Board Meeting 9-4-25

001All right, it's 6 p.m. on the dot. I'm going to call this meeting to order. I do have a quorum here at 6 p.m. We reconvene in open session, and we're going to go ahead and begin with the Pledge of Allegiance. We're going to go ahead and proceed with the land acknowledgement statement this evening. 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 Portwin people. Today there are three federally recognized Purwin tribes. Ketso Dehi Bandawintin Indian of the Colusa Indian Community, Ketso Dehi Wintun Nation, and the Ochodehi Wintun Nation. The Purwin people have remained committed to the stewardship of this land over many centuries, has been cherished and protected as elders have instructed the young through generations. We

002are honored and grateful to be here today on their traditional lands. Thank you very much, Trustee Villagrana. And we're going to go ahead and go on to the equity statement. 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 you very much, Trustee Rodriguez. And I'll go ahead and read this evening the Board of Trustee Agreements. Together we agreed to check in, remember our larger purpose, boundaries, remember that individual decisions are not personal, open, aspire to finding common ground, having empathy, being respectful, and assume best

003intentions. With that said, we now move on to announcement of any action taken in closed session. There was no action taken in closed session this evening, so we're going to go ahead and proceed to public comments for Sections G, Consent Agenda, and H, Community Engagement. No public comment. Thank you very much, Monica. Consent agenda any items to be pulled this evening or 1a 12 and 13 from the g1 a PO list Am I able to pull you can pull items off the consent agenda? Yes, I pull item number six the newbie holding court He's just order pool po number six Talk about to clarify a few things about her and also when I pull out date G3B. Okay, and this is the board meeting minutes for August 23rd? That's correct. All right, I'm going to

004go ahead and pull the entire purchase order list. So we will vote for the consent agenda without item G1A and item 3B, G3B. I make a motion to approve the consent agenda without item G3B and G1A. Second. It's been motioned by trustee Bautista Savala and seconded by trustee Richardson Fowler all those in All those in favor, please say aye. Aye Any opposition or abstentions? What's your pleasure, sir? All right All right motion passes to approve the consent agenda minus item G 3 B and G 1 a with all those board members present all right, we'll go ahead and discuss P o number six Okay, thank you. Yeah, I just wanted to be clear about the Purchase order for the the charges for electric school buses in in regards to our need for them. It's my

005understanding that you know essentially The state has mandated us to move to all electric buses and therefore we need to be able to provide the infrastructure for them And I just wanted to make this this particular item clear to the public about why we need to make this purchase Thank you in 2023 there was an assembly bill 579 that was signed into law that will require us that all vehicles purchased by the district be 100% zero admission electrical vehicles At during that we presented to the board when that law first was issued Tony gave a presentation some of you were not here at that time And we applied at that time. We knew there was gonna be available grants that would help districts move in that direction. The board gave us direction to go ahead

006and apply for those grants. We received some grants and I don't, but the, however, the only covered 92% of the cost of the buses and the other 8% we had to pay and use also purchase overs coming forward to you to finish paying for the electrical buses. And we currently have 21 buses, but we also need the infrastructure in order to charge the buses. So right now, as you know, we, we move some of the CHARGING STATIONS THAT WE HAD AT OUR SCHOOL SITES. THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE ELECTRICAL CARS, YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S SLOW CHARGERS AND SUPER CHARGERS. IN ORDER TO FUNCTION AND GET THINGS ROLLING AND GET KIDS TO SCHOOL, WE NEED SUPER CHARGERS. WE NEED A STRONGER INFRASTRUCTURE TO RUN ALL THE NEEDS FOR OUR TRANSPORTATION SERVICES. THE DISTRICT WILL BE ABLE

007TO GET REIMBURSED FOR THE MONEY THAT YOU'RE HOPEFULLY. Approved tonight. We'll be able to get reimbursed for six hundred thousand dollars of it But we can't get reimbursed until we first Purchase and then that we would have to apply and then we would get six hundred thousand dollars a back for complying with a be 579 Okay, thank you for that explanation. I think in the future I may put in for a yellow sheet to maybe go back and kind of revisit some information about infrastructure and what we're doing with infrastructure and update on the state tax credits, which we may be able to get but can't get until we purchase, right? Just so that process is kind of clear to the board and to the public. So we'll be asking for an update later in

008the future. Thank you very much. All right, so we will be returned the PO Number six will continue on with the with the batch, correct? All right. I need to pull PO two You want to talk about PO number two about separate from it from the other ones? Okay, so PO six will continue with the batch Yeah, and you want to vote on number two separately? All right. Any other questions or comments on the PO list this evening? All right. Let's go on to PO number two Just one about separate All right, any motion to approve PO number two? I make the motion. Second. It's been motioned by Trustee Rodriguez and seconded by Trustee Richardson to approve purchase order number two, item number two. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. The reason I'm

009voting no is because I don't agree with so much on expenses being spent on this, so my vote's no. Thank you. All right, so I'm going to go ahead and do a roll call vote because I feel like we didn't finish voting. All right. I didn't get to abstentions or oppositions. Trustee Villagrana, what's your pleasure? Yes. No, I mean, no. Trustee Richardson-Fowler? Yes. Trustee Garcia? Yes. Trustee Brubaker? Yes. Trustee Rodriguez? Yes. Trustee Bautista-Zavala, abstention. Okay. Now proceeding to the rest of the PO list. So this is without item one? Two. Item two? without item 2 12 13 Is that correct? 12 and 13 were already taken off before we approve the agenda So we are voting for item all PO items except for 2 12 and 13 Can I get a motion to approve the

010PO lists make a motion to approve? second It's been motioned by trustee Rodriguez and seconded by trustee Garcia to approve the PO list without items 2 12 and 13 I'm going to do a roll call vote again. Trustee Villagrana? Yes. Trustee Richardson-Fowler? Yes. Trustee Garcia? Yes. Trustee Brubaker? Yes. Trustee Rodriguez? Yes. Trustee Bautista-Zavala, abstention. All right. Moving on. Before we move on to the question, were the edits to the minutes that I requested made? Thank you. That's it. I didn't see the email that said that, so I think that's why. Thank you. All right, so now we are going to vote on item G3B, separate. Motion to approve the agenda items, the agenda, board meeting agenda minutes from August 23rd, 2025. Second. It's been motioned by Trustee Bautista Zavala, seconded by Trustee Richardson-Fowler. Roll call

011vote. Trustee Villagrana. Yes. Trustee Richardson-Fowler. Yes. Trustee Garcia. Abstain. Trustee Brubaker. Yes. Trustee Rodriguez. Yes. Trustee Bautista-Zavala. Yes. All right. We're going to go ahead and move on. Thank you very much for all of that. On consent agenda, we're moving on to resolutions. Community engagement presentation of resolution for Latino Heritage Month, September 15th through October 15th, 2025. I was going to say, they have the resolutions, I think. I'd like to invite Dr. Rodriguez to join us at the front, please. I've asked them to join us and to receive this resolution. Dr. Rodriguez has a long history in our community of giving and of helping others develop and grow. And this resolution talks about the contributions of the community, Latino community. And Dr. Rodriguez exemplifies a thousandfold that work, that ethic, the commitment. And again, not

012just in Woodland but statewide, you know, he's well known and renowned for his contributions That he's made and continues to make even though he's now retired. He still continues to to have impact throughout the Really the the nation still with his contributions He's a great role model for our community And again, I couldn't think of anybody else that just exemplifies the spirit of this resolution about the contributions of our community to our society to to our young people and as a district you know that's we're here to serve our young people and I'd like to hand over the microphone to Dr. Rodriguez thank you so much thank you thank you trustee Villagrana good evening members esteemed members of the board board president Bautista Zavala good evening superintendent Ortega Lampkin esteemed members of the board. Thank

013you for this first and foremost for the recognition first and foremost of the Latino community and as trustee viegrana mentioned to the various contributions of Latinos wherever they may be and this is particularly important while these resolutions are ceremonial in nature I think that the particular circumstances that we find ourselves in in this country Residences like these carry a lot of weight, a lot of significance to provide testimony and evidence that this board is serious and is embracing Latinos and is embracing the inherent identity in all the school children that you are responsible for. It is, I think, fitting when you have your equity statements and your behavior and through resolutions such as this that you stand with justice, each of you. I think it is meritorious that at the beginning of your school year,

014your children and parents showed up. Your teachers showed up. But there was no fear. And in this... Current environment where people are afraid to go to work Afraid to attend their places of worship You have provided direct testimony That this is a safe place for all children in the Woodland Joint Unified School District so as a parent of children who went through WJUSD And as a resident of this fine city. I want to say thank you for your your leadership for your stalwart approach, for your principled stance for justice and education of all children of Woodland. So thank you so very much for this. Thank you very much. The next item is Resolution 7-26 in support of Constitution Week, September 17 to the 23rd, 2025. And I'm passing that on to our colleague, Trustee Rodriguez.

015If I could invite Ms. Casas up to the podium. I'll meet you there. It's my pleasure to present this resolution to Wendy Casas who not only participated in our district schools, is a homegrown student who went on to be a successful attorney and practices here locally and is also an upstanding member of our community. practices in different community events and different community memberships and participates to her fullest to be able to make sure that our community is in the best shape possible in all ways especially legally and so I'm just going to read a little bit of this resolution as I present it to you And so, whereas Constitution Week was officially declared by President Eisenhower on August 2nd, 1956, and public law in 915 guarantees the issuing of a proclamation each year by the

016President of the United States of America, designating September 17th to the 23rd as Constitution Week. and whereas it is of the greatest importance that all citizens fully understand the provisions and principles contained in the Constitution in order to support, preserve, and defend it against all encroachment. And whereas the inscription on the pediment of Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., the only structure dedicated to the U.S. Constitution, reads Constitution Hall, a memorial to that immortal document, the Constitution of the United States, in which are incorporated the principles of freedom, equality, and justice for which our forefathers strove. Now therefore be it resolved that the Board of Trustees of the Woodland Joint Unified School District encourages the observance of Constitution Week, September 17th through the 23rd, and urges teachers to teach the Constitution and all students to study

017the Constitution and reflect on the privilege of being an American with all rights and responsibilities which that privilege involves. And I'd like to present the resolution to Ms. Casas. Thank you, Ms. Casas, for being here. Thank you to the board members. Thank you to my dear friend president Deborah Noel Thank you very much for this award in this resolution as a defense attorney. I do get to see the Constitution in action on a daily basis I get to see in court what it means to Honor due process, fundamental fairness, and equal protection, not just for the people that we like, it's for everybody that comes before these courts and everybody that is in this country, regardless of any of these traits. It's what our beautiful Constitution affords us, it's what we stand for, and it's

018a reminder when we have resolutions like today that we really embody not just the history of the Constitution, but in practice what it does. So thank you, and I encourage the school district to continue having these events so we can honor not just the history of it, but to instruct our youth in what the Constitution means, what these fundamental fairness and due process and application of it in everyday life. So thank you, Noel. Thank you, Deborah. Thank you, everybody. And Rogelio. Thank you. Thank you very much to our honorees for being here this evening. We're going to go ahead and move on to reports. Superintendent. Good evening. I want to start my report by first thinking the board for the very fruitful and Engaging board governance mean that you held a few weeks ago there

019was a lot of discussion and opportunity for you to continue working on how to best govern and direct the priorities and the goals of the district and You all engaged in a self-evaluation Because we are a learning community where we're all working on self-reflection from the top all the way down and up About how we continue to improve and grow and so I want to congratulate you for that work that you did on that on that Saturday Part of the work that we did on that Saturday is that we reviewed again our priorities of district initiatives This is only a small list because we have a hundred More than 100 203 things going on in all our district but you know you went through a process of a year ago to prioritize all the initiatives

020that we have happening and so we came up with the list you came up with the list of 34 initiatives that were important to you important to our community important to our staff and families and so I just wanted to thank you for reengaging in this activity and adjusting those priorities. I have highlighted the first five priorities and one of the things that you asked during that board governance meeting that I report to you during my superintendent report some of the things that are happening in the district that are aligned to the priorities that you have set. So I'm gonna, this is my first shot at it. So with that, I wanna highlight something that happened this week and point out to you what priority that supported. So this is a priorities of Program priorities

021is for the public in our staff the next one priorities of budget facilities and operations Some things are always ongoing and some things have a start and end date And so some things that we've already completed have been crossed and some things especially in the program is always ongoing because we're always going to continue to improve so some things will never have a Cross list because that's just the nature of that initiative So with that I'm gonna give it my first shot at this. So one of the things that happened this week Can you move to the next slide? Thank you. Our back-to-school nights wrapped up this week. And this is a great opportunity for our families to come, and that's totally connected to priority number four, to keep parents engaged on what's happening with

022their student's education, to find out what they can expect for the year, what the expectations are in the classroom, to meet the teacher, and to engage parents on, to learn about how they can engage during the school year. And so this was the last sessions that we had. We had, let's see, this year, I mean, this week was Tafoya, Dean Gibson. Cache Creek High School, and there was another one. Douglas, thank you. I've been to so many, I'm mixing them all up. And I just want to thank our staff. Our teachers did an amazing job. I saw a lot of teachers sharing a little bit about themselves to connect and build a relationship with families and talk about what to expect and ways that they could connect and support their families during the school year.

023Next one. Another one is on priority number five of youth development and also supports priority number 17 on communications. We hired six. student communication interim interns that are being coached and supported with Brandon our youth development coordinator as well Tulsa as well as our Pio here Jerry Jimenez and so I just want to just it's only been a few weeks and these students have already been helping out taking pictures and learning how to take pictures you can see there one of the students is taking a picture of me they're learning they're learning how to capture moments to showcase our school our district i've been spending a lot of time with them talking to them about why that is so important to tell our story they've also started developing some videos and we're really excited about

024what this is going to do because we want our our students to share their stories through their lens and i want them to also help me i've been joking with them i want them to show me how to do tick tock I don't know how to do TikTok. But, you know, they just look at things differently and they're creative. So I want to just share with you one little sample video. Again, we're just starting off. I told Jerry, watch out because they're learning really quickly. So it might be competition for Jerry. But I'm going to go ahead and share a little video so you can see some of the ideas that our students are coming up with. Before you show the video, one of the things that they want to do is kind of the

025life of a principal, the life of a teacher, the life. So they're kind of like. playing with that theme. So here's an example. So here's an example of them showcasing one of our classes, one of our teachers. They've also already interviewed Gerald, our principal at Woodland High School. And so we're gonna be using some of these videos, helping them with more editing and more refinement and be using. promoting on their land from their lens about our district and so very excited about this and I'm pretty impressed with what everything they've already been doing they've been following me around doing back-to-school sites and meeting staff shadowing me and they it's been kind of fun for them to meet some of our teachers and our principals as well Also, we want to you've heard about our 5.2

026million grants to implement community schools. We're very excited about that this particular project and the initiative it Alliance to three of your priorities social emotional learning supports And anti-bullying, we're going to be having social workers and counseling services and to support our families with the different health agencies in our community. Definitely for family engagement, a place that they can come to ask for support. and also supporting some of our most needy families like our foster youth and homeless students. So this grant is a five year grant. Very excited for this opportunity for our school. This will be our first year, so it'll be like a set up year. So things aren't gonna be rolling right away. We just received the funds, we're hiring a coordinator. It's gonna take a while to put things in place.

