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003at 901 and then move into 1.2 our roll call. >> In order to assure compliance with the Brown Act and in order to make our board meetings more effective and more efficient, trustees will speak only when recognized and trustees who speak on a topic other than the agenda item currently under consideration will be out of order. Board meeting protocols. The safety and decorum of the schoolboard meetings are important to Stockton Unified School District and the community. SUSD promotes the public's right to free speech and we want to make sure that all community members, parents, and students are able to participate in a safe environment. We want to ensure all community members have a seat during the board meeting. We will have the maximum number of chairs allowed per fire code 132. We ask that members
004of the public do not stand along the side of the walls or block the walkway. Anyone standing up during a meeting will be asked to take a seat. If they do not comply, they will be asked to leave. Any accredited news media representative who is standing will have a press credential clearly visible. There is a a podium position in front of the first row of chairs. No one other than the person who is speaking may be at the podium except for a guardian, administrator, or translator. For safety, people may not line up behind the speaker to wait their turn. We want to give the person at the podium the time and respect they deserve. Each speaker will be allowed 3 minutes. Attendees are not allowed to enter the area past the podium where the board
005members are sitting. No profanity or obscinity. During the board meeting, if there is a disruption, the board president or design will give a verbal warning to the person causing the disruption. If the disruption continues after the verbal warning, the individual will be asked to leave or be removed from the premises for the remainder of the board meeting. After the meeting is concluded, we ask the community to clear the lobby area in a respectful manner. Thank you. >> Roll call. >> President Kentha Stevens, >> present. >> Vice President Sophia Cologne, >> present. >> Clerk Donald Daire, >> present. Trustee Isabelle Perez, >> present. >> Trustee Shauna Priest, >> present. >> Trustee Frank C. Silva, >> present. >> Thank you. >> Item 1.3, pledge of allegiance, led by Vice President Sophia Cologne. >> Please stand. >> All
006rise. All right, our [snorts] next item on the agenda is item 1.4, oral suggestions and comments from the community regarding special board meeting agenda items. Abby will be the timekeeper, and she'll announce a number of public comments and the order each person should provide their public comment. Individual speakers shall be allowed three minutes to address the board. The board shall limit the total time for public input on each item to 20 minutes. Trustees, we currently have one comment card for item 1.4. The comment card is from Dr. Chris Anderson. >> Good morning. Got in by the skin of my teeth. Um I'm just I'm here to speak in support of Patrick Martin. uh recognizing that his grassroots initiatives have been essential and had a meaningful impact on our our uh SUSD community. He partnered with
007the Sky Zone for incentivizing our students, rewarding them for their success. He understands that underachieving his students need to be recognized for these milestones which led him to the target specific schools in his area to foster community engagement to offer supplement support for specific areas that would reach students in his district where they are. All while keeping in mind that the needs for the gap achievements and data outcomes need to be front of mind. He successfully contributed to raising the previously low literacy rates in three local schools with the lowest literacy rates by employing a mentorship based approach, enhancing comprehension, modifying interactive dialogue to emphasize critical thinking through mentorship and meeting the students at their individual levels. Furthermore, he's committed to supporting special education, having worked as an applied behavior behavior an analyst for par
008profofessionals. Students with special needs often lack the necessary accommodations in the classroom, such as co-eing, assist of technology, and strategies tailored to diverse learning styles, which are vital for promoting stronger social connections. Um, I think that he's already shown his commitment to education. has already shown a commitment to our students and I feel like he should be given strong consideration as you look forward with your decision to fill uh seat for area 2. Appreciate your time. >> All right. Thank you so much, Dr. Anderson. Do we have any other comments? >> This concludes comment cards for item 1.4. >> Thank you so much. Moving on to item 2.1, interviews for candidates to fill the trustee area for um area two. Uh so we're now at the agenda item. The governing board has decided to make
009a provisional appointment to fulfill the vacancy uh for the remaining turn for the area to trustee area. So the bylaw states that it is an open process. The ad hoc committee on the provisional appointment met on October 28th, 2025 and has determined that there were four candidates that met the minimum requirements to be considered for appointment. Those applications have been shared with you all and the public. Today the board will interview each of those candidates and select a provisional appointee. All candidates will be asked the same questions. Each candidate will get the same amount of time to respond to each question to ensure that it is a equitable process. So we would now like to move forward with our first candidate. And I would like to call up first Miss Georgia Brownley. >> [snorts] >>
