001President McNicholas, live stream is now in progress. You may turn on your mic and open the meeting. Good afternoon and welcome to the September 21st, 2022 regular board meeting of the Capistrano Unified School District. The meeting is now set in session. The time is 4.08 p.m. For CDPH and Cal OSHA guidelines, the use of masks is strongly recommended, but not required when indoors at the district office. Members of the public may attend this meeting in person or participate by Zoom. A registration link has been posted on the board meeting agenda page of our website for those who plan to address the board this evening. Mrs. Hays, will you please call the roll? Trustee Bullipus? Here. Trustee Castellanos? Here. Trustee Davis is en route. Trustee Hanachick? Here. Trustee Jones? Here. Trustee McNicholas? Here. Mrs. Hayes, before
002the board recesses the closed session, is there anyone who would like to speak to a closed session agenda item? There are none. Okay. The board will now recess to closed session to address the following agenda items. A, public employment and evaluation performance superintendent. B, conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation of five cases. Excuse me, 5 ADR cases, one significant devotion to litigation, one case. C, conference with legal counsel, existing litigation, three cases. Conference with labor negotiators, CUEA, CSEA, Teamsters, CUMA, and unrepresented employees. E, student readmissions, two cases. Public employee employment and appointment. Principal elementary. The board will now recess to close session. The time is 4.10 p.m. President Nicholas, the live stream is now in progress. You may turn on your mic and open the meeting. Good evening and welcome to the September 21st, 2022
003regular board meeting of the Capistrano Unified School District. The meeting is now in session. The time is 7.05 p.m. Per CDPH and Cal OSHA guidelines, the use of masks is strongly recommended but not required when indoors at the district office. Please note that we have Spanish interpreters attending this evening's board meeting and they are available to anyone in the back of the room. Tenemos asistencia de intérpretes en español diplomata. Members of the public may attend this meeting in person or participate by Zoom. A registration link has been posted on the board meeting agenda page of our website for those who plan to address the board this evening. Oral communications, which comes early in the agenda, is an opportunity for the public to comment on issues that are not on tonight's agenda. By board policy, the
004total time allotted for communications is 20 minutes, with a maximum of three minutes per speaker. But the per speaker time may be less if there's a large number of speakers. Under California law, board members cannot respond to non-agenda oral communications comments. As a reminder, per Board Polishing 9323, meeting conduct, requests to address the Board of Trustees will be accepted only until 30 minutes after the start of open session. Please note, if we have any students registered to speak at the evening on any agenda items, we will hear them before we hear the adult speakers. Please note on agenda item 15A1. Special Education Community Advisory Committee Annual Report. Staff has added a PowerPoint presentation of photos from the CAC Sunshine Awards. This presentation can be found on the district website. Please note on Agenda Item 15A2,
005District Music Programs for 2022-23, staff has added an additional link to the presentation. The revised presentation may be found on the district website. Please note on the agenda item 15A5, resolution number 2223-18, resolution supporting local decision-making authority regarding COVID-19 protocols has been pulled from the agenda by the requester. Please note on agenda item 15A13, first reading of board policy 6020, parent involvement has been revised by staff. Revised copies are in the back of the room and on the district website. Ms. Hayes, will you please call the roll? Trustee Bullock is here. Trustee Castellanos here. Trustee Davis here. Trustee Hanachick here. Trustee Jones here. Trustee McNicholas here. Student Advisor Zhao here. I would like to ask Coach Nieto to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. Put your right
006hand over your heart. Ready, begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Play ball. Thank you, Coach. May I have a motion to adopt the agenda? So moved. Student Advisor Zhao? If before 930 we can push up action item 14 and 16 if all other presenters are done, that would be fantastic. Okay, there's a request to move items 14 and 16 up. If we get to 930-ish and we haven't gotten there, if it's agreeable to the board, we'll do that. Okay, well, and we, excuse me, I heard the motion was from? I move agenda with those, with that. Okay. Second. Okay, moved by Trustee Davis, second by Trustee Castellanos to adopt
007the agenda as printed with the exception of moving item 14 and 16 up if we haven't gotten to them by 930. This is a roll call vote. Trustee Bullockis. Aye. Trustee Castellanos. Aye. Trustee Davis. Aye. Trustee Hanachick. Aye. Trustee Jones. Aye. Trustee McNichols. Aye. Student advisors up. Ciao. Bye. Motion carries 6-0 by a roll call vote to adopt the agenda with a preferential vote of aye from Student Advisors General. Mrs. Hayes, will you please read out the report of closed session? For September 21st, 2020, 4 p.m. closed session, Trustee Davis joined closed session at 4.11 p.m. On agenda item 3A, public employment and evaluation of performance, please note attorney Mark Brizzi was not present in closed session. No reportable action. On agenda item 3B, conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation, trustees voted 6-0 to approve
008staff recommendation on the following ADR cases. Case number 2022-0803, 2022-0811, 2022-0812, 2022-0824, and case number 2022-0826. On agenda item 3B6, please note Attorney Terry Towle was not present in closed session. Trustees voted 6-0 to approve staff recommendation. On agenda item 3C, conference with legal counsel, existing litigation and trustees voted 6-0 to approve staff recommendation on the following OAH cases. Case number 2022-0401-33, 2022-0605-47, and case number 2022-0608-99. On agenda item 3D, conference with labor negotiators, no reportable action. On agenda item 3E, student readmissions, trustees voted 6-0 to approve staff recommendation on the following cases. Case number 2020-040 and case number 2022-001. On agenda item 3F, public employee employment appointment, trustees voted 6-0 to appoint Rebecca Bailey, elementary school principal assigned to Palisades Elementary School, effective September 27, 2022. Thank you. At this point, I'd like to
009recognize Jimmy Canoodle for the coordinator of communications to present tonight's special recognitions. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. Our first special recognition tonight is the Tesoro High School varsity baseball team. In 2022, the Titans were the CIF Southern California Division IV regional champions, the CIF Southern Section Division IV champions. They had a 28-8 record, which was a school record. It was the first CIF title in the baseball program's 20-year history and the first state CIF title in Tesoro High School history. Jackson Freeman was also the CIF player of the year and coach Tony Nieto was the CIF coach of the year. So congratulations to the Titans on behalf of the Capistrano Unified School District and the Board of Trustees. We'd like to invite coach Tony Nieto up to the dais here to speak a little bit
010on the scene. Thank you. Good evening. I just want to say thank you very much to the board and the board of trustees for having us here tonight and recognizing us. We kind of get shortchanged a little bit because everything happened after graduation and we wanted to make sure that our players got recognized. So we really appreciate having us here tonight, especially big thanks to Trustee Luckis for having us here tonight and our principal, Candace Roddy, for all the support they had through all the season. Trustee Blakas was a true fan all the way through our playoff run, so we appreciate that. It was an incredible journey, to say the least, with all the great accomplishments we had. Can't forget about our nine seniors are not able to be here, but what we're proud about,
011those nine seniors that everybody continued and are at college right now, so that's why they can't be here for the most part. But it was an incredible journey. As you heard some of the accolades, we feel very fortunate. But we couldn't do this without the great sacrifice of our student athletes. And that's what we're very proud of, the student athletes and what they accomplish every day in and day out, being able to go to the classroom and then study and then come out to the baseball field, along with great thanks to the great support of our families and our parents. through a very long season. So those are the true supporters of Bahant. So we wanna give them a big hand. So again, just like to thank you. And we hope that you guys follow
012us again. For us, it's a great pride to be one of the first teams of the 20-year history of Tesoro to win a CF championship. There's been many players before us that have emailed me and are so proud of the accomplishment of this team. As you see, we do have a lot of returners. So we're looking forward to another great season, but also very proud of being the first state championship baseball in our district. We can say that because it's only been three years old. So we are the first state championship in baseball. But we are the first, and we're very proud of that. So let me present to you our 2022 CIF champions. And I just want to share with you, we even have parents who came this evening where their senior graduated and
013is in college, but they came tonight to support the team. And continue with our Tesoro theme. Tonight's Associate Student Body presentation is on Tesoro. I'd like to invite Principal Ken Esrati up to introduce his contingent. Thank you, Board of Trustees. So tonight, Petra Davis-Johnson is with us. She's our Activities Director, and she runs our ASB, who we really want to hear from. is jay now he's going to come up he's our asp president and give you a little background about what's been going on to sorrow last year how we ended the year and then a little bit about what we're looking forward to this year right jay come on up Good evening Superintendent Vital Bruti and President McNichols and all members of the board. My name is Jay Nan and I'm here on behalf of
014the staff and the student body to showcase Tesoro's impeccable academics, athletics, activities, and all the exciting events that I and our amazing ASB class will be working on this year. This year Tesoro has 2,167 enrolled students and three new teachers and staff. Our STEPS program is thriving with 44 students and four new classes. We are excited to have added one of our amazing STEPS students into our ASB class. Our counselors have done an amazing job in assisting the future education of the students here at Tesoro. While helping students prepare for college and to apply to college, our counselors break down financial aid opportunities, detail future opportunities, and explain options like Saddleback and the military. Currently, our school counselors are fixing schedules as needed and making sure that all students are on track to graduate, as
015well as assisting in the future development in college and career goals. Always ready to help a student with a smile on their face, our counselors want nothing more to see their students succeed and go beyond and above. Our fall sports are fueled by the loud and proud Tyen Army student section, filled with spirited students eager to watch and cheer on our team with our CO2 cannons, a great DJ from ASB, and loud chants. Our student section really stands out from the rest of the schools. While our talented band is firing up the crowd and playing the fight song, cheer and song are the forefront of the student section, enthusiastically leading cheers to cheer on our football team. Our rally runs are our biggest opportunity to get our students ready for home football games. Students get
016to show how proud they are to be Titans as they assemble in a walking parade around campus, gathering students to join the parade led by our drumline. With everyone in the know and students pushing to access the Titan pep rally, Our school strives to recognize every student and include all groups and students with varied interests at our school. To involve our lively sports fans in the student section, we look forward to collaborating once more with Mountain Mike's, an alumni-owned business in the local area, to have students in the audience compete for a free, years-long worth of pizza. As a student body, we believe it is of utmost importance to recognize the future students of Tesoro by hosting our annual Future Time Night, Pep Squad Night, marching band, and abundance of elementary students working hand in
017hand with current Tesoro attendees doing what they love as they run out on the field and lead our team for the game that night. As well as holding our future Titanite, we have also partnered up with our amazing Best Buddies program with love and support and made the theme of that game Mardi Gras out, with an utter emphasis on purple as it is their signature color. Currently, fall sports are at the height of their season, and this includes football, girls volleyball, girls tennis, and boys water polo. All are doing well, respectively, but Tesoro does exceptionally well, not only in fall sports, but all in all seasons. We look forward to the winter sports season and attending our boys and girls basketball games, boys and girls soccer matches, girls water polo and wrestling matches. Then in
018the spring, we have a busy schedule with boys baseball, softball for girls, girls beach volleyball, boys and girls swim, boys tennis and boys and girls track and field. And as well as our boys volleyball team. But I'd like to take a moment here to highlight two of our teams from last year, boys volleyball, who won CIF, and our boys baseball team, who are not only 2022 CIF Southern Section Champions, but also ended up taking 2022 CIF State Southern California Champions at the end of last year. At the moment, our students are excited for their first dance of 2022-23 school year. Homecoming, which the theme is Stranger Things, our dance will be hosted on campus on Saturday and will include carnival rides, food trucks, photo booths, and a great DJ. With preparing for our homecoming dance
019comes preparing for our homecoming halftime show. This Friday, where we see a huge participation from all classes and is a great way to kick off anybody's school year who hasn't seen one or who hasn't been a part of one. Friday, Homecoming Pep Rally is going to be held outside again this year, coming off a big successful year of having all pep rallies outside and more student participation as well as it being easier to hear, unlike being in the big gym. So SORO has a very active social media presence with our Instagram, our Facebook, and our new TikTok account run by students in ASB. These highlight our active school culture consisting of student accomplishments, information and dates for school events and resources for any activities on campus providing students all the information needed in one place.
020We recently held our annual fall club rush and we're proud to have 80 student club rush clubs here on campus ranging from honor society, athletic interests, charities and service organizations, inclusive groups and religious opportunities to allow more students to be a part of something they are passionate about or just to simply collaborate with other members who enjoy interests and hobbies. This year, we are continuing to support our diversity coalition made up of students from various groups on campus who strive to build an inclusive, or inclusive, conclusive groups on campus who strive to building an inclusive school community and stop all forms of bias and bullying. With our one goal of the coalition is to work towards earning the designated place of a no place for hate school. Luckily for this year, ASB added an inclusivity
021commissioner as an appointed position, and she is also a member of the Diversity Coalition. Her position in ASB is dedicated for promoting the diversity in our student body by coordinating the communication with the coalition. One focus has been to create a calendar of events slash activities where we celebrate one heritage per month. Tesoro is committed to building relationships on and off campus, consistently striving to better our school and making sure that each and every student has their own unique experience by pursuing their passions through athletics, academics, performing arts, schools, events, and other programs. I've truly been blessed to be a part of our truly amazing school and representing the student body. Each teacher and staff are all key pieces on our campus. Tesoro is a family where so many students can call it home. This
022is my fourth year in ASB and it's shown me the dedication and all the behind the work to put in an outstanding education. For me and many of the other students who were received at CUSD, I am truly grateful to stand up in front of my peers and the people who make CUSD such an amazing place of education. I thank you for your time, and I would like to thank Ms. Rotti and Ms. Davis for allowing me the opportunity to speak for Tesoro tonight. Thank you. Thank you, Jamie. We now go on to Board and Superintendent Thomas. Superintendent Patel, go ahead. It's hard to follow that. I have a little laryngitis, so I'm going to do the best I can. So good evening and welcome to September 21st, 2022 meeting of the CUST Board of
023Trustees. Tonight I want to take a minute and begin by briefly addressing access to non-instructional materials, including books, either through extracurricular clubs or through classroom libraries or school campuses. Our extraordinary teachers are committed and dedicated to supporting 44,000 students every single day. This commitment to support all students extends across our district, and I want all of our students to know that all of their voices are valued. We are a better school district, and our students feel safe, loved, accepted, and embraced. Part of our work to support our students, teachers, and our ongoing work of inclusion is to ensure our policies are up to date and all our employees understand the expectations for non-instruction materials. We as a district are reviewing our social media and library policies. Given the fact that these policies have a significant
024impact, on supplementary instructional materials, employee usage of social media. Staff will engage teachers, principals, and the associations to gather feedback that will be incorporated into the revisions of these policies. Staff will then develop recommendations and bring forward these policies to the Board of Trustees at the first reading, December 15, 2022. We value and respect all of our diverse groups of students. We are committed to ensuring their inclusion and success in our schools. Our commitment is to ensure that information and resources provided to students who participate in extracurricular clubs are consistent and in alignment with their policies. So in my comments this evening, I want to share how excited we are to have two district-wide events coming back this fall in person. College Fair, presented in partnership with Futurology and CUC-PTSA, will be held Monday, October
0253rd. At San Juan Hills High School, CUST high school students will be able to meet with representatives from over 100 colleges and universities to prepare for their futures. And Principal for a Day returns on Friday, October 21st. CUST campuses will welcome local elected officials, dignitaries, business owners. to serve as acting principals in the morning and all participants will enjoy lunch here at the district office afterwards. It's a fabulous event to showcase our schools and connect our community. That concludes my report. Thank you. Trustee Volokas? Well, first I want to share with you a thanks to Petra and to Jaden. When I first came onto your campus this school year, I looked around and it's like, there's something different. And I asked the principal, I was writing, it's like, what's with all this new signage? It's
026like, it's great. It just brightens up the place and it's strong and the messaging and everything. Your campus looks great. And I understand ASB was the one who funded that. and help put that together. So I want to say thank you. Good job. Great job. Also want to talk about two nights ago, Jaden, or excuse me, two weeks ago, Jaden mentioned about the Titan night. And that's where all of the feeder schools comes to their football game. But it was almost like a tearful night because the best buddies just look up in the stands and see those students dressed in purple in support of best buddies. And a tradition that they have is some of the special ed kids get to take the hands of our football players and walk onto the field for the
027coin toss. And it's really kind of a special moment. And like I say, I appreciate being a part of that and witnessing that every year. So again, special congratulations to the team being here tonight. I also wanted to talk about and have a little bit of a slide presentation. This last Friday, I had an experience. It's called a ride along. That's not with the police department. It was with the food and nutrition division of CUSD. And I had the great opportunity to ride with Cesar, who's been with CUSD for 30 years. And I'm telling you, this man is 64. He's, he's. retiring this year. I said, you mean I came to ride with you and now you're retiring? And man, that man can hustle. The things that he has to lift and load and move
028about, he's in great shape. So here we are at one of our first stops and this is Cesar. And as we go through the slides, I want to share with you, I toured inside the CUSD kitchen. Bet you didn't know that they prepare 15 to 20,000 meals a day. Wait till you see the size of the kitchen. This is another stop. This is where we're at, Tiers Creek. And you can go ahead, Corey, and go to the next. Oh, and Trustee Davis went with 33-year veteran Luis on the San Clemente route. And Luis... We had met at the maintenance and operations luncheon that was held at the end of last school year in June and had the opportunity. And he was the one who invited us to take ride-alongs. And we thought, hey, that sounds
029like fun. And the next slide. Okay, what you're seeing here on the left is the freezer. And then going inside the freezer and holding up the camera, can you imagine if you had to get to the item at the back corner? Because they would have to unload the whole freezer. So they have to engineer every day, every week, what they're going to be serving to make sure that there is some organization to bringing these out. But I learned that we really need some new freezers in our kitchen. because it's very tight. If you want to go to the next slide. Let's see. On the left, I counted, those are the buns that are going to make up, oh gosh, I can't remember. Kristen, you're here. Are those the chicken sandwiches? So I counted, there are
03010,000 buns there and they have to open them up. and get them ready to go through the assembly line. And the picture on the right is another freezer, and you can see how full it is. They really have to work to make food ahead of time because not only do they supply CUSD schools, but also charter schools. But in this kitchen of workers where they're currently down several employees. They work, if you can go to the next slide, it might be the assembly line. This is the picture at an elementary school of the fruit that doesn't get eaten by our students. And I'm told this is actually a good day because normally it's overflowing. But it's our responsibility to try and get kids to eat the fruit. So we can't just not give it to
031them. But so we really want to encourage some good nutritional eating and giving fruit. In the blue bag, those are slices of oranges along with the apples. So I had a not a teacher, but a supervisor says, can I show you something? Before I hopped on the truck, she went, I want to show you this. This is what she wanted to show me. And the next slide. Okay, so here they are. And I'm not sure what they're making here could be mac and cheese or just what but they're going through the assembly line here you can see in the background that's where the all those 10,000 buns are sitting there. And I happened to go back on a day to take a picture where I got there at about 11 and most of the staff
032was out having lunch, but these people were nice enough. And, you know, you talk to, there's some schools that had air conditioning problems. These people were in that kitchen when sometimes they got to be like 90 degrees in there. And but they all have such wonderful dispositions. The majority of our workers in food and nutrition have worked for us for 20 plus years. They are a dedicated group. And if we have someone at the school site that calls in sick in our cafeterias, it's this staff that has to go out and support, which then leaves our kitchen department with even less staff. But they are quite the family and very dedicated employees. And do I have one more slide or is that it? That was it. So I just wanted to share some of those
033facts in terms of it. And hopefully we're going to be able to expand that kitchen someday because they're very limited in being able to do catering and all. But this is behind the scenes workers that have worked for our school district for a very long time. They do a great job. And that's under the direction of Kristen Helleman right over here to my right. Yeah. Oh, I have one last fascinating fact. We have an employee in food and nutrition who's 87 years old. Okay. That's dedication. She's probably the mascot in the picture. Barbara is her name. That's all that I had to report tonight. Just wanted to share that with you. And it's just a wonderful Titan night. Thanks. Trustee Cassianas? No. Trustee Davis? What an incredible start to a new year. I was ecstatic
034to attend several back-to-school nights and see smiling faces filled, classrooms just filled with parents as they learned about what the year would look like for their children. The couple of San Clemente High School football games to highlight the military night where San Clemente High School invites hundreds of military families to come and have dinner and they bring their big heavy equipment and the kids can walk through and see and then have a great fun, fun, fun night of football. And then the Triton football where they bring the Triton toss where kids from all over. Every elementary school and every middle school, they have kind of a football toss and figure out who's then going to see who can throw the furthest. So we had several girls that won, which was kind of fun, too. So
035it was just a really, really, really great night. Had an incredible ride along with my friend Luis, who has been with the district for 32 years. He is. the epitome of a good employee in CUSD. He is kind and warm and good and loves what he does and treats everyone with honor and respect and loved that day and seeing what happens behind the scenes and seeing how The kinders practice their numbers as they come through to start there to grab their lunch. That was that was fun. And it was interesting to see how different schools do that. So we were able to pass on some great information from one school to another. And in regards to the teacher library at San Juan Hills High School. First and foremost, it is our responsibility to show genuine
036love for all students, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or identity. I do not want any group to feel marginalized. Any and all teachers, staff, and students that show love, mindfulness, and kindness, I respect, value, and appreciate. Secondly, we have policies in place to protect children, teachers, and our schools as a whole. When we do have controversies that arise, and we will, We are tasked as a board to review and put in place new policies so we have ground rules to eliminate future issues. There needs to be a better process for reviewing materials brought into classrooms, especially when they're explicitly charged, inappropriate, controversial, sexually explicit, and or pornographic, which we know can be addictive. Whatever the topic of a book, it must go through the same process for review. It is our responsibility to
037our parents, students, and community to have the best interest for each and everyone. There is a process to get materials approved. This has nothing to do with free speech, gender, the LGBTQ community, one's videos, or social media platforms. Intentions do not make something okay. If this is the case, we need to fix a bad process. If something is completely inappropriate, it needs to be fixed. This topic has to do with age appropriateness and content for children. And yes, we are in the business of educating children. We will leave the continued education of adults to colleges, universities, and places of higher learning. Children, parents, and community members are able to go into schools and review any and all material in Capistrano Unified School District. We are a public school district. By definition, a public school is
038supported by public funds. The purpose of public education is to provide a free education to all children in the country. It is focused on the ideas of core content knowledge, citizenship, and the skills necessary for young people to be successful once they become adults. I do not want any group in CUSD to feel marginalized. We do an excellent job of educating children in CUSD. If we have policies that need review, we need to look at them. I would like to ask staff to bring our library policy, board policy 6163, the employee use of technology, board policy 4040, and the bylaws of the board code of ethics BB9271A to the board for review. Thank you. Trustee Hanachick, any comments? I just want to thank Jaden again, the Titan champions and the entire Titan community for making
039us all so proud. Jaden mentioned social media. So I'm a mom kind on the South end. I live near San Clemente, but I followed you guys on Twitter. So I want to thank every coach and everybody who posts your athletic directors. It keeps me really connected. I've become kind of obsessed with high school sports, but that's another story. So I want to thank all of you. We started the year. This has just been the most positive, amazing year. And every school that I've been able to visit, I want to thank them for being so gracious and welcoming to me. I tend to, when things get a little blue, I tend to leave my desk and go, I'm going to go visit a school. So yesterday, fortunate San Clemente got me unannounced. I came and visited.
