Board Meeting 10-23-25

001All right, trustees, thank you so much. It's 5 p.m. on the dot. Thank you so much to our staff superintendent. Thank you very much, Monica, for all your support. I want to call this meeting to order in open session at 5 p.m. We need to approve the board agenda for today. So moved. Moved by Trustee Richardson-Fowler. Second. Seconded by Trustee Rodriguez. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposition? Any abstentions? Seeing none, motion to approve board agenda for today, October 23rd, 2025 has been approved by those board members present. Any public comment this evening? No public comment for items on closed session. We're going to go ahead and convene in closed session and return to open session at 6 p.m. Thank you very much. Board will need 15 more minutes. So we should

002start at 615 tonight. Thank you very much for your patience this evening Thank you very much to our students staff teachers and families We're gonna go ahead and get started with the Pledge of Allegiance at 6 16 p.m Thank you very much. This evening will be led the trustee. Villagran I will be leading the pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you very much. And Trustee Brubaker will be leading the land acknowledgement statement. We should take a moment to acknowledge the land on which we are gathered. For thousands of years, this land has been the home of the Patwin people. Today, there are three federally recognized Patwin tribes, Kalchildihi

003Band of Winton Indians and the Colusa Indian of the Colusa Indian community, Ketzildihi Winton Nation, and Yohidishi Winton Nation. The Patwin people have remained committed to the stewardship of this land over many centuries. It has been cherished and protected as elders have instructed the young through generations. We are honored and grateful to be here today on their traditional lands. Thank you very much. This evening the equity statement will be read by Trustee Rodriguez-Molica. Excuse me. All students deserve excellent schools which are culturally responsive and set high expectations, a high quality learning environment, and equitable resources to ensure that they are reaching their full potential. WJUSD will be purposeful about providing equitable access to all essential educational opportunities for all WJUSD students, especially diverse and disadvantaged students who have historically been underserved by educational institutions. Thank

004you very much this evening trustee Richardson Fowler will be leading the board of trustee agreements Board of trustee agreements check in remember our larger purpose boundaries Remember that individual decisions are not personal Open slash aspire to finding common ground having empathy being respectful and assume the best intentions Thank you very much trustees Announcement of any action taken in closed session. The Board of Trustees took action in closed session by unanimous vote by all those board members present to approve the dismissal of a permanent classified employee, paraprofessional two, special education. Thank you very much. The next board action that was taken in closed session related to student expulsion. This vote was taken by the Board of Trustees in closed session by unanimous vote by all board members present. to approve the expulsion of case 26-01 by

005all board members present. Thank you very much. Proceeding to the next one. Public comments for sections G, consent agenda, and items H, community engagement. No public comment. Going on to consent agenda this evening. Trustee Richardson-Fowler. I have to pull an item. Yes, ma'am. Okay, hold on a second. No problem. It is G2. Item g2 from the PO list has been pulled. Yeah, can I pull a specific item from that sure g2e? All right, so we need a motion to do we need I'm sorry I'm digressing a little bit. We need a motion to pull the Consented the PO list right no motion. No motion. Okay. Thank you so much. I'm sorry All right, so we don't need a motion. We're pulling the PO list No, and then we'll clear I'm not pulling anything from the

006peel list. I'm pulling she's pulling the peel list Oh, you're pulling the peel pulling the peel this or vote separately on item g2e. Thank you. All right Anything else you guys? All right Can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda minus g1a? So I'm gonna make a comment before yes, ma'am on you on the consent agenda under purchase orders Purchase order is content item G1 a purchase order number two. I just want to formally read a statement and Just for transparency purposes As you are aware, and many people in the community and teachers and staff are aware, my spouse has recently been affiliated in CAVE in his role as CEO. And to ensure there's no conflict or appearance of any conflict, because our associate superintendent, Dr. Gracie Guerrero, will be the district designated

007representative for any areas responsible to dealing with the identity of CAVE and our district. And also, just for transparency purposes. The district has been engaged and active with CAVE for over 50 years. We recently celebrated the 40th year of a bilingual program at Beamer, and our district has always been involved since way back in the day. And so just this one little difference that my husband is now involved in CAVE, so for transparency purposes, everything will be now under our associate superintendent, Dr. Guerrero. Thank you. Thank you very much just to clarify trustee Richardson Fowler before I read the next motion You pulled item g2a e. Yep. All right. Thank you very much Okay, so I need a motion to approve the consent agenda minus g1 a and g2a e so moved second It's been

008moved by trustee Brubaker Seconded by Trustee Villagrana. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposition? Any abstentions? Seeing none, the consent agenda minus G1A and G2AE have been approved. All right. Any questions on item G1A? Can I get a motion to approve the PO list, G1A? So moved. Second. It's been motioned by Trustee Villagrana, seconded by Trustee Richardson-Fowler. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposition? Any abstentions? I abstain. That item passes with five votes, one abstention. All right, next item to vote on is item G1A, I'm sorry, G2AE. Can I get a motion to approve? So moved. It's been motioned by Trustee Villagrana. Second. Second by Trustee Rodriguez-Molchica. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposition? No abstentions? I gleefully abstain. All right. Trustee Richardson-Fowler. All right. So

009you have five in favor and one abstention by Trustee Richardson-Fowler. Thank you very much. Moving on to the next item. Item H, community engagement, students recognition. Is Vanessa Santana in the room? Vanessa, can you please come up here to the podium? I think you have some special guests with you. So I will say a few words and then I'll pass it on. This is to recognize Vanessa Santano, who has been awarded the most artistic design in the Sacramento Valley Manufacturing Alliance, the TikTok Toe High School Manufacturing Challenge. And so thank you for emailing us and making us aware that Vanessa entered into this contest and was selected. We're so proud of you. Congratulations. So this contest, this manufacturing challenge that we had was based on a tic-tac-toe game. Everybody understands that it's a pretty simple

010concept. So the students need to make that cool. And Vanessa did a really good job at that. We had seven awards and Vanessa won $500. Congratulations. And for most artistic, we have her award. We had some delay in getting her awards manufactured, but we have a plaque here machined out of aluminum. It's really nice. So congratulations and thank you so much for it. Oh Vanessa. Can you say a few words most artistic? Yes Vanessa, will you say a few words and are your pet is your are your parents here? Felicidades I'd like to say a few words for it to us Do I bring this down? I want to thank Mr. Tim Schafer and Mr. Dean Peckham. This has been an amazing opportunity for me, and it has helped me find out what I wanted

011to do in the future, and it has helped me in tremendous ways as this gave me an opportunity to learn 3D modeling, and without this, this would have never opened such doors for me. Well, we are very proud. We have a certificate for you as well. I just want to... Hi, I'm Dean Peckham. I'm Executive Director of Sac Valley Manufacturing. And I just want to show, illustrate her commitment. It was two nights before the event, 8.30 at night. I had just gotten home from another event, and the phone rings, and I don't recognize the phone number. Less than two minutes later, the phone's ringing again. I figured if somebody's calling at 8.30 at night, it's got to be something serious. And it was Vanessa. And she just wanted, she called because she wanted to make

012sure that the event was still being held, that it started at 10 a.m., and that it was being held at the event center. That was her level of commitment to being there. And on top of which, I think she was... Probably one of the first that was there that morning with her parents for the entire day So she really exemplifies that level of commitment and energy that we love to see in in the youth Who are interested in manufacturing? So we're looking forward to having her back again this year For everybody's attention in case you want it. We'll let you we'll send out the save the day notice March 14th at the Citrus Heights event center Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thank you so much. You got everything? Okay. Okay. Thank you so much.

013Okay. Tim, we're supposed to go join in the final. Okay. Absolutely. Thank you very much. Our next student recognition is for Brian. Who's Kanga? Pettis Did you want to say anything first? I sure do. Okay. Okay Good evening. It's with great pleasure that I get to recognize Brian Pettis for his efforts to Really spearhead the sound improvements in the Pioneer High School Theatre So just a little bit about Brian. He's a junior. He's been in mariachi since seventh grade. I've known him since then and just seen him grow like so amazingly, both in his musical abilities, but also just as a really good human. And he has been running the AV, the audio visual, you know, at probably most. Pioneer High School events and has a side business of his own and recognized that the

014Pioneer High School Theater needed sound improvements. He did the research. He figured out what equipment would work in the theater. once the equipment was purchased using the new VAPA funds that the schools have, he actually installed the equipment himself and then created a guide that is available for staff to use and has offered to train whoever needs support in using the new equipment. So I'm just so grateful that we get to... celebrate him and his efforts. I just want to share. So do you remember Brian when I walked into that little room? I was at an event. I'm not sure what it was. I think it was a music event. I can't remember. And I just went back because I was curious about who was back there. And I started talking to Brian, and he's

015showing me the equipment, and he's pointing out some of our outdated equipment. and telling me that he knows how to fix it. And he knows, and he started showing me his own equipment. And so I told him, well, send me an email. Maybe, can you, are you willing to help us out with this? And he says, yeah, I'll let you know what you need. And I said, well, send me an email and I'll have the principal work with you on this. And he did. And then no one got back to him. So he's persistent and said, hey, I haven't heard back yet. And I said, well, let me connect you to Christina Lambie and let me know if they're not getting back to you. So I want to thank you for being so persistent, for

016doing this for your school, for sharing your talent, and for just taking initiative. That's a great talent. And I want to congratulate your parents as well. The parents over there. You have a great son, great future. So thank you, Brian, for helping us out. Mr. Perez, do you have a business card? But you will next week, right? Yes. Yes. Absolutely. All right. You can always drop it off and give it to folks. Thank you very much. They want to take a picture with your mom, too. Yeah. Thank you very much. Much success this evening recognizing our students. Our next item is item H3, presentation of Resolution 17-26, California Retired Teachers Week, celebrated November 2nd through the 8th, 2025. And I will be passing this off to Trustee Rodriguez-Mojica. Thank you so much. It is my