027But I just wanted to point this out as this initiative and how it really aligns to several of your priorities. Next. And so I think you'll hope that was we'll see how I'll get better at this priority piece. That's my first shot at it I believe that I can go back to all the other presentations I've done and I could easily align them to all of your priorities But it helps us focus. So thank you for for that direction that you gave me Regarding state and federal updates I can share with you that we still have not received the federal funds that were frozen they they have they Arrived to the state and they're telling us they they will be coming but they're not here yet the other update that I can you there's a

028lot of rumbling still about potential future threats to of Calif California funding for schools Nothing right now that's being concrete or developing but it's if it starts happening I'll come and update you as well But at this time we're just kind of holding steady and we are expecting to receive all our federal funds And that concludes my update. Thank you very much, Superintendent. Moving on to report from the California School Employees Association. Good evening, Superintendent Ortega-Lampkin, Board of Trustees, Cabinet, and Community. My name is Rebecca Rossiter, and I'm the library tech at Douglas Middle School. I proudly serve as president of Chapter 118 of the Classified School Employee Association. Our negotiation team looks forward to our first session of the school year on September 19th. While both sides have exchanged multiple dates, this is the

029only one confirmed so far. The District Benefits Committee met last week, led by Keenan, the broker group. CSCA members recently attended training on benefits bargaining and it was clearly emphasized that brokers should not run these meetings. The committee is made up of the district, bargaining units, and retirees. Keenan is hired to research and negotiate on our behalf, not facilitate. During the meeting, it was stated that proposed changes to plans would require a vote for our membership per our bargaining agreement. However, the timeline proposed proposed by Keenan is again very short and there are required steps that we have to follow Steps that are not in our control These processes need a collaborative review. We remain committed to improving it to better serve our members I have Not yet established routine meetings with HR or their

030superintendent and the board president though I did receive an email today from HR and I am hopeful that we will resume these important conversations Two major concerns have already emerged this year both involving our paraprofessionals Out of respect for our process, I'm not going to raise the specifics yet without first meeting with HR. However, I will say that burnout is already being discussed. We are 14 days into the school year. Our paraprofessionals are essential. Their support cannot be replaced by remote contractors. Which brings me to the special education portion of the PO list. Bright Start Therapies, $25,000 added. to $25,000 already. New Direction Solutions, totaling over 1.16 million this year. School Steps Inc., $125,000. Solient Health, $62,000 for resource and $173,810 for school psychologist. These are in addition to the 1.17 million dollars in contracts

031from the August 5th meeting and the 2.4 million dollars from August 21st That's over 3.5 million and special ed contracts in August alone It's worth asking What would staffing look like if even part of that investment went towards CSCA salaries schedules and permanent staffing? CSCA remains committed to working with the district to ensure that all students and staff receive the support they deserve. Thank you. This concludes my report. Thank you very much. Moving on to report from the Woodland Education Association, WEA. Thank you. Good evening Superintendent Ortega-Lampkin, President Bautista Zavala, trustees, and members of our community. My name is Becca Bernard. I've been teaching seventh grade science at Douglas for the past nine years, and I'm proud to serve as the president of the Woodland Education Association. I'd like to begin with a few positives.

032First, I want to share my gratitude for the opportunity to begin working closely with our new associate superintendent of HR, Dr. Rebecca Toto. From regular meetings to phone calls and texts, we are already building what feels like a very productive, respectful, and supportive working relationship. Thank you for keeping our lines of communication open and transparent. This weekend, six of our executive board and bargaining team members will attend the CTA Region 1 Leadership Conference in San Francisco. We are eager to learn together and bring back strategies to continue organizing and advocating for what is best for Woodland students. As a CTA chapter in the We Can't Wait campaign, WEA stands with educators across the state who are committed to fighting for safe, fully staffed schools and the resources our students deserve. On that note, our bargaining

033team looks forward to our first negotiation session on September 18th. Our goal is to reach an agreement as soon as possible, one that helps us fully staff our schools, retain highly qualified educators, and provide a truly livable wage. The reality is that too many educators are struggling to survive on their paychecks right now, and Woodland cannot afford to continue losing teachers to surrounding districts. Alongside bargaining, WEA is opening our Treasurer Elections this week. This comes after the loss of a dedicated 10-year educator and union leader who left Woodland for Davis due to the challenges here and the opportunities available there. This should come as a reminder of the urgent work we have ahead of us to make Woodland a district where educators can stay and thrive. I also want to bring forward serious concerns about

034employee benefits. The District Benefits Committee met last week, and I'm not sure how many of us know that the process is currently organized and run by our broker group, Kenan, rather than collaboratively by the district, CSEA, and WEA representatives. Similar to Rebecca, I attended some trainings on this and it was a big no-no that that should not be done. That structure makes me wonder if a for-profit brokerage is truly ensuring that our members are getting the best packages available. For context, some teachers are contributing over $2,000 per month just to cover family health care. Kaiser is projecting a slight decrease in renewal rates, but Woodland Health Advantage is increasing by over 9% and Sutter by about 6%. Dental coverage is also unstable, with fewer dentists accepting Delta Dental. This is an area of dire need

035of collaborative review, and I'm hopeful that we can move toward a better process that has our members' best interests at mind. The greatest urgency right now, however, is in special education. We are only a few weeks into the school year and classrooms are already stretched to the breaking point. Numerous SDC classes began the year without critical materials, including changing tables, and without the para-ratio students need, which is 4 to 1, but is currently far higher in several classrooms. Sub-substitute paras, often without any training, are placed in classrooms, leaving teachers, especially SDC teachers, responsible for the additional training and supervision. We still have deaf and hard of hearing students who are not receiving their legally required ASL interpretation services 16 days into the school year. Many RSP teachers are feeling pressure to take on additional caseloads

036through waivers because of staffing shortages, picking up the extra work because they want what's best for our students. Virtual case managers are being contracted outside of the district as a direct result of WJUSD's inability to recruit and retain qualified SPED teachers. And as a side note, it has still not been clarified whether families are being informed that their child is being supported by a virtual case manager and an in-person rotating substitute teacher. And lastly, some program specialists are being treated like administrators, carrying responsibilities that go far beyond the scope of WEA members' roles. About 20% of our students, one in five, receive special ed services. They are in need of the most support to access their education. And these current conditions are not what is best for our students. It's both unacceptable and unsustainable. And

037we ask that the district treat this with the urgency it deserves. Lastly, I want to lift up something positive and hopeful. Later on the agenda, you're going to talk about the cross-country program for the elementary schools. Woodland Teachers created that Grassroots program from the ground up to give our youngest students access to athletics, fitness, and community. This program now serves over 700 students, strengthens family and school connections, and has become something deeply meaningful in our community. Pamela Goetsch has coordinated this program from the beginning without a stipend, unlike middle and high school coaches. I hope the district will recognize the immense value of this program and commit to funding the program and coordinator appropriately. Thank you, and this concludes my report. Thank you very much. We're gonna go ahead and move on to reports from

038the board. Anyone would like to go first? Any reports from the board this evening? All right, seeing none. Trustee Rodriguez. Yeah, I'd just like to share that I thought that it was great that our trustees were able to commit to Saturday to be able to be together to talk about. our best practices to talk about our commitments to one another and to work together to identify goals for superintendent. It's always a good thing when we're able to be together in a different type of setting and really try and communicate with each other on a different level that allows us to connect with each other a little bit more. So I'm very grateful for everyone. attending that Saturday session. I also wanted to report that while I wasn't able to make a lot of the A

039lot of the open houses. I was able to make DeFoya's open house last night. It was a wonderful attendance by parents. You could see all the work that the teachers and staff had put into welcoming the parents, showcasing what they do from their daily schedules to their practices in their classroom to the art. You know, no classroom was... was not exciting visually and all well organized. I think one takeaway that I took from it was really the enormous amount of information we ask our parents to take in. in regards to their children, whether it's about scheduling, whether it's about field trips, homework, you know, how they are to interact with their teachers. And so, you know, the better that we can do as a district and, you know, on our campuses in terms of being

040able to support... communication, good, clear, thorough communication and the communication that is accessible to all our parents, the better because you could definitely see there's just a ton of information coming to our parents and many of our parents bring their students and they aren't always able to absorb all the information, important information that's given during that night. So kudos to all our campuses. attended to FOIA last night and everything looked really well prepared. Congratulations to them. Thank you very much trustee Rodriguez anyone else with the board report trustee Brubaker Like many families and teachers I imagine We had illness visit our families so I did not make as many of the back-to-school nights as I had intended but I did get a chance to go to the Freeman back-to-school night and The new principal there.

041Mr. Brown is settling a very well and it seems that the teachers and families really responded positively to his presentation so I'm I'm very hopeful for he being a very good fit for our community. That's all. Thank you very much, Trustee Brubaker. Anyone else this evening? Trustee Richardson-Feller. I was only able to make one back-to-school night this year due to my commute and schedule, but I did make it to the Pioneer High School back-to-school night. Kind of missed going to the Douglas one, but schedule didn't... I'm just always so impressed by the Pioneer High School back to school nights and open house. The stuff that they provide for our kids, the resources. It was so early in the year, but it really set the tone. It's a pros and a cons to having it so

042early, but it was really nice to see the campus, what's going on, and basically get the expectations for the year, having a student in her last year and a student in her first year there. So, thank you. Thank you very much trustee Richardson Fowler. All right, we're gonna go ahead and move on information board committee updates any updates from committees All right trustee Richardson Fowler later this month and I don't have my calendar open in front of me But excellence in education is going to be on the last Monday of the month at Woodland Community College last Monday of this month September 29th 5 p.m Thank you very much. Everyone should already have a hold on their calendar. Anyone else? Okay, we're going to go ahead and move on. Item J, public comment for items

043on the agenda. And we have one public comment this evening. Becca Bernard. This is for the agenda item about the roofs. Jim, this goes out to you. I just have to say how grateful I am for the work that's happening at Douglas. I was just talking actually because some of you might know this, but we have a house that we used to live in. We rent here and we just got a cleaning lady for it. And God, she's amazing. Pam gave her to me. She's amazing. And we talked about how when your surroundings. are improved and the quality is improved. It really changes like how you think about yourself, how you feel about being in that location. And all of our roommate tenants are all so happy about having a clean space to live in.

044And I feel like that same parallel is happening at our schools with having quality, like having painted things that haven't been painted in years. having a new roof and seeing them up there working and the kids are seeing them. At first we were worried about them not being done by the beginning of the school year, but it's okay. It all works. It hasn't rained yet. And it really, I just, we see it. We appreciate it. Walking around, seeing that the tiles on my ceiling don't have stains from decades of water damage. I really appreciate so much the team. that has put this work in and we see them working tirelessly. The gates are almost done. So I just want to really show some gratitude to Jim and his team. And I know he doesn't like

045to take credit for all this because he has so many people who help him with it. But thank you very much. Thank you very much. All right. That was the only public comment we had this evening on item J. And we're going to go into teaching and learning. This is an information item. Elementary, extracurricular, physical education, student engagement opportunities. Yes. Before we start, we'll have our Dr. Guerrero who's going to be doing a presentation. But this was a request from Trustee Fowler who wanted to know more about what kind of extra... Physical education opportunities are we currently have and some potentially what we can do next so we're gonna have dr. Good it'll come up and your presentation. Oh It's a public comment on this We do have a public comment. Thank you very much

046Sorry Pam Thank you very much I don't talk often, I'm sorry. I also have a really loud voice, so I'm not used to microphones, so sorry about that. Good evening, Ms. Lampkin, President Bautista-Salvella, and esteemed board members. Last year, I had the privilege of serving as a central contact for our elementary cross-country program. Supporting our students and athletes and teachers throughout this program has been an incredibly rewarding job because I've seen firsthand the positive impact it has on our children. As you discuss the future of this program tonight, I want to share my perspective, not only as a teacher, but also as a parent, friend, and community member. At community events, I often hear the excitement from students and parents alike. When does cross-country start? How can I help? Who will we be competing against

047this year? I was literally at the pool in my bathing suit, and I had people coming up to me. But that enthusiasm speaks volumes. One student story in particular stands out to me. When I began teaching PE two years ago, he came up to me during the very first week and said, Coach Pam, my doctor told me I'm obese. This was a fourth grader. I don't think I can do well in PE. Over time, through consistent practice and encouragement, he has not only began participating in activities in PE, but even joined our running events during morning practices. This year, he was one of the first to ask when cross-country would begin. His journey reminds me of something greater. Childhood obesity is a growing crisis in our country. We have a lot of kids behind screens.

048We sit all day in school. Programs like Cross Country don't just offer exercise. They can inspire lasting lifestyle changes. For some students, this program could truly be a life-changing event. I am grateful for the financial support that we received last year. So thank you very, very much. With those funds, we were able to purchase essentials like first aid kits, cones, flags, and ribbons. KIDS NEED MOTIVATION. THEY LOVE GETTING THOSE LITTLE CHOKINGS. AND BEING ABLE TO PROVIDE THAT FOR THEM IS PART OF MY HIGHLIGHT. I'M NO LONGER AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER, BUT I DIDN'T WANT THIS PROGRAM TO DIE. SO I KEPT GOING. AND I APPRECIATE ALL THE CONTACT THAT I'VE RECEIVED FROM OUR DISTRICT OFFICE, FROM THE PARENTS, AND FROM THE STUDENTS. THIS IS A PROGRAM THAT IS AVAILABLE TO ALL OUR STUDENTS, NOT JUST

049THOSE IN OUR AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM. Parents can sign up. Parents can participate. I sincerely hope you will continue to fund this important program, and I deeply appreciate the support that you have already shown. If you have any questions, please let me know. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you, Pam. Thank you Pam for the work that you're doing and I just wanted to before we I have Dr. Ocadero start the presentation this was something that started by our teachers and some of sometimes the best things is what starts from the from the people that work and innovate and so I want to think the teachers I'm not sure who started it way in the back I think it was some two schools or three schools and other principals heard about it and they it

050just kind of grew into this amazing opportunity for our students but I do want to clarify FOR TONIGHT WE ARE NOT GOING TO BE DISCUSSING AND NOT THAT WE ARE NOT INTERESTED IN HAVING FURTHER DISCUSSIONS BUT WE ARE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO DISCUSS ANY STIPEND BECAUSE THAT IS A NEGOTIATION ITEM AND SO WE ARE MORE THAN OPEN TO HAVE THAT DISCUSSION THROUGH THE NEGOTIATION PROCESS BUT WE CANNOT DISCUSS COMPENSATIONS DURING THIS ITEM. Thank you for that and I do want to be able to first start off by being able to thank miss Getsch I was able to catch up with her and not one but two back-to-school nights today and this year so it was great to be able to not only communicate with her via email but also be able to meet

051her and in person and her energy is just contagious. I also want to be able to put to place a point of clarification that this poor item does not address physical education per se as a course of study as I know that that's a session that our students participate in but rather more than notion in the spirit of a physical activity that our kids do. And I do want to be able to just take you through the outline and the history of the current practices of the elementary cross-country activity. also highlight some student engagement and participation levels and also as a point of reference to be able to respond to the board inquiry that was made regarding the district's role in being able to support staff and all obviously be able to encourage our students

052to continue to participate. So just a little background just as our superintendent is able to address all the initiatives as part of different things that address our different goals. We're always anchored on the fact that we're going to be able to address the four goals that were already set. This particular report does address goal two in the sense that it does provide students an opportunity to participate in sports, which obviously we know it can improve the academic performance by boosting the physical activities and also be able to teach life lessons as well. You do have access to the written report as it was printed. This is just basically a summary for your reference and also for that of the public's. Certainly we want to be able to encourage this type of activities and I would

