001Test, test, test. Mic test. testing. Testing Careful. We'll start our board meeting in approximately 2 minutes. You're holding Testing, testing. Good afternoon and thank you all for joining our board meeting. I would like to call the meeting to order at 400 pm and Christina will read the language under public content. In order to help 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 school board 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
002community 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 a maximum number of chairs allowed per fire code, 132. We ask that members of the public do not stand along the side of the walls or block the walkway. Anyone standing up during the meeting will be asked to take a seat. If they do not comply, we will be they will be asked to leave. Any accredited news media representative who is standing will have a press credential clearly visible. There is 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
003not 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 person will be allowed 3 minutes. Attendees are not allowed to enter the area past the podium where board members are sitting. No profanity or obscinity. During the board meeting, if there is a disruption, the board president or designate will give a verbal warning to the person or persons 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 board meeting is concluded, we ask the community to please clear the lobby area in a respectful manner. Thank you. All right. Item 1.2, roll call taken by Christina. President Ka
004Stevens, present. Vice President Sophia Colon, present. Clerk Donald Daire, present. Trustee Angelanne Flores, present. Trustee Isabelle Perez, present. Trustee Shauna Priest, absent. Trustee Frank Silva, absent. Student representative Michael C. Lynn, present. And Mr. uh, student rep. Luram Jhap is also absent today. Thank you. Item 1.3, recognition of Cleveland Elementary as an advanced via individual determination Abbott National Showcase School Site. I would like to call up the presenter, Mr. Clappenbach. Good evening, President Stevens, board of trustees, and Dr. Rodriguez. It is my great honor tonight to recognize Cleveland Elementary School for achieving the prestigious distinction of being named an AVID showcase school. This honor represents a powerful affirmation of the journey of dedication, excellence of Cleveland's educators, staff, leadership, and more import most importantly their students. So when you walk into classrooms at Cleveland Elementary, you
005will be instantly greeted by student ambassadors that definitely are demonstrating that they have strong identity, belonging, and agency for their own learning at their school site. And so from walking into math snowball fights in kindergarten, which are collaborative structures, they're not true fights, right? to um third grade inventors actually coming up with some inventions to solve um some storage issues with furniture or even Socratic seminars in middle school. AVID isn't just a program at Cleveland. It's a schoolwide culture and it's a shared commitment to belonging where every student is known and respected. It's a consistency of high quality instruction across grade levels and classrooms. And it's the coherence in how skills are taught, practiced, refined, giving every student the tools they need to succeed now and in the future. This school is where expectations are
006high and every learner is lifted up to meet them. But before we call up principal Miss Heidi Mohamd Khan and AVID coordinator Dana Booth and the other Cleveland staff being recognized for their efforts, I would like to truly capture what AVID looks and feels like at Cleveland. I think there would be no other voices than one of our students here. And so tonight I am proud to introduce um one of our our Cleveland's outstanding third graders. The other scholar couldn't make it tonight, but he is with with us in his um thoughts. Um but I would like to introduce what AVID means to her as one of the Cleveland clubs, Miss um Violet Strian N. So please join me in welcoming [Applause] her. There you go. Are you ready? Okay. I have been living in
007a world of wicker. Wow. For a few years now and I would like to share with you how I have been wowed by Avid. Avid has helped my life and given me superpowers. When I was in second grade, we did graphic organizers called one pagers. We wrote a summary and drew pictures. Now in third grade, I had to dig in deep to my superpowers because it is next level. On our one pagers, I have to write a heading, summary, illustrate or draw pictures, site evidence, and even come up with a question using K's questioning. We even have a rubric. My teacher explained that as we get older, we are expected to build on what we have already learned and add to it. I just wasn't expecting third grade to be such next level, but it's
008exciting and challenging because of ADVID. I really like doing lineups. I want to hear other students opinions. I also like to share with other people. This helps me with collaboration and inquiry. It also helps me use classes questioning to think of different level questions. I've been a classroom ambassador for three years, first through third grade, and I hope to continue being an ambassador because I have learned that being an ambassador is a very important job. I greet visitors, introduce myself, and tell them about the college we represent, what we are learning, and guide them around the room. I show them our wicker wall, our college board, and smarty goals. I've even met the superintendent and assistant superintendent. Avette has also helped my life to organize my binder to be more prepared for learning. I have
009a check off list to make sure I have my supplies. I keep my records, goals, and data in my binder so I can see my school, my um my scores and growth. Collaboration has helped me to work in different teams to get along with each other and ask others for help. Here's a song that we sing in class that my teacher and I changed a little based on the Queens but Avid style. Avid will adv you. Wow you. Avid will. Advid will wow you. Wow you. Fish boss snowball for corners. I love using my avid superpowers. Oh come on. We can do better than that. That is not stop. Can we just celebrate her? [Applause] So, we have been wowed and it has been next level. So, thank you so much. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] And
010Heidi, we're going to ask if you can just come up at this moment. I know you have tears in your eyes. She did a great job. But I think we're introducing you to say something about your school. Yes, we have some amazing students at Cleveland and we also have some amazing teachers and staff and it takes a whole staff and they've worked so hard. So, we're just so proud as a as a staff to be an AVID showcase school. We also got a little good news last week at our AVID meeting. Um, we got a phone call from um, one of the AVID representatives and they awarded us the 2025 teacher advocacy award and we got a $10,000 bonus. So, so everybody's very overwhelmed and and happy with all the great kind words we're hearing.
011So, thank you very much for honoring us this evening. But it takes the hard work of the team to help us get there. So your team could come up with you. We have certificates. We're going to ask the Cleveland team if they can come up. We have certificates that will be presented by your board trustee, um, trustee Donald Daire. [Applause] And if mom and dad, if you're in the building, we're going to ask if you can come up with your daughter as well. [Applause] That was wow. All right, moving on to item 1.4, student board representative report by Mr. Michael Lynn, Stockton Early College Academy, 12th grade. All right, so Weber just had their ASB elections last week where candidates gave speeches to their student body and they are now currently awaiting their results. Additionally,
012Weber's Plus program is hosting a paint night on May 15th from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. where students and families can come relax and be creative. PLA's junior class is selling burea tacos and awa frescas this Thursday at lunch. Their freshman class also just finished selling their strawberry cheesecake cups. At HCA, their ASB hosted their Easter bunny hunt last week, and they're also working on helping students received the California Seal of Civic Engagement. SECA just hosted their annual ice cream social where we greeted and toured our incoming class of 2029 freshmen. In addition, our prom is taking place this Saturday and we currently have over 100 tickets sold. As for STAG, they just partnered with Sanwaqin's A+ program, which prepares students for the job market. They had access to a job fair, free resume review, and
013interview prep workshops. At Edison, their band is making strides in SUSD by sending their band to perform at New York's Carnegie Hall. They were also recently re-evaluated as AVIDs as an AVID National Demonstration School. In addition, their counselors will receive their RAM certification this July from the American School Counselor Association. As for As for Franklin, um at Franklin, Congressman Josh Harter nominated Franklin High School's marching band to participate in the National Memorial Day parade in Washington DC in May 2026. They also had over 800 students participate in their honoral cert celebration this year. Thank you so much, Mr. Lynn. Item, there seems to be a little war in the building. House in Franklin. We hear it. We hear it. Anybody else want to throw their hat in the ring? Okay, there we go. Since Stag
014isn't here, I'm say Stag in the building. All right, moving on to item 1.5, our student honore, Mr. Anthony Pimeintel. And I would like to call up his principal, Mr. Aaron Mada to the podium. For President Stevens, trustees and superintendent Rodriguez, uh, that was fantastic. Offer a Health Careers Academy application for the young lady um for the future. Don't forget this. Um tonight um going to be speaking about a student Anthony Pimementel. He is just a fantastic student. Um just some want to bring up some highlights about the young man. Um first of all he does Kaiser um internships over the summer um which really helps him to be a leader. U he is part of our leadership team. Um he's completed two CTE pathways in healthcare service administrative services and patient care. Um he's
015also in our pharmacy tech uh certification program. So, he'll be receiving that at the end of the year. He is a Golden State Seal Merit recipient. Um, he's also a seal of biiteracy student. Um, and he's going to be going to UC Merrced. Um, so he is an incredible student with an incredible resume. And so, I want to introduce you to him and bring him up to the [Applause] podium. Good evening, uh, prominent constituent board members and superintendent. My name is Anthony Pimementel and I'm currently a senior at healthcare academy with aspiring dreams of to become a doctor one day. It's been an honor to solve all my four years within this prestigious secondary school and to share and reflect my experience with all you guys. Tradition transitioning into health careers academy was a overwhelming
016experience in going coming into middle school and I often felt overwhelmed and overpowered with the other students. I felt like if I was just a bit lower than under them and always just felt scared to always thrive and I often ponder often pondered about my entrance wondering if I was cut out for the work and the academics. However, as I implemented myself more in the curriculum and the atmosphere, I knew that this was opportunity I had to take. When I interviewed and went with various medical professions up to neurosurgeons, they all often had one common um struggle. It was to be afraid. And I noticed that each and one of us have always been afraid in a certain action or every event. And when I realized I was always afraid to take action and lead
017a step forward, I realized that I had to take initiative and make a change. And now, ever since whenever I see myself struggling in a current event or any sort of experience that I take, I always want to take a step forward and give my best. My Bon self had a setback on public speaking, afraid to be open, connect, and be seen. I was always one of the shy kids at school, never speaking, always in the corner. But although my years in high um health healthc careers academy have really changed me yet I acted without any regard to fear and threw myself in distinguished clubs such as hosa which is a medicalbased competition club in which I ended up winning state double states for pharmarmacology and pharmacy science. Not only has health careers transitioned my
018experience as a person however it also changed my future into determining whether what I want to be in the career in the med medical field. It was then one of the in one of these meetings I also had a mentor who steered me the way of guidance. His name is David Milker, currently a UCLA attendee and also attended Healthc Careers Academy. As an only child, I never looked up to any role models or any other students who really have guidance for me. And I feel like as a mentor there, I was really just pushed forward and always improved by him. And I'd like to thank David also because now at Healthcare Academy, I want to transition that mentorship and apply it to everyone. And currently now I always want to share in my mentorship and
019be a guidance to those younger classmen and to always improve themselves. As Stockton also l often lacks the role models and mentors that we have. So at healthcare academy I hope to pass it down to a few younger students and hopefully they pass it down continuously to the other years. It brought the uplifting of others within within the environment. I feel like it per permeated the environment that we had at health careers. And now as I'm in my last year I'm a mentor to various students. And until this day I look upon and I feel like each step has enhanced my passion. Many people say that people don't affect your life. However, through my experience and my principal and the people that I met in my years, I feel like each and one of them
020have had a stepping stone within my life and make a change. Across the span of my time at health careers, I've achieved numerous awards and academics due to the staff being helpful and connecting. They were very connected and I feel like he really just was a major change to me. I have completed over 600 hours of community service and also the atmosphere healthcare academy not only displays opportunities and education however yet professionalism and we possess the acronym passion which stands for professionalism optimistic strong serviceorientated integrity optimistic and nurturing which we carry each day by our school and even in my internship I carried that every day such as my internship I was also afraid to interview and talk to various medical professions however here Thanks to the classes that I took at healthcare academy, I
021kind of felt like I had a grasp and I was able to step forward and to actually question them and actually get shadowing in which I feel like was really a big of improvement in myself and I also believe that health careers holds a guidance an ambiencece of guide HCA within their students. I feel like the atmosphere there is really positive and uplifting. I always want to ensure that we have proper communication with each other. I'm involved in various other clubs at healthc careers academy which they offer which is great. It also invites diversity. They have Spanish, Asian, and various other clubs for the students to be along and actually participate with with their fellow peers. All inclusive. Id like to thank my fellow principal Aaron Ma for this unique experience, growth, and support. Healthcare