017honor to present this resolution for California Retired Teachers Week. And it looks like you already joined us. Yes. Thank you so much for being here. This resolution we are presenting in memory of Gil Walker, who passed away recently. And I am deeply honored to be the trustee that presents this. I am a former school teacher. Teaching is so, so hard. It's so challenging. And it's so much work that goes into being a teacher, an incredibly just difficult service profession to be in. For teachers to continue on and continue serving as retired teachers is just at a whole other level So thank you so much for being here. I do want to read a little part of the resolution if that's okay with you Before you share your remarks So this is the resolution 1726 California

018retired teachers week November 2nd to the 8th 2025 Whereas the California Retired Teachers Association, CALRTA, was formed by Laura E. Settle in 1929 at the start of the Great Depression to relieve the economic hardships suffered by retired teachers and has since become a leading advocate for providing teachers with sufficient retirement income. And whereas California Retired Teachers Association also provides continuing support to active and future teachers. including grants, scholarships, and donations of more than $750,000 a year. And whereas the vast majority of California's retired teachers share a commitment to improving their communities through volunteer activities. And there's a whole lot more in this resolution, but I don't want to take away time for you to be able to share. So now, therefore, be it resolved that in recognition of the vital role retired teachers fulfill in

019every community in California and to honor their ongoing commitment to all teachers, the Woodland Joint Unified School District Board of Trustees does hereby proclaim the week of November 2nd through the 8th, 2025 as California Retired Teachers Week. Thank you so much for being here. And I want to introduce you very quickly. We have Acting President Pat Turner and our CTC representative for Division 83, Yolo County, Bob Gonzalez. Thank you very much. I was a teacher in the Woodland School District for 17 years. I've been retired for 20, and I've been a member of the Retired Teachers Association for 19. Our mission is to protect and advocate for retired and active educators' pensions and other retirement benefits and to support public education in our communities. We are celebrating a victory. We advocacy works thanks to the

020dedication of a viscous advocacy by Cal RTA President Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act into law Many of our teachers were very much affected by that including myself I worked several years before I became a teacher and I had a pretty good but they paid me one half of what I should have been getting for 20 years. They made up one year of it, though. Anyway, we were one of the first organizations to begin pushing for repeal of this unfair penalty, and it worked. Thank you for dedicating the week to Gil Walker. He was our president for seven years. He was much more than a president. He was a friend. He was a support. He just anticipated what you needed and had it for you ready. We truly miss him. There's a picture in

021our CRTA contact. It's a state newsletter of Gil awarding a scholarship to a teacher in the classroom. Just like to say who we are Advocacy is our focus we zero in on Cal STRS Retirement Social Security federal issues health care and healthy aging and public education funding we've been an Organization or STRS has been an organization 13 years before Social Security Act was enacted In regards to the tremendous repeal that we were able to get Congress to do, We were organized with 14 other states. In Washington, D.C., we had two national teacher organizations, three unions representing postal carriers, two unions representing federal employees, national firefighters unions, Alliance of Retired Americans, and so forth and so forth. We worked very hard on this, and when we first talked about this, I remember 13 years ago, I

022said, I don't see how this could ever happen while I'm still alive, but we did have it happen. We thank you very much for the resolution, and let's get on with the show. Here's the resolution. The next item is H4, recognition of gifts to the district. We have four significant gifts on the gift list. Pioneer High School received a donation from Lex Level Design, LLC for $500 value, monetary donations for cross country. Ed Services received a donation from Nugget Market in the value of $75, which was given in gift card to support professional development events. Dingle Elementary School received a donation from Nugget Market in the value of $23.82, and this was a monetary donation towards art funds. Beamer Elementary School received a donation from Nancy Tilby with a value of $600, and the gift

023description was 100 crumble cookie gift cards to promote student achievement and attendance. The total report of donations was $1,198.82. Let's give these donors a round of applause, please. Thank you very much. With that said, we do want to go ahead and continue on with the student reports. Reports from high school student representatives. Who would like to go first this evening? Thank you for waiting so patiently. Go ahead. Good evening, Board President Bautista Zavala, Trustees, Superintendent Ortega Lemkin, Executive Cabinet, and our community. My name is Nicole Pimentel-Solorio, and today my report is on the following month of October. ASB put together our very first pumpkin patch at Pioneer. Students joined ASB at lunch and after school to hand select a free pumpkin to paint and enjoy some caramel apples for National Caramel Apple Day. It was

024a success. Many students took pictures with our hay bales and pumpkin decor. Girls volleyball and girls flag football had their senior night celebration last night. Let's congratulate our seniors for their dedication to their teams and wish them a good future. Our first Vendor Day took place nearly two weeks ago on October 10th. Clubs fundraise by selling food that they worked to prepare. My personal favorite was the item that Brownish was selling, which was esquitas or corn cups. Pioneer is accepting applications for our Pioneer High School's Got Talent show. The date of the show is on November 18th from 6.30 to 8 p.m. Lastly, progress reports are going to come out soon for students. Pioneer's Lean Crew is hosting their usual breakfast for dinner event from 6 to 8 p.m. where students can study and finish

025assignments with tutors while also enjoying a delicious breakfast. Thank you, and that concludes my report. Thank you very much. Go ahead. Cache Creek High School. Good evening Board President Batista Zavala and Trustees, Superintendent Ortega Lemkin, Executive Cabinet, and Community. My name is Dominic Marquez and I am a senior representing Cache Creek High School. My report today is the following. Cache Creek High School welcomed 11 new students to begin quarter two last week. They have transitioned well into the campus, are settling into our school routines, and they seem to be enjoying the creek. Today, we held our honor roll and attendance award ceremony for first quarter. We had 23 students earn honor roll and 58 students with 90% attendance or better. This includes me. For many of us, it was the first time in a very

026long time that we were recognized for doing well in school. Mr. Borelli's culinary class did a good job making popcorn and snow cones to help us celebrate. The culinary trailer came in super handy for today's celebration. Mr. Coronado's art class has been very busy lately. We received a donation for a whole bunch of pumpkins for our art classes so our students could help paint and decorate them for you. Those are the ones in front of you right now. Our senior art students also have been very busy volunteering their time to create the signs for the upcoming elementary cross country meet. And they have been working on screen printing shirts for Prairie Elementary School. They also created a giant robot piñata that will be donated to SciTech Elementary School. These projects are their service learning projects

027for a senior seminar and they are really enjoying creating the art and supporting their community. We are looking forward to more collaborative projects with other schools in the future. Cache Creek is holding steady with three graduates so far this year. We are hoping to graduate a few more in the upcoming weeks. Thank you and this concludes my report. Thank you very much. All right public comment for items on the agenda. We do have one Can we have Carol and McLean in? To our students here. Thank you very much for coming this evening You're welcome to stay as long as you'd like and if you need to exit for whatever reason, thank you so much for being here Go ahead. Thank you Good evening members of the board. My name is Caroline McLennan and I am

028a teacher at Douglas Middle School. I'm here tonight because our school is struggling and our staff and students are paying the price for it. In just the past five days, we have had a fight every single day. These incidents have included students throwing objects and food at staff and other students, students jumping on and breaking tables to get a better view of the fights, and pulling out their phones and Chromebooks to record and share the violence. We've seen mobs of students rushing to watch fights and trampling over each other in the process. We've had police and ambulances called due to the severity of the fighting, and we've had blood on the concrete that our custodians spent hours cleaning and sanitizing today. On top of that, bells have begun to rung early for lunch, leaving staff

029and students without the chance to eat for an appropriate time period. And throughout all of this, staff are being cursed at, disrespected, and defied on a daily basis. This is not a learning environment. This is chaos, and this is unsafe. And I need to ask, why is the board more concerned with keeping millions in reserves than ensuring the safety of our students and staff by adequately staffing our schools with qualified professionals? These conditions are driving good people out of the profession and definitely out of this district. When teachers are not paid a livable wage, when benefits are unsatisfactory, and when they cannot feel physically or emotionally safe at work, they will leave and they are leaving. The district must prioritize allocating more funds to schools so we can fill these vacancies for both classified and

030certificated staff. This is not a teacher issue or a campus monitor issue or an administration issue. This is a funding issue. Schools simply do not have the resources to properly staff and support the people needed to keep students and staff safe. No one, not teachers, administrators, or any other staff members can continue to do more with less. And we are getting less and less each day while staff continue to leave this district. I urge the board to prioritize staffing and safety by taking action to fill these vacancies by paying our certificated and classified staff fairly. Our students deserve a safe place to learn. Our staff deserves a safe place to work. And our community deserves schools that they feel safe sending their children to. Thank you. All right. Moving on to the next item, item

031K1, superintendent's report. Good evening. We're going to continue with our priorities. I just want to have them just to highlight. We're going to be on the next items. I'll be highlighting what priorities we're going to be sharing for the last couple of two weeks. These are our budget and facilities and operations priorities. And just to let you know that last Friday, there was a great homecoming game from Woodland High School. I think they played against Dixon. I believe they won the game. And there were students, again, another very cheerful event with a lot of community participation. And I want to thank all the staff who made this memorable event happen for our students. We also are continuing on support of youth development and family engagement. We have several students who received recognition at the Yolo

032Concilio scholarship fundraiser. I want to think the trustees are able to be there on that night to recognize and support our students. We had our American Indian Parent Committee meeting, our back-to-school night on October 15th. Trustee Mojica was able to participate and attend the meeting where they talked about the plans they had for this school year, including the graduations and other workshops and events that they want to have to support our American Indian Parent Committee. Also, there was a cross-country meet at Beamer with Plainfield and Spring Lake Elementary. Students that I saw, I think I saw someone here a little while ago. Anyway, lots of smiling faces. Students just love, love this event. And I know they're having another one coming up pretty soon, too. So if you are able to make it out to

