001act. The board cannot consider issues or take action on requests during this comment period. Time is limited to three minutes per person per item, 20 minutes per topic. I'm thinking public comment. Yep. Yep. Okay. on to close session. Oh, okay. So, we are going into closed at 4:31. Pledge. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Amen. Okay. So, on to approval of agenda order. The board reserves the right to change the order in which agenda items are discussed and are acted upon at this meeting. Subject to further action by the board, the agenda for this meeting is to be approved as presented. Items may be added to this agenda for discussion
002or action only as permitted by the Brown Act. Do I have a motion to approve the agenda order? I move to approve the agenda order. Okay. I have a motion by Trusty Garrison. Do I have a second? I second that. Okay. Trusty Oamian preferential is not here. Um all those in favor. Any opposed? Okay. Preferential. Okay. Moving on to public comment on consent and non-aggenda items. The public may address the board on any consent or non-aggenda item. Pursuant to the Brown Act during this period, the board cannot consider issues or take action on any item listed or not listed on the agenda. Time is limited to three minutes per person, per item, 20 minutes per topic. So, do I have any public comment on non-aggenda um or consent items at this time? Oh, okay. Sorry.
003I'll go. Okay. asking if they would like to do it [Applause] during public. Yeah. Would you guys like to do your comments during the public comment or stay until later on? Miss Lawson. Wait, no. Oh, she's different. I I thought you were talking to the students. No, no, we're going to make them. Okay. Okay. Susan wants to Okay. Okay. So, do you see closer? Probably I can use my teacher voice if I did Can you hear that better? So, if I'm a little bit closer. Okay. Awesome. Maybe repeat what you did. Oh, okay. So, if any closer. Sorry. I'm so used to being able to raise my voice from this far away. So, if anyone would like to make comment or public comment at this moment as opposed to wait until longer into the meeting,
004you are more than welcome to. Were they Were they Were they wanting to wait for the letter to come up? Yeah. Okay. Okay. Good. Go ahead. Okay. So, moving on to H close session reportable action taken. Um, there was no reportable action taken, but for H2 final action on student stipulated expulsion agreement case 2025-03, do I have a motion? I move to approve the student stipulated expulsion agreement case 2025-03. Do I have a second? I'll second. Okay, Trusty Garrison seconds. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Okay. Now, moving on to consent calendar. The CUSD board of trustees utilizes a consent calendar for items that require the approval of the board, but are of routine nature. They act upon these items in one vote. Any member may remove an item for additional questions. Board members
005receive their agendas and backup materials 7 days in advance of our meetings. They have the opportunity to ask questions and to do research prior to our meeting. It is their intent to handle the routine items expeditiously so they have time to address issues that are more serious. So, does anyone need to pull any items? Anything that you need have questions on? No. Okay. So, do I have a motion to approve the consent calendar? I'll move to approve the consent calendar items I 1 through 18. Mhm. And do I have a second? I'll make a motion of trustee Zwix seconds. Okay. Preferential is absent. All those in favor? I I Any opposed? Okay. So, now on to association reports. I know CSEA does not have a report for this evening. Um, on to J2 teachers association
006of Cloverdale. Do we have a report? Okay. Now, on to school reports. Jefferson Elementary, please. It's hot. Good evening. I have nothing to add to my report, so it's as submitted. Thank you very much. Now, moving on to Washington. Slow down. Okay. Sorry. I'm trying my best. I promise. Good evening. And you have my report is submitted. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Now on to Cloverdale High School/J. Hello. You have my report is submitted and also a PowerPoint. So today we're asking the board to approve the final bell schedule recommendation. And so if we want to click. So here's a brief timeline of what has happened since I last presented to you. So on the far left, special board meeting. I came and talked to you about what we've done uh on February 20th
007with uh regards to tweaking and perfecting. She's trying to translate. Yes, I'll slow down. Okay, I'll pause. Sorry, Wana. So February 20th, we had a presentation to the board on the work we've done for the bell schedule committee. Oh, actually I I'm going to go through each one. Uh in in March and April, our recommendation went to the district. District brought it to negotiations and TAC, the teachers association, and the district went back and forth on the bell schedule. And remember, because we were looking at doing a block, that means every teachers weren't going to get the 45 minutes of prep every day that's in their contract, which is why it had to go to be negotiated with. On April 11th, TAC approved theou in a union vote. And then on April 23rd, in PLC's,
008the teachers discuss some lastm minute things. So we gave a feedback survey to students and parents and we looked at the feedback. We also finalized the minutes. One question students had is why do the periods end at different times as opposed to being divisible by like five or zero. And I kind of explained that if you go 1 minute over a class times 80 school days, that's 180 minutes. And with our new minutes, we're only over like 350 for the entire school year. So one period being 1 minute less to be divisible by zero equals a lot of time. So that's why our bell schedule that I'll show you has kind of funny looking end times. We also looked at the student feedback on where the advisory will be in the day. Whether we want
009to continue with odd days, even days or go numerical like 1 2 3 on one day, 4 5 6 7 on the other or odds or evens. And then also we discussed how the final schedule will look. With the 8 period uh schedule, it's kind of easy for finals two each day. But with a seven period, what do you do? do 331 2221 things like that. After staff did that, we collaborated with the SRJC because the SRJC was waiting for our bell schedule to finish so we can schedule SRJC professors to come teach those classes here. So is the very next day we sent that to the SRJC and scheduled a meeting so we can schedule our CCAP early college classes and then you're voting on it today. So this is our final bell schedule.
010So you can see on Wednesdays and Thursdays are our block schedule. So it's twice a week and then Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays are classes all seven classes for the whole day. One of the main things we wanted to do is start and end at the same times. And that was one of the biggest feedback we got from parents for consistency. And then we kept the 2461357 cuz some of the feedback we got from students is this bell schedule can be kind of complicated and that provides some consistency. Okay. So the parent feedback that results were mixed. Some parents really liked it. Some parents wanted to keep the current schedule but were glad we kept some block in. Some were indifferent. And one of the biggest concerns is it's kind of confusing because we've never done
011this bell schedule before. So, one parent had the suggestion of making posters and we'll make posters and put them up all around the school so people are familiar with the time. But I think it's going to be ultimately less confusing cuz even today I'm like wait is it a blue day or gold day? Like even the principal's kind of confused on that. While after the first month everyone's going to know what day it is. This is the student feedback. So we asked them two questions. When do they want the advisory? Because we were kind of torn on that as a staff. We decided to go with what the students said and the students wanted to have it right before lunch. So that's where we put advisory. Some of the uh actually go back a little
012bit. Some of the concerns is the workload. I think students were concerned they were going to get homework every single night. Uh but one teacher was saying actually when we went to block schedule my homework increased because it was every other day for longer times. So that's something we'll work with our teachers on not assigning you know a lot of homework every single night. Another concern students had was advisory time. So we're going from four advisory classes a week to two and so students use that time. And then just some other little concerns. It wasn't all negative. Some students were fine with it. Some were indifferent. And that's everything I have. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. So after yours, what do you do now? Do you want to We have a lot of people like
013we're standing. Do you want to like we move you up a little bit? Sure. So you could do it. That makes sense. You guys don't mind. Yeah. Plus we got people standing. I don't know. So I make a motion that we um change the order of the agenda to move um R3 to um above out. Okay. I have a motion to move R3 to just before L. Yes. Do I have a second? Yes, you do. Okay. Trusty Oamian seconds. Um, preferential is not here. Um, all those in favor? I I Any opposed? Okay. So, J. Our big picture learning update, please. This is a first, huh? Thank you. I'm Julie Lawson. I'm the teacher or as Big Picture would say the adviser um at JH Continuation High School. I want to thank you guys for
014giving us some of your time tonight so that we could update you in real time um what we're doing over at JH. So, instead of a slideshow, we wanted to put up here kind of our community uh page where you'll find out tonight that many of our students are doing internships out in our community. And this is just a glimpse of some of those. Um, and we Oh, sorry. I forgot about that. I'm so sorry, Wana. Okay. Um, and then we thought, well, let's do it a little bit different. I could stand up here and paint a rosy picture of all the things that we're doing at JH. why don't we have the people who are involved at JH come in and just give you a quick little update as to what's happening truly at
015the school over there. Um and so uh Mary Lou, my sidekick and couldn't live without her made a few phone calls and said, "Hey, we're presenting and look who's here." I am just blown away uh at the parents, the the students and the mentors that showed up tonight. It's just Thank you you guys for coming. Um, what I'd like to do is just let the students come up and they're just going to give you one little blurp about what they think about JH or what they're doing. Sky's the limit, you guys. And they're not, we didn't prep them, so I don't know what's coming, but I hope it's really good. Come on up. Short and sweet. I'm Dominique Cruz Garcia. Um, I am in an internship that JH has helped me acquire. Um, thank you.