010dramatic. Hello. >> Good morning, Miss Brownley. Thank you so much for joining us today. >> Good morning. >> So, you are first up for your interview. The interviews will be in alphabetical order uh as stated by name. >> So we are going to give you three minutes to move into your introduc introductory remarks and then each board member will ask a question. All questions will be the same for each candidate and they'll also have the same time. So we'll go ahead and give you three minutes to make any opening remarks that you would like the board to know. >> Um my name is Georgia Brownley. I currently live in Sar Vista and I'm the president of Sarah Vista resident council and also a community leader. I w I worked for Saka Unifi for many many
011years. I volunteered for about 12 and then the rest of the years, 23 years, I was employed as yard duty at U Van Baron Elementary. And I do a lot in the community with different organizations and all I want to do is just be a voice for our parents and our children. >> Thank you so much, Miss Brownley. We'll go ahead and begin our questions. You have two minutes to answer each question. I'll start off and my question for you is what accomplishments in this district stand out to you the most? >> Uh what accomplishments? Uh the accomplishments is um the children. I have seen a lot of a lot of um how can I put it progress in our children in our co community that goes to um Stockton Unified School District schools such
012as Edison, Franklin and uh Vanir. Vaner is in the community where I live. >> Thank you. Next question will be by Vice President Cologne. >> Good morning. Okay. So my question is what is your understanding of the fundamental mission of public schools? What do you see as the role of the board of trustees in fulfilling that mission and how would you personally contribute to that work as a member of the governing board? >> Okay. Um the first one is well the second one is um I would like to uh have funding for the children um in the educational department and I would like for the board to be uh you know real uh prosper in what they and what you do to make sure that the children meet their needs and the parents >> [clears
013throat] >> Okay. So, it's I'm being asked to just repeat the question. Um, thank you for for answering um the second part. So, just to repeat it again, what is your understanding of the fundamental mission of public schools and how would you personally contribute to that work? As a member of the board, >> I would make sure that the uh cont I would contribute with my time and my patience and contribute to making sure the the funding is put in the in the right places. >> Okay, great. Thank you so much. >> Question number three by Trustee Priest. >> Good morning. What would you like to accomplish as a board member and why are these priorities important to you and the community? [clears throat] >> Just a moment. >> [snorts] >> um because um I
014have a passion for what I do for in the um community and the number one priorities are important to me is the children's education and the parent understanding of their education for their children and I would like to accomplish more as a board member to be a voice All right. Thank you. Question number four by Trusty Daire. [snorts] Hello, Miss Brownley. My question is, how would you handle a situation where you believed administrators had not provided accurate or complete information needed to make a board decision? >> Um, I would I would like to have an investigation done. with uh all board members and make a decision from there. All right. Thank you, Miss Brownley. Moving on to uh Trustee Silva. Question number five. Okay. How would you respond if a parent approached you in the
015community about a local education issue? And how should an effective board ensuring parents and community members can express diverse viewpoints on key policies? Uh first of all, I will let the the parent know um that I am here for you and um I will take it to the board to ensure the parent that um whatever their their express diverse viewpoints are and um we'll make a decision from there. >> All right, our final question will be question number six by Trusty Perez. >> Good morning. Reflect on a board decision you felt strongly about. How would you balance community concerns, student needs, state and federal laws, staff perspectives, and your personal values to determine your vote? >> Uh, how would I reflect on that board decision is that um I would I will be a a
016voice for them. I will protest for them and how I will balance the community needs and by federal and federal and state laws as as a group. We will um talk about it, the staff perspective and personal values to determine a vote with um everyone. >> All right. Thank you so much, Miss Brownley. That completes our questions for you. We will now move on to our next candidate. >> Thank you so much. >> So I believe we don't miss uh Bares not moving forward as a candidate. Is Miss Loris Johnson not present? Okay. Thank you. All right. We would like to move on to our next candidate which is a fourth candidate, Mr. Patrick Martin. >> [clears throat] [clears throat] >> Good morning, Mr. Martin. [clears throat] >> Good morning, board. >> Thank you so
