001system good evening I'd like to call to order the meeting of the Elk Grove unified school district board of education for June 27 2023 and announced that the board will meet in closed session to address items one through four on the closed session portion of the agenda at this time I'm going to call for public comment on the closed session items Mr Hoffman do we have any public comments we do not thank you I'm going to close public comment and recess into closed session we are back in session welcome to the school board meeting for the Elk Grove unified school district for June 27 2023 I would like to report that the board met in closed session regarding and with respect to item number three public employee performance evaluation superintendent the board is required to
002determine each year if the superintendent's job performance is satisfactory or unsatisfactory during closed session the board determined that the superintendent's job performance evaluation for the 20 202-23 school year was satisfactory all board members were present the vote was six in favor and one abstention good evening be the board of education has resumed full information sir who's that individual that voted no thank you for the reminder the abstention was Mr Bettis it wasn't an exception I voted no there's no discussion that's a close enough there's there's wow okay it was an abstention so uh as I was saying the board of education has resumed full in-person board meetings unless remote attendance is permitted pursuant to the California Brown act live streaming a full in-person board meetings will be available to the public via the zoom platform
003today's meeting is being video recorded and will be available on the district's YouTube channel please bear with me as I read some information about the public comment process during regular board meetings the public may not make public comments on items on the agenda or items not on the excuse me the public may make comments here I go changing the rules on everyone the public may make public comments on items on the agenda or items not on the agenda individual speakers will be allowed up to three minutes to address the board on each agenda item the total amount of time allocated to public comments by the board will be limited with a total of 30 minutes designated for public comment per item public comments during regular board meetings may be made about items not on the
004agenda but within the school district's jurisdiction public comment may be made on all items that are on the board agenda and will be heard when the selected item comes up individuals may not defer their time to another individual speaker to increase their total time Beyond three minutes please be mindful that District students may be watching you are encouraged to address the board and the public in a respectful manner such that all those observing from children to adults are made to feel safe welcome and valued the board shall not permit any disturbance or willful Interruption of board meetings persistent disruption by an individual or group shall be grounds for the board president to provide a warning and then to terminate the individual's privilege of addressing the board first item on our agenda is the Pledge of
005Allegiance and I would like to welcome up Miss Amari Watkins our new District Chief Financial Officer should please lead us thank you madam president ready begin I pledge allegiance 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 thank you Miss Watkins next we have public comment for items not on the agenda Ms levasser do we have any public comments via Zoom for items not on the agenda um nope all right folks we're going to work out some technical difficulties please bear with us Mr Hoffman other duties as assigned he's doing a fabulous job thank you okay try this again Madam president yes we do have a couple of public comments via Zoom first uh person up
006is emelina Mendoza next person up is Florence Day Kevin go ahead Florence if you can unmute yourself we're ready for you foreign can we get the clock up as well um I make this comment as a parent egsc staff and Community member um oops Florence if you can hear me go right ahead is my is it Audible hello Florence it doesn't sound like you can hear me Mr Chavez no issues on our end okay we're gonna pass this person doesn't seem to be able to hear us do we have anyone else Mr Sylvester next up we have Elda Garcia hello can you hear me hi Aldo if you can hear me go ahead hi Nancy uh I have got two items in my only allotted the three minutes for the two can you hear me
007okay Elder does not seem to be at her computer hello yeah there's no mute showing do we have anyone else next up we have Rowan Reign Hart okay do we have Roman okay uh yes can you hear me hello board hi Roman if you can hear me go ahead uh yes my name is Rowan like Rowan about and um I use they them pronouns um yes can you hear me if you can hear me like say yes here I hear some audio it just doesn't seem to be coming through one second Roman we're trying to fix some technical issues here sure I'm not sure if you've caught that Chris there's some audio but it doesn't seem to be coming through the to the room oh um did you visit issues um yeah can you hear
008me can you hear me okay we are not able to hear you continue to try to figure out if there's anything we can do our on our end tonight my apologies to those Folks at home um if you can hang on until after we're done with public comment for items not on the agenda for folks who are in the room we're going to try to come back to you if we're able to resolve anything so thank you for your patience um so with that Miss Jamerson can you please call folks um who have blue cards I have Kirk Thompson followed by Meredith Cooper hi so about six weeks ago I sat back there well many confused misguidance misguided and sometimes the range people called me things like oppressors colonizers white supremacist and my personal favorite
009white Christian nationalists now I'm a nationalist I'm a Christian those two have those two things have nothing to do with each other I'm only half white does that count or am I not Mexican enough like the racists used to say to me in elementary school so I would like to thank the board for not spicing these people's Free Speech no matter how mentally unstable and nonsensical their words may have been however the most accurate term used to describe me on the 16th was extremist I wear that label as a badge of honor Barry Goldwater once said extremism in the defense of Liberty is no Vice and one of my favorite Works in modern art the mini-series John Adams Benjamin Franklin's character stated I'm an extra moderate I believe anybody not in favor of moderation and
010compromise ought to be castrated now I'm not actually advocating we castrate anybody I'm here to actually advocate for a compromise contrary to the popular belief no one is advocating for Banning books whenever you ban something that is easily accessible it just creates more interest in that thing when I was growing up out of state I heard of a School District in California trying to ban Huck Finn and Kill a Mockingbird from their schools because they contain the n-word yeah I went down to the public library that summer and reread both books unfortunately that n-word actually makes the books much more compelling based on the story so this leads me to my compromise I would like the board to take whatever steps need to be taken to have all the objectionable books and you know which
011ones I'm talking about that are currently in the school libraries and any future books of this nature that have been purchased and don't purchase or donated and have them distributed to the local public libraries or given to families and parents who believe that these would be a solid educational material for their kids especially if they may be struggling with their sexuality this would ensure free access to the people who legitimately want access to these books and how at the library you could even put up a sign that says abandoned schools I don't care what you do this would give parents like me peace of mind that our kids who are not stumbling upon these books or Worse being forced by teachers to read these books and then hide the assignment from their parents this is
012a moderate solution and a fair compromise there is no reason this shouldn't be proposed and seconded and added as a future agenda item if a majority of this board isn't willing to moderate and compromise even this much than I refer you back to the Ben Franklin quote I said earlier Meredith Cooper followed by Linda Kennedy and if you can um if you are the next person if you can be up here at the front so that we can no that's okay no worries I forgot to announce that at the beginning thank you good evening I'm Meredith Cooper I started my teaching career here in Elk Grove unified and I have since moved on but I wanted to speak in support of all the books that people have tried to ban one of my passions in
013life has been sharing storybooks with young children I was in early childhood special education teacher and for those kids to see themselves represented in their picture books is one of the most important developmental things that they can experience for their social emotional development it is crucial for their language development and as we all know social emotional development is the foundation for all learning in life we need all kinds of kids to see themselves represented we need kids of all Races all ethnicities all sexual orientations all genders all religions all abilities we need all his to see themselves represented my own son is almost 17 now he is one of the best humans I know he was not interested in Reading when he was younger he has ADHD that was a struggle for him I started
014out by finding books where I thought oh I think he might be interested in reading about these refugees and he was he was like oh Mom I actually liked that book I said oh what did you feel you had in common with them one of the refugees was from Syria what did you feel you had in common with him and he said you know he was really scared like that was a really scary situation and I said is he exactly like you no Mom he he practices a religion and I don't practice a religion but I feel like we had a lot in common and that really got him started being interested in Reading he read George which is a frequently band or nominated to be banned book and I asked him the same question
015and he said well I feel like I'm cisgender but I really identify with George because George is going through a lot in adolescence kids need to see themselves represented in their books this is public school and by public we mean pluralistic we mean children who are going to grow up to become voters they're going to be contributing citizens and I can't imagine anything worse than telling them no you can't read that book at school because it talks about something that some group finds controversial thank you Linda Kennedy followed by Jess Carlson I'm Linda Kennedy I am teacher librarian at albiani middle school I'm here tonight to speak out against book censorship the freedom to read is essential to our democracy and it is currently under attack here at Elk Grove unified school district the freedom
016to read is guaranteed by the Constitution and should be protected for all students in all our libraries across our districts libraries give full meaning to the freedom to read by providing books that are enriched the quality and diversity of thought and expression if you visit any one of our egsd libraries in person you will find a wide collection of books that present different perspectives and viewpoints to meet all the needs of the different types of readers in our school district you will find books that support Asian American African-American Hispanic American Middle Eastern Native American and other diverse voices in all our libraries you will also find books to support lgbtq plus books on religions and beliefs and books on all political affiliations all Library users have the First Amendment right to borrow read View and
017listen to Library resources according to the Ala everyone has a right to read and learn from the variety of perspectives even if those perspectives may be uncomfortable or challenging every family has a right to determine which Library resources are acceptable for their own children but individuals must also understand and accept they can't take that right to access Library resources away from another family specifically a small group of vocal parents should not dictate what books other children's are allowed to read every family has the right and freedom to decide to check out or not check out any book from any school library if you allow these vocal groups who censor even just one book what else will they want to censor next Lori Halls Anderson award-winning author of speaks said censorship is a child of fear
018and the father of ignorance all egusd Librarians support every student's freedom to read we urge the egsc board to continue to protect the right to read widely and freely for all our EGS students and to continue to support the hard work of all egusd teacher libraries across the district thank you for taking the time to listen to my concerns about book censorship yes Carlson followed by Danielle jolliff good evening board president chairs Espinoza members of the board superintendent Hoffman and Miss Avalos my name is Jess Carlson I am a parent a small business owner admin of the Elk Grove book club and an lgbtq ally and activist I am here to speak out against the moms for Liberty Group here tonight wanting to ban books in egusd schools as you all have probably heard moms
019for Liberty were recently identified as an extremist Group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and splc official said that moms for Liberty and the like are trying to claim that they're just concerned parents seeking their quote parental rights but their actions show that their agenda is primarily aimed at keeping the truth hidden from our kids about our nation's checkered past including slavery discrimination and racism and trying to censor and eradicate lgbtq plus voices and identities don't let this group in bright yellow fool you this local chapter of moms for Liberty and all chapters across the country aren't who they claim to be they want you to believe that they are an organic Grassroots effort but they are secretly being funded by Shady billionaire right-wing conservatives with connections to groups such as the council for National
020policy which has been described by the New York Times as the little-known club of a few hundred of the most powerful conservatives in the country people like Betsy DeVos and fam belong to the CNP these right-wing billionaires are funneling upwards of 40 percent of the moms for Liberty overall Revenue not so Grassroots or organic if you ask me moms for Liberty professors wanting to protect children from an overreaching government while wanting our government to ban books on factual history racism in America and lgbtq plus voices they say they don't want an overreaching government while pushing for bans on reproductive choices and trying to force one particular religion on school children and going so far as to quote Hitler about controlling the youth while trying to control the youth irony personified to the people out here
021quoting Bible verses stop using religion as a reason to be a terrible human you use religion as a guise to reject realities that make you uncomfortable because you're afraid and lost and then proceed to project your fear as ignorant hatred to the Elk Grove kids I want you to know that you if you see yourself represented in books you are sometimes invalid thank you thank you Danielle jolliff followed by Stacy hello I'm going to be reading a portion from a book called The Bluest Eye it's available in multiple middle and high schools in Elk Grove unified school district he put his head down and nibbled at the back of her leg his mouth trembled at the firm sweetness of the flesh he closed his eyes letting his fingers dig into her waist the richestness of
022her shocked body The Silence of her stunned throat was better than Pauline's easy laughter had been they're confused mixture of his memories of Pauline and the doing of a wild and forbidden thing excited him and a bolt of Desire ran down his genitals giving it length and softening the lips of his anus he wanted to her tenderly but the tenderness would not hold the tightness of her vagina was more than he could bear his soul seemed to slip down to his guts and fly out into her and the gigantic thrust he made into her then provoked the only sound she made a hollow suck of air in the back of her throat following the disintegration the falling away of sexual desire he was conscious of her wet soapy hands on her wrist the fingers clenching
023but whether her grip was from a hopeless but stubborn struggle to be free or from some other emotion he could not tell removing himself from her was so painful to him he cut it short and snatched his gentles genitals out of the Dry Harbor of her vagina she appeared to have fainted Coley stood up and could only see her grayish panties so sad and Limp around her ankles again the hatred mixed with tenderness the hatred would not let him pick her up the tenderness forced him to cover her so when the child regained Consciousness she was lying on the kitchen floor under a heavy quilt trying to connect the pain between her legs with the face of her mother looming over her um this book has sexually explicit descriptions of rape incest and pedophilia this
024portion describes a dad raping his 11 year old daughter thank you Mr chairman I'd like to make a motion that public comment this is not the time for any emotions yes but you as a chairman could make exceptions to the rules how we govern this body so I like to propose we get that book off ourselves thank you devotion is out of order sir I have Stacy followed by Sean Tupa hello I'm Stacy a librarian I'm hoping to provide some transparency and clarity about the role of a librarian Librarians are required to hold not one but two teaching credentials one in their subject level and one in teacher librarian services both of which need to be verified and approved by the California Department of Education Sacramento County Office of Education as well as this District
025in order to be employed as a teacher librarian at the secondary level School Educators and Librarians are professionals who are trained not to impose their own thoughts and opinions on which ideas are right but to make knowledge and ideas available so that people have the freedom to choose what to read I actually didn't want to be a librarian when I grew up I wanted to work at Baskin Robbins where there's a flavor for every day of the month of course your flavor profile may change as you grow or even on any given day just as the book students select changes over time they may start off in the humor section with Dav Pilkey's Captain Underpants amateur to the fantasy section and read The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe side note these are both books
026that have been banned at times in history students can also choose to pick up a book and decide it's not the right flavor for them and simply stop reading it similar to Baskin Robbins libraries offer a variety of books for students to select from and exercise their individual student choice to deny one book or one flavor would be to deny the student the self-reflection opportunity and critical thinking skills to determine if the book is for them we trust individuals to make their own decisions about what they read and believe now there are times when some flavors aren't good for you for instance my daughter is allergic to pistachios it's my right as her parent to censor her ice cream choices and deny her the opportunity to taste pistachio similarly parents have the right to guide
027their children's reading but parents should not be making decisions for other parents children specifically a small group of parents should not dictate what books other people's children are allowed to read I do not stand in Baskin-Robbins and demand pistachio be removed from their freezer after all what would the rest of us do without spamoni but parents can and should help guide their own student in making book choices particularly if they want to avoid books that have been banned like green eggs and ham or Anne Frank the Diary of a young girl so here's how to do that parents follow the existing process in place in Elk Grove unified by contacting the school librarian and asking a note to be added to their students Library catalog screen centering their student from certain books if their student
028comes up with the book that the parent has deemed dangerous the librarian informs the student they cannot read that book because of their parents restrictions that's it Librarians and Educators respect the rights of parents to decide which book their children are exposed to I guess I do have a job similar to Baskin-Robbins after all thank you John tepa Chupa followed by Gandhi candy Wright right good evening members of the board everybody uh my name is Sean Tupa the purpose of any public institution of education is to offer as many opportunities as possible to its community of learners for developing themselves to become self-reliant productive rethinking members of a Democratic Society thus schools must maintain themselves as stimulating but safe environments inclusive Equitable and open to all within them the more students that have access to
029the more students have access to the vast array of human thought and perspective than the better prepared they'll be to advance our species as a whole every one of us loves our children our students we are all parental bearers While most of all most of us show our love by seeking opportunities for ourselves and kids to better know the death and richness of the human possibility of the diverse ways in which others live their lives a few here don't they react with fear when they encounter that which is for them foreign stories are our primary method by which we share our lived experiences sometimes they focus on the pain and Injustice we suffer at the hands of others these stories of indignity are very uncomfortable to hear but they are critical to learning how to
030become a better person some of us who have been bullied for our appearances different abilities sexuality or Customs confined of these stories models for how to maintain our self-esteem seek others like us find a belonging and how to stand up to those who pursue dominance such as sympathizers of moms for Liberty those of us who have not suffered such treatment can find in these stories ways to empathize with and support our beleaguered siblings we can find in these stories lessons for how to get along with if not love one another more sincerely deeply How to Build a Better World these benefits perfectly align to Jesus Christ's explicit limit to his followers to call these stories pornographic robs their subjects of the dignity they deserve Banning books no matter how graphic Rob students have the chance
031to learn about the injustices laid against others like them and not like them when people systematically oppressed they are trying to silence isolate and disempower their victims if the oppressed had no voice it's almost impossible to organize to belong to resist further exploitation book Bans are always in support of a current or aspiring power regime given all this it follows that by advocating from the removal of books from schools one you support a movement with aims to oppress others by two perpetuating the sad ignorance of the eclecticism of The Human Experience by three preventing students from reading books that could help them in an environment that is designed and equipped with the resources to teach them how to safely and responsibly explore different complex nuanced ideas and thus for you are acting against Liberty and