040But it's a tonic. Our schools are amazing. You're all amazing. You make us so proud. It makes me want to be a mom again, especially I loved high school. So thank you all so much. Thank you, Ken, and your whole staff. It's really meaningful what you're doing each and every day. I so appreciate it. Thank you. Trustee Jones? So we've just been through all the back-to-school nights. And like many of the other trustees, I went to a bunch of them. I'm not going to tell you all of them. But one that I went to was Tesoro. My own kids went to Tesoro High School. And actually, when they were there, Mr. Zerati was an assistant principal and went away and came back. And I was very glad to hear that he was coming back. And
041Tesoro is a great school. I was so happy to be there and see old faces and new faces. And I might be the only trustee that knows their way around that school. But I want to talk about something else, a little bit about what Trustee Davis touched on. And I'd like to ask why we're all here. It's a rhetorical question, of course, but why we are all here, I think parents, staff, board members, and students, I believe, I hope, that we're all here because we want to support students and improve educational outcomes for them. In the last few weeks, there have been some inflammatory reports about events in San Juan Hills High School and the media. Well, the media is focused on creating controversy. This is how they make money. They benefit from stirring the
042pot. Our board and staff are not afraid of criticism. We benefit from criticism because our experienced staff who work in this district use feedback, both positive and negative, to do better. The media is gotcha culture. That's not us. We are a culture of education and a culture of support for children, all children. We benefit from feedback from the community because it provides us opportunities for growth. When I was president of this board, I began every meeting with one simple statement asking the audience for their support in modeling respective and productive public discourse for our students and our community. Who benefits from a charged atmosphere of outrage and controversy and pot stirring? Not students. But students do benefit when we model intelligent and productive behavior. I mean, what a concept, parents. Modeling behavior. You know about
043that. I know about it. We always want those who have concerns to bring them to principals, to the superintendent, to board members. But let's not let traditional media and social media clickbait drive the narrative about education in CUSD. They want to inflame and divide while we want to improve. Thank you. I have a couple of comments. I too went to several back to school nights and Dana Hill's homecoming, fabulous. But this week I also went to a Rotary Club breakfast where there was a student presentation and to the American Legion Auxiliaries recognition of some student presentations. And I want to kind of... summarize that all, both homecoming and the other two community meetings, where I am so impressed with the enthusiasm and positivity of our students and on our campuses. And I am encouraged and
044inspired that our future leaders are on a good track. So thank you all for being good students, for being good parents, and we are on a good track. Student Advisor General. I just want to say like what a month it's absolutely been. I know last year was kind of weird because it was like our first year back from online hybrid learning. And especially when you went to the football games, you could tell like some of the freshmen and sophomores like they didn't know what was going on. And the juniors were also sort of confused and seniors were just there. But then this year, I mean, I just feel like we hit the ground running. I know. At Capo, which is my school, we had homecoming basically the first week of September. So ASB was hard
045at work. Within the half month that we were back at school, we had a pep rally. We had our first home game and then we immediately had homecoming, which was absolutely fantastic. So shout out to Capo ASB and obviously all ASBs around the district for all their hard work and the publicity that they're doing. They're promoting a lot of great causes. And I just want to say, like, this is, I think, the fastest beginning of the school year, like, that I've ever felt. And I guess a lot of other seniors could probably say that as well. I feel like we were in the first day of school, and now we're already on, like, chapter three of whatever we're learning. But I think it's absolutely fantastic how fast staff, teachers, you know, everyone in the district
046has been working on just making sure that this year flows. So big thank you for that. I also do want to say that, you know, again, coming back to Capo ASB, I think the school culture this year has absolutely just been revamped. Again, like I said, last year was kind of like a ramping up to getting back to pre-COVID levels. But this year, I think, has absolutely surpassed where we're at in 2019 and 2020. And we're just absolutely embracing school culture again. Our football games have been, you know, absolutely. Fantastic. We have powdered CO2 cannons, everything that you could ask for. I don't know if I should be saying, but like school rivalries back, which is, you know, that's always cool. I know there's a lot of time to do it today, but like, like
047I personally enjoy the, you know, friendly rivalry that goes on between schools. I think it absolutely adds to the school environment, school atmosphere. Even at away games now we're filling up bleachers, we're filling up the entire sections of away games, which is absolutely fantastic. I think it shows something about the student spirit of this year. Besides from that, for all seniors, it's college application season. It's a very stressful time. There's so much going on right now. I want to touch on two points for this. So the first point is that Everyone's going to feel overwhelmed right now. Schoolwork, extracurricular sports, plus college apps. There's always resources available to you. Your counselors at school. There are so many mental health clubs and help just available to you at school. So if that's ever becoming too much,
048please just ask. Even if it's a friend, someone will reach out. I think that's super, super important for all of us to kind of keep in mind. And the second point is I think we should be grateful for how many resources we actually have at school, especially I know at Capo today we had USC, their admissions officers came and did a talk. We had a Q&A. We were able to ask so many questions. And I think it's resources like this that we take for granted in a school district like CUSC when a lot of my other friends in other school districts, I've asked them, they're like, wow, we don't have those sorts of resources. So something that I think we should definitely, you know, take in mind and think, like, we're very grateful to have
049these resources. And obviously, it's not to say that we can't improve upon them, we can't work on them. But it's something that I want to highlight. Another thing I want to highlight is clubs. We had, I know Tesoro had Club Rush last week, a few weeks ago. Capo is having Club Rush this entire week. We have over a hundred clubs at school. So for whatever interest you have, obviously there is something for you. And even after Club Rush, you can always join. I think that's one of the best ways to build a new community, gain new friends. And again, shout out to like all the ASPs for doing all their hard work. And then besides from that, I want to do like a little report on what I've personally been working on and like what
050this position has to report on. So yesterday, Jane and I, along with the other ASB presidents from the district, we had a meeting and it was very productive. We had a lot of great conversations over great dialogue. And so that's one of the ways that I'm able to get my feedback for what I have to say on this day or like what I have feedback to give. What I hope to do in the future is implement more systems of student feedback, which I mentioned last time. But I'm working on initiatives with Dr. Irvis and, you know, within your schools, I think it's super important to kind of just ask around and be like, how can I get my voice to be heard? How can I, you know? demonstrate my opinion to the school, to the
051district, whatever it is that you want, because your voice matters and your voice is what we kind of like build ourselves on because ultimately you are the students at the school and we want to listen. I know I had my first principal's advisory meeting with Mr. Persuston last week. Super, super great information that, you know, I wouldn't be able to get otherwise. We had, you know, we had pizza, you get pulled out a fifth period. It's pretty fantastic. So just ask your school because a lot of times they'll do it for community service hours as well. So just ask your principal if that's a thing. Show up, say whatever you want. Just please say your opinion because. When this gets back to me, it really helps in, you know, kind of gauging where students are
052at, what you're thinking. I know, like, we've implemented a lot of new systems and, like, what are your thoughts about that, right? So in the future, that's, there's some initiatives I'm working on that I hope to be implementing district-wide in the near future. And I hope to have all your support on that. But again, it's just been a great starting month of the school. School spirit is back. So fantastic to see. It was very important. Thank you. Thank you. President McNicholas, if I may share with student advisor Zhao, I had asked the team before this meeting started, who were you looking forward to to challenge and who is going to be the greatest challenger? And what did you guys say? Come on, really? Cougars. Just wanted to share that with you. Okay, the next part
053of our meeting is oral communications for non-agenda items. And how many speakers do we have? I just want to get the first part out of the way, and then I was going to let them know. How many speakers do we have? Approximately 11. Two students in person and then nine adults in person. Okay, we'll take a minute and let the baseball team and anybody else. I see we have 11 speakers. Our limit is 20 minutes. Would you agree to two minutes apiece? Is that a consensus for two minutes apiece? Okay. We go with the in-person speakers first and the students step ahead of that line, right? Correct. Two minutes. Okay. So our first student speaker is Isabella. Rybar Kelly. Rybar Kelly. And our next student speaker after Isabel will be Karina Donahue. So Karina, go
054on ahead and come up to be ready to go after Isabel. And then I'll call the first three adults, and so we'll kind of be ready to go. Jamie Hansen, Kira Davis, and Katie Crockett. Isabel, go ahead. All right. Good evening, superintendent and trustees. My name is Isabel Weber-Kelly. And I'm a freshman at Sandman Hills High School. Before I begin, I would just like to say, trusty Bullocks, I actually had one of the spicy chicken sandwiches today for lunch. It was amazing. So I have seven amazing classes, multiple wonderful teachers. I'm also on the cross country team. And let me tell you, that has been such an amazing experience. I've made so many friends. I love it so much. In the month or so that I've been at San Juan Hills High School, I've noticed
055how inclusive, accepting, and welcoming the school community is. This is extremely important to me because I have friends, I have a wide range of friends. I have friends of different race, religion, culture, friends with special needs, friends who speak different languages. I've had friends who only speak Spanish. Now, it has come to my attention that a person running for the school board has been discriminating against the LGBTQIA plus group. Especially after hearing about the acts of hate that happened on another campus last week. This practically brings me to tears. This kind of prejudice and persecution and prejudice, it's just, it's not okay. They have also been spreading rumors about gender signs for my school bathrooms. I would just like to say that I personally walked the school campus this morning and that is not true.
056All the bathrooms have signs. Of course, I'm sure they must have just been misled. Also, when I'm saying they, I am referring to the person running for the school board. I just didn't want to assume pronouns. Well, thank you so much for your time and hearing what I had to say. And also thank you for creating an inclusive learning environment for all students with diverse teachers. And I'm proud to ride for the brand and be a part of Capo USD. Thank you. Our next student speaker is Karina Dhani. Karina, we'll have you. I'm so sorry. And I'll put you back into the list. No worries. Let's go forward with Jamie Hansen. Following Jamie Hansen, Kira Davis. Following Kira Davis, Katie Crockett, Michelle McNutt. That's our order. Please go ahead. Hi. First, thank you, Isabel, for
057coming up here and sharing. And I wanted to thank the trustees who shared their commitment to diversity and inclusion. and how important that is for our schools and our faculty. As I witnessed the ways that our nation's culture wars are being exploited by candidates all over the country, including our local school board campaigns, I wanted to speak today in solidarity with our LGBTQAI plus students, faculty, staff, and parents, that our community together, including, of course, the Board of Trustees here. continues to create a culture of safety and belonging so that our kids and our teachers have a space where their lived experience is not erased, where their identities are not made invisible. It's no secret there are people who are actively trying to dismantle the hard-fought work to create protections and resources for our queer
058and trans kids especially, and much of the anti-LGBTQAI plus rhetoric puts our students at great risk. I will only speak for myself, but also know that there are many other parents, teachers, and of course, students who will continue to show up in support of our LGBTQAI plus family. Thank you. Vera Davis, please go ahead. I've been inundated with hundreds of messages from concerned parents wondering about what their part is in all of this. Some of them have stood up here and given their point of view about what I'm doing, but this isn't about LGBTQ or political opinions or agendas. This is about sexually inappropriate and unsafe materials and practices infecting our schools. Now, whether or not you think that we're... Whether or not you think we're stupid for being concerned, the fact is that many
059parents are concerned and have their concerns, have had their concerns and complaints ignored and insulted. Where there's smoke, there's fire. So how hot does it have to get before we have some kind of official response and resolution to these issues? We understand that there is state law to contend with, but there's also logic and reason. And what's happening at San Juan Hills defies both. Parents are afraid, and they should be, because the one question we have is the one no one in our district seems willing to answer. Who is protecting our children? There are a lot of people here tonight who will rely on insults and straw man arguments in an attempt to belittle our concerns, but they can insult us all they want. We don't care if no one in the district is willing
060to protect our children. It is up to parents to do it. Teachers have their unions. Kids have parents. We will not be moved out of the way. Our board and our district admin needs to get on the right side of this issue. Thank you. Good evening, trustees. I spoke at the last meeting about what a different environment it felt like this year at school, and I continue to echo that. Back to school night at Ascensio was a huge success. My kids' teachers are fabulous, and I found that to be representative of the caliber of teachers we have here at CUSD. Our district is stronger when every teacher and child is at their best. I appreciated some of the trustees comments about not getting whipped up by frenzy. There have been so many distractions lately, but
061there is so much good happening. I'm disappointed that we are getting distracted by things. For example, there have been rumors regarding boys and girls bathrooms as if this is some kind of conspiracy or something nefarious. I'm livid that I'm here speaking about this. This is a settled issue policy-wise. But I wanted to ensure the record is straight for anyone who may be hearing rumors. Boys and girls bathrooms is not a thing because there are trans girls in girls bathrooms. Just because some people refuse to acknowledge that trans people exist, or at least they are deserving of the same rights and privileges as anyone else. Trans kids are kids too. Parents of trans kids are parents too. A certain group of people are claiming that they speak for parents and they are here for students and
062to protect students and no one else is. I just want it to be known that parents support our trans students. Due to untrue and partially true information circulating and being used to whip up frenzy, it's only harming some of our most vulnerable students. Thank you. Michelle McNutt. Hi, my name is Michelle. I have a daughter who is a freshman this year at San Juan Hills High School, which we love. I like to share some of my issues that I think are happening at our school. My daughter absolutely loves her school. She loves her teachers, all of her teachers. She texted me on back-to-school night just to say, honestly, mom, I love all my teachers, as I asked each one, what about this teacher? What about that teacher? Love them all, mom. She's receiving an excellent
063education. She's learning and enjoying a new sport and has felt very supported by her coach and her teammates. Her teachers and her counselors are invested in her academic growth, as well as her emotional, social-emotional well-being. She's especially looking forward to her first homecoming dance this weekend and fully enjoying her high school experience. Overall, our experience has been very positive and completely contrary to the deliberate disinformation that has been magnified on a national platform. It's obvious that these sensationalized stories and rumors are meant to target our LGBTQ community and frame inclusivity as if it's something dangerous. This has been a mean-spirited attempt to undermine our sense of community, and it also makes schools less safe for all of our students as a whole. Despite that, I'd like to express my gratitude to our amazing principal, Dr.
064Mahindra Kaur, for addressing each issue promptly and for creating a learning environment for every student that feels so that every student feels included and valued. Superintendent, I'd like to thank you for your comments as well today for committing to the same. I'd also like to say that, Trustee Davis, I find your comment about loving LGBTQ students disingenuous. Using your words, intentions do not make something okay. You need to actually do the work. Thank you. Patricia. Patricia. Following Patricia is Amber Smith and then Karen Donahue. Good evening, everyone. My name is Patricia Freitag. And I just also wanted to express some concerns. Having a daughter in San Clemente High School and a son in Shortcliffe Middle School. I don't, same as Ms. Davis, want to come across as ever disingenuous or, you know, unloving, anything like
065that. In fact, that goes against all my morals and values and everything I stand for as a Christian woman. I love and I teach my children to love. But I think there is a big difference in... acceptance of people and whatever decisions they choose to make in their life because that's their choice and a difference in that and a difference in things that are being allowed inappropriately in a classroom setting just like we would not allow a teacher to enter into inappropriate in into inappropriate relationships with student it's the same as introducing inappropriate library books and appropriate education tools and pieces for children who are not clearly, even at the age to fully understand and developed in their brain what's happening. So I just wanted to express a concern. And of course, the big topic
066tonight has been San Juan Hills High School. But I'm concerned, even though my child is not there, because What's allowed in one place and overlooked and unaddressed is easily allowed in other places. And so I have a deep concern. I have a deep concern for my children, a deep concern for other children. Who don't quite know who they are, what they are, what they want to be. And I have a deep concern for the materials that you have been allowing and that the principal has been allowing in the schools as well. And so I really want that addressed and looked at. Thank you. Our next speaker is Amber Smith. Amber Smith is Karina Dunn. Hello. Okay. I did buy one of the books. I read it. I'm not going to stand here and read it
067to you because it was filthy. Some of the language was appalling. And there were adult situations. And this is in a high school class. Let me remind you, high school, you start at 14 years old. Okay, 14 years old. They don't need to be reading this book. My main concern with this book, I'm just going to read and I'm going to keep it clean. part of this. Juliet, I am a racist effing moron. And any white person living in this dang country, if any of us tell you otherwise, is a liar and not to be trusted. You can be white and poor and racist as heck and wear your Confederate flags and there's rich white people who hide their racism behind homeowners associations and luxury condo income requirements. And it continues to go on. This,
068to me, is teaching hate. If we're so inclusive and all we want to do is be inclusive, shouldn't we be inclusive for everybody? Not just LGBTQ kids or kids of other races. It includes every single child in that school, no matter what their race is. So I am very, very happy to hear that y'all are going to be doing something about this. We definitely need some kind of book reform in our schools because this isn't the only book in that one class. I guarantee you there are many more books like this throughout all of our schools in this district. And we really need to start paying attention to what our children are reading. Hi, thank you. Hello. We love San Juan Hills High School, so I really wish I didn't have to be speaking tonight.
