Board Meeting 8-10-23

001Loud. Yeah. You just the volume a little bit over there. Thank you. I think that worked. Yes. Call me to order at 5 p.m. Can I get approval motion to approve the agenda. Move. By Trustee. Second. By Trustee Rodriguez. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposition. Seeing none. Unanimous approval by all trustees present. And any public comments on closed session? See none. We are going to recess at 5 still into closed session and we'll come back at close to 6 p.m Thank you everyone. We are back in At 6 0 8 from closed session. I still hear a little feedback Y'all hear the feedback was just me, right? Try this. You still hear me. Okay, it's done like this though The mics power is pretty strong today Again, thank you everyone. We're going

002to start with the Pledge of Allegiance. If you stand, please. Thank you, everyone. Before we continue into announcements, in the conversation with the planning committee, we discussed some parts of the last meeting. I didn't get a chance to watch the entire meeting, just a few parts of it. But just clarifying two points. One is that a trustee is able to pull an item from the consent agenda at any point without a motion needed to do that. This has been a practice that we've had and again we're going to continue with that. And then the other part too just clarifying that if the board had wanted to agenda something at that moment in the motion that was made then that could have happened. The planning committee again just basically serves at the pleasure of the board.

003It's just three board members and three board members don't cannot override what the board as a whole. So on that day if a trustee would have made a motion to have that because it's an item that was agendized and part of the motion is to agendize item ongoing. then the four trustees at that point could have made that happen. It didn't have to go to the planning committee for that to take effect. I just want to clarify that. Just point of clarification. There was no four votes. Those four trustees here saying if the fortress you have voted to do that then it would have been a gen nice But such vote what didn't happen no, I understand that I'm just saying that it could have happened and so if there's four of us here now

004They want to genus within the future. It doesn't go to have to not have to go to the Planning Committee Legenda Planning Committee to agenda something the board is the board's agenda not the Planning Committee's agenda We just execute what the board wants us to do. Thank you and with that set Announcement in the closed session. So we didn't did not make any decisions in closed session. So moving on to Or did not take any votes I should say and to eat three board action approval appointment employment at the following positions and we're going to start with the associate superintendent at services move for approval Sorry assistant not associate assistant superintendent moved by trustee Bautista Zavala and second by trustee Richardson Fowler for the position for Ricardo Perez for the position of assistant superintendent of

005educational services. Do a roll call vote. We'll start at the end. SPEAKER 2 Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. See. And yes. The appointment of Ricardo Perez for the Assistant Superintendent of Educational Service has been unanimously approved. But before we call him up, we have to do another part. So pursuant to Government Code Section 54953, Subdivision C3, the Board provides this oral summary of the salary and fringe benefits for the executive position of Assistant. superintendent educational services to be filled by F Ricardo Perez. The term of this agreement shall commence on August 28th 2023 and end on June 30th 2025. The minimum salary to be paid in monthly installments for 23-24 school year shall be in the amount of the annual salary reflected by step 5 which is $187,586 of the 23 24 assistant superintendent salary schedule

006prorated by this start date and less all statutory and other deductions. The agreement also provides for the same health and welfare benefits as other districts certificated management employees. I'll take a motion for the approval of the employment agreement for F. Ricardo Perez for the position of assistant superintendent of educational services. So moved move a trustee or the followers second by Trustee Garcia. I WILL START WITH MYSELF THIS TIME. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES.

007YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES Good evening, Board President Villagrana, Trustees, Superintendent Ortega-Lampkin, and community. I'm incredibly honored and thrilled to return to the Woodland Joint Unified School District as a new Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services. The warmth and the support that I have already experienced from this wonderful community have touched me and my heart deeply. Having spent seven enriching years at the Davis-John Unified School District as a director of multilingual education, I'm now eager to bring my experiences and my insights back to the place where my educational journey truly began. The past two decades of my career were shaped by the

008incredible opportunities I had within the Woodland District, from being a dedicated teacher to a passionate site administrator and ultimately a devoted district administrator. What makes this homecoming even more special is that I'm not only returning to my professional roots, but also to the very community that nurtured me as a student. Woodland Public Schools played an integral role in the shaping of who I am today, and it's an honor to give back and contribute to the growth and success of the next generation of students. As I step into this new role, I am committed to working collaboratively with all the staff. families, and community partners to continue contributing to the best possible educational experiences for all our students. I'm excited to leverage my experiences to further enhance the educational services and opportunities available to our diverse

009and vibrant community. I would like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to all of you for your warm welcome and continued support. Together, we will continue to build a bright future for our students and empower them to reach their full potential. And I would be remiss if I didn't say thank you to my family. I have an incredible family, just very dear to this community. And they've been my pillar, my rock, and all of my support, especially my wife, Maria Luisa. So thank you. And thank you for this wonderful opportunity. Any comments before? Bienvenido de nuevo. Muchas gracias. Felicidades. Any comments or questions? So, again, welcome back. look forward to collaborating and working with you to can continue to implement the goals that have been identified by by the board and You know working with the

010awesome team. So thank you. I look forward to this journey of working together Board president. I have a question in regards to this item over it. Will a public I'm sorry. Will a press release be released about this position being filled? Yes. As we do with all other minister positions we will do a press release along with the additional position that's coming up forward next. And so we'll continue that practice. Excellent. Thank you. I would also encourage some social media presence to introduce our new assistant superintendent if you if you if you choose so. Always also share our press release on our social media. Thank you. Moving on to 3B which is the. Appointment of director of human resources. So again, three B's to approve appointment of employment of director of human resources. I'll take

011a motion for the approval of the appointment of Minerva Rocha for the position of director of human resources. Move for approval. Second. Move by Trustee Bautista Zavala. Second by Trustee Garcia. Do a roll call vote. I'll start with myself and move down the line. Yes. Aye. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Aye. It is approved the appointment of Minerva Rocha for Director of Human Resources by unanimous approval. Welcome. Good evening and thank you President Villagrana and trustees and Superintendent Lamkin for this opportunity. Thank you for this opportunity. I have been with the school district for 30 years and I'm excited and look forward to continuing to serve the district, staff and students in my new role as a director of human resources. Thank you. Thank you. I'm very fortunate that again you have chosen to stay with

012us. You have a long history here with our community. Again, like I mentioned earlier, all our engagement interactions have been extremely positive and again I look forward to you spreading that positiveness throughout continuing to do that I should say in a different role now and as you have more of a role in greeting especially our new teammates. And I know you'll continue to make that positive difference. So again, thank you again for continuing because it is a choice to stay or not. And we appreciate you chose to stay with us. Thank you. Thank you. It's my honor. Ms. Rocha, thank you very much for continuing to serve Woodland Joint Unified School District for over 30 years. You are a success story. You are a product of Woodland Joint Unified School District. You yourself, Ms. Rocha

013and Mr. Perez, both of you as newly, you as a promote, promotee, and then. Mr. Perez, as a returnee in these two positions that we are filling today, I'm super excited to know that both of you are products of Willingjolt Unified School District and deserve to be honored and highlighted and shared your story across our student body and community because it's because of you that we're able to continue serving our students, but also you do it with the seed planted in you that Willingjolt Unified did through our staff and our teachers and family. So thank you. Yes, thank you. Just confirming no public comments for F. Okay. Okay. Perfect. I'm going to pull the board minutes from July 27th. Any other items would like to be pulled? Seeing none, can I have a motion to

014approve the consent agenda? So moved. Trustee Roussifal removes. Second by? Second. Trustee Rodriguez. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposition? Seeing none, unanimous approval by the board. And can I get a motion to approve the minutes? We just approved that. No. The consent agenda was. Yeah. Yeah. Can I get a motion to approve the minutes. I'll make a motion to approve the minutes. Second. Motion by Trish Rodriguez and second by Trish Vassalala to approve the minutes of July 27 board minutes. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposition. One abstention myself. I also abstain. I wasn't here so. Two abstentions. All right. Moving on. To H we have how many in person so we have 19 in person and we have 24 and this is right H1 correct sorry 24 so Mary

015Beth's gonna keep track and we'll go back and forth so we reached the 20 minutes voice person in voice yeah we'll start with person first in person and then voice and then person in voice Yeah, well you call that two names because we had to have to wait for the voice person voicemail anyways So we'll go person first and then voicemail gonna continue since no trustee has decided to ask for more time continue Laura Brubaker followed by Christina Venucci Hi, thank you, President Villagrana and trustees for bringing in this resolution forward. As we have seen recently in our own community, as well as across the country, things like this are very needed. I find myself personally in a district where I don't feel that many are represented and knowing that the majority of our board

016represents all students, as it was reaffirmed many times over the last few meetings and by our districts. superintendent is comforting to many in our community. As studies have shown, the more students feel safe and accepted, the better they learn, which is what we're all here and we all care about. And I just wanted to express my gratitude and I will defer the rest of my time for other speakers. Thank you. Voice mode, please. I'm calling about the meeting tonight. I would like you to not pass the resolution, in particular item H, the bias and sensitivity training. I don't think that's needed for teachers. They need to have a little bit more leeway to do what they like. Also, I am in support of the trustee, Emily McDonald. And I really think of all things. You

017need to concentrate on reading and arithmetic as the California, well, California is dead last in literacy in the whole country of the 50 states, and that is a crime. Thank you. Thank you. I want to thank the board or most of the board members for the support that they've shown for the youth in this district. After attending and listening to the last board meeting, I've come to the realization that I and many educators like me are radicals. I never thought I would say that. To all the students listening, my radical message is this. You have the right to belong in school. You have the right to feel safe and to be cared for. You have a right to be respected, and you have a right to learn. Crazy ideology. To the concerned parents, teachers teach

018the standards. I invite you to read them. Yes, we teach the Constitution. We teach what the state has laid out. We create classrooms that are welcoming and caring that allow students to be themselves regardless of race, age, economics, religion, ability, or any other class that is actually protected through state and federal law. Read them. In the last board meeting, many speakers spoke that teachers should stick to biology. So here's a small biology lesson. 1.7% of the US population is intersex, meaning they were born with genetics that does not match their anatomy, meaning they are technically non-binary. Many of these children will have to take hormones to allow their body to develop physically on the outside, even if that does not match the sex that they are genetically. These children have been provided hormones therapy since

019the 1920s. This is not a new or radical phenomenon. What is new is that parents and communities are openly saying that they support their children, that they would rather have their child alive and exploring who they are than dead. So my question to those that are here in opposition and who are watching online in opposition of supporting youth and our LGBTQIA youth is why would you rather have a dead child than a live one? The next reader will be Marlene Molina and Cenk Whitaker. Voicemail, please. Hello. My name is Catherine Seward. I am calling for Agenda Item I in support of Resolution 224. I wish to thank the members of the board for reaffirming support of all students, including our LGBTQ plus students. This shows our LGBTQ plus students that you will accept them for

020who they are, your students. The recent increase in public comments, ignorant to what our trans students need and what our teachers are even capable of teaching should show how much this population of students needs your protection and support. For this reason, I, as a voter of Area 2, am asking for Trustee McDonald to resign. She has invited hate to a particular population of students by making them other than the rest of our students when they are still our students. McDonald was supported by groups during her campaign that are now seen as extremists by Southern Poverty Law Center. I do not feel she represents my ideals and will vote to recall her if the time comes. I also wish to bring the board's attention to the safe spaces that our LGBTQ plus students have already made

021for themselves in performing arts, such as music and theater. Music programs are collaborative spaces set on creativity and inclusivity. If you like music, you can participate. It is a space for everyone that this board is letting slip away in our community. And I feel as a direct juxtaposition. to resolution 224. Thank you. I had something written down, but I'm gonna go with my heart. I wanna thank our district and our board for a lot of the training that we're receiving right now in these last five days. It just shows not just our teachers, but our community as a whole that we are loved and cared for and as our students, every one of our students. In my messages to the board in the last couple of months, I have shared that in my family, there

022were two of family members in my particular generation who struggled with being accepted as transgender children and in sharing this with my family they're like you forgot about the third one and I did forget about the third one. The two that I shared, they struggled in not being accepted by family and community, et cetera, et cetera. And the third one, he was embraced and he was loved and he was cherished. He was actually supported when he wanted to drop out of school in 10th grade and pursue his education as a hairstylist. And today he's known as Servando Maldonado. Look him up. He is one of... stylist for a list celebrities in Los Angeles and one of them being Miley Cyrus and he is thriving because he was loved and supported and so I thank our

023community for doing that those who do not love who cannot accept who are vicious and vile in their discrimination it's not about an opinion it's it's discrimination And when it becomes discrimination and it's spewed out in hate, there is no space for that in our community and in our district. Thank you. Voicemail, please. Hello, this is Dawn Schell, and I'm calling regarding H on the agenda today to state my opposition, that's my opposition, to Resolution 2-24, reaffirming support for all woodland use. The next two will be Dylan Horton and Moises Diaz. Good evening. My name is Jake Whitaker and for four years I had the honor of serving on Woodland School Board as the representative for Trustee Area 2. I'm here tonight to speak in support of Item H1. During my first year on the

