Board Meeting 4-25-24

001Welcome everyone. We are starting our meeting of, let's say February, April 25th at 5.02. Call them into order, 5.02. I know before we approved the agenda, we had talked about moving, where is it at? N8, where do we want to move it to? 5D. And then we'll present it during community engagement. Is that the case? Oh, got it. So any other changes from trustees? Okay. So with that change is there a motion to approve the agenda? I'll make a motion to approve the agenda Second motion by trust motion by trustee Rodriguez second by trustee Richardson-Fowler all those in favor say aye Any opposition see none approved by all trustees present before we go any comments for closed session BEFORE WE GO TO CLOSED SESSION, I WANT TO LET YOU ALL KNOW THAT TODAY I'M GOING

002TO, MY FATHER DUTIES ARE GOING TO OUT SHADOW OR Eclipse MY TRUSTEE DUTIES. I WILL BE LEAVING DURING CLOSED SESSION. MY SON HAS AN EVENT. I WILL BE BACK AS SOON AS I CAN. IN THE MEANTIME, TRUSTEE BATISTAVALA WILL BE FACILITATING THE MEETING. BUT I WILL BE BACK AS SOON AS I CAN. SO I WILL BE SAID FAMILY, JOB, THANK COMMUNITY. Alright, well Reese's into closed session at 5 o 4 and we'll be back or they will be back as close to 6 as possible Thank you. If I could please get the board members to the front please so we can start this meeting All right. I have a quorum. I have four board members here. I call this meeting to order at 6 20 p.m So we're gonna go ahead and begin with the

003Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. So please bear with me. I'm going to be presiding while our board president is absent, and then he'll return. So if I fumble or I don't do something correctly, I apologize in advance, but I'm going to try my best. We're going to go ahead and continue with our second item, and it's the land acknowledgement. Trustee Fowler, will you please lead us? 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 Patman people. Today, there are three federally recognized Patman tribes. Kachil Dehi Band of Wintu Indians

004of Colusa Indian Community, Ketzel Dehi Wintu Nation, and Yocha Dehi Wintu Nation. The Patwin people have remained committed to the stewardship of this land over many centuries. It has been cherished and protected as elders have instructed the young through generations. We are honored and grateful to be here today on the traditional lands. Dr. Wilson did you provide the document points for trustee? All right I have the items. All right we're moving on to item three. and its announcement of any action taken in closed session. And we did take action. Item D2A, the Board of Trustees took action in closed session by unanimous vote of all trustees present to approve item D2A, expulsion for student 24-04. The next one, the Board of Trustees took action in closed session. There is a public comment for this section.

005All right. Public comment. Gerardo Perez. Thank you very much. Hi. Sorry about my raspy voice. Not sure where to start, but my son got suspended, and then I got called in. He goes to the... Douglas Vice principal said that he was coming on to the amount of days that he would be referred to the board for expulsion and a couple of the Suspensions is this very I disagree with and so when uses they get suspended they get notice that says we can make an appointment with The superintendent and the principal and I requested that two times and never got it before I knew it I was facing My son was facing expulsion or the meeting with the designee student services and she would not listen to What was overlooked basically I was not given or

006afforded what I'm entitled to so I can argue or debate or put in my two cents I'm not sure what what Intel for Maybe going backwards in some of these days But I don't know how much detail to go into right now either because it's a long long story but basically what I want to know is why I was denied these meetings and Why they're okay with it why? Mr. Perez Ricardo's so not sure on about not giving me the meetings My son's days aside just why can't why can't he answer me why? why they weren't given to me so I can talk about these things and He just seems to have this approach where nothing I could have said or done would have changed the outcome Yeah, he said he was unfamiliar with the

007case when I first talked to him I go how come you're not in the middle. How come you're not not neutral? I can you're to any side more than the other it couldn't even answer that one of the suspensions just so you know it's a they two of the kids two students plugged the bathroom in the um uh come in the office and nobody fest to it and so instead of going through due process and figuring out who did it they just punished basically both so somebody got punished without um you know having having done anything so they're taking these kind of shortcuts and this is just a real light glimpse of what's going on and like Basically just there they're taking an approach where they don't care and I understand I don't condone some

008of the behavior of My son, but I don't think he deserves where he's at right now they skip these steps and they they threw us here and They won't go backwards and and fix what they they won't own their problem there. Um their mistakes. They won't fix them Thank you. For item D2A, the Board of Trustees took action in closed session by unanimous vote of all trustees present to approve item D2A, expulsion for student 24-5. Moving on to public comment for sections G, consent agenda, and H, community engagement. No public comments. We'll go ahead and move on to item G, consent agenda. Any questions or comments on consent agenda? Would anybody like to motion to approve? So move. It's been motioned by Trustee Fowler. Can I get a second? Seconded by Trustee Garcia. All those

009in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Abstentions? All right, motion passes. Consent agenda has been approved. Can I make a comment? Sure. I just want to point out that in consent we moved an item for approved resolution 5124, school lunch hero day. And I just wanted to make a comment that that was something that our director of nutrition services, Spencer, was... ASKED TO HAVE THE BOARD APPROVE TONIGHT. SO THANK YOU FOR DOING THAT. HE'S GOING TO BE CELEBRATING ALONG WITH ME. I'M NOT SURE WHAT WE'RE DOING. I'M SURE I'M GOING TO GET ON THE VAN AND DRIVE AROUND ALL OVER RECOGNIZING OUR LUNCH, ALL OUR NUTRITION SERVICES STAFF. SO I JUST WANT TO THANK SPENCER FOR MOVING THAT RESOLUTION FORWARD AND FOR THE BOARD APPROVING THAT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ALL RIGHT. That said, we're

010moving on to item H, community engagement, and we're going to go ahead and start with the presentation of resolution 42-24, adult education week. Trustee Garcia? I would ask to the students, Maria del Carmen Bellone, Juan Franco, Miguel Angel Garcia Cruz, Mirna Gutierrez, Lorena Martinez, and Cristal Ochoa, if they're here. Karen, come on up too. Hola. So I want to tell you about this is very special for me because at one time I was a student from the school. So and I want to say congratulations. Everything is possible. So I was there at one time and now I'm here as a board member. Congratulations. And I know how important is this kind of education. So if you want to say something, can you say something? Can you repeat it in Spanish, Liliada? Trustee Garcia did they

011attain their GED. Oh why don't you come up to the mics of the public and hear you. Currently taking English and. Hi, good afternoon. Thank you for inviting me. I am taking a class on English, English as a second language. Thank you. Crystal's also doing diploma. Myra. Myra's almost finished. She will graduate. I need two more credits to graduate. She'll graduate this year. Hello. Yeah, so I'm doing physical science, I think, and I just need two more credits. Congratulations. Thank you. And you? What is the answer? Thank you so much. Karen, do you want to say something? Sure. I would just like to say thank you to the board for presenting this resolution. And I'm so proud of our students that kind of stepped outside of their comfort zone to come and accept this resolution.

012Trustee, thank you for presenting to us. Adult education, as you all know, is just an amazing place. I am so blessed to work there. And it is because of wonderful students like this. We truly are changing lives. And we do appreciate the acknowledgement and the recognition and the resolution that you're presenting. Thank you. Thank you. While they're taking posing to take a picture, I just want to thank all our our adult education staff for everything they do to support our our adult education students and also share that adult educate we're never matter whatever age you are you were always learners and They're great role models for our community for their for their children for their nephews nieces That is never too late We were always willing to learn. I just took a class myself. And

013so as human beings, we need to continue learning and growing. And they're an example of that. So thank you so much to the adult education program and also to our adult students who are here tonight. Thank you very much. We're going to go ahead and move on to item H2. We're going to present the resolution 43-24, district support of Dia de los Niños, celebrating young Americans event. taking place on Friday, April 26, 2024, and we'll have Trustee Rodriguez present this. Yes, I'm going to present this to Sandra. Rodriguez, Sandra, if you could join me up at the podium. So President Villagrana was initially going to present this to you, but he's not able to be here at the moment, so I'm going to take his place. And he's asked me to read some words that

014he wrote down for you. So I'm going to read it as if I was him, so we'll use our imagination. And after, I will read the resolution and present it to you, and if you'd like to say a few words about Dia de los Niños, okay? Great. All right. So President Villagrana writes, I have known Sandra since she was a niña, that's his words, niña at Beamer Elementary School. She was part of the ballet folklorico for many years. When I was with the Yolo County Board of Supervisors, she was our first office intern. I have seen her grow and develop over the years. She now holds a leadership role with the Yolo County Administrative Office. She is a great example of when we as a community invest in our youth and nurture them, they blossom.

015Sandra was on the original Dia de los Niños planning committee in 2004, back when President Villagrana was on it, and she's been part of it since. And it is an honor to present this resolution to her today. And I'll read a little bit of the resolution. Whereas many nations throughout the world, and especially within the Western Hemisphere, celebrate Dia de los Niños on the 30th of April in recognition and celebration of their country's future, their children. And whereas children are the center of families and represent the hopes and dreams of the people of the state of California. And whereas children should be nurtured and invested in to preserve and enhance economic prosperity, democracy, and social responsibility. And whereas the primary teachers of the importance of literacy and education, family values, morality and culture are parents

016and family members, and we rely on children to pass on the importance of literacy and education, family values, morals and the culture of future generations. Let it now be resolved that the Board of Trustees of the Woodland Unified School District adopted this resolution on April 25th, 2024 in support of Dia de los Niños, celebrating young Americans event in Woodland, California. And I want to present this resolution to you, Sandra. Congratulations. Thank you so much. We are super excited. It's our 20th anniversary. I want to thank you, Trustee Rodriguez. Special thanks to President Villagrana. He is correct. He was... one of our founders and so DIA exists because of the hard work and dedication of President Villagran as well. I would like to also present my fellow committee members. I have our chair, Ana Vasquez, and

017committee member David Moreno. If you want to say a few words. Hi everyone, my name is Anna. I've been on the committee for about eight years now. We're really excited that this is our 20th anniversary. We would like to extend an invitation to all the board members to come and hand out books to the kids. It's this Friday, so tomorrow, 3 to 6 p.m. The community is also... Welcome to join us. There's going to be entertainment, mariachi, ballet folklorico, Aztec dancers. There's going to be a lot of participants from Yolo County providing services to parents and kids. And we're really excited to have our 20th anniversary. So thanks so much. Thank You trustees and just to add on to what my fellow committee members have said here We just want to say that we hope

018that y'all can join us for a day at the park You know some of y'all have already participated years before and it's gonna continue We're gonna continue to do the good work. And so thank you for the resolution today Thank you very much. I just want to share that Sandra and I went to beamer at the same time and I'm very very excited for you You are a great example. Thank you very much. Thank you We're going to go ahead and move on to item three while they take some photos. And we're going to recognize the gifts that were given to the district. I'm going to read off the list. Douglas Middle School received a donation of $2,500 from Iron Mountain Films. Pioneer High School received a $100 donation from Bob Schneider. And that was

019a monetary donation that's going towards their rock climbing club. Pioneer High School received a donation from the Yolo County Fair Heritage Foundation for $350. And that's a donation that's going to go towards their ASB art class. Pioneer High School received a donation from the Davis Senior Center watercolor class. I believe it's an individual by the name of Irene Osuga. and that money is going to go towards their ASB art class as well. Pioneer High School received a donation from Sean Goldston for $75, and that's a donation that's going to go towards their ASB girls basketball. Pioneer High School, again, received a donation from Cristina Gonzalez, DJ La Leona, for $1,702, and that's a monetary donation going towards their ASB Breaking Barriers group. Cafe program received a donation from Dutch brothers for $1,000 value and that's

020$20 $50 gift cards to be used towards our woodland joint Unified School District newcomer student event So be on the lookout for that Pioneer high school received a donation from greater horizons John and Eunice Davidson fund for $10,000 and that's a donation that's going towards their ASB Boys and Girls Golf. So thank you very much. This total report of donations received was over $16,000. So I just wanted to give a round of applause because this is a significant list, thank you. We're gonna move on to student reports. And we're gonna start with, let's see. Let's start with our Cache Creek High School student Jaden Gortatis. Did I say it correctly? Yes. Thank you. There you go. Good evening, President Villagrana. Well, he's not here, I think so. Board of Trustees and Superintendent Ortega-Lambkin and community.