069But I believe that if we see something that makes us feel uncomfortable, we should say something. So here I am. I tried Googling Capital Unified School District Employee Code of Conduct. I thought it would be an easy document to find, but unfortunately I wasn't able to find that. My husband and I are involved parents. Just a couple of weeks ago, we signed up to be administrators for my son's soccer team. We had to watch a 90-minute presentation on sexual misconduct, grooming, and sexual and psychological abuse. We had to watch that just to be parent volunteers, admin parent volunteers. My point is, this issue that happens in One Hills is not about sexual orientation or even the word. of the teacher. The issue is about what is appropriate for a school setting. A few years ago,
070one of my kids was part of a team sport at San Juan Hills. Her and some of her teammates made a TikTok that had inappropriate language as the background music. The head coach heard about that and requested to speak with the kids and their parents. The head coach explained that as a student athlete, they represent the school on the court and outside the court. And because of that, they need to be aware of what they are posting on social media and how they behave. The coach taught a valuable lesson on how to be held accountable for your actions and how to behave in a work and team environment. If that is the case with students, shouldn't that also be the case with teachers, coaches, staff, anybody? As a parent, I'm trying to understand if staff
071goes through some sort of training regarding sexual topics, grooming, pornographic material in classrooms, and social ethics, social media ethics. If not, I would like to request that training be implemented ASAP. That's it. I just want... This speaker is Eva Harrison. Following Eva Harrison, we have Michael Parham and Jamie Peek. Hi there. You're a rock star. I have notes, but I'm not good at this public speaking thing. I'm just going to react a little bit to what was said here. I appreciate what you've said, that we need to check into what's happening in our schools. I'm all for inclusion. I'm all for it. I love everyone. I have also many friends and family from different races, different cultures, different sexual orientations, etc. This is not for us, me as a parent. This is not about inclusion
072or not including someone. This is about... Why are we giving our children access to pornographic materials in our schools? Yes, we bought the book. Yes, we read the book. She only read a part that was about hate. That book also includes, and I'm not going to say the words with respect to younger people here right now, but it's... the word for cat with a P over and over and over and over. Also the C word over and over. And this was in the San Juan Hills Queer Library that was approved by the principal and I quote, he said, it's important to have a queer library and books are always a good thing. And any books that support our students, he is for. How is this book something that supports our students? It's absolutely inappropriate. I
073appreciate that you want to look into it and it needs to be looked into. I agree with what Karina just said. If there is no training for staff, that needs to be started immediately. Thank you. Michael, pardon? Esteemed board members and Madam Superintendent, my name is Michael Parham and I'm here to support the important value of education for every child in this district. I'm a parent of two young children who go to school in Capo. I am running for the open seat in Area 2 because our kids deserve the very best. I am excited about seeing the community and parents focused on the positive things we can accomplish when we work together. each one of us doing our very best. I was a board member for the Irvine Unified School District for 12 years. I
074know what the job entails and what working together can accomplish at the highest levels. I hope to see future board meetings here that are full of parents and students speaking in support of educational programs, funding for the arts and music, and sharing new ideas about how to upgrade our facilities. Let me also say that inappropriate conduct, whether from a student, a faculty member, staff, or anyone for that matter, should be dealt with properly and taken seriously. There will always be people problems in an organization of this size, and while we must address and resolve them, we cannot allow such conduct or alleged conduct to inflame our passions. Doing so will lead to a myopic focus on the negative. while ignoring the constructive possibilities ahead. Leaders, especially board members, must set a standard of honorable conduct.
075And this should apply to all stakeholders, including parents, teachers, and students as well. Negative politics and fear-mongering is not leadership. It is a form of self-serving activism and desperation. The important work of educating kids must be taken up by people committed to lifting up all students. especially those with the greatest struggles. Speaker, thank you for your time. Our next speaker is Jamie. Following Jamie, we have one online speaker, Michelle Colossal-Kindle. Jamie, go ahead. Hi, thank you for letting me speak today. I'm just going to take a minute of your time. I just came here today in support of the LGBTQIA plus community. I am a mother of a child in Capistrano Beach, and I really want to make sure that we continue. supporting all of our kids and that we follow our policies and procedures
076that are already set in place. And I'm very impressed with the students. I've come to several of these board meetings and seen several of them speak. And I'm very impressed with how they conduct themselves and how they speak to. to all of you and how the information they give to us and I'm just really impressed and I'm very proud of Capistrano School District and I'm glad that you guys are upholding all of the policies that are here to protect all of our kids. Thanks very much. Next is Michelle Flossel-Campbell. Good evening, Superintendent, Board of Trustees. Thank you for letting me speak. My children are giving up watching the first three episodes of Andor so I can be online tonight with you guys. So I am in the dog hole because Star Wars is happening. Our
077PTAs and PTSAs are busy working to support our schools. One way we support our schools and children is through family, students, teacher, community memberships in our nation's largest advocacy organization. PTA is strong through our membership, so we invite you to join your local PTA. And know you can be a member for the one PTA. I want to thank President McNicholas for being a member of the Nigel Hills PTSA. You can find your local PTAs online and join by going to join totem.com and search for your local schools. Once again, that is join totem.com. J O I N T O T E M.com. Thank you very much. Okay. I may, I'd like to ask Dr. Merwin to make a couple of clarifying comments. Thank you, Superintendent. So I would like to address the fact that the
078books in question this evening are not available to students, that we are committed, as shared previously, to reviewing our policies and also to come up with a protocol to consider a review district-wide. We will do that collaboratively, and we will keep the board informed. Thank you. Could we also address the restroom signs? Yes. So all the restroom signs at San Juan Hills High School are all posted and exactly all signage is up and there are no concerns. That doesn't really explain the question. We did have a situation where we had vandalism. If you could just... Sure. I apologize. Yes. So the signs were missing. We believe it was an act of vandalism. And then working with our maintenance operations department, those signs are now back up for all of the restrooms, as was stated tonight.
079There's been a work order for a few weeks and it has been resolved this week. Is that correct? That's right. It was resolved this week. And it was one set of restrooms. It wasn't the whole school. Correct. Not all the restrooms in the entire school was one set of restrooms. Thank you. That helps clarify. And I'm sorry, you said I wanted to ask about the books. You said that the books, I think you said the books that were found to actually be objectionable and not age appropriate were removed. Can you clarify on that? That's correct. So those books are not available and the other books that are appropriate are still available. Thank you. Okay, we are now on to item 13, public hearing. At this time, I would like to open the public hearing regarding
080resolution number 2223-22, determining steps to ensure availability of textbooks and instructional materials for 2022-2023. The time is 819 p.m. Do we have any speakers on this item? Okay, seeing none, the hearing is now closed. The time is 819. We'll now move on to the consent calendar. Please note, per Board Policy 9323 and in accordance with law, the public has a right to comment on any consent item. At the request of any member of the Board, any item on the consent agenda shall be removed and given individual consideration for action as a regular Board item. Each speaker is allotted between one and three minutes per item depending on the number of individuals who have presented requests to speak. Ms. Hayes, do we have any speaker cards for the consent calendar? We have two in-person speakers and
081one online speaker. Would you like to just continue in two minutes or three? Three. Trustees, three minutes, three speakers. Agreed? Okay, three minutes. The first speaker is Kira Davis, and the second speaker is Katie Crockett, and our online speaker is Michelle Flossel-Campbell. Thank you. Well, hello again. This is really more of a question than a comment. I was reading over the agenda and I see that we are going over a consultant agreement for services with Anthony Seha for restorative practices, professional development at Don Juan Avila Elementary School. And I was just wondering, how do I find the materials that he'll use to train the teachers? I was looking at his portfolio online. I was doing some research. I saw a lot about him, but I couldn't find anything that he did and it wasn't available
082in. exhibits for the agenda. And so the word that popped out to me, because in my line of work, I report a lot on restorative justice. And the word that popped out to me was restorative. And so that's a buzzword in my line of work. it restorative justice is really something that's connected to a lot of rising crime. And so I was wondering if they were connected. I was wondering if the board could direct me to some resources so that I could. read more about what he's doing. I think it's important that we're informed. And I obviously want to be properly informed because the way we train teachers will spill over into the classroom as we've kind of been alluding to tonight. And so I think this is just one more teacher training that I
083as a parent would like to have my eye on. And so I just was hoping, and it looks to me like the board's going to vote on this tonight, even though it's the first. presentation on the agenda. So I was wondering if maybe we could hold off on that until we can see the materials. Thank you. The next speaker is Katie Crockett. Good evening. I just wanted to make a note that item D1, the minutes of the August 17th meeting, page 9 leaves out the first vote taken after public comment and before the recess was taken at 849, wherein the motion failed 3-2-1. The vote recorded in the minutes after the board reconvened was the second vote. I reached out to all of you on the 18th via email to follow up on this. and
084received the response that district council had advised that the board could revote on the item. Knowledge of how other board members would vote was used to inform the revote. If it is really fine, it should be in the minutes. They should reflect what actually happened. Thank you. The next speaker online is Michelle Colasso-Campbell. Good evening, Board of Trustees. I'm actually speaking on two items, 14A1 and 14A19. In the past month, PTAs across the district have donated $65,224.64 to provide for their schools the following goods, services, and programs. Teachers tutoring salaries, fifth grade assemblies, librarian salaries, educator salaries, library books, school assemblies, meet the masters, art programs, yay, meet the masters, STEAM teacher salaries. All of these are really important for our students and our schools. Our PTAs appreciate the partnership with our schools and our
085communities. Putting on my CAC vice chair hat, I am pleased to see. The conveyance of an easement to the city of San Juan Capistrano for the purpose of providing an ADA compliant ramp for the students and community members to access San Juan Elementary School is vital that equitable access is available for all in our community. Thank you very much. And yay, in less than one minute. Michelle, I didn't hear you said 14A1 and 14A19. Correct. I'm not sure I see a 14A19. Karen Hollweg, it's right down at the bottom there's 14 a 20, which is another quick claim easement, which is kind of an interesting one where apparently some people thought they could take the backslip of capital valley. Karen Hollweg, Okay, I get it sorry. Karen Hollweg, Thank you. Karen Hollweg, you're welcome bye.
086Karen Hollweg, trustees do you have any. Karen Hollweg, Any items you want to pull us to focus. Karen Hollweg, On the castellanos no. Trustee Davis? Trustee Hanachick? Trustee Jones? Okay. So may I have a motion to approve the consent calendar? So moved. Second. Moved by Trustee Castellanos, second by Trustee Bullekas. This is a roll call vote. Trustee Bullekas? Aye. Trustee Castellanos? Aye. Trustee Davis? Aye. Trustee Hanachick? Aye. Trustee Jones? Aye. Trustee McNicholas? Aye. Student Advisor Zhao? Aye. Motion carries 6-0 by a roll call vote to approve the consent calendar with Student Advisor Zhao casting a preferential vote of aye to approve the consent calendar. We are now on to discussion action items. 15A1 Special Education Community Advisory Committee Annual Report. Dr. Morton, would you please introduce this item? Yes, thank you very much, President McNicholas.
087Trustees, Superintendent Vital Brulte, staff proudly presents Item A1, Special Education Community Advisory Committee Annual Report. We have very special guests joining us this evening to present this item. Madam Chairperson Rachel Sutherland, First Vice Chair Mina Carson, and Director of Communications and Sunshine Awards Co-Chair Veronica Hogan. CUSD is grateful for our strong and collaborative partnership with the CAC, and we look forward to continuing to work closely together this year and into the future. So, Mrs. Sullivan, thank you for being here this evening. You may proceed. Thank you, Dr. Merwin. Good evening, Superintendent Vital Brute, fabulous Board of Trustees, and all of our distinguished guests. It has been another busy year for the Special Education Community Advisory Committee, or as most of you know us, the CAC. For our highlights for the 2021-22 school year, we created
088a guide to special education acronyms and programs for the families of our special education students who are new to the district. We shared resources for ability awareness opportunities throughout the district for schools to have virtual or in-person programs through the videos and resources on the CAC page of the CUSD website. CEC also widened the recognition of our exceptional student awards to three high schools this last year in CUSD to recognize seniors who have made outstanding contributions in creating an inclusive school community. As Dr. Merwin had said, we are extremely grateful for the collaborative partnership we have with the Special Education Department here in CUSD. We are fortunate to meet monthly with Clint Collins, Kerry Johnson, Meg Erves, Lauren Petullo, Peggy Berst, and Sonia Moser to troubleshoot on challenges that arise throughout the school year and
089develop new programs as a need arises. Through our combined efforts of CAC and the district, we were able to improve parking and access for disabled students at Marco Forster and Don Juan Avila Middle Schools, provided insight on equipment, supplies, and facility needs for the two new high school steps programs at Capitol Valley and Aliso Niguel High Schools. advocate for a prep day for paraprofessionals the day before students return to school, as well as an orientation specific to the needs of our moderate to severe students in our STEPS programs for secondary schools. And we also prepared and launched the new Families Connected Mentor Program to provide support to families with a special needs child who have recently been diagnosed or are new to the area. In addition to champion our ongoing projects within CUSD this year,
090CAC is also working on new brochures to provide a wider reach and share more about our organization throughout the district. And I'd like to personally thank Sonia Moser in the Family Resource Center for her ongoing partnership with CAC and assistance with many of our objectives last year and this year. CAC is also working with our district to refine our IEP meeting protocols, further clarify steps for our special education students in regards to the certificate and diploma tracks, as well as additional support for after-school events. On a final note, I'd like to acknowledge the CUC PTSA, or as they are also known, our CUSD PTSA Council, for their ongoing support of CAC over the years through assisting us in having a special education rep at every school in CUSD and supporting us in our biggest event
091of the year, the Exceptional Educator Event, also known as the Sunshine Awards. We were thrilled to be able to hold our beloved Sunshine Awards in person at CUSD's Adult Transition Program location in San Juan Capistrano last April. And we have a big thank you to CUSD for providing our beautiful banners again for all schools that were nominated and covering all the printing costs for this event. CAC is looking forward to another engaging year with the students, parents, teachers, staff, administration, and district partners. And we have a little slideshow here, courtesy of beautiful pictures taken by our truly talented first vice chair, Ms. Mina Carson. Oh, who is? who is over there? Lovely. And so we'd like to share just a few little snapshots. Many of you, I'm so excited, were able to join us for
092that event. As you know, it is just one of our deepest heartfelt things to be able to recognize those who serve our special education students. I think they named the award after you. You are sunshine. Well, that is very, very kind, Trustee Velikas. But, you know, really, everybody that I work with is truly amazing. We are a wonderful group of caring people, and we just want to see the best for our students and for our staff as well, because it's important because we are, you know, one team, one dream. And that was the Sparkle Squad from San Clemente, Triton. So, Sharon, thank you so much. Okay, we are on to item, oh, sorry, trustees, any comments or questions? Do you have one speaker? Do we have a speaker? Michelle. Oh, I'm sorry. Michelle. Thank you
093to our wonderful CAC Chair, Rachel Nehemiah Sutherland, for sharing all CAC does for our district, our SELPA, and our community. CAC also works to advocate at the state and federal level for needed funds for our programs. We have members speaking with our locally elected representatives. On the differences these dollars make in the lives of our students and for our district to provide the mandated supports, the last several years the CAC Advocacy Day had been held virtually. However, in May 2023, we look forward to being back in Sacramento in person seeking the needed state support for all students served by our SELPA and in SELPAs across the state. Thank you. Thank you, Michelle. Trustees, comments or questions? Trustee Hannah-Tex? I have a quick one. You guys are dazzling always, and you are probably some of the
094most fun people to hang out with. So anytime you need help again, getting ready for the Sunshine Awards or whatever you need, I'm at your disposal. Thank you all so much for what you do. Thank you. Thank you. Student Advisor Zhao? I just want to say from a student perspective, at CAPO, the new STEPS program has been absolutely fantastic. All the students are so supportive. It's just an absolutely fantastic environment that is being created. The inclusivity is wonderful. So I just want to say it's a fantastic program. Anything that students can do to help, just let us know. Thank you. Thank you. We are now on to item 15.8.2, District Music Programs for 2022-2023. Dr. Merwin, this is you again. Thank you, President McNicholas, Trustees, Superintendent, and all Rural Tees. Staff presents item 2, District
095Music Programs for 2022-2023. Staff brings this general update on music programs in response to Trustee direction. We are very proud of the fact that music continues to be a priority for our district. with district-funded programs beginning in transitional kindergarten and continuing through elementary, middle, and high school. Tonight, we share a brief presentation that provides an overview of our different music programs and includes testimonials and videos from our music teachers to highlight the inspiring music experiences that our students receive. In addition, I'm excited to announce that we are joined this evening by several of our exceptional elementary and secondary music teachers who are in the audience. So I'd like to introduce them briefly. We have Boon Choi, block music. Jeff Long, block music. Carly Hancock, primary music. Ashley Stevens, lead secondary band teacher and classical music
096teacher. And also joining is Nathan Howe, assistant principal who assists with the elementary needs program. Okay, so the curriculum and instruction team of Dr. Medgar and Ms. Peggy Barrist are now going to provide a brief presentation. This is an information item only, and Ms. Barrist, take it away. Thank you, Dr. Merwin. Good evening, everybody. I would like to kick off our presentation with a quote of technical difficulties. It's okay, I have a really tall person helping me. There we go. I'd like to kick us off with a quote from one of our amazing band teachers and block music team leads, Corey Wenzel. Corey, quote, we quote Corey, our program has been very, very successful. We want to keep it going. The kids benefit from it tremendously, and we want them to have as good a
097musical experience as possible. And that is truly our dedication to our music program. Okay, these are our elementary music programs. As Dr. Merwin mentioned, we start in transitional kindergarten, also known as TK, and we have music in every grade level through grade five at the elementary level. In TK through grade three, we have primary music, and the students receive 30 minutes a week for two trimesters. In grades four and five, we move to block music. All students receive 40 minutes twice a week all year long. In fourth grade, they have the choice of general music or strings. And in fifth grade, they have the choice of actually vocal choir. I apologize. It says general music. Or they can continue with strings a second year, or they can move to band, which is wind and brass.
