001Okay, we're res calling back um the business portion of our meeting. We've completed executive session, but there is nothing to report from it. So, now we're going to start and I'm going to um ask Mr. Pacini, could you lead us in the pledge? Sure. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the republic for it stands one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. emergency locations. Please notice how you came in and retrace your steps as quickly as possible to get out in case of an emergency. There's also a door behind you if you need to use that. Um we to this is a smokefree school district. Smoking is not permitted in the building or anywhere on any school grounds. It's also a hatefree and bullyfree school district.
002So we have a board consent agenda. Can we do all this as an omnibus? Yes, we can arrangement to clean a lot of this off the agenda so we can get into the things we need to discuss. It' be my pleasure. So, um, the trustees said, "Listen carefully as I'm going to do the proverbial omnibus." So, the administration recommends the approval of board consent items reflected and schedules C1 through C3, G1 through G3, H2 through H11, I'm sorry, H2 through H7.16. Let me repeat H2.1 through H7.16, H7.18 through H11.1, I1 and I2, I4 through I35. Okay, go back on your age. Give me those numbers again, please. H2.1 through H7.16, H7.18 through H11.1. Okay. So, is there a motion to approve the items listed by the superintendent? Do you need to have them called out
003again? Everybody has those. All items recommended by the superintendent in this omnibus motion. Is there a motion to approve those? Trustee Ross on Trustee Feliz is a second. Any questions or discussion about the omnibus items? Seeing none, all in favor? Unanimously approved. Before we move on, I just want to congratulate Kristen Fair Thompson who's just been appointed as our director of humanities. I think she's going to do fantastic things for the district and propel the district forward. So, welcome aboard. Thank you. So, I'm going to move on before we get to the resolution. I'm going to move on to um the administration recommends the approval of business item I3. I3. Um, is there a motion to approve business item I3? A motion by Vice President Dilo, second by Trustee Felicetta. Well, any questions or discussion?
004Seeing none, all in favor? We have uh six in favor. Any opposed? Any abstensions? One abstension. And also we have H. Got one more. Right. Yeah. So the administration recommends the approval of personnel changes reflected in H7.17. H7.17. Is there a motion to approve that? Motion to approve. A motion to approve by Trustee Ross. Second by Motion to approve. I'll second. Second by Trustee Pacini. All in favor? All right. Six in favor. Any opposed? Any abstensions? One abstension. And now the um resolution uh reflected in H1, I believe. Um the president or I read the resolution. Seven Holtz I doesn't matter. I'll read the resolution. Administration recommends the following action. Resolved. Board of Education hereby abolishes 2.6 positions in the special education tenure area. Be it further resolved. The employment of the teachers having the
005least seniority in the system within the tenure area of the positions abolished shall be discontinued effective June 27th 2025 to it confidential schedule A could I ask a question before we proceed with your resolution sure shouldn't that retroactive to June 27 that is correct it's a correction Okay. So, this had been already approved but with a different day. Yes. It has to do with the um resignation of a employee and how we that employee was uh rehired or replaced. All right. So, the only change from what had been decided before is that date. Yeah. Well, there's no additional um accessing of loss of staff in this resolution. All right. So, we have the resolution. And is there a motion to approve the resolution? Do I hear a motion? Um, trustee Felisetta. A motion and second.