021My name is Jaren Cortades and I am representing Cache Creek High School. My report tonight is the following. We now have had 53 graduates so far this year with students finishing daily. Lambeth graders completed the statewide Smarter Balanced in Science assignments and we have met our completion goal. The past three weeks have current seniors and graduates have been working with Woodland Community College to complete their college applications to begin this fall. Woodland Community College in addition to the district staff presented information and began recruitment for next year's brand new early childhood education career technical education pathway at Cache Creek High School. This will be the first dual-enrollment opportunity for our students who can earn college credits while still in high school. Last weekend, pretty cool, huh? Last weekend, Brown issue students have had the opportunity

022to check out UC Berkeley as well as the historic Balmy Alley murals in Mission District of San Francisco. We also met Montarosa sisters, community leaders in the Mission District who have fought tirelessly to bring justice to their brother, seeing Montarosa, who was killed by Vallejo PD back in 2020. I personally learned a lot of Chicano history in the Mission. and the current justification in the area. We will be taking a field trip next week to the Oakland Museum to check out the art of Montoya, co-founder of Tanar here in Woodland. There are some pieces up in the exhibit that were made at the nod by Cash Creek students I wanted to thank you for those who were able to attend our opening for the brown issues reimagining art show And I also wanted to invite

023you all to join us at our closing event made 11th from 12 to 4 p.m We'll have even more vendors performances law writers at this event. Hope to see you there. Thank you, and this concludes my report Thank you very much And I'm going to call up Liliana Sepulveda from Pioneer High School. Good evening, trustees, Superintendent Ortega-Lampkin, Executive Cabinet, and our community. My name is Liliana Sepulveda, and I represent Pioneer High School. My report tonight is the following. This Friday, our Pioneer Mecha Club and Spanish Club will be hosting a violin in honor of Maestra Zamudio taking place from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the PHS cafeteria. There will be a live banda, a photo booth, las brasas, and chips and drinks sold by Spanish Club. Online tickets cost $20 and at the door

024cost $25. Coming up is our annual senior event, Ode to Places, on May 24th, where we showcase all of our seniors and the colleges they have committed to. As more and more seniors commit to a college and submit a form, ASB students have been all hands on deck with designing college posters for these students to take pictures with on the day of the event. On Monday, April 29th, Pioneer High will be honoring graduating seniors who earned their seal of biliteracy with an awards ceremony at Woodland High Stadium at 6 p.m. Each student will receive a graduation sash, a medal, and a certificate. Last weekend on April 20th, the Class of 2024 hosted their last seasonal flea market to raise funds for prom. We had over 20 vendors come and sell their products on our basketball

025courts. As a result, the Class of 2024 successfully raised $500 while having the opportunity of giving back to our small business community. Pioneer High's joint junior and senior prom is coming up on May 18th from 7.30 p.m. to 11 p.m. This year's theme is Fabulous 50s and will take place at the California Automobile Museum in Sacramento. There will be music, food trucks, and even cars displays for our students. Tickets to attend are $30. And that concludes my report. Thank you. Thank you very much, Liliana. Last but not least, we have Mahad Naeem from Woodland High School. Good evening, but our president would like it on them and like Jaden said he's not here today So and also the trustees as a written or take a lamp cane and our executive cabinet as well as our

026community members My name is Mahat and I'll be representing well then high school today. My report is as follows Well in high school spring sports are coming to a wrap with golf senior night being this past Monday and also men volleyball game being yesterday I would like to thank everyone who showed up yesterday as we had a crowd running at woodland high school white ball game and usually we don't get that so thank you for people who showed up and supporting our volleyball men's volleyball team and woodland high school also has their elections next week and candidates will get to advertise up till friday as friday is when voting will be held uh well then high school link you celebrated uh student heroes event today where staff of woodland high school nominated students and they

027not only received an award but also pizza party so they were They were happy today, I will say. The news has spread as Elsa is coming to Woodland High School as our students present Disney Frozen Junior. As seats are limited, buy your tickets on GoFans, available right now. $12 for adults, $7 for children and students. And personally, it is worth it. I watched it. It is worth every penny. Honestly, it's worth more than they're asking for, so please go out there and support our students as they're really talented. And again... We have the event this Friday from 7 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. Same goes for Saturday. And on Sunday, we have it from 2 p.m. to 3.30 p.m. So please go on GoFundMe and buy your tickets now and support our Woodland High School students.

028They're really good, by the way. They're really amazing. And Woodland High School will be also hosting a rally at Lee Middle School to show them how the OGs run their rallies, to show them how Woodland High School runs their rallies every year. Wolden High School Reclassification, CU, and Pathway Celebration will be happening on Monday, April 29th from 6 to 7 p.m. at Wolden High School Stadium. So please come out there and support our students for their CELA by Literacy, their award, the hard work they have done throughout the year. And yeah, and again, to end my speech, I would like to give a shout out to not anyone, but also to trustees, you guys. Thank you for being out there supporting us, supporting our events throughout the high schools. I know it's hard for you

029guys to make some decisions throughout the year, but again, it's really dependent on us. So thank you very much for being out there for us. And that concludes my speech. Thank you very much. I just want to say to our high school student representatives, you're doing an excellent job. Your reports are amazing. It definitely gives us a glimpse of what you guys are working on. But most importantly, I want to shed light that you guys are putting a lot of work into your reports, and it definitely does show. So thank you for your commitment to your role, and go forward. Thank you. Moving on to item J, public comment to the board. Who would like to go first? We have Chris Fanning. And then Mike Vard. Good evening, fellow parents and community members. As a

030parent, I stand before you today with a deep sense of love and responsibility for our children. Our role as parents is not just to provide for their physical needs, but to nurture their minds, hearts, and souls. It is our sacred duty to protect them and harm them. are from harm and to ensure that they are given the tools that they need to grow into healthy, well-adjusted individuals. Education is the foundation upon which our children's futures are built. It is the classroom and the school library that they learn, explore, and develop their understanding of the world around them. It is our responsibility as parents to ensure that the educational materials available to our children are not only academically rigorous, but they are morally and ethically sound. Pornographic material or sexualized content has no place in our

031children's school. It is a corrosive influence that can have devastating effects on their emotional, psychological, and social development. Exposure to such content can lead to a distorted view of healthy relationships, a skewed understanding of sexuality, and a desensitization to the inherent dignity and worth of the human person. When our children are exposed to pornographic material, they are robbed of their innocence and their ability to navigate the complexities of the world in a healthy, age-appropriate manner. They may develop unrealistic expectations about intimacy, body image, and the nature of human relationships. This can lead to a host of problems, including anxiety, depression, and even the perpetuation of unhealthy or abusive behaviors. Viewing pornographic material before a child is developmentally ready, that is not developmentally ready, can disrupt their natural sexual development and lead to an unhealthy understanding

032of sexuality, consent, and healthy relationship. Children who are exposed to pornography at a young age may be more vulnerable to sexual exploitation as they may be more easily manipulated and groomed by predators. Early exposure to pornography has been linked to increased sexual activity, risky behaviors, and sexually aggressive behaviors in children and adolescents. This can include acts of violence and abuse perpetuated by minors. Next comment. Mike Vard. Can you please call the next name so they'll be prepared? Thank you, Monica. The next one is Echo Camacho. The next speaker can start getting in line to speak so we can have enough time for everyone. Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and finish where Chris left off. Evidence shows that early exposure to pornographic material can have significant detrimental impacts on a child's psychological behavior and sexual

033development, as well as increase their vulnerability to... exposure to abuse. Protecting children from such harmful content is crucial for their health, development, and well-being. Genderqueer and at last count 79 other books just like it. have been banned or removed from school libraries in several districts across the United States, including Florida, South Carolina, Alaska, and Pennsylvania, Virginia, and even neighborhoods in districts such as Rockland Unified School District have also banned these books. and kept them away from our children. The Central Bucks School District decided to remove these books also after reviewing comments determined they can contain sexual content that was deemed inappropriate for students. The Rappering School, Central School also... multiple took multiple books out of its school libraries after the district superintendent determined the content was sexually explicit as a parent a community member and

034a passionate advocate for the well-being of our children I call upon all of us to take a stand against this sickness pornographic material that's in our school systems It sends dangerous message to our children. It tells them such content is acceptable, even normalized, with the very institutions that are meant to nurture and protect our children. This undermines the values we strive to install in our children and erodes the trust we place in our educational system, you people. We must demand that our elected officials and school administrators take immediate action to remove these harmful materials and replace them with content that is age-appropriate, educational, and uplifting. And one more thing, you guys should be real happy about yourselves. You recalled Emily McDonald, the only person on the school board who actually wants to fight for the

035children. You should be proud of yourselves. That's all I've got to say. Next public comment. We have echo Camacho and then Debbie row before we start a point of clarification who did the recalling of Trustee McDonald because I know I didn't sign anything to have her seems pretty unprofessional. I'm sorry. You are you at your your time has not begun Okay, trustee Fowler your question to the super. I just want to clarify that the recall was initiated by community members They went through the process through our elections office which they are THE RECALL. PEOPLE USED THIS PLATFORM TO EXPRESS THEIR OPINIONS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE RECALL. this as a way to express their opinions but that there's no jurisdiction of the board involvement at all on the recall effort second point of clarification this

036is the board's meeting to do the business of the district correct so if I'm not mistaken according to our bylaws public comments need to pertain to the items that are on the agenda excuse me point of clear me excuse me If you can't maintain order, we will ask you to leave. So this board meeting is the board meeting of the board. THE BOARD SETS THE AGENDA AND THE BOARD CAN DISCUSS ITEMS UNDER YOUR JURISDICTION. THERE ARE TIMES WHEN PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE MADE THAT ARE NOT RELATED TO THE BOARD AND WE JUST LISTEN AND RESPOND. IF SOMETHING IS NOT AGENDIZED AND IT IS WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF THE BOARD, WE STILL DO NOT DISCUSS IT BECAUSE WE DID NOT GET THE PUBLIC ENOUGH NOTICE FOR THAT ITEM TO BE DISCUSSED. IF THERE'S ANY COMMENTS BEING MADE

037TONIGHT THAT IS WITHIN OUR JURISDICTION TO DISCUSS AND IS NOT AGENDIZED, WE CANNOT MAKE ANY COMMENT. FINAL POINT OF CLARIFICATION. Do any of our school libraries contain pornography? No. Okay, thank you. Excuse me. Excuse me. Maintain order, sir. Maintain order, sir, or we will ask you to leave. This is your last warning. Sir, this is our meeting. Sir. Final point of clarification. Do we have the Bible in our school libraries? Sir. The only materials in our library are books that are have been approved by state standards. OK. Sir please. Sir. Sir. OK. I'm just wondering because I know some districts have banned the Bible because of its content and its controversy but we have not done stuff. We have not done any banning of any materials in our libraries. All right. Please begin. Your board

038policy states health education materials will be medically accurate and teach children the importance of a healthy body image. Because I care about the students in this district, I would ask that you close your ears now if you're under 18 years old. Books that include sexualized conversations to include phrases such as my new strap-on harness came today I can't wait to put it on you. It will fit my favorite dildo perfectly I can't wait to have your my cock in your mouth. Then I want you inside of me I'm going to give you the blowjob of your life Do not embody this policy in any way shape or form Each board member here has voted and approved for this type of materials in our school Literature regarding this type of material states that school districts do

039have to purchase these books in order to maintain federal funding, but it does not require you to display these age-inappropriate books in the libraries. Additionally, most parents are unaware that they have an option to opt out of this type of education for their children or more would. There should be a standardized opt-out form available on the school district's website if the children and their future are truly cared for by the district. As parents, we have a sacred responsibility to safeguard our children's well-being. We must be vigilant in our efforts to ensure that our schools promote a safe, wholesome, and enriching environment for our children to learn and grow. I call upon this community to join me in taking a stand against the presence of pornographic material in our school libraries. We must demand that educational

040leaders prioritize the well-being of our children over the misguided notion of free expression or academic freedom. Our children's innocence and their right to a healthy, nurturing education must be the driving force behind our actions. Our children are the future of our community, our nation, and our world. It is our duties as parents to protect them. to nurture them and to ensure that they receive an education that is truly worthy of their potential. Let us come together united in our love for our children and our commitment to their well-being, and let us work tirelessly to create a world where our children can thrive, free from the indecent exposure currently available in our school libraries. And I request that this item be placed on the next agenda. Thank you. Any more public comment, Monica? We have Debbie

041Rowe and then Jamie Wilson. Good evening, board. The Community Advisory Committee met on April 8th of this month in addition to receiving a report from the participants selected to attend the recent Alternative Dispute Resolution Conference. The committee also finalized plans for the upcoming Legislative Sharing Day on May 1st and the Community Advisory Committee Awards Ceremony on May 13th. Hopefully some of you will be able to attend the awards which will be held at the Yolo County Office of Education at 6 o'clock. I have served as one of the board's appointed representatives to this committee for several years and this will be my last year. I am relocating to Florida in June. I want to thank the board for approving my appointment. Representing the district has provided me with the opportunity to collaborate with many individuals

042regarding the current and future direction of education for students with disabilities. I have also had the opportunity to meet and develop friendships with individuals dedicated to serving the needs of our students in Yolo County and throughout California. I am really sorry that many of you were not able to attend the presentation last night from Kevin Schaefer. It would have been an excellent opportunity to get an insight into the special education needs and direction of this district. I want to thank Trustee Richardson-Fowler for at least taking time out of her busy schedule to come by and welcome Mr. Schaffer. She has been present at several of his presentations, and she knows how worthwhile that time was. I thank you all for the opportunity you've given me. I will see you for a couple more meetings. I'm

043sure I'll give you my thoughts on the district before I leave. But I want to thank you for the opportunity of the CAC representation. Thank you Thank you. We have Jamie Wilson and then Irene different or Good evening board members Board president that's not here superintendent and my colleagues at the last board meeting I attended the board president asked for solutions on to the issues that the teacher had shared with their union members So I'm here. I'm no stranger to coming up with solutions to problems because I'm a teacher So here are some solutions Give students 25 more minutes of teaching by restoring release time teachers in primary. That is best for students. Have a true 24 to 1 for primary. No average formulas. That is what's best for students. Competitive living wages to attract

044and retain teachers. Consistency in teachers is the best for our students. Eliminating expected trainings like I-Ready and PLC where we're flying in trainers is not the best use of our money when we have people in California that can still do the work. More pair professionals to support students in small groups I have 42 students in my ALD group this year and a parent takes 10 to 12 when she's not into trainings I have to plan for both of these groups I do not have support during my intervention time because my Paris time is to reduce my numbers in ALD because I refuse to teach 42 kids in a very small room This is not good for teachers. Pay paras a living wage. That is what's best for students. This year is the first year that

045I have taught six-year-olds in first grade for an entire year. I had a student that start first grade at age five. He will graduate at 16. Please do the math when you are having children enter TK at age four. They will be five in kinder, six in first grade. This is not developmentally appropriate for these children. First grade students used to be seven-year-olds turning eight. Why is there no one else trying to figure this out? I'm just a teacher. The lack of the math being done impacts me and my students and I am expected to teach them developmentally inappropriate materials for their ages and being judged by it. I do have a solution though. TK students who are coming in that are on the young side should go into TKA. TK students who are older

