Board Meeting 8-21-25

001All right, it's 5 p.m. And we do have a quorum present So I'm gonna go ahead and call to order an open session at 5 p.m Can I get a motion to approve the board agenda? I make the motion. I do have a change request. Yes, ma'am I like to pull item d2 from the agenda and also j1 Our partners from farm to farm were not able to make it tonight any other changes from the board All right. Seeing none, can I get a motion to approve the agenda for August 21st, 2025 without items D1 and J1? I make that motion. Motion. You made a mistake. Yes, ma'am. It's D2. It's D2. All right. Can I get a motion to approve the agenda for August 21st, 2025 without items D3? And J-1. And D-2. Did

002I say it right? We got one, two, and three. It's D-2. D-2 and J-1. Oh, so we did say it right the first time. Yeah. Oh, we did? Yeah, you want D-2 off, right? Yes. All right, it was right the first time. Okay. Can I get a, it's all right, it's all right. Can we get a motion to approve the agenda? I'll make a motion to approve the agenda. Second. Without items D-2 and J-1. I'll make that motion. All right. It's been motioned by Trustee Rodriguez and seconded by Trustee Garcia. Thank you very much for those motions. Can I get all those in favor to please say aye? Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposition or abstention this evening? Seeing none, the agenda passes without those two respective items by all board members present. Two board members

003absent. Trustee Richardson-Feller should be joining us shortly. That said we're gonna go ahead and go on to public comment for items in closed session No items in closed session. We can go ahead and go on to closed session agenda and return back here in open session at 6 p.m Thank you All right board colleagues it's 6 so for I Can please get everyone back to their seats so we can reconvene an open session. All right, I have a quorum 6 o 5 Thank you very much for your patience Let's go ahead and begin with the Pledge of Allegiance All right, I believe trustee Villagran is going to be leading us 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

004This land has been the home of the put when people Today there are three federally recognized puttwin tribes. Kaukidihi Bandawintin Indians of the Colusa Indian Community, Ketodehi Wintun Nation, and the Yochidehi Wintun Nation. The puttwin people have remained committed to the stewardship of this land over many centuries. It has been cherished and protected as elders have instructed the young through generations. We are honored and grateful to be here today on their traditional lands. Thank you very much, Trustee. You're welcome. Moving on to the equity statement, we read by Trustee Rodriguez. 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

005WJUSD students, especially diverse and disadvantaged students who have historically been underserved by educational institutions. Thank you very much, Trustee. And this evening leading us in the Board of Trustees agreements is Trustee Richardson Fowler. Board Trustee agreements, check in, remember our larger purpose, boundaries, remember that individual decisions are not personal, open slash aspire to finding common ground, having empathy, being respectful, assume the best intentions. Thank you very much, Trustee. All right. There was no action taken in closed session, so I do not have any announcements to make at this time. We will be reconvening in closed session later this evening. So that'll be right before the end of our meeting. So right before item Q, we'll go back to closed session. Moving on to item F, public comments for sections G, consent agenda. Seeing none, moving

006on. Consent agenda. Discussion from the board. I would like to pull item G1A. Anyone else? All right. Can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda minus G1A? I'll make the motion. Second. It's been motioned by Trustee Rodriguez and seconded by Trustee Garcia to approve the consent agenda minus item G1A. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposition or abstentions? Motion passes by the six board members present. Now moving on to item g1a approval of the purchases of items and services and nexus of $15,000 list 13-26 3-26 Any questions or comments on the items? Can I get an old motion to approve? Motion to approve it's been motioned by trustee Rodriguez Seconded by trustee Garcia all those in favor. Please say aye. Aye Any abstentions or opposition? I abstain abstention. Thank you

007very much So the motion passes by four board members and two abstentions by Trustee Villagrana and Trustee Bautista-Zavala. Thank you very much. We're moving quickly. Public comments on items on the agenda this evening. One public comment. Thank you very much. Becca Bernard. Good evening, everyone. I wanted to comment on L1, which is your draft agenda for Saturday, because unfortunately I will be in a meeting all day Saturday, so I won't be able to be here. But I noticed on there you have an item about structure of board meetings, and I was the one public attendee of the last board meeting that you did this in December, on December 17th. And I know that at that meeting you had a discussion about the structure of public comment. And I would implore that you all have an

008open and honest discussion about how that decision to move public comment to the end of your meetings has impacted the ability for the public to come and share and communicate their concerns with this board. Ultimately, you were elected to serve these people, including the students, the parents, and the community members. I have sat here through all of our board meetings and seen people who've had to wait until almost 11 o'clock at night to share concerns because this is the one forum where they can do that in person easily with all seven of you at the same time. It is frustrating to see students staying until after 10 o'clock on a school night, Thursday nights. It's frustrating to see people who've come with very valid concerns, but because it's not an agendized item, having to wait

009sometimes three or four hours to share their concerns. While I recognize and validate why you made that decision, we had some people who were coming in, for lack of a better word. Taking over the public comment sections for some wild off-the-chart things so I understand why you made that decision But ultimately you're making a decision for that minority Right that hasn't really been present and has that really been an impactful decision to affect the 99% of the rest of our community who would like to come and share valid concerns, including the students who talked about almost being hit in sidewalks and having to wait until 10 o'clock to share that concern, the parents who have really valid, specific issues that they want you to hear. I implore you again. to revisit that conversation. I've heard

010from teachers, I've heard from parents, I've heard from CSCA, I've heard from students that that decision did not impact them in a positive way. Ultimately, this is your meeting, I understand that, but again, you were elected to serve these people who have real concerns. So thank you. Thank you very much, Ms. Bernard. Seeing no more public comment, we're gonna go on to item I, reports, superintendent. Good evening. We have made it to the one first made it for the first week of school. But before school started, we did have our students from attend the leadership camp. And I have to say that these are amazing students. They I had some wonderful conversations with many of them. It was so inspiring to see our own students. train other students to lead this camp and just to

011see how they're being empowered. This is the third year of the camp and it's just amazing to see the growth of these students and I can't wait to see what projects are gonna get done this year. So I wanna thank everyone who was involved in this and this is all as a result our focus on student leadership based on goal four of the board. We also had a lot of training happening in our school size I want to highlight some of the staff development that occurred so we did have as you know Teachers attending training for five days But we have other departments that also had some trainings and I just wanted to highlight some of those our food service team came back for a meeting on the August 11th and there was a Full

012house of folks. It was really important for me to remind our food nutrition staff their important role that they play in our district and how they impact each of our goals and making sure that we're reminding them that what they do every day has an impact directly on what happens in the classroom and then just to you know update them as well about our goals and to make sure that they feel that they are part of the team and they play a very crucial part in student achievement in our district and it was also nice to see spencer in action We had a full room of paraeducators. These are paraeducators that work with special ed, are English learners, that work in our K-3 classrooms to support literacy, receiving training from our staff to get them

013prepared for the opening of the school year. Again, another opportunity to remind them of the impact that they make every day. the impact they that they make in supporting teaching and learning in the classrooms i had an opportunity to share with them our goals in the district many of these different groups of staff are not on contract when we do the teacher orientation so i'll you know try to take an opportunity to attend some of these to make sure that they also have an opportunity to hear the district goals i had an opportunity to remind them that i was once in their shoes as a paraeducator and i was just at sci-tech Last night and I walked by my little closet where I used to take little groups of students So you never know the