032against the teachings of Jesus Christ Yandy followed by Amanda Jimenez hi I'm here to talk about a book that was blown up the images from this on a poster board at a previous meeting and was suggested that we ban this book it's called the big bath house and I brought seven count seven copies because I can't quite count right but these are for you guys to be able to see and look at and um I want you to just kind of take a moment to be able to see the book in its entirety because I think sometimes with this Banning it's just a section of the book that's taken out and then you're not able to see the entire book and you're not able to see the good points of the book and why the
033book was chosen by Librarians I think we have excellent Librarians Elementary School teachers here in Elk Grove and I just really appreciate their background their college education their ability to choose books based on who they're representing and I think that's important we don't want the books to be the same for everyone we want the books to represent the students and so for this book you can take one image out of there and you can say what is this these naked women at a pool like what is this but the book is the classic immigration story I've been a nurse for 23 years and I say the story resonates with many student with many patients and it's the story of how an immigrant granddaughter this was written by a Japanese Canadian author and it's about how
034an immigrant granddaughter has difficulty communicating with her in-country grandmother that she's had limited contact with and doesn't share a language with so she's able to go to Japan and connect with her grandmother in ways that immigrants can connect with cultures that they've been separated from with food and for this family with going to an Onsen and then it also has a secondary message of body positivity where she's able to see wrinkled bodies and saggy bodies and old women who are happy in their skins and happy with their shapes wonderful message for immigrant children for my child for any children and and that's the beauty of a lot of these books is they have really good parts too Toni Morrison that was just a excerpt was read of Toni Morrison she is a wonderful author she's
035won multiple Awards I think that if you have read Toni Morrison you have added depth to your character in your life she's so amazing I recommend anyone to read The Bluest Eye um so the group here says they're not associated with moms for Liberty but it's complete copycat Behavior we see what they're doing as copycatting moms for Liberty 100 Heidi Moore um started a Facebook page it's called not it's on Instagram I believe not the children it has the tagline leave our kids alone we don't co-parent with the government exposing School boards it has the Elk Grove logo with a line through it and on there there's attacks on our Librarians our elementary school teachers our board members accusing them of pedophilia accusing them of being rumors this is horrible our teachers our Librarians should
036not be allowed to go through this right back here it says this school is a safe Zone how is that providing safety for our students for our Librarians when they have to come into contact with so much hate thank you your time is it Amanda Jimenez followed by Amanda Scott hello my name is Amanda I'm a parent or multiple Elk Grove unified students um first thank you to the board for providing um just a safe environment for my children to be in um my child my middle child has um transitioned within the Elk Grove unified school district and at no point during this had I felt um worried about their safety or their best interest within any lab field any part of the campus that they're on um I feel like my child is embraced
037and accepted in in all Corners there are a few things I'm concerned about I am concerned about the manner in which the term parents rights is being repeatedly weaponized as a tool to manipulate our school boards into Banning and removing books and curriculum over individual parenting choices and imposing an altered opinion on the hundreds of thousands of families who do not share these same ideas these arguments aim to remove material that teaches children about the cultures and challenges of their fellow classmates and gives them the opportunity to learn about families different from their own lessons that teach children acceptance and how to navigate spaces intended for everyone lessons that teach them compassion and how to use their differences to help each other these lessons are crucial and lead to everyone's growth we used to think
038that learning about the entire world was an amazing opportunity that not everyone could access now we find our school districts across the country in battle after battle just to have the freedom to educate our children about the whole world and not just one how can our children aspire to grow up and be teachers counselors doctors Engineers or presidents if they aren't seeing themselves in those professions how if what they're learning is edited to only teach vague Basics and represent a characteristics of only a few how can they learn about banana slugs without discussing the reproduction how can children that exist outside of the manicured version of societal acceptance feel safe in our classrooms if we remove anything and everything that represents and validates their existence this goes beyond gender identity and family Dynamics these concerns
039also represent our bipoc families our repeat of families West Asian North African families and so many of our European families these concerns also represent the awareness of accessibility and inaccessibility for families with physical and neurological differences I am concerned about that thank you your time is up Amanda Scott followed by Emily autenreith I'm here this evening to plead with my school board to put a stop to the abuse and dangerous behavior that has been demonstrated here by community members calling for books book bands protesting sex education curriculum and standing against the pride month resolution I'd like to begin my time here by recognizing the impact of the conversations we're having this group that continues to show up to these meetings is associated with a well-known extremist hate group with an agenda to implement Christian nationalism
040into our schools I think it's lost on many folks that the words they're using the phrasing they're choosing actually qualifies as hate speech and hate speech is not a victimless action it's a real problem that underpins thousands of hate crimes against marginalized communities every year your words hold power and they are used to harm people according to the United States Department of Justice hate speech is defined as bias against people or groups with specific characteristics which are perceived or actual race color religion national origin sexual orientation gender gender identity or disability I want to take an opportunity to draw a comparison here between the disability community's history and this current moment I am a disabled person I have a disabled child and it wasn't that long ago that disabled and neurodivergent people were unprotected by
041law and absent from storytelling only three decades ago conservative evangelicals and members of the Republican Party oppose the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. calling it nothing more than quote bad quality hogwash the Ada is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life none of us in this room would say that was a reasonable argument that civil rights for Americans with Disabilities was bad quality hogwash frankly we would say that those voices were wrong that they were on the wrong side of History we've decided collectively as a society that being inclusive to disabled people and neurodivergent identities is the right thing to do in our schools and in public spaces my point is that this type of pushback against marginalized identities is common during times of
042change but that doesn't mean the change is wrong or unwarranted it's time we recognize that sexual orientation and gender identity does not fit into the confines of traditionalist values and religious ideals the same way that a disabled person should be accepted in society and included in our story storytelling is relevant in this conversation like you I'm here to protect our children thank you your time is up thank you Emily followed by Amanda Sheldon part of it I am here as an egusd parent owner of the inclusive bookstore see the table and an advocate for children and families who rely on this board to protect their rights the issue of parents rights has been approved for a future board agenda this term can sound promising at first glance and I can see why members of this
043board thought it would be worth exploring however it's a buzzword that has a serious and long political history parents write as a political buzzword has been used to oppose School Board rulings and set back human rights many times in the past families use parents rights to oppose desegregation in the 50s they use parents rights to oppose any and all sex education in the 90s and here we are in 2023 discussing the validity of representing queer identities in our curriculum and libraries no since the 1920s parents have always had the right to exempt their children from teaching they have deemed unacceptable in other words parents remain legally allowed to remove their children from curriculum and materials parental rights are not being infringed upon by this board all parents have the right to make decisions for their
044children but not for all children in response to our advocacy at these meetings pictures and names of our community members are being shared across parents rights social media accounts with hateful and dangerous commentary calling us groomers and pedophiles and my store's phone number to be very clear many of these are photos of families children and egusd employees this is not safe and it is not safe to call lgbtq teachers and staff groomers the use of this term against queer people has a long and toxic history Anita Bryant popularized this ideology back in 1977 in opposition to queer rights last year NBC delved into her history the Florida legislative investigation or John's committee was established in 1956 born out of opposition to the desegregation of schools in the pursuit of Communists they wrote the committee first
045targeted the NAACP but was stopped by the Supreme Court they needed a new Target and in 1958 the committee began to eliminate lgbtq people from Florida schools its Evolution from racist opposition to homophobic oppression is clear in brief these arguments have always been rooted in the exact opposite of the equity that this board and our community deeply values this sort of rhetoric is not the foundation of a healthy Society or a school curriculum and if children's protection and safety are at the top of our priority list we better act like it despite the disturbing backlash our community and I personally have faced I applaud the school board for continuing to put Equity at the Forefront I thank you and our superintendent for recognizing that storytelling matters and no matter what kind of florida-based pushback you
046receive I trust you to pursue Equity thank you Amanda Sheldon Park is followed by Dustin Noble good evening my name is Pastor Amanda Sheldon Park and I'm the pastor of field of Hope United Church of Christ here in Elk Grove I'm also a mother and an Elk Grove resident and almost all of the children in our congregation are in the Elk Grove School District and while we have incredible very talented funny kids in our congregation and my work as a pastor I also come across children who are cutting their arms because their parents are telling them that to be gay means they can't live at home or to be gay means they're going to hell I see numerous kids that are at the risk of homelessness or are homeless that actually members of our congregation
047are housing them I see um I see a high risk of suicide amongst this population and I would just implore you to protect the public schools as a space where kids can find information and read fictional stories that don't exclude their experiences because we uh every week use a very controversial book in our worship that has a rape incest genocide prostitution uh murder and a bunch of other terrible things and that's the Bible and we use that book and we talk with our kids in our Sunday school about it and the myth that reading something implies that someone is going to enact that act is has no um well how do I say this there's no basis for that assertion and diff dealing with difficult texts is part of our job as the people who
048are in public education as people who are religious leaders as as parents so um unless the school board wants to ban the Bible and make it not available to any kids in schools because it contains some of that material I would just ask that um you protect the space for these kids to to see themselves reflected and to discern what is um of fiction and what is something difficult that they need to deal with and talk with their parents about you know I'll just use my last 30 seconds to say I I grew up in Roseville and I graduated over 20 years ago from high school and we read a book that had a sex scene in it in my AP Lit class and I can remember the the teacher talking with us about how
049why was this included as part of the plot and I went home and talked to my mom about it who was a nurse and because I wasn't having sex I had actually no idea what they were talking about but the point was that it wasn't a frightening scary thing and it was Snow Falling on Cedars which I found out won a bunch of awards thank you so much Dustin followed by Brandon Morgan all right good evening president cheris Espinosa members of the board superintendent Hoffman and Miss Avalos thank you for adopting the self a plan and sped budget for the 2023-2024 school year we look forward to what the next school year brings and continue to be optimistic EG speaks began with a mantra of inclusion stays you all remember it was a very common
050thing for us protesting against the removal of the inclusion specialist back in September and drastic changes and services for our kids throughout this school year we were fighting and advocating for our kids having things taken away from them such as having their voice representation things that define their academic journey in their uh inclusion specialist I want you to pick up on on some of those key terms there taken away representation voice defining I am here standing unified with our lgbtq plus families in and outside EG speaks inclusion is for everyone and every type of family and an individual no one should feel that they do not count or do not have a seat at the table as of late there have been some very strong voices in this chamber that Echo messages that are the
051opposite of inclusion even members of my own EG speaks team being verbally attacked and made to feel unsafe at previous board meetings we strongly oppose their agenda and the politics being played out here I would like to channel some new key terms into all this foreign excuse me I'd like to channel some new key terms into all this things that define myself my team and my community at EG speaks advocacy more not less inclusivity Equity diversity and taking back words like voice and representation some have tried to draw parallels between the two parent groups that we're all just fighting for parent rights I will say it here as clearly as I can we do not align there are no parallels here just lines drawn in the sand pride month may be coming to a close
052but inclusion is year round so I will end the way I began this journey back in September inclusion stays thank you Brandon followed by Aryan sawant I apologize Aryan sawant thank you uh president Charis Espinoza the board superintendent Hoffman um last board meeting there was a decision to include parental rights as a future board agenda item so I wanted to talk a little bit about what that term brings up both historically and in the current political climate but first and foremost I want to say that EG speaks is not a parental rights group it says it in our name we are advocates for kids we will help parents advocate for their kids right to a free and appropriate education but our belief is that we should be opening doors for inclusivity and diversity in education
053not restricting them or closing them we've had a lot of people throwing around the term parental rights lately and particularly as a political rallying cry to stir up the right-wing extremists bases but this is not a new phrase and historically we're seeing it used the same way it's been used in the past the idea of parental rights in education stems back from the Browns versus Board of Education decision and as a result of desegregation white parents began using the phrase in Revolt to black students attending now desegregated schools and just like today with complaints about books mentioning lgbtq community members white parents were working to ban and then started burning School curriculum that mentioned positive accomplishments of black Americans because they didn't want the idea of desegregation being pushed down their kids throats or indoctrinating
054their kids parents pulled their kids into private schools that literally marketed themselves as segregationists ultimately those schools lost their non-profit status for perpetuating segregation and the parental rights movement continued in even Fuller effect even here in California where Serrano V priest changed school funding from a local property tax model that funded local schools to a Statewide per student model that made white parents in the 70s so upset that schools in their redlined areas were going to get some of their tax dollars and that's how we got Prop 13 which essentially nerfed our ability to keep school funding in line with inflation and the cost of living so the goal here is that if they can't control it then they want to burn it all down and they're not even keeping them out of secret multiple
055groups in the parental rights movement have quoted Hitler just this last week in laying out their strategy for achieving their political agenda so is this a right thing about protecting kids from obscene books no the Miller the Supreme Court in Miller versus Alabama laid out a three-prong test to determine what is obscene and pornographic and none of these books brought up meet the threshold to be banned in one of those few exceptions to the First Amendment what this is really about is dismantling the public education system that offers a free and appropriate education to everyone because to provide that for everyone you can't favor any particular religion religious activity and you can't discriminate against who has access to it based on race ethnicity gender gender identity or sexual orientation and that's just not acceptable here
056to Fascism thank you Aaron sawant followed by Cole Smith Crawley hi my name is Aryan sawant I am not an alt-right Christian nationalist I'm just a Hindu Indian American concerned about my community I've been a part of the Elk Grove unified school district for the past 13 years since kindergarten having recently graduated from Franklin High School earlier in the May for the past few days I've been heavily conflicted on whether or not I should give public comments today I know for a fact that after my comment today I'm going to lose a lot of friends and I but I find the culture we're pressing enough that I now have no choice to speak up because if I don't I don't know who else will and I also want to emphasize that I don't speak for
057everyone I only speak for a sizable number of students that are scared of speaking of stop politicizing our classrooms I cannot emphasize the number of Educators and often entire School administrations that enter their politics into the classroom and punish those I think otherwise I've been in classrooms where I've been forced to write in a liberal bias and advocate for Progressive talking points I disagree with in order to earn a 4.0 you're quite literally incentivized to conform to your Educators political views in order to do well in class rather than to speak freely about your views over the past four years I've seen teachers going on tangents about how racist police are I watch teachers regularly bash Republican politicians I've been forced to watch late night convenience bash Trump and AP human geography and I've had
058to listen to my teachers discuss how terrible of a president Trump was and it's for these reasons that I personally never felt comfortable expressing myself or my views on until now that I've graduated because they're either with them or you're against them it's unacceptable it doesn't matter if it's teachers in Florida going off on left-wing politicians or vice versa we should not be having these political discussions in classrooms I go to school to learn I want to learn about math science English History subjects that excite me instead the school district is hyper fixated on social justice Warrior priorities I have no problem with treating others the way I want to be treated we should treat everyone with respect regardless of the gay straight lesbian black white or brown I interned for a Democrat State Senate
059campaign for seven months I've voluntarily attended Pride marches and I have zero problems with the pride movement whatsoever all adults and students given consent from their parents should be able to freely Express reviews and attend Pride events in their free time should they choose to do so that is the essence of the First Amendment the problem I do have is when the school district attempts to cram its vocal ideology on students that are just there to learn no matter the positive intention you have in purporting your social justice ideas in school the more you hyper fixate on Race gender and sexuality in classrooms the more adverse reaction you're going to get from parents and community members I've lived this experience for decades over and over a decade and I know egsd Prides itself in diversity
060so I just ask that you consider this as a diversity of thought and consider the other side just a little bit as well I'm just I just ask you to do a little bit better thank you Cole Smith Crawley followed by Ron Owens hey there hear me so before you begin that black button if you hit the top of it it'll move the whole Podium up and that way you won't have to bend over to reach oh sorry I was hoping it would go a little bit higher work yeah just trying to make you more comfortable appreciated in short defer to Librarians they are the subject matter experts on this uh as has been mentioned previously the United States of America already does have a definition of obscenity topics which are not covered by First
061Amendment protections uh in the middle of Earth's California case and in some previous uh Supreme Court laid out a pretty easy to understand guideline to be considered obscene material must one have a dominant theme in the work considered as a whole that appeals to prurient interest two be patently offensive patently obviously offensive because it goes beyond contemporary Community standards and three be utterly without redeeming social value I don't recall the name of the book that was passed out to you about the visit to an Onsen upon reading that uh did any of you feel like it was patently offensive that this was done to appeal to a prurient thank you the big bath house if you read this and your first thought is uh Prairie anticious yes this is what I'm reading because I want