024school board, I brought forward a new board resolution recognizing June as LGBTQ plus Pride Month for the first time in our district's history. That resolution passed unanimously with no controversy or negative commentary from the public. My thought then was simple. It was 2019 and that recognition was long overdue. I am also a proud graduate of Woodland High School. I attended Woodland High during the Proposition 8 campaign when the right for anyone to marry who they loved was still denied. And I remember how rampant the use of the word gay was as a slur, as a derogatory term, how being marked as such made someone an other, different and lesser. And that same atmosphere is confronting our transgender students today. As an ignorant teenager, I was guilty of doing it too, completely unaware of the damage

025that my words could cause to my peers. It was socially acceptable to be homophobic, and the impacts of that were something that I was too emotionally immature at the time to recognize. So as a board member, when I wrote that resolution, I introduced it with the hope of creating a more inclusive and accepting world for our next generation of students to grow up in. When I was a freshman, our school ran a showing of the Laramie Project. It is a true story about the targeted murder of a gay University of Wyoming student in the city of Laramie. The play was written to raise awareness of the violence against the LGBTQ plus community and to combat the homophobia that was rampant in our society at that time. The same issues faced by our transgender community and

026students today. I wish that I had been mature enough to understand what that meant at the time, and I believe that if I had been exposed to concepts like implicit bias, that I could have been a more empathetic person during that part of my life. Unfortunately, empathy is sorely lacking in our hyper-partisan world today, as radical right-wing politicians and activists dehumanize transgender people to advance their own political agendas. We must stand together to soundly reject these efforts in solidarity with the gay, lesbian, transgender, and queer community. I urge the board to vote yes on item H1. Voice from the audience. Hello, I am calling in reference to item H on the agenda for August 10th. I am calling in support of Emily McDonald. and strongly opposed to the recall effort against her by some in

027the Woodland community. Thank you. As you come up, I just want to clarify for the public that the board is not engaged in any recall efforts. The resolution does not address that at all in any way. This is a resolution supporting all of our youth in the community. So I just want to clarify so that if people are listening, there's no misunderstanding as to what the purpose of this resolution is. Thank you. Thank you mr.. President members of the board our hard-working district staff I As I said when I spoke In a recorded comment a couple meetings ago I really was glad to see a bunch of the members of this board and leaders in the community out at Woodland second Pride parade not too long ago and I of course really urge each of

028you to consider the public Trust and responsibility that you hold and support this resolution. You know, I think especially as I was listening to the presentations about the two staff hires, I'm reminded that when this country was founded, so many of the people in this room were not included in what was thought of as, you know, who was a full citizen, who had. the right to be a full participant in our society. Thankfully, I say as a gay black man, we've made a lot of progress in the 240 years that our country has been around to make more and more segments of our population feel and in actuality be included in our community, in our society, that everyone has a right and indeed a responsibility to participate in their community and to drive it forward.

029I think that's the best of our country. If there's something that makes America great, it's that. It's that we are always striving to move forward and to include more and more people, to make everyone feel like they have access to the American dream and are a part of the American experience. efforts as previous speakers have touched on that seek to exclude any class of our students, but particularly in this time in our country, LGBTQ plus students, particularly trans students, those are efforts that are, we have to be, you know, honest about it, plain and simple, anti-American. This is not who our country is. It's not who Woodland is. I love this town. I live in Davis, but you know, I really love spending time in Woodland, eating food in Woodland, recreating in Woodland. And that's

030because this is a community that values inclusion. I know that. I've seen that demonstrated. And so I look forward to the passage of this resolution and this district's continued commitment to inclusion for all students. Thank you. We appreciate your investment in Woodland with your sales tasks. Thank you. Next voicemail, please. Hi, this is Deidre Madera. I'm calling regarding H on the agenda today to state my opposition to Resolution 2-24 of reaffirming support for all Woodland youth. I hope you oppose this. Thank you. Beth Bourne and Martha Voss. Good evening Woodland Joint Unified Trustees. My name is Moises Diaz. I've spoken to you before. Thank you for the opportunity again. And I'm here before your body to thank you all for your support and reaffirmation of dignity and respect of all of Woodland students, including transgender

031youth from Yolo, Knights Landing and Woodland through Resolution 224. These students deserve nothing less than a space where they know they belong and will be strengthened to find their voice through healthy exploration of the world. Myself and many more stand in ready support of you and Woodland Joint Unified District students. Safe and accepting learning environments are critical to the healthy development of student learning. Thank you for your bold, courageous, and reaffirming support. Hi there. Good morning. My name is Lindsay Kennedy. I am calling regarding H on the agenda today to state my opposition to Resolution 224, reaffirming support for all Woodland youth. I do not agree with it. I do not think that the teacher should have to go through the training nor the children. So once again, Lindsay Kennedy and I am in opposition

032to Resolution 224. Thank you and have a beautifully blessed day. Hi, my name is Beth. Good evening. As you know, I've been... Trying to understand what's happening in Woodland. I'm very concerned about the high numbers of children that are identifying as transgender non-binary pangender trigender What else we have a gender? Two-spirited there's there's quite a bit of different genders You're offering these children and I have access to the health connected curriculum and the puberty talk in the teen talk So I understand that you are indoctrinating these kids to learn about an ideology that is not based in science and that has... There's no way to test for it. And I know the last speaker mentioned that there's such a thing called intersex. That's a genetic mutation where you have, it's 0.08% of the population. It

033has nothing to do with if your body produces eggs or sperms. If you are female, you produce eggs. If you are male, you produce sperms. There is no other choice. So that means you're either female or male. You can make up your gender. You can have different personalities. You can be intersex, but you still only produce eggs or sperm. So I'm sorry, there is no other choice. But I'm also here because I wanted to share with you some books that I have given to... the Davis School Board. This is Irreversible Damage by Abigail Schreier, and I just spoke with her last month about another book she has coming out. This book here is called Lost and Transnation. It's a child psychiatrist's guide out of the madness. It was written by Miriam Grossman, and Jordan Peterson

034did the foreword, and it was just published in the last two weeks, and I got my copy at the Avid Reader. So if you look in the dedication here, she has a list of parents, and you can see my name. Beth born Davis, California. So what did Miriam Grossman say to the parents in her dedication in this book called Lost in Transnation? And you can see the the scapula on the front and the injection for the cross-sex hormones. This is what she said. Let's see the dedication. Sorry. Okay. Thank you. Okay, here we go. This book is dedicated to the parents of kids with rapid onset gender dysphoria. I spoke with you from your cars, your basements, your bathrooms. You huddled and whispered behind closed doors as if seeking my help was criminal behavior. You're

035not criminals. You are heroes. The criminals are the therapists, the teachers, the school counselors, and the sex educators who can indoctrinate your children with falsehoods and the doctors who then disfigure and sterilize them. They are guilty of crime and their day will come. Voicemail, please. Excuse me. Voicemail, please. Hello, yes. My name is Michael. It's in Church and Willing. I understand there's a resolution about gender training for teachers. I'm calling to say please do not pass this resolution. I believe people can do things on their personal time to learn things, but not using taxpayer dollars. And there's only two genders. Male and female has been that way forever. We are going to put out to all the churches in Woodland and other areas if this resolution should pass or fail. So please do not pass

036this resolution. Thank you. How much time is left? Okay, we're done with the public common portion of this item do we There's 20 seconds left just okay Okay, I strongly oppose the resolution it is worded help keep students safe We don't keep students safe by keeping parents uninvolved Okay, if my parent if my child is failing math Thank you So you had before you resolution that has been proposed by Trustee Rodriguez Trustee Richardson-Fowler and myself. Are there any questions or comments before we take a motion to approve. Yes Trustee McDonald. No one else has any questions or comments. Not so far. Okay. I do have some. questions about this resolution and because three trustees were working on it I did not feel at liberty to share my concerns prior to the meeting in possible violation

037of the Brown Act. I would like to thank President Villagrana for clarifying some definitions for me with the resolution. So the first concern I have is really kind of a formatting concern with respect to parliamentary order. Resolutions generally, at least most of the ones I've read, are separated into two parts. The first part is kind of the preambulatory part, which would be the whereases. And then the second part is the... the action items which would be, you know, hereby be resolved. But in this resolution, the actions are actually proposed as where as is. So we direct the superintendent to update all district-wide and site-specific communications. The district is directed to offer student-led implicit bias and cultural sensitivity training. And the district is directed to offer implicit bias and cultural sensitivity training. To me, those are

038action items that belong in the therefore be it resolved. So that's kind of a structural comment on the resolution itself. And then... One thing that I think might strengthen the resolution, and I think it's necessary, and I've even submitted a yellow sheet for the board to discuss this, is that really we need to be talking about the framework, the legal framework that we're operating in. So over the last 10 years or so, there have been a number of... of Assembly and Senate bills, both that have passed, supporting all youth, as this resolution does, but also providing protections for the LGBTQ students. And I think adding those, as well as the district policies, that... we have that do support the LGBTQ community would would be a valuable addition here because that really is the framework the

039legal framework that we operate in. The other concern I had is that the the direction here in this in this resolution is quite a bit of work for staff and I think that implicit bias and student-led at least to me, you know, I had to ask for clarification on what those terms mean and I think that This resolution would be improved by including those definitions because those things mean different things to different people So really I think that that those need to be explicitly laid out in the resolution so that as staff, you know, if the board does approve this, staff knows what it is they're doing. And finally... This sentence here whereas the Woodland Joint Unified School Districts wants to be clear that we do not course or indoctrinate students in any manner I

040actually had to look up indoctrinate in the dictionary I know that sounds silly, but I did and the online Merriam-Webster's version of indoctrinate says to imbue with an unusually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle. So that's quite a negative definition that is a more recent adoption. The older definition of indoctrination, which was more common, I don't know when, to instruct, especially in fundamentals or rudiments. So here we have a statement that says Woodland Joint Unified School District wants to be clear that we do not coerce or indoctrinate students. But then two sentences further down we say the district is directed to offer student-led implicit bias and cultural sensitivity training. And it seems to me that that's internally inconsistent, those two statements, just based on the definition, whichever definition you choose. And then

041one last question or point of clarification I had. Are these trainings, are they mandatory or are they... elective because it says that the district is directed to offer training for secondary students and staff each year. But then it says the requirement will take effect. So I'm unclear there. Other questions. That's all for me. Are you offering any friendly amendments. I would I mean there's a lot that I just said so I would offer all of them as friendly amendments I don't know that that could happen right now especially the structural stuff any amendment that you offer would have to happen right now before we approve or vote on it I guess then what I would request is that it come back to the board with changes My question following up that if those changes were

042made then you would be in support of the resolution I would have to think about that and look at the changes I absolutely I absolutely support a resolution that supports youth that reaffirms support for all wooden youth and all students thank you I want to be crystal clear on that I support all students I support the board's policies that support all students I support having a safe place for students these directions to me are very vague and they need some tightening up Thank you trustee Richardson Fowler and then trustee what this avala Trustable to savannah. Thank you My comments are directed towards trustee McDonald this evening in your remarks Just now you stated that you did not reach out to any other board member because you did not want to be in violation of the

043Brown Act. This agenda was released on Friday stating those who authored the resolution. Only three of the seven board members are listed as authors of the resolution, so you could have reached out to the other three board members without being in violation of the Brown Act. If you had such ideas as you presented today, you had the liberty and opportunity to reach out to the three other board members in order to try to form some type of collaboration, reach a mutual agreement, try to bring a compromise to the table so that we could potentially come to an agreement and pass such resolution with some of the changes you mentioned today. So my recommendation to you, Trustee McDonald, is... please use my phone number that is listed on the website and reach out to me or

044send me an email. I acknowledge to a certain extent the comments you have made but I cannot work with you if you don't connect with me prior to a board meeting. So I encourage you to reach out not only to me but to other board members if it is that you want to make changes. So let me let me ask a question. Would it have been appropriate and would it be appropriate in future when these sorts of things come before the board for me to email two additional board members such as yourself and perhaps Bibiana or Trustee Mott and start a separate conversation? Is that not, I mean, then you're getting, then to me, you are not having a conversation in public anymore. You're having a conversation outside of the public sphere. And I'm happy

045to do so, but to me that does seem like it violates the spirit, if not the letter of the Brown Act. So my recommendation is you actually call the trustees first and ask if they've engaged in a conversation because the three could have already at that point which is actually absolutely 100 percent. Cover on the brown line it allows conversations of less than the quorum between the trustees so that there can be conversations ahead of time To come in with proposals on whatever is being voted on to and expedite the process again in the end The boat happens in public. There's no voting that happens outside, but absolutely it is a hundred percent all the trains I've gone to yes You can talk to the other trustees about anything at any point in time. You

046just can't talk to the four about your position and again just I wouldn't send an email because that could be a violation if they had spoken but just call can I can we communicate and then follow up with the email once they say yep I'm good we can talk about that but yeah absolutely it's within the brown it before I give you the mic trustee would sell out you want anything I mean what I meant by if you send me an email you can send me an email saying hey I would like to reach out to you can you speak on x item and then I have the right of saying yes or no But I in full discretion I did not talk to about this item with anyone prior to this meeting Thank you

047for that suggestion. I will certainly be doing that going forward. These are very weighty comments and Difficult to address in a short period of time. Thank you other questions or comments trustee riches of honor Trustee McDonald, can you go back to explain to me why you believe that implicit bias training is indoctrination? I don't necessarily, but the two definitions of indoctrination are imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle, or to instruct, especially in fundamentals or rudiments. And I think any sort of training is instruction. What is your definition of implicit bias? I don't know. I had to ask a trustee, President Villagrana, and he sent me an email describing the definition of implicit bias. And I don't remember exactly, but it was something like unconscious or conscious biases that

048cause a person to... respond with microaggressions either knowingly or unknowingly, something along those lines. So based on your definition and understanding of indoctrination and implicit bias, do you find understanding where your blind spots are and where you have prejudices to be political? I think without a doubt. We're all products of our environment. So as a special education teacher, having to go through an implicit bias training to figure out how I may harm my students with ableism is political. Treating my students with respect and figuring out where my flaws are so that I treat them with respect is political. Excuse me. Excuse me. Thank you. Going through a bias and realizing that. I do have blind spots where autism is concerned. I do have blind spots where people who are physically handicapped are concerned. That's political.

