WUSD School Board 03/09/2023

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002to start appreciate everyone coming out in the foul weather it took us 16 minutes to come across the Rainy parking lot that's why we were late that's a joke um so welcome to the March 9th 2023 Windsor Unified School District regular board meeting um very glad that you're here glad that we have a a good showing um we do have a pretty full agenda we have some adjustments to the agenda uh but before we get in that we will do a roll call Miss Cox here malinoli Lopez here Stephanie Ahmad here Rich Carnation here Paul gagano there and Jackson Caligari will be late okay uh if we'd rise for item 2.2 our flag salute to be led by trustee Ahmad I pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic

003for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay uh superintendent Decker is there a report at a closed session and is it me that's doing it listen it's all you Bill okay uh we have three different items uh in closed session uh regarding the Personnel assignment order uh the board took action to release an instructional assistant from uh Brooks Elementary and one from Cali comic Language Academy uh five board members voted yes uh there were no no votes and no abstentions also in resolution 2023-9 that was 2023-8 Jen uh for release of temporary certificated employees include session the board acted to authorize the district superintendent or our designee to notify temporary certificated employees long-term Subs Spanish teacher an elementary school teacher and tosa pursuant to education code 44

004954b that they would not be re-employed in the 2023-2024 school year uh the motion was made by trustee Ahmad seconded by trustee corgano the vote was four in favor zero against and one abstention we also had what I will just share from my personal view is the worst part about being on the Board of Trustees we had two expulsion cases in expulsion case number zero two zero eight two three uh the first matter board that we heard uh is there a motion for approval of the findings of fact as presented in that I make a motion that we approve those finances first motion by trust incarnation oh so okay second by trustee uh corgano all those in favor aye okay five zero and in consideration of student expulsion zero two zero eight two three is

005there a motion to uphold the principal's recommendation for expulsion yes I I thought I'll make that motion okay you know a second okay uh a motion by trust Incarnation and a motion by our second by trustee Ahmad all those in favor okay and that passes five zero uh with regard to student case zero two one zero two three uh is there a motion for approval of the findings of fact I'll make that motion hey thank you trustee Iman a second and trustee corgano for the second to all those in favor aye aye that passes five zero and is there a motion to uphold the principal's recommendation for expulsion in case number zero two one zero two three I'll make that motion okay thank you trustee carnation uh second okay thank you trustee corgano all those

006in favor okay and that motion passes five zero thank you very much okay with that we're going to move to item 3.1 adjustment to the agenda we have a few the first is item 5.1 uh the discussion action item report by The Windsor Education Foundation I understand uh from an update from the superintendent that we are going to push that to our April board meeting okay so that will not be heard today uh our student board member Jackson calgari is we congratulate and wish him well at a scholarship event this evening we are going to take his report 3.4 Jen if you would watch when he gets here and wherever we are in the agenda whatever that item is we'll slide Jackson's report in uh thereafter and I've communicated with him about that um any

007other adjustments to the agenda that board members have any from the superintendent or the cabinet okay uh with that then we will go and thank you very much for your patience uh many of you may be here for this celebrating success principal zukoni and Ziegler will be celebrating activities at Brooks Elementary and Windsor middle school and I don't know if we have a script for that but I see a lot of students here and that's cool yes go ahead thank you let's have an interpretive dance I was a teacher test all right Perfect all right it's so exciting to be back in front of you and uh here to celebrate some success I uh there's lots of success if you are curious you can follow us on Facebook lots to see there about everything going

008on I decided to change it up this year a little bit I decided to do a presentation that solely includes students um I asked the student body at Brooks to share with me through a Google form their personal success story for this year sorry Mommy I'm so sorry all right so um I asked the whole student body and I gave them uh asked them what's your greatest success this year please share with me all your details and please share with me the name of the adult or adults that contributed to your success I selected six two from each grade level to come tonight to present to you they are a variety of Learners with different needs in the classroom and very different gifts I've also invited their teachers to stand with them so for the

009first one I'd like to invite my two third graders Evelyn wolf in Mrs Allen's class and Charlie Mendoza in Mrs Kern's class [Applause] and just a quick note Evelyn mentioned that there were four very special adults at school that contribute to her success one is Miss Marlene our counselor one is Miss Mary our school secretary the other is Renee our school custodian and then Mrs Allen her teacher and then for Charlie he mentioned Mrs Kearns his teacher so I'll let Evelyn speak first and I set this up just for you guys all right well done hi my name is Evie I'm in third grade at Brooks Elementary my success story this year is about learning how to be empathetic for my friends and how to connect with others during covet it was hard to connect

010with others because it was all online this year I have a great opportunity and I'm able to connect with others and be more empathetic some examples of when I learned how to be more empathetic are when my best friend's cat died I was able to feel with her instead of for her because my dog died when I was little I know how bad it feels to lose someone or an animal the adults at Brooks help by Me by showing empathy lots of times one example of how they made me feel better is when I had been sick for a while and I had a hard time going to school I want to thank the school staff who helped me achieve my greatest success this year and this is Charlie hi my name is Charlie Mendoza

011and I am a third grader in Mrs Curran's class and here is my story on the first day of school I was worried about making friends and reading because I was not a good reader or good at making friends but then I made my first friend Corbin plus read more and made even more friends do you know how well I had great people too to help me like my awesome teacher Mrs corens and my mom no Amigo Divya they helped me practice the words and I achieved it and now I love to read thank you [Applause] all right and next we have Zacchaeus Woodson he named his teacher Miss Brown as his uh the person who helped him achieve his success and then Elisa Alvarez from Mrs Campbell's and if those teachers would come and

012stand with them that would be great okay do you want to go first sure hello my name is Zacchaeus Woodson and this is my teacher Miss Brown I'm a fourth grader at Brooks Elementary School my greatest success this year was learning multiplication it was very hard it took me a while to get the concept of it I think it took me seven months or so to get it this year I'm learning how to do a bigger multiplication problems like double triple and multi-digit problems it took me a long time to learn all this and I think my teacher Miss Brown and my mom Courtney for helping me master the fourth and fifth grade skill thank you hi my name is Elisa Alvarez and one of my greatest successes here was learning to fit in when

013I first came here I didn't really fit in a lot I didn't have many friends but my teacher Miss Campbell she helped me very much she helped me by by fitting in and understanding lessons more one more reason that she helped with me was she helped me when I didn't have friends she introduced me to a lot of new people and I felt great during that and she was a great person and didn't judge me for me so I hope that one day Miss Camp I can repay Miss Campbell like she helped me [Applause] [Music] thank you all right and eating nice come on up and is Layla here I don't think Layla made it so Evie is from Mrs hershner's class and she named Miss hershnitz and her parents as the adults that helped

014her achieve her success this year Ebony and everyone who's speaking and your parents and your teachers don't anybody go anywhere because we're going to want you to all come up here and get a photograph taken with us before you go go ahead ma'am hello my name is Evie Neese and uh for My success story my biggest success was uh making a pip in my classroom we create Pips a pip is a personal interest project that lets you choose a topic to learn and explore for my second pip I chose to do painting a sunset because I love to do it and I thought it would be really cool to share with others as we work on our projects we create a website where we record our progress when we are done we present our websites

015to the class the home page of the website is an introduction to who I am and what I'm going to be doing for my project the expert tab of my website is where I present tips and tricks on how to do my topic I included multiple YouTube links that I found helpful when learning this skill tab is a description of what I learned in a reflection of the learning process the product tab shows my video of how to paint a sunset I edited the video using cap cut after we are all done presenting we hold a class Market everyone is allowed to sell products that shows a scale of theirs for the market I made 25 paintings and I and 18 of them were sold after the market was over I had 160 dollars of

016our class money in my wallet this project made me feel really good about myself because it let me see that people liked what I am doing this project made me feel proud about what I can now accomplish at school wow [Applause] and those are just six success stories there are hundreds more and we just want to say thank you for your hard work in supporting us in the work that we do over there on Natalie Drive every day so before we have all of you who presented in your teachers and parents and everybody any comments questions from the board I'll just make a comment wow um as a fourth grade teacher fifth grade teacher I I really appreciate the work that that you all do and to hear from the the student's Mouse it's it

017makes me proud of the work that you all are doing so keep it up thank you [Music] is it Brooks and when I'm watching all of you I'm thinking man how lucky my grandson is to be surrounded by such awesome kids and uh it was pretty good now I have to say something because Bill kind of hit on it too I can't remember the young man's name Zacchaeus the one with the little dog the monkey flyer it's a chaos you're awesome yeah go ahead stand up hey I used to be shy and I remember before my wrestling matches when I was your age I used to get so nervous I'd throw up and and I saw you were having a little bit of nerves before you came up and you did a great job at

018talking and then I used to have challenges with math too and to hear you be nervous and then see how you overcome your your challenges and with math it's your future is bright and then I noticed I think this is what president Adams noticed when you were done you were so relieved you took a bow three times the Showmanship was excellent I give you a straight A on that um the the the you know every once in a while we all hear uh just terrible things sometimes out there going on everywhere else and it's just so cool that we have such awesome things going on here in our town and you kids you guys make everything worthwhile I love that every one of you that I remember hearing mentioned how your parents were helping you

019and you guys need to be really thankful that your parents are helping you because not everybody has that that option so go home tonight like we always tell our kids at the end of practice go home and tell your mom you love her and so it's all you kids make sure when you go home tonight tell your mom you love her and if Dad's there too you can give him a wink but anyhow all you kids did awesome it was great thank you I wanted to say something so I just wanted to say that those words were also beautiful and so heartfelt it really made my evening tonight so thank you to all the children that were here um I actually wrote down your name so I I believe it's Evie Charlie Alicia Evie and

020also zakayas is that right yeah all the names so I just want to say you are so um welcome in this District I hope that you now feel comfortable here for those of you who shared that you didn't feel comfortable or shy or that you didn't have a friend um I hope that you feel that this is your home so welcome now you got a room full of friends so everybody come on who's those five students everybody's related to them let's get a photo Mr Decker coming up here with us you guys come right in the front here great job and you got a cool hat very sensible too come on in make bring the puppy there you go buddy hello Charlie well done come on you get the kids in front so we can

021see them oh my goodness Big Sisters encouraging well done it's all good it's all good okay all right come on up what a well-behaved dog okay yeah all right just like Disney the animal always good job thank you very much everyone thank you well done good job he's very nervous wow you did Super thanks for starting everybody out Charlie well done thank you sir good job thank you for coming appreciate it [Music] so students teachers and families thank you thank you thank you when we are usually late it's because we are doing something Troublesome across the way that brightened up what was an otherwise rather dark start to an evening tonight so thank you so much Miss Ziegler you're up I might need the low table for the microphone you want a dog where are

022we uh good evening um I think there's a slide to come up so uh tonight I I know that your meeting is going longer I I will keep this somewhat brief um and I think our camp coordinator is here tonight Janet Mulligan and what we want to celebrate is that we were able to pull off and have our sixth grade students go to a three-day two-night experience at Alliance redwoods um it didn't start out that way because it it was quite a huge expense in anticipating the number of scholarships we were going to need and we had incredible support and interest from a group of parents to really pull this off and make it happen for their students and in doing this they made it happen for many students we had I believe over 130

023students that attended uh the Sixth Grade Campus about 65 percent of our sixth grade population I invited the parents here but with the rain and their children I don't know that did any of them make it tonight so I've put their names up here just to highlight the cooperation we had a meeting with all of them they brainstormed many ideas to uh to do fundraising and we don't have volunteer coordinators at our campuses anymore so it's difficult to have the staff time to really do the kind of fundraising that we needed and they took it on they did donation letters to businesses they organized a dine and donates and um and just really put their hearts out there were big sales at Oliver's and they took additional donations and um so I do want to

024thank all of them you'll see the mention of sea star at the end because Nicole gross is a one of the board members of c-star and so she was able to partner with that organization to allow the donations to be um allow the donation to be tax deductible because they're a non-profit and so that was you know really amazing it really linked them with the community um to benefit the students and we were able to scholarship any student who wanted to go and couldn't pay so it was it was awesome so I just I'm very indebted to them for really coming forth and making it happen I hope every year they have sixth graders who will go on to seventh grade I hope every year that we have parents who are willing to be involved

025with this goal in that way and I want to thank Janet Mulligan stand up Janet says Janet to sixth grade uh primarily language arts and social studies teacher and she is our science camp coordinator and she launched some of the initial fundraising that we did a bowl and donate with the bowling um company do you have any words to say oh you'll have to raise this oh okay you've got a few inches on you so I am so glad that we were able to take this trip this this class was in third grade during the shutdown they've missed out on so much and they're a great group so I was really glad that they were able to take the trip there were so many kids that were so excited there was one boy I don't

026really know him but he said to me I'm having a really good time and we were just laughing in our cabin and I don't know why I was laughing but everybody was having such a great time and then the other thing was um after I got home we went out to Flagship on the town green and one of the I was wearing this and one of the the workers back there who um I don't know who he is but I mentioned that I had just come back from a science camp and he goes ah science cap that was the best part of the middle school and he's like 30. so so it makes a difference it makes a lasting difference for these kids and I was really glad that we were able to go and

027that the weather held for us got lucky on that one so um thanks again and thanks to the district office staff who helped us kind of weather the whole process of getting through putting this back into an overnight trip and I want to acknowledge and thank principal Ziegler and Miss Mulligan thank you for your persistence there were some twists and turns in getting to yes but we got to yes and that was the important thing and I think we we learned some things to watch out for and I'm very glad that we were able to get it done uh in a in a collaborative way to have it happen for the students before the year was out so thank you both for helping carry the day on that any other comments from any board members

028nope okay well thank you very much well done [Applause] okay uh we will now go to item 3.3 public comment on any non-agenda items um during this period according to the brown act the board may not consider or comment or take action on any item not listed on the agenda we ask that public comment be spoken in the microphone in the podium um you'll have us allowed for three minutes um in light if just if we could sort of take a little housekeeping test in light of events in Montgomery High School and in Santa Rosa last week are there folks who would like to address that safety or anything that sort of is related to that okay I'm seeing four or five okay um thank you is there folks who would like to address something

029other than that topic okay let's have you two that put your hands up to address other than sort of the safety topic and then we will go to the safety issues and history stuff so if you have something other than Montgomery safety community resource officers Etc please come on up at this time I saw I saw two hands go up so here it looks like you're first with the hat there you go hello it's good to see you for those of you that don't know me my name is Julie Raven smart and I'm with one of the original nine teachers that started Windsor High School and I taught Theater Arts and I wanted to share something with you in fact it was so important to me that I had to come home and invite you

030to this about a year ago a book was published um where some women had interviewed and collected writings from survivors of school shootings and the name of the book is called if I don't make it I love you which was an actual text from a student who was hiding at a school shooting [Music] the book as you can imagine is very difficult to read that his writings photographs mostly from students parents Etc up in Healdsburg about a year ago the artistic director at their theater took upon himself to contact a bunch of their playwriters and create an on stage small version of the book so instead of like two acts and intermission it's just one act and what I love about the format is it's small cast a small set in fact the audience is

031on stage with the actors and it's only about the length of one act play I've read all the scripts and after that there's an audience discussion and I immediately thought wouldn't it be neat if one of you guys were there at one or two of those performances I'm designing the set for it and I just had to come and say really should come and see it it's a lot easier than reading the book you'll gain a lot of insight especially from a student perspective and it opens in two weeks and I'm uh actually was painting the set today and I would lastly I want to give a shout out to Jackie alejos who's been helping me with some little pieces to help with the set dressing of the play but I wanted to come home