062to excite myself uh I have some serious concerns about you so moms for liberty or other groups which totally aren't moms for Liberty but happen to be using the exact same list of books that they want banned uh I'm not going to speak much on the LGBT books specifically just because I haven't read all the books they want banned but of the books they want banned The Things They Carried which is a quasi non-fiction so fictional but trying to be realistic a novel about United States soldier in Vietnam I don't understand which part of that feels period interest or is patently offensive uh The Color Purple Brave New World Iris Chang's non-history book the rape of Nan King about Japanese atrocities during World War II uh Mouse which is the story the first graphic novel
063to receive a Pulitzer Prize where art spiegelman the author is interviewing his father vladic a survivor of Auschwitz the Holocaust the oppression campaign in Poland during that time uh and Of Mice and Men do any of these books strike you as obscene yes in Mouse there are uh drawn depictions of bodies stacked as cordwood they are stacked that way because they are being exterminated there's nothing sexual about the depiction of those naked bodies this attempt to ban these books doesn't really seem to be motivated by a desire to protect children from obscenity this intent uh the intent behind this movement demand books seems to be evidenced by some of the other comments I remember a couple of weeks ago someone was talking about how if their son wanted to call themselves a bunny rabbit how
064they'd be offended uh they really just don't like the idea that their children are different than what they want them to be uh I am a bit of a history nerd studied it a couple of degrees thank you your time is up Ron Owens that's awesome it's gone take a look at this picture showing oral sex in the school library book Beth I'm going to share a sexual story in this school library book Gina check out this sexually suggestive object printed in this school library book Nancy I'm going to show you sexually suggestive drawings in this school library book Carmine look at two boys having anal sex in the school library book Michael I emailed you a screenshot of an illustration in this school library book of boys having a masturbation contest Tony look at
065this derogatory comment in this school library book oh Christopher there's information about children massaging funneling and stroking each other in a school library book I gave this great information to your kids oh no your grandkids Oliver you're a minor but no problem there's instructions how to engage in same-sex or heterosexual sex in this school library book I emailed it to you if I was a district employee and if I said any of these comments to you I would be in big trouble I would be fired employees can get in big trouble for sexually sexually harassing co-workers employees came get in big trouble for sexually harassing customers you have 6538 employees you have 63 157 students customers being served at 68 separate work sites as you know that's the current number of Staff employed in this
066district and that's the number of students enrolled in this District Ponder this by continuing to Shell pornographic material in schools there are a total of 695 potential sexual harassment lawsuits lawsuits lawsuits I deeply apologize to you and to everyone in this room for mentioning this graphic sexual content in a public forum but this board and this District policy necessitated that I do so thank you your time is up here I believe we think that we can go back to the folks on Zoom okay we're going to give that another shot Miss levaster could you please call the first person yes okay we're gonna try this again first up is emelina Mendoza Miss Mendoza we're ready for you if we can get the clock up there as well I appreciate that Miss Mendoza can you unmute
067yourself please and please begin whenever you're ready Miss Mendoza if you can hear me please unmute yourself Zoom is showing that you are muted go right ahead Miss Mendoza okay this Mendoza we cannot hear you I apologize we seem to be having some technical issues tonight to you to anyone else who had planned on submitting their public comments for items not on the agenda via Zoom audio tonight please email those to me to Mr Hoffman or to the board secretary indicating that that was your public comment for tonight and we will be sure to circulate that to the entire board I apologize for the inconvenience so with that public comment for items not on the agenda is concluded and we will move on to the consent agenda Ms levasser do we have any well I
068guess no public comments via Zoom um on the consent agenda are there any we don't have any public comments they believe they're not miss Jamerson do we have any blue cards on the consent calendar Madam President we have no blue cards for the consent agenda I don't do I'd like to call for a motion to approve items one through eighteen on the consent agenda and move approval of items 1 through 18. okay um moved by Mr Fortuna I'm going to come back to you Mr Perez second by Miss albiani Mr uh Bettis is there something you would like to pull yes go ahead number three six eight thirteen Seventeen and eighteen okay may I have an amended motion Mr Fortuna yes I do approval of items one through 18 minus number three number six number
069eight number 13 number 17 and number 18. second thank you moved by Mr 14 that's seconded by miss albiani all in favor please signify by saying aye questioning a roll call volt nope we are doing acclimation all in favor please signify by saying aye aye opposed abstain as you know Mr Bettis our board bylaws indicate that we can only abstain when we have a conflict of interest so are you abstaining or are you voting no or would you like to correct your vote no okay let the record show Mr Bettis is a no vote on those items on the consent calendar and the items are approved we will go back to number three Mr Betty go ahead three new job descriptions pre-cla okay instructor uh my suggestion um to this particular item that we should
070include an upward Mobility chart for these individuals that once they are accepted into these positions they they know an an upper Mobility ladder they could take within this classification and disemployment and friend that's it for number three sir yes okay that sounds like a really substantive idea that cannot really be implemented from the Deus so I would encourage you to speak to staff prior to the board meeting for something like that um number six ratification a grand contract agreement for funding again we are Contracting uh dates are way back number two I'd like to know what number three item is prison to employment formally incarcerated and Justice involved individuals uh like more information that sent to me please those are requests that you can thank you prior to the board meeting sir in fact that's
071part of our preparation we really should have those questions answered beforehand number eight approval to extend Awards of rfps expanded learning opportunities program um this particular uh item does not have the total how much it would cost us it said Financial impact funded through expanded learning opportunity program funding no impact on the general fund but yet there's no amount of funding um item nine approval to extend Awards after school programs again there is no amount that we are going to award these particular contractors number nine is one of the ones that you pulled I have eight I don't know eight and nine I did and this is number nine okay again the total award amount not even approved number nine has already been approved because you did not mention that one at the top of
072the meeting so let's go to number 13. it's still the same item Elk Grove unified school district number 13 Service delivery budget plan for special education this is one of the most important items that as board members we have to our our student body and Community but yet we've put it on the consent item to brush through this we need to take full-time some hours workshops that like we did before to spend you know half a day a full day on special education issues and this kind of upsets me because I wonder what questions did you bring up to Mr Hoffman when you read this because I would like to know if some of you have the same interests issues that I have pertaining to special ed but yet we cannot talk about this cassette
073item in in in in a regular uh school board meeting so again we should have a special mean like we did before on special education Mr Perez you are always welcome to reach out number 16. Mr Bettis I'm speaking you are always welcome to reach out to me and I'm happy to facilitate to make sure you get your questions answered in advance of the meeting number 16 Sacramento in employment and training agency wait we can't do 16 that's been that's been voted on you said 14 17 and 18 were your other two wait a minute and if you don't have any issues with those we can go ahead and put them through okay well I think there should be more funding in that particular program sorry we've moved on number 17. number 17. again this
074particular contractor we in our facilities planned well we contract with this particular contractor on other uh facilities we should put this item in our facility plan that's going to be discussed later on in the agenda again we're spending a tremendous amount of time I mean in funding a hundred eighteen thousand eight hundred thirty five dollars and we could have Quonset Huts at our school sites way back here in the in the back there's plenty of room within walking distance in these areas that we could put that building like this but yet we're spending 118 and another one and the other contract I mentioned almost a three-quarter million dollars um thank you Mr FedEx may I have a motion that's items number three six eight thirteen Seventeen and eighteen on the consent agent yeah I move
075approval items three six eight nine thirteen Seventeen and eighteen I think nine was already approved and you've got number three in there sir oh yeah I take nine off I circled it one okay it brought it on for fortino seconded by Mr Yang all in favor please signify by saying aye aye opposed those items are approved unanimously that's that's that's your duty sir so I'm gonna assume you were with the majority when we all spoke so for the record I vote Yes okay then I was right thank you um so we are ready for our next item which is the lcap update El Cap local indicators for the school district first and then for Elk Grove Charter School um Sylvester do we have any public comments via Zoom Madam President we have no public comments
076via Zoom thank you Miss Jamerson do we have any blue cards for this item we have no blue cards for this item thank you Mr ceruti please take it away thanks thank you and good evening Madam president members of the board superintendent Hoffman and Ms Avalos I have the pleasure of being joined uh this evening by Ms Caitlin Lee who is one of our research program managers in our research and evaluation department and uh in just a sec yeah thank you ma'am in just a second I'll be turning it over to Caitlin who'll be walking folks through some of the specific data data points all of this lines up to our District's learning vision and aligns with and supports our District's five strategic goals the fifth strategic goal in purple assuming um not assuming but
077pending the board's approval of our lcap will be adjusting to add to additional student subgroups those being our Native American students and our homeless students per our Board of Education input so just a bit about the local indicators um they are part of the overall States local control funding for formula and the accountability portion of that which is the dis which is the district's l cap there are actually 10 State lcff priorities and so some may be looking at that and saying well where are the others these are the five that are specific to having local indicators um it allows the districts to determine the specific metrics but those uh those five areas basic Services through broad course of study those are determined and identified by the state there are three others that are identified
078there are ten total there are three additional local indicators or our three three additional uh State lcff priorities student achievement student engagement and pupil outcomes those are all addressed through the uh RL cap and then there are two that are specific to county offices of Education those being coordinated coordination of instruction for students who have been expelled in coordination of services for foster youth so that just provides a bit of context uh regarding the the alignment that this has with the lcff priorities and the performance standards this is the the purpose for this is that there's an annually measures progress and we are required to report this uh in a public meeting which is what we are doing and it needs to be done at the point of the approval the same meeting where the
079approval of the district cell cap is done we upload it in publicly report the results through that through our dashboard and then the performance levels are noted as indicated here met not met or not met for two or more years in just a second miss you will be walking you through all of those with those performance levels and with this I'm going to turn it over to her foreign thank you for the first local indicator that we are covering today and basic services our district can report that we met the criteria there are three measures to this indicator for appropriately assigned teachers in 2021-22 we had one teacher of English Learners who was misassigned 33 total teacher and misassignments and seven vacant teacher positions at the start of the year for access to instructional materials
080our annual sufficiency hearings confirmed that we provided all students with access to instructional materials and for conditions of school facilities we had zero facilities not meeting the good repair standard for the second local measure implementation of State academic standards we used the state's self-reflection tool which asked districts to rate themselves on a five-point scale on 23 elements under three broader categories which are recently adopted academic standards and our curriculum Frameworks other adopted academic standards and support for teachers and administrators to rate our district on these elements executive director of school support Jennifer Avey and her team took into consideration the various data sources we have available in the district such as the teaching and learning survey lcap needs survey data of Staff parents and students as well as input and feedback from teachers instructional coaches
081curriculum Specialists and principals ratings for each of the 23 elements will be publicly posted but for the aggregate ratings of the three broader categories we are at full implementation for each one which is a rating of four on the five point scale for the third local indicator parent engagement the state requires districts to use the self-reflection tool to rate themselves on 12 elements under three broad categories Lisette Lemay the director of family and Community engagement took the lead in this determination she took into consideration data from the parent engagement activities offered across our district parent survey input lcap needs survey results as well as discussions and direct feedback received from our various parent committees and from the ratings of the 12 elements our district can be considered to be at full implementation for building relationships
082initial implementation for building Partnerships for student outcomes and full implementation for seeking input for decision making our annual district-wide parent survey includes several items that are aligned with these three broader categories under parent engagement our spring 2022 survey received over 9 200 responses and the results showed that 91 percent of parents agreed that their school has been effective in providing a respectful and welcoming environment 84 percent of parents agreed that their school has been effective in providing opportunities for parent involvement and parent education and 82 percent of parents agreed that their school was effective in providing opportunity for input in decision making for the school or district and this was up from 76 percent in Spring 2019 which was our last parent survey before 2022. thank you for the fourth local indicator School climate our
083practice is to administer a climate survey to students the school staff and parents that ask questions around the following four climate themes school connectedness and sense of belonging climate of support for academic learning knowledge and fairness of discipline rules and norms and safety the student version of the survey underwent revisions in 2021-22. numerous items were added that asked students about the climate of the classroom instead of the school in general as well as their perceptions on instruction and participation opportunities and so the results are not really comparable to those from previous years since we have a new Baseline we are only reporting on one year of data today we look at climate survey responses in terms of favorability or the percentage of responses that are favorable or desirable so on this graph we have the
084parent responses in pink the staff responses are represented by the black bars and the students are the blue bars um on the leftmost cluster of bars we have overall School climate with the four individual climate themes spanning the rest of the graph for school climate overall parents had the highest favorability at 89 and when we look at the remainder of the pink bars we can see there is not a lot of variability across the four climate themes for parents for staff the climate of support for academic learning received the highest rating at 91 percent favorable while safety showed the lowest favorability at 68 percent and in blue we have the student responses overall across all survey items an average of 74 percent of students responded favorably for students knowledge and fairness of discipline rules and
085Norms received the highest score of 82 percent while school connectedness and sense of belonging received the lowest score of 67 percent from the student perspective a couple of specific items stood out as strengths one teaching teachers treating students with respect that was 91 favorable and two knowing expectations for behavior in class 93 favorable we also review student ratings of school climate by ethnicity as well as the lcap student groups El Foster youth homeless socioeconomically disadvantaged and students with disabilities by ethnicity overall ratings of school climate ranged from 70 percent favorable for American Indian students to 76 percent for Asian and Filipino students among student groups homeless students reported the least favorable School climate at 68 percent while socioeconomically disadvantaged students reported the most favorable rating at 73 percent for our last local indicator broad course
086of study we use different measures for elementary versus secondary before elementary students we measure a broad course of study by the percentage of students that received report card grades in the six subject areas of English language arts mathematics social science science and health the Visual and Performing Arts and physical education at the secondary level because students are automatically enrolled in courses required for graduation and they can also select from a broad array of non-core courses based on interest the district focused on enrollment in courses aligned with College and Career Success which would be honors accelerated AP and IB and avid at the elementary level we use grades given in each content area as a proxy for students receiving instruction in that content area the rationale is that if teachers provided that instruction they would have
087assessed their students Mastery of the standards that were taught we looked at grades across all three trimesters if a grade was given in any trimester in a Content area that area was considered covered students who received report card grades in all six content areas were then counted as having received a broad course of study in 2021-22 99 of elementary students received a broad course of study 100 percent received grades in English math science and health and social science 99 received a vapa grade which was up from 86 percent in 2020-21 and 100 percent received a PE grade when we looked at how secondary students were enrolled into courses for the 2022-23 year we found that 54 of middle school students were enrolled in one or more honors accelerated or Avid course and this is the
088same percentage as the previous year by ethnicity Filipino students enrolled in honors courses the most at 68 whereas American Indian students enrolled at 41 percent among student groups socioeconomically disadvantaged students enrolled in honors courses at 44 and students with disabilities enrolled at nine percent at the high school level 46 percent of students were enrolled in one or more honors a b AP or IB course in 2022-23 which is an increase of four percentage points from the previous year and this is encouraging given that we had seen decreases during the pandemic by ethnicity Filipino students were in enrolled in honors AP or IB courses at the highest rate at 65 percent whereas African-American and American Indian students were enrolled at 28 percent among student groups 38 of socioeconomically disadvantaged students enrolled while students with disabilities enrolled
089at five percent in summary we have assessed our five local measures and determined that we have met the performance standards for each of the five local indicators we plan to enter these met ratings along with narrative summaries of our data our processes and next steps through the dashboard utility the data will then be reported out publicly on the California school dashboard in early December then also in the fall we will review these and all other lcat metrics with 2022-23 data to assess our progress thank you if there are any questions or comments we are happy to respond to them now thank you for an excellent presentation Missy I will go first to our student board member um Oliver do you have any questions or comments uh no questions in particular but it was a great
090presentation thank you okay Mr Bettis I'll begin questions or comments on this agenda item first of all this is the district-wide report correct yes sir and why why isn't there a report done by School site Elementary um middle school and high school by by areas District areas one two three four five six seven and you know we had that report before but yet today we don't have that report and number two is that you only say we only have five of the ten why aren't the other ones uh reported to us Mr cerudi I'll take that first one we as a board have not requested data I am presiding Mr Bettis so I will respond we as a board have not requested this data broken down by uh trustee areas because that is not how
091we govern that's not how our schools are organized so we have addressed that point before so just a recap for folks who are not aware Mr Surety but again before you okay I like the regret again I am responsible for the whole District number one yes for the entire School District higher School District yes exactly I I just mentioned it but yet as a board member representing my district I want to know how area one area two area three and all the other areas how they stack up in this reporting because we as a board need to concentrate monies funding for these low outcomes but yeah the way that man hold on I'm still talking we're on the same point why can't I express my opinion you the general public you've expressed it we've understood
