001All right. Thank you. I'd like to call this meeting to order in open session. Welcome to this evening's hybrid board of trustees meeting being held both in person and virtually. This meeting has been made accessible to members of the public on the link at Morland School District's website and on the diligent website. Any person who requires accommodations to access the meeting has been asked to contact the superintendent's office within 24 hours of this meeting. This meeting is being recorded and may be published online at a later date. And today uh we have members of pain leadership team along with uh their teachers Mr. Manundo and Miss Keras to help lead us in the flag salute. >> My goodness. Please, >> please stand and place your right hand over to the flag of the United States
002of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you so much. So, I'll I'd like first of all, thank you uh for coming to this uh uh board meeting. I'd like to turn it over to my fellow uh board members if they have any questions. >> Hi, good evening. Um so, I understand that you are part of Pune's leadership team and so is it okay if they each introduce them? I know it's a big list of folks. Absolutely. Perfect. Absolutely. >> So, um, if you could each take a turn introducing yourself and telling us your favorite part about being on the leadership team. >> My name is McKenzie and my favorite part about being on the leadership team is that we all
003get to share our ideas and make posters. My name is and my favorite thing about being um I get to like have a say I like about leadership is that I get to help other students too. My name is Rachel and um the reason why I joined leadership because I can like have like I can be a part of the things that happen at elementary and that I can just like make more friends. My name is Sia and the reason why I joined leadership is because I get a chance of being trusted by teachers and like students. My name is Eliza and the reason I joined leadership is because of how respectful and and kind everybody is. >> My name is Lois and I my favorite part of leadership is that I can help younger
004kids. My name is Emily and my favorite part about being in leadership is leading younger kids through fun activ. >> My name is and my favorite part about leadership is helping others. My name is Hunter and my favorite part about leadership is going to the younger side and running games. >> My name is Austin and my favorite part about leadership is you get to do stuff that the other kids wouldn't usually get to do. >> My name is Norman. I My favorite part about leadership is to help others and make sure they do what they fit in. My name is Shaya and the reason I join leadership is because I like being able to help others. That's amazing. Thank you for all of your hard work. >> I'll go left. Sure. Um, thank you so
005much for you guys to come on in. Um, you know, as a choosing to do be in leadership, it takes a lot of courage, uh, a lot of, um, energy and, uh, I can see that you guys have thought of each not only about yourself, but of others. And I hope that you guys continue to uh choose leadership roles. No matter how young you are, you're showing us that no matter how young you are, you all have a voice and you have ideas that you would like to share and they matter. And I am glad to see you guys all kind of reach out there and reach out to your fellow students uh young and old. And I hope that you guys continue to see uh these um opportunities in the future when you guys
006go on move on. How many of you are fifth graders? fifth graders, you guys will be moving on to sixth grade next year, middle school. And hopefully you guys will choose to do that. And uh same thing for our fourth graders. As you move into fifth grade, uh you continue to do uh put yourself in these positions of of leadership and thank you for your volunteer. >> I say to all students, and this for parents, too. Um you know, it's a lot to ask all of you to come here tonight. Uh it's a lot of time out of your families to come and be present at the board meeting. And I'm sure you're like, why are we here? Um, we do know how to do the flag salute. We could do that. It's true. But
007actually, you guys, uh, leave us with this great legacy of what it means to be a student here and who it is that we're talking about when we talk about any of the topics that we have because they impact you and you as students here. And so, we want to make sure that we're always thinking about who are the students here and what would benefit you guys in the classroom and in life in the future. And so you were giving us something in terms of a memory for us to make sure that we're always focused on you guys and we really appreciate what you bring to the campus in terms of leadership and building community and making it a better place for other students. And so thank you guys for your work and we will
008honor it by doing our work tonight on your behalf. >> Thank you. Anything? Yeah, I think I would just say as I look out at this sea of blue that it's a good reminder that leadership isn't a title and it's not a position. Um, it's a responsibility and it's shared and people go into leadership just like you to be in service to others and to make your schools and our world a better place. And so I want to thank you for playing that leadership role and I hope you continue to step up um for yourself and for your friends and you make us very very proud standing here tonight. So thank you. >> All right. >> Thank you all and again thank you to the parents uh for sharing uh your kids with us this