049If I can add, are you ready to respond? If not, I can add what you're thinking. Trust me, we don't. I think people get stuck that... Implicit bias has to do with race and gender and ethnicity. Which is why I'm giving the example of special education. And implicit biases exist in all areas and spaces. There's not. It's just unfortunately, I think because of how it gets put out into media, social media, whatever the case, people feel that it's only around those areas, which it's not. And you know, thank you, Trustee Richard Faldo for bringing up that specific example that is beyond. So it definitely is not political. It's about identifying our blind spots so we're aware of them and then we can choose whether we do something about it or not. You can still choose

050not to. You know, I've gone through a lot of trainings where I was identified blind spots that I had and I'm like, wow, I didn't even realize. that I had a bias in this situation, right? And then now I can then get training, whether I want to or not at that point, to address some of those biases that I have so that I can better serve the population we serve or better interact with the staff that I work with as well. So trust your just a fellow. Also Trustee McDonald based on your definition of indoctrination PE would be indoctrination, science would be indoctrination, ELA would be indoctrination. Yeah. That's why I'm concerned that there's an internal inconsistency in the resolution. And I very much appreciate both your example and President via Grona's example of implicit

051bias implicit bias is a I feel like a very loaded term that is has many connotations for many different people and that's why I really feel like we need to Carefully define what it is. We're saying here and then my final comment before I call the question is A lot of people consider race to be an awkward and uncomfortable topic, just like dealing with implicit bias. And saying that just because you're uncomfortable with it doesn't make it a bad thing. Just because you're uncomfortable about talking about race doesn't make it a bad thing. Because when you negate talking about race, you erase my culture. So I just want you to keep in mind, just because it makes you uncomfortable... and you have to look at it and you have to make some changes to be

052a decent person doesn't mean that it's a bad thing. Trustee Batesavala and I'll go to Trustee McDonnell. In regards to the resolution, the requirements to take effect for high school students would be in the fall of 2025 and middle school students in the fall of 2026. This is for the implicit bias and cultural sensitivity training. Is there a reason why those years were selected? The second one was just to give staff more time to be able to, because in this case it's training peers and it takes time to be able to train young people to be able to again reach out and provide that opportunity to as many of those young people. So that's the reason why. It's not what happens in one year. You know, I was just thinking, right now it's fall of

0532023, so our freshmen that are going into high school right now wouldn't receive this training until their junior year. So it's a long time. My third grader would be the first class in middle school in 2026 to get the implicit bias training. That's how long it's going to take. So, I mean, if my colleagues here at the table, you know, if we want this to happen sooner, we have an opportunity. You know, I understand it takes time to train, but some of our current students may not see this for a while. Some of our high schoolers will never see this training. They will enter the workforce without this implicit bias training that they could utilize in their careers. So it's just something to think about. I'll go to Trustee McDonald for this. So just keep

054in mind, if we did that, we'd have to put significant resources behind this so that staff could hire the appropriate. agencies to come and provide that because staff doesn't have the capacity to do it so if the board would like to do that I mean we talked about that but we didn't think that there would be support which I'm very happy to hear that there is support for doing that and I'm open to to do that I just want to point that out trust me we don't I just wanted to say with respect to implicit bias that I think it is very important that we talk about these things and my comment was not meant to suggest that we should not talk about any uncomfortable subjects. My comment was meant to suggest that we need

055to define it in this resolution so that, you know, when we move away from this. Table and we send this resolution to staff with some directions they can look at it and and see what direction it is they actually Got from the board because as is very clear from just the seven of us talking Implicit bias means different things to different people Thank you and Actually, I want to thank Trustee McDonald for reaching out and asking that question because it caused us to have a conversation about that and we came to agreement that and I'll make it part of the motion that we approve this and I'll make the motion. We approve the resolution. And then I'll consider your amendment and see if there's enough support for that, but they will approve this resolution with

056the definition stated in the UC Davis Implicit and microaggressions training and I'll read out loud but then staff can go and look for it I'll send the link so implicit bias refers to the attitudes or stereotypes that Unconsciously affect our actions and understandings implicit bias can lead to microaggressions which are subtle indirect or even unkind intentional acts of exclusion or discrimination that nevertheless cause harm. So that's the definition that I'm proposing now. And again, thank you, Trustee McDonald, for bringing up that question because it definitely caused us to dig deeper and find a good definition of that. And along those lines as well... Moving beyond the awareness is actually actions right and in this website too it talks about Being able to then not only just define implicit biases and and racial microaggressions again building

057awareness about implicit biases and understand the findings microaggressions but then identifying practices that can minimize the impact of the biases. And so I'm proposing then that we add that element to the resolution as well that in the training is not just the awareness of these implicit biases and microaggressions but also that we provide our students and staff with. ways or practices that could be implemented. Again, if someone chooses to, because you can send people to all the trainings in the world, thousand hours of training, and in the end, the person still has to choose to say, you know what, that, yeah, that makes sense. And they're like, you know what, that was a waste of my time. And we've gone to plenty of those, all of us. And, you know, all we could do is

058expose people and it's up to them to decide whether to do that. So again, thank you, Trustee McDonald, for bringing that up. So that is my motion that we adopt this definition. I'll bring up the question the trustee but Sala said that we move that the years so are you proposing that we move to 24 25 25 26 high schoolers fall of 2024 and middle schoolers fall of 2025 would be my staff could we find someone in that in this time to be able to be ready by 2024 no fall 2024 next year next year yeah next September Not this September. That's the direction the board will make you happen and then so steps that don't make it happen if we say so and same goes fall of 2024 for district staff teachers Yes We're

059actually already working on that for the doctors. Perfect Okay, so the is there a second for that amendment second motion, okay, so we have a motion and I repeat the motion to approve the resolution with the definition at the UC Davis Implicit bias and microaggressions the full actually name of the of the training is anti-racist practice implicit bias and microaggressions with changing of the dates to fall 2024 for high school and fall 2025 for middle school and then fall 2024 for staff there's question or discussion okay um so there's been a motion in the second all those in favor say aye aye aye any opposition no so five seven six trustees vote yes and one no thank you I could just make one one comment just for the just asking for the board to be

060mindful as we're moving forward for other staff development that the board wants everyone to do and require that we do have challenges as a staff on amount of time So it just takes away some time from other priorities that the board wants. So at some point, we have to just be mindful of that, that there's only a certain amount of time that we even have access to staff. And we have state mandated trainings. We have some other trainings required by our insurance. We have other resolutions with other trainings. And then we have a lot of goals and a lot of things that you want us to achieve, which is going to require additional training. And we have a limitation of time. So just keep that in mind. Absolutely. Thank you. Yes. I know there was

061some questions or comments about the student led portion. And the last thing I want to say about this is for the last 30 40 years all across this nation especially this state even my high school alma mater students have been leading these implicit bias trainings. Unfortunately we haven't started doing this but Orange County has been doing this for over 45 years. My high school has been doing it for at least 35. Thank you for that comment. There's things that, again, we as individual trustees would like to do to better the education of the young people that we serve. But sometimes we hold back because we're not sure what the community is willing to support. situations come up that we need to respond and show that we are in support. It actually makes it easier for

062us to be able to bring up these things and have a discussion and make significant progress in that direction. So, you know, I'm very happy that we are making these huge leaps and bounds. And, you know, because of the great dialogue that we've had, you know, around First Amendment. around being supportive, being inclusive, and because of all that dialogue, we're able to get here to this resolution. So again, thank you, colleagues, for being able to engage in professional and, you know. Very cordial. I did not hear anybody get heated or upset again We we have opinions and then we vote and then we move on to the next thing I know it just adds to the list of staff to do but as the superintendent said she could have said no But she said, you

063know, whatever the board tells me to do I would do maybe she'll stop saying that in the future But today she did not and so that will happen. So again, thank you with that We're going to public comment and then we'll take a short break after that. So we have IF I'M CORRECT. TWO. VOICE MAILS AND HOW MANY IN PERSON? NONE. OKAY. PLAY THE TWO VOICE MAILS, PLEASE. HELLO, SUPERINTENDENT ORTEGA LAMPKIN, PRESIDENT VILAGRANA AND BOARD MEMBERS. MY NAME IS BRIAN COWARD. I'M A FATHER, HUSBAND AND WOODLAND RESIDENT AND MEMBER OF THE WOODLAND ACCOUNTABILITY COMMUNITY. I submitted a public comment via voicemail during the last board meeting, which I found out afterwards was inaudible. Sorry about that. I followed up on that comment by emailing each trustee my comments. I'd like to reiterate my concerns about

064the board's role and oversight of the district, how the district has failed to meet its obligations to build two schools with a capacity of 650 students each. per the turn of the century agreement with the spring lake residents is in violation of government and board policy code gc66001 bp7110 bp7000 and bp7210 it's in an email so and I provided supporting documentation by producing a district-wide facility assessment without a new school identified and is late for withholding a fee justification study for the capital facilities fund 28. The board has failed to hold the district accountable for these violations and wasteful spending of fees collected specifically for new schools on portables. In regard to neighborhood schools for newly developing parts of Woodland, the city has released draft documents for the research and technology park development, which will

065be going before the planning commission on Thursday, August 17th. The draft land use plan does not include a school site as the board requested. back in January 13th of 2022. I have the date wrong in my email, but it's last year. I've attached supporting documentation in the highlighted relevant sections in my public comment that I emailed. The possible school site designation in the draft. are superseded by medium density residential development, diminishing the expectation of the community that a school will come to fruition and indicating that Woodlanders will continue to not have access to neighborhood schools. The information action item the board approved. for formally including the planned school site in the Woodland Research and Technology Park Specific Plan, land use plan, indicates that a 12 acre site would be designated in the plan and that

066the district's attorney would draft the request. Please, please have the district execute the board's directive and ensure the draft land use plan is updated to reflect a school site. Thank you. Next question, please. This message is for general public comment. Hi, my name is Eric Garber, and I'm calling to make a comment about the tech park and its proposal to come for final review by the city council or the city planning commission this coming Thursday. I think it's vitally important that the school district and the board have a plan. As it is right now, there's a huge need that's not being met in the Spring Lake area. Already the district has not lived up to its original contract for the Charter of the Century agreement to have two elementary schools to meet the current need

067of Spring Lake. And now with the new tech part coming in, another 1,600 homes are proposed to be added to our area. And for the plan, I think it needs to start with the district-wide facility assessment. If you know your board policy 7,000, it says... It outlines the requirement for new construction, and it must be outlined in the facilities master plan, or as you call it, the district-wide facility assessment. Currently, your district-wide facility assessment says a new construction or a new school is not necessary. And so it doesn't even allow you to have those conversations in order to act on them. So first, that needs to change. Second, the board, whatever trigger dates the developer has set. that you will lose your first right to the land. Currently, it's not even zoned for a school.

