001good evening everyone like to call this meeting to order an open session welcome to this's hybrid Board of Trustees meeting being held both in person as well as in as well as virtually this meeting is has been made accessible to members of the public on the link at the Morland School District website and on board dos 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 maybe publish online at a later date all right so we have sixth grade girls basketball team from MMS undefeated here to lead us in tonight's black salute is that correct all right come on up just tell us what to do your right how' we do yeah we did okay all
002right go yet thank Welcome to our board meeting thank you so much for coming and thank you parents for bringing you um if you would each take a turn introduce yourself and tell us what a little bit about your basketball team all each hi my name is ell hi my name is na Foy and our basketball team it was like a sanctuary to get away from the day like whatever Happ andun and our basketball team fun to always very nice is your coach here no she's at a 3day Web Conference okay please extend our thanks for her work go ahead all right awesome so uh I'm glad to see that you're all wearing your gold medals excellent what's the who remembers the closest game that you guys had this season oh yes go ahead championship
003did they scored the first six points okay got like [Music] super very nice close at all that yeah excellent thank you um I'm just curious about what was there anything that prompted you guys already always know you wanted to join the basketball team have you always been playing basketball is this your first season like yeah how did you guys get on this team like what yeah what problem you exced okay so you didn't play bkb before okay you didn't want to like like go alone oh so I was trying out because my friend Lizzy here was trying out and I didn't think I was G to get in because I it was only our team so our coach was like he you guys that's this you guys have like great team chemistry yeah I think
004it's cool um all my kids went through MMS my last one is an eighth grader and then that will complete my Morland Middle School experience um but they all played Sports and all really had a um a meaningful experience from it so I'm glad that you guys found it uh I don't have a question I just really I say the same thing to all the kids that come to which is say thank you uh you're here as a reminder for the work that we're going to do uh so whatever it is that we're about to plan for the year um we'll have you guys as a memory um and as a visual about why it is that we do the work that we do so it's actually really important that you come I know it's
005kind of like uh painful to come at the end of the day come back to school and do the whole process but but really it it is important because it keeps you uh and what students need in the front and center of all the work that we're go on for the rest of the evening so thank you for coming and thank you for competing and more than anything thank you for actually kind of building a community at MMS that's great and I'll just say that um I'm a big supporter of uh uh School sports um obviously you guys uh went out there cried out put yourselves out there to learn something new meet new people maybe um and these are always opportunities that we want to always offer our kids you guys are sixth graders
006most likely this will help promote you guys want to uh join next year as well it's always it's great that that you guys all had fun this year it's even better that you guys won the championship it's even more awesome that you went undefeated this entire season that's a great memory to have um but um I hope this drives you to continue to participate in um other sports maybe not just basketball but the other sports that schools offer um and it teaches you guys a lot of things even if you didn't lose a lot of times you learn a lot with losing but when being undefeated is also kind of cool so uh thank you guys for in and sharing and Shining uh uh in front of us and representing your school yes so I
007will just say well what I'm supposed to say is my favorite thing about school is like reading or math but my favorite thing about school is sports actually uh when I was a student um and there were four words that stuck out to me that you all said today and um the words were tried I wanted to try it maybe something new um we included each other we support each other and that this team was your Sanctuary to get away from the day and I just thought that was really special and you've created a special bond between you all and I just am proud that you represent Morland Middle School girls basketball team sixth grade and the fact that you're undefeated makes it really extra special um so I want you to to encourage you
008to keep trying new sports keep playing into the next years and um we're really proud of you so thank you for representing us well today very well done thank you so much please do give our kudos to your coach yeah yes yeah well done guys day yeah thank you yeah all right I'll report out that there was no action taken this evening in Clos session and move to approval of tonight's agenda a motion to approve tonight's agenda second all in favor comments from the public members of the public May address the board on any subject concerned to you including those not on tonight's agenda however provisions of the brown act proc include any action as an un agendized item no response is required or permitted from the board or District staff and as already stated