092it and we've responded and so I am responsible for my area Mr Surety do you remember the second question or do we need it restated okay so why aren't oh no Mr cerudi's turn to answer your second question the and again the in in respect to the local indicators it's the state identifies it the state indicates they do not apply to individual schools and so I just want to point that out the other the other question was um what I was referring to um in this slide and Mr Perez's question was specific to the other this has five and there's five of the five other identified lcff State priorities two of them are are specific to the county they don't apply to us one being the coordination of instructional support and services for expelled students
093and the other is specific to the coordination of services for foster youth there's three others okay there's three others one is student achievement the other is student engagement and the third are pupil outcomes and all of those are part of our district lcap and there is required data so for example um people outcomes and student achievement you're going to see our state test scores graduation rates all of that are part of our lcap metrics that's where those are found there's required and then there are those that are identified um locally and the areas that they indicated we didn't identify those the state does and they're also it's important to note that there isn't for example in order to determine that something is met um it doesn't mean that it's 80 percent or above on a
094specific measure it's whether or not they were measured and so it's important we have we have accountability systems measuring systems for each of these and that's why we met these goals yes but how how do we go about the funding in Geographic areas supplemental or concentrated areas well we don't have the data by our areas and so that you know that that's a big question think about it thank you Mr sturdy hold on here hold on here you got a lot more page number seven pair engagement um we spend very little going out and and educating our parents and those roles and responsibilities and uh this area you know we need to concentrate on okay uh the ninth what does 9261 represent of our total population of our parents within the whole school district can
095you tell me then it was a 27 reason 27 that's exactly not a little bit over a quarter of a one out of three response of our parents and now and and we say are met what happened to the other third three fourths of the uh the president populists and we're making decision on almost one and four parents are making decisions for the whole District you know as a result of this yeah so I don't like that number nine eight School climbing today today health and safety health and safety of our students has always been my number one priority and and then when you look at this survey it looks like you know staff and the students are they 68 they both line up that's almost two-thirds of our student body have an issue you're
096reading not wrong you're right so one third so again the data states that the health and safety issue of our students at school is a big problem it continues to do that no it doesn't full climate Okay again a school climate you look at the percentages over here by ethnicity African Americans that Native Americans the American Indians Foster youth homeless disadvantaged social economic disadvantages don't read documents to us they they page 10 they do not feel safe yeah you know they do not feel safe comfortable in our schools and this is District white I'm wondering by the school site page 11 you mentioned that uh elementary students instructions in English why wasn't it reading scores because included in this this page that's a component of English sir okay still it's it's I I've when when
097when there's a high percentage of our student body not reading that grade level and there and if you look at the latest reading levels reports from the state this this English score right here is questionable to me that that probably tells me that that this this report is most likely you know social economic more Rich affluent communities than the low-income Commissioners so that's what I interpret this is all of our schools here interpretation is incorrect again number 13 middle school students and honors accelerated advancement this is a poor showing this money is geared to English language Foster youth homeless social economic disadvantage and look at those scores you know 20 25 average 26 percent average of homeless Foster use we're doing a terrible job on on these targeted groups where this money is intended for
098and again it's by race and look who's in the 40 percentile African-Americans and American Indians and Latinos out you know in Spanish you refer them so you know and they they are not even recognizing in this funding the which that Sesame has always upset me high school students enrolled in honors again 14. again very low on the English Learners Foster youth homeless socioeconomic disadvantaged students with disabilities we're failing we're failing this populists and again we're filling African-Americans and American Indians and Hispanics and so and so we need to do a better job on this funding and making sure that it goes to the proper designated areas where they have poor outcomes and you need and Mr Mr hoppin needs to instruct you and our our chairman needs instructed that we need these data sets to
099prioritize funding and the last but not least 15. again the you know yes we met this required but we're failing geographical areas within areas one and which is my area and Mr bang over here area three golly high in florenheit we need more funding levels it's just not accurate I would just like the records they show that there is no data to support that last application that was made our scores a very very low show me go ahead sir just just a quick uh very quick comment thank you president that may be helpful too I know the board uh is aware but maybe not the community and that is this data is the question that is being asked is do we collect data that's what this is and we do collect data and the board
100receives it so the board receives detailed information about all these metrics that is provided literally at the school level so I just want to provide make sure that that's that's clear well this is to me it's not an accurate picture of our district noted Mr Bettis it isn't noted we are moving on to to Mr Vargas great thank you very much for this I always appreciate getting numbers um these are you know heartening numbers in some senses but there are a couple of places where I'm curious if we have dug down on some of this um and so one of the areas is on school climate um in particular in a sense of belonging and safety um have we dug down on those and what is sort of what is the root of those numbers
101so it's a great question and again if someone is watching and thinking that this is the the sole data source that we have each of our schools receives their own data and so our schools have the data that we receive for example through the climate survey and then that data is analyzed it's part of their lcap the site l cap that we refer to and this is the benefit of or in the value of strategic goal three because that's where that's where that this concept lives and as recently is this year so the answer is yes at the school site level that data is deeply analyzed and we don't just assume that all of our sites are when I say capable I don't want to give the impression they're they're all uh wonderful site leadership
102teams but Educators aren't necessarily trained for example in Concepts such as root cause analyzes and so that is the work that we're doing and that's what we did for example this year is targeted support for our administrators on how to conduct a root cause analysis and that is being applied to this and other other elements so your question is a good one and it's most importantly being done and addressed at the site level and then we at the district level Analyze That and look at our schools that may have higher levels or lower levels and then determine levels of support for those administrative teams and those site leadership teams okay that's that's kind of the follow-up question that I had here which is um so if a lot of the work uh your initial work
103is being done at the site level um what does that follow-up look like what does that support look like for uh the schools that are struggling and that's that's the that's the coherence that we have at the district level so Elementary and secondary education under the leadership of Dr gray wall and Mr Schweitzer um I meet with um those folks uh regularly along with Ms levasser Ms Avi myself Miss Akito the director of research and evaluation it's why we shifted what used to be learning Support Services to the Department of school Improvement supports and it's getting at Improvement science and and moving that into our schools and so all of our education services departments coordinate directly with our elementary and secondary education whether it's English learner Services student support health services and we are increasingly
104moving toward using the data provide targeted support because rather than look globally at our schools where are we finding commonalities among our schools and how can we most efficiently support those schools and so each of our schools has a School director for example either at the elementary or secondary level and our school Improvement support leaders what we refer to as sisals our former who are former principals are partnering along with other department members to provide that targeted level of support based on the data that were were analyzing and the data isn't just outcome data the important thing that we're beginning to develop is the output data meaning what are we doing and how do we know what we are doing is working that results in those outcomes I hope I answered the question yes um
105and so last follow up on that piece is so how are we so if we have so many different sort of hands moving on or so many hands touching all of this data and working on all this data how are we holding ourselves accountable to making progress in these areas particularly for um sites where if if I'm reading this correctly and this is sort of an average for the entire District right we're going to have sites that are you know striking low and we're going to have some that are higher and so how are we holding ourselves accountable as an organization but also site leadership um you know in reach in getting to better outcomes and in reaching whatever goals we have set so one of the things that we do and I again I
106appreciate the the question and you used an important word and that is the accountability and so just for just for a second I accountability and responsibility are oftentimes used synonymously and if you get at the root if you look at the Latin root accountability actually means to count and responsibility means to respond and so we actually view those things in two different ways do we have the accountability systems meaning the data systems that can give us the information in the absence of data anyone would not want to be held responsible for something if you didn't really know the rules of engagement what you were being what what you were being measured on if I was being responsible for something and nobody actually told me I need to needed to produce 10 of these but nobody
107told me I wouldn't really want to be responsible well we're working very very hard and we're right on the cusp and it's the work that we have been doing and are continuing to do that our principles and I never like to speak for them but I think it's safe to say um that none of them are talking about inadequate amounts or quality of data what they're doing is saying as busy as we all are how can I quickly analyze this and make good decisions and that's the exact work that we're we're doing and so the first thing was to develop a rich input output and historically education has been swimming in outcome data but outcome data can't tell you cause and that's the key so we've been working on the data set that enables us
108to identify what's causing it so why are kids responding to the survey in in the way that they are and I'm I'm confident that in the not too distant future we'll be providing the board deeper information and we can in terms of what we're developing as the Elk Grove local accountability and support system that gets at exactly what you're doing but it does take extensive training in order for for us to do it in the absence of this data that we've we've developed and are still in the early phases of providing to our principals who are welcoming it um education as a whole my experience in education was if you just look at standardized test scores and then don't have any additional data in terms of what was your reading program or what were your
109support systems and how do we know how they were implemented how effective are they Educators were guessing to a large degree without the respect that that actually is what it is until these additional data sets were developed and so I don't mean to toot our own horn but there's a reason we were the only School District in in the nation to receive an award from Harvard and it's because of the development of our Data Systems now we need to make sure that they're used effectively and understood because it's all about high quality data easy access and moving quickly into knowing what it means and what we're trying to do with our sites is they shouldn't have to spend the time on actually analyzing it that should be the minimum they should spend more of their
110time they know better than anybody why they're getting those results so that's the direction we're moving is we don't want to dump data on our our principles and site leadership teams and say figure all this out we want to actually provide the results of that data ourselves to them and now say here are the processes you can use to accurately swiftly and efficiently identify major causes Implement cycle frequently data so that you're looking at rapid cycle data review not just at the end of the year but multiple times over the course of the year so sorry for a long lengthy answer but you hit on actually a major part of what I'm talking to our superintendent about and it is the development of these accountability systems anybody else ask Mark that question again in a
111board meeting and as that is right in his wheelhouse yeah I I will be made fun of tomorrow in the cabinet uh follow-up to the meeting tonight I appreciate the thorough answer um beyond that I mean the the only sort of points that I kind of want to hammer away on um you know is that kind of what you talked about a little bit responsibility accountability um you know not just throwing data on on people but also ensuring that they have the support um but I do want to poke at that accountability after the fact piece you know making sure that site Administration um because you know if two if a third of our students are saying they don't feel safe if a third of our students are saying they don't feel that sense of
112belonging you know that is a very big substantive issue for me and so um some level you know I just want to poke at that accountability piece like you know let's make sure we're actually we've got goals we've got things that we're doing and we're Meeting those goals um and then the other piece that I want to poke at here is the um you know Middle School student high school student honors accelerated um you know in Avid uh is some of those numbers are a little concerning and so the same it would be the same question that I you know just asked you about everything else which is how are we digging down on those you don't need to answer again um but just want you to like something I want to bring to the
113surface for you is like you know once we start digging down on those numbers there are some concerning things here um and so to the extent that we can sort of address those you know and I appreciate the data I think this is a critical piece to this um you know I want to see us sort of moving that direction of addressing some of these um declining numbers so that that was all of my questions and comments um and I really appreciate this so thank you thank you sir thank you Mr Vargas Mr fortino thank you Mark we've had a million conversations and thankfully 9261 parents decided to respond that's wonderful and yet those are low numbers we you know what are we doing differently than we have done previously in order to both publicize
114the information we share with respect to the survey and it's important um and who do we do that with who do we work with to I suppose get a different message out we'll continue that there there's no perfect answer and I'll yeah my answer is more brief than I did previously um but there's there's two things that we we want to analyze one is um it's possible and I can't I'm not saying that it necessarily is but it's possible that those nine thousand actually if you look at it statistically are representative of the whole so it's not uncommon at all for researchers so when you see polls um they're not pulling every but every adult but they're they're pulling actually a very small number now people should be very critical of those polls and what
115that what that is but we have continued to have conversations about whether we go and approach it in two ways because as soon as we would only go to a um representative group meaning we would figure out the mathematical number and maybe that number in making it up is 500 and then what you do is you have to actually randomly identify certain segments so that 500 is representative of the whole yeah do we do that and there are pluses and minuses to that we aren't in a position where we would ever say that's all we're doing and we're not giving anybody else the opportunity but we continue to to look at this because what we've seen for example with the lcap survey we've seen the numbers of kids it's we're talking tens of thousands we're
116talking huge numbers and our staff um responds at a very high rate that's because they're in our schools in their captive audience so how do we right so we will continue to work with our family and Community engagement department and it's wonderful having Lisa have a foot in that as well as a communication in our Communications so we won't stop and what we do see is those numbers aren't declining the numbers are increasing and so that's ultimately we want to look for I wish I had a magic um a magic bill for you but the the other piece of that that we haven't implemented and it would take work is whether or not we do the combination so we at least could say we've done a um a representative sample and then we could look
117at the larger number we get and the the representative sample right and when when polls are taken they're they're trying to get a cross section of people to give some uh legitimacy to their numbers or what we reported as numbers we we don't know who the people are and and in terms of their educational backgrounds their their you know or do you what do we ask Caitlyn what are you going to bring information we do ask um ethnicity uh and we ask whether they're a parent of um a child in special receiving Special Education Services El Services um I'm not sure for this particular one whether we ask if they are currently experiencing homelessness or Foster youth but sometimes we ask those questions as well we don't ask the education level one okay um we
118we've spent again we've spent time on on outcome and and you're doing the root cause analysis when when you on on slide nine when we look at safety do you have any cursory thoughts on why the difference between parents and staff and kids I actually don't I'd hesitate to even necessarily make a statement I don't um again our our sites may have a better understanding of why that is but I I'd hesitate to actually make any statement on that thank you for that and um and it doesn't mean we won't look further into it oh I know that I mean all all the work that's been done in the last two years which is not a long period of time is wonderful with respect to the developing data and utilizing data to to begin to
119look at and figure it out the reasons for success or the reasons for continued challenges and stuff it's it's to look at the numbers numbers unto themselves don't give you any information and I and I know that you've been working hard to do the other work which then gives you the information you need to make change so that's good thanks thank you sir thank you Mr Fortuna Ms Jamerson thank you for the presentation and I know that we're always quick to to find the areas where we need Improvement so first I just wanted to acknowledge the the successes that we are having and the fact that we have met um our um the indicator that we're the med set so I I want to acknowledge that and acknowledge all of the work that it takes
120from the school sites to The District staff in reaching those goals so acknowledging that um but there are areas that we still need to improve on and I think my colleagues uh brought up the school climate a lot of the questions that I had um were very similar I just uh pointing out for me it's important to acknowledge that the school connectedness sense of belonging and safety to me those can really you know they touch each other and so if I'm not feeling connected if I don't feel I belong that to me can also mean safety um so I just I I hope that we are really working to address that because to me a student can't achieve academically if they're not feeling safe if they're not feeling a sense of belonging so I that
121should I'm hoping it's a strong priority and I also wanted to um uh Mr Fortuna talked about the difference between parents and then the student and staff view of safety but also I wanted to acknowledge the difference with the sense of belonging parents and staff having a higher sense of that belonging than the actual students so again I think it's an area we really need to dig into and um you know as parents we need to talk with our children and to to understand a little bit more but also as staff to understand why we're we're viewing it differently so it may have um our director of research and evaluation I'm not sure what she'll do because I'm sure she's she's watching um but one of the things that we always do with the survey
122is also our it's the question I knew she was going to be here if she winds up to throw something please give me a nod um but we always analyze the questions themselves to make sure that they're being interpreted in the right way and one of the things we've done for example with the lcap and you've seen that data is we we ask the question why so if they're saying here's a problem why and they're open-ended questions and we go through that process so all of these things are things that we consider because that's part of the question if you're feeling this this way why um and so we're always looking at the tool itself also to make sure that if the questions are being interpreted as we want them interpreted and then are we
123are we actually getting to the why answers versus now we're doing follow-up with to figure that out so we're trying to determine whether or not and then balancing that with the length of a given survey so all of that but um yeah why is the important question to be asked and for us to find answers for thank you for that um when we look at slide 11 is it um so I guess when I'm thinking about slide 11 14 and 15 we're talking about um you know the accelerated math we're looking at the honors classes we're not seeing CTE on here and so for me when I see um the the graph with the numbers we're never going to be at a hundred percent because that's not the pathway for all of our students so