053tell you that it was refreshing to be able to learn a little bit more about it. Obviously, we also want to be able to anchor everything in our graduate profile. We know that that is the ultimate outcome that we want to be able to have for our students. And we know that students being able to participate, adults being able to participate in any physical activity is able to contribute in a positive way, not only to their social being, but to their emotional being as well. And then also, obviously, to your health. So just an overview of what I'll be presenting today. Certainly we want to be able to address the need to support, but I want also to be able to highlight the support that we already provide and certainly be able to highlight all

054the different activities and the amount of students that do participate in the activity. I'll take this through some background that I was grateful to be able to connect with Ms. Getsch because she was able to be able to give me some information that being new to the district, certainly I feel pleased to be able to learn about. We'll also go just a little bit about over the current practice and obviously being able to consider this as we do everything. else that comes up as to whether we'll be able to prioritize and some next steps. As it was stated earlier, and perhaps I could have Ms. Getsch come here and be able to tell you firsthand this information that she provided to me. I believe it started in 2016 by a former principal, which has three

055schools being able to participate. It now does include the participation of all of the schools, with a district-wide meet being first held in 2019. And we know what that entails. It was right before COVID, so a dip. in there, but we're able to now see that the participation has increased again. As I mentioned earlier, it is organized by our flex teacher, Pamela Getsch, and we were able to fund her, and as a matter of fact, we ordered the certificates and the medals and such for a total of $4,000 a year. The schools are responsible and they do organize and are eager to be able to operate this. club independently with either their PTA support or their designated school site funds. Obviously the support at the school level is voluntary at this moment. The current practice,

056it is offered at the elementary level for TK through sixth grades. Belief practice has already started. I saw an email go through with the schedule of the different practices, and they are held for two weeks. So it is a short season, and they do have one practice and a meet in the third through the sixth weeks. I understand that there are separate races for each grade level and for each gender. For example, TK girls have a raise, TK boys have a different raise and so forth. And I believe that the distances do vary depending on developmentally age appropriate levels. As I mentioned earlier, we were able to support the purchasing of ribbons and participation stickers. And I am pleased to be able to report that over 700 students have participated in the practices and the

057meets in the past across the district. CONSIDERATION, OBVIOUSLY, WE SPOKE ABOUT STIPENDS AND CERTAINLY VALUE AND APPRECIATE A TIME COMMITMENT THAT TEACHERS MAKE. IT WOULD CERTAINLY AS WAS STATED EARLIER DO would require negotiations and bringing up this as part of our budget and obviously being able to prioritize among the different priorities. I believe the list was exhaustive that was shown and just like our superintendent and you were able to. devote a whole day to be able to prioritize and agree to those five. We certainly have to be able to think and be able to consider about the different ones. I do want to be able to say that there's existing opportunities for kids already through the Little Heroes program that is offered through their e-lab. I believe it's twice per week being able to allow

058students who do participate. participating in the program be able to have that opportunity for activity and I believe there's also some intramural sports being able to be held at those participating schools. Next steps and I want to be able to thank Ms. Getsch for being able to provide me with some pictures as the season hasn't started this year and I hope to be able to take mine as I go to the meets. Certainly we want to be able to see how this fits in the priorities and be able to implement at the wish of the board what it is that we want to be able to dedicate. I am pleased that we were able to support the activity. this year and as was mentioned earlier, the season, per se the short season is underway with

059the kids already practicing and I hope to see you all at the meets so we can best be able to support our elementary students. And that concludes my presentation as far as this item is concerned. Thank you, any questions or comments on this item? Trustee Richardson-Feller, we'll start with you. J.K. But can we use classified staff and even community volunteers to run this program not just certificated staff. I believe right now at the various schools, we do have a combination of different people who do support the activities. Most of our schools do have the PTA involved. Obviously, it does involve the parents and friends and family who can be able to help. So that's the current support that... that we have, so certainly involving the community. And I think that if the community sees the

060benefit that it does bring for children, we can certainly be able to market it as such as well. So that is a possibility for sure. Okay, so that was my one question. I wanted to provide some clarification for your question. Part of what we're learning right now, because as we start, you've heard, this started as a grassroots, and so we don't... We don't have a grip yet about what sites might be paying some of their staff. and we need to work more with closer with Pam. We definitely want to compensate her in some way. I can't talk about a stipend because stipends are negotiated, but we can talk about other ways for her time on a timesheet, definitely. And regarding the other pieces, because the schools may be doing some of that already, I would

061have to work with Gracie and Dr. Ruggiero and Pam to find out more about that. But it's definitely something that we could look into and explore. So the benefit of these extracurricular activities for kids is just tremendous especially since it doesn't have any cost and it doesn't impact families budgets. It's a wonderful opportunity for our PTAs and PTOs to also fundraise. I know we used to sell bullies and nachos when it was our turn to host at Beamer. So it's great for parent engagement, signing up some parents for the PTAs, PTOs, and we know that the science behind it shows that you have better student attendance and better student outcomes when they have these opportunities to have these extracurricular activities. Is this something that we can partner with other organizations with, such as the Boys

062and Girls Club, Opera House, Square One at the... Library even the city of woodland to do some of these programs that the city of woodland offers wonderful amazing programs But having them at our school sites So they're much more accessible to our students and even right after school so that we can just dial our kids right in one that once the bell rings Right, right. I'm absolutely I think the possibilities are endless just to be able to Explore what's possible and not only what's possible but what's sustainable this way because we want to be able to not only start something for a year just because it's the thing, but certainly be able to see how sustainable things are. Partnerships, as I have been an administrator at the campus level, in the district's level, tend to

063come and go, so we definitely need to be able to gauge the source of the partnership to be able to see. series is answering your question as well to to be able to see how well we can be able to establish that as the superintendent mentioned it's a grassroots effort that we we need to be able to provide a structure for it not for the sake of controlling an activity but for the sake of being able to deliver to our students or staff and our families as well in the long run Absolutely. My last comment is when I submitted this yellow sheet, I wasn't just talking about physical activities like the cross country, but I would love for us to think out of the box like. even yoga expanding our ballet folklorical program. You guys

064all know if there's an arts program in this county I wanted in Woodland. So if we can do anything to more expand that just to give our kids more opportunities. I mean the data is there. It says if we provide more activities for our kids after school it dials them in it keeps them engaged. It's kind of like Becker Bernard was saying it gives them a sense of pride in their district. And that's what I really want for our kids to to love learning and love where they're learning. Absolutely. And that exhausts my questions and comments. Thank you. I can just just like what you just said. I think that's really important. We are very one way that we are able to provide that right now is through our new VAPA during the school day.

065So that is so exciting. I've heard so many comments from teachers about how they excited they were that VAPA. support for the arts that they were going to have during the school year. I got an earful last night at the FOIA about the excitement of that. We can definitely look at our existing after-school program to see how we and we would provide a lot already in our after-school program, but we can see how We can continue to enrich those opportunities and then explore for other opportunities for students who are not in the after school program definitely. You know, it's something that we can explore. But I think having VAPA now in our schools is a great start. Any other questions or comments? Trustee Rodriguez. I just want to express my gratitude for the teachers that

066got together and put together the cross-country program and I'm glad that we've found a way to support it. I think that and I support the comments generally of Trustee Richardson-Fowler about expanding extracurricular activities. I think though that for me I think that I wasn't thinking so much of just general extracurricular activities, more athletic activities as extracurricular activities, because the athletic activities are our largest extracurricular program by and large. But we've never had a chance to be able to assess it. And so I think it's really important for us to go down that road to be able to, as a board. to take a look at our athletic programs and really understand who's participating in the athletic programs, how are students doing in those programs academically and or otherwise, what is the breakdown in terms of

067ethnicity, in terms of poverty, in terms of male versus female. And so to that end, because I think we really need to really understand, I don't think we've had an opportunity and I don't recall. a previous board doing an assessment of our entire athletic program or our extracurricular activities and so to that end today I put in a yellow sheet to discuss that possible agenda item of of having that come to the board and having there be a presentation about our athletic programs as extracurricular activities. I didn't necessarily take into account other extracurricular activities, but that might not be a bad idea either to understand our non-athletic extracurricular activities. So I just wanted to let my colleagues know that I put in that yellow sheet and that I think that especially as is it eventually

068comes down to, you know, do we put resources towards, you know, any of these things that we really need to have the best understanding possible of. Right now, I'm just thinking about our sports extracurricular activities and how well we're doing just in general and to understand them the best we can. So that's coming down the road. Thank you. I think. My daughters have been a part of the cross-country program over at Beamer School when they were in elementary school. I've seen the program grow. It used to, you know, it started off very small, certain grade levels, and now I think it's, like you mentioned, you know, school-wide. And I think we need to do a few things. I think we need to start measuring parent engagement. at these specific events because the turnout of parents

069and families is huge. I mean, I don't. I would say that there's probably as much turnout at these track meets as it is for a back-to-school night or an open house. There's just a lot of people. And maybe it looks like a large group because there's a lot of different campuses, but the dynamics of seeing a lot of different families from different schools in one place, you don't see that at any other activity district-wide, in my opinion. So if we were to start promoting different services and opportunities that our district has at these events, for example, our cafe specialists, our adult ed opportunities, our concurrent enrollment, our TK program enrollment, all kinds of different activities that we might have, maybe even the superintendent student leadership. applications being distributed to families. All of that, all of

070the resources and maybe even turning this as an opportunity to do like a district resource fair, maybe at the culmination track and field end of year event, because it's huge. That's just an idea, nothing that I'm trying to say that needs to happen, just an idea. I think one thing that's missing out of this presentation is the ballet folklorico program that we have. It's not only at Beamer School anymore. I think there's some other campuses that are. Maxwell I'm not sure don't quote me I am NOT the expert on this but I have seen it at different campuses And I think that that definitely lines up into the physical education and student engagement that we as a district offer and we need to showcase that It has taken a lot of district investment Maybe not

071as much as other programs, but there has been investment in there I know that some school sites have used PTA resources or site council resources To make this happen and I really really think that we need to take some credit for that. And I think when I think of extracurricular activities, I think of our most vulnerable students who don't have that, you know, sports. peace at home. You know, some families don't have the resources or don't have the time away from work to be able to commit to a practice or a game day on the weekend or after work. I was one of them. My mom would always say, we don't have the extra money. We don't have the time to be able to do that. So... I would always go with my cousins and

072try to like play with them during their soccer practice. And then finally, when I was like, I don't know, 14 or 15, my mom's friends were like, well, if we're already taking our kids, we're going to take your daughter. So I started playing at that age. So I always think in the back of my mind that if there isn't sports or activities or physical ed. that extracurricular for our students, we're going to have that population of students who never have that activity. So thank you. Thank you for offering this. If we could offer more and we have the resources, let's do it. But going back to the Ballet Folklorico, we really should add that to this because that's a huge portion of what we do. And I would love to see that program and other

073programs that have to do with dance. I know that we started Bollywood. I think Bollywood falls into this too. I just know that we're doing a lot more than what's on this presentation and it's nothing to criticize. I just think that it doesn't capture everything. That's all. And now with the VAPA, it's exploding with what we're going to be able to offer. give an update later in the year to see how it was been developed by our school sites um on in this area so thank you for your input all right any other questions or comments trustee richardson feller Okay. As you were mentioning the cross country event, the only thing I can think that would rival that is when we have our music events and we have all of our schools together come together

074for the music events, but they still don't rival those cross country events. I mean, parking is impossible. That being said, I would love if when we bring this back, if we could get some data on the participation levels of our high school and middle school sports programs. I would love to see if anything was impacted, if we got a bump in our cross-country participations after 2017, if some of those kids were applying for those jobs, not jobs, sports teams. That being said, with my kids participating in some of the high school sports, specifically golf and softball. They are teaching a lot of our kids how to play these sports. And it would be amazing if we could start training some of our kids to have access to these sports opportunity. There was a wonderful talk

075about three years ago in Cambridge in UK that said what keeps the wealthy affluent and wealthy is access. And our kids don't have the access as President Bautista Zavala has said, en masse. And so for us to provide that access to our kids gives them a leg up and it gives them a great start. Who knows, we could have the next Tiger Woods in this neighborhood, but because we didn't give them a golf club or they didn't have an access to it. We missed an opportunity. So I'm just trying to figure out how we can give our kids more. So I hope there is a correlation for that one. If we do do them with our after school programs making sure it's accessible to all. And then finally you had mentioned the little heroes program.

076I know nothing about that. Do you. Are you able to give like a quick snippet on what that is. Yes. I know it's part of the ELOP program and it's not an everyday type thing. I'm not sure if. Oh, well, Ms. Gitch can be able to tell you a little bit about that. I spoke with Danielle earlier about it, and she's the one that said that they were able to have some physical activity also as part of the ELAP program. I believe the contract will be coming up soon for- Yeah, Little Heroes started at a school site. Again, one thing that started at Tafoya many years after COVID, I believe right before COVID, to keep kids engaged during recess. So that's when we learned about the program and you noticed people were asked to try

077and ask questions. It was in their school plan Other principal started hearing about it teachers started to hear about it and one of those things again somebody tries They have success and it started growing and so that was evolved into other parts in our district Right, and like you, I didn't know this was a thing as part of the program, but it's good. And to your point as well, to be able to market and be able to communicate different things at these events, this opportunity like this, or able to bring it. to people's minds, right? For us to be able to discover a new way that we may not know it was possible, but it's through the exposure and people knowing about it that I think it's a first step, right? The first step is

078being able to know about it and then be able to pursue what then if it's a good thing with this correlational studies, then it's an investment in how do we do it, how do we innovate. And I think the most difficult part, how do we innovate in the era of budget cuts and everything else, you know? But I think the answer is in the room. So we just have to be able to explore on how to be able to go about that. as well. Pam, since you got up, is there anything you want to add that we didn't mention? Yeah, it's a great program. They come to different schools throughout the week and it's in all of our after school programs. I know Freeman also had it at recess and at lunch and it is,

079they have units where they teach the different sports and then they also have like student coaching opportunities so the students become the teachers and then they earn a lot of life skills on how to coach other students and help and navigate. And it really, like I saw it at Freeman as a PE teacher, they were able to go out there and play during the recess. They had a structured game. challenges went down during the school day because instead of having, you know, soccer where nobody was really monitoring them, the rules, not them, but, you know, like, oh, you, that wasn't a goal, that wasn't, you know, that wasn't legal. Like, there was actually a coach out there that said, nope, and just could referee the event, which reduced the drama around the different sports. And

080it's really great. The problem is that it's not at all the sites and it's not available to all the students but as a parent i did see my children participate in it and they loved it great thank you so much i appreciate you i'm glad you were here tonight thank you for using our teachers and our staff as resources that's i appreciate that uh they all have a skill set so i'm glad they could help thank you so much any other questions or comments trustee rubaker So I know that sort of this was focused on physical education, but if there is a discussion of bringing back things for future discussion, I would also like to just get a general idea of extracurriculars in general. As a kid who has a physical disability, I was not

081able to participate in athletics, and so I'm curious. I know that that's laid out in some of our site plans, but there did seem to be some inequities from site to site in some of that, and so I would love to get a better idea of... For example, chess club. Where do we have chess club? That kind of thing. Thank you very much. I think I'll stay here, right? Yes. All right. Do we want to proceed to item k2? Or take a bathroom break. What is the pleasure of the board? Let's keep going. All right Hey, this next item was also a request for trustee Fowler She wanted more information just to be informed about what is happening in our how we are supporting our dueling work language learners maintaining spanish acquisition and so trustee