032and tell you about it and I've got Flyers if you'd like them we'd love to see pliers thank you so much Julian it's wonderful to see you again I saw your name and stuff about you when I was over watching the Alice in Wonderland performance at the theater and so there's still a legacy of your work at our high school thank you very much um ma'am you had raised your hand oh yeah sorry following that is hard um I would like to speak about an assembly that was held at Brooks on Wednesday in regards to a new rule implemented or excuse me I don't know it's really close now can you hear me Mandy storms I'm sorry I'm getting my voice back as well can you hear me now okay um I wanted to speak

033on an assembly that was held my daughter is in third grade at Brooks Elementary is held on Wednesday and uh a new rule was implemented that the students were presented with this rule first parents found out about it from our students that there is to be no touch whatsoever at school this includes hugs handshakes tapping on the shoulder and the consensus of most of at least my friend's children is that they will be first attention then suspension then expulsion for touching even if it's your friend which seems a little a lot so this is not as simple as we don't like this rule I'm frustrated that I get most of my information about Brooks from my eight-year-old and within the first week of school my daughter was actually Accused by adults of something far beyond

034her character and both her and my objections were initially dismissed it wasn't until I had investigated with other parents and come to the school threatening to unenroll my daughter if they did not listen did I get clear information of the situation and had my daughter's name cleared at that time I discussed proactive communication with Mrs zucconi and thought we were on the same page additionally I signed up to volunteer during lunch for all grades on Fridays which is when I actually get to see firsthand how kids interact with each other and adults at Brooks there have been a number of issues that have been shared with parents either initially or exclusively via the students this is both reliable and unreliable because as parents we can see how it was perceived by our children but we

035also know that it may be slightly inaccurate based on the majority of kids feedback following the assembly the information we received is more the former than the latter if bullying and violence at Brooks is not an emergent issue this rule is overkill at best if bullying and violence is emergent then I'd like to know why we are just hearing about it now and from our kids before the adults but in this case the rule is negligibly effective for the real problem had I reached had I received Outreach from Brooks asking for suggestions or even asking parents to participate in a forum to combat bullying I would have gladly joined had I received Outreach that this rule was being considered a solution I would have had returned thoughtful feedback had I received an ask for parent

036help and involvement to support Brook's staff in this crisis I would have been there instead I have a third grader who thinks she will get detention or even expelled for high-fiving a friend my friend's daughter claims a staff member explained the rules reasoning as because boys take it too far referring to any contact I can personally attest to questionable commentary by staff that I have overheard at lunchtime first hand and unfortunately believe this gross statement was made the same student witnessed a staff member yank another child away mid attempt to hug and thus touched their friend and this was before the assembly it cannot be expected that parents sit and wait for the school to respond when the majority of kids come home and Report something of this magnitude especially when it's something like a

037planned assembly and in that I'm referring to the statement that was made today this evening from Brooks touch is taught as a form of camaraderie and a high five empathy and a hug and safety and hand-holding yet we are now to punish the very things teachers spent years promoting not to mention touch is a key aspect of human socialization we are not born knowing the rules of touch and they have certainly evolved and include a level of subjection it is not unreasonable however to accept that there will be some level of disagreement at school as students learn boundaries and communication even between friends there will be miscommunication and teaching kids how to resolve problems and do better next time should be the priority for those that are truly bullying even the recent PR response does

038not apply the school's response mentions touch between friends going too far but bullying is not predominantly between friends a boy I often care for who is present tonight um has been bullied at Brooks from week one and is often removed from school by my friend his mother when he calls asking to be to go home because he feels unsafe at school unfortunately this is her only response because when the bullying was reported including when the boy was physically assaulting my friend's son both kids were punished equally this policy only rewards the bully who was looking to harm their victim even if the bully is in detention too they have won this is not how the world world works so why is that what we're teaching our kids if my daughter is assaulted on campus she

039has my absolute approval and respect to defend herself in no way am I condoning violence in general but we but do we not encourage women to learn self-defense as adults as well if a girl pins my son on the ground to kiss him should he not be free of punishment if he shoves her off of him I offer this last example because it actually happened between children I know on the Brooks campus regardless of the gender ratio in The Bullying events gender is not a defining Factor bullying yes takes many forms and is complex and absolutely deserves attention in response this rule is an out that will lead to more punishments and the recipients will not be the worst offenders for three years I raised and now helped raise my special needs nephew and he

040was severely violent when he came to me and he even found joy in pain he caused other children and animals but with the support of therapists medications School staff which is amazing at Maddie Washburn and strict structure and discipline from myself he has become a high functioning member of his class at Brooks he is still verbally bullied quite a bit and unfortunately has been provoked by the mainstream students to then physically respond and while he receives a punishment the provoking parties do not because they didn't touch this is how we breed manipulation could you wrap up please yes I'm sorry um I myself was threatened with rape in high school I told this boy I was told this boy was going to rape me on the public transportation bus I took home and I took

041my fishing knife to school for protection a kid I confide it in told on me and I was suspended for a week nothing could be done about the threat because it was all on AOL instant messages and gone and later on he came back to the classroom to campus and stood at the window of my classroom and just stared at me pointing at me smiling nothing could be done foreign I can actually imagine what it feels like to go to school prepared to defend yourself and it all starts small leads to the big events like Montgomery highs and Brooks is still small they have a chance to breed compassion and empathy but also teach consequences grouping the kids who are doing the latter best into the punishment for those who aren't is not the answer

042Brooks clearly needs a new grand plan both in bullying prevention and response in their communication with parents schools want parents to have their backs then we need proactive communication so that we can be with you on offense not on defense and damage control thank you thank you for your heartfelt comments so um there were a number of you that had put your hand up um when I asked about the sort of other General category whoever yes ma'am sure um um yeah we can't see him buying the microphone but table over you could please speak into the microphone sir hello my name is hello my name is Declan and I'm in third grade and I go to Brooks and this happened at um recess or after school a couple weeks ago I got called the n-word

043and I caught and I got called um the B word and I also got called the p word can't think of anything else okay thank you for stepping up and courageously talking to us I appreciate that okay thank you for coming tonight um yeah so uh I I see our our mayor renosa is here thank you I I would if we might mayor Reynosa um I see our student body president is here if we could perhaps start with President Miranda and then we'll go to Mayor Reynosa and then for those of you who want to speak on public comment after those two um we would we would welcome any comments that you have to say good evening my name is Ava Miranda and I'm the ace athenas the current ASB historian and the incoming ASB

044president for the 2023-24 school year so you guys will definitely be seeing her next year uh we thank you for your time the following is a statement from The Windsor High School Associated student body in regards to last week's tragic event at Montgomery High School Windsor high school students feel deeply sympathetic to the struggles at Montgomery High School the loss of a peer is a pain that seems insurmountable and the strength and resilience that the community has shown is admirable as it is courageous Windsor high school I'm a little short Windsor High School leadership and school and the school as a whole are doing everything we can to show support for Montgomery at this time through school-wide school-wide movements of Silence wearing clothing and supports and Gathering signatures thoughtful messages and flowers from staff and

045students on campus these were all delivered today to the Montgomery leadership class our student body is and will continue to be dedicated to be forming bonds of community in times of tragedy we are very fortunate to have Dependable support from our Community Partnerships with Windsor PD and fire department approachable student advisors social emotional counselors upgraded Safety Systems as well as from our own student body in the form of our Circle Keepers program this program builds Community not only at Windsor high school but throughout our district allowing students the opportunity to speak out make change and most importantly feel heard again we are very fortunate to have these programs but ask that the board continues to prioritize them they truly are the difference between life and death we appreciate the dedication of this board and District

046to its students and while we are so thankful for all the safety measures in place adding more support services such as Wellness Center on campus or increase access to counseling services would continue to show students that well be that the well-being is is top priority in wsd the position of Windsor high school students and we hope the district is and will continue to be one of support community and student safety as we recognize the frustration of several schools in the Santa Rosa city school district we have chosen rather than to join in political demonstrations and walkouts to instead show our support by trying to bring together the community the communities of Windsor and Montgomery as in times of trouble we are much stronger together than we are apart thank you very much ladies thank you

047so much president Adams and trustees um try not to get emotional after hearing all the um public comments um first I'll address you as the mayor of Windsor and um I'm very proud of our partnership and working since 1919 1999 we have had the resource officer for the Windsor Unified School District there's a partnership between us in providing that and um I support it and if there was ever any issues as far as children not feeling safe seeing the presence of an officer then um I would like to figure out why and um figure out a solution to that you know it shouldn't be a reason for me this personally now to to get rid of a resource officer so we need to find the root of the problem of why certain students do not

048feel comfortable with police presence um our current resource officer does an amazing job connecting with the the student body and I appreciate all the work they do um you know we also partner with support from Cinema County support our student counseling services so there's a juvenile diversion program um I'm so sorry to hear about the expulsions but there I understand that there's certain reasons um that lead to that but I'm very proud of the the work that we're doing in partnership with the school board um and also as a mayor of Windsor I'm committed to supporting activities outside of the school supporting improvements to our parks where our children feel safe you could go and play after school activities whatever we can do outside it really takes a village to raise children and now I'm

049going to put on my mother hat my residence hat and um I had my oldest child was bullied in Middle School my oldest child attempted suicide because of that bully and it's very difficult to talk about um there you feel like there's no one wants to really you're alone in this situation and so um it's really really important to make sure that there is the support in all levels of schools you know and that was the middle school you know now we're going to Brooks to me I feel like it's it really we have to start early we have to start early with acknowledging our children uh supporting them started a program um now I'm going back to Mayor as a mayor I have a youth honorary mayor and um I'm just very excited to

050make them feel included make them feel part of this community we see them we hear them and and that's my goal for all the kids in our community in the Windsor Unified School District is just to be there be available for them and connect with them thank you very much for coming Madam mayor appreciate it anyone else who would yes foreign Godwin and I teach at the high school and work with um in this case today um the the Mecha club and uh I a little bird told me that there might be some discussion about this today and I feel very empowered and welcome um to speak my own opinion and uh to to everyone I feel and I thank you all for that I feel like um there literally is an Open Door Policy

051um and I feel um allowed to say my piece whenever I have a piece to say and so today I thought it was really important to have more students to build on the student voice so I really quickly threw together a little really unofficial not very scientific survey for the students that I encountered today and it started with the magic club and then the other classes that I saw so I just want to share really quickly um some some student feedback uh regarding school safety the students I started with the what their favorite part of school and 70 um 70 of the students said that seeing friends with this was their favorite favorite part 11 said learning new Concepts um a smaller group said connecting with an adult um and then they said walking around

052the opportunity to improve I also wanted to say I mean another question was if I need support or have a problem there is an adult on campus I trust for help there are other surveys that do this much more scientifically and this so this was just in response specifically to what happened at Montgomery um and a large majority so 40 60 63 percent agreed or strongly agreed that they have a an adult that um that can support them in that way it does seem like we need to maybe double down on informing people about what restorative practices are virtually none of the students that I surveyed today knew what that was um or new restorative what restorative practices were and I refuse to answer them until they finish the survey and then I explained um

053and then generally the vast majority of them 70 almost almost 80 percent of them feel very safe on campus the majority 30 60 74 of them feel oh sorry that was the the larger majority is feeling safe in class um and then many of them again 66 70 sorry 75 percent of them feel safe on campus and then there are there there's a slightly growing number of people who feel safe of unsafe in the bathrooms um 88.9 of them said that if they heard or saw something dangerous um they know exactly which adult they would tell and so there's 11 we we need to reach out to and make sure they know that there's an adult they can tell um the let's see strongly agree the they feel sorry I'm I'm looking at the pie

054charts um I put the statement saying I'd feel safer if all students had more access to counseling or therapy and um the the largest piece of the pie is that they agree or strong strong agree and then strongly agree um and then there there is there are about 20 who would disagree about that um and then I asked I'd feel safer if we had more law enforcement on campus um 52 was neutral on that one um for these students and then about 30 percent said that they agree or strongly agree um with more law enforcement on campus and then the the largest agree or strongly agree percentage of the students that I encountered today said I would feel safer if our teachers spent more time on team building and bonding activities so we could know

055and trust each other more and so I'm going to ask that all of the leaders reinforce that as much as possible whenever possible that teachers invest in allowing creating ways for students to connect with each other and with us because that seems like really um a big bang for our buck thanks for your attention thank you anybody else for public comment this evening really appreciate the one more two more Co right hello hi my name is Christy Selby I am a parent at both elementary schools I have an eight-year-old who um is at Maddie in second grade and a fourth grader at Brooks in Brooks I'm also here to talk about the the new rule at Brooks but on a bigger level The Bullying issue that's happening there and this whole punish all for for

056mistakes of a few and you know when our kids came home yesterday and gave us news that we weren't privy to Prior um which is sort of what happens with any big news that comes out of the um especially Brooks but sometimes Maddie um you know my daughter my ten-year-old daughter um was really upset and she thrives off of hugs and seeing her friends before school and girls running up and hugging her and holding hands going to class and linking arms this is something that that they they Thrive off of my daughter spent the first two months of her life in a NICU not being touched not being held like most newborns I'm a hospice nurse I can tell you firsthand what human touch does from the first breath to the last and everywhere in

057between so to give a list in a PR statement of all of the all of the touch that's been an issue which is stepping on toes and high-five contests to see how hard you can you know all of these things are inappropriate for sure but hugging your friend isn't and one of the reasons they gave for implementing this was the increased number of referrals and the increased number of referrals is just going to go up because kids are already rebelling and they don't trust the staff anymore and they don't my daughter has severe anxiety um severe and her friends are what makes her feel better she's she's gone to adults there she's gone to teachers Brooks does not have a strong foundation for supporting the students and so she doesn't trust anybody at that school

058other than her friends so if she's at recess having a panic attack or if I'm walking her to the gate and she's she's struggling to want to walk through those Gates because she doesn't like going there and her friend walks up to her and holds her hand and gets her through that gate if she's going to be punished for that that's a huge problem she's afraid of being suspended they're having nightmares that if they help their friend up off the floor because they fall that they're going to get expelled this is this punishing this punishment for for human touch is just not an appropriate way to go this should have been discussed with parents this should have been and something that was a back and forth or or at least hey this is what's happening

059this is what we want to implement we're going to have an assembly so when she got home I could talk to her about it and then we could have a discussion further um I had I had nothing to say I run a parent group for Maddie Washburn I'm on the PTA board I'm really involved in this District yet to hear from my child news about a rule like this that affects her in such a negative way and affects a lot of kids in a negative way we need to be teaching boundaries and we need to be teaching kids how to use their voice and and consent and how to stop people and those are the tools that we as parents and teachers need to partner together to give our kids and not just a straight

060take it all away it just feels like it feels like lazy teaching to me it feels like we just don't want to deal with the problem so we're going to make it disappear and that's just not the way we should proceed um you know I I feel angry about it I feel frustrated I feel frustrated for my kids I don't want my second grader going to Brooks at this point I I don't feel like it's it's a benefit to her to go to that school the way it is now I think there needs to be change and I think that the parents um and the teachers and the staff and the board need to come together to implement some of this change for the for the good of the kids more than anybody else I