046should go into TKB. TKB students should go into kindergarten for their age-appropriate academic instruction. TKA students should spend another year in TKB. Then we shall have six-year-olds being back into kindergarten, seven-year-olds being back into first grade. Primary has given up so much over the years due to financial crisis. We have not gotten anything back. Your actions speak louder than words. If students are a priority in primary, the district would have restored release time teachers, giving us 25 more minutes to teach each day, and primary classes should be at 24 to 1 with no exceptions. But your actions have speak volumes on how important primary students are. You take and take, but you don't give back. Thank you. Irene Diffendorum. Can I ask a question? Has there been a change to the age requirements for entry

047to kindergarten that I wasn't aware of? No. Kindergarten stay remains the same. What's changed is that we have students who can come into TK earlier to prepare them for kindergarten. So it's basically the state has added another grade level. Thank you. Thank you very much. Go ahead. Good evening. My name is Irene Diffentorum. And tonight, I kind of want to talk about those TKs because I've heard that our TKs, kinders, and first graders next year may be taking their Chromebooks home. I'm going to give a Chromebook. to a four-year-old, a five-year-old, and a six-year-old to take home and to use and to bring back to school the next day and to take it home and to bring it back fully charged and with it being undamaged. I don't know that a four, five, or six-year-old

048has the... capacity to be able to take a Chromebook home and bring it back to school. We talk about it as being equitable. How is it equitable for a parent who is making minimum wage and has a TK student who brings their Chromebook back and forth and they damage their screen, and $50 is charged to that parent. I make just a little over minimum wage. I don't have children at home, but I can tell you that $50 means I don't fill my gas tank up. That would mean to a parent, they may not be able to get their child to school. That means that that will follow them around until they graduate high school, and then they'll have to figure out how they're going to pay for something that happened when they were four years

049old. Whoever is deciding on this policy, please rethink it. I already am sending back Chromebook after Chromebook that that kinder and first graders are using in the classroom. And although they've been taught how to take their headphones out of the jack, they still are breaking them in there. They're still breaking them in there. And you want them to be able to take a Chromebook home without having those damages? I don't think it's a realistic expectation. Thank you. Actually, Irene, you're the next public comment. You have come home from work and you've tried to relax and not think about what happened during the day. You go to bed and you wake up screaming and crying because of what happened during the day. You get up in the morning and you're tired from the night before and

050not getting any sleep. And your mind starts going and you don't want to get dressed. It's so hard. But you do it anyway for the other 24. You do it because you love your job. And those other 24 need you. And you get in your car and halfway to work you have to pull over because the tears are coming and you're shaking violently because you know that your day is going to go the same way it did yesterday. And you put a smile on your face as soon as you get to school and you pretend like nothing happened the day before. But your kids in TK, Kinder, first grade, second grade, know what the word evacuate means when their peers start to destroy the classroom. And you're well prepared to evacuate them, but you cannot

051replace everything that that one or two students has damaged over and over and over again. We do not have the money to replace those things all of the time. We stay in our jobs because we love teaching, but getting punched in the face by a three, four, five, six-year-old is not something that I signed up for. Getting punched repeatedly in the stomach is not what we signed up for. We signed up to educate your children, not battle them. And when you're told, just don't make eye contact or talk to that student, and they're still in your classroom, what are we to do? Thank you. Julie Mast and Barbara Ryan. Good evening. Oh, do I have to push something? No, I'm good. I'm Julie Mast. I'm wearing my other hat tonight. I'm a staff member at

052Adult Ed, but I've also been a member of the Woodland Schools Foundation for over 13 years. We're a nonprofit composed of parents who support the Woodland Joint Unified District. For over 20 years, we've supported a wide variety of educational programs to enhance enhance the students' academic growth, including gait programs, music programs, STEM education, culinary arts, sports, agricultural programs, and so much more. Prior to the pandemic, we used to have lots of in-person events that I know a lot of people used to come to, including Country for Coaches, Fourth of July Run, and Burgers and Brew. Unfortunately, we haven't been able to bring those back because of lack of volunteers and also because of the pandemic. But we are hoping to possibly bring something back next fall. So we hope that we'll be able to have

053your support for that. In lieu of that, for the past five years, we have been doing Big Day of Giving, which is an online fundraising through the Sacramento region. And each year we choose a recipient for the fundraising efforts on Big Day of Giving, which is May 2nd, next Thursday. This year we've chosen Adult Ed's Career Technical Education Program to purchase laptops for their x-ray machines and other costs associated with starting a new program. We feel that this is an exciting and much needed new program in our community that will benefit many local people. We're hoping for the public support on this, your support. We've also sent out sponsorship letters to dental offices and medical offices in Yolo County. We've already collected over $5,000. So we're hoping to at least double that by next Thursday.

054So we hope we get your support. Especially tonight since you recognize adult ed what better way to honor them by supporting their new exciting program I brought some flyers for each of you. I hope you will look at it You can access our giving link on our Facebook sites adult ed Facebook site and also by writing a check to Woodland Schools Foundation, so please give big next Thursday May 2nd. Thank you Thank you very much. Barbara Ryan. Hi, all. Happy to be back. I didn't know about the first couple of speakers, but I was pleased to hear them speak. I'm really here because I heard we're nominating CIF representatives to represent our athletic teams, and I'm hoping and urging them to protect women's sports. It is an unfair playing field. The other thing I want

055to mention, and this might be for the high school students too, we had the rescheduling of the event at the Davis Library about biological men and women's sports. I have to tell you that the week and a half before, there was an active campaign by some far-left activist groups to have it canceled. By doing a telephone campaign bombarding the city of Davis, Not wanting them to have an event that had hate speech. There was no hate speech there. It was facts. Just simple scientific facts. This got so bad that to start the event off, we had to have the assistant district attorney read to us what free speech is. Should this be happening? Should we have to be read what free speech is? and warned everybody that, are you paying attention, Trustee Fowler? You rarely

056do. And I was glad you did it, because maybe it bore repeating. I don't have to agree with you, but you certainly have a right to say it. That is not hate speech. That's called free speech. And it was very informative and it was very calm, but she warned people, as opposed to the last one we went to, where we were literally bombarded by activists that were in our face, threatening us, that if this happened again there, they would be thrown out and arrested for invading my space. totally support everybody's right to support what they want to. You have to give me the respect to support what I want to. And when you stop doing that, you lose everybody. Those books are being taught. We've seen them. They're in the library. Yolo County's having Trans

057Story Hour. To say that it's not happening, it's happening, unfortunately. Age appropriate, nobody's trying to ban books. We just want it to be appropriate for the age that's reading them. Thank you. Next public comment? No more public comments. All right, we're moving on to item K, reports, beginning with superintendent. Okay, good, this is working. Okay, I'm going to be as quick as possible so we can get on with the rest of the agenda, but next, oh, I have control of this. Okay, I just want to give some quick highlights. These are our winners of our Every Day Counts campaign. Lean Middle School, Woodland High School, and Pioneer High School. These schools were being recognized, and I want to thank our students and staff to continue to push and move forward on making sure that Every

058Day Counts, that we're pushing for positive attendance. Students are also going to be having a day where they're going to be having a DJ to celebrate their achievement. Also, during last week, we had two awesome events. We had the Newcomer Student Gathering on April 11th, and we also had a GATE Family Science Night on April 16th. I want to thank our staff and all the volunteers that were part of this event, and having some activities, meaningful engagement activities for our families and students. Open houses, there are a lot of them right now. So these are the ones we've had so far. So awesome to see all the learning activities the kids have done. I want to give a shout out to Samora. I saw some amazing writing in the classrooms. To FOIA also, it was

059so nice to see past students come to look for their teachers to say hello. They had a huge long line for the book fair. Freeman had a student who was very interested in who I was. and who Jerry was, he reached out to me. He wanted to know why we were taking pictures. And so I had to post this picture because he was watching to see if his picture was gonna come on. So lots of more to come on our open houses and great things to see what's happening in our schools. I didn't see SciTech on there. SciTech was awesome as well. We also had a community call to action. That's our united aspiration for women and youth, our plan, a combined plan that we have with the city. We had a community event, and

060I want to thank all the community members who came together. It's still a work in progress, but it was really nice to... Discuss and talk about how we're going to work together as a community to support our youth We're going to have another event coming up on May 31st to continue that work And that's more to come to this going to be a 10-year movement And we're making progress on the call to action and I wanted to thank our trustee Via lana for his support on this and his vision on this and our trustees and City Council for uniting I'm moving forward to this call to action more to come Okay, so this is why I have the mic. But today I want to introduce to you our very special group that I've been talking

061about, but I want you to meet them in person. Our superintendent used advisory council. We have most of them here. Some of them had to leave. This is our first board meeting. What did I tell you, right? This is what it looks like to hear different voices, different opinions in our democratic process. And you get to be part of it because you get to advise me on to give recommendations to our board of trustees. And so earlier today, I want to let everyone know that we had a meet and greet, our youth advisory meet and greet at four o'clock where our... was introduce themselves to our board of trustees and we had an opportunity to meet them, but I also wanted to introduce them formally to the community. So I'm gonna have each of you

062come up, say your name, what school you represent. Anything you want, quick little thing you want to share. And then we're gonna, you're gonna stand up here and then we're gonna take a picture with our trustees. So we're gonna start with Adam. Hold on real quick. If you're a parent in the group and you want to take pictures, please don't be ashamed. Get up here and get that good shot of your kid. And thank you for the parents too for supporting your students in this leadership journey with me. We've been having a lot of fun. By the way, I just wanted to visit. These students have probably been to places that you have not been in the district. They have had a tour of the warehouse. They know where our textbooks are at. They know

063where our Chromebooks are at. They know where the toilet paper's at, right? Everything. They went and had a tour of the maintenance operations, met our director, asked lots of questions. They had a big tour of the district office. They're learning about how we work as an organization, so they're getting to know each other. They're getting to know how we work, so that when they advise me, they're informed. And then they know who the people are behind the scenes are working for them. And so I just want them to know how many people care about you. And so we are eager to start working closer and getting you to an opportunity to start giving me some advice to make decisions for the board. So I'm going to go ahead and start with Aiden. And here's our

064board president. Perfect timing. Hi, I'm Aiden Van Peersom. I'm an eighth grader at Douglas Middle School, and I'm really excited to help Miss Elodia. Hello, I'm Brandon Chen. I'm a 10th grader at Pioneer High School. I'm happy to be here. Hello, I'm Asus. I'm a junior at Eichelman High School. Good afternoon. My name is Jaime Bocanegra, and I'm a student at Woodland High School, and I'm an 11th grader. Hello, my name is Josiah Alvarez. I'm a 9th grader at Woodland High School, and I'm really excited to be a voice for students and help speak for them. Hi, I'm Micaiah. I'm a freshman at Woodland High School. Hello, I'm Ariana Fierro. I'm a senior at Woodland High School, and I'm excited to see what we can do for the community. Hello, everyone. My name is Manute

065Madsdada. I'm a ninth grader who's currently attending Pioneer High School, and I'm excited to be here. Hello, I'm Julieta Rocha, and I'm a sophomore at Pioneer High School, and I'm happy to be given this opportunity. Thank you. So let's give them another big round of applause for our student leaders. We can have our trustees come up, take a picture. We squeeze in a little bit. If everybody could kind of turn towards the center sideways a little bit. There you go. Go sideways a little bit. One, two, three. Anybody else want a picture? And please do not go home. You know you have homework and you have school tomorrow. Thank you for being here. Thank you for the parents for being patient to allow us to have them be introduced to our community. Thank you everyone

066at the beginning announced that had to prioritize my son's event Over the meetings. He was up went there recognition night at Pioneer High School So that's where that's my reason on my excuse why I was not here So moving on to report from the California School Employee Association Good evening, Superintendent Ortega-Lambkin, Board of Trustees, Cabinet, and Community. My name is Rebecca Rossiter, and I am the library tech at Douglas Middle School. I also proudly serve as the president of Chapter 118 of the Classified School Employee Association. Since my last report our negotiation team has met with the district's team twice to continue our work on the job description Classification study our next dates are April 30th May 2nd and May 16th The negotiation team has also submitted the 2425 re-opener to the district to be

067included on the May 9th board agenda We are happily planning our Classified School Employee Week festivities to begin May 20th through the 24th. We currently have 19 people signed up for our job shadowing and they are still signing up. We look forward to celebrating our members and we are all looking forward to being celebrated by the district. Many of our members are continually expressing feeling unappreciated. And today it is difficult for me to be up here because I don't feel like I can adequately express myself without being too emotional. So my plan is to write a thoughtful email and send it to the board. Classified School Employee Week is a perfect opportunity for the district to show their employees how much they are valued. Thank you for this time on the agenda and this concludes

068my report quick question the shadow days What are the days for that the 20th through the 24th? May 20th through the 24th. Thank you. You're welcome Moving on to report from the World Education Association Good evening superintendent or Tiga Lampkin president via Ghana Board of Trustees cabinet and valued members of the community Thank you for allowing me this opportunity to address you. I am Becca Bernard, a science teacher at Douglas Middle School, and I am deeply honored to serve as the president of the Woodland Education Association. I'm excited to be able to start my report tonight with a few positive highlights. Woodland Education Association was recently honored to receive the 2023 Chapter in Politics Award for Small Chapters in honor of Joyce Fadum. The award recognizes chapters for their outstanding contributions to their colleagues through

069the effective use of the political process. The awards ceremony took place at the CTA State Council Conference on April 6th. I am so proud of the collective and collaborative efforts that our members poured into a worthy cause this year. As MLK said, our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Equality and acceptance matter above all else. Thank you to all WEA and community members who banded together rather than remaining silent. Additionally, this past weekend, I was honored to recognize Mr. Greg Bass on behalf of WEA as our 2024 Who Award recipient, aptly named the We Honor Our Own Award. This is a great opportunity for local CTA chapters to highlight members for their hard work that often goes unnoticed. Greg served as WEA Vice President and served on our

