Board Meeting 2-5-26 (Part 2)

001It's pretty self-explanatory. It's been used for all of our agreements with our bargaining partners, and I'm here to answer any questions if you have any. Are there any questions from our trustees? Trustee Villagrana? You answered this to me, but I'd like to answer for the public. None of these documents reflect the cuts that the board made recently, correct? That's correct. As a result of timing... When you put together these types of documents, you have to use the board-approved budget. And at that time, the board had approved our district's first interim. And the changes or the adjustments and reductions that the board has made happened after the first interim. So as a result, those changes are not incorporated in the budget used in these fiscal documents. And can you share what the deficit is at this

002point on this document? With the reflected changes on the agreement in place. I don't have it in front of me But if I had to guess sir, I believe it's about is it about 12 million? Okay. Yes, well Point something million thing correct and we made a lit was under a million in cuts Proximally, so we still have the difference in deficit. Sure. Yes. Thank you. The letters were changed on me. So no problem also the if you could tell us whether the additional raises to the other representative members and the under presented members are those reflected in this In this document the 0.5 additional they're gonna get depending on timing. I know for a fact that the The only one that's not included is Incorporated in those documents of CSCA so under under unrepresented

003is part of this No, I believe that one that one happened after so then our deficit was going to go even more That's incorporated. Correct. Thank you. Actually that's what my two questions are. I can wait. OK. I'll come back around this way. I think I don't have I do not have any questions at this time. Trustee Brubaker do you have any questions. Trustee Garcia do you have any questions. Trustee Richardson Fowler do you have any questions. Trustee Rodriguez-Mohica do you have any questions. We are back to you Trustee Villagran. Thank you. Then it's called disclosure of collective bargaining agreement the single page And you need clarified to me Again, I've all carry forward So we're at 20 27 million, but after all these adjustments it's gonna go down to 8 million Correct. Correct. I

004believe you're referring to the reserve slide. Yes essentially, it's showing the impact of if we were to not make adjustments that the board has approved in the third year it would show that the amount over and above our five our three percent reserve would be approximately eight million dollars correct thank you that's all for me okay I do not have any questions anybody else that has any questions Okay seeing none I'd like to ask if there can be a motion to approve a be 1200 disclosure of cost agreements with Woodland Education Association Trustee Garcia makes a motion to approve second by Richardson by Richardson trustee Richardson Fowler. Is there any discussion? Nope. Okay. We'll go to the vote and we'll start with Trustee Garcia this time Yes. Yes. Trustee Richardson-Fowler? Yes. Trustee Rodriguez-Mohica? Yes. Trustee

005Villadrana? Yes. Myself, yes. Trustee Brubaker? Yes. Very well. K-1 is approved with a unanimous vote of yes. Moving on to K-2, information. Report 2024-25 Capital Facilities Fund Mitigation Fees, Income, and Expenditures. President Rodriguez, this is an informational report that we are obligated to complete as a result of an agreement between the district and the turn of the century agreement. And essentially we're reporting out the income and expenditures and the ending fund balance as of 24-25 when we close the books, Fund 28. Very good. Is there any and does anybody have any questions on k2? Okay, seeing no questions Thank You Lewis will want to k3 which is also an information only item quarterly report of investments for period ending September 30th 2025 and 100 words or less All school districts are required to keep their

006funds in the county treasury. And as a result of keeping the majority of your cash in the county treasury, it would be nice to know some of the policies and some of the decisions that they're making where we have the majority of our funds. And so we're required to report or share this information with the governing board just as information so that you can see. the policies and the decisions that they're making over at Yolo County in terms of how they're investing the funds for the entire pool. Very good. Does any trustee have a question on this item or statement? No? Seeing none, thank you, Mr. Wiley. We move on to K-4. This does require action. It is to approve Resolution 29-26. That is a correction. I think it was printed as 28-26, but it's

00729-26. Annual and five-year reportable fee reports for fiscal year 24-25. This is a required report, I believe. and Ed code as well as government government code and essentially it's where we're reporting out how we what we've received and what we've spent in developer fees and so there's an annual report that you're supposed to do as well as a report that's supposed to be done every every five years and we've made the decision to do both reports every year so that we do not increase the chances of missing a year and so this is a report that's been consolidated of the two required reports and it's here for your review and approval. Okay very good thank you. Do any trustees have any questions on item K-4 or any comments? Okay, seeing none, I'd like to ask

008for somebody to make a motion to approve resolution 28 slash 26, annual and five-year reportable fee report for fiscal year 2425. So moved. Thank you, Trustee Brubaker for the motion and a second. Do we have a second? I'll second. That was Trustee Richardson-Fowler that seconded. Okay, is there any discussion? Nope, seeing none, we'll go to a vote. We'll start with Trustee Richardson Fowler this time. Yes. Yes. Trustee Rodriguez-Mohica. Abstain. Abstain. Trustee Villagrana. Abstain. Abstain. Trustee, myself, yes. Trustee Brubaker. Yes. Trustee Garcia. Yes. Very well. The action K-4 is approved with four yeses and two abstentions. And we move on to item K-6 because item K-5 was taken out. Item K-6 is information, the average daily attendance ADA and enrollment report of the 25-26 school year. Yeah for a specific school month we're sharing with you

009the average daily attendance for all of our school sites as well as the enrollment report for all of our school sites and I believe we're comparing those numbers with where we were in that same month for last year and so there's trends there there's differences and we're also comparing it to where unified districts are for the statewide average. And any significant changes in this report, we're sharing it with individual school sites so that they can investigate if there's a significant variance. But it's here for your review and doesn't require your approval. Very good. Thank you. Are there any questions or comments from trustees? Okay. No. Seeing none, we'll move on from K6. Thank you. And we will move on to L1. AND THIS WAS THE CHANGE THAT WE APPROVED IN THE AGENDA. AND SO THIS

010IS, WE WILL OPEN UP A PUBLIC HEARING NOW AT 5.51. This is an action. This is public hearing and approved ratify the tentative agreement for the 25 26 re-opener negotiations between the Woodland Education Association and the Woodland Joint Unified School District. Are there any public comments. We have our bargaining chair here to share some comments. Thank you. Hi friends. Pushing. No you're good. You don't have to take the picture. Anyway, I lost my notes. So I just wanted to start off by first appreciating. So greetings and greetings, President Rodriguez, Superintendent Gloria Lampkin. illustrious board of trustees as well as cabinet I wanted to start off by just thanking our students the students and their flexibility the ability to allow our team of a mighty five to be in the district office and meeting with your

011team over 13 times Excuse me, not over, just 13. It felt like more sometimes, I will be honest. So we had over 470 members who participated in the vote, one of the highest that we've recorded since we've been doing the digital voting. So I also wanted to make sure that... that we thanked our members, the countless forums that they attended, the surveys that they filled out, the number of board meetings that they came and had their voices heard. We just felt a lot of that support every time we were at the table. We also wanted to give gratitude and thanks for the negotiation team from the district too. We both worked tirelessly to come to consensus on several articles. We opened a lot of articles that we weren't able to reach consensus with, which tells

012us that we just have more to do. And luckily for all of you, we will be back in March doing our sunshine. And then we look forward to meeting the team again in April. So again, just a lot of gratitude. We look forward to continuing the work we've just started. And we look forward to continuing it. So thank you. Hopefully I don't have to do this too many more times. All right. Thank you. Are there any more public comments for L1? No. Okay. Seeing none, we will close this public hearing at 5.54. And now, Trustees, this is an action item. So are there any comments or any questions on L1? No. You have come okay trustee Brubaker. I just want to thank our team and and the wea team I know this was a difficult

013process But I'm really proud that we were able to come to a consensus and we were able to move forward Very good any other comments? Okay, seeing none. Can I get a motion to approve and ratify the tentative agreement for 2025 2026? Reopening negotiations between the Woodland Education Association and the Woodland Joint Unified School District second Moved by Trustee Richardson-Fowler and seconded by Trustee Brubaker. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, we'll go to a vote and we'll start with Trustee Rodriguez-Mohica. Yes. Yes. Trustee Villadrana. No. No. Trustee Rodriguez, yes. Trustee Brubaker. Yes. Trustee Garcia. Yes. Trustee Richardson-Fowler. Yes. Very well l1 is approved with five yes votes and one no. Thank you and now we will move back through the agenda and go to community community engagement and the first presentation is a resolution for

014Black History Month and I have the honor of presenting that and if If miss Martin is here, she'll join me up at the podium It's my honor to introduce Magaline Martin, someone that I've known for quite a while, but someone who has always volunteered and always been a part of WGAUSD with her children attending WGAUSD, her being a very active participant and also a tremendous backer of our Measure P and our Measure Y. And I know she's... She really has at heart the wellness of all of our students and the continuing success of WJUSD. And I'll just read a little bit of the resolution and then I'll hand it over to you if you'd like to say a few words. Okay. So whereas the month of February is the time that we not only as

015a nation but as a community recognize and celebrate National Black History Month and this year's theme of A Century of Black History Commemorations. And whereas in 1926, nearly half a century after the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States, the noted historian Carter G. Woodson created Negro History Week, which was celebrated during the week that encompassed the February birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. And whereas in 1976, then President Gerald Ford expanded the celebration to a month as a national tradition established in response to the inadequate depiction of African Americans and urge Americans to seize the opportunity to honor the too often neglected accomplishments of African Americans in every endeavor throughout our American history. And whereas not only during the month of February, but throughout the year, it is important to recognize and

016celebrate the lasting influence of courage, community, and pioneering influences like Brenda Earl Jones Smith, James Baldwin, Dr. Maya Angelou, Alvin Ailey, Ella Baker, Dr. Charles Drew, General Colin Powell, Katherine Johnson, Dr. Martin Luther King, Barack H. Obama, John Lewis, and the educator Wentworth Cheswell, the first American of African descent to serve as an elected official, which he did in several capacities, including on a local school board. And whereas we celebrate National Black History Month, we remember these and many other African Americans who have enriched our lives and shaped our character as a community and beyond, challenging us to recognize that America's racial, cultural, and ethnic diversity are among our greatest strengths, which unite us rather than divide us. Now, therefore, be it resolved. that the Board of Trustees of Woodland Joint Unified School District is

017proclaiming February as Black History Month and encourages its students, staff, administration, families, and community to participate in meaningful activities that recognize the contributions of African Americans to the community, state, nation, and world. Good evening everyone. President Rodriguez, Superintendent Lampkin, trustees, the cabinet members, and all of the members of the Woodland Joint Unified School District community. I thank you for the recognition of the continued recognition of Black History Month and your continued inclusion of our history in our students experience. It's an honor to accept this resolution on behalf of our Woodland community. Thank you. Can I ask our CTE teachers in the industrial arts, Ravel Rao, I'm sorry, Ravel Rao and Marquez to come up, please. So this is CTE month, and so we are honoring two of our CTE teachers here at Woodland High School.

018Oh, is that the wrong one? Okay, thank you. So I'm going to read the resolution and then if you guys would like to say a few words, please do. Whereas February has been designated Career and Technical Education Month by the Association for Career and Technical Education, and whereas... Career and technical education provides students with a school to career connection, prepares students to succeed in post-secondary education, and is the backbone of a strong, well-rounded workforce, which fosters productivity in business and industry, and contributes to America's leadership in the international marketplace. And whereas career and technical education gives high school students experience in practical, meaningful applications of basic skills such as reading, writing, and mathematics, thus improving the quality of their education, motivating potential dropouts, and giving all student leaders opportunity in their fields and their communities.

019And whereas the ever-increasing cooperative efforts of career and technical educators, business and industry, stimulates the growth and vitality of our local economy and that of the entire nation by preparing graduates for career fields forecast to experience the largest and fastest growth in the next. Decade and now therefore be it resolved the Board of Trustees of the Woodland Joint Unified School District is proclaiming February as Career Technical Education Month and recommends their students to support and families to participate and take advantage of the programs and our course offerings of in career and technical education You are welcome to say a few words if you'd like Thank you. Thank you. We really we have Jill Emma Tegan and sit Lally Our students is the reason we do what we do. Thank you Would students like to come

020take a picture with your teachers? Come on up Yes Trustee Villagran do you have a comment. I'd just like to say I've witnessed firsthand the work of these gentlemen they've done with our young people in our community and I appreciate all the time and energy that you all have dedicated to our students and just again heart full thankful. Thank you. Thank you Trustee Villagran. Any other comments. OK. We will go on to E3 recognition gifts to the district. We have three gifts that we're going to mention tonight. First gift is from Eric Wilson, $500, a monetary donation to ASB Construction to Woodland High School. The second gift is from our own trustee, Candace Richardson Fowler, for $100, the monetary donation to the Black Student Union in Woodland High School. And our third donor is Woodland

021host Reville and Yolo Sunset Alliance. Woodland Park Lodge for $4,800. $400 for each elementary school for the literacy program. In total, that is, this $5,400. We can have a big round of applause for all our donors. Thank you very much. We're very grateful. Very grateful for this. Thank you. Okay our Cache Creek representative Dominique Marquez. Thank you, Mr. Marquez. Good evening Board President Rodriguez and trustees. Assuming to attend to Ortega Lampkin, Executive Cabinet and community. My name is Dante Marquez and I'm a senior representing Cache Creek High School. My report tonight is the following. This week we celebrated four more graduates, bringing our total graduates so far this year to 23. Speaking of graduates, I am close to graduation and this will be my last board meeting as a Cache Creek student. I plan to

022attend Willing Community this fall with the goal of working in child care. I'm grateful for the time at the Creek and supportive environment the staff provided that helped me achieve my goal to earn a high school diploma. I also want to thank you for the opportunity to represent Cache Creek at your board meetings. Last week, we took our second round of NWEA assessments. completed the California Healthy Kids surveys, and we finished the week by celebrating our Honorable and Attendant Award recipients with cupcakes and hot cocoa made from scratch provided by our culinary program. This week, one of our students was celebrated at the Every Student Succeeding Award Banquet put on by AXA at Automobile Museum in Sacramento. Victoria Garbaldo. was selected as one of the 18 students to be recognized out of hundreds of applicants

023from all over the region because of her perseverance, dedication, determination to be successful in school while also being a teen mom. We are all very proud of her and thankful she was chosen for this recognition. We continue to welcome new students every week and are happy to show them how we do things at the Creek. Thank you and this concludes my report. Thank you, Ms. Marcus, and congratulations. We have our next student speaker. And this is, sorry, I couldn't hear you. I'm sorry, from Pioneer High School, Kylie Dewberry. No. Wrong name? Nicole. I'm sorry, Nicole. Good evening, Board President Rodriguez, Trustees, Superintendent Ortega-Lampkin, Executive Cabinet, and our community. My name is Nicole Pimentel-Solorio, a senior at Pioneer High School, and today my report is on the following. The boys and girls soccer team celebrated their

024senior nights this week. Girls soccer celebrated theirs this Tuesday, and the boys soccer team celebrated theirs yesterday on Wednesday. Congratulations to all seniors. Pioneer spring sports are coming up. Some sports have started tryouts and practice already, like baseball for instance. A lot of sports will soon begin practice next week, like swim and track. Pioneer is currently in the works of planning out a spirit week for Valentine's Day as well. Speaking of Valentine's, many clubs, sports, and classes are using this as an opportunity to raise money for anything that they want to do in the future. College acceptances have also started to roll out. Pioneer's ASB class will soon start posting seniors who submit the college that they have chosen to commit to for their recognition. In addition, ASB is also planning out the last rally

025of the school year. The theme of it is black light slash glow in the dark. This rally should be expected to take place around mid-March and ASB is working hard on posters and decorations for the occasion. ASB is also planning out to start having pen pals for the next following month and we are planning to have pen pals with Tafoya Elementary School with a first grade class and I am also very excited for that as well because that is where I went to for elementary school. And thank you, that concludes my report. Thank you, Ms. Pimentel. Now if we could hear from our Woodland High School representative, Kylie Dewberry. Good evening, Board President Rodriguez, Trustees, Superintendent Ortega-Lambkin, Executive Cabinet, and our community. My name is Kylie Dewberry, and I'm here to represent Woodland High School.