098And as I mentioned, all those programs, the block programs are 40 minutes twice a week. We're going to share a video that Carly Hancock produced for her back to school night. This is our primary music program. Thank you so much, Mrs. Hancock, for sharing your video. That was just a little sample of it, all that they do in primary music. Okay, at this time, I'd like to pass the microphone to Dr. Meg Ervis. Thank you. Our secondary music programs build on the strong foundation provided in elementary school. While all middle schools offer music, we start to see more options available to students. Some examples of the unique classes offered in middle school include intermediate and advanced band. and intermediate and advanced orchestra, advanced choir, string, jazz, and wind ensembles, concert band, jazz band, a full
099orchestra and symphony orchestra, mariachi, cuore caminos, taiko percussion, which is a class that was developed for step students. I had the pleasure of watching them perform in the spring, beginning guitar, modern band, and ukulele. In middle school, we also have student-led. middle school groups, including chamber ensembles, students who act as music mentors to their peers during tutorial, and a double string quartet. Middle school students share their talents in a variety of ways, including site and area concerts, competitions, community events, Angel Stadium and Disneyland performances, and Battle of the Mariachis, among many other performance opportunities. The options in music continue to expand in high school across our schools. We have concert, choir, band and orchestra, madrigals, guitar, AP music theory, commercial music, a class in collaboration with our CTE programs. Vocal, wind, percussion, and chamber ensembles,
100marching band, color card, jazz band, IB music, mariachi again in high school, flute choir, brass quintet, clarinet choir, chamber and symphony orchestra, drumline, percussion methods, acapella, men's chorus, barbershop and beauty shop quartets, musical theater, pit orchestra, and many more. It's an amazing array of opportunities for our musicians, thanks to our amazing music teachers. In high school, students have also developed clubs to further their music options. Some examples of these student-led clubs include a ukulele club, a cappella club, worship music club, music for the mind, which performs for senior centers. Fortissimo String Club, who serve as after-school mentors at high school for middle school musicians, and Singing for Smiles, a student-run community service singing club. Like middle school, high school students participate in performances and competitions at our sites, but also on a local, statewide, and
101even nationwide level at events, competitions, and festivals. Too many to name here, but I encourage our community to visit the school websites for more information about the amazing programs and opportunities they offer. So it's no wonder that with all the talent between our music teachers and our music students, CUSD was once again named a NAM Best Communities for Music Education Award. The National Association of Music Merchants, this is a signature program of the NAM Foundation that recognize and celebrate school districts and schools for their support and commitment to music education and efforts to assure access to music. for all students as part of a well-rounded education. Congratulations to our music teachers on that honor. Last school year, our honors concerts returned. We held a BAPA festival at Capitol Valley High School, and it was held
102outdoors for health reasons. It was on a short hiatus due to COVID. This year, a secondary honors concert will return to the Segerstrom stage on February 15th. We look forward to that. Our elementary honors students, vocal strings and band, will be held in the spring and probably late April. That time and location are to be determined. Here's another quote from one of our elementary music teachers. Mofrin Santok is a block music team leader, and she teaches both strings and band. And she's quoted as saying, it gives kids who are shy a voice. It gives kids who are invisible a place to belong, a place to be. And overall, it gives everybody a big picture thing to work towards that they can be proud of. It's kind of a theme for this evening. And maybe a
103treat for the evening, a little bit of our most recent BAPA festival. I was there. It was great. It was a wonderful festival. I could see myself in the front row down there. And I wanted to hear more. So thank you so much. Do we have any blue cards on this one? We have one speaker, Katie Crockett. Good evening. That video of elementary music made my heart so happy. I just wanted to stress how important music programs are for our children. I know they're on the chopping block at a lot of schools, and I just wanted to say that I'm so appreciative that CUSD and this board prioritizes music programs across all of the age levels. I'm so happy that my students are receiving weekly music instruction. It's one of their favorite things at school.
104Thank you. Ms. Dease, any comments or questions? Trustee Hanachek? I just have to do a quick comment. So the first quote from Corey Wetzel. So my 32-year-old, that was his music teacher. So that you all are CUSD. You represent, when I think of CUSD, I think of primary music and onward. And unfortunately, I didn't get, mine didn't stay in high school doing it. But I can't thank you enough. This is what, for many of our children, this is their highlight of their whole week. So thank you so much. Dusty Davis? I would like to echo that. Love it, love it, love it. It was beautiful. Thank you for that beautiful video and to see all those smiling faces, it's wonderful. I also would like to add, my button was on, but I think it missed
105me. So I wanted to tell these Sunshine ladies how much I appreciate everything you do for all the kids. So are we going to have a repeat of the BAPA Festival this year? Do we know yet? We're going to return by popular demand to Segerstrom so that the students can have that experience on that amazing stage. So we're shifting back to the program that we had pre-pandemic. Student Advisor Joe? I think I'm probably going to be a little biased on this, but I've been a four-year Topsympathy Orchestra member at Cal Strong Valley High School. And I started playing viola when I was in fourth grade. So it's been a long journey. And it's been a fantastic journey. Black music. Black music. That's what I'm saying. Well, I think it's a program that absolutely should be
106highlighted more. I know in high school, we were dealing with enrollment issues, especially after COVID. It was tough getting kids to keep on playing their instruments. I think it's absolutely something that should be emphasized and publicized more within the community and to show students. We've gone to Disney for free. We've gone to Segerstrom for free. It's fantastic opportunities that you just cannot get anywhere else. So the music program is absolutely, you know, one of my favorite programs that I'm currently in. I think it's the work that you guys have done is fantastic. So thank you so much. Thank you. One final thing, sorry, the student representative brings up a really good point. COVID was devastating to the arts. So we as a board, as our team, as our teachers, we need to really work together
107to see how we grow it again. I'm seeing kind of decimated populations, whether it's our marching bands or elsewhere. So it's so important. So maybe we can all put our heads together and think how we can. go back and nurture them, add the block music and onwards. So thank you for bringing that up. Let's see, Cassie. Yeah, I just, just a quick comment. Music is vital for our students and their education journey. And I get to see kind of a different perspective down in TK, but when you go into music class, you see a different kid. come out than you do in the classroom. And so it builds connections between students and teachers just by me getting to see their personalities that I might not see when we're learning, but I get to see all
108these different personalities come out with music. So it's beautiful. Thank you. Dusty Jones. A lot of you have heard me say this before and you're bored with having heard this, but elementary school is like a family. Middle school is like a neighborhood, but high school is like a town. And in middle school, but especially in high school, kids need a group. They need a crew. And for some, it is sports. For some, it's ASB. For some, it's a club. drama or music or maybe even journalism, something like that can be the crew for some kids. And I think it is so important. And I hope that particularly our high school music teachers understand this because as a person with, well, I grew up in a home with a really, really talented musician. So I started
109singing because I had no talent with instruments whatsoever. And There are some students who don't have a lot of talent, but they have some enthusiasm or they just want to be part of that crew. And I always hope that our high school music teachers, I know there's competitions. I know this is important, but. It is so important to include kids who just need that crew. And I know in Mrs. Hancock's husband's class, everyone is welcome. Every musician, every singer is welcome there. But I think that's not the case in every high school in the country, in every music class. And I thank those who do make everyone welcome because if this is your crew in music, It doesn't matter if you're not great. It matters that it's your crew. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you, music
110teachers. Okay, we will go on to item A3. This is district accomplishments. Superintendent Patel, rule team. Great, I'm going to turn it over to my team. We're going to do some quick highlights. Accomplishments from this past year. Okay, thank you, Superintendent Patel, rule team. So we will... Take it from here and we're going to share our accomplishments for the 2021-2022 school year. Next slide, please. So to provide context, we start with introducing and reintroducing our district's three overarching goals of teaching and learning, communication, and facilities. Next slide, please. So first we start with the education support services department. We have a lot to share, so I'll try to be brief. First three bullets here on the slide share our school successes with developing a multi-tiered system to support academic interventions at both the elementary and
111secondary levels. And in order to provide our elementary teachers with professional learning community collaboration time, a PE program was implemented where elementary students provided with structured standards-based PE from a PE teacher twice per week, allowing their teachers time to collaborate, review data, and plan for intervention enrichment. We're very proud of that. The next two bullets share our strong level of support for our principals and continued efforts and progress with developing a true partnership between our departments and our schools. And the final highlight on this slide shares our continued commitment as cabinet members to develop successful practices, goals, agreements, and norms, all with the singular purpose of supporting our schools. Next slide, please. So this slide provides highlights for our English learner reclassification rates, newly adopted curriculum, and successful implementation of award-winning positive behavior systems in
112our schools. Additionally, we celebrate increased opportunities for students in special education with the expansion of the STEPS program to serve students in their communities. and improve special education systems, practices, and outcomes as evidenced by a significant decrease in litigation costs. Next slide, please. So we move on to share our successes with student data. For the first time since 2019, our students in grades three through eight participated in state testing last spring. And thanks to the incredible efforts and dedication and expertise of our teachers, our classified staff, and administrators, our students showed minimal declines or learning loss in language arts and mathematics scores. And in some grade spans, such as grades three through five, we actually increased overall scores in the language arts in spite of the pandemic. We also share with you the successes of
113the counseling program with more college and career centers opening in our high schools, two additional schools earning the distinction of RAMP counseling programs, and our futurology counselors supporting more students than ever. Next slide, please. So on our final slide of accomplishments for ESS, we celebrate student progress in math and reading assessments as indicated by our iReady. And finally, we note a reduction in percentage of students earning D's and F's in our middle and high schools. These data points provide solid evidence that our MTSS academic plans and interventions that were set into place last year are indeed working. So I'll hand it over now to Dr. Partizan to continue the accomplishments of HRS. Thank you, Dr. Merwin. Next slide, please. All right. So in human resources last year, we have some accomplishments we'd like to also
114highlight. First, that we successfully negotiated all three contracts with our classified, certificated Teamsters bargaining unit. Next, we had trained all of our middle schools in our CAPE process, and that is our collaborative approach towards problem solving using the interest-based approach that involves our classified, certificated, and administrators all together. We also held our first three hiring fairs, and I'd like to highlight that each hiring fair was more successful than the previous one in hiring employees to get them in, so we continued to revamp that program. We had to rebuild our substitute pool with all of the teachers we hired to fill our classes, and the reason that's important is that a lot of our professional development is done during the day, and so we need substitutes to cover the release time. Our last accomplishment on this
115slide was that we were successful in having 186 teachers complete their first year of their induction program and 64 of year two. And this is the process to clear a credential in the state of California. And also, we had eight administrators complete year one and eight complete year two. And that's the administrative process for them to clear their credential in the state of California. And I'd like to hand it over to Ryan Burse. Good evening. In communications, it was the first year we began providing translation services through the communications department, including translating 14 board agenda items to Spanish for families. We also created Spanish menu option on CUSD Insider and began translating those stories on the Insider, so for a higher reach within our district. We increased CUSD Insider page views from 240,000 to nearly
116400,000, and we are looking for an even bigger increase this year. Implemented text plus link texting to families so that they had quicker access to information, either directly to the website or to CUSD Insider. We worked successfully with the Raise the Base campaign with Superintendent Patal Rulzi, CUC PTSA, CUEA, and CSEA, accomplishing statewide advocacy and increasing base funding for all students in the state of California. And then finally, one more highlight on this slide, just developing and distributing a crisis communication toolkit for all of our principals in the district so that when crises or emergencies arise at school sites, they have access to emergency templates and information they can send out to families. Next slide, please. And here I want to highlight just three briefly. We hosted three town halls, webinars, events for our CUSD
117community. We hosted a preschool enrollment and informational webinar, and we hosted a career tech education college and career advantage webinar for families interested in those pathways. And now I will turn it over to Clark Hampton. Next slide, please. Thank you, Ryan. So the accomplishments for business services in this past year are that we are in the midst of planning a new K-8 school in the Rayanda development in Rancho Mission Viejo. We've completed, we're in the process of planning a new two-story 14 classroom building addition at Dana Hills High School. And we've also, the projects have been completed two new buildings at Newhart Middle School and Lisa Nigel High School, two beautiful STEM and esteem building. Two fields were replaced during the year, also added 20 CNG fueling stations at the north transportation yard, and finished
118the second phase of Ambulance Elementary School Modernization Project, along with other additions of portables and sites, a big toy project, and we were able to repaint the exterior on three schools. Next slide. For maintenance operations and transportation, the maintenance department completed over 22,000 work orders, completed 87 site improvement requests, completed five projects for College and Career Advantage to support their programs at several sites. And the transportation department drove 1.4 million miles in home to school transportation and field trips, purchased eight buses. was awarded seven buses, CNG buses, to replace old diesel buses, and that was $1.5 million, and adjusted routes to complete the new late start requirements for this year. Next slide. The Technology and Information Systems Department implemented a new website and app. I encourage people to download the app and go look at
119our website. And we're welcome for feedback. This is a new website, and we welcome feedback. We also made some enhancements to Canvas. Canvas was implemented for virtual learning during the pandemic. And we further enhanced it to meet the needs to support teachers and students. We also enhanced our network security to protect the network against hackers and other cyber attacks. This also, on a side note, helped enhance our insurance coverage because of the steps we've taken to further strengthen our networks. And we also moved all elementary schools to master scheduling, implemented an online employee requisition system, and closed 35,000 radar tickets. And those are tickets for repairs requested through the technology department. Next slide. So this is one of my favorite ones. Business for Food and Nutrition Services served over four and a half million meals.
120And that's just still, it fascinates me that we have produced that much food. It's amazing. And this is with 155 employees. So that is quite an accomplishment. And also with universal feeding have greatly enhanced the participation over 33%. increase in participation in school lunch and breakfast programs. And next slide. So fiscal services and purchasing, applied for and received the $2 million grant for supporting the testing requirements. We received the grant from the California Department of Public Health. We implemented an online employee requisition system, as mentioned earlier. The payroll department implemented the salary increases that were mentioned earlier by Human Resources and managed the first of three-year plan to spend the COVID relief funds, which have played a significant role in supporting this school district and other school districts in moving through the pandemic. Also, we've
121implemented new processes and procedures for associated student body oversight and implemented in-house open enrollment platform for employee benefits that they participate in each year during the open enrollment process. So that includes our accomplishments for this last year. Happy to take any questions. Thank you. Do we have any blue cards on this? No. Trustees, comments, questions? Trustee Bolgeras? I just want to give a shout out to the company that M&O hired, Alpha Decor and Painting. The Tesoro and Las Flores were repainted this summer, but at Las Flores, the fact that they went back over the Cubs logo, it looked fabulous. I mean, they really did an exceptional job highlighting it and having after painting it to go back and touch it up. I was there just last week with Principal Weisman, who commented on that. And
122just wanted to give a shout out to how much we appreciate how much better those schools just look fresh and great. Thank you. Good advice, Michelle. So I just have a really niche question about Canvas. And then I have a follow-up contingent on the answer for that. But I was wondering, for Canvas, do we have a say in any changes in UI or functionality within the app? Or is that purely from the company itself? So adjustments to Canvas? Yeah. So Canvas is an off-the-shelf software program. Right. And the school district contracted with Canvas to make these enhancements. So I think any further adjustments would have to be coordinated with Canvas to their system. But we're welcome to hearing what kind of enhancements we need because there could be things that are very easy to make.