124I want to acknowledge that the goal is not to be at a hundred percent but what does concern me is the disparity when we go to slide 50 uh 14 I apologize slide 14 when we look at the high school students so when I look at Asian and Filipino and I compare that to African-American students um and the disparity there so I would I know that we do not we're never going to see a hundred percent but I would like to be able to see those gaps to be a little bit more equal and to be able to focus um on emphasizing recruiting I know that we've heard from families that have felt left out uh specifically African-American families that have been discouraged from taking some of those classes so that's an area where I
125would like to see that growth that there is less of a disparity and that we're seeing that across the board um and I think just for the public to understand too that when they're looking at this I immediately I might think that we should be at a hundred percent and so knowing that we have different Pathways um and academies that what do the numbers look like in those because and I know that they're not part of this report but in presenting it it might be just good information to be able to educate the community as a whole just a thought um and then the final thing um just kind of talking about surveys um and trying to increase that number I get all of the surveys and I think that as a parent um we
126get survey fatigue a little bit and and I know that all of those surveys are important I as a board member know that all of those surveys are important and so I fill all of them out but I think that sometimes we lose track as which survey is this going to what is this going to to do because the surveys that I actually pay the most attention to is the one where I know it's directly affecting my child's school and so when my principal says and I get these as text messages and I love that because I can do them quickly on my phone you know I can sit down and put more thought into them if I need to but when I know the direct connection and I know oh this is the survey
127that's directly going to impact my school and it's about the administration I'm ready to go on that one and I I know but the other ones I'm like oh I forget which one I'm doing so perhaps in the marketing just really tying what what does this survey do what how is this going to help my child so just a thought and we do agree with you the more the the teacher and the principal are a far far more effective and Powerful messenger than I am to our families no question perfect and that's all the questions I have thank you so much for the presentation thank you man thank you Miss Jamerson with salbiani thank you I have a few quick comments um my colleagues have have stated many things that I would agree with um
128I want to draw attention to page 12 please and I just think there are few moments when it is so clear that our investments are paying off and to look at that vapiline please from 88 to 86 to 99 so um exciting we've put money in vapa we've set it to priority to our board and and I just wanted to point out it shows up so um kudos to everyone involved us them kids everybody um I do find what I found interesting in page 13 and 14 was uh middle school kids were very up and down eight down six up and then when you go to high school we really only had a drop in one group the rest all group so um I do still believe we're dealing with um some some covet issues
129and kids coming back in and challenging themselves and being interested and I really encourage and appreciate it looks like in Middle School people are encouraging kids and telling them when you get to high school you can do these things be part of these things and I think that chart um that's another thing and appreciating and honoring what other people have said about the charts I think that's a sign that this chart shows us as well as kids as they get to high school are ready to challenge themselves and and to keep trying at a younger ages to say you can do this in middle school when we go draft them in sixth grade and bring them their their class things so that's an that was an exciting thing to see that's all I have thank
130you for the presentation thank you man thank you Miss albione Mr yang yeah good evening thanks for um the presentation um I know there's a lot of work put into this and I appreciate it um I want to start by reading this um egusd learning vision every student learning in every classroom in every subject every day to prepare College career and life ready graduates and I think that sums it all why we exist um so a lot of my colleagues already share a lot of their thoughts and ask a lot of questions so I wanted to uh look in a nutshell because this is very general information but it's very important information um so with that said um I think that um we all could learn from each other individually and one school to the
131next and in particularly in high school where they're gonna be out in their real world independent for the most part so with that said um we just had our graduations and the one thing that stood out to me even today is Franklin High School where they had over 200 graduates um with over well with 4.0 or above that was astounding number to me um that was very impressive and I recall attending um a middle school someone Jackson and I was talking to uh some of the uh principles in different levels and I'm like what are they doing that you know has such a what what is Franklin High School doing different from other High School um that has such a high performer and academic and um and that's the example I want you to reflect
132on if you haven't already I believe you you've done some of that already but just for the point of recommendation I think that we need to learn from one another and I know that there's different uh um also education background and and so forth and um you you can't totally have every student do what the parents or us want them to do I get it however I think um and we could learn from one another from one school to another uh from you know the elementary level all the way to the high school and really a drill on what are they doing really well in that school compared to the other school and really see we could make some changes and adapt to it and um I think that that's gonna really help us because
133it's it's really about the intention that we putting effort into to create a cultural of uh sense of belonging um caring supporting and thriving to be academic success and life success and um that's my recommendation my thoughts and um I hope to hear more positive things one other thing that I see here as far as to grab those it doesn't do justice to anyone on this graph these two graphs uh 13 and 14. I say that because I could be wrong but because of the pandemic I don't know how I just don't know how accurate these really represent our students as far as the statistic and but then overall what I like to see is that we gradually have goes up gradually and that's the hope and uh my colleague has spoken to we'd probably
134never get into 100 I get it but yeah I think ideally gradually Improvement will be my hope so that's all I have to say thank you thank you sir thank you Mr Yang thank you colleagues for the great comments and insightful uh questions I have nothing to add the this is not an action item the action related to this item will come later on the agenda um we have another lcap item but I'm just going to ask really quickly we're a little bit over our time for our customary Comfort break shall we take that now I'm hearing many emphatic yeses so we're going to recess for 10 minutes thank you very much thank you continue with our next item El Cap local indicators for the Elk Grove charter school with slovasser I have a knot
135in my stomach oh miss levasser isn't here um but we can't do Zoom anyway we don't have any public comments on this item I know I have the list okay thank you because I'm really nervous now about asking that question um Miss Jamerson do we have any blue cards we have no blue cards for this item thank you Miss Jamerson Mr Levine all right good evening Madam president members of the board superintendent Hoffman Avalos I am Mark Levine the principal Elk Grove charter school and I am here to present the local indicators for the Elk Grove Charter Schools El Cap it is the same foundational information as the district so we're going to skip the first five slides it's the exact same information it's the same uh criteria the same performance standards that we are
136being judged as you know Elk Grove charter school is considered its own Lea or local Education Agency so that's why we have the same requirement to create our own lcap and local indicators so if we were to move down the slide presentation to slide number five and I will advance this we can look at our basic Services um when so this is on teacher assignments so the Elk Grove charter school has zero teachers of English Learners that are misassigned zero teachers in total that are misassigned and zero vacant positions uh when we look at our instructional materials we have zero students without access to instructional materials which is a good thing that's the good zero percent and then our conditions of school facilities we have zero instances of our school not have not being in
137good repair on to the next slide when we look at the Implement implementation of State Standards we are reporting met and this one just like the previous one is the same uh Statewide scale self-scale that we use from exploration to sustaining uh sustaining being the the you know five the best so when we look at this one recently adopted academic standards and or curriculum Frameworks we're reporting that we are at the full level as far as other adopted academic standards and Frameworks we also are reporting full so that's a four out of the five point scale and support for teachers and administrators also full okay parent engagement so reporting full as well for building relationships building Partnerships for student outcomes full and then seeking input for decision making we actually are self-reporting and we are
138sustaining so we're at level five for that and a lot of that comes from the structure of our school which necessarily looking at survey results doesn't always tell the full picture but we have a strong format that allows us to get information from our parents and that we require every parent to have a face-to-face meeting upon enrollment so we are seeing we're seeing our parents face to face they still don't respond to surveys very well but luckily for us as a small School site we're able to have those meetings and face to face and get information from them as they on board uh next school climate we Implement and we use the same surveys that the district uses same time frame I'm sending the same text messages about please do this survey to our parents
139so we're part of the district when it comes to our survey Administration uh the next two slides nine and ten is just a quick snapshot when we look at school climate by theme so these this has parents students and staff kind of with a grain of salt and that we do have low survey responses improved over the last two years I think we're sitting at 87 and then 89 students have responded some of the ways we've increased that response with our 7th through 10th graders as we do it when they're in class during our advocacy uh difficult to get our 11th and 12th graders that are independent study to take a survey when we're sending it to them via Link at home we try to have our teachers do it when they come on site
140every week and it's just one of those things that's been difficult and we're working on improving uh within this area though more importantly uh School climate though what we see is that the highest uh rating of favorability is with uh safety students are reporting a 78 for students 78 percent of students are stating that they are favorable that they feel safe on campus uh knowledge of fairness of discipline rules and Norms is 76 percent and climate of for students for academic learning is at 75 percent when we look at school connectedness and belonging unfortunately that is the lowest at 55 but also indicative of a non-classroom-based program where students aren't coming on campus every day and oftentimes maybe coming to the school because they don't want to be connected on a daily basis so it's
141kind of hard to judge you know this isn't necessarily a negative because it may not be what they're looking for all right when we look at school climate by theme and this is by ethnicity which we try really hard but many of these categories have less than 10 respondents because it is a small it's a small school it's a small number of respondents so we have to kind of take some of this with a grain of salt in that once we get less than 10 you know the survey is not necessarily statistically relevant at that point so we have to be careful with making too many decisions based on this however when we look at a cross-ethnicities overall climate scores range between 62 percent for Pacific Islanders and 79 for Asian students um where they're
142feeling um connected with are safe at the school overall climate scores were in the 51 percent for El students and 70 for socioeconomically disadvantaged and then 74 for students with disabilities uh students uh SCD was the highest number over half of our respondents were students that were identified as socioeconomically disadvantaged so that's we're getting a good cross-section of them it's about 20 students responded all right I'm gonna go on to the next slide broad course of study we measure this a little bit differently than the district as a whole obviously we're not uh providing the same amount of programs within a single School site um and also for a School site that's a little different that our Target population who we're trying to attract to the Elk Grove charter school so for this local indicator
143and it's important to know that there's these aren't all the indicators right there are other indicators within the lcap in and of itself that we measure and analyze these are ones just fall within this broad area broad course of study which we are going to report that we have met uh the three that we're calling out here is uh we're I think the only School in the district where we can provide students either to complete the comprehensive requirements for a high school diploma or the alternative requirements for a high school diploma tend to shift based uh 12th grade depending on if a student is coming to us that maybe credit deficient or may have have a different path this is very common for students that are already going to be a professional athlete don't necessarily
144want to be a through G or right they don't they're already they've already signed the contract and so we tend to make a shift these numbers haven't changed that much over the years other than actually we're increasing the number of traditional diploma completers so we're 79 for the class of 2022 and 21 for alternative diploma completers I think previously we said around 26 to 27 percent of the alternative diploma completers um we we obviously uh by default we plan all students to complete the traditional a through G pathway and then we shift for each student as they go along as we make an individualized education individualized graduation plan for each and every student the other one is enrollment in Community College based on our format we really feel that students have the advantage to take
145Community College courses or earn early college credits uh just because they're not on campus all day every day we usually have anywhere between 20 and 30 students that are taking those courses for this cycle for the local indicators we have 23 students that were enrolled in dual enrollment courses at the community college and then Career Technical education courses this one is declining unfortunately we do not offer a CTE program at the Elk Grove charter school we have tried to implement one over the last three years and it just seems to be waning and I'm kind of chasing the three four five kids that want one for two years and then don't want it after that and then four kids come forward and say they want a different one and we start chasing that one um
146we are trying to work a little bit in the Field of Dreams realm of strategic planning and that build it and they will come so that's kind of where we're sitting now we're going to land on some sort of a CT program that we think fits in with our education model sports management as an example might be a good one to land on and might just attracts students to us that are already attracted to our program innately so we have zero students enrolled in our CTE courses we did offer General business and sports management this year with zero students that were enrolled we had three students enrolled in the districts of explore CTE courses um that program's changed a little bit as well over the years uh now I think we're calling them satellite courses
147and there's a reduced course list that students can take and I think it's reserved for 12th graders so we're going to see that probably drop even more in coming years we may shift this as it may not be the best local indicator for a broad course of study and then shift to some something else we have recently as a sidebar last year was the first year we offered AP courses at the Elk Grove charter school so we may start reporting out on that we had nine students take AP courses take AP tests last year so that's the first time in school history we had that so overall when we look at the categories that we're reporting out for the local indicators we are going to report on the dashboard that we have met all of
148those once again the requirement is that we measure it that we report to abort to our board and then now we upload it to this to the state's dashboard so for basic Services Priority One we'll indicate that we met it implementation of State Standards also met parent engagement Met School climate met and Broad course of study all of those we will report that we met are there any questions thank you Mr Levine I'll start with Mr track any questions or comments um I have one quick question so on slide nine um when you talked about the school connectedness being generally lower I was just curious as to if there's been any discussion as to how to bring that percentage higher and if so what are like the methods that you guys are talking about yeah
149that's a great question so some of the things that we have been that we've implemented over the course of the last few years are more clubs on campus um so we have an anime club we've had a barbecue Club one year right and I have a gaming club that seems to be really uh starting to build up speed students wanted to get into potentially even have an Esports at the school site uh also we partnered with Franklin High School this year for the first time and Toby Johnson Middle School where our middle school students could participate in the school dance at Toby Johnson and then for senior ball and Junior Prom our students were able to go to those events with Franklin High School we provided you know staff that were there at chaperones um
150and so that that was exciting that to have students be able to go to those at a bigger venue on top of that just as many events as possible field trips um kova there was a big dip off on some of those things it just couldn't do it or I didn't have Staffing didn't have substitutes um to do any of those trips but this year we have planned we have five College trips planned to go with students the small numbers eight update students to go with a goal of 10th and 11th graders well seniors before the the application deadline on in November or end of October and then 10th and 11th graders those following years thank you you're welcome thank you I'm going to start to my right this time and go down the line
151Mr Yang any questions or comments I guess I'm either last or first yeah well um thanks for the presentation um it's um it's kind of along the line that I mentioned earlier using um well learning from one another in this instant um you know charter school I believe we only have one right you know School District so um but there's other schools that you can learn from um to help live the areas are a little bit uh need to work on and I I seen that you mentioned that uh the technical career um there's a program or classes so we would like to have a pathway okay a series of three courses right we need to some sort of a Certification depending on what the pathway is right that's our that's our goal is to
152develop a pathway but to get up to that we have to provide classes within that pathway right so I know that um most students if not all students at Charter um high school you know they have their side gig or Sports and they look for flexibility um you know my nephew was going in was going to this charter school because he was playing soccer for um Sac Republic and it the flexibility really help them but what I what I would like to recommend if um if it if the school doesn't provide yet that I think that the student could benefit from is um like leadership class um public speaking financial literacy and cross-cultural those kind of course I think could have really uplift them in in general sense of life so if you haven't had
153that maybe think about incorporate to um the curriculum if all possible absolutely we have a we do have financial literacy which is a difficult proof course so we provide that as a senior Math that's typically an alternative to students who are doing math three or statistics um however I think it's a it's a very good course for students we also do provide a leadership class it tends to change from year to year where we can fit it within our schools master schedule we are a one building school right yeah uh six classrooms and we have to get very creative when we're trying to offer direct instruction and independent study for grades 7 through 12. um but so going into this next year we actually have a teacher that's willing to work beyond our contract hours
154to do leadership after school so from 3 30 to 4 30 two days a week yeah and and yeah that's great and one last thing that I want to mention is you know being a part of the graduation of the charter school and you being the principal um you know providing um some remarks a very emotional remarks and show a lot of you know compassion and caring and I think that that's the culture that um you know I I love to see because it makes the student uh feel like you care and I think that that speaks a lot of volume um and sometimes they want to make you proud because they know you care and I think that you know any sort of motivation that makes the student want to make other people proud
155of them and Thrive to be better in academic or life I think that's a bonus so good job for your on your part so keep up the good work thank you very much be concerned if I were crying here tonight but I do cry every graduation yeah you did a big company I'm a witness yeah exactly it's not right I'm a crier it's okay thank you very much for your presentation I just appreciate what you offer to our students as an alternative in our district and I appreciate the partnership we have between us that um and I know you are continuing to to change to meet the students needs it's very evident thank you thank you Miss Jamerson thank you for the presentation and I too I appreciate that our students have this opportunity and