082uh dr geredo will give us an update on uh on that item so good evening i think with the earlier item i was so excited to be able to share just the findings of this amazing opportunities that we have for students that i forgot to properly um address you and be able to introduce myself just for the public's um conception um so good evening president and also superintendent Ortega-Lamkin and obviously the STEAM Board. This item in particular has to do with the how we are continuing to support our students and being able to maintain a language they acquire and to be able to expand their proficiency in that language, in this case in two languages, beyond just the elementary level, which are the grade levels in which we do offer the dual language program. So

083we definitely want to be able to tell you a little bit about the program itself. it is, what opportunities exist not only in the elementary school but in secondaries, and also knowing that we could always get better and hone everything as it should for the benefit of our students. What are some next steps that can possibly come about while be able to acknowledge challenges that may be there and just how staff and obviously the schools are helping to be able to overcome that. I should get started. Again, anchoring everything that we do around our LCAP goals. And this one in particular is able to address three. Not only is learning a second language an advantage as we compete and get students college and career ready, but they also, through a second language, are able to

084be exposed to a different culture, to different people, being able to meet the social, emotional, academic needs of students because there's a lot of studies that says the students who are bilingual, their mind is actually different, their physical brain development is different, and they're able to do better in school. And obviously, being able to accelerate the English learner achievement, because it is a program that addresses the need of our students, not just to be able to keep their native language, but be able to be proficient in both, in their second language and their native language. Also, being able to be cognizant that the graduate profile is at the core of everything that we do and obviously being able to be fluent into languages can be able to address our goals for students as they graduate

085our schools. We'll be able to address the inquiry that was made by being able to kind of give you about the background of our dual language immersion program, be able to kind of look at the supports that we have at the elementary and the secondary level, explore a bit into the California Seal of Biliteracy, the requirements of it and the breakdown of our students and the seals that we get here at the district level, and obviously just some next steps that are low-hanging fruit. Obviously we all want the world for all of our students and we need to be able to explore how do I go about that with the resources that we have and those that may be available. So just a little background, and I do want to be able to acknowledge Maria

086Trejo, who is the person in my team who is responsible and oversees this program. Not having been here long, although I have built a career in being able to help English learners, I know she can be able to give you some specifics if we do go into that whenever some questions may arise. So I thank her for being here. I also want to say Maria Orozco. What did I say? Trejo. That's okay. You're still learning all these names. And I want to make sure Maria's name is clearly and gets, you know, recognized for her hard work. You know, Maria Trejo was a director in one of the districts that I used to work in. And it's just amazing how your subconscious works. Maria Orozco. Maria Orozco. Yes. So, thank you. Thank you for that. So

087we do serve preschool through sixth grade students, the dual language program for those students who do participate. And obviously we want to be able to support students in being able to develop bilingualism and biliteracy through the elementary years. The long term is to produce lifelong bilingual and biliterate students. The current supports that we have available, we do provide small group instruction that happens during class and after school. do also provide Spanish summer school interventions. There are some extracurricular opportunities that we have that are conducted in Spanish. There is a required course of study in the middle school trajectory and for dual language students it is offered in Spanish. We do have a Spanish seventh, eighth grade elective course. At the secondary level we do have some small group interventions and At the high school level

088we do offer some language courses that are available to be able to maintain and deepen the proficiency level of the second language We do have support that we give and bulk of it is invested in the, is investing in the professional development and engagement. We do this through the PROMESA and that addresses the needs of dual language immersion teachers, also to our site leaders. and also to parents as well in order for them to support their multilingual learners. We do offer support to dual language immersion teachers through support from TOSAS and we do conduct instructional rounds that is conducted by the leadership in order to be able to improve the program quality in the sense of calibration. As to the seal of biliteracy, which is the pie in the sky for students, for them to

089be able to have their ability to speak and read and be bilingual, biliterate in two languages is the California seal of biliteracy. By no means, as I go over the requirements, you see that by no means it is an easy task to be able to do, but we do have students that are able to do that. It is the official recognition by the state of our students being able to be able to communicate in two different languages. It is a gold seal that is placed on a high school student's diploma or their transcript. It does celebrate the attainment of high levels, and you'll be able to see how they demonstrate it in their ability to speak, read, and write. in English and at least in another language. And I also say at least in another

090language because it's just not English and Spanish, but it could also be in other languages that the students are able to demonstrate proficiency. I believe before I joined the district that there was a student that graduated with a syllable literacy in four different languages. So not necessarily just two, although Spanish and English is our most common one. There are some challenges obviously that we have in order for our students to be able to continue beyond elementary. We know that something that is happening in a consistent level and we're able to be committed to it not only works but is solid. So definitely we do want to be able to have our parents because in this case as the students enter TK or pre-K or kindergarten, they are not able to commit, but their parents do.

091So we definitely want to be able to get them to understand what the program is and for them to be able to commit at least through sixth grade. We do know that students, as they develop their own interest and go to middle school and eventually to high school, they do want to add a third language. I added French in sixth grade. Needless to say, I only took it for a couple of years and I struggled to communicate with folks in that language. But had I stuck and had been able to develop my Spanish beyond the fourth grade level, I think that I have because as far as I studied in... I did my studies in Spanish, I think I would be able to have that academic language that our students are able to graduate with.

092We also have a language requirement in high school that students say, okay, I have met my language requirement, I'm done, and they do not continue with those courses. We also have found that not a lot of students pick AP Spanish class, which goes to say that the class may not be of interest to them just because we have low numbers in those sections. As we look at being able to fund the different programs, it's really hard to defend having a class of five students or four students or six students. And although those six students or however many students may be interested in it, we have to look at a fiscally responsible way. to be able to serve students. So we need to be able to either increase interest or be able to say it's a

093low enrollment class. We're going to offer something else instead in which the students do have a higher interest in. We have found that we also, you know, it could be a pro or a con that we offer so many choices for our students. And we have other CTE pathways that may be of more interest to students, and they choose that over continuing with their Spanish programming. And I mentioned just those to be able to note that we want to be able to continue with the trajectory for students, offer opportunities for them at the secondary level. or some challenges that we would need to be able to address and come to terms with in order for us to be able to have a solid program at the secondary level as well. I mentioned earlier that being

094able to attain the California seal of biliteracy is no easy task. I am not sure if I could do it now. Not only are they able to have to prove English proficiency, but they also have to be able to prove proficiency in the second language. You're able to see there in the first bullet the English proficiency. It's demonstrated by one of those. You know, it involves a GPA of 3.0 or above, graduation requirements, being able to pass the CASP test with a 3 or 4, which is also difficult to do, challenging, passing an AP English exam, and this is AP English Lit or AP English and... I think, with a three or a four. And also it involves high achievement in SAT and our English learners also have to have in addition to that an

095ELPAC or a language proficiency score of four, which is a high score. in English for them. I spoke about having proficiency in a language that is not English, which is the other language, and students either have to pass a world language AP exam with three or higher. If the SEAL will be attending Spanish, obviously that will be a Spanish AP exam. Being able to complete the four course of study in that world language, again, would not just complete it. but pass it with a GPA of three or more and be able to take a reading, writing, and oral assessment. And obviously be able to meet the basic requirements for the district and state criteria for being able to receive a high school diploma. So certainly when we hear of students being able to... earn a

096COLA by literacy, then you know that it's not just something we just give away, right? It's something that it's challenging and something that our students have to commit to in order to be able to get it. This is a breakdown from last year and this year as to the number of SEALs that were awarded, what percentage of those SEALs that this represents. I do have to say that in 2024 and 2025, we had 142 students that got collectively 148 SEALs, meaning that some students did receive more than one SEAL. I think I mentioned the example of the young lady that was able to. to receive not one but four. And we're able to see just what the numbers are for students whose Spanish or another language is their first language, meaning they're more fluent in

097that whenever they start fluent in English. The number. as well as the number of students who are still classified as English learners who earn that seal. And our group with the highest number are those students that do reclassify, that are able to meet the reclassification criteria. I do have to note that in all... And this is just an example. And this is across the states, across districts, districts small and big. The students who do meet reclassification criteria are typically the highest achieving students across any exam, whether it's in English or in Spanish. So the key is to be able to progress monitor so they are able to meet that criteria overall. And as far as next steps and what the possibilities are, certainly we want to be able to, during transition from elementary school to

098the middle school, continue to provide guidance for parents and awareness of the possibilities for their child. We do want to be able to give students a voice in choosing their schedule because of the interest, but also it helps if the parents are aware of the benefits that are there for children if they do continue with their course of study. Certainly having parents be able to be part of the selection process and be able to approve that so they can at least be aware, even if the child chooses not to continue, at least the parent knows. that they are not continuing, but at least they are able to see what the possibilities and opportunities are. We're looking into being able to offer an opportunity for dual enrollment Spanish courses. Initial conversations, I believe, have happened already

099with Woodland Community College to be able to do that. We have, I should say staff here, has applied for the Spencer grant. And overall, it does aim to be able to offer funding source for us to continue to expand and strengthen not just the current programming that we have but also into the secondary school. We should be hearing whether we get this grant or not I believe November. November and and because it's still in the application status I'm not able to go into details about what exactly did we ask for right and I know that it is going to help us expand the middle in the high school Spanish offerings some of you may be asking yourselves well why are we expanding those courses if you just told me that there's no interest well that's

100the status now how can we be able to then increase the interest to be able to commit with parents, be able to see what the possibilities are so that if we are able to expand those offerings, then... And it's always a question, what came first, the chicken or the egg, right? So either you expand those opportunities and then get enrollment, or you increase enrollment and then expand those opportunities. This grant will be able to give us that. Also, some funding, I believe there could be... offered to be able to to staff I know how difficult staffing is at the elementary level for dual language and believe me when I came and I asked Human Resources how many vacancies did we have in dual language immersion? We had none that is unheard of That's unheard of

101With having been in districts that we have to go to other countries to be able to recruit so we are blessed that we are able to fill the vacancies at the elementary level. I just mentioned how difficult it is to be able to speak that academic Spanish. And I say that because there are very few staff, possible applicants that can be fluent at that level as well. I could possibly teach in a love math. I love algebra. I could possibly teach it after a lot of studying, but that those terms are not terms that are used at an everyday level. So we definitely have to be able to have staff who is equipped. definitely opportunities to be able to fund that to be able to qualified staff that may be needed at the secondary level

102and obviously be able to look at staff development who is tailored specifically for secondary dual language immersion teachers so those are possibilities fingers crossed that we're able to get that grant so that we're able to continue to offer this valuable service for our students and for our families And that concludes my presentation today. I will entertain, and Maria Ordosco will entertain as well some technical questions that I may not be able to answer. Before we start, I just wanted to clarify something about the Spencer grant. It's a partnership with Sac State University. We requested, I wanted to share the grant application, but. They requested that we not share it outside yet. So we're going to honor that in respect to the partnership. But I can tell you that one of the main focuses is to

103help increase qualified bilingual teachers at the secondary level. Now, that's the biggest challenge. And I just want to... Underscore what dr. Guerrero said to have a content area teacher also have that high level of academic Spanish that is required For a quality bilingual program is very challenging not impossible It's challenging and we need support like this putting this potential grant that will help us identify potential teachers that may be interested first Right they have that level of Spanish and that content knowledge that needs to go in for those particular courses. So we're excited about this potential and what that could do to expand our opportunity to the secondary level. Any questions or comments from the board? We'll start with Trustee Richardson-Feller. So when I put this yellow sheet together, it wasn't with a deficit mindset.

104It was with definitely a growth mindset of we're doing great. We've got the first dual enrollment school on the West Coast. Beamer here what can we do to bolster our programs and make them better? So I just want you to know with that lens is which I Submitted the yellow sheet. I think that being said Thank you for everything you present it very thorough so many of my questions answered I do have one question and I know that I on behalf of my kids who are English at home speakers I know we give kids a lot of choice but when I started my foreign language in sixth grade and I signed up for French my mom ripped that up and was like honey where do you live. Where. Be practical after you've got that down

105you can go to French. So I come from the mindset of I don't need them to have a choice. They didn't have a choice to enroll in the dual enrollment program. It's a commitment to their education and. The metrics and the research you know, so I my goal is not to really make it an elective but to see it Thoroughly between the 7th through 12th program I love seeing that you guys have stuff in the pipeline and you guys are Doing what needs to be done to recruit the teachers that have the skill set to teach the program with efficacy It's you're fine. You're looking for unicorns that being said We put we invest so much in the preschool through sixth grade. We give them a little bit in seventh grade not disparaging but that's

106what we're capable of. By the time they get to high school most of them are not taking foreign language Spanish their junior or senior year. Is there something in Ed code that says they have to take the seal of biliteracy that last year. Do we have a mechanism for the kids to take it sophomore year or junior year? Do we have a mechanism for study groups to get them ready? Yeah. I think the study group, I mean, it's an easy, you know, low-hanging fruit. Be able to help students organize that as well. You know that at the high school level, they have... a social life and we have to involve the kids in being able to kind of make that schedule themselves. As far as the seal, it is awarded in their diploma or transcript.

107So it is something that is awarded when they graduate as well. It is possible for them if they have this opportunities to meet this requirements earlier on. No one's gonna go back and say hey you didn't earn this when you were a senior right, but it is it is a recognition that is given to them when they graduate but as long as they were able to meet the requirements Our counselors are amazing and they're able to keep track of them and then we're able to recognize those students It just feels like almost a carrot knowing of course you're not going to get that seal until you graduate clearly. But if we can get students across that threshold of OK you just took this test. What it shows that you are proficient in this language. Don't

108lose your proficiency. I'm just so concerned that we see such an attrition rate in the Spanish classes after ninth grade. And our teachers, and I am a big Beamer cheerleader and DI cheerleader, they put so much work into those kids. They're doing their science fairs entirely in Spanish in third grade. I didn't do that that is all the teachers you know and with all of that that are pouring in let's not make their work in vain let's keep lifting up our teachers and lifting up our students so that's the energy with which I submitted this I love seeing that there's a plan that was really my only question or I'm done with my comments thank you I just want to oh sorry Just to add you know at the at the middle school It was

109very intentional to pick history because they have to take history they have to so that there's some required class You got to take math you got to your English Language arts and you got to take your sciences and you got to take your history PE and then you have an opportunity for electives We were very intentional to have it be history because you have to take history and if you come from a Julian version program We want to make sure that you're automatically enrolled in history And if you want out, you need to opt out so that you can have that conversation with the parents. Right? So that gives it a better assurance that they want to continue at the secondary level. Now, if we can do something like that at secondary level too with

110a content area class with a qualified teacher who can do the content. and the language part is where we have a challenge and the purpose of being proactive and applying and saying yes to that state, we're interested in partnering with you is for that reason. I'm thinking ahead and going ahead and saying absolutely we are interested in partnering because that's our challenge if we don't have the person with the credential and the skills then we just can't offer it and the best thing that we can do is do it during the content so that students feel like they're not losing out on their electives because we want them to do electives we still want them to do CTE pathways and do others all opportunities and so that's what we're trying to accomplish with this partnership.