016Something that I have benefited from this class is the environment. The environment is very respectful and responsible and it it helped me through a very hard time that I went through. And so I'm very grateful that I could get away from home to come to school to JH and be a part of the community because um it was rough and I didn't want to be home. So, I'm glad I had a an an oasis in a way to go to. Thank you. Thank you. I'm Fabian Zurio and I have an internship with RTS Construction. And my internship has helped me a lot to like decide on what I want to do in the future. And JH is like a very a very a very big part of my life because I haven't had no other
017teacher like Miss Lawson that like cared about us this much. Yeah. Thank you. Um my my name is Migo Moreno. Uh I'm very proud to be part of the JH. Um I'm part of an inter internship with the maintenance company at the high school. Um I'm very proud to be here because there's a lot of opportunities here and I've learned so much things that none of the high school students, most of the high school students haven't learned. And it's just a very peaceful and very comforting environment because you can be who you are at the JH and we have very we have an amazing teacher Miss Lawson and amazing teacher an amazing assistant Marilu. So it's just it's very nice to be a part of JH and knowing that we have a lot of opportunities.
018Thank you. Thank you. Hi, I'm Elizabeth Liz Seammens and my internship this year was with Kyla Iverson at Dog Dog Grooming. I actually work there now under my own business license. I am JH graduate this year, walking the stage a year early. Um, the best part of JH for me, I actually came last year, my sophomore year, and I was no chance of graduating if I continued in normal school. I would have probably had to redo everything plus Saturday school, summer school, all of that. I had the opportunity to make up my credits to have the one-on-one help that I needed that the normal public school couldn't really provide for me. So, here I am, um, graduating a year early from zero credits or something like that going in my sophomore year. And with the
019help of Miss Lawson, um, I now have a chance to be graduating this year to be going to college and once again have my business license with my intern. So, that's pretty cool. She wasn't able to come tonight, but she would have liked to. Congratulations. Thank you. That's awesome. Uh, my name is Hunter Webb and just starting off, if I didn't get into the GH, I probably would have ended up dropping out. But thanks to Julie and Mr. Stewart, they got me in there and um, I finally figured out what I wanted to do as my career path in life, which really helped me get motivated to graduate. And I ended up graduating half a year early. So, and um I really have to say thank you to Julie because of that. Keep constantly motivating
020you and helping you and she's just an amazing teacher. Um my internship was with Patton. Well, I had a few. That's good. Um last year I interned with uh JTS Mobile. He um his name's John Deley. is a mechanic, mobile mechanic, mainly working on uh semi-truckss. So, I enjoyed doing that a lot. Then this year, um I interned with my one of my best friends at Patton Vineyard Management as a mechanic there. Interned there until I graduated half a year early and got hired on full-time as a mechanic as soon as I graduated. Congratulations on that. Yeah, but JH is an amazing program and without it I would not be getting a diploma. Thank you. Thank you. Um my name is Jordan Hopkins. I'm a student of the JH and my internship is with NorCal
021skydiving at the Cloverdale Municipal Airport. And what I like about the JH is that when I went there, before I went there, I had no idea what I wanted to do. I was failing high school. I was ditching a lot of my classes and I didn't want to go at all. And when I when I came to JH, I was asked a simple question. What do I want to be? And I had to think on the spot. And it was a question I never really thought of before. And I wanted I said I wanted to be a pilot. And JH gave me that awakening. I would never have thought of that idea if I was still going to regular high school. I like JH because it gave me the idea and it set me on
022my path. I would have never internshiped at NorCal Skydiving if I didn't go to JH. Um, it's really helped me along my path. I'm actually going to be going to ground school soon. I'm going to be doing that course is very first step to becoming a pilot. and JH really helped me along that path. I never would have been around to any of this. I don't know what I would have done. You just got what? You just got a scholarship? I just got a scholarship. $10,000. Wow. Nice. I I have a question. Have you skydived yet? No, I will be 18 for that. Sorry. We're all going to go watch it. I really want to. I will for my birthday. Very nice. Congratulations. Thank you. Hi, I'm Galani. I'm Jordan's mom. And before Jordan went
023to JH, he was failing. And he was not doing well in school. And I had a very low opinion of JH as many people in our community do. I did. When I met with Stuart and he suggested JH, I was like, "Oh no." cuz I have two other graduates of Cloverdale High School who went through fine and I thought not my last one he is not going to be the one who didn't make it but then you know I had to readjust my thinking we had a meeting with Miss Lawson at the school and it is the best thing that he and I have ever done letting him do that and I am so thankful that we have that opportunity. Thank you. Thank you. I will not skydive. Never. No. Thank you. Thank you. Thank
024you so much. Hello. My name is Chris Webb. Hunter is my son. Um, we had a rough beginning in high school. You know, pretty much all Fs and everything. We went down to the Windsor Big Picture Learning and it wasn't a fit for him. So, he came back, tried high school again, still wasn't working. And then, um, Mr. Stewart was able to get him into Miss Lawson's class, and it was a night and day difference. And without that, like he said, he probably wouldn't have been graduating. Um, it just opened up a bunch of opportunities. The support is huge, you know. Um, and it just I can't say thank you enough for what she has done for him. and now he goes to the JC taking uh welding classes, mechanic classes, and still working. And
025it's all thanks to her. You guys have a great teacher here in Cloverdale. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Well, I will say I really appreciate number one from a teacher perspective. I would swear all of you prepared your statements by the way in advance. So eloquent and the honesty is wonderful and you guys are working so hard and it's so great to hear this. But I'm thinking we have another. Good evening. Um my name is Rogan Seammons. I'm the owner of RTS Construction. Um I'm not prepared for this at all. I just I got I left for work at 5:00 this morning, went to a uh junior high softball, forgot about this, and then got a message to show up. So anyway, um I'm very thankful for for Julie Lawson. My uh my daughter
026was struggling. Um had very few credits at Santa Rosa High. I called Julie. Julie got her in uh almost immediately. And yeah, the rest is history. She's graduating a year early. She got an internship. Uh 17 years old, has a Cloverdale business license to have, you know, a stall or a a place at the the dog groomers, which has really done everything for her self-esteem. Um I am a graduate of a continuation school. So when I was asked as a construction company owner to participate in that, I was all about it. Um I was lucky enough to get the intern that I that I have. His name is Fabian. He works for me two days a week. Um, I got him some nail bags and he just jumped in with both feet. I mean, this
027kid shows up on time. He's calling me every Monday, every Wednesday. Where are we going, Rogan? And and some days he's more prepared than I am for that. So, um, yeah, my my thing with the continuation school was um I had a pretty rough family life like some of these kids do and my parents were doing their own thing and didn't really have a lot of time for me. So when I met a teacher, my my Julie Lawson, her name was Vicki, and she placed me in a with a construction company at I guess she was 15 or 16 years old. And now I own a company. I've had as many as 22 guys working for me. Um able to give back to the community, able to help out with the kids, and and I
028think she has just got an amazing an amazing uh thing going at JH. I've seen it from, you know, uh, what it's done for the kids, what it's done for my own daughter, and I'm very impressed with it, and I I hope it gets everything it needs to to continue on going. So, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Um, I would also like to add that here at the JH, well, at the JH, we have, like I said, a lot of opportunities and Miss Lawson treats us more like friends than an actual teacher. Um, she's taught us to learn more about actual life than being stuck in the class. We go on leaving to learn to learn about the real life world and I feel like she's given us a lot of opportunities to learn,
029you know, just about a lot of everything and I'm really grateful for that. Um, so JH isn't really like a school. It's more of like a bonding with a lot of people and getting getting to have a lot a lot of opportunities. I'm I know I'm repeating a lot of stuff, but um it's just really nice to have a teacher like Miss Lawson to take us out into the real world than just to be stuck in a class. Um and I would say that JH is one of like my proudest moments to be in cuz I never thought I would actually be part of something like this. Thank you. Oh god, I'm nervous and not prepared. My daughter goes, she's not here tonight. She's homesick. Um, but similar to many of these stories, when she
030came to JH last year, she had very little credits, was looking at not graduating. Um, and I was kind of at the end of my rope. So, Julie took her in. She's done great. She has a um internship at Sixth Street Playhouse and is loving that and I think that's probably going to be her career path. So, super happy with the program. Thank you. Thank you. Takes a lot of courage to speak. Hello there. Sorry, I'm also nervous and not prepared. Um um the mom of Miguel when he was in high school he would have a lot of stress hard time trying to figure it out. But I really enjoy and love watching him coming home telling me about about how much fun he has around the schools doing maintenance. And the main reason he