022Academy has been a metamorphosis, helping me grow not only as a student, but as a leader, helping discover my true potential and passion. I'm filled with gratitude for everything my peers, staff, counselors, principal have done, helped shape me. As I come to an end, I want to thank the board for giving me the parro paragative to speak here today. I hope my story aims to portray how marvelous health care health careers academy is for those watching in front and to those watching and those in front and I hope you guys have a great day. Thank you. Mr. Mr. Pimeail, I'm going to ask if you and your principal and any family members that you have who come up, we would like to present you with a certificate to honor all the great things that are
023happening with you over at HCA. Can we just give them a hand one more time? [Applause] All right, moving on to item 1.6. Oral suggestions regarding open session agenda items in section one and close session. Evette will announce the number of public comments and request each person provide their public comment in the order they were received and Abby will be the timekeeper. Thank you, Madame President. 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. We have a total of three comment cards. The first comment card is from Miss Sheree Wilburn. Good evening or late afternoon. Um, I'm here tonight to express my deep concern regarding the action or inaction of the district superintendent Michelle Rodriguez as it
024um pertains to the support of the African-American students and the broader African-American community within the district. Despite repeated outreach and clear clearly communic communicated concerns from parents and community stakeholders, sup the superintendent has consistently failed to act in good faith or follow through on critical commitments related to the black student thrive initiative. Specifically, the superintendent misrepresented to the parent committee who is leading the Black Student Thrive initiative created confusion and eroding um trust among parents who are deeply invested in the success of the program. Additionally, the superintendent has repeatedly dismissed or ignored parent input, which not only undermines the intent and authentic communication of engagement, but also signals a disregard for the voices of the most affected by these issues. Moreover, the superintendent assured that the parent committee that that a qualified consultant would be
025hired to create comprehensive and culturally responsive a culturally responsive black student thrive plan. Yet, no such consultant has been brought on, nor has there been transparent communication about why this commitment was not honored. If anything, she has intentionally stalled the writing of the plan and has brought forth um a pictogram to the um Black Student Thrive Committee as a strategy to intentionally delay the strategic plan to do to address the urgent need of the African-American student population. The superintendent in intends to ask for vendors for their feedback rather than addressing the issues that involve the parents, the community through the already existing AAB pact and BST committee. This is not acceptable. Perhaps most troubling, the superintendent attempted to push forth the Stowrow platform, a program that was not designed to serve African-American students and was
026not vetted or approved by the community of the Black Student D Black Student Thrive Committee. The initiative appears to be an attempt to bypass meaningful community-led solutions in favor to the top-down illfilled approach that does not meet the specific needs of our students. Soda grow has stated to the AAB pact in the video that was recorded that they do not have a module to serve the African-American students population specifically. She is trying to brand. Is that my time? Statement. Okay. Soda grow. Um, Soda Girl as an African-American student program having Dr. Murphy and African-American district leader present the topic knowing she and this assistant superintendent of education brought this program from their previous school districts. We are not fooled by her strategies and divide it and divide to divide and conquer or if you ignore
027the problem then we'll go away. Well, I'm here to let you know we're here to stay. This pattern is deception, neglection, disrespect, and unacceptable. The African-American students in our district deserve targeted, thoughtful, and culturally competent support, not political maneuvering and hollowed promises and smoke screens, smoke mirrors. The families and the community members advocating for these students have a right to be heard and expect transparency and integrity and accountability for those in leadership positions. You okay, Miss Cologne? Oh, okay. I just want to make sure your your face was front. I just want to make sure. Okay. Um so we we want a new um innovation program that has an intervention for our students not at the last minute contracts that won't roll over to the summer or any consistent funding. Why the why were the
028principles told the last minute that the contract for several um for services and why then less than half of the sites have submitted contracts? Why is the funding not rolling over to next year when we told her that the funding and the general funds were not for a grant? I respectfully urge the board, all of you, to take immediate action and to address the concerns and to hold the superintendent accountable for her failure to support the African-American students and families. Our children deserve better. Our community will not continue to demand the equity and treat and treatment and we deserve dedicated leadership for all of our students in our community on behalf of the African-American student committee stocking unified school district parent advisory committee president Sheree Wilburn. And you all will receive this letter. Thank you
029Sheree. I just want to make sure that item 7.1 is for I'm sorry, item 6.1 is regarding open session agenda items and then also close session items. So they should address those when they're coming up. So just make sure that your cards match the items that we should be speaking to. All right, next item. Okay, Madame President. So the next uh one, two, three cards all I believe pertain to the AAB pack. So they should be um coming forward under 5.2. I don't believe it's an item on the agenda. Does is that accurate? Okay. Correct. Yes. Okay. So um I will hang on to these cards until we get to 5.2. There are no other comment cards pertaining to close session or section one of the agenda. All right. Item 1.7, employee dismissal. I'm sorry.
030Discipline dismissal and release. Do we have any cases to present, Miss Smith? We do not. Item 1.8. The board will consider and close session items listed by Vice President Cologne. All right. Thank you. Good evening. 2.1 Public Employee Appointment Certificated Government Code section 54957 Resignation Retirement Appointment. 2.2 2 public employee appointment classified government code section 54957 resignation retirement recent employment offer appointment 2.3 public employee discipline dismissal release 2.4 4 conference with legal counsel existing litigation government code section 54956.9D1 student versus Stockton Unified School District O a case number 020668 25 sorry 2.5 Conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation significant exposure to litigation under subsections D2 and E3 of government code section 54956.9 case one resignation agreement and general release case two settlement agreement 2.6 6 student expulsion B228 2.7 student expulsion B29 and two I'm
031sorry did I say that right 2.7 student expulsion B29 2.8 8 student expulsion B30. Thank you. All right, moving on to item 1.9. The board will now recess to close session. All right. Thank you all for joining our board meeting on this evening. We would like to move on to item 3.1. Christina will read the language under public content. The safety and decorum of the school board 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 a maximum number of chairs allowed per fire code 132. We ask that
032members of the com of the public do not stand along the side of the walls or block the walkway. Anyone standing up during the meeting will be asked to take a seat. If they do not comply, they will be asked to leave. Any accredited news representative will who is standing will have a press credential clearly visible. There is a podium positioned 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 a 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
033where board members are sitting. No profanity or obscinity during the board meeting if there is a disruption. The board president or designate will give a verbal warning to the person or persons causing dis 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 community to clear the lobby area in a respectful manner. Thank you. Thank you, Christina. Moving on to item 4.1, pledge of allegiance, led by Miss Andrea Castanada, student of Stockton Early um College Academy and also our migrant student of the year for Regent 23. [Applause] Thank you. Please join me to for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States
034of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Good afternoon, Superintendent Dr. Rodriguez, Assistant Superintendent, Mr. Casey Clappenbach. Good afternoon to the board and everyone here today. It is an honor to be able to stand in front of you all and receive this recognition. Being part of the migrant program has shaped me not only as a student, but also as a person. It has made me someone who understands the value of hard work, not giving up, and someone who understands the community. Growing up as a daughter of a migrant worker, I have seen the sacrifices many parents have made to create opportunities for the next generation. The sacrifices that my mother has made for me and my brother. She has taught
035me that success is not just about personal achievements, but also lifting others up along the way. This program has given me the tools and support to per to pursue my dreams and I hope to use my education to make a difference. To every migrant student, I would like to say that your background is not a barrier. Your journey, your struggles, and your perseverance are what are what make you extraordinary. I want to thank my family, my adviserss, and everyone in the migrant education program who believed in me. This award isn't just mine. It belongs to my mother, my community, and every student who dares to dream beyond the fields. Thank you very [Applause] much. Now, I'd like to say it in Spanish. Fore! Foreign! Foreign! Army Educasio. Zukaminocio. Miss Cassinada, before you go, we do
036have a certificate that we would like to present to you from your area representative, Trustee Daire. And we're going to ask if your mom and family and your school site if they can come up at this time. [Applause] Oh, is he here? There's a clapping back. Thank [Applause] you. Okay. All right. Moving on to item 4.2, action taken in close session by Vice President Cologne. Okay. Good evening. Item 2.1, public employee appointment certificated, government code 54957, resignation retirement appointment. Board motion to approve with one correction at retirement section 5 with two absent being trusty Silva and Trusty Priest absent. Item 2.2 Two, public employee appointment classified. Government code 54957, leave of absence, resignation, retirement, recent employment offer. Appointment closed positions. Board motion to approve. Four with one no from Trusty Flores and two absent, Trusty
037Silva and Trusty Priest. Item number 2.3, public employee discipline dismissal release. Board motion to approve one substitute dismissal 50 with two absent trustee Silva and Trusty Priest being absent. Item 2.4 conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation significant exposure to litigation under subsections D2 and E3 of government code section 54956.9. So board motion to approve case number one, student versus Stockton Unified School District, O AH case number 020668, five five yes, zero nos with two absent, trusty Silva and Trusty Priest being absent. Okay. Item number 2.5 conference with legal council anticipated litigation significant exposure to litigation under subsections D2 and E3 of government code section 54956.9 board motion to approve settlement for case number one one special education assistant 5 with two absent trusty Silva and Trusty Priest being absent board motion to approve case two
038SPA speech language pathologist SLP grievance settlement agreement 50 with two absent trustee Silva and trusty priest being absent thank you thank you vice president cologne moving on to item 4.3 order of agenda ivet will read the um oral announcement thank you madam president this This is the opportunity for the board of trustees to make any changes to the order of agenda. Otherwise, the order of the agenda will be as published. Is there a motion for item 4.3? I'll make the motion to approve the order of agenda. Is there a second? I second. All right. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens. Yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Flores, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Motion passes 50 with with Trusty Priest and Trusty Silva absent. Item 5.1, oral suggestions regarding open session
039items. Evette will announce the number of public comments and request each person provide their comment in the order they were received, and Abby will be the timekeeper. Thank you, Madam President. We have no comments under agenda item 5.1. All right. Thank you. Item 5.2, oral suggestions and comments from the community regarding non-aggenda items. Thank you, Madam President. 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. And we have five comment cards under agenda item 5.2. And for the first comment, I will call up Miss Asia and Justin Kim. Good evening, board president Stevens, SUSD trustees, and superintendent Dr. Rodriguez. My name is Justine Kim and my name is Asia Hankhall and we serve as a co-chair and
040chair for the mental health committee within our Friday Night Live or FNO club at Stockton Early College Academy. We're honored to speak on behalf of our club as well as the many FNL chapters from across Sanin County in honor of FNL Month and FNL Advocacy Day. And for those unfamiliar with this program, FNL is a youthled program that promotes substance substance-free lifestyles, youth development, and positive social change. FNL operates in 53 of the 58 counties in the state of California. And SECA FNL is the longest existing FNL chapter in Sanwaqin County as we are 15 years old. Our schools club focuses on strengthening mental health and creating an interconnected school and community culture where we empower our peers to lead with purpose and resilience. Over the years, our FNO chapter has had opportunities to create