033one, you know, this has been a big, huge hit. Kids get all excited. They're going to be giving ribbons out the next time. Our music department had a car show at Pioneer High School this weekend as well. And so we had students out there, the band playing and showcasing another awesome family event, showcasing our music program and having families and students engaged. We also had a bi-literacy training for our middle school secondaries, teachers who were trained on literacy across the curriculum. And so this is a training that was done in collaboration with the Yolo County Office of Education. Our ELAC, we also have something new this year. We're really excited about this. We have student ELAC representatives now. And so they're being trained by Brandon, our youth development TOSA so that they can. Learn what

034you like is and what you like does and how they as students can get boys So we've had elementary students here, which we haven't had too often Being trained and on how to be leaders and how to do student voice. So we're really excited About this new initiative and opportunity for student leadership in our district Last night also was family gate night. That was a lot of fun There was a lot of our high school students were here doing community service Leading some of these activities and we have to do it. We have parents here with their with their children There is competition between parents and and their children and or our friends That was a lot of fun watching them play chess and now the kinds of other games as well So I want

035to thank our students and Deanne and the gate department or our gate staff who put this together. And we had some retiree teachers as well too, speaking of retirement, there was some retired teachers here helping out with this event. We also today at the fairgrounds had an opportunity for our students to attend a FIRA USA Ag Robotics Forum. This is an international event. This is the second time that has happened in Yolo County. They actually like having it here in Yolo County. They have this event twice a year, once in the United States and another one somewhere in Europe. But the one they have in the United States happens to be here in our own backyard. And so of course we're going to try to send students there. And we had our ag students, a

036number of bogs class out there. They were given a challenge on a problem that they needed to solve. And they did a scavenger hunt and went to, they had. So many vendors out there tractors and robots and all kinds of things that where they had to figure out What they can learn on how to solve an agricultural problem For example weeding or something with the soil or something with water and then they at the end They also presented what they learned and how they would solve that problem. There's a lot of demonstrations. And there's people from all over the world. Right there is someone from Australia showing a robot and what that robot can do for agriculture. It is amazing. I also want to say that we are making progress on negotiations. I want to

037thank our negotiations team and our two negotiating units for continuing support. I think we're making progress. We do have a tentative agreement with CSCA. So we're hoping to... bring that forward to approval soon and hoping forward to do the same thing with our WEA. I want to thank the board for their continuing support throughout the years on making sure that our teachers continue to receive raises. And I know that you're committed to continue to do so. So I'm looking forward to coming to a conclusion on that so that we can take care of our staff. Also want to remind the board that we did do a report From financial report not too long ago where you saw that we have about five million dollars of deficit spending So while we'll do we do I wanted

038to continue to support and keep raises We also have to be thinking about future years and we need to make sure that we are preparing our budget to present a multi-year budget projected to the COUNTY SO WE CAN KEEP THE DISTRICT IN GOOD FINANCIAL STANDING. WITH THAT, WE WILL NEED TO MAKE BUDGET ADJUSTMENTS AND REDUCTIONS AND THIS YEAR THERE WILL BE LOTS OF THINGS WE WILL NEED TO ELIMINATE. HERE IS A TIMELINE. I WANT TO MAKE SURE I'M TRANSPARENT WITH EVERYONE. I WILL BE BRINGING SOME RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE BOARD. I'M ALREADY WORKING WITH CABINET. I RECEIVED FEEDBACK FROM OUR PRINCIPALS. I WILL BE REACHING OUT TO OUR UNION PRESIDENTS TO SEEK INPUT from them as well and bring a first recommendation to you on the November 20th. Again, on the 11th, I don't believe that

039you'll be making complete decisions on the first meeting because there's a lot to consider. And then we'll need to have a special board meeting in January. And then we absolutely have to make final decisions no later than January 22nd in order for us to do anything that we need to do legally for and working with our bargaining units for any potential layoffs. regarding state and federal funding updates there as you know there's a government shutdown and so that has implications to federal funding gaps for school districts it's the shutdown prolongs any funding shortfalls for schools from federal funds and that does really impact on us being able to make DECISIONS AS WE DEVELOP THE BUDGET FOR NEXT YEAR. IF WE ARE NOT SURE WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, THE SHUTDOWN THAT DELAYS IT, THEN

040IT MAKES IT REALLY DIFFICULT FOR US TO KNOW IF WE CAN COUNT ON THOSE FEDERAL FUNDS. SO THAT DOES IMPACT OUR BUDGETING PROCESS AND OPERATIONS AS WE'RE LOOKING AT THAT. IT'S SPECIFICALLY THREATENING SPECIFIC PROGRAMS RIGHT NOW, ESPECIALLY ALL OUR TITLE I PROGRAMS, TITLE I, TITLE II, III, IV, V. WE DON'T HAVE V. WE HAVE TITLE VI. WE'LL SKIP V. So there's concerns about what that means what kind of programs that will that jeopardize our programs? And so, you know, I'll be updating you as soon as we hear more But right now we're hearing that anything has to do with immigration or English learners is really up for at risk of not being funded or fully funded We are already hearing the title one potentially could be hit a 25% cut And so that's going to

041have to be something that we consider as well during the budget adjustments and reductions There's also a court because of all of that of course there's a lot of budget uncertainty a shutdown a shutdown of to introduce uncertainty for schools when making budget and staffing services so you know when it's very uncertain we may need to have potential pink slips and potentially because we don't know if the funding is coming in and we've that we've that's happened in the past and then you know, if the funding comes in, we can always go back and reinstate, but that's something we definitely need to consider. At the state level, because everything's happening at the state level, even though there's a modest look at potential revenue increase in California, it's modest, but that could be impacted heavily by

042what happens at the state level, and that could offset some available... Federal funding that could impact the state as well. So in short, you know districts we need to be very careful We're gonna need to be very careful on continuing to be mindful of our multi-year budget planning to prioritize essential spending And we need to be very cautious of ongoing expenditures You know, we do have revenues that can assist with some one-time funding costs, but regarding ongoing expenditures we need to be really really careful and make decisions for multiple for multi years and so that's the update regarding state and federal funds and that's all I have for tonight thank you any questions for the superintendent from her report all right moving on to report from the California School Employees Association CSEA this evening thank

043you I love this up here Good evening, Superintendent Ortega-Lampkin, Board of Trustees, Cabinet, and Community. My name is Rebecca Rossiter, and I am the library tech at Douglas Middle School. I also proudly serve as the president of Chapter 118 of the Cal... Classified School Employee Association. It's been a little while since I've been up here, so I'm a little rusty. Our negotiations team is pleased to announce that we reached a tentative agreement with the district. We are eager to move forward with obtaining signatures and initiating the 610 process. We appreciate the district's team for working with us in good faith and for making meaningful progress toward improving salary and contract conditions for our members. We look forward to starting the process for the 26-27 negotiations sooner rather than later so that we don't continue to

044find ourselves in a position of issuing retro payments. As we all know that the payroll department is heavily impacted when this happens and will soon be undergoing changes in their systems. I would also like to express our gratitude to Trustee Richardson-Fowler for requesting the staffing report and to the HR team for the detail and effort they put into preparing it. CSEA remains committed to collaborating with the district to ensure that all students and staff receive the support they deserve in a safe and positive environment. To that end, we will be reaching out to schedule meetings with department leaders to address concerns prior to bringing them before the board. Thank you. This concludes my report. Thank you very much. Report from the Woodland Education Association. Sorry, I have three emails and I had the wrong one

045open. There we go. Good evening, superintendent, president, trustees, and members of our community. My name is Becca Bernard. I serve as the president of the Woodland Education Association, and I've been teaching seventh grade science at Douglas for nearly a decade. I love my students. They're the reason I'm still here, even when this work feels impossible. Teaching isn't just a job, it's a calling, so we've heard. But a calling still deserves a living wage. This was never meant to be a volunteer position. We are the guardians of the next generation, shaping the minds and hearts of the future. As Nelson Mandela said, education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. That vision keeps us going, but it's getting harder and harder to fight for the education our students deserve in

046a system that keeps asking for more while giving less. The root word of trustee is trust. This community elected you and entrusted you with the future of our children. That's a heavy task, but it's also a noble one. I've personally spoken to each of you over the past few years, and I know that you're not just doing this for a paycheck. You're doing it to serve, to give back. to make Woodland better. And for that, I genuinely thank each of you. Tonight, I'm asking you to honor that trust, not with words, but with action. It's time to rebuild it. Later on tonight's agenda, you will be discussing why we can't keep teachers in Woodland. And I want to remind you that you can't claim to value educators while you keep us at the lowest paid

047in our region. Now, instead of building a culture that values and retains teachers, you are doubling down, pushing punitive evaluation language in negotiations that would freeze a teacher's pay after two unsatisfactory evaluations, based entirely on the subjective opinions of administrators who might only be here for a year or two. That doesn't build trust, it breaks it. We are deeply disappointed that the district continues to hold on to this harmful, unnecessary language. It tells educators that Woodland isn't a place where teachers are trusted or supported, that we will be punished instead of helped. That culture doesn't attract great teachers. It drives them away. And when teachers leave, students pay the price. This proposal is more than misguided. It's insulting. Not to mention, this highly contentious piece was somehow missing from your recent WJUSD negotiations update. Our

048contract already provides fair systems for support and improvement. Articles 18, 19, and 21. We don't need new tools to punish. We need leadership that invests in teachers who want to stay. Meanwhile, teachers are struggling to afford rent or mortgages while paying $1,500 to $2,000 a month for health coverage for their families in a district that is sitting on over $78 million in reserves. Let me repeat that, $78 million. Your budget shows your priorities. What you choose to fund shows what you value. So let's start valuing the right things, our teachers, our classrooms, and our students. It's time to roll up our sleeves and ask the tough questions. Why does this district keep spending millions on third-party consultants and contractors instead of investing in our staff who work directly with students every single day? If you

