very much, Ms. Bainswright. Our next item is a budget presentation that will be provided by Michelle Henson, now our deputy superintendent of Administrative Services and Operations. Good evening. Thank you again for the continued opportunity to share information on SCO's budget development process. Happy to say I've got more of my voice back than last month. Tonight, I hope to share with you the steps

036that we take in developing the budget model and how staff is preparing for the upcoming May revise. Next slide, please. First, a quick update on the economy. Most recently, the UCLA Economist issued a recession watch in March. Not exactly good news. As a direct result of the sustained inflation inflationary pressures, continued unemployment rates. And lackluster growth in the gross domestic product figures. The Fed has decided to maintain rates at this time as uncertainty certainly lies ahead. And it's causing concern for all. Next slide. Back in March's presentation, I shared the steps of the budget development And you saw these planning factors. These were the factors shared during the unveiling of the governor's budget proposal. The main point of this slide is that we are watching to see if any of these factors change, not only

037in the proposal year, but also in the following years. 26, 27, and 27, 8, and so on. Once the May revision is available, staff will begin to use these for planning and include them in our budget assumptions. So they are subject to change with the May revise and actually can still change at the point of budget signing. So a lot to be seen. Fingers crossed that things hold true. And stay as they are being presented right now. Next slide, please. You're familiar with SCO's budget assumptions. You see them in the packet as we present the proposed budget. Here are the highlights of what we're working on for the upcoming year. Lcff revenues have been built based on the governor's budget proposal. Shared back in January. If we do end up seeing a different COLA, possibly

038lower or higher. With the May revise the budget will be adjusted to reflect that change. And property taxes are based on the 2425 P1 certification. Physician control will include the anticipated step increases employees receive on July 1st and the current statutory and health benefit rates. Purposes of books and supplies. And services and other operating expenses. And the multi-year projections, we have used the current consumer price index. Those estimates are listed in the previous planning factors. And they will also adjust on the current and outgoing two years, the following two years afterwards. Next slide, please. Similar to preparing our LCFF revenue projections, staff meet to discuss state and federal and local grant projections. Here's a list of SCO's current grants by funding category. The program administrators will meet with budget staff to review anticipated revenues. For

039the upcoming year and budget according to those projections. I have a question, Trustee Dean. Okay. I'm wondering, I think this would be helpful to Love this chart, by the way. But I think a column that says what the amount is would be helpful. Can you get that? Great. And that's continued on the next slide. I have another question. We're talking about the grants. I'm looking at the grant. And I don't see any Title I grant money. We don't get federal title one money for anything? We do. It is in a different category. These are grants like true to the nature of grants. Title I funding is in our federal resources. So it's in a different section in the budget. Well, it's not a grant. It's just more of an entitlement. Yeah, more of an entitlement

040that we apply for. Based on the number of students we have. But it's not a competitive grant. That these are. All of these are competitive. Pretty much. Well, I'm going through and looking at them, so I don't want to give you erroneous information. Um… I'm also having trouble finding the SBHIP grant in all of this. Is that also Not a competitive grant. I would need to defer to services on that because I'm not familiar with the process and how that funding works. I don't see that listed anywhere. I think it's a local grant. I was given by the Department of Health Care Services and ended by the funding ended December 31st, 2024. I believe it was given to each county through the county It wasn't a competitive grant. Sb Hip is not a competitive grant.

041It's not my understanding that it's a competitive grant. Well, it's not a grant, but it's funding that came through the counties and was distributed out. That should still be listed on. I think it's an allocation that was provided to each of the counties These are more competitive grants. And so there's a difference in how we looked at state, federal, and local. The SBHIP would be included in the budget and we can certainly show you where you could find that. Back to the second slide here. Also included is the funding source. The project name and the starting and end dates. One of the reasons that we didn't include the amount in this snapshot is it could represent multiple years where we're trying to hone in on what we're working with currently in terms of proposing for

042That could be something that you have to go back individually decipher what's already been spent. It might be misleading to have the entire amount listed. Would need to tell you what the remaining amount is. One of the things that I asked for when I asked for this list of grants was what year this grant was in. So I can't tell from how long each of these grants are, well, I guess I can because I have the start date and the end date. It also seems to me like there could be an object code in these so that I can find them in the printout. Some of these may be within the same resource I think is what you're thinking of and it would be lumped in. They're not necessarily going to be broken out. Recca.

043Pussy cheek. We could. So I think if we looked at what was in the entire amount, like the grant award originally, and then you look when we give you this again, when we give you the budget proposal, you could see what is in those individual program sheets. Proceeding oh i i think what I so now I've expanded my request to two columns. One that says what the original total was and one that says what's left. And then we can figure out you know um Some of these have two years left, some have one year, whatever. But those two columns that's kind of what I'm craving. But my colleagues. Next slide, please. We provided a lot of this information last year during the budget presentation and so we will certainly provide that again This year, I

044think last year it was May when we presented the budget and all of the attachments This year, what we did was we pulled it out. For you in advance, but we'll make sure and provide that for you with all of the budget packets. Also provided to you in previous years was the membership listing. This is what we're currently working off as we refine to determine what is going to be included in the budget this year. It'll be pretty close when you finally get it. Yes. My question would be um As far as what we're spending on each one, are they pretty much in line with what they were Last year. Yes, a couple have fallen off. For whatever reason program don't anticipate that they're going to renew their their membership fees I think only one

045or two. I have a question. The Black Chamber of Commerce, does that refer to the california Chamber of Commerce, Mono County, which one? All of these are local. Included in this list is the dollar amount for the fees and those fees could represent either individual sum of individuals or an organizational membership. So if the whatever the total is the That's all in what we're giving to any individual they're not making photocopies or using our print on you know complementary or using our rooms complimentary. We are all in with this. I'm not sure I understand your question. I'm asking is because if our membership, let's say, let me pick. Anisha Chamber of Commerce. If I paid $242 for a membership. But Benicia comes here and hosts the Benicia's wonderful symposium downstairs in our one of our

046rooms. Would that fee be included in that member in that fee or is it possible we gifted Benisha also room rentals or something else. This number is all in. We didn't give them anything else. No, they would go through the typical Facilities reservation requests to use our facilities. And they would be charged the direct fees according to our fee schedule. Okay, so they would write if someone hosts a meeting here We would charge them like we charge anybody else. And they would write us a check. So our 7500. $7,500 wouldn't be… also room reservate. We're all in. We have a $7,500 membership and that's There's nothing else we're giving them. Certainly, I can speak to the Solano EDC. Sometimes our partner agencies will host programs here and that's actually a practice that we've had over

047time. If it's a partner agency, then they have the opportunity to use the rooms as part of, as you said, all in. We might not necessarily charge them anything additional. If the Benicia chamber was, if we're a partner And they wanted to host something here that $242 would be all in. There wouldn't be anything additional. But if one group post meetings on the regular. One group never uses it. Aren't we not actually accurately reflecting what we're gifting because we're room reservation Solano County is expensive if you ever try to get a room reservation for a meeting. It's not cheap. And we have a very nice facility here. So I'm trying to sense so i'm trying to $7,500 for the edc is a check we write them to be a part of their organization. And in

048addition to that, we're gifting them the use of our building for meetings it could potentially be the EDC. It could be any of these organizations. And it goes for all of these. I just… For example, First Five Solano, obviously it's not a membership organization But they sometimes will host ask if we have a room available and because we're a key partner with First Five Solano, we allow them to use the room because they're a partner agency. Another one is the Child Abuse Prevention Council, for example. I think, in fact, they meet here. On a regular basis. And so while it's not one of the memberships but we allow our partner agencies that we're actively engaged in to use our partners, our rooms. So in this case, these are membership fees but the Let's go. Cafeteria

049plan of sorts of having access to these things. Isn't being reflected in our membership because they're actually i mean I have to think that we have… costs wear and tear, employee costs set up the chairs. They actually set everything up themselves. They certainly handle the technology themselves. If there is a need that we have to do some kind of cleanup, that's what I mean by direct charges, like overtime for a custodian. If they're already on shift and they're taking down their own chairs. He was going to vacuum anyway. But if he's going past his normal work day. We would charge the overtime. But because of the partnership. Sometimes even our own staff attend these or our own staff are involved in the planning of whatever event is being delivered. In other words, we don't show

050any of our in-kind Type of costs. For these things. So if they're a partner no, we probably wouldn't. I mean, in-kind can mean a lot of different things. Maybe we have something at one of their facilities at one point in time. That could be an income. Trustee Cohen Thompson. All right. I think what we need to do. Determine what is the partnership. That's what we need to know. What determines a partnership? As opposed to just a membership. Oh, what is it in our contract or Or how we put this together. That determines um the National Association of Education of Young Children a partnership and not just the membership. What's on the application for the communication that says communication that says what determines a partnership? I believe if we get that out. That will give the

051answer to these questions. But we do have a list of our partner agencies that is part of our facilities policy. And if those individuals or organizations are on that list, those are organizations that we are key partners with and they have the opportunity to host a meeting here that we're going to be attending And we open up the room, we attend the meeting similar to The Solano County School Boards Association So while we're not necessarily paying a membership fee. We do offer the room at no cost so that we can all attend the meetings. The same example. So what I'm being here then is perhaps we need a list of partnerships. Because the partnerships there are different kinds of services. Or maybe a list of partnerships that won't be there. What's this and what's that

052and how do we give them this? Give them back yeah that might be. Helpful in terms of the trustee's understanding questions that they're asked. And that policy. I think we need that policy so we can understand it on our Certainly do that. And I think what What is also materializing is a separate list because for example Solano County School Boards Association isn't necessarily a membership. But we can provide a list that shows those organizations that have already been previously approved. To use the rooms, for example, or facilities. And it might include the Child Care Prevention Council or the child abuse prevention council or First Five Solano, which aren't membership organizations. I would also be interested to know how often, I mean, not down to the Every single meeting, but one that's using it monthly versus

053one that uses it once a year. Different in kind. Thank you. Rusty cheek. Oh. I'm going to attempt to answer that. Remember, this will vary from People's needs are different. School Services of California. Partner, but it's also we have an organizational they oftentimes will call us and say, would you be willing to host a training Before that, we'll give you five free admission for your staff or if you don't have enough staff that are interested in attending. Some of your districts to attend. What's that kind of thing. That's just one example. And in the last year, we had one of those events year before last They requested another, but then another county office location served their area better, so they opted not to use ours. It could have been twice, but it was only one.

