CUHSD Board Meeting DEC 14, 2020

001All right, for those of you joining us on the live stream, apologies, we're having some technical issues this evening getting the live stream up. And so we are in the process of getting everyone over here. So it'll be a couple more minutes before we get started. All right, thank you. If everyone's just joining us, remember we are currently live streaming. We're just waiting on a couple other members of the board to hop over to this Zoom and then we'll get started. Can you hear me okay, Callan? Yeah, loud and clear. Thanks. Just so y'all know, I'm texting with the board members just to get them the link. They should be on their way very shortly. We're all here. There's bells. Things are going well. And we're all live. So if everyone is ready, let's go

002ahead and get this started. Hi, everyone. Welcome to this meeting of the Campbell Union High School District. I'll call this meeting to order and it's 5.14 p.m. Can we please have a roll call? Trustee Gallagher. I'm here. Trustee Arisman. Present. Trustee Brown? Here. Trustee Goytia? Trustee Verich? Here. For the record, we can see Linda. Now she's connected to audio. Hi, Linda. All right. 1C is the adoption of the closed session agenda. Is there a motion? Second. All right. So motion by Christina, second by Robert. Any discussion? Seeing none, can we please have a roll call vote? Trustee Gallagher? Aye. Trustee Arismith? Aye. Trustee Brown? Aye. Trustee Goytia? Aye. And Trustee Baric? Aye. All right, the items are disclosed on our agenda. Let me check to make sure there are no public comments on any of

003these items. which there are not. So at this point, the board will adjourn the closed session because we got started a little bit later. It's probably realistic that we will come back around 6.15, not 6 p.m. Apologies for that. And board members, you should have the link to the closed session in your Google Calendar. So see you all on the other side. Hi, everyone. Thank you for joining us this evening. We got started a little bit late tonight due to a technical issue with the Zoom. We are going to be starting in probably like five to 10 minutes. Thank you for your patience. We'll be back soon. All right. We're just waiting on a couple more people and then we'll get started. All right. John, can you move us over to speaker mode? Thank you.

004Welcome back, everyone. Thank you for your patience. I'm calling this meeting back to order and it is 6.43 p.m. During closed session, the board approved the proposed settlement agreement in case 121420201 by a 5-0 vote. And the board also approved the proposed settlement agreement in case 121420202 with a 5-0 vote. Without any further ado, we'll move on to our Pledge of Allegiance. If everyone could please rise. 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. Thank you, everyone. Item 3C is the adoption of our agenda. But before I get to that, just as a reminder, this board meeting is being live streamed on the internet. And so if you participate, you

005will show up on that stream. Also, because members of the board are joining tonight via teleconference, all votes are going to be recorded via roll call. While there's no physical location available for the public to join, members of the public may submit a request to speak through the public comment card, which is available on the district's website and on board docs. And that's that. All right. 3C, adoption of the agenda. I'm out. Second. All right. Motion by Christina, second by Robert. Any discussion? Seeing none, could we please have a roll call? Trustee Gallagher. Aye. Trustee Arismith. Aye. Trustee Brown. Aye. Trustee Goytia. Aye. Trustee Verich. Aye. All right. With a 5-0 vote, we have an agenda. Item four on that agenda is recognitions and special orders of business. And tonight we have two. And I

006will turn it over to Dr. Bravo. Thank you, President Gallagher. So I want to start with a recognition from some students who came together to plan a mural for Lee High School. And I appreciate the intention of doing a mural, but especially one that I wanted to recognize them for was actually the presentation they put together in advocacy of such. And the permission to grant them to paint the mural is one that is that. is delegated to me. So they didn't have to do a board presentation, but they actually did it as a presentation to you all. So I went ahead and I gave the permission for them to go forward, but I wanted you all just to see their presentation they made for you as part of recognition, just because I think it's just

007a great example of how thoughtful our students can be. in expressing basically plans to improve our schools. So if we could have the video, that would be great. I'm going to start now. When looking at these photos, the first thing that comes to mind is empty, emotionless, and austere. We showed these exact images to Lee High School students and asked, how would you describe the school's exterior appearance? These are just a few of the many reoccurring words that came to students' minds when they thought of Lee's campus. Plain, boring, bland, average, dull. Here are just a sliver of the responses. It looks average, nothing special. The older parts of the school look more outdated and worn. It isn't anything special, and the color tone is fairly boring. Here's another one. I'm new and I've only

008seen Lee a few times. The walls are fine, but they don't have any feelings or life. There isn't color or anything that makes the school seem less bland. Schools have a role to inspire, motivate, and preserve creativity within students. Lee is known for their art, music, and theater programs, but at first glance, nobody would suspect that, for a campus doesn't embody any of these programs or Lee's values. We plan to change that. This is our pitch for painting a mural at Lee High School. Our team is made up of seven dedicated students. My name is Ethan Tran and I mainly take care of notes during meetings and I work on logistics with Megan. Hello, my name is Megan. I'm in charge of budgeting and finances and Ethan and I work together on logistics. I'm Nova

009and I'm a part of the team of artists along with Caitlin and Victoria. I'm Victoria and I'm part of the artist team as well. Hi, I'm Caitlin and I'm also one of the artists and have been working on creating mural concepts. Hi, my name is Dylan. I work for outside communications, specifically with the school and presentations. And hello, I'm Natalie. I coordinate meetings and I work in in-group communications. So why a mural? Well, a mural is a visible and long-lasting piece of art that is more impactful than temporary posters. When we finally get the chance to go back onto campus, we want students to feel as... welcomed as possible and have the best experience. This includes building a learning environment that makes students feel excited and eager to finally be back on campus. With very

010few people at Lee at the moment, we believe that now is the best time to add color and paint and mural. We want our campus to have a positive impression on students rather than just a bland or neutral atmosphere. By adding color and art to the monotonous school walls, we can hopefully give the campus a new sense of personality. I'm sure you all can think back on the school environment of your youth and reflect on the classes you like, the teachers who blew you away, the topics that were most engaging for you, everything. But what about the classroom surroundings that supported your education? How can we set up our campus to the best of our ability with the physical, structural, and psychological support necessary to provide our students an idyllic learning environment? Studies have repeatedly

011shown that colors affect emotions and emotions drive a learning environment. Murals create a tangible sense of place and belonging. While adding color, vibrancy, and character, murals contract the negative mental health effects of seeing concrete and asphalt all year long. It gives the school a better and more approachable atmosphere by showing that a school is put together and neat, giving outsiders a warmer welcome. You see, art is pure innovation. It can transform the ordinary locations on our campus into real destinations for our students. Alexander Denhiger once said, when a flower doesn't bloom, you change the environment in which it grows, not the flower. We want to contribute to a better environment for all of our students and staff here at Lee and make it the best place for different personalities to learn, grow, and thrive. Additionally,

012this is a student-led and executed project. Our work so far shows discipline in Lee students and proves that students are capable of pursuing and completing labor-intensive and complex projects. Throughout our time working on this project, we have all learned a lot about how to plan, adapt, and build our communication skills. Here you can see a general timeline of the project up until now and some of our plans for the future which are subject to change. The project started back in July when Dylan proposed the idea to me, Natalie, Caitlin, and Megan, and at that point our ideas were essentially a seed. It was full of potential but did not yet sprout into any action. Around August, we welcomed two new artists to the project and that tiny seed began to sprout. In September and October,

013we really started to get to work. We all had differentiated roles and three of our team members went on the campus to find good locations. We even received input from a mural painter on ways to elevate our ideas. Here, our little seedling took root and grew into a small tree. Now in November, our small tree is grown. With the approval of the board, it will finally start to bloom and produce flowers. In December, the tree will continue this process until we finalize our plans and start painting in January or February. The start of painting will allow our tree to bear fruit and the end of painting in February or March will be the end of our tree's life cycle with the fruit producing new seeds and possibly new ideas for the future plants. Additionally, we

014will be taking many precautions in order to follow COVID-19 regulations. All participants involved will be wearing masks and be physically distanced. All supplies will be brought onto campus and completely disinfected before being touched or being used. Bathrooms will be opened and hands will be washed periodically and consistently. Students will not work within close proximity to each other and there will only be a set number of students working at a single time. So where's it gonna go? Back in September, Kaitlyn, Dylan, and I visited the campus to look for potential mural locations. This spot in particular, which is across from the gym and on the leadership room wall, stood out to us. It fit the criteria that we had in mind when looking for a place to paint as it wouldn't block traffic when students are

015walking to class. It's a good height so we can paint while using a ladder. It has an overhang so it can be protected from harsh weather conditions and lasts for a longer period of time due to less UV light exposure. And in general, it's just the perfect location for painting our first mural. To start off the mural execution, the wall itself has to be prepped, which can be achieved in a variety of ways. By first washing the surface down and scrubbing it, we not only have a cleaner but more stable area of work. For priming, this step depends on the budget we're allowed. If we have a higher budget, we can use a high-grade primer, resulting in not only a better finish, but a better grip as well. However, we can also utilize a couple

016coats of lighter paint, which can also work. Once the surface is primed, we can sketch our design and begin painting. For the sketching process, we plan on using a small projector that could project our design onto the wall and use a sketching pen to lay it down. For the painting process, the team will most likely start by color blocking and laying out the larger portions of the mural, since not only do they require the most paint, but will also take the longest to dry. After that step is completed, we can start to layer the mural, starting with the background and moving towards the foreground. The smaller details will be one of the final painting steps, since they require the most precision and the least amount of paint. Any line work that needs to be completed

017will also be done at that time. Once the mural is finalized, we can seal it with a strong, protective, anti-graffiti sealant and consider the job well done. Overall, we think the entire project will cost around $400 to $500, with the bulk of that cost in the paint itself. Here we have listed all of the supplies that we need to clean the wall, prep for painting and paint. Most of the supplies we can contribute ourselves or we believe will be supplied by the school. We're looking to purchase our paint at Dunn Edwards, which will cost around 100 to $150. How much money the school can give us and how much we can raise will determine which sealant we buy. The ideal is a high quality anti-graffiti sealant. There is a link here to a spreadsheet that

018contains more details, including specific items that we need, where we can get them, and how much they will cost at the bottom of the slide. All of the costs listed in this document are subject to change, and at some stores we can hopefully get a school discount. Weedrons produce many murals, but the one thing that we definitely wanted to utilize was the bright eye-catching colors. A majority of the murals that we looked at had a meaning or connection to the subject that they were tied into and we knew we wanted to incorporate that feature into our designs and mural as well. The main focus that our team decided on integrating into Lee's mural was the bright colors, bold statements, and a welcoming look that was nice on the eyes. Over the past four months, we

019have gone through many mural concepts and in these mural concepts we have always liked using bright colors, calligraphy, and flowers. So that is what we thought of using for our final design. And now for our final design, we have decided to do the concept of a postcard as it is welcoming and says greetings from Lee. And it includes the background of our campus and includes aspects of Lee, such as their extracurriculars, including art, theater, sports. And in the corner, I wanted to include these flowers and it's called an amaryllis flower and it represents our students' pride and determination. So here we have the superimposed design on the wall. This will give you and the board a general idea of what the finished product will look like and the size of the mural. Now the last