026My report tonight is the following. Woodland High had our open house Tuesday night. Each department showcased different examples of what could take place in their classes or CTEs. There was a live jazz performance from our jazz band students. On February 4th, students from Woodland, Lee, Douglas, and Pioneer participated in a walkout to protest ICE while being properly supervised. Today, Woodland participated in an in-school walkout and walked around the perimeter of the school before returning. Armaniachi is working on Valentine's serenades and will be doing performances next week. The first rally of the semester is next Friday. It is a safari theme and we will be having a spirit week to lead up to the rally. Winter sports are starting to wrap up and seniors are being recognized during their last home games. Additionally, spring sports teams

027are starting tryouts and practices to get prepared for their upcoming season. Theater is working on preparing their spring musical, SpongeBob the Musical, that will be showcased in May. Anyone is welcome to come. FCCLA students are participating in the regional competition this weekend and topics include mock interviews, live culinary competitions, and table displays. That concludes my representation. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Dewberry. We're still waiting for our presenter so we can continue on with the agenda. We'll come back to governance support. So we'll continue on with public comment. Public comment, H. There are no public comments for H and I'm moving on to item I reports superintendent report Okay Good evening. Can I have my report please? Okay. Is this once you're here? Can you move the slide for me? Okay, so we continue to focus

028on our board priorities. These are the priorities for the facilities and budget and operations. And here's some examples of something that we're doing to support the board priorities. For priority number five for youth development, we are working on supporting our teachers with staff development. On youth development, we had a great show up. turnout of teams from across the district of schools for the Youth Development Institute. What was specifically special about this Youth Development Institute is that we had our own teachers. We did a training of trainers and our own teachers are now taking over and conducting the training. There'll be a second one in June with our teachers also doing the training. Continuing to grow and to build and do build capacity within our staff so very proud and thankful to other teachers that took

029the time to come to participate in this training I think they enjoyed a lot of this they all came up with plans that they're going to go back and work with their school sites to implement Also our freshman seminar at Woodland High School took place on the 28th and this was something that one of our teachers did at Woodland High School and that supports youth development again and community partnership engagement and we had our very own trustee, Brubaker, who participated and other elected officials so students got to hear and learn from elected officials so I want to thank the teachers that were involved in this and having this very special opportunity for them to engage and learn. from our elected officials. We also had a CTE showcase at Pioneer High School at Douglas Middle School.

030This is our CTE programs and teachers coming to our schools and showcasing what CTE has to offer as their making their plans for high school. They got to experiment with some of the activities that they will be learning in class. Lots of fun. A lot of work from our teachers having to take all the materials out there and set up the classrooms and I want to thank all our staff that were involved in all the behind the scenes. Our students had a lot to explore and it's an opportunity to learn what's available to them as they're planning their schedules for next year. Also future full Wolf Day. This is a similar idea where we had the Lee middle school students go to Woodland High School again another opportunity for preparing our middle schools to start

031getting the feeling of what it's gonna feel like at high school and you can see they were welcomed by balloons and cheers got to go to have tours at the high school. So we're at that time of year right now we're already preparing as we're finishing the year preparing for testing. We're also preparing for next school year. So a lot of excitement. on getting to seeing this happening in our schools. And I know there's a lot of nervous students and a lot of nervous parents too. We also had our gate art family night and their students got to engage in some art and their parents got to participate as well. And so we have several of these evening events during the year as well as activities at school. And so I just wanted to let

032you know we just recently had one on January 27th. And again, I want to thank our gate coordinator and the parents who participated in taking the time to bring the children out here. I also had an opportunity to visit a special Beamer Elementary with a specific focus I was out visiting specifically how special education services will be provided at one of our dual immersion schools and I met down there with one of our new administrators from the special ed department and got to visit schools and saw some familiar faces out there. So I want to thank the Beamer staff and our special ed staff for everything that they're doing to support our students every day in the classrooms. And then when high school can believe it or not we're open house season. So we're going

033to start having more open houses. What happens a little differently at the high schools is that we use open house as an opportunity to welcome new families to start to get familiar of what's happening in our schools. So this is another way to get our ninth grade families coming in or other families trying to figure out what's going to happen with schedules next year to learn what's available. And so again we want to thank our staff for bringing this event together. And we're going to be having a lot more coming pretty quickly at the elementary schools which is a little different focus and then a little different way. The reason it is done a little earlier at the high schools is because it helps help students and give them the opportunity to see what is

034available so they can start developing their their schedules and class elections. And then we had also a parent workshop on February 3rd here at the district office and they were specifically on our I-Ready program which is our reading assessment, an opportunity for families to understand how that program works, how to read the results, and how they can promote literacy at home. And then last night I was across the street here at the police department at the Soratomist group. I presented on the district, shared what our goals are, what your goals are, and some of the things that we're doing with our LCAP and opportunity to answer questions for that group on what we're doing in the district. So really enjoyed meeting with that group. And then we attended a governor's budget workshop, Trustee Mojica and

035Trustee Brubaker attended along with me as well as Dr. Toto at the county office, just learning about what is being proposed by the governor and what that means. Still a lot of unknowns, but just projections and still trying to see what is going to come as a result later in May. the May revise. So just an opportunity to learn from the experts in this area. So a lot of learning a lot of technical language used but in the bottom line is that we're still kind of at a standby waiting to see how this all shakes out and regarding our budgets for next year. And then before I end I'd like to just address our recent student walkouts that we had. So as many of you know we saw on Facebook and we saw if you

036were in downtown we had many of our secondary students exercise their First Amendment rights this week by participating in walkouts and I want to just share that we are committed to support honor respect everyone's First Amendment right. When you come here to public public comment that is part of exercising the First Amendment and our students also have a right to exercise. their rights to express themselves on whatever topic it is. I'm not gonna discuss what topic they chose to express themselves on, but whatever it is, whatever public comment is here from anyone, we're gonna respect that right. And we are lucky to be in this country where we're allowed to do that. And I wanna thank everyone, our staff, and supporting for this to be done peacefully. and as early as possible and making sure

037that we kept student safety first. I will be sending the communication out later because there was a lot of questions and confusion about can students do this? Yes, they can. And there's certain things that districts can do and can't do. So I'm gonna send a... Frequently asked questions about student workouts that will come out sometime next week to families in the community just to clarify some of the misunderstandings on this but we are fully 100% support of everyone's freedom of speech and and and protection of the First Amendment right and with that I conclude my report Thank You superintendent On to I to report from California School Employees Association Good evening, Superintendent Ortega-Lambkin, Board of Trustees, Cabinet, and Community. My name is Rebecca Rossiter, and I am the Library Tech at Douglas Middle School. I

038proudly serve as President of Chapter 118 of the California School Employees Association. In December, we added new members to our executive board. They were appointed and they were officially sworn in a couple weeks ago. Many of our team will be attending CSCA's officer skills training for our specific duties in the next coming weeks. Our lead negotiator has surveyed the membership and our team will begin drafting our initial proposal soon. And in that vein, our CSCA chapter would like to express gratitude and joy for the conclusion of the negotiation process between WEA and the district. And I had to do a quick rewrite, but we thank you for your yes vote. And this concludes my report. Thank you. Moving on to I3, report from Woodland Education Association. Good evening, President Rodriguez, trustees, superintendent, and members of

039our community. My name is Becca Bernard. I'm the president of the Woodland Education Association, and I've taught seventh grade science at Douglas for nearly a decade. Please bear with me as I was prepared to give this report before the agenda was shifted. Tonight, we are proud to present our tentative agreement for board approval. Thank you to the five of you who voted yes along with 422 WEA members, over 96% of ballots cast for our tentative agreement for 2025 to 2028. Over 85% of our members participated in the vote. That is a record high participation for us. A super majority of Woodland educators speaking clearly and collectively. I want to acknowledge the hard work of our WEA bargaining team, Vicki, Marjorie, Ruth, Jessica, and Alex, who put in hundreds of hours of preparation, research, and very

040long meetings. Thank you for your leadership. Thank you, Marjorie. And for sacrificing time in your classrooms to bargain for better learning conditions for all 10,000 Woodland students. I hope you felt the strength of our 500 plus members who stood united behind you. 75% participated in our September walk-in. About 80% of school sites handed out flyers to parents. Over 1,000 emails were sent to all seven trustees. over 80% committed to doing whatever it takes to support them, and the sea of red that kept showing up in the community, at holiday parade, in staff meetings, and in this very room again and again. One of our newer site reps said after our walk-in back in September, we showed up for ourselves and for one another, and I was surprised to notice that it changed my own perspective.

041I always liked my coworkers, but today when I saw them, I felt a big smile take over because there's the person who showed up early to rally together and support one another. That's what this year has been all about. Unity. People feeling seen, finding their voices, and showing up for their students and for each other. And honestly, it does feel like the tide is turning a little. Like we're rebuilding something. But with that tide turning comes a responsibility for all of us, including the district, to repair damage that's been done. Too many educators have felt that they can't trust the district to respect them or values them. And if we're serious about improving outcomes for kids, we have to be serious about retaining the adults who serve them. And still, as I talk with educators

042about this tentative agreement, I keep hearing the same question. Did it really have to go this far? We spent months fighting over fractions of a percent. And when you look at the cost of prolonged conflict, the time, the erosion of trust, the emotional toll, it's hard not to feel frustrated that we had to go to state mediation and claw our way to an agreement that is still modest. Teachers aren't asking to get rich. My paycheck will be about $170 more a month. We're asking to be able to afford to live here. to build a life in this community that we love, to stop losing our friends and coworkers to neighboring districts. So yes, we are relieved, we are cautiously hopeful, and we're also not done. This agreement represents movement in the right direction, and it

043should also be seen as a signal that we need systemic changes in this district. We need a culture of investing in our staff and reducing turnover so people will want to plant deep roots here for the long haul. After a brief intermission, we will be back at the table next month to reopen salary and benefits negotiations for 26-27. Because as much as we would love to pack it up and take a much-needed vacation to Hawaii, bargaining is a continuous, ongoing process. Our 130-page contract is a living, breathing document that memorializes all the growth and progress to working and learning conditions that have been won in the past 50 years since our union formed in 1976. And we are committed to continuing that important work, not just for ourselves, but our students and for the long-term

044health of our schools. Before I go, allow me to end with what my students know as story time. At Douglas, we have a tradition that is one of my favorite times of the year. Seventh and eighth graders have different lunches, which means that as teachers, we almost never get to eat lunch together, except twice a year during parent-teacher conferences. So once in October and once in January, we do a nacho potluck. Everybody brings a different ingredient. I always bring the vegan meat. Natalie always sautés her veggies. Melissa gets the can of queso bueno. and we create the most beautiful, robust nacho bar that you've ever seen. The best part is not just the nachos. It's the time we get to sit together, talk, and reconnect as a staff that feels more like a family. Last

045week as I sat there and looked around the tables, I've been there nine years, that's 18 nacho potlucks, it was hard not to feel a little sad about all the faces who no longer sit in that room with us. People who were once some of my closest friends, who have since moved on to other districts because they couldn't afford to live or teach in Woodland anymore. I know people will come and go in schools, and that's natural. But we're at 15% and 30% of our SPED teachers, and it makes us wonder what we could do differently, what we could have done sooner, and what we need to do next. Because it's always better for kids, for school culture, for academic growth, and for community to keep good teachers here. So tonight, we are proud to

046have approved our tentative agreement that represents progress. We're grateful to everyone who helped reach it, and we're also looking ahead, because the work of making Woodland an incredible place to learn and teach is ongoing, and it's what our students deserve. Thank you. Thank you, and we will move on to a report from board members Does anybody have a report anybody like to go first? Anyone no one else would trust to be it on it. Thank you. Let's see It's been a while since I gave some updates on other districts are doing and again, it's from the school board association Oakland Unified, they're looking at cutting $102 million from next year's budget. Santa Rosa City Schools, they're looking at $14.2 million over a year. That's just over 6% of their district budget. There's also an update

047on Sacramento City Unified. They did some double counting, and now the total went from... 43 million in cuts need to do to 52 million in cuts to avoid solvency or being taken over by the by the state and then finally San Francisco Unified School District is looking at cuts of approximately 102 million as well. My point is again that we made the cuts we made and unfortunately we're going to have to continue evaluating how we reallocate our budget. shifting expenses or allocations. It's of course the first approach where we do reductions, modifications, but again with the report that was given earlier, the increases in expenses, of course we know everything's went up to water, paper, gas, electricity, so we're gonna have to again consider making adjustments to the budget. And again, decline enrollment is a

048big factor. So depending how we are enrolled next year and the following year will continue to impact our budget. So I did have the opportunity to stop by on the second, no, sorry, the fourth day of the YDI. And from what I saw, all the participants were very engaged. I spoke to two, and they actually appreciated what they were learning, the teachers who were facilitating. Again, did a great job, and Youth Development Network was there coaching and giving feedback. So, again, I'm very excited to see it the first, where our team is actually doing the facilitating and becoming self-sustaining, in a sense, right, which will, again, allow us to continue to do this without paying out significant investment. And I look forward to the one in June to more. I think that was total was

049about 43, I think like 46 total registered. From the day I went, it was 43 who were in attendance, which is an awesome number because usually the cap is 40. So I was really happy to see that they were over that cap. So yeah, so that's in my report. Thank you. Thank you, Trustee Villagrana. Any other board reports? Trustee Rodríguez-Molica. Thank you. I just want to say thank you to our district staff and our school staff as well for how quickly they came together to make sure that our students were safe as they participated in the walkouts. I know that it happened very, very quickly and a lot of things had to fall into place. So I just want to express my gratitude for everyone that participated and stepped in and ensured our students' safety

050while they exercised their First Amendment rights. Oh and thank you also to folks here at the district office. I know some of you had to field some very difficult phone calls. So my appreciation for that. I know that that can be very very difficult as well. So thank you. Thank you trustee. Any other trustee would make a report. She reaches the follower. Yes. Save the date. Some of you guys will get an invitation to the black graduation for 2026 which will be May 30th this year here at the district office. I believe we are going to start at 1030. It's about a two hour ordeal 10 o'clock actually. So that's something that I have been working on with a group of APAC parents. I would also like to echo Trustee Rodriguez Mojica Mojica Rodriguez's sentiments.

051I. I'm a firm believer that you don't teach kids to adult when they turn 18. You start giving them opportunities to make grown up decisions incrementally. And I really love that our kids came together to stand up for something that they believe in at our last meeting and they let their voices be heard. And. That as a teacher, as a parent, is such a glorious moment that the kids are listening. With all the stuff that we keep seeing in the news and the state of the world, I mean, we're learning that this generation is the generation that is not going to be doing better than their parents. And with so much adversity out there, they are taking note and they are standing up for what they believe in, whether it's a sixth, seventh period or

052whatever's going on in the world right now. Two three of my kids participated. So all three girls were out there and having their voices heard and taking pictures. I saw some pictures of some DO staff and their safety vest and principals and admin out there guiding traffic making sure our kids were safe. Of course there was a couple of knuckleheads out there riding wheelies in the middle of the street. But you know if that was the biggest infraction that we had. Hallelujah. Seriously. And I'm. I'm really proud to see what this district is doing. You know during the panorama I ran under the umbrella of aim higher coming from blue ribbon schools in Orange County coming from a performing arts high school where we had a booster club for everything. And I just wanted to

053make sure I knew my kids are going to be all right. I wanted to make sure that my kids and their peers had more opportunities. access to more things and I see that they want that too and they're letting us know what they want and nothing could be more beautiful as a parent in an educator's heart. So that concludes my report. Thank you trustee. Just Garcia I just gonna say echo again to my other trustee Rodriguez mojica and can fall over about say the same I'm very proud for our our students and also for all the admin who support I saw some videos with a saw the BP for some high school with them and I want to say They have a voice and they have the rights to do it. So, felicidades a todos

054nuestros alumnos que ejercieron su voz marchando y demostrando que ellos tienen una voz y fue la forma de demostrarlo gracias a los administradores y a todo el personal que trataron de estar con ellos a un lado y tratar de que esto fuera seguro. Concluye mi reporte. Thank you, Trustee. Trustee Mubecker? Oh, I apparently have left my mic on this whole time, so sorry about that. So I want to first say I am getting over being sick, and I may suddenly get a headache. So if I duck out early, that is why, and I will try to not disturb anybody. So I just want to explain that ahead of time. I also want to say last meeting I presented the Fred Korematsu resolution, and I showed a photo by Dorothea Lange of our own Woodland train

055station. I tried really hard ahead of that meeting to find a book to recommend that had some more. of Dorothea Lange's photos here in Woodland that is still in print and I could not find one. But the day after the meeting, I walked into a bookstore and I found this book, which still does not have those photos, but it's called Seen and Unseen, What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams' Photographs Reveal About the Japanese-American Incarceration. And it shows photos from three very different perspectives of what the camps were like. And it is presented in language that is entertaining for adults, but also accessible for a lot of different ages. This, unfortunately, does not have photos of Wilin, but it's such a great book. I did want to mention it. It was also written by

056the goddaughter of Dorothea Lange, which I didn't realize until the end. Words she said about the reason she wrote this book. I found very moving. So I hope people might check that out I also wanted to say as the superintendent shared I had the opportunity to visit the freshman seminar at Woodland High School I was very impressed and continue to be impressed by how aware our students of our of the world they're living in they had a lot of really great questions about civic engagement here in Woodland and I was really proud of the the things that they were passionate about. And we, as my other trustees have shared, we've seen just over the last two months how they are willing to step up and advocate for their own interest in coming and sharing with

057us about their perspective on seventh period. And I'm really proud of the fortitude that they're showing in all of these things, including in yesterday. and I really commend our staff in making sure that our students were able to safely exercise their First Amendment rights. I think that's it, thank you. Thank you, Trustee. I also have a comment. And my comments will be in regards to the student walkout. I want to convey great appreciation for all our district staff who helped us keep our students safe yesterday and today, and to the staff that continue to provide students the normal educational curriculum. I also want to express our thanks to the Woodland Police Department for their assistance in dealing with our protesting students and their patience and resolve to keep our students safe. Our students manifested a

