Board Meeting 4-17-25

001In open session at 5 p.m. And this is our regular board meeting for April 17th 2025 We're gonna go ahead and move to the approval of board agenda Make a motion to approve second second All right, it's been motioned by Trustee Rodriguez and seconded by Trustee Rodriguez-Molchica to approve the board agenda as stated for April 17th. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Thank you very much. Ms. Fowler, you're good with it? Yeah. Approving of the agenda? Yes. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Any opposition? Abstentions? Seeing none. Approval of the board agenda has been passed unanimously by all board members. And then we're going to go ahead and proceed to item C, public comment for items in closed session agenda. None today, Monica? No public comment on items in closed session agenda. So we're going to

002go ahead and proceed to closed session at 5.01 p.m. and reconvene in open session at 6 p.m. Thank you very much, trustees. The board will start at 6.15. All right, board. It's 618. I'm going to go ahead and reconvene in open session. Thank you, board members. I think we're missing Trustee Richardson-Fowler. All right. All right, community. Let's go ahead and start with the Pledge of Allegiance. We're going to go ahead and hear the land acknowledgement by Trustee Villagrana this evening. Thank you. 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 Putwin people. Today, there are three federally recognized Putwin tribes, K'ech'o-de-hee, Banda-Winton Indians of the Colusa Indian Community, K'lech'o-de-hee-Winton Nation, and the Yocha-de-hee-Winton Nation. The Putwin people have

003remained committed to the stewardship of this land for many centuries, for over many centuries. It has been cherished and protected, as the 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 Villagrana. And this evening, reading our equity statement is Trustee Rodriguez-Molica. 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 and this evening trustee Rodriguez will be reading Board of Trustees agreements trustees a reminder about

004our agreements our Agreements are to check in with each other to remember our larger purpose boundaries Remember that individual decisions are not personal open and aspire to finding common ground having empathy being respectful and assuming best intentions. Thank you very much, Trustee. I will be announcing any action taken in closed session. This evening, the Board of Trustees took action in closed session by a vote of all trustees present to accept the expulsion recommendation for student 25-01. The action passed with a motion by Trustee Rodriguez and a second by Trustee Brubaker. The vote was as follows. Trustee Bautista Zavala, abstention. Trustee Rodriguez, yes. Trustee Brubaker, yes. Trustee Garcia, yes. Trustee Richardson-Fowler, yes. Trustee Rodriguez-Molica, yes. And Trustee Villagrana, yes. And just for the record, the Board of Trustees, I'm going to read this one more time

005in corrected version. The Board of Trustees took action in closed session by a vote of all trustees stated as a yes in the prior statement that I just gave to accept the expulsion recommendation for student 25-01 with the abstention of Trustee Bautista-Zavala. All right, moving on to the next one. Resolution 73-25, the Board of Trustees took action in closed session by unanimous vote of all trustees present to approve Resolution 73-25 to ratify unpaid status, certificated employee. The motion was made by Trustee Villagrana, a second by Trustee Rodriguez-Mojica, and the vote was as follows. Trustee Bautista Zavala, yes. Trustee Rodriguez, yes. Trustee Villagrana, yes. Trustee Rodriguez-Mojica, yes. Trustee Brubaker, yes. Trustee Garcia, yes. And Trustee Richardson-Fowler, yes. Moving on to public comment for sections on consent agenda and community engagement. The first one is Jackie Taylor.

006Can you also read the next one so they can be prepared, please? The next would be Maria Luisa Larez. Hello, my name is Jackie Taylor, and I am a fourth grade teacher at Maxwell Elementary. I'm reading on behalf of my colleague, Jamie Wilson. Good evening, board members, superintendent, and my esteemed colleagues. My name is Jamie Wilson. I teach first grade at Maxwell Elementary. At the last board meeting, a board member spoke about how transparent the board and the district is. I hope that with this transparency that the district will be informing families that they are planning on reducing classes, creating combination classes, and increasing class size for elementary grades because of projected numbers. Our families need to know and have an opportunity to voice their opinions on the changes. If the district is transparent, parents

007and the community need to know next year our first and second grades at Maxwell will be reduced by one class due to projected numbers, which at this moment in time, the class sizes will be 29 in each class. Also, our parents and the public need to know that our district is spending money on having a lawyer present during negotiations and having hired consultants for a variety of issues. We need to know the cost of these individuals to understand how the district monies are being spent. Our community and parents need to know why attendance liaisons are being let go, but there is a great need to improve attendance, so more ADA funds are coming in. If the district has funds for this superintendent's raise, why can we not find money to keep attendance liaisons in their

008positions? We need to increase ADA. We have money in reserves, do we not? Who will now take on their responsibilities? Another item that the district needs to be transparent is how much money is in our reserves. The public and parents need to know how much money is being spent and why a large portion of funds are being kept in reserves. We all know the same story is being told. Reserves are for hard times. It is hard times now. Our students deserve small class sizes. Our students deserve teachers who stay and watch them grow emotionally and educationally. You say we need stability at the top, and that is why you voted for the superintendent's raise. With your actions, you let teachers know that teacher stability and retention is not your priority by not advocating to the

009district to negotiate competitive raises and benefit package for your teachers. We teachers are the front line with the most impact on our students. Show us with your actions how much we mean to you and the district. Find the monies to keep class size low in primary, fund positions that help increase ADA, and give us the raise we deserve. If you are as transparent as you say you are, I look forward to seeing and hearing your communications to the parents. If not, your actions show you are hiding things from the parents and public. Thank you. All right. Maestra the public comment on that letter F is yes, please It's only for sections G which is consent agenda and H community engagement. That's okay Monica. No problem. So Jackie Taylor, thank you very much for your public

010comment we'll go ahead and acknowledge your public comment as if it was stated in item J and There is no public comment for IMF as it stands. So we're gonna go ahead and continue to item G consent agenda Business Services. You have one for G? All right, go ahead and come up. Go ahead. Thank you, Jen. Go ahead. Good evening, President Bautista Zavala, Superintendent Ortega-Lampkin, trustees, cabinet, and community. My name is Jen Druick, and I teach freshman seminar at Woodland High School. I was president of the Woodland Education Association from 2017 to 2023, and I rise today to give comment about our certificated personnel report, which is before you on the consent agenda tonight. We have new hires in March. We have mid-year vacancies to fill. When I was president of our teachers union, I

011knew pretty much most everyone across our district. In this room right now, there are so many new friends and colleagues, and we are so appreciative of each and every one of them. This high level of teacher turnover is not how we build safe and stable schools. Our students deserve to attend schools in a district that works harder to retain our high quality instructors and prevent people from leaving us for better pay down the road. We can't wait for fair compensation and safe and stable schools for our community. Thank you. All right, we're going to go ahead and move to item G, consent agenda, and I am going to ask that the community please hold your applause so that we can continue with the meeting. Consent agenda, business services. Any items that you guys would like

012to pull from the consent agenda this evening? All right, I will be pulling the item G1A, purchase orders. Can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda without G1A? I make a motion to approve the second. All right. It's been motioned by Trustee Rodriguez, seconded by Trustee Richardson-Fowler. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposition? Abstentions? Trustee Bautista-Zavala abstains. Consent agenda passes by all board members present except with the abstention of Trustee Bautista-Zavala. All right. Can I get a motion to approve item G1A, purchase order list? I'll make a motion to approve. Second. It's been motioned. Hold on a second. Trustee Villagran is looking at me. Okay. So I abstained from those confused. Yes, I'm sorry. Thank you very much. So I've abstained from the consent agenda. We are moving on to the

013approval of the POs. It's been motioned by Trustee Rodriguez. And who seconded? Trustee Brewbaker seconded. All right. The PO list has been motioned by Trustee Rodriguez. Only the PO list. And seconded by Trustee Brewbaker. All those in favor? Aye. Abstention. All right. So it has, I'm also abstaining, sir. So two abstentions, Trustee Villagrana and Bautista Zavala abstained from the PO list and everyone else is an aye. All right. Thank you very much. Richard trustee I just wanted to share it with the trustees that I have made a request to the president and it was forwarded to our superintendent and Mr. Wiley that we also on our purchase orders include it already lets us know what we spent on those items the year previous i'm asking if we can get a line item that says how

014much we've spent on those things this year a lot of those purchase order items will refer to things that we have purchased already during this year but it doesn't give us a number so i'm just looking for some more comprehensive information on that just wanted to be transparent and let you guys know what my request was thank you very much trustee richardson fowler Moving on, we are at item H, community engagement, and this is a recognition to SciTech Academy, moon tree planting. All right, so can we have our students and teachers come up from SciTech Elementary? So recently, SciTech planted a moon tree, and the Woodland Joint Unified Board of Trustees would like to honor you with a certificate of recognition for this huge achievement. an historic moment at your school site, but also in

015celebration of your 15-year anniversary. Yeah, that's a huge, huge milestone. So we're super excited. And we would love to hear the presentation that you guys gave at the tree planting so that all of my colleagues can hear because I think that was very well done. And this is a presentation that was developed and worked by our students and teachers. Thank you. Go ahead. Fellow teachers. members of our community. Tonight I have the honor of representing the Science and Technology Academy at Knights Landing. My name is Carrie Roseng and I'm a 5th 6 combo teacher. Tonight I am joined by Naomi Andrasek and the amazing parent volunteer who found this opportunity and worked with me. We wrote and rewrote and re-rewrote this application to NASA for this over coffees, over text messages, over emails. And I've

016got some of our students here who were able to plant this tree and name one of NASA's moon trees. So our giant sequoia tree came from a group of moon tree seeds which were launched into space aboard the Artemis 1 mission in 2022. During their very long journey, these seeds traveled around the moon, inside the Orion spacecraft, and they spent almost four weeks in space before they came home. Our school applied to be a recipient of one of these very special trees, and last fall we received notice that our school had been selected. We're proud to be joining the ranks of the White House, the Johnson Space Center, the Kennedy Center, and NASA headquarters to be a chosen tree steward. So tonight our students will be sharing some of the excerpts from their essays, which

017led to the naming of our very special giant sequoia. The students at SciTech were honored to choose a very special name for a very special tree. This tree has been on an incredible journey, traveling to space, orbiting the moon, and returning safely to Earth. That takes something powerful, resilience. This tree also represents something else, hope. Hope is a wish for the future. When we look at this tree, we want people to feel excitement, pride, and belief in what's possible. Out of thousands of applications, our school is chosen. We hoped and our wish was granted. And so, after considering our student applications, we combined their thoughts to name our moon tree. Our hope. Resilience, health, opportunity, and possibility for everyone. Resilience. Resilience is about growing, thriving, and adapting, just like our tree will do here at

018SciTech. It may not be in its natural habitat, but with care and determination, it will flourish. And just like this tree, we as students will grow, face challenges, and rise to the occasion. We too can shoot for the moon. Health, because like all living things, this tree needs care to grow, just as we do. It will remind us to take care of ourselves, each other, and our environment. Together, we can build a healthy place to grow for the people and nature around us. Our tree will encourage people to be wild robots. Opportunity. Because this tree was given the rare chance to travel to space, just like we have opportunities waiting for us if we dare to reach for them. Possibility. Because this tree represents the endless possibilities in science, space, and beyond. Who knows what

019future discoveries it will inspire? Anything is possible. For everyone. Because this tree belongs to all of us. Our school, our community, our future. All of us are different, but everyone deserves to have hope, chase dreams, and, with resilience, grow into something amazing. So today, we are proud to share with you our Moon Tree, our hope. May it stand as a symbol of resilience, health, opportunity, and possibility for everyone, now and for generations to come. Thank you. I have a certificate for you, and this is honoring the planting of your moon tree, and this is on behalf of the school board. So I'm going to give this to you guys. Thank you so much, and we're proud to represent our district, and may we have more years to come. So if we can get everyone up

020for a picture, and while you are getting together for a picture, I just wanted to thank... the teacher, the parents, and the students who brought this moon tree to our community. And I just wanted to say that I felt every word of passion when you spoke. I know you all felt it, that they really meant every single word. And so I'm very proud of all of you for doing this and thankful for the teacher and the principal and the parents to help make this happen. I don't know if there are any comments from the board while they're taking their picture. I think I'll just comment for those of us that were able to attend the actual ceremony was, you know, very similar situation where the kids were able to do the very same thing they

021did today. And it was a great moment for the community here. It's for our board members, but for the community of Knights Landing to actually have this as something that's in their little town, I think brought a lot of pride. Thank you very much to our SciTech teachers and staff and to our students and their families that were able to bring them here this evening. Thank you very much. All right, we're going to go ahead and move on to the next item. This is H2, Presentation Resolution 74-25 for Child Abuse Prevention Month, April 2025. Is Gina Delight in here? Oh, there you are. Okay, great. So I'm just going to give you guys a couple of facts, and then I'm going to turn it over to Gina so that she can speak at the podium.

022Gina is the executive director of YOLO First Five. All right, I wanted to give you guys some key statistics on child abuse in America. In 2021, over six... 100,000 children were confirmed victims of child abuse or neglect by Child Protective Services in the United States. However, experts estimate the actual number is significantly higher due to underreporting. Types of abuse. Neglect is the most common form, making up 76% of reported cases. Physical abuse accounts for roughly 16%. Sexual abuse, 10%. Many children experience more forms of maltreatment. And that's why we bring awareness to that. As a school district, outside of educating our children, one of our number one responsibilities is protecting them and making sure they stay safe. That's why I am presenting this resolution to not only the... the Alliance for Children, Yolo County Children's

023Alliance, but specifically Yolo First Five. They have several programs that are dynamic and fantastic, specifically the home visit program that they have as well. So I reached out to Gina, and here she is. So I want to hand it over to you. Oh, thank you. Good evening, members of the board, staff. I am here accepting this resolution on behalf of the Yolo County Child Abuse Prevention Council or CAPC. I am the executive director of First 5 Yolo as Trustee Fowler said. But I am also a member of the CAPC along with many others in Yolo County. Thank you for supporting children. and families and for making their well-being a priority within all of your other priorities for children in school. You were right that First 5 is very committed on the prevention side for child

024abuse and neglect. And I think we're a partner in that with our school districts, that you all see children when they're coming into school and want to keep them safe and help support their families and the resiliency that we can grow. So the Child Abuse Prevention Council's mission is to eliminate child abuse and neglect and to address the adversity it causes by strengthening families and our community. In 2024, to add a few more statistics, Yolo County Child Welfare Services investigated allegations involving 1,033 children. While not every case was substantiated, 124 children did enter foster care that year. That number is a slight decrease from 2023 and still too high. Child Abuse Prevention Council is committed to implementing culturally responsive strategies that protect our most vulnerable children and strengthen families. And April is Child Abuse Prevention

025Month. So this year the child abuse prevention council is joining forces with other cap sees across Northern California under the it takes a village campaign Reinforcing the importance of collective action in preventing child abuse and ensuring child well-being Research shows, as you likely know, that strong social connections can significantly reduce the risk of child abuse and neglect. Every positive connection, whether from a teacher, other school personnel, neighbors, friends, and mentors, can help a child thrive. This year's campaign focuses on raising awareness. and taking collective action through several key initiatives. So on April 25th, coming up later this month, multiple pinwheel gardens will shine across the county to raise awareness and advocate for child well-being in Yolo County. Hosting a pinwheel garden at your organization, agency, or home is a powerful way. to demonstrate the impact

026of positive connections on a child's life. Each pinwheel will represent the bright and healthy childhood that every child deserves. The campaign reminds us of the incredible impact that each of us can have on the lives of children in our community. So we invite you to take action to help amplify this message. Host a pinwheel garden here at the district, at your home, at schools. or other workplaces as a visible statement in support of children. Attend the Children's Memorial event on the last Friday of April at the Family Resource Center for Yolo County Children's Alliance to stand in solidarity with families who have experienced loss. And prevention, as you know, goes well beyond awareness. It requires action. By fostering social connections, providing support to families, and engaging in community efforts. We can make a lasting impact

027All cap C month project guides and resources are available at the website www.strongfamiliesyolo.org Where you can learn more about how to support families and prevent child abuse in Yolo County Thank you to Woodland Joint Unified for your commitment to children and families and thank you for inviting first five Yolo to come out on behalf of cap C Gina, before we go take our picture, do you have the location of the 25th event the last Friday? It is at the Yolo County Children's Alliances Family Resource Center. I don't have that address on me as I was the only one able to attend tonight. but I can send that if you can email it to me I will get it to absolutely the superintendent so she can hand it out sure and I would like to let

028you know that my pinwheel garden is still thriving at Esparto Elementary School wow and my sign is still out there so I implore you teachers your educators you principals get your own pinwheel garden and show that support for the kids on campus it brings awareness and kids have come to my classroom asking questions mainly can I have a pinwheel yeah but it opens the door for conversation. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. All right, colleagues, during this time, do you mind if I move on to item H3, recognition of gifts to the district, and just read the list? All right. Gifts on the list to the district as of April 17th. Dingwall Elementary received a $232 donation from Excel photographers, and this was a donation to the school site. EDUCATIONAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT

029RECEIVED A DONATION FROM CHRIS MOVES FOR $500. THIS WAS A DONATION TO COVER THE STUDENT SASHES FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDENT GRADUATION CELEBRATION. And then educational services was donated $100 by Hilda Hernandez, also a donation for our students to have their sashes, our African American students to have their graduation sashes. So thank you very much. This total report is $832 donations received. Thank you very much. And round of applause to our donors. Thank you very much. And we're going to go ahead and move on to item I, student reports. This evening, thank you very much for your patience, students. public comment on item I. All right, so we have a public comment. So as soon as the public comment is done, then we'll proceed to your report, okay? Kiona Manzanares and Renata Ortiz-Contreras. Good afternoon. My name

030is Renata. And I'm Kiana. And we are students from Willam Prairie. And Ms. Travis is our teacher. And we are in sixth grade. And we are here today to get teachers a raise. And we're bilingual students. Things teachers do for us. Number one, they help students with their work and emotional well-being. And teachers are... Also, teachers are trusted adults to us. Also, teachers pay for our supplies. books, snacks, art supplies, and now with inflation things are getting more expensive. In addition, during camp our teachers did not get paid to be there. What we noticed from our teachers at our school, things that we noticed our teachers from our school, they left because they weren't getting paid well. And we would want our siblings and other kids to have teachers we had and experience the fun

031times they had given us. We also noticed that teachers care about our learning and education. Also, teachers are people that care about us and our well-being. What do teachers do deserve? Teachers deserve a raise because they work hard and push their students to do well in school and to get good grades as well. Teachers also deserve a. a raise because they sometimes don't want to come to school, but they come, but they are stressed, so they thin, they're so stressed, thin, but they come because they care about us and our education to have a good future. And teachers deserve a lot, but one of the main ones is a raise. I think teachers should get a raise for... because they do so much for us and that's why we think teachers deserve a raise thank

032you very much please limit your applauses thank you very much students for coming today next time that you want to participate in a public comment you'll have to participate in item o because this item is not on the agenda okay but thank you very much for participating all right we're going to go ahead and proceed to our student reports all right hold your applause please Pioneer High School, Tamit Saran. Good evening, Board President Batista Zavala, Trustees, Superintendent Ortega-Lampkin, Executive Cabinet, and Community. My name is Tamit Saran, and I am the representative of Pioneer High School. My report tonight is the following. Junior and senior prom tickets are now on sale. The theme is Enchanted Forest and prom will be at the Carr Museum in Sacramento, which was a big hit last year. The 11th graders

033are going through SBAC testing and are trying their best. ASB made and delivered goodie bags for them. In ASB this past Monday, our class got together after school to hold a presentation night. We all made slideshows of ideas how to boost Pioneer for the upcoming years. There was pizza, drinks, snacks, and a lot of good ideas. Next week... Desi Club will be holding Desi Week. This week will include Culture Day, dance performances, a henna stand, and a food competition. We're excited to learn about Desi culture and have fun during the activities. The Community Club is holding a blood drive this week and students that meet the requirements will be able to donate their blood to the community. Class elections are starting next week and we have already seen lots of interest so the competition will