061I really think that this needs to be reconsidered and a discussion needs to be had and communication needs to be better and I I think Heather Bailey's great but I don't want to hear a PR written statement from her I want to hear from from my my teachers and and my principals and that's who I want to hear this from that's who I want to have a discussion with thank you thank you so much appreciate it uh yes ma'am hi my name hello my name is Laurel green um I'm a physical education and health teacher at Windsor Middle School um I'm here to just speak to sort of a missing piece um within our Middle School setting we had a lot of restorative conferences and restorative circles happening at Brooks when I was teaching there

062and I know that they have restorative circles and restorative practices at the high school but right now the middle school doesn't have any sort of training for that for our teachers and our staff and so it it's it's kind of creating a big um a crevice so to speak or whatever those were that word is um a big canyon um between the skills and I recently was able to do a restorative circle with a a class of 38 students after I had removed a student from a class and then decided to pull back the removal and do and do a restorative Circle instead um and then a week later the Montgomery High School thing happened and these students were just like they just fell right back into the circle and were able to just share

063their thoughts and feelings about it um and it was it was pretty phenomenal how they were able to go right back into it and at the same time many of the students had not had um teachers address it at all and they had a lot of questions and they were curious and so I just want to I just want to come here to speak to promote that to encourage it and I realized that there's a long list of professional development ideas but I also know that a lot of those don't directly impact the students um the way that restorative practices could and should and would at the same time we have students sometimes being suspended example this week two students were suspended for mistreating another student and I emailed folks in charge and asked if

064a restorative conference or Circle was set up to re-enter the students and there wasn't one and so I offered to facilitate one but I also know that it would be good to have it be a matter of fact oh yes of course this is the date that that's happening Etc so thanks for listening thank you very much any other comments from the public yes Miss Cullen Heather Cullen um I just wanted to um do three things one I I second what Laurel said we've had um that would be super helpful to have that at our school um number two uh next week the CTE class that's the um intro to Performing Arts is putting on a play and it's not a musical much to their Chagrin they're like we have to do a real play

065I'm like this is all real um but it's animal farm and the kids are the directors the kids made the sets the kids are doing the stage makeup they're doing the costuming they're running the lights the sound they did the media stuff they went to KZST and recorded a commercial that they wrote and you should be hearing that on all those radio stations sometime this week so they're super nervous this year the class over half the class this is their very first play they've ever been in so it really it's exciting and they're scared to death and we would love for you guys to be a loving audience next Thursday at seven at Windsor middle school if I don't know if you have a meeting or something like that I'm just letting you know and

066um also I wanted to just say that the Odyssey of the Mind team at Windsor Middle School won third place and the high school team won first place so we'll be going to State at the end of the month so that's all thanks thank you very much okay anybody else for public comment great well thank you very much for your heartfelt words um any comments back to staff from the board questions before we move into the rest of our agenda yes sir yeah just normally we don't reply to things that are brought up during public comment and so I kind of want to just Jump Ahead about future board items and because this some of the things that we heard about tonight I'd like to discuss as a board and so if we could let

067everybody know that we've heard what they've said and maybe we can put this on our next board agenda that actually so that way we can talk about it so before they all left I just wanted to know that that because they might hear that at the end of the meeting but they might not be here so thank you Rich and and we will and thank you very much for those of you who took the time in your heartfelt comments and and personal uh personal information that is helpful to know and simply because we do not respond does not mean we did not hear you don't care and are not going to figure out so what do we do about this right and so we'll we'll have those conversations with with staff when we talk about

068future report items any other comments uh from any other board members okay thank you very much uh that will conclude then our public comment and look at you right on time um welcome uh board member Jackson Caligari I hope it went well this evening um we had deferred your report to whenever you got here and now we're at 3.4 and it's you so welcome glad you're here great thank you um well I know I missed I missed uh last month's meeting for for this a similar thing um and of course I'm late to this one but all the other ones are on Saturday so I'll be here I also did not move on so I'll be here for that reason as well um but I am going to talk about what I'm sure I'm going

069to go back and and watch all the the public comments that I miss because I do want to want to hear everything that I that I wasn't here for but um I'm talking about what I assume uh a lot of people in the audience tonight we're talking about and are here for which is uh situations in the events at Monty and Santa Rosa city schools as a whole um of course you heard it you heard a statement from Windsor high school students earlier and I did have a hand in writing that statement so I'll try to stray a little bit from those those same points to avoid avoid repetition but the first thing I'm going to do is talk about everything that that schools in our district have been doing kind of in in response

070to these events um Windsor Oaks and and North Bay met their staff signed cards and sent them over to Montgomery High School as well as the Windsor High School staff there were a lot of cards um I visited their campus today which I'll talk more about later and there was a poster in their office which with a lot of kind notes from staff from from Windsor um Ava Miranda uh who you heard from earlier tonight attended a a listening session um held on on Tuesday for for Santa Rosa city school districts which was kind of their first uh opportunity to to hear from the public following and following the events of last week um and I can't speak too much to that because I wasn't there but it was kind of a precursor to what

071I did go to which was last night's uh school board meeting um first Santa Rosa city school districts I was there for the first uh 90 minutes of public comment and and what we see is I mean there are certainly some differences uh in what people want but what they definitely do want is is resources um there's maybe some disagreement on what those resources should be but they certainly want people and and things on campus to make students feel safer um and I do think that that Windsor as a district has a lot of those people um which is why that we uh are not necessarily in the same situation as a lot of Santa Rosa city school districts and why our students don't feel um as unsafe as as many students at Santa Rosa

072city school district but um it does kind of make very clear to me how important it is that we retain these resources and how uh you know we'd like to expand them if necessary if possible um but we certainly can't afford to lose any of the resources that we have now um Additionally the students at Windsor high school and North Bay met and Windsor Oaks Academy all um came and signed a big poster for Montgomery and and brought flowers that we um delivered today to their campus to their leadership classroom um and that's kind of been the main thing that we were doing Winter High School was was asked to organize a walkout that a lot of Santa Rosa city school districts schools have been have been doing a lot of high schools have been

073doing we we elected not to do that because as we said we're not really struggling necessarily with the same issues that that those schools are dealing with and to protest and say that we want things from our Administration felt inappropriate to us what we felt was was the better course of action was to say we understand that you guys are going through a tough time and we want to support you um but we did not elect to to protest in the in the same manner as many of the other schools something that I was really proud of was that when we did go to Montgomery um we saw those notes from Windsor High School staff I I talked to Forest Harper the principal at North Bay Madden Windsor Oaks and they had done a similar

074thing and there was nothing like that from any other school we are a school that we are the only ones a lot of school districts are uh protesting saying that we want change but we have been a district that has been there in in kind of unity with Monty saying we're in support of you guys we're here to help you as much as we can um and I was really happy I mean I'm not going to comment on the the actions of other other schools and and students but I was really happy that we were able to support Monty and say no matter what's going on over here and of in this this more social sense I suppose that we are um with them and we support them and we want to to be there

075for them um so it's been a long week um and it's hard to to organize those thoughts I think you probably heard a a more coherent version of our thoughts earlier but um the main point that I want to make and this is something I've said earlier is that we do we are we are very lucky to feel safe at our schools is something that we've been obviously reminded of but it's it's also something that we can't take for granted we can't just think that oh things are good now um and things will be good because I remember the start of last year Windsor High School had uh several fights um at the beginning of the year and you know we made adjustments and and we're in a much better place now but it it

076can slip again like we can't we can't be like oh we're good now so we don't necessarily have to do anything um not only should we we focus on you know what can we expand what can we what is working that we can make better I know well we have social emotional counselors at Windsor High School uh but I also know that they are very very busy um and it's hard for for students that want that resource to to get that resource now so what can we expand um and of course uh what can we afford to lose which really isn't anything at this point so I'm happy with where we are but I also want to make sure that we use this as um kind of a wake-up call to make sure that we

077don't um forget about how important school safety is that's about it for me thank you um before I ask if there's any questions or comments from my fellow board members it just makes me proud to have lived here for 30 years right we we speak the truth again not talking about other places but I reached out to our student body president when dialogue with their students was cut off after one question we don't do that here right and so thank you for that and thank you for your comments any comments by my colleagues up here I do have a question yes ma'am um I was wondering because uh Ava Miranda when you were when you were up here at the podium you mentioned the wellness center and I'm not familiar with the wellness center and

078I was wondering if you could just tell me a little bit more about that no can you come up there's another black shirt wearing Jaguar fella in the back row who maybe could help I don't know yeah so I was more referring to a Wellness Center just things that we can improve uh as ASB I mean Jackson and I have been working together very closely this week and I think that we've um like he just reiterated I'm going to reiterate exactly what he just said but um it's good to be proud of where we are and be proud of the comfort that our students feel compared to you know elsewhere where problems are significantly worse for in terms of student safety but there are always things to improve so I was saying the idea of

079a wellness center of more social social emotional counselors things like that um to improve just just ideas we're throwing out uh yes I see I understand and then also I was wondering from both of you uh Jackson and also um Ava when in these conversations that you've been having has there also been conversation about having restorative justice circles uh yeah well I brought up um also with Olay and I came up uh our Circle program already uh and I was saying how big of a program that is for students that is something we have I don't know in terms of Staff training and things like that that is equally important that's what you're referring to um I think that our Circle program on campus is huge I mean I know that you guys agree based

080on past things that have you know been made in this very room um and so I think that it's definitely a program that we need to keep keep my sister was a circle keeper when she was in high school so I was always around it and I think that the idea is very instrumental to who our students are today that we have that availability to have circles especially in health classes I know that our health teacher uses them quite often um yeah I think that they're very important okay yeah that's really really important information I just want to say thank you um and also because somebody made the earlier point that early on in the year there were lots of fights so I'm I'm happy that we have this you know a circle keeper that's

081what you call it right yeah Circle keeper and as far as the wellness center I love that idea thank you thank you okay um and thank you Jackson um with that 3.5 I feel like we need to take a break or something here yes um let's yes please yes yes let's play five minutes okay we are going to take five minutes and then we'll come back with 3.5 with the superintendent report great okay thank you just like overwhelmed yeah well yeah uh one short-sighted group did not keep you in the mix no it's it's well I started prepping for this speech that I just gave about 18 hours ago and then the people that I were going against had theirs fully memorable like I said foreign thank you questions [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign

082[Music] okay thank you ladies and gentlemen um before we break we have public comments 2.0 just work at it as the HR guy that's that's beautiful um while we had taken a break uh Amy Whiteley the leadership uh lead at the high school got a text from a counterpart at Montgomery High School which I asked her if she might read because it goes right to what the written comment from the podium and what Jackson was talking about so Amy please thank you um appreciate a part course having my students here to be able to add to the public comment regarding what's been happening since the incident at Montgomery High School on Wednesday last week the students just started right away rallying together and students from Santa Rosa city schools reaching out to our Windsor high

083school students who then was I was able to have a conversation with and we created sort of our action plan for Windsor in addition I am in contact with all the activities directors in our area and Jim LaFrance is from Monty he's been there for I want to say three or four years he's one of the best and so I had reached out to him to see if our students could go down there today so coincidentally while they were speaking tonight he had sent me a text message and he said thank you so much for the flowers and cards after a challenging three days we just played a game today and your kids jumped right in it was fun to laugh with them we took the flowers to the art teacher who was our student

084teacher last year we took the flowers to the art teacher who was teaching in the as Jaden died she was very much she very much appreciated them their sign is going to the memorial for the family we really appreciate your kindness so I thought that was pretty poignant that I just received this as our students are speaking so thank you for letting me share it thank you it very much Amy we should keep up our good work but also take a moment of Pride and pause in the culture that we have and so thank everyone for that uh with that we have a new thing and I was just talking at the break from our HR Director Pete Sullivan um out of some comments that had come a few meetings ago we are starting a

085process of Staff recognitions so take it away Mr Sullivan excellent thank you uh yeah so just a little history on this about two months ago we got to hear from our wdea president about a staff member um and it was about Steve Mitchell and she covered all of the things he does to make his program the best and the dedication that he puts forth and that it struck me as as something that was really important and it really went along with what trustee Ahmad has been saying for months which is we need to start recognizing our staff to show the appreciation that we feel for them every month in some form so although it's not a perfect start um this is definitely uh me on a trial run and I'm looking for feedback on this

086we're going to start our recognitions tonight uh so uh Mr Williams has provided me with a a a short summary of a recognition for both a classified and a certificated individual we're going to be rotating through each campus each month so uh next month it'll be North Bay met and then the following month it will be the middle school and then Cali and then Brooks and then Maddie and then we cycle back through um and so after the presentation which will be a brief presentation I'll come up and read uh the the information that has been given to me by the um the principal at each site and you'll notice that I didn't invite the people here that was intentional again I really liked that we were here to honor Steve uh and he didn't

087necessarily have to be here and and sit and wait for his time to be called up and recognized so my intention is to then invite all of you to the the next staff meeting that is held at that campus where I will present them with a small token of our appreciation I will read this again and if you're able to attend that would be fantastic so with no further I will go ahead and read the uh the comments written by Mr Williams and this is for Jeff Brandt he is the certificated employee that he has chosen to recognize on his campus Jeff Brandt has demonstrated a strong commitment to education both inside and outside the classroom he has dedicated more than 30 years to education with most of his time at Windsor High School which

088is a testament to his dedication and passion for teaching and service to the Windsor community Jeff's impressive accomplishments as a Fulbright teacher and summer fellow for the National Endowment for the Humanities showcase his commitment to developing new approaches to teaching and learning by participating in these prestigious programs Jeff gained a wealth of knowledge and experience that he can share with his students and colleagues what sets Jeff apart from others on campus is as Innovative and entrepreneurial spirit he has founded a sanus Homestay immersion project s-a-n-a-s I'm not sure if that's just an acronym or I'm supposed to say it thank you which provides students with an opportunity to travel to Spanish-speaking countries and study with medical professionals this program is a unique way to give students a Hands-On learning experience and prepare them for the

089future careers in the medical field Jeff Brandt's dedication to teaching is evident in his ability to teach all levels of Spanish from beginning to advanced placement he is known for his Innovative teaching methods which incorporate a variety of activities and resources to engage students and help them learn I'm just going to side here when I was an AP there I used to love walking over to where Jeff's classes were they were always outside at the tables and one of the coolest things I saw he they were interviewing each other in Spanish and then they would critique in Spanish their interviews and it was fantastic and the kids were so engaged when I would walk by and then of course they wanted to share with me and they wanted to interview me and my Spanish is

090so it wasn't that great but I can attest to everything that's said here uh Jeff's approach to teaching Spanish involves creating supportive and inclusive classroom environment that promotes learning and understanding he challenges his students to push beyond their comfort zones providing them with the necessary tools and resources to succeed this commitment to teaching as students is unparalleled and his ability to teach all levels of Spanish is a testament to his skills as an educator Jeff is also known for support of nature towards students and staff he goes above and beyond to ensure that everyone feels welcome and valued creating a positive learning environment that promotes success his willingness to mentor and assist his colleagues has earned him a reputation as a respected and admired member of the educational Community overall Jeff Brent Jeff Brandt's dedication

091to education Innovative spirit and supportive nature make an invaluable asset to Windsor High School his contributions have undoubtedly impact countless of students and Educators and we are fortunate to have him as a member of our community Jeff Brandt you're here [Applause] and for classified Cynthia Straub Cynthia Straub is an invaluable member of our team who has been working as an accounts clerk for almost 10 years and she has been in the district for 16. she is known for her meticulous attention to detail and her ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously ensuring all Financial transactions are accurately recorded and processed in a timely manner again I will step aside and say I got to share a space more or less with Cynthia so my office was adjacent to Cynthia's and I was always over there asking