058protest yesterday and today and it was large in size and that brought students yesterdays from both high schools and middle schools together at the downtown Heritage Plaza. You know, the protests were not a district sponsored event and all our schools remain open and operating as usual. On Tuesday, February 3rd, a notification. Went out to our district families informing parents that we became aware that these protests may occur on Wednesday February 3rd and Thursday February 4th This email also informed parents that this was not a district sponsored event We also relate in the email that we encouraged all students to attend school as usual and that student Absences related to the protests would be marked absent consistent with district policy We also ask parents to speak with their students about the importance of attending school and

059the potential risk to their safety. And I just mentioned all these to kind of just clarify what our role was and what some of our communications were. And in regards to our students, I think we can of course plainly see by the size of the demonstrations that a segment of our student population is engaged in the social and political happenings that they feel impact them and that they feel are important to them. Through their actions, they show that they aspire to have their voices heard and to contribute what they can in creating a more perfect union. We value them, we value their energy, and we value their faith that they can contribute in making a better city, a better state, and a better country. The balancing act, of course, is to try and do all

060we can as a district to make sure that they're doing so responsibly, properly, safely, with the appropriate respect for their educational settings and pathways and in accordance with the law. And so again, just very grateful to everyone who helped us deal with this manifestation of student voice. And I wanted to also ask my fellow trustees if I could get at least four hands. I want to ask our superintendent. to just kind of give us a summary of what took place, how it took place, any lessons learned from what we experienced and lessons learned that may help us to deal with the situation once again. And she can kind of give us that nutshell in a Friday fact. I don't know if I can get three other hands to give direction. to our superintendent to do

061that. Okay, all right, superintendent, so if we could kind of have just a nutshell of everything that took place and how we dealt with it and what our community partners might say and just kind of what we learned from the experience. Yeah, I can provide a summary in the next couple weeks as we're still trying to assess all that. I STILL HAVE NOT HAD A CHANCE TO DEBRIEF WITH OUR ADMINISTRATION, DEBRIEF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, SO IT'S GOING TO TAKE A BIT TO SCHEDULE THOSE MEETINGS AND SUMMARIZE ALL THAT AND I'LL BE HAPPY TO DO A SUMMARY REPORT. THANK YOU, SUPERINTENDENT. OKAY. MOVING ON TO ITEM 5, INFORMATION BOARD COMMITTEE REPORTS. DO WE HAVE ANY BOARD COMMITTEE UPDATES? TRUSTEE RODRIGUEZ-MOJICA? Yes. This week on Tuesday, we had a safety committee meeting, and it was a really

062great opportunity for Felicia and others to kind of walk us through the behind-the-scenes preparation for the impending walkouts, as we've been discussing. I learned that they met with the principals to make sure everyone was on the same page to really understand what our responsibility is for students who leave who decide to participate in the walkout and also for those who stay. We also had Officer Yarza on the call. There's always an SRO that is on the call so that was great to get their input as well and ideas and just kind of a behind the scenes look of the mobilization that took place over a series of days with a lot of different people to ensure our students safety as i mentioned earlier we also talked about upcoming policies some of the policies are on

063the agenda for today so we'll be discussing those and and voting on their approval. The one that is still in the works that will be coming to us soon is a cell phone policy. I've mentioned this before. And I just want to provide a little update. There's been a lot of work going on getting information to inform the cell phone policy that's going to be brought to us. Felicia has been meeting with a lot of different parent groups, still has a couple more parent groups to go. And this is in addition to the surveys that were already sent out to all of the staff and families. and students. So students, staff, and families have had opportunities to provide feedback on their thoughts around the cell phone policy via surveys, but then also in focus groups.

064Felicia has met with the youth advisory focus groups as well to learn about what's on their mind regarding the cell phone policy That's going to be coming up and I just want to highlight one of the things we spend a little bit of time discussing Is in those youth advisory focus groups there was a lot of concerns around safety and bathrooms We've talked about this in other board meetings as well specifically thinking about cell phone use in bathrooms and there were a lot of comments that were brought up by the youth around that about thinking about the cell phone policy so that was what we discussed in the safety committee meeting and thank you to for felicia for always having everything very well organized and prepared um and bringing us together thank you trustee uh

065any anybody else have a committee update they'd like to share trustee just that i attended the the first meeting with the school board association yellow county school board association BOARDS ASSOCIATION AND I ASKED THE SUPERINTENDENT TO ADJUST THE AGENDA TO THE BOARD PACKET. IT'S THERE FOR YOUR REVIEW. THANK YOU, TRUSTEE VILLAGRANA. ANY OTHER COMMITTEE REPORTS? NO. SEEING NONE, WE WILL MOVE ON TO, LET ME CHECK. OKAY. So we will then move on to item J, teaching and learning. And we'll go to J1, it's an information action item. 2025, 2026 comprehensive school safety plans for elementary and secondary school sites. We have one public comment. Oh, nevermind. It's for four, right? So we have our Dr. Dini Wilson, our director of student services. Hey, you earned it. To present to you what you have for here

066to approve or consider your approval of our safety school plans. We have all our site administrators here. Thank you all of you. That is their one number one priority is making sure that our students are safe on their campus is a huge responsibility that every administrator takes very very seriously. And so I know they put a lot of time and thought on this. There's always. You make a plan, but you have to have plans that are flexible because every situation is unique and you cannot have a plan that's going to, a situation that's going to fall right. step by step on what we have prepared. But the more prepared we are, the more quickly we can adjust and be flexible for any safety concerns on our campuses. So I'm gonna go ahead and have our

067Dr. Rodini Wilson introduce you what the process was to put these paths together. Good evening, President Rodriguez and Board of Trustees. I'm here to present our secondary and elementary safety plans. As you know, California Education Code 32281A requires every K-12 school, public and public charter to develop and maintain a safety plan. So these plans are designed to address campus safety risks, prepare for emergencies, and create a safe, secure learning environment for students and school personnel. The law requires that each school update and adopt these plans by March 1st of every school year. So tonight we have our elementary and secondary principals here to present to you or to answer any questions that you might have regarding their plans. I'm also happy to answer any general safety plan questions if you should have them. So here

068we are. Very good. Do any trustees have questions? Trustee Villagran. I only have like 10 questions per plan. Oh great. Just kidding. No I just want to say I actually don't have any questions. Thank you to all of you for all the time energy dedication you spent. I know that you spent a lot of time talking to staff and again continue to be appreciative of the beyond effort that you do to include youth voice into this process. And I know that these plans are just at the next level because of that. And so again just my sincere appreciation to all of you for. All the hard work I know it's not just now it's year-round work you're doing and again you tweak these documents as needed as time happens and situations come up so again

069just a deep gratitude. Thank you so much. Okay I'll come around to myself this way going right. I think I you know I mean my general comment is that we have some work to do with our bathrooms situation whether it whether it's you know, a physical, of a physical plant nature or management, you know. And I think in addressing our trustees, you know, as we look at, you know, our budgeting issues and we wonder where we might, you know, spend any budget monies in terms of improvements, I think, you know, these reports in general. scream out that we need to pay attention to bathrooms. And I think that, I think that, you know, that may be something that we should consider moving forward, right? Because plainly we're getting all this great work that they've done

070to collect this data and to get this feedback, especially because, you know, as Trustee Villagran mentioned earlier, just a tremendous, you know, showing of incorporating student voice in these reports now just make them that much richer I think the other thing that I see again generally is that we we have some work to do with with bullying issues of bullying issues of our students either you know Not not feeling safe because of what's being told to them or even physically right and Because that's one of the line items that was there and and I'm glad that line item was there because it differentiated between you know a degree of seriousness And so so we've got some work to do there as well even though bullying we this This board and the previous board has put

071bullying at the forefront. We and we've asked You know for evaluate for reports evaluations But that is also something that shouldn't be lost on us In terms of what what we can grasp out of these reports and those are my comments trustee Brubaker Just thanks. Thanks for all the hard work that went into this It's appreciated and I always learn a lot about our school sites through these reports. So, thank you Trustee Garcia. Yes, I'm gonna say thank you for all the work you do and also I would like to say I really like the student survey and I think these are reflect of how the students see their own school. Thank you. Trustee Richardson-Fowler. I really appreciated the student input as well that they were reviewing these safety plans. Trustee Rodriguez-Mohica. I also echo

072my appreciation for all of the work that came into developing these plans. For those of you in the community that. Didn't open the documents. These are about 70 pages long each of those safety plans. So there is a lot in here And I know that a lot of time came into putting this all together from different committees and for folks reviewing it So thank you for that. I do have a question or two questions It's more of a general question of these plans not particularly to any of our school sites I am curious because there's so much information in here. That's very important, right? for the safety of not only our students but also staff on campus. I'm curious about how this is shared, not just to new folks on campus, like new teachers, new

073staff coming in, classified and certified, but then also our substitutes that move around from site to site or maybe are new to the district. So I'm just curious how we do that. How do we share this information? That's a great question. And I could honestly say, and unless the principal would like to correct me, I think there's a lot of work to be done in this area. I'm not sure that we use this as a document that we share as a blueprint. Many of the pages in this plan you can refer to as like how do you respond when there's an intruder on campus. Those documents are actually a flip chart that are on the walls of the classrooms. They better say yes. That are on the walls of the classrooms. That is what is

074shared for the substitutes, for the people who may go from classroom to classroom, for all teachers. So those are the emergency preparedness situations. What do you do if you receive a threat, threatening phone call? That's the part that's shared. The active part, the planning parts, the parts that the principals... Work with their staff and their students to address like how do we build a climate? How do we how do we work toward proving our climate? What do we need to do to improve and I'll only use I'm going to use Beamer as an example Sorry, Hortensia. I'm going to use Beamer as an example a few years back and they were discussing how to create a friendship movement for students who are not feeling comfortable on campus, feeling isolated. So they've created a friendship bench

075area. I think you mentioned it actually, Trustee Fowler, in one of the safety plans a few years back. And that's not something that is shared to like a substitute or somebody new on campus. So the safety components are shared through a flip chart. The components of building a climate are something that's shared with the staff as they bring in information and they create a plan of action. And that's shared through staff meetings, shared through actionable items, like we're going to greet everybody at the door. Let's see how that's going to change students' feelings about having a connection with an adult on campus. So that's the type of things that they do to... to change on campus. The other things that they do to share the plan, it has to be available for public. So it

076is present. It is in their school office. There's certain components like evacuation sites and locations and exit areas that are not public. That's internal. But they're available to be done. But as far as the safety part, the exits, the how to take care of something in an emergency, it's on the wall. Does that help answer? Is that appropriate? It does help. Thank you. Yeah. And I was thinking more in case of an emergency. So as long as they know that it's on the wall. Yes, that's very helpful. Yes. The other thing that was on my mind as I was reviewing these documents was how our school sites are changing because of the gates that we have set up around, right? Things to measure Y. So I was wondering how that comes into play in these

077updates and maybe in the evacuation routes. I'm imagining some things change now because the exits and entrances are just different than what they used to be now. Yes. I would actually like to invite one of our principals up here and i think anyone who's had major different fencing put up i would i know that um mrs morell is out sick this evening but um i don't know mrs chevenin or mr pinniger i know you had different fencing put up would anybody like to come share how that's affected your egress and ingress good evening um we're very grateful for the fencing it has created a a tremendous amount of safe, a feeling of safety for our students and our staff and our families. We, when we have an emergency and we practice regularly, we evacuate out

078to our field out on Matmore, where the park kind of is. And so we still go the same way. Most of the classes go through the middle of the. the campus, but it's really important. We all have to have those gate keys now because, and teachers have to carry that, all staff has to carry that because if there were an emergency, let's say we're walking out and all of a sudden you run into something, we've got to go the other way. So we do. carried those keys and then the wing furthest East is our second grade and so they rather than going through the middle they go around outside the gate out by our parking lot so you know we've been practicing that and the students do walk that way and then teachers have to

079we have to practice making sure that we open that gate as we because they then they come back on into where the field is does that answer your question thank you absolutely They had just more significant changes. That's why I was going to invite them. Good evening board members board of trustees To answer your question, I mean, for our typical structure, the fence line really hasn't changed too much. There's been some, you know, movement of the fence line. So in practicality, it's business as usual. And so as Mrs. Chevron was saying, our normal evacuation, you know, just on a fire drill or if we do need to leave during an earthquake drill, it's the same. Same route, you know, we have our classroom numbers up and that's where our students go and staff. And we

080always have a goal of making sure we get out there with under four minutes lined up with green signs. And good news is we're always like just over three minutes, never past four. So that's something that I know our students are proud of. I always challenge them on that. In terms of our off-campus evacuation, which we do practice occasionally. notably in the great shakeout that we do in October. Again, same area around. There's some different entry and exit points, but nothing significant. We always monitor to make sure there's no choke points in terms of where students are going, and it works fine. And so definitely, though, very thankful for the Measure Y improvements. It's made a huge difference to our school community, their perception of it. We've got a brand new school is a lot

081of the comments I've received. And you can see that in students. And so to go back to the question about for substitutes or guest teachers, I'm sure it's very similar with all of our other principals and sites. We have a red binder, emergency binder that's in the sub plans that teachers leave that has the different plans in addition to the flip chart if there's something specific. Sometimes we do have students that might have some sensory. Concerns, you know, they're especially if the fire alarms going off Or you know some just some other disabilities such as limited mobility That's always included in the sub plans and emergency plans And then even you know for every substitute that we have our office coordinator has done a great job She has a little folder just for them with

082you know numbers to call if there's any questions the evacuation routes in there and just some other you know What to do is some helpful hints for teachers and the guest teachers and they really appreciate that. Thank you. No more questions for me. Trustee Villagrana do you have any more questions. No, okay. I have one question I know in reading the Tafoya plans one of one of the questions was about the the fencing still on fencing And when the fencing would be completed there and I was wondering if we just get get some information about when that's anything I'll call our director of maintenance and operation Jim Hill Stossky that I get hi Jim Good evening. Was there something specific? Just just I didn't couldn't recall when our fencing the fencing issue that we saw

083at Tafoya, which was Like cutting through that field and yeah. Yeah. When that's when is that scheduled. Actually it's interesting that you bring it up. We are trying to do some early work and kind of squeeze into the last remaining sites that we have through our measure by bond projects. So we're kind of dipping in a little bit at Whitehead a little bit of Zamora and we're starting to do some at Tafoya spring break. We're actually going to do that fence. Oh yeah. So that portion will be done and we're trying to get as much as we can because we are going to have summer school at that site as well. So we're trying to get anything that may impede access into the campus. But yeah, and it'll be completely done by the end of

084the summer. Is that fence going to have the gate? That would open so they could be yeah if we want so we are gonna and I Lynn is here but we did discuss leaving the existing gates on just kind of freshening that up because they do have a PE in that area and Without that the kids cannot can leave and go back onto the campus so with that new fence line that kind of cuts across the the ball field there There will be a gate to open it up if they do want to use the kind of use both sides of the field. Yeah, yeah great There's no separation between our field and Clennard Park. Yes, that's right. It's just a seamless which open field. Yeah. I mean, the kids actually like that because it's

085like a bigger field, but there is a safety issue. Yeah. And that's what I was asking about that. If there was a gate portion, they could still run through it as you open the gate. And we're also moving the back. The back entrance and exit that our older students use, that's being moved to the corner. So the kids are no longer gonna be crossing in the middle of a street, they're gonna be crossing at an intersection. So that's another big improvement. We appreciate that. Thank you for your hard work. Spring is definitely a tenable goal, I guess, right? That's just right around the corner. So thank you for all your work. Any further questions? No, okay. This is a action item information action item Are we ready to take action would somebody like to move

086to? approve the 2526 comprehensive school safety plans for elementary and secondary schools moved by trustee Richardson Fowler second by trustee Rodriguez-Mohica any discussion No, okay, and we will start with trustee via Grana abstention abstention Myself yes trustee Brubaker. Yes Trustee Garcia. Yes Trustee Richardson Fowler. Yes Trustee Rodriguez-Mohica Okay, the comprehensive school safety plans for elementary and secondary school sites are approved by a vote of five yeses, one abstentions, and none against. Thank you. You are dismissed. Yes, thank you very much. Thank you. And so now we're going to stop our journey through item J and return back to item F, which is governance support. information action review process and timeline to fill board vacancy for trustee area one. And we have two public comments now, yes. Sorry Connor, we'll have to hold on until we

087get our public comments in. That's great. First public comment is from Becca Bernard and the second is from Jake Whitaker. Hello. So as you know, I've been teaching here for nine years, and I've been attending these meetings and paying close attention for six of those years since I was Voluntal Vice President in 2020. You know, when we thought the panorama, as Candice likes to say, was only going to last a couple months. And so I attended a lot of those meetings, and I've been here through vacancies, appointments, turnover. a very long recall, as you might recall, a little unintentional pun. And I want to say this board of seven represents our community. And you all reflect our community actually very accurately. Right now, four women, two men, a diversity of races and ethnicities that actually

088represents the community that we live in. You all might not always agree with each other. We might not always agree with what you say or do, but you each bring a unique perspective to this table and help us make decisions that really reflect our community by representing all seven areas of our district. And I just want to point out that it would be very inequitable to leave one of those areas unrepresented for almost an entire year. The area one that was recently vacated represents a very large geographic region. It includes Zamora, Yolo, and the outskirts of Dunagan. And it also is a seat that represents one of the highest populations of our lowest socioeconomic residents. Those voices deserve to be represented. It is an equity issue if we leave those voices unheard. The students, the

089parents, and the teachers who live in that area. All parts of our community are supposed to be represented and have a seat at this table, which means giving an opportunity to our community to step up into this role of service. As I understand it, whoever might be appointed to that position will also have to run for a re-election anyway, so it is filling a gap for that time, and there would still be an election next fall. But I do want to just point out that a vacancy from February 1st until potentially the end of December, beginning of January 26, 27, is a very long time to not have a voice representing the people in that area, which includes my house and also the residents in my house that rent with me, my neighbors, my community.