006Second by Vice President Dulo. Questions, discussion? All in favor? I think it's unanimously approved. Okay. So, now you get to go back and do the things communications and announcements. Thank you, President Hay. Welcome everybody. Um it's my pleasure to provide my first um superintendence report of the new school year. So I want to say happy new year. I also want to congratulate our new trustees, trustee calderon, trusty Ross, and trustetta. Welcome to the team. Looking forward to accomplishing great things together. So I'm going to go right to my superintendent report. First and foremost, there was a couple of more moving up ceremonies. I got had the pleasure of attending. First, I got to go to South Haven. They had several moving up uh ceremonies for our youngest learners. This is really cute. Uh the kids
007sang much to the delight of their parents. Many of the trustes got to attend it. You'd see what I mean by it just being really cute. Um Norman does a great job. We're looking forward to continue the program in South Haven. I also got to go to Kramer Kingdom for their moving up ceremony which is just as adorable. Um, I love seeing the the looks of pride and fulfillment when the looks and especially the kids, but more so the parents and family members who attend. So, I just want to give a big shout out to Principal Clark and the Kramer staff for putting on a great moving up ceremony. Not to be outdone, Frank P. Long had not just one but three different moving up ceremonies. We were able to actually host the first in
008our courtyard because the weather permitted. The reason there's three uh moving up ceremonies is because the class is so large. Um, we are contemplating moving it to the north auditorium so we can have one moving up ceremony for everybody, but this just worked out just fine. Day one was outside. Our students sang to their parents much to the delight um of their parents. We did it again, but we moved the uh celebration indoors for day two and then on day three we had to stay indoors because of the rain. Our third day also included our dual language kids who are moving out to middle school. So, we got um to hear some of the presentation in both English and Spanish, which was pretty cool. Uh, moving on to some of the older kids. Dport Middle
009School had their moving up ceremony. Uh, I just want to congratulate the class. It's actually 2029, so that's very futuristic. I'm sure they're going to do fantastic at the high school, but nice ceremony. Uh, a lot of kids moving up. So, big shout out to the middle school staff for everything they've done to help these kids along the way. Moving on to our high school seniors. I'm glad I made the decision not to cancel our senior walk. Um, if you recall, that was a day of the extreme heat. I think the hit the temperature hit 100 degrees, but the event was optional and it's something I did not want to take away from our class of 2025. They thoroughly thoroughly enjoyed it. Um, and because of a civics uh project, we actually visited the middle
010school as well. This was something that was proposed by our high school students and we made it happen. And finally, in the bottom right hand corner, there's a picture of some young learners. Uh, this young man gets so excited every time he sees me because his name is also Santana. So, we always ask to see my ID and he says, "See Santenna? I'm Santana, too. So, uh, but a great day. It was great to see the looks of, uh, joy and excitement on our young learners because, um, it's just a great thing to model for the young kids. So, it's an event I love and I'm glad we stuck it through. Like I said, our seniors, the class of 2025, were so enthusiastic about it in such good spirits despite the warm temperatures. Uh, we
011went on and they had a lot of swagger. Our 2025 prom, I stayed a little over an hour only because it was fun. And I have to give compliments to our seniors. They're just a great class. Um there's another school district that will remain unnamed that got banned from flower fields because of some of the behaviors exhibited by their seniors. Um but our our students were just fantastic. Um and I have another slide. A lot of pictures, but they were really dancing. That's another thing I found really remarkable is almost all of them were just in the middle of that dance floor dancing together. So it was great to see and great to experience. So, a lot of love in the air and I'm really happy of their accomplishments and I was happy to celebrate
012with them for their prom, which of course accommodated the next day in our commencement ceremony. The weather was pretty much perfect. It was cool. It was a little overcast for our fireworks. So, big shout out to all of our students, our validictorian, our saludiator, and our SAS. Fantastic speeches. And of course, our ex exio past president who did fantastic speech as well. So, uh, kudos to the high school staff, our facilities department, our custodians, everybody that makes our commencement happen. It really was a smooth, uh, sort of ceremony and a happy one. So, really proud of those students. Uh, finally, I want to talk a little bit about parent square. And I'm going to keep this brief because in terms of the platform, I don't know much about it, but I want to go over