092and getting clarification on facilities on budgets especially when I had to do some budgeting for sports not not so good but she was very helpful uh in in all respects and her organization with facilities if I needed any information about events that were occurring and there are always events occurring at the high school she was spot on and she was so helpful and I really appreciated her what sets Cynthia apart from others in her role is her dedication to providing exceptional customer service it doesn't matter if it is a student teacher or coach she's always available to answer questions and address concerns and she does so with the friendly and professional demeanor that puts people at ease she takes the time to explain information in a way that is easy to understand she's always willing

093to go the extra mile to ensure that everyone feels welcome Cynthia is known for her strong work ethic and her ability to work well under pressure she's a team player who is always willing to lend a hand when needed and she is consistently demonstrating a positive attitude that motivates others to do their best overall Cynthia Straub's commitment to accuracy efficiency and exceptional exceptional customer service make an invaluable member of our team her dedication to her role as an account clerk ensures that our financial operations run smoothly in efficiency efficiently and her positive attitude and strong work ethic May create pleasure to work with we are fortunate to have her on our team Cynthia straw thank you Mr Williams and I will be sending all of you an invitation I believe the staff meeting is on

094the third so it's a Wednesday at eight am I correct okay and uh hope to see you all there thank you thank you very much Pete appreciate it um with that we are actually going to get to the bit of the meeting we're going to skip a couple of items I would entertain a motion for item 3.9 approval of our minutes of February 16th 2023 uh before we get to the consent action items I'll make a motion okay I'll second okay thank you very much all those in favor aye thank you very much okay uh vice president uh Lopez will present our consent action items under item four all right okay um so I would like to entertain a motion to approve consent items 4.1 through 4.12 are there any abstentions I need to abstain

095from 4.1 actually I'd like to have a discussion on four point oh golly where to go well we'll just go through this and I'll let you know let me read which one do you have questions or do you want to pull it off the consent time just more questions comments let's get a second then I'll second that motion then um Alan okay so and is your discussion discussion okay a second no a second oh second okay yeah first by me or Jen and second by Stephanie um which when did you have questions about rich it was on the club that I believe is 411. is that where it is there we go yeah the what it was my question [Music] is well it's kind of a twofold question because I don't remember a club starting

096a club not starting a club of ever coming up before the board before I don't recall it um but anyhow when I read through when I read through the the documents the the only the only thing that kind of struck my mind was that and Laurel she's she's here so I can ask the only thing that was struck out at me it was a question and I'm sorry I didn't get a chance I've been swamped this week or I would have reached out to you earlier just to ask but um was the question was that it talked about that says in order to elect officers we had to ask volunteers because there wasn't enough members at any meeting to have an election consistently to have an election so I'm I'm the thought was if we

097don't have enough people there to have an election of officers is there enough people there have the club so that was two don't make sense to me so well I while you're here I mean it's a pub we can ask these things right or no there's a question about and I I I'll just while you're coming up Laurel um I also don't recall ever seeing a student Club coming up so I'm wondering what what yeah I can yeah I can talk a little bit concern in question that's what I was waiting for because I've never seen a club come across the the board docs okay so in order for a club to be able to collect money it has to be approved by the board as a club of the ASB and so this from

098what I understand Laurel and correct me if I'm wrong but there was already a club established in a way but they weren't collecting money and they would like to you know fundraise in the future so that's why this came up on the board agenda that explains a whole lot of other questions why I had certain information was in there so with your explanation I would draw my other question so we're good yeah right any other questions or comments on the consent items okay um with the abstention of item 4.1 by Rich all those in favor of the consent action calendars four one the 412. excuse me 4.11 411 no 412. so okay we just had questions about which I think are answered now um so no other questions okay all those in favor all right

099all right okay well thank you um we're rolling now uh so five one again we adjusted the agenda the win direct foundation will be coming in April uh I will share with and again Jen Cox you can help keep us on track melanelli Lopez and I went to a day-long seminar for the California School Board Association on board president so thank you very much for taking the time to do that incoming president Lopez but one of the things I learned is your voting is called preferential voting student trustee because you vote first to tell us which way the wind is blowing and so instead of being asked student board member we will all turn to you to look to say tell us what your vote is on these action items as we go forward so

100that's my one thing I remember out of that amongst some other stuff so 5.2 The Windsor High School awasque report preliminary findings uh presented uh by Davin Goodwin our wasp Survivor [Music] and thank you for your patience I'm Davon Goblin and this year I was the last year and this year I was the WASP coordinator and I want to start by um thanking um our my whole administrative team and Jeremy for uh trusting me with this process I felt very very supported and given opportunity to have real responsibility in the decision making about how to build consensus across the campus using student and classified and um sort of certified input and recreating our mission statement and our vision statement for example in our student learning outcomes and so I'm really really grateful for that thank

101you and then really briefly I'm not going to read everything on every slide but I wanted to give you all the information I think you may have heard that we got a very positive should I I don't have access to clicking that through do I um oh is it this no yeah okay thanks I'll try it there it is oh and it Buzz this a little bit all right so very very briefly for those people that aren't familiar wasc stands for Western Association of schools and colleges they are the commission that actually validate our operation completely they they make our transcript legitimate um they say yes our credits count our students complete a through G requirements because the classes count and wask says that so they come through normally every six years and say yes

102you're doing a really good job keep up the good work maybe look at these few things we'll be back in three years or six years um Windsor High School in the history of its existence has always earned six-year accreditation which is full credit uh and until October of 2020 and they had the audacity to show up in October of 2020. when we were just getting on our feet trying to figure out what the heck was going on with distance learning and what were these swivel machines and what all of it and there was some uh instability in our administrative makeup at that point uh Dr Collins was technically our principal I think that he might have been on leave and that's when they showed up to evaluate our operation so we were put on probationary

103status which was pretty shocking and um we we've addressed all of the issues last year we worked really really hard and um the visiting committee came back on February 5th through 7th there were only two people because it was a short a probationary visit is a more truncated version of the entire process and the two gentlemen came and visited classrooms they met with every stakeholder group they started with a reception in the library on the Sunday before thank you for those of you who were able to attend that we appreciate that and then they reported out Tuesday afternoon after spending two entire days of visiting our campus and looking really at talking to as many different people and from as many different perspectives and going into as many classrooms as they could they reported out

104on Tuesday afternoon and their agenda included well um explaining to us what the possible outcomes were of their visit it was possible and I didn't even realize this it was possible that they could have immediately revoked our accreditation of course that didn't happen that's not what happened at all we they could have been continuing the process on probation and although they are not allowed to tell us what our status officially is because the commission doesn't meet until April and when the commission meets in April they will vote on the recommendation that the visiting team provided and then Brian will receive a letter that formalizes our status but they literally said wink wink nudge nudge that we should expect to be back on track that we they observed good work I've underlined on this slide I've

105underlined the previous concerned um the current from the 2020 visit the things that we needed to address that they found problematic at Windsor high school and then the Bold is what we're doing and how we've addressed that in the meantime so again there's a lot of text there and I hate it when my teachers read the whole prompt the whole slide to me so I won't do that but I'll just give you a sec and so in short oh and then our strengths um they said again as much as possible when they were sharing out they did not provide like teams usually do normally every time I've been a part of an evaluating team visiting another campus on the wask um under wasp auspices we provide a slide deck they didn't provide a slide slide

106deck so Brian said you're going to take notes while they talk so I was just I was just typing madly typing and so there were some things that are direct quotes he said this is a very strong School we've seen a lot of hard work the wink wink nudge nudge was a direct quote um and so that there there are several things that we're doing really really well that they commended us for there's a the middle the third bullet down the engagement of life in person on campus they were really excited to be back in person and enjoyed all the different ways that students were able to engage in life on campus especially after covid and they saw that they really felt that on our campus they did give us some areas for growth that

107first one was he said data should mean usable data and what he meant by that it came out in a couple of the focus group meetings that I was part of it said that it should be pretty immediate that um right now one of the main sources of data is the Casp test which only happens with the 11th grade and it happens in the spring of their 11th grade year and we if we're lucky we get the results in August and so they were looking to see more um immediate results that's that that we instructors could use to adjust our instructional practices and deliveries I'm also going to just comment really quickly on the fourth bullet down because they they actually instructed us to kind of narrow our Focus for with PD to pick one

108or two things and just keep doing that all year long and uh to uh ins we have kind of been enjoying a smorgasbord of lots of different initiatives and lots of different ideas and there they were saying you know pick a few and stay that path foreign and then very briefly the next steps again the commission will meet in April and Brian will get an official notice of our status and he's really good about being transparent and he communicates with us really really immediately and quickly um and clearly so we'll know I'm sure as soon as he does and then we already have begun to plan a professional development days to create scope and sequence which will build alignment and Equity across scores and um vertically across grade levels in addressing a couple of those

109prompts so thank you and we really really appreciate all of your support and again Brian thank you so much for trusting me with this are there any questions Mr Williams you would like to add anything before we get to go okay um well thank you I'll make a couple comments and have the board if they have any questions then we'll go to public comment and then I think bring it back for us this is an action for us to receive acknowledge what are we doing here uh just receiving the report okay so it's not on for action but we will bring it back um I was there that Sunday and there was two things that struck me one how many students and family members and not sort of the direct faculty in the usual I'll

110call The Usual Suspects who would be there and that um both the we went on a quick tour in in the uh in the Williams mobile which he really wanted to show him his Uber golf cart but both of them repeatedly said how it is unusual to see that level of Engagement and they also said when they got to the campus they said hmm wonder what happened we can't imagine how this campus didn't pass the wask and I will say on behalf of this body there are a few things that we really are directly engaged in from the board I mean we do resources and set policy and priority goals we hire one person and we need to watch accreditation and starting from here we we were not watching that at the time and I

111think that's something that we can pledge to help you know in the district to do um I would be interested for any comments however that my friend trustee Ahmad had because she had shared while we were there I didn't know and this is for uh you're still here student body president Miranda um a generation ago when Stephanie Ahmad was in your shoes as student body president and this thing and that thing what did you do related to wask oh so I was a wasp representative I was a student on the road yeah but Ava and I have a lot in common so my one of my best friends in leadership was named ale so it was very it was just so I think we might be generational twins so maybe a future on the school

112board or or something greater I see for you any other comments from board members I had a question yeah I was wondering if you could go back to the slide before next steps uh yeah I was looking at the first bullet point where it says for example core should collect and use information based on successful completion of a through G and pathway continuation and I was wondering what kind of data or what what will be collected those again this was that's wording from the WASP visiting committee and they were recommending that Coors uh while they look at their a3g path um completion which is college eligibility requirements and we wanted to make sure that between the course that there was Equitable completion of those and that they wanted to make sure that the there might

113be some cores right now that aren't that are more career based but they want to make sure that those students also can if they choose to access College immediately after high school and the and that was already something that we again started building last year and this year uh in training all the faculty about the a through G requirements and where their class fits and how to advise the students as they're uh choosing their classes about for example how to take that additional science class or a math class or whatever they might need so it was engaging the all of the cores um to keep track of the students and how they were preparing them for both College and Career right and I was wondering Mr Williams if there was something in mind for that

114because I know in a previous meeting I was asking about how much time do students spend hearing about future career options um so so we do um we had some data from last year from our youth truth survey um that pointed out particularly the 10th graders were feeling like they were not they're not getting anything it's coming now Oh I pushed it all right um so we guys we uh had data from last year that are particularly our 10th graders were feeling like they were not um getting information about um College access and careers so we actually had a head start on being able to develop many of those programs we received an A through G Grant along with I think everyone else in California um and implemented um quite a new few programs um

115we started allowing students to validate their grades so if they received an F or a d and they wanted that grade account towards College we let them retake the course um and receive a new grade so there's a lot of things we did um but really what it was with an eye on equity and we want to make sure like if you're in the build core um yes you're getting all that CTE uh training and those real world experiences but we want them achieving at the same level as if they're in the stem Corps and so um you know we've heard for 20 years there's the easy course and we're really trying to eliminate that and make every core equal and rigorous and that that rule would apply for let's say if it's a PE

116class that's not passed they would be able to retake that or is it only for the college classes so if it's not passed you can always retake it for credit through credit makeup um but the only courses you would need to validate are courses that um will qualify you towards a through G right right your traditional English classes things like that okay thank you amazing work thank you thank you any other questions or comments yes sir the comment one to staff I mean uh great job also I I appreciate you when you guys invite us to these things sometimes we can't we're always busy in that my next part is I appreciate you guys uh sometimes we're all have different schedules and and uh it's one things I like about this board is that we

117all seem to always find at least one or two of us that have a slot that we can go and make it and so um I think it was important for you guys to be there when people come to see when they see the members of the board there they know that that is important to us so it's important to us that I think that translates through so I you know I appreciate you guys going and covering for us who couldn't make it at that time because it is important to all of us and so thank you to you and thank you to the staff and you know it's this is kind of here hold on I'm gonna wink and Nod that that this report kinda resembles what I have felt has always been uh

118what we have here and what we produce and uh the opportunities we have for all of our kids so thank you and if there's one thing I could say bored uh you made an investment so the first time this came around we didn't invest in the process this time we did so we made sure that Davin had released periods so that she could do this work properly and make sure we could impact some really positive change at the high school so that is a direct decision that you made so just to point out this is not a action item but in essence you made that action and it made this thing happen on this item is there any public comment about and again well done thank you very much for presenting well report received we

119look forward to getting the copy of the letter Mr Williams when you get it um next going to item 4.2 which is an action item consideration excuse me 5.3 consideration of approval of new job descriptions for two multi-tiered system of support continuous Improvement specialists and stepping into The Fray is assistant superintendent Ferrer you want the more qualified person yeah was that like a tag what was that okay go a request for a new job description called mpss continuous Improvement specialist it is a different type of a tosa which is a teacher on special assignment it's one job description but we were we are hoping to get two positions out of it one person that covers grades TK through five and one that covers grades six through twelve so in light of the new forward movement

120that we have been focusing on and training our leadership staff on and now our site staff um for mtss I did a small presentation two months ago I believe we um would like to invest um people power and resources into ensuring that we can effectively um create an mtss framework that's long-standing for our district and that yields results so the emphasis for this mtss tosa or mtss t-tron special assignment will be in curriculum assessment instruction and professional development around the implementation of mtss the overall duties of this role have been made to specifically support best first instruction for all students in all subjects as well as in behavioral and social emotional systems so this is um an investment we are discontinuing our math ptosas which are our Math teachers on special assignment they've done some

121great work but we feel that this is what we need to move forward district-wide not only academically but behaviorally and social emotionally and can I add something as well Sharon so these are coming at a one-time fund so we have learning block recovery oh we have a learning block recovery Grant learn recovery block grant and so these would be funded out of that block grant and those funds have to be expended 2028 is what we've designated but it's 2029 correct also this 2028 so we're using one-time funds to cover these positions not general fund would you say one time it's one time that covers a span of correct school years yes okay okay any other questions from the board or comments I'm trying to think how to sense right so are we reducing our ability

122to help kids with math yeah good that's all I want to make sure I almost Shakespearean in your delivery what was amazing was my question was short and your answer was shorter you and I have set a new record your follow-up was twice the length of the any other comments from the board yes sir we need to make sure that the this uh this new position is not touchable because I know we've moved tosas from being a tosa back into the classroom in the past I mean we have to have a commitment that this is not going to happen that this is what they're going to do and I also wanted to say that the behavioral part is going to be more of a challenge than you have any idea about I have been in