034be fun to see. As students are finalizing their college decisions, ASB has prepped and made posters for our Oh the Places celebration. Lastly, spring sports have started to celebrate their senior teammates on the team through senior nights. That concludes my report. Thank you. Thank you very much to meet wait question for your blood drive are you accepting? Blood from grown-ups. Yeah. Okay. And what times are you guys doing that blood drive? Um, it's on April 23rd. Mm-hmm all day So it'd be from 830 to 2 p.m. Okay. Thank you. Of course. Thank you very much All right, Woodland High School met see solo. Dio Vasquez Thank you very much for being here this evening Good evening, Board President Bautista Zavala, trustees, cabinet, and our amazing, hardworking teachers and my community. My name is Metzi Solorio-Vasquez,

035and I am a senior representing Woodland High School, and here's what's been happening on our campus. At Woodland High, we've been really focused on making sure students know about the many opportunities available after high school and how to get on the right track to take advantage of them. Here are just a few examples. We've been advertising the upcoming Future Seminaries Conference happening on April 22nd, which is an amazing opportunity. for young women interested in STEM and students can pick up permission slips from Ms. McCray in room 406 and it's first come first served. And on Friday, April 18th, so tomorrow during seventh period, there will be a health career presentation for students interested in exploring careers in the medical field. And WCC representatives will be on campus April 22nd and 29th during third and fourth

036period to help students learn about taking college classes this summer and in the fall. We were also super excited about the Life After High School program, which ran this week from April 14th to 17th in the library from 345 to 530. This program supported students interested in going into trade careers and includes career insights, application help, and scholarships. And in terms of student life, ASB has been organizing Friday lunch activities to keep spirits high on campus. For Easter, we hosted egg decorating and pickup volleyball games, and this week we'll be holding an Easter egg hunt. And lastly, prom season is officially here. This year's theme is Under the Lanterns, inspired by Rapunzel. Prom will take place on May 17th from 8 to 11 at the Woodland Fairgrounds, and tickets are on sale, $35 for a

037single and $55 for a couple. Thank you. Thank you very much, Metzi. All right, we're moving on to item J, public comment for items on the agenda this evening. Maria Luis-Salares. And which item is she speaking on? Items on the agenda. If there's no item listed, it will be on item O. All right, let's give Monica some time to double check the papers. All right, thank you so much, Monica. You're doing a great job, thank you. All right, thank you, board, for your patience. Thank you, community, for your patience. Alright, we're moving on to item K K 1 report from our superintendent. Good evening. It's been a very busy two weeks And you just heard Earlier all we'll get to the moon train a bit but I'm sad on March 22nd and some of you

038many of you were able to join us at the cool school design reveal at Whitehall Elementary it was a great event we had a lot of community members out helping out planting trees and they were showcasing all the designs of all our five schools that are going to be participating in this grant and we're very lucky and fortunate to have the support of the Woodland School Tree Foundation as well as Cal Fires to participate in this grant that they connected us with the Texas Tree Foundation and so this is going to make a big difference for five of our schools and we're very excited and it's a nice addition to the work that's already being done with Measure Y so it's a nice additional to our to our school's facilities. And then you just heard,

039sitech moon planting. You should have seen, I don't know if the robot's in there. Okay, does anybody know who that robot is? Barbara Herms, she was the robot. And she made the costume herself by scratch. It was amazing. I thought maybe she purchased it in some fancy. COSTUME PLACE BUT SHE MADE IT FROM SCRATCH AND IT WAS JUST AMAZING TO SEE. YOU HEARD THE STUDENTS SPEAKING TONIGHT HOW PASSIONATE THEY ARE AND HOW PROUD THEY ARE ABOUT THIS TREE THAT TOOK SOME TIME FOR THEM TO APPLY FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY AND TO RECEIVE THE TREE AND TO PLAN THE EVENT. AND SO VERY SPECIAL EVERY SINGLE STUDENT GOT TO PUT A LITTLE dash of dirt into the whole process and you can see the trees are very teeny-tiny right now but it's going to be a huge

040Sequoia tree and so it will be here forever and ever for generations to come. The every day count winners this month were Beamer, Dingle and Samora and I wanted to do something a little different to add to give the board a perspective of why we're doing these campaigns especially in light of our presentation last board meeting regarding the tenants. And I wanted to show you the percentage of the increases of these schools. So Beamer increased by 3%. They were the highest increase for the month. Dingle also by 3% and Beamer beat them out. by a few decimals there and then we have some more about two point eight six eight three It was it was so much fun to see the reaction of the principals of how proud they were that they were The winners

041this month because our schools are working really really hard to get our students to come to school every day In addition to just a reminder that they get to have a DJ to celebrate their their their progress and their efforts and improving attendance at their school And then this month also we were able to attend the CAVE conference. We had several of our bilingual school teachers there. We had a few parents there. And we had several of our staff present. I'm going to point out Beamer Elementary because Beamer Elementary is celebrating their 40th anniversary this year. So you'll hear more about their celebration in May. And they also did a workshop to share their journey with other districts across the state about how they started their journey and how. THEY HAVE GOTTEN TO BE ONE

042OF THE FIRST PROGRAMS IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. WE ARE PROUD OF THAT. WE HAVE TEACHERS THAT PRESENTED THE TOOLS AND STRATEGIES THEY USE IN THEIR CLASSROOM. WE HAD TWO OF OUR TRUSTEES PRESENT. WE HAD A TRUSTEE WHO WAS THERE AS A UC DAVIS FACULTY. SHE SHARED HER EXPERTISE WITH PEOPLE ACROSS THE STATE. VILLAGRANA WAS ASKED TO BE ON A PANEL WITH OTHER BOARD MEMBERS FROM DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE STATE TO TALK ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING FOR ENGLISH LEARNERS. AND THEN JERRY AND I GOT TO ALSO DO A LITTLE SHOWCASING ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING TO USE SOCIAL MEDIA TO COMMUNICATE WITH OUR FAMILIES. AND WE REALLY FOCUSED ON HOW WE'RE USING IT TO COLLABORATE WITH OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT IN COMMUNICATING WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH IMMIGRATION AND PARENT RIGHTS. And then yesterday we had

043another round of, we started another round of Youth Development Institute. We have about 20 participants. We have teachers, we have security, hall monitors, I don't think I said the name wrong of that position. We had office staff, paraeducators, a combination on learning about youth development and understanding the impact that they have on supporting our youth at our schools and then being part of the team as we continue to grow and learning more about our goal for in the LCAP and Then they have their next day to be on Friday and trustees if you want to come check it out next Wednesday and next Friday They'll have a day three and day four very powerful and you're welcome to come and observe the training Also, a shout out to Pioneer High School SkillsUSA students competed at

044a state conference in Ontario and they did very well. Here you see some of the winners and we're gonna send more information about exactly who won and what awards they won, but I wanted to give a shout out. It was recently this week that we heard the good news that they were very competitive and came back with some awards. Woodland High School, as you may recall, a few... weeks ago The the we had the court come to the school a mock trial Those students now got to go to an actual real trial. They went to the to the courthouse And they got a tour and got to see some of the people they met and their mock trial at the school and actually got to see them in action in the courthouse So they got

045a tour and you can see how decked out all our students where I couldn't tell who the who were the attorneys and who are our students but they're had a great Great experience and I want to thank the collaboration from our our yellow County Superior Court and we had lots of open houses it has been great to see all the Students being showcasing and being very proud to show their parents what they've learned our teachers interacting with our staff Giving little updates on how their students are doing. We have other parents also checking out the next classroom to see what it's gonna be like in the next grade. So I wanna give a big shout out to our teachers because I know that during this time there's a lot going on. Wrapping up the year,

046testing's coming up. I know you're finishing up, you're wrapping up for getting ready for report cards. And then you have open house on top of that. And then you're still smiling and making sure that you make this a very memorable and special moment for our families. And I just want to mention regarding state and any federal updates, we have not heard anything specifically that needs for us to take any action. We're still monitoring very closely. There's a lot being said. I know there's, I'm glad there's a lot of teachers here tonight. I know there's a lot of concern from teachers about what does that mean. And right now we're just kind of on a hold and monitoring very carefully. We may not find out until later this summer or even early. fall what the impacts

047may be specifically with our federal funds we're also waiting to hear from may revise the governor's budget you know as california right now is in some financial uh challenges especially with the fires in la so the governor has some difficult decisions to make about how to protect education and also how to address the additional impacts across the state especially um what happened with the fire was somebody something that was VERY UNEXPECTED AND IT'S GOING TO BE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IMPACT TO CALIFORNIA. SO WE'RE WAITING TO HEAR BUT I KNOW HE'S ALSO VERY COMMITTED TO EDUCATION. SO WE'LL BE WATCHING VERY CAREFULLY AND THEN YOU'LL BE HEARING UPDATES ABOUT HOW THAT IMPACTS US AND WHAT THAT MEANS TO US LOCALLY. AT THIS TIME WE'RE IN A HOLDING PATTERN. AND THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT. THANK YOU VERY

048MUCH, SUPERINTENDENT. ANY QUESTIONS FOR OUR SUPERINTENDENT THIS EVENING? ALL RIGHT. Before we proceed to the next item, I'm going to ask our staff in any of these tables, if any of these tables have any empty seats, if we can please move them out and offer them to anyone that is standing or sitting on the ground. And if there's any chairs in another room that we can bring in that there is space for, I would like to ask that we do bring them. This meeting is expected to go late and public comment is among the last items on our agenda this evening. So I appreciate all of you here. But let's try to maximize the space and the seats. Thank you very much. Proceeding to the next item. Item K-2, there is no report from CSEA

049this evening. That is correct, right? All right, no changes. Item K-3, this is report from Woodland Education Association. Thank you very much, Ms. Becca Bernard. Got my timer. I just want to say president. President Bautista Zavala. I did time this. Four minutes and 45 seconds. I don't know if I will be there, but I'm going to try. All right. Good evening, Superintendent Ortega-Lambkin, President Bautista Zavala, Board of Trustees, Cabinet, and members of our community. Thank you for this opportunity to address you. My name is Becca Bernard. I'm a science teacher at Douglas Middle School and the proud president representing over 500 educators in the Woodland Education Association. As we return from spring break, there is a special energy in the air. Open houses, end-of-year projects, the joy of warmer weather, and meaningful moments that come

050from these last seven weeks of school. Relationships built all year long begin to truly blossom, and we look forward to finishing strong and creating lasting memories with our students. Tonight, I am proud to share that WEA has launched the first annual WEA Memorial Scholarship, honoring two beloved educators, Delia Zamudio and Mike Owens. Graduating seniors from Pioneer, Woodland, and Cache Creek High Schools are invited to apply. Whether attending college, trade school, or pursuing a certification, students can submit two short essays or a brief video. Three awards of $500 each will be granted. and applications are due May 2nd. In other news, WEA Rep Council recently voted to support a Prop 55 extension initiative for the November 2026 ballot. Without an extension, our students would lose an average of $9 billion annually statewide, including nearly $14 million

051here in Woodland. Extending Prop 55 would not raise taxes, it simply maintains the current tax rate on the wealthiest 3% of Californians. We urge the board and community to begin thinking about how crucial it is to protect this vital funding for our students. Protecting future funding is essential, but it is equally important that we demonstrate responsible stewardship of the resources we already have. While we celebrate these efforts, we must also recognize that trust is a two-way street. Communities are more willing to invest in schools when they see their contributions being used responsibly and transparently. Unfortunately, here in Woodland, that trust has been eroding. In the last five to six years, WJUSD has grown its unrestricted reserves to over $62 million. That's 38% of total outgo. Sorry, reserves to over $62 million. Instead of investing these

052funds back into classrooms and staff, the district continues to stockpile money year after year. Sadly, from door-to-door canvassing conversations, we know that this contributed to the community's skepticism which led to the failure of Measure P, the school bond campaign. If the district continues hoarding reserves while classrooms face shortages, how can we expect the community to support future bonds? At the end of the day, you can't ask a community to invest in our schools if you aren't willing to invest in them yourselves. Trust is earned, and right now it's slipping away. Negotiations. WJUSD has developed a troubling pattern of pushing off meaningful bargaining until after the May budget revise, or even after the new school year begins. To illustrate the pattern, June 2021, 3.25% raise approved unanimously, but retroactively for the 2021 and 2021-22 school years.

053June 2022, a 6% and 4% raise approved unanimously for the 2022-23 and 2023-24 school years, but after the hiring season had already passed. Fall 2024, a 3% raise for the current 24-25 school year approved by a 5 yes, 1 no vote after the school year had already started. This is not just a staffing issue. It is a student stability issue. When we invest in recruiting and retaining educators, we invest in safe, fully staffed, stable schools. If we want to end the revolving door of turnover, we must end the culture of waiting. And yet, here we are again. In April, still waiting. At our bargaining session today, WEA's team made it clear. Our educators feel ignored and undervalued. On March 12th, we proposed a 7% increase in each of the next two school years, just to

054bring Woodland into parity with the surrounding districts that we are losing our educators to. We also proposed fully funded health benefits, a standard that neighboring districts like Sacramento City Unified already provide, while Woodland still does not. Meanwhile, district leadership received a significant raise despite concerns about the district's financial health. If we recognize leadership for academic growth, we must also recognize the educators who made that growth possible. Keeping the best and most qualified staff is not optional for continued growth. It is essential. according to the sacramento bee woodland teachers have the lowest average salary among the largest districts in the four county region we cannot expect to retain great educators by asking them to sacrifice their financial security it must start with making meaningful investment in the people who make a difference WEA is ready to

055do the work. We invite the district team to join us at the table in May with urgency, collaboration, and a true commitment to the students and families of Woodland because we can't wait and neither can our students. Thank you and this concludes my report. Thank you very much. All right, moving on. Moving on to item K4, reports from board members. Who would like to go first this evening? All right, does anyone have a report this evening? Trustee Richardson-Feller. Before the date sneaks up on us, we have 27. One second, Trustee. If you are exiting, please exit respectfully. Thank you very much. Trustee Richardson-Feller. Please mark your calendars. May 3rd will be the, I don't know if this is the first, but the African-American student celebration for our 27 graduates this year. The African American Parent

056Advisory Committee is going to be putting on. One second, Trustee. All right. Let's take a couple minutes. If you are exiting, please do so now so we can continue with our meeting. Thank you very much. Thank you, Trustee. The African American Parent Advisory Committee is going to be putting together a black graduation for our students. We have 27 graduates. We will be hosting it here. Right now it is fully funded by donations. The student brunch with their families will happen at 10 o'clock. We will open the doors to the community to celebrate these students at 11 o'clock until 12.30. Our concise and brief keynote speaker will be Dr. Mari Gray, who used to be a vice principal over at Pioneer High School and is now a professor of educators at Cal State East Bay. I

057hope you trustees decide to attend and I'm hoping that our African American community bring their children out so that they can see what is their future. We've also invited several African American organizations from the Urban League, Sacramento Black Chamber of Commerce. We had the BSU from Woodland High School come to our meeting before spring break and. We know that they need to be celebrated, especially in this climate when so many people of color are being attacked. We want to stand in solidarity, show our support, and make sure that they are launched out into society knowing their worth and their value. So fun fact, the African-American population at WJUSD is under 2%. So most of us have to leave our community to find our community. So it is wonderful to provide something for our students here

058at home. Thank you trustee Richardson Fowler Monica Will be adding that to our calendar. Thank you very much. All right trustee Garcia Yes, so I would like to share one of my activities on this before this meeting so I was I were able to attend the cab a Conference at Long Beach. This is gonna be my I would say my 10 year to attend this and I always attend this as a parent because before I had been a trustee, the first time when I was attending, it was a very good experience for me as an immigrant parent to be there and think this is the right place not just for my grandparents, but for dual. bilingual teachers. I think it's for any teacher, any parent, this is a really good experience. So another place I

059have, I be attending is WCC Eagles Excellent Celebration. One of the persons we, they commemorate, it was Gloria Rodriguez. who is one of the teachers, now is a retired teacher. It used to be also an intern principal of Beamer. So she was one of the teachers who started the movement to do Beamer dual enrollment. So this is very special for our community. And also I was able to attend just to show up to the co-school. because I have family plans. And also last weekend I had the opportunity to attend a school tree, a beamer. It was a unique experience to have my little one, my little daughter to plant her first tree. And this is very, very neat for me, for my daughter, for my family. So that concludes my report. Thank you very much,

060Trustee Brubaker. So I also attended the CABE conference. I had a conversation. I can't remember which board member it was, but we were sort of talking because they knew I had attended the California School Board Association conference, and they had a section for new board members. And one of the more senior board members asked, which I felt like I got the most out of, and I actually was surprised to feel that it was actually CABE because I have no experience with dual immersion. I did not have the benefit of that for my own education. My kids don't have the benefit of that for their education. They go to an amazing school. Don't get me wrong here. So I feel like I learned the most from something to be able to take back to the role

061I have now and being able to attend the session that was presented by our Beamer teachers and principal. I got to learn the amazing 40-year history of our school. And gosh, I'm so proud of now being sort of part of that family that has started that movement for Northern California. So I cannot recommend it highly enough. I feel like I learned such valuable lessons as a school board member there. Also wanted to share I attended last night. I'm balancing this interesting Being a having been an active parent in the district and now being a school board member I attended my first open house as a as a school board member last night at Whitehead Thank You superintendent for sort of showing me the ropes. I Got so much out of meeting all of the teachers

062and seeing the work the students do that was all on display. It really shows me the importance of the role that we have and that our district has. And I am grateful for the teachers who took a few minutes in their busy evenings to talk to me and sort of share their perspective on what it's like to be a teacher in our district. So that was amazing. I also did the cool schools planting. I got to Whitehead last night a few minutes early, and I took the opportunity to walk around the grounds because that's one of the schools that's going to get most both cool schools and Measure Y work this summer. And so I wanted to sort of remind myself what it's like there before to be able to see. And I'm so excited

063for so many things in our district. And I got to see the moon tree planting at SciTech. And I got a little emotional during the the presentation I got again tonight with the students here The thought of that little sapling that has been such amazing places Having our students grow up with that and then our community grow up with that tree and have that be a lasting legacy That we have left on this community It's amazing and I'm so grateful. We have been able to benefit from that. So that's that's the conclusion of my report Thank you very much trustee Brubaker trustee Rodriguez Yes, I also wanted to comment that I also attended the Eagles of Excellence Awards that Woodland Community College gave out. It was an honor to be able to support Woodland Community

064College. Of course, we have very strong bonds. We have programs in common. And just like we do have great staff and teachers that support our students, so do they. And in fact, our students become their students. And so it's kind of a continuation. The honorees that they honored were Dr. Matt Clark, who's a faculty and was posthumously awarded. They also awarded Deputy Chief Dallas Hyde. He was an alumnus. He's here with us today. Thank you for being here with us tonight, Deputy Chief. Joan Penning, from the Classified Professional, was awarded. And Gloria Rodriguez, a community leader, wife of... former trustee here on the WJUSD board and also Woodland Sunrise Rotary Club was also awarded and you know these are we work with many of the same people and they take care of our kids as

065they leave here and they go on to community college just very proud to be able to continue to strengthen and support those relationships. Thank you very much trustee Rodriguez. I just want to do first of all in my board report Share that this is black student success week April 21st to the 25th And this is an opportunity to engage learn and stand in solidarity with efforts to improve outcomes for our black students And today we can all recommit to excellence and equity for all of our students. So thank you very much And then I wanted to also share the series of activities and events that I've been able to attend on April 22nd. I'm sorry, I think that was. March 22nd. I was able to attend the cool students design reveal over at Whitehead and