070bargaining team through the challenges of COVID. Greg is kind-hearted and compassionate, traits that make him not only an incredible special education teacher at Pioneer High, but also an outstanding colleague, parent, community member, and friend. We wish him a heartfelt farewell from the classroom as he enters his well-earned retirement after many years in our school district. Thank you, Greg, for being the good that we need more of in this world. The ripples of positive influence you've sent out into our community will continue to change the hearts and minds of all those who have had the pleasure of interacting with you. While reviewing tonight's board packet, I wanted to commend all those involved in the work behind Resolution 4424. In support of Field Trips for Farm Connection Day on May 3rd, Yolo County students in grades K-6

071are invited to the Yolo County Fairgrounds to spend their day learning about and experiencing agriculture from the industry's experts. What an incredible opportunity to highlight the true roots of our community, agriculture. We are a farm town through and through, and as the spouse of a farmer, I know the ups and downs of the work that goes into putting food on our tables. With the average age of farmers at about 60 years old, we are going to need our youth to step into the boots of those who inevitably will retire. Although, if you know a farmer, you know that they never truly retire. I am so grateful that our district continues to prioritize our CTE programs, especially those related to agriculture, so that we can give our students the opportunity to see farming as a viable

072future career path. As my spouse likes to say, farming feeds the body and soul of our community. On a related note, I recently chaperoned our Douglas CTE field trip to Fiery Ginger Farm in West Sacramento with about 40 students. It was so special to see students getting their hands in the soil, learning about bees from a honey expert, making salads with farm fresh produce, and of course everyone's favorite part was snuggling weak old baby goats. It was like a dream come true. The fresh air and the break from the monotony of classes had students smiling and enjoying the feel of being on an urban farm hidden in plain sight in the middle of a neighborhood in West Sac. A special shout out to their CTE teacher, Allie Baker, who spent hours finalizing paperwork and dozens

073of back and forth emails in the two months it took to get this field trip approved. Although the field trip was a huge success, I would be remiss if I didn't point out that during our site visits, a common theme bubbling up was frustration with the field trip process. The amount of paperwork and the hours of coordination it takes to plan a field trip has increased dramatically over the past few years. Many teachers we spoke with throughout the district said that they have greatly reduced the number of field trips they organized or stopped completely because of the barrier of this paperwork and approval process. I understand the district obviously has its reasons for the increase in paperwork, but I wonder if there are ways to streamline this process so that more teachers will be encouraged

074to provide these enrichment opportunities to our students. Perhaps surveying staff who have organized field trips this past school year on the challenges they faced would be a good start. Based on conversations surfaced from our recent site visits, I also feel the need to report on the pertinent and urgent topic of safety concerns for both our students and staff in our district. Post-COVID, teachers across the country have noticed an increase in both the frequency and seriousness of safety challenges in the classroom. In our own district, we have teachers who are doing their absolute best to support their students as best they can, but they are seeing more frequent and more extreme behavior challenges since before the pandemic. As teachers, we understand that behavior is another form of communication. And when we see extreme behaviors like kicking,

075hitting, biting, punching, throwing objects like chairs, we never want to blame the child. We understand it is a communication that this student doesn't have the words or the emotional coping skills to express their needs clearly or calmly. We love our students. And when we see them behaving in these ways, it hurts us to see them hurting. We want to be there and support them in whatever way we can. And many of our teachers are putting themselves in harm's way to do exactly that. We have a number of teachers this year who have been sent to the emergency room for bruising, black eyes, scratches, broken bones, shoulder, and other various injuries, including the mental health challenges of PTSD, anxiety, and stress caused by these situations. I am grateful for the partnership with HR and our superintendent

076to try to resolve some of these issues, but I feel a sense of obligation to make sure the board is aware that these incidents continue to happen. In some cases, it is from the same student dozens of times, while in others, it's an isolated incident. For some of these students, remaining in a full classroom setting is not setting them up for success, and the repeated outbursts are their way of screaming that their needs are not being met. We used to have a supportive program called Community Day School for these students to go to for short time periods, could be a few weeks to a couple months, to get the individualized support and smaller group settings to gain the support and skills they need to succeed in school. But that program was discontinued during the pandemic.

077I appreciate that HR recently informed our bargaining team and myself about new legislation from Cal OSHA SB 553, occupational safety regarding workplace violence, and that we will be working collaboratively on the implementation of this newly adopted act. The superintendent, CSEA president, and myself have also been discussing the concept of a cross-district safety committee for next year to help communicate and mitigate safety issues together. But I feel that our members are in dire need of a short-term solution as well. For many of us, we wouldn't know what the process would be or what our rights are in the face of an assault from a student. Ed code and our contract stipulate that our members can protect themselves and others from attack and that no unit member within the scope of their employment shall be required to

078work in or cause students to remain in unsafe or unhealthy conditions. Resolving these challenges will be a complicated and long process and there is a need for clear communication and education of all involved. I look forward to continuing to work together to make our classrooms a safe space for all, both students and staff. Lastly, our bargaining team is looking forward to the district's responses to Article 17, Workday Work Year, Article 9, Salary, and Article 10, Benefits, in our next session on May 10th. Woodland students deserve the best. Competitive pay will help us to recruit and retain the best teachers, which will directly benefit our students. Thank you, and this concludes my report. Thank you. The field trips you mentioned, what do you see as the biggest challenge around that situation there? I'm going to be

079honest. I've never organized one because it's a daunting task. I usually just like to chaperone when someone needs a chaperone. But from what I have heard, depending on the teacher, it can take about five to ten hours of filling out paperwork and then dozens of emails coordinating and going back and forth. I also... Yeah, and I also know that the CSCA member who is, and I don't want to throw anyone under the bus, not, that was a really unintentional pun. If there's anyone here. Transportation would be one of them. Can your colleagues support you? So actually this came from our conversation, but transportation is, is it Beth? Beth is riding buses all day and also responding to emails in her breaks. And so that's one of the delays is like maybe support could be given

080to her to be able to respond because sometimes it'll be a couple weeks till you get a response. So it's a lot of things. But I would start with if you could survey any teachers who have done field trips, there are some teachers who are like the go-to person and they like do it no matter what. But then teachers like me who are like, it's too much. I'm not going to organize it. So I would suggest surveying teachers because I'm not the expert. Thank you. I'm a bit concerned about an employee responding to work emails during her break. Not during her break, to clarify. Sorry. Not during her non-work break. But she probably does because we all are. Probably does. We're bad at that. We all do. But I mean. Oh, my God. Yeah. A

081lot of overtime. I'm concerned about her being burnt out, too. Yeah. Same. Yep. Any other? Other questions trustees? Okay. Thank you Before we go to the next item our superintendent asked for a minute back to give us another update Yes, I forgot to mention that we had about 60 students attend a leadership opportunity at UC Davis for esteem I heard That there was about a hundred students there and Woodland was way where presented We had a lot of students that were interested in taking leadership and I want to thank Lori Carrillo. Where's Lori? That was a lot of work It was a really tight, tight timeline. And I was just amazed that she made it work and amazed how many students were able to go. And that also, you know, she had to do the

082field trip things as well. And I want to thank our transportation department, everybody, to making sure that our students had the opportunity to attend. There was a hundred hundred and ten young people and Woodland definitely had the majority so big props to everyone who? Did what they did? There was no competition, but Woodland one if there was a competition Woodland one so That's right. The other people just don't know about it, right? So anyways, yes. Thank you superintendent for for that update board reports who would like to go first Trustee Richardson-Fowler. Okay, I got a bit. One, thank you, Becca, for speaking my love language of SPED because behavior is communication. All right, so I've been busy. I went to the Pioneer High School open house, which was amazing to see all of the stuff

083that the kids are doing there. I went to Whitehead, Freeman, and Beamer's was before the last meeting. Whitehead and Freeman's open house. I went to the special education parent advisory committee as well as the Woodland Community College Eagles of Excellence. I dipped out of there early so that I could go support the Pioneer High School JV softball team which you know, they're pretty amazing. Not biased because my daughter's on the team. But anyway, I would also like to give a huge shout out to those coaches who maintained their composure and the parents who didn't feed in to the toxicity when one of our players was assaulted by another player. And as the other team's family was getting ready to rile up and charge, Woodland de-escalated and and they were better than that. So I was

084very proud of our parents and our players, but especially our coaches Let's see I cannot attend de Dia de los Minos because I will be going to Vacaville to see the softball team perform again I just want to reiterate that the Community Advisory Committee for the SELPA Awards are on Monday, May 13th, 2024 at 6 p.m. Right now my calendar is clear, so I think I will be attending. I also got to visit our robotics team while they were down in Lancaster. And there were teams from Turkey, from Japan, from Taiwan, from all over California. Excuse me, and a couple of other states. And while our team didn't bring home any awards or trophies, they did create a new award category for our robotics team. And that was the DEI award because our team was

085both gender and racially the most diverse team that was there. I was so proud of our kids. I also want to highlight we have a couple of them that are graduating early. One's going to Northwestern with a full ride scholarship. We've got some amazing kids doing some fabulous things there. Jerry I know is going to be sending out some press releases about some of the other student awards as well. So I think that concludes my report. Thank you. Who would like to go next? Nobody else? I'll go next. Go for it. Very quickly. It's been a few weeks since we were here at our last board meeting, but I do want to say we did have spring break, so I hope that our staff, students, and families were able to have a restful spring break

086and were able to recapture some energy so we can finish off this academic year. I know that I personally was able to spend some time with my family and it was really nice. So I hope you guys were able to enjoy as well. April 9th, I went over to Knight's Landing. I was at the Knight's Landing Park groundbreaking ceremony. April 12th, I was at the Woodland Community College Eagles of Excellent Celebration. That was exciting. April 17th, I had the opportunity to go to Dolores Huerta's birthday celebration. I believe it was her 90th. April 22nd, just this week, I was at the CSBA Council of Presidents meeting. That was exciting. I have to say that I'm looking forward to the next conference for CSBA. And it's definitely an exciting time for school board districts. I'm sorry,

087school districts and school board members. as we continue to embark in this journey in making sure that we're making the most trusted decisions. But I'm looking forward to the CSEA Shadow Day and learning more about that. And then I would like to ask the superintendent if she can get us the information about the event at YCOE that Ms. Rowe shared with us. I wasn't able to capture the date on it, but I do want to make sure to add it. All right, May 13th. Thank you. That's all for me. Yes, I just wanted to report on spending some time at the program for the new for new EL families that happened on April 11th It was really well attended well run, you know, there were different groups of support Organizations for our new parents. So

088it was really a great event and really great work went into organizing it Very proud of that event. I also spent some time at Freeman's open house and Tafoya's open house. I was able to speak to parents, speak to teachers, and just ask them how things were going. And generally speaking, that very positive feedback about the work that the district is doing and in terms of the parents' happiness with teachers' attentiveness, teachers' help. So, you know, it was a really great experience to be able to talk to folks at these schools. I also attended the Kermes celebration at SciTech, which was, you know, it's really just a... So I take really does really well with its community celebrations. It was a full house parents community members all coming together I think I I still have

089to make a visit tomorrow because I owe a check for some of some of the auction items so I'll get over there and make make make that hole and pick up I think my backyard backyard toys that I bought And just lastly, I'd like to mention this is my first time back in person. I had a medical emergency at the end of January, spent 19 days in the hospital, and it took a lot of people to get me back to where I am today. I want to thank my colleagues on the board for all their words of support, our staff in the district for their support, of course, my family. The one lesson I took away is that it does take a village to do some very important things that includes Keeping your health and

090getting your health back when you lose it So, you know I hope we try and stay centered in that thought that we can do the same here at the district as we do as we are And work together for our students and our families. Thank you trustee Garcia So I also I was able to attend the nice landing park grand baking ceremony ceremony and it was uh It was I was really happy to see all the all the community very happy to to to be there families kids and everybody so also I I attend Eagles for Excellence, and the gathering for new EL families was one of my favorites. I wish I can have this a long time ago for all the families, and I want to say thank you for all the people who

091was able to make it. And also, I was on the Woodland Community Call to Action, and I would say it was a very productive time. And our favorite word, it was give your value, remember? Yeah, that was what I taken from them. Value to be here, value to the people, to the families, give the value to the students and value. FOR EVERY SINGLE THING WE DID HERE TO PUT THE VALUE, THE OBJECTIVE, OR WHY WE'RE HERE, RIGHT? SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT FAMILIES BECAUSE WE WORK IN GROUPS, AND WE ARE TALKING ABOUT, SAY, WHAT IS THE VALUE LIKE A STUDENT WAS HERE TO HAVE MORE SUPPORT, TO HEAR FROM THEIR WHAT THEY WANT TO SEE IN OUR DISTRICT, RIGHT? AND I WANT TO THANK YOU, PRESIDENT, TO... Doing this kind of conversation and that's conclude my

092report trustee my report. Okay I'll go to my report. Yes, it was first of all, let's start with the advisory to the superintendent. I'm very happy to meet them, re-meet or re-see some of them. I met some of them at the at the strengths camp as well. But just being able to have a conversation with them and, you know, the fact that we went to meet them. Right. It was them. It was their space, their time. And we as adults went to to meet them instead of them coming to to meet us. It's very powerful. And again, look forward to them continuing. their movement in their journey and their leadership development to enhance the quality of advising that they give to the superintendent. So then the superintendent could do even a better job advising the

093board on the issues affecting directly the students. Yes the call to action was. Great conversations we had and yes the the the comment about the value, you know being able to show value for you know Whatever it is that that we do really resonate it with me as well but Just reemphasize again the the amount of work that's needed still to continue to to happen in order to Bring the call to action to life right now still words on paper And if there stay as words on paper, then the young people would not benefit in the same way. So it's we're moving there And then I'm just going to read two updates from the CSBA. This is from March 11 from Fresno, the California School Board Association newsletter. Site B reports more than 100 job

094cuts could be coming to Fresno Unified School District. It says Fresno School Board voted to eliminate more than 100 positions in the next school year at a savings of $7.5 million. So that's huge. Amount there and then a March 12th, Sutter Mound Valley two different actions. They took 33 classified positions 29 full-time teacher liaison positions Starting next year will be removed for lack of funds and then the second action they took was to cut 29 teachers on special assignment positions And again, there was a lot of emotional support and reaction as well from the community. But again, these districts don't have a choice because they're declining enrollment. So for Fresno, actually, they mentioned, let's see, they went from 70,152 students. in 2019-20 to 68,362. So that's a huge loss of students and therefore a loss

095in ADA. And so they're looking at cuts of 30 to $40 million in their budget. So again, we have to analyze what we need to do to not continue in our deficit spending because again, reminding the public, we are currently deficit spending. We have a carry forward that is helping us out. But once that... GOES AWAY WE WILL HAVE TO TAKE ACTION AS A BOARD TO MAINTAIN FISCAL SOLVANCY. AND THAT IS IT FOR I WILL SAVE THE REST FOR ANOTHER MEETING. ANY OTHER COMMENTS BEFORE? ANY? HEARING NONE THEN MOVING ON TO ANY COMMITTEE UPDATES. TRUSTEE RODRIGUEZ. I HAD A COMMITTEE UPDATE BUT I FORGOT MY NOTES SO I WILL HAVE TO DO IT AT THE NEXT MEETING. THAT WAS FOR C. CWY, what is our, I always forget the name. Collaborative Woodland Youth, yeah. So

096I'll pick it up at the next meeting. Thank you. Anyone else? I have a question. From the... Coalition for wood for Woodland youth collaborative. I'm sorry. I keep wanting calling calling it coalition collaborative for Woodland youth The members on that committee. Can you talk to us about the potential? Ballot initiative coming from the city in regards to a tax measure Don't remember them talking about a tax measure at the meeting I also don't have a recollection of that language if it was used it was must have been the small side note because I don't remember that being any large topic. You remember that topic. There has not been any any formal discussion regarding that topic. There's been informal discussions between me and the city manager about us going for a bond maybe they going for.