123a classroom I was in a classroom today where I had to observe a child in another classroom that was good the throw desks was throwing throwing desks there was a principal who had to be in there a uh an administrative assistant had to be in there as well as in another um special ed teacher to be in there this is not an unusual situation this was in a fourth grade class so I'm just saying you have your work cut out for you to make this whole program work and that and and these are these are not um students that are even identified so I just want the commitment to be there to make sure that these these positions stay there and that they are the help that these teachers are going to need because they're

124going to need help I don't think you could you said that perfectly and it's what we're noticing as well we we do have a lack of tier two interventions for our students who are not identified with an IEP and it's been a constant conversation of ours in fact when we're talking about the funds that we just said these positions are coming out of uh we just we just not just started the process but we've started a a process of identifying what's needed in all of our conversation has been around with student Behavior more so than academics with regard to learning recovery so we're there with you Mr Cornell because I mean the reason I bring it up is because I'm looking across I'm looking over there and I'm thinking that poor teacher now is trying

125to huddle the rest of the kids and try and she did a she was still trying to teach the other children who were still left in that class while this other situation is going on in the classroom it's an it's it's an amazing job it's a difficult job but they do but we do need the help we need the help in those classrooms I would anticipate that in May you'll have a plan that has to do with everything you just described and it will it'll be a plan for these funds that I just described okay thank you I was going to ask on that maintenance of effort cost but we'll cover that when we get to the more comprehensive investment here before we get to budgets in May um with that are there any comments

126from the public on this section item okay seeing none this is an action item we will now try the new 2023 requirement preferential vote number one from student board member your what is what say you about consideration of approval of item 5.3 so much pressure uh I okay and the rest of the board uh all those in favor aye aye okay any opposed that's one five zero I think so oh I don't know if we had did we have a motion I don't think you did I'll make the motion and I'll second there you go unless you want to do it Paul yeah it's just a passion okay yeah motion by me and second by uh malinelli thank you team okay now to the meat of the biscuit here on 5.4 with consideration of approval

127of our 2022-2023 second interim financial report Austin is up we're in his protective jacket from the slings and arrows of the board well played okay go ahead sir all right this is the second interim am I on no that's why I gotta get close today proximity alert yeah I was gonna say I hope nevermind I'm gonna say glad code it's not a thing anymore but I it still is so anyways second second interim 2020 to 23. um so let's oh I'm sorry foreign so an update on the governor's budget and not all of these items are on the governor's budget so like prop 28 we know is not it's outside of it but I'm going to walk you through kind of some legislative changes at the top and then kind of how it feeds into

128the budget a little bit and then we'll go through kind of how it affects us so uh the governor releases his budget three times a year right January then May and then in July he certifies it this year the July one is actually going to be a little bit more important than usual because I don't know all the details on this but because he uh because of some covid uh tax relief stuff that he did and pushed it out he basically deferred it and so they won't have all the estimates in until April and so as May and July budgets May differ a little bit more but um not too severe enough so one of the main changes is the cost of living adjustment has gone up so the cost of living adjustment is an

129increase in funding for us so we get more revenues based off of it per student right so one of the interesting things about the governor's budget though was it did not assume a recession and the reason why that's important is because both of the other main parties that project the budget both assumed a mild recession and so since the governor's budget in January comes out he only has revenues through uh November and so now we have revenues through January and the revenues actually match the other two houses so it'd be interesting to see if that cost of living adjustment stays there or if it's going to end up going down um and then if it were to end up going down then it would require a passage by the house to actually allow the governor

130to overturn it so usually the governor is a little bit too conservative right kind of similar to our budgets we try to be on the conservative end so the governor tries to be on the conservative end as well but in this case uh he was on the aggressive end so then the next step was the passage of prop 28 so that's going to start in the next school year I wanted to add that in there though because it ties into the second one so the governor once prop 28 passed for the first time I know in my career I don't know about Jeremy's career but he reduced something that he had already given so he said we're gonna give you last year he said that 3.5 billion in arts music instructional materials block grant he's

131actually reduced that by 1.2 which is about a 33 30 decrease right and so for us that's going to end up resulting from us getting about 2.1 to about 1.35 in that General vicinity so it's interesting uh it ends up still being better for us because in the short term that was just a block grant right and prop 28 is long term and it's something that we backed as a district as well and so um yeah so in the long term it's better good rich but if I could say it in just normal terms yes sir we all thought when we voted for that yeah that we were going to have what we have and although it was sold and written and everything else yep that we ring at that one percent and it was

132going to come on yeah but we had the old rug snafui pulled out from underneath us and now we do have that one percent in our right pocket but now our left pocket is empty correct well not empty there's a few there's a couple it still makes a little noise yes a few coins in there yeah so we really uh so we're not getting what we thought they just reduced they just where they had discretion they just took the discretion away and so like you said we have more than we had it might be more um because it's not a grant now it's more locked in but we're not getting what we thought we were going to get right what was great for my position was there was no major categorical or restricted program changes

133so in the last two three what'd you say first time first time in a while so in the last two or three years uh we've been swamped we have more than double the amount of grants in this district and I actually have a slide layer that kind of goes through the ones that are currently sitting in our fund balance but we had so many categorical and restricted grants over the last two to three years that were constantly felt like making plans for all these different grants and so there is a little bit of me that's selfish in the fact of it's nice to actually cool it for a minute um and then get back to reality so that's the governor's budget update um the next slide kind of shows what I talked about originally with

134the two different houses and how they projected income right and we talked about how a majority of the income at the state level that gets given to us is personal income tax right and so uh the blue is what the governor had projected in his budget and then the legislative analyst office even though it was in November had projected um what was considered more accurate so I like to look at these two and think of like the superintendent and CBO projections right to superintendent obviously being the governor um and the CBO being the Lao most ahead of valuations last month yeah yeah so um yes so you can see the difference and again the revenues are aligning with the Lao um pretty pretty steadily so with all that being said it doesn't really matter because

135we still decided to use the Assumption of a higher cost of living adjustment the governor projected it and then School services at California agreed with it and usually if those two are going to agree on an assumption we're going to use it and so that's what we decided to do even though it may not come to fruition so some of the other changes that were a little bit different since first interim which was in December was there was additional cost of CPI which is uh California price index or Consumer Price Index sorry and uh yeah it was unfortunate to see that go up because it was already high so to just keep going higher and then it also got higher in the out years so basically what they're projecting is that inflation is going to

136stay a little bit higher than what was projection three months ago and then enrollment projections stayed uh they stayed steady since first interim they're still you know we're still in declining enrollment um but it stayed steady within 15 students of where we originally projected it and we actually go through a pretty uh intense process in the matter of first interim to second because we sit down with all the principles and we debate back and forth on how many kids right Brian Williams is always going to tell me he's going to have 100 more kids coming than he actually has and so we're you know we sit there and we debate so we go back and forth so our Revenue our enrollment projections stayed within 15 students and then uh unfortunately uh Ada percentage is decreasing

137due to coven um and you know that's one of the assumptions that we'll talk about on the next slide a little bit actually I have two more slides the next slide really talks about it a lot um but Ada it's decreasing um last year we were thinking it was just because kovid was still a thing this year it almost felt like you know we were on the cautious side um culturally and so at the first reporting period which is historically going to be your best reporting period throughout the school district it it was at a very historic low for us um so that is something to uh you know watch as we move forward and I'll talk about in the next slide how that actually will affect us long term not just right now and

138then we had a gain of one percent unduplicated and I have to tell you I fought really hard for that one percent I had several people in my office calling parents and we were the only District in Sonoma County to receive an increase this year the reason for that is because when the governor mandated free meals this year you know why would a parent fill out a you know a a meal application you know to try to get a free meal right that was the whole purpose of it and so this year you know we wanted to show well we receive a lot more funding that's not just tied to food right we receive our lcap funds completely through that on top of title funds we also receive uh before and after school care funds

139I mean so many different types of funds so we knew that that was going to be important especially this year and we had a team on it and then the principals were great oh Brian left um but yeah I mean they all were calling parents too talking to them when they came into the office so that was a team effort for that one percent and and Austin maybe take a second for all those folks who are playing at home yeah when we see a one percent unduplicated and fifty three thousand dollars more what is it that we're asking or reminding those families that they are eligible for that they might not have applied for just give an example whether it's you know the free and reduced lunch or uh other other things that there are

140programs for sure if you could just talk about that for a second yeah that's great you made a good I get what the the outcome was but maybe articulate how we help help families help the district in our resources uh because of their unique situation yeah so some of the things that a family will get if they you know do indeed certify as being either low-income and English learner household or a foster youth household is they'll get free bus to school right so their bus passes are free they get free technology repair so you know if the student has uh I don't want to say you know they break a laptop or and replace it for free but we have certain items at a reduced price for those students on top of that before and

141after school care is huge right so they get free before and after school care um in that they get a dinner and then they also get what you know we're going to try to implement as a tutoring program as well um through before and after school care so they get a I don't want to say laundry list but it was a little we always call them meal applications before and so now going away from that term uh and trying to show there's more than just meals is important so good question Bill thank you for explaining that yep and then uh final point that I want to make since first interim is the pers employer rates go up go ahead Richard I'm sorry following up on on Bill's question if we again that one percent if

142our district improves or increases that another two or three percent don't we hit a threshold that then puts us in a supplement yeah we get a lot more sure yeah so this district has never reached the threshold which is 55 and right now we're at 51 so we're about four percent off uh but at 55 you receive what's called concentration Grand dollars and those are on like if you can picture an exponential yield curve right math guy hockey stick Paul will love that yes it just goes up and that's how concentration grants um happen and so I mean I don't want to get into it too much but in Southern California I mean those districts are so wealthy and it's because they have 75 80 percent unduplicated students a lot of um Spanish-speaking and low-income

143families uh and then Foster youth families too which is not good but they receive so much more money to help support those students and so for our district we've never historically gone up to that percentage but we are we're about four percent away from it and then once you hit that number the little bit more you go over really makes a big funding difference yeah to make that point clear so Roseland is a concentration District um I don't know what the percentage is but it's high and they're I only have my numbers from 2020 but they're per pupil funding was over twenty thousand dollars per student we were around 12. so and that's that's due to concentration grant funding no it's uh like you said a hockey stick goes way up so and what's great

144about that too that I should also add in Rich and good memory because it used to be 65 and within the last two years they've actually knocked that down 255 to give districts like us a little bit of a chance to get there um which is great so pers employer rates are increasing um that was a difference since just November so they've been on the rise the last two three years that we've known about but just since November they've gone up with this January proposal um so that is a change that has happened so one of the things I do want to talk about because it's it's confusing and it really ties into this budget and what's going on with attendance right now at the schools so prior to this year right so last year

145and all the way back to 2012 when our funding mechanism lcff local control funding formula was implemented Ada was calculated just two ways it was either you're funded off your current year or your higher year or your prior year which every year was higher right so it's either your current year or your prior year which one was higher it was as simple as that um and so I actually put our actual Ada there now that those numbers only include uh wusd they do not include Cali but you can kind of see that and of course 1920 and 2021 they were hold harmless but prior to that change if you look over on the right we would have only gotten 3176 this year right as opposed to in 2223 uh yeah in 2223 would have had

1463166 or 3176 does that make sense it was between which ones were higher and so one of the things that uh we had asked for but it just delayed the um the problem a little bit but you could tell that there was going to be a fiscal cliff no matter what you have a drop off of 325 students or 330 students uh you guys can do the math at roughly twelve thousand dollars a student um yeah you're looking at about was that rich your math guy 3.6 ish I said four four yeah four close yeah yeah 4.2 yeah so you're looking at four million dollars that that change just that Cliff would have caused and so what the governor did to kind of fix that is he went into he called it the kova 1988

147relief so your Ada that you're going to be funded off of um I'm sorry Ada uh just for everyone is average daily attendance so the average number of students that attend school every day so your Ada that you're funded off of is either going to be the current year the prior year or the average of the last three so he added that in there and whichever one was the higher number you would get funded off of and so I put the the little box down there to kind of try to show that change right so prior to that change this year we would have been funded off of the 3176 uh because that would have been last year's number and that number would have been higher than this year but with that coven 1980a relief

148we're going to be funded off that that's the 3395 which is the average of that 1920 2021 21 22 year so if you take the average of those three years the prior years that's your average and so we've received an additional 218 or 218 you know attendance that we were funded off of this year which is again twelve thousand dollars a student you know you guys can do the math 2.4 ish Austin can I interject one thing as well so I had the opportunity to speak to our legislators on behalf of the superintendents in the county and one of the things that I advocated for was one more year of um relief of hold harmless you see in 1920 our numbers the same 20 to 21 right I asked for one more year because our

149Ada is way down because we're at 92 percent 91 some places are in the 80s and so saying that we're now it's now being an actor or being held accountable for our attendance doesn't seem super Fair this year we had so many students out sick because of what we went through so I I don't have a lot of faith that they're going to make the change but I need you to know that it was advocated for and that would be a massive difference right we're projecting 3 400 Well we'd be up 100 students if that was you know put in place by our legislators so do you have a slide coming up for the projection or what we anticipate for 23 24. yes okay I don't know if I have the funded but one of

150the things in Bill you're right on the track and it goes back to what Jeremy was advocating for we I want to say we saw this coming but we saw us coming we did um and so we kind of figured that ADA wasn't going to return as quickly as the legislature thought it was going to right we thought that students were still going to be absent and so because of that though because of the lower percentage the last couple years you're going to see in the out years that those revenues start to kind of flatten because it's going to take the average so all of it counts now um and so you're going to have a lower percentage for three years as opposed to before it was just between one or two years if that

151makes sense okay so these were the assumptions used for this budget as you guys know the entire budget is based off of assumptions so we use the higher cost of living adjustment which for the 23 24 school year goes up to 8.13 which we absolutely hope comes to fruition if not more somehow hopefully we get a huge influx um and then 24 25 we see three and a half percent enrollment projections uh you see that going slightly down if you notice we did uh budget kind of the historic Trend uh in enrollment projections going down so that was the projections that we used for that and talk about let's talk about it let's talk about it it's a little bit confusing um because we talk we've also talked in our facility Master planning committee meetings

152about how we could get an enrollment bump once these projects are completed so we wanted to build those in we talked about building them into this budget the problem is all those projects are behind every single one and so for us to know when they're actually going to be finished and have inhabitants we have no clue so to try to project that would probably be fairly irresponsible in our part of this at this point at least that's how we're feeling and so we're going with our historical Trends until those are complete and people are in them and then we will project what our enrollment is based on the number of units that are filled so that makes some sense I hope it does and I have a follow-up question to that because I think even

153even though we're waiting there's still kind of a different approach in conservative budgeting between when you're looking at facilities and master planning versus when you're looking at enrollment projections for like budget purposes for the immediate next cycle can you talk a little bit about that Austin like how what it means to do a conservative estimate in both in both kinds of scenarios facility master plan process it was brought to you guys at the last board meeting but it was something that we had started you know well into last year and so at the time where they're going to get their numbers from of when those kids are coming in and in what years they're going to get it from actually the town's Planning Commission they're going to sit down and they're going to go when