123Okay, so there's, I guess, two, like, again, like, pretty niche things I'm going to ask for, but for one is a lot of peers have, like, kind of talked about grade trends, like, just having a graph for grades to kind of visualize, kind of visualize, like, because I know school, we've had that, and then once we switched to Canvas, that was gone. So that's one of them, and then for the calendar, there's, I think there's a thing where You have to choose whichever classes you see on your calendar. But if you have too many, you have to pick and choose between which ones you can see. And I think that's kind of an issue when you have too many classes that you can't see all of them. So that's minor. OK. We'll take a look
124at those. Appreciate it. Thank you. Trustee Hennigshank? Yes. I just wanted to thank everyone. This is dazzling work. It really is incredible. Even painters. So thank you so much. I really, really appreciate this a lot. Thank you. Thank you. Then we're on to, I'm mindful of the clock here, on to item A3, excuse me, A4, District 2022-2023 District Goals. Superintendent? Well, we have time to do this and deadline. I don't know how long this is going to take. It takes 10 or 15 minutes. Trustees, do you want to go ahead with this and then go back to... Student advisor Chow's request to bring up 14 or? Okay, just for clarification, it's actually 15A14. Yes. Okay. I'm kind of leaving out the 15. I'm doing A4. So you were asking 14 and 16, right? Trustee, should
125we go for that now? Let's do this now. Hold that thought, Superintendent. We're going to move to item 814. And this is first reading board policy 9150, student advisor to the board. Trustee Jones, are you prepared to present this? Sure. So towards the end of last year, I'm going to say April and May, we have students from So Joseph Geis, who made some recommendations on changing something having to do with the student advisor, and he had some ideas. We talked about those. I actually contacted several of the largest districts in California, similar size to us. contacted their board members to find out what they did, got some ideas, talked to some staff members who had worked in other districts where there had been some sort of a student advisory committee and worked with Trustee Davis
126and also with our past student advisor. Can I? Patia and a student advisor from a couple of years ago, who I also spoke to, I talked to a lot of people about this and got ideas left and right. Now, some of it ended up being not really easy to implement. And we but we came up with something that the trustee Davis and I agreed with and. the superintendent and the staff. And this is what we are recommending, which is to limit this to the 12th graders, which our previous board policy didn't talk about. to change the term of service, which is August 1st to May 31st, because it's really not a full year. We can't expect students to be showing up before their school starts or staying afterwards, after it's over. We added some pieces
127of the law saying that the student board members isn't liable for anything. If we make mistakes, that's not the student board members' fault. And also that they are not considered part of the school board for the purposes of the Brown Act. Let's see. Oh, and that their vote is preferential. It is not counted for a quorum or in the final vote. Sorry, Alex. In addition, the policy in existence was there prior to the establishment of the district's ASB President's Council and prior to the establishment of most of the... principals advisory councils at our high schools. So we put that in the policy as well, that the board member would be a full member of the district ASV president's council and the advisory council at their high school. And that they can attend the advisory councils
128in other district high schools whenever they want to. It makes it a little difficult because those are generally held during the day, but they can try to do that, perhaps zoom in if they have a free period. And the most difficult thing is that we are asking our new student board member to give us a report once a month on what has happened in these various places in the ASB President's Council, in their own Principals Advisory Council, and there will be some other information that will be provided later about getting information from the Principals Advisory Councils at other schools, because that's a different group of people. ASB's Presidents Council is a very kind of rarefied group and I think that the Principals, Advisors, Councils, which in many cases are just anybody who wants to show
129up, are more just sort of the average student. So that is the gist of it, I think. And we have discussed it, Trustee Davis and I, and are presenting this today. Red and blue card zones. Trustee, Student Advisor Zhao, would you like to speak to this? Yeah, for sure. So I think going to a few trainings so far on student board as a student board member. A lot of them have already adopted similar resolutions, especially, you know, codifying the Brown Act into the position. And also, I think it's good to to like still apply in place that there needs to be a report and to be a part of the District ASB Students Council. I think that's really, really important to collect information. Is it great? Because yesterday's meeting was super productive. We had great
130conversations and, you know, maybe realize a lot of things that maybe we need to work on to get more feedback on. I'm not sure if Dr. Herb is still here. Yeah, so we've been working on student feedback initiatives and I've been talking to the principals. I think having at least some provision within this resolution that says, here's how you present that to the board. Here's how everyone can hear the opinion. If it's just kind of like a student board comment at the beginning, it might be sort of formal and it's not necessarily new to like the full extent after everything's been considered. So having that written in and saying that there needs to be a report, I can sit in on, or I guess I will be a member of the district ASB council. I
131think that's all super, super important. And again, like most of it is probably just, you know, for legality reasons, the Brown Acts. I don't like super serious implications if that's violated. But also, I know this would be changing the name of the position, which a lot of the other school districts have already implemented. So they just called the SBMs, which I think just rolled right off the top, which is fantastic. So that's all great. And then again, Dr. Irvis and I were working on student feedback initiatives. So that's going to be coming maybe put forth in a future board meeting, maybe October, November. So that's going to be showing some different channels of student feedback, which again, if it's super important for me to gauge where everyone's standing. So I think this is a really
132good provision and change to, it's from 1995, I believe. So much needed update. I think this will be really good. Thank you. Other trustee comments? You know, I think you're phenomenal, but I think I'm suggesting we change language too. I would recommend, but not require a monthly report from a student. I mean, you don't know what might come up on your plate. You guys have a full plate. I would never want a student to feel that they've failed. This is not a homework assignment. This is participation. And we work with our student as best that they can give us. So I think we should change the language from being too stringent. I think you mentioned earlier, it could be some average students that sit up here. So let's see if we can do that. I
133guess that was my concern, too, is that we've added quite a bit of a time commitment on this, too, to attend these meetings and to come up with a report that we haven't had in the past. I mean, not that we shouldn't provide a structure, but I agree with the recommend as opposed to shall. Um or something like this. Trustee Davis, did you have a comment? I don't want to say. Okay, Trustee Bolicus and I was going to say maybe it says something regular but not monthly because it's really hot. Yeah, shall shall is not infinite. I mean it's not definite. It's not that it must be report every month. I think shall is pretty typical of But I don't know. When we looked at this and in legal speak in these policies, the language
134probably throughout, and especially in this last paragraph, the change from shall, shall is a, you got to do definite may. So if we could just change those two last two shells to may, I think that would fix it. I think that's perfect. You know, I, I really, really feel like we, we need this report. This is. And I think Trustee Zhao will certainly be doing it. I believe that about him. We didn't warn him in the interviews, but I think that in coming years, they'll know that this is something that they will be required to do. If we don't have a student board member who is providing this information to us, where are we getting it? And I actually remember very well that when Genevieve Konentrofer was our student trustee, she didn't provide it every
135month, but she provided it pretty regularly. And I really appreciated that. I think it added a lot of value. And I just, I feel pretty strongly about this. I would like this to remain a shall. I think that and I'm, you know, we're not going to fail the person or whatever, but I feel like this needs to be an expectation. If not this year, this year, since we didn't warn our student trustee of it, but certainly next year, I think we should start doing this. Well, the other way we can approach it is instead of at each regular or at each meeting shall, we just say it's recommended that they report to us regularly. We're not saying how long the report should be. Correct. It's maybe some months there isn't going to be as much
136or they're still working on a hot topic and it's an update. So we're not defining, you know, how many were report or or even question, you know, like a form. It's going to be based on what the student advisor feels they want to present, I assume. And Trustee Chau seems very interested in providing this. That's what he has expressed at the last meeting. He is expressing it again tonight. So I certainly don't have any fear that this is going to be a problem for him. This won't prevent him from doing it. You can still do it. It's just we don't have to hire it. It just means you're setting the precedence for anyone after you. But I think that if we have it in the policy and we tell people who are interviewing the future,
137they will understand that it's something that is expected and they'll be prepared to do it. Again, it doesn't have to be expected. I like expect I think required. I'd say the student board member is expected to report. Shell is expected. Shell is my demand. I mean, both of them are. So are we going to take Shell out of the boat of the student board? Shall be preferential and shall not be counted? Just those are those are must be got every shell. Oh, just in the last just in the last report. Just in the last paragraph. I agree with Trustee Jones and would like to keep Schau. Trustee Hattershire? Yes. Knowing that at the end of the day, our students always do the best they can, especially when they sit up here. But schoolwork, being a
138student, athletics, they don't need this necessarily for their resume. They're already applying. So I would like to make a motion to change it to May. Second. Superintendent? I was just going to make a suggestion. If you left it as shall, you could put a line in there that students' academic and extracurricular work will always come first, right, or takes priority. And that then is clear if the student doesn't make the report. That is why. It's just another way to kind of make a compromise here. Okay. There is a motion and a second. Go ahead. Comment? Like, I know what I would want to do. I guess I would have to be mindful of students who come up to this position in future years. I think that a provision that says shall and then X comma
139unless something maybe could be good, like unless impeded by homework, schoolwork, extracurriculars, et cetera. The point is, I think regular communication is important. Maybe not necessarily. Maybe the report doesn't have to come at the meetings maybe. It could be if we establish some other sort of communication because I guess in my case it is a little harder if I would have to text each individual trustee and be like, here's the report. But if something is established wherein let's say there's like a group of Let's say there's some way to get the reports that all of the trustees and superintendent disseminate that information, maybe perhaps outside the board meeting. So just in case, I guess in that sense, we could be mindful of the student schedule in the future. So I'm not necessarily opposed to shell,
140but like I think putting in unless school work impedes or something like that, like a provision at the end and then saying. that there is also other structures or other channels that the student can't get this information besides from just the board meeting. Besides just at a regular board meeting. And it says maybe delivered orally or in regular. But it does say at the board meeting. Which gives it a definitive deadline, like your homework is due this day, whereas if we said within the month. I see Davis. I still would like to continue with shall. And I think that you, even if it's two or three sentences, you have something to report from the, from the council. So I think it might be beneficial for us. I know that it's beneficial for us to hear
141some thoughts from you, your position from the ASB president's council. It can be very short, very short. It doesn't need to be lengthy. What I wanted to address too, it's not, it's like bullets on a piece of paper that you report out. It's not like a report you have to do for your AP class. You know what I mean? I just want to simplify this, kind of lower the expectations about what it is. It's not a long anything. Justice Jones, do you have another comment? Oh, well, I was going to point out that it does already say the report could be deliberated for earlier in writing. And I guess you could say change it instead of at regular, each regular meeting, for each regular meeting. Then that would allow the student to send it a
142week later or something like that. if necessary. And they could simply say, you know, I'm not able to, you know, I had schoolwork. I'm not able to give you a report tonight, but you'll get it in the next week. And the ASB council may be meeting after our board meeting. Yeah. Superintendent, you're fine. Let's get rid of this motion that's sitting here. Okay. There's a motion to change Chow to May. Yeah. Trustee, motion. Motion by Trustee Hanachek, second by Trustee Castellanos. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed say no. No. That does not pass. It's 3-3. City Council Chambers and City Council Chambers Okay, so now can we take I would like to make another motion. City Council Chambers Okay, go ahead. City Council Chambers He table this to the next board meeting so
143we give us some five and bring it back, and so we can move on. City Council Chambers This is only a first read so it's looking for feedback, so we can bring it back. City Council Chambers When one further thought what if we got rid of the first five at each regular board meeting so instead delete all of that and say. the student board member may report on the work and everything else remain the same so that it's not saying it's definitively in the board meeting, but it would be in writing or orally. This is your and my project. How about if we just propose a last paragraph, an alternate last paragraph for the next meeting? Sounds good. We'll do that. Thank you. It sounds pretty much like you just said, though. Okay. All right,
144so this is just the first reading. I think we have direction that Trustee Davis and Trustee Jones will work on for our second meeting. Thank you. Let's go to item BNA 16. This is Board Policy 6145.6, International Exchange. Let's see, who is this? Dr. Johnson or Dr. Merwin? I'll kick it off and then share with Dr. Johnson. So thank you, President McNicholas, Trustees, Superintendent Patel, and Ruralty. Staff presents item 16, first reading board policy 6145.6, international exchange. Dr. Johnson's here to help answer any questions on this item. It's a first reading. Staff recommends approval. Do we have any blue cards on this? Yes, we have one blue card. Katie Anderson. Katie. Good evening, Superintendent, President McNicholas, and Board of Trustees. My name is Katie Anderson, and I am a lifelong member of the International Exchange
145student community. As an exchange student in high school and college and a host family for students on year-long programs from six different countries, AFS and Rotary International have had a profound impact on my life, which is why I am here speaking on this agenda item tonight. For those of you listening who may not be familiar with international exchange terminology, a J-1 visa is a public diplomacy visa issued to students age 15 to 18 for the primary purpose of creating global interactions and advancing global citizenship, and it's issued through government-approved programs like AFS and Rotary International. An F-1 visa is issued to non-immigrant foreign students who pay to study in the United States for their own educational benefit and for the purposes of this agenda item. It is the change in addition being. proposed. I believe
146the intention of the updated policy is to include both J-1 and F-1 visa students, yet the policy only cites governmental codes and does not distinguish between these two types of visas. For the purpose of clarity, especially for those people tasked with enrolling students at our high schools, and you have to deal with these two different types of exchange visas, I would like to recommend the following additions. In the paragraph starting before enrolling in an international exchange student in a district school, to the end of that paragraph, I would like to add accepting both F-1 and J-1 approved visas. Just again, to provide additional clarity to that. And I'm happy to, I have a minute and 25, so I can read that whole thing if you'd like. The second paragraph I would like to continue amending,
147and I'm just going to read the whole thing. The district shall not incur any financial obligation when educating international exchange students holding an F-1 visa. An international exchange student or the ISEPO on behalf of the student shall reimburse the district for the full unsubsidized per capita cost of providing education at a district school for the period of the visiting student's attendance. I would like to add tuition reimbursement only applies to F-1 visas. With this effort to create an overarching policy, we can't lose sight of the distinctions that make these two visa programs unique. I applaud our district for expanding international exchange opportunities that are truly life-changing for both students and families. Thank you. Thank you, Katie. Prestige, comments, questions? Student advisor Zhao. Did you have a comment on this? Yeah. So I've been talking to
148the Mandarin teacher at Cabo Serrano Valley High School, and I know it's sort of like almost a unique program to Cabo. And thank you for the clarification between the just like the specifications of the language and the policy. What I want to say on like more, I guess, broad student level is that I think this is a fantastic program for the school. This is something that a lot of times we see private schools doing. A lot of times we see schools where you have to pay $40,000, $50,000 to get into it. And those are kind of like the schools were spearheading this. I think if we are able to implement this within our schools, that'd be a fantastic policy, not only creating. global dialogue, global exchange, but also it's a great community, I think, that
149we're going to be creating through implementing this program. I think those are my comments on that. But yeah, I think, and Dr. Evers, I'm allowed to talk about the financials about this, but I'll kind of speak on that. So the intention, if we receive approval for this type of program, is that there would be no cost to the district because the student would be paying the tuition. So, yeah, so it's cost neutral or, as we said, cost positive in the long run. So I think it's a fantastic program for the district, not only just culturally and socially, but also, I guess, financially. So. Jesse Bullock is. I'm for this proposal in terms of for the students, but I just want to clarify based on some of the responses I received from the questions that I
150asked and further feedback from teacher Charlotte. Is it Komeen? And the MIP parents, because I have one as a neighbor and inquired. So the feedback basically is that it's really good just internationally for all different countries. But to think that it's going to help our MIP program at Capital Valley High School, it'll help the school in terms of additional enrollment. If those students are not in the MIP program, which they wouldn't be because they speak the language, it was kind of said that maybe they would be introduced on campus and clubs or something intermingling, giving our MIP students the opportunity to speak the language. But they said this comment was. The MIPS students, other than having people around to speak to Mandarin, they don't see really the incentive, and which, by the way, they don't
151voluntarily do. So we would need on the Capo campus to really kind of create ways to bring these students together so that our students could really get the benefit. Well, and they too, to get the benefit of learning English and all, but it doesn't necessarily organically happen. And so they just don't want the pretext to think this is really going to help the MIT program. Yes, but not in the way maybe that we first thought it was going to really expand it or something. I just wanted to add that. But I am for this. Trustee Hampshire? Yes, thank you. I think we're all very interested in this. It's very creative on Principal John Sussan's radar to do this. I would like us for a second reading to explore and consider the speaker's suggestions. I think
152she offered really succinct clarity that would very much help. So however you need to work on that, I really think our second reading should reflect her suggested changes. Jesse Davis. I'm also in a great support of it and I appreciate the differentiation on the J one and the F one as I did a little homework on that myself. We also have hosted ends of. maybe 15 exchange students over the course of our life. And it's been such an incredible experience. We had an exchange student that lived with us for a year and a number of students over different periods of time. And we had our youngest daughter did a semester abroad as a junior in high school, which is not that common to have. people from the United States go to other countries, but more
153to have international students come here. So that was a great experience for us as well. So I appreciate staff looking into both the J-1 and F-1 as well. Thank you. Jesse Jones. So we already have J-1 students, right? Am I correct on that? And this would just allow us to also accept F-1 students. Correct. That's the reason we're adding this additional language into the board policy is so we can start pursuing this other program because it's not an insignificant amount of work that Mr. McSustin is going to have to put in to be SEVIS approved. Probably a year-long process based on past experience in my prior district. And so, but to even move forward with that, we need to have this language in the board policy. Then obviously the AR would have to reflect the
154kind of more detailed process. So this doesn't affect our current, I don't know if there's policy that addresses J1, but it doesn't sound to me as though this affects J1 at all. It only opens the door to F1. Right. The intent is not to stop what we consider traditional international exchange. This would just be adding this other option. And I also want to clarify the fact that although the discussions with Mr. and Mrs. Suston about using this program to kind of add to the MIP program. It wasn't, the intent is not just for this. If we put this language into board policy, we can do it at all the high schools for a reason, just for any students from any country that want to choose to participate. That was just kind of a catalyst for
155us to do a pilot and then possibly scale up if it's successful. So I apologize if that was unclear in my initial memo. Yeah, I appreciate what the speaker said, but I guess I'm not clear that it's necessary because we're just creating a policy that will allow us to do one new thing. It's not taking away from anything that already exists. I was the president of American Field Service in my high school. I'm very familiar with this. I am still friends with our Swedish exchange student. He became a pediatrician. I'm fine with it. I just am not clear that it's necessary. I get J1. I just am not clear why we would need to call out both because we're only trying to do one new thing. And you're calling it a test pilot. So like,
156I mean, I don't know how long you test it. It's a lot of work for Mr. Sustin to go through. Can you speak to that, you know, just a little bit? Well, he was, because it is a lot of work, he expressed an interest in doing that. And so that's why we move forward with it. I'm guessing if it's successful there are other. principles would be interested in as well. And so we'll have a roadmap to go off of with Mr. McSustin and we'll already be in the system in process. But I, and I also to trustee Jones, I have no problem of running the language, the additional language by our legal counsel and, and see what they have to say about it. We've run it by them a couple of times already. So one
157more time, I don't think it'd be a problem. That's all I was going to say is let's just check and verify. so that it doesn't exclude anyone and that we don't take away a program that we intended to keep when we had another one so we can do that. And I guess that was my confusion too on everything in the board reports talks about F1. He says, and that they're going to be required to pay tuition, but according to the speaker. That doesn't apply to F1s. It only applies to J1s. So I'm confused. So let's make sure we get it legally and that we don't exclude any program that we already have. J-1s do not pay tuition, I don't believe. F-1s would. J-1s are the kinds of our AFS and Youth for Understanding and those
158programs, and they come in and do not pay tuition, but these F-1s would. Okay. All right. I think I get it. So we're going to verify it and bring it back for a second meeting. Yes. All right. Thank you. Thank you, trustees. Okay, we will go back to where we're at five. 1595 is that where we were court yes goals goals so this is a an action item every year around this time where i ask the board to take action on our district goals So this year, what we are recommending is our big goals under our wildly important goals is one, to continue deepening the work of our academic achievement plan, to develop a multi-tiered system of support plan for social emotional support with a focus on middle school, two, to establish standard operating procedures
159and systems for processes created and implemented. And HRS, so things like investigations, transfers, hirings, professional development on evaluations. Three, develop a school capacity analysis and timelines with communication goals based on the California Department of Education best practices. And lastly, four, educate the public about facilities and state funding for schools, including information about current POND efforts. At this point, I'm going to turn it over to my team. We're going to walk through what does that mean underneath each of these goals. Thank you, Superintendent. It's all cruelty. So we will start first with education support services with goal one. So, Corey, next slide, please. And as the superintendent has already summarized the four goals, we'll move on to goal one. Next slide, please. So for goal number one, we will continue to deepen the work of our
160academic achievement plan and develop a plan for social, emotional, and mental health support in our multi-tiered system of support. Next slide, please. So we start first with our favorite pyramid. The MTSS pyramid defines the three tiers of support in the areas of academic, behavior, and social-emotional. And note, again, the professional learning communities provide the foundation of the system. So goal number one is going to address all three areas. Next slide, please. And before we go more into depth, we present the vision of a CUSD graduate to connect this system of support to these desired student outcomes when a student graduates from CUSD. So it's kind of small on the slide, but the top right corner, these attributes are engaged citizen, continuous learner, innovative problem solver, inspired leader, and skilled communicator. So by empowering our students
161to develop these five attributes, that's the focus and the purpose of our work. Next slide, please. So again, strengthening our MTSS academic plan will be accomplished through both curriculum and instruction and leadership services. So staff will utilize mid-year and end-of-year student data with iReady, DIBELS, and grades and end-of-year state test scores to measure our success. To gauge the effectiveness of our leadership services for principals, staff will use mid-year and end-of-the-year principal surveys. The mid-year data will be shared with trustees in February, and end-of-year data will be presented in July. State test scores will be shared when they are available to the public. Next slide, please. So the next component of our MTSS plan is the development and implementation of a social-emotional learning and mental health plan. that provides support to all students with an immediate
162emphasis on middle school. So tonight we're just sharing an overview of the goal with trustees and then pending board approval, staff would return with a detailed plan for later this fall. And pending board approval, staff would work closely with our teachers, our administrators, and our associations. to define the strategies and identify the resources and services in all three tiers. So as this slide states, we are tentatively calling the SEL plan CUSD Cares. While the primary focus of the plan is supporting students, CUSD Cares also recognizes the importance of meeting the mental health and social emotional needs of staff and families. So, CUSD Cares is built upon three foundational concepts of connections, community, and celebration. By creating and strengthening connections, developing a sense of community, and celebrating all students, staff, and families, CUSD Cares will make
163a significant positive impact across our community. So, as it states here, CUSD Cares will include mental health services, resources, and training. For example, we are very excited to share that training provided by the Wellness Prevention Center for all middle school staff in youth mental health first aid will occur during the next two years with classified training beginning October the 3rd and continuing throughout the year and certificated training will occur the following year. So this training will empower staff to identify students who are struggling. to know how to connect with them, and finally, how to quickly provide them and their families with resources and appropriate services. And finally, the effectiveness of CUSD CARES will be defined by CHICS data and site data, such as attendance, suspension rates, and academic scores. Next slide, please. And so this
164is a draft graphic to help demonstrate the key components of CUSD CARES, connection, community, celebration. No, for students, for families, and staff. So pending board approval of the goal, we will return this fall with a detailed plan for trustee consideration. Next slide. But wait, there's more. Goal number one also addresses behavior support. So we continue to build on our multi-tiered system of support in the area of behavior. So with our team addressing behavioral needs of our students with a focus on building site capacity through training, resources, and services. Next slide. And finally, we bring this back to trustees. We present again the two-year academic goals that we first provided last September to trustees. And this will be one indicator for our effectiveness. So recognizing that there would be potential for learning loss, this was defined
165as a two-year goal. So using 2019 as our baseline data, as this chart shows. As we have previously shared in the accomplishments presentation, there is a slight decline in language arts and math, which is not entirely unexpected due to the pandemic. Yet some groups of students showed improvement. such as our English learners in both language arts and math. So we will continue to monitor progress through the use of our MTSS assessments and benchmark data, and we will inform the board, as I mentioned, regarding progress at the February and the July board meetings. So Ryan Burris will now continue with communications. In order to support education services this year, we will work to define MTSS for CUSD families. We know the district spends a lot of dollars in this area, and we really need families to
166understand the purpose of the investment and the student outcomes. So we will write and distribute 12 stories related to the program and components of the program and share with CUSD families, community, and stakeholders. Host three town hall events related to the program or components, including mental health, substance abuse, suicide prevention. Pitch compelling MTSS stories with student outcomes to members of the media and create MTSS infographics and fact sheets. Now I will turn it over to Bob Presby. Thank you, Ryan. And with any goal, you need people to do the work. So HRS is committed to support goal one in two ways. One, to hire fully qualified certificated staff and the classified staff required to support the MTSS program. And also a lot of the training, as I mentioned, in our accomplishments is done during the
167day. So we are continuing to build our substitute pool so that the training can continue. And with that, I will hand it over to Clark Hatton. Thank you. So business support services in support of goal number one. We will be implementing an automated tardy notification system in high school. And we will be doing a district-wide pilot for Mastery Connect, which provides a common formative assessment and grading protocol for elementary. We'll be implementing a KITE online professional development platform. This is an online platform to add classes for professional development for employees for both certificated and classified employees. We'll be implementing the ICANN Labs district-wide K-5. This is a partnership with College and Career Advantage to have all 36 elementary schools provided career pathway resources. And then there'll be a full network hardware upgrade at all elementary
168schools. And now next slide. It's goal number two, turning it over to Preston. Thank you, Clark. So for goal number two, our HR department is looking at standardizing our operating procedures and systems for everything we do in the HRS system. Next slide. So at first, we've identified over 20 systems and processes that we will increase in our department. This includes just revamping some of our current systems, formalizing them to make them standard operating procedures, and also some new programs that we plan to get into place this year. The ones that will be new for us that we're very excited about. are the employee onboarding and offboarding. And the purpose of that is for us to understand our new employees' experience as they went through the hiring process. And then for our employees who leave our
169districts, we really want to gather the data as to find out why they're leaving so that we can make changes here in our school district. Our second part for goal two is we've already started and will continue this year our new administrator training series. This is a very detailed monthly process to ensure that all of our new administrators receive the training that is both education code aligned, labor law aligned, and capital USD board policy aligned. This is the first year we're rolling this out. So at the end, we do plan to survey our participants to see if there needs to be a sophomore year. what we'd want in the second year or any changes we want to make in year one. And that is our goal for two. And I'd like to hand it over
170to Clark Hampton. Thank you, Bob. Next slide. Business and support services. Goal for this goal. Number two is to develop an electronic employee timesheet system for every employee in the district. Goal three, study school capacity trends and develop timelines with communications goals based on California Department of Education best practices. I'll turn it over to Greg Merlin. Next slide. Thank you, Clark. So for goal three, our department will work closely with business and support services and alongside our principals to provide the support needed related to the study. And I will hand it over, I believe, to Mark. Good evening. For goal three, we'll define the purpose of the analysis and the factors including funding and enrollment, communicate the why to CUSD families, community, and district stakeholders. We will create one video that articulates how the state
171provides funding for public education, presentations to the community, a webpage to share information, write and publish three stories on school capacity analysis or related components and distribute to our community, and finally hold public forums and relevant school sites to discuss the topics of school funding, district enrollment trends, and next steps in district planning. Now I will turn it over to Clark Hampton. Thank you, Business and Support Services, in support of goal number three. We will be evaluating school capacity and program needs using CDE guidance and best practices, and we will be bringing to the board later this year for public workings or findings after forming the District Advisory Committee and then developing an implementation timeline for implementing the findings. So next slide. So this goal for educate the public about facilities and state funding for
172schools, including information about our current bond efforts. I'll turn it over to Greg Merlin. Next slide. And thank you again, Clark. So for goal four, our department will once again work closely with business support services and alongside our principals to provide support related to facilities, state funding, and information related to bond where applicable. I'll turn it over to Ron. We will work to define the purpose of general obligation bond measures for public education and the why as it relates to state funding for public education facilities and CUSD specifically. We are currently creating a video that articulates how state funds public education facilities and how public school districts make up the shortfall. We will work on creating a presentation for parent, community, and employee meetings, schedule superintendent briefings, just as we have done in the past
173at school sites and with community partners. And then specifically develop Elisa Viejo and Dana Hills High School communications plans to educate the community on general obligation bonds. First, of course, is Elisa Viejo, and we have been working on that this school year, creating informational flyers, FAQ, and a website, as well as resources for school sites in that community. And then for Dana Hills High School, developing and implementing a communications plan in partnership with Principal Baker. Dana Hills High School PTA President, the Dauphin Foundation Leadership Team, creating informational flyers, resources, fact sheets, and a website to share information with Dana Point families and stakeholders, and participate in parent engagement educational events to share information about the Dana Hills High School facilities. And now I will turn it over to Clark Hampton. Thank you, business and support
174services. Specifically at facilities, we'll continue to seek state matching funds for 22-23. We turn over every rock possible to make sure we maximize the amount of state funding we can receive locally. We will continue our bond efforts in 22-23, specifically in Elisa Viejo. That will be on the... Now this November and then evaluating Dana Hills High School seismic bond for 2023 or later. We'll develop a plan for increasing deferred maintenance funding to address urgent needs for roofing, HVAC, asphalt repair, and playground equipment. Identify potential projects that can provide state matching funds. We identify projects with state matching funds we will receive in 2023. and present potential options for long-term facility capacity needs, as mentioned earlier, and establish a district advisory committee for evaluating school capacity, and then repurposing our current three surplus properties. Next slide.