097tax measure but there's there's not any discussion space I'm just asking because I was informed that this conversation about the tax measure was announced by the city at the coalition But I just wanted some clarification because if it's been brought forward at that coalition, I think it's worthy of a report. But since it hasn't, I will stop there. Thank you. Trustee Rodriguez? I'll have to go back and look at my notes. They said I don't have them with me, but I don't have that recollection off the top of my head. Trustee Garcia? No, for sure. Last meeting, we didn't talk about that. Or any other meeting. No, I don't remember. No, I don't remember we're talking about that. So it's not. Monica do you mind looking at past agendas please. Yeah. And when you look

098at the minutes to make sure all of our memories are very good but I'm sure that all of us not remembering is good. I'm glad I brought it up because I was informed that it was talked about during that collaborative and I'm glad that I clarified. So thank you. Thank you for bringing that and clarifying that. Other comments on committees. And really, we should have held the comments on the contract action for this section here because it is a committee that's working on it. I think we got excited and started talking about it beforehand. But, okay. In regards to the call to action, I do want to state that I wasn't able to attend any of those two work sessions. And I do want to state that the dates did not work for my work

099schedule. They were held during a normal, regular work day. And the dates were not vetted. With the board members for us to really say if we could or couldn't or what these worked best So I'm not trying to excuse myself But rather just state that I apologize for not being available on the dates that were selected Well, that one was specifically for the committee. So again, it was it was not something that was put out to the to the board As a whole so yeah, no, you're fine other comments or questions all right moving on to Any voice and sorry any comments for? L1 no public comments for Owen. Okay moving on information action resolution 2045 dash 2 for order an election to fill the district area to vacancy for the Woodland June fight school

100district board our steam Council is here again and the word point. We're going to take questions if there's any questions He's here to ask them not everyone's ready. We're ready to take a motion and take action We say that we're gonna do that at this meeting So questions from trustees before I call for a motion? No, I guess you lucked out you're not getting any tough questions so all right and anything like to say before we vote No board. It's good to be back. And this is the resolution that we discussed the last meeting 130 days after today lands in September meaning the next established election date is Election Day regular Election Day in November of 2024 the cost for ordering this elections between ten and twenty thousand dollars to you You saved a considerable

101amount by shifting the time when you ordered this election. All the trustees during the last meeting articulated their rationale for why you're moving forward in this way. And I too recommend that this is the right way to go forward. And as the resolution reflects, you're ordering this and also giving direction to district leadership to interact both with the county superintendent of schools and with the Yolo County Elections Office to effectuate. Holding a special election to fill the vacancy in area 2 timing is everything right? Absolutely with this work is our motion to approve resolution for 5-2 for So move second move by trustee both Savala second by trustee Richardson Fowler all those in favor say aye Any opposition seeing none approve our trustees present. Thank you so much safe travels Moving on to L2 information

102update board governance handbook So this was put on the agenda for all of us to review the handbook We're not gonna adopt it today but just to give you an opportunity to review it and then make any if you have any edits rights to suggest them and then we'll bring it back with because that was the the subcommittee that made the edits the Suggested and if you all anybody discus in the edits, you know speak up now if that it'll come back at the next meeting for for approval See no hands going up. We're good to move forward with the edits as they are sounds good moving on to m1 information review draft 2003 to 2023 24 annual update for the local control accountability plan Good evening President Villagrana, Superintendent Ortega-Lampkin, Cabinet and community. Tonight

103we are bringing the draft 23-24 annual update for our local control and accountability plan. In your attachments you actually you have the full annual update and so what I'm going to be doing tonight is highlighting our four goals and our analysis to date of our progress over really the last three years. We're in the final year of our three year plan. So as I shared, these are our goals for the presentation. I'm just gonna get right into it and start with the purpose for the annual update. So as defined by the California Department of Education, The annual update is really a tool for districts to use to reflect on their progress over the last year. And in this case, we're in the third year of our three-year plan, so we're really looking back to 2020

104and 2021 and thinking about all of those actions that we put into place at the beginning of our current plan. Here's just a really brief Synopsis of some of the things that happen with LCAP development These are some of the key activities related to the annual update that district staff engage in it's really a year-long Process it really never ends. We are constantly reviewing data and reporting on data and analyzing how things are going in the goals that we have set for the district. So the main question that we're asking, you know, as we are reflecting on our progress, what have we achieved to support student learning? So I just want to go through as I said you have the full annual update with all of the metrics for the the full LCAP as an

105attachment, but we just wanted to pull out some of the some of the highlights and Talk about a few of those so in goal one, which is our college and career ready goal Here are several of the things that we really wanted to highlight what I wanted to say First is there are a couple of things that were brand new with this current LCAP. Back in 2020, the grad profile was adopted. Also, our first CCAP agreement for dual enrollment was adopted at that time. So since then, we've had a number of improvements in our college and career readiness opportunities for students, so expansion of dual enrollment course options, our CTE pathways are continuing to grow and get more refined. We have a graduate profile implementation plan in progress. WE HAVE THE EQUITY REVIEW IN PROGRESS.

106THERE ARE A NUMBER OF REALLY BIG TICKET ITEMS THAT HAVE BEEN PUT INTO PLACE OR ARE IN THE WORKS IN THIS MOMENT. SO IN GOAL ONE, REALLY THINKING BACK TO 2020, 2021 AND THOSE PIECES THAT WE ESTABLISHED ARE MAKING GOOD PROGRESS AT THIS TIME. Moving to goal two, thinking back to 2020, was the establishment of this goal, which really married social, emotional, and academic needs and thinking about all of our students as the whole of the needs that they bring. And one of the things that happened back in ed services was that special ed and teaching and learning, we merged into. one physical department at the direction of our superintendent and that really helped to break down the silos that existed in ed services at the time. So we have seen a lot with inclusion.

107We had a parent event last night that was shared earlier tonight. Our inclusion programs in special ed are meeting state targets. We've done a lot of work With the literacy plan, it's in progress. We have early literacy supports that the board established with this plan, with our literacy paras and additional hours for the library techs. we have the professional learning communities. At the bottom, you see the Parent Square. So that was another thing that was started back in 2020. Before that, we used Blackboard Connect. And Parent Square really opened the door for us to communicate in new and better ways with our families in the language that they need to be communicated in. So that was really a game changer in terms of the homeschool connection. In goal three, meeting our three-year goal for the

108reclassification rate. Back in 2019-20 was the beginning of the EL roadmap, and we had a series of trainings for administrators, and that has really guided our work in many ways in this area. We also started the community and family engagement specialist group and the family resource center at the entrance to the district office. So in terms of our supports for families that really became solidified back then in 2020. And so you can see a lot of the progress that we've made in these areas. And then finally, goal four was brand new to us, brought to us by our board president, youth engagement. And so at that time, in the first year, there were two schools that had student advisory councils, and now every school has a student advisory council, and also the superintendent has a

109youth advisory council, which you saw tonight. So a lot of... really great work trying to integrate that student voice into as many aspects of our work as possible, both here at the district office level and also at the school site. So finally, just to wrap it up with a few what I'm calling needs and opportunities. So, you know, reviewing our progress is important because it allows us to reflect on our achievements and then also on areas that we still need to really focus on. So we want to take this opportunity also to identify those areas that are still very much in progress and that we need to continue to spend time and energy on. So as I said in the beginning, you have the full annual update with you. We will be bringing back the

110full plan, which will include the annual update, the budget overview for parents, and the LCAP. That will come back to you at the first meeting in June for the public hearing. Then at the second meeting for approval, so I look forward to hearing your questions and your feedback Yes I'll start. Thank you for the presentation. In looking at the annual update, I was looking at participation in visual and performing arts, and I noticed there was a bit of a decrease in overall participation between years two and three. I know there was somewhat of an increase in elementary school. It seemed like we got a lot of those programs going, and there was a goal of this year of increasing participation by about 25%. And I just wanted to know if you could talk a little

111bit about some of the active efforts to expand the offerings and participation. So we have seen a decline at the secondary level, as you described. A lot of that in conversations with music teachers. It's about the number of students at the elementary level that left music during the pandemic because everything was online. So they very much feel, our music teachers really do feel that we're still very much in the rebuilding phase. We have begun to have conversations about the courses that we do offer and where we could refine and kind of streamline some of our music offerings and align them so it's much more clear to a student as they head into, say, seventh grade, what's the future for them in... in the music program. That is not very clearly laid out in a very

112cohesive way. So that is something that we have been discussing with our music teachers. Yeah, I think that's a good point, especially given the feedback we've heard from some of the students this evening earlier, just about knowing what's available is hugely important in them taking advantage of the opportunities. Thank you, Trustee Martin. Anybody else? Questions? Trustee Rodriguez? Just staying there with the the theater numbers the it looks like drama and theater numbers have have declined for 23 24 at 21 22 or 124 and 23 24 looks like we're at 84 Can you talk in general about why that might be? I don't know if I can speak specifically about drama. We have had discussion in the VAPA committee with drama teachers about their needs and the needs of the program, but in terms of why

113students have not continued to participate, I would have to dig deeper into that. Gotcha. And if we had turnover with our theater teachers? As well? I'm not sure if we have or haven't. There has been some turnover at one of the high schools, yes. We do have one drama teacher at Douglas Middle School. There's, I think, one section of drama there. And then there's theater at Woodland High, and Pioneer has had a little bit of turnover in the last couple of years. Okay, thank you for answering that question. I'm looking at UC and CSU A through G course requirements. It looks like that we've gone down since I think we're using the... 19-20 years of base year and that was at the 30 39.2 percent mate met a through G If we look at 22

11423, it looks like 35.4 met a through G I Know that's a goal of ours the state. I think we would say that we were trying to meet the meet the state average which is 51.1% but can can we talk about why why that is that is one of our one of the things we want to see increase is a through G and you know what what we're doing to try and reverse reverse that number mm-hmm before you start just to clarify it's not the state average the state rate the state rate right yes Yes. Thank you for that question. So I think the thing that I would talk about with related to A through G is the systemic equity review. So the review has really addressed this area. I am working in the course

115access and success section of that review. And so there's a group of us that have been discussing this very issue, what prevents students from having access to that coursework? Why are students not? earning the grades that they need. And there have been some surprises in this area where the team at Ed Trust West found that it's actually English courses, English course completion with a C or better that is the biggest barrier in our district for A through G completion. So we are learning a lot from the equity review and there's a lot more to come about that. I have another question on... percentage of students demonstrating college preparedness as measured by the early assessment program. If you could help me understand some of these definitions. So when we talk about students being college ready, what

116exactly do we mean by that? And when we say students are conditionally ready, what exactly do we mean by that? So the level of college ready is by the... the score that students receive on the Smarter Balanced summative test that they take in 11th grade. So it's based on their score on that assessment. And students who are conditionally ready, that's based on their score, but the conditional means that they need to take, in order to be ready for college, they need to take a class such as ERWC or the Expository Reading and Writing course. There's some courses that UC and CSU have identified that will allow a student to become ready if they've been identified as conditionally ready that they take in their senior year. Well, I do see at least an English language acquisition

117and looks like our college ready numbers are are going up from if you look at just generally a pioneer in 2019, went from 29% college ready to now in 2023, spring of 23, 58% college ready. I think the numbers for Woodland High School are 2019, they were 25% college ready, and 2023, we're at 36.61%. So that's a sign of... The hard work that everybody's doing we have seen some growth in that area. Yes. So hopefully that somehow will translate into the a through G column for sure I think But just that you know, you have to note I guess that in them but college ready in math area and it's very hard to That movement is much slower, right? That means much slower But okay, those are my questions. Thanks other questions just to riches

118folder I didn't see data on standardized tests for college entry such as SAT, ACT. Do we collect that information for our students? We do we have SAT and a CT data We have we don't have a metric for for that in the current El cap So wouldn't that go under college it no longer requirement by the UCS or CSU. Okay. Yeah, it's not so that's what we're focused on a through G What's not a requirement? So it's not no, I get it. But since we're only focused on really a through G. We're looking at UCS and CSU's but that totally negates all of the other school programs. I mean, for that matter, USC is free for anybody who makes under 75K. We shouldn't just discount that. It would also be. You can definitely propose that