041and present workshops at various statewide youth conferences in SUSD schools. At the annual statewide FNL youth summit in Anaheim, we have presented the last two years where we have shared our ideas and projects relating to wellness with over with up to 400 middle school and high school students. Additionally, we have spearheaded a workshop session for dozens of youth and adults at the California Coalition for Youth Youth Empowerment Sum Summit entitled It's Okay to Not Be Okay. These events were huge steps for our club and demonstrated the importance of our voices throughout the state. This same workshop has been provided by to the 9th grade classes at Saka and middle school classrooms across the district. Beyond conferences, we made a great efforts to bond with our community through school and local events such as rage day
042where students can come together and have a friendly competition to release any stress from upcoming tests and collaborating with other FNO chapters from other districts from the countywide FNO friendship games event which brings other FNO members in grades 4 through 12 for a day of interactive fun to recognize the importance of balancing our mental and physical health. Now, as we close, we want to sincerely thank the SUSD Board of Education and SECA School Administration for supporting studentled programs like Friday Night Live. And with your continued support, we hope to keep growing our mission of being there for others and using the youth voice, our voice in building a better future for our school district, communities, and Sanwalking County for years to come. Thank you. [Applause] The next comment card I'm sorry just want to say
043thank you for the work that you do. Thank you ladies. The next comment card is from Dr. Gwendelyn Dailyaly. Good afternoon, President Stevens, to uh Superintendent Rodriguez, and to our assistant superintendent, and to uh my representative uh trustee Donaire, uh to the staff, and to everyone who is assembled. It is an honor and a blessing to be before you today. and I just wanted to come up to just speak to you uh in in regards of our organization as a a letter of of uh comment of uh introduction. Uh I am a recent graduate from the University of the Pacific as of last night. I mean of last year my brain is still there. I live I lived on campus for over a decade. So I'm still there. This is my first time just living
044in the community. And I say that as a badge of honor and also to stand as uh a representative of encouragement and inspiration not only to our kids but to our adults too. Coming from Southeast Stockton and also being a high school graduate to earn a doctorate degree from the University of the Pacific took a lot a lot of courage, a lot of crying and a lot of overeating. So I'm trying to get over all of that right now. But our organization is the Dome of Hope organization. We've been in existence since 1998. Uh we work with 450 families uh in uh individual sustainability and independence. Uh we know that that go hand in hand. We do so with those four pillars of education, technology, trade and the arts. Right now we currently serve out
045of three buildings. We have our location, our head location is located at 914 uh North Center Street. That is our uh headquarters. Uh as of two weeks ago, on my birthday, we purchased another building right next door. So, we're in the game now. we have ownership and that is our youth workforce development that doesn't exist here in Stockton where youth are actually running the whole gamut. They're running the whole building. We have youth programs but we don't have the youth running it. And we want to focus refocus on our youth and train them not only how to find a job but how to stay on a job. And that's what we do. and give them the agency that they need in order to one one day be in our place. So we do that by
046not speaking vulgarity and and just showing up and showing up in a manner that we want our kids to show up. And so I just wanted to just introduce you uh you to myself. Some of you know me, some of you don't. This is a new board. and also extend an invitation for you to visit the site where you invest in. Thank you. The next public comment is regarding the AAB pack and it's from Miss Karisha Boyd. Hello everyone. My name is Kisha Boyd. Good evening, Dong. I don't have time for the titles. Um, today I'm coming to represent the APAC. I'm the vice president, but I'm also here representing as the NAACP chair, I mean, um, committee member um, because our chair is not available to be here. So my question is and I'm
047addressing this to the board of trustees and the superintendent as this conversation has been ongoing for the past few years probably predating back be co but bringing you guys up to date um in um priority uh six in the LCAP goal. Um number one these are questions that the appac has been asking but not addressed or answered. Number one, funding transparency and budget clarity. California law regarding the LCAP education code 52060 to 52077 requires districts to clearly show how supplemental and concentrated funds are used to increase or improve services for high needs subgroups including black students. Transparency and budget allocation essential for accountability. How much of these district budgets funds has specifically been allocated to implement the plan in for black students? And how is this amount justified given in this district-wide scope? I understand
048that the district is giving out, I think, up to 500,000 per school site with no oversight. And these these sites don't even know what the funds are supposed to specifically go to. But I see that superintendent would rather would give those monies out instead of work with us to bring in a a a consultant to actually spend it in a more productive way with data driven um production programs targeting and cultural cultural specifics. It's important to distinguish cultural responses subgroup specific services from universal interventions to evaluate their alignment with LCAP intent. Also too, the legal and policy alignment. The law requires supplemented services to be uh distinct from baseline level instruction and intervention. How does this plan meet the legal mandate that service services are targeted towards subgroups must and it must go beyond the
049offered to all student narration and how are those services shown to be increased or improved under the LCAP goal six long-term vision and course correction sustainable impact requires long-term investments and willingness to make midcycle adjustments when will this happen as well as um community and stakeholders voices. LCAP engagement requires call for ongoing stakeholder collaboration, not one-time input and not a narration that the district is putting out. It has to come from the community voices itself. And so when we are uh sitting at committees ran by the district, they are creating these agendas and creating a narration that goes against what the people want. The next comment is from Miss Janice Newang. Good evening everyone. Uh my name is Janice Nyung and I'm a local education service provider here. My company is Borderless Academics. Um, I'm
050coming as a representative of APAC as well. I'm a community member and as I stated, a small business owner here in town as well. Um, and just wanted to address some things and questions and concerns I have regarding Black Students Thrive as well. I have been um, following this initiative since May of 2023. I was there sort of from its beginning and its beginning stages and have tried to remain actively involved since that time. Um, when I'm looking at the information, the infographic that was given to us at both the AB pack and the Black Students Thrive meeting, the ones that recently happened, um, I see that there is a plan for a draft of the master plan due in June 2025. This is almost 2 years after the beginning of this program of this
051project that um, we have began through initiatives through the AB pack. Um, furthermore, when I'm looking at the organizations that were approved through the RFP 25.9, it is just um, a little bit concerning to me given um, one that I am a local community partner and I have expressed and done my best to really get out there and present myself to the community. um that Black Rocket Productions, which to my understanding is a virtual science education program, was chosen over my own program, which is community-based um and more culturally relevant given black students thrive. Um I'm hands-on. I believe that this is going to be like a virtual training and it's going to be people that do not have a science background that will be providing this enrichment program. Um it's just a little bit
052concerning to me again as these these funds were supposed to be community partnerships um under LCAP goal 6.5. Um so again I'm just I'm a little bit lost and confused as a community partner and as someone willing and open and actively um engaging with SUSD students on my own and out here doing the work um why I'm not being included. Um, also when I'm looking, it just seems as though there is not a real sense of urgency in pushing this agenda um and pushing this LCAP goal given that um, SIPA for the site BA for all sites were approved in November and December of 2024. I reached out in October of 2024 asking in regards to um action item 6.1 um which is looking for consultants and people like to sort of spearhead and develop
053the um student black student achievement plan. Um why is it that it is still to this date like there hasn't been an RFP that's gone out which is expressly stated in the LCAP that that will be um that will an RFP will go out for solicitations for that which I am actually interested in and so when that does come out I hope that you will consider and remember this conversation um further um I just had questions as well about the BAP um teacher university residency development pipeline um in my previous um well my time is up that I did in my RFP. I am I have an express interest in developing a pipeline for black students um and to build teacher capacity here in the city. Thank you for your [Applause] time. The next comment
054card is from Miss Lakesha Cortez. Lisha Cortez. Uh they say that she left. Okay, that concludes public comments under 5.2. Item 6.1, approval of consent items. E that will announce make the oral announcement. Does any trustee have any items they would like removed for separate consideration as an action item? After any items are removed for separate consideration, there will be a vote on the consent items without any discussion. Is there anything we want to move any trustes? I don't want to remove anything, but I do have some questions for two items. Which numbers? Um 6.40 and 6.46 discussion. Yeah, they're easy questions. So, we do need to move them to discussion. Uh 6.40 40 and 6.46 trustee Flores. Okay, got it. Perfect. All right. Any others? All right. Seeing none, is there a motion for
055the item 6.1 consent calendar with items 6.40 and 6.45 to be moved to action or to discussion. I'll make the motion to approve the consent agenda with the exception of 6.40 and 6.46. 46 to action. Is there a second? I second. All right. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Gone, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Flores, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Motion passes 50 with uh Trusty Priest and Trusty Silva absent. All right. Item 6.40, 40 approval of an agreement to furnish consultant services to the National Leadership Youth Council and Service Learning in Civic Education Democracy Research Study for the Stockton Unified School District Leadership Professional Development. Are you speaking to that, Dr. Rodriguez or Mr. Clar? Actually, u Mr. Pinkham will come up and speak to it or Melissa, whichever
056one. Okay. Uh both if you can. Yeah, that works. Good evening. Melissa Sigers, director of curriculum and professional development, and I have Ryan Pinkham here who's um over this body of work and um with our social studies and history. I'd be happy to answer your questions. Yeah. So, mine are simple questions. Um will this be open for all students? And then how will this be promoted? So, the National Youth Leadership Council contract that we currently have, we've already agreed to as a two-year agreement that involves professional development training for all secondary teachers um throughout the district. We could even move it towards 7th to 8th grade if that is if that is something that we find is a need. This current agenda item though relates to a research agreement connected to that existing contract that's
057going to give us a third year of professional development and training. Now it's not for all students as it's specific to STAG High School. So the the research agreement was they want to take an individual high school and go through the same process that we're using with all of our students across the board. But then how does service learning impact students understanding of democracy and the development of our republic? That's their specific agenda. And they they only wanted it at one site. And so we're going to basically be taking three teachers. I've already contacted two of them that are that are up in the loop uh about possibly taking on this responsibility. And how did you guys decide on what school to choose? Uh, I actually had conversations with Brett Tover and I have teachers
058that are currently involved in the NYC cohort this year that thought it would be a perfect fit on their campus because of their A program because they have an A specific class within American government which would be an excellent fit for this this type of study and then I'm also in contact with one of their teachers Mr. Kabir uh Kabir Singh who is is already adept and running with the ideas of service learning and so it would be a natural fit in the classroom to to start implementing. Um okay and then will it ever be open to any other schools? As of right now it's just this it's just this one research agreement with Stag High School. There has been discussion I I speak with the CEO of the NYC constantly. I was just on
059the phone with her today. they they want to continue our relationship. This part of the contract is um of no cost to us as well. So we already contracted at a cost with our first two years. This research agreement is being picked up by a grant on their part. So there's no financial responsibility on our part for this research agreement. Could that extend further to other school sites? I haven't discussed that with them yet. Okay. If you guys can also consider our area 2 schools cuz we get left out a lot of conversations and a lot of opportunities and so you will hear that a lot from me is advocating for some support towards area 2 schools as well. Excellent. And and one thing that I mean I'm going to be presenting a little bit
060later and I have some of our students are involved in the NYC and are involved with with the conference program. Um I need your help in terms of recruiting for next year. I have a second cohort and if you have teachers or sites that that you know we we should be targeting absolutely I'd love to contact you and and work through that process for next year. Perfect. Thank you. That's it. Thank you. All right. We need a motion for item 6.4 um 6.40. Is there a motion on the floor? I'll make the motion to approve. Is there a second? I second. All right. Discussion hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Colon, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Flores, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Motion passes 50 with Trustee Priest and Trusty Silva absent.