156the culture that you do provide um I I know students that are um at your school and are very happy uh with their experience um I also wanted to um uh just highlight the dual enrollment um I think that's an excellent option I really appreciate that uh you're working to provide that partnership for our students and also um the partnership with Toby and Franklin and I think that that's huge because I I think you're right that students choose your school um you know and they're not connected and that's that's the point for some of them right they they want a different experience but for those that do want that I just I love the creativity in uh being able to make that partnership and offer that to the students so thank you yeah thank you
157we're appreciative of Toby and Franklin both being willing to do it and you know fingers crossed we had no issues first year second year it sounds like they won't cause any problems I guarantee it awesome thank you thank you Miss Jamerson Mr fortina foreign just one question and then I want to make a comment uh Mark if if you move into the area of providing or providing more advanced placement classes um will your staff be able to do that equally yeah so that's our biggest concern with it is capacity we already have staff wearing a lot of different hats so those are conversations that I have with staff members about are you willing so we start off with do parents and students want it and then I talk with staff members are you do we
158have the capacity to do it yeah unfortunately over the years that's been one of the reasons why I've said no I just haven't had the staff with the capacity to do it uh where we've leaned more on the dual enrollment as that advanced pathway for our students this year though I have a couple new staff members that were more than willing to jump in my concern though with that long term is that staff member goes somewhere else at some point their career does the program leave so I need to build capacity within to make sure because it is a it's a positive thing we are going to see somewhat of a decrease in probably the dual enrollment because of it that's the general question within our community is everybody here says APAP so yes I've
159said I have the exact same concerns well yeah and I mean it's wonderful the charter schools there because it provides flexibility to kids that need flexibility but there's a limit to flexibility right yeah in terms of what you could do and yeah I I think the Elk Grove Charter does a wonderful job considering uh its footprint as people have to do a lot of sharing but uh yeah especially you know so many kids need to have an alternative and and now is a good alternative for so many kids so thanks Mark yeah thank you Mr Vargas uh thank you for the presentation I have no questions all right thank you Mr Perez thanks again for the information uh I was wondering um where do most your students demographically come from within the count within our
160school district or outside yeah so up until five years ago we were 99 Elk Grove unified students um the sense coven uh and probably the year before that we have started to reach Beyond a little bit within the law we can provide enrollment to any student that lives within our authorizer's boundary our authorizers County and any County that touches our authorizer County so basically anybody that touches Sacramento County that is still we maybe have 15 students that live outside of Sacramento County and that's growing that's growing a little bit sometimes because of our Partnerships with the Sacramento Republic as an exam yeah programs with Sacramento Republic yeah um so 15 so approximately well maybe 75 students or within our district and is there any geographical areas in which we get most of your students from
161yeah that's a great question um we are predominantly Franklin High School which is just a geographically that's where we're closest to so we're about 70 of our district students come from Franklin High School the other two are actually um Elk Grove High We Still draw quite a few from Elk Grove High I think that's because we were on this side of the of the city for 10 years so I still think we draw just a small well a number from there and then growing numbers from Laguna Creek and cosuma Stokes High School okay on page nine the school connect connections uh you have the last thing almost uh same data percentage-wise of connecting with our students and and so that's that's a concern of you know both within our school I didn't mention this that
162regarding the school district report but same like yours I understand it's about the same percentage-wise kind of and so um okay and you answer that question very with you know very good you're working on that um and you mentioned the building capacity what's the capacity of your your site so that's a great question which unfortunately I get a little long-winded at times I'll try to keep it concise because we're a hybrid model and we offer both independent study and classroom instruction for core we sit about 325 students is about the maximum that we could have in our single site with 7th through 10th grade coming every day now if we were to increase the independent study capacity which we could with our current site you know we could enroll more 11 than 12th graders um
163however there's that we we need a multi-purpose room with two more classrooms and a kitchen to really be able to grow our last petition we actually have aspirational language to grow to 500 students so that's that's the Target right now but we we need a building for that a building we need a building and that same geographical area yeah there's an empty lot right next to the school which is part of the part of the district I think I have the money as well I just need somebody to push go and then well you start the process um well you have my support on that issue uh I know the outcomes of your student body and the dual enrollment I support 100 vocational educational component do you how strong is that and and job placements
164of students like that's one big thing I think we lack district-wise besides your your geography your program yeah absolutely I would agree that that is an area that we need to grow one of the benefits our students do have though is within the work permit process because of our flexible day they can work jobs that maybe a student at Franklin High School wouldn't be able to why is that because they're not in school from 8 30 to 3 30. yeah but you can work after I mean yeah no they can work after our students can work after and before and during right right I mean I think so are you uh familiar with our facility plan yeah yes I am how does that look I mean did you participate in that that study report I
165need you to stick to the item on the agenda it's an issue that the gentleman brought up he needs to grow and I was wondering if you have a part of that please stick to the item on the agenda well I'm talking about placements of students abilities which is not part of the L capsule other than good repair okay that's your opinion that's it good luck to you thank you I appreciate it but thank you Mr Levine I will be brief because some great questions and comments have been uh made and asked um first off shout out to Franklin and Toby for being neighborly and providing those opportunities to to your students um in I first want to acknowledge that um we have nine comprehensive high schools and the model for Elk Grove Charter is
166is not that it replicate what they're doing right I just want to be really clear that that's not it's not the expectation that's not the goal it's not really feasible um but I I want to commend you on continuing to explore and revisit those questions every once in a while about hey well you know AP didn't work before maybe now it does so I really appreciate you kind of not limiting yourself and still kind of being open to to things that may need to change um and with respect to the CTE courses that you're exploring um I know you're thinking about this a lot more than me and you don't necessarily need suggestions but I really want to share um the Arts Charter School in Natomas has a class that I personally am in love
167with that is really the business side so what they approach it as is you know if I decide to make my living as an artist how do I price that how to con tracks work how do I advocate for myself and I think the same would apply for many of your students who are going into into Pro Sports and now that you know I think it was the NCAA that decreed that even college students can be paid for the use of their likeness and things of that nature so that might be an area of interest and and definitely a valuable skill absolutely thank you yeah so with that again this is not the action item so we will be back later on in the agenda thank you for your presentation feedback so colleagues quick time
168check we're over an hour behind our estimated schedule which had us going to 10 p.m already um we have many meaty items on the agenda including the budget about four facilities items Mr track's final presentation so um those are very substantive I'm not saying not to ask questions or say what needs to be said um yes but let's um please try to be sensitive to the staff and folks who have to hang out while we complete these deliberations and decisions with that next item is bargaining bargaining units are there any bargaining units who wish to address the board come on down all right well these guys get up here Madam president members of the board superintendent Hoffman and Miss Avalos Rick Stancil the outgoing president of uh egea hey big grin off your face hey
169but I just wanted to take a moment I know we don't have a lot of time tonight uh with what's upcoming but I want to introduce you guys uh you probably already heard or Heard it Through the Grapevine um that James Sutter teacher at folks Ranch Elementary School has been elected um the president of EGA and then Allison Bliss who is a teacher at Edward Harris Middle School is the new vice president of vgea so just on behalf of the association and the four busy years that I've had what a role that has been um you know I just in parting just want to let you know how much we all appreciate you know the relationships that we've developed with the board myself over not just four years but as vice president it's been a
170little longer than that um and uh with all of the district administrators and uh staff that um you know those relationships and that collaboration that we have I think goes a long way toward you you know getting us across as many Finish Lines as as we can and as we always hear that we want to get across as you know an integral partner and stakeholder and what goes on in the district so thank you all for you know all of your support and camaraderie and relationships that we've had and um I'll be around I'm not retiring so but James and Allison will be you know I'm sure very excited and looking forward to working with you guys as well so all right congratulations to you all Rick uh James James will you be continuing with
171the uh periodic meetings with the board absolutely sir yes good that is my full intention at this point in time so thank you I look forward to seeing you there uh you will thank you any other questions I can answer yes um Mr press do you support Community uh schools so I'm going to ask that you not respond to that question just because I think we'd get into Brown now I know CTA does yeah and I encourage Mr Bettis to follow up offline and and have oh yeah thank you sir thank you very much for your welcome have a great evening next up uh the first of our discussion items measure M Community facilities District number one Bond sale results no Am I Wrong thought just kidding Oliver sorry I accidentally skipped one yeah through
172the board sorry y'all okay my apologies next item is student board member final report which we have been eagerly anticipating Ms levasser I'm afraid to ask but do we have any Zoom comments Madam President we have no publicity thank you Miss Jamerson do we have any blue cards on this item we have no blue cards on this item take it away board member track that's good it's good yeah yeah Okay so good evening board presenters Espinoza members of the board superintendent Hoffman and Miss Avalos and today I'll be presenting to you guys the student board member report for the 2022-2023 term so first off uh for the purpose of this presentation I wanted to get into four main things which is the student board member collaborations the people I've worked with um which I'll get
173into later the student board member activities like site visits and then the findings from the site visits and the student interviews as well as the interviews from the other site candidates um which again I'll be going into more detail later and then the recommendations and opportunities for future board members um also I want to talk about the findings about the position uh and things that I think uh have we have improved on and we found also more opportunities to work together with the other side candidates um so for the student board member collaborations the well the first thing is the student board member Instagram account um thanks to Jamie uh last year he was able to gain um a decent following on the account so many students were able to reach out to the Instagram
174account uh I know a couple times there have been students who reached out to me direct via direct message on the Instagram account and we were able to sort out uh various issues and I think that's something that the future board members should consider on working on uh especially because of how accessible it is to majority of the students especially in high school and it's easy contact for them to reach out to uh to reach out to me and as board members and then we can reach out to you guys um next is the California associate California Association of student councils uh Cask region two so early on in the year um they reached out to me via Instagram as well and they actually invited me for uh to go to a conference and I
175worked with the students in that district there as well as the board members in that district and we basically discussed we were sorted out into groups and we discussed various issues that um were generally found in various districts and we worked together uh to propose various Solutions and it was very helpful to see what the other students were proposing and then next is the educational Equity Department um I contacted them a few times and it was because of that contact I was able to find out about the young men of color conference and how I got invited to speak there which was a wonderful experience um next is the student board member activities so I did some site visits which I think were probably the most productive thing um I have done aside from the
176interviews with and collaborations with the other side candidates um but on the presentation Jamie presented last year one thing she wanted to work on or improve on was Outreach to the elementary schools and middle schools and I found that through site visits in-person visits were the most effective way to get in contact with the elementary schoolers and get much more feedback than if you were to do it uh online or on Zoom um especially since elementary schoolers don't have as much digital Freedom as high schoolers would um not all the elementary schoolers would be able to provide feedback through let's say Google forms or social media because compared to high school students they have a lot more restrictions and the same goes for middle school students not all of them have the same kind of
177uh online Freedom as most high schoolers would have and through the side visits I learned that the middle schoolers and the elementary students prefer much more interactive um interactive way of contacting the board member and also I found that the elementary students really like talking to the student board member because they look up to the student board member a lot so I think it's a good thing for the next student board members to get in contact with the principals so they can do side visits because getting in there and talking to them has a really positive impact on the elementary students in the community in general um next I did so rather than forums this year what I figured was more effective was to work more with the other side candidates which are the people
178I ran with for the position um working with them made work a lot more effective because those are the students that go to their respective schools every single day and being able to work with them you get a lot more efficient feedback much faster than if you were to for example do uh periodic Zoom meetings because you can get not all the students can make it to the time on the Forum some students will be able to make it some students won't so some people will miss out on the opportunity which is why I resorted to working with the other side candidates more which was very helpful you could send them a message anytime and they'll get back to you in a few days with very good information and the next uh the young men
179of color uh conference speaker I mentioned earlier uh that was earlier in the year and I got invited there and I basically just acted as a panel speaker as a student board member and a member of the district and discussed my experience as a person of color in the district it was a great experience and I recommend uh anyone to go there the people there are very nice and then the California School Board Association conference the one in San Diego uh actually went there um so the funny thing is I I wasn't aware I think there's some miscommunication but I wasn't aware of uh that there was actually a student board member section on like the first floor so I actually went to um Nancy and Mr Hoffman's presentations for the first half great presentations
180but yeah and now the more interesting part the findings from the site visits so uh same as last year there have been complaints about the restrooms and Facilities uh one new thing this year people were talking about uh damaged equipment I know some students have complained about the locks being broken so which rendered the stall is unusable um there are still a desires for um dividers within the urinals for the men's restroom uh students have mentioned that although there are a lot of urinals students tend to stay away from them so the bathrooms are crowded almost every single time and it restricts a lot of students abilities to use the passing period uh to use the restroom and then there's still the issue with vaping and availability of supplies but on a positive note many
181students are very hot or many students are happy with the um the the the item the items for females in the new restrooms a lot of people have been very thankful about that and then the cleanliness which is again same as last year next was the counseling there has been a desire for more consistent Services provided across sites and in addition to this um the advocacy lessons there have been inconsistencies with the advocacy lessons in terms of how much attention is given to each student I mentioned this in a few meetings before but I mentioned that some advocacy lessons would dedicate more attention and focus to their lessons than to some other classes like for example the honor students who generally receive more focused attention in the advocacy lessons uh next I want to talk
182about student advocacy uh so I want after asking uh my fellow candidates and interviewing various students I noticed that there was a lack of awareness of the board meetings uh there are many who are aware but there are still a good amount of students who are unaware of this and I believe that advertising the board meetings student equity councils and Jenna uh all student advocacy organizations would greatly increase the feedback we get so like the larger amount of students we reach the more feedback we can get which I think is a great thing and speaking of student Equity councils middle schools and elementary schools are also talking about in the talks of incorporating student equity councils and the high schools are actually starting to connect a lot more which is a very great thing because
183student Equity councils they have students come from all backgrounds and they all work together [Music] um discussing various issues brought up and each it's different for each school which is why I say it's a great thing because each member of the student Equity councils can can talk with each other and figure out shared Solutions and issues that they have at their sites which is uh I was going to say in the opportunities for the future board member to be heavily involved in the student Equity Council especially with the direction it's going in uh and findings continued Communications uh so for staff communication between uh for example on-site teachers and students that has been improving um students and teachers are discussing with each other uh more effective ways uh to communicate with each other it's different
184for each um site but generally they are figuring out more ways to communicate with each other like utilizing uh remind which is a really great way um and I wanted to bring that up with the student Equity councils as well where they can share because communication uh is a big problem across all the districts and if the student Equity councils were able to share the solutions for that it would be a great help for all students and school culture there has been a desire for more activities this is mainly for the elementary schoolers and middle schoolers uh I went to as when I went on the in-person sites and interviewed the students aside from the desire for um better school lunch it was generally more events and last is my recommendations and opportunities for the
185future board members again the student board member Instagram the Instagram has a lot of potential to help resolve a lot of the students worries uh as I said before a large amount of the uh community in this District especially for students are on social media and being able to grow that following will allow much more students to inquire about various issues um things they want to know about for example student advocacy you can promote more opportunities for students to advocate for themselves um the other uh thing I wanted to communicate was the more better Communications with the site candidates um I mentioned this earlier I don't believe uh This was done as frequently as before but this year I wanted to communicate with the other side candidates as much as possible as they made work
186the work balance a lot easier between school and this position I know especially generally students who run for this position to have generally students who run for this position I have like very very are very dedicated to their academic life and communicating with those site candidates can take a lot of stress off and make work a lot more efficient uh next is actively participating the student advocacy organizations I mentioned earlier uh Cask is a great way to communicate with the other districts and other District students to help find how they resolve their issues um gen up uh the organization which was took a large part in making the student Bill of Rights I believe that more students who are aware of these kind of organizations the organizations will be able to receive more feedback and
187ultimately have uh produce more effective results and then the obviously the educational Equity department is a great collaboration for the student board members and I highly encourage them to get in contact with them frequently and then again encourage student involvement in advocacy organizations which can be done through the Instagram account and that is it and if you guys have any questions please feel free to ask thank you Mr track colleagues this is not just Oliver's final report it is his final meeting with us so oh they'll look too happy um so I will open it up to board members questions and comments Mr Bettis I'll begin with you uh I'm going to say the same my fellow's board member down the corner over there we seems to be like you're the first one I'm the