111All right, any other questions or comments from the board? Trustee Garcia. Yes, so first I'm gonna say thank you for this presentation and from our previous meetings, I really appreciate you are very prepared to make this presentation, thank you. So I would like to share. I HAVE BEEN IN THIS POSITION, I HAVE TWO KIDS, ONE IS ALREADY GRADUATING AND I HAVE BEEN IN THIS POSITION AND I TOTALLY AGREE AFTER THE SECOND YEAR IS VERY HARD TO CONVINCE THE KIDS TO TAKE. AT MY HOME, THE CHALLENGE IS WHEN THEY ARE GOING TO TAKE IT BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE OPTIONS. BUT I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT, I LIKE VERY MUCH ABOUT THE PARENTS KNOW, HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE NOW BECAUSE THIS IS NEW AND I REALLY APPRECIATE. IT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR THE PARENTS TO KNOW WHAT IS THE

112NEXT STEP IN ORDER TO GUIDE THE KIDS, ESPECIALLY IN MIDDLE SCHOOL. I MENTIONED THIS A LOT OF TIME AND I APPRECIATE YOU MAKE SOME CHANGES ON THAT. AND THAT'S A very, very important to the parents to know what is the next step. I've been on this class as a story in Spanish, and it's a very rich class. Yes, I love the language. I've been to middle schools about five years ago or a little bit more, and those classes are really higher. The vocabulary is higher. One time, I forced my first kid to learn a lot of English and Spanish. AND SIXTH GRADER AND SAY, YOU KNOW, I CAN UNDERSTAND, MOM, WHY NOT? AND I WAS VERY UPSET. I TRIED TO READ. AND IT'S HARD EVEN FOR ME TO READ THIS KIND OF VOCABULARY. SO I

113THINK WHAT IS MISSED ON THIS PRESENTATION, I DON'T KNOW, I THINK MARIACHI CLASSES ARE A SUPPORT FOR THIS KID. I think this for my kids and all these kids who are still in mariachi is another tool for them to explore, to continue practice the Spanish and also be proud of their culture. And I think this is the only thing I think is, it has to be on this presentation. And I'm going to... I have more to say, but I want to pass the time for another, for my other comment. All right, we'll just continue going down. I just have a side comment. For some reason, my back has decided to bother me tonight, so I'll just probably be rotating back and forth. Sorry, don't want to be a distraction. Sorry. Thank you. I was excited

114to see this presentation come forward. I went through the dual immersion program through our district from kindergarten through 12th grade. And I was able to see, I mean, over 20 years ago, what the program was like and be able to maintain my, you know, fluency in both Spanish and English and transition into UC Davis and get a bachelor's degree in Spanish and then a master's degree from Sac State in bilingual multicultural education. with some classes taken in Spanish. Now with my two daughters undergoing the dual immersion program at Beamer, and my oldest daughter, she's in Pioneer High School, I've seen the presentation roll out in her career at our district. She's excited. I don't have to ask her what class to take in terms of Spanish. Like, she's excited to select something. She's been able

115to maintain both languages pretty fluent. Now that she's 16, I do notice that her English is a little bit more stronger than her Spanish. But I occasionally get notes from her teachers. Her Spanish teacher is about, you know, her Spanish is still strong and it's still developing. But I also noticed that her abilities in Spanish show a lot more emotion and passion and devotion to whatever it is that the writing prompt is. And that's something that I will never be able to capture in my kids in English. And I'm sharing that because when I was going through this presentation with you, I think that we focus in a lot on academics, but we also sometimes don't talk about the interpersonal skills that we are showing them and how to express not only what they feel

116comfortable, but also how to express what's inside, right? So I just wanted to share that. My oldest daughter has maintained her Spanish language, but she's able to communicate on a different level, even though she may feel more comfortable in English. I know that this program is a success. I know that we've been modeled statewide. I know that we have the right leaders and the right teachers to be able to take us to the next level. And when I think of this presentation today, I think of what are the next steps that we want to do in terms of, like, you know, dual language. We just celebrated our 35th year anniversary at Beamer. 40th year anniversary, thank you. That's a huge milestone. But I think what we as a board need to start to consider is

117how do we take this program to the next level where not only are we growing the program, recruiting and fostering a space for our teachers to be able to have the proper credentialing, but also utilizing it as a mechanism to increase our enrollment. I know that these programs are impacted. Are there ways of growing this program to capture those students that are going to other districts or other schools that may be private? And if that's even something that'll help us really capture the students that are choosing not to come to our district. I think that's something that really makes my mind jog a lot. BUT I THINK AS A BOARD WE REALLY DO NEED TO THINK ABOUT WHAT IS THE FUTURE THAT WE WANT TO DO WITH DUAL LANGUAGE. BECAUSE WE'RE 40 YEARS IN OF

118INVESTMENT AND WE CANNOT STAY STAGNANT. LIKE WHAT NOT THAT WE ARE, RIGHT? BUT WHAT CAN WE DO? WHAT CAN WE DO TO PRESERVE, MAINTAIN AND GROW? BECAUSE I THINK THAT THIS IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT MAKES OUR DISTRICT WHO WE ARE. And I get super passionate and I get so emotional when I think about this, having gone through the program, raising my daughters through the program, but also like when I'm around the community, I am like recruiting people. Hey, look into this program, you know, especially when I see families, you know, having small children under the age of five or under the age of four who could potentially go into these TK programs. I'm excited. I'm excited for this presentation. I want to say thank you to trustee Richardson Fowler but I also want

119my colleagues to know that I think we need to start thinking about the future and where we want to go with this because I think there's a lot a lot of opportunity out there if I can just Kind of help give some background on this and thank you for your comments. I'm very proud of the program as well There was a time where When I was in Maria Orozco's seat, when I was trying to get support for these programs and I had a hard time people accepting to even want the seal up by literacy. Maria was there in the rooms with me. I did not get the support at the cabinet at that time. I just went and seek support through the county. Even the county can get the seal through us and I can

120work that way and partner with the county. I got pushback from my own colleagues in this district. for that seal. I had to take a little step back because sometimes you gotta take a step back before you can go forward. We could add it. We finally were able to get support from that superintendent, I think it was Dr. LaVoy, believe so, Dr. LaVoy, thank you Dr. LaVoy, to get the seal come forward to the board. And then we had another challenge, students didn't want it. Students were embarrassed to get this award. We started the first time I think with three kids, three high school students. So we had to brainstorm. How are we going to make it, make them feel like they stand out? Let's get them sashes. We had the first design, Maria improved

121on the design, the one that I had made. And of course the kids started seeing it was a prestigious thing to communicate it and highlight it. The reason I'm sharing this with you is that it takes time to build. It takes time to build. We continue to grow. You are already giving us direction by having us expand Dingle into a full dual immersion school. That's going to take some work and focus time. We are already working on this potential grant. If we want to do it right, that's going to take time to build it and make it work because there's layers of things that need to be worked through and it takes time. If we take too much of a bite, we might not get any of it done. Just caution, you know on that

122that we don't we definitely want to we don't want to over promise it under deliver I want to be able to make sure that what we are able to do is Something that we are can focus on and that we have the resources spawn so we can do it, right? There's gonna be a lot of work that's gonna be done need to be done at Beamer at Dingle. I Remember when we went the time that it took during those under my watch to create to transition beamer into full dueling version because it used to not be that took some time so with that i just want to thank maria and all the eagle specialists the principals who have got us to where we are now and there's been a lot that has done and it

123will continue to be more guaranteed because you have the right staff we have the right board with the support and the community and so uh you know uh we HIRE THE RIGHT PERSON AS WELL, TOO, AS WELL, WHO UNDERSTANDS BILINGUAL EDUCATION LEFT AND RIGHT, HAS OPENED UP OVER 67 PROGRAMS IN HOUSTON UNIFIED. HOUSTON UNIFIED IN TEXAS HAS 272 SCHOOLS. OUR NEW ASSOCIATE SUPERINTENDENT OPENED UP 67 BILINGUAL PROGRAMS. SHE KNOWS WHAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO DO. MARIA OROZCO HAS BEEN HERE THROUGH THIS JOURNEY. with me and with our staff to where we are now and we're committed we are 100% committed it's just you know how much do we want to bite to be realistic and I think we are we're already taking some bites we're already looking at making a dingle for example that's going

124to open up more opportunities for more students Applying for this grant and making sure that we even have the teachers if we don't have the teachers We can't really develop the program until we have the credential teachers. They're not being developed at the University, right? So that's why the university recognizes that and they're helping us with this this this opportunity to partner So I just wanted to say that's that 100% agree with you and we're committed to our continued growth Thank you. We'll go around trustee Villagrana trustee Rodriguez-Mogica Thank you. Thank you for the presentation and thank you to Trustee Richardson-Feller for bringing this up. I agree that it's a really important issue and it was really nice to be able to see all of this information in one presentation. As many of you know,

125dual language is my jam. I just came from teaching my class so I don't think I can quite take off my professor hat just yet. I think that I agree with Trustee Bautista Zavala that we need to move on this, right? We need to think about our next steps. What is it that we can do? And I think there's a lot that we can learn from what other districts are doing, right? So I think one thing that comes to mind is how can we elevate the status of the Spanish language? within our district because I think this is what's impacting our secondary students from not wanting to do that anymore right like they want to trend French is cool right Italian is cool it's something a little bit more novel so I think we need

126to re like think about how we can do that not just in our dual language schools because our secondary students don't just go to school with dual language schools they're mixed in with students from across the district so how can we think of ways to start elevating the Spanish language across your school sites and I also I love that we are thinking ahead right and applied for this Spencer grant in partnership with Sac State I think that has a lot of potential and could be really really good so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that works out I think in the meantime though there are things that we can do in the short term. Right, we can start. I don't know if we've already done this, so please let me know if we have. Surveying all

127of our teachers and seeing who of them is bilingual and who is interested in getting the bilingual authorization, right, at the secondary levels. There is funding in the Crecemos grant that Woodland is a part of that would help pay for that. I don't remember if it's completely, but it would help cover it. There are online programs. You know, we at Davis, we have a... Secondary program and we have five that we're preparing so the secondary bilingual teachers are out there I think we just need to find them and we need to start growing our own as well and incentivizing that too right because I suspect that we have some teachers here, right, that are bilingual. And I also just want to highlight with language use, language isn't static, right? We get better at it the

128more that we use it. So I think there's so many bilingual teachers out there, teachers that are bilingual, that just feel like their Spanish is not good enough to teach math in Spanish, right, or to teach history in Spanish. But all they need to do is just start using it, right? They need to start using it. They need to start listening to it. They need to start reading in it. So I think opening that up and not approaching language as if you have it or you don't have the language for it, but really you speak Spanish, let's work with you. Let's share resources with you so you can get your Spanish to another level. I think that's really huge because I can tell you with... Almost all of the bilingual teachers I get in my

129program, they all hesitate because they have been told that their Spanish is not good enough, right? I mean, I myself, like I was really nervous about it, even though Spanish is my first language. And I think it's because our language practices are just judged so often. So I would love for us to start talking with our teachers and supporting them to practice and develop that language. And it goes back to what Trustee Richardson-Fowler was saying with our students. if they stop taking those classes, they don't practice, their language suffers, right? It just will, especially if they're not using it at home or in their peer groups. So I think it's really important for us to think about ways to integrate Spanish across secondary. Otherwise, it is a barrier to the students getting more seals because

130if they don't use it anymore and they're not exposed to it at the secondary level, then... by the time they get to seniors, it's going to be really hard. The numbers are just going to drop. They're going to be rusty. They're not even going to want to take the test because they feel like they stumble, even though we all do. I've taught Spanish classes at the university level, and I was super rusty at that time, too. So it's just all about practice. So I'm saying this just so that we can reshift the way that we think about language proficiency and not just approach it as they need to know all the fancy, you know. Algebra and geometry terms like they'll learn those right a lot of the Spanish I learned when I was teaching as

131a bilingual teacher and I think a lot of our starting bilingual teachers do too so I again I'm saying that because I think if we talk about it as this huge high Goal for our bilingual teachers. We're already shutting the door on a lot of them that could be potentially really really great so I'm saying that in Connection to what you said trustee about these are some about next steps and also in relation to Our students having more opportunities to actually get the seal right if they have more courses, so I sent my questions I have a lot of Questions that I'm sure you know folks will get to a little bit later, so I'll just stop there So I just want to clarify because I believe we're that's what we're working towards right so

132we're And I if we miss spoke or weren't clear clear enough the the Spencer We were saying about not having bilingual teachers that's going to help them with that language for example in our Julie Merchant teachers currently elementary Their staff development is provided by a staff development in Spanish to force not to force for them to practice and discuss So the staff development that they receive is from the staff develop PERSON FROM PROMESA DOES THE WHOLE PRESENTATION IN SPANISH SO TEACHERS CAN PRACTICE THEIR ACADEMIC LANGUAGE AS PART OF SUPPORTING THEIR LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT. SO THE WHOLE IDEA OF THIS SPENCER GRANT IS TO to identify teachers, we already know who they are. We already know who the teachers are. So that's something we've already know who they are. Right now their faces are flashing right now

133as I'm thinking of them. To give them the opportunity, would you be interested? Here's an opportunity for training, for staff development through the university to, because we know that they may not be ready right now, but they could be. And so we but they're gonna need support right you're gonna need support through staff development to the university They might not have THE FUNDING OR WANT TO SPEND MORE MONEY TOWARDS THEIR COLLEGE AT THIS POINT IN THEIR CAREER. SO HAVING SOME SUPPORT THROUGH A GRANT LIKE THE SPENCER TO SAY, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT GOING TO COST YOU. WE HAVE SOME OPPORTUNITY FOR SOME FUNDING TO SUPPORT YOU THROUGH THAT. SO THAT'S THE WHOLE IDEA THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH THIS. SO I THINK WE'RE ON THE SAME PAGE ON THAT PIECE. AND THOSE DISCUSSIONS HAVE ALREADY BEGUN

134WITH OUR STAFF. And I think that's perfect. That's amazing. But what I'm trying to say is that Woodland is already a part of the Crescemos grant. That money is already there. So we can, while we wait for the Spencer grant to come through, there's already a grant through Yolo County Office of Ed where the teachers can jump on it right now. So maybe, like you said, the ones that are ready now can jump on it. Because that money is there for them, right? And then we can wait and hopefully get more through the Spencer grant. So I keep thinking like short term, what can we do now? And then what's the long term to be able to get more folks in? Yeah, and we can promote that more. I know the county has been reaching

135out to our staff. And maybe it takes a little more time for them to understand what it is. Maybe we can spend more time on that piece to support the county on the recruitment on that piece. We can't force our teachers, but we can definitely give more information and do more outreach. All right. Thank you. Moving on. Trustee Richardson-Fowler. I feel like you just lobbed a ball up for me so I can. About elevating the Spanish language in the community. I don't think it's about elevating the Spanish language. I think it's about making it more accessible Because if our dual enrollment schools have the requirement of 1 3rd English only 1 3rd Spanish only and 1 3rd bilingual households We are missing a wonderful opportunity with our English only and our bilingual. I know there

136is a lot of people who are bilingual but they're not bi literate. If we had a mechanism to support our English dominant families in learning and supporting their Spanish that's the number one argument I hear from English only families at DI schools. After kindergarten I don't know how to support my kid. I know the colors I know the numbers. Now they're conjugating verbs and they're doing science projects. I'm out. And heaven forbid you go to chat GPT and they'll be telling you to shave a moon instead of waxing and waning. So that's not an adequate support. So if we did something that supported the parents, I am not the nuance person. I am the policy person. I would love a policy that we could support our English only or dominant families in learning and maintaining