017much for joining us. We're excited to uh interview all of the candidates today. We're going to open up. We have several questions that the board will ask you. We'll give you three minutes to make a introductory statement. After that, we'll have questions. Uh, one question per board member, and you'll have two minutes to answer each question. So, the floor is yours. So, go ahead and give us a threeminute opening statement. >> Hello. Well, my name is Patrick Martin. I am a um ABA therapist and I am a PAR educator at Bear Creek High School. Um, I am a community organizer and I also have my own foundation, which is the Patrick Martin Foundation, where we bring many different resources to children in South Stockton. [snorts] as far as educational resources, mental health, scholarships, and food
018food resources as well. >> All right. So, we'll go ahead and open up with the first question. The first question will come from me, and it is, what achievements in this district stand out to you the most? >> Um, well, the biggest achievement to me is parent involvement. Parent and community involvement. Um, I feel like the district has done an amazing job with involving our parents, uh, grabbing their input on the what's needed in this this um, district and as well as the community the district partnering with the community organizations as well. Um, creating programs to help our children focus on um, what they what they can learn to take out into the world and model into the world and into the community. So I believe parent and community organization has been one of the
019biggest success for this district. >> All right. Thank you so much. We'll move on to question number two by Trusty Cologne. >> Good morning. >> Okay. My question is, what is your understanding of the fundamental mission of public schools? What do you see as the role of the board of trustees in fulfilling that mission? And how would you personally contribute to that work as a member of the governing board? >> Well, I believe our goal is to provide our students with the basic u the necessary knowledge and tools to go out into the world to model that success um for the district. And I believe being a team member of the board, we will work diligently together with the the superintendent and the administration to continue that success of All right, thank you so much.
020Moving on to Trusty Priest. >> Good morning. >> What would you like to accomplish as a board member and why are these priorities important to you and the community? >> Um, well, literacy is um literacy is one of the biggest things that I would like to focus on. um a lot of our students we've we're doing really we're doing an amazing job with the graduation rate um with the district for me I would love to make sure that our students graduate at grade reading at grade level um and sped ed um training our sped our sped students for and giving them the right knowledge and tools to seek jobs when they graduate out the All right. Thank you. Question number four by Trusty Daire. >> Good morning, Mr. Martin. Thank you for being here. >>
021Good morning. >> My question is, how would you handle a situation where you believed administrators had not provided accurate or complete information needed to make a board decision? Well, I would um I would dive a little deeper and look for more information. Um, I would bring that that concern to my colleagues on the board and I would call for a meeting with our superintendent and administrators to see um to let them know about this u mishap that has happened and try to um just talk to my colleagues and dive a little dig a little deeper with the information and try to see if we can um table that vote. table that vote and also um just do a um I'm sorry, just do a deeper investigation. >> Next question is question number five by Trusty
022Silva. >> Good morning. Um, how would you respond if a parent approached you in the community about a local education issue? And how [clears throat] should an effective board ensure parents and community members can express diverse viewpoints on key policies? Well, I would hear that parent out because when I look at that parent, that's a leader for one, and I see a parent, a concerned parent, and I would invite that parent to I would encourage that parent to come speak to our subcommittees, speak with our subcommittees, and um that parent could be an ally for us. All right, last question coming from Trusty uh Perez. >> Good morning. >> Reflect on a board decision you felt strongly about. How would you balance community concerns, student needs, state and federal laws, staff perspectives, and your own
023personal values to determine your votes? Well, one of the biggest things that I um applaud the the the board for voting on was ABA therapy. Um as we know that sped it sped typically has um gotten overlooked, but I feel the district is doing a better job with voting for they voted for the stepping stones group which does ABA therapy. And that was one of the biggest things that I focused on that and I applauded the most. That was it. Sorry. >> All right. We thank you so much for answering our questions. At this time, we are going to uh begin our nomination process. We'll call the other candidate um in and then we'll begin to move forward. So, we'll wait for someone to grab Miss Brownley. >> All right. You can be seated, Mr.