154are all these projects expected to be completed and that's what they did right and at the time they said oh we have these roughly 12 projects that are going to be completed in 2023 we said whoa you know it's a good thing we're starting this process now because we don't have facilities for an additional 800 students that are going to be coming in uh so we got proactive about it you know we have started the process are going through it and so conservatively on the facility side and remember they're two totally different funds so on the on the facility side it's more conservative and frankly better planning uh on our end to be thinking proactively ahead of gaining these additional students and be ahead of the developments to have a home for them so that

155way we're not building Portables that later have to get torn out and then rebuilt uh permanent buildings and that's just a waste of money at that point so anywho so that's kind of the conservative financial planning now going into the budget side of it um I'll give you an example right across the street there's supposed to be a development that's supposed to be finished building right there's not one building up over there so at the same time we have a list of all the developments that are going up and so as Jeremy and I drive around town we kind of look and go where's that one at where's that one at where's that one at we have our key points right because we know we're gonna get more students per affordable housing as opposed to

156single dwelling right so we kind of have in our heads of the priority ones and uh yeah with all the weather concerns and everything it just doesn't seem like things and plus you know CPI is just still going up so I'm not so sure that contractors are wanting to build right now anywho I'm not an expert in all that but all I can say is that the construction projects have not been completed at the same timeliness that we were originally told to slash head expected so for conservative budgeting reasons which is in a whole different fund we're going to be using well we use these projections and I do have to say if you notice we've never used the projections in this budget from the facilities master plan projections and again it's the same thing

157right so it's the point you brought up Stephanie is they're going to be conservative in the fact of you're going to get more students than you actually are which is actually funny because I projected more students this year than they did and I hope we were within 25 I believe and I think they were about 80 off so um yeah but we're in the trenches right we know our town um so anywho all right so then the next one is the Ada percentage that we talked about so this was a big one because as you can see that 91.93 that was our first reporting period and historically as I had said previously that first reporting period is always higher than the second or the annual reporting period for the whole year and that's what it

158was this year at the first and so last year we saw a similar thing where the the first reporting period was very low but then it stayed low the whole year um so we're going to use that same projection or at least I chose to use that same projection this year uh to where we're going to use the P1 reporting period and then we didn't expect an increase in the next two years but we didn't bump it up back up to what the district standard has been um so we see an increase of 92 of roughly about one percent going up in the next two years but that is going to hit us for the next three years because of the change in how we get funded off of average daily attendance you know this

159is probably a good time Jeremy when you're talking to our legislators and I'm gonna throw this out there because I'm sure the answer is no but we're talking about budgets and budgeting so the state of California says hey we have ex Windsor has 4631 students at 12 000 a student where the state is obligated if everybody came to school every day they're gonna have to send us this much money yet they're getting about a nine percent discount and they're getting to keep nine percent of the money they should have came here or could have came here in Sacramento so the first question I'd ask is Governor where where did that nine percent go or were you always counting on in your budget are you never going to send it to us and all the other

160schools the same so when you talk to them maybe this would help us as trustees administrators administrators teachers and everyone else so instead of guessing and having to take all these assumptions if we know that we have 4 631 students that we're responsible for it would be so simple for them to say hey Jeremy I'm going to send Windsor a check for twelve thousand dollars times that number of students and now you educate those kids figure out how to get them because we're responsible for them right it would make it so simple I know it would take away everyone's power to dangle the the ball of yarn I don't know why I was laughing because I'm laughing because I've had the privilege of representing the superintendents in this County for the last five years yeah

161um I believe my third year representing the superintendents had made that argument and was told by Senator McGuire Jeremy is never going to happen so I made the different argument last this year I think it was this year I did it yeah because I was basically told it's never going to happen it costs too much money and we're we're I'm not an expert on this so please don't quote me I believe we're the only state that does it this way uh most other states do this completely based on your enrollment so that's and this is why I'm bringing it up because I talked to my buddies in Idaho talked to my buddies in Utah talked to my buddies in Arizona and when I was explaining the 80 and also they're going like what is that

162and they go no we have this many students is how much we get paid and then on top of that they get paid additional money per student that is a special student so uh that has special needs and different things so I know that sounds real simple but you're already telling me that you already did it you already got kicked in The Shins yep what's that I'll stay on it I'll stay on it it's uh I mean it was it was pretty clear and Senator McGuire is a good supporter of ours right he really is and he really just wanted to be on and say because he took it he he took this and tried and he essentially said it's not going to happen so try to come up with a different way to Advocate

163okay but I mean I could stay on it I'll stay on it I just don't know if it'll actually Bear much fruit sure well I just as Bill likes to say for those who are playing at home some might want to ask that same question so since the game that we're playing right now is attendance percentage I I think that we a small investment somehow that we can continually make in all of our messaging to home is a you twofold one the more your kid attends school the more funding we get and the more funding we get we can offer more and more and better and better for your kids because we're losing I mean nine percent about a million a percentage points yeah yeah we're it's eight or nine million dollars is not coming

164our way that if we think what we could do with that eight or nine million and that was cut every year they could go towards salaries additional teachers additional mentors additional help um I don't know that there's a real understanding at home uh with what that uh what that translates into so and so I don't know how we could message that maybe a little bit more but anyhow thank you sorry I want to say a little bit about ADA too I think it is the worst worst way to fund I I don't even understand the rationale behind it you're encouraging kids to come to school sick which all the teachers can nod it's it's a terrible system and it oh and if they are sick you got to keep them for 10 or 20 minutes

165whatever it is before you can send them home so you get the Ada it's do they really realize what this does I don't think so it's a budget decision I know it's I know it's a budget thing but it's also a human thing and and it affects it affects every single person that works in a school let's let's send them to school sick because we need the Ada anyway yes that's the part of it that's bad yeah because now with covid all of us are much more aware I mean if I start to get a sniffle you know I'm like okay I'm just gonna I go to the office hey guys I'm just not sure so I'm gonna leave my door shut I'm wearing a mask in my office just to make sure and then

166I waited here too and then I I test to make sure we're all good so I think everybody still got that freshly in their mind if it's better to stay home than to you don't want to get somebody else sick so I think that also is going to be in our numbers for a few years until people uh and Austin I debated this right I mean this is a significant part of how you build a budget so we really talked a lot about this Ada percentage and to your point that's kind of where we landed is we don't think we're gonna go right back to normal ways where we're at 95 96 Ada attendance rate um because there's remnants right somebody now that may have not stayed home with a stuff you know or sniffly

167knows they're staying home uh so yeah this is this is a hard one to project I think we hope we're wrong because it significantly affects our budget um but we're just not sure so let's let Austin keep pressing out he I know that's all right I know he has a couple more slides so we'll say too the county is uh last year the average was about three percent lower uh just county-wide so I mean it's a problem across California um so all good points so there's that one percent the next one is that you the unduplicated pupil percentage right um there's my one percent that I worked so hard for so it's in there we're four percent away Rich uh and then you have CPI that's going up still inflation is still persisting I I

168think it's funny how they keep projecting it to be a you know four month thing and then after four months go away but it's now been two years and it's still up above five percent which is uh very very high um stirs are staying the same in all three years and then the purse rates continue to climb so that was one of the changes was the purse uh continues to go up and these are all changes within the last you know two three months from last time I saw you guys and presented the budget so into the actual budget so one of the things that we've talked a lot about is uh kind of looking at restricted versus unrestricted programs and of course the budget that you guys are seeing tonight is combined um and

169if you remember right last year the state had historic revenues right it was almost this uh personal income tax went crazy because of the stock market um and then because of that we got so much restricted money that we had to create plans for and like I said I have a slide later that outlines all that restricted money but one thing that I want to note in here is so you see that 64 million going down to 60 million that's because a lot of that is that restricted money right our unrestricted balance of lcff is still going up even with the low 88 percentage and that's you know because of the cost of living adjustment that we built into the budget so in the current year we see in excess of about two million dollars

170and all of well all that and then some is uh all restricted restricted money so you can see it ending fund balance that we're projecting of roughly 17 and a half million but you can see that that fund balance is slowly going down in those out years and we talked about that learning recovery plan so what we basically did was we got you know a ton of one-time restricted money that could only be used on certain things right covid we all are aware of title phone well title funds are every year but we've got a lot of covet funds we have the a through G grant that I believe it was Brian and Davin reference is it you Devin yeah uh so we just received a lot of one-time money right and with the learning

171recovery funds you know that was about 3.8 million that we received so out of that additional Revenue 3.8 million of that is the learning recovery we wanted to create a plan to spend it going forward and we wanted to spend really about half a year developing a plan and one of the things that's come up tonight is student behaviors right and so you know we happen to have a board item that addresses student behavior and that's mainly I don't want to say mainly but that's a big part of the plan moving forward is student behaviors yeah so anywho any questions on this slide or are we good to move forward so I just looked from a structural deficit standpoint looking at the excess while we have a nice 2.1 closing this year we then see

17217 5 dropped to 15 4 drop to thirteen three because we're a scooch over two million dollars deficit spending because our 62 million in expenditures remains relatively consistent correct and we drop you know that four million even though some of the one-time money is for multi-year programs um I think that's always something to watch as I look at that I think all right 2 million in 24 25 divided into 13 means we got three or four years of that and we have run through a budget that's a deficit structural deficit budget and we just need to again look to turn that to smooth that in my mind so that yeah we can we can go in sustain levels of expenditures and programs and benefits and but knowing that something needs to change and I always

173like well let's build revenues then right but failing that the other places to not spend as much and and we have some buffer now but I look you know this is a three year and that's all we do in a multi-year plan but also like so what is 26 27 look like absent changes and and so I appreciate the way that you portray that to let us see these macro numbers because 17 million of Reserves in June is a big number it is a big number and you know I think when we see that one about the restricted fund balance Grant you're going to show that one with the seven and a half you know that that you know half of that's already accounted for though so okay just wanted to point that out because

174I'm I'm all for having expenditures for programs and benefits and and and what we've talked about in sustaining those resources that we had so much public comment about but it also needs to have us looking in a longer term view to say so what do we do to have that parentheses negative two million dollars in excess maybe go to a million a year right we can sustain a million a year for a long time right as we're as we're looking at adjustments we can't sustain negative two million dollar structural deficit for more than a few years right this doesn't trouble me too much a couple more years of this when we get out of a double-digit fund balance I would be concerned for so okay thank you so as you kind of look at fund

175balance right we talked about that structural deficit fund balance going down um so this is kind of the breakout of fund balance and one of the things that we talked about and it's don't worry it's the next slide where I break out all the restricted programs I should have put that earlier now looking back but uh you know reserve for economic uncertainty at five percent that you know three percent is the state standard right and for our district because we receive so many property taxes in December that five percent is extremely helpful just in terms of cash flow because if we don't have I mean that's one that's not even a month of payroll for us uh so anywho restricted committed or assigned so that is uh money that is you know if it's restricted

176it can only be used for certain things right if it's committed it has been designated for certain items uh that we know is going to be coming up in the long term or short term and then um assigned so certain things like you know if I allocate Brian 150 000 you know and he only spends 125 000 I'm not going to take that away from him next year I'll go Brian you can still have your 25 000 right so um not that Brian ever has carryover but uh anyhow so then you look at our unassigned and that's really unassigned is the money that's truly freed up in our budget so we look at that 62 million dollar budget and then we look at 17 and a half million is in ending fund balance but the

177only piece of that that truly is freed up is that unassigned amount and so you can see that amount built to your point of 1.6 going down to one going down to 230 right and so a lot of that like we said is based off of assumptions Ada being lower but that's where we're at finally to the slide so this is the restricted fund balance and we always forget about all the grants that we get and all the plans that we had to do and then we look at it on a list and go wow that's actually a lot so I mean I'll start at the top and kind of explain some of these a little bit into detail but if you were to add all these up it's within ten thousand dollars of our

178restricted ending fund balance so we have even more probably another 15 that are like 200 or 600 and I decided to not include those just because they're such a small dollar amount so first one is expanded learning opportunities program you know that's just that's the before and after school program um that's one of the main ones I'm just going to touch upon the big dollar amounts right educator Effectiveness so that was a grant that came out of the governor's Surplus for increasing um kind of teacher professionality if I want to call it that kind of um coaching mentoring teachers is a a way of putting that educator Effectiveness and we received quite a bit more than that and so that was a plan that's been spent down now over the last couple years restricted Lottery

179that can only be used really on instructional materials that are not consumable in the classroom um and really that's curriculum right it can be uh educational technology equipment or it can just be standard textbooks in the classroom going down even further you have a preschool grant for special education right so once a student turns three we have to offer them special education even if they're not age eligible for being in school and so uh they noticed that there was a big uptick during covid um for that and so that was one of those uh Governor Surplus ones that came out during covid and um still have a little bit of that left and then you have the Arts music and instructional materials block grant right so we talked about 1.35 that's about what we're projecting

180they haven't come out with new estimates since the governor cut it but that is roughly if you use the same logic about what we would get and that includes the reduction so going down um I'm sorry on that one because that's that and the learning recovery are the two big ones yes sir what's what's the lifespan of the Arts music and instructional materials Grant I think you talked about the learning recovery we had through like 2028 do you happen to know you know to spend it's either 27. 26 26 26. okay I knew that off the top of my head Bill okay yeah right thank you all right okay thank you on Bill's point so that's through 26 right correct not very far down the road so that could actually go away oh it goes

181away completely well I mean if it's not renewed or correct to be clear that will not be renewed that is a one-time that was that was given to us because they had a surplus it's one-time funds so when it's gone it's gone and then we just have prop 28. that's ongoing got it okay so that's yeah so that's two percent of our budget we have 60 million bucks big number that yeah that's a big loss yeah and that was the main reason for me wanting to because I wanted to figure out because I right you take one look at the nyp and you go man we're deficit spending right and so I wanted an nyp I mean multi-year projection so I wanted to show a way of we received so much one-time money that's restricted

182that is currently sitting in a fund balance and then we're going to be forced to spend that down um and it's going to look like for a while that we're deficit spending but to Bill's point it's currently sitting in the fund balance and it's not even kind of free to use for us we're going to be forced to do it um and so learning recovery emergency block grant 3.8 that's the big one that's the one that we're currently planning for as Jeremy said you'll have a plan for it but we we recognize there's a lot of um there's a lot of things that we need to support at the sites and we didn't want to just make quick decisions and be completely reactive to everything we wanted to try to be proactive and get ahead

183of some of this so I mean if you just do the math on the 3.8 and the 1.3 which is all in revenues this year you know that's why you see the 64 million in revenues as opposed to the 60 in the out years and you know what's hard about budgeting so we we get told we're getting something right but then they take six months to tell us how we're supposed to implement or what the requirements are so that learning recovery emergency block grant we just got told in was January when would we get told Austin it was recent where we finally understood what it could be spent on what the plan was moving forward yeah they released information on that real relate basically in the requirements of it um there was another one though

184that just came out recently that we were like why is this just now coming out but I think even the state because they had such an influx of these restricted programs was late on what you want us to do with this and this and this and you know and going down the list so um yeah so anyways so that's the restricted fund balance are there any questions kind of on restricted fund balance okay so moving on to Cali um I like Kelly's budget because it's uh it feels like home a little bit I just I love Cali's budgets it is very similar to my old District's budget and that I just understood that front back and center and so anywho so in Cali's budget uh you see very much something similar right that's 16.3 going

185down to 15.5 because they also received similar restricted programs right and they received the learning recovery funds they received the Arts music they received all those same restricted programs for the most part there were some of the coveted funds they did not receive just because they were a charter school so um the other thing about Cali that's important to note is we talked about that three-year Ada or the funded off the prior year Cali is no matter what always funded off the current year so and that's always been since Kelly was enacted it's always been whatever they have in the current year that's what they're funded off of so if they have a low 88 percentage which right now they are low in their Ada percentage then they get funded off off that you know