020thing is where do we get our funding and resources? Well, our first option would be to contact the board, get this approved, and see if they could fund this project. There are a lot of variables that we took into consideration as we don't know if they would support this project, their financial situation, how the pandemic has affected them, etc. Our second option is to create a GoFundMe page. There are roughly 1,700 students who attend LEAD, and if students were to donate even just a dollar, then we have our funding right there. How we get students to support this project is by contacting leadership and Mr. Rowe. If leadership could post and advertise this project on social media platforms like Instagram, Snapchat, or Facebook, then we can get a large audience who are aware of this

021mural project. Not only would it be LEAD students funding this project, but alumni members and even parents could help us out. I emailed Mr. Rowe about this project a couple of months ago and he said money and resources will be the easiest part. I'm certain this vision can become a reality for us. And lastly, if you have any questions, comments, or concerns, feel free to reach out using the email below. Thank you. Okay, so trustees, I just got a message that the students are on the way. I see Kara Butler is here. And Kara, you want any words for us? Yeah, my apologies. I sent the wrong changed link to them, so they should be on their way in right now. I just was so incredibly impressed by the wherewithal that this group of students

022undertook in putting this proposal together. The maturity, the amazing communication, the presentation skills, the organization with which they put everything together to present this information was just something that I felt needed to be shared. It was really wonderful. to see and to be a part of, and I'm so excited to be able to support them. And they've received funding from our home and school club because they were just as impressed with this group and their proposal as well. So we're excited to see the fruition of their hard work. Their plan is to do the work either during the February break or the April break, depending upon how the weather is. Kara, can I ask a question? Of course. The paint company that they chose, I would imagine these kids are so thorough that they did

023some research into the difference between regular paint and mural paint. Because if you've ever seen Da Vinci's Last Supper, we know the effects of flaking. It would be awful to go to all this trouble and then have an anti-graffiti coating, but have paint that didn't stick. So please, I hope somebody will check and just make sure that this type of paint. is paint that will make it last. It's a wonderful job. Yeah, no, thank you very much. I appreciate that. And we will definitely make sure, and as you noted, I'm sure they've done their research, but we will of course double check. Very, very, I love the part about the money will be the easiest part. It will and it was because it's done. Yeah, and it was very true. So now comes the hard

024part. So Executive Director Wassinger, do you have power washers? Can the district help prep these walls for these kids? The answer is yes. I will answer on Eric's behalf because that's the kind of question that's easy enough that I can actually do without them. I didn't want to put you on the spot, Eric. I'm sorry. I didn't get long enough to see the design. Was music represented in it as well? I saw art. I saw sports. I saw a bunch of stuff. But it was going really fast. So there were six of those students of the seven are Lee students. Actually, one of them is actually a student from Oak Grove. And I don't know, Ms. Butler, do you know how she got hooked into this? Yeah, I asked Dylan that exact question. And just

025as they were all coming together and determining what each of their roles would look like, they needed an additional artist who could weigh in on not only the design, but actually the painting and the drawing on the wall. it's easy to do the size that they did for the presentation. It's much harder to scale that onto a wall. And so she's friends with a couple of people in the group and they got to talking and she was very excited about the project and that's how she got linked into it. So it's great. It's a cross district project. I think it's terrific. I think we all know that Oak Grove has the artists that you'd want to use as opposed to perhaps another school in that area. Spoken like a true Oak Grove alumni. I wasn't

026the one with any art skills. Let's just be sure we cover that though. None. Mr. Keating, do we have anybody in the waiting room? There's no one in the waiting room, Bob. Okay. Well, this is where we can all say how wonderful they were. Well, maybe Ms. Butler could just hang in and stay with us. We'll go to our next one and then we can come back if we get the students come in. So the other recognition that we want to do tonight was a recognition of the food services and transportation staff who have collectively done such great work. You can't really choose just one. So during COVID time, they're almost at half a million meals served. What's really special is that they even went at the beginning of the school year, they even went

027to a mode where the food was actually taken to the students. So they would do enough multiple meals bagged up so that students wouldn't, they're not just getting like a lunch, they're getting a breakfast, they're getting a lunch, they're getting dinner, they're getting, you know. three meals for the next day as well. So it really has been an over-the-top, above and beyond effort to try and support families right now. And if anybody thinks that that's not necessary, the Public Policy Institute of California put out results of a new survey they did last week that says that 43% of households making less than $40,000 have seen a reduction in income this year. And 42% of low-income families are cutting back on food. They are spending less at the grocery store because they have less. And for

028families who are doing better off, even amongst those earning $80,000 or more, 36% have had hours or pay reduced, and 12% have had to cut back on groceries. So this is a very real need that this staff has been meeting. A special shout out to Shelly McLaughlin. And because I got to, I rode along with her. I went on a ride along. I spent about half a day with her making deliveries at different houses. And I just have deep respect for the dedication of all these folks to really be this active in the community. And I think we have some, we have a short video. This is much shorter, a short video that was made by students at Prospect that we just happened upon to decide to show you all. We at ASB are so

029thankful to those who are providing meals for prospect students, from those who make it to those who distribute it. So we'd all like to say, Thank you cafeteria staff for all of your hard work. Thank you to the staff in the cafeteria for always putting up hot and ready lunches and breakfast. Thank you to all who keep our community fed. We really appreciate you. Thanks to all the cafeteria staff for being amazing and making us some real good food. Thank you cafeteria workers. Thank you cafeteria workers. And I think we have a couple of representatives of this group of employees here this evening, I believe. I have my list says, oh, there's Roy. I can see Roy McCarthy is here. Welcome, Roy. Now, I have a note that says that we are going to have

030Charlene Fragonese and Gabriela Sumanos-Salay. I don't see them with us, but Roy, maybe you can advise me. John, do you know if they're on the link? There's no one in the waiting room. No one in the waiting room. Okay, so I'm not quite sure what happened to them. They're supposed to join us tonight. Well, rep everybody, Rory. Thank you, Rory, for the team, all the team of folks that have been part of this effort. Rory, the 450,000 meals was from when to when? What are the dates? Since March. Since last March to now? Yep. Absolutely phenomenal. Wow. Thank you. Thank you for your support. We couldn't do it without the board support, Bravo support, all the staff. It's a team effort to make this happen. So it's just not one person, one individual. It's the

031entire district. Well, I want to add my thanks to Rory, you and your team. I think in these times, we're so focused on instruction. And student, you know, and basically making sure that our students are not falling behind, that we forget about the food insecurity that exists in our community before COVID and is going to exist in our community after COVID. And this truly is heroes in action. And without... you know, without all the spotlight and attention on you guys. This is, to me, this is the highest level of community service there is. So thank you to you and your team. I also want to give a shout out to the transportation department for going above and beyond what their normal duties are. And they're going to the doors of homes and delivering meals every

032single day. We do about 7,000 meals a week in home delivery. Absolutely incredible. Just ditto to everything that has already been said. And I think your response, Rory, to deflect the attention away from you to your team just shows what a true leader you are as well. So I'm going to put that back on you. Having stopped by a food distribution site early on in the pandemic, amazing work. The whole team was very upbeat and smiling and helping people with a lot of food. So good job. Thank you. Thank you so much, Rory. And we have for the students who are joining. You're muted. Of course I am. Yeah, sorry. I was just going to say for the students who are joining with their fun profile pictures of weird looking ass. Welcome to the meeting.

033But Rory, thank you so much. And Dr. Bravo, do you want to move back to recognizing our students who have joined? Yes, yes. So thank you students for being here. I'm not sure if you saw it remotely or not, but the trustees did see your proposal. I let them know that that's already been approved. And it's pretty interesting how many of you are actually cats. I'm trying to wrap my mind around that. But I'll turn it over to the trustees if they have any questions for you. We have Lee students right now, Ethan Tran, Megan Gamble, Natalie Sakamoto, Caitlin Niles. Tell them to turn on their cameras. Miss Butler sent me a message in the chat, said tell them to turn on their cameras. There they are. They've transformed back into humans, except for Natalie

034Sakamoto, who's trapped in her cat. form by an evil wizard, I guess. And Nova. Well, we have a Nova Fram. She's actually our own Grove student, I think. Yep, she is. All right. So, hey, students, we were able to watch the whole presentation. Maybe you saw it on the YouTube stream. And I think we're all just so impressed by just seeing a need and then actually doing something about it in a way that I think was so inclusive and brings just like this beautiful piece of art to Lee and I think sets an example for students in the future. So congrats. Other trustees, do you have any thoughts or? I feel so, no, go ahead, Stacy. No, go ahead, Kiki, go ahead. Well, as a proud Longhorn graduate myself, I just feel so proud that

035y'all are doing the work at, you know, my home school. But for real, I think there's just a lot of discouragement and just a lot of things that feel hard, you know, these days. And I was sitting here just with such a big smile on my face because You know, like Trustee Gallagher said, not only did you see a need and do something about it, but the presentation that you put together shows such thoughtfulness in your planning, delegation of roles, way far beyond many things I've seen adults do, like way beyond, seriously. And I teach third grade and I was sitting here thinking, you know what, we're in a persuasive unit right now. This is a perfect example. I keep trying to tell my students, even if you're not an adult, you can still see

036a need and do something about it. And this is just prime example. And so really, really well done. I think you all should feel very proud of yourselves. And I hope that you take this as an experience as proof that you are leaders already. And that this is the kind of impact you can continue to have in your life moving forward with even, you know, bigger and bigger things. And I'm excited to be able to come by the school and see the fruits of your labor, which also the whole analogy about the tree, I just loved it. So, so special. I'm so glad that we got to see this. And I'd just like to add, I was incredibly impressed with the process you guys went through, how well thought out all of your steps were,

037and your collaboration to include a student from Oak Grove in your group to bring in more expertise for another school. You know, that's what this is really all about. So it was really clear to me in every minute of your presentation that this is something that is a passion for you. And when you follow your passion, it doesn't feel like work as much. So congratulations on this. And my only request of you guys is that when the mural is done, I want an invitation to the ribbon cutting. I'd like to make an observation and then a suggestion maybe from Ms. Butler. The observation is that what impresses me so much about what you did is, first of all, that so many people just say, wouldn't it be nice or we ought to have, and they

038kick it around a little bit and then it kind of falls away and then it gets brought up again, but nobody gets it together. A lot has been said about your planning, but what really impresses me about your planning and your process is that artists are very individualistic in your approach to art. Art is a very personal thing. So we have a group of artists here. And you all parked your egos and your personal art bent, perhaps, knowing that this needed to represent the whole school. It needed to appeal to the whole school. It needed to be collaborative, to come together, to collaboratively decide on a design. When I know that each and every one of you probably, if somebody just let you loose one night with a paintbrush, you'd do your own thing. But