119that's added. It's just so few students are taking it, we'd have to have a reasonable baseline established instead of what it was before when every student had to take it, right? So we would have a high percentage. Now the percentage is so low that we can say, okay, well, how can we grow this for those purposes? But it has to be, again, a reasonable baseline. But yeah, definitely something you can propose for the future. Other questions, Trustee Richensfeller? Trustee Garcia? Okay, thank you. And so I look forward to seeing the results of the equity review again the others a lot of areas here where we've gone down for litany of reasons But I'm gonna focus on those I'm gonna focus on some of the highlights the growth Especially the foster youth that the baseline was

120twenty eight point six percent according to the out cap and now we're at forty point one percent That's a huge increase for a 3g completion So I'm very happy about that the dual enrollment, right? from last year and before that was even lower. Woodland High School 237, now 378, Pioneer 204, now 311. Right, that's huge. And so that, and my question actually related to that and I hadn't thought about it was like, are these courses factored into the A3G completion? Yes. Okay. Yes. Good. So I'm glad that we're seeing progress there and hopefully we see more and that can also help right increase that but I mean there's other reasons why like you stated the the the seed being the the need for Passing grade for a third G versus a D for graduation. Yeah

121so but I know that I've given feedback in the past about some of these goals that we've identified and given feedback on how they're meeting more robust, especially around Goal 4. And I get, right, it was new, but it's not new anymore. And so I look forward to seeing some of the activities and targets around those. So we can give some feedback and then make a decision as a board how we're going to support and how we're going to allocate our resources to accomplish these. Yeah. Again it's just so much work to do. Right. And it's really hard to focus on everything. You can't. Right. So we as a board have to again at that conversation decide what are we going to focus on of all these because we just put our money amongst everything

122that's like very thin impact right versus if we decide OK we're going to Focus on X Y & Z then we're gonna have more of an impact, you know, we talked about literacy, of course, right? And we're waiting to get the literacy plan to do that But again, we're going into cut mode not increase Spending mode and so the decisions that we're gonna have to do when we approve the next the final version of the LCAP Those are conversations will be hard to have But again, just so much need. I mean, when we look at this document, they're just, and again, it's not just Woodland either, right? It's statewide, nationwide because of the impact that humans have had, not just young people from COVID. Yeah, there's just... It's daunting no question, but I know you

123are you all are not giving up you know talking to the camera to the teachers all the staff here. It's not an option. It's not a choice. We can't just go like oh my God it's overwhelming we can't do anything like we have to decide what to do. But you know when you look at this document you're like dang this is Christina's like yeah I know. But again there's there's there's a lot of bright spots as well that. We've seen a lot of good progress, a lot of growth, and we'll continue to do that. And again, little by little, we're coming out of this tunnel, this cave, you know, into a brighter light. It's a dim light right now in some areas, really bright in other areas, right? So we're in good, again, some bright

124spots in some areas. So Trustee Garcia? I agree. There's a lot of good things here in the report. I worry about one would say if the parents agree or... if the school promotes academic success. Yeah, this is one area that worries me. Because even on the parent engagement, there's a lot more opportunities. They're still thinking on that. So what I am thinking right now, there's a lot of good... events and things for the parents. But here the thing is if we can ask the parents why they want to know, especially at this time. in order to when the next calendar start, they start to get like the awesome event, the newcomers event, it was awesome, but I think it was excellent. But I would like to see more of those events at the beginning of

125the year. That way the parents are ready, they have the information already, right? I don't know if they can help. Those are my, yeah. Thank you Joe coming. Yeah, so yes, that was a new thing so we tested it out so we'll work with staff to see you know, how that can look in the future was a quite a Production a lot of time from the cafe from Maria little schools on her staff AND SO WE DID IT FOR THE FIRST TIME AND NOW WE LEARNED HOW THAT COULD LOOK LIKE IN THE FUTURE AND WHAT OTHER TIMES WE CAN DO IT. I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE BOARD FOR THE FEEDBACK THAT YOU'VE GIVEN AND ALSO FOR THE HIGHLIGHTING SOME OF THE BRIGHT AND DIM LIGHTS. ANYTHING, AS LONG AS IT'S LIGHT, RIGHT? AND WE

126KEEP MOVING TOWARD SOMEONE AND IT IS VERY DAUNTING. THERE IS A LOT. and our staff is very very dedicated i want to congratulate our air services department um i mean they've been through covet and hybrid and you know all kinds of things and then recovering from all that and so many um needs uh like trustee uh miyagana was saying there's so much need and uh it's amazing um the work that comes out of a few people um and uh from this department of supporting school sites and it cannot be done with the actual impact at the school at the site level in the classroom. The things that our teachers do. And so, you know, you heard some comments tonight about. people feeling overwhelmed and so I hope that we could continue moving forward and I

127agree with the president's comments about you need to maybe stay more focused and condense our focus so that we can You know move forward in a way that we can take care of our staff muscle not only emotionally socially but also that we can take care of MEETING THE NEEDS OF OUR FAMILIES AND ECONOMIC NEEDS OF THE DISTRICT AND OUR EMPLOYEES. SO THERE'S JUST A LOT TO DO AND A LOT OF DIFFICULT DECISIONS THAT ARE GOING TO COME FORWARD. AND WHEN THAT HAPPENS, WHEN WE START GETTING TO THOSE PLACES, IT'S GOING TO BE VERY DIFFICULT. WE ALREADY HAD ONE LITTLE TASTE OF JUST TALKING ABOUT THE HEALTH TECHS. And that was just one, you know, we only have them for one poor year at the time so that we can make decisions looking at everything

128on how we're going to move forward in addressing our deficit and also addressing, you know, making sure that our district is protected for years to come when we're not here any longer, that we make good decisions and thoughtful decisions. And with that, you know, I want to again. Thank our staff, our teachers, our custodians. Everyone is working so, so hard. I'm so amazed every time I visit the schools. And we're going to be having some tough decisions, and hopefully we can come out of that process still focused on knowing that we're doing the best that we can and that we are working together as a partnership moving forward. You know brace ourselves as we come forward to get more information and as we continue these discussions in the next coming months, especially next school year

129Yes pressure after the me may revise so Director Lambe my last question I Him my memories failing maybe but I I thought I remember seeing the a2g completion rate broken down by ethnicity Before in this document and I couldn't find it Is it my memory correct? Did we have that at one point or am I remembering incorrectly? And if we did where she could help me find it. Hmm Yeah, it's not broken down that way in this in the metric. We did have it right in this document at one point Well, this document is now the accumulation of all the years of this current LCAP. So we haven't made any changes to what year one, year two looked like. But do you remember that or not? I'm not sure what. Okay. Well, if you can

130look into that, please. Yeah. And if not, then that's definitely something that. We will add that to the next. We need to add to keep track of our subgroups because we do it by migrant population, foster youth. I forget what the other groups are but it's important to to look at a demographic as well. So by program and race ethnicity. Definitely. So that was my last. Any other questions or comments. Trustee Rodriguez. I just want to acknowledge that this is it is a great deal amount of work. Right. You can see it in the report. But I think what we've always wanted from a board's perspective is to. have a learning process, right, which you've already mentioned in looking through the lens of equity in that process. We've discovered some interesting things, right, like the

131English and the grade there. And I think that's really what we're trying to do. It is a lot, but we're trying to learn as much as we can about our own systems and our own students and our own, you know, how. and how our students interact with grades, things of that nature. So I think it's easier to digest when really to think about it that we're trying to create our own learning process to be as accurate as we can in regards to how things are happening for our students and in the district. So thank you, thank you for all that work and continue to learn more about. What's happening within our district and how that? Affects our students and our families. Thank you for your work. Thank you. All right Good keep moving. All right

132moving on to m3 Sorry m2 which is information school resource officer quarterly reports written report any questions on this report See no hands going up. We're going to move on to m3 information We view quarterly report on Williams and uniform complaints any question in this document. See no hands going up moving on to n1 Which is information follow up on efforts and investments to improve school meals? Trustee with the savannah. This is your item We're ready. No worries I'm pulling them up on my phone. I wanna say thank you for this item, Superintendent. Thank you to Louis and Spencer for meeting with me earlier this week and continuously as we try to work on this item jointly. So we know that our food, we recently got an update from Spencer about the CDE. assessment that

133was done and we all you know heard about that at the last board a couple board meetings ago so with that information in mind this is an informational item so you guys know that we can't take action on this so more so I just want to get a sense of head nods hopefully I can get the majority of you to to support this idea so With that said I'm gonna go ahead and read my statement so we can try to keep this up to a very limited time because we do have an extensive agenda. So we know that our school district has you know pretty good, you know food service department. Our department is very much dedicated and focused on nutrition and meeting the needs of our students. However, I have an idea that I

134would like to share with you guys. Woodland Joint Unified School District, I believe should conduct a school-wide food program and kitchen facility assessment. to ensure the health and well-being and efficiency of our food services. This assessment can identify areas for improvement and enhance food safety and offerings and promote healthier menu options and optimize resources to better serve the nutritional needs of our students. Additionally, I think that this is an opportunity to align with broader educational goals that we have set forward and fostering a positive learning environment by promoting healthy eating habits and providing opportunities for hands-on learning and culinary arts and nutrition in the future. So, what I'm asking is that we support with head nods for our staff to look into a potential assessment for our food service department and facilities and seeing what

135that might cost and then come back in July, which by the way, I did speak to Elodia and Louis and Spencer to get a sense of like, hey, should this board support this idea? with head nods, how long, you know, when is a good time to come back, you know, with doing the research of what something like this would cost. And they said, hey, you know, July is a good month. You know, this is a pretty, you know, busy period. And then July would be a good amount of time for them to potentially perform this research. Should they need more time, you know, time is flexible. But all I'm asking is for head nods is for them to go out and see what it would cost to do an assessment and then come back to

136us with this information. I do have some ideas. There may be some resources out there. So this would give us some time to see what's out there and see if there's any organizations that would be willing to help offset the cost. So all I'm asking for tonight is for head nods for our staff to look into what it would cost to do a food services and facility district-wide assessment to assess where... we are with our food offerings, our facilities, what is the potential that our department could potentially do in order to improve. And I'll keep it very limited. But the broader idea and long-term goal is for us to be able to utilize the results of this assessment to make long-term strides in improving our food service offerings, department, and efficiency. What question is this?

137So this assessment, would it include analyzing the nutritional offerings that we have as compared to some sort of nutritional standard? I'm going to keep it very vague because it's a very extensive assessment. I don't know the ins and outs of the assessment because what I'm asking is for our staff to go out and see what kind of assessment can be done. There might be a very limited one, a medium one, and a large and extensive one. But what I'm asking is that we ask our staff to go out and do some research and seeing what assessments are out there. Who can we bring in to do outside assessment to come in and say, hey, your department, your food service department is operating with this amount of capacity. Your output is X amount of meals. Your

138facility infrastructure in your kitchens in your you know your buildings This is what it is because we've never had an outside Assessment come in and really give us an idea of where we are and I'll remind you what I said the other day at a prior board meeting is that our Facility master plan did not include our food service department. So we don't know what state we're in This assessment could also include an opportunity for them to make recommendations. Should we be able to or have the willingness and ability to make an investment to improve? So this is not just the facility and the assessment that you're proposing. You're proposing the whole food program be looked at. The program facility. With the intention to take action and do some things to improve ultimately. If possible.

139If possible. What kind of an effort is this for is this I mean for staff to go and do this type of research I mean, I know we're talking about July. Is there any kind of idea of what type of? Effort that would take hours. I had to well, um Lewis would need to work with Spencer probably contact Some other districts or do some research to see what other people have done do some research about kinds of vendors would or Contracts, you know service providers I could do this work for us and ask for some proposals get some information to see what would may work for us and then You know from there gather and see which ones that they feel would be a match for our district and bring back to the board on

140in July I did Did share with a trustee Savala that if we did this right now The staff does not have time for that right now. So Later this summer would be a more more doable for us We're busy trying to end the year and start summer school then all that so, you know July August would be ideal time for us to bring that if the board give that direction That's your question. Trusty. Ma. Yeah, I guess I was sort of thinking too if we Expend the funds to do something like this not thinking that we're going to be able to take any action from it Is there I'm and I want to say too. I'm really with you that this is really important. It's an important thing to tackle but I'm just wondering kind

141of about the idea of Spending money on something that we won't be able to follow through with or we don't foresee that we may have the funds to follow through with Sure. No, I agree with you. You know, should they come back in July or August and say, you know, these are this is the potential cost, right? The board at the time, we would have to make a decision. Like, is this something that we really want to do? But it's kind of this is one of those projects that we know we need to improve our food service department. We know that we could do better in our food offerings if we don't try to tackle it. or start to tackle it, you know, when are we going to do it? I know that there may

142be some organizations that may be interested in willing, and this is their, you know, their mission. They may be able to help us out and I want to be able to work with Louis and Elodia and Spencer in seeing if that's an option and jointly coming back and saying this is what we researched and this is what we found. Is there a way that we could possibly target it, narrow the focus of it a little bit as opposed to making it so broad and talking about facility assessments and all of that and make it more focused towards, because I like what you're saying about improving our offerings. So specifically looking at what we're serving and maybe looking at where we can change where we're sourcing our food and what the effect is that that could

143take, make it just a little more focused. It could make it more feasible. Just a thought. Other questions? I hear where you're coming, but I really want the board and the district to have a clear idea of what is the state of our food. Our food kitchens because we have no idea you know it wasn't included in the facility master plan So we don't really know where we are and when when was even like the last major investments, right? So I think it is important. You know as we start thinking about you know Potential bonds like we don't even know where the need is in terms of our kitchen, so I hear you though when you say hey, can we piece this out? Can can we do one thing at a time? But I think