031wanted to do this is because his dad works for a company and sometimes he has trouble fixing things. And that's the main reason he wanted to do it to help his dad around that house. And I really enjoy hearing him saying, "Oh, I had fun with Michael. I I really enjoy He could be a little bit stubborn. He gets angry and mad and stressed out, but I really love seeing how much he enjoys being part of the mains for high school Jefferson and everything. I'm proud of him. I know it's hard. It's a long walk, baby steps, but I know he's going to do it. And I'm proud of him of whatever he does. And thank you for giving him this opportunity. Thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you. Is that it? Any more? We
032have a just a quick slide to show you the next one. Um, we had to throw in some statistics, you know. Um, oh no, not prepared. No. Um, so we just wanted to show some of the things because we all know about um the stigma around a continuation school. Um, and part of the reason I took this job after 20 years in the district was the stigma around a continuation school. And I want to leave the district with that stigma changed. And big picture is part of the reason that's happened. Getting these kids out in the community and teaching them skills and getting a plan when they graduate. Every student leaves JH with a plan. We don't just go, "Here's your paper. Good luck." Um, so, um, this is just some of the the good
033stuff. We have 100% of students um participating in internships. Um we have one that's working on it um changing but um now they have real world experiences and um skills and mentors that they can reach out to when they graduate. This one is a shock to me. This I don't even know where this came from other than planting the seed that you can go to college when you go to continuation school. We have 34% of our students enrolled in SRJC classes this semester. Um, not one saw college as a path before they came here and we opened the door and said, "Yeah, you can do that." Um, I just have a really funny story. As I was going over this tonight, before I came here, I had a student text me um that was going
034to come tonight and I just want to read this to you super quick. Hey, Miss Lawson. I'm passing my JC class with a 97% and I got a 72 out of 75 on my final exam. All I have left is my final paper. And regarding my reading responses, I got a 20 out of 20 on two of them and a 19 out of 20 on the last one. Here's the kicker. I love this class. It's almost convincing me to do psychology and become a therapist or a a psychologist. Um, which is so crazy because I've been stuck on ultrasound for so long. And this is a class that she asked me, "Hey, Miss Lawson, I want to take a psychology class." So, we got a hold of the SRJC counselor. And the counselor said, "This
035is a really tough college class. I wouldn't recommend this for a high schooler." She's getting a 97% at a continuation school. And we have welders. We have firsttime mechanics. Um, so this to me is just staggering for a continuation school. This is another big one. Uh, if you talk to any of these kids here, they'll tell you they were truent in their freshman and their sophomore years. Um, they skipped school, they only went to one class, they were smoking pot and drinking and um, we had a 92 attendance rate. They they like to come. And then 100% of our students leave with new skills, new networks, as you can tell by the first slide, um, and a plan for the future. So, we're transforming lives. We're redesigning school around what matters the most. And it
036truly is working. This has been rejuvenating for me like no other as an educator. To see these guys just grow and change in the short amount of time that I have them. and to see parents involved. I couldn't ask for anything more. And my my coach is here that I have to give credit credit to, Isaac Eggy. Um he's been with me the last couple of years. Um and I think he has something he wants to say real quick. Um I just want to express uh Big Picture Learning has been walking with JH and your district for a number of years. Uh we're incredibly grateful to uh play a small part in um the massive transformation that we've seen here. The context you probably don't have um is statewide and increasingly nationwide. Eyes are on
037your district. Julie and her students have become um a resource to districts throughout California. I've had Zoom calls where Julie and her students jump on to consult other principles and other educators around how to develop internships, uh how to develop a more robust advisory. Um we now, as you probably know, uh adviser of the year nationwide for our organization last year, uh which is quite an elite honor. She is planting seeds. These young people are planting seeds for what we believe is the next generation of teaching and learning and the fact that this small town is really an epicenter for that. Um I applaud you all and I really applaud you and you wonderful amazing young people. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you for all of the comments.
038It's again great to hear from all of you. So we thank you so much. And thank you Julie because I was on the board when you came to us and asked if you could we would look at big picture and so went on the field trip with you and uh the rest is history. I mean yeah it's amazing to see where we started and where we're at now. when you get a lot of support like this. Yeah, thank you. Great principal that supports the program as well. So, thank you. Thank you. Thank you you guys. Thank you guys again. You don't have to stay for the rest. Yeah, you guys are more than welcome to leave. It's okay. Thank you. You guys have a good evening. Okay. So, moving on to L special education and
039student services reports. Yeah, Michael. We're saving money. PJ, it's not closed yet. It's not It's not closed yet. I feel kind of silly after that saying as submitted. Feel like I should bring some students in or something. Um, but as submitted unless you have any questions. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. So on to M educational services report as submitted. Thank you. Then we have N maintenance operations and transportation report which I believe it's going to be uh submitted. We do not have our student board representative this evening. So on to board reports. [Music] I'll start. Um, the only thing I have to report is that I did pop into a couple places on community day. Um, other than that, I don't have anything else to report. Okay. Thank you, Trusty Lois White. Who would like
040to go next? I'll go. I was able to go to portfolio night. That was a good experience. Um, I think the kids did a very good job of representing their history at the school. Can I say one more thing? Are we okay with allowing that? What do you got? Um, I just want to say that not only am I proud of myself, I'm proud of how much Miss Lawson has tried for us. So, I really want to thank Miss Lawson and thank all of you guys for listening. Um, and I'm really proud to be who I am because of Miss Lawson. So just just saying that the JH not only for us but I think for other kids would be very good. Awesome. Thank you so much. Good evening. Goodbye. Bye everyone. I know I
041was out there like three different times. I like it. I love it. Uh so portfolio night was great. Uh I participated in community uni today. That was really neat to see all the kids out there doing projects. Um, then we got to see some of the JH kids and uh I assume some also in regular high school uh do mariachi band. That was really cool. Um, one of the students is interning at the place I work. So, it was good to go there and see him outside of that atmosphere and enjoying the music and yeah, it was a good time. Awesome. Um before I do my little report, I think it's important that people know a little bit about me. So, I'm going to use this time briefly cuz I don't think I gave uh
042the community a little glimpse about why I'm ran for this position or wanted to be in this position. Um if you don't know, my full name is Osagato Osahini Oamian. I was born in Anime, California. Uh what brought me to Cloverdale was love. My wife is from Cloverdale. Uh went through the whole high school, junior high, middle, elementary school. I've been here now living here for 8 years. I have three daughters. Two of them attend Jefferson. Uh and I think one of the biggest thing I want the community to understand is um we need kind of discipline, transparency and creativity to move us forward and we need to have all voices come together and do what's best for our children cuz at the end of the day the children are the most important. I'm not
043expecting everyone to agree with decisions or um but I am coming with great expectation that we can't move forward because what has been going on in our district has not been um helping anyone. Um so that's my little spiel. I'm truly honored to be in this position and I will definitely do my best. um to serve. Having said that, let's move to the board report. Uh I was able to attend a portfolio night uh for a couple seniors. That was great. Uh I was also up attend a DAC meeting um where our superintendent gave a lovely presentation on the metrics we use. Some of it a bit confusing over my head, but it was lots of numbers and they were good and we kind of reached some of our goals. I do have a scheduled
044tour of Jefferson on the 22nd, so I'm looking forward to that. Um, and um, yeah, that's all I got. Thank you, Trusty Garian. Okay. Sorry, I'm writing all my notes down. Um I attended I attended uh the measure H meeting yesterday. Uh we are on still schedule to have our start date right after school starts. Um I mean excuse me after school ends. Um so in June uh we still are waiting on funding. Um, so that is a little bit of a concern, but um, Vanpelt has said they will walk um, the neighborhood close to where the work will be done to let neighbors know what to expect. Um, I attended the SARB meeting. We had um, four scheduled um, of which two had attended and SARB is the student attendance review board. um kind
045of last resort and we try to be positive and find ways um and resources or come up with ideas to get kids students to come to school. Uh I also attended portfolio. I have attended it uh for several years and um this was the second year that I have been um I guess one of the graders um following the rubric of um grading students and I would hope that the rest of the board I encourage you to do it cuz it's really fun um to do. I just wanted to also remind tomorrow is Washington's open house and on um May 21st is Jefferson's open house. Okay. Thank you, Trusty Garrison. Um first I attended MC Teacher Night put on by Jefferson and it was absolutely fantastic. It was so fun to see the teachers and
046it was I think more participation in attendance than what I expected. So, it was just great. All the kids got to giggle together and eat their ice cream and all of that. So, it was wonderful to see that and be a part of that. Um, community unity day was great. Um, Riley and all of our other teachers that went out and took students, I commend you. It was great. Went to Washington. Got to see actually chicks be hatched in Mary Beth's room, which were pretty cool. Um, but that was great to just see all of um, you know, kind of the things going on at Washington, but also the different projects going around for that day. Portfolio night. I only embarrassed myself once and I apologize. Um, no, we I accidentally came in halfway through