014the impact of our paraeducators some of them I know I'm working on their teaching credentials So it's also a pipeline opportunity for us The first day of school kicked off on the 13th. There was a lot of smiling families and people excited. All our schools had welcoming signs, balloons, opportunities for kids to take pictures, lots of excitement happening around our schools, welcoming our schools. But we had some special features of Measure Y also. These schools, the impact that... the improvement that they made to make our schools feel more safe, more welcoming. We had some ribbon cuttings around our schools and the students were great to help us in the celebration. And I just wanted to share that I gave them, where there were students, I gave them a little strip of the ribbon, you know,

015as a... Little token of them participating and they were so excited that they Felt that there was something very special and it is something very special because they were the ones there to see some improvements that was made to our schools from our community and they're apart they're there to be a special part of the celebration We also have the opportunity to visit our adult education CT spaces. If you haven't had a chance to go out there, it's very impressive. We have a dentistry class and we even have a... Where they take x-rays x-rays and everything it's like a real offices And we have our now I think about four to five students a science. We're trying to get to get the word out also the culinary class Beautiful with all of the equipment we

016had an opportunity to have Mingle in there and have some discussion and check out the space. I mean, it's just amazing the work that our adult education program is providing. We have another class that's not quite ready yet, but that's coming soon, the manufacturing class, and that's still in development. And so we're very excited about these opportunities for our adult ed students. And then of course there's been a lot of back-to-school nights and they started right away the second day of school we had our first back-to-school night and we had some Monday and Monday Tuesday and Wednesday and I think they're gonna be done by next week They're all at the beginning of the school year and it was important for our principals They wanted to have them sooner rather than later to get everyone

017set up in the right direction and get our parents to meet their teachers as soon as possible. And so I want to thank our principals, our teachers, not only did they get their classrooms ready to welcome students, they also were ready to welcome our parents and have them an opportunity to meet, to do meet and greets. I did want to point out that our teachers continue to share their stories with our families. The classrooms that I went to, most of our teachers were sharing a little bit about who they are. as a person and I think it's an important part to build relationships because it's all about relationships at this time of the year to set the base for a successful school year. I also went to the fair. I was able to get out

018there for a few hours and that's always one of the fun event to go to and always learn something different from our students. I got to see some of the animals, some of the students awards that they won. I just enjoy asking a lot of questions about their animals, you know, why they named them the name that they have, like the red one there is named Clifford. And I can't remember the one in the black, but anyway, the black steer there. But, you know, I don't know if you knew this, but did you know they paint the toenail so they can show better? I didn't know that. They also on the pigs that you know that they sprinkle baby powder in order to cover the little scratches so they show better and and then you

019know I asked like they asked them how long it took to To raise her animal how they selected it how much they spent how much they were hoping to Get back from the money that they made what they were planning to do with it And you know I had an opportunity to talk to parents as well to see how we can improve our programs. And I did get some feedback from our teachers as well. So the next thing I'd like to do for ag is to go visit out in the logging area to go check out. The space there and also at the pioneer behind finding your high school to see what we can do to continue supporting our our AG program our AG program is essential for our community because we are a community

020and There is an event that's coming up later. I believe September or October Where there's an international AG showcase It's international and they usually have it in Europe and then the other one they have in California and the last year they had it in Woodland for the first time. They like the space, they're coming again. It's amazing. They have all kinds of... CTE opportunities robotics of science different equipment inventions that farmer they make in order to make farming More productive and so we're gonna do our best to get as many of our ag students out there so they can see the different options the potentials that are in the AG agriculture career pathways Regarding state and federal funds. We still have not received officially from the state the federal funds that were Withheld but there

021we are hearing that they're going to come and there continues to be uncertainty about what the The president is going to do I've been hearing today even that there's some things that they he's proposing for California regarding budget in the future. So these are just Things are being stated out there still a lot of unknown. So even though we're receiving the funds that were held back for this year, I don't know what's going to happen in the future. But I'll keep you posted as we start hearing more officially. But these are just things that are being buzzing around social media and on the news. And that's my update for today. Thank you very much superintendent. We're gonna go ahead and move on to report from the California School Employees Association CSEA no report this evening.

022Thank you very much Moving on to report from the Woodland Education Association. We a miss Becca Bernard Thank you very much. Good evening superintendent. Artika Lampkin president Bautista Zavala trustees and members of our community My name is Becca Bernard. I've been teaching 7th grade science at Douglas Middle School for nine years now, and I am proud to serve as the president of the Woodland Education Association. As we near the end of the first full week of school, I can't help but be sentimental. In my own classroom, the honeymoon period is still in full effect. Hope it lasts longer. I'm loving my students and feeling the ease of being in my second full year of using our Amplify science curriculum. But as much as I wish I could stand here and tell you only about the

023positive things happening in our district, it would be an inaccurate representation of the reality that our students, teachers, and staff are experiencing in our schools. So bear with me, because while my own classroom might be mostly rainbows and unicorns, when I shift and put on my union hat, the stories I am hearing from colleagues are far more sobering. For some, the honeymoon wore off almost before it began, replaced instead with concerns for safety, for basic supplies, and for professional support. For example, on the very first day of school, a teacher was physically injured by a high school student with extensive support needs. I am grateful to the admin and HR team for working quickly to develop a plan to both support this student and protect the teacher moving forward. An elementary teacher who recently transferred

024from one of our high schools was struck by the inequities in supply funding. At the high school level, she had access to department budgets and could get what she needed for her classroom. Now at the elementary school, she's being told she can request supplies but finds those requests often denied, with some elementary teachers reporting only $200 for their entire classroom for the year. How can we expect educators to create welcoming environments for up to 32 students with so little? Unfortunately, most teachers can share how this inner turmoil and frustration ultimately guilt trips them into paying for supplies to provide their students with the experiences they deserve. I've also heard alarming concerns about students with special needs with legally required supports, such as ASL interpreters, who have not yet received those supports. Why weren't those services

025ready on day one? Other issues are surfacing as well. Our elementary PE teachers are adjusting to a much tighter schedule than last year that give them no transition time whatsoever. For four straight hours, they move from class to class without a single break until lunch, not even a few minutes for transition between students, like a passing period at the middle or high school. Their schedules were made for them, and their input was not included. They feel more like names on a spreadsheet than human beings. In special education, vacancies are being covered with long-term subs, and some students are being case managed virtually. How transparent are we being with families? Do they know their children are being served by rotating substitutes every 20 days? Are they being told their case manager is online rather than in

026person? And finally, I continue to hear concerns about tonight's PO list with the district spending $2.4 million on outside speech therapy contractors. At what point will this board ask why these dollars are flowing outside of our community instead of being reinvested into competitive salaries for WJUSD speech therapists, people who would be invested in Woodland, care deeply about our students, and want to stay here for the long term? And now we are seeing the same story unfold with our nurses. They warned last year that cutting health techs and replacing them with underpaid part-time LVNs would create turnover, safety risks, and instability for students with the highest medical needs. It is only the second week of school, and we have already had two LVN resignations. One had to take a second job just to survive and ultimately

027left for full-time work with that job for better pay. And another, after two years in WJUSD, was bringing home just $1,980 a month and couldn't afford district health benefits for her family without owing the district money. She essentially would not have a paycheck. The impact of this decision is now falling directly on our seven remaining school nurses, whose credentials are on the line as they oversee the LVNs. At nine of our 11 elementary schools, there is at least one student with insulin-dependent diabetes who requires all-day monitoring. With resignations already happening and the reality that nurses themselves will need sick days, there is a very real concern that students may go unserved. Once again, the professionals who know this work best were not consulted before this decision was made, and the consequences are falling directly on

028students and staff. This is a student safety issue that must be addressed urgently. When you look across all of these examples from classroom teachers to special ed staff to our nurses a clear common denominator emerges. Woodland educators do not feel valued or respected as professionals. Instead top-down decisions are being made without their voices and the result is a growing exodus of remarkable educators leaving Woodland for districts that will listen and will invest in them. Our students deserve better than a system that drives away the very people who are most committed to their success. That is why our bargaining team is eager to return to the table with the district this fall. We now have dates on the calendar, September 18th, September 30th, and November 5th, and WEA has also offered two additional dates in October.