175Fiscal services will be updating board policies for fiscal controls and processes, and continuing to update our fiscal transparency website. and providing information in an easy to understand format for our community and stakeholders. Next slide. So these are some additional initiatives. Next slide. The business services we'll be working on, they're somewhat outside the main goals discussed earlier. So food and nutrition services will create a marketing campaign to showcase its current use and needs of the kitchen facilities as part of an application for grant funds from the state. It's not a lot of money from the state, but we'll take what we can get. And we would like to increase our investment in kitchen infrastructure to accommodate a 33% increase in meal participation. And under TIS, we will continue the network upgrades at all elementary schools, which
176was mentioned in Go1. We will increase our technology infrastructure for all school main offices district-wide for power enhancements. And we will implement the California Career Advantage eSports Arena pilot. And in fiscal services, this will continue its move towards cashless ASBs. Next slide. That brings us to the conclusion of our polls for 2022-23. Thank you. Do we have any blue cards, speakers? Okay. Our first speaker is Katie Crockett. Following Katie Crockett, we have Jessica Geig. and she'll pull out some candles and be online afterwards. Katie, go ahead. Good evening again. So much wonderful things planned and the last item that discussed everything that happened last year was just so great. I just wanted to discuss for a minute the... The multi-tiered MTSS. I'm especially excited to have kids in this district with the CUSD CARES program.
177I couldn't be more happy to see a program like this that cares for the whole child and educates faculty on the importance of social emotional learning. My experience is that many of our wonderful teachers are already well attuned to the value of SEL. And I really appreciate the district taking action to really adopt this district wide so that all of our students can benefit from this. It not only helps our students academically, it also sets up our students for success in their careers and is active and contributing members of society. Thank you. Good evening, Superintendent Vitale-Bruelty, President McNicholas, and trustees. CUC PTSA Legislation Advocacy Team is excited to work alongside you for District Goal 4 by helping to educate our parents, community members, and the general public about the way in which California funds our
178public schools. We are dedicated to expanding our Raise the Base. Everybody knows our orange buttons have become famous now. An initiative that received statewide attention, by the way, if anyone didn't know, within the state budget. I'm sorry. And we made a little bit of progress in the state budget this year, just a little bit. We still have a lot of work to do. Last year, we were invited to hold information sessions on California school funding and the importance to all school districts. in the state of raising the base funding. A PTA council in San Ramon Valley, six CUSD school site PTA meetings at a CUEA council meeting, and we met with CSBA. We will... We will work to provide more PTA units with an informational meeting this year. We will work through our monthly ledge
179meetings and updating and will provide updates for our PTA presidents at our monthly council meetings. A large component of educating the public is also educating and advocating to our state. state electeds. We are committed to engaging them again this year, sharing personal stories and advocating for the needs of CUSD students. A quick shameless plug for our wonderful team. If you're interested in education policy and legislation, reach out to your PTA president and ask if they need a legislation advocacy rep for your school site. We need more parents that are passionate about advocacy to join our team. I know not everybody is good at fundraising or event planning or hospitality because that's where I was not good. So I found my voice in legislation advocacy rep through PTA. So please join us. I also wanted, as
180I close here, I wanted to say a really big thank you to Clark Hampton, CUSD CFO, for supplying us all the numbers during our Raise the Base efforts, our communications team who attends our monthly meetings. for district updates so we can be well informed and inform our units. And finally, our superintendent for all of her support in many ways and all of you on the board. So thank you very much. Our next speaker is Michelle Clossel-Campbell online. Good evening, Superintendent, District Administration, Board of Trustees. I look forward each year to hearing what the district has accomplished and what they are working on accomplishing this year. My one ask is that it is clearly articulated within these goals that Capistrano Unified School District prohibits discrimination, intimidation, harassment, including sexual harassment or bullying. based on a person's
181actual or perceived ancestry, color, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, immigration status, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation or association with a person or a group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics. Unfortunately, not all in our district feel seen, safe, or protected by our district's own non-discrimination statement. We need to work within our district to make sure it is a safe, welcoming, inclusive place for all of our students, staff, and amazing, caring, professional educators that we are lucky to call our teachers. Thank you for working to explicitly add this into your goals and for the work for the coming year. Thank you. Trustees, questions, comments? Trustee Hanachick. Thank you. Three things. Fabulous presentation. Okay, can you briefly explain the automated TARDIS notification system? That's the first one. Do we
182know what that is, what it looks like? If not, don't worry about it. We can bring it back. I just have questions about it. It's a custom package that we're writing, taking data out of Ares, and then we will be able to send out notifications, automated notifications to parents, or sorry, to school administrators, and then they can act on the TARDIS. Okay, so it's not like a real-time notification on my phone that my kid was just TARDIS to class, right? It's no more, it's culminating the data. Right. Okay. I believe the plan is to have it be a day of them. Okay. All right. Thank you. Okay. Next. It's a crime not to add San Clemente High School to the bond discussion and bond education. I can't let that go. So I know it's a
183lot to add, but we should be communicating to that area as much as we are and committed to for Aliso and Dana. So I won't let that go. I need to see that in the goals, however we can roll that out, because I think the school, we need to project and start speaking about what that school needs. I visited yesterday the pools down. We just can't let that ride. So I'm looking at 2024 for that area. They're doing some amazing work. So I'll let that go. I'll stop right now. I'm going to get a little emotional on that one. And then can we take some consideration to the last speaker's presentation of how we could weave into the goal that really this is a school district that is a safe space. There is no place
184for hate. My goal, of course, was to have every school be an ADL-trained school. But if there is a way that we can... convey that as part of the underlying or overarching of who we are and and what you can expect when you come to calvis john and unified school district i would greatly appreciate that thank you any other trusty comments no this is an action item you need to vote on it okay so uh trustee hanecek i'm not sure you're gonna get your Request to add San Clemente. I'm sorry. So help me out. Can we bring it back? The goals back so that we can see the additions? Can we bring it back with consent calendar for that? Because, I mean, how do I go back to my community and say, yes, we created
185goals for the year, outstanding goals, and you're not included. What I would do is just make an amendment to add setting money high right now. Thank you. To that, and then trustees would need to agree to that. I do think your other comment about safe spaces are tied to the SEL plan, and maybe, Dr. Morwin, you could talk a little bit about that. Yeah, I immediately thought about how that is. directly supported by connections, community, and celebration. So we can absolutely spell out the fact, inclusivity and safe spaces for all. We can have that very clearly articulated because it fits perfectly with the themes. Okay, thank you. So we house it in that area. Thank you. Trustee Bolkus? I'd like to move Agenda Item 15A4, District Goals for Approval. Second. Wait, are we? I'm sorry,
186Judy. Was it including the amendment to add San Clemente High School? I didn't hear that. So you did not say it. So there was a second to your, Judy, this as stands, the district goals without the superintendent's suggested amendment. Did you suggest an amendment? I thought you said. I said how you could add an amendment so you could. You would have to say, I want to add San Clemente High and then somebody would second it and then you'd vote on it. Okay. Yeah, I moved the motion because I know the team needs to start to work on this and I don't want to push it off to next month and delay this any. So, you know, she didn't include that. I didn't understand that you. So it does not include an amendment. I was ready
187to move on. I just think that any, I mean, I understand your issue, but I think it's a kind of a, it's a big project. And I don't think we as a board have decided to make that one of the priorities. We've already kind of gone down the path. Obviously, we're on the path with Aliso Viejo and we're on the path with Danny Hills. I just think we need to take a breath. I mean, these bond campaigns are a huge deal. Trustee Castellanos now knows that. Well, I knew that before, but I mean, in my understanding, I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, Trustee Hanachick, but it's just an idea of we're moving towards it, not necessarily that we're, because in my opinion, honestly, this is where we have to be going all the time.
188Clearly. So, I mean, our facilities are aging by the minute. Well, and our previous update on general facilities plans had it every two years. Yes. At, you know, elementary. So that was, that was like the last October's kind of long-term plan. This is really specific goals this year. Do I understand that? Yes. I think there are two things that are important in this. One is that one of the differences we saw in the last go-round is that we're seeing communities come forward and have this organic ground game. And I do think that's a difference maker in this work because it's always come from the district, from us, from me, from the board. And so I would want to see that same grounds well from community. We are going to educate the full community, all seven
189cities and the unincorporated area. But our focus this semester and into the year would be on those two communities, unless the board wanted us to focus in another one as well. But everyone would get the same education on facilities and funding. Trustee Jones? Oh, sorry. Ms. Yohannachick, do you have another question? I think, I guess in my view, it's a little tomatoes, tomatoes every year, especially our older facilities need to contain this discussion. And so I understand what you're saying. I'm a member of the community, so I'm bringing it forward. So however you want to put that motion, I would support an amendment amended. motion for these goals that does reflect some interest, some motion, some energy for the San Clemente community. As Krista will tell you, it takes forever to get this message out.
190You're always starting over again. We don't have the luxury there. There is also a building there that's on the same list, right? So I don't see how we can't address that and look and show the state that we are also interested along with our community. I think I don't know if there is a motion. There's a motion and a second without the amendment. Thank you. Well, I think there needed to be some clarification. So I would rather it be. Sorry. I would rather it. I mean, I would rather see it amended. So if I have to withdraw my second or however I want to do that, however I can do that, because I do think there always has to be a focus of bonds and community outreach around educating our communities on facility health. So
191you're withdrawing your second? Yes. I will second Trustee Bullekas' motion. So now we have a motion and a second, unamended. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed say no. Okay. Okay, so it passes 4 to 2. That's not to say we aren't still thinking about sanctimony in a long-term plan for facilities, but that's the specific goals now. Okay, thank you. We are on to item 15A5 has been pulled. 15A6, this is Dana Hills High School Bond Measure Timeline Update. Thank you, President McNicholas. Yeah, okay. So now we're creating a presentation. So next slide. So this is a follow-up to a previous board meeting, and it's an update on Daniels High School specifically. So at the June 15, 2002 board meeting, trustees elected to wait to place the bottom measure on the ballot for Daniels
192High School. And at the July 13th, board meeting trustees received a presentation with updates to the status and timeline for seismic mitigation program funds, as well as the possibility for local matching funds to be raised with the potential upcoming bond measure. So this presentation provides a timeline and update on where we are in the steps with regard to Daniels High School. Next slide. So first the status of the master facilities master plan on June 15th, the board received a presentation from the LPA architects on a new proposed 14 classroom building and then development of the facilities master plan. So they're in the process now of working with stakeholders on developing the plan, which you see a rendering on the left for this specific 14 classroom building. Utilizing matching funds so that's in progress now and
193then on the right, developing an overall campus master plan in preparation for any potential funding that can be generated from a pond. Next slide. So here's where we are. There was some printing issues with this particular slide. The one before you there is correct. We'll make sure that this one is reflected on the website. Some of the graphics were missing, but the words are there. So in the process of our seeking seismic mitigation funds, we finished phase one. We're now in phase two. We're evaluating the replacement option for Daniels High School versus rehabilitation. We have engineering reports and. Geotechnical reports submitted to the Division of State Architect and are awaiting a concurrence letter. We expect phase three to be skipped because we fully expect DSA to agree with our findings that replacement is more cost
194effective than rehabilitation. And then the next step would be to seek bond funds to support the development of a full architectural plan for replacement that could then be submitted along with the application for site and the hardship funding. Next slide. So now looking specifically at options for future bond measures. So at the time the board decided to wait on this November for Daniels High School, there was discussions for next year sometime in June. So these are the... the timeline for when the election dates for potential bond measures. So November 8th, we passed that point. So now there's other opportunities next year for bond elections, and those would all be two-thirds, require a two-thirds majority per passage. Prop 39 bonds have to occur during general elections on even years. So the next opportunity would be during
195the primary in the spring of 2024. So that's a big distinction between two thirds of requirements versus 55% for a Prop 39 bond. And so this timeline shows you those opportunities. Next slide. So then looking at the, so the board can elect to have an election at any time during the next year. So it could be in June, it could be March, and you could either time it with another regular election, it could come up. or have it stand alone. And the difference between those is they would both be a two-thirds election. A standalone would cost more money with the registrar to hold the election versus piggybacking on another election that may happen at the same time. Next slide. So then this is a differentiation between the 55% and two-thirds election. So really, this highlights
196the differences between just a regular election versus Prop 39 election and the requirements under Prop 39 to allow for a 55% passage. So you can see approval required. So you have a two-thirds requirement for 55% voter majority two-thirds is required for board approval, majority for two-thirds. Maximum levy is 60 per 100,000 for a Prop 39 bond, which is 55%, no maximum for a two-thirds voter approval requirement. Audits, there's no audit specifically required for a two-thirds. election for a Prop 39 bond, you would require independent financial performance audits. And then you would also require a Citizens Oversight Committee, which is not specifically required for two-thirds. And you would require a specific project, a list of specific school projects. For a Prop 39 bond, it's not required for two-thirds. And then the allowable expenditures are some differences,
197but for the most part, they require expenditures on capital facilities, real property. So for the most part, that's kind of gives you an idea of the differences between the two. And of course, the most, the biggest difference is the hurdle to get over to her passage. Two thirds required can have it anytime versus a prop 39, which is 55%, but it has to happen in 2024. So this is just a, it's an information item only. And it's, we're in the process now, it's still in the process of waiting for DSA. And we'll come back to the board at a later time to provide additional information. Do we have any blue cards on this? Good evening. Speaking as a proud parent of a Dana Hills dolphin, we need to do the work to rebuild Dana Hills
198High School into a 21st century school. For a school turning 50, it is showing its age, as we all seem to at the half century mark. However, I strongly recommend spending 2023 doing community outreach and education on how school facilities are funded in California and identifying the needs of the school, then placing the bond on the ballot in 2024 to give us time to convince the community to support our fantastic school. As they say at Dana, fins up. Thank you, Michelle. Our next speaker is in person, Katie Anderson. Good evening again, Superintendent and Board of Trustees. My name is Katie Anderson, and I'm the PTSA President at Dana Hills High School. But tonight I'm here speaking to you as a member of the Dana Point community. And I'm joined tonight by Jake Van Der Zanden,
199who is the President of our Dolphin Foundation. We held our first Dolphin Foundation meeting to present our vision for Dana Hills High School in early September. And thank you to Superintendent Vital Bruti and to Amy Hanachek, Trustee Amy Hanachek, for joining us and supporting our efforts. It was wonderful to see you there. Thank you. We are energized by all of the positive changes happening at our school. Just last week at Club Rush, you could see a massive outpouring of student engagement with more than 70 clubs, almost double the year before. many of which are partnering with local community organizations. This renewed energy in our student body is the perfect launching point for Dana Hills as we take the next steps towards piloting the California State Seal of Civic Engagement. I mention these things because they
200visibly demonstrate the momentum behind our students and our families to push forward towards a bright future for our school. Throughout the past few weeks, I've attended events where I've had the opportunity to meet members of our local government from both sides of the aisle. Each person I spoke with agreed that Dana Hills High School needs to be rebuilt. While the potential bond needs to pass through an election process, I feel very strongly that this issue needs to be depoliticized so that we can put our children, our teachers, and safe educational facilities in proper focus. With that in mind, I would like to propose that you consider the established election dates of November 7th, 2023, or March 5th, 2024 as possible options. These dates would give us the opportunity to properly educate our community about our
201vision and the bond process, as well as build a collaborative coalition of stakeholders who can provide bipartisan support and give us the best chance for success. Thank you. Thank you, Katie. Was it nice to start it? Yes. Okay. comments and questions from other trustees? Trustee Jones? I just have a quick question, and only theoretically. We received some information, I don't think it was in the presentation, but an email, and I think it indicated that the cost to just choose your basic election date, annual date, my birthday, your Beth's birthday, whatever, versus using one of these established election dates. the cost for the annual day is about three times the cost of the established election dates. Is that correct? Correct. Okay. And that's true whether it's in 23 or 24? If it's 24, you're more likely