054So we're also bartering. With the room. I mean, basically. I mean, that's a good, I mean, if they need the room and we want to serve them, that's great. It's a benefit for both parties. Right, exactly. But that's what I'm trying to understand where Does that partnership mutually beneficial and when is that I'm writing you a check and you're using my room. What am I getting? Professional development for your employees is certainly beneficial. No, no, I would agree. Absolutely. But that's what I'm wondering. I mean, across, if I look at the list. Is that always the case? Are we always seeing that benefit? Edc, for example, they have an annual event. Bo usually has a table. So this 7,500. For that table or is this 7,500 in addition? All of the members have to pay

055for their own tables. And we haven't. Had a table at the EDC. For a number of years now, if an individual wants to attend, you let us know. And certainly we'll look at purchasing a ticket for the event but we haven't had a table as long as I can remember at the EDC, for example They always charge. We've had tables. We have. I'm saying not in the most recent. Recently, we have not. We did a number of years ago, but we haven't actually had a an actual table but we do we do purchase the tickets and all of the members of the ETC do the same thing. Continue on, please. Okay, next slide. Next in the budget development process include the conversations and hearings that will happen at the state level regarding the current economy

056and budgetary needs. Staff will continue to work in the background, balancing resources and gathering details from programs. And then look forward to the release of the governor's revise in anticipation of any changes that may need to be adjusted in the budget model as it's going along. And staff will attend the school services budget workshop May 21st. And we'll receive those details. And those are analyzed by school services, the Department of Finance. And the Legislative Analyst's Office. Before they're given to us. So they're well vetted. We'll then finalize the budget draft for review, make any necessary tweaks, and prepare for the public hearing on June 11th. And adoption following on the 25th. Bye. And right now, I will say thank you for allowing me this time to provide you an update and turn it back over

057to the superintendent for any questions or considerations. Haven't already expressed. I have a couple of questions. Trusty Dean. So, and this may come in the ultimately end up in or suggestions for future items but I know last I asked about the potential impacts on us related to the dissolution of the Department of Education at the federal level. I understood from the conversation that we do have Title I money, but most of our SCOES money does not come from that particular federal funding. It was our immediate concern was limited. And I thought a lot about that. And a question I have, first of all, I understand it's Title I. If it's anything else, I'd like to know about that tonight. But then the second thing is To the extent that the school districts themselves are impacted.

058What will, you know, and we have to absorb some of the some of what's happening with them because of the loss of funding because some of the districts get a lot of federal funding. Are we considering that in our budget? Considerations and how how are we i know it's i know how the ground beneath us is washing away but to the extent that we can understand what's going to happen, how are we looking at the impacts to the individual school districts And what we might have to absorb as a result of those changes. Or uncertainties at the federal level. Well, I can certainly, we do get title one funding and what we're hearing from all of the management, the education management organizations. Is that it's simply too soon to tell. And you're right. The sand

059is shifting on the ground on which we are standing. And so everyone that I was just as a at a county superintendent's meeting over the last two with federal advocacy saying we just don't know. You just need to be patient because we simply don't know what the impacts are right now. I do have Megan Macy coming from Lozano Smith next month. To speak to exactly what are the potential impacts of the closing of the Department of Education. And what might be the financial impacts if federal dollars do not continue to be allocated. So we do have that presentation coming in May. I have also, in terms of planning how are we planning I've also been working with each of the superintendents in advance. And ask them what potential funding cuts do you see coming down

060the pike And they have expressed the same thing. We simply don't know yet. And so to all of them have said, we're really just focusing on looking at our current funding. And how we're going to continue to fund services. They don't, for example, anticipate Great significant loss of funding in some districts but in others that have a higher unduplicated. They do anticipate some, but we just don't have all of that information yet. So we are continuing to plan as best we can but Until we have that information, we just can't plan to the T of what our school districts are not going to be able to continue doing. And what we might potentially be absorbing. We just don't know that yet. I do think the difference between the COE and the district funding structure, districts

061are going to feel it more so than what we're going to feel at a county office level. And each of our superintendents so far and all of their communications to me said. We just don't know what our funding is going to be right now. And so we're continuing to plan for having the federal dollars Because right now we haven't been told that we're losing the federal dollars. And I meet with our superintendents sometimes on a daily basis. But on a regular basis as a core, on a monthly basis, and this was a conversation that we just had two weeks ago. Okay. Still on the budget issue. And how we're looking at the potential cost to us if we have to try to absorb services that are generally done by the school districts themselves. I wonder

062if you could I know the whole team has their finger on the pulse. Could you tell us a little bit about who you're getting your information from? What organizations? Are we in constant contact? With our congressional representatives, what's happening with that? Absolutely. We can certainly forward to you the information that we're getting from down the pike. Absolutely. Just as the superintendent has superintendents Association and AXA, we have subcommittees of that work very closely with the lobbyists in Sacramento. So we have, you know, people like Derek Lennox, who's out there saying we need more information. We have the Legislative Analyst Office. Fake mat in school services and department. Cde coming to our monthly meetings saying what we're hearing is, you know, for the COE level, this is just being transferred to another department at the federal

063level to be allocated for you to decide at a more local level how to distribute. So on the COE aspect, we still don't have any definitive this is being cut. Now, I think districts are feeling a little more. They're seeing things in their nutrition programs. They're seeing things in other areas that don't really apply to a county office. And things that we might necessarily not be stepping in. For example, the food and nutrition programs. That wouldn't necessarily be something that we would be stepping in to absorb. So there's just so much uncertainty. You're absolutely right. We have our representatives from CSBA here. You know they're they're hearing the same thing as is AXA, as is California County Soups. American Association of School Administrators. Right now, everything is just very uncertain. Thank you very much, Michelle.

064Okay, the next item is the human resources report and that will be provided by Manolo Garcia our Associate Superintendent of Human Resources and Educator Effectiveness. Well, good evening again. All right, we'll start with our staffing report. In the last period, I hired five paraeducators, a transportation assistant And a grounds maintenance specialist. Any questions regarding the staffing report that you'd want to speak on? Some another thing that we have been involved in here at the county office. Any questions about the staffing report itself? Well, part of the staffing report besides new hires uh We wanted to know how many people received layoff notices. Thank you. And then what departments they were and what funding streams they were attached to. Okay, I will attempt to answer hopefully all of those questions for you. And if not, please.

065Redirect me. So last month was an important period regarding staffing. And in particular, because of the March 15th, which is the statutory deadline for providing layoff notices to employees within local educational agencies. Due to the notification requirement of March 15th. Scroll fulfilled its obligation to reduce positions for which there was a lack of work or lack of funds. Those are the two reasons that statute allows For school districts, county office of ed to Go through layoffs. 14 employees received a notice. As a result of the elimination of 11 positions. Of the 11 positions reduced Seven were in student services. Three were in youth development. And one in early learning. Despite the layoffs, I didn't hear that. Seven were in student services. Three were in youth development. And one in early learning. On an early what?

066Early learning. So despite the layoffs, we are… Not done. So we laid off. You said you gave 14 people notices, but only 11 were laid off is that Is that what I'm understanding? 11 positions. So with layoffs um statute around layoffs is a lot of due process rights and And in our collective bargaining agreement in terms of right to rehire for positions so The first thing is seniority. Employees that are impacted by layoffs have what's called bumping rights and at our county office of ed it's based on tiger Day can also be based on hours in the classification but that's not how it is in our county office. So, you know, it's kind of a chain reaction, if you will. That's why a higher number based on the lower number of positions that are being

067reduced. Because of the domino effect. Did we lay off 14 or did we lay off 11? So let me answer that and explain that to you, sure. Because you went all the way around and I still don't understand the difference. Okay, let me attempt to do that. Okay. So again, we're hopeful that the layoffs are not going to remain indefinite and we're going to go through with them, final layoff notices. Are given by March, by May 15th. So divisions are still awaiting notifications of whether they've been awarded grants for 2526. If awarded, employees on the rehire list have first right A refusal to vacancies for which they are minimally qualified for. So let me see if I can… answer your question. So we had 11 employees that were impacted by layoffs. They received layoff notices.