029We are ready to resume negotiations on salary, benefits, and other essential articles, always with the goal of advocating for what is best for our students. Because at the end of the day, Woodland students deserve the best. And that begins with a district that values and supports the professionals who serve them every single day. Thank you, and this concludes my report. Thank you very much, Ms. Bernard. Moving on to reports from board members. Can I provide a clarification? Yes, ma'am. I just want the board to know that the LVNs have been replaced already. We have filled the positions. I'M SORRY, CLARIFICATION. THE LVNs THAT WERE LEFT, THE POSITIONS HAVE BEEN REFILLED. ALL THE LVNs ARE FILL NOW. THANK YOU. I WAS GOING TO ASK. JUST TO BE CLEAR, ALL THE POSITIONS THAT ARE FOR LVNs, ALL

030OF THOSE POSITIONS ARE FILLED? YES, BUT THERE WERE SOME PEOPLE THAT RESIGNED, BUT THEY HAVE BEEN NOW REPLACED AND NOW WE HAVE OTHER PEOPLE IN THOSE POSITIONS. OKAY. THANK YOU. All LVN positions have been replaced with LVN positions. Yes. So there were some that were stated tonight that they left, they resigned. As soon as they resigned, we immediately posted and rehired and now the positions are filled. Okay. So we don't have any positions for LVN because we don't have any LVN positions. They're all filled. They're all filled. They're all staffed. The health techs were eliminated last year. Okay. So we didn't have to use health techs to fill any of the LVN positions temporarily. The only health techs we have is at the high schools. Okay. Thank you very much. All right. Moving on. Yeah,

031we good? Board member reports. Who would like to go first this evening? Trustee Villagrana? No report. Thank you very much. Trustee Richardson-Fowler? Nothing to report. Trustee Garcia? Yes, I would like to share about our visit to the adult school. I would like to say I was very impressed for the classroom for the culinary and dental assistants. We was there about two years ago with the superintendent and the past president, and it looked like a totally different place. I'm so glad to hear from the staff, the teachers, everyone are very excited for this classroom, and I hope the community take advantage for this. So that concludes my report. Thank you, Trustee Garcia. Trustee Brubaker? No report, thank you. Trustee Rodriguez? Thank you very much. I just wanted to say thank you for an excellent strong start

032of this academic year I saw a lot of excitement From the community or students staff and teachers I had an opportunity to come to some of the ribbon ceremony one of the ribbon ceremonies for the measure Y projects at our school sites I was able to go to the one right before my workday started. So I do apologize. I wasn't able to go to the others but I did have this idea that I wanted to share with the board you know up to the superintendent if this is feasible but having the opportunity to open up our school sites to the community in our families outside of the normal work day so that they can come and maybe do an open house not only limited to our families during you know back to school night or

033open houses but also for our community to celebrate this is a huge achievement I know that the programs that we opened up at adult ed This is a huge opportunity I would love for our families and our community. adults to come in and be able to visit it. I think that the certifications that these programs have to offer our community are definitely life-changing opportunities that could offer them a pathway to a career advancement and be able to earn more money. I think this is huge and we deserve to celebrate this and I'm looking forward to continuing these conversations as far as what we can do to showcase these programs to our community because everyone stands to benefit of these investments that are primarily done by... measure why and all of the hard work from our

034staff. So thank you very much. I applaud that and I'm super, super excited of what's to come. That's it for me in terms of a board report. Seeing no other board members with reports this evening, we're going to go ahead and go into board committee updates. Can I make a comment about your suggestion? I would like to, yes, I would like to add to the tours or to open to the public. I would like to the seniors from our high school to go in and see those classrooms and those opportunities for them because some families don't have the... financial help to go to the college or go to the university and I think these are really good opportunities for them. All right, thank you very much, Trustee Garcia. We're gonna go ahead and conclude there

035because this item is not agendized. It was only a part of my report. Thank you very much. If you guys have any other items that you would like to submit, please submit a yellow sheet. Just wanna make sure that we stay on point. Board Committee updates, item five. All right, seeing no committee updates. I have not had any committee updates since the last time we had a board meeting, so nothing from me. All right, seeing no hands, I'm going to go ahead and move on to item J. This is an informational action item to review and approve the school plans for student achievements for 2025-2026 academic year at Dingle Elementary and Cache Creek. And we're going to go ahead and start with Dingle. Before they start just for the public who may have just been

036listening in the first item J1 farm to fork was removed There was a conflict and that needed to be pulled We pulled that item before the start of the meeting. Good evening superintendent president and Trustees I'm here to answer any questions about my plan any questions this evening trustee Villagrana just to clarify On your response about the allocations, I was referring to the plan you submitted previously to this one, not the previous year. Oh, okay. The funding had gone down from that version to this version, from Goal 4 specifically, not the previous academic year. Okay. Is that correct, they have gone down? I don't recall that we made any changes within the plan, but I will double check. I'll wait around for my next question. Was that two sir? No I said I'll wait around

037for my next question. All right. Trustee Richardson Fowler. Trustee Garcia. Yes I have one comment and one question. So my comment is about I like the parents students are more included in this plan and also I would like to. Can you chair principal about how PROMESA is helping to your school or to your teachers? So this is our year five of the PROMESA grant, which is in collaboration with CAVE. We have a leadership team that has been collaborating with our partner, our sister schools that have a dual immersion program. So we have developed a larger district leadership team. We have improved as a leadership, at the leadership capacity, our assessments for Spanish. We re-looked at our minutes of instruction for Spanish allocation, and so we cleared some of those pieces that are so critical to

038high-functioning dual-language program. And then we also started brainstorming as to what would be a reasonable and really good assessment for language acquisition for Spanish, and we identified one that we were able to. train all of our teachers on how to implement it and last year was the first year that we started using it as a beginning of the year and end of the year assessment to see how the Spanish is growing for our students in dual immersion And promise has also been supporting all the teachers with professional development. So we've had district initiated PD that gets extended for our for our teachers on some Wednesdays. And our teachers have been learning about translanguaging and how to really bridge, it's actually called the bridge, both languages so that it doesn't, it's no longer an idea that

039students would naturally transfer what they know in one language to another, but our teachers are being trained on how to support that piece. And in our case, such as Prairie and Dingle, that we have also just one strand for dual immersion. When our dual immersion teachers are being trained on specific program related areas, then our English teachers are also receiving professional development on good strategies for language acquisition that supports English learners. It's been a very powerful. way to unify everything we do and we can literally just say We continue with promessa and everyone knows what that means everybody knows that everyone knows the strategies that are part of promessa and and the commitment more than anything that we want to become a high-performing School that shows a high-performing dual language program Okay, hopefully that clear