186and there's no cushion for them um but you can see that beginning fund balance going kind of up throughout the years uh and then you can see the the excess as well um so yeah anywho so that's the end of this presentation are there any questions from the board kind of wrapping it up thank you for your patience and Fielding them along the way cool no okay the only comment I would make is that the developments that are proceeding right now yes sir are a higher percentage I think if we keep sending those questionnaires out I think we can close that Gap quicker okay um and I just a feeling yeah that I think if we send out something to all the families to all the families explaining the situation with how the funding and

187that block granting and not the block grading data yeah yeah that I know the unduplicated Upp percentage Yeah I think that and I appreciate the initiative of you guys going out and doing that but I think that there's a lot more to get out there that uh when I grew up there was kind of a uh I'm gonna use the word stigma with folks that were eligible for some extra assistance and people were resistant to get it because they didn't want the stigma that went along with it I don't think that's and I used to and I was jealous because we seem to not qualify for it and I felt like I was a poorest kid in the school and they used to get those great meals and uh but I think we might be

188even closer to where we need to be uh if we could somehow do some sort of an educational um Outreach awareness maybe we are uh but I know that of the developments that are further along in the development stage right now there's a higher percentage of folks there that might also meet that and so I think that we can stay on this which you're doing uh but even expanded a little bit I think that we could yield a good return on that uh that that is representative of what's really there any comments from the gallery before we bring it back for the board this isn't I don't sit down yet this is an action item yes ma'am Austin would you please put up the graph yeah the yellow and blue one uh yeah I I

189would like to um make a comment about math instruction on this graph I know it's out of context but if the math department is offering an introduction to statistics of course next year for our ninth and 10th grade students I would recommend that the teacher teaching this course present this graph as what is wrong with this graph and why is it misleading and I challenge the board to take a look at it as well can I can I take a guess or no okay well my guess is that I should have had the larger block on the left instead of the right to show that it's going down is that true if you scaled it all the way down to zero which the numbers represent all of those lines would be almost level that's what

190I thought you were going after because when I first saw that I was going like and I'm trying to get my numbers I want to see that's let's see that's 128 million 125 million that looks like a big gap and yeah no no I know what did I say thousand million so if you looked if you're having buildings I think what your point is if you went all the way from zero and you took it all the way up the differential isn't that much but it but it's still is a lot okay uh thank you bringing back for the board this is uh an approval item I just had one comment when I was looking I remember when I got on the board we were like a 50 million and some change operation with 64

191million for the district plus another 16 for Cali we're an 80 million dollar a year operation now which to me is a big big number I'm not sure where all this new Revenue sort of snuck in over time but um anyway that's serious and it looks like Ms Robertson wants to come and Tuck yes ma'am no no I I don't need it just wanted to get rid of that Clickers what I want to ask Austin so the title of Arts music and instructional materials is actually very very very misleading Austin could you maybe speak to some of the things that we are spending that block grant on because it's not necessarily Arts music and social materials absolutely uh thank you Elizabeth so one of the things about the Arts music and instructional materials block grant

192the history on it was last year it was a that seven billion dollar discretionary block grant if you guys remember and they're basically were going to give us in our calculations it was roughly 6.3 million in just whatever the heck you want to spend it on go for it uh and then the governor just pulled a a fast one a little bit and he split it up into two he split it up into the art music and um instructional materials block grant our sister's names are long and then the learning recovery funds so those were part of that initial big block grant that he was going to give last year he made the learning recovery funds much more specific um both of them are going to have to have a plan approved by the board

193but the Arts music and instructional materials they lined out very specific items but basically said you can use it on whatever you want but the initial intent of the Arts music and instructional materials block grant was actually used for pension relief so they knew that pension costs were going to continue to go up in the out years and that was one of the things that they lined out specifically underneath the title uh that it was intended to be able to use for those purposes so thank you Elizabeth and health care costs as well the politics behind that were that they forgot that they should have given us pension relief and said well we'll just plug it there show up that 1.3 ish now what portion of that is allocated in our district to health care

194and what's the breakdown of those funds yeah well this is a ballpark if you know no good good question so it's not um it's not that we're required to do that um so you know we're working with Elizabeth on developing a plan on how we want to do it as a district so they still gave the local local board all right Authority we have a future agenda item here shortly about that okay with that we will bring it back to the board um unless there are any other questions or comments I would entertain a motion for approval and thank you for that comprehensive report Austin of our second interim budget report go Austin I don't know if you can answer this or Jeremy but I've kind of wondered about this if why is the state

195if we have pension shortfalls right why are they taking the money sending it to the district and then having the district send it back in the punch why don't they just take that money and Shore it up instead of watching it through the district I I don't understand why no good question um and you may not know the answer I didn't know I know the answer the answer is you yeah they want um communities to have local decision making based off of certain areas so there's Ed code around and there's more than just Ed code even more so than that um there's actually a fund that no one even knows about it's called it's we receive money at the state level so the state level in stirs does the same thing it's called stirs on

196behalf and so basically whenever the the state because stirs and purrs operate a little bit differently so purge rates can just go up without anyone approving anything um the stirs it actually has to go through like a governing body and I'm not a full expert on this but it has to go it has to be approved by a governing body of some sort and so when that governing body they can choose to or not choose to increase the employer rates at the local level but if they make an increase at the state level we actually still account for it in our budget um and so it's just something that never gets talked about because usually at the beginning of the year I get a list of this is how much we're going to spend for

197you so you just book revenue and then you also book expenditures for it that's it but for the pers no matter what they want it to be the local judicial like it's part of your budget if that makes sense sound like it's our decision but it's not our decision they're they're taking it out right so if you rich you were there when I was speaking to the legislators and if you remember Senator McGuire and I had a little bit of a quarrel over this because I I was a proponent of giving us stirs and prayers relief and he said we did it's within this Grant and I said no that's not the same thing and he said well I feel like we can't win because last year we gave it to you specifically and this

198year we're giving you more control and you're still complaining I believe was his his statement to me so it that's all I can give to you in terms of what their thought process is but so maybe there's a disconnect maybe the our elected folks think they're giving us something and they they really believe that but with it comes well it's like you were saying earlier they gave us all this money and then three months later they gave us all the strings that were attached to it so anyhow I I just it's one of the things that just don't make sense to me on how you budget how you do things and I didn't know if there was a something behind the curtain of why they're doing that and why it was fresh on my mind

199I wanted to ask because it's something that's come up two or three cycles and I keep thinking that I forget to ask you about it but so thank you for letting me all right good and Rich if there are no other questions from the board I would entertain a motion then to approve the second interim financial report I'll make a motion thank you trustee Ahmad thank you trustee Lopez preferential first voting member student trustee Caligari over to the left aye aye okay thank you for that suggestion uh all those in favor I I opposed one plus five oh marvelous thank you so much we are over the hump and going down the curve here now we will move on to 5.5 which is a public hearing on the district's initial proposal for contract negotiations with

200the Windsor District Educators Association that would be superintendent Decker I mean the title essentially explains what it is there's not much for me to say um so we're required to have a public hearing and then we close it and then hopefully we adopt this and then it allows us to to we actually have a session set up March 16th I believe and it allows us to then negotiate with our unit so I will call the public hearing open on item 5.5 if you could share with the superintendent Decker what what are those opener proposals that we have coming from the district office turn the board and just so the process is both of us have proposals for each other right so we call this sun shining and it means letting each other know what we

201want to talk about so what we put on was wages hours retirement uh art full inclusion and then we also have stipends on there and within that we have you know other things that we want to talk about and you can do this lots of different ways we actually provide a little bit more detail than some districts some districts just open the Articles we did the Articles and then kind of explained what else have we received a request yet from the wdea we have you guys have approved right yes you've approved last month just remind us what were the openers that came from the Union oh I would have to go and look back I mean okay I just I thought of course we're talking wages right uh for both of us um we had

202class size I know class size was in there Susanna if you remember and you can help me I can't remember all of them class size for sure was in there I know that much Health and Welfare teaching conditions that was the other one okay this class size and teachers okay so um at this point if there is any other feedback that the public would like to give in this public hearing about and it could be just questions as well uh items for the district to put on for our um proposal for issues to be covered in contract negotiations with the upcoming negotiations for a new memorandum of understanding with our teachers union that was a mouthful you said it well well and I'm closing the public hearing hearing no input thank you so much uh

203we will uh do we need to entertain a motion now under 5.6 for approving that proposal for contract negotiations there was no public comment to alter the proposal we received from superintendent Decker any other additional comments you'd like to give about that okay then we will entertain a motion for 5.6 for approval of the district's proposal 25.5 no 5.5 was our public hearing which we have held open I tried to solicit something from you know Ahmad Vol 2 but she didn't come up okay I'll under entertain a motion to approve okay the uh contract the the the uh the motion is made by uh trustee kogano is there a second okay thank you for malinelli um preferential voter all those in favor of our Union negotiating proposal he would suggest that all of the trustees

204all in favor aye okay yeah opposed that would go at a one would Dash five and zero okay now going to 5.7 um that is consideration of creating an ad hoc committee for development of an updated strategic Arts plan are you sure that's self-explanatory so we know that we have prop 28 uh funds that are coming and they're going to be ongoing and so we've we've started the process with Elizabeth um and staff to really look at what our offerings are and start the development of a strategic plan because ours is run out right it was done you know two years ago really well the but the last action was done two years ago there was nothing Beyond um that year so we know we need to update that well it's not a requirement right

205this is not a requirement that a district does this but we believe that it's important in our district to develop a strategic Arts plan and have it be updated um you know each cycle so the idea is we are going to do this work and to create an ad hoc committee where we have board representation to be a part of this work uh so that's what the item is let's create the ad hoc and uh in our board packet was the 13 or 15 pages of the 2016-2017 whatever it is uh strategic Arts plan that was adopted and enacted um and so I think from the first question is is any comments or questions from the board is is this a priority that the board would like to continue and have staff we have Elizabeth

206Robertson as our bapa facilitator there has been some early work on this um but I'd be interested to hear from my fellow trustees and then if there are questions or perhaps comments from superintendent Decker about sort of the timing of of this and you know if we were going to revisit this do we have aspirational goals of do we finish at this calendar year or how that would work um the the action item is whether we are going to appoint two we can't have more than two trustees on the on an ad hoc to basically be the Liaisons which is frequently helpful as we have stakeholder Outreach and whatnot not that other trustees uh could not be involved as our interest or availability is there so what say my fellow trustees about this as a

207notion do we want to revisit our strategic Arts plan because that's really the threshold um items yes okay I'm seeing heads nod preferential voter on my left okay it seems like a universal consensus um do you have a sense in your work and thank you Elizabeth who came up yeah just for historical yes makes your work this was developed when we had that initial Grant right no it was developed before the initial Grant okay a reason that we were able to get a 1.9 million dollar I Aspire Grant in my view is we had a strategic Arts plan because we had it ready to go and we could say we are ready to do this we subsequently have been involved in how much is that four three or four million and one of the challenges

208we had for that larger Grant is we simply did not have the unduplicated count we did not have demographics in our district that met that large Federal Grant and so we partnered uh I know a principal partner was we partnered with the Boys and Girls Club amongst others right and there were some other districts that came on board so that by an economy of scale we were able to get the correct mix of Partners and demographics but I think again that came largely because we had planned really before there was money there was an identification of a need we I had gone over to Napa back in the day with Alice and frenzel who was sort of the Arts fanatic and dance teacher and Napa was doing a plan and we thought well why don't

209we do a plan and you know do we got to have a plan well if we only had money we'd do a plan and people said oh you got it wrong have a plan and the money will come and so that that is where this came from that uh I was at a event Tuesday night I think it was over there was an Arts education Summit and again our district was called out favorably about get a plan if you're interested in significant you know multi-million dollar money because that's how you'll get it right without a and I'm a firm believer that it's something we should do as you might be able to tell so um yeah I uh because this we have some infusion of money now with prop 28 we have that 1.3 million

210that we can have some flexibility it sounds like where it's going to get spent that's a fixed limited pot the 500 000 and whatever it is for prop 28 every year so looking of how we allocate that money I will tell you Elizabeth has done a brilliant job in capturing and we maybe will see this next month or in May what our Baseline level of effort is right how many hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars are we spending right now on Visual and Performing Arts from certificated teachers to visiting artists to other kinds of things um so I don't know so I I just want to make a comment so I want to say that I'm very much in favor of this um because obviously I think everyone knows on at least on this

211board that I'm a big you know proponent of the Arts um but my main comment that I want to say is that I know it will be a discussion that will go on for some time about you know how the money is um spent on this um but I do think an important piece of the discussion uh should be diversity equity and inclusion as part of this because I read this and I didn't um really see it reflected in the language that for example we should have diversity of if we decide to have teaching artists you know or a diversity of the types of activities right because it really wasn't connected to a cultural context which I think is important because I feel like this programming should really reflect the demographic of the students that

212we have so as an example of this it would be you know uh you know will we incorporate will we incorporate activities in uh bilingual languages you know so to have a very diverse and robust program is important I think she just nominated herself totally agree I was kind of thinking some things along similar lines but a little bit different just in like uh and for our ad hoc committee as as you go forward um just in terms of art programming but also just Arts as part of our Traditions too and performance I I think about like Cali how we and kind of some things have kind of fizzled out after the pandemic we used to do performances and and school-wide and that was a long-standing tradition and then it kind of was it became

213just first through fourth grade and my kids did it and now it's kind of not happening anymore so but I think that is Arts like that is was an introduction to the Arts so thinking through not just you know guitar lessons and painting classes but also what are we doing school-wide grade level kind of almost tied to our multi-tiered systems of support process as because they complement each other and I think that it becomes more lasting if we really think of it as something that's integral is that when you do for example restorative justice circles that actually comes from an indigenous tradition from way before the Spanish came you know to Latin America and Mexico so it's an ancient tradition so I think we just need to bring more awareness to culture and diversity and

214one one other aside from sort of access to engagement not particularly on a demographic but we found in looking when we were developing this strategic art plan that some of the least engaged students that we had and their families were students who were either special education students or that were in certain kinds of intervention programs so if their electives were taking up in English or math tutoring for example um there are proportional involved just as that that category of students slice were were woefully underrepresented so I think there's and these are all great things and I would love to see a plan that is hugely aspirational I will tell you when we did this one we used a an outside consultant who said he had never seen a plant that was this deep of a

215dive and had so many things there's no way you can ever do all these things and that's great because now you have an off-the-shelf set of possibilities that can be tapped into as opposed to well let's think about the lowest common denominator in the lowest hanging fruit so I would hope that we have an aspirational plan component of it too um let me just ask we can have two I'm going to be very interested involving the periphery but I do not want to take a seat on the ad hoc I was on it before I will have a voice and be around and participate in stakeholder groups but sounds as if malinelli is is interested is there another trustee who would like to throw throw their name in again we can only have two on

216this ad hoc I'm interested the the uh to build to your point uh when I was younger and Malinois uh we we took ballroom dancing and and I'm gonna bring it up next month when we talk about some other things about what we learned in there but it wasn't just ballroom dancing it was all kinds of why are they laughing but with that dancing they introduced all kinds of other dances that we picked up from all these other cultures and it was really exciting and honestly it was I didn't appreciate it at the time as a teenager but then when I got to college and I met girls I'm back at the University I'm meeting girls from other countries and when I knew how to dance and the ways that they danced it was such