061All right. Item 6.46, approval of the Independent Inspector Services Agreement between the Stockton Unified School District and United Inspections, Inc. for the LCAP playground at Roosevelt Elementary School, project number 25.8. And Vicki, are you speaking on that one? Yep. Perfect. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Um so, so my question, I guess it's more for the superintendent. Um why is this item listed under the consent items rather than under um business and finance? Um more than anything, so consent items are under a certain threshold and are considered routine items. Um since this is just the required inspection, um then because it's only $6,000 contract, we put it under consent. So, as we're going through completion on projects, we're required to have an outside inspector inspect. Um, and so this is that $6,000 for the inspection of that
062new playground. Okay. So, it's just a dollar amount that it's a different change. Yeah. We always um we generally go anything over 100,000 we don't put in consent and then anything that we consider non-rine um we don't um put in consent um because this is bless you. This is required by DSA it's um considered routine. So we just put in consent. Okay. Easy question. See thanks. It's working now by the way. Thank you so much Vicki. Or not. Oh now it works. All right. Item uh 6.46. We need a motion. Is there a motion on the floor? Motion to approve 6.46. All right. Is there a second? Oh, I'll second. Stevens. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens. Yes. Vice President Colon. Yes. Clerk Daire. Yes. Trusty Flores. Yes. Trusty Perez. Yes. Motion
063passes 5-0 with priest trusty priest absent and trusty Silva absent. Moving on to our reports and discussion. Item 7.1formational report to the Stockton Unified School District Board of Trustees regarding the attendance of seven seven students and for teachers at the 31st 36th annual National Youth Leadership Conference in St. Paul, Minnesota from March 25th through the 28th. Uh good evening again. Uh we just mentioned where we are going. What I want to be here tonight is bringing these students to talk about where we have just been or where we just went. Um, a little context. The National Youth Leadership Council is an organization that we have uh gone into contract with for professional development within the curriculum department and throughout our high schools for service learning. And we've all been uh associated with probably community service
064before and the idea of collecting community service hours. But Stockton Unifi's actually going further now. We're going in a direction to where instead of it just being community service, that one-off where we collect hours on a list, we have students that are engaging, providing their voice, telling us what they want to learn, what they want to what what their concerns are in their community, and they're going through that experience and presenting it to us as teachers now. And so that's one of the training programs that the NLC is providing. We were able to we were able to attend the National Youth Leadership Con uh conference in St. Paul, Minnesota in March at the end of March and I was able to take seven students from Stockton Unified. Uh oh, there we go. I love technology.
065There we go. Uh and it was the 36th annual National Service Learning Conference. I know you're timesensitive right now. You got to get going. So, I'm just going to turn it over to them to begin with and I want to hear what their reaction was, what their experiences were and share with you a service learning conference. Yeah. So, um I'll go ahead and go first, but I think one of the most impactful workshops that I went through during the NYC conference was um I I experienced a workshop where they connected teaching how to lead in a in a school setting with gardening. So, I'm personally a really big gardener and also an active leader on my campus. Um, and one of the things that my leadership class often struggles with is engaging with students who
066are outside of the leadership class, inviting them to be leaders even though they're not in the leadership course or the ASB class. Um, that's one of the things we struggle with. So, at the NYC conference, one of the workshops taught me how to connect gardening skills such as um, perseverance, commitment, and especially adaptability um to teaching leadership and connecting leadership to students outside of the leadership classroom. So, one of the biggest things that I learned was um being adaptable because not all students will be the same and how we can be adaptable to different types of students who maybe not are not interested in public speaking or leading events. Um adapting to different types of students and um bringing them closer to civic engagement and leadership on and off campus. And so, I want to
067give Michael time to speak because I knew you have to get get running off to class. Uh we took seven students. Savannah depart from Stag High School, Siana Felix from Franklin High School, Delaney Cuba from Edison, Asia Henall from Seka, uh Rayl Deloney from Chavez, you heard from Michael, and Mario Neto Flores from Weber. This was one of the greatest professional development experiences I've been a part of. I've been in education for 25 years. I've been to numerous uh conferences, but conferences are normally with other adult educators. What the NY ylc does is they brought in roughly a thousand people together and it was I would say equally weighted almost half students and half educators and we sat down at the same conference tables. We sat down in the same rooms and interacted and discussed
068what service learning looks like and how what concerns they had in the community and how we as teachers can facilitate in our classrooms a a new future, a new approach to learning. That's really what service learning is about. It's taking our curriculum. We already have rich and vibrant ELA. We have social studies. We have ethnic studies. We have science. But it's now taking those subjects and going beyond just the textbook and seeing how kids can experience it and how they can be involved. We we've already heard from community partners today. And it's those relationships where our students are going to be interacting not just in the classroom but out of it. And that's what this conference was allowing us to do. Um it wasn't all conference. Uh one of the things that I was the
069most impressed with with these seven uh individuals was just learning how to travel. And we had students that had never been on trains, planes, audible automobiles they have. But the whole experience waking up right out here at 5:30 in the morning. We met here at 5:30 and it was an all day travel experience from Stockton to St. Paul, Minnesota, an area that many of them had never understood the Midwest or or what it looks like. But it looked a lot like Stockton, right? like it was it was um do you want to share anything about your experience in travel? Oh, travel. Okay. Um, as mentioned, my name is Mariana Flores. Uh, I have been here before. If you guys haven't known me, I was, um, former Skiza uh, state officer parliamentarian. So, I've done a
070lot of travel. Uh, thank you. Um, the travel there was amazing. Uh, waking up really early wasn't. Um, having to travel on plane. Well, we had van first and then, uh, on plane and then train was actually very fun. Um, we don't really have a train transit here in Stockton. So, it was uh very amazing. It was um it felt more like Harry Potter if you guys know what that is. By the laughs, it tells me you guys do. So, it had more like of a European and more of a really interesting uh environment. And it kind of reminded more me of Stockton. Weatherwise, it was super cold, so I love that. Our room was very warm, so going out was amazing. And uh visiting different uh places that I've never gone to. Um I
071do the same thing my uh past travels and skills but um being with the not just Mr. Pinkham but other leaders in different uh school sites is uh is it's an honor. I'll add one thing to Mario's comment. 70 of these students most of them had no contact with each other until the morning where we showed up. They're in the student advisory together. They see each other across the room. But the way they molded together and became a team and worked together in this entire experience was was something that that I wish all of our students could have more opportunities with that and it was great that these seven could have that experience. Um it wasn't all travel. Uh day two of our experience was what was called the day of service. We were able
072to attend the Minnesota Museum of Science and go through the exhibits there. one of their exhibits being on society and culture and race, which was a very interesting experience uh from a a Midwest perspective. And then we got into actual service. Did you want to talk about the service experience? Yeah, I could. You're in the picture there. Oh, yeah. Um so, as you can see, this was one of the first activities that we did at the conference. And so, basically, it was intergenerational service through art. and their mission was to basically connect elderly or basically every individual of all ages to connect with each other through art. And they just said like as even though if you're not the best artist or you never drew before, it was a great activity to bond well with
073people and discover your sense of creativity that you might have never explored before. And so we just used different textures and different colors to make our own portrait. And it was just a very nice and wholesome way to understand like our creativity and truly use our imagination and then as well bond with other people. And then we also did other activities throughout the conference such as attending workshops and participating in community discussions. And so right here on the board, we can see that we were participating in certain table groups. And on the picture on the right, that is me and Michael. We were in a table that was it was for specifically overcoming your fear. And then we were using mouse traps and we had to place it on our hand and then go like
074this and then let go. And it was personally really scary for me because I get scared of I've never held a m mouse trap before. So it really taught me to overcome that fear and just get out of my comfort zone and that's really important for service learning and understanding your community because you have to get out of your comfort zone to do that. So that was really um educational and it was very meaningful and I'm sure it was very memorable and impactful for other students as well. One quick addition, if you see in the picture on the left where we have our students, but there's that uh young lady in the back with the white top and the the fuchsia pants. She's a 17-year-old student from Ohio who is presenting at uh the the
07520inut lightning talk. If we have the ability to go next year, our students will be in that position presenting to people from around the around the country, some from around the world about what we're doing in Stockton Unified because that's an experience the NYC has already talked to me. These kids could have done it this year if we would have known a and prepared ahead of time because they are they are our leaders and and I look forward to that if we have that opportunity. Oh, you guys probably want to do that slide. They begged me to take them to the Mall of America. So, if you haven't been to to Minneapolis or Minnesota, one of the big highlights of the Midwest is the Mall of America. And we found 3 4 hours to squeeze
076in late one night. They were troopers. I mean, we had a full day. We got on the train at like 5:00, got to the Mall of America at 6:00 and didn't get back to our hotel until probably like 9:00 or 9:30, right? But it was it was an experience that I'm glad they drugged me out and and we all uh took part in in our mall shopping. Okay, we're going to wrap this up because we have a lot of busy things to do. I know last part here. Um, I just wanted to comment on it's more than just the workshops. It's more than just the the learning on site. these students, their debriefing, what we did at night where we sat and and had dinner together and talked and experienced the conference over again was
077as valuable as those four or five hours where we were sitting in in the classroom type environment. And I I got to brag again because if you see here, and this was just the experience that like lit things up. We're all sitting there and this guy decides, I'm going to open my college acceptance letters right now. And we're like, um, do you want to do this in public? And he starts open, he's like, yeah, I got into Berkeley and the whole place, like this restaurant goes nuts and everyone is is unreal. And so then he opens Harvard and he's going to Harvard and all that type stuff. So that was like the w the wrap up of our trip. Um, I just wanted to give you a preview. Per our contract with the stock with
078the National Youth Leadership Council, we are able to send six students and three chaperons again next year to the 37th annual Youth Leadership Conference. Um the selection of students, Dr. Rodriguez, however, they caught your eye. You did an amazing job because every one of those kids was welld deserving and a valuable member to presenting the stock unified vision and what we're doing here. So, excellent selection of students. and Michael, you are everywhere and in everything, but congratulations on your acceptance to both Berkeley and to Harvard. And I'm hoping that Merllo or Jane Fredwork will also be included next time around. All right, item 7.2 two. Um, our citizens bond oversight committee presentation by Miss Vicky Brum, director of facilities and planning department. Hello. Um, President Stevens, Superintendent Rodriguez, I'm happy to be up here tonight
079to introduce members of the Citizens Bond Oversight Committee who have worked very hard and we've got through our struggles and figured it all out. And tonight they're prepared to uh present the bond oversight committee report on the bond measures and making sure ensuring that the district is spending the um dollars appropriately. So uh I'd like to introduce Jerry Gonzalez who's the president of the bond oversight committee and I believe he has a few members with him here tonight. Reverend Williams, you can come on up. And I saw Gaines here. Is she still here? Come on up, Alicia. And uh Monica Guerrero, are you here? It's Monique. Oh, I'm Monique. Sorry, Monnique. Um that's it. Oh, here she is. So, I'll let Jerry uh take over from here. And uh he's got his support behind him.