068Eight of those employees had bumping rights. To be able to bump into a lower classification or in their current classification. Which means they're positioned. And two of those, two of the employees accepted voluntary demotions. Two of the 14 so eight And… So 14 are employees. Eight out of the 14 We're able to exercise bumping rights. Two accepted voluntary demotions. And four are going to end up on the rehire list if the layoffs hold. Which means that they will have first right of refusal to any vacancies that they're minimally qualified for. Thank you. So I want to make sure we're getting our terms straight. So on March 15th or thereabouts, they received a layoff notice. Yes. Were not laid off. On that day, were they? They received the layoff notes letting them know that they were

069being impacted by the elimination of positions. And so those 14 employees by the elimination of the positions were being impacted. And in those meetings that we had where we gave them the layoff notice. We explain to them what their rights were. And the employees then considered their options and whether they wanted to exercise those, whether it was bumping, whether it was accepting a demotion. In some cases if employees were not senior didn't hold previous classifications, then they didn't have an option other than to go on the rehire list. When the layoffs take effect. So what I'm trying to get to is on March 16th. Then they all come back with a job or did they stay home? Yes, they came back with a job. Laid off. Is the term that yes layoffs don't take effect

070until the end of this fiscal year. Thank you for that. We know for sure by May 15th. Yes. Effective date is the key. So they just won't be coming back. If we don't have a spot for them. No, they have reemployment rights. But yes, effective July 1st if we don't have a spot. That's correct. Okay, thank you. You just clarify the ones that had bumping rights if they bump somebody, what happens to those people? Well, it's a process for sure. So if they have bumping rights and they choose to exercise those bumping rights, then we kind of go down the chain. And then we have that conversation with that employee. We explain to them what rights they have, if they have rights to bump and so on and so forth until we get to the

071end of line And that individual no longer has bumping rights They go on the rehire list for 39 months. A sea cheek. And this is due to… I mean, grants sort of not being Yeah, it's due to funding. It's due to funding or lack of work in the In the case of early learning it was both It was the expiration. Of a quality galls grant And also, you know, with that expiration It was a specified project. That work also went away so That was the reason there. With our student services positions, it was the expiration of SBHIP. Of the student behavioral health incentive program. And with our youth development. It was a result of reduction in toupee or tobacco use prevention education grant and the expiration of it. Offering highway patrol chp cannabis Prevention Grant.

072And when they're hired. Are they hired for a limited appointments? Avoid the layoff? When they're hired, employees understand that when the offer of employment made that these positions are grant funded. As are so many at our County Office of Education, unlike school district. So they're informed at the time of hire that this is these are temporary funds ANSCO has a long history of you know when grants expire that You know, we're always applying for others and obviously that go through our process for Make sure they fit with our guiding principles and what we're trying to do at SCO. So we don't have SBHIP funding anymore. Is that what you're saying? That's correct. Done with. And there is some SBHIP funding that hasn't been that still remains. You know it's it's very minimal. The funding ended

073December of 24. What have we done to replace that funding? Grants are we going after to replace the SB HIP funding that these people have four of them, three of them? Lost their jobs? Yes, four would end up the layoffs aren't rescinded on the 39-month re-employment list so yes To your question, we are going after… Which ones are those? Ms. Coleman, can you repeat the question? My apologies. What grants do we have in the pipeline now that we're going after to replace the SBHIP funding for those four people that officer jumps. Is it just SB Hip or would you also like to know? You said that was the one that ended in December of We had a number of grants that ended. That was one of the ones that I mentioned. You said summit four

074of these people were attached to SBHIP, so I'm just wondering what grants Are we going after to replace that funding and keep these So one of those grants in student services that they're going after and they're awaiting to they'll hear the announcement of that award on July 1st is the capacity and infrastructure Transition, expansion, and development grant. The acronym is cited. Cited, yes. C-i-t-e-d. I love your acronym. I try to avoid them when i can but Thank you. You're welcome. And we'll find out about that July 1st, you said? Yes, that's when we expect to hear about the award. July 1st. Did you also want to know about the funding for Youth development. Development. We had some positions there as well. So we also, in addition to that particular grant that student services is pursuing

075is that has submitted their grant application for youth development has a CHP Cannabis Grant Education Project. That award announcement we expect in May. County Behavioral Health. So it's going to kind of a flow through through county behavioral health opioid education funding. And there's we're kind of waiting for to hear from County Behavioral Health on alignment with how we can support those efforts with them. And then drug-free communities funding Applications were submitted. Due on May 5th. I don't have an anticipated date on when we expect to hear about that grant award. And I will just add, you know, going through layoffs is difficult. And it is hard and it's hard We have had to go through it at SCO before. It's not fun to go through. But I will tell you that we also have a

076long history the mindset that programs fund themselves. So that we are often going for grants, but we recognize that when the resources have sunsetted. The only way that we continue to be fiscally prudent with the resources that have been entrusted to us is to look for other resources to backfill But we're also not going to go out for the next shiny penny. And I think that's important. So there is that balance of not going out for resources just because the resources are available. But being really focused. And we do have a grant. Grant process uh and I think we provided that information to you at a board workshop last January. And the process that we go through. And all of our managers are well informed. Of this process. Having the ability to go after grants

077is not automatic. We're actually very judicious. That's the reason that this county office of education has continued to stay fiscally solvent Not only for the short term. But for the long term. And it's absolutely difficult to go through a layoff process. And unfortunately, we are not alone. I have a comment. Oh, I have a comment, too. Sassoon didn't lay off anybody. They had no layoffs. It's posted on their website. The whole nine yards. I also think we need to know We don't go after every shiny penny, but it looks like we're going to need some shiny pennies. What is the process? How do you determine which grant we're going to go after and which grant we're not going to go after? There are a list that says if it does this, this, and this, a

078rubric, something. So we can see what constitute a grant we want to have and what doesn't. Yes, we actually provided that presentation during a board workshop last The chair? Oh, I'm sorry. Did I cut you off? Okay. One, it's fine. I'm sure we have time for all of us. My comment is this. I think I mentioned last time that I just hit my 12 year anniversary at SCO as a board member, elected board member. Five years at busd before that. So I was at BUSD during the 2008-9 crash. And my first year. And the thing that I recognized then was the cruelty of this system Where we have to send pink slips out on March 15th when we don't even know. What our funding is going to be. And I'm just sitting here sort of

079crashed. That 17 years has gone by and this is fill the system. It's terrible. And since we have people in the audience who represent us at the state level. That's my soapbox for tonight. The cruelty of this is… is absurd. It is. And while one district might not have had to make any layoffs. Several of our other districts have. Vallejo City Unified. 12.8 million. Travis Unified. Is having to lay people off. Six and Unified is having to lay people off. So it's not a fun process. We keep saying having to lay them off. What we have done is give notice of the layout, which is cruel Which is heartbreaking, but that's a very different thing than actually laying off. And that's the problem with the system. We don't we're sending this out just guessing that's

080the problem. That's the cruelty of the system. If we were able to send notices out when we had the budget in front of us, when we knew our funding sources then we wouldn't have to make these sweeping like at Benicia it was like a hundred teachers that year you know you don't have to sweep and have people terrified about what they're especially in this Ridiculous economy. So it's Betty. You're correct, Trustee Dean, and absolutely it's about layoff notices and I agree. It's a difficult process. We also have amazing individuals who are out there looking for grants. You know, Nikki's here in the audience and her grants was submitted and we're looking forward to that but Specifically, this grant would allow for funding for current staff that are slated now To receive layoffs. Folks are working

081very diligently The YAS team, you heard from Kelly Birch earlier, she's also looking for additional grant funding to continue to do the amazing work that we've been doing. My caution is let's not just go out to look for resources and then have to invent work to be doing. And we have a long history of not doing that. And so I think that's critically important. Is that we continue to stay the course. And get through these difficult situations. And we're very hopeful that these individuals will, in fact, be back. Because of the hard work of our managers that are out there looking for the resources to continue this work. Any questions? All right. The next item on the agenda is the temporary certificate. I'm getting kind of feedback. All right. Any questions? I turned it off.

082No, because online they need to be able to hear you. Okay. We'll push through. So you have the temporary certificates. That were approved by our office. Is that better? Perfect. All right. So, and relating to those temporary certificates of clearance. And related to credentialing on that TCC report. You may have noticed that there are several administrative positions, or there have been in the past that with temporary certificates. So I want to just highlight for the board a program that you may have some familiarity or little familiarity with that SCO provides oversight of. One of the ways we support individuals is a program the board may not have too much familiar with, which is our clear administrative services credential program. And instructional leadership coaching. Which is at the request of our school district superintendents serves all

083Solano County local education agencies school districts, charter schools. Would have access to our program. Including, we also serve this year one district from outside our This program is operated in collaboration with and approved by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. In order to support new administrators with the requirement of clearing their preliminary administrative credential. And so getting their clear credential. We also, as part of the program, we also, in addition to providing the service of helping them clear their credential, also provide mentoring and supporting administrators in new administrative roles. This program is self-sustaining as each school district pays for their administrators to participate. By providing a local program, our school districts, it allows SCO to optimize resources by achieving economies of scale that individual school districts alone could not do. Coaches are contracted annually. And

084are selected based on their administrative experience Particularly as it relates to school site principal experience. As many most administrators get their first administrative job as typically an assistant principal. At a school site. The other advantage of our local program is that it provides provides coaches tip or the provided coaches typically work in the school district so they understand And have familiar with the policies, procedures, as well as the culture of each individual school district. These individuals are trained. Or I'll say they have to be certified. Leadership coaches having specific requirements and training Particularly tremendous amount around the California Professional Standards. For educational leaders or what we call capsules. In order to be eligible to coach. And AXA is a the CTC. Trainer that where our coaches earn their certification from They have to undergo an

085initial certification and then they're required to I maintain that certification with additional hours. So that is our program. How many people do we have in that program? We have… We have 11 coaches. And they support Let me get you the exact number. 45 new administrators. So my understanding is we have 11 Coaches. They're paid for. Not out of our SCO budget, but out of fee for service from the Correct. Correct. And how long have we had 11 cookies? That number would obviously fluctuate i couldn't tell you off the top of my head how long we've had 11 coaches. It's dependent on the availability of coaches and also on any given year you know this the 45 number that we have this year, could I be higher or lower? Each coach for for each individual, each

086administrator that they coach. They have a personnel contract with them. $3,500. We have an annual contract. That's correct with each of the coaches. How much is it? $3,500 per participant. Her coach? Per individual that they coach. Per individual that they coach? Yes. Because there's a requirement for the number of hours that they receive coaching or in order to… demonstrate that they've completed the program and then earn their clear credential. From the school district's in the school district yes they they pay for all the costs. So the 3500 scholars for the person getting their admin credential or for the coach that's mentoring the person. Or the that's the fee that they receive that SCO receives, yes. Right. We receive that fee from the district for coaching Correct. Yes. Any other questions? Thank you very much, Mr.