009evening and thank you to the teachers for bringing them here. Thank you so much. Have a wonderful evening. Janette, >> um, stay in the lobby so we can take a photo. >> Janette, can you take it? I think um >> Oh, she's open. >> Thank you. >> Great. Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank all right. Um with that >> just wait for wait for the Thanks. All right, we'll continue to move forward with the with the meeting. I'd like to make a motion to approve the agenda. Oh, sorry. I'd like >> You want to ask? >> Yes. I'd like >> You can make the motion. >> I'll make a motion to approve the agenda. Do I have a second? >> I'll second it. >> All in favor say I. >> I. >>
010All right. Comments from the public. Good evening. Members of the public may address the board on any subject of concern to you, including those not on tonight's agenda. However, provisions of the Brown Act preclude any action. As an unagendized item, no response is required um or permitted from the board or district staff, and as already stated, no action can be taken. The board, however, may instruct the superintendent to follow up, which may or may not include placing the item on a future meetings agenda. If you would like to address the board this evening, please complete the blue blue public comment card within the first 15 minutes of the board meeting being called to order in open session. On the card, please list the agenda item you would like to speak to. If your comments do
011not pertain to an agendaized item, please write public comment. When your name is called, please come to the podium and state your name and the organization that you are representing. Comments are limited to 3 minutes per governance manual. And we do have some public comment cards this evening. Were there any others? >> Sure. >> Yeah, you can. >> All right. Thank you. I'm just pulling up my clock. >> Perfect. >> Um, so, uh, random order. Courtney Smith, please come up to the podium. >> Hi. Good evening. I'm Courtney Smith. Do I have to do my address, too? >> No. That's >> okay. So, good evening, everyone. May is National Mental Health Awareness Month. And this week is also National Student Mental Health Awareness Week. With this in mind, the mental health and counseling team would
012like to reflect on something that impacts every campus, every classroom, and every student here at Morland School District. Mental health directly impacts learning, attendance, behavior, school connectedness, academic achievement. Students learn best when they feel safe, feel supported, and when they're emotionally regulated. Morland's LCAP prioritizes student wellness, connectedness, equity, engagement, and positive school climates. These priorities reflect an important reality. Students mental health is not separate from student learning and student success. It's part of the foundation that allows students to access their education fully. School mental health and counseling services are designed to support all students, including both general and special education students through preventative support, intervention, collaboration, and relationship centered care that helps students remain connected to school and helps them thoroughly access their learning environments. The Morland School District is facing financial challenges for the
013upcoming school year. And as a result, counseling services are being reduced districtwide. With the loss of three full-time counseling positions, this 21% reduction in counseling services most heavily impacts our elementary students. As we celebrate Mental Health Awareness Month and Student Mental Health Week, we hope to encourage continued conversation around prevention, collaboration, equity, and sustainability within our school support systems. I think we all can collaborate and work together on how important this is. In these conversations, there are important questions to ask. How do we create systems that support students before they reach crisis? How do we maintain equitable access to mental health and counseling supports across all of our campuses? And how do we sustain healthy mental health support systems in the long term during financially challenging times? Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you. >>
014Um Olivia Guerrero. Although district enrollment has declined overall, student need aid has continued to increase. According to Mland Ed source data, the number of students receiving special education services increased from 554 in 2020 2021 school year to 656 in 2024 2025, raising the percentage of students receiving services from 12% to 17%. During the same time frame, the district identified the growing percentage of students as socially economically disadvantaged, increasing from 28% to 37%. As student need becomes more complex, student schools continue to see greater demand for counseling and mental health support. Some sites currently serve counselor to student ratios as high as 439 to1 and projected reductions could raise some ratios to 873 to1. The American School Counselor Association recommends a ratio of 250 to1. We recognize that Morland is not alone in facing a large