066that was super exciting. Thank you very much to all of our staff and collaborators that were able to put that together. That was a huge success and the events leading after that at our different school sites. Thank you very much. I also was able to attend our employee recognition at the Sac Republic soccer game where Norma Vega, our classified employee, and Mary Park, teacher of the year, were recognized. So congratulations to them and thank you for allowing me to be there with them. I also attended CABE. I was very excited to see the highlight and participation of our own board members and superintendent participate in our staff, our PIO, our teachers and families attend. That was super exciting. Thank you all for attending and taking the time away from your families to participate, engage and

067learn more about the bilingual education programs and opportunities for our students. I was also able to attend the Florida List dinner at Holy Rosary School. And the reason I'm sharing this is because a lot of our students do go to Holy Rosary in the first years and then transition into middle school and high school as their programs don't go all the way to high school. So that was very exciting to be able to attend as an individual and also support them in their endeavor and their programs. I attended the moon tree planting over at SciTech and you guys were able to see a sneak peek of what happened there and that was super exciting. We had our Coalition of Woodland Youth meeting last week on Wednesday morning. That's our early 8 a.m. meeting, so that's

068always a sprint. And then I look over at our superintendent because it's an early morning when we have to get there. And that's over at Woodland Community College, so I want to just give a shout out to them for hosting us once a month. And then... I can't even read. Okay. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to attend a funeral for Mario Arizaga Jr., who passed away recently. And I am mentioning his passing because he was a Woodland High School football coach. And unfortunately, he passed away a couple of weeks ago. And I would like to mention him to this evening in my report, include him in my report, and also ask that we give a moment of silence in respect to his service to our students and dedication. Thank you very much. My condolences go

069to the Arizaga family who... are friends of my family, but also there are residents of Beamer Street directly in front of Woodland High School. And they have been a family that has embraced the community outside of Woodland High School and continue to live there. So my condolences to them. And then any other reports? No? All right. I'm sorry. Yes, going around. Trustee Villagrana. And I'm very sorry. Thank you. Thank you. I also attended some of the events you all have mentioned. I won't go into the details, but at CAVE, like you said, six of us were there. I don't think I remember the last time. At least when I've gone, there were so many trustees there. I was able to participate in the panel to just highlight some of the things that we're doing around

070the support of EL students in implementing the roadmap, which I was happy to do. And then same, the awards night last Friday, it was great to see those recognitions. I did want to clarify for the public, it was posted and for my colleagues too, it was posted on social media that I had voted no on union contracts the past four years. And that's an inaccurate statement. It's actually just the last raise that. for the for the CSAW that I voted no and I stated my reason was again if Once the balance the budget was balanced that I would you know be able to support Races, but again, it was an accurate stated and I won't say who said it But I hope that that person does make a correction publicly as well So that the

071public knows that that that was incorrect information that was posted on social media and You know, I've always said that I will support as much as we can afford and I've advocated actually for a lot of things in the past in closed session Actually many times our our staff has pushed back against me I wanted to make sure that we had the money and staff has said, you know our superintendent and so some turn widely like no no, you know, we can make this happen I'm like, are you sure and you know, a lot of times staff things that our administrators are actually pushing against it's the opposite You know, they're actually advocating Sometimes rigorously, you know for those raises that I'm not comfortable yet But they're actually advocating they're not doing the opposite where

072I'm trying to gear in there like no no no I don't that's not what happens And of course it's a closed session, right? So we can't go into detail as to what that process is like but you know those that know me know that if I say something I I follow through and again I commit to doing what we can with the resources that we have and if we are going to do more then again as a district we have to agree as to where we're going to find that money from. There's a finite amount of resources. The state should be providing more. No question about it but they're not. And as we know the federal is not going to provide more. As a matter of fact they might take instead of giving more so

073that's going to put us in a situation as well. You know, I know we have an amount in reserve, and it's going to help us when things are not as good as – I mean, they're not good right now to begin with, but they're going to get worse in the next year. Hopefully not. Hopefully I'm wrong, and it won't be worse, and we'll be able to be like, okay, Rahel was wrong. Let's spend this money now, which is great. I hope that I can admit that that was the case. But, you know, to – To claim that I don't support teachers, like, I am the one person that actually has a financial interest and raises. Like, literally, my checking account goes up every month if I support a raise. If I support a $5,000, $10,000

074bonus, literally, it goes into my bank account because, you know, again, my wife's a teacher. So, like, I have, like, the opposite, and I have the interest financially, right, to support and approve. It's the opposite motivation, right? But that's not what motivates me. That's not what drives me. What motivates me and drives me is... doing what we can with the resources that we have so again just want to set the record state straight that i have supported all the raises actually i can't think of a time in the three terms that i've been on the board that i did not support um raises other than this last time and as i stated because we i felt that we had to have a balance a balanced budget to be able to do that so again just

075want to set the record straight thank you thank you trustee trustee rodriguez mojica thank you for your patience Thank you. As the superintendent shared, I also was at Cabe. I was there, and just like so many of my colleagues here on the board, but I was there on work capacity. I submitted a proposal and was a presenter there, but it was really great to see a lot of the folks from the community there in attendance. I also attended the Dingle Elementary open house, and that was really nice to be able to see. I was really excited to receive an invitation to attend Pioneer Days at Woodland Prairie. I did not know that Woodland Prairie had Pioneer Days, so it was really nice to be able to go and visit. It is led by Maestro Alejandro

076Delgadillo and a team of teachers there on site. They coordinate everything, and they do it over a period of two days, and this was just last week. I think they do it on Wednesday and on Thursday. There's costumes that the students wear, the teachers as well, and they are back in the old times. The teachers have also dedicated some of their own funds to purchase some of the equipment. The students have little chalkboards. The desks are completely removed from the classroom and hidden behind a curtain. And they sit on the floor with little chalkboards and chalk. And the teachers are up there teaching with no technology. Really just kind of reinforcing some of the things that were happening during the Pioneer Days. So it's really special. They even had a horse on campus that I

077just walked by and I had to do a double take. Was that a horse? in between these two buildings. So it's a really beautiful big thing that the community at Prairie have come together to be able to support. And my understanding is that it grows just a little bit each year. And some families have donated some of the costumes that they have purchased for their students so that future years can be able to wear those as well. So just big congratulations to Woodland Prairie and especially. Maestro Alejandro Delgadillo who puts in a lot of time and effort into dedicating just the space and the time to create the entire schedule so students can rotate through all of the different stations that they have and also the Woodland the community that shows up too there's a

078lot of parent volunteers that help them create like little yarn dolls and a lot of other really cool things so just big shout out to the community over at Woodland Prairie and thank you for the invitation. That is it for me. Thank you very much trustee All right. We're gonna go ahead and do the item k5 and then I'm gonna offer it up if you guys would like to take a break Okay information board committee updates number k5 anyone would like to give a committee update Trustee Brubaker and then trustee. Yeah. Okay, perfect So we the the Budget Committee and I had a quick meeting last night and discussed some of the things left over from the budget meeting we had the week before I will just share now that we're I'm gonna be Sharing

079at the yellow sheet section at the end some some things we'd like to continue discussing But I just wanted to share that we have been working on that and we're hoping to get that back before all of us soon I appreciate that report. And during this time, we could also ask questions and chime in. I appreciate that. I appreciate the time and effort and due diligence, as I know that we just met last Thursday. So Budget Committee, thank you very much for putting in the effort to meet last night and starting that conversation. So I do appreciate that follow through. Anyone else? Any board reports? Coalition for Woodland Youth. We do have a letter later in the agenda, so that'll probably, That would be pretty much the report for today. Yeah. Superintendent? No? All right.

080So is it the pleasure of the board to take a break or should we continue powering through? Break. All right, let's go ahead and take a five minute break and we'll come back here at 537. I'm sorry, 737. Thank you. All right, trustees, it's 737. Please make your way back to your seats so we can continue. Thank you so much trustees. Thank you so much staff. We're going to move on to item L, teaching and learning. And this first item is L1. It's an actionable item. And this is a public hearing and review to approve naming of Native American Native Student Resource Center. Public. So at 738, I'm going to call to order this public hearing. Good evening, everyone. Nanuye Love Duncan, Chu, Wintun Konkowalaki from Round Valley Indian Reservation, and Western Band Shoshone Tomoak

081from Nevada. I'm a youth peer intern at Native Dads Network. Thank you all for being here today and giving me the opportunity to share. I'm here to speak to you about the name change and why it's important. I am a native youth who graduated in the Woodland Unified School District and as a member of this community that cares deeply about our shared values and identity and the historical impact on the land that we occupy today. I know that change can sometimes feel uncomfortable, but this name change tells the story of our people's past, present, and future. Even deeper, the name change reflects our resiliency as tribal people, what we stand for, and who we aspire to become as the next generation of tribal leaders. When a name no longer reflects the or values of our

082community or it represents the history of harm and exclusion, it becomes our responsibility to be the change we want to see for our community. This change is not about erasing the past. It's about acknowledging it, learning from it, and choosing a future that reflects, respects, inclusion, and progress. We are choosing a name that unites us, one that every student Present and future can be proud to wear on their shirt right on a college application and carry in their hearts teacher will a which simply means learning room Thank you for having me Thank you very much for being here Any more public comment? All right. I'm gonna go ahead and close the hearing at 740 The move for approval. All right. Thank you very much. Trusty be a good It's been moved by Trustee Villagrana and

083seconded by Trustee Richardson-Fowler to approve the naming of Native Student Resource Center as stated. Trustee Villagrana? I'm just happy that we're here. I don't know it was a must for words. You know they were at a point here where we're recognizing our young people this way. It was obviously not a hard decision for this board to make this a reality. And I just can't wait to have this name come to more life than the center has already. You know to identify even additional resources to provide even more opportunities so that young people beyond. The young people at the center now are benefiting so their entire community can benefit as well from learning about you know the the peoples here the original people so I'm just ecstatic and honored to be able to be on the

084board when when this happened you know because history is being made today and I'm proud to be part of that history. Thank you very much Trustee Villagrana. Anyone else? Trustee Fowler. I am a firm believer that representation matters and it doesn't just matter for the group that is being represented. It's an educational opportunity. It is an opportunity for us to bridge and grow every day Monday through Friday as a teacher. I. teach my students the Pledge of Allegiance. And we say that last part, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. And I hope that they get to see a nation such as that. I do know that when I go to my CTA events and we say our pledge, at the end of it, we all shout with solidarity, someday. because

085we want to see that someday. And I think when we represent our students and they are seen through naming events and having our... our learning room centers acknowledge culture and heritage and history. And when we have excellence, black excellence events or graduation, our kids are seen, they're heard, they're validated, and it gives them motivation to thrive. But it opens the eye and an opportunity for others to engage as well. So I just love being a part of this. Thank you. Thank you very much, Trustee. Anyone else? Trustee Garcia trustee Brubaker. So I want to echo what my fellow trustees have said I think right now more than ever it's important to have this be part of the education we can provide to all of our students. So I just want to express my gratitude to

086the work that has been put into bringing this to fruition and the thoughtfulness in choosing such a wonderful name. And so thank you very much. This will have lasting impacts on our community and our students. Thank you, Trustee. Trustee Rodriguez. I just also wanted to similarly say how proud I am of this accomplishment and of all the work that we've done and to be very mindful that this has been a journey and that, you know, a journey that began, that needed a lot of work in order to create the center, in order to create the relationships, and then to this point to be able to, you know, give it a very honorable name, right? And our journey continues. And you know it'll be exciting to to be able to say that this school district understands

087and sees everybody and this is an example much as Trustee Richardson Fowler says not it's not just a Native American thing it's for everybody to be educated to understand our history. And I just want to also acknowledge our staff that worked very hard to make this possible. And it's a very unique thing that happens. And I invite everybody that's listening to us or that's here to attend our Native American graduation because it's a very beautiful ceremony. And we're just very proud of this moment. Thank you. Thank you very much, Trustee Rodriguez. I would like to ask Trustee Villagrana and Trustee Richardson-Fowler if you would accept a friendly amendment to the motion. The motion is to approve and I ask that you approve it with a press release attached I'm good except it. Thank you very

088much. Can I call for a vote? Yeah, can I are you guys ready to vote? Yep. All right all those in favor say aye Any opposition or abstentions? All right seeing none motion to motion has been granted to approve The naming of the native Student Resource Center with a press release attached to it by all members present. Thank you And I just want to make a final comment on this. I want to think So she know for your hard work and your patient with us and also working with mr. Duncan I know that I Remember our first zoom way back in those a little tense Well, we've been we've gone a long way and look at what look what's happening now. So thank you for your patience and your grace And for the your commitment

089to making sure that all students are seen and heard. I also want to thank Mrs. Gonzalez, Pam Gonzalez here, one of the elders who helped come up with the name. I know she does not want to speak, but I do want to recognize her for helping us and helping the committee and helping the state. so that our students can keep their history and be proud of who they are and know that they're valued and for giving us that special history of the beautiful language that we want to make sure that we can keep as much as possible. So thank you for what you're doing for the generations to come. So thank you for being here tonight. Thank you and that translation and containing language is so critical because language is so tied to who we

090are in our culture and so anything that we can do to support our Native American students to learn the language and phrases or whatever they can learn because Language is very tied to culture and identity. Thank you very much superintendent and our guests here today. Thank you very much All right, we're going to go ahead and move. Superintendent, I'm sorry. I would like to request actually that if you all could document that process, I would like to request that we entered into the record for the minutes so we can document it so it could be more light. You know, just that was beautifully described how everything came, how the young people requested it, and then like the collaboration that happened. I think it's important to document that and, you know, make it part of history.

091Absolutely. And it could be included in our press release. Absolutely. Thank you very much. All right. Are we ready to move to the next item colleagues? Thank you very much It is 747 and we're moving to item l2 and this is an information action item regarding the school resource officers SRO memorandum of understanding MOU Thank you very much so we are every three years or so we have we renew our SRO MOU with our police department and with the support of the city council. We are very thankful for this partnership. We're very thankful for the city supporting us with having SROs on our campuses. And so we have our Dr. Felicia Rodini-Wilson here who has been working very closely with the police department staff to update the language in the MOU. And so they're both...

092POLICIA HERE AND DEPUTY HYDER HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE REGARDING THIS MOU. SO ONE OF THE QUESTIONS I HAVE FOR MY COLLEAGUES ON THE WHEREASES, I WOULD LIKE TO RECOMMEND THE THIRD BULLET, SO BETWEEN THE SECOND AND THE THIRD AT THIS POINT THAT WE ADD WHEREAS THE DISTRICT DESIRES TO CREATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR POSITIVE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN POLICE OFFICERS, STUDENTS, FAMILIES AND STAFF, SEMICOLON AND THE NEXT WHEREAS. Page number please the first page very first. Yeah the recitals whereas So there's three there now and again whereas the district desires to create opportunities for positive interactions between police officers students families and staff Can we get the language projected on the screens? And I apologize that ain't call on you trustee Villagran. I thought we were gonna hear from no They said they were

093taking questions. Okay a night one second I'm sorry, I didn't hear that part. So I just would like to apologize so I can take back. Trustee Richardson Fowler? Yes, and if you don't mind, I would like to add to that. At our police forum that we had with the Eola County School Board Association, I believe it was the Chief of Police of Davis who noted that they couldn't do their job without community trust. So I would just like to add to what you added, Trustee Villagrana, for the purpose of building community trust. I would agree with that statement. Where and what part would you like to add it? Can you restate your. And then the thing that we're getting on typing into but whereas the district desires to create opportunities for positive interactions between the

094police officers students families and staff. To build community trust. And our superintendent is taking notes OK. Thank you. I'm fine with that addition. All right. Any comments on that. Trustee Garcia. Trustee Brubaker. Yes. All right. Trustee Rodriguez. Any. You have general comment. Okay. Trustee Garcia and Trustee Brubaker you have general comments on the language. Okay. Trustee Rodriguez go ahead. I wasn't done yet. Oh you needed your two. Correct. Yes sir. All right. Let's go back. On page four. B. It starts with school resource officers. Is it up there. There we go. The where it says measurement of success will be inclusive and then that whole sentence. Wait. Right there. If we can highlight where measurement of success all the way to with students and then all the way to students. Perfect. No. Yeah. So. Correct

095me if I'm wrong in your response that really we couldn't really measure that and so therefore I'm suggesting that we strike that sentence completely since we're really not going to do what it says it does. So that's my recommendation. In the communication that we had it was the measurement was more of an indirect measurement instead of a direct measurement of numbers. Correct. Therefore not. Really measurable and that says we're measuring it so I would just like to strike it because it really does nothing It doesn't take away or add to the agreement Any objection from my colleagues to that? No any objection from the Police Department. I'm just trying to read read through everything that it says So the measurement excesses is bullet pointed or outlined below that So some of those things are certainly

096measurable, but I don't think that we have any objection that if you would like to remove that language Actions to support this goal and then these are the actions right so the actions are still there and that's not gonna change. Absolutely Yeah, that's it for me. Those are my two Thank you very much trustee Villagrana. All right, two questions two comments trustee Rodriguez-Molica. Yes. Thank you. To similar line on page seven we can scroll there please under D5. It's about the monthly report of SRO activity, right? And right after that, it says provide a monthly report of SRO activity to measure program effectiveness. So just the same point, we're not measuring program effectiveness. The monthly reports, I think, are like the number of participants, right, that are attending each of them. So either strike it

097or maybe just reword it to say provide a monthly report of SRO activity to provide a count of participants at each event. Can you scroll down? It's D5. Thank you so much. Does that sound okay to the police department? Yes, I wouldn't have any objection to that at all. Okay, thank you. Colleagues, is everyone in favor of that? I have a comment. Go ahead. So we're taking out these phrases of measurement of effectiveness, but do we... Where there is language somewhere somewhere in here where we're attempting to measure program effectiveness So if we take these pieces out does that lessen? lessen the ability for us to try and measure program effectiveness, so By taking that language out it still leaves the collection of data that they they provide that is being provided now So it

098doesn't take away monitoring how many students are contacted, what kinds of incidents are being addressed. So that doesn't take away from any of that. It just takes away the research piece of measuring effectiveness, which is difficult to do. to the level when if you know the definition of research and Measuring effectiveness, so I think it's just cleaning up the language to be more transparent about what actual word will collect that I work with type of data that we're collecting and what the data that is really trying can actually really tell us Ask a question sure So we're only removing the words measure program effectiveness. The rest of it's going to stay incorrect. Okay. Because yeah, those things are very important and we are able to identify emerging trends. And I think that's important to share

099with, with the board. Well, I guess I'm just saying somewhere in this document, we should have some language that indicates that we have a responsibility to measure program effectiveness. May I respond to that? I agree when we discuss this during the gender review I'm open to measuring program effectiveness, and I don't think it would be all that difficult It could be a simple survey at the end of whatever presentations that we give to students It doesn't have to be super complicated. It would just it could just be student measured But the thing is that right now we're not measuring program effectiveness, right? It's just it's the monthly report is the excel sheet A little screenshot of it of how many participants are attending which I think is good But that doesn't tell us if it's

100actually effective. It tells us how many people are attending So what I'm looking for is just alignment with the language if weren't if we are measuring program effectiveness or if we want to And I do think it's possible Then we need to add that into that monthly report But if the police department can't provide that information because of resources or whatever that is and we do need to remove that I can speak to that. I would hope to assure the board that if we need to put measures in place that actually measure the program effectiveness, we will make that happen, and we will make the resources available. I think it would probably be best to convene several members with our SROs and with... Leadership and talk about what those measurements look like but absolutely. I