080And you also have Selena. Oh, Selena. Hi, Selena. I I was hiding. I know he goes, "How you look so cute?" I'm sorry. Okay, so here's Jerry. All right, thank you. Well, um, good evening, uh, President Stevens, trustees Cologne, Donaire, Flores, Perez, I see Silva, and Priest are V are absent today. Superintendent Rodriguez, student rep gone now. Um, as you have heard, my name is Jerry Gonzalez. I am the Citizens Bond Oversight Committee president. Uh I'd like first to uh acknowledge the other CBOC members that Vicki uh has already named. Um uh Colleen uh Keenan wasn't able to attend today, but we have Monnique Guerrero. She's the secretary. And then we have uh other members, Arishia Gaines, uh Selena uh Stevens, right? Johnson. Johnson, sorry. And um Reverend Ernest Williams. So um we currently have
081one uh vacancy and uh there was an advertisement that went out. It closed on last Tuesday on the 15th. We're hoping that we have some applicants. I believe some members said they heard around the community that there were some people interested. Um, so yeah, you guys want to sit down or you want to stand for a little bit? Yeah. All right. So, you already have the letter that I sent um on the packet that kind of gives the the annual report in formal terms. Um, so I I don't really think I need to reiterate all of that. So we basically did a brief letter for each of the three bond measures. Um what we did there um was part of the packet. So I didn't want to I know we only have 5 minutes so
082I was trying to keep it brief. Um, so, uh, also I'd like to thank the, uh, many district staff members that provided support, including Vicky Brum, Joanne Wades, uh, Willie Gutierrez, Sarwan Kumar, Sophie Mayara, uh, Angelina Constantino, and more recently, uh, Lupe Basilio. Um, in addition, we have the district consultants, Dale Scott and Nicole Roberts of DSC, uh, the bond consultants, um, Sam Santana of DWK attorneys, and then also Jennifer RS of Crow LLP. They are the independent auditors for the district. So, at our last meeting, um, she was the one that presented us with the, uh, performance audit and the financial audits that were done for the three school bond measures that we've been reviewing, um, having to do with fiscal year 2324. Um so those are measure E for um uh approved in
0832012, measure E approved in 2014, and measure C approved in 2018. Um there were no expenditures for the 2022 measure C. So that's not part of this year's or the 2023 2024 annual report. Um, as you um may know, this is the first CBOC formed in recent memory. Um, I haven't spoken with anybody that even knows if we've had a CBOC, a C citizens bond oversight committee, uh, for Stockton Unified. Um, so there was definitely a lapse there and it's taken us a couple of years just to get to this point. Um we've had um our leadership Sher Mlan was running things then she ended up taking a position with the district and then had to resign um because employees are not allowed to be on the on the citizens bond oversight committee. Um so
084the citizens bond oversight committee as you may know is required u by state proposition 29 ed code um your own board policy and in the text of the three bond measures that were passed. So um this committee um it took us really a quite a long time to get running with things. Um, I heard from Jennifer Arus, who was the uh who is the uh the auditor, that a lot of districts have difficulty getting people to volunteer, let alone get a quorum together. And we did have one meeting where we didn't have a quorum, but it it was a challenge just to get this far. It seems simple, but it wasn't. Um, see, as of last year, as you know, we finally have a facilities master plan. That's another key item that um it's really
085required to have, but Stockton Unified hadn't had one before. They had something similar to it that was approved back in 2008, but there was nothing really that was giving the district priorities in terms of projects and guiding um some equitable uh use of the monies uh lots of money. Um let's see. So at our as I said before at our last meeting we we we voted in favor of supporting the audits for both performance and financial audits for those three measures. They didn't find any issues um with uh within the the purview of of what the audit is is supposed to cover. Um, but I do want to be clear that we've not reviewed any prior years since there haven't been any bond oversight for lots of many hundreds of millions of dollars that have
086been spent in the past. We haven't gone back. Uh, that's something that we're considering doing still. Um, and we haven't we haven't dealt with any of the issues that were a couple years back or so with the Fikmat report or any grand jury items. we are just staying within the very narrow definition of looking at those audits, just so you know. Um, so, uh, in closing, I just want to say it's just been a long time for us to get to this point and, um, I I just wanted to thank all of those involved. Um, our next meeting is August 20th. So, any questions? Any questions for Mr. Gonzalez? All right, seeing none. Thank you so much. All right. Thank you. Just just wanted to comment and just thank you and and the the whole
087committee for the hard work that you're doing coming together and and it has been several months and here you are today presenting this report. So we thank you for for staying with it. You're welcome. Thank you. Thank you, Jerry. Good job. So I do want to update you. We have not received any applications as of April 15th. So we can extend the of course extend that deadline um until filled um and we can Jerry and uh the others can maybe help get the word out on the street as well. We've advertised in um Instagram and on the web page. So we'll keep on working on that. So if you know of anybody, please have them contact us. Thank you. Is not having that extra board member preventing any work from moving forward? No, absolutely not.
088Okay. No, I just wanted to suggest maybe a a mini presentation at our parent packs before the end of the year maybe um to just present this. Sure. If you didn't already. Okay. Thanks. So, you want Jerry there, too? Sure, Jerry. Maybe to give people just to give people the idea of like what it is that they do. Maybe there's just not a you know, maybe there's just questions about what Yeah, because the public is invited to all of our meetings and they're posted as well. So, um, the other thing is Jerry said, our next meeting is August 20th and it will be at Caesar Chavez High School. Um, I like to have the meetings, uh, where we've spent bond dollars so that the, uh, CBOC members can see what those bond dollars are are
089being spent on. In December, we went to Franklin High School and and toured all the athletic facilities and it was a a nice nice thing for them to see. What time at Chavez? 4:00. It starts at 4:00. All right. Four o'clock. Yeah. 4:30. H 4:30. When we get a quorum. Is that it? Thank you. Thank you, Vicki. All right. Moving on to item 10.1, board reports. Evette will read the oral announcement and announce uh each board committee for the report, and Abby will be the timekeeper of three minutes. This is the opportunity to hear any reports from board committees specifically regarding prior or upcoming committee meetings. There will be a threeinut limit report. The first uh committee meeting is black students thriving committee president Stevens. So we had to reschedule our meeting. Um we do
090have a new date. It will be May 15th and that will be here at 6 pm. The next committee is curriculum e and student outcomes committee vice president Sophia Colon. Okay. Good evening. Um we had our meeting um jam-packed with great information. Um the curriculum committee is a wonderful committee if you're all of these are open to the public but if you're looking for uh information on what it is we're we're doing in the classrooms um that's that's a good uh committee to join us. We talked about the K through2 second grade universal screener process. So we had um director of curriculum and instruction department Melissa Sigers. She went over the screening requirements according to California law and how this will identify our early learners who need additional supports. Um let's see. So this is
091identifying our students who are at risk for experiencing reading difficulties and who might need more instruction. Um we had um some great questions. this topic uh went on because we had some really good questions about the process wanting to know okay once we have a student screened what's the next step and so because the discussion was so um so lively we're going to come back with more information on that part so I think this was probably a good a good introduction on like what that screener process is why we're doing it and then we'll come back next time and talk more about the how um then we had an update on the pilot with our English language development ment department and career technical education. So our CTE and our English language development pilot update. So
092this is a very exciting pilot um where we are putting together a uh English language development program and CTE together and from what we understand it's not being done anywhere else. They might do one first then the other or just one and not the other. But we're um first district that are putting the two together um with a course that is uh uh health career focused um and I'm I should have wrote the name of the it's for it's it's a forensic I don't know medical detectives medical detectives so something intriguing for the students and it's for our middle grades so something to keep them engaged with the goal of reclassification so this was something that we heard many times from our students and our families amilies that are English learners um are missing out.
093They're not able to um join in with our CT courses because that time is used for their English development class. So in this case, what we're trying to do is target these individuals um with something exciting, something they might be interested in, putting the two together, CTE and the English language uh requirements that they need and hopefully reclassify. then they can go into high school and take their um CTE pathways. Um then we also talked about um pre-AP algebra for all update. So who's excited about math? Yes. Yes. Right. Um so if you're not excited about math again, join us and you're going to get excited because I'm out of time. Can I just So really quickly because it's really important, one of the foundations, right, is teaching our children u math skills. We hear
094that a lot um in regards to finance and things like this. We're really doing some wonderful things to engage our students in a new way. Um lastly, we talked about um what supports we have for our CTE programs for all of our trustee areas. And again, we want to um be more specific on what are we doing for certain schools. And so, we want to come back with that conversation um um next time. So I don't want to take up too much time but again if you want to know what's happening in our schools in our classrooms curriculum committee is the place to be. All right. Thank you trusty cologne and push for the curriculum subcommittee. All right. Moving on to item 10.1 brief reports uh on trustee activities. Christina will read the oral announcement
095and Abby will be the timekeeper. Right. I Abby, you want to give the This is the opportunity for each trustee to make a brief announcement or to give a brief report on their own recent activities in the district pursuant to Brown Act governing code section 54954.2 A3. There will be a 3inut limit per report. All right, Trusty Perez. Hello. Hello. Good evening everybody. Uh let's see. Saturday, April 12th, I attended the North Valley Labor Federation newly elected training. Um the topics of training uh Saturday were collective bargaining and budgets. Um Saturday I also attended the NAACP prayer breakfast um where myself and a lot of our board members here and superintendent um attended uh for a morning of prayer, praise, and reflection. Um tomorrow and Thursday I will be attending the masters in governance training
096which is ongoing. Um but our topics for tomorrow and Thursday will be relations and advocacy in governance integration. And that's all I have to report tonight. Thank you. All right, Trusty Flores. Okay, I forgot to mention in the last um board member updates that I also attended the migrant end conference at Franklin High School. That was a a beautiful event. Um and it it had a great showing of attendance there. The parents got to bring their thraes there too and do performances. There was mariachi. There were students performing bleak. I can never say the word right. Bolaf balaf. Yeah, but use at it. Um, and then um, with that uh, and they had lots of food and those who know me know I'd rather work than just sit around. So, I got to jump in
097and serve the people when they were coming up for the food. So, I wanted to say thank you to that. Um, and then I want to say thank you to Spanos. They invited um, the Rotary Readin, my standin, Miss Ashley, and the students made her some letters telling her thank you for reading to them. She was one of the best readers um that they've had. She's very extravagant and lively. Um and then I got to go visit Jane Frederick and I would like to give kudos to our principal, Mr. Oki, because I got to sit in there during uh passing time and I didn't even realize it was passing time because they just went from class to class in like less than 5 minutes. like it was so good where I was like that was
098it. That's passing time. Um so that was really good. I really enjoyed um that improvement and I'm looking forward to they got their senior trip. So thank you Casey. Thank you Dr. Rodriguez. Um and then I also got to attend the curriculum meeting with uh Miss Cologne and I look forward to the next meeting to where we can get an actual layout. I I want to be very specific as I understand that we have a lot of the CTE programs, but again, I would not be up here if I would not if I'm not to represent my community. My community is filled with black and brown minority, low socioeconomic disadvantaged students. So, I I don't mean to be offensive when I say things because I don't know how to say it, but just to say
099it because I'm tired of repeating myself, but I I wish that we could take a second look at our schools and just offer them a little bit more. We don't have to be inside a box. Like I said, we are not in an inside box. So, so I when you guys are having these discussions and and these programs, please put it in your mind. Trusty Flores is going to want to know what's going on with Merllo and Jane Frederick and what's going on in our schools in our area. And I don't see very much support for them from where I'm sitting. Um, and we have excellent programs in our schools. We have excellent students who would love and jump at the opportunity to join these programs. I think offering a program like the um program
100that was just pitched would be great for a Jane Frederick student to be invited to that and make them feel important as well as Merllo. Thank you. Thank you, Trusty Flores. Moving on to and she hosted the exhibit at the Mexican Heritage Center. Yes, SUSD students were at the Mexican Heritage Center. So, good job to Cindy for promoting that on. Thank you, Dr. Rodriguez and Casey for showing as well. Thank you. All right. Thank you so much, Trusty Flores. All right, moving on to mine. I just want to remind you all that we do have our AAB PAC family enrichment conference um happening this Saturday, April 26 from 9:00 to 3:00. Um make sure that you invite your families and your students to come out to be a part of the conference. Um we're looking