013some of the highlights of the platform. So, we basically that's five different uh, platforms we're using to communicate with parents. Blackboard Connect, Remind uh and some of others to this one platform that's going to do everything for us. Uh parents have gotten an email, a robocall, sort of been instructing them how to proceed. It's both an app that you can put on your phone that's accessible to parents and students. Um but the highlights are basically is the auto translation. If a teacher puts a message into a parent that has selected to receive information in Spanish, the platform automatically translates it to them. So they send a communication via text, the parent will receive it in Spanish for example and when they respond in Spanish the staff member will receive in English. So it's oral translation
014multimodal communication uh messages can be sent via phone, text, email and also app notifications. You have the app on your phone. Uh auto rostering is fantastic because basically our enrollment through eSchool is automatically enrolled into parent square but above and beyond what we currently have we can also add our clubs our teams so that everybody in our district is using this platform to communicate to parents and that's basically the premise we don't want people using personal phone numbers or or personal devices everything is going to be done through parent square um students also have access to an app which is student square so teachers can send messages to them that are accessible to their parents parents and we also have the ability to have community groups that also went out in our uh in our
015community communication. That's basically for community members want to receive uh messages or correspondents from the school district. They can join a South Country community group and they'll have access to that information. So, I'm really excited to launch it. We're going to be providing training to our administrators and teachers uh administrators during the summer. Our teachers upon their return for superintendence conference day. But from what I hear from several districts that use it, u it gets really high grades and it represents a call savings. So, um we're really excited to jump on board with Parrot Square. Um also another way to keep in touch is go on our website. There's a community portal and yes, I am getting to the point here um where you would get Blackboard Connect, but Blackboard Connect doesn't exist. Our social
016media links here on this homepage also doesn't exist. Superintendent Corner is at located on its website because as of today, we are launching a new website which I want to showcase very quickly. Um, and this is just a message you'll get when you first log on. I'll say don't show again. Uh, but if you look at it, it's a beautiful website. This is a homepage. I want to give you a couple highlights of our new besides it being aesthetically much more pleasing to the eyes. Um, one other thing we do that's amazing. I'll show you a little quick demo on the top. If you look at this here where it says Espanol, this is creole and we have erdo. You just click the button espanol. The whole website translates automatically and that's any of the
017material that's located on the website will translate automatically to the person cruising the website. So that's a big thing. So I go back to English. Um we try to make it as uh user friendly as uh possible. So again the translations occur at every um sort of a page. Um the want to I want to drop down menu is what our committee and it was a committee of teachers of things like the most popular things parents or community members are looking for. Say the school months menus enroll my child view budget information etc etc. you have access to the calendar and this menu is pretty much pretty consistent for um all the departments. Um but I just want to highlight real quickly if you go to schools select all for high school. Um open up
018you get the same message saying the website is new. Uh this drone footage courtesy of Rodney O'Neal. I have to give him a shout out. He did the drone footage for all of our buildings. When we scroll down I have quick links um and contact information. um all these quick links for parent square that's what I just talked about calendars is a is a platform kids use to do credit recovery in some cases home instruction student portal parent portal beneath that we'll have the weekly schedule um and then use of events so um will be located right beneath that um anytime you click on uh the logo it takes you back to the district homepage which also has our mission vision statement that's taken from our new strategic plan which will be launched uh to
019the public at our August 27th meeting. Um, it goes over some of our goals, which is operations. You can read more about that. News and events. Um, so again, I can go on and on showing it off, but I think it's a lot more user friendly aesthetically. I think it looks greater. Um, and then one thing that I actually, let me just pick another school, go back here, is each of the schools, uh, we go to Brook Haven. Um, We got some pros quick links very so basically it's consistent layout and then user events and um here and then our programs things that like we're proud about. So each of our schools will have a little tidbit about some of the things happening on the District homepage. If you scroll all the way down you'll
020see uh some programs highlighted which is really fantastic. So obviously this will be updated on a regular basis but I'm excited to launch it. I think it's long overdue. I want to give a shout out to um Miss Earl from Brook Haven. She's a tech aid who helped out. Crystal Orch of course the director of technology who made this happen in a short window two years from scratch starting this process gathering all the information uploading all the information transferring it over and also kind of looking at you know the community's input on what they wanted. Um and again just to look at our program beneath the programs here we have restored practice and civic education and you can see uh more if you just scroll right and left. So I think it's a great way