039you made it something that will work for everybody and did that together. And I think that's just really extraordinary. I love your design. I think it's great. For Ms. Butler, this ought to be a yearbook page. There needs to be a yearbook page with the mural and the creators of the mural because we have a page for the paper and the yearbook staff. Well, we need a mural staff page this year. What a great idea. Thank you for that. I will absolutely pass that along to Ms. Ulrey, who oversees the yearbook. That would be wonderful. And just want to note that I think one of our students wasn't able to get, oh, there's Dylan. I see him. Nevermind. So Dylan was the one who first contacted me about this project. So just wanted to give

040a shout out to him. Hi, Dylan. I see you. You know, for having that initiative and taking that time to reach out to me and say, hey, we have this idea. What can we do about it? And so I, I just think it's amazing when our students, you know, take that time and have that passion and that interest and that care for each other and for their school. So wanting to make sure that he got a shout out as well. And Nova, it's good to hear you've come from Oak Grove. Everybody's waiting for me to say it. As an Oak Grove alum, thank you very much. My sister went to Prospect, but I went to Oak Grove. Thanks for joining us. All right. Thank you, everyone. And please do let us know when it's done

041or send pics to Dr. Bravo. He can circulate them around. And I hope you all have a good rest of your night. You're more than welcome to continue to watch us on YouTube, but, you know, quite cooler things you can do. Thank you. I'm bored really quick. I forgot to do this when we. I would like to move to table item 13 D. I have got to do that at the top of the meeting. The personnel addendum. There is nothing on it. I am making a motion to table that item. Second. Second by Christina. Is there any discussion? Christina, can we get a roll call please? Trustee Gallagher. Aye. Trustee Arisman. Aye. Trustee Brown. Aye. Trustee Goytia. Aye. Trustee Varitch. Aye. All right, thank you very much, everyone. 13D is now tabled. Excuse me. Tonight,

042we have a special item five because this is our annual organizational meeting. And so we have some items that we go through every year as a board. So student board members, your item six tonight. So just patience, please. Our first item is 5A, acceptance of certificate of election facts and statement of votes. Dr. Bravo. Well, as you said, President Gallagher, it is that time where we ask you to accept the statement of election facts, which confirms that Trustees Gallagher and Goytia are serving yet another term as board members. Yay! All right. Is there a motion? Move to approve. Second. All right. So motion by Christina, second by Robert. Any discussion? You cannot ask for a recount at this point. It's too late. It's too late. All right. Can we get a roll call, please? Trustee

043Gallagher. Aye. Trustee Arisman. Aye. Trustee Brown. Aye. Trustee Guitia. Aye. Trustee Verich. Aye. All right, with the ayes have it, 5-0, 5-A passes. 5-B is the oath of office for the reelected trustees. I think, Trustee Aerosmith, you're going to lead us in this process? Yes. As the clerk of the board, she will be administering the oath of office to Trustees Goytia and Gallagher. That is correct. So... It's just sad that we cannot be together, but we're going to make it really special anyways. So let's see. Okay, I'm going to start with Linda because it was listed first on the agenda. So you are going to raise your right hand, correct? Do I raise my hand? I forget. Okay, great. It's hard to make my hand go in there. In Zoom. There we go. Okay. You're

044going to answer me, Linda. I, Linda Goytia. I, Linda Goytia. Do solemnly swear or affirm. Do solemnly swear or affirm. That I will support and defend. That I will support and defend. The Constitution of the United States. The Constitution of the United States. And the Constitution of the State of California. And the Constitution of the State of California. Against all enemies foreign and domestic. That I will bear true faith and allegiance. To the Constitution of the United States. And the Constitution of the State of California. That I take this obligation freely. Without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. Without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. And that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties. That I will well and faithfully discharge the duties. Upon which I am about to enter. Upon which

045I am about to enter. Congratulations! Yay! Okay, is there anything else you need to do? We're ready for Kalen? Yes. Okay, great. All right, Kalen, here we go. I, Kalen Gallagher. I, Kalen Gallagher. Do solemnly swear or affirm. Do solemnly swear. Or affirm. Or affirm. That I will. Oh, okay, well. That I will support and defend. That I will support and defend. The Constitution of the United States. The Constitution of the United States. And the Constitution of the State of California. And the Constitution of the State of California. Against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California that I take this obligation freely. Without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. Without any mental reservation

046or purpose of evasion. And that I will well and faithfully discharge. And that I will well and faithfully discharge. The duties upon which I am about to enter. The duties upon which I am about to enter. Congratulations, Trustee Gallagher and Gortia. All right. Awesome. All right. We're in. All right. Thank you for doing that, Christina. My pleasure. Great. So that takes us to item 5C, the nomination and election of board officers. If you pull up your board docs, we are looking for nominations for president, clerk, and alternate clerk. So I'll start with, are there any nominations for board president? So I want to start by thanking Kaylin for serving as board president these past three years. And I want to remind us all that being board president doesn't come with any additional powers. You don't

047get x revision or invisibility. It actually comes with added responsibilities, namely being the spokesperson of the board and managing our meetings. So I've shared this with Kalen privately, but I want to go on the record tonight as saying that I think he's done an outstanding job as board president, especially as the spokesperson. I've read every email response. I've watched every Facebook Live. And I think he has represented the voice of the board quite well. And I thank you for that, Kalen. It is unusual to have one trustee. serve as president for three years. A lot of school boards rotate through the board officer role so that the added burden of the extra responsibility is shared by all. But I'm a big believer in the concept that when there is a crisis to manage through, you

048don't change leadership if you can avoid it. So in that spirit, I'm going to nominate Kalen to continue as board president for another year. And I will second the nomination. Thank you. I will accept. Thank you very much. Are there other nominations? Beat me to it. Okay. Then I guess we will move into a vote. Is that right? Dr. Robin, do you want to move this forward? I was going to say, I will conduct the vote. All those in favor of Trustee Gallagher as president. Roll call. Trustee Arismith? Aye. Trustee Brown? Aye. Trustee Goytia? Aye. Trustee Varitch? Aye. Trustee Gallagher? Aye. You could sound more enthusiastic. Thank you, everyone. I don't know. This has been kind of a wild year. And it's something that I think about a lot of how to how to take

049personal views out of things and try to represent the board the best that I can. And so anytime I will mess up, I've messed up before. I will mess up again. And please let me know when I do so I can improve. And thank you for putting your faith in me for another year. Thank you for doing this for another year. Yeah. All right. So we move on to board clerk. Are there any nominations for board clerk? I would be happy to step up and be the board clerk. All right. A second. Great. So there's a first and a second. Are there other nominations for board clerk? All right. Seeing none, can we have a roll call? Trustee Gallagher. Aye. Trustee Arismith. Aye. Trustee Goytia. Aye. Trustee Verich. And Trustee Brown. Aye. All right. Congratulations,

050Stacey, with a 5-0 vote. We have a board clerk and then we will move to alternate clerk. Are there any motions? I'd like to nominate Linda to be alternate clerk. I'll second that. All right. Are there other nominations for alternate clerk? All right. Can we have a roll call, please? Trustee Gallagher. Aye. Trustee Aerosmith. Aye. Trustee Brown. Aye. Trustee Baric. Aye. And Trustee Goytia. Aye. All right. With a 5-0 vote, we have alternate clerk. I'll shuffle seats again, please. Everybody move. We have to move around. I want some normality. All right. He does not get cake, and that's the only piece of normal I think she cares about. We'll have to do something about that. I'll email you some little Debbie cakes or something, snail mail you. All right. So that concludes 5C. Congratulations and

051thank you for Kiki and Robert for serving as our clerk and alternate clerk this last year. And we'll move into item 5D, the appointment of the board secretary. This is something that we do. I mean, Dr. Robert, do you want to introduce it? We do it every year, and I'm pretty sure you only get to choose me. Right. So moved. By board policy, yes. Second. Okay, yeah. So the motion is so moved on is recommended that the Board of Trustees appoint the superintendent as secretary of the Board of Trustees. All right. Any discussion? Can we get a roll call? Trustee Gallagher. Aye. Trustee Arismith. Aye. Trustee Brown. Aye. Trustee Goytia. Aye. Trustee Baric. Aye. All right, the 5-0 vote passes. Five E's to approve the calendar of regular board meetings from January to December of

0522021. And trustees attached to the item, we have the suggested calendar for your perusal. Approve. Second. All right, so a motion by Christina, a second by Stacey. Any discussion? All right, seeing none, can we please have a roll call vote? Trustee Gallagher? Aye. Trustee Arismith? Aye. Trustee Brown? Aye. Trustee Goytia? Aye. Trustee Verrit? Aye. All right, with a 5-0 vote, we have scheduled meetings for next year. 5F is the nomination of board trustee to vote in the election of the Santa Clara County Committee on School District Organization. Disappointed board member completes the county committee election ballot in November of 2021. In the past, it's been the board president and then we agendize it to talk through the vote. So I will move to nominate me as the person. Second. unless sorry that was weird I

053probably should have let someone else do that but I don't know does anyone it's the same thing it's the same thing let's just keep doing what we've been doing okay okay so let's go ahead and do a roll call vote trustee Gallagher aye trustee Harris-Smith aye trustee Brown aye trustee Goytia aye trustee Derricks aye All right, with a 5-0 vote, it passes. 5G is a nomination election of a representative to the Santa Clara County School Boards Association. And I believe last year we voted for Trustee Verich. That's correct. Robert, you want to continue on in that role? I nominate Robert Verich. Second. All right, so a motion by Stacey, a second by Christina. Any discussion? I read my lips wrong. I said, no way. I just realized I muted. Well, you know, I should have

054unmuted. Sorry. Next year. Darn it. Can we get a roll call, please? Trustee Gallagher? Aye. Trustee Arismith? Aye. Trustee Brown? Aye. Trustee Goytia? Aye. Trustee Baric? Aye. Passes 5-0. 5H is to nominate and designate board trustees to specify committees and assignments for 2021. So as you can see on there, we have three committees that we have staffed historically. The intergovernmental, I think we have not had someone in that role or had a need for that role in a while. But any thoughts on these? Does anybody want to change anything up? Is there anybody wanting to? No, and I think we decided any of us can attend any of them at any time anyway, so it's not really something we need to do. Except for the partners. Yeah. Continue to get to work with their student

055advisory. All right, so I'll make a motion to... Point Christina to Student Advisory, myself to Partner District Board meetings, and Stacey to the Education Foundation. I'll second. All right. I think I heard Robert first, though. So motion by me, second by Robert. Any discussion? I've seen none. Could we please have a roll call? Trustee Gallagher? Aye. Trustee Arismith? Aye. Trustee Brown? Aye. Trustee Goytia? Aye. Trustee Baric? Aye. All right, the 5-0 vote passes. We're done with item five. Thanks, everyone. We're going to move on to item 6A, our student board member reports. Students, go ahead and take it away, and I'll let you know if you hit your 15 minutes. Yeah, first we want to start by saying congratulations to our trustees for re-election. We're going to stick with the same format. I'll do my