068They did give you first right and provided the entitlement so it could become a school, but right now it is zoned for housing. That seems to be the default plan, and you need to have a plan quickly for a funding model. I'm not sure what funds will be used, but that is also outlined in your board policy that you need to establish which funds will be used and what is appropriate to be used. And lastly, I'd like to state that this conversation that has a huge impact. on both current and future residents living in Woodland. This conversation should be had publicly. This conversation should be deliberated and informed to the board so that the public can be a part of it. This has not been an agenda item for a couple of years. Anything about

069the tech park has been a closed session item, which we also questioned in another public comment, the legality of even having these closed doors conversations besides anything besides negotiating the actual price of the land. And so to us, it seems like there is no plan or discussion about what to do and how to move forward. Please let us know what your plan is and help us be a part of the plan. We can also add as a public voice pressure to help make things happen for our kids. Thank you. That's the last comment. We'll take a quick bathroom break and come right back. Thank you. We're moving on to board reports. We'll start with the superintendent's report. All right. So we have been super busy with a lot of staff development happening last week and

070into this week. So we have our teachers participate in staff development and our classified staff. Some of our classified have participated this week as well and they will be doing some more staff development next week. And we're getting excited, ready to open up our school. So everyone's been super busy. And this week, the highlight for my week. I'm still recovering is that I just went with our students to the superintendent or a student leadership camp and I did invite the students from the superintendent Advisory Council and also the students who were alternates to that and also other student leaders from the district and so I just got back this afternoon and I have to say that has it was a very Great experience. It was just awesome to see that our students engaged and learning

071about themselves Who they are as leaders learning what their strengths are It was awesome to see the first day we got there They were really shy and they were I was like, oh my god's gonna be a long a long week But by the second day they were you know hugging and laughing we had a dance last night I danced with them. You're probably all dying to know what I did that I try to do I tried to make sure I didn't get hurt so I can be here at work. But I did go out to the ropes and I did help out the rope. I didn't climb trees. I know you all wanted to know that. I didn't climb trees but I did support our students and participating in the ropes. I'm engaging with

072them playing games with them laughing with them dancing with them. And it was just my heart is full right now. To see what our students are capable of doing. I cannot wait to get. to hear more from them and anyway we have a lot to be proud of and it really helped me start the year focused on what we are here for it's our students so I'm really excited about Monday and I think I'm just going to need to think about this this experience every single day this school year and so that concludes my report thank you any questions for the superintendent Trustee Patricia Salala. Thank you. Thank you, Superintendent. I really much enjoyed the social media posts about your leadership training. Thank you for sharing. That was really exciting to be able to see.

073As you mentioned, it is the start of the academic year on Monday. I do have a question. It may be too specific, but you can get back to me. But I do want to ask it here in front of my board members. It was brought to my attention that some of the class schedules or the class assignments or teachers' assignments for our elementary school grades at different sites have a different release date. So, for example... somebody reached out to me and said Spring Lake received their class assignments on Wednesday. Beamer is not getting theirs till Friday. Why is it different dates. You know we stress equity we stress you know the opportunity for parents to be informed you know about you know constant communication. Is there a reason why certain schools get this information sooner

074than others. I'm going to be very honest with you is just Every school has had the autonomy on how they communicate but it's something definitely we can work on and and work with the principal to agree on a common day so that there's no comparison or hurt feelings or misunderstandings that's something definitely we could put in place so it's just something that was I hate to say this we've always done it that way but doesn't mean we have to continue doing it that way. Thank you, Superintendent. And I just wanted to make sure that I voiced this question today for my colleagues here. You know, we do have some families that have to, that are forced to have their children at different school sites because they may not be admitted or not have enough space

075at the school site. So parents need as much flexibility and time to be able to, you know, figure out certain details. class pick up times bell times certain things like that. So when you have one kid's schedule released on Wednesday and the next one released on Friday it kind of creates a little bit of hiccup in planning. I can say this is actually a good thing for me to update the board on the community. So we have close to 10,000 students that we try really carefully to place appropriately and there's limitations and it's a huge task. But our staff does their best to have students be at their neighborhood schools as best as possible to keep siblings together. And it's not necessarily all pan out pan out that way. The first couple of weeks of

076school we also experience kids not showing up to school that signed up for whatever reason they moved they didn't tell us or they moved to a different district they didn't tell us. So. And usually by the second week of school, a big majority of the issues get figured out. And so it's going to be a little bumpy. We're hoping that we'll be able to accommodate some of these issues as parents are still having in the next two weeks once we start confirming who is actually showing up to school, making sure that they are going to be attending our schools, that they didn't go to another school or those kinds of things. And then we'll reassess. and then adjust and go back to address some of these challenges some of our families are having. But we

077really do want to make sure their families are kept together and they're at the school of their choice. And we'll do everything possible to get there. I cannot say that we'll be 100%, but it'll be better than today. In two weeks, it will be better than what we have today and we'll solve a lot of issues. Other questions? I want to take the opportunity to thank the board again for approving the funding for the Strengths Leadership Camp, you know, definitely was goal four in full effect. I mean, like, full effect. I've seen those young people just develop the relationships from literally one night to the next. It's just amazing. These youth practitioners, it's like magic. I mean, what they do with them, it was just phenomenal, and it was such a privilege and an honor

078for me to be able to witness it. For four days, I took vacation time to be able to go. Hopefully my family's not too mad at me that I took four vacation days from them. But even my team, when I told them what I was doing for vacation, they're like, that's not vacation. I said, well, it's worth it. And I did learn a lot, actually. So it was more like a training, actually. So I did learn some activities as well. But just... The fact that these young people are now going to come to their individual school sites and be able to contribute even at a higher level now, the self-confidence grew, their abilities, their talents grew because they learned about their individual talents, their five strengths that they were taught to see themselves in a

079positive light of these gifts they have that they can contribute in a way that's very meaningful and intentional. So it's naming their strengths. claiming their strengths and then aiming their strengths. That is like the progression of the strengths development. And so again, I was very privileged and honored to be able to witness that. And again, I want to thank the superintendent for taking time because I know it was not easy to do that, especially right before school starts and right before a board meeting. But nonetheless. The young people really appreciated the superintendent being there. And, of course, Jerry, our public information officer, did a phenomenal job. I even got a call from my son talking about the volleyball game. I'm like, what are you talking about? How do you know about the volleyball game? I'm

080like, oh, Jerry's been working. You know, he's been doing his job posting phenomenal images. Yeah, I think he was posting at 10 p.m. one time, too. And he was just posting the whole day. And he was dancing last night, too. Okay, I didn't want to say that. I didn't want to call him out. But, again. I'm glad that it was documented and then the entire community was able to also witness through pictures and videos of what those young people experience and again go for no question and full effect and I look forward to future Supports and opportunities that are created Amongst the work that we're gonna keep doing so again. Thank you to my colleagues and to the superintendent for for making that happen moving on to report from the California School Board Employee Association

081question I had a board report. Oh, we're not at the board reports yet. No worries. It's okay. Good evening, Superintendent Ortega-Lambkin, school board members, and community. My name is Rebecca Rossiter. I work as a library technician at Douglas Middle School, and I am taking over for Brandy Bolden as our CSCA Chapter 118 president. I first want to say congratulations to our new assistant superintendent and director of HR. Your classified staff's commitment to education is unwavering. Our union is comprised of the dedicated and hardworking support staff who are the backbone of our schools. We are the custodians and groundkeepers who maintain clean and safe environments, bus drivers that get our students where they need to be safely, clerical staff who ensure the smooth functioning of administrative tasks, and paraprofessionals who offer essential support in the classroom.

082We're also IT, who keep everything running and teachers happy, everybody happy. Nutrition who feed our students twice a day, many of our students twice a day. Each of us plays a pivotal role and I'm sure I'm missing many if you've looked at the HR classified staff job descriptions, there are quite a few. CSEA is looking forward to fostering a collaborative partnership with Woodland Joint Unified by continuing to have monthly meetings with the HR department, the special education department, and partnering with WEA in our monthly meetings with the superintendent. This year we will also be resuming negotiations on articles 6, 11, 14, and 26 in September and hope to come to an agreement soon. We will have executive board elections this year with the new board taking over in January So I may only be here

083a few times, but I look forward to providing our report for the time being. Thank you Thank you Move on to report from the Woodland Education Association Good evening Board of Trustees superintendent or Tika Lampkin cabinet and community. Thank you for this time on the agenda My name is Becca Bernard. I teach science at Douglas Middle School, and I am honored to be serving our members as the president of the Woodland Education Association. So much has happened in the few weeks since our last board meeting. We are excited to be welcoming... I believe 65 is now the number as of our meeting last, today actually, new members into our union. So we're very excited. After our new hire lunch and presentation on August 1st, we welcome new members with a jam-packed presentation of all the

084ins and outs of what our local, state, and national union has to offer educators. It was an honor to meet the bright faces of these brave folks who are excited and ready to welcome their students next week with open arms and hearts. We wish them the best on their first days of school. and we want to remind them that we are surrounded by the best educators who are here on the sidelines ready to support them whenever they might need as they navigate this new journey. Welcome to Woodland. We are so happy to have them here. We'd also like to welcome Minerva Rocha and Ricardo Perez. We look forward to continuing our work together with our students and community. Many of our educators took advantage of the five additional paid professional development days to kick off

085the school year Workshops ranged from textbook curriculum piloting and adoption building a professional learning community TK and elementary specific trainings time to complete manage mandated reporter trainings, thank you for that, technology training on ARIES, Canvas, ParentSquare, and plenty of opportunities for collaboration with colleagues. Perhaps one of the newest and most pertinent topics of our training was the inclusivity training provided by Trans Family Support Services. This training was thorough, informative, and empowering, and it gave teachers a variety of tools and supports to begin implementing in their classrooms immediately. I was disappointed to learn that the trustees wouldn't be in attendance, but I understand you have busy schedules. So I wanted to ensure that you have access to some of the insights provided by the training. I'll be sure to share my notes with you along with

086the materials the trainers provided, but I hope that this report will be a little more impactful and personable than expecting you to fully digest a slideshow on your free time. If it is possible, I highly encourage you to seek out the chance to sit in on one of these trainings in person this year. They will still be offered to CSEA elementary schools and other staff who were not able to attend this past week. So I really hope that you consider attending. Before I give you my insights and highlights on our inclusivity training, I have to say that Kathy and Evan, who are our presenters, were fantastic. These are just a few of my major takeaways. They're definitely not the full presentation, and it does not give them justice. I hope that you can attend the

087in-person trainings because there was so much more information, and we always have more to learn on this topic. Their own personal experiences navigating the world through the lens of LGBTQ plus the community gave their stories and instruction both credibility and empowerment. They reiterated that the goal of their presentation was not to make us experts of the topic but to embrace allyship and feel comfortable having conversations with our students to figure out how we can best support them by creating safe spaces in our schools. I want to start with just some of the statistics. They're pretty eye-opening. I jotted them down. This all comes from their materials. Eight out of 10 LGBTQ plus students experience harassment or assault at school, 80%. 75% of those students avoid school activities because they feel unsafe. That includes tutoring. That

088includes after-school activities, sports games, et cetera. 50% have been sexually harassed at school. 40% of homeless youth are LGBTQ+. 17% school dropout rate for LGBTQ plus youth. 51% have been denied access to their preferred restroom. 52% of trans students have considered suicide compared to 16% of non-trans youth. The Trevor Project has a lot of research showing that having one supportive adult cuts attempted suicide by 40%. One adult. Supporting a trans student does not take a lot of effort. It just takes a pause before we act and speak. That small act, one moment before we speak, is suicide prevention. 60% of LGBTQ plus students who experienced bullying at school said it happened with an earshot of an adult who did and said nothing. It is our job to shut it down the first time it happens,

089to set the tone in our school and in our classroom that bullying, harassment, and discrimination are not tolerated. Some noteworthy quotes and major takeaways from this. This is just bullet points. You don't need to understand it in order to be supportive and affirming. This is more than just a restroom issue. Our trans youth feel unsafe using a restroom, which leads to social and physical health effects, increased rates of eating disorders, food and drink restriction to avoid having to go to the bathroom in public spaces, UTI, bladder, and kidney disorders. This is why we need gender-neutral bathrooms at schools are all of our schools in woodland in compliance with this I'm not sure because I'm not at every site But maybe that's something that we need to run a query on and make sure that we

090know all gender-neutral bathrooms are offered to students besides just the nurse's office Another one is that our students already know what's best for them. They know who they are They know what they want and they need so how are we going to respond to that? language matters Words can be weapons. We are the example. We are going to make mistakes and that's okay. It's important to correct yourself and move on. Always follow the lead of the student. This was a theme throughout the presentation. A student comes to you and tells you something. You say, thank you for trusting me. How can I best support you? What do you want me to do with this information? How can I help you? And lastly, they ended their presentation talking about trans joy. Trans people, kids and adults

091alike, have the right to live and be happy and celebrate who they are, where they are. In Woodland, we support that. Thank you to our superintendent for prioritizing this training for our staff. It was eye-opening and empowering and it gave teachers the tools that they need to better support their students. Like Kathy and Evan said in their presentation, this is only an introduction to the work that needs to be done. Moving forward, I hope that WJUSD will continue to ask its educators how they can support them in this topic. As we gain more experience supporting our LGBT youth, we will be better advocates for our students and be more prepared on how to support their unique needs. As we learn from the presenters, every student's needs are different. so we need to work with each