009no 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 meeting's agenda if you would like to address the board this evening please complete the blue public comment card within the first 15 minutes of the board meeting being called to order in public session on the card please list the agenda items that you would like to speak to if your comments do not pertain to an agendized item please write public comment when your name is called please come to the podium and state your name and organization that you're representing comments are limited to three minutes for board governance manual and we have one um blue card today okay Happy Spring tomorrow it's supposed to be cold here to read
010um the shout outs for tonight and um starting off um from Megan Hooper at laimer to Olivia Guerrero you look what you've done your community Builder dental clinic food pantry and counselor keep on Harry Billings from Stephanie Marcil thanks for sitting in on a conference with me I very much appreciate it also from Stephanie Marcil to Stacy and Elizabeth Harold thanks for teaching flex and math when I'm absent from Jeffree spafford to hel Mal shinoa Ross and Maria Garcia himz the successful fourth grade student leg conference students got to shine with and share with families families had nothing but positive things to say about our team to Scott Adamson from Colleen delin thank you for organizing another successful Science Expo as always such an amazing night for students and parents um to parvine sanetti from
011Lauren mortensson thank you for for all your effort and dedication every day with the kids you're appreciated from Becky Peters to the third grade team at EDS shout out to our team we are Innovative patient and collaborative thanks for all the mutual support to um Erica Paisley from Sierra Vance thank you so much for all your help while I was out on maternity leave and the support now that I am back you're the best she's really tired days start tomorrow um it's from De Kathleen Bill and W thank you for being my bright spot and strength every day in the office you're the best um to from her two Angela Sanchez Aldo Jayy me Christie thiron and Betsy lovely from Kathleen and Deb in the office thanks for always supporting us um to Jenna Naylor
012from Betsy lovely Jenna is such an amazing admin she cares for the students as well as staff and parents she is funny and professional she's an impressive leader to Stacy rdy from Noel amaroso thank you for being an awesome teacher in person the roar never say the roar outs have been fun and the school spirit activties have been great to Lauren F from nean brigh Lauren is amazing I so appreciate her positive attitude in the midst in the midst of tricky situations she has worked so hard this year and is a is wonderful in her job and Elizabeth from Elizabeth Sim to Denise Edgar and Caitlyn thank you for helping us schedule meetings and booking available rooms for us you are a tremendous help to the pain RSP program that was most of them you'll
013get all of them tomorrow in your email superintendence report Dr Cod yes okay moving on to the first slide thank you lies um all right there he is Mr Adamson in his um tie dye uh medical coat um he organized another successful MMS Science Expo I was able to attend that last week uh seeing some young scientists in action so the event is always held over in the mu um multi-purpose room over at MMS um if you've never been I really encourage you um I witnessed um you know many engineering projects just so you know for eighth graders the Science Expo is mandatory but if you're sixth and seventh grader you do not have to be there and there were a lot of sixth and seventh graders one skipped their soccer game so that they
014could be at the science ex Expo and they were not an eighth grader so um you see their students stacking um I believe they're really heavy science old textbooks on top of their engineering Creations I think we got up to 38 textbooks which is over 100 pounds um on top of their toothpicks and glue uh design so thank you to everybody that helped make that a great event and Scott Adamson I will give him you know most of the credit he does organize it it's always always really fun next slide of MMS big congratulations to Morland Middle School 8th grader Kate penzel she is the California Junior scholarship Federation um named her a recip of the 2024 2025 Mary and hung Memorial award for the central coast region she's one of five recipients in the
015award category earlier this month and her she was nominated by her teacher Jill Davis who is the moderator of the cjsf club congratulations Kate I think somebody up here knows her um and then a huge congrats to Ana mimon an eighth grader at EDS her digital artwork Paradise in the garden was selected as a top 10 winner by celebrating art.com out of thousands of entries Nationwide so the award proclaimed Ana one of the top 10 artists in the nation for her grade and so I just wanted to give a shout out to her like really proud next slide there she is Tasha kin in all of all of her glory um lots of comments on our beautiful Morland table in display so thank you um that uh job fair was at the Santa Clara County
016Office of Ed last weekend huge success strong participation from our principal you can see there um we extended two offers on site basically we give you a Golden Ticket like year going to come teach for us at new Orland and then identified 33 really high quality teaching candidates that we will follow up with in total we engaged with and gathered information from more than 110 candidates so um thank you Tasha for getting that up and going a fraction of the principles there lot lot of one picture some a lot of all right next slide please and then congratulations to vladimer fourth grader Jeffrey spafford Mr spafford was nominated for the YMCA project Cornerstone asset Champion award he and members of the ladder Community attended the award ceremony last week Jen I think I see you