040some yeah. Thank you for sharing no more question for me Thank you, Trustee Garcia. Trustee Brubaker? Trustee Rodriguez? Trustee Villagrana? So initially, it came to us on June 12th. And so I went back to that just to confirm that I had the right information. And so for goal three, it was $16,000. And then this time, it's $6,000. And then goal four was $5,013. And this time, it's $3,013. So there was significant changes from. the attachments at least that they were there from from initially when it was provided to us and then it was pulled. So again so that's that's one of my biggest concerns that I had said that to me that had to be significant investment in goal 4 and it was the opposite it went down instead of you know that stayed the

041same. OK great. We're not great but definitely not not good that it went down. But again I'm just one one vote. I do want to clarify that. That is what at least from the attachment that there was on the agenda Just let's see going back if I can would you like me to share something about? Some adjustments that I'm wondering if they were like how they had to do with the budgeting as well We I had several meetings with my site council with with clarifying questions as to how are we really going to support our big idea of our big focus for for the site as to which is to improve high quality instruction which would be our tier one instruction for all of our teachers and we had to ensure that our goal two

042which is the one that supports directly the teachers really had everything that as a site council we believe was the Right foundation for for Dingell at this time. It was not nothing had been turned in submitted at that time So we did have to make some adjustments as to how the money was allocated throughout the four goals to ensure that our goal to really had the funding that was going to be needed to be able to carry on that the big task of really training teachers and really getting everyone on board with the Work that we'll be doing with PLC's and all of the collaboration that that will have to happen at some point of the of the day whether whether that would be You know On timesheets for teachers that are staying after school

043hours to to get some of this work done or with additional substitute teachers that would be releasing the teachers because collecting feedback from teachers, that was a very strong area that they agree that we all need to really get better at improving our practices. But the timing was a big issue and that they wanted to feel like Their their feedback was considered as to when it's all of this work. It's a lot of work. It's gonna take a lot of effort to get all of this good practices planned and Prepped and organized and when is that gonna happen? So they wanted to have some of that in there That's the main thing that I can think of that again. It was before we submitted so I would definitely on my end I'm going to check

044back on on this um changes in the budget that you're referring to so I can have a better a more clear answer for you on that yeah again it was the one that was submitted in in June so I'm assuming that it was final at that point when it was submitted for us to to approve And then the next one that I have was just a question was a definition of FEP and RFEP and I wasn't asking for them to be spelled out. I was asking for definition for just me to understand because this is how they're described to me to use interchangeably and I wanted to see how you all define those three or two acronyms or you know classifications for students. So you have to answer that now. But if you can follow

045up with that response. I appreciate it. Yes, I can do that. And then let's see. And then just the, I had given that feedback the previous time and again, on the conclusions, a lot of them were observations. And, you know, the response was that, again, it would be considered for the next time, but you had an opportunity from June to now to draw conclusions instead of observations. And so I was still concerned why there was still observations. And again, nothing could be done at this point, but just my concern with that, that there was time to address that. And it didn't, you know, for whatever reason. And I guess that I'm done for now. I'll come back around and wait around for the next round. Thank you, trustee. Are there any other trustees that have

046any questions or comments this evening? No. Can we keep it Mr. Villagran to conclude? All right. Go ahead, sir. Thank you. Let's see. So the other concern I had was with goal one where there's only two strategies I guess and it's such an that we described as such an important goal. Now it's concern of how we're going to have movement with only true two strategies or or what are we calling or activity strategy or activity. So if you can elaborate more. on that, this is on page 39. So our goal one, which has a focus of college and career readiness for our students at an elementary level. I have in previous plans as well indicated those two areas as our focus areas, which one of them translates to, well one of is the visual and

047performing arts. promoting the arts since the elementary years and the other one is our goal to continue to improve the pathway to biliteracy so that we're ensuring more Seals of a literacy at the high school level Those were the two initiatives that we have always that we've had but I hear your concern about you know we want to ensure that students are getting ready for College and career at an earlier age and that can definitely take that feedback in consideration Yeah, because the goal says right that Students will meet the skills and competencies of the graduate profile in order to be college and career ready through rigorous, intellectually rich and culturally relevant environment. And I guess I just didn't see that reflected in those activities, the main elements of that goal. But like you said,

048you'll consider that for the future. But that was, again, a big concern that I just didn't see that reflected in the activities. And thank you for the examples. They were very helpful on the analysis, on the intentional progress that you all were making. Those were very helpful. Let's see. And then on page 49, it's 797 and it says you will launch a comprehensive family engagement plan. And my question or my response was like, how can a comprehensive plan be developed with $797? If you can elaborate how that's going to happen with such a small investment as a comprehensive plan. So that's only one piece of our family engagement plan, which is our parent engagement Title I funds. And we also have other... It's also part of within that goal to to ensure that part of

049our attendance initiatives would be included in this parent engagement area which is the the idea is that we want to improve our attendance and there's fun additional funds to obviously that the the the title one parent $797 that would be put in place for this initiative. Ultimately we want to improve our focus would be for attendance. We want to improve in our attendance and reduce our chronic absenteeism and we have been learning that the more we communicate and the more opportunities we have for families to come and learn about what What are the effects of not showing up to school every day are is where we want to start right now We can't just you know, blame it on the students that are not coming to school. We need to really start at the root

050and find out With our families. How can we best support them? So our attendance? Inish the planned money along with this parent engagement would be combined to Support that so just to clarify you are developing a comprehensive family engagement plan So at the end of the year there will be a plan in place correct document that outlines all the steps right and that'll be done with that money and the attendance money and You're working with someone to there's gonna be all internal. No, we're working with our parent groups. So we are developing this with feedback from our main parent groups which are ELAC and our PTA. Our main focus as parents there is also high academic achievement which clearly it is for us too and I hear my parents feedback and so we are going

051to be utilizing that as not only the, what I've been finding out this past couple of years is that I have equal number of parents who are just as worried about the high academic or the low performing that we've had in the in Post pandemic and even before the pandemic but we also have a large number of students who are chronically absent and so they both are not Not not you know, they're very different areas that we need to come together and figure out. How do we how do we? Create a plan that supports this both high needs our academics, but our attendance without the students there We won't be able to work with academics. So they're both really hand-in-hand And some of that work has already been started with again with our parent groups

052But we need to create a space for more Structured times when we meet with our parents and clear focus areas that we are going to be covering whether it's an informational session or whether it's a workshop that we want them to attend and so some of those funds will be used for that on page 53 I commented how the activity was worded more as a outcome because has improved the school's rating and your response was that You would edit it for next year's plan. Why can't it be edited for this year's plan? That that is one of the required metrics that we've included in all the school plans And so we've heard that feedback from you several times and we'll be working on adjusting that particular metric For next year, but why can't we change

053it for this year's my question? Why can't we just remove the word improve that and start with so we can if that's what what the will of the board is Yeah, it's a grammatical thing. It's not a it won't affect anything at all as far as the outcomes or the impact That's why I was asking why just because all the other school plans had not had it adjusted And so we figured it would be a good idea to just do them all at once Great to do them all at once this year. None. No wait a whole year for to do that. Okay Let's see and then for 3.1 There was no funding your response was that there's not funding is not needed for that Because they have all funding from outside sources. Oh, that's