101mean this is an important program. It's important to me It's important to the police department. I was a form. I am a former SRO So I know the importance of this program So if that's what that's what we need to do and and I would suggest that I would agree with mr. Rodriguez that that any time you know funds are being used you should be able to measure that success or and to You steer steer whichever way you need to go and we will absolutely do that we can do that and and we would be I think I feel an obligation to do that. So I would I would rather leave it in and and assure that I Will make sure that that happens. I have a suggestion because What our police department And what

102how we see program effectiveness and research gathering is different So there definitely be up I think there needs to be time to discuss that about what that means to us and what that means to the so maybe adding some language that will develop this Committee in there so that we show that we're commitment to develop those measures and bring it back but not stop the This mo you to go forward because we need our SROs to start with us, right? We don't want to have any delay but I think this discussion merits more discussion with the SROs like I DO THINK THERE IS A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ON HOW WE MEASURE WHAT WE SEE AS EDUCATORS AS PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS VERSUS HOW THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE DON'T GO BACK AND SURPRISE THE

103CHIEF. I NEED TO HAVE CHIEF ON MY GOOD SIDE. BE THOUGHTFUL ABOUT IT. ALL RIGHT. WE ARE STILL GOING AROUND. And we're on the same topic as Trustee Rodriguez-Molica's suggestion. So can I, is anybody before Trustee Rodriguez? Go ahead, sir. So yeah, I think that's a great idea, Deputy Chief, to be able to meet together because... trying to figure out, you know, our relationships are extremely important, you know, especially for those students who find themselves in difficulty, right? That's a lot of the times when we connect with our students. So being able to sit down with our SROs, with yourself, perhaps on a committee. and begin and to discuss you know program effectiveness and how we would measure it i think is a is a great idea and something that we should do and take

104our time to do it well so i you know i would suggest that we add that language as well just the language that we will sit down together uh in the committee to work on program effective measuring program effectiveness all right is everyone in favor of that Yeah, trustee Rodriguez-Molica on the same topic or are you ready to present? I wanted to close that same topic and then go to my next one. But thank you chief for being so open to that. I really appreciate it. I understand what our superintendent says about working through this and making sure we're on the same page. But you just responding in the way that you did is really great. So thank you for doing that and being open to working with us with us on that. And thank

105you also colleague Trustee Rodriguez for bringing that up. I really appreciate that. Can I go on to my second one. On the monthly reports right there where it shows the counts of the number of participants on each one. I love that it's still on item D5 in the yellow highlight. We have on there that we're going to identify emerging trends highlight areas of concern or success and inform proactive strategies to support student safety well-being and positive school climate. I really appreciate that that has been added to this version of the MOU. And I was wondering if it would be possible to include that in the narrative report. I think that's quarterly not in the. monthly counts, but in like the, the narrative report to make sure that it is, um, that it's as informative as

106possible so that we can kind of see what trends you all are identifying. Absolutely. And I think. You can never have too much information, right? So we've been fortunate to have SROs that not only work well with our students, but are also adaptive. So I do not see that that would be a problem. And again, you can never have too much information on what's going on and how they're interacting with our students. Thank you. Is that something that we would add to this MOU or is it just like an understanding that it'll come in the narrative form and not just in the monthly report? I believe we added something already. Is it in there already? Oh, that's good. That language is there. We've already adapted that into our new reporting back and forth, as well

107as monthly meetings that I will have with the police department to garner that information. And so I don't know that it explicitly states that it's in the monthly report or the quarterly report, but that is something that we've already changed our format. Great. Thank you. Thank you very much, Trustee. Trustee Richardson-Fowler. Trustee Garcia, Trustee Brubaker, Trustee Rodriguez. Two questions, two comments. I'll start with the comment first this one. Thank you again for being here as we go through go through this process It's very important and thank you for being open to suggestions Very grateful for that and also thank you for the work that's already been done a lot of the suggestions that we've talked about over the years in between time have actually already been put in in this MOU and so that's That's

108great work. Thank you so much. I do have a suggestion to add to the MOU. I'LL TURN TO MY COLLEAGUES AS WELL. I WANT TO ADD SOME LANGUAGE THAT COMES FROM A DOCUMENT CALLED PROMOTING A SAFE AND SECURE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL. IT IS A GUIDANCE AND MODEL POLICIES TO ASSIST CALIFORNIA K THROUGH 12 SCHOOLS IN RESPONDING TO IMMIGRATION ISSUES. THIS WAS PUBLISHED IN 2024 BY THE CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL. AND IT'S THE LANGUAGE IS UNDER GUIDANCE FOR STATE LAW PROVIDING FOR POLICIES THAT LIMIT CLASSROOM INTERRUPTIONS. AND THE LANGUAGE WOULD READ THE FOLLOWING. THIS IS THE SAME LANGUAGE THAT I'VE ALREADY SENT FORWARD. SO YOU HAVE THAT. IT SAYS UNDER THE FOURTH AMENDMENT, A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, INCLUDING A SCHOOL DISTRICT POLICE OFFICER, CANNOT FOR THE PURPOSES OF INVESTIGATING NON-CRIMINAL IMMIGRATION VIOLATIONS DETAIN A STUDENT BY

109PREVENTING HIM OR HER FROM LEAVING CAMPUS OR TAKE THE STUDENT OUT OF CLASS AND THAT'S JUST LANGUAGE THAT MIMICS WHAT THE WHAT THE CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL IS SUGGESTING AND SO I'D LIKE TO SEE IF UH MIKE IF I HAVE SUPPORT OF MY COLLEAGUES TO ADD THAT LANGUAGE I HAVE NO OBJECTION I SUPPORT IT All right, can we just kind of show a all right, thank you very much continue sir Oh I'm sorry. I think our chief has made his stance very clear on this type of subject and absolutely this it's appropriate and and I support it and I can't imagine that the chief would not support it as well. Yeah it's also language that was also paralleling the language that was being used at the at the larger meeting at YCOE. Absolutely. So yeah. It

110parallels that process for sure. Thank you very much. Superintendent any comments questions. No trustee Rodriguez did you have a second question. All right. Thank you very much for approving that one. Back over here unless you have something. I don't have anything right now. Go ahead. On page. This is just a net which I sent already but just you know because the. The board has to I'm assuming agree, but maybe not on page five. This youth development is listed twice We just have to remove it once so it's just an edit and not the no substance. I would hope to y'all would agree to that That's it. Thank you very much trustee trustee Rodriguez. Mojica In this version of the MOU a couple of additional trainings were added added the SROs would attend right And I

111was wondering if it would be possible to add attendance to the district trainings in the monthly report Just as a line items kind of like the great presentations and the number of people that go but another section down below and Understanding that there wouldn't be attendance every single month, but it would be nice to be able to see in that report Right like when our SROs are attending some of the district trainings and which ones those are. I don't know how the board feels about that. You are OK please raise your hand. Any questions or comments on it. comment that again yeah absolutely the thing again it won't be every time but just good to list right and give credit right to the officers when they or else they do it but nobody recognizes they

112did it right so the thing is it's a multiple beneficial thing to include and so yes 100% and actually that was on my list so thank you for listing it. Great all right I do are you good all right. Any other board member coming down the road? All right, I'm gonna go. So this is something that I continue to bring up in our MOU a couple times now. And it's in regards to the shop with a cop shopping spree. And I see, let me see what page it is. I think it's page four. It says participate in back to school shopping with a COPS shopping spree with students during the winter break in partnership with other community agencies and service providers. So this specifically states that the SROs will participate. In the past, board members

113would participate in the event. So I would like to add language in there that would be open for board members to participate because it only acknowledges here. partnership with other community agencies and service providers. So I think the missing part here is that this event is a huge success. A lot of donations come in. Our students are supported very well with this partnership. And in the past, board members would have an opportunity to engage, donate, participate, have a role in the event. And the last time that I brought it up. It was I was told no worries, you know, we'll get it on your calendar. We'll make sure there's an invitation I don't remember the last time I've been invited so If this is not a complaint because things happen, you know, like sometimes things

114just don't get on our calendar So I want to put language in here that says board members It's on here in the highlighted section six extend invitations to superintendent and board members for events of celebration recognition or community engagement involving else or a program or student achievements So that's kind of different. So if we can add something there for the For the giveaway Just to be clear, we actually have not done the shop with a cop during the winter break for several years. The shopping event that we do is actually not run by us. It's run by the Lions Club and in association with other organizations. They invite us. We actually don't put one on and we have not for several years. What basically has taken the place of that is our fill the trunk

115event that we do during the Christmas season. Okay. So then what I'm seeing now is the fill a trunk and that this part of the MOU is not getting done anymore. So should we not during the winter break? We do we do have a back to school shopping event that SRS participate in as well as other officers. But that again is not that's not our event. That is that is something that's run by another organization. So you guys are not doing it at the back to school anymore. We don't have one. We do not sponsor one. We're invited to help out when the Lions Club, they bring out, they bring out hearing tests. They have barbers and hairstylists that come out and give haircuts for free. It's a big event that they typically have done

116over. in front of JC Penny. And again, that's, that's not our event and we haven't done the shop with it. I can't remember the last time that we did shop with the cop, but it was probably pre COVID. All right. So should we scratch that? Should we remove it off of the MOU if it's not taking place? Are you guys bringing it back? I don't think that we probably would bring it back because we. Fill the trunk is a massive undertaking, and we actually get to provide so much more to so many more families by doing it that way. With the Shop with a Cop, we were providing presents and clothing for 15 to 20 children. Now we're serving hundreds. Yeah, let's scrap it. All right. Can you guys just show me your hands if

117you're okay with this? removing the back-to-school shopping shop with the cop let's scratch that one and then if we could just add to the directly below it coordinate the fill the trunk toy drive in December for students in the WJ USD community and invite Woodland Joint Unified School District board and staff to attend how does that sound hands I have no objection. It's already in the agreement in another spot. You mentioned it earlier. It is, but it's not... But to all events, right? So it's redundant, but I'm not going to object to it. Okay. To me, it's already there. They just need to do it. I don't know if adding it there is going to necessarily happen. Okay. Something's going on. But again, I have no objection. I just want to say that I don't

118see the need for it, but I'm not going to object. I guess it just reads differently because it says extend invitations to the superintendent and board members for events of celebration, recognition, or community engagement involving the SRL program or student achievement. So for me, the fill the trunk is more for need versus a celebration or community engagement. It's not, I mean, when I think of community engagement, it's anyone and the fill the trunk is a target. So maybe what we need to do is change. Item six the highlighted right there for it to state Just just add it in the other part. I think it's easier instead of trying to down there. Okay, we wanted it Yeah, all right. So just please are you guys okay with that? I'm perfectly fine with it and I'm

119gonna be very honest I want to celebrate with your agency the efforts that you guys put into filling the trunk event, toy drive, because it's the toy drives and then it's the actual event. And it's a combination of a series of toy drives to fill the trunk. So I want to celebrate with you guys. And sometimes I see other agencies and electeds there, and then our school board members are not there. And this is a huge partnership that we have with you guys. Absolutely. I don't know who was really in charge of making sure that that happened, but I'll own it for our police department. No, no, no, no, no pointing a finger. That's what happens when you're in a leadership role is you own things and then you fix things when they're brought up.

120So what I can guarantee you moving forward is that this will be addressed. It's obviously very important and to you and the entire board. So it's important to us. It's important to you. It's important to us. And we will ensure that it happens. Thank you. As I say, he didn't cause it, but he owns a solution. ALL RIGHT. THAT WRAPS IT UP FOR ME IN TERMS OF SUGGESTIONS FOR THE LANGUAGE. ANYONE ELSE? COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, ADDITIONS, SUPERINTENDENT? I'M DYING TO SHARE SOMETHING. IT'S A LITTLE SILLY. BUT I WENT TO THE SHOP WITH THE COP ONE TIME AND SINCE I HAVE ALL BOYS, I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FUN TO SHOP WITH A GIRL. AND IT WAS TORTURE. But it was I mean I was like next time I'll just pick boys are easy. They're fast, you

121know And so I thought I want to do a girl don't have a girl but anyway I Want to thank you for your partnership. Please send our best regards to our s rose. Let them know we appreciate them This I and when you went very smoothly compared to other years that just it's a testament of the collaboration and the hard work that both the staff and the leadership is doing in the police department. So thank you, Deputy, for being here. Congratulations for being recognized. Thank you. And also just thank you for all your hard work, and we're looking forward to our continued partnership and continuing to get better and better each time. Absolutely. And I would just like to thank... the entire board. I know that this is a huge undertaking and we've been lucky

122to have this program for many, many years and I just feel like it continues to grow and continues to get better. And it only happens through communication. Just as with information, you can never have enough or too much communication. So I would encourage everybody, superintendent has my phone number. I would encourage you to share that with everybody. And anytime that you need something. want something, need something clarified, or if you want to call us up and say, hey, they did a great job. That's fun too. We don't get as many calls like that as we do other ones from our officer in patrol ranks, but it's always nice to hear good things too. But this is an important program to our department, and we couldn't do it without the support of you. And we just

123really enjoy that. The bonds that we have continued to grow and I just feel like within the last you know four to five years They've just really really gotten very strong and I think it's the key to that is that communication piece and and the leadership in this room So thank you very much on behalf of the chief and the entire word in the police department. Thank you so much, sir I appreciate it. So do we have a motion to approve the school resource officer? Memorandum of understanding what the edit stated this evening. So make the motion second All right, so it's been motioned by Trustee Villagrana and seconded by Trustee Garcia. Any questions, comments before we do the vote? All right, seeing none, all those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposition? Any abstentions?

124All right, the SRO Memorandum of Understanding has been adopted with the suggested, with the agreed upon edits on this day of April 17th. Congratulations, thank you very much. Thank you very much, colleagues. Huge accomplishment and thank you to our staff. Thank you, Dr. Felicia. Thank you very much. Moving on to item L3. This is an informational item and this is to review a foreign exchange programs. Passing it on, Superintendent. So I believe about a month ago, I don't remember when it was somewhere after December. I know that we trustee Fowler presented a board item to discuss An interest of potential looking into further inter-international and Shakespeare program the board at the time supported the idea of coming back with information so at this time staff is going to give you an update on what we

125learned through that research on that where we are as a district this is just an information item we have no recommendation tonight to make to you just giving you information and then if there's any further direction we will wait to hear what that may be Good evening board president trustees superintendent tonight as Superintendent Ortega Lampkin said I have a presentation to follow up on the direction from the board and superintendent from I believe it was February On the feasibility and information around international exchange programs The information in this presentation most closely addresses our goal one, college and career readiness, and goal four, student engagement and leadership opportunities for youth. And so in this presentation. I am going to review our current board policy around international exchange programs and discuss the requirements of that current board

126policy review several of the international exchange programs that meet some of the requirements of that policy their associated costs and then finally we'll review the programs and policies of other districts in our region relating to international exchange programs. So our board policy, that was very close, sorry. Board policy 6145.6 addresses international exchange programs. This board policy encourages or recognizes the importance of programs such as these, encourages that we have students participate in them, but it explicitly states that the district shall not incur any expenses, shall not spend any money, whether it be to send students. on international exchange trips or to receive students who are participating in an international exchange program. This board policy also includes three requirements for any international exchange programs that we are to receive students from and we'll review those in

127just a bit. We also have an administrative regulation 6145.6 regarding international exchange programs. It gives us guidance on how to admit international exchange students who are visiting Woodland. It gives us direction for how to allow them to participate in athletics, what to do if they're going to graduate from our schools during their program or finish their term of study for high school. Letters of... participation, diplomas, how we can recognize their accomplishments as seniors. But it doesn't include any guidance, guidelines, direction for our students who want to participate in international exchange programs. So it doesn't give us any hint about required structures or expectations. And we don't currently have a formal program in place. So per our current board policy, international exchange students in our schools have to be participating in a program that is registered

128with the Attorney General's Office, the California Attorney General's Office. That program has to be designated by the U.S. Department of State, and it has to be accepted for listing on the Council for Standards for International Educational Travel's advisory list. The program must meet all three requirements. So here I have a list of three programs, one of which is the program we were asked to investigate, which is the German-American Partnership Program, or GAP. The other two programs were programs that I found on the approval list that are listed in our board policy. So the first is AFS USA International Programs. It is on the AG's list, and it is on the Council for Standards for International Educational Travels. list as well, but it is not approved by the U.S. Department of State. The same is true

129for the International Cultural Exchange Services, or ICES, program. It meets two of the three requirements. The German-American Partnership Program only meets one. It is on the U.S. Department of State's list, but it is not on the other two approval lists. Next, we looked at the cost for students to participate in these three programs. So all of the programs offer both short term and long term short term is two weeks to six weeks ish Long term is a semester to a year the cheapest version of any of these programs is the gap short term and that costs three thousand two hundred sixty one dollars assuming they don't get a scholarship from gap with which they could For some of the program costs, but it wouldn't cover travel and it wouldn't cover their spending money, things like

130that. The high end or the least expensive high end would be the $9,400 for the gap program short term. The most expensive would be a long-term placement, which would be one academic year for $25,000 with either AFS USA or ISIS. All of those costs are estimates. They include any program fees, flights or travel fees, visa fees, because each one of these require that the students apply for and get visas for the countries they're going to visit, and also the recommended spending money from each of these programs. Excuse me. All right, so then we looked at programs in our region. So in Northern California, there are three schools that have current gap programs. None of them are in our local region. St. Paul School in Visalia, which is a private school, Northgate High School in Walnut

131Creek, and College Park High School in Pleasant Hill, both of which are part of the Mount Diablo Unified School District. I was unable to identify any schools in our local area or region that are currently participating in the GAP program. There is a resource on the GAP website, the GAP map, that identifies schools that have participated at some point in their program, but there was nobody on that list that I was able to identify that is currently participating or has an active GAP program. As far as regional policies, there are no districts in our region that have board policies allowing for the districts to fund international exchange programs for their students. Every district that I looked at, and I looked at every district in Northern California, has a policy with language similar to our policy,

132which prohibits financial obligations on the part of the district in order for students to participate in international exchange programs. Many. have more restrictive language that in addition to Stating that the district can't incur any cost they also require the placing international exchange program to Refund the district for any expenses that they incur as a result of the student being Placed in their schools. They charge them for the teachers time. They charge them for the instructional materials They charge them for the facilities usage. They charge them for everything. They literally send a bill to the international exchange program saying this is what you owe us for sending us your kid. Um, so one, two, three, there are six districts in our area that have, sorry, I had to count them. I have them written on the

133page, uh, that have, um, that restrictive policy, Napa, Vallejo, Yuba city, Davis, Fairfield, Sassoon, and Roseville all require reimbursement. And that is what we were able to find. Thank you very much for the presentation. We're opening it up for questions, comments. Who would like to go first? Trustee Richardson-Fowler, and then we'll go to the right. Thank you for putting the presentation together. I understand it's informational. Were you able to find any program that fits all three requirements per our board policy? I was not. OK. And of course I don't know if any of us were here when this board policy was implemented but it does my comment seem like we need to update that. Are we in compliance with our board policy with our current students that do come to our school sites. Do we

134have any foreign exchange students or any of our students that are going away. I wasn't able to identify any students of ours that have participated in outbound programs. And I wasn't able to identify any current students. Yeah. Inbound students. Two questions. Any comments? No, I did my one comment and two questions. Okay. I think you had two questions, Trustee Fowler. Excuse me? I thought those were two questions. I said thank you for doing the presentation. Okay. You're welcome. All right, any questions or comments? Any comments on Trustee Fowler's question? All right, Trustee Garcia. This is new for me. I have a lot of questions. Let me start. So the policy you share with us, we need to change the policy to put that in place. The one is on the agenda item. If we decide

135to, but the policy say the district is not obligated to run any... Money on this program. Is this correct? If the policy says we cannot be obligated We cannot spend money to send kids or receive them. Okay, so if you look at slide four five one two, three four the last bullet Starting with the district that's I copy and pasted directly from the policy the district shall not incur any financial obligations when sending and or receiving International exchange students. That's the language from the policy Yeah, that for me is one of my okay. So my second question. Yeah, that's come with my second Sorry, I forgot I had the clicker So talking about funds, yeah, is one of my concerns. For some families, they can't afford this amount. So, yeah, so that's one comment, yeah.