021to advertise our school district by language education etc. So I'm excited to watch it. So by all means u log on to our website check it out and peruse it surf it. Um so this is kind of a thing of the past which I'm happy to say if you want to follow us. All of our social media platforms are also available on our website. Please log on. As much as we talk negatively about social media it's a great way to sort of advertise all the great things we're doing across the district. And that concludes my superintendent report. Just have a comment. Yeah, I just, you know, and we talked about this, I think a week or two ago. When something that like Parent Square gets launched or gets decided on and it's going to impact
022every single family and student in our district, board's got to know about it sooner than when the robocall goes out. Like, and I don't think I'm not looking to micromanage the decision. I think it's great. I've heard great things about it, but I get a robocall, find out about parent square, and I got people asking me, "Hey, what is this parent square thing?" And the board doesn't know anything about it. So the the 30 seconds that you did on there is needed to happen like a month ago. So I just think people are gonna ask us those things. So when I think anybody's been a board member long enough knows that the worst thing you want is somebody to ask you a question you don't know the answer to because then you look incompetent and
023I have to look back. I was under the impression that was placed in the board update on the 26th. The roll call went in on the 23rd. I know that prior to that. Yeah. I mean, and it's possible I missed it, but even that that's something that probably should have been in your report last, you know, a month ago. You know what I'm saying? Versus just being in the board update in my opinion. If anybody disagrees, they might, but just a feedback. I just want to double check the notices on Parent Square, not just the emergency notices that go out by the rooc calls, but also scheduling in the different schools of special events or special guest or um is there a way for trustees to be on this system so we get that? Yeah,
024you can log on. So, I'll have um Sarah send out the um instructions so you can log on. Is there scheduled um I guess parentformational meetings on how to do it or videos? There's videos. We sent that out in the robo email to the parents. So, is there going to be any inerson options for I believe Miss Wreck is going to have an in person option in the fall for parents where it's pretty user friendly and so it's it's on the parent end is very passive. You just have to log on. Most of the training is going to occur for our staff. It's not very friendly for staff is the word, but from what people that I know that use it, but it's great for parents. The communication direct to teacher to to to parent
025is pretty good. Yeah. How are you as someone who just uh friends with someone who just went from a Droid to an iPhone who hates the iPhone? It takes some getting used to. Trusty Calderon knows what I'm talking about. But yeah, it takes some getting used to, but once you use it, it's actually a lot more user friendly than Blackboard Connect and Remind. There's just so many different platforms. This is all one centralized platform of communication. And then another followup on the new website. Yeah. Wasn't that logo designed by one of our students this year or last year? Yeah, he just graduated. Yep. So, one of our graduates last week, correct? Designed that logo. It was voted on uh by the entire district, including adults. Thank you. And we recognized the kid. We recognized the
026student. We did. We did. So, we've been using it for oh my god, I want to say almost a year. But you gave it top billing when you mentioned it and you also said that when you click on it, it goes back to the homepage. So, if you get lost somewhere in the website, you can always get back to the homepage by clicking the logo. And these pages also um they'll they rotate. So, the cover pages. So it talks about our our goals clip of pride. So very excited about it. Right. Thank you. Thank you. So we now have um trustee and advisory committee reports. Um let's start with um exi um previously existing trustees. So vice president dilo could you lead off? Sure. Um, I just want to say congratulations to all the graduates
027um, in all the different schools and moving up. The ceremonies I attended were really wellrun and the prek kids really are that cute um, in their caps and gowns. And that's about it. Trusty Cheni, nothing for me. Trusty Biz. Sure. Um uh as uh Superintendent Santana pointed out, I did attend uh all but Vern Critz moving up ceremonies. Uh that was the only school I didn't get to this time around. But yeah, just as wonderful as as he pointed out, this year's graduation was no exception. It was also, you know, just another terrific event. Uh the rain held off just like he promised. Uh every it was a little iffy there for a while, but it did it did hold off and uh the kids were were really really proud and they had every right