015counselor to student ratios. Schools and districts across California and the nation continue to work to meet increasing student mental health needs while maintaining limited resources. At the same time, recommended ratios exist for an important reason. They help schools provide students with meaningful access to support, preventative intervention, and trusted adult relationships on campus. These numbers matter because they directly affect students across access to care. When school reduces staff, students experience experience longer wait times for support, fewer opportunities for preventative intervention, and less consistency in trust in trusted adults relationships at school. Thank you, >> Melissa Nate. Schools across California continue to report increases in student anxiety, emotional dysregulation, school avoidance, and behavioral concerns, chronic absenteeism, and overall mental health needs. At the same time, many families face significant barriers to accessing outside mental health care, including
016long wait lists, insurance limitations, financial barriers, and limited provider availability. As access to community- based needs decreases, schools increasingly serve as one of the primary settings where students receive mental health support and intervention. As a result, school staff are being asked to address not only academic needs, but our also complex emotional and behavioral needs daily. When support systems are stretched thin, schools spend more time responding to urgent situations and less time implementing preventative supports that help students before concerns escalate to crisis. Reducing staffing also limits students opportunities to build along ongoing relationships with the trusted adults who know their history, recognize the changes in their behavior, and intervene early when concerns arise. When schools operate primarily in crisis response mode, the impact is felt across entire campuses. Teachers balance academic expectations alongside growing emotional and
017behavioral needs, while some counselors are stretched across multiple campuses. Thank you, >> Stephanie Apple. One of the most important conversations schools can have is about the difference between reactive and preventative systems. Too often, schools respond only after students reach a crisis point. But healthy school systems cannot function solely in crisis response mode. Tier one supports help students feel connected and supported before concerns escalate. Early intervention is often more effective, less disruptive, and less intensive than responding after a crisis has already occurred. Recently at EDS, there was a tier one family event focused on social skills. Parents attended a presentation while teachers taught students the same concepts in classrooms and families later joined students for a collaborative activity. In one morning, students, families, and staff aligned around a shared approach to supporting social emotional growth. That
018is tier one support at its best. Proactive, collaborative, and accessible to all students. Organizations such as the American School Counselor Association and the School Social Work Association of America identify prevention, classroom lessons, social emotional learning, and early intervention as core responsibilities of school mental health teams, not optional extras. Prevention reduces the likelihood of crises before they occur. When counseling services are reduced, preventative supports are often the first services to disappear. Over time, this increases student need, increases crisis, and places greater strain on already limited support systems. Tier one services are not a privilege. They are a core part of healthy school systems and student success. Thank you, >> Marissa Hammers. He's Elmer's >> Elmer's Thank you. >> Good evening. Behavioral support systems are essential because students benefit from structure, consistency, accountability, and intervention. At the
019same time, student behavior is often connected to stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, disability related needs, or emotional dysregulation. When schools do not address these underlying needs, they may continue responding to the same behaviors without resolving the root cause. Supporting students requires collaboration among mental health professionals, behavior teams, teachers, administrators, families, and community providers. Each member of that team plays a unique role, and no part of that system can fully replace another. As student needs increase, support systems must grow alongside them so students continue to feel safe, connected, and emotionally supported at school. Mental health and counseling services are essential components of healthy learning environments, and student success, and we look forward to continue to working together to support the well-being of our students, families, and staff. Thank you. Thank you. Marissa Trevino. >> Good evening. Um,
020I am a speech uh language therapist at two schools, Latimer and EDS, and I have worked closely with our counseling team. I cannot tell you what a great asset it is to have um a counseling team that is so informed and um so inspiring. Mental health impacts our special needs students as well as our gened students. The service provider field relies on one another to assist these students who require emotional and behavioral support. I understand that we are impacted by the budget constraints. However, cutting our counseling and mental health staff may not be the answer and we are looking for collaboration when we are in a surge of uh students who are disregulating causing um educational impacts. We rely on one another to make sure that there's safety between our students, themselves, and our staff.