090So I really hope that we choose to allow people the opportunity to step up and serve our community in that area one. Thank you. Thank you. Next we have Jake Whitaker. Good evening superintendent board. Good good to see you all I'm here to talk to you all tonight about the riveting topic of the history of school board vacancies and so Almost three days from now, it'll be seven years ago, February 8th of 2019, that I was appointed to fill a vacancy on the Woodland Joint Unified School Board. I was 25 at the time. And the seat had just been recently vacated by former trustee Tico Zendejas. three recent vacancies we've had. The next one, Trustee Morgan Childers, who was reelected and then resigned. And there was an appointment of former Trustee Sandra Mott to fill

091that seat. And then there was, you know, of course, a recall election and a decision by the board at that time to hold the seat vacant because the voters had said. that they no longer wanted the person who was elected to represent them in that seat. And so the board said, okay, well, we'll let the voters decide who they do want to represent them. And I just want to echo a lot of what our W.A. president, Becca Bernard, said. I do want to advocate to you all tonight that leaving a seat unrepresented, a portion of our community unrepresented for nearly an entire year, to me is not something that you should consider. I mean, you have the right to appoint, to fill the vacancy. There will be an election in November and the voters will

092decide who they would like to represent them in that moment. But it's incumbent upon you as the elected representatives who have been delegated this power to fill the vacancies. to go through that process, to have a full board, to have full representation of our woodland community and the outlying surrounding areas for the rest of this year. As you grapple with a myriad of difficult decisions, budget cuts, et cetera, I know that there's a lot of big things coming up for you this year, and having a portion of our community without a voice in that process, I think, is not something that we should accept. That's my two cents. Hope you all have a good rest of your evening. Thank you. And now, F1, our information action review process and timeline to fill board vacancy for

093Trustee 1. Push the button. Thank you so much, Board President. Good evening, Board. My name is Connor Kennedy. I'm a partner at Garcia Hernandez & Sani. I am here to present about filling the vacancy that was created on January 31st. The timeline to decide what to do, whether you appoint a provisional appointee to fill the role through the end of the calendar year, ideally, or order an election, you have 60 days from January 31st to do that. That'll land approximately on April 1st. For practical purposes, your last board meeting when you can act is March 26th. So that's really the deadline that we'll be working back from. If you choose to appoint, the schedule here is a proposed schedule based upon what I imagine the values would be here, which is to extend the timeline

094for folks to get their nominations and candidacies in. So we built out a timeline that maximizes that time. So if you do go the appointment route, folks have the most amount of time. to submit their names. You could change the dates based upon meetings that are coming up that you know that are really important that you want to schedule around, any other important topics that we can work out here today. But the ideal that I've put together as kind of the base case here lands you on March 26th as your last day to make a vote. If you choose the appointment route, The nature of the way that the education code is structured makes it so that that's a provisional appointment. If the voters in the trustee area don't like the appointment that you've made,

095they can collect a certain subset of signatures and send the choice of who gets to fill that seat basically to November to the election. So the way that we are on a shortened timeline here because the vacancy was created in the last calendar year of the term. the voters, a certain subset of the voters just disagree with the appointment, they can send this thing right back to... to be filled during the normal course. So you have two options here. You can go with an election. Again, because we are in the last calendar year of the term, the way that the education code sets it up, you wouldn't have a special election. Instead, the first available established election date, that is the minimum number of days after you'd be able to order the election, falls in

096November anyway. Or you can do a provisional appointment subject to the points that I just raised around folks in the district, folks in the trustee area being able to sort of veto that decision and send it back to the ballot. If you choose the appointment process, I would recommend that you adopt a schedule today just so that everyone has a broad understanding of... when the process would take place, what the important dates are, when to show up, when to submit their candidacy. If you choose an election, the way that the rules work is if you were to order the election tonight, it would still default to November. That's just the way that the number of days works. The next available date... is November, but right before that is June. So given the way that the

097calculus works, I would ask and request that you wait until March 26 to order that election, just to be absolutely sure of when that data is going to land, no possible ambiguities, just because of how close the dates are with this. But yeah, that's what your two options are. Adopt a timeline to... fill the vacancy or instead go down the election route. And with that, I'll take questions and help you all and support you all if you decide to take action today. Trustees, does anyone have any questions or comments? Trustee Villarreal? No questions. So when we're ready to discuss it, then yes. No questions yet. I guess one of my questions is, so there's two elections. There's one in June and one in November. But we only have the choice of November? That's right. Under

098Section 509.1 of the Education Code, the election needs to be no less than 130 days after the order of the election. Since we're here in early February. The June 2nd date that tends to be available under Section 1000 of the Elections Code. We're just on the other side of that right now. So the next available date's in November. Okay, thank you. I guess I'll make a comment. I think there are pros and cons to going either way. I think that we have heard some commentary about about Debra Bautista Zavala's position being open and that there wouldn't be a representative for that area. But I think I kind of want to push back on that because that's not how this works, right? That is for purposes of voting. Once we're in, we are responsible for all

099the areas. In the last six years, I haven't known any of us to just say, no, I can only go to these schools and that's it, and I can only hear the issues that are in this particular area, because this is your area. That's just not how it works. We are available for all our families in all of our areas. Yes, you have a designee for a designation of an area, but that's for purposes of voting. That's how the voting process works. But all of us have have visited and gone to activities that pertained to all schools, have listened to parents with concerns from all schools. So I don't think that that should be an issue that should be considered when we're thinking about which way we'd want to go. Because the fact is that

100all of us sitting up here as trustees are responsible for all of the schools. And we are responsible for responding to any parent. no matter where, or any community member, no matter where they lie in our district, and I have known that to be true over the last six years. Would anybody else, Trustee Villarreal? I just want to echo what you said that yes I should kind of my I'm gonna say it was a vow but when I was running I'd said I was committing to be an advocate for all not just for the children not just for you know in my area and many times I've gotten contacted by individuals from different parts of Woodland and I you know people say like what schools in your area I said well my area is the

101whole district and all the schools are in my area you know I don't limit myself to area 7. and representing the interest of area seven to me it's representing interest of the young people that we serve so you know i took an oath to be a trustee for all the children in our community not just you know the children in area seven so i agree 100 that to me that is not a factor again every To me, young person has a voice through all of us. I don't think anyone's here is like, oh, I'm only going to be here to talk about, you know, and advocate for this one school. Because some of us have like one school in an area. Some of us have like three in an area. Some have four, right? And

102it's like, no, that's not how it should work. And that's not how it's worked for our district. Maybe in other areas, yeah. And I know I've been, you know, involved in county government. And when I was a deputy supervisor, the supervisor told me, he's like, I don't care who walks in the door. You help them, you know, you don't ask what's our address and determine whether they live in area you help them So, you know we get slack from other supervisor because they're like, oh that was our constituent Well, they walked in the door and you know, they asked for help. So we helped so yes, absolutely 100% I agree any other trustees a comment or weigh in on Oh, I want to support. Trustee Garcia? Yes, I want to support as well to what

103you say, Trustee Rodriguez and Trustee Villagrana. I would say that area need to chose the representative. And that for me is the bigger reason. And also it's a short amount of time. And I think we need to spend a lot of time with our district doing this. This process in order if we're gonna do an appointment. It's gonna take too much time and And that's for me. That's the two arguments for me to support just to be baked. Yeah Hear what my colleagues are saying that we represent everyone and that is absolutely true but As former trustee Whitaker knows as my former representative on this board Often community members don't understand that they look at the map They see who represents them and they reach out to their board member when they have concerns I

104have gone back and forth on this topic myself Because I can see pros and cons to both But for me I think I am in favor at this point of doing an appointment for many reasons, one of which is, as I just stated, having someone that the community knows to go to who is their designated representative, even though, yes, we absolutely care about every single student in every single school in this district. But also, I think it will give... community and the voters in area one more information when they go to cast their ballot. I would hope that someone who seeks appointment would also be seeking to run in the upcoming election and that will give a chance for those voters to see someone in action for about a year and have a better idea

105of who they're voting for and whether they that person would continue to represent them or not. And I'm all for voting with information in your pocket because things can happen that aren't so great otherwise. So that's just my two cents. Do you have a comment on her? Trustee Villarreal? I do want to say that I agree that... People mostly contact their constituents. I don't say would say that they see vacant They're gonna contact one of us or the superintendent and then it'd be like well, it's vacant So I'm not gonna be contact anybody So I think people would still seek out support and get help from any one of us or or the superintendent's office I don't think they would be like no, that's it. I'm know there's vacant. So I'm not going to You

106know pursue what I need assistance with so I'm gonna hear you're saying but I think people would still go beyond and advocate for themselves Yeah, I have a question. I if we do end up going the route of appointment Would the first meeting that the new appointed board member be at would that be the March 26th meeting? It depends on when you do it, right? So a key thing about this is that's my proposed schedule. So what my proposed schedule If you chose the day before the last regular board meeting to make your selection right then and there, right? March 6th, 2026. Yeah, that would be exactly when that would happen. Now, March 6th would be a pretty involved day, but absolutely. Oh, wait, no, sorry. March 12th, I'm seeing right now. So your meeting

107on March 12th would be when the board acts to appoint. And then the next regular meeting, you'd sign them in right there. And they would have... They would fill that role. They'd be provisionally there. And then the voters would have 30 days if they wanted to submit enough signatures to challenge that appointment. So their first meeting would be on March 12th or on March 26th? March 26th. Okay. Thank you. Mr. Richardson-Fowler, you had a comment? So I went back and pulled up what we did in 2023 when Morgan resigned his position. It was effective February 1st and then we had our board meeting on February 9th and discussed kind of like we're doing now on February 5th. We voted to appoint someone because as a board we felt that that was too long of a

108gap to leave open and vacant. There were arguments just like this one given about how. And honestly by law even though we're elected by district we by law represent the entire district. So that argument I mean I get the equity about putting your person in there but by law we all represent everybody. The thing is. People want people from their area. And so it's like there's certain things going on in your district that are not relevant in my district. And you might have an insight and input that I don't have coming from that district. So following that last timeline, we met and she was we interviewed the two candidates on March 9th. For some reason, we didn't swear her in that night like this one proposes, which I think is cleaner and tighter. We swore

109her in on March 17th. And then she had the next board meeting. And so all of the letterhead whatnot listed that she was on board. And so that was just the timeline for last time. And that would give us from March to November where we wouldn't have split votes and those sorts of things. So I'm just echoing on the comment that following up on your comment. Totally agree. OK I'm going to go. Is it my turn to make a comment now. I was trying to keep a. Did you have a comment on the original. I totally do. Just to reiterate on that. Sorry. Well not the original but a comment on the last comment. On the last comment. OK. Go ahead. So I initially actually voted twice those two times to do that because there

110were longer appointments. Right. Almost two years on the on the last one. And so definitely I saw the reason for that. This one again is going to be what six months maybe. No it wasn't two years. I said almost two years. No. Sorry, I interrupted you when you were speaking. Just point of clarification. Okay, let's go ahead. You have the floor, Trish Vierana. Keep our comments to ourselves until we're done. Thank you. Okay, more than a year. I'll say that then. So that's why I was supportive of that. This one is not. It's much less than a year. It's not almost a year. It's much less than a year. So that's the other reason why, again, I'm not right. We have identified priorities that we want to focus on, and again, this will take time,

111right, to take away from those priorities. And the person, again, is going to be on boarded, right? They're going to go through trainings. And one, they might get challenged and we're still going to have an election or they might lose the election and then the whole process has to start again with a new person. So for all those reasons, again, initially, again, I was support because it was a longer period. those reasons why again I'm in support of not appointing and just letting the members of that community right select that person you know the part two again that I really it's not a factor for me but I know will be they will be accused of selecting someone that you know we agree with it's in line with our views and you know that we

112gave them an advantage in the election which again not a factor for me but I know that that's that we were accused of that the last two times so that's it thank you okay Mr. Richardson-Fowler, did you need to make comment? I want to kind of reestablish the original question unless you have a comment. Yeah, I just I still think that it's consistency whether we're splitting hairs over it's an election that's going to be because it was 2022. Morgan had just ran a race and we would not have had an election in 23. That in my opinion is neither here nor there. I think any period of time that we have a long vacancy. Should be filled especially when we have so many important things coming down the pipeline We've had so many close votes

113as it is in this this past year and I think anybody who says that we are hiring or appointing another yes-man Clearly isn't paying attention to these meetings because we don't agree on a lot I have some strong opinions and they don't align with everybody on this board. So There's that I also don't want I think the bigger issue is there's more of an of the optics of us Postponing so certain people don't get on the board then we are cherry-picking people to be on the board and my honest opinion Okay, thank you trustee Richard Fowler. Okay kind of reestablish the question. Okay. Do you have a question? I have a question. So I understand can you clarify this for me? So we need for both today to do an Appoint. Yeah, if you want

114to just run from there and explain the the baseline here So here here here's the the rules if you do not make Take affirmative action by majority vote within 60 days under 5091 the County superintendent of schools orders an election that would Default to November right so unless you have four votes to make an appointment then The default it goes to the county superintendent of schools with that said I also think that This board is one that makes sure that if it has a duty to discharge, it takes that and it makes that action. It acts by majority vote. So I would understand if there was some urgency around doing it rather than allowing the county superintendent of schools to order the election. But unless you have four votes or you act by majority and

115somebody happens to not be here through quorum or something like that, an election will be ordered and it would be. Ordered according to the same parameters that if you all voted for an election, okay, is that is there a comment on a BB statement? No, I'm just wondering when it's my turn. I'm gonna write if there's no comments Any any comment on BB statement? Okay. Any other questions? Just you guys yet. Okay, just your interest in fellow It's been proposed a couple of times for us to go from a seven member board to a five member board and the majority of us fought really hard to make sure we maintain a seven member board. Any opportunity we have to maintain a seven member board I think we should maintain that. Again I will just quote

116it. It's it's a form of consistency. It's what our bylaws state that we are a seven member board when we have an opportunity to make sure that we are adhering to our bylaws. I don't understand why we don't. I get that the last election would have been a more than a year. Eight months nine months still seems like a big big ask when we've got this administration when we've got so many uncertainties making sure that we are a fully functional board. I think that's the most important. Thank you, Trustee. Any comments on Trustee Richard's final statement? Trustee Rubic? So I was not on the board, but I was a community member when there was this discussion of whether we should go to five members. And I was adamantly against doing that because I watched the

117wide variety of lived experience and perspectives that having seven members gave the decision making. And I thought that was always a intrinsic value to our community. And I would. also point out piggybacking again, we have had close votes recently and Close votes are hard when they're a tie. No one no one feels very satisfied with that and let alone the community And I don't I think we owe the community Both of those assets Okay, any more comments on trustee Richard statement trustee Richardson's how their statement. No. Okay, just see Rodriguez mojica This isn't a question. I guess it's more of a comment and something I've been reflecting on. The last election, people aren't clamoring at the doors to get on this board, I think is what I'm trying to say. With our last election, I

118think the seats went uncontested, right? I think there were four seats that were available. So I'm just wondering how that comes into play into this discussion, if at all. Because it's it's it's a big responsibility, right? It's a very big responsibility very time-consuming and I'm sure there's other reasons why people don't consider Running but I'm guess I'm thinking out loud a little bit here because that is something that comes to mind With an open seat like our like our people interested. I don't know What an appointment help us actually get somebody on the seat as opposed to having an election right since people aren't really Aren't really running at least in the past right for this position. So again, just more of a comment and thinking out loud I don't know if anybody has any

119thoughts on that just we're making I have a question for our Guests if if we don't have anybody that applies for an appointment we can still then vote to go to the election Right. We're not like stuck in this limbo, right? Yes, I appreciate the reference to limbo. Yeah. No, you're not Thank you I'm sorry, can you repeat the question and answer it, Connor? Of course. The question was, hey, what if we go down this path where we adopt a timeline and we solicit applications and either we don't get any or we get some. and the folks happen not to qualify as candidates under Education Code 35107, there's specific requirements that you need to fulfill. They're very baseline. What happens in that situation? Are we irrevocably on the path towards an appointment that creates some