056schools, Riley will do his schools. This is the last. We're going to switch next semester, so it was nice working with these three schools. But for Branham, they had their winter wishes week where students and teachers are starting to get their wishes granted and they're all following the COVID-19 protocols. Clubs are starting to wrap up meetings and finish the semester strong. And finals week is gonna happen this week. At Del Mar, ASB is hosting Stress Less Week this week, where they're offering meditation and yoga videos, and they're sending letters and stickers home. Dawn's crew is hosting a virtual freshman Cocos and Cram for the freshmen to participate in. And the performing arts presents a virtual concert called Going Home for the Holidays. At Westmont, last week was Mental Health Awareness Week where they had a

057painting event. Cassie counselors had a presentation and they had more. College and Career Center event happened last Wednesday with Westmont alumni. The musical theaters class production of Disney's High School Musical was available to stream last week and Westmont students had the opportunity to take photos. At Boynton, they recently graduated two students and are hoping a few more will finish by this Friday. They'll also have close to 20 new students starting on January 4th, and many students in these groups continue to report positive attendance throughout the school. From one teacher, Greg Wilkin, he said he feels that Boynton, they have done a good job connecting and instructing with students despite the circumstances. They've never met many of the students who have gotten to know their personalities and have it. He feels that instead of focusing on

058fear, they reassure students they will one day be back and further in the future, this will all be a distant memory. From Lee, they had their fourth student voice meeting to discuss finals. Also, the Longhorn podcast started in November on the family Instagram account. In November, they also had LGBTQ plus awareness week, which was done with ASB, but also through a club. On December 3rd, they had their first edition of the Elite published online, which is their school paper and clubs and activities that are entirely online like mock trial, chem and bio Olympiad and et cetera are well adjusted and their seasons are going smoothly. They're gearing up for competition season successfully. At Prospect, Winter Wishes 2021 has been taking admissions in the last month and will start granting selected wishes in the coming semester.

059Coco and Congratulations Drive-Thru was done for seniors and finishing most of the college app process. Positivity Club continues to host events from online presentations, workshops, and drive-by donations. Student Senate had its first semester check-in forms trying to get feedback from a variety of teacher cohorts. And then they also did a giving thanks to people during Thanksgiving break, which we saw one of the videos earlier today. Yeah, and for what's working, students have felt that schools took great care of following all the protocols and they did a great job communicating once we headed into purple. They've also really well communicated the final schedule and they've made sure that all students have been made aware of that. Teachers are taking more efforts to discuss mental health issues with students and students are really appreciative of that. Teachers

060are also letting students pick groups for projects and they've been finding that that's been working well for group projects. Teachers that have the option of taking an exam or having a minor project that's been working well for students since they can kind of do things on their own schedule since everything is kind of disrupted this year anyways. And there's been a really greater advocacy for support systems. And so students are made more aware of where they can go if they need help. What's not working? Some teachers do not show the weekly bulletin or announcements depending on the school during the cohort outreach, which is when every group meets during like advisory on Wednesdays. And so some students aren't getting all the information as this semester has most definitely been like no other and students not

061have as many impactful resources they did during the normal school year. And some are struggling with finals prep and staying organized. Some students are confused about the protocol with sports workouts and whether that's going to continue in the next couple months or not. Lots of students, and this is just going from throughout, we kind of combined into one, but I think almost all of our SAC members had something about mental health and heightened anxiety during this time. A lot of people are having trouble sleeping, studying, or attaining their hobbies, especially since finals are very different from the normal format. A mental health survey that we sent out about a month ago revealed how many students are really struggling. The majority of the responses were one school mentioned an overload of homework, decreased social interaction, and

062we saw a lack of awareness of available resources like casting counseling. So just a few updates on what we did in the past month. So Sarah set up two focus groups with students and we kind of learned their experience with distance learning. So we were able to gather that feedback and give it to Dr. Bravo to really see what students need next semester. We also went to the LCAP meeting last month to see what teachers and admin thought of the proposed plans just to see their perspective on things. And we'll be doing our end of the semester presentation at the next board meeting. And just a few other things. It's really crazy to think about that we've almost completed a semester of school. Thank you to all our teachers, staff, admin, and students for adapting

063and making the best out of this terrible situation. Please continue to social distance and wear masks. California is seeing its biggest increase in cases yet. I know it's been nine months, but we have to work together to end this pandemic. A couple other things we have done. We had our last site visit for the semester at Branham about three and a half weeks ago now. We've had a few meetings with Dr. Bravo in these in this past month to go over possible plans for next semester and trying to get student thought. We conducted a mental health survey which we got over 1400 or about 1400 responses and we plan on sharing the data with you all soon at our end of year presentation. We had two SSAC meetings. We went over proposed reopening plans and

064the mental health survey. And just in terms of other updates, I hope everyone has a happy holiday break. So, yeah. Great. Thank you both so much. You know, it's the end of the semester. And like you said, it's kind of unbelievable. It's all flown by, right? It's hard to imagine how we could be effective without the two of you doing all that you do on a regular basis. So thank you. It makes a huge difference. I think we're in a better position today than we would be otherwise. So thank you for everything. And I hope you have a really good holidays. Tonight's meeting may go late, it looks like. So feel free to hop off whenever you need. But if there's items you want to stick around for to talk to or speak to, please

065do it. Yeah, I want to concur with President Gallagher's comments. I want to thank you guys for taking time to, you know, squeeze meeting with me into your schedules so that I can understand some of the things that you are bringing forward. And it was a delight to work with you on the homework policy. And thanks for your leadership. All right, so let's go ahead and move on to our next item, which is public comments on non-agenda items. The board welcomes comments from the public. If you'd like to address the board, please fill out the digital blue card that's located on our website and on board docs. You'll be called on to comment when your item is reached on the agenda. If the item is not on the agenda, you will comment at this time.

066Provisions of the California Brown Act preclude any action being taken on any item that does not appear on the posted agenda. for action. Oral presentations and communications to the board are traditionally limited to three minutes per person and 20 minutes per topic, although that could scale down if there's lots of demand to speak on one item. Tonight, we do have one digital blue card around an item that I do not believe is agendized, so we'll take it now. So if we could call Jacob Jackson, who wants to speak about the toll that uncertainty creates for students and teachers. The psychic toll. And I have three minutes? Three minutes. Hi, Jacob. You're on with the board. You're streaming on the internet. So whenever you're ready, take it away. You'll have three minutes, at which point the

067mic will mute. And so if you have additional comments, just email them over because we want to hear them. And you can take it away when you're ready. Great. Thank you. First, I want to say hi to Riley. I coached Riley freshman year in basketball. I haven't seen him in a year. It's great to see you. And I hope I get to see Riley. senior year of basketball. I really do hope that we get a sports season that's approved at the state level and Santa Clara County. Having said that, I just want to say thank you all for your time. And we are all aware of the physical toll of the pandemic and the potential long-term risks associated with COVID-19 infection. But I'd just like to talk a bit about... that lesser known like psychic

068toll of uncertainty that it has on people. Teachers and students thrive in classrooms with backward design and certainty. And our teachers have built their careers planning what day one of the school year looks like and knowing exactly what lessons are necessary to get students to mastery by June. And even in a pandemic, our virtual classrooms have provided a sliver of normalcy and comfort and calm for students this fall, as students and teachers knew what tomorrow looked like and next week and the week after. But our district's recent decisions have created a new wave of uncertainty and anxiety, and that predictably has affected students and teachers where it matters most, in the classroom in the last two weeks. The fourth phase proposal for second semester that was presented to the board. prior to collective bargaining with

069teachers has been the cause of that uncertainty and anxiety. I do want to say that our district administration and board of trustees deserve a ton of credit for having the foresight to provide all students with Chromebooks and Wi-Fi hotspots when needed, for purchasing the Canvas course management system, and for declaring early on that instruction will be virtual for all of semester one. I feel we got a really successful first semester relative to our peer districts because of those key decisions and the professionalism of our teachers. But I would urge you to maintain that continuity that we've had for semester two, rather than moving to a brand new modality with no certain beginning or end. Having that certainty of what semester two would look like would be really good for the mental health of students and

070teachers. Thank you all for your time. Thank you very much. All right so we're going to move on to item eight which is comments from associations. There is no one from CSEA or SEIU this evening but uh Kim McCarthy the president of the Campbell High School Teachers Association is going to be speaking to us. All right hi Kim you're on with the board uh when you're ready take it away. Thank you President Gallagher. Congratulations to Trustee Goytia and Gallagher on your swearing in tonight. My name is Kim McCarthy. I'm the president of CHISTA and a history teacher at Prospect High School. CHISTA looks forward to learning which trustee will be assigned to which of the different sites as a liaison or board buddy. It's been nine months and one day since the first COVID shelter

071in place was ordered. We all know that it's been a difficult year. No one will be sad, I think. to ring out 2020 on December 31st. And there is some hope on the horizon with the approval, manufacture, and distribution of vaccines. All of us, like Trustee Virich, have a craving for a return to normalcy. But we aren't there yet. With over 300,000 Americans dead from COVID, this public health crisis is far from over. Most California counties are in the purple tier. We've seen what happens after holidays, and it is sobering. The winter break will likely result in another surge of infections. No matter how often, people are urged to wear their masks and not to gather or travel. And thanks to Gitanjali for reminding people of that at every meeting. Yet on tonight's agenda, there

072is resolution 35, 12, 14, 20 with language that states, quote, be it resolved that this board affirms that the action it took on December 1st, 2020 was a determination that the district will implement an instructional model other than distance learning or traditional learning for the spring semester of the 2020-2021 school year. Two weeks ago on December 1st, In a board meeting watched over 1,200 times, we listened for our trustees claim that the approval of the superintendent's recommendation was a vote to provide a pathway to levels two through four that could possibly be reached should conditions warrant. What was a may two weeks ago has been added to your agenda tonight to potentially become a will. Two weeks ago, you said we may, and tonight it's we will. The explanations we heard from trustees that night

073and the preface to your vote will fall to the side if this resolution is passed. Will the reassurances we heard have any meaning in the case of we will? A footnote. According to the recommendations approved two weeks ago, Level 2 is not a different instructional model. It is the continuation of distance learning with added student support. This factual error is concerning and misleading. In addition, the resolution states that whereas Level 2 requires instructional staff to be available for in-person support and activities, two weeks ago the superintendent stated, I want to stress. that my recommendation doesn't force anybody to go back in person. A yes vote from you for the recommendation does not do that. What it does is it creates a pathway to make preparations for that to happen should you all feel that that's

074the appropriate thing to do at some point in the spring semester. JISTA appreciates any attempt to clarify actions taken by the board. However, this resolution seems less like a clarification and more like a reversal. In regard to the additional support services identified for level two, we're very interested in learning more about what data has been collected that indicates those students identified for additional support will take advantage of any available in-person student support. We encourage trustees to ask that this data be collected, especially for students who are identified as at risk of failing fall semester classes. We also hope that the board will consider more long range plans to help students recover from this school year. Not a piecemeal credit recovery, but a comprehensive district wide plan to support students. Thank you. Thank you, Kim. All