021Our counselors are a vital resource to our community, families, and staff. Our minority students will be those who are greatly more impacted since they are the population with the least amount of resources available to them. As an SLP who has been called in to support disregulated students who may be at risk to themselves, I work closely with the counselors to ensure that the students are not negatively impacted or stigmatized. I have seen our counseling team build strong relationships with families and staff to prevent future incidents from occurring. We've just left our employee recognition award ceremony where several of our counseling um counselors and mental health uh employees were honored today. Please do the same and honor them. Thank you. Right. Mary Anne Fala. >> Hello. Good evening. My name is Marian Balo. I'm the school
022psychologist at EDS. Um I've been fortunate to um work as a school psychologist here in New Orleans school district for two years and four years prior I was also an intern here. Um and in that time I have definitely seen a significant increase in students social emotional needs. Um, I first wanted to speak from a special education perspective because that's my area of work. We are seeing more and more students experiencing anxiety every day. Same with depression. And these mental health concerns are directly impacting their ability to access their education. So that means that we're adding counseling onto their IEPs. And these are long-term services that they are receiving sometimes over multiple years. And then on top of that um we also have students in the general education environment who um also have social emotional
023needs. At EDS we have upwards of 900 students. Um and for many of our students um schoolbased counseling is their primary and sometimes only um access to mental health support due to barriers outside of school. At EDS our counseling team recognizes and responds to these needs every day. Um we are fortunate to have three wonderful counselors. Um and in every meeting where we discuss student growth and progress, um there are students who are doing better because the support that they receive from our counselors. Um I understand that the district must consider financial realities as every district is. Um but I do worry that with fewer counselors at each school, our level of support could become stretched too thin. Um, this would impact not only students who may experience less consistent support, but also our counselors
024who are already managing a significant and incredibly important workload. I truly believe that continuing to invest in a system that's benefiting us, the students, and the staff is the strongest path forward. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> That concludes public comments. >> Thank you. Thank you everybody for your uh comments. We'll now move to the superintendent report. >> Uh yes. So um I had other remarks prepared, but I'm going to go off script a little bit. I just want to say thank you so much for the civil discourse, the advocacy, and the focus on students. Um I commend you. I've been in other meetings that weren't so friendly, and I just feel like um your advocacy, it really matters. We heard you. Um, thank you for being here. So, it is true we
025do have budget constraints and every reduction that we make still hurts. It's real people. It's real jobs. It's relationships. It's real children. Um, and I hope that you hear me and us tonight. So, the district does see your work and the importance of your work. Uh, we value the work that you do, all of you. Um and the decision to go back to our previous model where we had halftime counselors at elementary schools was definitely not a reflection of the importance of the work. Um it has just been a very challenging decision to try to make sure that we have a sustainable budget for our future. We have rising cost of health care. We want to make sure we're taking care of compensation for our employees. So these are we get squeezed. Um, but I
026do want to acknowledge that you have been the recipient of those um, reductions. So, I want you to know that even though I know it feels personal, it is not personal, but I do understand that the work you do is is heart work, right? It's hard work and it's heart work. Um, and so it is personal. Um, I want to just end I have other comments, but I just wanted to address the the counselors and people in the room that I'm very proud to work in a district that prioritizes prioritizes centering our students in these conversations. Uh, it was admirable and I am proud to work alongside each of you. Um, you care deeply about our children and I I just want to say thank you for being here. I do have other comments that
027are not related to this that are the normal comments. Feels a little odd right now, but I feel like we just got to go through them. So, as you know, Shelley Hong had her last board meeting uh at April 28th, and you all have made the decision to move forward with a provisional appointment process. That application is now available for community members who are interested in serving on the board of trustees. And you can read more information in the full press release that went out. It's on our website. And if any of you out there live in trustee area 1 and are interested in learning more about the process, uh myself and cabinet will be here on Thursday, May 21st at 3 p.m. to answer any questions. And then last week we had our day