120sort of odd situation or a limbo? And the answer is no. At any given point, even if you adopt the timeline between now and the deadline, you can go towards the election route. Thank you. Is that the end of your questions, Trustee Rodríguez-Mexico? Okay. Trustee Villagrana, do you have a question? Statement? Yes, thank you. I'm comfortable saying it's higher than this, but I'm going to be safe and say it was 95% of the time as a board we vote unanimously. Like, it's rare that we disagree. You got my point, Trustee. Thank you. So... I would disagree that we vote no or we close a lot again. Yeah there's been times recently but I would argue even 90 98 percent of the time but I'll say 75 percent of the time regarding your comment. Just you

121know I'm just going to pause a little bit. No no. I'm not done yet. I'm just pausing. Just pausing. OK. Yeah. I don't want to react. So pause a little bit. Going back to your saying about. interest you know what we do or don't do is not going to affect interest if you know we have the election and then people don't you know usually one person submits and then you know they hope beyond challenge and then they get appointed right I mean we've seen this many times and the question is I guess if nobody applies or submits their paperwork for the election right If the board then appoints at that point, how long is that appointment for? You know, the deadline to file for election passes and then the board says, okay, I guess there's

122no election, so we're going to have to appoint. How long is that appointment? Is it two years? I'm not sure. I'd have to, I'm sorry, I'd have to look that up. That's a really smart question. I should have been prepared to answer that one. It's okay. So I guess that'd be a question I want answered. You know, if we decide not to and then, you know, there's like no interest and nobody files, I guess what are our options at that point? So yeah, thank you if you can. Of course not now but if you can answer that. Thank you. Trustee Richardson-Feller did you have a comment on his statement on Trustee Villegas' statement. Where's your data. Because as a person who's constantly not. getting my votes going my way. I don't agree with your estimate

123of 95 percent or 80 98 percent or 75 percent. I don't as somebody who keeps pushing policy and pushing agenda and pushing things and not getting any movement on them. I don't agree with your we constantly agree. So that being said I would just. echo the last statements that I met about consistency and seven member board. Okay, thank you and any other comments? Just you done I'll respond to that to the question. It's based on again my experience being on the board. It's again it's a guess I'd have to have a graduate student go through our minutes again I read the minutes every single meeting and I pay attention actually highlight the nose on the minutes every time I read the minutes so it's based on on that analysis that I've done again I haven't

124had a tally done but to answer your question that's that's what I'm based on. Okay. Any further? I'm sorry. Justine, do you have a comment? Just more of a clarification. I don't think that I caught the question to Connor. Do you mind asking it again? Absolutely. So my question was that if we decide to go to an election and not appoint and come the filing deadline for the election, nobody files. Right. So then technically no one's going to be in the seat. The question is look into and if we were to appoint at that point. Right. How long is that appointment for. Did you want to answer that. No he's going to go back I think right. Yeah I just wanted to make sure I understand. OK. Do not reply all email to this through

125the superintendent to everyone. OK. Was that the end of your questions trustee. Yep. I have a comment, but I wanted to give the superintendent an opportunity to weigh in on this, or I can give my comment first and you can go after it. Okay. I think the other aspect of this, which hasn't been talked about, is what's it gonna take to do it? So I was on the last committee that got together and then... Created the questions and then the committee has to agree on the questions and then we've got to bring the questions back to the board to approve and It is a lot of work And so one I think one of my concerns and I can I can I can see both sides, right? But one of my concerns is That our

126plates are completely full completely if if we had to you know Pick another three-person committee to work on this in the month of February we have You know evaluations we have other important topics at this It changed it shifts a energy and a focus of the board in my in my experience And so all the things that we're talking about all the things we know are coming up Suddenly we've got this whole other really important thing to do and we've got to put a lot of energy in that to make sure we do it right because as trustee Villagrana I believe commented earlier It's not a benign thing we do and when we when we've gone through the process there's folks in the community that are not happy about how we're going through the process,

127who we pick, we're second guessed, it can become a political thing as it has in the past. And so for me, when I kind of just look at what's coming before us, I say, and I know that we talked about we all represent all. you know, districts, and we'd have to make sure that we are doing that, right? Especially if we had a position that continued to be open. But to me, it will, we'll be fulfilling our responsibility, but it will shift our energies yet again in another direction. And I fear that... You know the energies that we need to spend on the topics that are coming before us on looking at the reports that are coming before us need to be focused there because I don't believe that that if we have a missing

128a trustee that any of the six of us would allow that that area in theory to go unrepresented. It just wouldn't happen. Right. And so that that is one of my. great concerns is the shift in the energy that it takes because we already have such a full plate of things that we have to do and we and we and to me you know we the folk being able to be focused on the things that are coming before us as we hit as we march through the end of the school year is really important and we just start in February but February gets real short and then we're in March And so that is part of what is holding me back from saying, yes, let's just appoint, is that I know that's gonna shift. Those

129of us that end up on the committee, that's gonna shift our energy in a whole other way. And right now, I'd have to think about, you know. What am I gonna let go? It's just my energy here We have and I've already got a lot of important things on my plate says do all of us And so that's that's my comment Candace did you have? Yeah I kind of feel like you made the argument to a point when you say that we have so much on our plate that it's hard for us to even pivot to interview somebody many hands make light work getting that last person on to fill that vacancy would make the rest of the task less arduous from March to November from March to December in all honesty then it would

130allow them that I'll leave that there. We were able to do it three years ago. I get three years ago we were looking at a year and some odd months versus this period of time which I still think is significant. Ten months I think is significant. That being said the commitment it looks like for the committee is to review candidates. What is the commitment for the committee? That's right and? And? Defining the questions that everyone answers during the hearing when you interview folks coming through. Can we just use the same ones from last time? Legally, 100%. Okay, that seems like we solved a lot of problems there. Any further comments to Mr. Richardson-Fowler? Nope. So I think that, you know... We I mean you could definitely use questions from the previous time but then that's

131I I wouldn't want to do that because you have to take into account what our needs are now That was you know quite a while ago, and you'd have to take into account. What do we need from our board member? What are what are what are our future challenges going to be so it wouldn't be you know quite the same? And it takes energy and time to come to consensus on that. It's not that it can't be done. Of course it can be done. Of course it can be done. It's just what happens to our energy and our time. Because even when we bring, and again, of course it can be done, we bring on somebody that we appoint, then we're also now looking at the time of the superintendent to onboard the person, to

132spend time much like they did. with our newest two trustees to help just understand this whole process right understand where we're at in the school year understand budgets understand whatever questions they have that took a lot of time so when you take the preparation it takes to really do a good job right to have fair questions relevant questions to take that process seriously pick somebody then then have the onboarding process on all of that takes a lot of energy and Focus away from the stuff. That's that's before us can it be done? Yes, of course, of course it can be done but the impact is what I'm trying to argue the impact is you know, is important to consider here in terms of what we know is important, the topics that we've discussed already and

133what we know is coming ahead. It's going to impact it, you know. Take the month of February and a little bit of March and then after that to bring this person up to speed. And that's just real. That's just a real consideration. But can it be done? Yes, of course. I'm not saying it can't be done. Of course it can. But that's the impact. Any comments anymore further comments on my statement. Superintendent would you like to weigh in. Well first of all this is definitely the board's decision right on which way you want to move forward. So my comments are basically more from the perspective of seeing it from a different perspective. And I kind of see it from the perspective of recent the current environment that we're in. And the timing, I think the

134timing, this is probably the, since the last couple appointments, this is one that has been the shortest of where this person would have to run again or other people run this, that's the part that's different this time. And because of comments made in the past from community members and because of the times that we're in. And so because of that, I feel that the... My recommendation would be to consider an election different spirit of democracy And go through that process. I think Whoever is interested in potential appointment. They're going to be in a campaign mode as well as learning the role at the same time and Then at any time you add a new personality to our team it changes the dynamic. So we'll have to adjust that but again We can work it through

135either way that is just some of my from my perspective of the superintendent some of the things that I think about on On that and regarding you know the work of course it doesn't take it will take more time of staff time to be Realistic, but we're here to serve at your at your Your direction Okay, so we've kind of heard a lot of our ideas and concerns Trustee Ritz and Fowler. What went into, and Connor, maybe you can answer this for me. What went into our committee developing questions and getting everything ready for the candidate last year? My recollection is that it was rather involved because of the care that your board uniquely puts into almost anything that I'm involved with, which is just my personal experience. It happens to be laudatory of you.

136But yeah, like for my vague recollection of it is that. Every question mattered which questions were asked versus which were not to maximize for the transparency fairness and a lot of these other important equity points That tends to be my experience with you, but that definitely carried over during that process so I would actually say multiple days of Worrying about certain items and then coming back and getting advice and seeing things from a number of different perspectives And that's you know, that's just anecdotal. Mm-hmm But could it be done in a more concise fashion? Right. And I just want to continue to confirm there is no legal restriction that requires X, Y, or Z. You know, it's your questions. It's your process, right? Okay. Yeah. And my comment to Trustee Richardson's follower statement is, yes,

137it could be done in a quicker time if we all agree. And if we can get to that point, but if we don't get to that point, then it takes longer, right? And so you don't really ever know kind of how that process goes. Sometimes, you know, coming to agreement is easier in a committee and sometimes it takes longer depending on the issues, right? Depending on... Ten I can't remember how many questions there was last time but this you say ten questions right in which as Connor Explained to that it's kind of refreshing my recollection that yeah every question meant something to us because we wanted to get The best possible applicant that we could write to really understand who they were because it's not just filling a position It's really trying to Get the

138best possible you know, trustee that'll enhance the ability of these boards, of our boards as well, that we think will do a good job as a representation. So it's, to me, it's more than just throwing the questions out there and fulfilling the role. To me, you know, we put a lot of thought into how we're doing it. And that tends to take more time, generally speaking. Okay. So we've heard a lot. Does anybody have I think we should try and see if we someone wants to make a motion for one or the other but does anybody have any last comments or statements that they'd like to share just a blue baker So I kind of touched on this earlier, but I want to elaborate We are living in difficult times to be in these positions,

139especially our U.S. Department of Education is being dismantled. There's a lot of uncertainty about our funding. This is not an easy job. And I think we have seen in our state over the last few years how... People have chosen to seek elections in these positions that maybe don't have the best interest of public education as a whole and minorities in general and we've seen that in our own community and I think it would be a disservice to our community to not have Voters in trustee area 1 come November have enough information to vote on who will represent them for a four-year term and so I Wholeheartedly still am in favor of doing an appointment so that we can give those voters a chance to see who might might represent them and then have them decide

140with that information whether they would continue to represent them I Think that that is The most fair thing that's it. Okay any comments on On Trustee Brubaker's statement? No? Okay. Any other comments that trustees want to make? No. Okay. Do you want to add anything? No, this is the board's decision. Okay. Trustee Villarreal. I move that we direct staff to work with the attorney to identify a date to declare an election. Second. Okay, so Trustee Villagrana is moving for staff to work with attorney to go the direction of the election, having an election. That motion is made by Trustee Villagrana. It is seconded by Trustee Garcia? No, Trustee Mojica-Rodriguez? Okay, is there discussion? No other comments? Nope, okay. Then we will start with myself again the motion is to move in the direction of calling

141an election to fulfill the The missing trustee position may I clarify the motion which is to work with me to identify the proper date to agendize Ordering the election which will be on March 26th if I if I'm picking up what you're saying great Thank you. And so in essence, we'll be picking the direction of the election. Okay So I will start with myself in terms of voting for this. I vote yes. Trustee Brubaker? No. No. Trustee Garcia? Yes. Trustee Richardson-Fowler? Nope. Trustee Rodriguez-Mohica? Yes. Trustee Villagrana? Yes. Okay, the motion passes with four yeses, two noes, and no abstentions. So we will be moving in direction of moving forward with an election. Thank you very much for okay. Thank you trustees. Thank you for Thank you for the discussion and thank you for expressing your

142opinions They're very much appreciated. Thank you We're going back oh we're going back to J. Yes, what number the J to We we have a lot of people here waiting for their J for TO MAKE A PUBLIC COMMENT, I THINK. M? MOST OF THE COMMENTS ARE ACTUALLY FOR M. WE ONLY HAVE ONE UNDER J. OKAY. WE'LL GET THROUGH IT AS QUICKLY AS WE CAN. J2. THIS IS AN INFORMATION ITEM. THIS IS REVIEW CALIFORNIA SCHOOL DASHBOARD DATA. SO OUR DIRECTOR OF TEACHING AND LEARNING, CHRISTINA LAMBE. We'll be giving a presentation on a review a snapshot of the review of the California school dashboard data Unfortunately, this is kind of old information because the State Department takes quite a while to compile the information and release it to districts we receive the you know, they start reviewing

143information make sure they have it correct and go through a whole entire process as a common Frustration from superintendents across the state about how late we get this data. However, it is data that we have now to present to you And so Christine is going to give you an update. This is it results from last spring's assessments Thank you and good evening everyone so I'm here to present as superintendent or take a lampkin shared the California school dashboard summary so this dashboard was released in November of 2025 We have been spending time since then reviewing the results and working with staff And so this presentation really serves as a companion to the LCAP Mid-Year Update, which you'll hear next. And it is supportive of that. So a lot of the data that's in here is

144also very much a part of our LCAP Mid-Year Update. So we'll just get into it. These are our four LCAP goals. This presentation addresses goals one through three. So just quickly about the structure of the dashboard as you've seen over the last several years. It's a sort of gas gauge indicator and From blue at the top which it stands for higher performance down to red which stands for lower performance It is meant to be the report card essentially for schools and for districts or LEAs. Charter schools have their own dashboard and it was established as a way for the state to measure and monitor schools and districts as a part of the local control funding formula. What we're going to talk about tonight is the left-hand side of this list left-hand side of this slide

145the state measures The local indicators are reported in the LCAP and you'll see that in the LCAP annual update and then in the final draft that comes to you in June But for tonight, we're going to focus on the left-hand side the eight state eight state measures Just a quick piece, and you heard this last year when our consultant, Joel Rabin, who's provided to us by the County Office of Education, through their support, he really pointed this out to us last year, that we are very unique as a school district, I mean, in a lot of ways, but for the dashboard, we're unique because we're a school district that has all 14 of the, measured student groups. So the state has identified 14 groups, most recently adding long-term English learners as a group. And as

146a district, we have all of those. Many districts do not. So that is... very special to us. You'll see that not every school has all student groups on the measures because the group might be just at a number that's too small for reporting. But as a district, we have all 14. I just wanted to point out two things about what's here. So I will share, there's a slide towards the end on growth data. This is a new way of looking at student performance that the state has been. developing for it's taken many many years and so this is the first look at that and then also the science test is an indicator on the dashboard and we have a performance color for that which is exciting for assessment folks but it's not for accountability purposes

147but it is really nice to see we can really visually see our progress in science Few other indicator of new pieces there, but you can see those on the slide Then just kind of quickly. This is a busy slide, but Talks about how the the state uses two dimensions status and change to to come up with the colors on the dashboard. So it's trying to measure how districts and schools, where they are in relation to other districts and schools. That's the status. And then the change is in relation to where you were last year. And so you will see that we've changed in some of the colors. And in some cases, it's in the right direction. And in some cases, it's not in the right direction. But this is how that is kind of figured

148out. So here's the overall picture of the full dashboard just on one little slide. We have slides for each of the indicators and I'll just say for this one what we can see is that we have made progress in several areas and we have three greens. on the dashboard. Last year our dashboard was entirely yellow and orange. We had no greens. We didn't have reds, so that was good, but we also had no greens. And this year we have three greens. So that is definitely progress that we like to see. Okay, so we'll just go kind of quickly through each one. So English language arts, this is based on the end of year summative assessments and we have been basically at around the same level kind of maintaining our status for the last three years

149in language arts. You can see that we do have a lot of student groups in orange. on the left-hand side at the bottom. So the student groups that are at the orange level are there, and then you see a couple of groups at yellow, and then a couple of groups at green. Everybody's kind of clustered there in the center. We don't have anyone in red, which is good progress, and we don't have anyone in blue. The point that our school teams heard over the last month when Joel worked with our principals and teachers was that. Just I'm sorry. I was wondering if we should take a break so that. Oh yeah that that that may be a good idea. Sorry I didn't. But but just in terms of having the rest of the trustees you

150know. Yeah. Grasp what what saying we kind of lost some trustees here so let's just take a five minute break and then we'll come back. I want to make sure I want to hear what you're saying. Yeah. Our apologies. Our apologies. We're in a five minute break, Candace. Okay, 20 seconds, everybody. Almost ready to come back. Okay, just to do a time check. Christina had been presenting for five minutes already, so she has another 10 minutes to present. Maybe she can make it shorter, but we're gonna try to keep it within those 15 minutes of presentation. Thank you, Christina. Okay, so English language arts, what I was saying was that our consultant, when he worked with teachers and principals, one of the things he pointed out was it's not a huge amount of increase that's