136That's one of my concerns. For a year, I think no departments can afford this amount to have an extra visit on their house. Yeah, that's my comment. Thank you. For now. Just to clarify, the costs were for outbound, not inbound. So if one of our kids was to go to Germany or Argentina or Mexico, that's the cost that the family would have to pay to send their kid. That's not the cost for having a kid in our house in Woodland. So that was a comment, so I have another question. So what happened with the cost for the students come? When we host? Yes. Whoever hosts them agrees to pay for whatever they need. Yeah, that's what I say. I didn't estimate that cost. Okay, so the family needs to have money to pay the cost

137of the exchange students. So that's correct? Correct. Yeah, so that's come again for all the families have money to have other people in their houses. So is clear for you? Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Trustee Brubaker. Any questions or comments on? All right. Trustee Brubaker. I would be interested in exploring what we would need to do to make it so we could participate in exchange programs. I know that there is some hesitancy for a lot of reasons, but I do think updating it so that. that is at least an option at some point in the future is not a bad thing, especially if no programs fall into the qualifications that we have outlined in our board policy. That kind of makes it a moot point until that is addressed. So I would like to encourage us

138to move in that direction, even if there's still some hesitancy, just so we can all still continue thinking and see what lays ahead for all of us in a lot of ways. I'm still a proponent of trying to do a program how we make it work. I don't know but I think it's worth investigating I've benefited from it my my grandparents even hosted a student from Japan in the 50s which was kind of a strange thing to do at that point, but they did it and that that Excuse me, that student is still considered a member of the family 50 years later. So I've seen the benefits of programs like this my entire life. So I'm still a big supporter of it. But I think moving forward, even if we don't know for sure what

139our future is in the short term, would be a good idea. Thank you. Any questions? I'm sorry, any comments on Trustee Brubaker? All right, I'm going to comment. I want to comment, but I have a feeling it's going to turn into a question. So I'm going to piggyback on you when it's my turn. Trustee Rodriguez. Good evening. Thank you for doing the work on this pretty interesting topic. You know, obviously it can be very beneficial, but cost prohibitive in many ways. Did you get a sense of how many kids... Actually participate in any of these type of programs at 10 kids is it 20 kids in in in the schools that do have these programs I Wasn't able to find that information. Although I will say for the short term Gap, there is a participant

140number requirement. It has to be at least 12 kids I think for 10 kids so it's a group activity our group goes there their group comes here for the long-term placements. Those are individual So if you took that example, essentially that's, then you take the lowest number, like 100,000 at least for 10 to 12 kids, something like that. A program like this, in terms of our structure for things that we offer our students. What would you consider this program? Is it an extracurricular program? Is it like a club? How would you classify this type of program? I would say... Enrichment. Yeah, enrichment. Enrichment. And how is that different from extracurricular? Well, extracurricular takes place outside of the academic day. This includes activities during the academic day. Do I have a comment left? I'm not sure.

141I kind of intertwined them. I think you had two questions. I don't think that you had two comments yet. Okay. I'll take it. So, I mean, my comment is I think that obviously we're not, I don't think, ready to do any of this right now. But in terms of the pathway to keep the possibility alive, I think to my fellow trustees is like, If we're going to set aside an X amount of money to try and make something like this possible, I think that the analysis needs to happen in a larger spectrum. So the analysis for me would be about let's look at our enrichment programs and find out how many enrichment programs do we have, how many kids are being served. can we deduce a need of enrichment programs and so almost kind of

142Going into the next topic which is about, you know strategic plans to me That's how we would look at something like this where we would Look at a strategic plan about our enrichment programs or even extracurricular activities And then figure out what we do how many kids we serve understand that segment of what we do and then you know do an analysis of would we like to do more and what is possible to do more and would this be one of the options right so to me I think that's kind of more the process that we would need to go down and we probably should go down not just necessarily for this topic but just for all enrichment programs but I think that's the pathway we need to build to take a look at something

143like this and it's a pathway that we probably should should do and that's my comment Thank you very much any comments on the statements made or questions asked by trustee Rodriguez Okay, I'm gonna take my turn now So I've read this policy over and over and over a few times and I'm gonna piggyback on trustee brew Baker's comments and trustee Garcia's comments Because I when I hear you when I hear them or when I heard them Their statement and sentiment is as if we can't do this. But when I read it, it says that we have board policy that recognizes personal contact between students of different countries and cultures promoting awareness and understanding. It's saying if one of our students wants to go study abroad, you can do it. If a student wants to come

144into our district and study inbound here, they can come. We don't. We can't say no. Now, I don't read that in the language. So please, now's my question. Show me where it says we cannot do that. Because all I read is we can't spend on it. Colleagues, do you guys, are you guys following me? Yeah, I think the part that I was concerned about is that our policy seems to be written and that we can only Use programs that fall into the are approved by three different things. Yes, no policy no programs Fall into that those three categories together so one of the things that Okay, can you guys clarify that because that's I don't know that connection so the beginning Paragraph of the board policy says that the Board of Trustees recognizes the personal

145contact between students of different countries and cultures promotes global awareness and international understanding to that end the board welcomes the enrollment of international exchange students and further encourages district students to take any opportunities that they may have to participate in such programs and study in another country and Then when you scroll down to the lower part of the policy Go back up it says to enroll in our district Students must be participating in an exchange program that is registered with the California Attorney's General Office, designated by the U.S. Department of State, and accepted for listing on the Council for Standards for International Education Travel Advisory List. So we may only accept students who are part of programs that meet those three requirements. On that list? On that list. Okay, so those three criteria. That you

146listed, okay. And that's on? It's in the board policy. It's in the very first paragraph under the heading International Student Exchange Program. These are the programs listed in... Slide seven. Yes. So if one of our students wanted to study abroad, they would have to go with one of those three programs. That's not what it says. It says to receive a student. So an incoming student, if we are going to enroll them in our school, say a kid from Germany, whatever program is sending them to us has to be recognized by those three agencies. So what if our students want to go out? There is no direction or guidance about our kids going out. It just says we encourage them to participate if they have the opportunity. So the language doesn't say they can't. It doesn't.

147But the language does say several paragraphs down that we can't pay for it. Yes. So to my point, our students can study abroad right now. We just can't pay for it. Okay. So Trustee Richardson-Fowler. The current policy says any of our students can go we just can't pay for it. So I'm trying to make sure that I understand all this information It's clear to me Having asked these questions having read the policy back and forth that There's a lot more language about the inbound to receive Like we're ready to receive And there's no language stating that we have the mechanisms in place so that we bill the international foreign programs or the schools, right? So we're incurring the expenses. I don't know. It sounds like we don't have any students here right now. Not that

148I was able to identify, but. So, I mean, that's one thing that we could look at. I'm not proposing that because that's not a priority for me right now. I am open. I'm doing my comment. I am open to trying to figure out a way to support these students financially. But I'm really excited and happy that there isn't a roadblock to allowing them to go. It's just the money factor. I'm going to stop there because I need to gather my thoughts a little bit more because I just I wanted to confirm that students can go because last time we had this conversation it sounded like they couldn't because we didn't have a program in place but now you know having asked my questions and thank you very much for confirming it I need to to

149process this a little bit and kind of marinate with you guys and the comments and questions that you guys may have from here on out. So Trustee Villagrana, passing along. Follow up to mine. Go ahead. I don't have kids in high school yet, so this may be a thing, but do students know that they have the opportunity, even with a third party group, to do a study abroad program? So that's a question, and you were allowed to comment. Oh, to me? Okay. Okay, okay, yeah. I don't know that answer. I don't know, right? So when it's your turn, we ask that question. I was seeing it as a continuation. Yes, and I appreciate you saying that because I want to continue jogging my brain right now. Trustee Villagrana. Thank you. Yeah, so what I understood

150is there is no program against any student can go anytime they want and Again, the students who go already on the summer and they do trips, you know There's the DC trip that happens again not under our watch, you know, not under anything, right? Even having staff involved right is resources. So we can't even have staff and staff involved to do anything to support these students And I would just state again my objections to this is that is on its face inequitable It is not accessible to our students again. Not everyone our students has the ability to get a passport So therefore they're going to be excluded automatically from this enrichment opportunity And it's it's an expense right now. It's it's really a luxury For for our district to be able to do this right

151now. It's a phenomenal enrichment program There's families that, again, even if they have the opportunity, would not have the accessibility to send their children to these great places to learn. And that's on its face to me. Again, I just could not support that because of those limitations. I am definitely not in favor of updating the policy to spend money because once we do that, then we have to send any student, we are not limited now to 12, any student that wants to go, we have to support them now. So we can't limit it. Once we open the door, all students are able to go. And we can't afford to do that, right? So I'm not in favor of doing that either. So those are my two comments. All right. Any comments on this? Okay. Moving

152on to Trustee Rodriguez-Majica. Thank you for all the time that you put into doing this research and sharing it with us I agree with trustee Villagrana I am concerned about the students that would just not be able to access this at all Should this move forward more than anything though, especially given our conversations about the budget and our limitations I Would really be hesitant in in putting money into something that not everyone would be able to access Especially when I know that we have so many other needs in our districts even within the restricted funds or whatever that might be But I do appreciate all this research. I think this is if we were in a different place with our budget, I think I, and also meeting the needs of all of our students, right,

153and providing the supports that are available. I think I would be really excited about this. I just, I can't see. Supporting something like this given where we're at. I would like to see us strengthen like our career and technical education So many other aspects right of educating our students That I'm not even gonna start listing right now I think this is exciting and I want us to get to a place to where We are able to find as many students as possible to this to participate in something like this But I just don't feel like we're there given where we are with the budget right now. So that's just my comment. So I want to Okay, any questions any comments on on Trustee Rodriguez-Mogica? Okay, I want to comment on it. I just want to

154bring us back. I think we need to clarify what is the ask tonight? Because I think it's to review the foreign exchange programs. So we got clarification on what our board policy is. And we got clarification on what we're offering right now, how many students we have on the program outbound, how many students we have inbound. So Trustee Fowler, it's your turn next. If you want to use this time to present your ask, I would encourage you to. If you would like to continue asking questions, I encourage you to do that too. You have the floor. Okay. So to clarify, and these are not my two questions or comments. No. I asked for us to look into a foreign exchange program. I presented based on my experience, which was the German-American Partnership Program, a bilateral

155exchange program. And I did also note AFS and I think another one. That being said I have no expectations for this to happen this year or even next year. I just want to get the ball rolling so we can provide more opportunities for our students. It being a bilateral program I do believe it adds value to students who are not going abroad who are not part of the program. Because they still get the enrichment and the exposure to the exchange students who are coming here I know that we do have exchange students in our schools I don't know at this moment, but we have had students who come and stay and then they get enrolled into our school sites But they matriculate they become students This program is they are visitors and their whole purpose

156of being here is to share and learn And so that's why I highlighted the gap program thinking that for our students who cannot go abroad they still can have that exposure to having a foreign exchange student and having that experience as well. They may not be going to Germany but they are still exposed to the culture the community through the presentations through having the students in the class with them those sorts of things. Are there any more questions about what my ask was before I go into my questions and comments. I'm good. Okay. That being said, driver's ed is a requirement for our students to take. However, most of our students, I don't know if you guys know, the average 16-year-old, their insurance costs about $457 a month. That being said, that comes out to

157$5,484 per year. Still more than that price tag for that foreign exchange program. When I asked my daughter do you want to get your license or do you want to go to Germany after you graduate. She wants to go to Germany. She doesn't. She'd rather have that experience and put off getting her license. She also said can I get a job so I can have some extra pocket change. So I think we are definitely under valuing the tenacity of our students when provided opportunities to grow. So let's not count them out on that one. That's a comment. I'm just trying to figure out what's my next comment because I have a couple of things written down. I have no also intent intention of the district paying for any of that. That was never part of

158my. Bringing this forward. I was very fortunate to go to an affluent school district where most of our parents just wrote checks for us to go And then some of us got extra jobs so we could have pocket change extra pocket change while we were there That being said we do have programs that send our kids To places. I don't remember how much our booster fundraised for our kids to go to Disneyland and have that Disneyland experience which was very epic and Life-changing for some of our kids who have never been out of Yolo County so We when we want to do things we find a way to do things I want to find a way to provide an exchange opportunity for future generations. Not just my kids which I can Excuse me budget for

159and make happen I don't know where I'm at with my questions but I also do think that here's a comment. We do need to find a mechanism for identifying our foreign exchange students especially in this current climate and especially with this climate. I'm not looking at bringing foreigners on over here like full stop. So what I would like to do is figure out how we can get to a yes or a common bridge. But to say that. And I don't even know what the population of our students are that can't get a visa enter and reenter our school district or nation. That being said I'm not willing to throw out an opportunity that the majority of our students can attain if given the proper initiative so that we can make this come to fruition. So

160I campaigned on aim higher. That's what I do as a trustee. I try to move the needle forward and all opportunities for our students I saw something that I was exposed to and I don't know how many people on this dais came from blue ribbon affluent high achieving school districts like I did But I want to give my kids an opportunity to get what I got we sacrifice so that our kids can have better And sometimes I struggle with my kids being in a district where I got so much more than they got. They are being exposed to. So coming from that district of affluence, I want to make sure I bring a little bit of that here. Thank you, Trustee Richardson-Fowler. Comments on the points? Trustee Villagrana? Just one comment. Regardless of the tenacity

161of a student, if they can't get a passport, they can't get a passport regardless of... of level. I did not speak when you were speaking. Thank you, Trustee Villanueva. I appreciate it if you didn't speak when I spoke. Thank you. Thank you. I'm done. Okay. Thank you, Trustee. Any other questions or comments this evening on this topic? Trustee, I'm sorry, Trustee Garcia? Okay. Yeah. So same as the other trustees, I think this is a good idea. if we found it. So that's the, we already, we're open to accept, so that's clear. But as my grandmother, I think there are some students can afford to host students. So because economic challenge or other barriers like language for them. So since the district doesn't cover the cost to host students, I believe, I think it's not a,

162I'm not ready to support this, to support something like, it will be a good idea what they say in the future, but I think as of right now, I can support this time because I can support a program when no other students have the same opportunity to participate. All right. Questions, comments on that? Yeah, Trustee Brubaker. Oh, no, I had a comment for Trustee Garcia. Yes, ma'am. Do you know of any other programs in our district that not all students can participate in? I know, but that's not the case. I respect your experience. I respect all your opportunities you have, and I appreciate all the great ideas you bring to us. But I think we're here because everybody has this different background, and that's why we're here, to put all our inputs here and to

163make decisions, all the trustees. So I respect your ideas. I respect your opinion. I expected you to try to understand my point of view. I'm just asking because when you mentioned that not all kids can participate, we have several programs in our district that not all kids can participate in. So I wanted just to bring that up. All right. I just want to remind everyone that. Students are able to study abroad with existing policy and they're able to come here outbound and inbound. We're not approving anything. We don't have to approve anything because it's allowed. SOMEBODY HERE WOULD HAVE TO MOTION OR PUT THEIR HANDS UP AND SAY, LET'S TALK ABOUT FUNDING. IF YOU GUYS WANT TO DO THAT, THAT'S ON YOUR OWN. THAT'S AT YOUR DISCRETION. SO THE ONLY CONVERSATION THAT WE'RE HAVING HERE

164IS QUESTIONS, COMMENTS ABOUT WHAT'S BEING PRESENTED. THANK YOU, MS. CARILLO. We're not talking about funding because that's not being asked by the person who submitted the yellow sheet All she wanted was background research. I just want to bring us back. Okay Again, I'm gonna restate if somebody wants to talk about funding for international student exchange programs then you need to raise your hand and try to get your four votes your four four little hands not even votes four little hands so we can get it on the agenda item or submit a yellow sheet to fund it okay so right now I'm going to restate this one more time students are allowed to go students are allowed to come with existing policy if you guys want to change that Then you need to get four hands

165to do whatever change you want to have. Okay, so I just want to bring this back We do allow for outbound and inbound right now. I get it. Can I ask for a clarification? Sure, sure. Because you pick it up for my point. So go ahead. I get it. I'm not, I'm not. Yes, yes. No. I get it. And we're here to make any question we would like to ask about to have clarity and what are we talking about. And I respect your response, but it's clear for me. Okay. Thank you. No, no. And I'm not, I'm not. I want the board to know that I'm not targeting Trustee Garcia. I just had a side conversation with the superintendent and she says, let's make sure everyone understands there's no ask for money. We do allow

166for the foreign exchange programs to go outbound and inbound. Okay. So if you want to state that you don't support for funding, that's fine. That's totally fine. You guys can talk about whatever it is you want, but there is no ask for funding. Okay. All right. Trustee Brubaker. So. Do our high school students have the awareness that there are study abroad programs they can participate in? Is there a list somewhere that? Is that something students have awareness of I don't believe so. Okay and then My understanding I've gotten a little confused so hopefully is that currently there is not per board policy way students can per board policy come into our district because no current programs fall into the three categories listed I looked at all three lists and cross-referenced the programs and agencies that

167were listed and I was not able to find a single one that met all three requirements okay so what I would like to see if their support tonight is updating that part of our policy so that Again, I actually had a conversation with trustee Rodriguez. I'm sorry But I've Richardson Fowler yesterday because I had I had this concern This is not a great climate to be inviting international students into our country But I also think we all have to have hope that it will be so I would like to see if there's support in getting that part of our policy changed because then all of our students can benefit from that cultural experience of having students come to our country and we can all benefit from that no matter any of our status. Is that

168something that there's support from? Clarification. What is it that you want to change? The part of our board policy that only allows students to come to Woodland School District if they fall into the three listed approvals of which there is no that we know of program that has all three of those approvals. Trustee Brubaker you're referring to the first paragraph of the board policy correct where it lists Yes Department of State correct California Attorney General's Office and Council for standards for international educational Trevor travels Advisory list. Yes So if there's support from his upper Baker's request I would have to just to be I want to make sure we're very clear and transparent because I don't want to come back with something later I don't have to check with our legal counsel to make sure

169because our policies have to be aligned to current law and there might be a reason Why maybe some legality why with the you know? so I just want to make sure that sometimes we just can't change for politics what we can But there's certain things that we have to have in or we can't change because it has to align to ed code And that's the part. I don't know. I didn't go any further than that Because I didn't know if the board wanted me to go further than that. So if you were to get support I just want you to Make sure that I that there's no expectation that we can just change it and it's gonna happen I was optical to legal counsel and make sure that it's aligned to current law and that

170code And it occurs to me that since this is what trustee Richardson Fowler brought forward I would like to give her the opportunity to put that motion forward Yes, I was planning on working on that anywho, but yes, I like that you put it forward I appreciate it, but I also would like to say I really hope it doesn't have any legal components to it. I cannot see how changing and updating it to programs that are sponsored through the State Department and other departments wouldn't comply with local law. But yes, I would like to move forward with changing our board language so we can pave the way to developing programs. All right, so she needs. She needs four hands to bring this item back to change the policy. Can I have a comment? Sure, Trustee

171Rodriguez. So it's not, isn't it about finding out whether or not we can? It's not about changing it right now. It's about figuring out whether or not we legally can change it, right? Like that's the step before. Because I guess as a low there was saying there might be a reason right like I don't know who made this board policy was it board members that just created it or It was it created to follow some sort of legal Requirement. Well, it was created in 2016. So I don't know if even what but that's that's what I'm saying, right? Let's find out if it's if there's any legal issue with it first, right? Because if there is we can't change it, right? We pretty difficult change it and then after finding that out then you would

172Take on the issue of whether or not you'd want to change it or not. I'd like to frame it in the way of of Part a and Part B of one thing So if we find out we can't do it, then we don't have to revisit this as a whole group But if we find out that we can do it we can move forward trustee Rodriguez mojica I just searched very quickly and it looks like Santa Rosa City Schools has an exchange student program and when you click on one of their links it takes you to their board policy it looks like and their wording is with the or instead of and so to enroll in a district and in a district school an international exchange student must be participating in an exchange program designated

173by the California Attorney General's office or listed by the U.S. Department of State. So That to me means that maybe there is no legal issue and it really is up to the board discretion. So I just found that I wanted to share that with folks. This is again Santa Rosa City Schools and it was just a really quick search. I didn't dig really deeply but it's the first thing that popped up. And or? This one has or so yeah. Although I still agree like we should look into it right but this makes me think that. It doesn't have to be all three. All right. I'm going to propose that we, if I can get four hands to allow for the superintendent to find out if that is something we could consider and then bringing it

174back as an informational item, still as an informational item. And then you guys could decide if you want to actually take action. Okay. Can I get four hands? CAN YOU CLARIFY THE ASK? THE ASK IS FOR THE SUPERINTENDENT TO SEE IF I'M GOING TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT BOARD POLICY AND SEE FIRST OF ALL WHAT THAT MEANS IN SANTA ROSA BECAUSE THOSE TWO AGENCIES MAY HAVE OTHER CRITERIA THAT YOU HAVE TO QUALIFY IN ORDER TO HAVE THE AND OR THE OR. BUT I CAN LOOK, I CAN COME BACK AND UPDATE THE BOARD OF WHAT CAN BE DONE, WHAT CAN BE CHANGED AND WHAT CANNOT BE CHANGED. FOR THE RECEIVING, FOR THE INBOUND, NOT THE OUTBOUND. FOR THE INBOUND. I JUST WANTED TO SHARE, I'VE HAD DISCUSSIONS WITH TRUSTEE FOWLER SINCE I STARTED AS INTERIM.