188first one can you go to someplace else with somebody else you know other presidents have been a little bit better at mixing it up I cannot keep track I'm sorry I know I know it's hard do you but okay I'll go uh oh very good excellent report uh very proud of you again I Know You're Gonna Go Far In in education and possibly politics maybe the next Dr pan [Laughter] oh okay here we go uh purpose uh so oh yeah that you later said side business interviews and all that okay I'm gonna pass that one um student board members collaboration education Equity Department um I'm glad you met with them because that's a big issue within our our district Equity at all levels and you know that but uh but I want to suggest uh
189you know the there's other people within our district and groups of Youth and that's the Elk Grove City youth council did you ever meet with them or were knowledgeable that they exist the mayor's youth commission or something like this uh I did not but I was aware okay and so and what about the Sacramento I'm not sure I'm pretty sure they have a Youth Organization and I'm glad you met with a young man of color because you have a lot of young men of color here in our district in in in in and that you've got enlightened to a lot of their issues I imagine yeah and can you possibly tell me where the big big three or what is that what big three sorry yeah the big three can you specify concerns um generally
190The Big Three concerns are the reoccurring ones uh from last year and obviously the biggest one there have been the most complaints about um the restrooms um and communication as well uh communication is a big thing that can lead to many issues down the line and that's something that the student Equity Council has brought up uh which is why I recommended the next student board member to be involved in it because that will most likely be a topic that they will be discussing and furthermore collaborating with the other schools in the district to share information regarding it and the last one I would say um most frequent complaints is through the inconsistent advocacy lessons and counseling between the students hmm I'm glad you mentioned that one because that is one of the biggest concerns I
191have within our school school district I do not like the racial students to counselors and they need to get more counselors on our high school and middle school campuses to do more on one-on-one counseling and that's include Mental Health and other issues that they may have I'm glad that you went to our California School Board Association now that was just one time within your with your your time period or did you go to more than one uh there was uh I remember correctly it was a yearly event yeah it's an annual conference yes I know it's an annual Club but did you just go to one conference his term is only one year sir oh yeah yeah that's right and then we should make it two years okay I know you learned a lot there
192yeah especially from uh Mr Hoffman and president presentations very good oh okay oh yes on uh spinding site visits his student interviews counseling ensuring there are consistent Services provided across sites can you elaborate that a little bit more please uh so generally uh when I interviewed the students and the other uh site candidates uh I was told that um and also among student conversations that some counselors uh will give better attention to their students and other counselors um and it really fluctuates and depends on the counselors and the site uh which is why it's hard to say um the root of the problem for sure but generally there have been many students uh complaining about the inconsistencies thank you thank you are you done Mr Bettis no I'm just reading my notes saying I'm going
193down to finding finding some site visits some and interviews so I'm glad you did that then I'm glad that you mentioned that our elementary students are very astute then and proud that you go down there and visit them uh yeah they they um when you start talking to them a lot of the elementary students aren't aware the student board member position but once you start describing to them kind of like see like sparkles in their eyes I don't know but they seem to enjoy um talking to the student board member uh it's a figure that they look up to and I think that if the student board member were to visit next year it'd be a great opportunity to I guess motivate the students very good excellent excellent input and the last one the recommendations
194uh um you know a lot of these uh bathroom issues that's been going on since I've been 2012 here and we still haven't got a hold of that um and and that's a constant issue I'm glad you mentioned Instagram application most students use the Instagram a lot a lot of that most of them yeah do you know what percentage may be I'm sorry what percentage do you think any any surveys out there no no but uh generally if you go around asking understanding they'll probably say that they use some sort of social media yeah okay it's not working yes and you said you just say the word networking but you did a lot of networking at all levels of uh school district and Community uh interactions and engagement what about parents what um you go
195to PTA meetings I do not School site parent involved okay I was mainly more involved uh with the students and the various advocacy organizations not so much with the parents but I did get some feedback through the students telling me what their parents said but that isn't really that doesn't really count yeah yes I'm glad you said that too because I I have been the misguided by some students speaking on behalf of parents they're more concerned about their goals and objectives than their parents okay again thank you very much you're an excellent example we're very fortunate to have you Mr Trace check that you know uh you know this was you know this year the second one and I'm very impressed on that on the outcomes of the people that we chose and I hope
196you go on to further your education and represent students at the next level thank you good luck to you thank you Mr Pettis uh members let's please keep it moving we've got some big items that we cannot put over go ahead Mr Vargas I mean it wouldn't be a presentation if he didn't get the Tony treatment so I feel like God forbid you leave without them so um no questions I just wanted to say thank you very much uh you know putting yourself in this position um you know it takes a lot of resolve a lot of Courage um you know and you handled it splendidly um I unfortunately didn't get as much of a chance to get to know you as many of my colleagues because I came in a little late to your
197term um but I have been incredibly impressed by all of the work that you've put in uh all of the questions that you have asked have been incredibly insightful and thoughtful and I have every confidence that you're going to go on and do wonderful things so thank you again for your service thank you Mr fortina Quick question yeah um how well has the district done in in its yearly publication of the position um compared to last year much much better um with the uh school websites uh as well as ASB I'm not sure if every school is doing the same uh but generally across I would say four or five high schools they have reached out to me uh in regards to the position so um compared to last year much more students know about
198this position which is a great thing students can reach out to me a lot more and the future student board members uh in regards to their worries um of course there is still improvements to me to be made in terms of awareness but so far there is a good progress being made good thank you and thank you for being with us thank you Miss Jamerson thank you Oliver for your time with us I appreciate you always reminding us about student voice and you being here um kind of Keeps Us focused on that so I appreciate your position I appreciate you um asking questions and being involved and going out and talking with the students uh that you're representing I had one question about the California Association of student councils uh you said that you were
199able to connect with other um students from other districts and I was just wondering if the issues that you're seeing in our district do they align with similar issues in other districts are these kind of you know broader issues in terms of bathrooms or counseling does that kind of is it a Statewide issue do you see or do they all have varying issues that they're dealing with um the short answer is yes uh the only difference is the level of those issues but generally the issues that I stated in this presentation um when I spoke with the other students that was uh generally an issue that they also had to go through okay about publicizing um that that students aren't aware of school board meetings and trying to find ways to publicize that via Instagram
200or other social media um one thing that Franklin does and just because I'm a parent at Franklin I get push notifications from Franklin's app that says that there's a school board meeting each time we have a board meeting and that notification goes out to the students as well so I don't know if that's something that other schools might want to to do as well or if they do that but I get a push notification yeah remind me um so that actually reminds me um on the slide where I talked about better communication um so there is a parent review in a student view app where uh notifications can be sent out students have um sent incompletes that the apps sometimes doesn't work and the notifications don't send um like some students have said that in
201the beginning of the year they would receive notifications through the app whenever they got new emails or grades updated uh but later than the year it stopped working so uh improvements with the app would have a great impact on the communication issue yeah parent view I know tends to be glitchy but this is a separate Franklin has their own Franklin High app that sends it so but yeah the parent view I agree yeah thank you thank you thank you Miss albiani thank you very much Oliver it's been a pleasure to have you on the board it's fun to see your growth and we wish you the best next year I think your report was excellent and I and I think it's a a fantastic way for us to hear straight from students and the communications
202and the suggestions for a structure that can go on Beyond you we appreciate what you've put in that we'll carry on after you've left thank you Mr yang all right Mr direct thank you for your report um there is a um thing that service servicing other folks you know it expands you it's expands your boundary it betters you and that makes me think back of the first time I met you and how little you spoke back then yeah and uh some of us makes a recommendation and you have spoke up and asked some great questions and spoke up and make some uh really valuable remarks uh representing the students of our Elk Grove unified school district so I command you for that and I'm really proud of you for that growth um this report it's
203very thorough touched all the points that a student board uh representative Azu should do and so I'm I'm very happy to see that so um I commend you uh for a great report my question to you is um on your findings who do you communicate with as far as our Elk Grove Unified School District staff so that they could work with you to remedy some of these issues uh so your question is the staff I interacted with in regardless of these issues um so in terms of Staff uh I mentioned the student Equity Council earlier um but the advisors of those clubs are also heavily involved in making changes at those respective schools so in terms of Staff um that you'd work with it would be the student Equity Council advisors and as I said
204earlier it was more restricted this year because the student Equity councils weren't as connected with each other but down the road when more communication is established through each site uh these those advisors would be the go-to staff in my opinion uh to help get these issues resolved yeah because I think it's very critical to really establish that that line of communication and really hold folks accountable to get things done because you are the leader of the students in our school district when you are seated at the student board seats so going forward you know um that's what I would like you to communicate with uh the you know the future student board um leader to make sure that that communication line it's it's it's effective active and hold folks accountable to get those findings resolved
205in a timetable matters so congratulations and thank you thank you well my turn um Oliver it's been a pleasure to have you as part of this board I know it has not always been an ideal learning environment but I really hope that that you have learned from this experience nonetheless and that you will find it valuable later on in life so thank you again for giving of yourself and serving your fellow students we really really appreciate it we know it's it's not been easy on top of all of your other responsibilities so thank you very much I'm going to toss it to Mr Hoffman proud of you sir and I'm I'm happy you had the opportunity and this is kind of a Unique Piece if you you didn't do this in your senior year A
206lot of times it's kind of the traditional was in your senior year so you did this um pre and then then you get to go back and have that experience too so um so don't be a stranger I think there's there's kind of a unique opportunity this time uh for the incoming board member to be able to bounce ideas off of you because you're still here you're not you're not off of college so you may uh you may get Rogue with a teacher retires one of the things we say is that we're going to sign you up to be a substitute really soon so just know because of this kind of unique situation there may be an opportunity for us to reach back out so you may not get away from us as quickly as
207you as you might think but proud of Youth I'm super excited that you had this opportunity the board members spoke to you um growing in the role and that's one of the purposes of providing this opportunity uh for kids is an opportunity for you to grow as an individual so I've seen that happen and and and we're better as a board and as a leadership of the district because you've been part of us so appreciate it very much thank you so Mr track don't go anywhere colleagues if you will join me down there so we can present Mr track with a plaque and take a picture and I know Oliver's mom is here so please come up yes right now okay so I jumped the gun previously but now we actually are at the first
208discussion item measure M Community facilities District number one Bond sale results Miss levasser do we have any public comments via Zoom for this item Madam President we have no public comments to be assumed for this item thank you Miss Jamerson do we have any blue cards for this item we have no blue cards for this item thank you Miss coats take it away all right thank you um well good evening that is definitely a hard one to follow um it is why we do everything that we do there is more good news tonight and um I feel like over the last two months I've been up talking about measure M the cfd the refund and so no one better to summarize the really great news for Elk Grove and the results of our competitive bid
209then CEO Lori Ranieri of government um Financial strategies services newly Lori good evening and um I don't want to fail to introduce my assistant Celestial Thomas she drives me when I'm traveling alone not alone she's my driver as well as my assistant and um she's been here a lot and I think I haven't always remembered to introduce her because I kind of forget by the time it's my turn but um uh we're gonna go really quick because I have good news and I know um that you've reviewed the material that I submitted so I'm going to try and just flow through things very quickly so I want to compliment the district on its use of best practices always Guided by the government Finance Financial Financial Officers Association best practices we've listed the the ones that
210we were able to use here um I think you'll recall from a prior presentation we had a great credit rating and um so when we sold our measure M bonds our general obligation bonds they went out with a double A too we had a great sale on Wednesday May 31st we were pleased to have Mr Kristen Coates attend with us or Dr coats or I'm actually at this hour not sure what the right honorific is um but this is all done through the internet that people can bid and all the uh we allow uh bids from all over the country we're trying to get the most bids because the most competition will lead to the lowest cost a lot of headlines as we approach that day and of course we always discuss our is there
211a reason to delay and one of the things we think about is going into the market at the earliest point that we are ready because we do not know the future if we have to pull back because there's something we're not ready with then we will well that really served us well because other people stayed out of the market and so we got a lot of bids so these were some of the headlines we were talking about it's interesting we've talked about interest rates everybody thinks interest rates are up you can see they're not really that far out from where they've been the last few years they're just up from where they were since 2020. um and so our sale results um I hope I didn't press that too many times came from all over
212the country and this is what's really impressive 10 firms bid that is a very high number of big most people couldn't name 10 firms in this industry even though the one some of the ones you've seen my dog isn't a teenagers don't let me deal with that um so you can see um and the majority of the bids come from New York and you might be thinking that's kind of curious because most of these bonds will be purchased by people who are California taxpayers but brokerage firms in New York have offices in California they sell to insurance companies and mutual funds and investors in California but um really great um showing to see all these bidders and so just to give you some context 10 bids was the most that the district has had in
213recent history and we keep track of our results in our firm and you can see we don't usually get this many bids as as evidenced by the table um seven percent based on the data here are 10 bids or more so really a lot of bids and that that's very helpful in terms of the results why I mentioned already a few Bots coming to Market we had a nice size that was appealing both the regional National firms and then the strong credit quality so that just gives you a sense of the bids but um you know I look at the second place bidder and the last place bidder most carefully and here's why when we see a second place bid that is close to the first place split the first place bid that tells me
214that there was good Market information people the winning bidder didn't make mistake and win right the the second place bidder is close on their heels so that's a good sign secondly I look at the last place bid and here's why most School bonds and most frankly municipal bonds are sold at a negotiated sale I don't think that you would get the same pricing necessarily in a negotiation that you would get from your last place bidder because your last place better put in this bid to win knowing there would be competition so that's why I pay attention to that so to me there's almost two million dollars of savings right there um we did better than the budget in in every category um uh most importantly um is that um our cash for projects is um
215just under 900 000 more um and lower Underwriters discount lower cost of issuance more funds for facilities and as a reminder we had lower cost submissions not only on this sale but also overall because we shortened the number of sales that we had so cheaper to go to the market four times than five um and then our estimated measurement tax levies are even lower than expected and uh you know it was 38 dollars prior to the election our current estimate is 31.87 per 100 000 of assessed value we update that every year but that's a pretty remarkable um uh number and it I'll just say it may seem like it's normal for you but our our team does a lot of third-party reviews and I was just in a phone call last week with the
216district in another County they're selling their first series of bonds their tax returns are already 10 more than what they promised about voters and they're wondering why and I'll say it's the planning you know we have to as I've shared with you before we plan for adverse conditions and then if things are better than worse then we get better and so but we don't face the situation where things aren't feasible and so here's the bottom line we have a nice graphic um we have been able to achieve 14 million dollars more for facilities than we originally expected to get for measure M we received the funds faster so we could accelerate projects and also I would say not incur the inflation on the cost side of those projects that we can bring on and then
217um a number that's near and dear to my heart over 232 million dollars less that we're going to be collecting from taxpayers than we expected and when I was here before that number was 222 million so these great sale results made everything better because when we get lower interest rates we still we're able to restructure and amortize the principle faster and that is why you you have an action item them following the sale to confirm all that and you have that later on the cfd bonds so really good news let me congratulate you and and so not to be confusing I'm going to go through similar information on the cfd bonds of which we had two sales and just a quick reminder we knew we wanted to issue what we call new money bonds we're
218borrowing against our future Revenue to generate money for projects and we said hey there's a refi that's looking like it may be good enough so let's prepare because it might be even if it doesn't meet our normal criteria it might be good for a Ride Along right we're already going to the market we can have some economy of scale so um our rating was very good one just one notch lower than our Geo bonds double A minus and um you know our cfd is very large developed has a great tax base so that's good but it is a limited tax in Geo bonds the taxes whatever is needed to pay the debt service are melloroos taxes safety taxes are according to our rate method of apportionment so that's that's why the difference um same thing
219with using this um bidding program the name of it is kind of clever it's called parity um but we actually don't want parity we want um separate bids and we want to look for the best Bond the best bid and we were holding two sales we did 8 35 a.m for the refinancing 8.45 for the new money and the reason for that is that we if we were able to do the refi then that would structure things a certain way that then would allow us to do more with the new money we couldn't do it the other way and it certainly wasn't a negative but that's why we did it that way and of course we're looking to get the most competition now if it wasn't enough the with the last sale that we had
220to worry about the debt ceiling this time we were pushing up against the Federal Open Market Committee meeting to announce what they would do with the FED funds and with great relief on my part they did nothing so we liked that because we're we're in the borrowing business on on in this program so when interest rates are not going up that's good for us um and here's our Benchmark interest rate again you can see it's not significantly different than it has been over time but you can see that the growth um since the lows of 2020 so here's our results 11 firms bidding on these bonds and some of these firms um we don't actually see bidding very often so again we benefited from just not a lot out in the market so remember that