017all also in there there you are um Mr Stafford was highlighted for increasing school connectedness with fourth and fifth graders by providing a lunchtime activity surrounding student leadership um and then you can turn to the next slide but that will be it uh MEF has their 5K this weekend who's going to raise your hand yeah oh raise it loud and proud um you can walk you can run you can roll a stroller um no scooters though please no bikes um so the event starts at 9:00 a.m. it's right here in front of the district office we are excited to get our community together I think last I checked there were 178 people that had signed up usually there's some more that come the morning of so um we'll look forward to that and then if
018you can believe it open houses season is upon us um so we will be inviting students families members to campus this begins next week MMS like unbelievable Wednesday April 2nd most of our sites will host their open houses in May but you know MMS wanted to get a head start so there you go so um those dates will be on our website and then just a reminder we have spring break the week of April 7th through 11th so we will have no school so and no board meeting that Tuesday so don't show up there's no dinner Shelly on that Tu day okay and that concludes my REM for this portion of thank board member Communications nothing from me this week thank you none I did get to go through the science fair did not get
019a chance to see you sorry Kate was competing so there watching her Bridge get crued it's really crowded in there like it's incredibly crowded it's it's it's hot spy mess in but but really it's it'sing up it's got great that's why and I'll just say that I was to attend a distri band performance um and it's always great it's always a packed house these kids are working hard I think the it's I didn't have any child that was performing but it's always amazing to see how well uh they do and just you you look back and you see all the parents so everyone's trying to get a picture of their child and they may be in the back or they might be in the front and it's just uh what's great to see is just
020hearing everyone come together and making some awesome music um their performance was incredible and they even did like of course I was very attracted when they did the Star Wars theme I know that one I don't know many but that's one I did know and um just did a great job always always fun to hear the kids um U performance at all levels so um for me I attended the last Westside boards meeting um a friendly reminder that we have a dinner scheduled on April 21st and hopefully I know Brian you're out of the country but hopefully we can all make it and then I also attended the band Festival concert program and um all three of my children were musicians through MMS and so it was a real treat to be there and um
021not be trying to get the photo um of my child but to listen to the talent and to see our teachers in action um really really fortunate to have such a strong program we had um a student conductor and they played a song that they actually played with Prospect um so they're playing really high level music and it's really it's really impressive I'm really proud of that program and that's it for me okay mcsa and early literacy screener presentation right up there good evening president and I welcome you to the presentation of the early literacy screening we're excited about this and and to bring this to you tonight um I'm going to kind of go briefly through um four areas just giving you the background of where this started then our process of how we
022uh adopted a screener and moving um into briefly the implementation also just kind of some shifts that so starting with background information in23 in July the um bill was signed 114 into law and it changed um section 53008 and it essentially requires leas to to have a screener for um reading difficulties um and and to provide information to school district's leas um about students progress in Reading um I think it in the background dyslexia is a big part of this uh and that is kind of a motivator for a lot of organizations that supported this um movement but um for us we really focused on how this impacts all of our kids in reading and our understanding of of their progress and so we do believe that it is very important and valuable to us
023next slide please um by screening all the students for risk of difficulties early and this again is K2 um schools can help families and teachers um really achieve the best for their kids and their learning and um ultimately like outcomes and you know ultimately we you guys have heard us talk about achievement gaps and um closing achievement gaps for a long time in our l cap and so forth and um this is a tool that can really help to identify early some of those learning and hopefully we can you know Implement strategies to close this um so the screener acts as an early flag so it identifies um readers that have some difficulty but it's not a diagnosis by any means um the results will help us determine students needs needs in the classroom as
024a whole um and provide um targeted um intervention sometimes it may even if they continually to show um struggles on this assessment it may also um put us to do more assessments or more evaluation of students what's the obligation says obligated to provide what how does that change our already obligations to students so yes so that's a great question we are obligated we are required to provide evidence of intervention the state hasn't identified exactly what the proof looks like um I would imagine um that we will have it documented in our annual audits um that we have to show what interventions we're doing for students that require extra support and was was this funded at all or is this an $24,000 for the full District thank you for playing um and obviously the interventions are