087Garstian. Okay, the next item is the scope policy regarding immigration and customs and forms enforcement. And Michelle is going to join us for this presentation. And we have Manolo who's already up there. Join Mr. Garcia. We also have dr garrett. Joining us for the presentation. This is a cross-organizational approach. Okay. Let's see. The next slide, please. I'm going to go ahead and start. The focus of our work in this arena is the foundation of our vision and mission. And I won't read that to you But certainly that is the guiding principles upon which we do all of our work. Is focused on our young people. Regardless of their background, regardless of their any learning challenges that they may have. We're all focused on young people and helping them to get to success. We do this

088by working with our districts and our community partners. Knowing that we can't do it alone. And many of the community partners are either listed on that membership list or will provide you with the other list of our partner agencies with whom we work on a regular basis. Support our young people. Again, this is in response to specifically, I believe it was Trustee Coleman's request last month to better understand how we are addressing Any student or family concerns that might be related to the recent federal immigration guidelines. We have taken a very focused approach. Given that our county is so diverse. And this very focused approach has actually been very specifically at the request of our district superintendent. So, uh. Each district has their own policies that they have adopted. And they have requested. That the

089county office of education not do a larger scope of work around this work because of their families wanting to be addressed by their teachers, their administrators, their superintendents They're local, sometimes community service organizations And so very specifically because of the request of the superintendents. We have chosen to support them in their endeavors, but allowing them to do their work with their local families. That's who the families feel most comfortable and frankly, most safe with. So, um. Again, at the request of the superintendents, they were concerned that parents might not want to come to a larger event. Because they… we're most again most comfortable with those individuals with whom they have built those positive relationships. The next slide also shows the governance and equity statement that we developed as a team is also foundational to our

090work. And this is what this team came up with. I think it was on board workshop saturday You spent a lot of time on this. Facilitate a conversation and this continues also to be at the foundation of our work. The next slide is going to be taken by Michelle. And she's going to focus on our policy. That has been in place now for So you may be familiar with the 1982 Supreme Court case based on player versus doe. About undocumented children and it specified that they have the same right to attend public schools As US citizens and permanent residents. Stated that schools may not deny enrollment based on citizenship or immigration status. Proof of residency, for example, utility bill may be requested for enrollment, but schools may not require a social security number, green cards,

091or other citizenship. Documentation. The foundation of any of our actions lies in policy 5145.13. This policy ensures our campuses remain places focused on learning. The policy has been vetted through our North Bay Schools Insurance Authorities. Legal counsel and it describes how we are focused on protecting our students. We follow and align our practices to state and federal laws and regulations relative to this policy. Slide, please. Proactive measures and impact. So ensuring SCO's policy is consistent with law was the first step. And then communicating that policy and protocol to staff was the next. Cisco provided managers with background information. On the potential for immigration and customs enforcement actions on school campuses, along with SCOES policy so they could seek further clarification if necessary. And ultimately, ensure the frontline staff were comfortable with their understanding of SCO's

092policy and their role in carrying it out. While SCO maintains collaborative relationships with our law enforcement partners. It is important to understand that there are processes and procedures that apply to all visitors on a school campus. In order to avoid disruption to educational programs. Those processes and procedures are also applied to law enforcement. So I'll now have you have Dr. Garrett come up here and tell you how Works on the front line. I actually like these handheld microphones. So to the board and our superintendent, we just want to assure you in our community that's listening that for our families. At the community school, we have SCOES policy. Posted about how we support students so that they're not afraid. Just to give you an idea, in the front office, our secretary has a copy of SCO's

093policy. It's posted on the window. We also saw a minor dip in attendance. Because there were rumors that ICE was located near one of our local high schools. And so there were kids coming to school crying, thinking that their grandmothers were going to get snatched off of the streets. You know, so what we've done during our morning meetings is we have like family meetings At the community school, we talked to the students about the fact that the school is safe and that they're protected and their families know that as well because we've had some tears. And for those of you out there listening too, you know that we have the porch. At Golden Hills, so we get to share this information with our families and then to our young people. Who were at Evergreen Academy,

094which is our campus located inside of the Solano County juvenile detention facility You can imagine the stress For those young people who were there and wondering, you know, am I going to lose my mom? Or my grandmother. We have family-like meetings there at that campus as well. So I want to thank the Evergreen staff for building that comfort. But we just want to assure all of you and the community that we have a clear policy It has been articulated to our families and I'm so grateful to say that our students are showing up to school. Thank you, Dr. The last slide is really focused on district level approaches. And as I mentioned to you, each school board does have immigration policies that have been in place. In fact, I think it was back a bill

095was the most recent one that just approved Their policy. They have communicated to me that they are also focused on staff communication. And how to implement the policy locally. They're working with their own community partners and a good example is their school resource officers that the children and families love at their local schools or attending school events that have nothing to do with immigration enforcement, but really have to do with building Relationships and helping families to feel safe at school. That's a synopsis of the approach in terms of how we're addressing the enforcement of our immigration policies. Questions we might be able to answer? Thank you so much, Michelle. Trustee Dean. So we have kind of two different scenarios here. One is we have students and staff staff and students that our staff deals with

096on the school district campuses. And then we have our own campuses. And I understand absolutely the idea that we respect the district's choices and that's their community for sure. I guess what I'm curious about is Are you… In the news, we see circumstances where someone might not necessarily be appropriately subject to um Detention. Is detained. And I appreciate that we have a policy, but I'm wondering How do we know? When something if something happens, is there a phone tree what is the circumstance? Where the community comes to know that there is something going on. Or do we even do that? For example, if ICE officers come to a campus our campus. What happens then in terms of not just dealing with it in the moment? Do they wait in the sitting there little chairs in

097the office waiting to be let in. Okay, maybe. But how does the community learn? About those. Well, that's very hopefully we never have to know. I was going to say that's a very good question. And actually, in our policy, it outlines who needs to be notified. And how that process, and that actually has been, again, vetted by North Bay Schools Insurance Authority. Because they work with the majority of our school districts. And so we also wanted to be aligned with our school districts. We have not had the occasion. Thank goodness, as you describe. For that to happen. At any moment, our superintendents are communicating with me when there's any kind of a concern. But thankfully, it hasn't become an issue on our school campuses and Our aim is to continue to keep it there. Thank

098you so much, Dr. Garrett. Mr. Garcia and Ms. Henson, very much appreciate it. President Coleman, that is my report. Thank you very much. Moving on to new business. We have a runoff election for CSBA Delegate Assembly region three county Official runoff election ballot from the 2025 California School Boards Association delegate assembly representative to region three county which is Solano sonoma napa and marin Must be submitted by April 30th, 2025. The runoff ballots will be counted by May 12th, 2025. Candidates will be notified of the results immediately. Should a second tie occur. A regional director will cast the tie-breaking vote. All newly elected delegates will serve a term that will expire on March 31st. 2027. And we have the task of casting one collective vote for a runoff candidate and our own Peggy Cohen Thompson is

099a runoff candidate. And there's also a runoff candidate from Napa. Can we get a motion, please? I was going to, before I make a motion, or it's consensus. Is it a motion or consensus? I think it's a consensus because it's one collective I was going to give uh Trustee Cohen Thompson the opportunity to back out of the room quietly. No, no. I mean, figure. Are you willing to serve? Basically, are you willing to serve, Peggy? You're still in. Okay. Okay, so I would… All right. So. We would like to make a… Past one collective vote for Peggy Cohen Thompson. Is that the consensus of the board? Yes. All right. All right. We have a unanimous. Selection for Peggy Cohen Thompson for delegate assembly. Csba. Thank you very much. I'm assuming that, Monica, you have that

100ballot. That we can sign or whatever. Yeah. I would just like to say for the members from SBA, I was a member of the transition committee. So I am very vested in what's happening right now. And I would like to continue with that. Until everything is in place. Okay. Moving on. Process to fill a vacancy for the Office of County Superintendent of Schools. Pursuant to ed code section 1042 subsection E and Government Code 1770C subsect 1, The board will discuss the process to fill the position Longo County Superintendent Schools. To the upcoming vacancy created by the announced retirement of our own. Estrella Henderson. The board will take public comment and correspondence from members of the public who wish to address the Are there any public comments Before we get in. Well, some of us have