024Martin. Thank you. Thank you. >> Yeah. >> So, we've completed the interviews and it's time for us to move forward. I know that it is a tough process to stand before the board um and be interviewed, but we know that we have a vacancy in area 2 and it is critical that that particular area does have representation by someone who can make sure that their schools are moving in um the right direction. We will open up the nomination process. If there are any board members that would like to nominate one of the two candidates, either Miss Brownley or Mr. Martin, you may do so. Um, a board member can nominate more than one candidate. So, if there are multiple candidates that want to nominate the same candidate, um, you can go ahead and you can
025state that. We don't need a second to make the nomination. So, I will open up the floor um, and ask uh, Trusty Press, would you like to nominate a candidate? >> I would like to nominate Patrick Martin. And clerk, can you just make sure you're keeping notes? So, we have one nomination for Patrick Martin. Um, and you if someone nominates, you also don't have to regurgitate the same thing. If you don't want to, but if you want to say it, you can. If you don't want to, you don't have to make a nomination as well if there's already one on the floor, too. So, um, Trustee, um, Silva, is there a nomination for you? Okay. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Trustee Priest, >> uh, I would like to nominate Patrick M Martin. >> Okay. Thank you. Trustee
026Cologne, no nomination. >> Okay. All right. Uh, no nomination for me. trusted in there. >> I'd like to nominate Mr. Patrick Martin. >> Okay. So, it looks like we have Patrick Martin's um name on the floor. So, at this time, we will consider the provisional appointment uh for Mr. Martin. Now, we do need to move into an action item by law. Um the appointment must be made public. Um how you vote, there are no secret ballots allowed for this particular vote. Um it just stand out that there is no order um to make the motion in. So there is a motion is would someone like to put a motion on the floor for Mr. Martin to fill the existing board candidacy. >> Uh I would like to make a motion for Mr. Patrick Martin to
027fill the trustee area 2 vacancy uh under provisional appointment. >> Okay. Is there a second? I second. >> All right. Is there any discussion? All right. No discussion. We'll move into a roll call vote. >> President Kenneth Stevens. >> Yes. Vice President Sophia Cologne, >> yes. >> Clerk Donald Daire, >> yes. >> Trustee Isabelle Perez, >> yes. >> Trustee Shauna Priest, >> yes. >> Trustee Frank C. Silva, >> yes. >> Motion passes unanimously. >> All right. At this time, we would like to move forward with a provisional appointment for uh Mr. Patrick Martin. At this time, we do have our superintendent who will come down and we'll go ahead and get you onto the board and you will begin the process of our new elected board member. Can we give him just a second? [applause]
028So, we do have some words of encouragement also for Miss Brownley. So, we'll open up the floor for candidates to have words for both candidates before we move into um Dr. Rodriguez appointing Mr. uh Martin to the board. So, I just want to take a quick second just to recognize, you know, the the time that you both took um and and that everyone took to to look at the application, to consider it, and and those that did submit an application um and to Miss Brownley for coming in this morning um and for answering our questions. It's evident your passion for education. So, just wanted to take the time to thank everyone. Any other um comments? Nope. I say it's a great feat. Thank you so much, Miss Brownley, for the work. We know the work
029that you do on the south side of Stockton, right? There is no thank you for the work that you've done for the past 35 years. So, we look forward to partnering and seeing more success, not just for the Southside, but for every student of Stockton Unified. >> All right. [applause] [laughter] >> Congratulations. >> All right. I would like to move forward with Did you bring someone to do the appointment with you? I know you have some folks here with you. Did he want to do it or your uncle? >> Okay. >> All right, [applause] uncle. Okay, before we move, I do need to make the formal motion. So, now we're moving on to item 2.2. Uh, administer the oath of office for our newly appointed SUSD board of education, trustee area number two, Mr. Patrick
030Martin. Is there a motion on the floor? >> Motion to approve. >> Is there a second? I'll second. Stevens. Any discussion? >> Hearing none, roll call vote. >> [clears throat] >> Yeah. >> Oh, action is not an action item. All right. So, let's move forward. 2.2. >> Okay. So, congratulations again. I'm going to um do the oath of office and I'll just have you repeat after me. Okay. Okay. So I, Patrick Martin, >> I, Patrick Martin, >> do solemnly swear >> that I will support and defend >> the Constitution of the United States >> and the Constitution of the State of California >> and the Constitution of the State of California >> against all enemies >> foreign and domestic. and that I bear true >> and I bear in true >> faith and allegiance >>
031to the Constitution of the United States >> and the Constitution of the State of California >> and the Constitution of the State of California >> and that I take this obligation freely >> and I take this obligation freely >> without any mental reservation >> or purpose of evasion >> or purpose of invasion >> and that I will well >> and I will and faithfully discharge >> and faithfully discharge >> the duties upon which >> I'm about to enter. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. [applause] >> Congratulations. >> So, Mr. Martin, come on up to the board. We need one more seat. We've removed it. We will grab you a chair. >> Is there one? see me come to the board. They make you work on the first day. You got to lift your own chair. They
032say, "Get busy, brother. Get busy. All right. So, I would like to move on to item 3.1 and adjourn the meeting at 9:33 >> [applause]