049truly value teachers, then you need to start listening to them. My biggest concern is that you only hear from teachers during this five-minute union report. And your adjustment to when you listen to public comment shows that you aren't interested in hearing from all teachers. You're making decisions that affect hundreds of classrooms, but you're not sitting in those classrooms. Don't just take my word for it. Come see it for yourself. Please, visit our sites. Talk to teachers and classified staff directly. I will use my release time and personally help coordinate those visits with you. Come sit down with the very educators whose wages and working conditions you control. Look them in the eye and tell them that this is the best we can do. Because this is the deeper problem. The way our district treats its

050educators reflects the larger culture of how society treats its teachers. We say we value education, but if we did, we'd invest in it. We'd fund it like the future of democracy depends on it because it does. When people can't read critically, they can't think critically. And when they can't think critically, those in power stay there unchallenged. Lately, it feels like we're missing the forest through the trees, caught up in the minutia while the bigger issue goes on unaddressed, trust. Teachers and community members are frustrated not just by this board's decisions, but by a pattern of disrespect and unwillingness to be self-reflective. Sometimes perception is reality. When people feel unheard, that becomes their truth. And that truth is what's costing us teachers, trust, and the ability to pass bonds, which we desperately need. We have an

051opportunity to change that narrative. If you don't like what you see when the community holds up a mirror, then change it. Rebuild that trust by investing in your teachers. Stop hoarding reserves and start funding classrooms. Stop punishing educators and start partnering with them. We, the Woodland Education Association, are done waiting. We are not going to roll over. We are not going to accept crumbs. We are not going to let this district continue to treat teachers as the problem when we are and have always been the solution. Our teachers deserve better. Our students deserve better, and this community deserves leaders brave enough to stand up and do what's right. Thank you. All right. Moving on to item K-4, report from board members. Comment before the report. Go ahead, sir. So several things. You know, the word

052punitive was used for evaluation. Every position I've been at has had an evaluation process where, again, if you're not doing well in your job, you don't get... increasing your pay. So to me it's not punitive, it's accountability. Other districts do it as well. But again, almost every job, every other job that I've had, again, if you don't get satisfactory. You don't get a promotion. You don't get increase in pay. So to me, again, this is not punitive. And then clarifying again, mentioning about the $78 million, again, not always even available to compensation. Some of that money is restricted. A lot of the money is restricted, actually. And again, reiterating again, one-time funds are not able to be used for raises. And I keep hearing, you know, there's reserves and hoarding. You know those that funding

053has allowed us to not release people like other districts have And I've read many many many districts will have let people go because they did not have a reserve To help out with that. So if we had if we had not had that reserve We would have let people go already So again, there was just a lot of inaccurate statements that were made in that report, which I don't appreciate. And again, I'm still waiting for, maybe you all got an email clarifying whether the statements about criminality and fraud, I think was the two terms used. No, corruption, sorry. Whether, again, what was the intent behind that statement? But maybe the rest of you, but I did not get an email. So thank you. Thank you, Trustee Villagrana. Do you want to go ahead and roll

054into your board report? No report. All right trustee Rodriguez-Molica No report trustee Richardson Fowler. This is Forward so on Wednesday October 29th, I will be taking a day off. I will be going to school sites I've organized it with both unions and I will be available to talk to both classified and we a union members and at the end of the day I'm having a pizza party for one of the club groups that's represented at lee douglas pioneer and woodland high school at two o'clock so i just wanted to put that out thank you trustee richardson fowler trustee brubaker Okay, I'm gonna do something a little different tonight and I practiced this and I got a little emotional so I'm gonna try not to but forgiveness Asked in advance if I do it's a little

055little off topic, but I've got a reason I'll circle it to in the end My grandmother was born blind in 1919. At that time, the options for education for disabled students was pretty limited, and my great-grandmother dropped her off for her first day of public school and declined to tell the teacher her daughter was blind because she knew the school would refuse to educate her. But I come by my tenacity honestly, and my great-grandmother went back to the school and said, for every day you refuse to educate my child, I will be here, and you will not see me go away until you educate my kid. And that's what they did, and my grandmother got public education because of that. However, in her era, that was uncommon, and it's estimated that approximately one million disabled

056students in this country did not have access to any education. In 1975, Congress passed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, which in 1990 was renamed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, otherwise known as IDEA. This provided legal requirements that disabled students in public schools be provided the same educational opportunities as non-disabled students. Often educating disabled students is a large percentage of a school's expenses. One there we are rightly legally bound to accommodate. Private schools often do not accept disabled students because of these expenses and if they don't receive public funding they are not bound by IDEA. I myself experienced a brief stint in private school during which I was stripped of my confidence in my intellect because I had zero supports for my dyslexia. When my mother placed me back in public school and

057I was given the proper supports to thrive academically, within a few years I was testing multiple grades ahead in several subjects. Public education did that, but the IDEA Act ensured I had access to that education. In January of this year, the U.S. Department of Education that oversees IDEA employed approximately 4,000 federal workers who had a variety of roles making sure our students nationally received education no matter who they are. By March of this year, that number was cut to approximately 2,000 under the claim of efficiency. A few weeks ago, it was announced that an additional 466 Department of Education staff, the majority of which were tasked with dispensing federal funds to states and schools and in enforcing special education and civil rights laws, were cut. All of the Office of Special Education Programs was cut,

058whose role it is to directly enforce IDEA nationally. This leaves the Department of Education unable to enforce IDEA and leaves the futures of disabled students uncertain. To be clear, however, that is being challenged in court, and we will see what happens. But the fact that that happened indicates an uncertain future for disabled students in our country. Some people might be unaware of how I ended up in this seat Well, there's a whole lot of reasons that I originally ran for school board I first started attending these meetings five years ago to advocate for my own special education students and I continued to come back to help other families educate for their own students I attended many, many meetings. Many of you saw me over and over and over again. And I always kind of took

059for granted the fact that people run for these seats because they want to accept all students and provide a safe environment for their education. And when I realized that wasn't always the case, I felt an obligation to run for this seat. I also consider myself a champion of public education, and I know I'm right now filled with the room. Right now I'm in a room filled with other champions of public education and I have a great amount of honor to be in this space with you serving with you all. But I want to share that when my term is up next year, I am going to run for reelection. I have debated on when to share this but given the turbulent last few months, but especially the last few weeks when the threatened when there's

060threats to the very foundation of our public education, I felt that now was the time to share that. I also want to share that I have, beyond the special education aspect, developed an interest in expanding the accessible transparency of our district's financial situation, which is why originally earlier this year we had a special session on the budget, and I talked to the superintendent about something that I learned at a conference a few weeks ago about doing budget workshop. Sorry. budget roadshows and so the superintendent like that idea so that's something we're going to be doing next year starting with the governor's proposed budget and that's something I look forward to doing further because I think that having the community have a better understanding of our financial situation will help all of us better support our

061students. Thank you. Trustee Rodriguez? I think I just wanted to comment on I'm gonna ask the superintendent for a little help here I know we showed the in your report we showed THE PERCENTAGES OF INCREASE, PAY INCREASE, OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS, I BELIEVE. 16.25. 16.25%, AS I UNDERSTAND IT, IS THE LARGEST TOTAL INCREASE OVER ANY FIVE-YEAR PERIOD IN RECENT HISTORY HERE IN THE DISTRICT. AND IT MAY EVEN BE HISTORY OF ALL TIME. IT COULD BE. AND SO WHILE THERE ARE MANY STORIES TO BE TOLD, THAT PARTICULAR STATISTIC SHOULD ALSO BE PART OF THE STORY. THAT THIS BOARD HAS WORKED VEHEMENTLY SINCE DAY ONE. THOSE Those that we see here and those who are no longer with us to be able to increase the pay raises to make sure that pay raises were Constant and

062to do the best that we could for our teachers and and I believe we have a history of doing that I don't believe it the the percentage is say it, you know Is the largest increase of any board? Any five or six year period in recent history? AND SO THAT IS JUST TO SAY THAT'S ALSO PART OF THE STORY. WE CONTINUE TO WORK WITH OUR PARTNERS, OUR STAFF, OUR TEACHERS, AND WE WANT TO MOVE FORWARD. I THINK TRUSTEE VILLAGRANA MADE A COMMENT ABOUT RECEIVING AN E-MAIL ABOUT WHAT THE POINT OF THE STATEMENT WAS ABOUT THE the statements about criminality or misuse of funds, I don't know what the words were, but I think the statement was pretty clear. You know, it is exactly what the statement said. You know, those are very, very heavy words.

063They're legal words that mean very... legal things, you know, things that are against the law. And we should think twice before using them unless there's proof that you do. But I know, again, just to reiterate what the letter said, nobody here would tolerate that. No one in any way. And if there's any proof of that and you have it, please bring it forward. And so other than that, that's all I have to say. And yeah, that's it. Thank you very much trustee Rodriguez. I do not have a report this evening Moving on to the next item before we move on. Can I add one more thing? Oh, sure. Go ahead in the what trustee Rodriguez was sharing in the past two, you know, we People have come and said, you know, give us cola. Give

064us cola. Give us cola We haven't heard that this year because we're our offer is above cola Right or else we would have been hearing give us cola give us cola give it and that that has not been said because if we were asked to give cola we'd have to offer less than what we have offered right now. And again that that is also not being shared right with the public. So you know it's important like trustee Rodriguez said to to share everything not just what selective sharing. So just wanted to add that. Thank you very much. So I'm gonna step in and I'm gonna I'm gonna go ahead and give a I'm gonna use my port report time The district is does anticipate only receiving a cola of 2.3 percent for the 2025 2026

065school year and we did offer 3.0 increase to the salary schedule to both CSEA and we a So I'm just stating those figures so that, you know, when we state, like, we offered more. We are giving more than what we are getting. I just wanted to throw out those numbers so that you guys do have a reference. I am excited that CSEA signed the tentative agreement for the new contract. I'm very thankful that we're able to move in that direction. And I really do hope that WA does come to the table and does accept our last and final offer. So moving on to the next item, it is our board committee updates. All right. I didn't have any committees since the last board meeting. I'm not sure that we had any. All right. All right,