101been here long enough to have appointed Lissette Estrella Henderson to the board the first time. So I think we have a good understanding of the process. We have it in our policy and procedures. And I think the way to do it is to have a Collection process. Yes. Okay. You can. Okay, so one. We can just appoint somebody. Or maybe our lawyers should talk about it. Stop me if I'm wrong. I will. So we could just, someone could show up. We can appoint them based on certain things. We could call for an election. Special election. Yes, it would be a special election or three we can go through a selection process. Wherein candidates fill out or submit applications for the resumes all the it's a packet. And then they come before us. And then we

102have a certain we have used before, I think. A certain, I want to say meth matrix but in any case they're a voting process at that time. To select someone out of the candidates. Was it like our top two? Yeah, we had an ad hoc committee. Well, that's right. Selected, I think it was the top three candidates to come and present to the board. I will propose that I think we need another ad hoc committee. Agree. Look over applications or people who want to submit to come and present to the board and with their you know whatever rubric we decide on. Assuming process. Yeah, that's the process that we first question of those three We want to go with the process we've used in the past. Yes. Versus having a special election which will do

103the cost because it's a countywide election and I think it's over a million now. No. I don't recall what the cost is, and we can certainly bring that It was… It's around, it's over a million now. I knew it was around a million when we were doing Lisettes and that was 14 years ago. Over that. It's quite costly for a special election, especially when the person, whoever we appoint. Would have to run again in 2026 anyway. I think the most prudent and economical process would be for us to appoint somebody up until the 2026 election. I would agree. I don't think we can justify a million dollars or more in a special election, especially when you look at This seat has been unopposed the last two times. And the Board of Education represents the entire

104county. The entire county has a say in who the new a superintendent would be. However, where I would, I think. Separate myself is unless we get 50 applications. And even if we did I would rather all of us be able to vet all the applications, not ad hoc committee. That was right before I got elected, so I wasn't a part of it last time. I was on it. I brought it back to the board. And then we had them come the following month and do their presentations of the ones that we thought were the top three. That's the thing. So you did thin the herd before. I think we should have been the herd. It's a lot. We were the ones that did. We brought all the names forward. And the board as a whole

105decided We want to see these three. I think it was three. Three or four. I don't. That's three. And it was actually an interview process. Right. Yeah, they came before the board and interviewed the entire board interviewed. When I first got appointed, it's the same process. I got appointed for 11. Same process. Okay. No, sorry Was it the ad hoc that formed the questions? Yeah. Okay, so even if you're not on the ad hoc committee You're very much a part of all the ways. Not yet. We have to… determine the process first. I think we're almost there. I think we're it's a it's a lengthy process. Well, she's not retiring until September 1st. Out of respect for the board, I wanted for the board to have an opportunity to go through an in-depth process. I

106did not want to drop this on you close to retirement. And that's why I have chosen the September 1st date. I felt like it was important to really have you go through Whatever process you determine, but to have the time to do it. And so by September 1st. Can I walk through? But I don't know if we're going to, we need a motion. But can I walk through what I think the process would be if we chose to do the appointment process. So one, we have to form the ad hoc committee Do we have to solicit? Applicants. Well, no, two, I'm sorry. To the ad hoc committee has to come up with the list of criteria that you would be looking for. Criteria. The list of questions at the event was a difference. That comes

107the questions and status comes before the board Running tight on time on this. Or we solicit the applications, they come in out of committee needs reviews and reports on them. And then… we narrow it? Where do we narrow that's that's too many months. Especially since we don't meet in July. The process that we did before was the ad hoc committee came up with Reviewed all the applications. Found which ones met which met the criteria that we chose. And then they came up with questions to be asked at the interview. We chose, we brought them all people in all the applications back to the board. The board discussed it. We chose our top three. We invited them for interviews and we hired them the same night. Once they got done with their interview, we decided we

108went into closed chambers, we came back out. We decided who We decided we wanted to appoint and we announced it that night. Going forward, I mean, I'm seeing a consensus that we want to do the same process. Is that correct? We have it. We do. We absolutely have an archive and a documentation. You absolutely already have a foundation. On which to build. Working backwards. The latest we could do this would seem to be August meeting, which is incredibly tight. Or whoever it is that we hire. But let's say August, we're generally dark in July, maybe not, but we generally are. We have two meetings in June and one in May. That's four meetings to get this like all in, all done. And I question whether someone who has hired for such a significant role Mid-August

109will be available September 1st. So that's a thing. We should maybe be thinking about. How do we tighten up the timeline on this? If we had to. I mean, I feel like we'd have to give them at least 30 days, right? Well, and we might determine that we need a special meeting the end of July. So, so I mean… Let me know your calendars now. Because if we have to do a special meeting the middle of July to finalize this process, I think that's what we can do. So tonight we formed the ad hoc committee if this goes forward, the ad hoc committee meets in May. They come back to us with something or consider we can open up. We can open the ad hoc committee And then the ad hoc, I mean, we can

110still open up for applications now. We can be taking applications now. But you would want to determine the criteria. So the ad hoc committee would want to make sure and refine that criteria and go back and look at it. So after that, certainly you could open up the the process but the ad hoc committee i would think would want to go back to the criteria that was previously established and make sure that that's still the case. Do we feel comfortable having the ad hoc committee make that decision those the criteria? Decisions. Without coming back to the board so that we can then get the thing out. Well, if the board approved that criteria During the May meeting, we could still get the application out after the May board meeting. So it could still go out

111in May. After the board makes its determinations. And how long are those usually out? Well, that is a good question, Michael. From an HR perspective. Can you speak to that? At the very least. And certainly we have that information. We have a timeline in the archives. That we can certainly provide that information to the board. I mean, I think last time it was like a three month I don't remember it going longer than… So arguably, so we formed the ad hoc committee. Ad hoc committee works on criteria Comes back on May 14th criteria is considered and adopted. Notice goes out the next day, the 15th. 30 days goes by. We will meet on, I think, June 11th and 25th. By the 25th we would have Ad hoc would have meant somewhere in there and by

112the 25th. We would have… all the people having put their applications in. That just said two weeks period. Sorry. Are you saying from from the may criteria for may and then end of June. So May criteria, let's say the criteria that's hard to say is adopted on May 14th. At our meeting and the notice could go out the 15th Or somewhere thereabouts, May 15th. Looking to you, our human resources guru. And then 30 days later would be June 15th, which is after our first board meeting in June, but before But the second board meeting in June, we would be the ad hoc committee would be presenting the candidates for us To determine who we're inviting And then we would invite them The August 13th meeting and make a decision. Or meet in July, a special

113board meeting in July. I don't think that's whoever we're hiring for this position I don't think we want somebody who's available in two weeks we want somebody Who is a serious professional who needs time. I mean, if they're open, great. But let me walk that back a little. If they're available at two weeks, that's great news. But it feels to me like a serious professional would likely not be available in two weeks. To start. And there's a roll up to it I feel like we need to have a meeting before the August meeting. Volunteers first. Well, I will be part of this ad hoc committee. Yes. Trustee Sharp, you had your hand right? Pastichi? Okay. We can't have four. We can only have three. Sorry. Pesky brown act. I'll stick with sharp and cheap. I'm

114around. Because prior… experience. The ad hoc committee is appointed. So we do need to get a date on the calendar for the July meeting, though. You need to take action on approving a process? Do we have a motion for the process? We had a consensus. I'm going to make the motion that we go with of the three options that we have one pick somebody anybody to go through a legitimate and open and transparent process. That we have just been discussing that takes several months and a lot of effort. Or three call for a special election. I move that we do the second option, which is the open and transparent process. For bringing forward applicants for the very, very important position of superintendent of school A second. It's been moved by Trustee Dean, seconded by trustee

115Start. Cheek? Which one? Cheek. That we go with that we go with appointment process after review an interview of candidates. Is that about it, Trustee Day? How was it? We have the entire process that we have just discussed. In the timing of it, yes. We get a roll call vote, please. Trusty cheek yes Trustee Cohen Thompson. Yes. Yes. Dusty Lavelle? Yes. Dusty Sharp? Yes. Just take Coleman. Yes. Now let's get a date in July. That's going to be an extra day for us. Looks like the 16th, July 16th is on a Wednesday. They seem to be… How's that looking? We're going to call this a special meeting. The interview of candidates. 16. Okay. Okay, not the ninth. We'll meet other places for that. Did a roll call vote for July 16th. So moved. Second. Okay,

116it's been moved by Trustee Dean, seconded by Trustee Sharp for July 16th special meeting for interview of candidates. 6 p.m. Whole call vote, please. Yes. Pasty Cohen Thompson? Yes. Yes. Trusty Dan. Dusty Lavelle? Yes. Rusty Sharp. Okay. Good on that. Now we have our illustrious people from illustrious people from California School Boards Association for a presentation on the benefits of membership. Csba President Dr. Betty Lust and Director of Membership Aaron Davis. We'll present on the benefits of CSBA membership and respond to questions from the board. President Coleman, if I may, if we could address any items that were removed from the agenda. There were none, but that's the next item on the agenda. Thank you. Welcome. Thank you. Good evening. I hear it. Thank you. Retiring Superintendent Lizette. Estella Henderson? President Coleman. Esteem trustees. It's

117truly a pleasure to be here this evening. I have enjoyed every moment of your meeting. You know why? Because she celebrated kids. At the beginning, I love this. Woohoo! Congratulations. You celebrated staff. You celebrated community. As a former high school principal in the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District for 11 years. And a collaborator with my wonderful superintendent of the Monterey County School Boards Association Good word. Dr. Dadeen Gas. She is my dear friend. As well as my mentor. And I was so proud to stand on the stage with her when she decided to run for superintendent of our county. And I continue to stand with her. Tonight we're here to say thank you. Thank you for the invitation to come And just share a few That's a little information about the benefits of membership in