202to be able to align it with an established election. If you have it on a standalone, it's about three times as expensive as if you have it. Okay, I guess what I'm getting to in 2023 on slide five, you have established election dates of March 23 and November of 23. Right, so if there's something on the ballot other than, like say, the school district decided to do something and no one else puts anything on, then we'd be by ourselves. Okay. But if it happens to have other items on the ballot, then it would reduce our costs. Okay. And we don't know that until... We don't know that at this time. Right. Okay. And to do that would require our decision would have to be, example, if March of 2023, we'd have to make that decision
203by December of this year. Right. Yeah. Okay. We need more time than that. I guess I'm leaning towards 55. I'm not sure we can get two thirds, but just throwing this out, the cost of the election, somebody told me it might be Gila. That said, an election is your best poll. Rather than doing another poll of what the community feels like after we spend a year trying to convince them, what if we spend a year trying to convince them and then we have an election that would give us. a bomb election in November of 2023 would give us a polling. I mean, what if we got 67%? Okay. What if we got 57%? Then we'd say, oh, okay, well, we need to keep going and do it for real the next year. Or if we
204got 12%, then we'd need to know, decide, well, it's either not worth it or we really got to work hard. can do it the next year. I'm just kind of throwing that out as an idea. Trustee Hanna-Chen. No, that's a really good idea. And that's the conundrum, right? Do we go for it and start this constant information that comes with putting a bond on the ballot? The challenge is when we talk about the cost, and I get, you know, we don't want an election. Certain elections are more expensive than others. But it's a huge cost not to address this, right? Gigantic cost every time we wait. So this is really, it's really tough. So, I mean, so I think we're thinking in December would be the drop dead for a March of 2023, correct? Okay,
205so I mean, by December, we will have information more from a neighboring community, we will see some different things. We'll have another chance to have half a year with the growing foundation, more meetings, the outreach that they just profiled in the goals. So starting, so we'll have a better maybe just even at the school site, we could look into just doing a school site polling. something like that, where we kind of get a little bit of a feel for things to see where we are at. I mean, definitely to me, obviously that they're for sure 2024. I mean, November. I mean, I start working back out from that date right now and making my timeline for how I'm going to pass a bond in for Dana Hills High School. They're doing more than ever that
206school is just doing amazing work. There's 2000 kids there. It deserves our attention and the community will get it. They just don't know. And that's again, back to the information piece. So I guess I'm kind of blathering on, but I think we come back in December. and maybe talk about it then, right? So actually have an item where we do a definitive. What are we looking at? Do we do March of 2023? Or do we go, okay, no, we're not going to take that gamble for a bond then. We're just going to go all out and do an information campaign and get ready for 2024. I think it's worth a conversation. I think, you know, if it's 150 grand to run a by yourself election, I'm not sure we're going to, I'm not sure there's
207going to be a collective will to spend that kind of money. But if it was, if there's other elections on the ballot and it costs us 35 to 50, well, I think our polling probably costs us close to that, around 30. 30 and 50. The list of an election? Polling. Oh, the polling? Yeah. So I'm thinking, anyway, that's what I'm looking at. Okay. So I think you're right. By December, we'll have results of how police those went and maybe wrap our heads around more community outreach and education. we're still rev up the Dolphin Foundation and the community still, keep the community excited. Jessie Jones? Yes, so it is I who said the best poll in the world is an election. However, the difference between an election and a poll is the election, people vote yes
208or no, and you don't know why. And a poll tells you something about the why. And that's important. And one of the reasons we do polling is to find out what the sensitivities are. But there's value in both. A poll election is better in that you actually find out what every single person. things, whereas a poll just does a selection, hopefully a good selection. I do have a couple more questions. So if for the, again, I'm sort of asking this in theory, but I do want to know for the 2023 dates, those are established election dates, but there's not necessarily an election then. So for example, November 7th, 2023, is not an election year. So there may not be any elections in this area on that date. So if we chose that date, that would
209mean that we would pay the higher cost for it. Okay. But you might get lucky if there's other... We might get lucky. That's right. I understand that. So what I'm thinking then is, it seems to me there's either two or three things that board has to vote on in order to put a bond in the ballot. And one is the bond language and... And I think there's one other, and then there's the actual calling the election. So could we not do, like any old day, the other, everything but calling the election, and then, for example, if we want to, again, just in theory, if we kind of wanted to do it November 7, 2023, or if we wanted to just do it for the sort of the purposes of polling, we could just... have it
210all ready to go and then if someone was like oh you know we're having a special election in uh because of city council member who resigned in data point or whatever we could then just put it on the ballot just do the the final piece which would be to call the election so the only thing i would want to do is check with bond council to determine what like public notices and things like that so there could be public notices required prior prior to showing up and putting it out about. Yeah, and I'm fine with that. I just, I feel like. But you can form the SFID and things like that if it's a card. Right, form the FSI, that's the other one. And I just, I just feel like we need to know all
211these options, all the pieces of the options because of things that might happen along the way. And, and that is to know all, all possibilities. If the most exciting three three step process, but I'll have one Council put that together. Okay. Okay. Just a couple of comments or observations, I guess I, I think when Dana was here last time, I think. you felt it in the room, right? There was a shift. There was a change. And that's exactly what you want to happen in your communities where you're like, okay, it just takes one and then it spreads. And so give yourself some time, right? Don't get your education out there. Start the movement and just be cautious. I think I do worry about a March. election just because you want to stack your odds as
212best as you can. And voter turnout is typically much lower in a March election. And you've got to get to 55% at the end of the day. So that November 2024 is when you're going to have high voter turnout or expected because it's going to be a... huge election time and people will be at the polls. So, you know, there's a lot to think about. And you have a lot of educating to do, but I felt the movement and I felt the moment. So I know it's coming for Dana. Thank you for the presentation. And we'd like to keep seeing this on a regular basis on things happen, especially after November. So thank you, trustees, for... for listening and thank you community members coming to support it um on to item 15 a7 is under
213one chromebook update this clark hampton thank you president mcnicholas trustees so this is a subsequent item to provide an update on where we are with the one-to-one chromebook program next slide so here's the basics of the program each student is issued a chromebook or either uses a Chromebook in their classroom or has issued a Chromebook. Pre-K students through first grade, the Chromebook stays in the classroom. They have a cart in their classroom where they're stored and charged. In pre-K through kindergarten, specifically receive devices that are touchscreen to help facilitate their interaction with the device. Second grade through 12th grade students are expected to take the Chromebooks home with them each day and return to school with them on school day and have them with them fully charged and ready to go. One clarification, first graders
214are issued, well pre-K and K students, their Chromebooks are used in the classroom. They're not issued the Chromebook. First graders, although the Chromebooks stay in the classroom, they're issued the Chromebook. And so it's their Chromebook in that class. Next slide. So now I'd like to go over some of the implementation challenges we experienced. So this was an accelerated implementation. The school district was planning to implement a one-to-one program over the next several years. So going back in time to 2020, several years later, we'd be implementing a one-to-one program. But we accelerated implementation to adapt to the virtual learning requirements in March of 2020 when the pandemic started and students were sent home. We began to issue Chromebooks to students. who needed them. Some students used their own devices as well to facilitate virtual learning. And
215then over the past year, deployed over 40,000 Chromebooks. And at the time we ordered Chromebooks, and then in some cases, delivery, we took six months to receive delivery because there was a supply chain backup and a shortage of chips. I'm sure you've all read about it in the news. And then there was also just the growing pains of the change. So students and parents adapting to a one-to-one device program. There's just simple things like remembering to charge it when you take the device home, remembering to take good care of the device that isn't very important, remember where the charge cord is, where you left the charging cord. It might be under the bed, something like that. Also, from the site standpoint, this pivoting to a one-to-one program was a big heavy lift for our sites
216as well. When the students came back to in-person learning, and then over the following year after 21-22, there was a significant adjustment to the one-to-one device program. And we were still kind of on the tail end of this accelerated implementation since Chromebooks were still coming in. And then another implementation challenge was addressing the Chromebook, troubleshooting Chromebooks at the sites and the logistics for repairs for Chromebooks to be sent back to TIS for repair. And then Chromebook inventory and tracking. So it was kind of a new thing, especially for elementary school sites, having instructional devices, instructional materials that are issued to every student. Next slide. So one of the questions is why not bring your own device? The short answer is when they, and why lots of school districts have implemented Chromebooks is that they can
217be managed by the school, on the school network, managed by the school district, and the filters are much better when it's on a device that's managed by the school district. If it's to bring your own device, it's on the guest network, and there's resources not as available to students on that network. Although students can use their device, they can log into Chrome. their Chrome at home if they wish to, to get a file and do things like that. But primarily, you would want students to use the Chromebooks that are issued to them. Next slide. So here's the device life cycle. Again, mentioning pre-K through kindergarten, it's a touchscreen device that they use in the classroom. First grade through fifth grade, they're issued a Chromebook, although the first graders use them in the classroom and leave
218them in the classroom. But they take that Chromebook with them when they go to second grade, third grade, fourth grade, fifth grade. And then sixth grade through eighth grade, they're issued a new Chromebook. And then ninth grade through 12th grade, they're issued combos to use for their high school career. And then at the end of that, return the combo to the school district. Chromebooks are expected to last between four to five years. That's kind of the life cycle of the Chromebook. We're kind of at the mercy of Google. They have helped by increasing the lifespan of the Chromebooks by providing software updates into the fifth year. So that's helped a lot with our refresh cycle. Next slide. So in the first year, we had insurance. We provided a third-party insurance for all students who were
219eligible for free and reduced-price meals. They received insurance from a third party for no charge, and parents could buy that third-party insurance for their call books. This year, we're transitioning to a self-coverage program, so it's parents who are not eligible for the free coverage would go into the same portal that they used to pay for school lunches and pay for the insurance that way. And that money would be used, along with what we budgeted for free and reduced price eligible students, to go towards repairs and replacements of grown folks as needed. Next slide. So, and also actually go back to the previous slide on this one. One of the advantages, so we're funded through LCFF and we receive more funding for students who are eligible for free and reduced price meals. And one of the
220challenges with the universal meal program is that many parents don't apply for the program because they're already receiving a free meal. So that as part of the application for. Homebook insurance online parents are direct are provided additional information for application for free reduced price meal and. We think that's another opportunity in addition to and when they're registered to start a school it's another opportunity for to sign up if they're eligible for free and reduced price meals which increases our supplemental funding. For school district in general, so now on to repairs. Spares and logistics. So each classroom teacher is assigned two Chromebooks that are to be used as spares in the classroom if a student comes to class with their Chromebook not charged. They'd be provided a spare Chromebook and then their Chromebook would be charged
221while they're using the spare Chromebook. Or if they forgot their Chromebook, they'd be issued a spare and then teachers would collect the spare back at the end of the class. If a device is broken, they're providing some troubleshooting steps. There's posters in classrooms. We're planning to put stickers on the Chromebooks that provide some. things that they need to do to troubleshoot the Chromebook. Many times it's something as simple as making sure it's powered up or it's charged or there's a reset process. It's very simple to do. Staff works with students so the students can become self-sufficient in learning how to use their Chromebook and troubleshoot. And if that doesn't work, then the student takes the device to the library, receives a replacement device assigned to them, and then the broken device is sent to TIS
222for repair. Next slide. So while we're working through the enhancements for the entire Chromebook program, we are adding 17 this year, 17 elementary library media technicians in order to provide additional support for Chromebooks. In TIS, we're adding six technology assistance specialists and one technology support specialist and a staff secretary. focused on managing the Chromebook logistics, repair logistics, and working with school sites to help them with inventory and things like that or any issues they have with issuing Chromebooks. Next slide. So we're in the process of fine-tuning, and we will continue to. We want to always continue to fine-tune any of our processes, and so we're continuing to work with our... labor partners and CSEA in fine-tuning the process. We're actually right now working with them on meeting with them regularly to fine-tune the program and
223enhance any processes that we need to work on. So next slide. If the trustees have any questions, we'd be happy to answer them. Do we have any blue cards on this, Dubai? Do we have any blue cards on this? No. Trustees? Trustee Hanna-Trey? Thank you. Okay, first, I do want to thank our classified staff and the various affected departments for their diligence on this. And I respect that you rolled it out so quickly. And that creating effective systems for such a large rollout was probably was extremely challenging. So on the last page, you're featuring, you know, ongoing feedback and refinement, obviously, is going to be critical. Because what's happened is the continued confusion. An onus that was placed on our school sites, specifically our library media text, has unfortunately caused some to leave that position.
224And the morale is really good. So this is good. So we're doing this. So I do have some questions. First, I need some clarification. So in the... in the board report, you know, so I think there's like an allusion to that. This is like a textbook. It doesn't say it exactly, but I believe out in the field or at the school sites, they're kind of like, oh, hey, just it's like a textbook. Well, as we all know, it's not. it's not a textbook at all and how it needs to be treated. So I think they're just going forward. We want to clarify that textbooks are textbooks and they have, you know, and this is a totally different device just for clarity. I mean, if you can't get confused, it is. And then on page six,
225the Chromebook device coverage, it seems pretty complicated. Some feedback I've gotten is, you know, we've kind of gone from a one-time fee. So now we've increased the fee and now we've added deductibles. So do we know how we compare to other districts how they're handling their devices? I believe in the amount for repairs is for someone who doesn't have insurance, right? Those deductibles? There's a whole deductible list on the policy, the coverage policy. Yeah, there's deductibles if you're what we call frequent flyers. So if you repeatedly break a device, then there will be a deductible applied. And then for the, we broke things down into, we tried to provide a lot of clarity in terms of costs for things like a broken screen, how much that costs or a broken keyboard, those kinds of things.
226Okay. Okay, so and then we don't know what how we compare to other districts how they assess or do we know that? No, we did actually talk to a lot of other districts in doing this. The self insurance coverage was an effort to kind of simplify things from last year. Using a third party for insurance was pretty much universally loathed by everybody. Contacting the company was difficult. Just the feedback we got was like, let's never do this again. So did talk to other districts and we kind of patterned ours against along the lines of Irvine Unified. And they went through a similar thing. They used the third party for one year, got rid of them and then set up a self-insurance. So pretty similar. And then it looks like it said on the thing, the
227deadline was 920, which is what yesterday. And so we emailed and communicated to families. Did they get coverage information? Yes, and actually I will say another email went out that we extended the deadline another 10 days because there were still some questions from parents that were unanswered. Because it's new. So I have a couple more questions, but I'm happy to yield the floor for a minute and then come back. Trustee Ball, Chris? You can explain this to me, but I need further clarification, Clark. So we're adding 17 elementary library media technicians. That's different than the elementary school librarian, correct? Or are they all now librarian technicians? They are already existing, but they're library media techs. Okay, so we have 36 elementary schools, and we are adding 17 media technicians. So you said that there will
228be the larger schools will have a technician five days a week? Some will have four days a week and the smaller will have three days a week. Correct. And so that's the minimum is three times the support up to five times the support that they had from the board. Plus there's going to be that central support in TIS with the staff secretary, TSS2 and six TASs that are working on those. Okay, is the backup. So, but we're basically addressing that the workload. was exponentially significant. Is there anything that we're looking at in their responsibility that we're taking away by adding? having this responsibility theirs? Well, we're actually right now meeting with CSA on a regular basis discussing job descriptions and things like that. Okay, that's the ongoing feedback part. Well, actually, it's a result of
229the demand of our activities provided to the school district for CSA. Okay, and then for schools like Las Flores, Arroyo, Hankey, where it's K-8 or combined? Are those the schools that for sure will have the five or how are we addressing middle school library and elementary school library? So it's based on an enrollment for as far as the five days, four days and three days. It's based on enrollment tiers. Or elementary school. For the site. For the site. So what do we, so a lot of this is about elementary school. What's going on with the middle school? Because they also. talked about their workflow. So that's part of the work that we're doing with CSEA. Okay, is addressing that. Is addressing that. So this is the immediate and we're going to still learn. Right, right.