028of the employee. Thank you to HR for the pizza lunch that was delivered and the beautiful tote bags. MF helped us put the ribbons around them. So, I just want to say thank you to the volunteers. Um, I think people really appreciated the nice extra touch and thank you to uh everyone that was here helping celebrate people of the year tonight. This is a very exciting evening. And then we hope you join us Tuesday, June 2nd at 3:30 here in the boardroom for our retirement celebration. I'll just quickly add that we had our president's council meeting last week where our home and school club leaders are very busy supporting the end of the year events. We had another robust discussion about traffic safety. It is still a concern for each of our school communities. We
029have been sending reminders out in our weekly principal newsletters about safety tips and how to report those traffic concerns to the San Jose Police Department, but the concerns are growing with the um construction that's happening on Hamilton. People are taking the side roads and they're, you know, not slowing down even during the school hours, before school, after school. So, it's an area that we will continue to dive into working together to find solutions for that. And then last Monday, we had our MEF board meeting. They're already planning for the pumpkin patch that's in October. We talked about all the spring music events that we've got going on. Um, and I met with Anna Chan, the president of MEF, Jawen, our treasurer, and Eric Morlin, uh, music and Morland, and we talked about MEF's contributions to
030the Morland school district for next year. They support our music and sports programs, the enrichment via zero period, and of course, our ever popular enrichment grants program. So, MEF contributes about $160,000 for these programs each year, and we wouldn't be such an amazing district without their support. Their heart for our students across Morland epitomizes servant leadership. And I want to take one moment to thank and highlight Anna Chan who is the current MEF president. She is moving on to the high school. Um we are the board is looking for people to step up into that co-president role. If anyone is interested, feel free to reach out to me or anyone else on the board. Um quickly, we had our cell phone policy committee wrap up. I believe it was last week. We um talked to
031the committee one last time. We are thinking through with our principles this Thursday how we would implement the logistics of such a policy that would keep phones off and away all day and out of the hands of our students uh because we want to have a distraction-free learning environment. And then we'll move on to Chromebooks. I know I'm very I'm moving very quickly. I apologize. We're trying to get through them. Um, the board approved our contract for the refresh of the one-on-one Chromebook initiative in grades three through eight. We have also heard feedback from our families about screen time and we are working with our site principles to determine what curricular apps are essential for student learning and which ones we might be able to eliminate. And then we've also learned that the I Ready
032benchmark assessment will now be shorter in length, minimizing the amount of time students are being assessed without losing the technical prop properties that allow for valid and reliable results. The new I Ready assessment will be called I Ready inform and it is tended just for that for teachers to inform instruction and collaborate with their peers. Um, lastly on the technology front, we are sensitive to parents concerns about screen time and so the district has made a decision that we will be keeping the Chromebooks at school for grades 3rd, fourth, and fifth. So next school year, they won't be going back and forth between home and school. They'll stay at school. And then lastly, the May revised budget does come out. We believe it'll come out this Thursday. Um, we hear that there is some good
033news, not great news, but we do know that the cost of living adjustment, the COLA that people talk about, um, is going from a 2.41, which is what the governor came out with in January, and we know that it's going to be about a 2.87, um, when they come out with the Ray May revise. That could change, but that's what we're hearing right now. Um, and then we also expect some additional one-time funds, which does make it very difficult for districts because 85% of our budget is people, people that are here tonight. Um, and we hire people to teach, to lead, to support. And so one-time funds are just that. They're one time. They don't support the ongoing needs and the ongoing costs of the district. They're helpful. Um, so I just want to say
034thank you to everybody that's here. That concludes my remarks for this portion of the agenda. Um, thank you. >> Thank you, Dr. Cod. Um, before we move to board member communications, I'd just like to kind of say that as we kind of go through these, uh, it might seem awkward and odd that we're not the board members are not talking about what was just what all of you talked about, but that is part of the Brown Act and part of the board uh, governance manual. So it it is while we want to say things, we we're not permitted to. So with that, I'll turn it over to uh Heather. >> All right. Well, thank you and thank you for clarifying that. It's always a little bit uncomfortable to receive comments and not be able to
035uh reciprocate. So, um but I did want to um just express my gratitude for tonight's celebrations um and our audience frankly for um just continuing to show up. Um, I was listening to all of the um, kind remarks and feeling so incredibly fortunate to be um, in Morland where really um, volunteers, classified administrators, teachers, absolutely everyone that walks onto our campus um, is here with a shared vision and prioritizing students. they are the reason why we are all here and I so appreciate the opportunity to celebrate that um because so much of it is you know one foot in front of the other and and what needs doing and everyone's rolled up their sleeves but I do um really appreciate being able to pause and celebrate the hard work that gets done here um to