047a presentation, but it was so great. And again, the honesty and just openness of students, not only I mean, we saw obviously that this evening, but just owning who they are. I don't think I was even uh half of that by the time I ended high school. Um and it was just great to be able to get to see everything that they've accomplished and what they're proud of, which is wonderful. Um we did a coffee chat a little while ago, really great attendance at CHS. Um and I am very much looking forward to the day on the green the 28th at Jefferson. My daughter's been practicing her dance, Michelle, like crazy. To whoop, there it is. Letting me know that that's an old school jam, making me feel even older. Um, but yeah, just looking
048forward to kind of end of the year festivities. So, that will be my report. Okay, so on to superintendent report. Well, you guys are so comprehensive that you've stolen stole every single one of the things I was going to talk about. Um, I was at the McDonald's thing as well with the teachers. I was working the uh drive-thru. I'm uh not very good at it, so I was not going to be Then we have a um next I think it's next Thursday, I'm actually going to be giving the diplomas to the TK graduation class. So, that should be good. I always like that because I'm taller than everybody in the class. So, that's good. Um, so everything else I I mentioned except for we did talk a little bit about the promotion is going the
049eighth grade promotion is going to be on June 5th at 6 p.m. at the high school um at the at the uh field and then the graduation is the next day for the high school on June 6th at 6 p.m. also. Um then if we go into the correspondence uh the first letter that we have is from um uh uh SCO which is basically our second interim um letter that we you guys so basically the process is is that we self um determine self-certify and then the um county office has to then either agree or disagree and you'll see in here that they've agreed to our positive certification. So kudos to our staff and Christa uh for making that happen. It is still by the skin of our teeth, but we are we are there
050um for that part. Any questions with that? Okay. And then uh the second letter, I believe we have some speakers here to talk about that letter. So I'm not going to try to um uh review that. And so we can just kind of open that up if you would like to do that. So it's up to you. Um Jenny, are we good? Okay. Anyone who would like to speak to this correspondent, you are more than welcome to step on up to the podium. Do you have machine do you have your interpretation devices because the testimony will be partly? Yeah. So our thought would be is that we can have um she can come over here and she can do can also say it in English as well. the parts that are that are in um
051Spanish to the board. We don't have an Okay. So, they're going to Okay. Just to make sure just so that everyone understands for the people who are making public comment it is recorded and because of translation there'll be up to six minutes instead of oh timed. Yes. Um and it will be six minutes not just the 3 minutes just due to translation but that involves me talking within Okay. So, but just know it'll go it'll ding, but just keep going. Yeah, because we have a set [Music] [Laughter] she has in writing. Oh, okay. Perfect. And then if you could state your name, that would be wonderful as well. [Music] Hi, my name is Susan Middle School. She gave me a copy of what she's reading. Yeah. Go ahead and have her read it, then you
052can read it afterwards. Okay. Okay. [Applause] interpret. It's important. can limit Thank you. I go up there. Yeah. Hello. Okay. Hi, my name is Susano Seera. I am a mother of two students, one at the high school, one at the middle school. And I'm a very active parent in both schools as I am the vice prince the vice president of ELAC. I am here because of the decision that you guys took to hire a bilingual liaison that hasn't been a lot of help for us. We have experience various difficulties of having bad interpret interpretation. It is very important that we are heard and that we are taking taken into consideration cuz this impacts us directly and our students. my my personal experience that I had at a meeting an ELAC meeting where um I wasn't
053interpreted in an adequate way. I felt very confused and didn't have the adequate information leaving leaving me with that uncertainty um without knowing what the meeting was about. This can't be happening in a district where the majority of our families are Hispanic. It is important that the staff and mainly the biling bilingual liaison is uh trained based on the necessity of each of the families. We have had uh experiences where teens have translated and I firmly believe that this is not their responsibility. This hasn't just happened at meetings. It also has happened at back to school nights where I have heard mothers and fathers that have had to leave back to school nights because they didn't have the proper interpretation. My major concern is that we have exposed our concerns and we haven't been heard
054and we haven't had the change or the solutions. Uh we can't continue without this information and communic uh communication without our own language because it limits us and it excludes excludes us from participating and continuing with the and with the with our students. Um, it's not growing. [Music] And it there you go. And it limits the participation and the growth of our students. Sorry. Thank you. Any other comments? Okay, just so you know, I fixed the clock, so it's going to ding, but just keep talking. Okay, they also had a question whether you guys read um a paper that they submitted on August or April 30th to the school district. It was signed, but they're just the packet. It's in a packet. Yes. Yes, we read it. Okay. Um, okay. I have your name first.
055Yeah, I'm Alexandra Reese. Um, so I'm a student. I was a student here and was part of class of 2022. Um, I'm here to share my personal experience of translating for students who um recently arrived from Mexico or any Spanish-sp speaking country. Uh, the first time I had to translate for um a student was in seventh grade in my math class. A new student had just arrived from Mexico and I didn't she didn't speak much English. Uh because I had high grades, the teacher asked me to help her. I translated worksheets, homework, and lecture notes. I had to make sure to write down everything the teacher said so I could explain it to her later later. Um if she didn't understand anything, I had to either try to explain it myself or ask the teacher
056on her behalf and then translate that response. Uh sometimes the teacher even had me translate worksheets so that student could practice at home. Um, and that's where I felt like it was beyond my responsibility, especially since I had my own assignments and other classes to worry about. Uh, a similar situation happened in my freshman year, uh, my geometry class. We were working in on a big project that involved math writing and then we were using a later laser to cut out shapes um, uh, out of the wood. In the middle of this project, we got a new student from Mexico and again this I was assigned a translate and help her. Uh the early stages of the project were the most difficult and I had to spend most of my time helping her understand the
057material. She unfortunately showed little interest in participating and I let the teacher know but he told me to keep helping her uh and trying to encourage her. Uh initially he had told me I would get extra time to complete my project since I was helping her. But when the due date came and I wasn't done, he refused to give me the extension and he said that he had never promised me that extra time because of it. Instead of getting an A as I expected, I received a B minus while the student I had been helping received an A just for trying um even if she didn't complete the she completed like half of the project. And I know this issue is still ongoing because I have two siblings siblings who are currently in 10th grade
058and they have let me know their concerns. Um they have had to translate for new students or even at parent parents event. Um I don't think it's fair to have students translating um when they already have to worry about their classes and assignments. It should be something the school does and be people who are capable of translating. Well, thank you very much. Why are you going to translate that? She just read. They said not. Oh, they they were okay. Okay. Just making sure. Okay. Alvarez Jefferson. Are you okay? She's going to give me her picture. Fore! Foreign! Foreign! for considerament responsibly. Las medicine communic. Thank you. Okay. Uh first of all, hi, good evening. My name is Hana Alvarez. I am an active mother here in the community and recently I am the president of
059ELAC in at Jefferson Elementary School. I have three kids that are attending this district. Okay. Can you put the mic closer, please? Fine. Thank you. I'm nervous. Okay. I have three kids that are going to school here in the district and I am profoundly committed to their education and their well-being of the students and the rest of their families as well as mine. I want to express my concern with um respectfully about the translation that I have experienced in several situations where the quality of the translation because of the new uh liaison has been deficient which has uh left me doubting uh the accuracy of the translation and the messages that we have wanted to communicate. Um it is worrisome for me that I can trust fully the information that has been translated because this
060can generate confusion. uh we can understand things in a different way wrongfully and they can it can be not an adequate translation because of that I consider that the people that are in charge of translating that it's fundamental that they are trained and are credited to train and certified to train with all the knowledge and necessary skills um for the for their performance. ments in this kind of job. So, they're more responsible and the way they're translating the translation. It's not only about language, but it's also about having access to the right translation. The families that aren't uh that aren't dominant in the English language um need the same clarity and understanding as the rest of them. I really appreciate the job that the um board does and I hope that they can take in