025not additionally supported either no awesome cool and when you said it's so it's not a diagnosis so does it so how does Dyslexia kind of come into play or does it not act that's a great question so it it Flags reading difficulties in in certain areas I awareness um you know influency in chics and comprehension but really if we if we're going to actually diagnose we would need for Assessments in our Psy um are capable and trained to do those assessments so that's ultimately where that would end up got it so this would be like kind of like the first step the first step and I think then we try intervention if we continue to see the same um struggles then that's when we would um do further assessment got it thank you yeah great
026question all right so this is kind of the timeline so I want you to kind of as as a board understand that while this was passed in 23 the screeners by the state were not approved until December 31 2024 they started out you know essentially with five and then they moved it to four and then one of the screeners actually doesn't work for us because it doesn't have kindergarten um and so then we were really down to three screeners but we have a very short timeline in which to explore these and make it a recommendation to you all uh so we got on it right away we kind like we're waiting for those recommendations and then we kind of do as a as a as a district so um that is the timeline we're asking
027you to approve before June 30th but we're asking you sooner just so that we could get started in the process of adopting and planning for our professional development it's all right so briefly the the process that we um went through in that brief time was uh that our ed services team started to study up we we did a couple of webinars and then we went uh to the county office and attended um a presentation by all of all of the screeners and along with a lot of other districts and were able to ask questions and explore their materials and um have some resources that we could bring back here to Morland to share with um well classified certificated and administrative staff help um came to this input meeting that we held and we shared with
028them these resources and they were able to look at a padlet um of these three screeners that we were proposing to them and they were able to uh have some time to go home and look at the padlet that we created so they could watch videos and explore the resources on their own uh and then they um participated in a survey where they were able to express which ones that they um preferred and also give us explanations of why and what are some of the things we need to think about as we Implement uh so that was very helpful and like I said they it was a mixed group of certificated teachers as well as administrators and classified employees that were able to voice their opinions how how many people actually participated uh so we
029had um I think it was at the end of the day it was 21 that participated so I mean that's representative it it is representative a K2 group um so we were pleased with uh the input we thought it was very helpful um they we also shared this with the leadership team last week their recommendation um it's also the recommendation we had as a ed services team that we felt like um mclass dibles is and that is our next slide is the the recommendation um and the reason there's several reasons um that we would choose clbl uh first of all um it's well established it's research based uh and it's a tool that's used Nationwide and for for a long period of time so it isn't um just kind of a recent add-on or uh
030you know because of just trying to make money from this this is something a company that has been doing this for a long time um and they have a a series of one minute assessments that they they have that the teachers give and it's one-on-one so they're still able to see and observe what each student is doing and um it includes phonological awareness onics fluency accuracy and comprehension and it measures those even though in a brief um and it does it digitally the teacher enters in their scores digitally and so it compiles them very quickly um and and provides us results so next slide we look at this slide right here I just wanted to show you not to go into depth but it provides a lot of robust um reports for teachers and and
031for us uh as a district and and it provides also reports for parents and so we're pleased and partly why we chose diil is we're really pleased with the outcome um and the output that they actually generate for us so I think that that's what this slide shows you just briefly um kind of some of the the data that we will be receiving PR this how does it like so compliment or like if you're you're existing I mean you're doing a lot of this work already you're doing this assessment minus the dyslexia pre-screen concept it's like the rest of this is not particularly new right theic awareness like these are all kind of part and parcel for so does it replace anything that you're already doing or does it compliment what you're already doing I
032I can tell Clover once to to jump in but what we will do is the first assessment so we don't overload teachers we will do this fired in the first 40 days okay so we will replace FMP with with this in the first 40 days um and any student that comes in during the year that they will also take um this within the first 40 days or in the district so that is that that is a shift for us um but I can tell Clover wants that also answer kind of the content part of that yeah so um one of the things that our fanel assessment does really well is it allows us to listen to kids reading fluently sort of at a at a certain level of text reading for comprehension vocabulary um what