175I'M A HUGE SUPPORTER OF INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCES. I THINK IT'S VERY, VERY VALUABLE. I WAS ACTUALLY SURPRISED AT WHAT MY STAFF FOUND OUT. I DO AGREE WITH SOME OF THE DISCUSSIONS WITH THE TRUSTEE ABOUT THE FINANCIAL SITUATION WE ARE IN NOW. BUT IT IS A LIFE-CHANGING EXPERIENCE TO HAVE THOSE EXPERIENCES FOR OUR STUDENTS. BUT THERE IS ALSO NEW LAWS WITH WHAT WE HAVE ABOUT PAYING FOR ANY KIND OF PROGRAMS. WE HAVE TO BE ABLE TO OFFER IT TO ALL STUDENTS. THERE IS LIMITATIONS. NEW THINGS I HEARD AND LEARNED FROM OUR STAFF'S RESEARCH. I'M HAPPY TO COME BACK AND LOOK INTO IT FURTHER NOW THAT I'VE GOTTEN DIRECTION FROM THE BOARD. I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT THE INTERNATIONAL, MY OWN CHILDREN HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT KOREA. OBVIOUSLY MEXICO EVERYWHERE, BUT JAPAN. AND ON OUR

176OWN, YOU KNOW, FORTUNATE THAT I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PROVIDE THOSE EXPERIENCES. BUT AND THEN WE'LL SEE WHAT WE CAN DO WITH THE POLICY. SO I'LL LOOK INTO IT FURTHER. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. Wrapping up, my wrapping up comments to Trustee Richardson-Fowler is I see this as a win, because it was clarified to me that students can go outbound and students can come inbound, and that wasn't clear to me the first time that we talked about this. So to me, this was clarified. Thank you very much, Ms. Carrillo, for making that clarification. I see this as an opportunity for those students that want to and can. Yes, there is inequities, and... That's the reality. Speaking for myself, my kids have never traveled outside of Mexico. And I have hopes and dreams that one

177day I can take them somewhere. I have to say, Trustee Fowler, thank you very much for bringing this item forward. And I think this was a small win. And I think we're headed in the right direction. And hopefully this evening we have students and families that may be interested in a program of such that are watching and maybe some of their... You know their curiosities or uncertainties may have been clarified a little bit better tonight I wish that we could have a little bit of resource extend a little bit of resources in the future to actually have some type of handout or you know link on our website that says hey foreign exchange programs and it clarifies on their a Q&A fact sheet that says you know we cannot pay but these are the THESE

178ARE YOUR RIGHTS, SO TO SAY, IF YOU'RE INTERESTED. BUT THANK YOU VERY MUCH, TRUSTEE FOWLER, FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD. WE LOOK FORWARD TO THE NEW INFORMATION AND BRINGING THIS BACK ON A FUTURE AGENDA. ANYBODY ELSE? I just wanted to thank Trustee Richardson-Fowler for bringing forth something that hasn't necessarily happened here. You talk about your experience. It's really important for us to be able to have these kinds of dialogues because we obviously have constraints. We know what they are. But it doesn't mean we can't go through a process to think about what could be. and perhaps find pathways to those things. But you being tenacious and continuing to bring up something that was very important to you, I think is an important process for this board. And having said that, I also think though that where

179this process would lead to expenditure or staff time or where it should be or that it might take up staff time. That to make these kinds of decisions, I think we need to look at it from a larger perspective, from an assessment, for example, if this fell into enrichment. PROGRAM, THEN WE SHOULD LOOK AT ALL OUR ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS AND WE SHOULD UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY ARE AND WE SHOULD TRY TO IDENTIFY NEEDS AND THEN IF WE WERE GOING TO BE, THERE WAS GOING TO BE AN EXPENDITURE, THEN WE WOULD HAVE A DEBATE AT THAT PARTICULAR TIME HAVING THAT KNOWLEDGE ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT WOULD WE MOVE FORWARD WITH. THIS, SOMETHING ELSE, I THINK THAT IS THE PROPER, THAT IS A BETTER PROCESS FOR HOW WE TAKE A LOOK AT BRINGING ON SOMETHING NEW. THANK YOU. All

180right our superintendent would have some comments, okay Just a little because I appreciate those comments I am looking forward to the board going through the process of prioritizing Because we can do anything you want. We just can't do everything you want I cannot promise that this is going to come to the board anytime soon because we have the Elk cap We have special poor means coming up. We had in the year pieces happening. We have a budget development There's a lot of negotiating, you know, there's a lot of things on our plate right now. And so this will probably come later on unless the board tells me this is a priority over some of the things I just mentioned. All right. Anyone else wrapping up comments? All right. Let's move on. Thank you very much,

181Ms. Carrillo. You're very welcome. Thank you. All right. Moving on to the next item, L4 information, another information item to discuss updating the district strategic plan. Superintendent. This is a request for from trustee Fowler she turned in a yellow sheet to discuss Once one she wished to have a discussion with the board about the idea of having a such a plan and I believe we have One public comment. Thank You miss Bernard Hello, thank you. I wanted to let you know I've been working here for since fall of 2017 I think This was developed in 2015, and tonight is the first time I've seen the strategic plan. And I apologize if that was ignorance on my part, but I didn't know we had one, so I'm glad you're considering revamping it. I did read through

182it and saw that it says that the staff, the district admin, will collect feedback from various groups to identify needs and make changes to systems and services delivered based on that information. I also saw that certificated staff will commit to safeguarding time for collaboration with colleagues. And it made me think of the many conversations I've had at site visits, member surveys, with teachers across our district who will tell you point blank that our PLC process is not working as it is right now. And I want to just be super clear. It's not that they're against it. It's that there's not physically enough time in the day to get to meet with your PLC teams. At the conference that I was very grateful to attend in Palm Springs this past fall, every PLC presenter said that

183if you're not meeting one hour a week with your team, your PLCs are not going to be effective. We're looking at data this week for this week's kids so I can inform myself for next week so that I can improve my strategies. They said that if you're not meeting one hour a week, then it's PLC light, which is not an effective use of the PLC model. So I want to address that when it says you'll collect feedback from various groups to identify these needs. I have heard a lot of district staff come up here and talk to you about PLCs and I've heard very few teachers, unless it's public comment, telling you about PLCs. Talk to the people. The teachers want to do it, but the way that we are doing it right now is

184not working. I also will say that I have heard from other districts because I'm lucky to meet with other unions, and I know that winters, every other Friday, they have an early release day. They're a smaller district, so it's different, but every other Friday they release two hours early, and they work two hours with their PLC teams, which is a really effective way to look at data actively and actually inform our instruction. Other districts have done an hour late start once a week to be able to meet. the morning when your brains are fresh and the coffee is hot and so I do think that there are creative solutions to put time into the day so we can actually meet with our teams and later I'll share an example of what PLC at Douglas looks

185like at our science team because we really are committed to doing some of these processes even though we don't have the time to do it during the week thank you thank you very much miss Bernard Can I just give a little background about the last strategic plan and then I'll let you, Associate Fowler, share your thoughts on this. So 2015 I think this is your plan was 2015 We went I was here as a director at that time This was a room full of people here from different parts of the community City Council different elected officials classified staff certified certificated staff the district district staff. We have some parents It was a cross section of the community And there was a process we had a consultant And we went through several days meeting not not

186back-to-back But there were several days meeting to come up with a strategic plan. There was a lot of discussion AGREEMENTS, WE DID ACTIVITIES, AND DURING THAT PROCESS WE CAME UP WITH OUR CURRENT MISSION STATEMENT. AND FROM THAT PROCESS, THE L CAP WAS DEVELOPED, OUR CURRENT L CAP. AND SO THAT IS HOW, FROM THAT, IT WENT TO THE L CAP, AND SINCE THEN, THE L CAP HAS KIND OF BEEN OUR GUIDE FROM THE HISTORY, JUST GIVING YOU A LITTLE HISTORY OF WHERE THAT. How that one will develop and what it evolved into and since then we haven't visited back that first process But we've been using the LCAP as a continuation THAT WAS DEVELOPED IN 2015. AND THEN JUST TO RESPOND TO SOME OF THE COMMENTS THAT BECCA MADE, SHE'S ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. TIME IS A FACTOR

187FOR PLC'S. AND SO, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE SOME LIMITATIONS AND IF WE CAN COME UP WITH SOME IDEAS. TO INCREASE TIME OR FIT IN TIME OR WE WOULD HAVE TO COLLABORATE WITH OUR UNIONS ABOUT THAT. THAT'S SOMETHING WE WOULD HAVE TO NEGOTIATE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. TRUSTEE RICHARDSON-FOWLER, WOULD YOU LIKE TO PRESENT YOUR ITEM? OKAY. I don't know which one to put up. Do you want it up on the screen? You can just ask Tina. Tina, can you put up the one about strategic plan purpose? Let me see what that attachment is. It's not the chart and it's not our strategic plan. I can't see it. I think it's the second one right under right there. I think it's that one. Okay. I guess that didn't translate well. I come from a non-profit background and

188Strategic plans are our guiding documents to determine how and our next steps and what we need to do. Strategic plans are living documents and need to be visited every year to to hold fidelity to actually hold weight. Major difference between a strategic plan LCAP school site plans school site plans are one year. El Cap is three years. Strategic plan should at minimum be five years. plus visited every year, updated and whatnot. One of the things that is a key component to having a strategic plan is doing a SWOT analysis, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. It's where you can look at what's working, what's not working, how can we make it better in a way that we don't do with the LCAP or site plans. It engages members of the community in a way that it

189doesn't with site plans or LCAPs. I think with, to piggyback off of what Trustee Rodriguez had said earlier, it's the way that we move our district forward with thought and intention in different aspects, like looking at where our enrichment programs are, what the kids want, how we can get there. And it is... growth mindset in my opinion where do we want to be in backwards mapping and Making sure okay. Well, this is where we want it to be. Are we there yet? Are we on track? What's what's What's the threat what's preventing us from getting to where we need to be? Hopefully you guys had an opportunity to look at some of the other school districts strategic plans and get a couple of ideas of What I'm talking about I'll just leave it at that.

190This is not the first time I've asked for a strategic plan. Thank you very much. So just to clarify, Trustee Richardson-Fowler, before we begin the questions and comments, can you just clearly state what your ask is this evening? This is an informational item, but if you wanted to make it actionable, what would be your ask this evening? My ask would be, I would like for us to... undertake the process of doing a strategic plan and all that entails. Thank you very much. All right. Who has any questions or comments? We'll start with Trustee Villagrana. Thank you for your patience. My first question is, does the strategic plan drive the LCAP or does the LCAP drive the strategic plan? Since the strategic plan is longer. I would say that that would drive the LCAP And give

191us opportunities of what to work for long term So if we're looking at our strategic if we're looking at for example enrichment programs It would give us a period of time to look at in enrichment programs that we can eventually implement into our LCAP It gives us a springboard of what do we want to do? long-term in the eventual, not in the immediacy of the next three years. I think we can all agree that successful companies and districts are really looking long-term, kind of like our graduate profile. We're not looking at how can we get our students where they need to be in the next four years. We're looking at how can Woodland Joint Unified continue this trajectory in the long-term. And I think the strategic plan is that vehicle. So after we write. If

192we did a strategic plan, we would rewrite the LCAP. If we did the strategic plan, we would have components in that plan that we can implement in our LCAP. So we would rewrite the LCAP then? No, I'm not saying we would rewrite the LCAP. I'm saying that the next time we revisit our LCAP, we would take components of that and put it into it. Since it's a living document, it keeps... Two questions. Thank you, Trustee Villagrana. Trustee Rodriguez-Mohica. Piggybacking on that one first It is possible for us to rewrite the LCAP if we decide through the strategic plan right that we could go in a different direction So it does allow us that opening but it's not required. Mm-hmm I have a timeline and kind of process in my mind about the strategic plan. I

193also appreciate you bringing this forward and completely understand everything you said about the purpose and how helpful it could be. And my first question is, I know you shared superintendent of the process for the previous plan, right? And we can definitely, I know we can look into doing something like that or we can move forward with a different process. So I'd like to hear thoughts about what that process might look like, if it has different forms, especially thinking about the budget in mind, right? Something that's gonna be useful, informative, a living document, but also I'm concerned about spending right now, right? So I don't know if you have any thoughts and Superintendent too, if you have any thoughts on that. I just wanna share that. THE PLAN WAS COUPLE SUPERINTENDENTS PRIOR SO IT'S GONE THROUGH

194DIFFERENT LEADERSHIP AND I THINK THAT'S WHY PEOPLE HAVE FORGOTTEN ABOUT IT. THERE'S ALSO LIMITATIONS BACK IN 2015 REGARDING HOW, YOU KNOW, AS YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE OTHER ONES FROM OTHER DISTRICTS ARE REALLY GRAPHICS AND DIFFERENT THINGS. SO THERE'S BEEN DIFFERENT TOOLS AVAILABLE NOW. IF WE WANT TO DO IT WELL, WE HAVE TO REALLY PUT SOME TIME INTO IT. WE'LL DO WHATEVER THE BOARD DIRECTS. I JUST WANT TO REMIND THE BOARD THAT WE HAVE SOME VERY CRITICAL THINGS RIGHT NOW, LIKE THE BOUNDARY STUDY, WHERE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO HAVE A LOT OF COMMUNITY INPUT ON THE BOUNDARY STUDY. THAT'S GOING TO BE A VERY CRITICAL, HEFTY LIFT FOR US. I ALSO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THE BOARD TO CONTINUE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT WHAT YOUR PRIORITIES ARE. So that to help guide this to give

195to help me give direction on some guidance on this and so that I think there's a lot to consider But if the board wants me to go back and consider well what if we did move forward with a strict plan What would this what would the process be? I can't answer that question I would have to discuss other board member with other districts look at different consultants. What would the process be? And then consider what process would be the best fit for us depending on when you want it if you want it immediately Yeah, I have to consider that we have a you know, the food food service review for our THAT WAS APPROVED BY THE BOARD AND WE ARE IN THE PROCESS AS WELL. WE ALSO HAVE A SPECIAL ED REVIEW. WE ARE NOT

196DONE WITH OUR LITERACY PLAN. SO AGAIN, WE CAN DO ANYTHING YOU WANT. WE JUST CAN'T DO EVERYTHING YOU WANT NOT AT ONE TIME. SO JUST TO KEEP THAT IN MIND, SO IF THE BOARD DIRECTS ME, I CAN ALWAYS SHIFT, BUT SOMETHING HAS TO GET OFF MY STAFF'S PLATE IN ORDER TO FOCUS ON THIS IF WE WANT TO DO IT RIGHT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SUPERINTENDENT. TRUSTEE RODRIGUEZ-MOJICA. I wanted to ask Trustee Richardson-Fowler if you had any thoughts on the process yourself or I don't know if you had anything to add on that. Well, I think some of the stuff that we are doing overlaps with what the strategic plan is. I think the big heavy weight, in all honesty, we could... Walk and chew gum at the same time we can get the boundary study

197information in my opinion. I'm not admin by any stretch of the imagination But in my parents mind if I'm already going to be there talking about X Y & Z Why don't you just add on one two three? I'm already here. Don't call me back That sort of a thing maximizing our our time if we're already doing an Iniver. I think the big lift comes when we're talking to district departments and district members of our district, employees of our district, and we're doing the big lift of the SWOT analysis. I think getting the community input is the easy. I think doing the analysis is gonna be the heavy lifting, but that's also where the meat and potatoes come in. That's where we really get our insight and our perspective. I see that this one from

198the 15th, 2015 was a good start, but if we're not revisiting it every year, it's not a valid strategic plan. I think there is something solid in looking at where our threats are. I mean, if we had been looking at our threats, we would have been prepared for some of the stuff that's coming down the pipeline right now. So that's that's my endeavor. I know that sometimes we put forth ideas and initiatives during our meetings. We say that's a great idea. And then unless some of us are either reading our notes fastidiously or watching the videos it doesn't come to fruition. I remember having a conversation with one of the trustees and we were talking about the state of the district. And didn't we talk about having a state of a district event where. Superintendent

199can talk about the direction and where we're going and those sorts of things. We all remember echoes of that, but not when it happened or those sorts of things. So the strategic plan, I think, is driven by us. So a lot of it we can duplicate do while we're doing other things. But the heavy lift, I think, is where the people come in to do the analysis when we do our SWOT. Thank you. Thank you. That's it for me for now. Thank you. Thank you trustee Rodriguez-Molica Going down trustee Richardson Fowler trustee Garcia. Yes, I I think This strategic plan for me is like a master plan when we integrated like a graduate profile and LCAP everything in there so that's Kinda I mean, yes, for the most part, but I think the process by

200which we do it is substantially different. Yes. I think that it is the all-encompassing document of all of that, because right now we've got the LCAP, we've got the site plan, we've got the graduate profile, and they're all... But if we have our strategic plan and put everything together and then talk about where we're going to go from there, that's what I see as the strategic plan. So I have a question. Kim, I think this can be a good discussion for one of our retreats to talk about. And, yeah, I agree with that. Superintendent we say we need to prioritize it. We're gonna prioritize this. Yeah, I can open to do it, but I would like to Discuss mass and our retreat. Yeah, I just want to clarify there's no immediacy to this I'm not

201saying that this needs to happen right now or even this year, but The fact still remains that high achieving and successful companies organizations districts have a vision plan for multiple years and they're not just Running one year after the other year coming up with okay. Let's do this now. Let's do this now. It is very and to be redundant strategic meaningful Intentional that's just the direction. I want to see us go in Thank You trustee Garcia any comments on her points. All right trustee Brubaker so I think this is a really interesting idea. I also hear the superintendent, and we've got a lot on our plate, so I appreciate the there's no immediacy. I can say as a new trustee, like, I was on the LCAP committee last year. I went through that process. I