061consideration what we're asking for to asssure that the communication is more accurate for all our families. Thank you. [Applause] My number is March. forto contra. foresid. That context. [Music] resolution. Just responsib Gracias. Thank you. [Applause] Okay. My name is Maria Gir. I'm a mother of three students of this district. I am also an active parent of the schools. Uh recently I am the secretary for our DAC. Um, and I decided to be the secretary cuz it is important that my kids and all the students it is important for me to be the secretary cuz I care about my stu about my kids and all the students in this districts and the schools. But I have a question for you guys. Tell me what is the district or what has the district done to train all
062the staff of the district in case ICE comes to our schools. How are you going to protect our kids and ourselves? Um we know that the that in this district the majority of us are Hispanic with migrant races. Um, which means that we need a district. We need this district to become a safe haven for our students, our parents, and our community. My kids are worried what's going to happen to their dad or with me in case ICE separates us in the case that ICE separates us. Um, as a school district, you have the responsibility to create a calm space and a safe space for the development of our kids and our anti- immigrant um families that are affected. Um, in this moment, we want the district um to do what other districts have done
063and approve a resolution for this district to become a safe haven for you guys. Uh, we want you guys to avoid separation of families and then reduce that traum trauma of our kids. And we believe that would happen uh by us becoming a safe haven. uh and I can facilitate one example of this resolution. And that's when they passed out the paper. Uh and I know our district can get this done and it's your responsibility as well. Um and unfortunately I know of several parents that are scared and that's and that's one of the major reason why their kids have been absent because of the fear of ICE agents being around the area here at the sites. Thank you. Any other comment? Hi, good afternoon. Uh my name is Handri. Uh I am a community
064organizer with the a migrant justice initiative here supporting uh the mothers and students who have brought forward their concerns regarding language interpretation, language justice within their spaces. Um, I would also like to further echo uh the push for a sanctuary resolution. I have been working closely with youth organizers from the Santa Rosa City Schools District and the Rosland Unified School District who have pushed forward and incorporated um safe haven resolutions. And just for perspective, we know that Santa Rosa City Schools District is pretty big. Cloverdale is pretty smaller. It's a lot smaller. It's a lot more possible to create that safe haven um ecosystem of preserving safe spaces. um and ensuring the safety of our students. Um so just putting that into perspective, Cloverdale is a smaller district. It's a lot more possible to ensure
065that these communications are being brought forward to parents, teachers, um staff um and students. Um this was mainly something that has been pushed forward and brought forward um from the students within other districts. Um and it's also recognizing that many of these students do it out of survival. They do it out of fear. They do it out of preserving their own safety and the safety of their families. Many of the times students are at the front lines of not only being impacted and the ones at the front lines of being separated from their parents and families, but also interpreting these systems and and these structures over to their teachers, their relatives, and their families. That also includes language. Um, so that push for language justice and language access goes further than just interpretation. It goes
066into being able to communicate what's really happening within the school system and what's happening within the community. Um, and as we know, everything that's happening in the community trickles down and into the schools. Um, so connecting back again, the safe haven resolution, which y'all have on your um on your tables, it has been uh reviewed legally by lawyers. Um, so all of the language there has been already reviewed been reviewed multiple times by lawyers. Um, and in fact, this is the second draft that Santa Rosa City Schools pushed forward. Um this was again a draft that was pushed back from students which students really pushed for district language that further pushes not just only for schools and unified school districts to push um that communication of we're a safe haven um district but actually incorporating
067structures of training personnel of having know your rights for students but also for staff um for faculty. Um when thinking about Safe Haven um campuses, we're not just talking about resolution. We're also talking about these trainings. Um we're also part of the North Bay Rapid Response Network. Just last week, uh I did a workshop with about 20 folks here in Cloverdale in a couple apartments. None of them knew what the North Bay Rapid Response Network is. And just so you all know, the North Bay Rapid Response Network is a community- based network um where families, anybody from the community can report um immigration sightings. This is all volunteer-based and uh structure to preserve the safety of our uh community. Um and these trainings can also be facilitated to personnel and it has been in other
068districts. Thank you for your time. Thank you very much. Do we need translation of that? I can also say my comment in Spanish. I can also say in Spanish. [Music] You know, I think that's the charm of being bilingual. You get extra time. You get to take up more space. Salon So it impacts students mental health. Santa Rosa City Schools School District. So just in English um it's been reviewed by lawyers because we want to ensure that this language districts can actually utilize and adopt it. So back again to that So, it's also those structures of how schools and staff is going to interact when ICE when ICE does come to campus. Um, so students are not the only ones impacted, but they're also the ones educating the community. Um, um, so Yeah, rapid response
069network um sir um did a training last week um and basically um learning that we need to do a lot more work on educating our um communities with regards to those rights. Thank you again. Any other comment before we move on? Thank you guys for speaking this evening. Okay. So, moving on to report discussion items. R1 measure H update. Could I ask this question? Oh. Well, that's what Yeah. So, they understand. Oh, okay. So, at the end, any of us can bring up an agenda item for future meetings. So, if you would like to stay until the end, you are more than welcome to. Um, if not, if something does get put on for future agenda items, it'll be on the ne next agenda uh packet. Just making sure. So we have the measure H
070update which was given earlier. Um and so anyway just it's the same old um report. Okay. Thank you. Now on to R2 South Cloverdale property update. Yeah. So, the last time that we um talked about this last month is I believe um we were looking at um potentially the different options that we have out there. Now, I did do a little bit of research and reach back out to that company we had before um that came and remember did a presentation about employee housing. So, um, Kalis Stoogga School District actually has a a 10, I think a 10 or 15 acre parcel, uh, much similar to what we have, unincorporated, basically just bare land. Um, they are actually, um, it's going to go a little confusing, so hang in there. So, what they're doing, there's
071a couple different things. You can either sell the raw land to a um, a developer, let's say, right? But the risk that the developer has is they have to get the plans and everything like that approved to the city, right? And so it may or may not work. It may take a lot of money. It may take a lot of time. And so one of the avenues or one of the roadblocks for people to be able to do that is that part. So what Kalisoga is doing is they are and I don't remember the terms so don't hold me next to the terms but they are basically developing the property streets and getting all the plans and everything like that. Not making the streets but getting all the plans and stuff working with the city
072because of the public agency to public agency thing. And then they're going to and then they're going to make a deal or then take it out to bid that if any um contractor or developer wants to develop that, they would make let's say I think up there they're using 10 homes for example. They're not doing apartments, they're doing homes in there. And so they would quote unquote sell that to them already kind of permitted and everything like that too. So somebody could kind of come in and hit the ground running and in payment they would get 10 houses essentially. So, and that's there's a name for that, but I don't know what that name is as far as getting that done. So, that's an option. And apparently a lot of not apparently from what they're
073saying. I did talk to the superintendent up there in um Kalisoga and that's a lot more attractive to builders and to the developers if we get it to that point. And what's nice about that, according to their superintendent, is that it's like city to city or or public to public kind of getting through everything and then to get it going because it also benefits the city because we have somewhat control of what the streets look like and what's being built. Um, which I thought was intriguing, right? Um, but there's a lot of money upfront for those costs is the whole thing. Um, so and of course they'll get that in return, but it's still putting money in front. Now, they're doing a little bit different because with the 10 houses they're getting, they're actually selling
074them to employees. They don't want to rent anything or anything like that, too. I think that's a little weird to me, but um anyway, it's not my decision to make. Um, so anyway, there there's that piece that I would like to kind of tug on a little bit more um with that, but I don't I don't want to do that if you're not interested in that. Um, it would be tough for us, I think, because of the money up front. Um, and I don't know if there's a way to kind of have a to work something out with the developer such that we kind of, you know what I mean, help with that plan. Anyway, I it takes a little bit more than me. But I don't want to spend my resources, not money, but
075my resources and trying to look into that. That's not something because that's a fairly involved project. And what I'm talking about, if I was to do that, I would probably meet with maybe the city officials and find out what that entails. Kind of get somewhat of a price to see if they might, you know, what I'm hoping is what's happening in Kalisoga is they're making it, it's kind of a joint venture between the school district and the thing. And so I'm She didn't exactly say it, but I think that there's there's a fee. It's not like full-on fees like a developer, a private developer would would have. Um, so I hope I'm explaining that right. Um, but again, I it's not going to be free, per se, but I don't think it's going to in