137that second language. Another way to also elevate that is fun fact you can do CTE programs and other languages and if I'm not mistaken there's a mechanism to get that CTE certification and the support for that. Imagine if we were preparing our kids to do their job interviews with that second language that's going to boost them with that pay differential. That's a way to elevate it. You tell my kids that they can get an extra. you know dollar for doing this class based on the skill set and the knowledge they're going to get out of it. My hungry first born is going to sign up for that class because having a tasty resume and positioning herself to make more than her parents is her goal and we want to support her in that. So those

138are two pathways the CTE and the parent group for. My final comment is if we could engage the cafe specialists even more in educating people of those opportunities I am super jelly of trustee Bautista Zavala and Garcia because my kids stopped Spanish after sixth grade they took the history class But now they're on to French And thank God for Duelingual because that's how they're keeping up with their Spanish. We also have a requirement that they do certain Netflix shows in Spanish to try and maintain that. But also you guys are not my target demographics either because you've got the dual language at home, which is a wonderful support. But I just want to see us do more to support this valuable resource. So we are on our way. But we need more of these updates

139so that we can continue to feel good about these progresses that we're making and so we can stay in that front. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. Yes, I'm the same. But as you I think we need more places for the students can practice. They can feel motivated to share the language and I and the key also is the parents need to know those options. For me, counselor and parent communication relation is the key in this part, especially in secondary. I was thinking on some ideas. So I thinking if we can use our dual enrollment with the WCC, maybe I know, maybe they don't have the same teachers, qualified teachers as, but maybe Latino, Chicano students and Spanish maybe. I'm not sure if the students gonna have the interest, but if we can make more option

140where they can practice. I was also thinking about we can create a Spanish spelling bee. AS WE'RE DOING IN ENGLISH ALREADY, I THINK THIS CAN BE, WE CAN SHARE WHO IS THE BEST, THE BEST CONTENTS, FIRST PLACE, SECOND PLACE. I THINK THIS IS GOING TO BE, IT CAN BE SOMETHING GOOD FOR OUR DISTRICT. AND I ALSO, I WANT TO THINK A CLASS, NOT JUST MARIACHI, I THINK SINGING IN SPANISH. because I hear some, yeah, our singers for mariachi, sometimes they have struggle spelling, and I think this can, it can be, it can not be a class, can be a club, or can be a, together with mariachi, singing, I don't know, and I think connect with, WITH PROFESSIONALS, MAYBE WHO ARE GRADUATES OR BRINGING LIKE JOURNALISTS, REPORTERS WHO ARE BILINGUAL. WE HAVE SACRAMENTO, UNIVISION, TELEMUNDO,

141THEY CAN COME AND SHARE HOW TO BE BILINGUAL, THEY OPEN MORE DOORS TO THE PARENTS, TO THE STUDENTS. SO THOSE ARE SOME OF MY IDEAS. THANK YOU. All right trustee Brubaker So just to sort of continue on with what you were laying out which I think just jogged something similar to what we were talking about previously Maybe combining some of our extracurriculars as Spanish-focused as well so that maybe if students in high school who don't have room in their schedules for whatever reason for a Spanish class might have that option as well, like debate in Spanish or something like that that could sort of be more not just everyday conversational even. But that's my little two cents. I'm soaking it all in because this is not something I have much experience in, so I'm enjoying

142all this. Thank you. All right. Anyone else this evening? Trustee Rodriguez-Molica. I just want to add, I'm loving all of these ideas. I think they're really, really good. Just throwing out the idea, too, of maybe not, of having bilingual courses that are not entirely in Spanish, right? So they could just be bilingual courses going back and forth and translanguaging across the languages. That might open up the door more for students that don't feel 100% comfortable being able to. ENGAGE IN THAT LANGUAGE IN THESE ELECTIVE COURSES. IF IT IS A COURSE THAT TRANSLANGUAGES AND IS NOT ENTIRELY IN SPANISH, WE MIGHT NOT NEED THE TEACHER TO HAVE THE BILINGUAL AUTHORIZATION FOR THAT BECAUSE THIS LANGUAGE WOULD STILL BE IN ENGLISH, JUST INCORPORATING SPANISH THROUGHOUT. SO JUST A THOUGHT TO THROW OUT THERE FOR THE ELECTIVES THAT

143TRUSTEE GARCIA WAS MENTIONING. I WAS THINKING ON PUENTE CLASS. CAN BE JUST ONE MORE. One topic or one unit. I don't know. All right Seeing no one else Okay. Thank you Thank you so much. I do appreciate your passion and your interest in this topic. It always makes my heart glow. Thank you So the next item on the agenda is related to facilities and finance. It's an informational item and it's an update on the district's roofs Thank you very much Jim. This is a request from trustee Brubaker Who requested information about the status of our roofs how we are addressing it? What time is taking for staff what resources were needing you using? and just an overall update on this very important topic because there is a lot of need as you will recall we

144did a I DID IT NOT TOO LONG AGO, A FACILITY ASSESSMENT THAT TURNED OUT TO HAVE $6 MILLION OF NEEDS. MUCH OF IT WAS ROOFING. AND EVEN THOUGH WE ARE VERY HAPPY AND VERY GRATEFUL FOR ALL THE BENEFITS THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED FROM MEASURE Y, IT HAS NOT COME CLOSE TO ADDRESSING THE NEEDS THAT WE HAVE ACROSS THE DISTRICT AND ADDRESSING ALL THE ROOFING NEEDS. WE'VE DONE SOME. but there's a lot more that needs to be done. And so this is an opportunity for us to discuss and for the public and the community or staff to know that it's not a lack of interest in addressing this, it's a lack of resources and challenges that we face and we're doing the best that we can. The weather is gonna start raining pretty soon and we're

145gonna have leaky roofs. I'm glad that we were able to take care of Douglas, but we have a lot of needs still across the district. So thank you to Super Breaker for bringing this forward. Good evening, Board of Trustees, and good evening, Superintendent Ortega-Lampkin. As the superintendent did mention, yeah, we have some issues with the roofs, and Trustee Brubaker asked to have some information presented to her, so I put together a PowerPoint presentation to hopefully address all your concerns and questions, and obviously we'll answer some questions as we move along. I'm making sure I'm following on my computer here, too. So what is a roof? It protects the envelope of our buildings, keeps out adverse weather, helps with keeping climate control cool in the summer, warm in the winter, inclement weather, whether or not we

146have storms or rains or whatever. It ties everything together. If there's inefficiency in there, we're battling all kinds of issues. With rain itself that that's one of our biggest but as I said we have problems with our HVAC units that are tied to our roofing as well because if it's not properly sealing our buildings we have issues along a lot of different lines What happens if we have an adequate roof? A poor roof can allow water to leak inside, causing damage to the building's interior. It damages the walls, the floors, interior, ceiling tiles. We've had issues with supplies, computers, and all that getting wet throughout the rainy season. Causes, it's mainly the age. We have 20-, 30-, 40-year roofs throughout our district. Just getting up on a roof inspecting it has sun damage water damage

147storms. Just it's they're just old they start to fray Storm damage sometimes comes through and does even even worse damage to us whether or not it's hail Obviously a newer roof can withstand some of these issues, but the older roofs cannot And the risks of having the old roofs and leaking it may lead to some mold and of course structural weakening as well. We do our part to get to these leaks as they happen so we don't, we've been very lucky to not have any real main structural issues. As the superintendent mentioned, the Douglas roofs that I noticed last year which kind of brought up an urgency, it was, it looked like it was going to become a structural issue. There was pooling waters, you'll see some in the slide, the pictures in the slides.

148it to come. So it really was something that we wanted to address quicker than some of the other areas. And as far as mold, I know just touching on that kind of makes me shudder a little bit. It's something that comes up every once in a while. Again, same thing. We do our part to address these leaks, and we have not had any issues with mold. We do air testing after some of our larger leaks that we have in some of our classrooms to make sure that once it's cleared of the water that there's nothing to be concerned with. Not the slides I really want to be looking at because it's a little bit embarrassing to show, but it is what it is. These are the state of our roofs here. Just moving across the

149top is just showing the cracked, the older tar-type roof. Chasing leaks, as you can see in that second photo. We're trying to find out where the leaks are coming from, and so we're trying to seal, and that's just the dots of the whites of sealing nail holes in the roofs, trying to figure out where the roof is coming from. Third photo just shows a patch job where the water was kind of coming around the top of the roofing material and getting into the classroom. So that's a fix. The next two photos, the first one of the two is a leak that we identified, and that's a typical patch that we do. And you can see it's not that big of a patch, but that's really all we're really capable of doing at this point is

150going around and trying to find where water is coming into our buildings and doing those types of patches. Some are larger. But that's kind of a typical patch bottom left-hand photo is that is the is one portion of the? Douglas roof that all three wings look like that They had standing water of about two to four inches on those when I saw that last year it was it like I said it became more of an emergency to me that We really do need to figure out what's going on over the years those the the roofing material just became compressed and it just started to create a valley and it just compounded the issue with more and more water and it wasn't going over to the storm drain so it just it just sat there until

151we tried to get it off the other photos again are just inadequate roofing it's just flaky roofs split roofs the material on the second to last photo on the bottom that's just the the interior of the roofing material has like a fibrous material but it's you typically cannot see it, but it has worn away over the years. So you can almost see right through the roofing material. So that's in a lot of our different sites. More of the same just more roofing patching just the holes in the roof that we have interior Photos at the bottom or just stain ceiling tiles and again this you can see in the classroom people are in there We try our best to replace ceiling tiles once the leaking stops We most often remove ceiling tiles and literally place

152some buckets to catch the water and sometimes that's during class That's that's really there's not much else that we can do That last photo again is when we had a larger leak at Douglas where we were just putting some plastic over the bookcases Which again as I mentioned earlier? They take a beating as well because of the roof leaks in a certain spot so bookcases get damaged and the materials that are there again we try to move everything out and cover them up the best we can but We're that little that's all we're doing during the during the summer or the the winter months is where we're just chasing around these leaks And it's no one no one is looking forward to the next few months Talking about costs the maintenance time during rainy season

153We track or what I what I wind up doing at the request from trustee Brubaker's I went back over the last couple of years and looked at our facility facility on works work order system And look to see because we do tag all of our work orders which with roof leaks So we go back and kind of look to to see how many that we received and I put hours to those and and and came up with about an average, because I went back a couple years, but an average of about 450 hours during a six-month rainy season that our workers are attending to just roof leaks. Of course, we have other work orders coming in as well, but that's something that they have to address as it comes in. We do work diligently to

154try to stop the leaks when they come, but also we do try to make sure our gutters are clean and storm drains are clean on top of our roofs. Sometimes we don't get it right away and when we do have a leak and we get up on the roof there's a clogged drain or a clogged gutter in which we release that. But what winds up happening is that water just pools up to a spot where it gets into our classrooms. So once that's cleared, it does stop the leak. So we are lucky sometimes to catch those types of things. and of course the importance of roof maintenance of us going through and trying to Fix what we can we have done a report of all of our roofs essentially and and so I have Access

155to priority one priority two party three items throughout the district So if we do have funding we can we can start to identify where we want to go first custodial staff so how much time does our custodial staff spend cleaning up they're busy as it is throughout the course of the day if we do have water intrusion in classrooms hallways gymnasiums NPRs they help with cleaning it up so they get get out there wet wet vacs or their extractors and they help to get the water up off the the floor out of the carpet mopping up where they have to so they're chasing around the the the mess that the leaks create while the maintenance staff is trying to help fix and mitigate that. Their tasks include mopping the floors, drying things up, preventing the

156slip hazards because again you get a slick floor with water on it and potential to have people slipping on that. And the importance of cleanup obviously we want to get there Quickly because we want to ensure a healthy and safe school environment And like I said, I'm pretty proud of the the amount of leaks that we do have to address We do it in a way. We're we're not Instructional minutes aren't aren't being affected outside of the Douglas one Which we had a huge amount of water come in and that was just something we just had to had to Teacher move to a new classroom that does not happen very often But again when we get on it It's all hands on deck and we help out and we try to get things moving along

157as quickly as we can So this kind of a first summary here So the roof damage and leaks adequate roofs cause leaks and damage inside our buildings impacting safety and infrastructure High cost of repairs and I think I'll talk about this again But every rainy season we spend about a hundred thousand dollars on contractors to help fix leaks. So again, I went through our invoicing through our roofing contractors and Yeah, every every leak that they address is somewhere between 700 to 1500 sometimes two or three thousand dollars depending on the size of leaks so every single leak that we get a get a call for we're spending to have them come out and replace so with our time and And the contractor I estimated about a hundred thousand dollars each season that we spend for

158these leaks So combined staff efforts and maintenance maintenance and custodial staff 450 hours. I estimated and then the additional hours for For our custodial staff I'm estimating in about 600 combined hours for just the leaks that we have for that five to six months So kind of reiterating that $100,000 for the 24-25 rainy season. I estimated about $150,000 for the prior year. Again, it was just a little bit more stormy. And $100,000 is approximately 10% of our routine repair maintenance budget, which is a considerable amount that goes just to the repair. Specialized contractors are hired to fix the lease fix the leaks remove cooling water again We have when we have the larger amounts of water in there We have to have another mitigating company that comes in it helps us a restoration company you

159guys might be familiar with that process where they come in and they do a That much better of a job to get get everything cleared out And in some cases we do have to do some some repairs to the structure and prompt professional Repairs prevent extensive damage to the walls floors and ceilings again. I'm proud to say that we that we act really quickly to help with that It's just going from one one to the next and we have a system to help the best we can to do that And that's pretty much it Before you go into questions, I just want the board to also know we have a somebody on call 24 7 so if something were to happen that 3 o'clock in the morning, like something going on fire or a flood.

160I don't know. It seemed like a long time ago, but it wasn't that long ago when Samora got flooded. And that was kind of major as well. So it was not necessarily just the roofing issue there as well. The library got flooded, the whole office, the whole quad area. People were in boots in there. They had to have pumped water out. That happened over a weekend. And so we need to pay our staff overtime as well. when they go out there and because the one person on call is to deal with small little things but sometimes we got to call a whole crew in and and so I just want you to be aware of that that we do have somebody on call little things happen during the weekend if somebody calls me somebody let

161me know hey the sprinklers are going off so where I I called Jim Jim calls a person on call or sometimes I call a person on call myself to address any issues that are happening during off hours. But every time it rains, and you've heard me say this before, but I want to say it again, you're an opportunity because that's our reality and I think it's important for people to know. But any time it starts raining, I know that what you're thinking, I know what Louis is thinking, and we check with each other as soon as we can, how are our schools doing this morning? How many buckets do we have? Do we need to move anybody out of the classroom? And that's hard. But yes, anytime it rains or winds as well, those types

162of things because of the conditions of our schools. Somebody recently shared something with me that I thought was very compelling. Somebody that's new living in our community. And I asked that person, that person's going to know when I share this. I said, so what are your first thoughts about Woodland? You've been here now for a month. And they really like the community. And they said, this is a very, there's a lot of resources and wealth in this community. And that doesn't match what I'm seeing at the schools. I don't understand. Why is that? So the resources, there's no reason for our schools to be in these conditions. I think the challenges that we have is lack of resources, maybe lack of awareness. So I think this presentation was very timely trustee Brubaker I think a

163measure why was an opportunity the best tours that we did You know, I think it's important for us to continue sharing our story And the reality is that we don't have the resources. We can't do it alone How do other communities have the schools in better shape because they're able to get support from their community? And our schools are only as strong and it's a reflection of the support that we have from our community and it's a back and forth, right? So we need to see what we can do better to get the support on that, but we are not gonna be able to ever do it alone. Thank you, Superintendent. Any questions or comments from the board? We'll begin with Trustee Brubaker. So first I want to thank you for the presentation and please

164extend your gratitude to your staff who has worked so hard on keeping our classes going and works hard to limit the instructional time that this ongoing issue has for our students. I cannot imagine how hard of a task that is. This is something that I did not anticipate being so close to my heart as a trustee But I had the benefit of being on the bus tours that the superintendent had last fall and So I had the shock of walking into the classroom of my both of my kids first grade teacher as one of the examples of Why our rooms are in such bad repair And there was a big hole in the ceiling and I thought back I thought You know, I remember my youngest talking about... rain coming in a couple years ago.