033it does not do as well is look at pH phological awareness or femic awareness um and sort of alphabetic principles phonics whereas dibles will do that so there's a lot of research that says if kids are struggling with their phonic awareness which means hearing the Sounds in words not even knowing what the letter is but just hearing the sounds that they um that is a a a strong correlation to reading difficulties later in the later grades so that's why this is such an important early indicator is it's really honing in on that fonic awareness whereas our font panel would be focused more on comprehension fluency thinking about vocabulary and such so the the two are they're they're different assessments um it may be that we end up doing a little of both it may be
034that mclass maybe replaces the first we do fondel four times a year so what we're talking about is doing this one the first part of the year um oftentimes when you've got kids in the emergent readers in kindergarten and they're not yet reading reading reading um Bond pel doesn't give you a lot of information about their foundational reading skills whereas this mclass dibles will give you more information so you can kind of help Target where along that phonics Continuum and the phonic awareness Continuum kids really need to be um need some targeted instruction so I think the shift that we've been talking about uh with principles is making sure that we have a strong phonemic awareness program so it looks like hegerty is is one it's a 10 minute kind of warm-up routine where kids
035are learning how to hear the sounds name the sounds chop The Sounds stretch The Sounds stuff that you've probably seen on you know in in our kindergarten classrooms um and then also have a systematic phonics um instruction in our in our regular classrooms not just an intervention and doing that for 20 minutes a day on top of our small group guided reading so we're really trying to many of our teachers already do all of these things but we're just trying to make it a little more systematic a little more robust and I think this assessment gives us a reason to kind of launch that um because it will help us um teach teachers how to look at the assessment and then what do you do with the data once you give the assessment and is
036it the same uh how different is it when you go through the K1 and two is it a different it builds right yeah it so if you take it in k um when you take it again in first grade it's going to tell you how much more they've learned so it just the the fonic and phonic awareness it's a Continuum and it gets gradually and gradually more complex so as you move up on in the reading then it's going to you're just going to get more data and it's going to kind of stay with the student so when we start implementing something like this in um 2526 school year are we going to have K one and two students take it at the same time yes it's mandatory okay that's the mandatory aspect so we
037have to do it once a year we can decide as a team once we listen to our teachers and how it's being implemented if we want to um implement it more often okay um but that we kind of need to feel that out along with our other assessments and the the time and the workload and all that with and this software clearly for the next uh school year a second grader won't take it again somebody who's entering second grade now but first grader would take it twice and a kindergarten would take it three times so this software allows us to track yes over time over time yes what is the cost of this versus I mean obvious see getting a whopping 24,000 but what does the licensing cost for the whole District so we are
038working with them right now we're waiting for you to approve it before we move forward um to get full quotes but right now it is actually a fair bit under the the amount that they're giving us under the 24,000 um I for one year yeah for one year it's around 10,000 however um that doesn't include the professional development and all the other pieces I just need know if it's a c I just didn't there's no way to no it is more reasonable actually than I had anticipated but it again it's a computer screening right right um product so we're not buying lots of textbooks or no but licenses get expensive so you got to do a lot of licenses that just that's fine just want to know how big thank you all right after that
039one slide uh and was it uh was it close the and when you looked at the evaluation of the four or was for our what our district needs this one was was not even close it was like so um some of the challenges with the other ones were not offering Spanish okay um AI would generate a lot of the um receptive um feedback for the assess rather than an individual teacher listening and proctoring the test and um I think the other thing that a lot of teachers were concerned about is the it support from the company uh they were concerned because Dibbles was really the only one that offered kind of like that 24hour type of service if they were struggling or you know needed help understanding some part of it because um Dil say
040has been around for that long they have they have developed that infrastructure versus the others more more offered by like University San Francisco California San Francisco um and one was Stanford which that one was one of the ones we couldn't because it was no Kinder but so that was kind of some of the detering factors when we started looking at them there were attractive things about some of the others but those detractors were enough um that we had such uh 80 about 80% chose chose thank you all right so just briefly CL actually covered a lot of this but when we talk about tier one instruction we're talking about what happens in the classroom to start with and then tier two is kind of what would be an intervention and so while some people may