217a hit or a multicultural Ambassador that's what you mentioned I was actually they used to call them the young ambassadors that they had the school I went to but uh but anyhow so malinelli I know is blown away because she had no idea I had knew what two different feet were for but yeah I'd like to to be a part of this because in addition to music I think that that dance that if we could incorporate dance into this as well I think it could reach a lot of the goals that you're thinking about too I will tell you I was having breakfast with malinelli and I believe they are still somewhere we have two Pottery Kilns or at least we used to one is tucked behind Mr beale's room in somewhere hidden in the

218bowels of the middle school and we used to apparently throw clay and and that's the kind of thing to say that's a just just as a benchmark to say gosh what other kind of things can we do should we do are we already doing are there is there already a passion and an interest by our students their families Our Community Partners to do these things and I'll tell you when you start to talk about this people are stunned by the possibility so I'm excited um so yeah so I if you're in I would like to know somebody else by consensus you can come back from wherever you're going to school to participate in the plan over summer and in the fall um we'll do that by acclimation I think we will we will move forward

219with a strategic plan and we have and we now know six figures nearly seven figures worth of money on the table at least to look at um and we will have uh rich and malinelli be our ad hoc committee and I would imagine that we will have you all start that's Elizabeth Robinson if you have not met her before she is our vampa facilitator for the district um and hopefully have a sort of an update maybe a road map some timing scheduling Etc when we meet in April um one of the things that I see is if we're gonna assess where we are what what trajectory changes resource allocations needs opportunities threats are there when we get to our May and June budget decisions right that this is not it in my mind uh yeah

220in 25 26 or 26 27 boy we're going to be on it I think there's the opportunity with you know an infusion of prop 28 money coming in July what what might we do right and we have the two positions of uh related to vapa by then oh okay I was confused I thought it also was for this but sorry no um no but we this will serve dual purposes right because we've got we have to plan for prop 28 we Implement next year right and then also the aspirational part of this so I think that we'll talk we've done some work and what we focused on is what we have it hasn't been aspirational right yet yeah right so we really wanted to get a Baseline and develop kind of the format for how

221we're going to do this so um and I will tell you Jeremy and I end of last week I think it was whatever day it was maybe Monday but yeah last Thursday or Friday looked at Elizabeth's work and I think you two are going to be stunned and I think when it comes back to the board collectively the community go oh my goodness look at all this good work and that's just to Simply get the snapshot of the Baseline where are we what are we doing and that sort of validate that for the future doing some more of that maybe retargeting some other stuff and um this is really exciting to me I will tell you I am a firm believer I love math I love science Tom Scott anybody who knows who's a jazz

222fan Tom Scott's like the Mick Jagger of playing saxophone Tom Scott came up from LA to this this art Summit on Tuesday night and he said the traditional academic subjects of math and science and and English languages if you will are for the head and arts are for your soul and your heart and really while all those and and arts is a Core Curriculum it's part of the Ed code we have to teach it it's not an enrichment subject and so this seems to me I know I'm going to be Evangelical about it is is how do we you know how do we how do we put that to light how do we put teeth and feet underneath that and how do we get that exposure for every student in every classroom in a culturally

223relevant way in a stretching way um because it's doable it is it's doable it is to my mind always been not money it's culture it's it's do we decide this is important right one of them is sitting out there and Heather and coming but it's it's do we do it right when we have more money so many places ask how we did it in Windsor we just had the money we could really start and you plan in my view to start a pivot on where we are and if it's important because I think the community would come out in Spades with that new outside money if we could identify here's how it would impact students because people can remember also uh one of the ideas that we were chatting about with Bill is that um

224I used to be the uh um the representative on the public Arts commission for my area and I don't know if there's enough collaboration happening because I don't recall a lot of conversation when I was there you know with the schools as far as what joint projects we could do with the town and also our school district so I don't know for example if you all have seen if you drive to Windsor high school and you see these banners hanging around the high school that look like children drew them it's because we had an art contest and I was really really proud of that because I just feel that it really boosted the confidence of the children who won those designs that were able to be put up on the banners so I just love

225that we were able to have that connection you know with students in our schools but it was like one of the few Pro projects that we did together yes must come here that's all right we want to hear you you'll be on the video and Elizabeth was there to see Tom Scott play the saxophone I was and I got to also speak about prop 28 yes which was fun um I just wanted to say because this is may not Jeremy doesn't have this information so I wanted to tell you this um so I actually started a conversation with um a few members of the public Arts commission about looking into finding um entry points with combining with having collaboration between the public Arts commission and our schools so we just started the conversation and I'm

226really excited about it great thank you for sharing that so by acclimation we will we will say we have created an ad hoc uh it's Carnation and Lopez and you guys get together we'll look forward to getting sort of a snapshot with a schedule um yeah you can only hear the sidebar conversations up here uh okay um before we go to meeting in German under six one let's talk about future board items uh thank you for reserving that spot uh some of you actually were here back in public comment um I'll just I'll just start I mean it was an interesting one-two of five students from Brooks saying this is great and two families from Brooks saying this is not so good there um so I don't know the the way to maybe make the

227I'll just I'll just say that and I don't I don't know what that means or if we how we bundle that from mtss or social emotional I'm sort of surprised when I heard I was mentioning to Paul when we took the break that if we're going to have circles and restorative justice and that is used at some schools it seems to me maybe a continuity of that program for all of our students as they come through the district not necessarily one kind but if they show up as a ninth grader and somebody's gonna do some weird circle thing in class ideal if it's effective maybe they've at least seen this in elementary experiences or or the Middle School experiences um I I don't know what what takeaways do my colleagues have from what we heard

228in public comment not only just from on the Brooks I wrote dichotomy on my notes to say what an interesting thing those were two quite different perspectives and I'll presume they're all valid I mean they're very real for those people um but also on the issue and thank you so much for our our students who came and I appreciate mayor Reynosa coming um that while we're doing well you know where where are we on evaluating sort of the safety and things and yes ma'am you were going to speak yeah so I'll go um so I we didn't do our board member report section and so I wanted to I'll do a quickly now just because it was relevant to that topic and just kind of the conversations about safety so I wanted to let you

229all know that I attended in mid-February now um an event it was called commitment to law enforcement Equity it was put on by Lo sien and there are about 200 people there was very well attended lots of community leaders and so it was a panel with the former Santa Rosa mayor Ernesto Olivares Sheriff Ingram D.A our district attorney newly elected Carlo Rodriguez in Santa Rosa police chief Cregan and it was a wide-ranging discussion on anything from unhoused people to mental health and kind of the policing and the role in mental health treatment which is actually plays a very large role in Sonoma County in treating mental health issues but they also touched on schools and so there was there was several parts of that conversation but the part that I wanted to highlight here was

230that they highlighted our student resource officer program here in Windsor as kind of a model for the county our school district was the only one that was really called out as having a program that they really felt was a model for that provided a model for students to see a law enforcement officer in their day-to-day lives in a positive way and that they felt was very um just to summarize that they felt created a safer environment for students to have that connection on campus so I just wanted you all to know that that was called out and chief rash was there and he kind of got some recognition so it was a nice moment for Windsor in our schools thank you anything else would go to the order again is what what takeaways from and

231you you sort of saved that we put a pin in that from what you care comment rich and what were you thinking we would talk about now at the end here I'm glad you used the word dichotomy because it well don't ask me to spell it I just can say it it was it was so refreshing to see those young kids and I say young kids yet their Poise was was was poises a word I want to use it was just it was it was good and it really uh I can't tell if I'm getting because I'm a grandpa now if that stuff is sweeter than it was when I was a younger guy I don't know I can't tell but it was just great maybe I just appreciate it more and it was always

232there uh but the Poise of those kids and the courage for some of them uh you know it was just it was just so refreshing but then they'll take that that was good but then the things that the parents and some folks that brought up right at the same time so you can have both the things that the parents brought up I kind of read some of the stuff and I'm going I agree with them completely um and but I don't want to discuss that right now I want to get into it and develop it get more feedback from uh other parents but there are things that just me I'm just just me superficially I don't have any history I just found out about this tonight I don't agree with the approach that we might

233be taking there and the remedies and I want to discuss amongst us and with the the public why I think we should be doing things a little bit different uh just a little teaser often we get things from kids or kids are suspended maybe we hear things about kids are up for expulsions and things because kids don't learn early on where the boundaries are um and I I've used this as as an example how do you know if a joke is a good joke or a bad joke well sometimes you tell your friends and your friends will tell you oh dude that was terrible you can't say stuff like that and you go what was wrong with that and somebody will tell you you might think something's funny and your friends say Ah that's not

234funny so you learn you incrementally as you grow up you hear and you get little boundaries of you can't say that hey you can't say this to to the to that girl that that's wrong where are the kids supposed to learn these things if they don't learn at the young age for us to just say hey nope separation you don't learn you don't have any boundaries and what a boundary means is that sometimes you step over a boundary a little bit an incremental amount and then you get you know you you get rebuffed however that is and you go oh I guess I won't for example young man goes up and asks a girl out on a date he said what no I'm just and he's inappropriate the girl says no I'm not going out

235and then you fight man I asked her out she said no well why I said this are you crazy you can't say that to a girl that's how you learn as you're you're growing up I can't be that old that things have changed that much maybe I am but I don't think so and so I think that the I think we might have went further than we were supposed to or further than we need to with with stuff at Brooks and I want to look at that and discuss it and get feedback from parents and from everybody to kind of get on that same page because we maybe have 50 different opinions but somewhere in there I think is the right thing and again this is new I don't have any background on why that

236came up so that's why I'd like to bring it up so we could get the history find out why that what's been going on so why we find out I mean case in point I read one of the things that you know kids are getting flat tires um and for those who don't know what that means you know there's so many steps in the back of your shoe and your it's a flat tire um if you haven't had one you haven't lived um and so anyhow but I I don't know that I believe that getting a flat tire or giving a flat tire is um anyhow so absolutely can I respond oh I'm sorry if you could just respond Jeremy in the context is is there time to wait until our next meeting to address

237and take a deeper dive on this right that's what I want to get I appreciate so much the passion and that young fellow who came up and talked um literally we heard about this at about ten past five tonight when we were over there again nothing nothing against anybody and so I think that's why it's some somewhat of a shame or maybe it's good that the season for a few hours before we talk about it so I just be interested because to me there's if there's an urgency there's an urgency if there's clarification or whatever that may be something that doesn't weather well we're doing our meeting a month or a week early so we're not meeting again for a regular meeting for five more weeks so in that context that's the point I want

238to just give a temporal context if you would please yes sir so I think we're talking about two things communication versus policy right so you don't agree with certain ideas this wasn't a policy this was a communication of you know some decisions that a principal made now we are talking policy with regard to discipline behavior and that's going to come in months probably though because it takes time to develop these things and we are looking at the elementary level that's going to come to you eventually that's where we would talk about well why are we giving detention for this thing now this to me was more of a communication I found out late too right so this was communication because there were some it felt like misunderstanding to me I think this is critical to

239get on in the next couple of days so I'm happy to bring it back I just don't know what we're going to accomplish with regard to those public comments because it's immediate within the next couple of days that I think that we need to communicate with families and explain the why behind it and maybe some of the misunderstandings of the kids I'm looking at the paper that was printed that yes this what's that oh this was generated by Annette Annette right and so I don't so if I don't agree with everything that's written in here how do we address that you would do it from a policy standpoint if we're doing things properly right that's why it would be policy we don't none of this is found in policy except when we get to like

240our discipline protocols for suspension really anything before suspension a lot of that is controlled at the school site so that's what I'm saying we'll get there but it's going to take time so so that that's my point so so this is this went out from our school district right sir okay so this is official right now until it's not so I just want to read one little part it says we are asking students to refrain from physical contact during the unrestricted unstructured times before and after school while on campus snack lunch and recesses um in our classrooms under things blah blah blah so anyhow this is sounds like policy but there's understood it's not policy and if there are issues at the school site but also at the end if you notice or in the

241parentheses it does State we're not saying you can't hold hands or a hug that's what I read Rich gotta remember I read this just before you guys came to me right and I read that and I said okay this seems reasonable so what I would suggest is rather than us trying to address policy sort of getting the Deep dive in the background giving some direction is perhaps Jeremy looks into this gets back to us if we need to then think we have a special meeting which I think may be a bit micromanaging may not I don't know but I think we need to get some feedback in the next day or two I mean tomorrow is Friday so um and I can work with Jeremy he can push that out to all of us that

242would not be a Serial meeting when he and again it's not a reply all uh to kind of get a sense of of the answer to some of these questions I mean clearly I can tell you are concerned there were parents that were concerned I think there may be differences of opinion or I don't want to even say that that the merits of what some one person said or didn't say I do think there is some background that we need to have the folks over here who get the big money running the show for us to sort of give us that feedback and then say by middle of night yeah just a second by middle of next week we can assess look do we do do we do we doesn't need to be a uh

243something somewhere with some people that may or may not include us I don't know Steph yeah wanted that add that we have a policy subcommittee committee meeting coming up in early April so if the board had feedback to provide to Jeremy we could potentially consider that and implement it at that meeting if we needed to do that it'd be interesting for example is this consistent with or not consistent with or in alignment with some very broad language that may be in some policies I don't know I don't know and I don't either that's why I wanted to bring it up because you know one of the things that I think it's important and just want to wrap this up because this is not the discussion I want to just to bring it up so we

244can have that discussion is what's appropriate what's inappropriate what's policy what's not policy I don't like it when and I'm gonna call these surprises it's not a surprise nobody I don't think anybody did anything nefarious sneaky underhand or anything like that I think all intentions are good but some people our sensitivity levels are all different and I think as a school as a policy we need to have our sensitivity levels need to be discussed and be pretty uniform um and sometimes somebody might think our policy might be a little bit stricter some people might see that same policy as a little bit looser um maybe you find that happy medium right in the middle is kind of maybe where you're supposed to be but nonetheless when I saw this I was like going you know

245what I don't agree personally with some of this stuff because I think these were eliminating learning experiences for kids to learn at that young age of what's appropriate and inappropriate so that way they are better adults which is what we're supposed to be trying to to do so that's the whole okay thank you for very much I'm glad we had that put the do you have what you need to sort of look into this a little bit um and I will work with Jeremy early next week and what he can sort of gather to push out and we can decide I I tell you I appreciate very much when we get to the end of our meetings even when it's late we sort of look and say hey what are some things we need to

246Circle back around and pay attention to that we're thinking about I think that helps us keep momentum going and not get stale um I know we have a bunch of other things that are sort of on our parking lot you know I think we've gone almost to 10 o'clock and we started right at five across the street um what I'd like to do is entertain a motion to adjourn I do think we need to take a look at those pending items and see how we weave those in up some of those I think are going to get into some of our strategic planning goals and things like when we have some time in the summer when we get together on a more deliberate uh thing but we can we can talk about those so please

247rest assured they're not they don't go on that list on that parking lot and stay there right without action or or we're being Revisited um anything else for the good of the order for the lucky few that have name tags that look at us everybody had a speaking role today except for Jen well done um okay well with that um I will just say we'll go ahead and adjourn I won't even take a motion I'll just say thank you very much um everyone God bless you uh thank you for thank you thank you for living in Windsor I'm proud of us [Music] thank you [Music]