151needed in order to get to the next level. So that box on the right-hand side up at the top where it says if our distance from standard were 1.8 points higher, our indicator would have been yellow. is the equivalent of like every kid getting one more question correct on the test. So it's like incremental. And that was the point of that piece. And then the other thing that I wanted to point out is the little DA with the hand. symbol in the top right corner that is indicating to you that this is one of the areas that we were identified for assistance. So for differentiated assistance because of some of the performance of our student groups on the ELA indicator. And then math is very similar. We've stayed orange for the last three years. We

152do have some student groups in the red. And this is, again, another area where we are identified for differentiated assistance. The thing I'll point out about math that's a little different here is that when you look at our performance on the SBAC, assessment from last spring which is where these results come from it's two different ways of looking at it the percent of students meeting standard, which is what I've reported on previously. We actually grew by two percentage points this year, but here with the dashboard calculation, it's a little different. It's measuring performance in a different way, and we've stayed, we've sort of maintained or decreased by half a point. So in some ways, we're growing in the right direction, but that's not showing up yet. On the dashboard. So that's what I wanted to

153point out about that the next one is science we We outperformed the state that's that CA in the in the middle there We have a green. This is the first year we've had this indicator so, you know, it will make more sense of it as additional years come the first year We're kind of learning about it and how the state calculates this one We do have long-term English learners in the red, but overall, a green. And if you recall from the CASP data that I presented about earlier in the year, the middle schools made some huge gains in science, and that really helped us get to the green. Okay, our English Learner Progress Indicator. Two years ago, we were orange, and then the last two years, we've been yellow. We just need 10 more students

154to make progress to be green. And you can see that our long-term English learners actually received a green. So we have high hopes for this one, for being green this coming year. And then graduation rate, and this is one of the ones where we earned a green, the second indicator where we earned a green. We had been orange the previous year, making lots of progress in this area. We do have homeless students in the red. but many of the student groups are over on the right hand side with Asian students in the blue. So lots of great progress there and our graduation rate is over 90%, 91.4. So lots of great progress there. We increased almost 3% overall. I'm not really going to spend too much time on this, but this is the slide that

155explains how the CCI, the College and Career Indicator, is determined. And then we'll look at the actual indicator. This is the third one where we earned a green. We'd been yellow for the last two years, but we've made almost 7%. seven percentage points of growth. And so we are at a green, which is great, and no students in the red. We just need 41 more students to earn the status of prepared, and then we'll have a blue. So looking forward to that. And then the last two, chronic absenteeism and suspension, they're actually the ones where we declined. And we were yellow the last couple of years here. We decreased by 0.8%. So the rate of chronic absenteeism declined, but we just have not made as much of a decline as we need to in order

156to keep that yellow. or move into the green. And then finally suspension rate, this is the last indicator. Again, we had been yellow, but we increased by a very small percentage, 0.4%. But as you can see, lots of students in the red. So definitely an area of focus. And again, an area that is putting us into that. that giving us that status of differentiated assistance. Okay so those are all the indicators and then here what we have is a chart with the indicators labeled across the top the schools along the side and then in the graphic is the colors and a numeric value for each one. So just taking Beamer as an example, ELA and math, Beamer is at a yellow and that gets a three. If we think about the blue to red as

157five. performance levels, then three is yellow, five is blue, et cetera. So you can see those there. The elementary and middle schools don't get a grad rate or a college and career indicator. So you can see those blanks. And then high schools do not get chronic absenteeism. which doesn't really make sense to a lot of folks, but that's what the state decided. We do get chronic absenteeism numbers for high schools. They're on DataQuest. So that data exists. It's just not a part of this dashboard. And then another chart, this is all at the district level, all of the student groups. And so you can see we have the 14 student groups. Not all of them have every indicator and that's because of the number of students in the group, right? So. For example grad rate

158is only for high school students. So some of the smaller groups like two or more races Native Hawaiian Filipino foster youth there just aren't the number of students in order to get a Color there you can kind of visually see that and if you recall that chronic absenteeism and suspension those are the ones that declined so there's more reds and and oranges for those two indicators. And what I also wanted to point out about this one, it is our, in terms of being identified for differentiated assistance, it is the foster youth, students experiencing homelessness, students with disabilities. And I do believe that English learners are the other group. So you can see that those groups have more oranges and reds and especially reds in either ELA or math. That's what's getting us that designation. And

159then the last chart for the... Dashboard is just a quick synopsis of the growth report. This is new data. Just like the science, this is the first year to see this type of data, and so we're still really making sense of it. What this is doing is saying that, so in ELA, almost 70% of our students improved their score. on the English language arts test from the prior year. And when you take the the aggregate of growth across the state comparing our students growth with everyone else's in that grade then we are at the average level. So this is measuring students who have a score from third to fourth grade etc. fourth to fifth and how much growth did they make. And so you can see Over 60% of students are improving their score, which

160feels like a good number, and it's average growth. No, students groups are making a minimal minimal growth, which is the lowest level of growth There's a lot more to come about this one. We'll continue to talk about it, but I wanted to give you sort of a preview of This new this new report again. It's the first year that That we have it Okay, and then the last thing that we like to talk about with the dashboard is the similar districts So this is you know, this is created by the by our consultant Joel Rabin and in taking that sort of numeric equivalent of the dashboard indicators We have a 2.9 as our sort of average across all five of them compared to Yolo County which is a 3.1 and then the state, which is

161a 3.4. Now another thing that we talk about is how we compare two districts that are similar to ours in this case Joel used districts that have enrollment between seventy five hundred and fifteen thousand students and an unduplicated rate of students between 65 and 85 so When we look at our district how we compare with districts that are similar to us in those two areas, we see that we have a very wide range. So in college and career, we're first on that list. There's no one that is ahead of us, same as with science. We're a little further down on the list when it comes to EL progress and graduation rate, and then when it comes to suspension rate, and as I said, that's one where we declined, so we're 21st. That's the lowest performance

162in terms of comparing us to other districts. The list of similar districts is in the attachments. It's on that link on the slide, but it's also attached to the board item. Okay, and so I've talked a little bit about differentiated assistance. We're going to wrap up by talking about this. So some of our student groups have been not performing at the level that not meeting state standards on these indicators. And so that is... has earned us the status of being eligible for differentiated assistance. Those groups are listed there and it's focused on the ELA or math achievement, chronic absenteeism, and suspension rate. So those are all our orange or orange for each of those. on the dashboard. Now, differentiated assistance is a program of, it's part of the system of support, which is created by

163the California Department of Education. The California Collaborative for Educational Excellence is essentially the support provider working with YCOE, the Yolo County Office of Education. And so we've been working with them, really it started last spring. and we put in place some supports this year. And then recently we have begun working with them really in depth to do a root cause analysis. And I just, there's this little visual of. The process that that will be going through We're really at the stage with CCE right now, which is this second sort of block understanding current status through data analysis, so We've got an improvement team and we're now at that That sort of beginning stage of really analyzing the data to help us understand where improvement is needed And so I just wanted to end with a

164quote by Linda Darling-Hammond. She's the California State Board of Education president, which I think kind of sums up where we are as a district. She was talking about the state. But she said, you know, we're graduating students in greater numbers. We're getting more of them prepared for college and careers. We know there is still much work to do. in the years ahead to continue this progress. But these results are an encouraging start. So thank you, I'll take questions. Any questions from trustees or comments? Trustee Villarreal? My first question is, or actually the only one, you mentioned the other questions. On the comparison sheet that was attached. You said you would you would talk to the superintendent about adding more. I wonder if you had a chance to speak to her about that. Yes we did

165talk about that. The conclusion was. Yeah we we spoke about that. So we're going to work on that's going to take a while to get that put together. We're not able to put that together because this this the seminary schools was not something that we we put together we had it was a consultant for what from YCOE. So we're going to ask them. to provide that for us as part of their assistance they're supposed to be providing this. Yeah. And just to provide context to me the only data point they're really looking at were like unduplicated rate and then total enrollment you know everything else were numbers and colors and so to me to do a better comparison about these similar districts I just put a few other data points that I would like to

166see so so thank you for considering that and again. As soon as we can be helpful. I understand that it'll take time to do that but you know. Thank you. Any comments on Trustee Villagran's statements. No. Coming around this way. I don't have any questions. I just kind of have comments as we think about. FISCAL MATTERS WHETHER IT'S BUDGET CUTS OR WHERE WE MIGHT INVEST MONIES THAT ARE AVAILABLE FOR US TO MOVE. I JUST KIND OF TOOK THE REDS AND THE ORANGES WHICH ARE THE TWO WORST SCORES AND KIND OF APPLIED THEM TO OUR ELEMENTARIES. AND FIVE AND SIX WERE THE HIGHEST TOTALS, A COMBINATION OF ORANGES AND REDS. AND WHEN YOU DO THAT, YOU'LL SEE THAT TOFOYA HAS A SIX TOTAL. one red, five oranges. Dingle has five total, three red, two oranges. Freeman

167has three reds, two oranges, a total of five. And Prairie has one red, four oranges. Those are the four highest scoring in the worst category. Dingle, Freeman, Tafoya, and Prairie. Something to keep in mind as a guide, I think, when we're trying to figure out. Where where budget cuts might affect and where we might invest You know any monies that we that we put towards any programming. I did the same thing for the student groups Basically looking at how many reds and oranges they had and when you do that You'll see that English learners again six and five being the highest totals of combination of red oranges English learners or with six total two red, four oranges, and then long-term English learners with four red and two oranges equaling six. And then the fives were

168students with disabilities, students experiencing homelessness at five, social economic disadvantage at five. and Hispanic Latino students with five. And so I think these are the groups we should keep in mind if we wanna try and use this as a measure about how to invest or where we take away funds. I think that that's an interesting way to look at it. Some things that don't necessarily show up because some of these groups don't have the total categories is when you look at just the most reds. That's with long-term English learners, students with disabilities, and African Americans. So another thing to focus on, to think about, you know, who we affect and who needs the most help according to this particular measure. I just wanted to share that with trustees. Any comments on my statement? No? Okay,

169Trustee Brubaker, any comment? No trustee Garcia you have statement to make no trustee Richardson Fowler any comment trustee Monica Thank you for all the work you put into this One of the things that I wanted to see if you could kind of help us understand a little bit was the difference between the graduation rates and college and career ready and then our performance in the content area, specifically in math and ELA, where we're struggling still, right? And I guess my question is, how is it that we're doing so well with the grad rates, right? And also pretty well with the college and career ready, but still really struggling when it comes to math and English language arts? There is thank you for the question. There is a disconnect as you described between that GRADUATION RATE,

170THE A THROUGH G RATE ALSO THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THAT THE GRADUATION RATE IS VERY HIGH AND WHAT ALL DISTRICTS WANT TO SEE. BUT OUR A THROUGH G RATE HAS, AND THAT'S A PIECE OF THE COLLEGE AND CAREER INDICATOR, BUT IT'S REALLY KIND OF HOVERED BETWEEN 35 AND 45% FOR LIKE TEN YEARS. AND WE AREN'T MAKING A LOT OF progress with our scores on the summative test in language arts. We have in math, but you don't see it on the dashboard yet. And so I think some of those things are connected where students are not meeting the A through G requirements, especially in English. So like when the equity review was, um, when the, the findings from the equity review were, um, put together, um, that was, that was discovered as a, as a, uh,

171kind of stumbling block for students in, um, in, uh, English classes, not meeting the A through G requirements. So I don't think, um, we have, um, We don't have an answer for that yet. But I do believe that those two pieces are connected. The difficulty that students have with meeting the grades that they need to in order to earn for A through G, that A through G requirement. So you can graduate with a D, right, essentially. But for A through G or CCI, you need to have a C or better. So I think that's a... a big piece of that difference. Yeah. Yeah, and it makes me think we're graduating a really good number of students, right? So I know we all are very proud of that. And we know that the admissions requirements at

172the state universities now are shifting, right? So that our students may get the automatic admissions at these four-year universities and are able also to pursue our two-year universities. But it makes me think about how well we're actually preparing them for that. And then also for students that want to take a career route and not go into a formal higher education. Are we actually placing them in jobs or giving them that advantage? So it's just I'm sharing it as more of a wondering for something for us to think about is that piece too. What can we do to make sure that they're not only graduating, but they're well prepared for whatever it is. that they choose to do next. And our scores this year and the last year, to me, show me that we have a

173lot of room to be able to grow in those areas. Yes, I would just add to I think there are there are there are investments that we've made in improvements such as In dual enrollment, which is increasing access to rigorous coursework That has been growing over the last several years and I think that that is going to pay off We just you know, we're not it just it takes a few years for the impact really to be to be seen and felt, but there are investments that the board has made and that we've made in ed services such as that one that I think we'll begin to see in the data. Okay, very good just superintendent we don't hire for this presentation and I'll be sharing with the board a near future but one of

174the things I To kind of keep help keep in perspective with the bigger picture looking at what other districts know we Comparing growth right and I'd like to always be compared to see how we do around the county So I've been tracking the last that you received three years of information how we compare to not as growth So in the last four years, I'll just state some of this and I'll share it later And I'll just go down some of the districts and share how we compare this is for language arts The art district in the last four years with ups and downs throughout the years. These last four years we have made a 2 percent growth in the last four years. Now let's compare that to Davis growth wise because if we compare our

175scores to Davis of course they have a different population a different demographic but they have made zero growth. So we're making not very much. But how does that compare to the state of California. We're right on track statewide. It's also 2 percent growth in the last four years. How's that compared to the county the county all together with all the districts? It's only one so we beat out the county So do we need to do more? Absolutely, but if we wait far off on some of the same struggles that other districts are having, you know, we Were there for math? Davis made one growth 1% growth in the last four years Wouldn't join three three percent. How does that compare to the state? We didn't hit the state state is for But we're a lot

176and how does it compare to the county? The county made two. So we beat out the county. We still did not compare to the state. So what does this tell me when I'm comparing? Those in regarding growth and what some of the initiatives that staff is doing We're definitely have a lot more work to do we definitely it's not time to shift what we're doing because what we're doing is having some momentum and I want to congratulate staff and not Downplay that and I'll share that later because it could it's it's there's a lot of components and layers that goes with this and This is tell when I look at it the big picture that way on not just comparing ourselves to us to Davis because obviously their scores are higher. They have a whole

177different population. Poverty rate is very different. They have very little English learners and all that. However if you have a struggling student in Yolo County they're more likely going to make growth with us. Right now I need to talk to Trustee Fowler because this bottle is making some good growth So that's the only other district in the county does make me send the finger girl So I'd like to know a little more for my colleague in Esparto. What are you doing? Other than that, we beat out all the rest of the districts in that area. So Just a big picture Look at looking at that And I'll send more information on this later. Thank you superintendent. Okay, if there are no other questions Just to be a Donna just on the metrics the chart that

178you added says performance level of green on the college and career indicator the district-wide Let's see. It's Is it so the forty nine point three is that? A through G completion? I'm not sure. So the 49.3% is the percentage of students that earned a status of prepared. So there's prepared and there's approaching prepared and there's not prepared. And there's a variety of ways that you can earn a status of prepared. But we're agreeing with 49% then, right? Yes. I guess my question is like, so if we were being graded, that would be an F? So how is it that we're green? Is it because of the progress we made, the growth we made? Or how is it that we're like, good, you're doing good, but it's 49%? Yeah, so it's not like a standard kind

179of A through F scale. The state has, there's a five by five grid for each of these indicators that shows the percentage that is expected in order to be at H. I CAN'T RATTLE THOSE OFF AT THE TOP OF MY HEAD. BUT THERE IS A 5 BY 5 GRID THAT HAS THE PERCENTAGES. AND IT'S NOT DIVIDED UP LIKE AN A THROUGH F KIND OF THING. I GUESS THE REASON I'M ASKING GOING BACK TO WHAT TRUSTEE RODRIGUEZ-MOJICA SAID ABOUT PREPARATION, IF SOMEONE WERE TO LOOK AT THAT LIKE, OH, GREEN IS DOING REALLY WELL. BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT ONLY 49% OF THE STUDENTS, TO ME THAT'S NOT RIGHT. Well, it's more than half of our students are not. So, yeah, I would just, I don't want to say it's misleading the part of the state, but

180I don't know what else to say because green is further to the right. The next one's blue, which is the highest, and we're only whatever, what, 6.9, right, away from blue? Is that what that, no, no, sorry. Not exactly. How far away are we from blue? I don't have that here. We need 41 more students to be blue. Yeah. I don't know exactly what that is. Yeah. Thousands of students. So yeah. So that's just like it's my only comment that yes let's celebrate right what we've accomplished but also keep in mind that let's not become complacent like we're green. Yay. No. We want to be blue all the way, not just get to blue or blue halfway, but blue. And I don't know if that means we're at 55% or 60%. I don't know what

181blue means. But yeah, thank you. Superintendent has a comment. Yes, I definitely do not want to underplay that we have a lot of work to do. I want to make that very clear. But I also want to encourage our staff. To keep doing what they're doing. We're making progress in the right direction. There's some areas that we need to reassess And so I don't want to discourage the efforts and recognize the efforts that they're making But yes, it's not We're not like superstars, right? We have a lot of work to do and even though we are doing better in some areas and in the county and maybe meeting the state that's still not enough for our students because our students I think I was I was talking to Christina I said Imagine what we can