101forward to making sure that the house is full with our um local families and students. I do want to talk about I had the opportunity to attend the event also with um Trusty Perez and the rest of the team with AA NAACP um prayer breakfast which was a really good uh event. The keynote speaker kind of hit the nail on the head talking about politics and then how do we support um from where we are? Um and a lot of that really resonated with the conference that we went to in um Atlanta, Georgia too. Really talking about how do we support our kids? How do we stand firm and how do we lobby for our kiddos when we see systems that actually don't work? Making sure that we do the work because that's part of
102what we are well that's the big role of what we're elected to do is make sure that we pass policies that support our kids across the board. Um I also had the opportunity to chaperone 55 of our Edison High School students. Our kiddos were invited to play at Carnegie Hall um in New York City, which was so awesome because some of the greats like Ella um Elephed on the stage and there we had um some of our kiddos um on that stage um just rocking out doing the best that they knew how and it was really a joyful experience not only for them to play at Carnegie Hall but to experience Hamilton on Broadway and these are some of the things that many people will never get the opportunity um to do. Um they also
103had a master class by a um um New York um professor professor that came out to support our kiddos to ensure that they were able to play their best when they got on the stage at Carnegie Hall. And I want to salute um Miss Ma Miss Wildman and also Mr. McCoy and then our conductors Jquelyn and also um Daniel who was one of the youngest um young scholars to stand on the stage and grace it and conduct um a group of 55 kiddos. So good work to Stockton Unifi to to make sure that our kiddos that they do have joyful experiences and the lives that they want to live that they get to actually do those things in real time and not just dream about being on the big stage. But some of us played
104instruments and we have never been invited to Carnegie Hall, right? Um I know I played my violin and no one ever called me up, but that's okay. I got to go and support our kiddos. So we had an amazing time. And I do just want to talk about um the character of our kiddos. We didn't have any issues with 55 students. 55 students in Time Square. We had no issues. And our our our kiddos, they were treated like royalty. Um they were on the 41st floor of the um Marriott thea Marquee. I don't know if you know about Time Square, but there is not a hotel on Time Square that's less than $300 a night. Our kids had the best and they deserve the best. So thank you Stockton Unified. Um and then moving on
105last but not least, trustees in there. Good evening everyone. So, I got invited by our student trustee, Michael Lynn, to go to SEA's rally that happened uh last Friday. Um, I was able to witness um them playing games like musical chairs, um a a chant screaming match. It was really great. I also got to support um the teachers in judging which class won. Um I try to stay out of it. I don't know too much about that, but it was it was really fun. And then um principal Mr. De Rossi also invited me next uh this past week to their ice cream social where they invited um eighth grade students to see what it would be like when they come to um SECA in the in the in this coming fall. Um I got to
106meet with many students, one of them being um the migrant student of the year. I didn't know then, but I bought this shirt from her. They were selling merch, so I was able to support them with that. Um, the last thing I wanted to share was, um, in my full-time job, um, I support immigrants and refugees here in the county. I was able to join a advocacy day at the capital, um, hosted by the California Immigrant Policy Center. This is a advocacy event that happens every year called the Immigrant Day of Action. Um, I was there u, of course, as my full-time job, but I also mentioned that I'm a schoolboard member because one of the policies that we're pushing for is the California Safe Haven School Act, which is AB49, which would support um,
107student learning and um, make sure that um, ICE officers don't come onto campus without uh, school administration um, uh, permission and also with um, a signed warrant. Um, I just wanted to share that because the work that we're doing here already with um uh in supporting uh through policy and through our our family and wellness fairs have been amazing for our immigrant and refugee community here in Stockton Unified. So, I was really really happy and glad to share the work that we're doing to support this policy and hoping that you know all the schools um in California have the same protections as we do here in Stockton Unified. So, um, really happy to advocate for the students and families here in the district. So, thank you again. Thank you, Trusty Daire. And I forgot last
108but not least, Vice President Cologne. Hello. Good evening, everyone. So, I'm going to try to keep within my three minutes. Um, so I I also enjoy attending the different activities with my colleagues. I will give a little plug um to the art competition at the Mexican Heritage Center. Um, our congressional art competition held last Friday. So, several of our own students were recognized and the overall winner, Delm Delmira Rubio from Edison High School. Um, she she was honored. So, her artwork is actually going to be displayed in the halls of Congress for one year. Wow. So, that's going to be awesome. Um, yeah, kudos to her. Um so and for the rest of um between last last time and this time I was able to visit Miss Cartina's class um which is a special day
109class uh with our pair of professionals and just got to witness our students doing some amazing things. They were uh studying the solar system uh through the teachtown uh curriculum. Uh then I got to attend the SIPs showcase here um and was just wowed by our students who were so confident and proud to show their reading skills um from our kindergarten to our uh second grade uh little stations we had in here. um also attended the NAACP prayer breakfast and was just really inspired um by the different um not just the speeches but meeting with community members and just just reigniting that fire of our our commitment to service. And I would say um I really enjoyed uh our time with assembly member Rhdesia Ransom when we visited Stag. Uh we got to visit two
110different areas of uh the campus. So the TIS program which please remind me TIS stands for TIS therapeutic intervention therapeutic intervention success school success. Yes. And we um Thank you. So we were able to visit this classroom and kind of see how this uh how this program uh helps our students um prepare for um not just to be in school the school environment but outside after. We had several pending graduates that were like really excited to they were going to be graduating. Um so that was a nice time and then we got to spend some time visiting the barn there at Stag. And again another uh wonderful resource we have for our students to get um hands-on experience in an area of uh their interests whether it be caring for an animal or learning how
111to repair agricultural um equipment. um the student that took us around, she was very um proud and just excited to show us what STAG has to offer. And as you've seen throughout the time here, you know, we do have some wonderful students again deserving of of the best. Um and so I'll I'll end with that. Thank you for everyone for all your hard work that shows through our students. Thank you. Thank you, Vice President Cologne. All right. Item 11.1, superintendent report, Earth Day 2025 and cell phone policy task force. Yeah, thank you so much. So, as required by law, we are going to be implementing a cell phone policy and so what happened first was we did a survey out to staff. Um, we determined that there was significant about 80 89% of people wanted
112the policy for this upcoming school year. we technically don't have to do it till the following, but wanted it for this upcoming school year. And so then we followed that up with the survey for our parents and then a survey from our students. We had about 40 members of the task force um come forward last week and we're doing it again on Thursday. Um so this um included is um we had parents and we did have um even translation for a subset of our parents um students, teachers, our campus um security monitors, office support staff counselors, um site administrators and district administrators. So it is really um a good um group. Um we did have 10 students there because we wanted to have most of our schools represented and um the adults really enjoyed similar
113to what we were talking about at the conference um the leadership conference they really enjoyed and listened to the students. Um so we talked about two things this first time. So we we came to some consensus on cell phone use in the classrooms um and also cell phone use outside the classrooms. On Thursday, we're going to be talking about um location of those cell phones. Um consistent implementation of consequences, just making sure that um all students h whether whatever teacher or school that they're at, that there's consistency of those consequences and also um connecting and messaging with students, um parents, and our staff um so that we're all on the same page. So, we're going to be talking about that. Um it was a really great group um that gelled really well. So I'm excited
114to have that group back at um on Thursday. And then we're going to be showing you a video, something that um you may not have been at the last time, but we were um noted from the EPA, so the Environmental Protection Agency for our work on being one of the school districts to convert our diesel buses to electric buses. So, we have already saved um tens of thousands of dollars by going to electric electric buses over diesel, but also most importantly, we're trying to um lessen our footprint on the earth and be good stewards. And so, um Germaine Reese, um Katie Beazy, and Jessica Martin um got together and um helped support this event. Um and so it was a great community event. Um you'll see her in the video. Um Vice President Cologne um
115was able to be there as well as Trustee Priest. Um and we had a good turnout. So here's the video for you to [Music] [Applause] watch. SUSD celebrates Earth Day and celebrates clean air all year round. Let's take a look at what's going on. [Music] Today's a significant day where Stockland Unifi is starting our our day and the idea of this is to mesh our community with school together as looking at the entire child. When I think of the people that are here, it's such a great group of stakeholders. We have everything from our congressman Harter here. We're just excited to hold events like this to our board members here. We're going to tape the sides to our community leaders, our parents and students here. Um, it really does take all of us to help
116support the whole child here at Stockton Unified. It's so exciting to be here at Stockton Unified for Earth Day. We know how important it is to have an incredible relationship with our air, our water, our soil here in the Central Valley because we produce the nation's food. That's who we are. We're a group of farmers. And so it's so exciting to see the next generation of leaders that Stockton Unified is training and educating to go out and make sure that our environment continues to be passed down uh generation on generation. I'm excited about the exposure our youth here is getting and hands-on, but also too it's it's exciting to see those who are in charge of these different project and resources here and visible to the community. I love coming out and doing these events
117for our community. I think it brings everyone together and um just really highlights the work that we're doing to clean the um air for our students in Stockton Unified. This right here is the on andoff switch. Something that always warm my heart, which is why I'm in the schools every day, is being with our students. Our students are our why. Our students are the reason why we're doing all the work that we're doing. And so whether it's from our preschool students up to our 22year-old special education students, we want to do what's best for them, which means doing what's best for them, their families, and the communities they live in. SUSD is doing its part, but it has goals to become more environmental friendly within the next two years. I'm Melinda Mesa with the Stockton
118Unified School District. [Music] All right, moving on to item 11.2, adoption of resolution number 24-83 designating May 5th through the 9th, 2025 as National Teacher Appreciation Week. Is there a motion? I motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. All right, discussion. Hearing none, roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Flores, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Motion passes 50 with Trusty Priest and Trusty Silva absent. Item 11.3, adoption of resolution number 24-84, designating the week of May 18th through the 24th, 2025 as classified school employee week. Is there a motion? A motion to approve. Is there a second? I second. All right. Second by Trusty Daire. Any discussion hearing? None. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Flores, yes. Trusty Perez,
119yes. Motion passes 50 with Trustee Priest and Trustee Silva absent. Item 11.4, presentation, Department of Justice Community Advocacy Group, DOJ KAG, by Dr. Myra Franco, chief of SUSC police. Hello everyone. Good evening. Good evening, board of trustees and Dr. Rodriguez. Um, so I'm here tonight to present about our community advisory group. um kind of give you guys a brief history of um how it was initiated um the status of the group and kind of what we're doing as we move forward. So to start off um as you guys know um in 2019 we entered into the uh Department of Justice agreement uh um regarding some of the policies and um procedural changes within the district and the police department. And so as a result we were issued 74 tasks um that were to be completed
120within a 5-year time frame. Um, five of those revolved around building a community advisory group um and and also specific to what the group was supposed to do and some of their tasks. So with that um the community advisory group what it is it's a group of stakeholders who meet quarterly. Um the intent of uh the group is um to get together with our department and our district um to provide advis um advisory recommendations um in regards to some of our policies, our procedures and then also for um accountability. So on a quarterly basis we do provide reports that are overviewed um or reviewed by the community advisory group where they provide feedback but also hold us accountable to um some of the tasks that were implemented within um the uh DOJ agreement. And so
121as you can see this is the list of the stakeholders. Um so there is a representative from each one of these organizations um including a representative selected by each one of you as board members um that is part of the group um and provides that feedback. So when we started um the first CAD group met in August um on August 14th of 2019 um the group started off strong and met quarterly um and monitor the progress of all of the 74 tasks. Um there was no real guidelines surrounding um the group other than was what was within the department of justice agreement which was very brief. Um in regards to that um by two 20 by 2023 um we had completed about uh 82% of the tasks um with only 18% um remaining. So what