076the end, I don't think it would cost us anything. I don't like the selling of the of the part. Um, but I do like maybe like condos or or um condos doesn't sound right, but um town homes or things like that too or apartments or or stuff like that. Um anyway, just kind of thought on that part. So, I don't know if you guys have any comments on that or um direction. Um, is there any way the city school subcommittee that that can be brought up like just as an agenda item or a discussion item? Yeah, but that's a little this is more of the planning kind of department thing. So, I think I would start with the city manager to see what he thought. That's more about like um facilities and equipment and things
077like that to share. This is a little bit more in the plan like I said the planning committee kind of thing. I think it's a little deeper than that. Okay. um that's more like um safe routes to schools, you know, uh for that part. Um it's it's an interesting concept. And what I'm going to try to do is I'm going to try to get their kind of PowerPoint thing just to kind of show you what they're doing so you can kind of see. And again, I'll think of that term that they use, but it's something to do with where you Anyway, I'm not even going to try to attempt it. Um anyway, other questions you guys might have if that's something you want me to I really would like some direction as far as if
078you want me to do that. Um if we are interested in selling um I don't think it I think we need to start that process cuz like I said it's going to be 18 months uh for that. Not difficult just a lot of box to check um and a lot of compliance um with that. So, um, and I can also just we can just sit on it too and not talk about it for a few months, but, um, or a year or whatever or never. Um, because I have been talking to the chief about fire migation and stuff like that. I don't think that's too much of an issue as far as just we're going to have it around the outside, right? We're not going to do anything on the inside, but that seemed to
079have worked last year. Um, and like I said, we do have um the tribal housing has like a 247 security. I don't know now because they're open now. They have residents um which again residents kind of help keep an eye on things too. Um so anyway, any feedback or um I think I would just be interested in how much that upfront cost we would be looking at. Okay. for those plans if before I really knew if I wanted just me my own opinion if we wanted stuff we're talking about yes correct okay because if it's not feasible to us to even do the initial I want to say she says it's around a million dollars in Mhm. But I don't know if I'm also not clear, but we're not in Kalisto, but I'm also not
080doing not clear if they're if they're actually putting in the infrastructure, right? They're putting in like the roads and the infrastructure that way. I'm not sure on that, but um anyway, but yes, I can certainly find that. Okay. But you are very correct in the fact that we're not Kalisoga. Yeah. So maybe it's not that much. Yeah. But um and then also um is there I don't know if it would if there was someone that would be able to present to us like the process where we could ask the questions to. Yes. But I think we're getting close to the point where I think they're going to start wanting to charge us to come in. Right. It's one of those things where I think that they don't mind helping out a little bit, but at
081some point they're It feels weird to me to kind of keep asking them to provide without really I don't know, maybe it's just me, but maybe this sounds weird, but can we go like on a quick field trip to Kalisoga and like ask more questions? That's what I mean. I think I'm going to get information from her on the PowerPoint just to kind of show what's going on and and I could possibly get her to come and talk a little bit about it. Not the other company that already came and presented. That's the one that you think would Yeah. No, I'm talking about the superintendent. I was I was talking about the company. Yeah. Therook Brookwood people. I feel it feels a little bit pushing it like we're kind of asking for a lot of
082free stuff. Um but I'm I'm almost positive I could get Audrey to come down and talk a little bit about just her project cuz they've already been public with their project, too. So, or at least get her some of her information that I can share with you guys through that. I don't know how she'd feel about presenting to a different board, but yeah. It's just nice that it's so close, right? That it's so close to be able to do that. And relatively, I mean, they're smaller than we are, but relatively similar as far as size goes. Um, and I want to say theirs is probably 10 acres. I want to say maybe 15. Not as big of our as ours, but theirs is just a flat really usable entire usable piece. And then I don't
083know if how anyone else feels about it, but is there a possibility of splitting that property and selling part of the property to fund the initial um fees that would go up front because I don't think we would be building up on that hillside necessarily. There's always a possibility. I just that you would incur more cost to do the splitting also ever because you'd have to split and I don't know down there if it's zoned to split. You know what I mean? I there's it's not as easy as just Yeah. And I don't know how attractive it would be to sell the half that has a mountain. What about potentially partnering with like the county or something about um like open spaces? Well, there is that part too which I think that's to me is
084another way to kind of do it too is to look at the um was it called open spaces or I think it's open spaces anyway something like that. Yes. So there's a bunch of different avenues. Sonoma County Open Space District. Yes. And so um and there's also a land trust one too. I think Sonoma County Land Trust. Yes. Um yeah, there's a lot of different options. I I've just I'm trying to, you know, I don't want this to become my job. Well, now I have another question for you about it. Since we have this property and really nothing's going on out there, is there interest from our cross country teams at the middle school or the high school or anyone in our district wanting to look at a new cross country course out there, but
085you'd have to not long term. I mean, it's not necessarily long term. Put in some our current high school one and middle school one is in the middle of a vineyard. Yes, but it would be you would have to get, you know, be a liability insurance thing. It would be and then there's really no trails, right? You'd have to create some trails and then I don't know how well it's like usually three miles. So, I don't know that you that'd be a lot of laps. Some of them do multiple or like that's so I I don't know. I mean, I think what we're looking what I'm looking for is what are we going to what's our plan that we're going to do? I mean, is it is it do you want me to keep going
086on this or do we want to just stop for a while and figure this out until we I you know, I feel like we've been talking about this since I got here. I say sit and wait in before that. Mhm. Yeah. That's just since I got here. Yeah. I kind of Yeah. I just I say sit and wait. the our when we initially purchased it, it wasn't to be utilized, it was a long a long-term long vision. It wasn't something that was going to be done because we knew we didn't have the funding for it, but it was like the last piece of land that we could potentially develop on. So, I think when the board made the decision to purchase it, it was for a longterm long vision goal. And I am definitely a
087proponent. I've been pretty vocal about wanting to get rid of it as soon as possible, but I think there's other kind of more press or like pressing things that need to be discussed that I'm fine pulling off for a couple of months. It's $2 million of our measure H fund sitting there. But I mean, I'm good with having the superintendent in Kalisoga personally come and at least give a little bit more information. I shouldn't probably promise that, but at least, you know what I mean? any PowerPoint or any type of idea to see the feasibility of it would be nice, but that's just me. So, how about more like August to give me a little bit of time to try to see what I can get cuz they're just literally starting right now. So, they're
088just making starting to make decisions at the board level to go forward with it. Well, yeah. Um, since you brought it up, I would like more information. Um, it's an intriguing idea very much so, but I wouldn't to know that verbiage of how they're getting away with that. And again, with the cost involved, I'm sure there's waiverss involved with some of the cost and whatnot, but I'd really like a little more information on that. Okay. And I can easily get that through the city manager, I'm sure, would see what they could comp essentially. It's just like selling a home, right? They the tail end costs. We could work a deal potentially, right? And they may tell me just no. Right. Let's just get an answer. Yeah, Mr. Gaming. No comment at this time. So, we'll
089sit and wait as long as the fire chief of Cloverdale helps us with the fire uh issue. I do want to give kind of sell or get some high monetary value from it, but if it's going to cost us x amount of dollars, then we should just hold off and wait for the right time hopefully. But yeah. Yeah, it's not it's certainly not hurting anything. No. By sitting there, that's for sure. Um so, okay, great. Thank you guys. Thank you. I'll promise not to put that on the next meeting agenda. So, we already had R3. So, now we're on to R4, board policy 6142, um 7, physical education and activity exemptions. So, again, we had this on last time, but I know I I asked for it to come forward. The only I I just
090wanted clarification because we had a teacher express concerns that that um the proposed um bell schedule bell schedule and um would you call it a waiver a physical education waiver for the sports didn't meet our board policy or didn't align with our board policy. Correct. Um so I just wanted clarification on making sure everything aligns so that we are operating within our board policy. Yeah. So if you look at the second which is actually page I think it's uh 104 104. Yet that says other other exemptions that the superintendent or designate may grant a student an exemption from physical education under the following special circumstances. and Mr. Harper and I um figured out what the minute wise and everything like that too and it does fall under that and historically apparently we have done that.