036the benefit of all of our kiddos. Um the only other uh comment I wanted to express was with regard to the MEF meeting, but Dr. Cod, you covered that beautifully. Um that group continues with extraordinary dedication. Lots of conversations about the 5K, what worked, always willing to look at what they might tweak and do a little bit differently next year. Had some really amazing ideas. They're focused on their budget, developing their board for next year, and as you mentioned, amazingly already uh working on the pumpkin patch. So, that's it for me. >> Yeah, I would say that I'm struck by the the celebration we came from and that thought of like it is what's good in the world, in a world that needs a little good. I'm also struck really by the comments tonight um
037and the the cordial nature of it and the informative nature of it. And I think uh we could learn a lot about how discourse functions um from people who are willing to share and advocate. Um and so I do appreciate that. Um I did get a chance to attend the uh the president's council meeting and I really am struck by, you know, people that are volunteering their time while raising kids and trying to improve schools. Um and the energy in that room that's optimistic about things that we can solve and ways we can improve things. And I just um I appreciate that energy in a world where we often are negative about like why things work the way they work and why they can't be fixed. And uh I love being around people that are
038still optimistic to the degree that they go, "Yeah, well, you know, if we rolled up our sleeves, what could we be doing to be helpful?" And so um again, they're wrapping up a big year. um but you know already planning next year and I think we're really fortunate to have the group of parents that are dedicated in spending time to commit on behalf of others. So >> I'll add that again with the employee of the year it is always refreshing to kind of come into at the end of a year to hear from those who've been observing. I know the year goes by very quickly and at the year end of the year being acknowledged and recognized for all the hard work that goes on behind the scenes to hear about these you can hear
039from other folks but when those who are close to you talk about those who made an impact um it's it kind of shows the hard work that's been going on and so they to acknowledge those who put all the work in um and the impact that they make from all the levels is always a great sign of like the special people that we have in the district and all the people who care so deeply about our kids and um influence. Um so that's always a great um uh event to attend and hear about. Um it almost made me cry just seeing the acknowledgement from and all the people who put in all the hard work. Um in addition uh I think uh the only other event that I attended at this time was uh the
040Anderson uh open house and uh seeing all the excited kids moving on and realizing how big of a a rockstar Tasha is when I go over there and how many people know her and she knows that campus so well and the students and just to follow her kind of in in around getting a deep insight of the impact of the teachers and the the how the students see the teachers and thank them and hug and and walk around and the excitement ment that we saw. So the open house and we hope to see this at all the open houses that we come up to in the next couple weeks and such. Um so uh it's just a way to reinforce the the levels of impact that we have. It's really fun. >> Thank you. Um
041just a couple quick uh points. I've had I had the opportunity to attend two family nights at EDS, the K through one and um the fourth and fifth grade uh events. It uh very it was interesting. There's a lot of parent participation. The parents and the students were moving from class to class. There's a lot of excitement by the students to show uh not just their parents but to us as well what they were building um what they did this whole year. Uh we got um you know uh Chelsea and I got roped into a very complex game of Monopoly that the kids had made up and uh if it if it was just for me I'd have been there for 45 minutes but Chelsea being the consmith teacher she was like right let's move
042this on. So uh it was really nice. Uh and then I had um the pleasure of attending Latimer's fourth and fifth grade string concert um uh earlier this week uh or early last week, sorry. Um in the middle of the afternoon, it was lovely. Uh after lunch, I just took a walk over to Latimer uh Latimer, sat down and had a wonderful concert uh that the kids put together. It was absolutely great. Uh and thank you again to everybody for pulling together the employee of the year uh celebration. You know, we keep talking about modelind as a family and so on, but today I found out that we are literally a family. I did not know that Kathy was Janette's mom. So, that was always uh it was always fun to find out. So, those
043are the comments for me. Thank you so much. Moving on to uh discussion and action items. Item 6A, approve the 5-year service agreement. >> Yeah. Yeah. So, we bring you a service agreement. Um, we have Zoom for our telephone. So, our current system is nearing the end of the contract and the company that we currently have um decided to raise the rates quite quite a bit. So, um, our director Vince did a little research and, um, we decided to go with Zoom. It's going to meet our needs, um, both financially and how we use our fun. So, we bring you this. And the reason it's on action items is it's a 5-year contract a little over 25,000. So it exceeds that 125,000. >> We ask that you recommend the service agreement too. >> Is is