182even do more if we continue to collaborate and get on the same page and focus Just a little more each time The possibilities are endless that what we can do with our staff and our students. I think we have amazing staff, but there's a lot of work on getting us in that. And we have working with our professional learning communities, our graduate profile that we've been doing a lot of work on that and still a lot of work to be doing rolling out on that. And, you know, the work that we're doing with the. assistance that we're getting from CCEE, the work that the board is doing and providing direction on our pathway to addressing literacy. So those things are making slow progress, but if we continue to move in that direction, the more we

183get on the alignment, the more we get on the same page, the more we focus. there's the possibilities are endless. And so yes, some things, there's still, it's never gonna be acceptable until we have 100% of our students meeting grade level standards. Okay, Trustee Villarreal. Mr. Wanmore. So along those lines, I wanna recognize the growth in the A through G from 23, 24 at 35.4% to 25, 26, we're now at 39.7%. So I mean, that's. As far as number of students, that's a good growth of percentage of our students. So definitely happy to see that. And even though we had less students. graduating right because the declining enrollment we've been able to get more of those students who graduated who were completing A through G. It's actually a smaller number but of the total it's

184still higher than what it was before you know in that previous year. So yeah we're making good progress there and again as we know that's the the gateway right if they don't complete that coursework then you know their options are limited. Not that there's no options because there's other viable good options and especially with you know more four year programs at the community colleges, but still, the more options that we create, the more that we can incorporate our students to seek those opportunities, the better. So I do wanna recognize the work of, again, there's a lot of examples here, but I just wanna highlight that one. Thank you. Thank you, Trustee. Okay, if there are no other questions, one more question? Okay, Trustee Rodriguez-Mojica. Thank you. If we go to the science slide, please. I

185think it's slide 12. Perfect. Could you help me understand this one? So one, yay, we're doing really well in science, right? I feel like if I remember from last year, we're slowly improving. So I celebrate that. But when I look at the little gauges down below, I'm struck by the fact that there's so many groups down below orange and red and only Asian under yellow, white under green. and then two or more races under blue. And it just, it seems odd to me that as a whole, given that, we're green. Can you help me understand that? Yeah, no, I see where you're coming from with that. And I don't know that I can explain that tonight, but I can work with the superintendent to follow up. I see that there is a large group of

186students in the orange. and our socioeconomically disadvantaged students is our largest student group. So I'll work with the superintendent to follow up about that. Yeah. Thank you. That's my last question. Okay. If there are no further questions, we can move on to J3, information update on local control and accountability plan. Do we have any, do any trustees have any questions on L3? J3. Our director of state categorical programs, Mrs. Sharp, no, Mrs. French. She has a new name now, so Danielle French. I like it. Yeah, it's going to come up here and give us an update on the LCAP mid year update now Normally we see Christina Lambie up here. So this is we have the the LCAP is now be has been shifted responsibility to Director French and so she you'll be hearing her

187present on the LCAP moving forward And I will acknowledge that assistance of Christina when needed. Yes I was going to acknowledge that Christina and I are kind of tag-teaming this year on this as I'm learning all of the details of the LCAP. So this is the LCAP mid-year update. As always our LCAP is written around the four goals so that mid-year update is going to touch on each of them. So the purpose of the presentation today is to review why we do a mid-year update, share the process for review of metrics and expenditures, identify which metrics the district met, and look at next steps. So for the mid-year update the reason that we complete the mid-year update is because California Ed code requires us to So we all always have to provide the public with

188an update on the implementation of the current LCAP by the end of February each year and so it helps us to kind of gauge where we are in our performance academically and in our performance in our goals in the LCAP as well as come up with some ideas of or we may need to make some adjustments as we're moving into the new LCAP. Okay. Okay, so in order to accomplish this, Christina and our Ed Services team works really hard to gather all the metric data. And I think you probably saw the attachment, which has, I think, 50 pages of metrics. It's a lot of work to gather all that data, but we work as a team to gather that data and reflect on it each year. Then we are looking at the three-year outcome data

189to see which was established in 2021, but... renewed into 2024 when the current LCAP is written. And then we look and see if we've met those criteria. And then there's also another attachment that talks about the expenditures to date as well. So if you see a green check, that means, yay, we met our goal that we set in 2024. We're on track to meet the goal. If you see a red one, that means, you know, we haven't met this yet. We're hoping to see better progress when we get the update in the... May? The annual update. Yes, that's what we call it. Sorry. Okay. So in goal one, you can see that we've made a lot of progress. And some of this is a little repetitious, so I apologize for that. But you can see

190that we've made a lot of progress in the college and career indicator, the number of students who enroll in two or four year secondary institutions as well. We've also made a ton of progress with our CTE pathways, which I want to acknowledge, and the A through D requirements. the number of students who have received a passing score on the AP exam we've we've met that metric as well but you can see as going over to the right side while we have made some good progress on that a third year requirement we saw the ways to go to meet the metric that we want to meet in order for our students to be college and career ready So in goal two, we're focused on social, emotional, and academic needs. And again, as Christina shared, we're making

191a lot of progress because of our focused performance that we're working on to improve outcomes for kiddos. All our kids have access to instructional materials. We make sure of that every year. We have tons of professional learning opportunities for our certificated and classified staff. We have coaching and support sessions for new teachers, and that goes beyond the minimum requirement that, like, say, induction would require. Our PD team's really good at that. We've also been working with Joel Rabin the last three years to develop a data analysis protocol so that every school goes through several sessions of data analysis. And then we've been able to update some of our books in our libraries, which is a huge celebration. But as you know, as we've been talking about, we have an area that we need to work

192on, which is ELA and math. And looking at our ELA and math, we are making some incremental progress on that. And we're really excited because... That that aspect data that we saw is a lagging indicator and we've been working on the PLC process for what three four years yes, and We really are hearing from our staff and our schools as they're starting to monitor data that we're improving in both of those areas So we're hoping that the new dashboard really reflects that We also have a little bit of growth that we need to do on the California Spanish assessment. Okay for goal three You can see we've always done pretty well in goal three. We have all of our students that are English learners meeting the metric for I-Ready growth. The DNF rate for our

193secondary students has decreased. Our percentage of long-term English learners is going down. And the opportunities for parent learning focus on unduplicated students. Maria's department has done an amazing job with that. Obviously, there's a little bit of growth we need to do on the English performance indicator, but I did talk with Maria Medina, our EL coordinator today, and they have, excuse me, my mouth is so dry. Let me get some water. Take your time, take your time. She was sharing with me some of her initiatives that she's working on and wanted to share that, as you saw, Beamer went from red to blue in this particular indicator, and they were yellow overall. They're implementing interim ELPACs twice a year in order to improve the outcomes there, as well as focusing on listening and reading and calibrating

194across teachers on the writing. Okay, goal four. I know this is a little controversial. We're actually meeting every metric already in Gulf War. So what that means is that all of our schools are hosting student advisory councils. We've got lots of extracurricular and co-curricular programs going on. And the number of community partnerships have increased. That doesn't mean that we're giving up on that. What that means is we're going to be reevaluating those goals and adjusting our metrics to make sure that we continue to grow. Okay, so next steps. We are going to continue to review and update these metrics throughout the year. We are working with ECE, is that what we called it? Yes. To conduct a root cause analysis where our three-year outcome has not met to make sure that we're making sure that

195we reflect upon that and adjust our strategies and our... and our actions within the LCAP so that it does start to get closer to that meeting that three-year metric. And then we are going to develop the LCAP for 2027. So you'll be seeing an annual update and then we're going to make sure that all those metrics are aligned with the LCAP, that we address all student groups that have those performance levels. I know we saw our English learners and a few other groups that were really underperforming so that we want to make sure we're adjusting that. Whew, goodness, sorry. And we're going to present to the LCAP collaborative and the DLAC and collect feedback. So we're doing all of those things. I'm not nervous. I don't know why I'm like shaky. It's okay. Questions? Do

196any trustees have any questions? No. No? Okay. Okay. Well, thank you. I got to tell you a funny story. Thank you so much for your work. Okay. My first time here as a director in 2005, I did my first presentation. I was sitting at the end over there. Somewhere wasn't in the other building Mike Stevens was sitting on the side and I was dripping sweat my first presentation. Oh good. So you did good And this is your first time doing the El cap, which is a big deal. Yeah, and you know, we're a team here Thank you. And thank you for the great job and thank you to Christina for her help in preparing the presentation today Yeah, no, thank you especially the use of data for those of us who've been around for a

197little while That was one of the things that we really tried to get this district to incorporate was data So I think we're seeing that in in many many places now and now the question that we got it now You know, what do we do with it? Right exactly But this is this what we see what we're seeing is prop is progress in that respect And and we appreciate all the work that you've all done Our entire team works really hard on this. Yes. We appreciate it. Thank you all. Thank you all. Okay. Moving on to J4. I believe we have one public comment. We have multiple now. Okay. We have multiple. How many do we have? Okay. We have six public comments for J4. Our first is Debbie Decker and then Lucy Figueroa. No,

198it's not. There you go. I'm Debbie Decker, former school board president. I was appointed to my seat. and current president of the site council at Prairie Elementary, where all 14 of those subgroups are represented in our campus population. I'm speaking tonight about yesterday's student protest. With liberty and justice for all, how many times have we said those words in our lives? We just said them just a little while ago. And how many times have our students said them? Yesterday, our students walked out of school. to hold the adults accountable for those words. Those students have no power, but they do have agency. The First Amendment right to speak to power and righteousness, to expect those words, with liberty and justice for all, to be honored and respected and supported in policy and in legislation. i'm

199not just talking about at the national level those words apply in california yolo county and in our district we talk about youth voice all of the time the youth have spoken listen to them yesterday was a little chaotic as student-led events often are The district must maintain a neutral position on political issues, but do their best to make sure all the students are exercising their First Amendment rights while being saved. And I appreciate hearing the superintendent will publish an FAQ about what the district's responsibilities and constraints are in a situation like this. Our household had to retrieve our... our hungry and thirsty teen who hadn't thought this all the way through having left school before lunch. But our teen felt safe and they were totally fired up to continue to make their voice heard. Our

200family absolutely supports this. I challenge you and all of us to commit to the same support with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Thank you, Trustee Decker. Next is Lucy Figueroa and then Victoria Fernandez. Okay. Hello, board members. My name is Lucia Figueroa. I'm a senior at Pioneer High School, and I've come today to speak about the backlash we've received from the walkout protest against ICE. Adults in this community have been commenting on social media saying we're too young to protest, that we don't know what we're talking about, that we should have consequences for walking out, and even going as far as threatening and wishing harm to us. To that, I say we are educated students who have every right to voice our opinions. You do not need to be an adult to understand

201what is happening in America under this current administration. We fully understand how ICE is directly affecting our families and communities. We are the future of this country and deserve to be heard. The actions of adults today impact all of our futures. I urge you, listen to the youth. Don't discount our opinions based on our age and stop making assumptions and dismissing our beliefs. I understand that there were concerns about student safety and following the law, but this was a peaceful protest, and participants who did break the law got reprimanded and cited by local law enforcement. Furthermore, people who are blaming teachers and schools for this walkout, this was a student-planned-and-ran protest. To those saying they should have stopped us, restricting freedom of speech is a violation of the First Amendment. This was not a case

202of indoctrination. No teachers were advertising this in the classroom. It was entirely facilitated by students on social media and by word of mouth. To the staff that did follow along in the walkout, thank you for keeping your students safe from all the threats and harassment we were facing and helping keep students protesting in an organized fashion. And to the board, I want to thank you for all your support as students exercise their freedom of speech and their freedom of assembly, and thank you for your time. Thank you, Ms. Figueroa. Next we have Victoria Fernandez and then Nayeli Salcido. Good evening superintendent Ortega Lumpkin and Woodland Joint Unified School District board members I am so proud of the students and Woodland Joint Unified School District I was a kindergarten teacher and I hope that some of

203my kindergarten students were there and remember the lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King and the importance of protests of boycotting and using their voice to make positive change in a nonviolent manner. So it's appropriate that it was in February in honor of Black History Month. What a lesson our students have learned throughout their history and time here at Woodland Joint Unified. I look at the banner that says students leading, students learning. What a great example of their leadership. And I am so proud to have been a mayor of the city of Woodland, to have been a teacher in the city of Woodland, and to know that the future and our present is being. directed by the students of our community. I am proud of them. I wish I had known about it. I read about

204it today, and I'm here to voice my support, and I hope that next time I'm invited to be there to join in their cause because immigration is affecting us all. The violence, the murdering, the detention, of our children, of our parents, of our families, of our mothers, our fathers in this country, whether you're a US-born citizen or not, you are being threatened by this administration. So thank you to the students of Woodland Unified for their leadership, and may they continue to voice their concerns about what is happening in this country and direct us in the right direction. Thank you. Thank you, former Mayor Fernandez. Thank you. Next, we have Nayeli Salcido and Elvira Raya. Good evening, President Rodriguez, Superintendent Ortega-Lampkin, Board of Trustees, Cabinet, and Community. My name is Nayeli Salcido, and I'm here today

205as a student representative to speak on behalf of the students who participated in the recent student-led walkout protest. and as one of the students who helped organize this event. I appreciate the opportunity to address the purpose of this protest and the concerns and controversy that have followed. First, it is important to clarify what this walkout was and what it is not. This was not an act of disruption for the sake of disruption, and it was not meant to disrespect our schools, our teachers, or district. Rather, it was a peaceful, organized, and student-led demonstration intended to express concern about policies that directly affect our families, our classmates, and broader community. Many students in our district come from immigrant households and know or know someone who does. For these students, immigration policy is not an abstract political

206issue. It is lived reality. It affects their sense of safety, their mental health, and their ability to focus and succeed in school. The walkout was a way for students to voice their concerns in a visible and collective manner. They felt traditional avenues were not enough. We also acknowledge that this walkout has sparked controversy. Some have questioned whether such actions are appropriate in school settings, while others have expressed discomfort with the topic itself. And these concerns deserve to be heard. However, disagreement does not invalidate the legitimacy of student expression. In fact, schools are meant to be a place where students learn how to engage thoughtfully with difficult issues, not avoid them. The right to peaceful protest is protected under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. Students do not lose their constitutional rights when they

207walk onto school campus. While schools may set reasonable guidelines to ensure safety and order, the fundamental right to express political views, especially through peaceful protest, remains protected. We are not asking everyone to agree with the message of the protest. We are asking for recognition that student voices matter, especially when those voices are raised responsibly and peacefully. The potential silencing or punishing of students for engaging in civic action sends the message that participation in democracy is something to fear rather than value. In closing, the student-led walkout was an expression of concern, courage, and civic responsibility. It reflected the realities many students face and their desire to be heard. We hope this... We hope that... Sorry. It's okay. That time is up. Okay, sorry. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Cito. Next we have Elvira Raya

208and then Alexa Esparza. Good evening, board members, superintendent, community members. My name is Elvira Raya. I'm a parent of three students in the district, and two of them participated in the student walkouts yesterday. So I am here today to publicly express my gratitude to the district administration and school staff for the handling of the walkouts this week. I understand that it's a high-tension, controversial situation that you all have to handle this. the administration as well as the staff but I also understand that you have to hold a neutral stance I understand all of that but it really meant a lot as a parent for me to see that despite negative pushback or questions or concerns or complaints that you must have received all day long, all week long, I was glad to see that the

209district prioritized student safety and ensured that staff were present to support our students while they exercised their First Amendment rights. I also want to say that this was especially important when Adults who should know better acted aggressively towards the students protesting throwing coffee cups at them and Actually saying a lot of obscenities towards them So I really really appreciate that the district took an opportunity and took this very seriously it really in a time where in immigrant community is facing immense fear it really means the world to see that this district is taking it seriously to act as what we should be, which should be the protectors of our children. So thank you for that. I know that a lot of people had concerns about all the messages that were going while the walkouts were

210happening. And then I'm thinking, well, as parents, if we don't hear from the district. It's bad. If we hear a lot from the district, it's bad. I prefer over communication, so thank you for all the messages that went out as we were listening to what was happening. So not everybody may have appreciated them. I did, and I know that a lot of parents did as well. I encourage you to continue all of the efforts that you are having right now to maintain our schools, to be a safe zone for our students, for our parents. No child really should have... to fear going to school. No parent should have to fear going to drop off their kids. And I am very proud of our students. Every single one who walked out yesterday, maybe they don't know

211all the details of how they should do it. Maybe they don't know that they should not be in the middle of the street. But that's what they're going to be learning. And we need to start providing opportunities for them to learn that as they grow and become wonderful adults. So thank you. Thank you, Ms. Roya. Okay, and our last public comment for this section, Alexa Esparza. Okay, so hello everybody. Good evening, board members, superintendent, and community members who are here. I would like to take this moment to address the walkout that happened yesterday, as many of my community members and peers have already done. I'd like to recap what happened. Most secondary schools, if not all, were able to walk to the Main Street area and protest against the immigration officer concerns that have been

212circling the U.S. for a while now. And if I may take a minute to be subjective, it was mostly a very peaceful protest that was highly encouraging and full of hope. And I do understand I'm here today to be a little more objective. I understand there was some opposition and that people are unhappy with the district's part in this in this protest and this walkout. But I'm here to thank the staff members and admin and our district and board for their safety measures and how you guys were able to handle this situation. As a participant, I felt nervous. It was the first of its kind in a very long time. And because the recently... freedom of peaceful protest has not been very peaceful. And so the escorts were a really great comfort in these times

213of walking to and from Main Street. I want it to be known as a person who was there that WJUSD staff remained neutral and the priority for our admin was the safety of our students. I know there have been explicit online mentions of harm towards students, and I saw some aggression as well. So the alertness and de-escalation that I saw from these security guards and teachers was really appreciated. I also know that some people are unhappy with the walkout happening during school hours, and I want to say that it was done to attract attention to the issue and show a united student front. I also want to say that students did prepare. I know myself and other students like me bounced rice back to school today, you know, making sure that their school assignments were

214done. And I also want to point out that this protest was a different form of education. We are fostering leaders. The very essence of education is that we want to encourage students to be involved in their community and be active society members. Once again, thank you so much for how you handled the situation and moving forward I know that this issue will not go away overnight. So please keep acting in the safe in the interest of our students. I really appreciate how you handled it and I hope to see more of it in the future. Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Barza. Okay, is that the last comment? So trustees j4 is a information action item It's review updated board policy and administrative regulation 51 45.13 response to immigration Enforcement are there any questions or comments

215by our trustee just to be a runner just thank you staff for Responding to the questions that I had sent ahead of time. That's it. Thank you. Okay. Are there any other questions or comments? No, okay Trustee Villagrana moves for made the motion to approve and was seconded by Trustee Garcia. Is there any discussion? Nope. Okay, then we'll start with Trustee Brubaker. How do you vote, Trustee Brubaker? Yes. Trustee Garcia? Yes. Trustee Richardson-Fowler? Yes. Trustee Rodriguez-Mohica? Yes. Trustee Villagrana? Yes. Trustee Rodriguez, yes. A unanimous vote. Approves the review of updated board policy and administration regulation response to immigration enforcement. Okay, thank you. We're moving on to J5. There's also an information action item, review updated board policy and administrative regulation 5144.1, suspension and expulsion due process. Are there any comments or any questions from trustees?