165So I went home and in my head it was like I had experienced as a kid when it rained. You know you set out a bucket when it rains because there's a drip, drip, drip. And so I sat her down and I said hey so like when you had rain coming in in your classroom was it like drip, drip in like one bucket or was it what was it like? Was it two buckets? She said mommy it was not drip, drip it was shh into trash cans and the teacher would have to go dump out the trash cans every so often throughout the school day. And I thought, how do kids in first grade who are learning to focus and maybe have learning difficulties that already struggle with focusing, how do they learn effectively in

166an environment where there's that kind of disruption? And that will change drastically from day to day. So I'm so grateful for your team for doing what they can to minimize that. But I also am so frustrated and it's not a reflection on you guys or any of our staff, but I'm so frustrated. This is the conditions that our kids are learning in. Um, and it's not fair to them. Um, and so I would like to ask the superintendent with the support of my colleagues to do a press release with some of this information, because I don't think our community understands the needs. And this is top of the list for me. And as far as not just like how we have amazing teachers here like we all know that but this is not something amazing

167teachers can overcome i mean they can but only to a degree um so i just i wanted to have a better understanding of all this but i also want our community to have a better understanding of all this so thank you for your presentation to make that that first step of that possible you're welcome thank you trustee brubake moving on trustee rodriguez Yeah, I think that just piggybacking on what Trustee Brubaker is saying, it's really important for our community to understand. It's important for the need, and it's important for us to continuously find ways to communicate. This could be a really good topic. Are you still writing an article? Yeah, is it monthly once a month just came out what I missed it. No. No, I think are we are we including them in the

168in the in the media Yeah, okay. I must have missed it sir So yeah, this would be a great topic right? What does it mean when you don't pass a measure in a school district that has extreme need? Right, and because I also asked for a list of the projects that were still outstanding, prioritized, and I, you know, maybe we can share this list. I don't know if we, were we able to share this list with all the trustees? Not yet. Yeah, so it would be a good thing to share the list with all the trustees. It's, you know, it's a... It's a pretty remarkable document from the point of view that there's obviously an overwhelming amount of work that needs to be done. I think one of the questions I want to ask you

169generally, and you may not know it today, you can take it maybe as a Friday fact or later, is, so I counted 65 items, you know, the average is at least $100,000 or not way more, right? In terms of Measure Y being applied to these items do you have any idea like what percentage of the items Measure Y is going to allow us to get to? I would have to sit down with Mr. Wiley and kind of run through. We're closing up this summer's projects, Measure Y projects and I have an estimation of what next summer's projects so the board approved projects that we you know going back a couple of years that were approved. We'd have to total that up and kind of look at what's left. We're not over any of our projects

170We're within budget so I I could estimate you know 10 to 15 million might be left in measure Y after our projects But to have a finer number of that we'd have to kind of go through with yeah, I'm versus yucks. I think that'd be a good Estimate to try and come up with to see you know what measure Y could cover through the end, through its entirety, you know, in regards to the roofs and this listing of projects. But yeah, I thank you very much for all the work that you've done that you've coordinated, you know And I know you've tried really really hard staff has tried really hard to make sure that we are Implementing measure why monies, you know to the best of our abilities as quick as we can possibly get

171to them But the district has a lot of needs now and I think to my fellow trustees I think that once you get this list and you take a look at the needs prioritized, I think it's undeniable that we owe it to the public to go back out for another measure. When that time is, we're going to have to talk about that. But I think that this need is so great. And this is just this is just roofs, you know, when I'm looking at this list that we're really going to need to pull together as a board, not just this board, former board members, other board members that may no longer be with us when we get to it, that it's going to take all of us to be able to pass a measure. And

172we're all going to have to figure out what our maximum efforts can be. But it's going to take all of us and it's going to take planning ahead of time, which we might start sometime soon just to at least start talking about what something like this could look like. Because it's obvious that, you know, another measure is needed in order to just to bring up our buildings to a satisfactory point. So those are my comments. Can I make a comment about? Sure. So one of the things that we need to be ready for is comments about how we prioritize, right? So we have something we have to prepare for. During the measure, during the visits, you know, the board was in an impossible position when you have $600 million of needs and you have to

173decide how are you going to use the first $44 million, no matter what you chose. We're gonna get criticized right not white. Why not the roost first? Why not safety first? Why not? CTE courses pathways first Why not H facts first? So we're kind of in the situation that we need to keep in mind that when we communicate we were gonna we're gonna receive that and we to remind people six hundred million dollars and needs Imagine you have a house and I used to use this during that you were doing tours and you have that you've never had money to upgrade and you've been living in that house for four years and the bathroom is leaking. The roof has problems. The plumbing has problems. The electrical wiring has problems. The windows are costing your electricity

174bill to go up because they're not energy efficient and you only got $10,000 to work with. Only $10,000 and first thing you're gonna think about how can I keep my family safe and in this current environment that we're in With people coming to schools to hurt children this board put prioritize safety That was a tough decision with all the needs but you prioritize safety to make sure that our kids are safe in schools. And so we just have to continue to remind folks when we get pushback of the reason, right? Because as soon as there is a shooting anywhere, people wonder how safe our schools are. And so it's a difficult... POSITION TO BE IN AND WE ARE GOING TO RECEIVE CRITICISM NO MATTER WHAT WE DO. BUT I THINK WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO

175REMIND PEOPLE OF THE POSITION THAT WE'RE IN, BE GRATEFUL, VERY GRATEFUL FOR THE SUPPORT THAT WE GOT FROM MEASURE Y AND MAKE SURE THAT WE CONTINUE TO DELIVER ON OUR PROMISE ON MEASURE Y AND CONTINUE TO SHARE OUR WHY AND THE POSITION THAT WE'RE IN. AND THAT'S GOING TO BE A LITTLE TRICKY, BUT I THINK IF WE'RE OPEN AND HONEST AND CONTINUE TO REPEAT. and be on the same page that we may make some movement towards additional support. Thank you, Superintendent. I think it's always important to be transparent with the community and be open. Specific to this, the roofs have always been leaky since I can remember. I think we're always going to have leaky roofs whether we fix them all or not because when we fix the ones that are most pressing now, the

176ones that were fixed 10 or 15 years ago are going to start going out. So it's going to be a cycle. I think sharing the story of where we are with leaky roofs goes back to the transparency and the communication to the community. Are we going to have the negative? criticism as to how we manage the budget, absolutely. But we should always have the answers as to how we're prioritizing the budget and where the money is spent. There's nothing, we never hide anything. There's always an explanation as to where the money was prioritized for the bond and how we administer our annual budget. I think If we do want to go out for, whether we go out for a bond or not, the community deserves to know the state of our roofs. The community deserves

177to know the state of our facilities, period. And I think that we've done a great job by investing in facilities documents that says where we are and justifies that we have a $600 million need. But that need is also a deficit because we don't have the money. It's gonna take a lot to pass another bond. I don't know when. I don't know that this board has it in it to pass a bond. That's my honest truth. It's gonna cost the district money. So I don't even know that we would have the votes on this board to say, yeah, let's go in and spend 100,000 to get this on a ballot. But what we can do is start paving the way by making sure that we are communicating. and giving out, disseminating the information of what

178the state of our facilities is. And we shouldn't just do it for roofs. We should do it for air conditionings. We should do it for windows. We should do it on the state of our air and water quality. We should do it on the state of our carpets. We should do it on the state of, you know, I don't know, what's the state of our interior? classroom mold, you know, because when we're looking at those photos, there's mold. There's a lot. So I'm just going to ask that if we're going to do roofs, we need to do a lot more other release of, you know, press releases on different issues in terms of our facilities. I'm thankful for this presentation. I live in front of a school. I see the roofs. I see the air

179conditionings on non-school days. There's a lot of things that I see. But unfortunately, we don't have the maintenance and operations team to be able to address it on a constant basis. And even myself, there's days that I see an air conditioning on or a light turned on on a Sunday evening. And I know that if I call the superintendent, she's going to call Jim and he's going to call someone. And maybe just leaving the air conditioning on or the light on is just going to be less money than to have to call somebody to go turn it off. So I really have to sit there and think. I think that we need to tackle this section by section. We need to be transparent. continue to be transparent on how we spend our measure-wide funds that

180are left, we as a board should be coming to the meetings that our measure-wide oversight committee is having. I think that's something that we need to highlight. What is the status of our oversight committee? What information are they going over? because I don't know. So that's something that I am gonna take with me today is I am gonna submit a yellow sheet for us to see, for this board to have an opportunity to see where our Measure Y Oversight Committee is. Maybe an update on that. Who is... actively or on that board, you know, are there any vacancies on that committee? Because last I checked, I think there were some vacancies and I'm not sure if they were ever filled and we have a commitment to that oversight until the money is completely, you know,

181spent, if not repaid. I'm going to stop there because I have a lot of different things in my mind and I don't want to ramble. But I think that overall, just listening to this update on the status of our roofs, I do support the idea of us being up and committed to continuing to be transparent and having an opportunity to share where we are with the community. And if that means a press release, I'm open to it. Trustee Villagrana? I really like your idea Trustee Brubaker about doing like media releases on this on this report but I'm also thinking to your point. President Bautista-Zavala about the oversight committee. And I'm wondering if we could do releases on that too, right? Or maybe it's not media, maybe it's just social media, but just getting that information

182and someone from that committee actually sharing in an understandable way. This is what we do in our meeting. This is what we reviewed just for transparency sake. Because I'm assuming all of that information is public, right? It's not, nothing's, yeah, closed. Because I think that could go a long way. People, I think, are wondering, and they just don't know how to access that. So if we could proactively share this roof report, but then also do releases, social media, whatever media, just updates on that committee's progress, I think we could access it, but the public could access it at the same time as well. So I really like that idea. All right. Trustee Richardson-Fowler. Trustee Garcia. Trustee Brubaker. I'm curious if my understanding is correct in that over a long period of time, theoretically, we are

183potentially spending more money on these sort of like maintenance jobs, so sort of patch where we are having leaks than we might if we were to have had the funds a year ago to repair all of our roofs that just need replacing. I think just like with anything else. There's a point of return on investment right and that's difficult to say what that would be Because we have so many roofs to look at as Trusty Rodriguez was pointing out to you know the list is it's a pretty sizable list and it's an expensive list all told trying to get all that done and then seeing what How quickly the the payment might work itself out? It'll take a while. You know but Speaking to well now we're we have safer classrooms and we're not having

184to deal with classroom interruption not to have to worry about it It would take a while But you know again any any good investment is worth it not just what the return on the investment is going to be and at least you know in my mind so There's a lot of roofs to fix and as you know if we're looking at twenty thirty million dollars to have everything redone It will take quite a while at that hundred fifty thousand dollars a year kind of estimate what we're spending now. But again, that's not where we want to go. We want to get the roofs fixed and look at the priority one roofs where we can to get those going first. And I wanted to touch on something that the superintendent was talking about that some of

185the other things that we were dealing with is right now we are reactive, unfortunately, right? We are doing some roofs, right? We are doing the Douglas roof. You know, we did a few roofs over the years, but I can only do so much with my budget. And if I were to take that much out of my budget just to do roofs, I wouldn't have other things to fix that are breaking as well, whether or not it's storm drains or it's sewer lines or HVAC units and all that kind of stuff. So I have to be very careful on saying, well, I'm just going to plunk this money down on roofs and then I don't have any more money in my... you know any one of my budgets right if it all goes goes to that

186so it's unfortunate that i have to play that game you know it's that you know we're in the whack-a-mole type thing like where do i go next to fix and and then having to think like well what if something else breaks again we're dealing with the 20 30 40 50 year old hvac units so if it goes out they go out as well so it would be nice that we wouldn't have to be reactive you know and we can be proactive to take but again the funding is if it's not there it's that's what we're stuck with so um but we're we're making it work um and i do want to touch touch on something as far as mold that is something that comes up over and over and again and we have not had

187an active mold in all of this where it affects anybody because we do testing throughout our sites whenever we do have water intrusion um we do air testing we we do do tests on the walls so if there's anything that's in there so Again knock on wood that we've not had any any real issues with that because we are Responding to that and accordingly, but it's but it's we're chasing it constantly and then my last question is This is sort of a obvious one I think but this is gonna repairs like like we need are only going to continue to get more expensive as time goes on, correct? Sure, yeah, prevailing wages always, you know, every year they go up in July, you know, so everything costs more, you know, product costs more and all

188that. So, yeah, it'll just continue to escalate. So that, yeah, you're right. So that $100,000, $150,000 could be $200,000 next year for the same amount of work. My point being, this all is going to continue to snowball and to be more money that we could potentially be using. Sure. the actual education of our students or other things in maintenance and operations that need to be addressed that you're having to shift money towards so thank you. Thank you Trustee Bebaker. Anyone else with questions or comments? Superintendent? I just want to clarify that there's specific regulations constitutional pieces California regarding over budget oversight committees it's a very different committee than any committee where people you can just come They need to be appointed by the board. It's got to have a certain number of participants. There's actually

189legal counsel that kind of trains them on their role, their responsibility. So there's a little complexity on that particular committee. So I just wanted to clarify that. Thank you very much. All right. I think this concludes the item. Thank you very much, sir. I'm here for the next couple ones, so I'll stay put. All right. Before we go. Sorry before we go on to the next item. I just want to make sure that I understand correctly Are you trying to get head nods to bring this back item back for action? I just wanted to do a see if we could do a press release with the information Do we need to have an action for that? I just need a head nod. I'm I'm I think we can I would like to work with our

190public information officer to do a piece Also thanking people for the progress over making right now with measure. Why I want to make sure that we are of demonstrating great being grateful what we're doing and and also communicate our existing needs and it's an opportunity rainy season coming up you know so we can emphasize roof needs all right is everybody do we have the majority comfortable with the superintendent releasing a press release on behalf of the district updating on the state of Measure Y and the projects that took place over the summer and also giving a heads up of the state of our roofs as the rains are forecasted in the next few months. All right. All right. Thank you very much, Superintendent. Thank you very much again, Jim. Okay, now we can move on

191to the next item. So there's three, there's two more action items related to facilities and finance. Do we need to take these separately, sir? Not necessarily if there's any questions here to answer questions. Oh, we do need to other older different actions Okay, so one of them is regarding the chiller replacement for one high school in Zamora All right any questions or comments on their approval of the CMAS? Procurement competitive bidding for the chiller replacement at Woodland High School and Zamora Elementary School Can I get a motion to approve the chiller replacements at Woodland High and Zamora? second It's been moved and seconded by trustee Richardson Fowler and trustee Brubaker all those in favor. Please say aye aye Any oppositions or abstentions? I am abstaining So motion passes with the five board members here and

192my abstention the next item l3 actionable item to approve CMAS procurement competitive bidding for HVAC built up unit replacement CME at Maxwell Elementary School Make a motion to approve. Second. It's been motioned by Trustee Rodriguez and seconded by Trustee Richardson-Fowler. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. I am abstaining. Motion passes by the five board members here. That said yes and my abstention. Thank you very much, sir. We're moving on to human resources, item M. The following items are provisional permits. We also have another... assignment under education code for authorizing teaching assignment. We have two of those. What we can do in the future is put them all under one item and just name the positions so that you can just take one. But we can just go really quickly and not have to

193name the individuals and take action. Or you can take action one through six if you'd like to do them all at one time. What is the pleasure of the board? I'd like to do all together. One through six please. All right. So I'll make the motion to approve all of the items action items for provisional internships from multiple subjects education specialists mild to moderate teaching assistants. And I think that covers everything. Yes ma'am. It's been motioned by Trustee Richardson Fowler second seconded by Trustee Garcia. Before you take action. Is there anything you need to clarify? I just wanted to clarify that the waivers are actually two resolutions under Ed code so What if we do one through four and five or six separate? Yes. Thank you so moved Second, it's been motioned by trustee Richardson

194Fowler and trustee Garcia to approve items M 1 M 2 M 3 M 4 All those in favor please say aye. Aye. Any opposition or abstentions? Motion passes unanimously. Item M5. Can we take those separately? I think you can actually take both of them together and just approving both resolutions. All right. Move to approve resolutions authorizing teaching assignments under the Ed Code 44263. Second. Thank you very much. It's been motioned by Trustee Richardson-Fowler. and seconded by Trustee Garcia to approve resolution 10-26 and resolution 11-26. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any oppositions or abstentions? Seeing none, motion passes unanimously to approve both resolutions. Thank you. Thank you very much. Moving on to governance support. This is an action item to establish an ad hoc committee to develop a staff survey of the board.