075right, so that's going to take us to item nine, our superintendent's report. Dr. Bravo, and you're mute. Trustee Gallagher, I'll save the comments to the COVID section. Okay, great. So item 10 is our informational items, and we're going to start off tonight with a report on MetroEd and Silicon Valley CTE. Trustee Gortia. And sorry, you're muted. Sorry, I keep muting everyone because... It's okay. I'll start with finances because there is some brighter news than we've heard in a little while in that department. With regard to our strong workforce grant application, we got absolutely zero last year, zilch, nada. This year, with a lot of hard work and a different approach, we got $833,767. The application itself is not designed for centers. So you really have to get creative to sort of adapt it to say

076what you want to say to get where you want to be. And an awful lot of effort went into this. Marlene Dines, in particular, on our staff worked very hard on this. We're continuing to work on a regional joint venture grant with the community colleges. We won't know how much we have from CTIG monies until tomorrow, so I can't tell you tonight. Once upon a time, Metro had hosted an iron workers apprenticeship program, and for reasons that weren't very clear, it went away at some point. And now they would like to come back and rent space on Saturdays and one night a week. So that's also good news. We're bringing them back. And there is one other very, very interesting item in the pipeline, which I will share next time when I have more details

077on it. So a little teaser there that there's something kind of juicy coming up next time. In the health area for MetroEd, We've joined 18 other districts, and that includes elementary districts, of course, and partnered with the County Office of Education to offer self-administered testing for COVID-19. It will be done right on campus every 14 days. It will be an oral test, no swab or discomfort. From the JPA participating districts so far, Milpitas, Las Gadas, and Santa Clara. So I don't know if this is something we would like to consider, but... Just putting that out there. The county office is in contract with a testing company called Carative. And so what it means is that other districts like us have the option to piggyback on this agreement. We hope to do the first round of

078testing on the Metra campus on January 4. And that's it. Thank you. Thank you, Linda. An amazing job as always. I know a lot of your work goes into that good news we're hearing. So thank you. I would like to share one other thing, too. Really nice. There is such tremendous spirit and morale on the staff there. They've worked really, really hard on their reopening plan for when they can do it. There's been tremendous buy-in. Just the staff, the feeling amongst the staff is really terrific. And something they did just last Friday kind of illustrates that. They sent up a big, long tent in the back parking lot. And instead of having our regular holiday lunch, it was a drive-by lunch or drive-through lunch or whatever you want to call it. Everybody in their elf

079costumes and funny hats and jingle bells and decorations on the tent and just everything possible. to make this really welcoming for staff and to make it a sort of a best we can do under the circumstances event. And I really appreciate efforts like that. That's it. Thank you. Stacey, did you have something? No, I just wanted to, you know, congratulate Linda again on her leadership as president of the SVCTE board, in addition to being on our board. You know, you planted that seed back in May and June that really started to turn things around. I mean, there was nothing but bad news coming for SVCTE. And I was really nervous that, you know, this hundred plus year tradition was going to be another one of these things you read about in the paper about how

080they had to close, you know, in this crisis. I just really want to acknowledge you for that. And I hope, I don't know when your organizational meeting is for SVCTE, but I hope you're going to be continuing on as president as well. It looks entirely possible. We do a rotation and the next person in line would prefer not to take it on right at this time. So that's entirely possible. Also, I hope on the 14th that I can bring you information about what the Finance Committee in Sacramento is going to do or not do for us. So again, thanks. Great. All right. So, board, that is going to take us to item 10B, an update on the district's anti-racism team. I also just want to note, it is 8 p.m. We have a couple presentations

081and a lot of meeting left. That's not, that's, we're going to hold to the 15 minutes. That's all I'm trying to say. Please do not rush your presentation. And take it away when you're ready. All right, Mr. Serda. Thank you, President Gallagher. Good evening, Board of Trustees. So tonight I'm going to give you an update on the anti-racism team meeting. We actually held our first back in October, and I will give you that update and just some great ideas and brainstorming that came out of that meeting. John, can you go ahead and change the slide? So just to remind the board, these are some of the district highlights. Back over the summer, you approved, the Board of Trustees approved the Black Lives Matter resolution, and of course the racial, social, economic, and educational equity resolution.

082And these two resolutions are the ones that are paving the way for the teams to make the change that is necessary. And also the, right after those resolutions were passed, the Ed Services team has been working closely with the principals. And we've actually co-developed an investigation procedures policy guidelines that the principals, assistant principals, administrators are all following at the school site to ensure that they're conducting thorough investigations whenever there's a, whether it's a student or a faculty member that's filing a complaint on harassment, involving harassment or racism. Also the Board of Trustees, you approved the Ethnic Literature course back in late October, actually at the November 6th board meeting. And what's exciting about this Ethnic Literature course is that it's actually fulfilling the graduation requirements for English three or four. And it's also a UC

083approved. that's fulfilling the B requirement. One of our best teachers, Mr. Michael Espinosa, developed the curriculum and also got it approved through UC Doorways, which we usually have the administrators do that. He went and did it on his own, which is absolutely amazing and awesome for our students. And then we're also in our third year partnership with Equal Opportunity Schools and increasing the number of students that come from low-income families. students of color that are enrolling in the AT level courses. We trained over 100 faculty and staff through the National Equity Project the past couple of years in coaching and leading for equity. And then the last one, kudos to our amazing student board members, Riley and Jitanjali, whom did a phenomenal job in facilitating the revision of the district's homework policy that you approved

084back in October that eliminated mandatory summer assignments. That when we conducted interviews through the Fairness and Belonging committee when we interviewed students that was a huge barrier that has been removed and so that's that's amazing so thank you uh gitanjali and riley and the board for doing that next uh slightly So the purpose of the meetings, you know, it's really to identify dismantle racist policies and practices in our system, including students' and staff experiences of safety and belonging and issues of racial justice in our communities of color and to elevate diversity in teaching and learning. One of the goals that we came up with for the year, and this may not be just a yearly goal, but we really do want to make it a yearly goal and maybe we'll extend it if we don't

085get there. but it's really to take steps toward planning for how to become an anti-racist school district. That's the number one goal. By identifying, of course, we have policies, practices, and, you know, that are creating barriers for our students of color. And I'm going to show you just some examples of what the committee came up with, and it was only a 90-minute meeting. I'm only showing you just some of what they identified as possible and it was very, very exciting. Next slide please. The school site equity teams, all the high schools have one case. They have their own, they don't call it the school site equity team, but they were all represented at the October 28th meeting. We have 72, which was very impressive, stakeholders that signed up to be a part of it. And

086for our first meeting, of course, there were some conflicts in their calendar, but we had 51. And at first we thought it's going to be too big. And no, it wasn't. We actually broke up into breakout rooms and the 51 that were present, they just engaged in some beautiful conversations around the work. And the people that were represented, the stakeholders that were represented included students, administrators. talking assistant principals, all the principals were there, classified college career specialists. We had some paraprofessionals there. We had some office clerks and of course our teachers. Next slide, please. And I just want to show you a video and this is, we're not going to engage in a conversation around this and a reflection, but this is a condensed version video clip that we kicked off the meeting that I

087wanted to show the board. Go ahead, John. I hope it works. And I always ask my mother, I say, Mother, how come is everything white? I say, why is Jesus white with blonde and blue eyes? Why is the Lord suffering all white men? Angels are white. Pope, Marian, even the angels. I say, Mother, when we die, do we go to heaven? She said, naturally, we go to heaven. I said, what happened to all the black angels when they took the pictures? Thank you, John. And this is back from, I believe, late 60s, maybe early 70s. So this is what the video clip, the condensed version of it, of course, that we presented to the committee. And then can you go to the next slide, John? And these are some of the, we broke out into

088seven or eight, I believe, breakout rooms, about seven or eight people for breakout room. And these are some of the common themes that were identified in the areas of student support that We gathered from, you know, from each of the breakout rooms and, you know, number one, having safe spaces for students to share their concerns, you know, like possibility of a student hotline. You know, the other thing is that's happening and I just want to call out Westmont involving students and more equity discussions. They actually have, don't quote me on this, but I think they have a group that's about 50 students that are actually engaging in equity discussions as well as. the students that are a part of their equity team at the site. And then the other one is culturally relevant leadership opportunities

089for a student. And this also came up when we interviewed students during the Fairness and Belonging Committee interviews, like having more students participate, students of color in our clubs, having more Latinos Unidos at every site, a Black Student Union at every site, more opportunities for students in leadership, yearbook, and of course, electives like journalism. And then this one came up a lot and increased the level of support at all sites for our EL students by giving them, you know, adding additional bilingual aids, more EL TOSA time. The other one is increasing students of color participation in the AP and then IB courses, which is something that we're moving with. forward with with the partnership with equal opportunity schools and then do more to recognize all cultures at the sites not just a day a month

090once a year it's do it all year long instead of just having to do it for that particular day or month and then reviewing this discipline policies to address the high suspensions, the disproportionality of our students of color and supporting our students and offering alternatives to suspension. And then the other one, the last one is care policies around hate speech. John, can you go ahead and change the slide? Thank you. And then these are the top possible topics for professional development. you know, anti-bias and anti-racist PD for all DUHSD employees, cultural relevant pedagogy, implicit bias training. And this one here, they're saying everyone should get it, you know, teachers, board of trustees, and district administrators. restorative practice, justice circles, harm circles. We trained our assistant principals and now expanding it and getting more people trained

091as well as training our teachers to help them identify and giving them the tools to interrupt hate speech. Next slide, please, John. And then these are some of the possible changes to district curriculum. And the first one, you know, the curriculum change, what came up is there are a couple of teachers. I do want to give them a huge shout out. They're actually working on developing. an African American history, Mexican American history class or other history elective. And this is Mr. Chris Mock and Ricky Aguirre at Boynton. Chris Mock is at Westmont. And they began working on that, similar to what Mr. Mike Westinosa did for the ethnic... Literacy literature course and then a creation of work culturally relevant curriculum for our pretty much all the different courses providing more resources training on district expectations

092for inclusive curriculum and then this one came up in multiple breakout rooms eliminating English honors courses At all the sites next slide, please And then this one here came up. This is another bucket. The parent support, which is critical to the success of our students. The number one that came up was offering translation support at each school site, not only in Spanish, but in as many languages as possible. You know, translating parent-student handbooks. board policies, and also a lot of important documents like your single plan for student achievement. I mean, there's just so many documents that we could translate into multiple languages so that our community can read them and update themselves on district policy. And then hiring of community liaisons. We do have community liaisons at each of the sites. We are sharing, there

093is a part-time at Branham and a part-time at Ely High School. And so their recommendation is, you know, that's something that could help our students, our community getting more parent engagement, increasing our parent engagement. And then this one here I thought was a great idea, getting, tapping some of our parents that are already involved and engaging our parents and creating this parent task force so that they can identify possible. you know, parent education opportunities. Currently, you know, I've gone to a couple of graduations for Pique that a couple of sites are off, actually three sites, Westmont, Prospect, and Del Mar, and just getting more parent involvement and creating this task force where parents can now engage and identify the possibilities of, you know, trainings for our parents. Next slide, please. Thank you. And then just

094next steps. Remember, this was our first meeting. This is just the tip of the iceberg. It's not, it was only a 90-minute meeting. The sites, the teams did go back. They had homework. They had to identify practices, policies, take these back with them. They have all, they have access to all the notes. that were identified and all the practices and policies. And now they went back to their sites. They had a meeting in November. Some are going to have a meeting in December. We do have a scheduled meeting on January 27th where we're going to then now engage in, okay, what have you identified and what do you need? What are the barriers? What resources do you need? And then we'll come back and give you another update. Hopefully. in February or so or March.