066you guys. So just for point of reference, the next few items that we do have are all informational items. There is no action. Just for... protocol purposes. The first one is L1 information revised administrative regulation 5126 awards for achievement and this is in regards to the seal of civic engagement. You guys will recognize this item it's coming back to us for further discussion. Point of order? Yes ma'am. Do we have time limits on information? ON THESE ON EACH ONE? NO. FOR THE PRESENTATIONS I THINK WE ONLY HAVE ONE. SO FOR THIS ONE RIGHT NOW WE DON'T HAVE A PRESENTATION. IT'S JUST THE ATTACHED REGULATIONS AND WHAT A REGULATION IS, IT'S JUST HOW STAFF IS GOING TO IMPLEMENT THE BOARD POLICY. SO IT DOES NOT NEED APPROVAL BUT IT DOES PRESENT TO THE BOARD FOR ANY

067FEEDBACK OR BUT IT DOES ALIGN TO THE BOARD POLICY THAT WAS PASSED AT THE LAST BOARD MEETING. Got it. All right. As it relates to L1, if you can just clarify, Superintendent, why this item is coming back. So we typically share with the board when the board passes the board policy, we do bring back the board regulations so the board can see and give comment on how we plan to implement your board policy. So that's just something that we do. It's a procedural. All right. Sorry to trust you Richard's a fellow. Yes, ma'am So my question is I understand that they have indicated that any award in excess of $200 must be expressly approved by the board That's already an Ed code. Do we have any plans of giving out awards? financial awards with these

068Achievements with a civil engagement not not at this time Okay, any other questions any other board members? All right, are we done with this item? Yes, ma'am. Yes, Trustee Richardson-Feller, thumbs up. All right, everybody's good. All right, we're going to move on. Anything from you, Superintendent? No, we're so excited to get this rolling and see how many students we can get to take advantage of this seal for this year. It is going to be, you know, I want to... WE ARE GOING TO START SLOW. BRANDON HAS A GOAL OF HAVING AT LEAST 25 WHICH I THINK IS PRETTY AMBITIOUS FOR THE FIRST YEAR. WHEN WE DID THE SEAL BY LITERACY WE ONLY HAD THREE THE FIRST YEAR. SO IF HE CAN DO 25 I WILL BE VERY EXCITED BUT WE DO HAVE A LOT OF

069STUDENTS WHO ARE VERY ACTIVE AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THEY HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO apply for this this this seal and at some point in spring and in May around May we're going to have a showcase and So more information to come on that so that you can see which students did to earn the seal Thank you very much Item l2 is also an informational item on community schools and this is an update now this one is a presentation and so the board did receive a board presentation way back on when we were applying for the grant and So now we received the grant and there's been a lot of questions about You know, what does this mean now that we actually received the grant? So this is the first year of implementation now

070So this is fresh start now that we received the funding and we just now recently hired our coordinator. I think she's been at this for. Three weeks? One week, it was just last week. And so anyway, here's an update on our community schools grant. Thank you, Superintendent Ortega-Lambkin. President Bautista-Vazavala and board members, I'm proud to stand up here in front of you and give you an update on our community schools venture. And I'm doubly proud to introduce Connie Price, who has accepted our position for the coordinator for community schools. And so she's here with me as I present. And if you have questions, she can help get me through this. She supported us last year in the implementation during our planning grant phase. So she's got a lot of knowledge. I'm going to go ahead

071and start here. We always ground all of our work and our goals as for community schools. You'll see in a second that it fits pretty much every one of our four goals here in Woodland. We're definitely talking about our academic, our social, emotional, our achievement with all subgroups, including our English learners, and as well as our opportunity for engagement with our youth. Okay, so what are community schools? There's a purpose. The purpose of a community school is to improve our responsiveness to student and family needs. It's basically to kind of remove the barriers that it takes for us to respond to immediately and whole student-wise, whole community-wise for our student needs. It's a way we organize our resources with our community and address those barriers. It's a way we support our district efforts to partner

072with community agencies and local government to improve student outcomes. So community schools, way back when, about two years ago, The decision to jump on board and go through this venture with community schools is really grounded largely in the impact community schools has on student outcomes. It's a very widely researched approach to supporting students. And in the research through the years with community schools, it's come out that student test scores are improving. We have a reduction in chronic absenteeism. Excuse me. My apologies. Reduced suspension rates. Closing the achievement gap. I didn't even bring my water. With our... What a gentleman. How's my spill? With our... Closing our achievement gaps with our underserved and under... represented students. And so with this venture, this community school, it's something that we can't pass up. We need to improve test

073scores. We need to address our chronic absenteeism. We need... to address our suspension rates and we need to address our achievement gap and so we ventured into this planning grant about two years ago and we spent two years with steering committees district level and then school site level once it was determined which schools. And we conducted needs assessments. We went through a very formal process to determine what schools we would apply for for this grant. And as you see, we applied for four schools. And as of spring of 2025, when we turned in our application just about six weeks ago, maybe seven now, we received the grant for all four schools that we applied for, a grant totaling $5.2 million to be dispersed over the next five years. So we're very, very excited about that.

074And as we venture into our work with community schools, it's important for us to remember that it has to focus. The purpose of community schools is to create partnerships. And those partnerships that we create have to focus on academics, health and social services, youth and community development, and community engagement. Those are the have-tos. The money has restrictions. It has purpose. It has guidelines. And this is with our partnerships. Those are the things that we need to focus on. We also have to show that we include components of support services, community engagement. collaborative leadership, and extended learning time and opportunities. And that can look a variety of ways, but those four things must be a part of the community schools that we develop at each of those four sites. What's important to note is that not

075all of our sites are identical. The needs at each site is different. So the components have to be there, but how it looks may be different. That is determined by a site-based group that works as a committee to support and to work with our coordinator to determine what is really needed here. For instance, one community may find that they would like support with or need more support with food insecurity. So what do we do to support that need of that community? Another community might determine that they need more support with social emotional or social work type connections. How would we support them in that way? It doesn't mean that you don't get it at other sites. It just means that we cater to what those sites need. The benefits of community schools are meant to

076be beyond just the school, though. That's what we have to remember. And Connie and I were having a conversation the other day, and it struck me because she said, you know, Felicia, remember, because I'm so like, what are we going to do for Dingle? And what are we going to do for Whitehead? And what are we going to do for Prairie and Lee? And she goes, I need you to remember, this is a mindset. Community schools is a mindset. It's how we now work with our community to support our entire community. It runs through those four schools. It is housed at those four schools, but it is how we now turn and approach all things that we do. For instance, when we bring in a flu clinic, that supports our whole community, not just one

077school site. When we forge relationships with the YOLO food bank or the food closet, that can support more than just. one school site. So again, it is that mindset that we create. And the ultimate goal here is to improve academic achievement, improve our students and their progress in school. Okay, so our progress in the last four-ish weeks, we've hired a community schools coordinator. We've identified a location at each of those four school sites where what would be it like a hub Lee middle school being our main hub Because we have a larger room and it's kind of all ours We've we've forged intentional partnerships So right now we will we say and you'll be getting this PO in the next round We have our we continue our partnership with Northern Valley Indian health that we

078are actually expanding it further for community schools We have a partnership with the Woodland Food Closet. We are distributing 100 bags of food every week to students who qualify at those four school sites at this time. And the qualifications are migrant, foster, and homeless youth. And we have a partnership with our Yellow Food Bank, where we'll be distributing food boxes. It was supposed to be more of like a farmer's market, but this is what has been created is the food box type situation. So we'll be doing that and that'll be starting here soon, I believe in November, December. and we're starting to schedule community events already. So a big one for us is Glasses to Classes, and I would like to use this as an example to share with you that mindset of community schools

079for our whole district. So Glasses to Classes came about because we were having a struggle about finding insurance local. eye doctors that would take partnership insurance, which partnership is for Medi-Cal. We don't have anyone here in Woodland that does that. It's been years since we have no one. So in an effort, our nurse made a call and she had called partnership and said, Hey, listen. We don't have anybody. So partnership's like, wait, what? And they didn't understand that. Well, we created an event where we're bringing some folks in to help provide eye exams and classes for our underrepresented students in our district. But the part that community schools creates here is the mindset that because partnership was made aware that they did not have. agents or here in town, eye doctors here in town, they

080actually put pressure on the eye doctors here in town and we have two going to start taking it. partnership here coming up soon. So that's the community schools aspect. That's what I'm saying. It's beyond just the schools. It's creating those, taking away some of those barriers for our families. So in doing that, this is kind of, that's the way we're going to support our whole school and our whole district and all of our neighbors. We also have a flu clinic coming up and Connie is busily working on developing parent workshops. for each of our schools that would be invited for all to attend, but more parent workshops, things like tax preparation and screenagers, which is a really popular thing to understand about cell phones and kids. All of that kind of stuff will be coming

081forward, going forward here this year. So what are our next steps? We have decision-making teams at each of those school sites. Much like our steering committee, we have a committee that we'll be working with to kind of make sure that we're staying on track, make sure that we're fulfilling what our goals are. Our coordinator and our site leaders will have access to training and support, basically whatever we need to get through and get these things put into place. We'll implement the site plans that we've developed during our decision-making time or planning time. We'll continue with outside organizations and contracting and forging those relationships, making differences for our community, like I just shared with you. And then we will also develop comprehensive systems to track and disaggregate the data. So again, as I mentioned at the

082beginning, this is a research-based approach, and we need to see how we are doing. about that and so we'll be developing systems in which we can collect information and measure how how our work is doing how effective is it with attendance discipline um chronic absenteeism suspension rates all of that and then again this year our goal um a little modest but we are just getting off the ground here is to aim to offer two site level events at each of our schools again those will be community events but just offered through the schools So those are our next steps, our immediate steps. And that's our presentation. That's our update on our community schools. And I'm so excited. And thank you for hearing us this evening. Thank you so much for that presentation. Any questions, comments