028to be. Um yeah, it was it just it went off without a hitch. It was, you know, we did end up having a very good uh a very good event. Um so I was really proud to be there. The band sounded great. They, you know, it's it's really nice to have live music at a at a graduation event. So uh job job well done. Job well done. I want to congratulate our new board members and welcome them aboard. Um, it's going to be it's going to be a good year. We have a lot to do and I'm I'm looking forward to working together with everyone. I want to congratulate both uh, you know, President Hayes and Vice President Dillo. Uh, looking forward to working together and uh, looking forward to a good school year. Trustee
029Keral. Sure. Um, happy to be here. Congratulations to uh President Hayes, Vice President Debbie Dolo. Um I had the pleasure of attending the graduation with my colleagues, Trustee um Felicetta and Trusty Ross. It was beautiful. There were some tears that were shed. Um the speeches were amazing. Um it was just really great to be a part of that. Um just happy to be here. Thank you. Thank you for the feedback, Trusty F. Yeah. again like Erica said and um graduation was excited. It was a full circle moment. Uh 22 years ago I crossed that same stage and I saw um Lauren McGregor giving her speech and I gave that same speech. Hers much better than mine 22 years ago. Um but it was a it was a moment that kind of brought me back to
030somewhere I haven't been in a long time. So it was a pleasure to see and hopefully many more to come. Trusty Ross. Well, I got to be rough. I was 30 plus years. I thought I was going to say that since there, but I got to attend as a father. So, that was pretty uh pretty exciting. So, less is more at this point. So, that's it. And I attended both the middle school and high school graduations. Enjoyed both of them. But I did want to comment about the high school and where um the assistant principal who announced the names had that so organized and her voice was so clear. Even though her back was to me, I could hear the name of every student that was going to walk across the stage and she had
031it paced nicely so that they could go through. So, congratulations to both of the schools for two great events and we're just going to do better and better from here. I think so. We we did make some upgrades to our sound company. We switched companies. They were much better. And credit to Miss Iuchi for um some of those uh names are even tongue twisters for me, but she really practiced them for months and just to make sure she got them right. Okay. So, oh, we come next to our public commentary. Do we have any cards? All right. Items for discussion. Do you want to lead off? Sure. So, we're going to discuss um our board advisory committees. Um I provided a schedule for the board for the upcoming school year. The idea is to hopefully
032um assign two trustees to each of the respective committees. Those committees include our strategic planning. Um we're going to be launching a strategic plan. So just to give sort of a context to what that committee will be doing, it's just kind of monitoring the progress and looking at strategic plan, health and safety, teaching and learning and finance and facilities are our four advisory committees. Okay. So that sums up how we've handled advisory committees in the past. And I'm going to jump and do a little side comment because you have down here board retreat, new trustee on board, and other items like that. I'm hoping we'll have an opportunity for the board to discuss how we're actually using the advisory committees and to see if we can make that um function better and also have the
033benefit of having the presentations that are made in the advisory committee setting by our staff members have those made before the board on a regular basis. So, these are topics I'd like to see for discussion, but right now just to be in a holding pattern, we've got these four committees. Um, and if we've got is it okay with the board to just go ahead and have two or three members um assigned to each one and with the idea that we will have discussion in the future about how to make all of this work better. So another thing I could I'm sorry but you know basically what you said kind of make gave me an idea let me know if you're open to it. You know, I am jumping to item five, work retreat, new trustee
034onboarding. Um, I do want to recommend to host a retreat for us just to talk about some of those structural things that you're discussing our advisory committees. So, I don't know if that's something or discussion to be had at a retreat where um perhaps we could talk about the committees and their purpose and so that our especially our newer trustees can kind of say, "Hey, this is something I'm really interested in. I want to do because they don't meet until uh in many cases till the beginning of October." So, there is some time. So maybe we'll just hold that and put it we'll have an omnibus retreat or whatever you want to call it and include that as a as part of the discussion. Yeah. In my update, I'm going to be proposing five dates
035uh that range from July 23rd to August 7th just to have the trustees get together as a whole. Um, in terms of onboarding, I'm going to try to schedule something for the new trustees where we just kind of give materials that are kind of uh to the boilerplate sort of things that trustees receive that supplement, you know, the mandated training that new trustes get. So, that's going to be separate from a board retreat with the entire team. So, just to confirm then for all our new trustees, have they had the opportunity to register for the mandatory training? I'm not sure. Not okay. There's only one. We'll keep an keep an eye out because the the our clerk will be sending notice of that. Okay. So, so building so you're comfortable with not we'll hold it.