122that started to um produce was uh less involvement from our community advisory group. Um part of it was just you know transition the original members that were selected um either move on to other ventures um we had turnover in um at our board and so that kind of loosened up the reigns as far as the replacement of um those members and so um pretty soon we were just having um community members attend the meetings um but it wasn't consistent and um you know when we ended up getting towards the end of the agreement um our last meeting only um only two members actually um attended. And so one of the things we wanted to do was bring it back to life. Um but I did want to provide some guidelines, you know, kind of um
123some direction for our community advisory members as far as what their role was and also requiring um some attendance um in regards to that. Um during the 5 years, we did have a chairperson and a secretary. Um they were um consistently attending our meetings and were a part of it. towards the end our monitor reached out to them um and they at that point they didn't want to continue within um the CAG just as they had you know continued on to other ventures um for no other reason um at that point 100% of the work had been done so there was less review and it was more of anformational um you know meeting where we just provided updates as far as what the district and the department were doing um in regards to um the
124initiatives that stem from DOJ um moving forward um we are no longer part of DOJ J, but we did make a commitment to continue the quarterly reporting and to stand by um the changes that we made initially from that. And so as part of that um both the department and the district feel it's extremely important to continue with the community advisory group. Um as I mentioned to continue ensuring that we stay um faithful to what commitment we made to the DOJ agreement. Um but then as we move forward ensuring that those um those goals that were set continue in every single you know project and um that we use moving forward. Um so with that um one of the things that we are looking to do now is redevelop the uh community advisory group. Again
125it's a quarterly meeting um that is met over Zoom just to facilitate uh for the members to attend. Um my goal is to start um our meetings in our second quarter which would be June of 2025. Um when we initially um when it kind of you know just disbanded on its own um we did move forward and I created guidelines that were attached to thisformational um agenda item as well. And um we were moving forward with selecting new members, but at that time we had elections of the new board members and we felt it was better to wait for our new uh board um to make those selections instead of selecting a member and then having them replaced within a few months. And so that was the reason why we've um you know stood by
126on it um until now where we're um requesting um that a member be selected. So we move forward with it. Um, and as I mentioned, um, one of the things that they'll be doing is, um, obviously reviewing relevant changes to any of our policies, procedures, and training, um, and providing, um, feedback in regards to those. Um, reviewing any updates on police department activities, reviewing our use of force incidents on a quarterly basis. Um, reviewing the calls for services, ensuring that we're not, um, reverting and responding to things that should be handled at the administrative level. Um, and then also reviewing our quarterly complaints. um um and as I mentioned the unwarranted calls for service. So those are some of the things that they'll be um doing as well as also hearing from the districts and
127some of the initiatives that they have in regards to um some of the areas that they were um raised in the DOJ agreement via those um in that arena and then they'll be providing updates and feedback on those as well. And so that is that is the presentation I have um in regards to the community advisory group. I don't know if you guys have any questions in regards to that. I do. I just want to know is there an opportunity for us to add a um high school student from each of our high schools to be a member of the CAG because the work that we do, it directly affects them. I would really like to hear um how they feel and kind of the um supports that they would like to see happening as
128well as we move forward. Definitely, we can definitely do that. um the list of the names that were on there was based off of what DOJ recommended, but um definitely it's not um limited to that group if we want to add um more members as well. Any other questions for Dr. Franco? I have a question. Um when do we have to have our chosen elected? Ideally, the sooner possible. The reason um I do want to engage them and let them know, right? Give them that ability to want to welcome them on as a member, but then provide them the guidelines for them to review and ask questions. Um as I mentioned, um we just finished our first quarter um which ended in March 31st. So, we're entering the second quarter of our reporting. So ideally
129um if um I would say no later than um probably May so that that way we can re-engage them and get them set up for what's expected moving forward and setting the new um the new dates for the meeting for the year. Trusty Flores, uh I just want to commend you for bringing this to life again. Um I I was really excited when we had it initially and all the work that got done. We got a lot of work through that. So good job, Chief. Oh, thank you. Um, and then I just want to follow up on the question that Trustee Perez mentioned. Um, does our representative have to be living in our area or do we just can we just choose a person? So, there really is no guidelines to that. Um, you know,
130preferably we would just want someone who's knowledgeable with our district and um the work that's done um just for that, right? Because they are going to be providing that feedback. So, um it would be important that they are familiar with that. But um there is no guideline in regards to that. Okay. And do we direct um we direct them to reach out to you our elected persons? If you can just provide me their contact information and then we'll reach out to engage them for that. Okay. And definitely see no other questions. Thank you so much Dr. Franco. Definitely. Thank you. [Applause] Okay. Moving on to item 12.1. Approval of service agreement between Conscious Discipline, Loving Guidance LLC, and the Stockton Early Childhood Education Department to provide professional development for preschool teachers, trans transitional kindergarten teachers,
131preschool assistance, and transitional kindergarten assistance. Is there a motion for item 12.1? I motion to approve. All right. Is there a second? A second. All right. Second by Trustee Flores. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Flores, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Motion passes 50-0 with Trusty Priest and Trusty Silva absent. Item 12.2, approval to utilize core to provide professional development for the implementation of SIP's curriculum for the 2526 school year. Is there a motion? I'll make the motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. Second by Flores. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Flores, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Motion passes 50 with Trusty Priest and Trustee Silva absent. Item 12.3, approval
132to provide professional development to SUSD K through five students with Lexia Learning Systems. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. All right. Is there a second? I'll second. All right. Discussion hearing. None. Roll call vote. President Stevens? Yes. Vice President Cologne? Yes. Clerk Daire? Yes. Trusty Flores? Yes. Trusty Perez? Yes. Motion passes 50 with Trusty Priest and Trusty Silva absent. Item 12.4, Four, approval of amendment to increase the master contract with the non-public schools Stockton Educational Center for the Special Education Department for the 2425 school year. Is there a motion? Motion. All right. Is there a second? A second. All right. Second. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens? Yes. Vice President Cologne? Yes. Clerk Daire? Yes. Trusty Flores? Yes. Trusty Perez? Yes. Motion passes 50-0 with Trusty Priest and Trusty Silva absent.
133Item 12.5, approval of of an agreement to furnish consultant services with Row Health LLC for the Stockton Unified School District Health Services Department. Is there a motion? I'll make the motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. All right. Discussion hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Flores, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Motion passes 50 with Trusty Priest and Trusty Silva absent. Item 12.6, approval of an agreement to furnish consultant services with Huckleberry Consultants, Inc. for esports RFP number 25.973 to provide esports to students enrolled in the expanded learning opportunities program, ELOP, during the summer school. Is there a motion? A motion to approve. To approve. All right. Is there a second? I'll second. All right. Discussion hearing. None. Roll call vote. President Stevens? Yes. Vice
134President Galone? Yes. Clerk Daire? Yes. Trusty Flores? Yes. Trusty Perez? Yes. Motion passes 50 with Trusty Priest and Trusty Silva absent. Item 12.7, approval of an agreement to furnish consultant services with Work Ed LLC for esports RFP. 25.973 to provide esports to students enrolled in the expanded learning opportunities program during the summer school. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. All right. Discussion hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Flores, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Motion passes 50 with Trustee Pere Priest and Trustee Silva absent. Right. Item 12.8, Eight, approval for 5,000 students enrolled and attending summer school and summer learning academy sessions to attend a field trip to the Oakland Zoo in Oakland, California for the expanded learning opportunities program,
135ELOP. Is there a motion? I motion to approve. Is there a second? I second. All right. Discussion. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Flores, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Motion passes 5-0 with Trusty Priest and Trusty Silva absent. Item 12.9, approval to purchase custom summer learning kits for all TK through fifth students from Lakeshore Learning Materials for curriculum and expanded learning opportunities program. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. All right. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Flores, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Motion passes 50 with Trusty Priest and Trusty Silva absent. Item 12.10, approval to contract with Delta Charter to provide transportation only when SUSC buses are not available for
136fifth grade students in Science Camp at Sky Mountain. Address is 45700 6 m 6 Mile Valley Road, immigrant gap, California 95715. run by the Sanwa King County Office of Education for the 2526 school year. Is there a motion? I'll make the motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. All right. Discussion. Roll call vote. President Stevens? Yes. Vice President Cologne? Yes. Clerk Daire? Yes. Trusty Flores? Yes. Trusty Perez? Yes. Motion passes 5-0 with Trusty Priest and Trusty Silva absent. Item 12.11, approval of anou between the Stockton Unified School District, the Stockton Unified Police Department, and the Stockton Police Youth Activities. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. All right. Motion to approve by Trusty Flores. Is there a second? A second. All right. Second by Trustee Cologne. Any discussion? Question. Yep. Will we be
137in invited to the activities again this year? I'll answer for her. Yes. Okay. Any other questions? Yep. Go ahead, Trusty. So, just a comment. I I hope that as we participate in these partnerships um that it strengthens the communication between our Stockton police and our own police department. So, I hope that things are are working towards that when we have these activities. Thanks. All right. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Flores, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Motion passes 5-0 with Trusty Priest and Trusty Silva absent. Are we going to have an event where I can wear my shirt again? I didn't get to wear my shirt last time when you guys had your activity. There you go, Cindy. All right. Item 12.12. Agreement to provide consultant services between
138the Stockton Unified School District and Faith and Action Community Education Services. Is there a motion? I motion to approve. Is there a second? I second. All right. Any discussion? I do. I just wanted to know um so what happens going forward with um this contract? What is the 25 26 year look like? Are they coming back to the table to renew? Um will there be an extension? And also is there summer um activities that could be utilized? Sure. So, how it works is the seven the seven organizations that have already been approved, they will continue to be approved for five years. Um, the school sites will be receiving another allocation for the upcoming school year. Um, we're looking actually currently right now at it to ensure that it is large enough to where it can
139actually make an impact on the students. Um, and so we are looking at that perdm amount. At this point, what has happened is we took the money um from two of the areas in goal six um and we combined it and made a perdeium amount for every African-American black student that that school has, they receive a PDM amount. Um we do um with all of our supplemental concentration monies, we do have only a portion that we can extend. Um and so we do try to use this year's money for this year's students. Um and so this is up until June 30th. Um and then the sites will be able to reuse those contracts. we actually are not able to have all the needs met with our current seven members for the RFP. So, we are
140going out for another RFP um similar um almost as almost the same um the 14 that were not approved do have the ability to resubmit their proposal and prove it and resubmit their proposal. And then we did have some that didn't make the timeline. So, it is a very legal process. And so, when we say 5:00 p.m., it is 5:00 p.m. And so, um, we did have a few people who almost made the timeline but did not. And so, um, it is accurate that their proposal was not reviewed because they didn't make the legal timeline of the 5:00 p.m. So, they will be able to resubmit as well as others. Um and so kind of similar to what you're seeing, I know I always use this this um example, but with ELOP. So um they
141have their approved pool of vendors and then they are approved for the 5-year period and um both sites and district level will then um be able to use those that are within the pool um in order to be able to do so. And just a a note on the RFP process, we did something that we have never done before and that we did have um our AAB PAC leadership as part of the approval process. Um legal council actually um suggested against that um because it is supposed to be an impartial process, meaning I'm not supposed to know um necessarily you. I'm supposed to come in with a clean slate, look at the proposal, look at the rubric. However, um we did um make it work because we made sure that we had a balanced team.