044this for the uh for the meetings etc. Plus the cell phones. >> It's it's it's this is more for just our phones, not cell phones. A regular desk phone. >> Oh, for the desk phones. Okay, got it. >> This is just a sorry a general question about contracts. fiveyear service agreement. That's a long time. I imagine if for some reason something went arry, we would have an opportunity to revisit it in between now and then. >> Yeah. So, when we do when we do this, we've made a point to within the contract there's always an out 30-day out where we can get so we're not stuck to the contract if something were going. >> Thank you. Um, in a world where everybody's moved away from desktop phones, do we still That's still obviously a big
045need for desktop phones today. >> Yeah. >> In a school district. >> Yeah. >> Does talk phones, but they're all internet based. >> Yeah. Just >> they've changed. >> I'm just saying even a firm like Morgan Stanley got rid of them. Like they don't exist anymore. >> Do that. I take mine away. And so I so I'm just curious like you know like that that the we're investing in >> it's still a need in schools. It's it's I mean it's a safety thing with the classrooms. They need to have some form of communication to get a hold of the office and vice versa. If the office needs to get a hold of classroom teacher there is a need. >> Any questions? Okay. >> Other than my desire to abolish them. No. Um, and this I'm
046assuming is is it a hardware plus the software and service? >> Hardware is under consent because it's it's the hardware itself is about 45,000 I think. Okay. >> Take so it's under the consent. This one is just because of the 5 years that it'll exceed that 125 put it on just so we can talk. >> But it's a five contract. >> Okay. >> So the hardware is um on the tonight's agenda. >> Okay. So that that would be replacing the actual devices on >> every >> this is now a silly question but is there training needed if there's a different experience happening is there >> I don't think there's a lot of training but it's it's going to be a summer project so the transition should be pretty uh seamless and if there is any
047training that we need >> like for me probably separate >> if there's any training we need we will make sure we provide it or you know detailed instructions of I use it. >> Perfect. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Just pick it up and say >> for sure. >> Dial line for the outside number. >> Uh >> so I'll move to approve the Zoom 5-year contract for phone services. >> Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> All in favor say I. It's >> killing you. It's killing I >> I mean we have to bite this >> so hard. >> Sorry. >> 6B approved purchase of from Apple and for iPads. >> All right. So this is uh for purchase of iPads. So last meeting we brought you a complete Chromebook refresh contract. Um this
048is not a complete refresh for iPads but we do have some. Anyone with an Apple product knows when the they update the iOS's certain softwares do not are not compatible. And so um this is a bulk of the iPads we need to make sure that the current apps and software that we utilize um will be operational on the iPad. So, we need to do this refresh. And so, once we do that, we'll surplus the old ones and look at um you know, same thing. Have a plan of what we're going to do with them and and how we we dispose of them or donate if they're >> Okay. >> And what's that expectation of um of a life cycle for some of these things? like three, four, five years >> for Yeah, it's about it's
049about So the the current ones we have are about 7 to 8 years actually. So it it all depends on Apple how quickly they kind of upgrade things. Um I think iPads are a little different than their phones and I sort of slow them down. It's just the different software that we utilize on them. What's that capacity and what kind of iOS do they need? Um, you know, is it is it number one or number 200? Whatever one can't keep up with it. >> Got it. >> The iPads a little bit a little bit longer. >> And remind me again, the iPads is for K through one or two. >> Yeah. TK through >> TK through. Okay. >> Any questions from the board? >> I will say that I appreciate this idea about not sending
050them home. I I mean I think keeping Chromebooks at home I mean keeping Chromebooks here to the degree you can iPad's here like none of that stuff sets go home particularly well in my mind but um I don't think you have a choice but to refresh so I think it is >> might be a silly question but I'm just kind of curious um what is it that the iPads uh that we wouldn't be able to do on Chromebooks or be able to kind of push that through to upper grades. Why wouldn't we keep some consistency or >> are you saying taking iPads into the upper grades or Chromebooks into the lower grades? Which >> either way uh sort of the change is necessary because why what is not a what are you not able to
051do on >> Well, we use i ready diagnostic and that's the main one that doesn't work on the iPads. Um as far as utilizing it when you're dealing with the lower kids, it's easier for them to operate an iPad opposed to having to log into a Chromebook. >> They don't have their typing skills. when you get to the upper grades, I'm not quite sure if state testing is applicable on the iPads. And so third and up, we have state testing every year. And so they're they're easier to use on a Chromebook and to navigate. So I'm just curious wondering to change, but that's >> um so I too just want to echo the sentiment. I really appreciate um not only for the device itself, but just the acknowledgement that there are there's an opportunity with