216Any any just Viera I saw the response some of you are gonna get a very recommending that we keep it even though the ed code says What it says so if you can actually tell the board or time out and then certainly that's the way your recommendation is absolutely absolutely and I'm going to Move you all to on your the board policy section and it is under, I'm going, trying to find the line here. It's not one of the highlighted lines, sorry. Can we put it on the screen? On the screen. I don't even have glasses that would fit that. No, we got a zoom in, there you go. Sorry. Trustee DeGranne, can you point me in the direction of the which this shall in the May? Page two. Yes, thank you. Under authority to

217expel. Thank you. Under the thank you. And then the be the. Yes. Yeah, right there. Right now. Go up a little bit more. Keep going. Keep going right there. So right here is as required by law, the superintendent or principal shall. Recommend expulsion for the following acts and the board shall determine whether to order expulsion in accordance with education code 48 915 Actually, I passed the sixth is where the I was asking about my apologies go down past the six, please For all other violations listed in accompanying administrative regulation grounds for suspension No. Yes. Yeah. So if you go on right it says shall and then the code it's may the language. And so the question I had whether you know we can I guess go against what the code says and put shall when

218the code itself says may. And so you had a conversation with the attorney about this and the conclusion was. The attorney's recommendation. Prior this was language in the board policy that was already in existence trustee via grana recommended or asked that we change the word from shall to may as the original ed code does say may our Attorney had recommended that we were with that we keep the word shall as it make it applies The implies that the board would apply the the ed the ruling Equally across any ruling that you would make it would be you will do this. It's it's not an It would be not a variable. It would just be applied equally across all situations. It would be more of a risk management and a risk management kind of view. It

219would be just applied. So in his thought and the attorney's recommendation was to keep it as a shall. It keeps it more of a safe. safety backup for the district that way. But as Trustee Villagrana did bring about, it does say in Ed Code, may. So may implies that you can do it. Shall implies that you... Will do it so it's up to the board if you would like to go back and change previous language from the policy that is not one of the recommended updates from Regulation, it's it's something that was there prior What did I is that did I explain how you understood it as well? Thank you. So trustee Viettana is and so you still maintain that you Want it to be May as opposed to show what's not what I want

220is what the Ed code says that's my concern that We're we're not going with the language of the Ed code and to me Xiao is beyond So again, if we're if we're allowed to go beyond and that's fine, but and again if the attorney saying that we are To me it was just about being consistent because the previous section is aligned with the Ed code says shall and this one just Ed code says may. So that was it. It was just inconsistent. We're being consistent above but we're not being consistent in the second part. So that was the reason why. OK. Does anybody else have. I do not have a question. Trustee Brubaker Trustee Garcia Trustee Richardson-Fowler. No. Trustee Rodriguez-Muica. No. Just be a Donna. Are you no? Okay. That was it. So this is

221a information action do we have a motion to approve updated board policy administration regulation 51 44.1 suspension and expulsion due process Does anybody want to make a motion to approve it? Second trustee Richardson Fowler makes the motion to approve and was second by trustee Garcia, any discussion? Seeing none, we'll start to take the vote and we'll start with Trustee Brubaker. Yes. Yes. Trustee Garcia. Yes. Trustee Richardson-Fowler. Yes. Trustee Rodriguez-Mohica. Yes. Trustee Villagrana. No. No. Trustee Rodriguez, yes. THE BOARD POLICY IS APPROVED WITH FIVE YESES AND ONE NO AND NO ABSTENTIONS. THANK YOU, TRUSTEES. WE NOW WILL MOVE ON. WE'VE ALREADY COVERED K AND L. AND WE NOW MOVE ON TO ITEM M. PUBLIC COMMENT FOR ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA. I BELIEVE WE HAVE FOUR COMMENTS. OUR FIRST PUBLIC SPEAKER IS LONDON MOORE AND THE

222SECOND IS BLAKE HAUTHORN. PUSH THE BUTTON. Hello board members. I'm following up on a topic from two weeks ago's meeting. My name is London Moore and I am a junior at Pioneer High School. I am here tonight to voice my concerns about the proposed plan to move to a six-period school day. High school is more than just a place to complete required courses. It's a critical time for us to explore who we are, what we enjoy, and what we want our futures to look like. Every elective we take, every pathway we explore, and every support class we attend helps us figure out our strengths and interests. By cutting down the number of periods we can take, this plan limits our ability to explore these opportunities and undermines the purpose of high school as a space

223for personal growth and preparation for life beyond the classroom. Currently, our schedule allows students to balance graduation requirements with electives like creative classes, world languages, CTE programs, and support classes. These extra periods aren't just fillers. They give students the chance to discover passions that may guide to college and career choices. The proposed six-period day reduces this flexibility. It makes it hard to take advanced or specialty courses, eliminates the option for a shortened senior schedule, and limits opportunities for credit recovery or course retakes during the school day. How is taking away our ability to choose who we are supposed to benefit us? Restricting these options doesn't just make scheduling more rigid. It constrains our growth, limits our exploration, and could even impact graduation and college readiness. High school is meant to prepare us for the future,

224but you can't prepare for a future you haven't had the chance to explore. During my time at Pioneer, I have had the opportunity to take the Ag Engineering and Culinary Pathways. This has given me a great deal of inspiration as well as knowledge of what I want to pursue in the future. I plan to get my welding certification as well as attend a university after graduation. I have my electives to thank for these future paving decisions. I'm aware that this proposed plan would likely take place after I graduate, but I come to you with the concerns for the students to come after me. It's deeply disheartening to hear that the future youth could have even less opportunities for a diverse and impactful education while being left to a more structured future that leaves no room

225for self-exploration or individuality. I urge the board to consider the consequences of this plan, not just in numbers, but in the lives of students. Preserving our current schedule means preserving opportunities for individuality, self-discovery, and meaningful preparation for the life after high school. Thank you for your time and consideration. Thank you, Ms. Moore. Next, we have Blake Hawthorne and then Maribel Mendoza. That was my daughter, so I'm kind of proud at the moment. I'm up here to follow up on what she said because I spent several hours watching last week's board meeting. I know it's about funding cuts. I know that's the driving force behind it. I know where it's coming from. We've lost, what, $8 billion being hijacked by the administration, basically extorting states where he doesn't like it. And the penalty that is going

226to be paid for that is future generations. So when the board goes to consider this stuff, I know you talked about graduation rates. I know you talked about all the little separate factors in the data that went into it. But not every part of high school, as my daughter was saying. is about the graduation rate of the data. It's about finding out who you are. Myself, I didn't have the option to choose my own electives when I grew up. My parents made them. And I wasted 25 years doing things I didn't care about. Had I been given the shop class I wanted to take, do the things I wanted to do, explored more things, my life might have taken a different path. So when you're considering the aspects of whether or not the grades are

227where they're supposed to be, the graduation rates are where they're supposed to be, there's more to it. As well as just not having so much leaning into the math, the history, the science. The kids need a break from it. They need some joy during the day. And hearing these kids speak tonight, I mean, it's a pretty special group of kids coming up. They're young adults, and they're going to be the next ones out there. And to do anything to limit their opportunities and their chances for growing themselves and success, I think would be a travesty just based on a cutback that I think will be temporary. And I know you can't just pull money out of nowhere. But when you guys sit there and think about it and you're making that decision, you're making a

228decision that goes far past what's currently coming. The money will come back, but the opportunity for these kids and what they're going to have in their futures will not come back. The limits will be hit on them. I'd also like to say I really, as a parent, appreciated what you guys did yesterday, contacting us, letting us know what was happening. I got the phone calls. I got the emails. I got the text messages. I knew it was coming. I didn't know what the board's reaction was going to be. But I know you're going to catch a hell of a lot of backlash. I know it's not easy being a board member. I've been mad at y'all before. I'm sure I'll be mad at you again. But today, I'm really happy. It's been some ugly stuff

229out there. The social media pages here in town have been disgusting. There have been just murderous thoughts and things said about these kids. It makes me sick to my stomach. And I'm taking names on those people, by the way. So just as a parent, thank you for allowing these kids to have the free speech, to express themselves. And the way you comported yourselves with it, I think, deserves applause because I know you're going to catch a lot from the voices that tend to rise up and argue back against it. So for those that don't usually speak out for you, we appreciate you very much. And please keep what I said about the electives. Thank you, Mr. Hawthorne. Next we have Maribel Mendoza and then Ana Reyes. Hello. Okay. Press the button. Oh. My name is

230Maribel Mendoza and thank you board members for Woodland Joint University School District for listening to me. So I am here as a concerned parent for my child. So my child is six and she goes to Prairie and I've been hearing what you guys have been commenting that you know you want to do your best to keep the children safe and so I'm here because at this point I no longer feel that I could drop off my kid to school and that they are safe. So I wanted to bring up an incident that happened this past Friday where there's a student in my child's class that for the last two years has It's a student that, in the words of a six-year-old, says needs to have special teachers in the classroom, right? So I assume it's

231probably paraprofessionals. And she has come home many times complaining and in tears, saying that this child is very strong, hurts the teachers, hurts her teacher and the other special teachers. And so this past Friday really draws the line. So this past Friday, I'm not sure what happened, but the child was removed from the classroom. Somehow the child made it back to the classroom when the child was not supposed to be back that day and then started making threats to the children. After that, for the children's safety, a full first grade classroom had to be removed and they all had to flee and run to another first grade classroom for their safety. Sorry, I get emotional. So my child ended up, they shut the door, and they were able to hear the child kicking and screaming,

232trying to get in and saying that he wanted to hurt the children. So the child did not go back to school. The student did not go back to school Monday, Tuesday. And I'm not sure about yesterday, but today my child was back in school with that student. So I'd like to have you guys put yourself in your situation. If you had a colleague that had made threats to hurt you and you guys had to leave and be put in another classroom for your safety while this person was trying to break through the door to hurt you. How would you feel if you were sitting the next day next to that person again? I don't believe that any six and seven-year-olds should have to go through that. And the fact that the school is allowing this

233to happen makes me question, are our children safe? Before, my child used to come home, and I would sympathize and tell her, you know, there's children that need extra support. This past Friday, I had no words. I did not know what to tell her anymore. So I would like to bring this situation because at... I think this is a little bit higher than the teachers. And as a school district, I saw you guys talking about suspension. At one point is one children's right to be in school, which I get that, but when it's a full classroom safety, when is their rights gonna be louder? Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Mendoza. Superintendent, can you? I have received an email already and I referred it to one of our directors to follow up on this. Okay, thank

234you. Can you keep me abreast, at least keep us abreast of the situation? Thank you. Our last public comment is from Ana Reyes. I'm not sure if they're still here. Okay, thank you very much. Okay, so that. President Rodriguez. Yes, Trustee. Can we be updated on this, please, on the progress and what's happening to support the situation? I know I've been reached out to as well about this issue, and I believe that this is not the first time that the classroom has had to evacuate with the students. So it's been happening quite a bit. So I'd love it if we could get an update. I don't know if it's through a Friday fact or some other kind of medium, but. I do think it'd be helpful to keep us in the loop. Yes, definitely. I'm

235really asking for a... I need to see what I can share because it's student confidentiality. And so there's only limitations that I can share. So I will share what I can. And we can discuss specifically, but I'll follow up with you later on what I can. So there will be an update forthcoming. Okay, so no more comments for item M. We move on to item N, information requests for future agenda items. Trustee Richardson-Fowler. So I didn't get to share some of these at the last meeting since I had to leave. I had an IEP early the next day. I have submitted this year five yellow sheets. One is for reviewing alternative schools and academies programs like DaVinci VAPA magnet schools middle college high school. I am requesting a comprehensive look at schedules including zero periods

236for freshmen possible eighth periods four by four university style at all. I'm sorry Dr. Toto but because of that amazing biannual report I'm requesting more information. I'd love to get some and I know this is nebulous and each position is different but I would love to get some information on HR job fill timelines like how long once it's posted till it closes when do we get the candidates. I just want to make sure we're not missing any holes and we're keeping some things. I've been at agencies where you've had a position open for like three years and you've missed candidates because they're looking for a job. Four, I'm looking at, and these next two are more information so I can decide what policy steps to take. Four is protected and collaboration and planning time for

237teachers and staff. We're making a lot of cuts and getting rid of positions. We ask a lot of excellence from our staff but I'm wanting to make sure we're giving them time to do the pivots and to be excellent. And the fifth and final one is for college and career readiness. I want to just see what we're doing and what we can do to bolster that. Do we have an internship board? Do we have a career board? Are we having colleges come and visit our school sites with what frequency? Those sorts of things. So those are my yellow sheet. Not all of them are for board meetings. Some of them are just for information. Okay, thank you Yes, so I just want to share with the board that I met during the jet and the

238planning committee We discussed because this is getting really long. And so we discussed reviewing I Updating I just updated the list today on when they which items were submitted on what date And we're going to be meeting to kind of try to see how we can organize them and plan them out So that we can cover as many as we can as fast as we can Also keeping in mind all the required items that we have on our governance calendar. And so we'll be bringing something forward to the board later when we kind of have a recommendation to present to you. Thank you, Superintendent. Okay. Anything else under n and permission request Justin Brubaker? So this is not for at a meeting But I did put a yellow sheet in for a Friday fact Just

239I wanted to share with the public though because we are doing budget cuts that were also cognizant that we also have to be careful in our own board budgeting to get information about projected costs for conferences and things like that so that we can strategize what we opt to attend being fiscally responsible. So that's something I'm hoping we'll get before we start being asked if we want to go to conferences. Very good. Okay, any other questions on N or in statements? No? Okay. Item O information closing comments any closing comments? Trustee Richardson-Fowler. So we spend a lot of time going over metrics and data and talking about reading writing and arithmetic and where our students at and levels but every now and then I have to remind myself what the purpose of schools are based

240on which is grounded in law and history and modern practice it is to create citizens it is to create educate capable citizens that are prepared to live meaningful productive lives and I think that we are definitely doing that and on that pathway with the student engagement that we have been seeing in the last two months. Our students are having opinions. I think the only thing I would implore and challenge to our teachers is to incorporate something that is meaningful to our students and their daily learning. English, history, Econ government we can bring our board agenda in that and personalize it to the kids. I don't know I had some dynamic teachers I totally bought into for the people by the people and we're seeing our kids live it right now And it just tells me

241that we are doing something, right? So I just want us to continue doing it so that they continue having the information that they need to become the adults that they want to be Thank You trustee any other closing comments Okay, seeing none move on to item P date and time of next scheduled regular board meeting Thursday February 19th Closed session at 5 p.m. And open session at 6 p.m. We are moving to queue adjournment. Thank you everyone. Thank you trustees