202don't think I realized until I saw the printout that was, like, two inches thick of, like, how much data we went through and all of that process. And now as a trustee, like, wanting to understand what our goals are, that's a little intimidating to try to, like. reference quickly. So the idea of something that is a lot more digestible and easy to reference, I certainly see a lot of appeal in making my job easier. So I would certainly like to keep this in mind as we can do it. I think maybe talking about it with Francisco, I've always forget his last name, Rodriguez. I don't know how I forget his last name. Dr. Rodriguez would be helpful if that meeting is not already becoming overloaded. But I definitely am supportive of this at some point

203as time allows and capacity. Thank you very much, Trustee Brubaker. Any comments on her point? I will comment. I would be supportive of having the conversation in a special session with Trustee, I'm sorry, Chancellor Rodriguez. in the sense of us looking at all of a list of all the projects that we're working on, right? So that it's a visual and you guys can see it all. And then we bring on the question of feasibility of strategic plan. When you look at all of these right here in a list, where does this fall? And then we kind of maybe have like a one hour working session where we kind of, you know, we look at all of the projects we're working on, the expected, you know, timeline of each of them. And then, and this is

204just me, you know, thinking generally. And then we really talk about, hey, is this really feasible right now or do we need to bring this back in 12 months or 18 months or 24 months? I think that would be workable. I just don't know that. I could be supportive of it right now to say let's bring this back actionable and let's put some money and teeth behind it. I'd rather take more time and really have the discussion with the Chancellor and all of us working through what this looks like when you batch everything that we're working on and our superintendent has an opportunity to... reconnect with her cabinet and really bring back the feasibility marks, right? That's it for me. Trustee Rodriguez? Again, thank you, Trustee Richardson-Fowler for bringing this topic to us. I think

205the large general concept of a strategic plan is appealing. BUT I THINK TRUSTEE VIIGRANA BROUGHT UP A REALLY GOOD POINT OF CONSIDERATION. WOULD THE LCAP DRIVE THE STRATEGIC PLAN OR THE STRATEGIC PLAN DRIVE THE LCAP? I THINK THAT IS A PRETTY BIG QUESTION. BUT WORTHY OF DISCUSSION. and worthy of discussion as President Bautista Zavala has said and Trustee Brubaker probably at some sort of retreat like setting. And you did too? Did you say, I'm sorry, I can't keep on. Probably all you said. That's a really good idea. Yeah, sorry, sorry. And so. I am in favor of having this lens somehow, but I think that in many ways the LCAP does serve some of these purposes. Then you take kind of the bigger concept that we haven't had anything updated since 2015. It's probably time

206to re-look at it, but we have to kind of see how it all fits in. Because I see it working as a larger concept, but I also see it working as a smaller concept, as a tool. So, for example, you know, athletics is our biggest probably extracurricular activity that we have with kids. But we've never gotten a report about our athletics. Who are the kids? How are the kids doing? Right. And, you know, maybe something like that could go through a small tool type of master plan. you know, analysis. But in general, I'm in favor of continuing to take a look at this process. I think it'll be really good for us when we get our LCAP updates that we take on in May to, as we take on those monster reports, to actually look

207at it through this lens as well. Where would a strategic plan fit in regards to... what we get through the LCAP, right? So actually just going through the LCAP, especially for our new trustees, I think is... will bring a lot of context to a lot of the things that we're talking about. So waiting until after we go through that process, I think, also would help the analysis. So I'm in favor of continuing the dialogue and doing an analysis and probably at a retreat type of setting or special session type of setting. Thank you very much trustee superintendent has some points. Um, thank you. Thank you. Um, I think We can probably have more discussion and be strategic about it be so to think about the strategic plan The LCAP is a three a three-year document.

208So every three years it gets rewritten there may be little tweaks in between but the major Rewriting of the LCAP is every three years. We're finishing your one of the new plan so One thing we can consider is having it next year sometime or before the before the new one gets written That somehow we build it in schedule it in that this is a timeline when we do it So that helps drive the new el cap in the future in three years. I mean two more years I mean, I think that's something we can talk about during with with DR. RODRIGUEZ TO BE STRATEGIC ABOUT HOW TO DO THE STRATEGIC PLAN. IT'S JUST SOMETHING FOR THE BOARD TO CONSIDER SO THAT IT MAKES SENSE IN OUR CYCLING TO HAVE THAT DISCUSSION WHAT COMES FIRST, THE

209LCAP OR THE STRATEGIC PLAN AND TO KIND OF HAVE THAT DIALOGUE. IF THE STRATEGIC PLAN COMES BEFORE, THEN WE GOT TO BE THINKING ABOUT IN THE NEW ONE THAT'S COMING. BECAUSE THE ONE THAT WE HAVE NOW IS ALREADY WRITTEN. Right or if it's the opposite then that's a different discussion right then we're we already have the LCAP and then the LCAP will drive the strategic plan so that's just something for for consideration about you know which direction how we have we view it so just wanted to add those thoughts. Thank you very much. So do we have the forehands for us to bring this back in a conversation with a special board? Oh, I'm sorry. Thank you very much. I was next. Yeah. Okay. So do we have the hands? I'm happy to continue going

210around and I still will go around after I ask if we have the support because I kind of want to gauge where we are right now. I'm not cutting you off. Do we have the forehands to show that we want to get it to a working session with Chancellor Rodriguez? Okay. All right, so we have four comments on my point sir my question I just want to hear what sure just to be around I had to say sure no problem And I did state that we would go around. I was just taking my turn trustee Villagrana. I Appreciate that I had asked question. I had it made my comments yet So in the future, I would appreciate if I had opportunity to make my comments before we made a decision on what to do but

211To me, and I've been part of nonprofits where I've been part of the development of strategic plans. Strategic plans have goals, right? So we're going to develop goals that might be aligned or contrary to the LCAP goals. Like, who knows, right? Because it's going to be developed in a whole different process. It'll be different people involved in that development of the strategic plan. So it might or might not align, right? And so that's one of my concerns. The other one is, you know, how these strategic plans are very, very long. Anything that's very, very long, people don't read and people don't use, right? As a matter of fact, I'm going to propose that we take some sort of formal action to end the current strategic plan, which to me is not a strategic plan. It's

212a two-page document. That is not a strategic plan. It's a misnomer. That should have never been called a strategic plan. That needs to be taken off our website and we need to agendize it so we can take formal action to to end the life of that piece of document paper that's not a city plan. But to me again as so the reason that nonprofits and all these other companies need to plan because they don't have outcomes. RIGHT. WE HAVE AN LCAP THAT WE TAKE THE TIME TO GET INPUT AND IDENTIFY THE GOALS WHICH ARE, AGAIN, SIMILAR TO THE PLAN AND THEN WE IMPLEMENT OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES AND THEN WE HAVE MEASUREMENTS, RIGHT, TO DO THAT. AND THEN WE TAKE ACTION. I'D RATHER INVEST THE TIME TO DEVELOP EITHER STRATEGIC PLANS OR ACTION PLANS AROUND SPECIAL

213ED, AROUND LITERACY, VERY, VERY FOCALIZED INSTEAD OF THIS BROAD DOCUMENT THAT WE ALREADY HAVE A BROAD DOCUMENT. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE ANOTHER BROAD DOCUMENT. And then I'm just afraid that it's going to end up not really serving this purpose versus being very focalized on whatever the need is in a, you know, say a youth right action plan, a special ed action plan, a action plan, a whatever, you know, enrichment, you know, programming, whatever it is, but more specialized. And I think that would be way more beneficial. Then my last comment is I am. support of a SWOT analysis being done for our district. I don't think we need a strategic plan to be able to do the SWOT analysis. So those are my comments. Thank you very much, Trustee Villagrana. Any comments on his points?

214Trustee Richardson-Fowler. What do we do with the SWOT analysis after doing it if not have a strategic plan? I've been part of groups that have done SWOT analysis and then taken action based on the results of the SWOT analysis. And how is there accountability for that one? Whatever you develop as part of that process. And how frequently are they revisited? Whatever the group agrees to it. Same with our strategic plan, I feel. So if, I mean, I hear you saying that they might not be aligned. But that would defeat the purpose of having a strategic plan. Absolutely. So, I mean, we drive the strategic plan. So if we are getting the input from the same people we're getting the input from the LCAP, I just, I don't see how they would not align. It's based

215on the input that we get from the community, the analysis, the feedback. I just, I don't see the disconnect. Can I respond? Yeah, oh god. Yeah, so it would not be the same people. I mean, I guarantee that there's no way we're gonna have the same people that Help develop the LCAP that would help develop the street plan. It's impossible that would happen So it would be different people different perspective different voices in my head I'm thinking as we're multitasking like I said earlier we can walk and chew gum at the same time when we're doing the boundary studies We can piggyback and get those same questions rather than duplicating efforts So that's what I mean when we're talking I'm talking about we're using the same people just to clarify RESPONSE TO THAT, I'M NOT

216IN FAVOR OF TAKING AN HOUR AND SPLIT IT IN HALF AND THEN DOING HALF FOR BOUNDARIES AND HALF FOR STRATEGIC PLAN OR TWO HOURS AND HALF AND HALF. I WANT TO DEDICATE 100% OF THE TIME TO THE STRATEGIC PLAN IF WE DECIDE TO DO THAT OR TO THE BOUNDARIES. I DO NOT WANT TO SPLIT THE TIME BETWEEN TWO DIFFERENT VERY IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS. Thank you very much trustee Villagrana trusty Bert. I'm sorry trustee Rodriguez Mojica. I have a comment on Yes, so I Really like the what you proposed trustee Villagrana because I like because I remember the master plan for For it was a master plan for Dillard Superintendent English learners English learner. Yes, so Personally, I didn't read all the book, I'm going to tell you. And I like the idea to separate in different

217departments or whatever categories, because for me, the persons who put the input are the expertise. So, and the people who are impacted are being involved in this. And if it's for me, it impacts also on the cost. Because if it's that way, if it's for department or category or whatever, the staff and the community or any people who can put input, we can solve it more easily to do a big master plan. So those are my comments. Thank you, Trustee Garcia. Any further comments on that point? Trustee Rodriguez-Mojica, you have the floor. Feel like we keep talking about what's driving what right if it's the strategic plan driving the LCAP or the LCAP driving the strategic plan and to me it seems like Neither has to do one or the other like I think these

218could they could be very well aligned. And if one shifts, the other one could shift. And I don't see that shift being really big. So I guess I see them, I feel like it's helpful to think of it that way, right? Where they talk with each other, they're communicating with each other, they're weaving in and out, instead of thinking about one driving the other, because I feel like that. It just creates things messy, at least for me in my head. It's less important than having two documents that are communicating with each other. They shouldn't be completely different, but they are driving the work that we do. I think the piece I appreciate about the strategic plan is that we can revisit it. It doesn't have to be in five years. We can revisit it in

219six months if we want to, right? But having like a clear goal and... I also like that it's just the infographic going out to what we've been talking about, right? Like these long documents, it's just too much for folks to read. And I think for us to be able to capture easily. So I really appreciate the infographic format and even something as simple as like taking the LCAP and creating that into something more than what we have. This as an infographic right and breaking in some of what some of that detail that's in that longer document could be helpful So that's just my comment and just maybe thinking about this about these two documents Speaking to each other and not one driving the other but really kind of walking alongside each other They're both holding

220on to the wheel is what I'm trying to say So that's it for me Thank you very much any comments on her points trustee Richardson Fowler I just wanted to share that part of the reason I brought this back as and I can't remember superintendent if you did the SWAT while you were the superintendent or when you were the associate superintendent. I was asked to do it as interim so that the board can have an understanding of what what what was the current status before you hired your superintendent. OK. And. Based on the feedback that we got from the teams that participated in that, I was buoyed to bring this back eventually. Now, there was no formal document that came from that SWAT that was done. But it was a great exercise and an eye

221opener and I just think that we should put that into play on a regular basis be that annually or biannually whichever. But if I can belabor a point I think the big poor big part about the strategic plan that. I'm interested in is the vision planning is the planning for multiple years out so that we have a direction that we're going that's written down and articulated. And while the strategic plan is another weighty document I do believe that it needs to be condensed in a digestible format of an infographic like what. The superintendent included with our board packet the two page document is a great way to get people on board to see yes this is what we are working towards and if you want to know how we got there and why there's a

222bigger document that you can digest if you really want to sink your teeth into. So I'll just end that right there. Since we already have direction. I want to repeat that direction. So I had asked for her forehands to bring this discussion about the strategic plan and seeing how we can fit it into the list of projects that we're currently working on. So we would come with Chancellor Francisco Rodriguez, and then we'd see everything that we were working on, and then you would have an opportunity to be able to, you know, really... chime in and give us a little more information about like where we are with all the projects and then we could have a discussion as to whether it's really feasible to do a district strategic plan when we have you know the

223list of items in front of us as a visual and then if we were to you know consider it where could we Where could we put it in? Where could we fit it in? And then we could decide, all right, if it is feasible, when would it be feasible for us to have this conversation and we can bring it back to the agenda as an action item for us to actually take a vote. So we're not taking action today, obviously, because it's an informational item, but rather having... The conversation with Chancellor Francisco in a working session to see if this is actually something we want to do and bring it back as an actionable item as it fits in a list of all the things that we're working on. Do I still have those four

224hands? All right. I have the four hands. Thank you very much. Go ahead, Superintendent. No? All right. Anybody else? Trustee Villagrana. So is there support to bring back the current two-page document so we can end it? So if you raise your hand and then agenda planning can and I would ask the superintendent to repeat that again. I'm sorry I didn't catch it. Our current document the two-pager the strategic plan on it we're going to bring it back. Okay. To end it and if you could ask the council if we can just put on the consent agenda. and take action that way or does it have to be an actual item? All right. And then I would ask that that be agendized at the discretion of the superintendent. I said agenda planning, but sure. Okay. Discretion

225of the superintendent. She's part of the agenda planning. All right. Agenda planning. Discretion of the agenda planning. All right. Trustee Rodriguez. I THINK I JUST MENTIONED THIS, I JUST WANT TO REPEAT IT, THAT I THINK A GOOD LENS, A GOOD EXERCISE IS AS WE GO THROUGH OUR LCAP UPDATES, KEEP THIS IN MIND, TAKE A LOOK AT THIS PROCESS AND THINK ABOUT HOW IT WOULD FIT. or how we would enhance but go through the LCAP first with that lands and take really great notes so we can come back and have further discussion. Go ahead, Superintendent. And I'm looking forward to that meeting with Francisco Rodriguez because I think one of the things that I would like to have discussion with the board about what is going to get us to what process, what work, what Plan

226it's going to help us get move forward right is is it what's going to help us? meet our What process and what document or guide do we need to? for us to focus on to help outcomes because you know We start doing all kinds of forms and documents and different plans We are sometimes we spread ourselves too thin and our teachers are working as hard as they can everyone else's and sometimes We have so much going on and we can't do anything. Well, so there's something to consider as we discuss What what is it going to help what what's going to help us get there and it may be the plan? To help put it all together. You know, I don't know but it's just something a question that I have Thank you very much

227superintendent. All right any more questions or comments this evening? All right. Is everybody okay and comfortable if we move on to the next item? Thank you very much. All right moving on it is 10 minutes to 10 p.m. And we have We have one two, three four plus public comment We don't We don't have to end it to 11 so we don't need to extend time. So just a heads up. It's 10 to 10. Okay All right, item L5, information review quarterly report on Williams uniform complaints. It is a written report. Any questions? No questions, moving on. Item M, facilities and finance. M1, action item, this is resolution 75-25, resolution authorizing the issuance and sale of general obligation bonds from the 2020 election series B in the aggregate principal amount of not to exceed $26,205,000

228under measure Y, improving related bond purchase agreement, preliminary official statement, and other financing documents and approving official actions. Sir. I think I was supposed to read that whole thing. I'm glad you did. Thank you. Just simply, we're seeking the board's authorization to issue the remaining bonds and measure why. And we want to work closely with our friends from Del Scott and Associates. I believe Nicole is still here, hopefully, if you have any detailed questions. But essentially, that's what we're doing here. Colleagues, any questions or comments? See you none. Can I get a motion to approve motion to approve second motion to approve made by trustee Rodriguez of item m1 Resolution 75 25 seconded by trustee Richardson Fowler. Am I forgetting something? No Superintendent no, I just want to think Nicole for being here Thank you

229very much. You know this late. I apologize All right. There's an action on the table any questions or comments by the board seeing none all those in favor say aye Aye. Aye. Abstention? Trustee Brubaker. Okay, we can, when she comes back, we can ask her what her vote is. Or you just move without the vote. Yeah, we can move without her. She can add on and she can let Monica know her vote. I don't know about that. All right, so moving on, I'm going to ask the question one more time. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposition? Abstention. Abstention made by Trustee Villagrana. I'll wait for her to get back to her seat, please. No problem. Trustee Brubaker, what is your pleasure for item M1? Yes. All right. So item M1 has been,

230there's no no votes, correct? All right. Item M1 has been taken action to approve resolution 75-25. The motion by Trustee Rodriguez, seconded by Trustee Richardson-Fowler. It's been approved by all members present except for the abstention of Trustee Villagrana. Thank you very much, colleagues. Moving to item M2, informational item on ADA, average daily attendance and enrollment report for 2024-2025 school year. And we do have a public comment on this one. Trustee Becca Bernard. Maybe one day, but not today. Yes, ma'am. Hello again. I want to appreciate the conversation that happened at the last board meeting about enrollment versus ADA and like what the cost effect is on our budget. I didn't know it was about $90 a day. per student who's absent. So I think that's something really valuable that might be shared in staff meetings

231and shared with our community of like the actual cost of lost funding when students aren't in seats. And I wanted to address kind of one of the big findings in research of how to improve student attendance and that's positive relationships with teachers that keep students in school. And we've done a lot of trainings on ACEs, if you don't know what that is, Adverse Childhood Experience Scores. And a lot of our students in Woodland have high ACEs scores because we're exposed to a lot of traumatic experiences, just being that we're in a more impoverished community. And I wanted to give you an example of how having a relationship can improve student attendance. And that's one of my kiddos who is the youngest of five, single mom, dad's incarcerated, failing almost all of his classes. He just

232retook his science test and is passing with a C- in my class. And I make regular phone calls home for positive reasons to check in and say, hey, he wasn't at school today. I just wanted to check in. Is he okay? What's going on? And those relationships and telling him when I see him, I'm so glad you're here today. I'm so glad you're in class. You know, this is important. Your education is important. That brings kids to school. And when we have teachers who are here year after year and build those relationships with our students, it improves our ADA. It improves our funding. And that was one of the only ways that the presenter last week said we could really quickly increase our funding. I also want to address that there's a Venn diagram of

233chronic absenteeism and high ADA, or excuse me, high ACEs scores. We maybe need to be looking at chronic absenteeism now as the new norm because we have so many kids now who are just out and they don't care because they were at home during COVID and they were told that it's okay to not be in school. So how can we look at those ACEs scores and how we can improve? their ADA, their attendance. And let's see, my last notes. Oh, and just reminding us that PLC process and providing interventions during the school day is another way to improve those chronic absentee students because they can't always be there after school. And if they miss a test and we have interventions during the school day, their grades improve, their self-worth increases, and we have, again, more

234funding with ADA. So it is all related, and I just wanted to point that out. Thank you very much. All right. Any questions on this informational item on average daily attendance and enrollment? Trustee Rodriguez, starting with you. It's more like a comment. I just wanted to comment that we are, when you take the total K through 12, we're very close to the state average. So I think that's a positive. I think that's a positive. But when you look at the individual scores, I think there's room for us to think about. trying to focus on certain schools or certain areas to increase. So for example, both our middle schools are at 89% and there's room to move them into the lower 90s, which can make a big difference. And we have several schools that... in the