118CSVA. I am going to ask our director to come right away because we know it's And we don't want to really delay you. So director, please come so that we can do our short presentation. And give you an opportunity to ask questions. All right, Erin. Thank you. Thank you, President Lusk. If we could do the next slide, please. Likewise, extremely happy to be here. Thank you for inviting us. I wanted to just run through quickly a few aspects of CSBA membership and starting with this slide that I promise I did not put on the screen to make myself look cool as membership director. And all told, 97% of the school districts and county offices of education in California are members of CSBA. And I bring that number up because it lends a lot of strength

119to the work that we do advocacy-wise at the Capitol. And it allows us to have County Office of Education and school districts working together and allows us to learn from you and to have direct access to your voice and your feedback. We are very appreciative of your membership as well as the membership of boards across the state. I hope we can next slide, please. Very quickly, Gamut, one of the shining stars of our CSBA services, which I know this board does subscribe to. Gamut policy is a sample policy library of approximately 650 sample policies and regulations. Within that library, approximately 100 of those policies are unique and specific to county boards of education. We maintain that regularly, update that indirect response to changes in law. As they occur. Next slide, please. On the advocacy front,

120something we've been obviously very, very busy with, given where we are in the legislative calendar. Every year, CSBA typically sponsors a handful of bills. This year, we have a couple of bills related to education workforce housing, which has been a big focus of CSBA in recent years. So we have a couple of bills on that as well as a bill related to zero emission school bus mandate. And related to limits on substitute teachers. So those are bills that we are actively working on in the legislature. And we also typically take positions on a number of bills that directly affect school districts and county offices of education and actively advocate for those bills. Really the strength of the advocacy comes from you, our members, and our Legislative Action Day, which, excuse me, Legislative Action Week. Which

121was held. It used to be one day, now it's an entire week. Was held back in March and we discussed all of these bills as well as the pending May revise for the state budget. Specifically looking at a proposed $1.6 billion withholding in the Proposition 98 general fund that we are very aggressively advocating against. We advocated on a similar measure in last year's budget and looking at the same. Also advocating to fully fund the COLAB, which Ms. Henson alluded to earlier. So that's one of the main points of advocacy. Pardon me, as we head into the May revise. We also are asking the legislature to oppose a bill, SB 494, that would surp your authority as a county office of education over classified staff disciplinary issues. Sort of the other arm of our advocacy efforts

122that is very important is the work of our legal advocacy, specifically the Education Legal Alliance. This is where we file a number of legal actions on behalf of our members. In matters very… recently related to Proposition 98 funding and proposed manipulations of Prop 98, ELA has been very successful in those. So that's where we really go to bat for our members in the courts. I did want to point out one pretty significant recent case that the ELA recently won a judgment on back in March. And that was related to the Mayakimas Charter Petition in neighboring Napa County. Very significant win for charter authorization, and it was the first significant court case related to AB 1505. Which was signed back in 2019. I know Trustee Dean is very familiar with this bill and really carried a

123lot of water for CSBA and was a very powerful voice at the Capitol on this issue. So we're greatly appreciative of your support. Six years ago now, has it been? Yeah. So we're very grateful for your advocacy and advocacy of this board. So again, very substantial. Case win for ELA and on the legal side. Next slide, please. I wanted to highlight a few of our training and professional development opportunities that we have as they are specific to county boards. On the left pertains to our master's in Governance track, which is a track we have or one for school districts, but we also have a track specific for county offices of education. This aligns with one of the transitional working group recommendations that Dr. Lusk will discuss in a moment. But I've highlighted MIG four charter

124schools. All of the content in MIG is for the county track is tailored for county boards. That course is entirely different than the regular track. That course is specific for county boards. One of the standout differences for the county office track as it comes to MIG. Training and professional development, those three events that I've highlighted, represent a bit of a trifecta that also aligns with the transitional working group. Recommendations. Those are the three events to be held throughout the year that offer content for county boards. Of course, we have our annual education conference, which is coming up in December in Sacramento. First time we'll be in the capital city, so we're excited for that. And I can tell you our county board conference in Monterey, we'll be announcing that soon, but it will be the

125weekend of September 5th through the 7th. So the weekend immediately following Labor Day, as it always is, back in Monterey. We're very excited. And last but not least, the county board governance workshop, which begins in about 36 hours out in Sacramento. And if any members of the board are interested in attending, we still do have space available if you would like to join us in Sacramento. Speakers for that are going to be David Tostin from California Collaborative for Educational Excellence. And Chris Gardner, whose story inspired the Will Smith movie, The Pursuit of Happiness. We're very excited to have both of them. Also, one of the working group recommendations is our orientation for new trustees, which we now have a specific new trustee orientation course. Or county boards. This board is one of the few that

126has not had a use for that in recent years and I've had amazing continuity in recent years, but that's a Of course, we've just begun to offer that we're very excited to have. So again, that is a bit of an overview of some of our services, a copy of our membership brochure is in today's agenda with additional information on all that we offer. Bore you and talk forever, but instead I would like to hand it back to Dr. Lusk to talk a bit about some of our other county services. Thank you so much. First and foremost, we really want to thank Trustee Cohen Thompson. For your service. Spent the time working with us producing this document. For art. County group and we want to make sure sure that you understand how important your role has

127been and will continue to be. Thank you. So at this time. We want to just make sure that you fully understand that the committee A full committee met For nearly a dozen times throughout 2024. And presented these recommendations to the CSVA Board of Directors In December. Next slide, please. The board adopted a total of 15 recommendations from the working group seven recommendations were adopted outright. And an additional eight were adopted with modifications made by the board of directors. I want to note that the modifications made by the board We're focused solely on implementation the how-to. Proceed. Going if you want to share anything, we'll be happy to hear that. Okay. Thank you. Appreciate that. In particular, John McPherson of the Monterey County Office of Education was instrumental in the process of adopting these recommendations as

128he was for so much of the transitional working group process. There is a document with more detail with a more detailed explanation of each of the recommendations included in this evening's agenda packet. So I won't go into each one in detail. But I do want to point out just a couple of elements For recommendation number six on the right. Related to the programmatic Content Advisory Group. Are the TCAG, which provides feedback. On CSVA's professional development content. Csba is currently working to expand this group. To engage additional county board members keep that in mind. Additional county board members. Volunteers. So for recommendation four. On the right, endeavor to make counties members specific communications easily recognizable We certainly want to clarify. That this is in addition to the fact that CSVA already provides dedicated county board content

129In the monthly newsletter. Which is sent monthly to 1,000 contacts. So the current county content in the newsletter is supplemental to this recommendation and is not intended to replace it. May I? Thank you. Additionally. We're incredibly grateful to the TWG for this work And for those adopted recommendations. Next slide, please. I would also like to take a moment to provide an overview of the CSVA governance structure. The representation of county boards within that structure I'm the transition to Region 14. There are two dedicated seats on the CSVA Board of Directors for county board members. Director at Large County. And the regional director for Region 14. On the delegate assembly. Each of our 18 geographic regions has a regional county delegate seat. And these seats comprise Region 14. It is important to note And the transition

130from the former CCBE governance structure to the Region 14 This is the same number of seats on the board the delegate assembly and the same representative Voice that existed prior. As part of the transition. It is critically important to CSVA to preserve That representative voice. And our elected governance. By maintaining the same number of dedicated I also want to note. Region 14 has the same standing And all of the same standing all of the geographic areas. County delegates have the same to the newly elected created the SBA Director of County Board. Services, as you know. And even more direct to all of the CSVA staff. Under the former CCP. Ashley. It is important to note. The children that we have. I do this every day. And have been doing it for Number of years since

1312009. As director at large, as a delegate. And then there was a director that says. Okay, Betty, you need to do more. I school board in Monterey says, okay, we're here to support And that's when I began the journey as a And I'm so proud of the work that we've been able to today's agenda. Who have seen. Lot in your pack. Regarding the SBA. We want to give you an opportunity now. Ask any questions that you might have. Thanking you in advance. All that you have committed. We are all doing for the children that we celebrated tonight. Those that we're going to celebrate. In May and June as they march across those stages. All right. Thank you. Questions? I see Cohen Thompson. I'm concerned about the MIG. There are two of us on this board

132or three. Of us that we completed our MIG. For the county i did okay then there are four of us that completed our MIG. And to make for us. I did just right well i did for the i did the other right and then i did the one for the county where we got the certification. Because I took every class for everything. And I realized what I really needed to focus on. So my concern is when you talk about MIG for the county and for the county you're going to put together a program training for us. For a mig-4. Because when we took it, there was some communication is that it would go forward. And there would be additional training of which none of that. Has happened. And then we've made this transition So where

133are we? Of those that have already gotten our governance certification. Thanks for bringing this up, Trustee Cohen Thompson. I apologize I can't speak directly to that, but I can absolutely get some more information and clarification on that and provide it to the board. Apologies, I don't have direct information on that, but I will absolutely inquire on that. And get that clarified. So the concern was regarding specifically that MIG-4 course, correct? When does the county go forth? Because what they're doing now, even though the districts had a MIG. Ours was different. Right. And as I said, there was a lot of information about Continuing education. And none of that ever materialized. And so now that there's a great emphasis on the district. Mid classes. Where are we in this? Because I understand that you provide something