221all these firms have people working for them whose job it is to sell bonds and the trader is putting the inventory there for them to sell so if they're running low on bonds they want to get more and so when other people are staying out of the market because of uncertainty that was an opportunity for Elk Grove unified and specifically elk Grove's taxpayers so here's our um range of bids you can see the 11 bids the last place bidder uh just under nine hundred thousand dollars savings from the last place to the first place and the second place bid was very close so so we like that um seven bidders on the new money bonds again from all over the country and um we see a similar distribution in this case over a million dollar
222savings from the last place to the first place and again the second place bid was very tight um and so we're again showing you 11 bids and seven bids that's not the norm for all of the uh school districts that we work with so we consider that a big big success and the other thing is we look at it who won so um Morgan Stanley was the winning bidder on the refinancing right and then they came in second well they're not as aggressive if there's you know they just got some bonds right and then um Citigroup that came in on 11th in the refinancing they said well we better get these other bonds right so maybe they sharpen their pencils a little bit because these bonds this is the use of parity all these bonds
223are parity bonds right they're all paid from the same Revenue source so they're the same credit so it's neat to be able to see the um results and we have here the information um cfd number one was the only California bonds scheduled not just for the day but for the whole week so we we were able to capture the market um the refinancing had a relatively short term and that's one of the reasons it was inexpensive and of course we had the strong credit quality so we had talked earlier about meeting that threshold the recommended minimum is three percent when I was here talking about it before we were a little over two well the savings was 5.52 percent of a refinancing so that was absolutely a slam dunk to continue with that the total
224savings is 4.1 million and where does that savings go the taxes are going to be levied at the tax rate it just means we have less tax money spent to repay these bonds and that means that leaves more tax money either for direct pay as you go expenses or to support additional borrowing in the future so that's just a fabulous result on the refi and this is showing that part of the whole structuring is to have that 110 percent debt service coverage of the projected Revenue to The Debt Service and that's how we came up with the next great result which was that we sold the full 35 million dollars of bonds that the board authorized now I just want to share with you we always set that number as higher than we think we'll
225get because we want plenty of room to grab it if we can and we could and this was a great example of where that conservative planning with room for upside really paid off and you see it here with the additional facilities funding that we're getting now so um we're getting 8.7 more on the new money bonds the refi instead of taking any cash out we we zero that out so that I originally said we could get million six out of that we decided to take zero out of that and take more out of the new money bonds and so it was just more efficient to do that with the structuring but it's it's over seven million dollars more out of cfd1 than we were expecting so that's fantastic um it definitely meant that our strategy
226paid off so that is the end of my presentation I might have set a new record of talking to slides because I had four anecdotes that I could have told and I want to end up with congratulations um and the measure M Bond proceeds have already been deposited in the district's account the cfd number one bonds will be are scheduled to be received by the district on July 13th and I'll be glad to answer any questions and if you're wondering what all the other pages are in the back we have cost of issuance details which is information that we want you to have and then we have the last presentation just in case you want to compare so I'll be glad to answer questions thank you thank you Miss Rainier an excellent presentation as always
227uh colleagues Miss rainieri was with us recently preparing us and you know sharing a lot of information about these sales that have now taken place and I know we had a lot of discussion then so hopefully we'll we will not have a great deal more today this is a discussion item we're going to come back to it later on to actually take um action so do we have questions or comments now yeah I have a comment go ahead I'm disappointed waiting and waiting and I don't get any stories look well I'll put it to you this way somebody said to me the other day Laura you always find the silver lining in the cloud I'm always finding the clouds and the Silver Lining and um the moral of that story is in the market for
228every bet you make there's somebody willing to take the other side and that and what we saw was even though people were on the sidelines the issuers were on the sidelines too so we were able to go in and get that market attention on both sales and that that's what made it successful now we've gotten lots of bids before where there was more in the market but we really we really had good fortune with this well I know we all appreciated success and certainly the numbers are going to bode well for us when we go out for another Bond uh it's just it's fantastic that you know we we sold all the bonds we come in way under what we have projected uh for for cost to taxpayers I mean everything's a positive so and
229I know you work hard to get us there and and Kristen too so thank you we want to be respectful of your time so thank you so much for that presentation thank you for your guidance thank you for collaborating with our team it is an absolutely thrilling result to have even more resources than anticipated to create the kind of school facilities our kids deserve thank you so much thank you next up adjustment to school facilities fees also known as developer fees Miss levasser do we have any public comments via Zoom for this item Madam president may have no public comments to be assumed for this item thank you Miss Jamerson do we have any blue cards for this item Madam President we have no Blue Eye blue cards for this item thank you see that's
230what that's what happens it gets late go ahead Miss coach all right well um another good thing for school facilities uh this is an annual uh item adopted by the board this is the school facility needs analysis um put other ways it's the developer impact fee so this means that the cost developer's impact fee is the cost that they pay to the district when they pull permits um to build new homes commercial properties because of the additional students that are generated it's one of the revenue streams that you use when we're building new schools the last time this was adopted was last July 19th uh all notices is required by law have been posted and issued to all third parties this was publicly published on June 16th with directly and directly with the North State
231building industry Association just based on our past practices as well as all the cities and planning departments as early as June 2nd and you all had received a comprehensive board communication as well so as you know you're authorized to collect School impact fees on new residential and Commercial development the level two fees before you in this study that will ask you to adopt via public Hearing in July are stipulated based on a formula by law in concept this fee would pay 50 of a new school with state school facility funds paying the other 50 percent that is conceptual of course uh and rarely comes to fruition in that way but important to note that a condition for being eligible for those um should there be new school funding we need to be loving the highest
232developer fee authorized by law so in July would we ask to approve this study you will be meeting that obligation to do so so the proposed level two fee is 7.16 per square foot of new residential construction that represents just a 12 cent increase just 1.7 percent from the current seven dollars and force per uh per square foot and so with that um happy to take any questions this would come back at public hearing on July 18th thank you for a great presentation colleagues this is coming back to us so saying any questions or comments okay Mr Perez um the next being when this is going to be on agenda do we have can we ask questions to have a discussion if it's on the agenda yes you may sir so because the time no
233I might ask a couple questions here I noticed that the projections for uh for the whole District um on page uh where is that at B1 you have a table there Elk Grove unified school district residential development 2018-2022 you have in that in that box year 2022 you have single family units 1277 but multiple family units zero and uh I'm one and that that's and I'm looking at the next page that is the only year that you Within ad projections that and plus 2020 we had zero that year too uh why is that so uh that they drew the permits prior Years or or what I I can't speak to why necessarily but what I can say is we take a look at that average and so it's all averaging out so for the multi-family
234unions where units we're really looking at that 100 average over all of those years and these are just um pulled from the permits to your question um that are available for record what do you mean by average what do you get do you get the how do you how do you evolve that number if you do it in average yep so in that table the two the years because it's not presented from 2018 to 2022 we have the multiple family Union units and so we just complete an average of all of those years uh which equates to for the multiple family units 100 oh so you add you add you add those up and divide them by 100 number of years Mr Perez were you asking why they're 4-0 for 2022 is that what you
235were asking yes 20 20 and 2022 yeah so I I think the answer is there were no building permits pulled in that year for that category are you sure that that is the data that the city presented to us so you're reading it correctly um but I know okay how do you explain the fact that within River um what do you call it consumers Oaks area and Laguna there has been new low-income housing is that reflected on in this multiple family units report if there were a multi-family unit permit low income pulled in that year it would be reflected in this report those are two different things though yeah there's not a there's not an income category here if you look at the top well it's still family they don't break out income levels here
236yes I know that multi-family is a partial Apartments generally yeah but there's not necessarily low-income housing individual housing units they don't want to say that but in the next reality it is they're separate things um and so and then presently on on Stockton Boulevard between um Lauren and um Elsie there's a new development is that reflective what year is that reflected in this report if that were pulled in 2022 or prior it would be reflected here I'm not sure when those building permits were pulled and and the how how does that affect reflect the um the capacity of uh of elementary schools within that targeted Elementary uh we what yeah so um what we'll do in a future meeting is the entire facilities team is taking a look at the entire impact of our residential
237development commercial development and we'll have a more comprehensive kind of study this is really just to get us to raise those developer two fees and then at that in uh the board meeting in August we'll go into what are the actuals uh what are we projecting that to be and what do we think the impact is going to be now and in the future are you going to provide that data set or August 2018 to us next meeting August 22nd August soon Workshop Workshop very good um what okay I read this place in this report that we have we qualify for some monies because of the fact that 20 percent of our uh School sites have relocatables correct yeah so go ahead okay yeah okay right and so I don't support relocatables what happened in
238the process of the feasibility plan that that happened I just wanna before you answer and you go no we we actually can't talk about feasibility plans right now anything that doesn't have to do with the with the item that we're on on the agenda so developer fees we actually can't engage in that discussion that's what's a title adjustments of school facility fees and an ad have the impact but but your question is outside of that scope it is yeah the 22nd will be able to talk about it yeah in August August 22nd so that's right that's some questions you're gonna get for me why so many elementary schools have greater than 20 percent of relocatables and I think either the planning process was Mr Bettis restate a question that is outside of the scope thank
239you and that question excellent answer that I know Miss coats is really desirous of giving you that answer so hope you're going to be the party pooper and not let her thank you very much um so thank you folks for the presentation we have concluded questions and comments on that item and I'm going to move on oh did you well before we go to the next item uh can I make emotion to extend the meeting oh thank you yes uh Mr Fortuna has made a motion to extend the meeting Beyond 10 o'clock and we say 10 30. yeah yeah I make a motion that that we uh we uh approve uh it shouldn't be until 10 30. moved by Mr Fortuna second my by miss albiani all in favor please signify by saying aye aye
240opposed proved unanimously thank you Mr Fortuna and made myself a note to that and then forgot about my note um so we are let me make sure I'm in the right place we are moving on finally to action items first up Miss levasser we are going to be calling on you so approval of the Elk Grove unified school district local control accountability plan Miss levasser do we have any public comments via Zoom for this item Madam President we have no public comments Vietnam on this item thank goodness Miss Jamerson do we have any blue cards Madam President we have no blue cards for this item thank you and just thank goodness because my stomach is in knots about the I.T issue so just um so uh Mr ceruti thank you again Madam president this is
241the time in the lcap development and approval process that I respectfully request the board give consideration of the the approval of the district cell cap thank you Mr saruti we appreciate your uh lengthy presentation uh and and with Miss Yi earlier today we've had a lot of discussion so with that I am ready to take a motion to improve the Elk Grove unified Logistics local control accountability plan for the 2023-24 school year I move the motion predict moved by Mr Yang seconded by it was Mr fortina okay Mr Fortuna all in favor please signify by saying aye discussion moment has passed her and we've had over an hour of discussion on this hey uh okay so I'm going to repeat that vote all in favor please signify by saying aye aye voice I'm opposed I
242oppose on the grounds that we had did not have a discussion that's all we need thank you thank you so let the record show uh Mr Bettis is a no vote and everybody else voted I the measures approved on those margins and the next item which we also discussed is the approval of the Elk Grove Charter School's local control accountability plan Miss levasser do we have any Zoom public comments and President we have no public comments via Zoom for this item thank you Miss Jamerson do we have any blue cards for this item we have no blue cards for this item thank you Miss Jamerson Mr Levine good evening Madam president uh members of the board superintendent Hoffman establos again I'm here respectfully requesting the board to approve the local control and accountability plan for
243the Elk Grove charter school for 2020 324. thank you colleagues having had a discussion on this item earlier on the agenda I'm going to call for a motion to approve Elk Grove Charter School's local control accountability plan for the 2023-24 year discussion has already taken place I believe the motion but was by Miss albiani and second by Mr Yang do I have that right thank you all in favor no sir it's already taken place all in favor please signify by saying aye aye opposed let the record okay so that was unanimous thank you sir have a good night um our next item is the 2020 324 adopted budget miss levasse or do we have any Zoom comments on this item Madam President we have no public comments via Zoom for this item thank you Miss
244Jamerson do we have any blue cards on this item Madam President we have no blue cards for this item thank you Miss Watkins take it away good evening Madam president trustees superintendent Hoffman colleagues and member of the public members of the public that may be watching at home September for those that don't know me yet I am Amari Watkins I'm the new Chief Financial Officer for the district there is not a presentation this evening a separate presentation your packet does include the proposed adopted 2023-24 budget as presented by Deputy superintendent Kristen Coates at the last meeting during the public hearing and as was shared then this is a protective budget it uses assumptions that may change with the final state adopted budget today the legislature approved and forwarded to the to Governor Newsom sentence bills
245114 and 115 and so it's waiting on the governor to approve the budget staff will attend the school Services School Finance Workshop in July and following that Workshop we will likely bring back to the board as mentioned at the last meeting a revised adopted budget for a 45-day revision in August likely the August 8th meeting so we are required to submit a board approved adopted budget to the Sacramento County Office of Education by July 1st so in accordance with Education Code I am asking the board to approve the 2023-24 proposed adopted budget as presented at the June 13th board meeting discussion can we have a discussion do you have any questions sir yes I do as I said earlier I did not approve the lcap because we did not have data sets on the local
246level this is not a whole site and by reading comments about the budget sir yes and so therefore and also I talked to Mr Hoffman he said our those indicators outcomes will be coming to us next August it seems like we are proving a budget before we even have data sets presented to this board the priorities on the priorities that this budget is going to fund okay um let the record it's backwards and the Hellcat process so I'm looking for any other member questions comments um we did receive extensive information in our board packets and we have had some previous presentations so I think the context is clear that we need to meet our deadline to pass our budget even when the legislature does not act in a timely fashion so we're really going to
247come back with the 45-day revision and have a more serious discussion about this so with that I'm going to ask for a motion to approve the 2023-24 adopted budget as presented on June 13 2023. so move okay Blue by Miss albiani seconded by Mr Yang all in favor please signify by saying please signify by saying aye aye all opposed our polls on the grounds that not enough data vote you don't need to explain it thank you please let the record show that uh Mr Bettis is not enough discussion of time I vote but the uh motion is approved next item so this is um what Miss Coates and Miss rainieri were talking about a little while ago with a really long title so you have time to walk up slowly while I read it cfd
248number one special tax bonds election of 1998 series 2023 bonds consideration of a resolution prescribing the terms conditions and form of 35 million principal amount of the Elk Grove unified school district Community facilities District number one special tax rounds election of 1998 series 2023 seventh supplemental resolution the slovaster do we have any public comments via Zoom Madam President we have no public comments to be assumed for this item thank you Ms Jamerson do we have any blue cards for this item Madam President we have no blue cards for this item thank you Miss coats all right just to add you've already had a comprehensive uh presentation on this tonight but the acceptance of this resolution just prescribes the terms and conditions um of the series 2023 um bonds and this is where we would have
249our that 35 million issued mid July thank you Miss coats I'd like to call for a motion to adopt resolution number 35 prescribing the terms conditions and form of the series 2023 bonds oh demotion moved by Mr Yang do we have a second by Mr Fortuna all in favor please signify by saying aye aye opposed measures approved unanimously thank you Miss Coates the next item is uh basically the same thing but these are the refunding bonds but for the record I'm going to read the entire title cfd number one special tax bonds election of 1998 2023 refunding bonds consideration of a resolution prescribing the terms conditions and form of 59 million three hundred seventy thousand principal amount of the Elk Grove unified school district Community facilities District number one special tax bonds election of 1998
2502023 special tax refunding bonds a supplemental resolution this levaster do we have any Zoom audio Zoom comments Madam President we have no public comments via Zoom for this item thank you Miss Jamerson do we have any blue cards for this item Madam President we have no blue cards for this item thank you Miss coats nothing additional to add this just allows us uh with the acceptance of this resolution to receive the funds and do good work for their our facilities thank you Miss Coates I would like to call for a motion to adopt resolution Number 96 prescribing the terms conditions and form of the 2023 special tax refunding bonds remove the motion second Mr Yang second by miss albiani all in favor please signify by saying aye proposed measures approved unanimously thank you and our
251next item is board member and superintendent reports reminder colleagues this is for official board subcommittee work or assignments for example um where you represent us on the um at the county level csba that sort of thing do we have any updates Mr Hoffman okay thank you um last item consideration of future agenda items do we have anything yes I like to make a request that we get reviewed on a California state plan for Career Technical and education that we get vision for equity and excellence in CTE have just been passed by the California School Board I just want to make sure I understand you did you say that we get reviewed that we get a workshop have a workshop on this or what do you call our presentation on what the California state plan for
252Career Technical education could help us on on Career planning Pathways okay noted sir do we have a second no second was that a second sir for board presentation on it yeah yeah we can't just I got a second Mr forcina said second okay that motion has been moved and seconded all in favor please signify by saying aye aye roll call I heard two eyes she did make sure am I correct there okay uh nose all right so she measure fails thank you folks I'm going to adjourn this meeting at 1005 p.m hold on hold on we had a death of a student in in our District