036Yeah. I think it's it's better to talk about just in terms we're not we're not conducting business. It's more informative. this kind of a purpose of retreat and is to talk about what the sort of the um purpose of those the the committees are the advisor committees and see what the uh interest is in the trustees so that the decision is more important. I think that might be a better way to do it. But we've got three new trustees so they can get a sense of what is has been done in the committees in the past and maybe some ways that it can be improved. Right. Okay. Moving on to the second discussion item, the building liaison. So we typically assign a trustee to each of the buildings. I mean my recommendation is to attend
037a PTA meeting because um it gives access to the um the trustees to the parent base and and the overall school community. Um there are se seven buildings in our district if we include the um prek center um and there are seven trustees. So it kind of works out. Um so I don't know uh President Hayes how you want to go about it. people just want to kind of volunteer. Um I can go over the assignments for the year that just ended. Um Miss Hayes or Trusty Hayes was uh the leazison on to Billport Middle School. Uh Trusty Feliz Frank Pong. Brook Haven was Trusty Dilo. Um and Trusty Pacini was Okay. So, should we just go around and people can pick a pick a school? And why don't you know what? I'm going to
038do it in order of seniority in terms of service on this board. So, Mr. Puchini, I I'll take the high school. I'm sorry, which school was it? The high school. Okay. Um, Justine Feliz, I'd like to stay with Frank. Okay. And I'm next, but I'm going to take what's left over. So I then we go to Vice President Dulo. I would love to stay for Keith. Okay. All right. Now, we've got How am I going to organize this? It's not by length of service. I have a choice, but alphabetical um let's see. by first name. Uh, Trustee Ross, Bport Middle School, sorry, which school is that? Middle school. Okay. And, um, Trusty Calderon, your choice would be Kramer Street, um, Burns and Burn Cruz or South South Haven. South Haven. Oh, the prek because it's
039so cute. All right. Okay. So, this doesn't preclude you for attending like PTA meetings at any of our but and um Trusty Felisetta, there's two left with Kramer and Prince and Prince. I guess I as a Kramer kid, I guess. Got to go Kramer. Yeah. The kingdom. anymore. So, I will do Vern Critz. Do you know where your tile is? I think I do, actually. Now, I've got to go look at it. I love when people come in and try to find our tiles. Yeah, I totally forgot about until you said that. Yeah, it's there. Oh, I think it is. Yeah. Yeah, sure. All right. Thank you. Um, so moving on, we have a second reading for our students and personal electronic devices. This is a policy that sort of governs our new cell phone
040mandate or prohibition I should say. Um and just so you know our policy committee looked at the policy as well as two committees that were made up of stakeholders um K to 5 and 6 to 12 and that was on top of the comments that came out of the strategic planning correct process which also included that topic. Correct. on top of the comments we get at the network which are community based organizations that work with our students in other areas and and so the policy is very broad you know the next steps over the summer is to really look at practices and protocols so those are the next steps but this is just a the broad to summarize it for the trustees um obviously kids bell-to- bell students aren't to be uh in possession of
041cell phones what I mean by that is they're that's supposed to be out. Um, for K to 5, we're asking that they they're not be brought to school and this includes any internet enabled device including Apple watches, etc. Um, there are exceptions for K to 5. For example, we have um students who are walkers who walk unsupervised. We'll make an accommodation for them. It just means they'll have to store it away in their in the school building and it's got to be out of sight. um six to um 12 um they have to store their uh their cell phones in their locker um which is gonna be new to kids because number one they're pretty much addicted to their phones but number two students these days don't use lockers so it's going to be something