095So next slide please. And I believe that's it. So do you have any questions? Yeah, so let's go ahead and jump back to BoardView. Thank you, German. And I can kick us off if you want. I think, you know, from my perspective, I think this is really beautiful, right? And I think the reason I use that word is because it's not a top-down solution to this problem that I think has been pervasive in our, in our, not just our school, but all schools for a very long time, but it's very bottom up. It's involving about 70 plus people in the discussion and seeing what comes out of that. And then being supportive as we move to actually correct some of the things that are the top issues. And I think it's a really good starting

096point and thank you for, for leading it. I just want to echo the shout outs for Mike Espinosa, Chris Mock, and Ricky Aguirre. I know that they have been engaging in this work with educators across the county in terms of developing curriculum. And it's no small task. And so just want to echo that. This is very exciting. I think it's... It's good to step back. I think that slide of like, here are all the things that have happened made me go, whoa, okay. So like, you know, we just get so caught up in the day-to-day, hour-by-hour, especially with, you know, now we have a vaccine and now there's this and this on the, you know. I think it's good to really be able to zoom out and see what this work is looking like. And

097I'm very pleased to see that we have. so much interest from so many different stakeholders across the district. And I'm looking forward to seeing what the recommendations are, what the barriers are, and how I and we can be supporting that work to be moving forward and to be aligned with the work that's happening on sites, just as board members ourselves, or at least I'll speak for myself. And one more thing, I'm just putting this out there. It's not... It's around language. So I was taking a class this past quarter about leading for diversity, equity, and inclusion and got to read some really great authors. And one was someone who talked about the label of English language learner and how it centers. monolingualism as the norm and English as the asset. And so I've been shifting

098at least my own language to emerging bilinguals because these are actually assets that our students have and that it's not a deficit to not know English. It's an asset that our students know two or possibly even more languages. And so that was kind of a random thing, but I wanted to put that out there. Thank you. I really liked the clip that was shown. I used to cover black-white symbolism quite a bit in literature classes. It really has deep roots in the Middle Ages and the chivalric tradition as well. But watching that reminded me that there is another good-bad symbolism that we don't even think about very much, and I'm thinking of being left-handed. When I was a child, if you showed a tendency to write with your left hand, You were made to write

099with your right hand. I cannot imagine how much psychological damage was done to kids forced to write with the hand that was not their dominant hand. But if you look into the symbolism of being right and left handed, there's a tremendous amount of positive negative symbolism around that. And I think kids who, I mean, I'm way off the subject of race, but we're trying to think about what we can do to make everybody feel included too. Left-handed kids have always had to struggle with our desks and our groupings and a lot of other things. And I just wanted to put it out there that there is some symbolism around that as well that needs to go away. And I have a daughter that's a lefty, by the way. And I had uncles that were lefties

100and they had a pretty bad experience from growing up as lefties. You have to eat with your right hand. You can't eat with your left. I understand. Paul McCartney was a lefty and all of his musical instruments are left-handed instruments, which anyway. I thank you for the report, Herman. I think there's tremendous progress being made. And, and, and I think like, like Kiki said, when you kind of looked at the things that we've already done and I'm kind of like, Oh yeah. We did that. And it does have an impact on, you know, moving the needle for us. And so I'm looking forward to, we just passed our calendar for 2021, and we've actually made room in our governance calendar this year for four governance workshops where we can focus as the governance team on

101what we need to be doing in order to lead our community through this change. So I think that's... I think that's very important. And then the last thing I'll say about that is that, you know, I don't think you can look at this, and I've just seen a couple of some commentary, not from people within our district, but from different... municipalities is that they kind of think of, oh yeah, we've got this equity thing going now. So that's just kind of like another thing to add to the list of things that we have to do. And that's the wrong way to think about this is the wrong way to look at this. And so I know that just in how we are able to reopen learning in-person learning opportunities next semester is going to make

102a huge, huge, huge, huge difference in our efforts towards equity. So you got to look for the progress in just about everything that we do. I particularly liked a formalized consistent process complaint process for ethnic slurs and other such complaints. Happy to see that long overdue. All right. Thank you so much, Ramon. With that, we're going to move on to item 10C, the measure AA bond construction update. And this is one of those things that I definitely need Mr. Wasinger to help with along with Mr. Dome. All right. Hello, everyone. We will go ahead and get started because I know it seems to be a long one. So okay. So good evening board. Our update today will be a little similar to the last one. We're really gearing up for our big projects in the

103spring. The student union at Prospect, the Del Mar. library and admin and later on in the spring, the Boynton multipurpose room and the prospect new classrooms. So we're really getting all our building blocks in place for those, making sure all our budgets and everything are ready for those in the spring while Eric is running around trying to finish up all the seismic that we undertook this fall. So we'll give you a couple of pictures and images of projects that we're finishing up and ones that are in construction. because I think our last presentation focused a little bit more on those bigger projects that I was mentioning in the spring, but we'll take any questions on them. Next slide. So this is an update. I think it was at the last meeting our project budget complete

104diagram was a little misleading and that was separated into some more accurate categories. $15 million of which was a bond payment for a previous payment that we needed to pay off. And that was looking like it was going on our management and operations. So these are more accurately categorized into what they should be. You can see our management and operations is somewhat small and actually a little front loaded. We're not spending nearly as much anymore as a lot more kind of startup costs for our facilities team. Under construction, a majority of that right now is the Prospect Student Union, which is on tonight's agenda. That is going to only increase as we get into the spring. I think our highest under construction total was somewhere around $75 million with the two-story buildings going. I think

105this spring we're going to be topping that with our total under construction budgets. So we will be very busy this upcoming spring. as we move closer to our kind of 75% project completion, which will probably happen about this time next year or something like that. Next slide, please. So a couple of projects that are under construction. Next slide, please. We have the Lee Admin Student Services, which is going really well. They're framing everything and you can see they're cutting the existing concrete slab to put in utilities. We walked the site with the principal, Kara Butler, and kind of looked at things in real time. And we're even moving on to kind of discussing finishes and lighting and ceiling heights and everything is coming together well. The contractor is doing a good job. It is very

106different to go in there now and see it completely reframed. It's quite... You almost have to, there's one big concrete block that's in the middle that was like a raised platform before that hasn't been demoed yet. And that's the only orienting thing we have in the building because everything else has been gutted. It is quite different when you walk through the space now, but it's really open. I think it's going to create a really nice entry. This is one of the main lobbies, so it'll be a nice big opening. welcoming space. Next slide please. This is looking back into the lobby in the far that big opening on the kind of left hand side of the screen is where you'll exit the main lobby and onto the campus. Next slide. This was the old entrance

107so that's why it's open there. So this is going to be built in with walls and windows and become principal's office and another office. But you can see just from here, the old entrance has been completely repurposed and moved. So as I was saying, it's a little disorienting. It's going to be a very different look and a different flow, which I think is going to be so much better than what it was. It'll have a new, grand, obvious entrance to the campus. Next slide. The Prospect High School press box. The second installment at a higher height is complete. We are just waiting on some guardrails and the ladder that gets up there. It's about a five foot ladder that will be there. Eric and I went up there recently and it is much better at

108this height. When you stand up at the top bleachers, you don't see anyone's heads. You get a clear view. So this is... what it kind of should have been before and now it's been corrected. So this is almost done except for the ladder. Next slide. This is the back. So this is what we had to do to get it to that height. Build basically a big concrete box and fill it with compacted dirt and then rebury that box. So it just kind of shows that everything that is underground is sometimes the most complicated and sometimes most expensive. And Eric and I always joke that we bury a lot of our headaches and costs in some of these projects. And this one is one that the most complicated part is then just covered up. But that's

109how it goes. Next slide, please. All right, board. This is Eric Wassinger, executive director of facilities, taking over the slides now. This is the asphalt behind Branham. This is a new AC that we did from the back from Meridian all the way over to Dent. And this is about 95% done. They got all the driveway in, and they've done the two new tennis courts that we had the portables on. Those have been replaced. And now they're getting ready to start the actual tennis court side of it. But this was about a week ago, and they had good weather. It's turned out really very nice. Next slide, please. As you can see down by the baseball field, this is the first row they went there. They put a nice bender board up all the way around

110it, around all of the planter boxes, and it went very nicely. Next slide, please. Here's kind of the finished product here. In the center of your picture, there's a concrete slab there come outside of the back of the gym. This used to be a non-compliant area that we've worked on and we have concrete put there and a new handrail is coming in right now. So it's a nice ADA access right back out there onto the blacktop. So you can see this is much nicer than it used to be. Next slide, please. Up and close personal. So it's a nice ADA pathway. Nathan and I kind of teased since I was an inspector and he's the architect, we kind of designed this and it was something that we needed off the back of this building. And

111I wanted it wide enough that if you had to exit the gym in an emergency, you'd have plenty of room to get through the double doors and have room to move out there. So it's ADA compliant. Next slide, please. Del Mar Kitchen. So Del Mar Kitchen is moving right along. This is about a week old as well. They've done a lot more work on the inside, all the drywalls up, and they are starting some of the finish work. So it's moving right along, planning to finish this project January, end of January, beginning of February. And then Rory, who's doing a great job feeding our kids right now, he wants to spend about three weeks to program all the new equipment with all of his recipes. so that basically you can push a button and it

112cooks this at 22 minutes and you can press a button and does this. He wants to program all of his equipment so we'll be ready to open this up probably in March is our plan after all the training and his testing on it. So that's exciting here and then we're going to start the Branham cafeteria. Next slide please. So this here is wonderful seismic remodel. I can say it's 99.9% done. We have about another day at Del Mar, but Westmont is all complete. We did the final punch walk today on one of the eight buildings. I know Jason Miller is happy to move back into his office and get everything organized, but Westmont is done seismically for the entire campus and all the ADA upgrades, all those sidewalks that we had to do. I'm happy