091Wouldn't wouldn't the previous spell the block schedule have also conflicted with what that teacher's concerns was because they weren't necessarily having PE every day with that block schedule either. Yeah. I don't I I don't Yes. I don't I'm asking a question potentially. Yes. I don't Yeah, I didn't I don't exactly remember what the I don't complain right what the question was concern we feel so what we came up with is and it specifically says under grades 10 through 12. So we thought three seasons would be able to be for one year worth. Um, but 9th grade doesn't count, which we already agreed, but it's also because it's in our board policy as well because um, but we are also, even though it says through grade 12, we're actually trying to get it before grade 12
092starts because we don't want a kid that has to all of a sudden take PE their last thing, right? Yeah. So, we're trying to, if you're taking that route, we're trying to get it done by the end of their junior year, which is still six seasons basically to get three out of out of the way. And so essentially a student can finish it their 10th grade year if they do three sports. There's a few exceptions. For example, if they're just a football kid only, for example, and we know they played, you know, their sophomore, junior year, and obviously it's in the fall, so it's a little easier that we can probably make exceptions on that. But we're hoping, we find most of our athletes do play more than one sport, so it should be pretty
093easy to get to. So I have one question and one hesitation, though. um due due to injuries. What happens if a student is injured and cannot that's a problem and we haven't thought of that. Okay. Does just being on a team count? I mean yes it does. Being on the team does count otherwise you can't really it's be hard to differentiate that. Yeah. And then what about so any sports they play during their freshman 9th grade year would not count towards that. Right. Because remember they're still taking the freshman course. Correct. But they're going above and beyond by playing a sport. I know, but your board policy does not say that. Okay. And and most of the and I know he's outside, but most of the research he did with other schools is just like
094yours. Okay. It does they don't count the ninth grade year. Okay. Um, speaking as a uh former athlete, as a freshman, if you're playing elite competition, it doesn't make sense to me that you're still kind of considered um not having to take that PE course. I mean, you're playing at a varsity level, multiple sport. I I think that's enough physical activity for you know and you maybe you could take another elective rather than another physical I I believe PE is required their freshman year really oh my god that's stupid I I mean I do have to say physical education you're you're learning more than just that different things like that you are learning also education and I know in my opinion you can also take something understood else I mean if you're that's I believe
095we have that option Okay. But what about so if they have if they're taking the PE 10th or a sport their sophomore year and they have to and they take one the junior year. Are they done or they still have to take it three years? Is it season or year? Seasons. Seasons. So you could So or you could be done by your junior. They could be done their sophomore year if they do three sports. Now, that doesn't make sense because I it should be like a like keeping them active long term. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, but that's that's not what the board policy says. Yeah. How do we can I Well, you're the board, so we can change board policy. I would like to change that. Could we just obviously put that on future? Of
096course. Yeah, we can. I'll make sure. Well, no, you can do it right now cuz it's already on the No, I'm sorry. Discussion. Yes. I mean, if we're going to make a we're not making a big deal. If we're going to say taking athletics um cons counts as a PE course, why don't we just make it a a year thing rather than season? I don't know. That'll be my only opinion on that because what do you mean by a year thing? Like every year you have to be complete a season. A season or every year you have to take some type of you know physical. It can't just be one season, one year your sophomore year and then you're done with physical activity. That's what I'm saying. I know you take your freshman year. Um
097that gives us an opportunity for having students to be active as well longer. I don't know. I don't know. I'm just throwing it out there. Right now though, if they take they don't even do the active thing and they take PE first year and second year, they're done. Yeah. Okay. Right. So, so what we don't want, my opinion is what we don't want to happen is we have to have them do more, right? So, we feel like three semesters or three teams basically season to be able to get a waiver or is it two? So, I just stood up here cuz I figured you would want to talk to me. Um, well, first going back uh freshman year, we also do a lot of health education, sex education, all that is kind of freshman year.
098So, it's really important to have PE that freshman year. And so, what Miss Ramirez and I looked into is what other schools are doing in the county because it's ed code that I think if you complete a Sorry, Wana. Oh, sorry. If you complete a sport, then you're eligible for the athletic waiver for your second year of PE. And so, when we looked into other schools, what some schools do, if you complete two seasons of a sport, then you can wave out of your second year. And some schools are you complete three seasons of sport, you wave out of your second year. And so Anna and I were talking, Anna, the PE teacher, do we want to do three seasons and count what they do freshman year towards that or do we want to do
099two seasons, not count freshman year because they're in PE. And so if they do two seasons their sophomore or junior and or junior year, then we would count that. And we would want to have them finish that by the end of their junior year because going into senior year, it's very stressful to be like, "Oh yeah, I'm going to do basketball." But then they get injured, don't finish the season. Now all of a sudden they need to make up 10 units of PE in February in order to graduate. You guys change Yeah. the board policy if you did the three with a nth grade because right now it says you can only do it in grades 10 through 12 in the board policy. Yeah. For the waiver. Well, I just also easily can, but I'm
100just saying I want to say that. Um, I know right now our high school I don't think any of our sports have made cuts. I don't I don't know. I don't think they have. In the past, they did try. I mean, so this might have promote a lot more kids trying out for sports to where we might be in that situation where our sports teams are making cuts again. We're we're hoping this is going to encourage people to finish sports that they don't have to have a second year of PE where that frees up their schedule to take more CTE or elective classes and then it's like okay great you don't one of your seven classes your sophomore year isn't going to be PE but you need to finish two seasons of sports. So that's
101what we're hoping to encourage people to play sports. Um because after co there's been a big fall off with sports and we're struggling and you know our football team was low on students and you know our JV softball team barely has nine students so we're really hoping to encourage that. There was no JV basketball girls team. Yeah. I have a suggestion. Just keep in mind she's still translating. Oh I said that slow. Um, since this would be implemented next year, I mean, I know the board policy is already here, but the new schedule would be implemented next school year. I would suggest we see how it goes and see how our students are tracking with it. And then if we need to adjust after that, maybe we adjust our board policy and or the two
102versus three seasons or however that would that be possible? Anything's possible. Well, I just want to encourage cuz I I I'm a proponent of teamwork and athletics, not just academia. So, and physical activity. So, I'm just trying to get our small town to have our children move and play some type of team sport or something. So, but to that um are you thinking about changing it to include ninth grade or how what kind of team you look at? I mean, well, if it's up to me, if you're playing ninth grade level and you're part of a the varsity team, that should definitely count as a physical education. Um, I don't know. I don't know what the task a credit for a season. Gotcha. Do you like the ninth grade included and then three seasons more
103than the other more than 10 and two or 10th grade above in two seasons because most likely if you're already playing part nth grade you're going to continue that and if we did that board we would have to change our board policy because our board policy says 10 through 12 to be able to be included. We just we just ideas. I'm just basically But to clarify, you're speaking to a ninth grader playing at a 12th grade level, not just a nth grader playing a junior or a freshman. So I think that's a because it still promotes you to, you know, do all that um keep kids in physical education. But I just have a a sense of if you're already doing so much already as a ninth grader, there's no need for you to be
104penalized. Oh, not penalized. But one word caution on that is that if my kid's a freshman and they don't pull him up to varsity, that's not my choice, right? So, I'm now going to be upset Mr. Harper because my kid's not playing varsity and he doesn't get a chance to be able to do that. So, I don't I wouldn't suggest we do that. Um, it puts a limit makes it unequable. I wouldn't suggest we do it because that's going to bring up some real problems. One, it sounds like we're already limited with 9th grade being required anyways for PE. So, with a freshman be playing at a varsity level, they're most likely going to continue to play anyways. So, I don't know if that would be I'm just I just throwing I agree with your
105viewpoint on I do, but I think with the limitation of 9th grade already being re uh required to have PE, they're already going to be getting those credits. Okay. And I I think the 10 through 12th and two is a pretty it's doable for most kids because we don't want to make it such that it's not it's going to be a a burden for it. Is it um two seasons or three seasons? Right now we're saying two sorry including nth grade. Right. Right. Without including nth grade. And even though you say 10 to 12, we're not really including 12 because if someone says, "Oh, I'm going to play football. That'll be my third season." But then they don't finish the season. Now all of a sudden they're a senior in a bunch of freshmen or