092of them to establish what's best for them. We also know that the supports they receive from various educators will be different based on their situation. For example, we might need to gather input from PE teachers and coaches on how they can better navigate gender-segregated spaces to support non-binary students. That's going to look different from site to site. We should also work with school sites to make sure that every site has gender-neutral bathrooms that are easily accessible by all students and that students know are available to them. Before I conclude my report, I want to wish all of our staff, teachers, counselors, custodians, paraeducators, office administrators, nurses, PPS, bus drivers, maintenance workers, and anyone else I missed, as well as all of our students, a happy first day of school. We are so lucky to live

093in such a diverse and wonderful community, and our students are so lucky to have such a hardworking and dedicated team of adults putting in tireless efforts to ensure that they receive the best education possible. Lastly, I'd like to share a comment that reflects my own personal beliefs, but I believe it would reflect the opinion of the majority of our teachers here in Woodland. We used to live in a society that claimed colorblindness was acceptance when really it was just tolerance. I'm here to remind us how detrimental that is to student identity and growth. To deny the parts of a student's experiences that mold them into the humans they are is wrong. We've heard a lot of commentary on student identity tonight and in the last few months, but we need to be careful about what

094I'm this is a made-up term, but every word is a made-up word as we learned in our training. Rainbow blindness. I don't know. Maybe it's a new term. Denying people's identities. On Monday when kids walk through my doors, I could claim that I don't care what your gender identity is or who you love. But that's actually more harmful than it is beneficial. These are parts of themselves that define who they are. I do care about these parts of them. I embrace these parts of them because it matters to them. And I will love each of them for all of the experiences and influences that they bring with them on August 14th. That is my job, to be there for them and love each child for the entire human being who they are. No matter my

095own beliefs, no matter how that conflicts with my own identity, because I am a teacher who loves my students for who they are. My only goal is to help them to be an even better human by the time they walk out my door in June. And hopefully get them to learn some science lessons along the way. Thank you. And this concludes my report. Don't go yet please. Thank you so much for definitely the last part but for sharing the statistics. I heard it before but hearing them again they're just shocking again every time. And you mentioned the importance of an adult and a young person and the power of words and following the lead of the student. I mean that is being student centered if I don't know what what is it. Right. And again,

096that every student needs are different, right? And as a teacher who loves teaching is going to teach that child and help them like you said. So again, thank you for sharing what you learned with us. Because it would definitely again help me reminded me of why we're here why we do what we do and we need to also continue to Continue learning reminding ourselves of these effects that our society has under young people and it's hurtful and Harmful and all we could do is our best to be a buffer right when they're in that space with you make it as safe as possible And that's we're trying to do here as well. So thank you. Thank you board member reports Christine without the other report. Yeah, sorry. I got confused I had two things the

097first thing as I'm sure the board is aware that I was served and Notice of potential recall so I was publicly served a notice of potential recall and it was my I had an opportunity to prepare a statement, which I did, and now I believe that the recall petition is underway. I think they have maybe three months to gather signatures. I'm not sure how many signatures, somewhere between 1,000 and 1,200. So that will be moving along in the next little while. The other thing I wanted to talk about was the tech park. Tentative map approval and the development agreement that's going to be Public tomorrow the tentative map is public now the development agreement. We public tomorrow. It's Disappointing to me that the that the potential school site is zoned residential And I am considering.

098Yes. So you're getting close to stating your opinion on a future agenda item. Okay. So if you want to. So board report time is to kind of update on things we've done or but not actually to talk about positions that we're going to take on items. Okay. If you want to bring that for discussion to the board. No I don't. I just want to tell the board that I plan to attend the public hearing. As a private citizen? Yes. Okay. Perfect. Thank you. Other reports? I'll go. Thank you. I just want to welcome our new teachers, our returning staff and students, as well as new students and families to our new academic year. I'm very excited for the start of this fall. It's an exciting time especially with our new assistant superintendent being brought on

099today starting later this month. I think it's an exciting moment for our school district and I'm very much looking forward to all of all of the work ahead. Do want to bring notice that there are a number of traffic street traffic construction projects that are happening across our different areas that are very close proximity to our school sites. And I say that because obviously our school district is not just in Woodland we have Knights Landing and Yolo. So to our families and staff, we need to make sure that we plan accordingly, that we plan and give ourselves sufficient time to get to and from pickup drop-off and to our work sites. I know I personally today had my daughter's freshman orientation over at Pioneer High School, and it did take a while. It probably took

100me about 35 minutes to drop her off and me get out of the traffic. So it does... require some time but whatever notices that we can give to our families in advance before the start of Monday I think would be very valuable I myself I don't live in the Spring Lake area but Pioneer High School is in the Spring Lake area so I wasn't very familiar with the amount of time that I needed to to plan but I know that principal Reece did send out a notice so that was very helpful so any more alerts and communications that we can give to our families would be very helpful because those types of situations can cause stress especially when you know parents are already nervous students are nervous and they have to also make their way

101to their to their work destinations aside from that i'm very much looking forward to the remainder of the agenda especially the summer school report But I also want to acknowledge that there's a lot of work ahead of us again. There's a lot of projects. There's a lot of plans that the board has set forward. And I just want to take advantage of the opportunity that the seven of us board members are here is that we refocus, that we refocus on our goals and our mission as school board members aside from all the other rhetoric that's coming in public comment because our mission is to continue working towards our goals. So thank you. Other reports? Seeing. Trustee Rodriguez? So I, again, just kind of echoing a little bit of what Trustee Bautista Zavala was saying is

102I want to welcome all the new staff and teachers that have joined our district and are going to help us bring the best possible quality education to our students that we can. And thank you to our ongoing staff. and teachers who have been working so hard in all the previous years to bring us to this point. Every time that we start a new year, it's a new opportunity to improve the quality of our education, to meet the needs of our students, and I know that we will do that. And so I just wanted to. kind of give a shout out to all those who are beginning this new year. I also wanted to recognize all those that have worked in the summer, in our summer school offerings. Again something that that we started for the

103first time several years ago especially in response to COVID. But I know that that's a lot of work that it has become kind of a staple in our community in regards to being able to have programming that our students can go to during the summer important bridging programming you know being able to make upgrades being able to participate in. in programs that will continue to motivate and stimulate students. So I just wanted to thank everybody again who worked on the summer school program. I think it's really really important and it'll be really important for us to find a way to continue the summer school especially as we lose some of the COVID funding. And then lastly I think I just wanted to you know make a comment earlier in regards to the passing of the

104resolution. You know, we I think we talked a little bit about why the board wanted to pass that resolution and you know I want to just kind of reiterate some of some of the words that we've spoken before which is that you know this board stands firmly with our LGBTQ plus students families and community and having the expectation that all students have the right to be and feel safe anywhere in our district. and that this board is committed to the non discriminatory equitable and respectful treatment of all our student community. Words that we've heard before and words are very important but that resolution that we that we just passed a few minutes ago that's a way to bring action to your words and actions are just as important to the words that we speak up

105here. And it is very representative of the board that you have. So thank you. Other reports. Seeing none moving on to any committee updates. None. OK. Going on to K 1 teaching and learning information action review slash approved school accountability report cards. Any questions for staff ready to make a motion then. Questions. A question. I do I do have one. Yes. So on specifically the section where they report on. items that need to be repaired. Is there a ‑‑ I know some of them are assigned work order numbers which would imply that some of the repairs are already in progress. Is there sort of an expected timeline for making these repairs or is that a part of this report anywhere? Who do you want to respond to that? Jim has all the answers. It might

106be no. So we do conduct our fit reports every year that get loaded to the SARC reporting that we put into the state. We are probably two-thirds or three-quarters of the way through completing our fit work orders that we created in our work order system, and we usually start conducting our new inspections October, November-ish or so, so we can complete those and get those loaded in. So it's kind of an ongoing process. But with all the other work orders that we have, we... try to get as many through at each month and we reassign some more. So it's a process but yeah we we generate 150 to 200 work orders some small some large. So it's a constant process. So these items that were identified here in this report are from last October and have

107many of them have already been picked up. Correct. OK. Yeah. Understood. Thank you. Trish with these. I just kind of wanted to piggyback on that question. Sorry. It's so it so you you we've got a list of all the items right that are needed in the school in the report and then you'll see where a particular item has a tag number or number assigned to it. But do it do we generate a report that would allow us to see what percentage of items that have been listed that are in need. Let's say 10 items are needed at a particular school and we're caught. We are currently addressing two of them. And so that means you know 80 percent of those items are being addressed. Is there a way to give us data that would you

108know whether it's I don't know quarterly at half a year where the board can kind of see what percentage of items that are needed are being attended to. Sure. Yeah we have in our work order system that we have we tag each of those fit. work orders as a fit work order so we can print out a report that says you know when we first create them all we can have a full report that these are all the workers that were created as a result of our inspections and then quarterly we can show you well we've uh the ones that have been completed uh we can we can show you the ones that are remaining and how many outstanding items there yeah exactly so yeah we could tailor however whatever report or reports if you

109want to have more than one we can show you the ones that were completed and and ones that have been assigned So any variety of choices we can do. I think a report like that would be helpful for just to have knowledge in regards to the board understanding what what the extent is of repairs the need of repairs are and how what percentage we're getting to to to them to help us see what might be needed in that department. I don't know if any of my fellow trustees agree on the need for such a report. I do. My only question I guess what do we do with that information? That would be it. So if it's actionable then I'm open to having the report generated on whatever we agreed to. But if we're just going

110to read it and then that's it I don't want to create more work for staff to report it, generate another report that we read. So what would we do with that? Well, we'd kind of be able to monitor what staff was doing. It would be able to kind of, it would help us see if we were putting, you know, so we may see certain conditions that are not being addressed, others are being prioritized. We may not agree that that should be the priority, or we may want to give some input on that. But without having... that kind of consistent report, then we don't really know, right, until we maybe kind of look at this particular report. So to clarify, we would be telling maintenance what to work on and what not to work on? No,

111no, but it would give us an opportunity to know that information. I mean, every time we get information, we can give feedback. No, I understand that. It's the same thing. You know, we get reports back on our English scores and our math scores, right? And that's helpful, isn't it? You want to know what is happening. No, no, I agree. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah. And we said create a literacy plan, which is fine with me, but doing like telling them what or what not, that's what I'm concerned with. No, I don't think I'm. Justin McDonald has a question. To me it would give the board a much better handle on where we are with respect to the deferred maintenance and what the realistically what remains to be done and the amount of money that

112remains and that would be very useful information as we move forward with our consideration of the bond that's coming before us. So if it was a report on deferred maintenance, I'm more open to that. But like a report on if a sink was fixed or not or if an outlet was fixed or not, that's one point. I think it's not necessarily about the individual. It's about the percentage of items that have not been addressed and being able to look at what those items are to give us more input in regards to how well our facilities are being maintained. So again deferred maintenance I'm in support just we know we must have a list of Projects I presume you have a prioritized list of projects, you know fixing the roof leap leak is probably at the

113top and then you know Maintenance painting is probably toward the bottom somewhere perhaps a quarterly or every six month update of that priority list and Where you are on the priority list and what's been taken off what's been completed? something like that so that you can see the deferred maintenance you can see where we are and whether we're making progress. Not every month but maybe quarterly. I don't know. Well I can take direction from the superintendent. Well let's see what if there's enough because there are others only two. How does the rest of the board feel about this report request. Okay, is there support from more trustees? So I see two I think I think something like that would be helpful at all but more I agree big picture Not down to nitty-gritty about each

114outlet or more sink that's broken. Yeah So let's define then what this report is going to be trustee Garcia. Do you have a comment? I just want to say a support also the report to see where we at and But with bigger projects or going down to even smaller things that need to be fixed can be the most needed. I don't know. I don't know how to manage. So let's see. There's four of you then. So if you all can decide what report you want then. So why don't we bring it back as an agenda item then because this is really not what this topic is about. And then you know three of you can meet and discuss what you want that and kind of what we can do with that information then the rest

115of us can determine whether we can support it or not because right now it's. Well we have four people supporting it right now. Oh yeah. Yeah absolutely. That's my suggestion that I'm making. Yeah. Right now I don't have clarity. No it would have to be made in the motion. Yeah. To pass this item. You all would have to make the motion stating what you want that report. So that's all. Trustee McDonald. In advance maybe of agendizing would it be possible to get a Friday fact that describes what your department does already? So, you know our intent here is not to add an enormous workload, you know to put this stuff together for the board But presumably you have a budget and you have a deferred maintenance maintenance list and that's really all I am interested