054right. So that one is, as of right now, still covered by the federal funding of the PROMESA grant, which we are on year five, and it's our final one. So as of right now, we don't pay for not even our substitutes that come in cover for teachers to do instructional rounds, which has been really impactful. Great strategy that we've utilized and it's all been part of this grant So I guess for overall like for all the plans for the future like sometimes Outside funding is included and sometimes it's not so it's hard to track What funding is coming in or what's being supported because I get some plans do some don't even some? Even the same plan some goals do and some goals do don't and so I just it told me it makes it

055hard to like really see the full picture of that That's a great point that I just want to emphasize to the board since you brought that up and it made me think of it. There are some goals in the school's plans that are supported by the district. An example would be the English Learner Goal 3. So the district pays for the EL Specialist. so that that Investment for goal 3 is not reflected in the school plan because it doesn't come out of the school's budget We could easily just give the budget to the sites and they could show that but you know we kind of centralized that because that's a District-wide thing, but there are some things that are not necessarily funded From the school's actual budget. It comes from grants or from other other

056funds So yes, and it's hard to determine that by basing on how you how worried how we are designing our plans currently Thank you for that clarification The rest just general feedback So thank you for taking the time to to respond. That's all for me. Thank you Thank you very much trustee any other board members this evening comments from the superintendent All right, we do need to take action and approve this school plan for Dingle Elementary. Can I get a motion to approve? Motion to approve. Motion by Trustee Garcia. Can I get a second? Second. Second by Trustee Richardson-Fowler. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposition or abstention? No. I abstain. All right. So we have four yeses, one abstention by Trustee Brubaker, and one no by Trustee Villagrana. Just making

057that making sure that we get the record correct. Thank you very much this evening principal which is gracias Thank you. We're gonna go ahead and move on to the next one Cache Creek High School Madam President, can I say? Yes, ma'am. I just want to explain why I'm abstaining. I read the agenda except for the school plans so I could really focus on them and then I fell ill and I did not feel like I could properly absorb them. I did look at them. So I'm abstaining from both of the site plans tonight and that is my reasoning. I just want to make sure everybody is aware. Thank you very much for that explanation. I really appreciate that, Trustee Brubaker. Miss Carillo, you have the floor. Good evening, Board President, Superintendent Ortega-Lampkin, and trustees. I'm

058here to answer any questions you have about the Cache Creek school site plan. Thank you very much. Superintendent, do you have anything to say in the opening? Well, Ms. Carillo has transitioned. into supporting being the administrator oversight of the administrator for Cache Creek. So there was I want to thank her for her hard work and getting this school plan ready to for the school year. And I'm sure that next year as she goes through and gets to know deeply the school they'll have a more robust plan in the end of the year. I already have a list. Thank you very much. All right board members thank you for superintendent. Who would like to go first with any questions or comments this evening. Trustee Villagrana you have the floor. First a comment. If you can develop

059some sort of system so it's not so reliant on the principal collecting the data because a lot of the times it said because interim because interim and to me that just not a good practice right. Have one person be the one and then this what happens happens right. So. Agreed. Yeah. If you could. And then when I was asking about the numbers for the percentage, I didn't necessarily want them for me. I'm saying we need to put them in the plan because a percentage doesn't say anything, right? It's just a percentage based on what. And there was no reference points either. There was no from what total either. So to me, it did. I don't know what it means to be 45% out of what. So if we, I guess to the superintendent, if we

060can get those updated in this plan, as much as we can find, of course, there's some data that won't be able to be found. And then if it's not able to be found, I really don't see the value of having a percentage of what, like it just has no meaning. Unless we're... But even then, again, if you don't know the original reference, the baseline, and we have a percentage now, like how meaningful is that, right? So, again, that's for you all to figure out. So those are my two comments. I do think some of the percentage thing is because the prompt in doc tracking asks for the percentage, not the number, and so people default to. No, I get it, but still not. I know. I'm on my Easter egg hunt for those numbers. Yeah,

061so just want to clarify, I don't need you to give me the number. I don't want you to take time. Well, I need them. Yes, you do. I don't. So yeah, don't feel like you have to provide it to me. And then my question, my first question is on the 10th grade students. Oh, yes. And it wasn't clear that it's the second semester from here, so thank you for clarifying that. I guess, how is it determined that, I mean, is the student mathematically deficient by the end of, their third semester that they're just no way they can graduate. That's the calculation that's made? It could be or it could be for other reasons like they're not safe on their home campus or you know there are other life extenuating circumstances that make an alt ed

062placement more appropriate. But yeah any any student who has need and is 16 years old or older and in the second semester of their sophomore year can move into a continuation school environment. And so we ended up with room last year after all of the upperclassmen had declined or graduated out and we were able to accommodate those 10th graders. Then my second question is on page seven. And I maybe had been here before, but it referenced the, the 244 total students versus 124 at the census check I guess right and maybe it's been there before I just never seen it before but to me again Guess if a student is there for a week that the calendar in this 244 I mean, but nobody would be there that short of a time I'm assuming what's

063not usually okay, but so a month maybe at least maybe For instance, we currently have a senior who only needs four credits. Okay, so within the next couple of weeks And all those credits are in a single subject. So he's especially essentially spending his entire school day in that teacher's classroom working on nothing but that subject. So inside of a month, he'll have completed the credits that he needs to. Got it. Those are mine. Thank you. Any questions or comments from the rest of the board? Trustee Richardson-Fowler. Yes, ma'am. I am only making a comment. I can't wait to see what happens at Cache Creek. I'm really excited about this. Thank you. Me too. Thank you, Trustee. No other comments? Trustee Rodriguez. Hi. Hi. I just wanted to say that I'm really glad that you

064got this assignment in that, you know, there needs to be stability. at Cache Creek and the students there have had a lot of instability. Of course, and I know that everybody at Cache Creek is working very hard to do their best for our students. And, you know, nevertheless, when you look at the reports year after year, there's concerns. And so I think for me, one of my focus this year will be to really try and understand what we're doing at Cache Creek. and really trying to see how we can raise the level of the quality of what's being offered to our students there, including not just academic but facilities wise. Because I think I do have something inside of me that's saying that it's time that maybe some energy, at least of mine, be put

065towards the programming. and how we're trying to meet our students' needs there. But again, I'm glad that you're there. And I look forward to making progress for the quality of education for our students there. Thank you. Thank you very much, Trustee Rodriguez. I don't have any questions or comments. I just want to say thank you very much for your dedication to our district and taking this opportunity to help us out at Cache Creek High School. Thank you very much for your leadership. Seeing no other questions. Oh, Trustee Villagrana, yes, sir. Thank you. Page 8. Should have posed it as a question. I said our fed students are not listed above and Plans no no on the line. Well, there's dock tracking combined. Yes, sir So there's usually other plants have three lines that have the

066eow and then they have the fat and then they have a third line RFP So for your school, that's not the case in I guess for for some reason dock tracking Combined the ifep and the rfep students into one line on this plan And so they're embedded in that line, which is why I referenced them in the analysis Okay, that's what made it confusing for me then. Okay. It's very confusing. I had to ask maria thank you Is that able to be fixed for the future so that Uh, I i'm not sure but we will we will figure it out. I'm going to need it to be clearer for next year The data on those pages are automatically populated by the California Department of Education using special rules that they have in their dashboard handbook.