042new and they won't have access to the lockers throughout the school day. So once it goes in upon arrival and then you pick it up upon dismissal. So, it's going to be a very big social experiment. In terms of enforcement, um, kids who are seen in possession of a cell phone where it's visible to staff, they're going to be asked or escorted down to the main office. It will be stored in a secure location to be given back to a student at the end of the day. If there are multiple occurrences, we may ask the parent to come in and pick up the cell phone. But we don't want to turn this into something that's punitive or it's going to create conflict. Um, you know, but again, you know, my concerns is it is a
043social experiment and it's um it's going to be hard for kids to part ways with our cell phones. The one silver lining I see is the feedback I've gotten from superintendents and districts who have implemented a cell phone ban already is that students generally like the ban in the end. And so when you think about the benefits in terms of their ability to concentrate in class and achieve huge and so much of the the sort of conflict we deal with are born on their cell phones and on social media. Um so we're hoping that sort of diminishes. Obviously they have their phones after school so we're not totally eliminating it. Um but we're looking forward to sort of seeing this implementation and my hope is eventually you know students are just going to be conditioned
044that no we don't use cell phones at school but it's going to take some time to get there. One of the concerns that came out out of the policy committee had to do with the ease of enforcement, you know, so that um I mean part of what's behind all this is so that students have more focus in the classroom and it's a less strain on teachers. So the policy as drafted now that meets the criteria of enabling um teachers not to have their time and effort drained here and there can still be enforcement of it. Right. Okay. And because it's a second reading, don't we have to vote to approve it tonight? That is correct. They uh mandated that we adopt the cell phone policy uh by August 1st. Okay. So, are you presenting that
045to us? Do you Yes. The administration uh recommends the adoption of policy 5695, students and personal electric devices. All right. Who wants to make this motion? Okay. Vice President Dillo and a second by um Trustee Calderon. Any other questions or discussion? One just quick question in the in the policy it says that administration would be taking phones in is there any account for devices that are then accused to be broken in the session of administration because I've personally experienced that on multiple occasions. Oh yeah. So um I know they claim that as soon as they hand it in like you scratch the screen or are we prepared for So that's what we're going to do is have a little like form that the kids fill out. So, um, this is where we're going to escort
046them to the they're going to, uh, turn the phone in to the main office. And I don't know if they do this in William Floyd, but during regions testing, we put their cell phones in these little envelopes and get a ticket. It's almost like a coat check ticket. That's going to be the process. So, they're going to take it down themselves. They then sign off that there's no damage or that the screen is cracked because that's one of the things that um, we thought about is liability. If we take possession of the phone, then, you know, we're liable. But if you also read in the policy, it says we're not liable for cont because they're not supposed to be there anyway. It's considered contraband. Will they also be signing when they retrieve it that they're
047getting it back in the same condition it was in when they delivered it? Okay. And I don't know, it's going to be interesting if council needs to look at the language about these things. ourselves. There's a roller coaster coming because none of those phones are owned by any of those kids. Those phones are all owned by their parents and we're asking those property to be surrendered to the school. So that's that that's going to be battle number two. They we should in the first place though. So like as far as I'm concerned then the if that's the battle then the battle becomes you're not allowed to bring them in. Leave him home. So the parents sent the kid in with the device they're not supposed to have. The kids aren't going to be a problem.