116in seeing. I'm not sure about my fellow board members but maybe we can get some background information and then we can all have a chance to digest it before we discuss again. I think I. If I may it could just be a percentage. You know we may see that we have X amount at the start or the finish of our inspections. I think and we just say well we've completed 50 percent by this quarter. I think a percentage of details deferred maintenance. Well of the of these reports that we do. So when we inspect our sites and we come up with the fit inspections we can say well we generated 200 work orders as a result of those inspections and by. June we've completed 50 percent or 60 percent. It could be as simple as

117something like that rather than getting down into the details of what exactly we're we're doing because again we're we roll through hundreds of work orders. I think the details would be a huge burden on our staff and actually will take time away from actually getting the work done. So I would prefer the bigger picture. Overall for the board, I think that would be more useful for the board to make overall big picture policy decisions. Right. So we don't really have a data system which would allow you to just plug in, say we want a percentage of deferred maintenance that hasn't happened yet, right? Exite has 10 things we're working on to 80 percent we haven't gotten to 80 percent you know in this particular quarter and then data system that would allow you to just

118categorize them you know whether it's matter of tiles or outside plumbing you know we don't have a data system that would allow you to do that right now. Yeah I mean we could most it does as to. the point of the superintendent it would take a lot more time to enter that. Most of our work orders come from our sites and it's just a general work order that comes in. It says you know we have a light out and they don't normally put in all the different parameters that you may be requesting. So we would have to follow up each of those work orders put those parameters in to be able to generate a report based on those parameters. And even even which will take you time away to get the projects done. So I

119would you know just suggest for the board that we would we could easily provide the big picture reports but going more detail there we're going to be is going to be have implications to staff and I'm not sure I think it might cause the opposite effect of what the board would like regarding getting things done quicker. I personally am not at all interested in the minutiae, but now I'm confused. Is there a list of deferred maintenance somewhere other than in the DFA? Does that exist? Yeah, we have a work order system. It's one that we are actually going to be going to a different one here in a few months. But we have a work order system that's in place where everything that we do through maintenance and operations go through our work order system.

120Once it's put in there, we assign it to a technician. And once they're done, they put their notes in on what they've done, and then we complete the work order. OK but that's reactive right. You go to the site and you say oh the sink is leaking and this outlet doesn't work. I'm talking about a more you know a step back. You know this school is going to need a coat of paint. This school has some roofing repairs that are coming up this school that that's more. Right. So we do have a preventative maintenance program. So we have a crew of three that goes out and it's a constant. They go from one site to the next to the next. They have their lead that goes out and identifies those types of things. They create

121their own work orders and they fix those as they go then they go to the next site do the same thing. So they have they have their list of schools that they go to and they're constantly working from one site to the next. Trustee McDonald can I ask a clarified question. Yeah. So we have a long list of things that we have not been able to do because we have not been able to do the maintenance, right? So that's the deferred maintenance because we have not. Just something I was asking is, do you document? those items that we have not been able to do because we haven't had the money basically is there a list of those somewhere other than the district-wide assessment that we say that's that's kind of what we're basing other than

122that there is no list you can generate saying like these are items that if we had a million dollars we would but we can't for example plumbing new plumbing you know for a section of the school right that's a big project that it's Probably needs to be changed, but we don't have the money to change that would be as a deferred maintenance example. Correct. I yeah, we Go off of the the district-wide facilities assessment. So that's does answer your question Yeah, I think so and I'm just wondering where what I'm interested in getting at is where where we are on that list because I have Absolutely, no clue. I have no clue how much Deferred maintenance has been taken care of and how much has not been and how much is remaining before there was

123one item on today's Consent agenda Project well, sorry measure why item in there so that's one and again, they'll be coming forward to us We approved that list and then they've been working on that list and there's different items. I'm assuming in different stages You've been talking to so many different companies. We approved different agreements to move forward. At the last meeting, which some of us missed, you all authorized them to be able to engage in those agreements to be able to do that. So as those come, you'll see them. I mean, I don't know if there's an easy list of what's next coming up that you can share with the board maybe with that. Is that more? A couple things. The first that you had addressed as a result of the assessment that we

124have, with that preventative maintenance crew that I was talking about earlier, we do take all the items that are listed in that assessment. So when the preventative maintenance crew goes to they're at Pioneer right now. So we take whatever has been identified in the assessment and we give them that list. So they work on those items. When they go to the next site we address those. So we're chipping away at what's in the assessment. Larger items we'll look at a measure Y initiative to address those. Based on the direction from the board from months ago we are as Trustee Villagran has mentioned we are putting together a package of what we're going to be presenting for our next our first big projects with all our sites. So all these types of things we will try

125to put in with with our initiative. We can't address them all as I think it's been brought up. We have 600 million dollars worth of needs and we're we're trying to make what we have work with and addressing what we can by prioritizing. And the priorities have already been. Yes. Set by the board. Based on the board's priority that that's set. They need to use that and the assessment tool that we went through. We have 600 million dollars. We only have $42 million and then based on the direction of the board. So they have to look at it through that lens as well. The direction of the board, what the document says, and then there's all these other. roles and processes that we have to go through. Thank you. So with that information update, how

126do the four of you feel is what you would want at this point then? Or you want to have a conversation and then come back? I think we could just kind of scale it back and work on a very basic kind of report that we talked about at the beginning, which is just kind of the percentage of items that are still left to be done. And that's it. I think I am interested in... some specific details but I'm willing to take your your advice which is to go back and develop it because I see I see things in this report that interests me. So for now I think if we just started with the widest report at least least amount of work for you and then I can develop the questions or a group of

127us can develop more inquiries less specific inquiries later. So we wish you all still need to agree on to what the report is think so staff is really clear as to what they're expected to do My What I personally would like to see is the list from the DFA since that's our adopted list. That's what we're working from. What has been completed off of that list and then we, the board, have given priority so presumably we're going to be checking things off of that list. And that can just come to us in the Friday facts in a quarterly. in a quarterly fashion so that you can see what's happened in the past three four months and what's on the docket for the future three four months are the rest of you okay with that garcia

128you okay with that i'm okay if you it's not take that much amount of time for the staff if the staff is okay it's i'm okay with that i would like to hear from them and from the superintendent the superintendent already said that again that'll take time so if that's your criteria then so i was thinking um Instead of quarter, semester. So every six months? Yes. Is that doable? Sure, like I said, I will help to work with the superintendent to kind of fine-tune what exactly that looks like And we'll kind of bounce some ideas back and forth I have some ideas of how to present that information But I will like to run it by the superintendent exactly what we're looking to present Okay, so superintendent could bring it back in a fight of

129facts And then if we want more than we can give the superintendent that feedback perfect Is there other questions on the report cards? Is there a motion to approve? That's where it makes the motion I'm gonna motion to approve there the school accountability report cards as is and then if you guys want to do a different motion go for it But I'm is there a second then motion to approve the county report cards. Is there a second? I second second motion made by trustee was a la second by trustee McDonald any other discussion so For me, I don't want to approve them tonight. There's a lot of information that, for me, I'd still want to go through. Sure. It's a lot of volume. There are a lot of questions, not just on some of these

130items. My question stemmed from the list that I saw on the school accountability report card and those items that were listed there. That's what had my interest, right? And there are other issues to talk about in this report, so I'm not ready to... to move forward tonight. Just to clarify what the reports are. There's certain things that we have to provide. So they're pretty like this is what our status is what the scores are. That's pretty much just a report that we have to there's nothing that we can really change that is data And we're just having to approve that if now something wants to be done with the data as a whole different Agenda item but for this is this is the results is the result of the fit report. This is a report

131card It's a report card. I mean the results will happen Justin we don't So it was my understanding that the report cards is a formula that's provided by the state and we fill it in There's nothing. There's no There's no gray area. There's no wiggle room We just fill in the blanks and we submit it to the state so we would submit the report card and then we would make a second motion to ask for the detail on the on the on the maintenance work Which would be completely separate from the maintenance work that's listed in the report card that that's you know prescribed by the state There's nothing really the district has to there's no latitude there for the district. We just fill it in Okay other questions or comments? Okay, see none All

132those in favor say aye aye any opposition So I have a question go ahead. I need clarification but before that so there was one two, three four five. Yes votes one no, I need a clarification before I Say what already passed but go ahead. I need to So my clarification is it we're proved this We also approve the report for six months. So that's my clarification already passed but Yeah, no. This is a report card that gets posted on the website so that when families want to, should I send my child to the school, they can look at the report card and compare? I get it. That's what I'm saying. That's what it is. But is it separate about the report? Got it. Thank you for the clarification. Say yes. Yes, okay, perfect. So six

133yeses and Trustee Rodriguez has a no. Perfect. All right. So who would like Trustee McDonald? I would like to make a motion to request staff to prepare a bi-yearly deferred maintenance report to the board based on the list of maintenance provided in the DFA and describing the projects which have been completed the projects which are next up and the projects which are anticipated not to be completed. Please say what DFA is for the public. District facility assessment. Thank you. There's a motion. We need a second if there's no second it dies from lack of second second motion by Trustee McDonald you'll have to go back to the video because I can't repeat all that was said. Hopefully the rest of you can remember who said second by Trustee Garcia all those in favor say aye

134aye. All those that say in opposition no no no. So 1 2 1 2 3 4 5 yes and 2 no. Passes. Trustee Rodriguez and myself voted no. All right. Thank you. Moving on to a written report from the Woodland Adult Education. And I did have one question, which I think was emailed to you. Yes? No? Oh, okay. Sorry. First of all, good evening, everyone. My name is Karen Liu. I'm the principal of Woodland Adult Education. Thank you, President Villagrana, Superintendent Elodie Ortega-Lampkin, trustees, community members, and cabinet. It's my pleasure to submit this report to you and to be here to answer any questions. Very proud of my school and happy to share. You should be very proud of your school. I visited a few times. They do, you know, a lot of your staff

135does great work and, you know, at the ceremony, hearing all those stories, and I appreciated that you embedded the stories into your report as well. That just took it to the next level, no question about that. I was very impressed with the growth in enrollment. I was just wondering if you could share a few of the things that you feel attributed to that growth in enrollment that you identified. Part of that is just outreach, marketing, outreach. I do think the fact that we're fully back in person, that we don't have the COVID restrictions. Also, we have a very robust. distance learning program. I don't it's not really distance learning it's more remote learners. We are offering classes in ESL and our high school diploma program and students who aren't able to attend especially a lot

136of our ESL parents or people who have transportation barriers or child care child care barriers or even folks that live out in Knights Landing. It's hard to get to Woodland sometimes so they can attend class via Zoom and they're still able to get quality education. without having to physically come to campus. So I just think a variety of things have contributed to that and just words getting out about what a quality program we have. Also, many of you have probably heard we advertise on Spanish radio, three different stations for laser and La Ranchera and we get so many students coming in from that. And I have to give thanks to our public information officer, Jerry, who is always willing to put the good work that we're doing out on Facebook. So I know all of

137those things have combined. So I think a 20% increase, 26% increase in enrollment was huge for this year. And we want to see that hopefully double for next year or this coming school year. I wasn't aware of the Spanish stations. So again, compliments to your staff for all the efforts, the teamwork. that has come together to produce those outcomes. Because again, these are individuals that for whatever reason were not able to either complete their education, they want to continue, especially one of the keynote speakers that was just awesome sharing their story. But again, also people that just want to maybe enhance something else or just. take on more knowledge just such a variety of offerings that you all have it's very impressive and you know i don't think most people know that not all districts

138have their adult education embedded within them you know they're outside some kind of education and other means and you know we're fortunate that that you all are part of our family and you know we're very proud that um you are and and the work that you all do so again just pass on my compliments to your team Thank you, and I'm very grateful for the support that this district does give to adult ed because there are districts that aren't as supportive, and it just means the world. My staff knows how supportive our superintendent is, and as well as all of you, thank you to those of you who are at our ceremony, and I would like to take this opportunity. Member Richardson to thank you for the comments that you made in your public report

139that night about that was very heartwarming to me too I wasn't physically here, but I watched the feed of it and I just want to say thank you very kind of you to share out the way you did if I can also share today I was walking through the halls of a Sparta Elementary School and little Nehemiah comes up to me with his mom and they were so excited We saw you at the adult ed graduation So glad you bring that up because we're getting their information report tonight what do you think raving about the program oh my god it helped him out so much in life put him in the right direction blah blah blah nothing but positive praise out in esparto that's awesome thank you for sharing that other comments trustee bautista i

140do have a comment i just wanted to say that you have staff culture that's very uplifting and supportive of one another and i just wanted to highlight erica sarate She's a Woodland Joint Unified School District former student, product of Woodland Schools. She was ASB class president. And she's now planning her 20, she's now in charge of planning the 20-year anniversary for our class. And she's one of your employees. So I'm very excited to see her listed on there. And right away I was like, oh my God, that's Erica. So thank you. Thank you for... Bringing this report forward today, and I was just very excited to see all of the accomplishments Thank you. It's my pleasure any other questions or comments See you none. Thank you so much. Thank you All right moving on to