144we could make that decision once we know what the cost is other to release but when was the last time there was a overall evaluation of our of our food processes our food system Not that I recall. I don't know Lewis assassinating additional information. They're both not Yeah, I've been around since 2005 and I don't recall anything either So the statement was he's been around because no my con you so around since 2009 and there has been no type Sorry nine years and has been no sorry. So 11 years Spencer does not recall any assessment either so So I would want that Because I thought I recalled that there was in the facilities assessment an assessment of all our needs in the district and so I would want to review that document or have staff

145look at the document and come back with what that document said because again, it was a long time ago. I don't trust my memory anymore. So that's one one thing that I want to do first and then second I agree with Trustee Mott about narrowing down because right now it's kind of like here and so staff would imagine would have a hard time even knowing who to look for as far as the assessment. Second and then third realizing that this this is that this wasn't budgeted right and an original approval of the budget so this would increase to in our deficit spending. that much more and so we want to then figure out where we're going to cut from to be able to pay for this because I don't want to add more to our

146deficit. Definitely not. So at least not right now. So those are the three concerns that I have. The main one again is I just want to make sure that there's not information already in that document that could be helpful. And I know it's on facilities. I think you also want on like the food itself. Right. I know that's not there for sure because that's not what the assessment was about. But I thought I thought there was they even talked about like Where there's a need for a kitchen and but again, I could be wrong in my recollection Superintendent. Yes, I there is some minimal Assessments of food service kitchens, but not to the depth that trustee Savala is suggesting Well, that's the thing that I'm not sure what you're suggesting. So it's so You do

147remember was in that document is not sufficient there, right? What my understanding is that the facility master plan took into account the school sites, but not the main kitchen facilities. So I could be wrong, but that was my understanding. Minimal review, sir. So minimal review of all facilities. Jim and Ira. Okay. So what's the procedure, I guess? So, I mean, the fact that there hasn't really... Been one in any you know in anybody's memory I think for me makes it important that we we try to do one You know we could get a report back about what we could find, who could do it, what the cost would be, and then we could decide at that point whether it's worth it or not. I think this would actually be a really perfect opportunity, if we

148had the wavelength to do it, to partner with UC Davis and use some of the services at UC Davis, some of the expertise, and see if we can connect with somebody out there in their ag, those folks that deal with... food processing of food, maybe write a grant and that way not have an impact on our particular budget. Doesn't seem too far fetched, although it still works, doesn't seem too far fetched to do it. So I think the fact that we haven't done one, I think for me leads me to say, okay, let's move forward and then let's see what can be done and what the costs are and we can value that out at that time. Okay, so I see two for sure. Trustee Mott? Yes. Trustee Risenfelder? Yes. Trustee Garcia? So just so

149Just to have staff again, I want to give staff more direction though because it's to me it's very big right now. I agree with Trustee Mott said and we and if we decide yes then we can go into that conversation next on what that is. But right now is just to have staff research what assessments are out there they could come back and then make a recommendation. We would have to do an RFP for this? I'm saying if we hired someone in the future we'd have to do a process. Okay, so make sure Yeah, okay. So again, the first step is just to identify What these vendors are what they offer kind of like we did for the? Redrawing of the boundary school boundaries, right? They did research they invited interviewed and then we've made

150a recommendation and now we have a firm right same thing but again staff had very clear directions as to what we wanted from these vendors and they delivered what we wanted because they were clear so i just want you to state more what it is so let me let me put it this way like in 10 years what would be different maybe that's a way to do it so like we know what we're looking for like after this assessment is done and the board takes action what would be different or again more specific as to what this assessment would look at trustee mott does that okay perfect so my idea is for us to do an assessment that would tell us where we are in terms of our food offerings, what we could do to

151improve, and then what is the state of our food facility kitchens? Like, what is it? Where are we? You know, where are our deficiencies? What are the improvements we could make in order to better our food offerings in terms of our facility, you know, kitchens? Of course, it's assessment of food offerings and assessment of food kitchens. Are you thinking K-12 district-wide? Yes. Is that sufficient to narrow it down for you? One more. It is still pretty broad, but I think maybe they could start I wouldn't be able to answer if that's sufficient until I started going and doing research myself. You might hit some walls and there might have to be some discussion and questions for clarification. Okay, but I'm I'm in I'm in support. Okay, so we're in support of moving forward with the

152you know You can rewatch the video. I don't think you took fast notes based on what trustee but this all I said and I also like the idea of Finding partners who said trustee, but the savannah who would contribute to the cost or even underwrite, right? Totally that'd be been ideal But the least impact on our again my goal for the rest of this time in the board is to eliminate that deficit right because we cannot continue there'll be a point again where YOU KNOW, THE COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT IS PROBABLY GOING TO COME AND TELL US, OKAY, Y'ALL GOT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS, RIGHT? OR THE STATE MIGHT COME AND SAY, RIGHT, YOU GOT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS. WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF WINDOW LEFT, I THINK. IT HAS TO BE ADDRESSED. AND

153SO WE CAN'T ADD MORE. THAT'S NOT THE WAY, THAT'S NOT THE DIRECTION WE NEED TO GO. WE HAVE TO REDUCE THAT. SO TRUSTEE RODRIGUEZ? I WAS GOING TO SAY, AND THE TIMELINE SHOULD ALSO BE MOVED BACK PROBABLY TOWARDS THE END OF SUMMER, NOT THE ORIGINAL JUNE TIMELINE, IT SOUNDS LIKE. We talked about July but July yeah, June would be impossible. We got too much going on So July or July are you see me moving a bit more in this off? So August what are you saying just you like to work or I don't want to push it back if it's not needed So like I would like to have that flexibility July August You okay with that? Mm-hmm. Okay with that July. Okay, you need you have any additional clarification. I just have there's two

154main themes food offerings Where it's a state of what we're offering how can we are whether areas to improve and state our actual kitchen facilities? And where it where's the state of in what areas can we improve? Okay Sounds good. Thank you. Yeah. All right moving on to n to public hearing school facility fees justification report for residential commercial and industrial development project so Yeah, so we open the public hearing first and then we'll take comments on this one public hearings opened and we'll take comments Brian coward and then Eric Garber. That's all good evening superintendent Ortega Lampkin president Villa Grana and board members My name is Brian coward. I'm a woodland resident and I'm here just to give my thoughts on passing of this Statutory fees I've been closely following the city and its

155planned growth in Spring Lake and the Woodland Research Technology Park and the district's lack of planning to provide neighborhood schools in these areas. I came to this board back in 2019 with a petition and signature supporting neighborhood schools and have since joined a grassroots neighborhood group, Woodland Accountability Community WAC group. to bring the lack of access to neighborhood schools and other issues to the attention of leaders and representatives. We've had some success. This board has expressed concerns about declining enrollment in the recent past and suggested a marketing campaign would be a good approach to convincing families to attend. schools and I don't think that that's necessarily a great approach or maybe just one but without the community that forms around a neighborhood school families and forced with and families forced to drive 15 to 20

156minutes into Woodland or Davis we'll leave the district and their community This study, now presumably, and now presumably the district recognized that increasing the financial resources available to mitigate the growth Woodland has planned is the correct approach for retaining the Woodland students by building neighborhood schools. Having followed this issue of access to neighborhood schools in Woodland for over a decade, and seeing the removal of two sites in Spring Lake, school sites in Spring Lake, I know all too well that the district and board are willing to collect increased fees and break promises, all without considering the long-term implications to those families, communities, and ironically the district itself. I have very little hope that these desperately needed fees will be used responsibly as the current administration and board openly promote the use of an equity lens

157on their facility master plan, which suggests declining enrollment and existing facility capacity are sufficient. completely contrary position to this study and the justification for raising fees to mitigate the growth. We need to build trust between the study's recognition of the desperate need for funds to mitigate the growth in Spring Lake. Spring Lake's got 10,000 residents when it's built out and the Tech Park, 4,000 residents and we have one school right now. that'll house 420 students. That's 14,000 Woodland residents with one school that will house 420 students. Thank you. Eric Garber. Evening trustees. My name is Eric Garber and I just wanted to say I was actually extraordinarily excited to see the fee justification study pop up finally on the agenda and My first questions are gonna be very very specific That's why I know you

158were emailed the detail of those questions And also I know that the format of this meeting hopefully will convey the written questions to you and I'm Great looking forward to the explanation. I know staff is going to be able to explain some of the details to these. I know a lot of these are in the weeds, but I just want to highlight I think the major areas of concern that I hope come out of that presentation by the staff and also the company that did the fee gestication study. And so the first area of concern is just how they did the calculations themselves. So where do these capacity numbers come from? There's just a couple of things we noticed as looking through them. So number one is it looks at the SAB form and also

159looks at new Buildings and one is spring like elementary and it listed as 275 but currently it's 375 and so that is already a hundred different Another big area of concern that we want to have an understanding for is how are the current portables district-wide included in the capacity? There's two ways you can do this both ways that we know of how to do that Doesn't come to the same number that we see in the study and so we're wanting where that conclusion came from the next area of concern is the enrollment projections themselves because one is capacity one is how many kids are going to be here and so on the projections a Big question is was spring lake Residents included in the projections, so it says that they're excluded at least in in

160the fact that they're already mitigated by the turn of century agreement so they shouldn't be included in a justification study that's for the rest of woodland and so we're wondering if they were included and if so why and then also a big peculiar aspect of the future enrollment is an 18% increase in enrollment and so it uses the past five years to predict future growth the last five years have been declined and so we're just wondering how that increase would happen And it also projects to add 927 elementary students in the next five years. And so we're looking at that, and we looked at the new development, and it predicts that 101 will come from the new development. So that leaves out 826 projected elementary students. Where are they coming from? So we'd like to

161know where that number came from. Then if you look down at... A big part we really want to point out is how the money will be spent. So when you collect this money, it's very clear and it states that constructing new facilities or construct additional permanent facilities on existing campuses. And so that would be for 960 elementary students, which that is how it justifies collecting a fee. And so that's how you're able to get the money and it tells you how to spend the money. And so we want to make sure we understand that correctly that you won't be able to use the money for other purposes or at least It tells you this is how you should use it. And the only time you could spend it on something like portables would be for

162interim housing during new construction projects. And so previously used fund 25, that's where this money is going. And historically, you've spent that on existing portables and paying for leases. So make sure that that won't happen with these funds. Thank you. Any other comments? Okay, that closes the public hearing on this item. You ready? Say again? Okay, thank you. That's next item good governing board for president superintendent this evening we have representatives from school facility consultants to share a Short presentation with the board as well as answer any questions that the trustees may have about their fee justification study Good evening board president board members superintendent. My name is Kevin Sullivan. This is my colleague Jared Anderson We're from school facility consultants. You may remember us. We gave a primer on Developer fees I think was

163the end of August of last year. We're back in front of you tonight to talk about talk about the school facility fee justification report the document that will allow your board to make findings and update your level one fees so if you recall we talked about the different types of fees this report is for level one fees it's a capped fee We had discussed, I think, the last board meeting that it's adjusted every two years by the State Allocation Board, even numbered years. So in January, the State Allocation Board adjusted the fee. Previously, it was at $4.79. Now it's at $5.17 per square foot on residential. And it's also been increased on commercial industrial. I'll turn it over to Jared to talk about the fee study itself. Right. So what we put together for you

164guys and... major part of the level one justification report is Require the government code requires that that really reasonable relationship or nexus between the use of the fee and the development on the fees are charged and so the report itself does that analysis and it's in detail in in the justification report and that's really the first step is to make that connection And then the next step that the report does is it establishes the impact and that's really the cost per square foot of each residential square foot that is constructed in the district. And so the math there is laid out and each of those and where those. specific numbers come from again is in detail in the report and it lays out the cost to the district of seven dollars and fifty four cents

165per square foot and because the cost is higher than what the than the cap that the state places on the level one fee of five dollars and seventeen cents then it allows the district to be fully justified for that five dollars and seventeen cents And that, again, is for residential. That same justification for the commercial industrial fee is present in the report as well. So with that, the report, I think, has been duly noticed. This meeting has been published in a newspaper, as required by the government code. The resolution that makes the findings outlined in the report is ready for your review. One caveat, the fee does not go into effect immediately upon the adoption of the resolution. It goes into effect a minimum of 60 days after tonight. We're here for any questions. Who

166has first question? Trustee Mott. I do have a question. So in the fee justification report, section D, the plan for fulfilling school needs, I just wanted to clarify the intention of that section. It was pretty brief. It talks about that... In the assessment that there's a projection that the there will be a need for increased elementary square footage and it talks about plans for additions to elementary schools does that mean Expanding a current school the school itself. Is that what it's referring to? So that plan that that facility plan is based off of the the districts facility assessment and each site of the facility assessment identifies Really what it comes down to is portable replacement or it's line item in there as new construction of classrooms and so those new construction of classrooms that are

167identified in the district's facility assessment is what the report is referring to when it discusses new additions. So new construction of classrooms and in here in the report when it talks about additions, it's talking about it's referring specifically to expansion of the school itself. Correct. And specifically the maps that are in the district's facility assessment. So there's specific number of classrooms that are outlined to be replaced, removed, portables versus permanent. And so. You can see on the map in the facility assessment those particular classrooms and then those the summation of those classrooms are the is referred to in the report for how that need will be addressed. Okay I guess I'm still maybe I'm I might be missing something and if anyone can help me. So in the language in this report, when it's talking

168about additions, it's not talking about additions of a portable facility. It's talking about expansion of a brick-and-mortar classroom. So the cost basis in the report, the nexus that we're drawing between what the district's facility plan is and its cost and et cetera, et cetera. is the assumption that you're going to be constructing new permanent facilities. The district may have a need to continue to provide portable facilities while the funds necessary to implement the construction program are gathered. And so there may still be a need for portables in the district in order to house students as the district is able to sort of effectuate. THE FUND WOULD BE SPENT FOR EXPANSION OR CONSTRUCTION AS OPPOSED TO PURCHASE OR LEASING OF NEW PORTABLE FACILITIES. THAT'S WHAT IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S SAYING. I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY THAT.