230Okay, thank you. Thank you. Well, Judy asked one of my questions and you just about secondary. Yeah, this is a lot about elementary. So what are we doing now? So I don't need to ask that. So I'm just going to skip. This is kind of micro stuff. On your page nine. or whatever, where it says, if a device is broken, student is instructed to try basic troubleshooting. So who does the instructing? Later on in your presentation, you said staff. works with the student. So the challenge we need to recognize that teachers don't have time to work with a student. So I said, so it comes to this troubleshooting and I hope we will get rid of the poster that's in the room because that's not helpful. And I think it's become a level of derision
231for the students. And if you can't log in and you're to the internet. How can you troubleshoot? So there's just some, those are your refinement pieces, you know, to help the student keep, you know, keep learning. And then will there be like a curriculum throughout the grade levels for Chromebook troubleshooting, like to finally break this down? Or is that part of your discussion still? That's part of the discussions. Okay. Okay, so I think that's Judy's question, go to the insurance. Let's see, I think, and then you've already kind of looked at Irvine. That was another people were wondering. We were kind of not on the forefront necessarily of the one-to-one program. So we were keeping up with what other school districts are doing. Okay, I think that's about it for now, but we'll be getting
232like updates as you go along, correct? Yes. Okay. Thank you. Trustee Sanger, I need a motion to extend. How long? Second. How long? Oh, I move to extend until 1130. 1130? I move to extend until 1130. Some are short. Some are short. Okay, so 1130? No. Okay. Motion to extend to midnight. I need a second. Second. Okay. Motion by Trustee Davis, second by Trustee Bullock. Is all in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed say no. Passes 6-0. I have a comment. Well, two comments. One is that. roughly 25 people were hiring to do this. Is this kind of ongoing money or temporary money or is this until we get through over a hill? This is the initial. investment so that we can have so that there's support. And then as we work with CSEA and
233all the departments and the end division as well, there'll be some fine tuning. So there'll be adjustments in this over time. Okay. So this is something we expect to be on an ongoing, as long as we're in the Chromebook business, we're going to have to do this. Okay. All right. The other comment that I wanted to make, and this is on your page three about the enhancement challenges that we went through. One of the things that wasn't mentioned there, and I really want to have a shout out is to the teachers that had to adapt to this too. I mean, site units, sites had to adapt to it. TIS had to adapt to it. All the supply chain things and troubleshooting and whatever. Teachers were in the forefront of this. So I want to shout
234out to the teachers who had to deal with that too. Thank you. Any other comments from trustees? Okay. Okay, thank you for the update and we'll probably hear more later. I also appreciate the work of teachers on this and it is important that teachers are trained because they are right there handling it. So I appreciate that we are training our teachers so that they can help navigate because they have to. So thank you. Okay. On to 15A8, second reading board policy 5141.21, administering medication and monitoring health conditions. Dr. Merwin. Thank you, President McNicholas, trustees, superintendent Patel, staff presents item eight, second read of board policy 5141.21, administering medication and monitoring health conditions. So we turn the policy tonight. After following up with the request of revisions at the August 17, 2022 board meeting, I'm joined
235by Executive Director Mike Beekman and Dr. Johnson to help answer questions. It's the second reading. The staff recommends approval. Do we have any move cards on this? Yes? Okay. The first speaker is Jessica Geier, and then online, Michelle Plossel-Kemp. Superintendent, trustees, this policy change is an important step and could be the difference between life or death for a student that has taken something laced with fentanyl. Narcan, if administered quickly, reverses the effect of an opioid. And as you know, in Orange County, fentanyl poisoning is now the number one cause of death of children 17 years and younger. The drugs are laced. The drugs that it is in, sorry, it's getting really late, isn't it? Are cheap and can be purchased through social media platforms. The young person thinks they are taking one thing, but have
236no idea the amount of fentanyl that is within that one pill or that one hit. Sometimes it's a lethal amount. For parents wanting more information on fentanyl poisoning and the dangers of fentanyl, I know Dana Hills will be hosting a parent ed night October 3rd, 630 to 8 p.m. at the Dana Point Community Center and San Juan Hills High School will be hosting one as well on Thursday, October 27th at 7 p.m. in the San Juan Hills Library. And we will be offering an online option as well. So please check our Instagram for more information. Amy Neville from the Alexander Neville Foundation, who lost her son at 14 from fentanyl poisoning, will share her story and info on how to talk to your kids about fentanyl poisoning. There is no opportunity for drug experimentation anymore
237with this harmful substance that is in most drugs now. So thank you for considering this policy. It will save lives. Michelle. Good evening, Superintendent and Board of Trustees. Thank you for updating Board Policy 5141.21, Administering Medication and Monitoring Health Conditions. It is vital that our secondary schools are trained and equipped to administer naloxone, which is a brand name that I hadn't heard before tonight, to help reverse the negative impacts of fentanyl poisoning. Most who are dying did not know they were taking fentanyl. They were poisoned. I appreciate the leadership our district is showing on this. On October 3rd, in conjunction with the Family Resource Center, Alexander Neville Foundation, and Mike Darnold, the insightful and informative presentation, We Need to Talk, is happening at the Dana Point Community Center from 6.30 to 8 p.m. on October
2383rd. Please RSVP to Sonia Moser at S-O-M-O-S-E-R at capousd.org to reserve your spot. This presentation helps start the conversation that will hopefully decrease the sky-high rate of fentanyl poisonings in our communities. Thank you again for this policy and for this upcoming presentation. You can find the flyer for the presentation at the Nigel Hills PTSA Facebook page. And thank you to Sonia Moser of our Family Resource Center for helping organize the presentation on October 3rd. Thank you. Justice, Justice Polakas. There were those of us who received an email from a parent today, and it's just astonishing that there are brightly colored fentanyl pills. Looks like candy. So when we say kids don't even know what they're taking. It goes back to the marketing. And it is just disgusting that this is what the situation is. So
239some of us, and I think Superintendent Patel, you received that article. I just bring that to your attention. That's what we're up against. And my comments to people I've talked to about it, it's like, we've never had an overdose, an opiate or a overdose on our campuses. But we've had them very close and we have lost kids to this. And I know our SROs always have naloxone or Narcan on them. But this is going to help on the campus, you know, in the nurse's office or wherever we're going to do it. And I do think it needs to go down to the elementary school schools eventually, I'm sorry to say. And I think the recent poisoning situations at Ernst New High School. even bring this up even more important. So I'll entertain a motion. So
240moved. Second. Moved by Trustee Castellanos, second by Trustee Bullock. Does all in favor say aye? Aye. All opposed say no. Passes 5-0. One with Trustee Hanachick out of the room for a moment. Oh, is she gone? Yeah. Okay. St. John's? I just wanted to really quickly mention that I suggest that everyone who has the Hulu subscription service watch a series called Dope Sick. which is about the development of, well, how the oxycodone epidemic in America started. It was actually started by one of the drug companies, almost completely intentionally. It's a horrifying, horrifying program, but very well done. I really think everyone should watch it. Thank you. On to 15A9, second reading board policy, 51-42.2, safe routes to school. program. Dr. Merwin. Thank you, President McNicholas, trustees, superintendents on rule two. Staff presents item nine, second
241reading board policy 5142.2, safe routes to school program. So we return this policy tonight after staff followed up with the requested suggestions at the August 17, 2022 board meeting by trustees. I am joined by Executive Director Mike Beekman and Dr. Johnson to help answer questions. We do have additional feedback we have received from trustees and board. Happy to entertain additional edits tonight. If that is the pleasure of the board. And this is the second reading. And then we would like to recommend approval after discussion. Thank you. Do we have any more parts on this? We have one. Michelle Fossil-Campbell. Good evening, Superintendent, Board of Trustees. This is my last comment from the night, but I will still be on taking notes on all of your riveting discussions from this point on. Thank you for your
242leadership in this policy on e-bike safety. It is essential for our schools and our communities. Our PTAs appreciate partnering with the district on this program and providing parent and student informational sessions on this topic. The Miguel Hills PTSA in conjunction with the Dana Hills PTSA. hosted an education event last week. We partnered with our PTAs, our schools, and our cities to educate and inform. We introduced that the board is doing this work, and we look forward to continuing to partner with the district to keep our students, schools, and communities safe. We really appreciate this work. It will help save student lives, and that is what matters. Thank you. Thank you, Michelle. Trustees, questions, comments? It sounds like at least You had some input that there might be some edits or amendments? Yes, and I'd be
243happy to read the suggested edits into the record if you'd like to all hear it. I can go ahead and read it out. How would you like to proceed? Well, I was hoping that whichever trustee proposed them would bring them. It was I, and I don't think I have them handy, although Dr. Merwin does. However, I have some issues with even the last sentence in any event, but go ahead if you would, Dr. Marlowe. Thank you. So this is for the last paragraph that was added as directed by trustees in the previous meeting so that it would address specifically the e-bike. So it's that last section. This is the suggested wording. Electric, so this is the suggestion. Electric or motorized bicycles are a growing presence on district campuses. Although they provide effective transportation for some
244families, improper e-bike use can be hazardous to riders and others. Each school site shall establish regulations for safe e-bike operation. as defined in Administrative Regulation 5142.2, Safe Routes to School, which addresses e-bike storage, security, permits, education, placards, safety, and enforcement. School sites shall also work with local law enforcement to identify appropriate e-bike routes and shall share recommended route information with students who ride their authorized e-bikes to school. Christy Jones, would you like to speak to your audience? I found the original text to be confusing, and that was why I rewrote it. But it doesn't change the meaning. It was, well, I mean, sometimes the meaning was a little hard to discern from what was there before. But in any event, I am concerned, as I mentioned to Dr. Merwin myself earlier, a little bit about
245the last statement that school... sites shall work with law enforcement to identify appropriate routes to school. I don't really think that's the school's job to identify appropriate routes to school. But if they have been told appropriate routes to school, I think they should share that information with students and I suppose families. But I just don't think that that's our principal's responsibility or anybody else at the school. I think that's a law enforcement responsibility. I actually think we should remove the last sentence and end on safety and enforcement. I agree that I don't think that that needs to. I just don't know if we get that from law enforcement. Maybe Mr. Reitman knows. Do you know? We've discussed it with law enforcement that there would be a collaboration between the schools and law enforcement that they
246would just. identify safer routes to school, kids aren't riding on routes that would be too narrow for an e-bike to be riding on or unsafe in general. The enforcement would need to be through law enforcement because obviously we have no jurisdiction off campus. But again, I think my concern and Tracy Davis agrees that is that is this really for our principles to determine whether something is safe or not. I mean, they are not, you know, traffic people. They don't have expertise in that. I mean, someone might be great at it, but I'm surprised you didn't word this the other way around. You're the wordsmithing person that said, perhaps, read is fine, it's not the lesson. Well, if you want to include something like that, but not with the onus on principal or the site, you
247say that appropriate routes to school identified by law enforcement should be shared with the site and parents. I'm fine with that. Something like that. So if they identify something that says, don't cut the corner at Belle Avion. Okay. And they share that with the... I don't have the exact wording there. appropriate routes to school identified by law enforcement shall be shared with sites and students. Something like that. Yeah, appropriate routes to school as identified by law enforcement shall be shared with students. I'd say sites and students. approved EBIKE's awareness. I forget what the last part was. I just don't have it anymore. I see both of us. I agree with this conversation in terms of taking the onus off the principals. And I don't know that this stemmed from it. I just happen to know
248when we had that meeting, Mission Viejo is taking a very active approach. The Chris McDonald, who is now our chief of the sheriff's department. So this might be kind of an outreach of them coming to us and wanting to do, and they have, wanting to do collaboration. They're doing collaboration with New Park and all. But yeah, we need to take the onus off of the principal doing that. But I'm glad the city wants, you know, they want to help in this. We could have a principal who is blind and has never driven and it's not able to talk about safe routes. So I just don't think it should be. I still think we can take up the last sentence and the rest of it reads very appropriate to what our goal is. I do think
249if state groups are identified, can't we share that information? It doesn't hurt to share that information. So then I would not want to leave it in there. Well, except I don't think we can speak on law enforcement that they were not. We have, I think we have shall in there. Well, again, what we're saying is appropriate, appropriate words for school as identified by law enforcement would be shared, shall be shared. I would say, yeah, so if they haven't done it, It's fine to leave it in, but I think it reads fine to leave it out. Well, I think the idea was the communication part. I think that's why it's in there. And I think Mike has already identified that there's intended collaboration. I know this is still in development. The presentation at Danny Gulls really
250pointed out that Laguna Niguel has different... regulations than Dana Point does. As far as on-site, Laguna Miguel has an on-sidewalk speed limit and Dana Point does not. And these are cited if they're on the street and these aren't. So it's still being worked out. But I'm really glad that all of our cities seem to be very, very, very concerned about it. My question, and it doesn't really relate to passage of this, but it's just the concern, which I've asked about what the AR looks like, because the way this reads, it sounds like each school is allowed to make up their own AR. And it really, I don't think that's the intention. I think we want to have one policy for everybody, right? There's an AR number here. I know, but we have never seen it.
251I know we've never seen it. But my understanding, and I may be making this up, my understanding is that once we pass this, then the AR will go out to schools for use. Right. But I also understand that there are several schools that already have a policy in place that they're implementing. And everybody takes credit for being the first. Yeah. Miguel Hill says they were the first in. Mr. Omar says they were the first and Lederer Ranch says no, they were the first. So it's out there and people are doing something. Well, that doesn't matter. They've got to go by our AR, whether they like it or not. And they may be doing something different that now they're going to have to pivot and do the way we want it. Right. Or what they're doing
252is what we want. Sorry, I'm getting such what we talked about. working with people this year and grandfathering some practices in because it's too far into the year to do, you know, some of the apple cart. So we would work with individual sites. So that's what it says. Each site shall establish procedures in accordance with AR 5142. So as long as... What kind of consistent, I realize there may be some specific things based on the layout of the campus and where they're allowed to park and that sort of thing. So is that what that's kind of intended to do, Mike? That's the intent. Every campus is different. They have different storage capacities. So when they're assigning placards, one school might have more placards assigned than another school when it comes to storage. They have to
253evaluate their own campus because every campus is different. So the AR is a general umbrella that identifies that they need procedures for security permits, education, placards, safety, storage, and so forth. But the sites really need to do what's site-specific for that particular school. And along with what you were saying is there's different laws for different cities, so they all work hand-in-hand with. whatever resources are available through the Sheriff's Department. Thank you. Christy Jones, do you have another comment? I would really like to pass this tonight on first reading because I'd like to get this going with the schools. This is actually second reading. This is second reading? Oh, okay. Then we're definitely going to pass it. Would you like to make a motion to pass it second reading with the amendment that you proposed? Yes,
254I will make that motion. Okay, moved by Trustee Jones, seconded by Trustee Castellanos to pass this with the, I think we got the warning of the... We have it, yeah. Okay, all right. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed say no. Motion passes 5-0-1. So that's the reading that you read out, plus the information on the law enforcement. Yes, so the last line reads, appropriate routes to schools at school as identified by law enforcement shall be shared with sites and students. That will be the final sentence. Perfect, thank you. Okay, we are on to 15A10, first reading board policy 3314.2, revolving funds. This is Mr. Hampton. Thank you, President McNicholas. So this is a policy that was last updated in 2000. So in business services, we're reviewing all the policies and this brings it
255up to date with the latest CSBA language and references to EDCO. We have any blue cards on this? Okay, trustees, comments, questions? Entertain a motion? So moved. This is the first reading. Okay. motion to waive the second reading. Well, we can pass it with floor. We can't if we waive the second reading. We can waive the second reading, but then we have to wait for them to come back to vote. We'll just put it on consent next time. Or just put it on consent? Yeah. Okay, well, let's do that then. Let's just pass it tonight and put it on consent. So, we'll reword that motion. Is that? We just passed the first reading, approved, and come back for... No, then you still have to come back for the second reading unless we waive the second
256reading. And we don't have everybody here to waive the second reading. I guess you just give direction to bring it back, second reading on consent. No, we haven't. I haven't had a motion to second it. Oh, I moved it. Oh, okay. Motion by Jones, second by... Second. And by Castellanos. All in favor say aye. Aye. Motion passes 4-0-2. Okay. Item 15A-11. First reading board policy on management of district assets and accounts. I believe this is Mr. Hampton. Thank you. This is similar to the last policy. This one was last updated in 1996. So it just brings it up to date with the latest language and code references. Thank you. Any food cards? Trustees, comments, questions? Entertainer motion? Second. Moved by Trustee Castellanos, second by Trustee Jones. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed say
257no. Motion passes 4-0-2. Bring it back in seven seconds. Item 15A-12. First reading board policy 3530 risk management insurance. Mr. Hampton. Thank you. This is also a policy that was last updated in 1996. And again, it's simply an update that brings it in line with CSBA language and current ed code. Any blue cards? Trustee comments or questions? I will move the item. Second. By Trustee Jones. Second by Trustee Bullock. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed say no. Motion passes 5-0-1. We'll come back on consent. Item 15A-13. First reading board policy 6-0-2-0. Parental slash guardian involvement. Dr. Merwin. Thank you, President Nicholas. Trustees, Superintendent Tom Rualte, staff presents item 13, first reading board policy 6020, parent guardian involvement. As was previously mentioned earlier in the meeting, this policy has been revised, including the name
258of the policy itself to reinsert guardian. Based on trustee feedback, copies are available in the back of the room and online. Dr. Johnson is here to help answer any questions. First reading, staff recommends approved. Any blue cards on this? Okay, trustees, comments or questions? Trustee Davis? In the first paragraph, I'd like to keep in the line, the positive link between student achievement and the support of parents of the teaching and learning process is indisputable. Is there a reason why that was pulled? I think it may have been bold just to align with CSBA language, but we can definitely revisit that. Any other comments or questions? Do you want to move approval with that, with reinstating that line? Yes, with that addition. I'll second. Move by Trustee Davis, second by Trustee Jones. All in favor say
259aye. Aye. All opposed say no. Motion passes 5-0-1. Now this would come back on. I think we've already dispensed with item 14. So we'll go to item 15A-15, board policy 5-111.1, district residency. Okay. Here we go again. Thank you, President McNicholas, Trustees, Superintendent, and Solve Ruralty. Staff presents item 15, first reading, Board Clause 511.1.1, District Residency. Dr. Johnson is joining me again to help answer any questions. This is the first reading and staff reference. No blue cards on this one? No. Trustees' comments, questions, Trustee Jones? Oh, I'm sorry. I'll move approval. I didn't know my light was on. I have a question. I don't see any red lines or changes. There should have been. It was a minor change, but it should be. Sorry. It's been a while since I looked at it. I saw
260the note that says, you know, additions are underlined and these relations are structured, but I don't see any. Yeah, that's okay. So there's, yeah, it's not in a different color for whatever reason, but six enrollment not requiring district residency. Then on page five, whatever reason, there's a change there. I had to figure out what that was. Sorry. You can see it where you can just see the little line off to the left. Yes. Where, yeah, it says 10 days of school receipt on page five. I see that as noting a change, but it's not. I write it. Yeah. Or I guess the other ones we've seen have been underlined and in color if they were additions and struck through if they were deletions enough. So I don't see either there. Correct. I apologize for that.
261Can you explain what it was? I'm looking at my original document to see if I can see that. And I guess that last line. Okay. You have to turn the page to see the rest of the sentence. So it was, it looks like I just spelled out 10 as opposed to the number 10. Oh, okay. That one changes. Okay. And then the other, the whole number six, enrollment not requiring district residency, that is all new. Which one? Number six on page six. enrollment not requiring district residency that paragraph is new. So that is all added. Okay. So I apologize. I guess I just changed as a stylistic change from the number 10 to written out 10. And I'll have to admit the bottom of page five is where it says students determined to have enrolled
262in a school by falsifying residency records shall be students. Then you have to turn the page and immediately transfer to their original school of residence. I think that the students. It's the header, correct? Yeah, that's not part of that sentence. So the students after Shelby should be deleted? Yeah, that should actually be in the header of the next page, you're correct. Okay, all right, got it. I'm trying to understand why board policy 51111.1, the 15815, that first page is the exact same. as this one for the international exchange. The only difference is that the board policy number is different. So why do we need two different board policies when it states the exact wording word for word? Of the board report. So these had come together. They were both related to the international exchange. But
263in order for us to move forward with that other process, we had to change or add the definition of residency because that's the only way you can charge the tuition is to define what residency is. So these were companion board policies. We had to make changes in both of these policies in order to move forward with the non-immigrant student program we talked about earlier this evening. Well, I kind of got that idea, but the whole page says the same exact thing. So where is the differentiation? We're just talking about the board report, right? The summary. The reports are very similar because they're the same goal, which was changing these two board policies in order for us to offer the program. So we added language in this board policy as well as language in the board
264policy we discussed earlier. Yeah, but so the very first page, first reading board policy, the summary, and then the following page in terms of history, the only difference again is the direct district residency state September. 2018, whereas the international exchange is February 1999. But then the following paragraphs, the current consideration, the reference to Capo Valley, it's all the same. So it's just the title. We aren't voting on the board report. We're voting on the policy. The board report is kind of just, it's a summary. It's maybe kind of sort of a teaching. I guess what was the differentiation? I think it's what, what, Dr. Johnson just said is that they're companion policies and this one had to be updated in order for the other one to pass. So I guess it would have been helpful
265to say that in the board report that there's minor changes to this one, but it's tied to the second one. Okay, got that, but there is no change other than that changing 10 to- Well, and adding six at the last paragraph. Okay, six. Or graph six on page six. So Dr. Johnson, is that what is required? The enrollment not requiring district residency? Is that that must change in order? That came from the CSBA language in order for us to be able to offer this program. So I'm just looking to see if that says, do our policies, do they have to align with CSBA policy in order to move forward with that? CSBA provides... That seems to come up pretty often. So CSBA offers guidance to make sure there were alignment with state and federal policy.
266In this case, I also ran it by our attorneys twice as well to make sure, and which I'll run again with the new language that was suggested earlier. But... It's good practice to align with CSB because they've done their vetting. We also realize that things can be tweaked specific to a district. But this language here was, like I said, approved by AALRR that this was language that should be included if we're going to offer this new program in addition to the traditional international exchange with the F-1 visa. And I guess the general answer is no, we don't have to, but CSBA keeps up to date probably more consistently than we do. Right. No, my main question is, do we have to add number six? Yes. Sorry, I thought your question was about the one CSBA.
267It sounds like it's more our legal counsel said we needed to add that. And it happens to be the same as what CSBA suggests. So it's a good thing to do. Okay. Okay. So I think, do we have all of our questions clarified? Can we vote on this? I'll entertain a motion to approve. Second. Moved by Trustee Castellanos, seconded by Trustee Bull. If it's all in favor, say aye. Aye. All opposed say no. Passes 5-0-1. And I think approval of adjournment. And that'll come back on consent as well, because we don't have a full board. Okay. I think we are, I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. I second. Okay. Moved by Trustee Davis, seconded by Trustee Bullock. Does all in favor say aye? Aye. Opposed say no. Motion passes 5-0-1. We are adjourned to 11-26.