067And so us being able to extrapolate that data is very, very difficult, but I can definitely have a conversation with Ms. Lampe and see if there's a way we can pull that out more. Editing the template requires... Some sort of adjustment with CDE and having a conversation with them because this is the approved template that allows us to use title one fence But the template the template the schools have it though Oh, that is weird. Okay. Well, I will find out more about that. I'll talk to DocTracking. I was like, this is auto-populated, so I don't know if it has something to do with the fact that it's a continuation school or that it's a secondary school. Okay. Thank you. I was like, wait, no. We already have it. This has to be a special

068request. Okay. Let's see. Thank you again for the responses on the other ones. Of course. There was something that you you said you had missed you'll be able to find like that the not data like we're able to get that from them. Yes. Okay, perfect. That's all lightweight Yeah, I tried to go through and catch all of those and there were a lot of them So I missed a couple but I will get those and then on page 32 the The one has no target you said that you will be identifying a target so I did not draft the goals and metrics and so I have to figure out what the reasoning was behind some of these and as I convene site council for this year we'll be having discussions about which ones are appropriate

069to continue and which ones are not and that that is one of them. If there's not a target then what are we working toward and why is it there? So I would like a goal to work toward. And if that's not it, then I would like to swap it out for something that is. But I do think that it is worthwhile to try and support students at Cache Creek to earn the state seal of biliteracy, especially since so many of them are bilingual on some level. And so I actually just met with our EL services team today and we have a plan in place to bring some more support to campus this year to try and raise that number from one. Those are my two. I can wait for others. Thank you. Any other questions

070or comments? All right. I'll pass the floor to Trustee Villagran. Thank you. Let's see. Thank you for clarifying on the... I'd expressed concern about again the language around the culture and the routines all again rotating around this one person and so I hear what you're saying in response, but I also heard you say that you're also going to do things to make sure that kind of, more delegation, I guess, would be the word. And then students are done with school there at what time? 1.30, 1.35. So is there already programming in place for interventions that the teachers do for the remainder of their contract time with students, or what do they do? Well, So students are in class from 9 to 1.30. They have lunch at 10.30. And teachers work during the student lunch. So

071they're out providing supervision. They open their classrooms. They work with kids, whatever. So after the students leave, the teachers have their duty-free lunch. And then they have their prep period. So there is no prep period during the instructional day when students are there. There just aren't enough people on campus to be able to. to navigate that and still have a place for all the kids so um by the time their prep period ends it is essentially the end of the contract day so they have one prep period they only have one yes so by the end of the preparation is 3 30. uh it's very close to it they have lunch from uh well they have supervision right after school so lunch is from 1 15 to or Their lunch is 1.45 to 2.15, and

072then their prep is an hour, 2.15 to 3.15, and so it's 15 minutes, which would essentially equate the passing periods at a comprehensive school, which we don't have. Thank you. On page 40, the... Metric is percentage of English learner and then D's and F's. Mm-hmm. The outcome is based on credits Yes for the future they should match right so maybe the left needs to change to credits not D's and F's because like you said they're not Right that the focus is not the same at a continuation school. It's not about the letter grade it's about demonstrating proficiency to earn the credit and so that's a conversation that I can have with director sharp and Rest of the ed services team about and the data collected is based on credits to the data collectives based on

073credit this letter grades is The metric correct though, but the metrics are consistent for all the schools or secondary schools so Nwa thing that's great does a few extra ones that the other one we do We like to go extra. I could see how this could be different too agreed And then for the CTE, the partnerships? Mm-hmm. So the reason it's listed is because they have connections in the community through CTE, so I get that, but CTE itself is not a community partnership. Correct. It is not. Connections they have, so Tanay is, and then I saw the advisory was listed there too, which is also not a community. Yeah, that was one of those that I wasn't sure what the thinking was. I do know that if you read the metric, It's and other programs.

074So my assumption is they looked at and other programs and went, well, we have CTE, we have advisory, we have all these things that we do on campus that are programmatic. So we'll throw those in there too. But I also think that they missed a bunch of stuff that happens on campus and partnerships that the school has. Just having been there, there are a number of relationships that benefit the students at Cache Creek that aren't accounted for here. And then I appreciate response on the number and percent of students represented demographic and then the outcome was maintain equitable input. And my question was how low we measured and I appreciate your response your response to that. Let's see. Then for 4.2. It's a no funding allocated. Can you elaborate more on your response? Sure? Cash

075Creek also has equity multiplier funds That are being used to address 4.2 the culture building it's and we also have the VAPA funds which were used to purchase a bunch of the VAPA supplies and restock or Reorganize the room pay for part of the teacher that's providing that so all of that builds culture There are other lines in the plan that are part of that culture building and that positive experience for the students. There's professional development listed in other goals that all contribute to that. So there was no funding listed here because there's funding assigned to it. It's just not explicitly in goal four. It's in actions that are going to contribute to that growth, but not written in goal four because they're more closely aligned with. The other goals superintendent another example here again

076if we could for the future or me and for this time just put that a little kind of Sure, you know blurb that funny is coming from, you know, wherever they're gonna put the amount right because it'll I mean, we'll know I wouldn't affect the bottom line because that's all different actually, right But to me to help for us, you know, it would be clearer. Oh, how are you paying for it then? And I appreciate your response to on your plan to reactivate the student advisory committee because well maybe activate would be a better term. I do know that prior prior to last year it did exist and it did meet regularly and I was able to find some notes from 23 24. So it has existed on campus. I just haven't been able to

077find anything from last year. Doesn't mean it didn't exist. Just I can't find evidence of it which. We had three interim interims move through there at various times through the year and they all did an incredible job at taking care of the school and the kids. And I know paperwork wasn't always foremost. Thank you. So I'm going to move to approve with the request that you incorporate as many as much of the data that you can you know to those percentages and as many as the edits that you're able to make. So that's my motion. Second. It's been motioned by Trustee Villagrana and seconded by Trustee Richardson-Fowler with his requests to approve the school plans for student achievement at Cache Creek High School. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposition or abstentions?

078Abstention. All right. There's five in favor and one abstention by Trustee Brubaker. Thank you very much, Ms. Carrillo. You're welcome. Thank you. And that was motioned by Trustee Villagrana seconded by Trustee Garcia. Okay. We're going to move on to the next item on the agenda. Was it Richardson Fowler? Richardson Fowler. I'm sorry. Motioned by Trustee Villagrana and seconded by Trustee Richardson Fowler. Thank you. All right. Item J3 informational item summer school report. Any questions from the board? Comments from the Trustee Villagrana? First of all, I know there was some glitch with you all getting my questions, so I really appreciate that you all had the opportunity to get the responses. Just my overall feedback, you know, some programming had... Evaluations and surveys of the adults and youth. Again, my request, again, that we definitely survey

079the youth every time so we can get that feedback, whether it's programming that they want to continue or not. Definitely appreciate also asking the adults if they want to come back or what they thought. But to me, I also want to hear from every programming that has some sort of evaluation or a survey to get feedback on how they felt and when so we can keep improving. But again, thank you for all the responses to my questions, mostly around attendance and enrollment. But again, that's overall, that's my request that surveys are done for every program. So hopefully the superintendent can take that into consideration. Thank you, Trustee. Anyone else on summer school programs this past summer? All right, Trustee Rodriguez. I do just thank you for the report. It was really great to be able