113to talk to the inspector and he's able to sign off. on the entire project for that campus with the gymnasium, all the classrooms have been touched, all the sidewalks have been touched. And so it's nice to have that done. Branham's the same situation. We're actually about one week away. There's one bathroom that we're finishing right now, remodel at Branham, and it'll be completely done for seismic. And we're signing off on that with all the ADA as well. And Del Mar has four wings. They've got three countertops to put in Wednesday and Thursday. And Del Mar will be done for four wings that we did during this COVID time. There's still some more buildings there to do, which we'll have to do in the summer times. So seismic is coming to a close, which is our

114plan. December 15th was kind of my drop dead time for all these contractors. And we held them to the fire every day. And so success. Next slide, please. This is some of the outside stucco before they paint. So there used to be windows up top there. And of course, they got enclosed on the right hand on the picture there. It shows the stucco repair and then it all gets painted out. So it looks great. And on the inside, you can see what the old window on the top corner there looks like. It gets infilled with the same board. So it looks nice and attractive when you're on the inside of the classroom. Next slide, please. Student Union at Prospect. So we've had our pre-con meeting last week. We went out there, met the contractor, gave

115him a grueling explanation of the student union and the process that we've gone through. And our public and our community members have... waited patiently for this wonderful project. And we are a strong team with their company and our inspectors and DSA field engineer that we have assigned. Everything's falling into place very nicely. And we are going to be putting fencing up, temporary fencing for safety and then getting our abatement process started and moving forward. This is coming to the board tonight for approval. And we're very excited for this. The contractor's excited. We got it at a really good price. Nathan and I had budgeted this and we were very concerned with this project because it was so big. We had 40 people walk this bid walk, which was unheard of. We had 11 or 12

116bids come in for the bid opening. And I believe the low price was $16,300, followed by $16,400. And the high price was, I forget, $19,000, I think. But one of the things on this project, we had a low contingency plan because by adding... What we figured it might come in as, plus a large contingency, is going to put it over our budget. And so we tried to give it a low contingency. I think it's a brand new building. There shouldn't be a whole lot of stuff there. But now that we came in under budget, we have the extra money set aside because of our original budget we had planned. So it's an exciting project. I had the principal, Paul, meet with the superintendent out there and the vice president of the company. And so we

117had a nice powwow and we're moving forward with getting this ready to... be the wow factor for Prospect. Next slide, please. Any questions? All right. Board, comments, questions? Well done. I want to give just a slightly bigger context on Seismic. Every bond that has been passed at least in Santa Clara County, not just our district, but elementary districts, all that stuff. One of the things they advertise is they're going to do seismic retrofits. And then they never do them because they go, oh, we don't have to do them yet, the things, right? Or they do a couple of buildings, but they don't go for the full scope. But they don't go for the full scope. And so we touched every building. in this school district. And it's done. And that you did it so efficiently

118and effectively is just hats off, hats, hats, hats off to you guys. I want to thank you again. I love the asphalt at Branham. I love how the exit to the gym. And all that other stuff. And as I was looking at that picture, I was thinking, what a great place for a mural. Anyway, that's all I have. Speaking of murals, I love the bear on the end facing Meridian. But I feel like we need a bear on the other end. So it's actually being designed right now, Linda. Oh, really? On the other end, not the first building, but the second building. The first building has a tree covering it. The second building is going to have a second logo. Yes, ma'am. Oh, that's just fantastic. I really like everything I'm seeing. And what is

119our projected completion date? I'm sure it's a long way out, but for Del Mar, for the admin building. That one right now is, I'll say just to round it, is about April 1st next year. So not 2021, 2022. So April 1st, 2022, somewhere around there. Yeah, that's a big project. Thank you. Already heard thank you for the press box from one of the announcers. So thank you. Looks great. And I've been watching the pool. Get through some weather. We'll probably be done there soon. Other thoughts, questions? Cool. Thank you both so much. Please pass your thanks along to the dozens and dozens of people who make all this possible. And for doing it, it looks, I mean, everything we've done looks really amazing and you've done it in a super cost-effective way. So thank you

120for always looking out for the district. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you. All right, trustees, that takes us to item 10D. And then afterwards, I'll see if we need like a little break. Usually we try to do that about two hours in. So we have a first reading of some board policies. Dr. Bravo, do you want to introduce these? Yes, trustees. These are all suggestions from CSBA and basically mostly changes the law. The different assistant superintendents have reviewed the ones that pertain to the areas they oversee. I don't think any of these would be particularly objectionable or concerning to the board members, but we will bring them back in January for you to vote on. Any feedback, thoughts, questions in between now and January 21st? I read through them. Everything seems to make perfect sense to

121me. I had no suggestions. All right. I read through them as well. The one that seemed to have some questions in the guide sheet were cleared up once I read it. And that was on insurance, believe it or not. But yeah, thank you. Perfect. All right. So trustees, would you like to take a recess at this point? Okay, so let's come back at 8.43 p.m. All right, so if trustees are back, go ahead and turn on your cameras. Get this party started. All right. Welcome back, everyone. It is 8.44 p.m. Call the meeting back to order. And we're on item 11, which is our consent calendar. Action on all consent calendar items will be acted upon in one motion with no discussion prior to the board vote, unless a board member or the superintendent requests

122that any such item be removed from the consent calendar for discussion by trustees or any interested party. Each consent item approved by the board shall be deemed to have been considered in full and adopted as recommended. Is there any item on the consent calendar tonight that someone wants to pull for discussion? Move to approve. 13A. Okay. So. 13A. Amended in motion. Move to pull 13A. Yeah, we got it. So, okay. So 13A, does anyone want anything else pulled? Okay. So there's a motion on the floor by Robert to approve the consent calendar with the exception of 13A and Trustee Eric is the second. Any more discussion? All right, seeing none, can we please have a roll call vote? Trustee Gallagher. Aye. Trustee Arismith. Aye. Trustee Brown. Aye. Trustee Goitia. Aye. And Trustee Verich. Robert, is

123that an aye? Yeah, can you hear me now? Yeah, got it. Cool. Classes 5-0. Item 13A is to approve agreement with Santa Clara County Office of Education for COVID-19 testing. Linda, do you want to start with an introduction? No, I just wanted to know if that was the same agreement that three of the JPAs had entered into for the saliva testing or is it something different? This is a piggyback, just similar to what you were mentioning earlier regarding SBCTE and MetroEd. The county arranged for an overall contract for districts in the county, and it is self-administered tests. The employee administers themselves while being observed by a trained person on our staff, and it is saliva. There's a full set of procedures. Okay, so it's the same one? Same one, yep. And this will be done

124where? We're hoping, well, we're planning to begin in January and it will begin with an initial sort of logistical ramp up at the district office to begin to just sort of work out all the kinks in the processes and then on the school sites. Okay. Thank you. I'm sorry. Just one more question. The tests, are these antibody tests or are they actually the other kind of tests? They're the actual virus test. I always get antigen, I believe, right? They're the actual test of the virus. So it is, yeah, go ahead. And then are they? rapid or do you have to wait seven days? It's not, it's sort of in between. Typically, results come within two to three days. We do have a process where we send them to a curative and then we have a

125dashboard where we see the results and then, sorry, the employee receives the results and it's two to three days right now. Okay, thank you. I'll second Linda's motion. Any more discussion? All right, can we get a roll call vote, please? Trustee Gallagher. Aye. Aye. Oh, you're muted, Bob. Well, I heard your aye, so I thought you were here. Okay. Trustee Aerosmith. Aye. Trustee Brown. Aye. Trustee Goitia. Aye. And Trustee Barrett. Aye. All right. With a 5-0 vote, it passes. Item 17A is consideration of action regarding the district response to COVID-19. Dr. Bravo? Thank you, trustees. So earlier in the meeting today, I made reference to a new survey released last week from the Public Policy Institute of California. Some of the other things that we know from that survey, six in 10 Californians expect the

126state's children will be worse off financially than their parents. And more than two-thirds said the state's gap between the rich and poor is widening. And about six in 10 said they expect mostly periods of widespread unemployment or depression during the next five years. So a lot of people not looking forward to the future with a lot of enthusiasm. In contrast, though, last week, the UCLA's Anderson School of Business put out an economic forecast for the state that was far more optimistic. predicting that the U.S. economy is going to experience, quote, a gloomy COVID winter and an exuberant vaccine spring, end quote, followed by years of robust growth. Quote, the 20s, meaning the 2020s, not the 1920s, but the 20s will be roaring, but with several months of hardship first. So who's right? I don't know.

127But I just share these things just to hopefully remind everybody that telling the future is not such an easy thing to do. And I bring this up because for multiple reasons. And I know that we want the comfort of feeling like we know it's going to happen, but we always just can't do it. Part of the reason why I bring this up as well, though, is that in a little, in probably just a few moments, you're going to hear the first interim report from our chief business official. And on the plus side is we have more money right now than we thought we would. Or is it a plus, right? Because we want to be able to project as accurately as we can. Our budget's going into the future. So we are going to show

128more money than we thought we would right now. And there are some good reasons for it, though, because we built a budget expecting that the state might take back its basic aid from the district. We also built a budget that could sustain the greater costs of being in person. if we were to do that sooner than we ended up doing. Additionally, when you first passed the budget in June, property taxes weren't in yet because the deadline had been delayed. So I just want to say, board, I think we all did the best we could with what we knew at the time, but we don't know the future. And so I'm going to suggest to you, though, that... We do know that we have a lot of kids, more kids failing than we usually do. That

129is something that we do know. And we believe there's going to be significant need for credit recovery, as just the President McCarthy made reference to. And so some of the surplus that we have, I want you to know that we've got uses for it. So please don't, we're, we are not going to sit on it in the second semester. I think we're going to need to deploy much of it just to do what we can to make sure that the kids stay on track for graduation. This weekend, I had a fantastic experience getting to visit Prospect High School. And I think Trustee Verich visited this program, but I visited it myself this weekend. This is the program that's going on there. We have three of Prospect's math teachers are teaching math one classes on Saturday.

130So kids go and they have class from nine to noon. And this was the brainchild of Raphael Alapont at Prospect. And I had an opportunity to talk with him a little bit. And he just shared with me. that when he was seeing how many of his students were failing integrated math one, he felt like he needed to do something. And so he put a call out to some of his math colleagues and Mr. Lopez at Prospect, as well as Susan Peck at Prospect said, yeah, we'll do it. So we have three teachers doing math one on Saturdays. That's exactly the kinds of things that I hope that we can get more of going second semester. Because the idea of trying to provide some in-person opportunities, we don't have to look just at the regular school

131year or the Monday to Friday regular school day. But if we get people, perhaps we can get folks interested in, I'll do a night class to help with credit recovery. Or I'll do a Saturday. so that someone who's not being successful in the online learning can come in and learn from it. So I was just tremendously impressed by what those teachers are doing over there. And Mr. Allupont, he sort of designed the learning environment. He's got everything in there, the kinds of things we've been talking about. He has the... plexiglass partitions for the kids. Actually, not only does he actually have both the face covering and the mask, the face mask shield, but actually all the kids have the shields too. They have, they put in, he's got some true HEPA filters in the rooms

132too. I mean, he has really, of course, Principal Paul Penzis has assisted and he was there assisting. he had a hockey stick with him because it's about six feet. So he could go around and check and make sure people were maintaining six feet by measuring it with this hockey stick. But it was, but, you know, and the students that were involved, there was a tremendous amount of gratitude on their part. You know, Ms. Peck, who I had a chance to talk to a little bit, she's not even teaching Math 1 this year. He's the calculus teacher. But when Mr. Allupon approached her, she said, yeah, I'll do it. So that's exactly the kinds of things that we're going to use up some of that surplus. So I just want to, I sort of wanted to

133front load a little bit, Ms. Dizon's presentation. So folks don't just hear dollar signs and think, ooh, I mean, what are we going to do with it? I think that we will have plenty of need to use it. Additionally, expanded summer school will probably be another piece of the program. So I apologize in advance to Ms. Dizon if I took any of her, stole any of her thunder from her presentation. But I just wanted to put that out there. And really, I just wanted the opportunity, again, to thank prospect math teachers, Mr. Alapont, Mr. Lopez, and Ms. Peck, and Principal Paul Pinza for their efforts. Dr. Bravo, one correction. I know there's one other teacher that's involved, and they alternate days. I know that one wasn't there for you because they were there for me.