041think that this really just spies out the kids that need the intervention we're actually really focusing on how can we support the tier one instruction in the classroom so that teachers can differentiate for students in their small groups and and know exactly what students are needing within the classroom and also tailor their own lessons and phonics and fimic awareness for the students um and then it also does help us with the tier two and the intervention and knowing how to group kids and and who needs extra help and what degree of extra and the other thing is there's no rule that they can't take it more than once during the year so if the teacher does want to give it again um they definitely could to to progress mon I didn't I didn't include that
042but that's an so um next steps uh the next steps is of course with board approval um we'll move forward with implementing uh and planning and um we'll start with uh looking at staff training and um system preparation with our it department and making sure that everything can come together smoothly and so we'll we're hoping to have a a first training in um June and uh another training in August before school starts so teachers can learn about this before we get started um and then we will have more training once the school year starts additional uh so um and of course one of the big factors is that we do have to provide intervention so we need to have a more systematic robust way of providing intervention and tracking it um and also um we
043we have to have an ongoing monitoring which I think will be easy because the data it produce is really fantastic so I think that part will be pretty easy to to track probably a lot easier than FMP actually so um you might as well complete if you don't have any more questions this um I not a question but more of a observation to kind of double down on what Brian is saying is I think it's important for us to kind of figure out these long-term support programs like how will we fund them how will we make sure because you hopefully this will highlight you know kiddos who do need the support and help so that we can catch them early put them you know put the support structure in place but I think it would
044be frustrating for all of us if we were to identify all of these support structures and suddenly there's like no money to do that so I think that's something to Pro yeah I I think I just want to make sure I get on the record so that we're um just like kind of precise with our language so when the bill talks about intervention it's important that we don't interpret that to mean tier two pull out intervention only so when you talk about core instruction of the classroom teacher that's like your core core core but teachers also intervene through small group instruction Cor in the classroom not pull out not with an additional person not with a different program but that's where this assessment allows us to get the data so that you can more precisely
045Target the phonics or phic awareness or fluency or comprehension skills that students need in that small group instruction and then if students are still struggling and not making progress then you could do another battery of Assessments and then determine if a student is in some other kind kind of intensive intervention that might be pull out or might be with another you know another program but I think it's important that we talk about when the law talks about intervention it doesn't mean they have to go somewhere else to get their reading instruction it can also happen inside the class got it so just so to make sure that I understand it correctly is it says it gives teachers additional data to augment what they're already doing in classrooms today yes it just gives them more detailed
046and nuanced information so that they can be more effective yes so it doesn't necessarily mean that we're going to need a whole bunch of new resources correct okay that is very helpful thanks but it does mean reordering so it means for example pushing more phic awareness yes consistently across the board as opposed to that necessarily being a teacher by teacher decision right now how their reading approach yeah is and so this should if I if I hear it should standardize a certain amount of the basic building blocks I think I think we're excited about that in our ilt last week presenting this to um the principles and and cl also did a an additional presentation um just about our program and where we need to go with our program and I think that um that
047was the part that all of us resoundingly were excited about is what what this can bring and and where we can go given exactly what you're saying BR is strengthening and making our program more support for kids I'll be I'll be interested to see yeah I just have one clarification CL you mentioned so FMP does like a lot of fluency reading comprehension does dibles do that on and pH phic awareness and phonics or is it so the uh it um yes and no so the fluency in Dibbles um asks students to read nonsense words that they can send out they're not real words and you're it's like how quick are you reading them it's basically more about your phonics and your your like site word kind of recognition whereas in a font as a panel