080to see data which kind of gives us an idea of how many students are going and what they're participating in. I think my comment is that, and I think I made it before, I don't remember. what conversation it was but I think that would taking that data that shows the amount of work we're doing how many students we served what what kind of look up what kind of program the students were receiving would be great to be able to put on our social media I think it's We have to, I think, remember that, you know, this kind of summer school programming isn't something that we've always had. It's something that came from the will of the board and the work of staff. And I think it needs, if it could, if. Somehow all that great

081information could be turned into some sort of social media post or even a post that went directly to our families to remind community and families of all the good work that we do during the summer and the very unique work, the opportunities, unique opportunities that our students have to participate in this program. I think it would be a great idea. I don't know if you'd be in favor of that, Alodia, or not. I'm always happy to showcase all the wonderful work that our teachers are doing and staff are doing. There was a lot going on in summer school, including during summer, including all the facility work. So it was quite a full summer. But definitely I will work with Jerry on see how we can showcase more of what we're doing. I do have some

082feedback, but I don't know that it's, I don't, I mean, let me make sure that I, it's summer school report. As it relates to summer school, I know there was some type of comments from our families about, you know, drop off and pick up time and, you know, how it differentiates from a traditional school day. You know, it's a shorter school day. You know, we all know that. So I think, you know, just sharing that feedback, you know, that sometimes it's challenging to drop off and pick up and that's why, you know, it's challenging for them to enroll their kids. in the summer school program or if they are the targeted student population for the program, it's hard for them to enroll them because they don't have the before and after child school care. I'm

083just bringing that feedback forward. And then, how... how this is the first year that we have summer school for our high school students online. Just wanting to hear your perspective on the successes and challenges that we had with that program. I know that it is in the report, but I think it's worthy of noting since this is the first summer that we had it. I'm going to pass it on to Director Carrillo, who had the idea, and she has more information. I'm just a spokesperson for the team, by the way. You're much more than a spokesperson. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Is there something specific you'd like to know? I'm just interested in just sharing, you know, during a board meeting, you know. The successes and challenges of the online program for our high

084school students, you know whether enrollment was high Did we see you know higher success rate in terms of grades? Yes, do we have a lot of dropouts that kind of stuff? Yes, so we had almost 700 students sign a contract saying that they planned to attend summer school. We had 630 something actually show up. We cleared the wait list for summer school twice. So there was no student that wanted to attempt a credit recovery summer school that did not have an opportunity. We did have students drop because they... either were traveling and didn't have reliable internet so they couldn't access Edgenuity but that was few and they communicated with the teacher. We did have a handful of students a very low number surprisingly of students that In the survey response said they do not like

085online summer school. They want to go back to school stop doing this And so as we plan for next year one of the things I think we should consider is having a small section, right? One section, maybe two available for those kids that do need that more face-to-face, that constant accountability that comes with having to go to a teacher. We did have two tutors who were available for both in-person and Zoom support for students. I don't know that we did a sufficient job in advertising. Their availability we had some students access them but not nearly the number that could have and there were a couple of Responses on the survey where they were like I wish I had had a tutor I wish there was somebody who could have helped me That wasn't my teacher,

086you know those kinds of things. So I think that's definitely communicating that piece I think one of the things that we did really well this year was communication. I took over the communicating so I started communicating with families in March and weekly any student that the counselors had identified as needing summer school, I was sending information and the contract to those families. And I did that weekly from March all the way through the last week in May. And just constantly reminding them, hey, you have an opportunity to get those credits. You don't have to come to campus. You'll be able to work in your pajamas, right? Like whenever you want, three in the morning after you finish your latest fortnight run, come on, buddy, get that math done. And we had a lot more responses

087and a lot more interest. We did increase the number of credits earned. And one of the questions that Trustee Villagrana asked was the increase in credits, is that equivalent to students or is that representative of students? And because not every student needed a complete... five credits for a class because you've got kids who are from Cache Creek, kids who transfer in from other districts in the middle of a semester that maybe only need two and a half credits or they need three credits or they're only missing one credit of a class. The increase in credits was representative. If you divide that by five credits, that gives you 56 kids. That means we served almost two classrooms full more of students during summer school this year than we were able to prior. Summer school the credit

088recovery portion of summer school was really well run. We had an excellent coordinator who was experienced She's an administrator in the district. She was also a counselor in the district. So she's very familiar with graduation requirements and scheduling Very communicative very present in classrooms and you know on zoom checking in with kids And I think the teachers were very flexible even though they were told they didn't have to. We had a number of teachers who were logging in after hours and opening exams for kids on a Saturday night because they were truly invested in the kids being able to get those credits and get back on track or summer graduates to be able to finish and get their diploma. And it was a really good group. And it was really successful for the experiment that

089it was. We had never done it on this scale before. So I'm very proud of the team that handled summer school this year. Thank you very much. I applaud that effort. I think your program brought in the amount of people that a local community college would probably bring in on a summer for what is virtual learning summer courses and getting it off the ground and getting that many students enrolled and actually completing a course is a success. So I'm very thankful. Thank you very much. Anybody else, questions, comments on our summer programs? All right, thank you so much, Ms. Carrillo. You're very welcome. Thank you very much, Ms. Orozco. Thank you, maestra. All right, I'm going to build in a five-minute break because we do need to create a little bit of buffer. We are

090expecting another trustee, so we can continue. And she'll probably be... arriving in the next 15 minutes but um i think that this five minute break will allow us to take a respective restroom break and also build in that's that space we need all right thank you we ready all right thank you guys for that for that break we're going to go ahead and continue into item k1 this is related to human resources and it's an actionable item there's five of them so we're going to start with the first one and they need to be voted on separately I'm gonna go ahead and pass it on to Dr. Tutt. Thank you. Good evening, President Bautista Zavala, trustees and superintendent. Tonight I bring forward to you for your approval several provisional interim permits like President Zavala had

091mentioned. There's five. These permits allow the district to fill immediate needs by allowing the district to hire individuals who do not yet hold a teaching credential but will be enrolling in a program or have already enrolled in a program to meet the necessary credential requirements. Utilizing the provisional intern permit meets the requirements for the California Commission on Teaching Credentialing and allows us to fill those vacant positions to meet the needs of our students throughout the district. We don't utilize these readily. until we have no candidates that actually hold those credentials. So when I bring these forward, we have recruited and we have put out there and tried to get individuals that hold the actual credentials. But as you know, there are limited numbers of individuals who are going into the field and most of these

092are being used for special education. Each individual that's hired utilizing these has to be approved by the governing board. So the first one I bring to you is Brianna Lopez and she is a SDC preschool teacher. Move to approve. Second. It's been motioned by Trustee Richardson Fowler and seconded by Trustee Villagrana. All those in favor please say aye. Aye. You have your motion passes with six board members present. Thank you. The next one that I bring to you is for Karina Lopez who is also an SDC preschool teacher. Move to approve. Second. It's been motioned by Trustee Richardson-Fowler seconded by Trustee Villagrana. All those in favor please say aye. Aye. Move to approve K-3. Second. It's been motioned by Trustee Villagrana and seconded by Trustee Richardson-Fowler to approve item K-3. All those in favor please

093say aye. Aye. Move to approve K-4. Second. It's been motioned by trustee Villagrana seconded by trustee Richardson Fowler to approve item k4 all those in favor Please say aye. Aye move to approve k5 second It's been motioned by trustee Villagrana seconded by trustee Richardson Fowler to approve item k5 all those in favor. Please say aye Thank you very much. All items have been approved unanimously. Thank you very much. Next item is item L governance support It's an actionable item to review draft agenda for the Board of Governance meeting scheduled for this Saturday August 23rd. Any questions or comments or changes to the agenda. Comment. Yes ma'am. Do we have a timekeeper to make sure that we hold to our time and our schedule. We typically don't. I will. Can I do that. Absolutely. Yeah. Yep.