169THE INTENT IS THAT THE FUNDS ARE COLLECTED FOR THAT PURPOSE. HOWEVER, UNDERSTANDING THAT WE ALL LIVE IN A REALITY WHERE NOT ALL OF THE FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE WHEN THEY'RE NEEDED, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO PAY FOR THEM. There is an allowance within the law and within the justification report for the district to expend those funds on interim housing. Okay. And so here it does talk about portable classrooms and it says interim, right? And would that be interim until... Schools can be the additions can be constructed or an additional school can be built that yes They don't believe that the intent is that that that is specifically during the construction of the facility it is As we've talked about before I think is that students are always housed No, no one is going to school on

170the sidewalk. No one's going to school in the playground So we do have housing for students as they arrive either through portable classrooms or increased class sizes But that's not our ideal of what we plan for we plan for the construction of permanent classrooms over time. Thank you So it sounds like the districts get a great deal of latitude as to the extent time-wise, right, of these temporary buildings as funding comes in to be able to build permanent. So there's not a lot of time limit per se. Right, right. Well, I would say that the facility assessment, you know, Kind of outlines of course what you would like to do what the district would prefer to do There's a lot of portable replacement outlined in that facility assessment But at the same time as we

171all know the money may not be there. And so what do we do in the meantime? and that's Like Kevin said that allowance is outlined in both the code and the justification. Thank you trustees of these So just to kind of revisit it a little bit So interim can go on for quite a long time and in fact if you never get to the point where you have enough money to build a new school the interim label can continue to follow that particular scenario. Or is there a cap on the interim time basis? I don't know that there is a specific cap or description of that. All of these reports are specific to the circumstances of the school district. And so, you know. So the circumstances of the school district, i.e. the ability to pay

172for a brand new building determines what is interim in the timeline of interim. Correct. I think that's a reasonable way of looking at things. Other questions or comments from trustees? Nope. We're ready to move on to the next item. Trustee Rodriguez? In these numbers, did you also take into account the numbers coming out of Spring Lake as well? Right. So the main purpose of this report is to justify the collection of developer fees from... homes that are subject to level one fees and As we know that the homes that are constructed in Spring Lake are not subject to level one fees Those are not included in the number of units that are expected however, the capacity and the enrollment of Spring Lake is included in the sense of determining the the overall capacity at K-6

173because it is part of the school district. So it was included in determining the capacity? Both the capacity and the enrollment. So if it's in one side, it needs to be in the other side. But again, that has no direct relation to the impacts on the development that are coming outside of Spring Lake. Gotcha. Other questions? Comments? Ready to move on to the next item. Okay, so that can ends and THE RESOLUTION WOULD NEED TO BE ADOPTED. YES. NO, NOW WE'RE ON N2. N3 IS THE RESOLUTION ITSELF. DON'T MOVE YET IN CASE TRUSTEES HAVE QUESTIONS ON THE RESOLUTION. SURE. SO WE HAVE RECEIVED COMMENTS TODAY IN PUBLIC AND ALSO IN WRITING. THERE ARE 60 DAYS FROM WHEN IF WE DECIDE TO APPROVE TODAY, OR AGAIN, STAFF HAS OPPORTUNITY TO RESPOND TO THOSE COMMENTS. AND SO

174WE CAN APPROVE IT TODAY. But the fact that again staff has time before the fees take effect to do that so if the board's comfortable We could take a motion again after your questions are answered on the resolution if not then again the board can decide to push it to the next meeting and then Approve it at the next meeting. So first we'll take questions and then we'll talk about what what how we want to move forward So any questions on the resolution itself any clarification needed? at all Just to clarify the 60 days start today for public hearing regardless if we approve the resolution not the public hearing before the fees can start being collected Okay, but the 60 days start today, correct? Regardless if we approve no only if we approve so it

175is the 60 days start once we once it's approved Okay. Yeah So no questions on the resolution Okay I'M SORRY, THERE WAS ONE PUBLIC COMMENT. i do want to make a couple of points about some of the stuff you just heard it is really interesting to think about counting the spring lake students in the capacity when those are already mitigated and they're accounted for with a separate agreement but then they come into the rest of woodland and then you count for them which then increases total enrollment which then allows you to justify a fee for the rest of woodland so i know everything's legally permissible and i get it but just think about how you're essentially double dipping into the the students in the spring lake area since they already paid separately. I also wanted

176to point out a couple of things about the long-term impact of spending money on interim. I guess that's what they're called, all the portables you already have and why we don't know how they were included in the capacity yet. Shouldn't they count for the capacity? Because those numbers don't seem to match up. So it might be good to know how the portables were counted and if they're done accurately and which model they used to account for their capacity. I also want to point out one big point of this resolution as you're considering it. And this is one of the main things I would like to point out is that it tells us there's a predicted five-year growth. Trustee Villagran has been saying, you know, there's a declining enrollment across the state of California. Well, we

177have a five-year prediction saying we're not going to have declining enrollment. And we also have increased population in Woodland. We've been increasing quite rapidly. In 2022, Yolo County was one of the top increased population districts in the whole state. And so while there are a lot of... declining enrollments and declining populations across the state of California, that's macro data. Let's look at local data and see how we're doing and make decisions based on local data. And so I also want to point out that as you're making this decision, it also points to what the contract says itself. And so here are some things that are in the resolution that I really hope you approve because it does point out several important things. One is it states that there is a plan to construct new elementary

178school additions. It does tell us that this is a There is a need for capacity because we won't have enough. 960 elementary students will be unhoused in five years. It also tells us that the money that's being taxed and the fee collected from Woodlanders is designed to be spent on new construction. So these are the points I just wanted to point out that I think is important to consider as you're voting on this resolution because all that information is in there. This tells Woodlanders we're gonna increase your fee by 25% because of a capacity problem. And so, It can't be, well, yeah, I know that's what it says, but really, I know at one point it was called illegal fiction and that's what allows us to charge extra money, but it actually is what you're

179allowed to. charge a fee from. So I hope that you do believe that we are increasing enrollment in five years and that establishes the need. And so that need is district wide. And so that allows you to justify collecting the fees. And so I really hope this resolution is what we stand behind and say there is a need in Woodland and it's so great if you add together everything it's over a thousand students at high school and elementary that we're gonna need to find a space for in five years which is coming pretty quick. Thank you. I do have a question, if you can put to the podium, please. So... The comment was made that this fees being assessed on woodlanders, but just to clarify this fees assessed on new development, right? It's not being

180assessed across the city on all woodlanders. Correct. Okay. Just want to make sure that yeah. Yeah. Okay. Good. It's only for a new construction additions over 500 square feet. Thank you. Even, even more of a restriction. Okay, good. Cause again, the statement was said woodlanders and I'm like, no, I don't think that's the case. Okay. Perfect. Any other questions on the resolution? OKAY. SO AGAIN, WE HAVE THE OPTION OF MAKING A MOTION, SECOND, AND APPROVING IT AND THEN THERE'S A 60-DAY PERIOD OR BRINGING IT BACK NEXT MEETING. WHAT IS THE PROPOSAL OF THE BOARD? OKAY. SO MAKE A MOTION. MOTION TO APPROVE. THANK YOU. MOTION BY TRUSTEE MOTT. IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND. SECOND BY TRUSTEE BAUTISTAVALA. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. ANY NOS? NO NOS. ONE ABSTENTION FROM ME. THANK YOU. Alright moving

181on to n4 and so the next four items are Lease lease back services again Beamer cash Dingo and Gibson. We'll take one by one if you have any questions We have a team here ready to answer. Yeah. If I may, just have a few words before we go ahead. Good evening, Board of Trustees, President Villagrana, and Superintendent Ortega-Lampkin, and welcome back, Trustee Noel. I just wanted to kind of speak to where we were about a year ago, where we had a capital improvement plan passed by the Board of Trustees. to improve our sites. We have this kind of safety protocol. And at that time, it was my team consisted of just myself and Vicki Pulsifer, who was our project manager. At that time, we realized that we needed to expand our team in order to

182make this vision a reality. Shortly thereafter, we started to look at construction managers, and we settled on PMG construction managers, and to represent them is Jeff Bozeman. Shortly after that, we started to look for design and architectural firms, and we landed on HMC Architects, and here to represent them is Dan Ng. And then we finally landed on our construction company contractor to partner with. It was Roebling Construction, and Adam Villacara is here to represent them, the president of Roebling Construction. Over the course of the last year, we've walked the sites, we've done site surveys, we've done engineering, we've done ADA assessments, drawings, design plans, we've gone through DSA for approvals. And after we started gathering all that information Roblin started to come up with our GMPs the guaranteed maximum prices for our four schools that

183we have here And it was a lengthy process that was very involved a lot of questions involved of what we were doing at each sites But we're here to answer any questions and ask for approval of these four GMPs Thank you. Thank you for coming as well. I know it's a Little late, but hopefully we get done pretty soon and get you all go on getting home trustees any questions on number four item four and then Yes, and for some I'D LIKE TO MOVE FOR APPROVAL. THERE'S A MOTION TO APPROVE. SECOND. SECOND BY TRUSTEE GARCIA. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. ANY OPPOSITION? HEARING NONE, I'M ABSTAINING AGAIN. I SAID EARLIER MY RESPONSIBILITIES AS A FATHER OVERSHADOWED MY RESPONSIBILITIES AS TRUSTEES AND I DIDN'T GET A CHANCE TO READ THESE DOCUMENTS AT ALL. SO THAT'S WHY I'M

184ABSTAINING FROM THEM. ALL RIGHT. MOVING ON TO N5. YOU DON'T HAVE ANY MORE THINGS TO SAY? YEAH. PERFECT. MOTION TO APPROVE. SO MOVED. moved by trustee richard fowler second by Second. Trustee Mott. All those in favor. Aye. Any opposition? Hearing none. One abstention. Moving on to N6. Motion to approve. Motion by Trustee Garcia. Second by Trustee Richardson-Fowler. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposition? Hearing none. One abstention. And moving on to N7. Is there a motion to approve? Motion to approve. Second. Motion by Trustee Garcia. Second by Richardson-Fowler. All those in favor say aye. any opposition hearing none again one abstention myself thank you so much and we look forward to getting updates and seeing progress and seeing that big sign that says you know measure why i'm ready we're starting tomorrow beautiful

185again thank you and let's do a round of applause for this movement we're getting much needed uh for our schools so Thank you everyone and n8 was moved up earlier in the agenda Moving on to Oh information requests for future agenda items for interest ease trustee Richardson Fowler I submitted a Request on the German American Partnership Program a request on Looking at schedules and terms so that students can access more classes And then I also submitted a request about how we can facilitate some sort of video library of webinars and provide information to facilitate communication and accessibility for our families. I think that's something that came up multiple times tonight. So I just thank you. Any other trustee Garcia? Yes, I would like to ask as a Friday update about that process for the future

186it felt field trips the pros How is the process? Yes, it won't be this Friday though. Thank you any other requests from trustees Okay If the superintendent needs to follow up with Trustee Garcia, if she needs to submit a yellow sheet with more information on that. All right. Any closing comments? Trustee Rodriguez? I just wanted to say, we've discussed this before, I think it's really important that as we start... doing our measure why projects that that our multimedia cover the measure why projects and that Looking at Jerry right now that is not not just coverage Certainly to inform our families and our students But also think about it as coverage to inform the public that we are beginning to use the funds that we ask them for And that we're using them appropriately You know

187we have our new Newsletters going out to outside of the schools and we're trying to get growth in that and again That's one way, you know in addition to our social media But this is again people get an email directly just like a parents do now But it's people who are not in any way connect to the district in case they want to keep information Definitely, that's one space, you know that we can recommend the superintendent to direct staff to put information there for sure So I just want to reassure the board we've been working on this for months now So we have a plan in place. Thank you for saying a lot of what we already believed. Any other closing comments? Just on my end, again, you know, going back to the LCAP and

188again, recognizing all the work that's been done and that continues to be done, again, all levels of the district, again, is not one segment of our staff that does it all. You know, from... the individuals in this building to the individuals that drive the students to the schools, right? Again, I love how the director, Tony, has told us, right, that's the first face they see in the morning, right? And they set the tone for everyone else, right? And they do such a great job helping our young people feel, right, that positive, welcoming feeling, and then that continues. Again, I haven't been in a classroom where I'm like, wow, what the heck is going on? I mean, always the... the individual in that classroom is very caring and compassionate and and does a great job and

189again when I've seen staff interact you know with each other with with families again I've seen the same thing over and over so again just want to recognize all that everyone does to to make what we do happen for our young people because that's what we're here right to serve those young people Anything else if not Yes, I want to thank you for all of you were present tonight at 4 o'clock your busy schedules came earlier even earlier to the board meeting to meet Our student youth advisory council. They were so excited to meet you They were not sure if you were going to show up and I kept reassuring them that THEY WERE VERY IMPORTANT TO YOU. THANK YOU FOR BEING THERE AND ENGAGING WITH THEM AND ASKING THEM QUESTIONS. I'M VERY EXCITED TO

190BE SPENDING TIME WITH THESE YOUNG ADULTS AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO WHAT FEEDBACK AND INPUT THEY'RE GOING TO GIVE ME TO HELP ME DO A BETTER JOB FOR YOU. Yeah, we had perfect attendance right at that event so that was good and I want to say thank you trust the President to remind me I had to be here. I was on the call and say you will be at a fork. Oh, I won't forget Thank you. No problem. My pleasure. So the date and time the next scheduled regular board meeting is Thursday, May 9th 2024 closed session at 5 p.m. And 6 p.m. Is open session. I will have to zoom in for that meeting just so you all know but our vice president will be more than happy to take the gavel and facilitate

191the meeting. She said it right now with a big old smile. And with that said.