142Um so we had our purchasing committee there and others and um and so we will um we have services coming to students this year and we will um continue to have services for students in the upcoming year hopefully with a slightly higher dollar amount. Um we're looking at allocation of LCAP funding um as we speak. All right. Any other questions? Yeah, I just want to be sure and um maybe I'm asking this again, but so we approved um we have the pool of vendors that were approved and then the next step it falls to the school site to look at their um their action plan, their school school action plan to choose how they want to achieve that goal. Yeah. So this year it was it was the first time ever that we had that
143we ensured that all the school sites had a um a a six a number six school. So each school site should be looking at how they interpreted their needs. So there's a district-wide six goal and then school site the single plan for student achievement should be directly linked um to district-wide goals but with a individual student or school context. And so they then have a a six goal, right? So a black student thrives goal within each one of their SIP's plans. So single plan for student achievement. People always tell me I'm acronym driven. So within the single plan for student achievement that the board approved in November, every school site now has a level six goal. So um there there was a um a zoom meeting in which we presented all of the partners that
144were approved through the RFP process. So there was seven 21 were presented and seven were approved by criteria. And then the school sites took their allocation and took their goal and then selected the group that best fit that goal. Um, and so what we're currently doing is because it was a per pupil per DM um or per pupil rate, there were some schools that had fairly low numbers of African-American black students. And so the question is is can we increase the amount to a to a certain point to where we can ensure that each school has enough to be able to actually make a significant impact on the group of students that they have. Um and so we're because um we must if we're going to increase in one area we have to decrease in
145the other area. That's the conversation that we're having because we would have to take from because we've expended um this year through the six with six goals plus the 78 but um those are equity multipliers. So I'll just say six goals. um we would have to decide we're no longer going to allocate to certain actions or not as many as much so that we could put more into um goal six um specifically in the area of community partnerships. My follow-up question to that is then so the school site um they they see these organizations they're looking at their own goal six on their their um SPSA plan um but the principal alone doesn't make that decision right it's the school site council or who who makes the decision of like we're going to ch we're
146looking at this and we're going to choose this person so the school site council was involved in the budgeting of their concentration, supplemental concentration, um, and their goals. We did allocate additional money on top of it that they weren't initially assuming that they were going to get. And so that was would earmarked specifically to their goal six that their school site council I determined and all their goals through school site council are determined by their school site council. I mean the principal um definitely has a significant role in the development of their SIPA but you have um you do have parents, staff, um teachers and um in most of our cases we also have students since we have K8 schools and high schools. All right, any other questions on this item? All right, roll call
147vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Flores, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Motion passes 50 with Trusty Priest and Trusty Silva absent. Item 12.13, approval, I'm sorry, uh, agreement to approve consultant services with Black Rocket Productions and Hoover Elementary School. Is there a motion? I'll make the motion to approve. Is there a second? I second. All right. Discussion hearing. None. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Flores, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Motion passes 50 with Trusty Priest and Trusty Silva absent. Item 12.14, approval, I'm sorry, uh, approval for agreement to provide consultant services between Marshall Elementary School and improve your tomorrow. Is there a motion? I motion to approve. Is there a second? I second. All right. Discussion hearing none. Roll call vote. President
148Stevens, yes. Vice President Colon, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Flores, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Motion passes 5-0 with Trusty Priest and Trusty Silva absent. Item 12.15, approval of a me um memorandum of understanding between the Stockton Unified School District. Actually, I read that incorrectly. 12.15 approval of memorandum of understanding between the state performance plan technical assistant project and the Napa County Office of Education and the Stockton Unified School District for the 2425 school year. Is there a motion? I'll make the motion to approve. Is there a second? I second. All right. Discussion. All right. Hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Flores, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Motion passes 5-0 with Trusty Priest and Trusty Silva absent. Item 12.16, motion uh for agreement to provide consultant services
149between the Stockton Unified School District and Factory Institute training. Is there a motion? A motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. All right. Discussion hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens. Yes. Vice President Cologne. Yes. Clerk Daire. Yes. Trusty Flores. Yes. Trusty Perez. Yes. Motion passes 5-0 with Trusty Priest and Trusty Silva absent. Item 13.1. Approval of the updated directory uh updated director of the expanded learning job description. Is there a motion? A motion to approve. Is there a second? I second. All right. Any discussion? Yes. All right. Can you explain why the change Glenda, got it. Yes. Um, this position I would like to make it certificated so that the director can evaluate and supervise certificated staff. As the ALOP programs are expanding, we're adding teachers under that. Um, so um the
150director must have an administrative credential in order to uh supervise certificate of staff. um our current director uh is finishing or just finished her program. So um we're able to change it to certificated to better um serve that program. Okay. Um and I just can we talk off record about this position, me and you, Dr. Rodriguez. Okay. You have any other questions? Trusty Flores. Is that it? No. Okay. All right. Trusty Perez. Um, is this director already supervising and doing the work even though they're not credentialed? There's some uh there's a few certificate um specialists under her um actually let I don't know not not at this moment. Not at the not at the moment. I think we've been able to accommodate that, but um if we were going to expand, which I think we
151will, um we want to have that option. So, they um go ahead. Good evening everyone. Um Mary Rogers, the director uh of uh Yellow P. So um since we I've started this position, I have been enrolled in um in school and also um under a internship which allows me to and affords me to oversee uh employees that are certificated and as if I'm acting in that role. And so I've recently completed the the position and I'm um fully um if you will uh certificated. So that's where uh this part of the matter is making the adjustment to align with uh with my finishing of my schooling. However, I've been in the position to be able to um oversee certificated which we have maybe one or two positions in the admin position roles right now. And
152um there's no benefit to the employee um actually to in my view there's u she's losing her vac pay vacation. Um certificated staff um either use it or lose it. Classified staff get their vacation paid out if they don't use it. Um they actually classified staff also gets an additional uh floating holiday. So, there's a few things that she's going to miss out on, but um it's better for the system to have a certificated um director that can oversee future certificate staff. Any other questions from the board? No. All right. Hear none. Thank you so much, Mary. Absolutely. All right. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Flores, no. Trusty Perez, no. Motion fails. Three yeses with two nos from Trusty Flores and Trusty Perez and two absent,
153Trusty Priest and Trusty Silva. All right. Item 14.1, approval of resolution number 24-80 to apply and sign asurances and administer the zero admission electric vehicle replacement incent incentive program. Is there a motion? I make the motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. All right. Any discussion? All right. Hearing none, roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Colon, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Flores, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Motion passes 50 with two absent. Item 14.2, Two, approve request for resolution number 24-77 for authorizing the purchase of nine classroom portables through the piggyback contract agreement with Class Leasing LLC pursuant to the ELOP group D portable installation project number 25.678. Is there a motion? I make the motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. All right. Discussion hearing none. Roll call vote.
154President Stevens, yes. Vice President Galone, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Flores, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Motion passes 5 Z with two absent. Item 14.3, approval of purchase of 11 portables to support expanded learning opportunities program group E, at our high school campus, resolution number 24-79. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. All right. Any discussion? Uh, I didn't We have um Elop at our high schools. Oh, okay. Any other questions? All right. Hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Flores, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Motion passes 50 with two absent. Item 14.4, Four, approve amendment number three for the Independent Inspector Services Agreement between the Stockton Unified School District and United Inspections, Inc. for the Expanded Learning Opportunities Program Group C
155project. Is there a motion? A motion to approve. Is there a second? I second. All right. Discussion hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Flores, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Motion passes 5-0 with two absent. Item 14.5, approval of inspector of record service agreement with the United Inspection, Inc. for the ELOP group B portable classroom portable installation project at 8 SUSD school sites. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Is there a second? A second. All right. Any discussion? Hearing none, roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Flores, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Motion passes 5-0 with two absent. Item 14.6, approve and authorize the agreement to lease eight ramps for the term of two years from TMP Services, Inc. for
156the primary year's Academy portable project number 25.978. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. All right. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Flores, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Motion passes 5-0 with two absent. Item 14.7, approve and authorize the agreement and furnish labor compliant services between the Stockton Unified School District and Gaffcon, Inc. for the Primary Years Academy portable project number 25.978. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Is there a second? A second. All right. Discussion hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Colon, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Flores, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Motion passes 5-0 with two absent. Item 14.8, 8. Approval of approval of the notice of completion for the author Coleman
157parking lot expansion project number RFP 24.001 DSA number 20-120347. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. All right. Is there a second? Second. I'll second. All right. Second by Flores. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Flores, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Motion passes 50 with two absent. All right. Item 14.9, approval of change order number two for the Stack High School Pool Repair and Replaster Project RFP-Q number 24.042 with Roland Builders, Inc. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Is there a second? I second. All right. discussion hearing. None. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Flores, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Motion passes 5-0 with two absent. Item 14.10, approval to seek design quotes, installations, and permitting
158to purchase um backup emergency generation for warehouse refrigerator and freezer. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. All right. Second by Cologne. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens? Yes. Vice President Cologne? Yes. Clerk Daire? Yes. Trusty Flores? Yes. Trusty Perez? Yes. Motion passes 50 with two absent. All right. Item 14.11. Approval of awarding contract to Calronics for RFP number 25.502, Cooper Leasing and Maintenance Services. Is there a motion? I'll make the motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. All right. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Flores, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Motion passes 50 with two absent. 14.12, Adoption of Resolution number 24-76 authorizing def deposition of uh surplus personal property. Is there
159a motion? Make the motion to approve. Is there a second? I second. All right. Discussion hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Flores, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Motion passes 50 with two absent. Item 14.13 adoption of resolution number 24-82 title resolution of board of education of the Stockton Unified School District authorizing in assurance of sale not to exceed 140 million aggregate principal um amount for the general obligation funds by a negotiated sale pursuant to a bond purchase agreement prescribing the terms of the sale approving the form of and authorizing the execution and delivery of a bond purchase agreement and a continuing disclosure agreement. Approving the form and the form of and authorizing the distribution of an official statement for the bonds and authorizing the execution of
160necessary documents and certificates and related actions. Is there a motion? I make the motion to approve. Is there a second or a second, Steven? I second. Oh, second. Stevens. All right. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Flores, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Motion passes 5-0 with two absent. Item 15.1, student expulsion B-28. Roll call vote. Motion. Oh, there's a motion. Is there a motion? I motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. All right. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Flores, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Motion passes 50 with two absent. Item 15.2, student expulsion B-29. Is there a motion? A motion to approve. Is there a second? I second. All right. Roll call vote. President
161Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Flores, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Motion passes 50 with two absent. Item 15.3, student expulsion number B-30. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Is there a second? I second. Roll call vote. President Stevens? Yes. Vice President Cologne? Yes. Clerk Daire. Yes. Trusty Flores. Yes. Trusty Perez. Yes. Motion passes 5-0 with two absent. Item 17.1. I would like to adjourn the meeting at 7:38.