134with Sacramento State because I asked a question about that. Those participants, local board And that didn't apply to us. I want to know what applies to us. That same vein that I could get a degree from Stingers up, as they say. Exactly. Exactly, because that's what you're offering to them. And we completed this before. They did. So I want to have the same advantage. I'll be happy to get clarification on that. Thank you, Trustee Cole. If I could. I have three questions, but just before that. We did take. I think many of us took the regular MIG. Before county was offered then we took county But now there's a new county And I think what we're looking for is that there's some gap learnings, right? I took the first, were there two counties? Yeah. So

135we took it pretty early and then we knew there was going to be more so don't leave us behind, I think is what we're trying to say there. Okay, I do have three questions, if I could. The first one is the first one is With regard to the ledge committee. How many county board members are on the ledge committee And then how are those folks chosen, appointed, whose decision is it and how what's that process? There are four current seats dedicated for county board members on that committee. Dr. Lust, did you want to speak to that? Thank you. There are four and the four Committee protocols state very clearly that we will that there are four and they are president appointed by the president. So I… one at the four this year. We'll continue that

136practice as we move forward. So, so… Mm-hmm. Am I still here? Okay. I noticed it. Okay, thank you for that question. Thank you for sharing that with us and we will certainly get a response for that as well. Are you attending the conference? Wonderful. We'll make sure you get the answers at the conference. Okay, so back to this topic Previously. I can't recall this customer or policy. I think it might have actually been policy. Ccbe president made recommendations to the CSBA president for these four members. I don't know if you recall that. I think it was policy could have been custom but i think it was policy So I'm wondering. Since effectively the region 14 director kind of Fulfills that that former president slot somewhat. Is there any policy or custom that the region 14

137director recommends or is consulted or advises on. Who those four county board members are. Or is that just dropped? That is something that We are continuing to work through and that's And our goal is to make sure that the recommendations that transitional working group created along with staff. Fully implemented. And we'll clarify that. Particular role for that question. Thank you, Dane. My next question is, what is Mike Walsh's role at CSVA? I don't have that. That information and i think we can provide that for you again on the It's like he has it. You have it? Were you asking for his title, Director of County Board Member Services? Director of County Board Member Services. We took Samantha Archie's place. Our former secretary. Is he a secretary? No. No, it's a different position. Yeah, this is

138a director position as opposed to previously was, I think, program manager was that. He's staff though that's not… CSBA staff, yes. Okay. And in one sentence, what is this job One or two. It's essentially spearheading development and implementation of services specific for county boards. So he's really one of the faces of the faces county board member services as it now exists and carrying the recommendations of the working group forward. I see. And then the last thing is you mentioned about the county board members and or our representatives still having access staff, but that's different than CCBE who had staff. We no longer have dedicated staff to see to the county boards So CCBE had a staffer. Right. Region 14 doesn't have a staffer. Is that correct? Correct, but Region 14 is, as we mentioned, in

139the same standing as all other regions, so the same access to all CSBA staff. It's one of 18. One of 18 or one of… one of 18. The regional county delegates, correct, is 18. So not one of one, one of 18. We had our own staff dedicated staff person at CCBE. That is no longer the case. That's right. Mike Walsh's position as director of county board member services is In a similar role, but wouldn't be considered dedicated staff to Region 14, if that answers your question. Okay. I guess then what is he dedicated staff for? I'm confused. Csba staff. So he's part of our entire staff as opposed to… But everything he does is related to county boards. Yes, essentially. All right. Are we going to have a secretary like Samantha that we have That

140was us that worked for us. The transitional working group recommendations is what we're implementing at this time. And if that is, and I don't recall that being a part of the recommendations. So that's, you know, we didn't know that she was going to retire or leave. She didn't retire. She left. And we didn't factor that in. Okay, bye. So the goal is to continue to fully implement that these recommendations that were approved by the board of directors. And we expect that you will continue to be a part of the committee to ensure that that occurs. I saw another hand. I was just going to say because i'm a my board member, but I'm also a delegate. I fell into that little sweet spot. So we have two votes here. And my understanding was that we

141weren't getting a special employee because the other regions didn't have a special employee. And so you can't elevate the county board members where they have a special employee and yet all these others don' Then it turns into, oh, they have one. Why don't we? That was how it was. Thank you. Chrissy Sharp for that clarification. And the goal is to have this region have access to all staff. As other regions do as well. I have a question. I was… I didn't know that there's two different Memberships in the CSBA. Like there's two different membership categories you can have blank services or you can have the whole package. Because when we had the people from the people California county board A, C, C, B. That some counties only pay a portion of the CSBA because they

142don't get all the services. Yeah, there was a two-tiered payment system It's CSBA. Can you explain that? Certainly. So going back to the current year that we're at, well, so let me go back to 23, 24. 23, 24, the board was paying into CCBE. There was a separate dues for CCVE specifically. So CCBE. No longer existed during the 23, 24 year. So for 2425 with CSBA having adopted county board member services to provide the same suite of services formerly provided by CCBE. We provided your base membership dues as you've always received for CSBA. And pay those. We also provided was an optional buy-in for county board member services So those dues were to fund activities directly similar to those that were provided by CCBE. So the Monterey Conference the governance workshop in March that was

143held in Sacramento. So those similar suite of services that CSVA adopted for 2425. So that separate piece, it was again called county board member services, was optional. Or 24, 25. But we made it a point that any county board that opted not to pay that fee would not be denied any form of CSBA services. Okay, Trustee Dean, follow up. So… So that's for 2425. Is there an intention to continue to require Is there an intention to continue the two different So I can't say concretely, Trustee Dean, the amounts are still being finalized and the budget's still being finalized for the upcoming year. But I can tell you the intent is for it to be one single fee, which was… the will of the transitional working group. So county board would not pay more than a

144regular school district. Well, so the dues vary by district. Oh, yeah, by size. Yeah, yeah. That's correct. So there would not be a separate fee that delineates county board member services. The intent, again, I can't say this concretely because it's still being finalized, but the intent is for one amount. And then what happened to the reserve account that CCBE was holding of? Was it 200 and change? What happened to that money? So the reserve account obviously lives with CSBA now. That money is dedicated specifically towards any expenses specific to county boards. So the Monterey conference, the workshop. Or the salary of the director of county board member services, that money is specifically for that purpose. It's going to pay Mike Walchis. Is that what you're saying? That is one of the potential uses that it's

145been marked for. Okay, so we have so to fund county services we have some we have some funds from some counties who paid this secondary Here, we have the reserves that were so carefully shepherded for year after year by CCBE board of directors. And those are going to fund Mike Walsh's salary As well as the production of the Monterey conference and i'm assuming that April 11th and 12th. Events. Track services specific to county boards All right. So if we have a… $10,858 membership. What do we have? What are we getting for it? How do I justify $10,000 not in a classroom, not in a teacher's paycheck? What are you giving me? When it comes time for the budget that it makes it worthwhile to stay a member. So again, there is a brochure in this

146evening's agenda that kind of gives an outline of all the services that are available. Again, our services are specific to members, county offices of education and school districts that are members. That includes the ability to subscribe to Gambit. So everything that we offer is unique to our members, to our paid members. And this is just a comment for constructive. Not criticism, an offer of… something that could be handled better. You guys like fill our email boxes like And deep. And you even go to junk a lot of the time. And it was my understanding when I went to delegate assembly If I'm not checking it, you can tell that I'm not looking at it. So I know that you're paying attention to the emails. For the love of god can you delineate when it's one

147more news or one more your opinion on whatever is going on. And when it's something we really need to actually like read for understanding because they get buried in there. And I'm sorry, there's just a bazillion other emails And when it looks like just another csba newsletter pontification on whatever's going on. It really it's it's hard to… get out. Oh gosh, there's a delegate assembly this or this is something I should share with all the districts. If there was just even a some sort of AAA, the subject line could just really help. So just a suggestion, make it so much easier to be active. Because you know what you needed to share and what you could put aside for when you had some reading time. Thank you so much, Trustee Sharp. We appreciate that recommendation

148and we will be implementing it. Yours is not the only voice. Okay, thank you. I thought you were done, but Trustee Dean has one more. So the transition. So we're going to implement, we're going to do certain things have been decided, certain things have happened. We have a goal of implementing the transitional working group recommendations. The ones that were adopted and the ones that were modified. Does the transitional working group stay on it? Does it exist? How do we measure how What's the in a year's time, we're going to get together and measure how this works and what we might need to do to change it because we've just told you three things that need to We think would need appropriate consideration so Okay, great. So what happens from here? Once you've had an opportunity

149to implement. How is it when is it reevaluated and then tell me what mike walsh's role will be in that. Trustee Dean, I thank you for all of your questions. And I want to hear your voice. Continue to be a part of the discussion that we will be that will be occurring as we look at this transitional year of implementation of all of these recommendations. You know as well as I do, having served on this board For all these years in education. That change is difficult. And the only way that we are going to truly have that change create the impact that It was intended to make. Is to continue to have our voices heard and to tweak where it's necessary. So I hope that you plan to be a part of the conferences and

150make sure that everything you Let's see, Coin. Will be heard, will be shared at that And you, so that we can make sure this is effective For the kids that we have been elected to And that's the intent. This change is to really make sure that we are doing the best job possible for all the kids that we serve. We don't have all the answers, but We're going to get them. And I can't give you a concrete answer to that. But I can assure you that that will occur. There is no more transition. It's dissolved. After all the recommendations were approved. Then we were no longer. So perhaps in the future There needs to be another group address what she's talking about. But as far as the transitional working group. Our group is over once