106they're they're doing an credit recovery which you know it's like so we want to get things wrapped up by the end of their junior or you can do it twice and be done. Right. Right. So could that we change the language? Well, what it comes down to is we need to are we in agreement though that we want to put this I know it's out of order but as a future it's already on there. It's already there. Okay. We're not changing it right now. I not discuss discussing. Okay. Should we change it to 10 11 through 12? Does it have to be a school sport? What if they do travel volleyball or club volleyball or travel softball or travel basketball? Does it think that'd be hard to validate that privatiz sponsored? And then on top
107of that, money, you know what I mean? Again, we get into and how do you when they're in PE taught by our teachers, they're evaluated or graded. How would they be evaluated or graded based off of playing a school sport to be counted? Attendance, just by attendance. And that's going to be really important for us going into the future because we really needed students to take these waivers because if students didn't have the waiver, then Anna's child development sections would go away cuz she would need more PE. And so, uh, something that we're going to do with the athletic director who knows this and she's going to talk with coaches is it's really important that students that coaches are taking attendance and making sure students are coming because if they only come to practice once
108a week, you know, it's not really completing the season. So, yeah, that's going to be very important for us for next year. I would say for our data and to support this, it would need to be something where it's turned in like maybe not daily, but weekly because we don't want it to get behind and it should show if a student didn't show up to practice. Yeah. Uh well, maybe not necessarily turning in attendance, but um like when I was in high school, we we had a contract we had to sign with our coaches that had a whole abundance of things. And if you've violated it, you were off the team. So if a student is if we enforce that contracts with our students, our coaches through from coaches to students and all of a
109sudden a student is no longer on the team because they violated their contract, then we know they're in PE. They're not Yeah, they're going back to PE next year, right? So that's what Yeah, that's that's what we're going to be kind of working out over the summer. How is this going to work? So when we come to fall that coaches know that hey attendance actually matters because they're getting high school credit by actively participating not just casually. Okay. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. Okay. Now moving on to R5 youth truth survey results. Yes. I remember last time we forgot to add the um comprehensive for the district too. So that's that's in there. And again it's pretty self-explanatory. Um, so, um, it's just a matter of getting it to you guys. I'm sorry I didn't
110put this one on the last one. If there's any questions, we can ask. I have no questions. Neither do I. Trusty Garrison. Any. Okay. Well, now we are on to um agenda item S, discussion action. Um S1, consideration and acceptance of donations. It is a beautifully long list, so please bear with me. Um we have Mason Cabinet donated $1,000 to support Cloverdale High School student livestock. Does she want this? I apologize. I want to say Beiji family donated $100 to Cloverdale High School um FFA. Satie Dearta donated $72 to support Cloverdale High School student livestock. Saikowski family donated $850 to support Cloverdale High School student livestock. The Harjack family donated 100 to Cloverdale High School FFA. Cloverdale Citrus Fair donated $290 to Cloverdale High School FFA. The Rowan family donated $150 to Cloverdale High School
111FFA. I know, right? The Blackbod Giving Fund donated $80 to JH. Sonoma County Office of Education donated $200 to Cloverdale High School. The Care Foundation donated $238 to Washington School for 7th grade civics software. Care Care Foundation donated $1,28847 to JH for field trips. Care Foundation donated $86.38 to Washington School for Books. Okay. I know. Kowanas Club of Cloverdale donated $153.85 to CHS for the key club. I'm guessing that should say rally. Yes. Okay. The county of Soma donated $1,388.50 to Jefferson School for field trips. So, thank you to all of you that donated. We greatly appreciate it. And do I have a motion to approve? I move to approve the acceptance of donations. Okay. Trusty Lopez White makes a motion. Do I have a second? I'll second. Okay. Trusty Oamian seconds. Preferential is absent.
112All those in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Okay. Now on to consideration and possible approval of resolution 225-18 urging the California Department of Education to fulfill its obligations under Senate Bill 13:15 and to prioritize the needs of small school districts. So, what this is is that uh the the California Department of Education has been promising small school districts to streamline some of the plan processes. Right now, no matter what size school you are, whether you're LA Unified or you're Kashaya, you have to do the same amount of plans to um report to the state. Clearly that is a disproportionately effect. So what this does is this um basically says that the small school district association is um which we belong to is basically trying to get small districts which small district constitutes under
1132500 students to uh basically force the legislature to do what they already passed they were going to do. Um, some of you that have been on this board for a while understand that we have every scent we get seems like it comes with a plan. So, um, which is great, but it's just it's taxing because we don't have the amount of most school districts at our size don't have the amount of resources and personnel to be able to even keep up with that. Um, so this is basically just a um resolution that basically says, "Hey, stick to your guns and try to figure out what's going on with uh and and help us basically become um more functional." Mhm. Yeah. Exactly. So, I don't know if it'll do any good, but um this is something
114that small school districts, and I know I've only been here, it's my second year, but even our my previous district, we it's just it's not fair of the amount of work that we have to do uh compared to speed. Well, and I will say like let's say for instance since I teach in Santa Rosa City Schools, the amount of DO personnel that they have being able to do everything that's being asked is quadruple what we have here. So no, the idea we're not asking anything that there isn't in law. We're just trying to say we need you to prioritize what what's going on. So we're kind of reaffirming what's already in law. Um for that part um this doesn't really have any bearing on any kind of board policy or our district. It's just saying
115that we want you to do that. So So any other questions, comments before or does someone have a motion to approve? I move to approve resolution 225-18 urging the California Department of Education to fulfill the its obligation under Senate Bill 1315 and to prioritize the needs of small school districts. So I have a motion by Trusty Garrison. Do I have a second? I second the motion. Okay, Trustee Zewitz seconds. Preferential is not here. All those in favor? I I Any opposed? Okay. So now moving on to S3 consideration and possible possible approval of 2025-26 declaration of need for fully qualified educators. This is something we've done every year um that allow this basically just allows us to be able to hire people um if there's anything that might happen, you know, to somebody throughout the
116year. Um, so it allows us to be able to um hire people maybe with a [Music] um, you know, not need a full credential necessarily, maybe they're doing emergency credential or some sort of a um, you know, university type credential and things like that. So that's just what and this is probably going to happen every year. Just just allows us some flexibility. Yeah. So any questions, comments, or do I have a motion? I'll move to approve um 2025-26 declaration of need for fully qualified educators. Okay. So, I have a motion from Trusty Lopez White. Do I have a second? I'll second. Okay. Trustee Zawitz is my second. Um preferential is absent. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Okay. Now moving on to future agenda items. We have T1 board policy um7 physical education activity.
117Does anyone have need to bring it back or are we going to change? But my question is do you want me just to bring it back how it is and we can kind of make some changes if we want to or do you want me to try to incorporate some of the stuff we talked about? Probably be easier if we just brought it back regular than we start looking at it. Yeah. Yeah. So, know that when you get your packet, start looking at kind of maybe some things you might want to change in that kind of come with. Does that make sense? Come prepared. Um, I didn't mean to say that, but I would love to add as a future agenda item um the discussion of a safe haven policy. I think that that would
118be good to have more public input as well as um discussion from the board as well. So, I'd like to add that as a future agenda item. It's It's a resolution. Oh, yes. Okay. So, resolution. Sorry, not policy. Okay. Any other future agenda items that we'd like added? Okay. What about the considerations for the bilingual that Oh, we can add that. I mean, I'm good with that, but I guess No, I know. I'm just thinking would that be more of something that we would want to discuss? We don't discuss personnel. It's personnel. So, yeah. And they they they have a job description. Okay. And they were whoever was hired was hired based off of that job description. Okay. So, is that really even board jurisdiction? Can I ask that? That's what because I feel it
119is more personnel and not it's always board jurisdiction but it would not be for open session. Okay. Which we can't discuss in open session but we can certainly if the board so chooses there's a way to be able to put stuff in the close session agenda. Okay. Well then do we want to put it in close session agenda? We wouldn't discuss that here. Of course. Sorry. I'm so sorry. My brain is a little bit gone right now. Okay. If Yeah. I'm sorry only because of not public comment and whatnot at this moment. Um it would have to be something generated from board members at this time. But yes, you are free to email us because we do not set agendas until like finally until about a week out whenever we get our packets. So if
120you would any of you would like to email us any further discussion items, please feel free to do so. It was part of the letter. I move to adjurnn. Okay. At 7:59. Okay. So, do I have a We have adjournment at 7:59. Motion by Trusty Garrison. Do I have a second? I'll second. Okay. Trusty Oamian second. Preferentials absent. All those in favor? I I. Any opposed? Okay.