083from the board? Trustee Villagran, I will start with you. First of all, thank you for responding to my questions and thank you for that example of how just beginning, right, of the impact that this work is going to have in the community, not just our students, but also, you know, the not yet measurable impact as well as it's going to have on our students. So I'm just very, very happy to hear about this additional support that's happening, especially at the schools that are in such need. and just you know in the in advance thank yous for everyone's going to be part of this and making this work happen for again for our young people in our community so that's all thank you so much thank you thank you moving down trustee rodriguez Thank you for

084your presentation and welcome to our district very excited to have you and I'm really really excited to see What the next five years will bring us. Thank you I do want to highlight I so appreciate you sharing the impacts that community schools are having And I wanted to share with with the board in the community Just really impressive research that's coming out on the impact of community schools. So as Felicia shared there's improved test scores and this is from recent data from the Learning Policy Institute. They looked at data from 23 24 here in California. And I just want to highlight the gains that are being made. So schools newly implementing and expanding community school approaches showed notable learning gains equal to about 43 extra days of learning in math and 36 extra days of

085learning in English language arts. We've also discussed as a board how to reduce chronic absenteeism. We know that we really care about that as well. The research shows that on average community schools have reduced chronic absent rates by about 30 percent more than similar schools. So they're making huge huge impact. Reduce suspension rates by about 15 percent with the largest decreases for black students and in secondary schools as students in schools where suspension rates were previously highest. Largest gains among among historically underserved students and. greatest test score gains for community schools with biggest chronic absent drops. So I just highlight this because I so appreciate our staff applying for this grant right because it wasn't just given to us but we applied for it and I'm sure there was a lot of work that went

086into the application at the beginning and these are all things that we as a board have talked about and we know that the community really cares about in really trying to narrow that achievement gap to reduce chronic absenteeism and suspension rates as well and i think this is going to be a huge huge step forward in providing services to our community but then also making a positive impact for our students on all of these different measures so thank you thank you and if i can just add they had they had to apply for a grant to get the a planning grant to apply for the grant yeah that was a lot of work Thank you trustee Richardson Fowler trustee Brubaker first of all 30% in Attendance, that's that's amazing. So I'm super excited to see

087what happens here. No, no pressure. No pressure. Thanks I am curious. This is you're aiming to offer two site-level community events. Is that in addition to the Glasses for Classes and things like that? So Glasses for Classes are actually one for Lee, and that's one for, will be held at Prairie and Lee. There's a day for each. That's in addition to, so we'll be doing other things there as well. And again, we're still in the planning phases. It's been one full week here with me, but we will be jumping forward. And that's our goal, Events type things. Yes. Okay. That's my only question. I'm super excited. This is It's good things guys. Thank you for all the work that has gone into getting us this far. Thank you Thank you, welcome Thank you for all

088the work that's gone into this and all the work that will continue to go into this it is I think it's a really important piece of of work and data collection that will help us get to a better place and in a way that we've been talking about for a while in terms of being able to do things that are out of the box. I think I also want to say that many of these things, including the family engagement component, the academic component, I think there's a place where where the literacy plan may also be able to cross-connect here. And to be able, wherever we end up with a literacy plan, especially in regards to family engagement, that you kind of keep that in mind, that the community schools may be a place where we

089can do some of that work as well. And so it just seems like a natural, actually, in many ways. So good luck. I know I'm going to want to be updated. quite regularly on how things are going and look forward to future reports. Thank you. Thank you so much for this report. I'm excited that we were able to bring you on board in such a timely... day that you're here for the presentation and taking on this huge project. I remember when we, the idea, the concept of the community schools grants came out in the first phase and school districts ran and applied and I think we had to wait for the second round, Elodia? And even then we were a little worried that we weren't gonna get any, like there wasn't gonna be much left.

090So very, very excited that we are a recipient. I have to tell you, my vision and dream is that we make all of our schools community schools. But this is one step forward and this is an investment. Always, always wanted to see students get health care services at our school sites. We have healthcare deserts in our district. Yolo, the community of Yolo is one of them. Knights Landing, they do have some healthcare services, but also there's a need. So being able to provide some type of assistance is huge. And what better place than our school sites for our students to be able to seek those services? When I was in elementary school, I needed glasses. I didn't know I did, and it was through school that I was identified as needing glasses. I still wear

091glasses till this day. I'm just sharing that example because schools are the identifiers of the needs of our students in many, many cases. And they continue to be that till this day. I'm 40 years old and I went to kindergarten 35 years ago. I remember recently my 10-year-old, now in fifth grade, she didn't want to wear glasses to school. And it was her site principal who encouraged the students to put their glasses on through incorporating a student glasses club. So if you wear glasses, you get to be part of this club. And if you don't wear glasses, you can still be part of this club because there was a concept of anti-bullying of those students that were wearing glasses. thank you so much for all the work that's being put into this i know that

092this is a huge endeavor i know that it might feel like added tasks for you doctor um but thank you very much for the kids thank you thank you so much thank you i don't have any questions i just have a bunch of celebration and kudos and appreciation thank you so thank you thank you superintendent anything from you No, just thank you Connie for taking this on Connie has been working for just many years The counts the counselor she's also been an administrator and I'm just really happy that you're now taking on this new role. Thank you All right. I don't think there's any more questions or comments from the board. Thank you very much Moving on to the next item. There is a public comment. Go ahead Monica have Becker Bernard All right, we're

093gonna go ahead and proceed and if she returns we can take it later Okay That's okay. Sorry, there's like a good delay over there, so you were still talking. Just to clarify, this is for item L3, correct? Good, okay. All right. I would like to extend a huge thank you to Dr. Gracie Guerrero and her team for the thoughtfulness and clarity in this report. It is refreshing to see such intentional alignment between professional learning investments and our district's LCAP goals, because that is how we build real, lasting capacity across Woodland Joint Unified. I especially appreciate how this report frames conference participation not as a one-time experience, but as part of a continuous improvement cycle that strengthens instruction, leadership, and engagement. That mindset mirrors what we often emphasize in WEA. When our educators attend conferences, the

094real impact happens when they share that learning back with their colleagues, whether it's at our rep council meetings, site meetings, or through collaborative planning. We always say that we learn best by teaching others. And this report beautifully echoes that philosophy. It's also encouraging to see a range of opportunities highlighted here from CAVE to AVID to GLAAD to STEM and STEAM trainings, which all speak to our district's growing commitment to culturally responsive and academically rigorous instruction. These investments pay dividends when the learning returns back into the classrooms, schools, and community spaces. One area I'd love for us to continue exploring together is how we are tracking the value and efficacy of these conferences, not just in terms of attendance, but in how they translate to improved instruction and student outcomes. Is there a way we can

095consistently capture the return on investment, both educationally and financially, so we can ensure that every dollar we spend on professional learning is truly making a difference for students? That kind of reflection loop would help us identify what's working best and where to focus our limited resources more effectively. I want to thank Dr. Guerrero for bringing her fresh perspective and systems thinking approach to Woodland. I'm hopeful that under her leadership, we will continue to improve and streamline our processes so that professional learning isn't just accessible, it's transformative. As we move forward, I'd love for us to keep revisiting this conversation each year, ensuring that conference learnings are shared widely and integrated early into our instructional goals. Because when we invest in the educators who are already here and committed to our students, everyone benefits, especially our

096students. Thank you again, Dr. Guerrero, for this report and for modeling the kind of collaborative, forward-thinking leadership that helps Woodland keep growing stronger together. Thank you very much, Ms. Bernard. No more public comments for this item. This is a informational item, and this is the report on conference attendance for staff, students, parents. It's a written report. Any questions or comments from the board? Trustee Richardson-Feller. Dr. Guerrero, thank you for bringing, for your report. This was one of my agenda items. As a... Teacher and as a parent who's been involved in the district. I have gone to quite a few conferences and My concern with bringing this forward is I wanted to make sure being fiscally conservative that We get a big bang for these conferences there it was It was really for accountability I don't

097want our conferences viewed as a vacation or a trip as some folks have Accused us of taking illustrious vacations to go to conference and learn I want there to be accountability and when we go to these conferences, we are not just hoarding knowledge, we're sharing so that we can improve all of our systems. But what I'm also looking for is what policies we need to put in place. And before I even put this forward, I was looking at different districts and I was looking at their policies and procedures around... conference going and reporting out for conferences. You've got some area school districts that have post-conference report templates and there are timelines and those sorts of things, not just for staff, but also for parents, families, and community members who attend these conferences as well. So

098what I'm looking for is... What are going to be our best practices. What are going to be our policies. Do we need a board policy. Do we need an administrative policy to cover all of these basis. I think this is a really good place to start with the information. But I do think that we're going to need some action items on this as well. So I just want to kick it off there and see if anybody else had anything else to say about it or any other feedbacks. This is an informational item, so we would have to get four hands or a yellow sheet. Do you have suggestions of actionable items? Because I'm not opposed to the idea. I'm just not quite sure what you're thinking. So I'm proposing a board policy about conference attendance,

099travel, and post-conference reporting. with key principles that district funds for conference attendance must, well, they are going to be approved, but we need to have some formal report out policy that is. across the board expectations. So we don't have Whitehead has their own policy, but Douglas has their policy and Beamer has a different policy. So there's equity. And then the same for parents, because we don't want parents at Beamer reporting out and going above and beyond, but parents at, let's say, another site are not doing anything. I know that when I went to CABE conferences, I reported to PTA, and then we brought information back to the ELAC committees. escalated that to DLAC so we were not in a silo. We were sharing all of the information, resources, whatnot. Have a mechanism for taking the