052screen time. >> Feel like, you know, it's a it's a moving target, but um it's really important for kiddos to have um some downtime from the screens. And so I'm really grateful that that's a priority. Um, and at the risk of being a completely broken record, I'm very, very hopeful that as we go through the old equipment, we find the best use. >> We have so many families in need. And um, and it's been something that has evolved over time. And so, I just want to acknowledge that years and years ago, we weren't able to have this conversation. So, I just want to express my gratitude for prioritizing that. um and you know urge. So, thank you. >> All right, hearing no other questions. Do I have a motion to approve the purchase? >> I'll
053make a motion to approve purchase of Apple for iPads. >> Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> All in favor say I. >> I. Thank you. Moving on to 6C. approve an increase in the contract for Edroid Student Transportation. >> Thank you. Good evening. Uh we are asking for an $85,000 increase to our current contract with Adoy. A Joy provides uh transportation for our students um special education primarily but sometimes um fostering homeless as well. Uh and there is transportation our district buses cannot provide. So um there are occurrences that happen. students move into our district and so forth as the year progresses and therefore the increases um come unexpectedly sometimes. So we're asking for that increase. >> So um is it being primarily driven by more number of students utilizing the service
054or having to utilize the service? >> Honestly like this amount could be just a few students. Uh, so I I checked specifically and there are some foster students that live on the east side that were transporting and so there's just little things like that that can >> Yeah. >> Okay. And I'm assuming that this would this then be our base for next year 285. >> What we do is we assess how many students that we are providing transport for. We we first go back to the district transportation try to make sure that we are at trying to offer it all that we can and then we will go to these um independent companies. >> Question is >> um so what necessitates a different type of transport is it is it equipment is it student need?
055So, that's a great question because um I was also told that um that we have a couple of students in wheelchairs that um just can't go on our buses. And so, that's a good example of equipment that we can't facilitate on our buses. Um and then like like I said, there's also situations where students either move out of the area, but they still can go to our schools, our district buses are not going to transport them across town. >> Thank you. To me, it's a good example of budget line items that people if you're um trying to understand school finances that you would not understand that somebody can reach into your budget because you you have an IEP or a need that is committed. But we had no additional funding related to a droid like
056that. No, nobody cares that somebody moved into the district that had that kind of a need. that just comes right out of your budget. And and although we're talking about approving it or not approving it tonight, there really is no meaningful option about not approving it. Um they're mandated services that fall outside of the budget that we now just have to have to pay for. And so I think that that makes for anybody that's trying to go like, you know, why is balancing this budget so difficult? Well, there are a ton of things that come into a budget that there's no additional revenue that's being brought into the budget. It's just a cost that's tax to this budget. So, you know, I always feel like we should be managing like how do we get fewer
057people to do it, but the truth is like somebody moved into the district and that came with a certain package of needs and that set of needs were required to fulfill. Um and so um you know our hope is that this is the most efficient mechanism to do that. You know that that's the work that you guys do but it's not like we can say no you we're we're not we're not going to go and provide the services that we're committed to. So I I mean I'll submit a motion to approve um but it's a it's a challenging environment for somebody just to watch. drawing. Any questions? Question. >> Okay. Thank you. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> Moving on to the consent items.
058Any questions from the board? >> I would submit a motion in agitate tonight's consent. >> Do I have a second? >> Second. >> All in favor say I. >> I. Thank you. Closing items, future meeting dates. Any questions for folks on future meeting dates? >> Not here on the 26th. >> That is correct. I will not be here on the 26th. >> Okay. And a quorum is three, correct? So, we have to make sure that >> we are here. >> We are all here. Okay. Um, and um, I have a conflict on the 9th, so I can do the 26th. I can probably do the 9th, but I just wanted to flag that I'm I have a conflict to clear um, to do that. Thank you for the >> and I'll keep you posted so
059that we can make sure we have great coverage. >> Okay. Announcements, reminders, requests, anything from folks. >> So just just to circle back. So for the the June 6th is for the interviews and the idea is that we would um swear in someone on the 9th, right? So that would also change the >> open. >> Yeah, exactly. drafted. >> Well, I wasn't trying to connect those dots necessarily. >> The same thing. >> Well, let's hope that that's Let's hope that we get great candidates. >> Yeah. >> Okay. All right. Thank you for that clarification, Heather. All right. Any other announcements, reminders, requests from folks? Okay. No. All right. With that, we are journ into close session. Thank you. Thank you all. >> Is there still food over there?