235lower 90s and in the higher 80s. That is to just say that there's definitely room to focus on some of our schools, on the middle school, and to try and get more ADA for all the good reasons that have been said. But there's clearly an indicator that if we could focus our energy, maybe focus some resources. There's there's definitely a lot of room for improvement. Thank you very much trustee any comments or questions All right moving on we're ready to move on good. Okay Next item is item n1. This is under governance support This is an informational action item on joint facilities advocacy letter of support and this is being presented by our superintendent Okay, sorry, it's getting late So, um at the collaborative for women youth there was a discussion THAT WE HAD ABOUT

236HAVING SOME LEGISLATIVE DAY VISITS FROM OUR LEGISLATORS TO COME VISIT OUR FACILITIES. THERE WAS A DISCUSSION THAT CAME FROM OUR FACILITY TOURS THAT I HAD HERE DURING MEASURE P. SO THE WOULDN'T PRESIDENT, THE WOULDN'T COMMUNITY COLLEGE WHEN I MET WHEN WE BROUGHT THIS IDEA OVER TO THE CW, THE COLLABORATIVE FOR WOULDN'T YOUTH. AFTER THAT DISCUSSION, THERE WAS A There was a committee we were thinking about doing something like that or going to the state capitol to advocate to some advocacy for facilities funding facilities because the time constraints we were not able to Have the invite the legislators to come visit our schools nor visit the Capitol, but we decided it was decided to Have the committee write a letter That we could do a joint letter. So the letter was written I REPORTED BACK AT

237THE LAST COLLABORATIVE FOR WOMEN AND YOUTH THAT WE WERE GOING TO BE BRINGING THE LETTER FORTH FOR THE BOARD'S APPROVAL. AND OUT OF ALL FULL TRANSPARENCY, THE FULL COLLABORATIVE FOR WOMEN AND YOUTH DID NOT REVIEW THE LETTER. SO THERE WAS SOME CONFUSION ABOUT PROCEDURE PROCESS. SO WHAT I DID WAS I CALLED THE WOMEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE PRESIDENT TO CLARIFY WHETHER, YOU KNOW, We were going to sign on to this letter. Who else was on board? So she, the Woodland Community College president does not need to go to a board. So she was good with moving forward with the letter from their part. I also called Superintendent Garth Lewis from the County Office of Education. He's also going to be signing on to the letter. So now there's for sure two entities that are going to be

238signing on to the letter to advocate. for school facility funds. I called also, I had a discussion also with Ken Hyatt. They are not able to bring it to the city council until May 13th, which would be very late for us because we're trying to make an impact for the May revise. But the mayor has agreed to sign the letter on behalf of the city. So he's going to be also joining as well. And I think everyone is on board on the idea of advocating. And so I'm recommending to the board that we also approve this letter, join this joint advocacy, just to make a statement to the legislators that we need the support and for their consideration for additional funding for facilities. And so with that, you have the draft there. If you have

239any questions. Superintendent just to clarify if all the organizations on the coalition sign on This letter will go on to a different paper not our letterhead and the logos would go on there. Yes, I would then notify our one president because she was the One who's going to send it on behalf of all of us to choose his way to see who's going to join her Thank you for clarifying any other questions or comments trustee, Vienna No question just clarifying my my no vote the clever for when youth is composed of elected officials and so to me I would have wanted to hear from the City Council members who are part of the collaborative not not the city manager and from the trustees from the community college as well not not the president. And I

240know that we three did not have a conversation about this. And so just because of that process, there was no process in place for the collaborative itself to approve this letter. That's why I can't support it at this point. But, you know, please feel free to move forward with it. Thank you very much. Trustee Villagrana, any questions or comments? Okay. All right. Motion. Can I get a motion, please? I make a motion to accept the letter. Thank you very much. It's been motioned by Trustee Rodriguez. Second. Seconded by Trustee Brubaker. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any abstentions? No. Okay. So no abstentions, one no vote by Trustee Villagrana, and the Joint Facilities Advocacy Letter of Support has passed by all members present except for the no vote of Trustee Villagrana. Thank you

241very much. colleagues Trustee Brubaker I just want to thank everyone who has worked to getting this letter and to anybody who has signed on this is very needed and I'm grateful to all of the work that's gone behind this Thank you very much. Having participated on the coalition, I want to thank Lisette Navarrete, president of Woodland Community College, for drafting the letter. I did make some minor edits, but this was a letter of urgency, and that's why it rolled out the way it did. But your points were well taken, Trustee Villagrana, and hopefully in the future. the coalition could do the process that you've stated. But I do have to say that I know that President Navarrete, Elodia, Superintendent, sorry, Superintendent, and myself did expedite our participation in trying to get this letter out to

242meet the legislative deadline for the budget process. So we're hoping to still be able to be in time. All right, moving on to the next item. Item O, public comment for items not on the agenda this evening. If you can please read the first three. We have Maria Luis-Solares, Jen Perez, and Renee Vendieta. Good evening President Bautista Zavala, Trustee Superintendent Tegan Lampkin, and members of the community of Woodland. My name is Maria Luisa Lales, and I'm a school counselor at Pioneer High School, and I'm an owner of a house here in Woodland. I'm here because I feel really betrayed by the vote you made to raise the superintendent's salary. You all have heard me advocate for teachers' raise, and I was basically getting the impression that you were holding on to funds for a rainy

243day or an emergency, or that you were holding on to the money to decide on something that mattered more than raising the teacher's salary. Unfortunately, that was far from the truth. You led me to believe that as board members you are here to make sure that our students are given the best education. You all know in order to achieve that you have to have the best teachers. Your vote was the opposite. Your vote has sent a message in recruiting teachers as a Spanish phrase, quieren maestros buenos, bonitos y baratos. However, that is just the opposite of what you vote. now did. Jovote made Woodland Joint Unified School District a district for new teachers to get experience and then leave to another district where they are paid more. Jovote will cost the district more money, but

244most importantly, it will be at the cost of the students' education for having revolving teachers or long-term substitute teachers in the students' education career. Your justification why you voted to increase the superintendent's salary was not well thought out. The comments that were made that night were hurtful to our teachers. The teachers are one of a kind. You will never find anyone like them in the world. They work hard around the clock, week, vacation, and late evenings. with emails, phone calls, lesson plans, overnight trips without any pay. The test scores are up because the teachers are teaching, motivating, and giving the test. It is not anyone from this office, nor because of the board. I have spoken to a number of homeowners of Woodland where they feel that they will no longer or continue or not

245support any future school bonds since poor decisions are being made on where the money is going to. And sadly, I, who own a home here in Woodland, can no longer vouch for the school board. The school bond, since I am myself, feels your vote was a clear indication of not supporting students and lessons to teach. Where did the money come from all of a sudden to support the superintendent's race? In that same board meeting, we honored Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, yet your vote contradicted their philosophy. You know well what they would have not supported your vote because I am confident that they stand with the teachers. Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta stand with the union, especially with the W.A. negotiating team. Your vote to increase the superintendent's salary will now be your legacy of

246school board member. The superintendent's legacy will simply be the highest aid superintendent. Thank you very much. Thank you. All right, the next name, please. Jen Perez. Good evening trustees President Bautista Zavala Superintendent Ortega Lampkin and members of the Woodland community I want to present you with the following update with the WJ on the WJ USD agriculture educators inquiry we first presented to you on December 19th 2024 Concerning our question about WJ USD's mission and vision for AG education on March 26 the pH CHESS and WHS ag teachers met with Ms. Lambie and Ms. Carrillo to hear and discuss our concerns and questions that we previously raised. We were really excited to hear that WJUSD leadership would like to continue having ag programs at both high schools and also encourage these programs to be high quality,

247increase interest, and be sustainable. During this meeting everyone discussed the concerns about sections being lost not due to the interests lack of interest But because they were moved to other departments who needed them to sustain their FTEs despite reducing hours This was a site decision We look forward to increased transparency and communication on decisions that impact our programs and students, as it was also explained that the removal of the agri-science pathway, which included the concentrator course, Ag Chemistry, and our capstone course, Advanced Science for Sustainable Ag, was a district directive in which we, teachers, students, and the community were not included. We hope to discuss the reason why this was decided at a future meeting as there was no time to discuss it during this meeting We are also hopeful about being allowed to rewrite

248our alternative physical science course Ag Earth to receive UCD science credit Many districts already have this class in place and it has already been approved through the UC doorways for these school districts. We will have this course ready for approval for CCAT and the board, hopefully by early summer. It was explained to us by our district leadership that the board does have questions, concerns, and it might be a hard sale. But I'm optimistic that we can collaborate and work to answer any questions and address any concerns that you may have as a board. Lastly, I'm extremely grateful to hear that we are allowed to grow our programs and that the district encourages it, especially given the agriculture area that our district resides in. This is my update for the ag educators in WJUSD. Thank you.

249Thank you very much. Renee, and if Renee's not here, then Annie Burkholder. Good evening. Thank you for your time. I'm Annie Burkholder, and I'm a mom of three kids at SciTech. I am concerned about some of the messaging that is coming from some of our board members regarding expectations. I have heard comments that make me concerned that possibly unconsciously there's some folks that are believing in the idea that our students can't do better and have low expectations. I'm going to tell you, I don't know, I don't want to make assumptions as to what the board members mean when they say this, but I'm just going to let you know how it feels as a community member, an audience member, as a parent. And the reason I felt motivated to come up today because it was

250reiterated again tonight, and that is at least we're average. Being at least average in a failing state is not okay. And again, I'm not going to make assumptions what is really meant by that, but we hear that as that's okay. We have to aim higher. It is not okay. Last month, during the justification of the superintendent's raise, There was mentioned by, I believe it was a number of board members, that part of the justification was that in the past three years, we've increased by 2% in English and 1% in math. I did the math, and by my math, it's 1.6% in English over three years and 0.68% in math. That is not good enough. And I'm not going to argue about whether the superintendent deserved a raise or not, but to use that as a

251justification. That is not even statistically an increase, 0.06% over three years. And I want, this is not the fault of the teachers. The teachers are not resourced enough. But the audience hears that this is good enough. that 2% over three years is good enough, 1% over three years is good enough. And that trickles down to all the rest of us, that this is just the best we can do. And I just think we need to be really, really careful how we talk about this, because we want our children to know that they can do better. We know that people rise to the expectations we place on them. We need to have higher expectations. And so I want the board members to know how it feels for us. When we have these kind of comments, so

252I just really ask you to look inside of yourself and make sure that you are internalizing that all of our students can succeed. Yes, it is incredibly hard, but we have to at least together have that goal. So thank you very much and have a good night. Question before you go. If you can write context just for me, when the average reference, what topic was that related to tonight? This is if it's not on the agenda, correct? These are public comments not on the agenda. You say you mentioned tonight someone said about average. What topic was that on the agenda? Oh I don't just to help me remember when it was comment was We are very close to the state average, which is positive but related to what topic I don't remember was it attendance

253Was it okay? Okay. Thank you. Yeah, I want to know it. Thank you. You're welcome Thank You trustee We are gonna for the clarification next one All right. Next we're completely done. All right that concludes our public comment for items not on the agenda this evening All right, we moving on to item P information request for future agenda items by the board trustee Richardson Fowler, I just wanted to clarify I put in a Yellow sheet to go over our conference attendance Just to clarify it had nothing to do with anything on social media a couple at the beginning of the year I met with trustee Rodriguez and expressed an interest and having people who attend conferences funded by our district come and present to the board or do some sort of paper so that The

254knowledge gained at those conferences don't just stay with the one person, but are shared throughout the district as a resource. And so I just wanted to make that clarification and announcement of what I yellow sheeted. Thank you very much, Trustee Richardson-Fowler. Any other members would like to request future agenda items? Trustee Brubaker. So as I stated earlier the budget workshop Sorry, it's I'm like it. I'm No worries. You do not need to apologize the Budget Committee, you know, I met yesterday and we agreed that I sort of had four things that I had wanted to continue talking about and we collectively decided two of them were not necessarily worthy of bringing back to a future meeting but would like I did yellow sheet one of those. The other one I need clarification on whether I

255should yellow sheet. But one is a list of federal funding sources that are current. That is just so that trustees Have an idea when things are announced of cuts what that what does and does not affect our district I would I know that I myself was bothering our superintendent multiple times when I would see announcements from the federal government to sort of like get my wrapped my head wrapped around about where we might need to potentially fill in and So that is something I've requested to be included in Friday facts Then we agreed to request for future agenda items a section on the reserves a breakdown of specifically what the reserves are made up of at the amounts and what the money is potentially earmarked for and then also SEPARATE ITEM, OTHER FUNDS, SO EXAMPLE,

256FUND 28, FUND, ALL OF THAT, I HEAR YOU, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS, I WANT TO KEEP IT STRAIGHT AND WHAT THOSE AMOUNTS ARE AND WHAT THE PURPOSE OR INTENTION OF THOSE FUNDS ARE. SO THAT IS WHAT I HAVE PUT A YELLOW SHEET IN FOR. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. JUST A CLARIFICATION, THOSE YELLOW SHEETS, WERE THEY DISCUSSED WITH THE BUDGET COMMITTEE? Yes. All right. Thank you very much and then closing comments item Q informational item trustee Rodriguez and then I Just want to clarify that you know My comment I think was referenced just a little while ago in terms of the average ADA Being a a positive point. It's it's one point that is positive in no way. Does that mean that? Being that we don't want to do better than average.

257We certainly do and but it can be one positive point towards progress and in terms of how that might play out in terms of our TEST SCORES OR ACADEMIC SUCCESS. IF YOU THINK THIS BOARD HAS SOMEHOW SETTLED FOR AVERAGE BEING OK, THEY HAVEN'T BEEN WATCHING THESE MEETINGS FOR THE LAST FOUR YEARS. I DON'T THINK ANY BOARD IN RECENT HISTORY HAS PUSHED HARDER TO HAVE OUR TEST SCORES BE PAST AVERAGE TO WORK REALLY HARD ON ACADEMIC SUCCESS AND TO MAKE IT A PRIORITY. And so, you know average can be a positive point on our way to progress and the expectation here Is clearly progress and it will continue to be progress Thank you. Thank you very much trustee Rodriguez and I'm gonna go to the superintendent to piggyback on his points and then I'll come around.

258Okay superintendent I JUST WANT TO JUST PUT IN PERSPECTIVE, THERE WERE SOME COMMENTS MADE TODAY, AND OUR TEACHERS ARE WORKING SO HARD, I DON'T WANT THOSE COMMENTS TO BE DISCOURAGED ABOUT OUR TEST SCORES. BUT TO KEEP IT IN PERSPECTIVE BECAUSE I THINK SOMETIMES SOME INFORMATION IS NOT SAID. SO I'M GOING TO SAY IT. IN THE LAST THREE YEARS, DAVIS WENT DOWN 3%. ESPARTAL MADE ZERO, THIS IS ALL ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS, MADE ZERO. PROGRESS. WASHINGTON WENT DOWN 1%. WINTERS WENT DOWN 4%. WE WENT UP 2%. IT MAY SEEM INSIGNIFICANT IF YOU JUST POINT OUT THAT PIECE, BUT WHEN YOU PUT IT IN PERSPECTIVE OF DOWN THE STREET WHERE WE HAVE HIGH ACHIEVING STUDENTS, I THINK YOU MAY BE BETTER OFF PUTTING YOUR STUDENTS HERE IN OUR DISTRICT BECAUSE WE ARE SHOWING PROGRESS. And so I'm saying

259this because our teachers work really hard and I want to acknowledge them for their hard work and that we're making better progress with the most difficult, challenging population that we have in the county. And despite that, we're making progress than the high achieving district. So you have to look it into perspective and we need to celebrate it. And so. Working to continue to do that. We're going to continue to do the best that we can Keep focusing that not get discouraged and acknowledge that teachers are working really really hard and we are still working We are not saying no one's saying that we're not going to give our teachers a raise I've said this to our Union presidents both that we are going through the bargaining process and we are hoping to make Come to

260a resolution soon on what we can afford to support all our staff. And so I just wanted to make that point because as you saw the other special board meeting on a 1% increase in what that means regarding funding, any increase in student attendance also has an impact on student achievement. And I just wanted to make that statement. Trustee Rodriguez inspired me too. Thank you very much superintendent. Coming around Trustee Villagrana Trustee Rodriguez-Molica Trustee Richardson-Fowler. I just want to thank you guys for entertaining some of the things that I've been bringing forward and engaging in thoughtful meaningful conversation. I also wanted to clarify that when I mentioned I grew up in a blue ribbon affluent school district I am the only child of a single parent who worked damn hard to give me the experiences

261and exposures that she did so i don't want us to shortchange the people of this community who also work damn hard to provide opportunities for their kids as well thank you very much trustee richardson fowler trustee garcia Yes, so first I want to make an observation so we must listen to everyone before we vote any item as trustee Rodríguez say so Today we vote before hearing trustee Villagran. I am sorry for voting too soon trustee Villagran I don't want to be disrespectful disrespectful and About trustee followers say about the the jealousy you're saying about the conference I think as We used to, ELAC and DELAC, the parents who went to CAVE in particular, they used to have a presentation. Remember that? I remember, but we haven't. Yeah. I haven't seen any as a trustee, but

262I remember when we would go to CAVE, we would present back to ELAC or DELAC. Well, I did. So for sure, at Pioneer, they used to do it. So it's the one I attend more often. And regarding about your, say about your... your background as well. I wanna be disrespectful about your background. I wanna say it's not about economic backgrounds, it's about different background for the families, different situations, and that's where my comments. No, it's not particular for your perspective. Thank you very much, Trustee Garcia. Trustee Brubaker, Trustee Rodriguez. Okay, I'm gonna take my turn now, thank you. I'm gonna clarify, item L4 was an informational item to discuss the updating of the district strategic plan. It was non-action, we did not take action. We raised four hands to get it onto a working session

263with President. Chancellor Rodriguez, so we did not take a formal vote. That's one non actionable item I just I stated and you can look at the video I stated I would like to gauge where we are as board president I'm trying to gauge where we are in the conversations. So I was taking my turn and I respectfully said I'm taking my turn. I want to gauge where we are. Do we have four hands? We went around and I allowed for Trustee Villagrana to have your turn and I did apologize formally. from here at the board and then before the item concluded we did do again we did the hand nods again so I just want to clarify that what I asked was more a sense of gauging where we are engaging the interest in the

264direction that we were at that point but not at all do not want my words to be misconstrued because you did state the word disrespectful I was not trying to be disrespectful, sir. So I do apologize in front of my colleagues towards you, Trustee Villagrana, if you felt that it was out of disrespect, because it was not. I was trying to gauge where we were, and we were not taking a formal vote. It was more gauging what direction we were headed. And before that item concluded, we again did the formal hand raising, okay? So I don't want anybody to leave here thinking that I was being disrespectful or... Trying to ignore anyone's opinions on the direction that we were headed So that said any other questions comments trustee Villagrana. Absolutely. Thank you both for clarifying

265I didn't take it disrespectful. It's more again. I wanted the opportunity to state my case before Direction was given even though action was not taken direction was given to the superintendent and I just wanted the opportunity to have my say before Direction was given. That's it. Absolutely. And I just want to restate it was gauging You had an opportunity to state, and then we did it again. We took the hand nods again. I heard that. Thank you so much. Understanding why I wanted to be able to state my case before we have engaged. Absolutely. And I wanted to take my turn. Thank you so much. And I'm glad that we're having this conversation. I think that if we look back at our agreements as stated before, the last one is to assume best intentions. As

266your board president, please know that my best intentions are here. Thank you very much. So with that said, item R, date and time of our next scheduled regular board meeting is on Thursday, May 1st. Closed sessions is at 5 and open session is at 6. That said, we stand adjourned at 10.28 p.m. Good night. Thank you very much to all of our stuff. We're still here. Please drive safe