141review quarterly report Any questions or comments on the report? Seeing none moving on to facilities and finance action approve agents What what I skip? Oh my goodness. My bad. My bad. Thank you. Number three information on annual summer school report questions or comments. I just had a general question on do we know what the cost of putting on our summer school program is. Can somebody tell us what the cost of that is. Can you repeat that again. What is the cost of the summer school. Summer school or all the summer offering all the summer all of the entire program summer. Let's see. We have will have Then you help come up. There's a lot of money answer is a lot. Yeah Do you want like a we use the multiple funds as well? Some of

142it is out of the LCAP Some of your best guesstimate and then send us an email with a closer amount I don't know that I can give you a guess. Okay with you But I do believe we spend over a million dollars on our summer program, but it is a lot of different funding sources So don't quote me on that I'll send it more directly and was not included with that too is all the time of our other staff who are not paid out of those funds like food service transportation support All these additional supports that are not necessarily in that in the budgets So we don't have a, yeah, it was way over a million dollars. Yeah, you're probably right. Yeah, just trying to get an idea of what it would take, the amount

143of money it'll take to continue that similar program. So what we've been doing, because a lot of the funds were in the ESSER funds, and we started, if you recall, we started shifting some of those funds into the LCAP. and we've had some increases in LCAP. So we've been shifting it because we've gotten such a strong response and you've approved the LCAP. And I believe in one of the presentations we shared that we were shifting some of the things that we wanna continue. And then with its new ELOP funds that allowed us to continue some of the things that we weren't doing before COVID because before COVID we were not doing the enrichment piece, but now with ELOP funds helps us to slip that in. Yeah, so we've been strategic about making sure that it

144continues as best as possible. Did we completely take it out of ESSER now, all the COVID funds? Mostly. So as we talked about, I think in May, what our goal is is to transition all of those funding sources out of the COVID funds into more sustainable long-term funding sources that we get on an annual basis. So we want to make sure we spend every penny of the ESSER funds? Exactly. Right? So we want to make sure that we continue monitoring that very closely. do not send any money back to the state, and at the same time slowly shifting to the LCAP so that we can start transitioning that. So we're monitoring very carefully the deadline in each of those budgets. Yes, we're very close to expending our second year budget, and we'll be sharing that

145very soon. Thank you. Have one more question. Do you know if we've been able to survey our students just in terms of any feedback they have in regards to our programming? The answer is yes, right? Yeah, of course. Yep. Oh, there it is. Thank you. I don't have my glasses on. I can't find my other pair. Good evening. Yes, we survey our students at the end of the program. We surveyed all of our students in first through sixth grade, and we ask them a variety of questions. They rate our programs. They tell us what their favorite part of summer school was. They identify what project they like the most. We ask them if they would return next year if possible. So we have all that data for first through sixth grade for the elementary STEAM

146program. Okay, is that something we can ask to be presented later or somehow that information given to us so we can take a look at that as well? We could put it in a Friday fact. On a Friday fact? Yep, we have it all. Okay. And your glasses are on top of your head. No, these pair don't work well. I have my other pair. These pair does not work. These are progressives and I can't say very well. Wow. Thank you for that. I do that. Trustee Garcia? I would like to share. I had the opportunity to visit the elementary science, the STEM elementary at Dingle. And they have a position. And I was very impressed. I really enjoyed. They have like a tour. And they see all the. of the projects, it was like STEM

147projects. And I see the imagination, I do the tour with my little one, the first grade, kinder, too, and it was amazing. It was amazing, and I really liked this type of program. And also, I had the opportunity also to attend the graduation for the AOP, YLA. My college, the president was there as a, not as a board that time, but also I really enjoyed to see those kids, especially these kids. These kids are the ones that are moving through the middle school to high school. Those kids have a lot of need because they wasn't featured when the COVID hit. So seeing those kids with those improved on speaking or the strengths they get from there, and they're very happy. They're very happy to visit the schools. They're impressed. You can be impressed to hear

148the histories from them. And thank you so much for everyone who made this possible. Thank you to my board college. Supporting and all the person are involved to do this Director curry over so I saw those programs just so you know, I'm not gonna take credit for that trustee riches and feller So I'll let you know that two of my three girls attended the summer school programs this summer my little one worked and did her Spanish program over at Dingle they both did by life of glory go and one of them did music this summer my oldest was just Disappointed she couldn't do more as she was also taking classes at Solano Community College you guys have risen to the challenge on your summer sessions. Like when we were trying to figure out how we

149could mitigate learning loss right before COVID and we didn't give you guys that much time. That first program that you guys produced, Chef's Kiss. It was huge. It was a success. The music concerts were phenomenal. The Ballet Folklorico, the kids being there. I had parents from Davis asking if they could get their kids in our summer program. That happened again this year when I was at UCC for church and Sunday school. Are you guys doing summer school again? Are they accepting people from out of town? I can't lie to them next year. I know that we had two out of town kids in our city program. So next year, I don't know how we're going to get folks in if we can, but we have the best summer program in the county. The kids in

150Esparto when they heard about it were like we can only go to summer school for credit recovery. Yeah we got opportunities in Woodland. We're growing. I'm just going to pop my collar. I didn't do the work. I came with some ideas with the board. You guys executed. I can praise you guys all I want. I want the people out there the naysayers to see the evidence because I know that there is a a fragment of our community that has no trust in our district. And it's not substantiated. It comes from anecdotal. It comes from you know California has the most languages spoken in this country. We have the most languages spoken in any other state. We have the most English language learners in California. 20 percent of our student population are EL learners. And the

151things that you guys are doing. I'm just I just I don't think you guys hear it enough. I know you guys for every positive you guys are probably getting five to eight negatives especially at the beginning of the school year. So if I could just take this moment to say you guys did that. Thank you. It's a huge effort. It's just not director cutter. We oversee there's three pages of programs here. It's Tori who's not here It's director sharp director foster fill every and miss Tammy last year did the measurements and I know Tori took that over It's a huge project. We met with transportation. We met we met cuz it's a huge HR everyone it's just something it takes a lot Take so much a lot that it's kind of challenging us to be

152ready for the start of the school year So we've been meeting about how we can make sure that we continue doing what we're doing without the impact. You know, our staff, our HR department hiring at the end of the year, not just for the start of the school year, but for summer school, all that additional staff. So thank you for the support of helping with additional staff for HR department. There is additional pressure on technology with all devices needed and still doing trying to do repairs for this regular school year. M&O department, you know, they can't get into the classrooms because they're being used, but everybody wants their classroom to be shiny and ready to go by Monday. Our food service department, you know, they are not having a single break. Some of the folks

153here, you can see them, they look tired, and there's a reason for it. Calling people out. But, you know, it is a lot. So we met, I had people meet to discuss the pros and cons and how can we can make a few adjustments to give a little breather so that we are 100% ready for the start of school because we're starting school tired in many cases, many of our staff. But we really appreciate all those comments. You guys deserve more than that. And we are more than just better in summer school in this county. There's many other things that are number one. And people, at some point, we're just gonna keep doing what we're doing and they're gonna have to either. believe it but we're moving on doing what we're doing for our kids.

154Last question though. Will we I know this is what year two or three that we've done this. Will we be able to produce data showing how we're mitigating our learning loss by having all of these engagements and opportunities. Are we seeing that when the kids start the school in the fall that have done these summer school programs even though they haven't had that break. they're still hitting the ground running because their brains have been engaged in a way. I honestly I think that the first year we did it it was all about social emotional learning. We wanted kids to have play with their friends again right. Just to get out there and be outside and engage and we're starting to shift more like having a better balance on more academic supports as well. So I

155think. The answer is yes, we're gonna need a few more years so we have more data to compare But the first year when we had these ESSER funds it was all focused on social emotional learning Hands-on learning getting back to classroom. There was That I think is gonna Give us a little delay in the this last few years but moving forward I think now that I think we where we getting way past COVID now and we should start seeing some more results so give us a couple more years to have more data to show you. Christina is there anything you want to add or did I? Trustee Bautista-Zavala. Thank you. I'm very impressed with this summer school update. I had an opportunity to reach out to the superintendent yesterday and we had a conversation today

156about this written report. It was a great conversation. I just wanted to highlight that in 2018 or 2019, I remember having a motion where I wanted us to move in the direction of bringing back dual immersion summer school. And that was a huge undertaking. Like that was a heavy ask. It was a heavier lift. And I remember sitting here not being sure if I was going to have the support from the board. So of the seven, I think it was Trustee Villagrana and myself and those that were on the board then, you know, we had enough votes. And just seeing that dual immersion has, summer school has grown and is a staple program of our summer enrichment is huge. And I just want to say thank you because this program could have been dropped off.

157you know, years ago and or right after the first year, right? But you guys kept moving this along and it's gained so much momentum. So I just wanted to say thank you. Thank you for growing on that. One of the things that I mentioned to our superintendent this morning earlier today is that I'm excited to see, you know, the expanding mine summer camp grow through the ELOP funding. But one of the things that I asked our superintendent is how do we provide the Expanding Minds summer camp to students that need the summer STEAM program, that need the summer school? How do we grow and try to get them, capture them in the STEAM summer school? but also have them transition in the afternoon into the ELOP afternoon program, which is the Expanding Minds summer camp.

158So we actually did offer that? Thank you. And this is, that's what I was getting to. Yeah, sorry. So our superintendent said, you know, Deborah, I think we did offer that. And one of the things that I explained to her was, with all due respect. I mean, I'm extremely thankful for all the work that went into it. But my job as a school board member is to offer feedback and to give you guys the feedback that I hear in a positive way and in genuine, right? And the feedback I got was some parents that came to me, they expressed, hey, my child was off for summer school because they needed it. But my kid was an ELOP. But I opted for ELOP because I needed the full day. And I said, well, I think your

159child could have gone to summer school, gotten the STEAM program that they needed, and then transition into ELOP. And they said, that was not explained to us. They didn't, our school site didn't explain that we could do that. So then I kind of sat there and I thought about it and I said, okay. I can see how there could be a loss in translation or miscommunication, especially when your child is going from a home school to a different location for summer school, right? Because you're kind of handed off, right? In a good way. But you don't know that you're eligible for a full day. So my feedback today is... how do we make sure that all of our school sites, all of our elementary school sites, families know that they're eligible for full day if

160they want the summer school? So I did a little bit of research and I went back to Ed code, right? And I was having this conversation with Elodia and I said, hey, I found language that says that LEAs can use summer school program to satisfy the nine hour ELOP, right? For that 90 day non-school days requirement to satisfy, right? So what I want to ask you guys is when you guys come back in December, can we have maybe an option that you guys can propose saying This is how we can use our existing STEAM program for those four hours or five hours and then transition the students into the ELOP so that instead of the Expanding Minds summer camp, those Expanding Minds summer camp students go to STEAM in the morning. then have their lunch

161and transition into the expanding mind summer camp. And all of those families and students walk away with curriculum instruction from credentialed students for four hours or however long it is for summer school. And I don't expect you guys to offer any, you know, I would love to hear from you guys if you want to, but. That's just something that came to mind and had a great conversation with our superintendent. And I'm just going to stop right there. I just want to speak to that, if you don't mind. Because what we actually did as a team, and it sounds like there may have been a little bit of a communication breakdown, so we'll work on that, was Tori worked directly with Maria and her department to prioritize all of the students who were enrolled in the

162elementary STEAM program, reach out to those families and offer them either just the morning. or the full day. And so we prioritize those students above all students. And we actually did have about half of the students that were participating in our Expanding Minds program were students who were there in the morning and then stayed for the entire day. So it just sounds like we need to kind of tweak that and improve our communication skills out to our families and make sure they know that it's offered for them. But we definitely prioritize that enrollment for them. One other thing to consider is, for example, One of the families that I spoke with, they said, we opted for the Expanding Mind Summer Camp, and it's like a four-week program, right? And they said, after the second week,

163my kids were checked out. And I said... Did you ask if you could submit, you know, and write if there was space in the STEAM and maybe register them for STEAM? And they're like, well, we didn't even think of that. So maybe an opportunity to check in with students, you know, half, you know, X amount of times or days in and say, hey, if there's any interest, we have X amount of slots open, maybe through a robocall or something. Because what this family expressed was that the kids were bored. They had already experienced the day's program and they wanted to do something else. They wanted homework or they just really wanted something. And that's not the case for all the students. The majority of the kids loved it, but some of the kids just needed

164a little bit more. So just some feedback. But when we come back in December... I'm just interested in seeing, like, what would it cost to incorporate the Expanded Minds summer camp program for all of those students to have the opportunity to sit in the classroom with credentialed teachers for the first part and then go into transition into summer camp in the afternoon? OK we'll come back with the plan in December see what options we have. But in the meantime I do want to get back to the question about how much summer school costs. So somebody just sent me an email. Thank you. Traditional summer school was nine hundred thousand dollars. Expanded learning program was about one million one point two million and special ed extended. year school school year. The S.Y. two hundred and twenty