195And this is something that came out of our last, special board meeting on August 23rd, 2025. We could have up to three ad hoc committee members to develop the staff survey that will be conducted of the board. Would anybody like to be a part of the ad hoc committee? I'd like to be a part of the ad hoc committee. All right, we'll take names and then if we need a vote, we will vote. I'd like to have my name on the committee, please. Yes, ma'am. Anyone else? How many people do we need? We could have up to three. I would volunteer as well. All right. Anybody else would like to be a part of it? All right. Seeing none, can I have a motion to have Trustee Brubaker, Trustee Rodriguez, Trustee Richardson-Fowler be a part

196of the ad hoc committee to develop a staff survey of the board? So moved. Second. Can I do a friendly amendment? What's the amendment? For the staff survey to be developed. By the end of October. I'm here for it. Accepted. What about you do you accept that for the second. Yes ma'am. All right. Can I just remind the board that the decision during the board governance meeting was to conduct a survey the next time you did your assessment so you actually could use more time because you're going to do this next year when you do your self assessment. Just to give you more time. I mean, I think we can meet at least once and then hash things out and consider time and then come back with a suggestion for the time. That's what I

197would want to consider. Okay, so let's do, will you come back to me? Yeah, after our first meeting, I think we can come back with a suggestion for the time frame. By next meeting? Yeah, if you want to meet before next meeting When's our next meeting off the top of the head the next meeting is scheduled for September 25th yeah, so we'll keep this item as an update as you update on the status of the Ad hoc committee. Let me friendly amend my my motion. Is that alright? My motion is for Trustee Brubaker, Rodriguez and Richardson-Fowler to form the ad hoc committee to develop a staff survey of the board and come back at the next regular board meeting, September 25th, 2025 with the timeline. So moved. Second. Second. All right. All those in favor,

198please say aye. Aye. Any opposition or abstention? No. Motion passes with all with the with the six board members and one no vote. All right. Public comment for items not on the agenda this evening. First we have Marilyn Hayes and then we have Gretchen Smur. On because the public will be able to hear you on the on there. No no. The people online is a little bit. Oh, isn't it on? I'm a bit concerned, but that's not unusual for Marilyn Hayes. I have been speaking to this board for a number of years about Brenda Louise Hayes. I mean, she's not my Hayes. I'm Hayes. But anyway, Brenda was on the board for a number of years, and she did an amazing job. amount of work within the African American community, which is not what y'all

199do, but anyway, she did it. I've been coming back to this board for years asking you to put a picture of Brenda Louise. It wasn't happening. Every Black History Month, I came here and brought a picture of Brenda, and you put it out in the hallway. And not only that, but I would bring other information about the African American community because we have one, and we've been busy doing things that other people do not do. So when I heard about this event that's being had, and Brenda was going to be, I don't know what you're doing with her, but when I heard about it, I called, and I spoke with my mom. Yes, and I asked Monica to speak with the superintendent So that I would at least understand what it is that you were

200doing not at the board meeting an extra after the board my position about Brenda is It should happen You want to have a party have a party afterwards, but at least acknowledge my Actually, it's my elder who came to me when she retired from the board and bought me a whole lot of the information that she has and asked me to run for the board. I said no. Why? Because of what I'm sitting here this evening listening to. And because she needs to be honored, not just a party actor whatever. My sister was here, and I think you said 12. You got the wrong number of years on the flyer, so please change that. She was on this board a number of years. She went out and into North Carolina. One of my best friends

201was a teacher that she recruited because we needed to have African-American teachers in Woodland because you have African-American children. So Brenda did that. I'm here because I asked. Thank you. I'm sorry your time is up. I know the time is up. I'm sorry. I just keep talking. So. I'm sorry. We cannot let you speak more than three minutes during public comment. I'm sorry. Well, I'm not. Thank you. Turn it off because I'm going to keep talking while I walk. This is our board meeting. I'm sorry. We had no business. creating this without at least talking to somebody in the community. If you would like to continue speaking. I know Brenda. Superintendent. She's my elder. She was an amazing woman for this school district. If you would like to continue. Because what you would not do.

202If you would like to continue speaking, you are welcome to stay after our board meeting. At least meet with me to know what it was that the African American community was. Board. We need to stop the public comment. Board, I'm going to ask that we all please stand up. We have to leave the room because she's going over the minutes. We're close to adjourning the meeting. We're close to adjourning the meeting, so we can adjourn the meeting. Let's just do that. Whatever. Whatever. All right, we're taking a break. I'll be there. You should not have this event. honoring Brenda because you have no honor to Brenda. You do not honor the African American community, quite frankly. Not have a meeting with me so I could call her son and bring him to the event because

203I have that information and I think that her family should know that you're having something to honor Brenda. We are on a break. We are on a break. I'm just repeating that to everybody. We are on a break. so that I could have a conversation. That's all. She would not do it, and she's the one that said no. And then she called me back and wanted to have the number to contact the... We have Gretchen Smear, please. Please don't start the time until there's silence. Thank you for my time. You're not welcome. Hello, my name is Gretchen Smear. And my name is... And I actually taught for 40 years, and I just retired. Fifteen of those years were here in Woodland, and I actually came to Woodland because of Beamer, and I taught at Beamer

204for seven years. And I think it's really important, this wasn't what I'm here to talk about, but just to let you know, my son is 33, and he's a Beamer kid. and he still speaks Spanish and he uses his Spanish in his profession, which is not an academic profession. He works for Marriott as an activities director, but he uses his Spanish all the time. So it goes into their soul. It's not like it's lost, so you don't have to worry about it. It works. Okay, but the reason I'm here... I taught in the district. I taught at Beamer. And then it was like I needed a change. I taught at Zamora. That was not a good fit. And then I taught at Whitehead. And Whitehead was amazing. I was there when Maria Lewis was there

205and when Van Cort was there. And we had an amazing school. And then they left. And that's what worries me. Because what I see is us losing really good elementary principals. They were both good. And then I sort of, other people that I know in this district that are great principals that have gone back to the classroom, and we're losing that knowledge. We're losing that ability when we lose them and when they leave and we're not paying attention to it. When Vent Court ended up leaving Whitehead, the school fell apart. And it was chaos. And it was a mess. I couldn't even walk into the cafeteria. Okay, so I'm like sort of strict, right? So I couldn't even walk into the cafeteria without going crazy. And the yard was ridiculous. And there was no backup

206when you had a misbehaving student. And it was just a hard place to be. And we didn't have the support of the follow-through principals. And there was a different principal every year. I'm bilingual. I went to Vacaville. And I taught in Vacaville's immersion program for another five years. And I kept moving around because that's who I am. But the whole point is we need to support those good elementary principals. And what my concern now, yeah, I'm retired, so yeah, I don't have to worry about any of this, and I can go home and sleep, and you guys can't. But the whole point is right now the principal at Whitehead is a great principal, and she's pulling that school together. But we worry and I'm volunteering there now right just because it's fun But I worry

207what's gonna happen with her and is she gonna stay I actually wrote a letter because I knew I was gonna run out of time Thank you Thank you so much nice seeing you and Thank you for supporting coming and speaking Supporting our principles because you are 100% correct and we're doing everything we can but we can always do more WITH EVERYTHING ELSE TOO. I DO WANT TO MAKE A COMMENT REGARDING THE CLARIFICATION. LET'S GO AHEAD AND WAIT UNTIL THE CLOSING COMMENTS. YOU ARE ENTITLED TO YOUR CLOSING COMMENTS. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE DON'T GO OFF. I'M SORRY, SUPERINTENDENT. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE STAY. ISN'T THE COMMENT ABOUT THE PUBLIC COMMENTS? IT IS. WE'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO TALK ABOUT IT. WE CAN ONLY ASK QUESTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS. Are you clarifying? Okay,

208go ahead superintendent. I wanted to provide some clarification. Um, I understand that the um There was a request uh to meet and uh, we get lots of requests people want to go straight to the superintendent our protocol That we do with everyone is that we first try to have the address to the people who are actually In the you know at the lowest level. Um when it comes to my level is to deal with uh After I had our staff the opportunity to address She was referred to Maria Odo schools team because they're working on the event And so they called to seek her input to address her concerns. She refused to and We did also did seek input from the african-american Advisory Committee and it was our African American family committee who decided how

209to honor that trustee. And so we're honoring our parent committee who represents our African American students and families. Trustee Fowler is part of that group. JUST WITH ALL THE RESPECT, I THINK WE'VE DONE WHAT WE'VE MISCOMMUNICATIONED AND MISUNDERSTANDING ON THE PROCESS, BUT WE'VE DONE EVERYTHING AS RESPECTFUL AS POSSIBLE. WE'LL CONTINUE TO SEE WHAT WE CAN DO TO ADDRESS THAT AND WE'LL CONTINUE WORKING WITH THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMITTEE. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. MOVING ON. INFORMATION REQUESTS FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS. Trustee Richardson-Fowler. I have a request that I'm going to hit send on in just a bit after I clean up the language on questions about our college and career readiness supports at our secondary level. I have another one, but I can't find the paper that I wrote it on. So I'll circle back to

210that at the next meeting. And then I'm going to be submitting that yellow sheet in regards to update to the board on the status of our Measure Y Oversight Bond Committee. And it doesn't need to be an agenda item, but a Friday fact would be great if that's the pleasure of the superintendent. Any other requests for future agenda items? I found my other one. It is, I know we've talked about it before, but I'm submitting a yellow sheet to get a calendar of what we go over when. So we know that we're doing board governance always in December, January, but then we have to approve the LCAP by this date. We have to approve the site councils by this date. So if we can have that somehow in a spreadsheet. or a mini calendar or

211one pager that would be so beneficial for all of us to know. The good news is you already have one you approve it every December during the governance meeting. So I'll just reset to you to make sure you all have it. Sometimes you don't see it because the agenda planning committee sees it. Yes. And goes through that so I'll turn it to the entire board. OK. Thank you. Thank you very much. All right. Information closing comments from anyone. Trustee Richardson Fowler. I have a closing comment and I just want to say much respect to Marilyn Hayes. She's been an elder and an activist in this community for. And she's passionate about what she's passionate about. She has pulled her teeth out and waggled them in my direction several times in frustration with me. That being

212said, we had a conversation when I went to the restroom and I did a mea culpa. I let her know that I presented the... picture and the resolution for Brenda Earl Jones Smith at our Juneteenth board meeting and as a member of the African-American Advisory Committee we were Pulled and they asked us what we wanted to do and we thought having an event not just five minutes at a board meeting Would highlight the impact that she made as the first african-american trustee for this district that being said also We talked briefly about the placement. It didn't seem appropriate for it to be in here, but starting a wall of fame across from our teacher wall of fame and revamping that and making that more of a Showpiece highlighting the excellence that we have in this

213district But hey You're not going to always make everybody happy. You can't be everybody's cup of tea. Not everybody likes tea. So with that being said, I could not leave the room and disrespect my elder. But I could stand up and show that we had a difference of opinions and how we saw things. And I will continue to respect her and her passion. Thank you. Anybody else? Trustee Brubaker. I just wanted to circle back to an earlier conversation about the Bond Oversight Committee. I actually served on that committee until I joined the board and was not legally able to continue in that role. I want to make sure the public is aware there. It would be awesome if people showed up. People never showed up when I was there. All of that information is transparently

214available to the public. I'm sure you can find the dates for the upcoming meetings on our website somewhere. If not, I'm going to volunteer you email Mr. Wiley, who has the information for all of that. Sorry, Mr. Wiley. I know people are interested in our follow-through on our bonds. That is where you get that information. So that's it. No, I appreciate that, Trustee Brubaker. I think that's part of the reason why I wanted that to come back so that the community knows that the board is getting updates as well as sharing the transparency that it is located on the website. In terms of my closing comments. You know, we did have a public comment that went past the three minute mark and it is very challenging to deal as board president a situation like that.

215So I just wanted to make sure that you as a board, our teachers and staff, our superintendent and everyone here knows that it's my responsibility to make sure that we cut. The public comment off at three minutes and that we limit it Regardless of the information that's being shared on the public comment whether we agree with it or not I Have to you know, leave my perspective completely aside even though I wanted her to continue speaking her mind. I can't so I asked for us to step away. Ultimately, it's your choice, but I have to be fair and I have to try to set an example. Would it had been somebody who was completely out of line, maybe saying vulgar language or threatening us, I think everybody would have gotten off their seats a lot

216quicker. So I'm setting that as an example that there are times. When we do that and there are times that we don't so it's like how do we find that happy medium? And where we're being fair to all of the public comments so I, as a board president, found myself in a very challenging situation, and I want you to know that I did the best I could. If you continue to stay at your seat, I completely respect that, but I tried to do as I was trained to do. So thank you very much for your patience this evening as we... Tried to continue with our public comment The date and time for our next scheduled regular board meeting Oh Superintendent, okay. I don't want to end up and on a happy note Tomorrow is the

217big wooden high school and pioneer high school game Big huge community event. So I just want to remind you in case you didn't have that on your radar if you would like to join in further a bit or if you want to avoid the area because it's going to be a lot of traffic and a lot of commotion. Okay? I definitely will be there at least during halftime. For the sense of the community knowing where is the game taking place? At Woodland High School. Thank you very much. Woodland High School does not have a visitor side bleacher. So keep that in mind. The date and time for the next scheduled regular. Yeah. The date and time for the next scheduled regular board meeting is Thursday, September 25th, 2025. The closed session at five and open

218session at six. With that said, we stand adjourned at 9.21 p.m. Thank you very much.