048fluency is based on the sentence flow the pro the the way kids are reading the the story or the book right it's a different kind of fluency and comprehension probably in in terms of you know won't really look at comprehension until later first grade and second grade that kindergarten comprehension is is really not when you look at the assessment is really not there because I I was just thinking about if we do Dibbles I'm saying right right Dibbles for the very first I guess assessment but then later on we do FMP then how do you Vision like this the continuous monitoring of the the F mix and that if yeah if we're going to move on to I think teachers are going to want to do it multiple times there's parts of the you don't
049have to do the whole assessment multiple times but like there's these one minute battery of Assessments so you could do three one minut assessments multiple times a year but not the whole thing that you have to do in the fall um if kids are getting intensive intervention we might want to give them Dibble the whole Dibbles battery more than once or twice a year but it's too early to say we want to pull you know fond because teachers learn so much about kids reading by sitting down next to them reading and there's a lot of information that they get and as a reading teacher you want that information too so we're we're kind of going to listen to our teachers about what's the Implement how's the implementation going how does what do you get from
050one versus the other do we need both do you know how many times do we need both and I really want that to come from our teachers okay so even though it's required to give it the screener once it'll probably depending on how the teachers use it we can see yes what the necessity really appreciate what you just said about listening to teachers because that was actually my concern was adding to a plate that's already full um and making sure that it's meaningful and so I really appreciate that all right that's the presentation any other questions all right so we will move on to action and discussion items approval I didn't I'm on so sorry um when when can we see some early uh data from this new software so um we will be administering
051the first test within the first 40 days of next school year so that is the timeline um so I leave that up to Clover in terms of when we want to no hurry I just wanted to kind of deliver that first and we will continue to do that okay yeah I am very curious to know what the data says as well so um whatever reports we can get out of the dibles M class we I do think we're going to be able to pull reports out that are at a district level not necessarily a classroom teacher level but a district level we can share that with you at a time that you feel is appropriate it's fine any other questions all right adoption of early literacy screener all right so as presented uh we are
052asking for your approval um based on what the early literacy committee decided and recommended in mclass dibles and so we asked for this literacy screener I'll make a motion to approve the adoption of um class dibles for our early forand new early literacy screen and I'll second it all in favor say I I I carries award contract to West Coast arborists Incorporated all right so before you we have a contract for West Coast harest we did a design to build so we put it out for bid we've got um four determine that West Coast the lowest um so this is basically to go around all the trees and the maintenance and just to make sure that they're safe for our kids contract for w Co how often do we do that to um probably not
053as often as we should start get one of things honest so so is kind of a maybe not an annual but it's it's this is kind of the first big one to go through they did a walk kind of exactly what we need done we'll be we usually are responsive to the problem not necessarily um proactive yes I was going to ask we didn't have have it anyone prior we we no like we're more we're more reacting to the issue I think it's exciting taking care of our trees and our campuses and safety for students and I want to thank you for um explaining the process of how everything was handled that was really helpful any other questions or comments do I have a moot motion to approve contract West with fers I second I'll
054second all in favor say I I I all right we will now hold a public hearing for entering into an energy service contract with Environmental Services Inc for Anderson Elementary School the hearing is now open somebody gave me this makes it official yeah are there any comments from the public or the board you got a chance now close the hearing and go to item D do resolution 8 2425 okay so the resolution in front um so the way we've done this one it's a a sole source permit um and the reason why it allows us to choose the actual products um specific product that we want to use and because we're dealing with HVAC we want to make sure it fits within our existence um we used this back in 2021 um actually for another
055hbac contract a different company um but this allows us to say we you know we need to use this hbac unit and uh so then that way we know it's p in with our existing system it makes it easier for our maintenance so um this resolution shows there's a a report showing that it saves US money this process and being a to Sol um just out of curiosity um is there any reason we didn't go with the company that we did last time it's just every time it's just a different um no I mean it's good to look look at different and see I mean I think ESI has done some of our other H the bond projects and so we know what they can do know units we need so is this the last
056School site with the updated hxs or uh yeah with the excep of the district with the okay any other questions or comments heing none do I have a motion to approve then yeah um I'll make a motion to approve the to adopt the board resolution 08 2024 2025 to authorize and approve an energy service contract for Anderson and I'll second it all in favor right word contract to 101 builders Inc for the Anderson Elementary sewer replacement project keep going so this is for the sewer project over at Anderson kind of runs through the parking lot through the library again we did the design bid build um in this case we received six sealed bids and perent 10 Builders was de we are recommending to approve contract and the work start quick question I guess when