048The parents are going to be problem. No, that's the the parent. Yeah. And that but that the only reason I didn't bring that up is that, you know, be prepared. We're going to, you know, our staff is going to need assistance and backup to take care of how the how that arises. Yeah. And that'll be an administrative function dealing with a parent that might be not happy about their phone being in the main office. But we have a motion. It was seconded. It's now going to be up to administration to implement it. Okay. All in favor? This is unanimously approved. So it's a new era in public schools and um just to give some quick context um you know we gave up the battle years ago because it was a fight that we were losing
049um so we started incorporating cell phones into daily instruction with platforms like cahoot and all these other types of things that we use but then social media came around and then the psychological effects of the the phones started become more apparent. So when we engage in our strategic planning process, the overwhelming sort of input from those parents that participated is please take the cell phones away. And it also enables us to deal with emergencies more efficiently. There's a lot of benefits to it. Uh I plan on hosting something in August for parents, invite them to come in and just talk about it so they can kind of air their sort of concerns if they have any. So I can talk about like the impact on like for example, god forbid one day we have to
050have an actual lockdown in a real emergency how that's going to work and how cell phones actually work uh to the detriment of our ability to respond to an efficient manner. Little revolution was good for the soul but it always comes with a few bumps and bruises. Oh yeah, the road to purpose is not paved and comfort. All right, so it goes on to our next policy. It's a first reading. This is policy 8118. Um that's just a new um policy that is consistent with the new state mandate with regards to extreme heat condition days and this is just first reading. So it's just for the board to be familiar with it. Y and over time if there are issues um raised then with your office and if need be it'll go back to the
051policy committee. Correct. Okay. So, we don't have to do anything else. No, any questions. So, now we're back to board retreat or Yeah. on boarding or Yeah. And my update, which will be tomorrow, not Thursday. Um, I'm going to uh propose five different dates. I can also do a little poll which is easy internet that way people select which is the most convenient separately to the three trust new trustees. We'll propose some dates to get together just to give you materials and go over some procedural things. Okay. All right. Sent um this no public commentary closing remarks. Trusty Palisa. I'm excited to be on board. I think it's hope you going forward. Trusty Morris. Okay. Trustee Calderon, look forward to working together. Trustee police. Just as the superintendent said, he was thinking of putting um
052you know a workshop together for parents. Uh I was having lunch with friends today, grandparents again. Um, and they're concerned about IIA and what's coming and they don't know it. AI. AI. A AI. Oh, I said it backwards. Yes. Okay. Um, I wrote AI and I said IA. um see see how concerning it is, but uh they're concerned about what it is and you know and they're afraid of it and yet they they know it's the future and um just a thought that maybe there's something you could do for the community to um to educate them and allay their fears or educate them something. It's already been used in classrooms. We've provided professional development for teachers. Um you know, it's an amazing tool and a terrifying tool all at once. And so um it's pretty
053ubiquitous. I spoke to some high school students about their usage of it and you know the appropriate uses use it as a tool. Um you know to me like moving forward the way the sort of it's evolving and accelerating um I don't know that we'll need like tutors in the future. We have these bots that are able to help kids and and break things down for them. So my son's an electrical engineering major. He uses it for his major when he gets caught up on some coding or something that's just a little bit complex. And it's not cheating. It just helps them navigate. So, but it's it's we all use it. Professionals use it. Um, so I do think that it's something to see more want to sum it up. A couple years ago, coding
054was the hottest thing for people to go into for jobs and it's going to be obsolete in about two years, right? Just a thought. Yeah. Okay. Maybe you can put some thought into it. It fits into what we were talking about earlier in terms of um maybe restructuring our advisory committees and all and maybe having some presentations on a regular basis. That's a topic that could be another presentation. Thank you. All right. A motion to adjurnn. Motion to adjurnn. Yes. Trusty Ross. Second by Trustee Counter Ron. All in favor? It's unanimous. We'll see you next time.