165six thousand dollars so about two point three million dollars. That's not counting you know time from staff support staff to support summer school like technology department food service transportation. So I would probably add another four hundred thousand dollars to that so close to close to three million dollars. The questions or comments trustee Garcia comments. Yes, I say thank you to the trustee but this is a valid to bring this item, but I want to Share my point of view what happened on the other side? So at least another parent and I we apply for the two Programs and we be on septum and two programs. So this is another way can the things can do it so what happened with me i don't need for a full day so my my um something can be

166improved can be that the if you that that that place can can offer to another child for next year. That's my feedback and for another family in order to have more opportunities. Yeah, but for my experience and from another person, they accepted for the two programs. Thank you. Other comments or questions? Trustee Rodriguez, did you have something? Trustee Rodriguez? And then Trustee Bautista-Vela. Yeah, I was just going to say that. I mean, for me, I'm very certain that all this program benefits our students to be able to move forward, to be able to carry on momentum, to be engaged in school. But I think we also need to work hard at being able to document that, right? Being able to take the students that have gone through our programs and take a look at either

167some sort of behavior indicators or grade indicators or testing indicators and try and try and really The best we can try and see what we can do about tying tying them I know that it's only been a few years but I think we need to kind of go in that direction to be able to build that that data that data backup for the fact that that we that the amount of money that we're spending on summer school is showing up in different in different areas. Right. So I'll be exploring that further in the future but I think that that's really an important thing to do. Thank you. Trustee Bautista Zavala. Thank you. I did hear that I heard some numbers but in terms of costs is there a cost associated with summer at City Hall

168to the school district. Yes we pay for the teacher. How much is it. We pay for the we pay for transportation. So we provide the meals. Pretty much we pay for the program and they provide the space and the curriculum. You know the ballpark. So. I mean I think the teacher that we provide gets paid by timesheet like all summer school staff. So it's six hours a day for three weeks. I can get the exact number and then a rough estimate I would say about twelve thousand dollars for the program. Okay. Yeah, somewhere between 8 and 12, depending on the field trips, because we provide the transportation, the teacher, and meals. Thank you. Thank you. I'm a supporter of the summer at City Hall. You know, I'm an advocate to try and get more students

169involved and enrolled into this program, but it saddens me to see, like, there was only eight students this year. And it's always in that vicinity. So I don't know that we are making the right investment when it's costing $12,000 and only eight students are going. So I would encourage this board to really think if the $12,000 that we're making at summer at City Hall are well invested or if this is money that we can add to more students going to a leadership. training with our superintendent as such happened this week. That to me is a better investment. maybe and of course it's a different opportunity but that doesn't mean that we can't take um the the teacher the instructor that participates at summer at City Hall along with with this with this leadership training right

170and I'm not trying to change your curriculum whatsoever I'm just giving an idea you know because twelve thousand dollars for eight students that's over a thousand dollars a student um so can I add something too go ahead they weren't all from Woodland either there was something they were from I think one was from West. There was some from West Sacramento, some from, I don't remember where. But they were not from West. There were not that many of our students, so I think. Those are all. Yeah. Oh yeah from the private school. Points well taken. We've been talking about we need to really look at that. Yeah. And I definitely want to make sure that we continue to collaborate with the city maybe change the structure. It would be maybe an opportunity maybe to do something

171with our student advisory where we could do some parts of the city maybe at the courthouse and maybe some other. I don't I don't know. So I think that. there's still a place where we can continue to collaborate by changing it up and involve more students. So we talked about this already that we need to revisit for next year. Thank you. And just to address the decline, we have so many programs during the summer. A lot of our kids don't want to take three weeks to do that because we've got fun stuff going on like music camp and things like that. They had a harder time recruiting. It is a good problem. And I'm not pointing fingers. It's no one's fault. that we only had eight students. It comes down to the students. We only

172have so many kids and we have a lot of things for them to do. The students vote with their feet, right? They sure do. So they're telling us what they want to do. Exactly. And we may have new numbers after the next, you know, YOLO Empower Her. conference, who knows, just for perspective, with the $226,000 that we spent on special education ESY for the 188 students, that came out to about $1,200 per student. So if we're spending about a thousand for the City Hall, just note we're spending twelve hundred for special education. So it seems equitable to me in all honesty. Even if we've got eight as long as we are moving forward, we're giving something. But I just wanted to give perspective. The eight are not our students. All eight are not our students.

173Eight were our student plus two others. That's what the report says. Yeah, I mean we can get to the details and the guest house gonna look into that and then see what we can change but I Actually want to request that we change the name of this report because it's not the summer school update right at summer school and summer enrichment because it's more than summer school. Someone would read it and be like, oh, it's summer school? And they're like, I don't want to know about summer school. But again, so maybe now, but for the future, to really reflect what this document is, because this document is rich with enrichment. Actually, there's more enrichment than summer school is, what is it? No, yeah, but there's a word. What is it? Thank you, right and and

174there's way there's way more enrichment than credit recovery And to me it's not highlighting enough of all the work that was done So I mean like again, that's just me speaking here. But the only program that's credit recovery is the high school. Yeah, exactly So I just want to clarify that summer at City Hall the report says at six of the students were from pioneer or woodland high and two of the eight were from their neighboring school district so we only served six with twelve thousand dollars you were absolutely right about that i just checked it too but i also want to note that not all of our special education students are woodland kids Thank you. I just wanted to say that I did have the opportunity as well to go visit Pioneer High School.

175Again, took another vacation day. And went to Douglas as well during the summer and then went to Dingle. And just walking in the classrooms and seeing the young people. I saw some of those projects that they worked on also. I got a tour. Jerry tagged along as well. you know to document some of the things that were happening and put it out there as well but just again just the magic and walking into the classrooms again hearing Spanish and they're telling me like you know dual immersion I was like powerful. And at Douglas seen a survival class I had either forgotten or didn't know that there's a survival class the students took survival class. There was working on silkscreen, that was working on making molds and what's that? Yes, as well. So there was just

176so many awesome offerings this summer. Our students are very fortunate to, and again, all free. Right. Other communities you're paying an arm and a leg for these opportunities. So yes I also look forward to identifying how we can continue to keep doing as much as we can because again as we start shifting over we're going to have to make decisions where again we might choose or not based on the impact that we're going to have. We can have a conversation about that. But and as far as the. evaluation absolutely I agree as well with both trustees have mentioned that and I agree with the superintendent we need more years of data to be able to they are collecting data and then again we're gonna have to invest in hiring a professional to come and do

177that analysis for us because we can't just ask our staff hey you know did this now we you know maybe a graduate student from UC Davis School of Education whatever but you know at that point the board can have a discussion conversation as to who we're going to bring in to do that analysis for us so we can see what the results because there will be results again there's a ton of research right that shows that when young people don't do anything in the summer that summer melt concept right so obviously something is but the question is what we want to be able to measure that the data is being collected there's grades there's just there's all kinds of data it's just not how do you decipher that to then give a report to to

178the report to show that so I'm 100 percent in support again with the resources so it gets done because I definitely don't want to add staff that additional. important task to be done. So but again thank you so much. Any other comments before we move on. I want to say one thing. While you were talking about data there's certain things that I know that we're providing meals for students that would not have those meals because their parents are working. We've also provide safe places to be. And so I definitely want to make sure that when we. Provide this update I want that to be highlighted as well because I think that's really part really important for our students to be able to come to school have breakfast have lunch have a safe place to be

179Versus being home watching videos or running around in the neighborhood And then just wanted to share the classrooms that kudos to all the staff. It was awesome I had kids chasing me the word Jerry. We couldn't get out of that class because the I couldn't get out of one class because every student was like aren't you going to come look at my project? You know and I was trying to get around the school and there was one particular class that they were just insisting they wanted to read to me their animal studies that they did and it was just that's very powerful. So I want to thank our staff. That was very very powerful when kids were just so excited and they were insisting that I listen to each of their projects and they read

180them to me and demonstrated to me and so I had a hard time getting out. We didn't make it to the whole school because of that couple of classes were like that but I'm remembering one specific first grade class. Another thing that you reminded me of or made me realize also a cool space in the summer right there are young people might not necessarily have at homes. There's so many other benefits are not necessarily mentioned or identified in this report or that report. So yes thank you so much. All right. Did I get everything in teaching and learning. OK good. All right. Moving on to facilities and finance. Oh no thank you. See I didn't get to everything. No I mentioned then I went back. Yeah. All right. K for any questions or comments on

181the zero complaints. All right. Seeing none. Thank you. Trustee Richardson Fowler. That was just what my seventh mistake of the day I think. I am. I'm kidding. Not seventh twelfth what now sixth. Okay. Someone's counting good. All right moving on to action approve HMC group master agreement and fee proposal for architectural engineering services associated with the design of measure Y capital improvement plan group one determined from facility assessment Beamer Elementary School Cache Creek High School Dingo Elementary School Gibson Elementary School Plainfield Elementary School and Prairie Elementary School Move for approval. Oh my goodness. There's a motion and a second. Are there any questions or discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposition? Seeing none, it's approved. Moving on to L2, which is Action Approve Scope Agreement Number 1 to Master Agreement

182for Construction Management Services with Premier Management Group LLC. Questions or comments? Is there a motion to approve? Motion to approve. Trustee Garcia motions. Second. Second by Trustee Bautista-Zavala. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposition? Seeing none, unanimous approval. Good luck, no questions. All right, moving on to HM1, Human Resources, approve variable term waiver requests for mid-moderate credential. Questions? Did I? Oh, what did I say? Thank you. Mild moderate credential move for approval. It's moved by trustee But this is a lot less second my trusty Richardson Fowler Fowler all those in favor say aye aye any opposition one abstention myself M2 is there a motion to approve so moved by trustee Richardson followers or second second Like she can do it. Who is it trustee lot motion by trustee Richard Fowler second by trustee

183Mott to approve variable term waiver requests for a mile wait my old yes mild moderate I don't like submit for credential all's in favor say aye aye any opposition abstention number three same identical thing as far as title Oh, no, it's not. Never mind. Variable term waiver request for moderate and severe credential. And motion to approve. Moved by Richardson Fowler. Second. Trustee Rodriguez. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposition? One abstention. And then action. Approve variable term waiver request for multiple subject credential. Motion. Motion by Richardson Fowler. Second. Trustee Rodriguez also in favor say aye aye any opposition See none one abstention information requests for future agenda items No announcements. Okay any information if sorry closing comments? Trustee Richardson's folder You guys sorry about this. It's gonna take a bit So we've got

184some stuff going on in our community and as a community I think we need to come together and work together and do some work in healing and building trust I don't know what that looks like but I know supporting one speech over the other while claiming to uphold the principles of free speech and Open disclosure can be seen as hypocritical True commitment to free speech and expression entails allowing a wide range of opinions and expression, even those that may be unpopular or controversial. When certain speech is favored while others is suppressed, it undermines the very ideals of open dialogue and intellectual diversity that free speech is meant to protect. To truly uphold the values of free speech, consistency in allowing all voices and people to be heard regardless of their alignment with one's own view

185is essential. That said, in this position, I am not a free citizen. I am an elected official and do not feel that this is the platform for me to share partisan or religious beliefs, and that is coming from an evangelical Sunday school teacher. Many people understand my position on education and youth advocacy. Many who disagree with me have complained about me ad nauseum and I'm sorry Elodia for the emails you get. To the district, they've attacked my character and commitment to a position that I have worked so hard at. Tonight I heard people actually saying that they did not support a resolution reaffirming the support of all youth just because it encouraged them to look at their biases not telling them what to do but to look at their biases and how they treat other

186people. I don't get it but that's their right as private citizens. In closing as a trustee but more so as a teacher for our profession as a whole. We don't have time to indoctrinate students We are barely have time to do lesson plans prep and check emails Teachers can barely meet all of the standard requirements set by Common Core To say such things are irresponsible Disingenuous and indicate a lack of knowledge and trust in teachers staff and this district That's all I've got to say Thank You trusted Richardson Fowler any other closing comments Trustee Rodriguez. Just quickly on a very different note. I just noticed pay attention to the weather report for next week. It looks like it's going to be some pretty hot days. Yeah. At least Monday through Thursday. So I know we'll

187be prepared. I just wanted to bring that up so there's awareness that that'll be something that we'll have to deal with next week. Thank you. Just you know staff is very aware. I know they've been talking about it and have. Plans in place as as needed, but thank you for bringing that up any other closing comments Seeing none the date and time of Next scheduled regular board meeting is Thursday August 24th closed session starts at 5 as usual and open session at 6 p.m With that this meeting is adjourned at 9. Oh one. Thank you everyone