057when we say um the lowest bidder is it the appropriate lowest bidder in the sense that you know it's not like they came in cheapest but they were they were cheaper you're the lowest bid you need to make sure that they're okay yeah appropriate low better making sure it's not yet so so far undercut where you're like you can't right right any other questions or comments hearing none do I have a a motion to award the contract oh motion to boorder contract to 101 builders Inc for Anderson Elementary for SE replacement project in a second I'll second it all in favor right on to resolution 7 2024 2025 declaring May 7th 2025 as day of the employee having a brief break from Chris to do something fun May 7th the day of the employee that
058is okay with you we are going to provide snaps to the school sit and some Morland flag nice any questions or comments on the resolution just really appreciate the effort that goes into recognizing the staff so thank you for that in advance is this something that unique to Morland or are we I don't think so I mean I think we all have like different ones staff appreciation everybody does it different ways um they really liked the treat last year so we're building up on that they really liked the quality of the shirt last year fabulous job to Jen and the design so we're going with the same quality Shirts new designs veryy cool and if you're curious not all organizations do it because I'm still waiting for my staff appreciate cupcakes deliver profession to our
059side one of my exes say said I we appreciate you twice a month all right do we have a motion to approve resolution I'll put a motion to approve resolution number seven declaring May 7th 2025 as day of the employee on a second oh second all in favor say hi hi hey Chris welcome back sight and security improvements landscape repairs and replacement again this contract has to De with um Landscaping to kind of fix up the area run fencing fencing project so with that it caused you know some land have out so this is coming back make sure make our schools look nice so again designed B build um you know we had at this one we had three seal bids and St so we recommending that thank you are we adding any new landscaping
060or is it more to replace things that work more replacing um what was damaged there might be some additions in certain areas majority of it is um Chris I have a question about the advertising and I'm just going off the thing that you know there are no such thing as stupid questions um does advertising in the local newspapers is it like the actual physical like what like I think it's I think it's both an electronic most people get papers electronically right and a lot of contractors I mean I think it's so I don't know person but you know contractors do look for those things ad and so we went the appropriate timeline and with each one we got multiple bids so it was one person okay contractors know that's that's where they're the posting just
061curious is that's like something we have to do or like that's just best you know best practice nothing I would ever see because I don't okay just curious any other questions or comments hearing none do I have a motion to approve I'll make a motion to approve skates ink for site security and Improvement Spate repairs please and I'll second it all in favor say I I I on to Pacific Clinics Amendment contract that's me um again we have to bring uh items to you when there's a change um and so in this Bally changing the service and so we're asking your okay this is for a single student yes so the the total bid on this right now is 782 no the 782 is districtwide okay not for one student I don't know what like
062yeah no it's not that great no so the whole contract is for the whole District yeah the amendment is for 3750 only 3750 well everybody got nervous there for a half a second no yeah it's just the change in service and anytime the contract again is above our limit then we have to bring it back to even if it's a small change like there's I'll submit it a motion to approve the Pacific contracts Clinic contract Amendment thank you Brian and the second oh I'll second it great all in favor I on to the consent any questions comments on tonight's consent hearing none do I have a motion to approve I'll make a motion to approve the consent items in aggregate thank you all in favor say I I cling items future meeting dates we already
063know that we've got the district facilities committee will be um doing the board work study session I believe that's May 27 the 27th um and that'll start at 5 and then we'll have the board meeting at 6 that'll be here and then um we'll be closed after and then people of the year is on the 13th which means we start over in the MU rooms and have the celebration and then come back over here and have our board meeting and then close after so may is long nights right sounds good all right anything else I think I did say this last time I'm in I can't do the 2 yeah we can just we can brief you okay no all right announcements reminders requests all right so we're all going to be here Saturday morning
064yes good walking shoes walking shte you don't have just come just be a part of the community absolutely anything else under announcements reminders requests just boardside visits if you guys want you say do on the Google Doc I'm doing the Google Doc right you gole power I know all right stepping into the modern era right on all right we're adjourned thank you everybody