100information from the conference, uploading it to a shared drive so everybody has access to those sorts of things. That's really what I'm looking at. But I don't want to hog the dialogue. I think that sounds really interesting. I definitely, we are bound by the Brown Act to not discuss things that we learn at conferences until we're in this, and that drives me so crazy because I am so full of things that I want to talk about with you guys. So I think the idea of having that sort of be like, this is the follow-up end to going to conferences is a good idea because... To be honest, I could see as a parent, you know, you're busy, you have all these ideas and you come back and by the time you see these folks again,

101it may not be top of mind, even though your intention was to was to have those discussions, having it be sort of like this is just part of the process. I think it's a good idea. I'm curious what others think. If I may, there are. A lot of models and practices out there and thank you for referencing those. I think we are at the infancy stage of being able to have a system to be able to close the loop entirely. I do know that teachers, staff in general, or students and even our parents do benefit. from these experiences. I think that we need to definitely be able to put some thought into what we put into the expectations because there's only certain limited amount of platforms for people to be able to report back. Someone

102mentioned them during their committee members. I mean, there are committees that were able to report back. Obviously, this will be a forum for the board who also has attended learning experiences to be able to report back. I think a lot of them have the potential to be able to be done through regulations as to the how as well. We can certainly be able, I know from previous experience that we have a very structured in other districts ways of being able to share the learning. A point of clarification is that we also need to be able to identify which learning experiences are those that we want to be able to report back on. I know that the more informal ones, such as being able to attend an after-school session, that does require some investment of financial

103resources as well that may be an hour, hour and a half long. that has learning and who's sharing back that learning. On the other extreme, we have conferences that are three to four days long, right? So then... how deep are we going to go into the reporting aspect because then we may be able to be stuck on reporting aspect and not necessarily in the application piece. So all that to say that, yes, we all are fully on board to be able to have. a closed loop on being able to not just experience to have an approval process that takes into account academic return on investment, especially when we have limited funds, to be able to go from year to year to different things. I know that informally. at campuses, we do have a cycle of

104rotation so that we can have different staff members to be able to have that experience. We also have some annual training that staff who oversee certain programs have to be able to attend just so that we can be in compliance with grant. So all that to say that we have to take into consideration all the different aspects that go into it so that we can all be clear not just about how to close that site. but how to be able to share that learning and to ensure that not only are we aligned to what we are able to prioritize, but that we have the highest return on investment on that as well. This was a great opportunity. for us to be able to explore that and to be able to conduct the research. And the

105hope is that the work will continue to be able to move us towards that direction. That other people would be using us as an example of this is the way they do it at Woodland, so why not be able to go in that direction, like the other districts that you pointed out as well. Okey dokey, thank you. Did you have anything? I WANTED TO ADD THAT I THINK IT'S A REALLY GOOD IDEA AS WELL. I WONDER IF MAYBE A GOOD PLACE TO START WOULD BE JUST FOCUSING ON CONFERENCES, WHICH WAS THIS AGENDA ITEM, AND THEN WE CAN TACKLE TRAININGS AT ANOTHER TIME BECAUSE THEY ARE DIFFERENT THINGS. BUT, YEAH, I'M IN SUPPORT OF ADDING THAT AS AN ACTIONABLE ITEM TO COME BACK IN THE FUTURE. ALL RIGHT. DO WE HAVE FOUR HANDS FOR IT? OR

106DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS, SIR? NO, JUST A SECOND. Quickly say that I'm also in favor of some sort of form, you know that would allow us to get get feedback back from the conferences, you know staff can come back with If we get the forehands yet with the recommendation that the only very practical advice is You know that feedback needs to happen pretty quickly Right after the conference the last day of the conference Otherwise it you know, it can be hard to come back to that information, right? especially a really good conversation that just happened the evening before you know so that's just my practical input yeah i'm supportive of the concept um I just would like to hear from the staff about, you know, a recommendation as what is feasible in terms of

107a report back on conferences that are attended by staff, students, and parents. Because, you know, the expectation or I don't know if it's an expectation or a requirement or a request, an ask. Like, I don't really know what it is. But I also want to hear from staff, you know, what is feasible? You know, because when, if I think of... You know myself as a board member I can hold myself accountable to a report back You know whether it's in a like a yellow sheet or you ever if the ask is to do it during my board report Like I can hold myself accountable to that, but I don't know What we could ask or require of parents because their parent involvement is can look very different right you could have a conference in sacramento

108for a day and we provide bus transportation you know what what does that look like and what is a feasible ask right or if it even even is an ask so i don't want to sit here and go through the technicalities but more i'm supportive of the idea of letting staff bring back a recommendation of you know what is feasible in the first phase if at all If I can interject there real quick. One of the things I would like to see is a time limit like 30 days kind of like reimbursement. The districts that I looked at tied these reports to reimbursement and most of them if not all had a 30 day time limit. Merced Union High School District has a 30 day deadline and most of them have either a template form.

109It's like a Google form. Some of them are in front line. Some of them are in their PD systems. You can do an oral presentation a video presentation a template. You got options. But I do think that if they're going to attend this conference, they need to share the information. I feel like it needs to be a stipulation of conference attendance, sharing the information. So I'm hearing from the board a desire for staff to come back with how we can develop a system in place to create some reflection of the learning and sharing of the learning of conferences. So we'll work with staff and bring it back to a future meeting. I WANT TO SHARE SIMILAR CONCERNS ABOUT HOW EQUITABLE REQUIREMENTS WOULD BE AMONGST DIFFERENT FAMILIES. I'M NOT SURE IF WE CAN WITHHOLD REIMBURSEMENT ON

110EMPLOYEES IF THEY DON'T NECESSARILY DO X, Y, AND Z. THAT'S NOT THE CONCERN OF MINE. I'M IN SUPPORT OF HAVING A CONVERSATION AS TO WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE, BUT I DO HAVE CONCERNS AS TO HOW IT WOULD BE EXECUTED IN THE MOST EQUITABLE AND FAIR. Fairway, and I support the spirit and the intent 100% but the execution would be my caution. Thank you So we heard everybody's feedback and I believe you are correct We want we would not be legally able to hold back Reimbursement, but we'll come up with some after hearing all your thoughts and we'll come up with something to bring back to the board Great. Thank you. Thank you All right. Thank you very much. Is everybody ready to move on to the next item? All right. We do have a public

111comment Oh no, next one. M1, and this is an informational item, and this is a written report in the average daily attendance and enrollment report for 2025-2026 school year. Any questions or comments? None? All right, moving to the next one. This is item N. We do have a public comment, and this is an info item. Bi-annual human resource staffing update, and this is a written report. Public comment. We have Becca Bernard. We need a timer over there so I know. Okay, sorry about that. Okay. Second thank you. Actually, I gave lots of thank yous, but I want to take a moment to sincerely thank Dr. Rebecca Toto and the entire HR team for the incredible amount of work that clearly went into compiling this report. For years, WEA has been advocating for an exit survey

112and a comprehensive look at the why behind our high turnover. And this is exactly the kind of transparent, data-driven foundation we've needed to begin peeling back those layers together. It is powerful to finally have real data that tells part of our story. Nearly 200 separations last year, including 67 teachers, shows how critical it is that we look at both the human and systemic reasons people leave. Teacher retention is hovering around 84 to 85 percent and even lower from for some specialized positions Reinforcing what we've been saying for the past year in our board reports that retention isn't just about vacancies It's about sustainability support and stability for our students The average years of service dropping from 7.95 to 6.72 years across the district underscores how many experienced staff we're losing before they can plant long-term

113roots here in Woodland. I hope we can make this a regular July review after we know who has left by June 30th. I'm sorry, Rebecca, you were busy getting hired. But it would be nice to have these conversations in the summer before we start the school year so that the information can guide hiring conversations and help us fill those vacancies as soon as possible. But above all, I'm just grateful that we are finally having this conversation and that Dr. Toto and her team took the time to gather, analyze, and present such high-quality data for us to look at critically and collaboratively. I'm not joking when I say this report is beautiful. It is no small feat to pull together so much information, and as someone who sifted through 24 certificated board reports from the last

114school year, I know just how much work it takes to turn raw data into insight. So thank you for bringing this level of transparency and partnership. It is a huge step forward for all of us. Thank you very much. Questions or comments on this item? We'll start with Trustee Richardson-Fowler. Okay, this was my item also, and I... I'm so excited especially since I my request for this was two times a year and I just want to explain my thinking and logic for you guys but my thinking was we'd get it after school started so we knew where we're going and we would get it shortly after non-realex so we can get an idea of what we need for the for the fall. to get us in gear and just to give us perspective of who's

115coming in, who's coming out, and where are our holes. I never thought about getting one in July. Not that I'm trying to create more work for you, but I'm sad I didn't think about that one. That being said, chef's kiss. Like in the email I said, this is exactly what I wanted. I don't think I have any notes. I thank you. That's it. I'm so appreciative. I did ask, oh. Questions yet. Oh Go ahead. I just wanted to thank trustee Richardson Fowler and dr Toto I Have been trying to figure out like data points to be able to better figure out how to support our district And this is a great one. So thank you for that forethought. Well, you've been here longer So it wasn't really forth up. Thank you. Thank you really me

116benefit from your request I I don't know yet what I'm gonna do with the information But that's that's why we have it so we can figure it out what to what where how to go forward. So, thank you I did at some point want to give dr. Total an opportunity to just share some highlights. I asked her to be prepared to share some highlights on what we learned from this report The limitations that we currently have was data and how this is going to help us be a baseline as we continue to use this type of data for Helping us make decisions. So I don't know if we want to wait till we ask more questions But I do want to give her an opportunity at some point before we end this item. I just

117have one last question if it's okay. Are we going around? I'm asking my question. Okay good. Thank you. So again thank you for the information and echo. That's a good start. Just some feedback that I sent to you already, but just want to say out loud for my colleagues to disagree if they don't agree with it. Just some of the categories, like I said, were clustered together, and I know that for a reason they were that way. But like clerical and librarians, to me, like since 99, I don't know what that means as far as each one. You had counselors, psychologists, nurses, and again, very different positions as well. So I would want those. split up and then like maintenance and custodian completely difference as well and I would want those split up as well