151these recommendations were approved. I think that's what area 14 is now It's kind of the reimagined room. Working group is that now that group represents the county and so that would be the group I would think you would go to for transitioning that. What is the actual vehicle? For evaluation. If you're saying to me you know, oh, we're going to look at it and look at it Region 14 can come to us and say, this didn't work, that didn't work. That's different than the organization saying we're going to take a moment with certain players. Absolutely. To actually evaluate and report out, look at other recommendations. And that's a very different thing. You're absolutely right. And we're going to really look at what you're stating at this point so that we can take that back to

152staff and our ceo And then we'll move forward from there. Thank you so much for your presentation. Thank you. It takes a village. To raise a child. Cleared the village. We're the village and let's not forget that. And the reason that we are the village is because of the children that will graduate in May. And the staff that we celebrated tonight, because this is occurring in every county. Every district and that's why For 50 plus years, I have stayed on this journey because the kids that we serve deserve to be uplifted. Now, more than ever before. Thank you so much. Thank you, Dr. Lusk. Thank you so much, Mr. Davis. Before we move on to Solano Economic Development Corporation, ADC, Rico is sick and so he's going to postpone his presentation until next month. Need

153to go back, circle back to our date For the July special meeting because Lisette needs to be here and she's not going to be able to be here on the 16th, so we'll A new date? My suggestion is the 23rd, which is the following Wednesday. You're okay with the 23rd? You can either do the 10th of april Or April, sorry. Yikes. That's tomorrow. No. The 15th. Nope. I'm still, wait. The 10th of July. We can either do the 10th of July or the 23rd of july's whatever the board's uh 23rd. Dana's okay with the drawing of the third. See how easy that was? Right there. Seven people's calendars, eight people's calendars, just like that. That is nothing short of a miracle, let me tell you. July is a slow month. People's calendar. We will have

154a special meeting now for July 23rd at 6 p.m. For the interview of the candidates. Okay. Okay. Meeting's a special day. Meetings and special dates. There's an upcoming list of meetings They're attached. Board member request in accordance with board policy 9250 board members may request to represent the board in education related activity and specify the desired level of support That's what I'm reading in that. That's a little one. Woo-hoo. Actual unnecessary expenses incurred while discharging these official duties will paid from the county school service fund. As permitted by law in SCCO's travel policy request will be Place some future agenda for action. I got it. I'm sitting right behind you. Any requests? Board member request okay suggestion on future board agenda items. Board members may suggest future topics to be coordinated by the county superintendent

155and presented high school staff or external staff centers. Any future board agenda items? I will make a suggestion. We see if there's any other future boards. You did. It was something about the About the potential impact of the closing of the Department of Education and fiscal impact? Impact for the districts and We have that scheduled for May. You had requested it. Yes. Very good. I will make a suggestion that Is there any others? No. Well, it's already been requested and we already have it scheduled. I would just say during the day during the Budget presentations, is it unreasonable to have the department heads here. Some questions? I would have to look at their availability. Because they're not required to come to board meetings. Process a lot smoother if they We're able to come so that

156if board had questions certainly they would Also, because it looks like this is going to be somewhat longer process. Maybe. Any board member activity reports? We'll start with Trustee Dean. Hmm. Education related, I'm going to do a presentation on appearing before governing bodies. At the california Lawyers Association Environmental Law Conference. That's actually a few months away. So that one's already scheduled. And then there are a couple more that are in the works. So that's, I consider that education. On a personal note. I know, and I started a habit of playing things to the mic. But man is… parroting his parents now. Garrett said, uh-oh And Henry said, uh-oh. So life is good. Education-wise. Interesting. I tried to attend the Vallejo City Unified School board meeting via You know, from my computer at home. Ouch. Did

157not work. I fell asleep like 10 minutes in. So I, education-wise, I have not really I can't date much. Oh, wait, hold on. It's a fun education thing. I taught some ladies how to line dance. What's on the ground? Oops on the ground and exercising. So I figured that I have to go into the office to You know, to look at fair. Board meetings, but hope I don't fall asleep. Sitting there. But other than that. I can't even believe we're here. Wait, didn't it? Already? Yeah. Oh, so don't even talk about them. I'm sorry, I actually have been watching the Travis Unified School District board meetings and Try to catch. You're filled too soon. I'm also reminded we got the three of us who represent Vallejo got an invitation to something from the mayor of

158Leo. Yes. You came to the board, didn't you? No, it's just the three of us because we represent. Oh, it was just us. Oh, I thought it would. Does anybody know anything about that? No. Okay. So she's got some new committee she wants us. She's forming a new committee where all elected officials I'm just paraphrasing it out. All elected officials in Vallejo She wants to meet with me. And so they'll be abreast of, I guess, what all is going on. There's something new that the new mayor wants to do. I guess that's to know who's doing what. He actually said it was re-upped from i never heard of it before, but apparently it existed and we weren't previously invited. And that's something new. Well, no, the meeting is new, but us is new. The meeting

159is on. The invitation is new for us. She's just including us. Congratulations. Are you done? Dusty LaVelle. Did you have more? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I thought you were speaking. No, I was just admitting to a piggybacking. Piggybacking on Trustee Dean. Because I thought it came from you. That she sent it to you and then of course you notify us. Really there's not a lot. Dr. Les would be happy to know that everything from CSVA, every day I read it all. And everything that comes from what? The other one. No, not them. There's another one I get. On. On our board. Email and it tells about what's going in California. What's going on. Well, like CalMatters, I think it is. Calmatters. I read all of that. So everything that's going on For CSVA and Cal

160Matters. I read it. I read all the legislative things that are coming across the board regarding our what our governor is doing and I'm up on all the immigration things. I knew we had it, so I didn't bring it up but i knew we knew One of the beautiful things about this board is that we are on point. And I feel honored to be on this board because all the boards in California are not like this board. They don't function like this. So I'm up on all of that. Not that I can, you know. An official representative of anything. But I am aware. I believe awareness Very important. Aware. Of actually what's going on. It all does help us. Coming and going. There's some things with Turo or monster. Boards with them. And the speaking

161series that are coming up. I'm scheduled to do those so probably. I have something. Trustee LaBelle. Well, the big issue is the SCSBA and the ethics training that's coming up so Thank you to our superintendent for us downstairs. We're not charging. Partnership. And I will be setting up So I've got the tables of choice. So because our superintendent is sponsoring it. Stsba is taking care of food so there will be no charge beyond that to districts. May 19th and Thank you for those who are coming. I understand others are getting their training Yeah, actually, I'm going to the training down I did just fill out my… registration form if that's what it's being called for that so it's one of the rare evenings I'm available so it's good. It worked out perfect yeah Evenings have

162been pretty full with lots of different events and Things going on at school and living in that land that Finishing this year and planning already. Balancing two years. At the time so super busy and it just Our spring break isn't until next week, which just seems like it has taken forever to get here. So be ready to have vacation next week. Let's see my education stuff has been kind of a collide with work stuff I was able to be at the Elmira Groundbreaking for Comcast. They're getting broadband out there. And I had occasion to run into Nancy Dunn. And so I was able to connect her. It was kind of funny. The world's colliding. And then Girls State Night Recognition Night. Supervisors weren't available. So I was supervisor John Vasquez and Mitch Mashburn at that.

163And that was a lot of fun so Lots of the girls were amazing and lots of scholarships and lots of tears and It was a great event. So that was me. Oh, and I signed up same night. For the ethics training. So the email came through i checked I did complete the Brown Act training. That was put on. Earlier. Last month. And then I also went to the rhythm assembly that was out at Golden Hills. A Nigerian drummer brought like 20 different 20 30 drums all different sizes talked about how the drums are made, what they're made of. Different drums for different things how they talk the drums talk. I will tell you, this is the first time I've ever been in a room for there was probably 10 to 15 kids. Not one single

164one of them was on their phone. And they're allowed to have their phone on them. They were so immersed and he was so interactive with them. He's from Nigeria. And he taught them some Nigerian dances for the men and some for the women and It was very, very interesting. I wish I would have brought my granddaughter. She loves music. In fact, I think I'm going to try and get them out at the children's school. Out there for them at some I mean, these are, you know, teenagers that are sitting there and they're more listening to what this man is saying and how these drums are made and why they're made and you know did anybody here know what the drum skin is made of? It could be goats. You know what part of the goat?

165And they slice it and there's a a line down the middle of the drum. That's the different sides of the brain but it may it It could be a goat brain, a cow brain, a goat brain. But that's what, for the different sizes of drums, they have different animals that go on those Yeah, I never knew that. It was so interesting. That's how in the different, you know, the middle is the base and the outside is the treble and learn how that he taught us how to play them it was just just a great assembly that Dr. Garrett had arranged. Had out there for the kids and they I would say every single one of them learned something. That day and they were just so impressed by it. They even helped him put his drums

166back, you know. I was like. These are juvenile hawkins. Wait a minute. I can't believe they're so attentive. And all of this, but it was, and I just think that assemblies like that that actually engages these students like that in the small settings like this, they got so much out of that. I just think we need to have more Assemblies like that. It was just really good. And I just got to give Dr. Garrett a prompt. She just did a wonderful job and I wish we could have had more of us you would have seen. He even got to dress up in the Nigerian cloths and do the dance. Oh, nice. It's really good. Just a little aside here. You can check out drums from your local library. That's part of a special collection. Now

167you know what the skin is made of. There you go. All right. Thank you all for joining us. It is nine o'clock and we are done.