094All right. I will do my due diligence of making sure we start on time and end on time, if not sooner. Can I get a motion to approve the draft agenda for the Board of Governance meeting for this Saturday? So moved. Second. It's been moved by Trustee Richardson-Fowler and seconded by Trustee Villagrana. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any abstentions or opposition? Abstain. All right. Agenda is approved by five board members and one abstention by Trustee Garcia. All right, L2, it's an informational item with action in vigilance of federal actions which eliminate critical funding for public education and in support of actions which have led to the end of inappropriate federal funding freezes of 2025. And I'm gonna go ahead and pass this on to Trustee Rodriguez. And so, colleagues, essentially, this resolution

095was first taken up when the U.S. Department of Education was withholding $6.8 billion in federal funding. It was going to be a resolution that, you know, essentially objected to that happening. While we were trying to create it, there was a decision that then, you know, took... back and took back that promise from the federal government to take away those monies. And so they are now allocating these monies back. However, we I and we felt that it was important to be able to not just, you know, allow for that type of action, which essentially. Withheld eight hundred eleven million dollars in funds that had already been appropriated by Congress for use in California schools and and send our districts, you know into into chaos, into some sort of panic that it wasn't just okay to let

096that happen even though they had taken back, you know, at least in theory. I think they still have to finish the allocation of all the monies. That we needed to be able to build a resolution to one that kind of bear witness to what was taking place and to... Object that it happened in the first place and to basically maintain our vigilance against Basically would be the defunding of public education Because had they continued with the original cuts that they had wanted it would have been a very difficult Position for us to continue the programming's that are affected especially special ed especially programs title one programs etc. And so before you is what you have is a resolution to kind of basically address what happened bear witness to it and say it was unacceptable and

097that we will continue to be vigilant against such such future actions. Thank you very much. Move to approve. Second. So I'm in support. There's just some wordings and some editing that needs to happen in it for me to support it because I'm not comfortable with the way it's written. Some grammatical stuff on it. And so I want to make sure when we put something out there that it says. So what grammatical stuff are you referring to? I had to restart my laptop. Let me open up the attachment again. So just so just for the record we have a motion but no second so that there is no motion. OK. Trustee Richardson probably will have to start over. DIRECTOR DEWOLF. Says acrobat access denied. OK. Let me see if I can email it to myself and

098open it from within the email. One part was a little repetitive saying that we object and then we said we object again. DIRECTOR DEWOLF. And what. How would you like that to be cured. By just removing one of the one of them. Let me let me open it up. I want to be going from memory. And just them just add some commentary. You know it was basically trying to double down on the point by including it a couple of times. And that's why you would see as it pertains to that specific example that you're giving. So on. The first one, I guess, is it says whereas the, and then again on the first one, on the third one, whereas the, and then the fourth one says whereas this. So just for consistency, either the or

099this on both. You see that? No, sorry. First paragraph, whereas the. First paragraph, whereas the. Woodland joined the fight. And the third one says whereas the. And the third one. One, two, three. Sorry, the fourth one. One, two, three, four. The fourth one. And then the fifth one says, whereas this. I'm going to just grammar stuff. So you want to change the fourth this to the? It should all be the, right? Well, it could be different. But is that what you want to change this to the? That's fine, yeah. Okay, so the fourth, whereas, change this to the. And then that same paragraph the second sentence just starts that the Woodland board will contain it just starting awkward saying that the board will. That's usually like after or as or now therefore. Right. But just

100starting there to me just doesn't flow. So what would you like to change it to. I don't know. I don't know what the intent was. That the WGASD school board will continue to remain vigilant and use all powers invested in us. That that. Just remove the that no just the. The. OK. Yeah. So remove which is on the fourth one right. Yeah. Fourth remove that. And start the. And start with the. And then the next paragraph the section says so. Well actually that maybe this is that this see that and now therefore be be a resolve that this Woodland that this Woodland joint that you want to change this to that. I don't know about that one but you can give it if you want. But the part afterwards says refuses to oversee. I don't

101see how we're overseeing I guess. That's I guess it's just more a description you know. It's basically that we would buy, say if we were to accept the federal cuts that originally were proposed or that were going to be happening, that we wouldn't just oversee. So if our budget was cut by 50%, we'd still have to figure out how we were going to use those 50%, but that we wouldn't just oversee that. but that we would that we refuse to just oversee that but that we will advocate right So so we we may have to deal with whatever we have to deal with on the federal level But that as a board we wouldn't just oversee those cuts We would also be advocating to be able to do something about it That's that's what that

102sense is trying to say. I mean to me we don't we don't oversee those cuts, right? We oversee our cuts but not those so maybe going back to the beginning so that Instead of this right when they fight for trustees and then just say Will not be part of the unjust dismantling and removing the result refuses to oversee so will not be part of the unjust dismantling. And that same sentence says our powers invested and its powers vested. Yeah, it could be invested but it is vested the trustees are best ever powers not invest over powers Well, if you look at the Webster dictionary, they both kind of actually can be used interchangeably or trustees Well, I don't know specifically for trustees, but I have no problem I can do vested instead of invested but

103if you look at the Definition of invested it can have similar meaning as well But yeah, we could no problem we can change invested to vested and then the last one public education should not be capitalized cases public education in the same sentence lower Mr. S is changing making changes for you. Okay, and then the duplicate was the the first the second Sorry, the second one it says it was you know It was unacceptable for the US Department of Education to withhold nearly and then on the one two three the fourth one says you know that The now trustees continues to find this unacceptable. So that was that was a repetition But if it was intentional then then that's fine. Okay Yeah, any any other edits? Yeah. All right. Okay. Thank you for that trustee.

104We are gonna trustee Rodriguez. Oh, he cut no trustee Richardson Fowler. Would you like to make the motion move to approve with edits? Second all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye any opposition or abstentions? Seeing none the resolution Has has been passed unanimously by the board Motion by Trustee Richardson-Fowler and seconded by myself. All right, we're going to move on to public comment for items not on the agenda this evening. No public comment for the agendas not on the agenda this evening. Moving to item N, information request for future agenda items. Trustee Richardson-Feller. I submitted a yellow sheet to and it's not for an agenda item but Friday facts or an update to see where we need to change language to make it more student first and student centered for example instead of

105having moderate to severe sped. We will have language that says extensive support needs and we will be consistent through all of our platforms as well as instead of saying emotion. I don't know if we've done this one yet but I do know that the assembly bill passed recently and instead of saying emotionally disturbed we will say emotional disability and find any of the other student centered student first language that we need to update. Thank you. Thank you very much trustee Richardson Fowler anyone else All right moving on to closing comments for this evening Yes, trustee Garcia. Yes. I want to share that. Unfortunately, I will be known I will not attend this are they made meeting Because I have another commitment Thank you very much date and time of the next scheduled board meeting regular

106board meeting is Thursday September 4 2025 with closed session at 5 and open session at 6 We will not be adjourning at this time. We'll be going to recon to convene in closed session and come back to adjourn Thank you very much before we go. I would not be going in a closed session just for the for the record. Thank you Yeah, we'll have to come back