118and the rationale was like didn't want the list too long but I mean those changes won't necessarily make it too long the one they would probably make it long as the other classified but like I have no idea you know what that breakdown is for those you know I know it's later on but like there Don't know how many and then how many in each each one of those And then transportation that's like you just that's like a department right not not a position So I would want that definitely broken down as well because it says 43 total transportation What right different positions? When trustee big gonna I do have all of that information that I can share with you and we did do a lot of my staff was amazing and being able to

119pull the data and then we did a lot of building pivot tables and Information that we can send those to you so that you can actually see within those categories What how many of the individual positions are it would have been a phone book had I included those that information for you and so we wanted to give the brig broad overview, but I can absolutely share that information with you so that you can see the different categories. And then also as we move forward, since Elodia mentioned this is a baseline, we will take the input into consideration as we come forward with new data points and breaking those categories down. Yes, I definitely had a conversation with the superintendent as well about this. If you could. Clarify the years of surface. Yeah, please because I

120don't measure if that was understood Yeah so the average years of service was actually for the positions that those individuals were in and that's one of the highlights that I wanted to talk about because when you look at those and Becca Mentioned that we had a reduction in the average years of service But that's because we may have individuals who were in another position, for instance, a vice principal position or a teacher position, then promoted to a different category. And they now only have one year of service in that category. If we take a totality of the number of years of service, for our employees, I think we'd see a very different number. And so that's something that I am very interested in and we'll be pulling data for that and being able to bring

121back maybe broken down by our classified staff and certificated staff. Here's the longevity of the average number of years an employee within those two categories actually is with us. And then the question I had asked you said there was not no solid answer was what what is the California. Yeah. A retention rate because I want to see how we compared. Mm-hmm. And if you could share you what your answer was. Yeah, so we actually you actually have asked about the county and the Californian So we reached out to the county to find out hey What is the retention rate or attrition rate within the county and they don't gather that because there are so many moving variables within? going from district to district and The state doesn't actually require districts to submit when you have

122turnover. So gathering that information just wasn't available. I did pull some information that I found from CASBO from 2018 that said at that time there was a 16.5% attrition rate, which would mean that it was about an 84% retention rate in California. I do, however, think it's a lot lower than that because that was also, you know, Seven years ago and a lot has happened and education changes and ebbs and flows and we do know based on the number of students that enroll in our university programs that there's far fewer educators coming out of The university to go into the teaching profession That's my limit for now. I went around for the next round anybody else Trustee Richardson-Fowler? Yeah, the only question since you have the data in all of the different formats, I would

123love to see by site, outgo and ingo. If that's possible. We will work on that. Yes, I'm sure I have it I have so many spreadsheets that I'll have to find it but my team I do want to mention my team did an amazing job They're probably sick and tired of hearing me talk data and accuracy and where are we and let's get this and I need this report And now we sit down and analyze So it was I will say this Was a great opportunity for our staff to actually look at what data points were available and what historical knowledge We actually have at our hands which is very limited with our current employee information system Historical data is not there. So we moving forward with implementing the new Employee system are going to

124have a lot of information at our hands because we know what we want and we'll be able to create That as we move forward from this baseline point awesome. I always ask for data sped teacher here. So data is my love language Absolutely. All right. I'm gonna pass it back around to trustee Villagrana Another thing that I would like to request retention rate be broken down by or I guess attrition rate by retirement and resignation like that were clear who retired and who resigned because I mean those are two different things again so again for the future report We can do that based on the information starting this year, you know 2024 2025 and 2526 and so we'll be able to update that We utilize the data that we had from the previous years and

125kind of just matched it with that teacher retention I'm really interested in also classified staff and regarding that retention rate as well So we'll be able to bring you information next year or even the spring with information that we have of current separations and PULL OUT THAT RETIREMENT PIECE. I'M NOT ASKING FOR THE PAST, BUT WE DO HAVE THE DATA FOR THE PAST OF WHO RETIRED. SOMEWHERE. YES, THAT'S THE HARD PART. THE CHALLENGE IS GETTING ALL OF THAT INFORMATION AND FINDING IT. WE RECOGNIZE THEM AT THE END OF THE YEAR. YEAH. OKAY. LET'S SEE. JUST ONE EDIT THAT THEY HAD ASKED WHICH YOU MADE. THAT WAS IT. THANK YOU. YOU'RE WELCOME. ALL RIGHT. DOES THAT INCLUDE EVERYONE'S QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS FOR THIS ITEM? I do have a few points. I wanted to commend the HR

126team for pursuing the new partnerships with the universities and community colleges. and recruiting. I think that's great. A lot of our students go to the nearby community colleges and universities, so that's amazing. I've always been a strong proponent and advocate for trying to encourage our own students once they graduate or when, you know, if there are any opportunities while, you know, in summer school or after school to pursue a job at our district. So encouraging them if they are staying local to consider a career here at Woodland Joint Unified School District is something that I'm always, always advocating for. So thank you so much for establishing those relationships. Can I make a comment on that really quick? Yes, go for it. President Zavala, today we actually had two of our HR team go to YOLA

127Works and we had a job fair. In West Sacramento. In West Sacramento. And yeah, and so we were very hopeful that we would go and represent well and get a lot of new classified and certificated substitutes to want to join our district. Well, that's great. Thank you so much. I want to say thank you again for this important work. Thank you for the request, Trustee Richardson-Fowler. I'm encouraged to see the... the foundation of building this strong data. And I look forward to continued progress towards retaining, supporting, and growing our dedicated staff who make our district what it is. And I know that with this foundation of data, now we have a measurable. Now we know where we started and where we're headed in the future and be able to capture that data from now into

128then. So thank you so much. Absolutely. One last comment, and I promise I know it's late, but I wanted to make sure that the board was aware that we also included in this report the teacher assignment monitoring outcomes, which is annually reported. We are supposed to bring that information to the board annually. The information is information that is actually a year and a half old. So it's from credential monitoring from 2023-24 school year. So it doesn't give us a lot to work with. But what it is, is it does give CDE and CTC information about the credentialing that our teachers are actually holding and helping us. with our university partnerships in getting people to go into education and fill those roles with valid credentials. Thank you very much. Oh, can we do, I think you

129were going to do a little recap, and I love the highlights. I think they're really important. Okay. Thank you. You guys touched on quite a few of them. So my highlights that I... wanted to talk about was again that this is a snapshot in time because we have very limited ability to get historical data from our system so we took information from end of year last year 2024 and then captured data from october of this year 2025 and we use that as our baseline of starting our historical data so i think that's really important to remember because it doesn't give us a long history but it gives us a start point. I think the other thing is the separation data. It was very limited because we didn't have a formal process in place for separations.

130We at HR would receive emails saying I'm resigning from my position then trying to find out why they were isn't resigning. no one ever answered back. So we had a lot of unknowns as you saw on there. So we are implementing a resignation retirement form that will actually gather official data and be able to really capture the reasonings behind separations that are happening within the district. It'll also give us an opportunity if there are things that come on those resignation forms, we can reach out to the employees to ask further questions to get more details. So I'm excited about that the other thing is just the average years of service was a big one that I wanted to make sure that everyone is aware of it was for positions and as I talked about before

131if someone was in the district for a long time but then took a new position this year it then would not calculate the full time that the they were actually within the district just within that position so the averages would go down And then just in general, that we as an HR team really took this as an opportunity to learn about the practices and the history in the district and how we can help improve the recruiting, hiring, and retention of our employees as we hear again and again that retention's an issue. Overall, right now, I think you guys saw on the end of the report, we actually have a 94.89% fill rate of all of our positions in the district and so that's a great success and we have a lot to celebrate because we

132are doing good things and this information showed us that the also showed us areas that we can improve so Does that cover? All right. Thank you very much. Does that conclude everyone's questions and comments? Thank you very much board Thank You superintendent. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Thank you Okay I am going now to the next item, which is item O, public comments for items not on the agenda. None this evening. Item P, information request for future agenda items. Any from the board? All right, seeing none. Moving to item Q, information closing comments from the board. We're going to start with Trustee Brubaker. Sorry, I just wanted to say in my nervousness of sharing what I wrote earlier I forgot to thank the Cache Creek high school students for our beautiful pumpkins. I'm so

133excited to take this home That is it Thank you very much coming around for Steve's already here. Sorry. Sorry. It's trustee Villagran. I'm very sorry earlier the the way president mentioned the perception of reality and again right now since I haven't gotten a response on the Statements that were made my perception is that there is agreeance in that statement that was made so Just that again. Thank you. All right. We're in closing comments anybody else I Just want to second the thank you to cash Creek for these beautiful pumpkins. I can't wait to put them outside My house. Thank you All right. I echo the gratitude for the gifts and the beautiful pumpkin art pieces. I'm excited to go add it to my pumpkin collection. And I'm going to have to figure out where I'm

134going to let my kids paint pumpkins now because they're going to have this idea that they're going to want to do. So this is great. I'm going to go home and figure that out. All right. We do have a public comment. Take it away. I actually want to clarify that those pumpkins were donated from WEA to Cache Creek and Cache Creek decided they wanted to paint them and bring them to you since they come and give their board report. Those pumpkins came from River Dog Farm out in Cape Hay, which is a close friend and comes to our farmer's markets that my partner and I run. And he gave us those at a really discounted rate for our fall festival. We had our big general membership meeting on Tuesday, which was really fun. It was

135at... I always blank on the name, Nelson's Grove, which is the YMCA location for Girl Scouts, apparently, and lots of other things. But that was a really fun event that we had. And those pumpkins were originally supposed to be painted by people at that event. And we had extras. So we decided to donate those to Cache Creek. Thank you very much. All right. Date and time of our next scheduled regular board meeting is Thursday, November 6th, 2025, closed session at five and open session at six. With that said, our meeting stands adjourned at 8.23 p.m.