134I'm sorry, I don't remember the name. So there's four. Okay. Thank you. Appreciate that. And that is the conclusion of my comment. Well, Bob, if I can just comment on your comment. That report is probably the best news I've heard in a really long time, and it does not surprise me in the least. that we have teachers that are finding solutions and stepping up to go the extra mile to do things like that. I think I shared this with you at one point when my youngest son, Craig, was in IM3. at Branham and it was the year of the first, uh, the textbook came in and, and, and everybody was struggling with the textbook and Branham had a ridiculous amount of students that were failing and with D's and they did a similar thing where

135they just had afterschool reteaching, tutoring. And, um, and it turns out that Cheryl Lawton's a, uh, math teacher. And my son came home and he said, wow, Mrs. Lott is a really good math teacher. Who'd have thunk it? But that type of focused effort, they had every student but one pass the semester. So I'm just thrilled to hear stories like that. And if there's more, please, please share. I'm sure this is going on at all of our schools. And so thank you to the prospect teachers and thank you to all the teachers that are going that extra mile for our students. In the effort to get the correct name in, it's Mina Salih. Mina Salih is the other math teacher. All right. Thank you, Dr. Bravo. That's going to take us to item 17B to

136discuss and consider approval of resolution 35, 12, 14, 20, affirming the Campbell unit high school district's intent to implement a phased return to in-person high school services. We do have two comments on this one. And so if we can get Allison LaBoeuf on the line as our first caller. All right. Hi, Allison. You're on with the board and you have three minutes whenever you're ready. Take it away. All right, thank you. I'll be blunt. The resolution you have in front of you tonight is a blatant, bad-faced attempt to circumvent both the bargaining process and the law. It is intended to bully, manipulate, and intimidate Chista at the bargaining table. It contains multiple factual inaccuracies, and it is not legally defensible. Our current agreement clearly states that renegotiation only takes place when the board votes that

137it will implement an instructional model other than distance learning or traditional learning, referring to a hybrid instructional model. In order for an instructional model to be considered hybrid, it must include in-person instruction. Levels 1 and 2 of the superintendent's recommendations do not include in-person instruction, as in-person tutorials are not considered instruction. Only Levels 3 and 4 include some form of in-person instruction. We will be starting this semester at Level 1, which is distance learning, and even if the Board votes to move to Level 2 on January 14th, we will still be in distance learning and not in a hybrid model. Therefore, it is simply a lie to say that the Board voted on December 1st that we will implement hybrid instruction. The Board only voted that we may potentially implement hybrid instruction at an unspecified

138date in the future. As of right now, we are in distance learning, and come January 4th, we will still be in distance learning. If and when we move to level two, we will still be in distance learning. The intent of this resolution is clear. It is designed to force teachers back onto campuses and into close contact with each other and students in violation of the existing agreement with CHFTA, which is in place until June 30th, unless we transition out of distance learning. The teachers of this district are united against this flagrant power grab, and we will not be bullied. We intend to hold the district accountable to negotiate with the teachers in good faith. To vote to approve this resolution is to violate the law, standards of ethical conduct, and the trust of every teacher

139in this district. Thank you and good night. Thank you, Allison. We're going to move to our next caller, who is John McGowan. All right, I have John here. Hi, John. You're on with the board, and you have three minutes whenever you're ready. Take it away. You know, I've been out of the classroom so long that I've lost my immunity to talking in front of groups, and I find myself nervous. I'm like, what the heck, man? I stand in front of 30 teenagers every day, or I used to. So my name is John McGowan. I teach math at Prospect. Thank you for listening to my opinion. I imagine you are not short of people giving you their opinions, and I have one more. Sorry, I'm getting feedback. I'm hearing myself through the headphones. Let me just

140stop that. But some facts. So in the 12-1 school board meeting, part of it included a report on Los Alamitos High School. And I just started looking at the website tonight. As of today, they have 28 students who are sick with COVID and nine staff. And the district as a whole has 51 students who are sick with COVID and 22 staff. They're bigger than us, so proportionally our numbers would be 40 students sick with COVID and 18 staff. But, you know, they're also a bigger county, so who knows? But that's just the facts. The opinion goes something like this. The opinions you're going to hear come down to people are afraid to go and get sick for things they think may not be worth it. The vaccine's coming. If we wait, it'll be better. We

141won't lose staff. If we don't, we might. I don't know. It comes down to, for me, you know, in education, we face obstacles to student achievement, and we work hard to overcome them, right? COVID is not an obstacle. It's a threat. And distance learning has kept us safe from that threat. Distance learning is not an obstacle to overcome that we have to work around. It's the thing that's keeping us safe. It's the thing that's allowing us to educate kids in anything. So, an opinion for what it's worth. Thank you. Thank you, John. All right, and that concludes our public comments on this item, so we'll move into consideration of 17B. Dr. Bravo, you're on mute. Trustees, this resolution has, in fact, been reviewed for us by legal counsel, and I don't think there's anything illegal

142about it at all. And we've had some of our stakeholders. including members, I think that Ms. LeBeouf has been one, who has suggested that bargaining really isn't necessary right now because the board didn't make a vote to trigger the need for it. I think we just heard her suggest that we need to bargain in good faith. So I'm a little... bit confused then. Are we supposed to be bargaining or not? I think that we, meeting my team, my administrators, have been very consistent that we feel like we need to bargain. And so we just want to make sure that there's no confusion about that. I'll move to approve. I'll second. All right, so motion by me, second by Stacey. Any discussion? I want to say something about what John just shared in his opinion about

143people being afraid. And I understand that. I know that, you know, we're all afraid. It's not just teachers, not just students. We're all afraid. And, you know, as Bob mentioned before, we're going to be. You know, who knows what the next couple of months are going to look like and who knows what the back end of 2021 looks like and things like that. But I just want to acknowledge that there's that there's fear there. But in every single briefing that I go to with public health and when I listen to Dr. Cody and I have actually have access to new briefings now. I hear. time and time again that schools can operate safely during coronavirus if we follow the guidelines. And I disagree with President Kim McCarthy's, the way she described what this vote for

144us is going to mean tonight. This is just letting this is clarifying the intent um so i support this all right any other discussion all right seen that can we please have a roll call vote trustee gallagher aye trustee harrismith aye trustee brown aye trustee goitia you're muted linda hi and trustee barrett The 5-0 vote, it passes. That's going to take us to item 17C, the Campbell Union High School District nomination for California School Boards Association Delegate Assembly for the 2021-2023 term. And trustees, this is an opportunity for you to nominate as a body one or more board trustees in this geographical region to serve on the CSBA Delegate Assembly. Does anyone from our board want to be nominated? All right. Does anyone want to nominate a member of another board? All right. So that

145will take us out of 17C and onto our next item. Great. Item 18A is to approve resolution 31, credential assignment options. Christy's I might just introduce both of these to give you a little bit more background. You've seen both the Ed code credential assignment options and waivers before you, but I do just want to note. You may have heard that the state has embarked on a statewide assignment accountability system called Cal SAS and through this work we are able to do a deeper credential. Sorry assignment monitoring process with the county office and It is up and running and launched. And as you know, in a high school master schedule. It takes a deeper look to be able to analyze our employees with their credentials and the courses that they teach and those courses change over

146time. So we've been able to work with the county office to identify and are coming to you with these two credential requests. One again is an Ed code assignment, if you will, under the Ed code and one is the waiver. Again, through partnership with the county so that we can make sure that our staff are appropriately credentialed for the courses that they teach. Thank you. And trustees, I apologize. I keep muting people when they're off because we're getting some audio feedback from someone who's off mute. So that's why you might see host is muting you. And with that, is there any motion? Move to approve. Second. All right. Motion by Robert, second by Christina. Discussion? This is 18A. All right. Can we get a roll call vote? Trustee Gallagher. Aye. Trustee Aerosmith. Aye. Trustee Brown?

147Aye. Trustee Goytia? Aye. Trustee Verich? Aye. All right, passes 5-0. 18B is to approve resolution 34, credential waiver. Move to approve. Second. All right, motion by Stacey, second by Christina. Any discussion? All right, seeing none, can we get a roll call? Trustee Gallagher? Aye. Trustee Arismith? Aye. Trustee Brown. Aye. Trustee Goytia. Aye. Trustee Verich. Aye. All right, 5-0 passes. 19A is to approve the 2021 through 2024 Canvas Learning Management System Services Order Form and the infrastructure terms and conditions. We do have a public comment on this, so we'll start with that, and then we'll move into the item. Can we get James Lucas on the phone, please? All right, Caitlin, I have James here. Hi, James. John with the board. Whenever you're ready, take it away. You'll have three minutes. Thank you, trustees. I'm James

148Lucas. I'm a science teacher at Delmar High School. I'm here because I want to talk about something a little more interesting to us teachers. I mean, you've heard my opinions many times on item 17B, so we're going to move on to something way more exciting, grading. So I know you're a little surprised to hear about grading because you're about to talk about a learning management system, but I'll make it a little more clear in just one second why I'm talking to you about grading right now. Before I do, I do want to thank you for voting for AR5121, which encourages mastery learning. I want to mention that... I hear from the board a lot about transforming education, and I just want to make sure it's totally clear to you that teachers also want education to

149better serve students when we return to in-person learning. My vision, I have a vision of students who are focused on learning rather than checking off points. Students who realize they don't understand learning goal A2, calculating the momentum of objects after an inelastic collision. And when they realize that, they look for lessons that help them understand it. Because today, I have students who think it's important to check off the homework that was due three weeks ago, rather than master the content they don't understand. I participated in a small pilot at Del Mar before COVID through a learning platform called Altitude Learning Alt School. Students and I shared a dashboard that was coded by learning goal. Their progress was categorized as emerging, practicing, meeting, and advanced. They could even see the day they reached meeting for a

150particular learning goal. And you know what happened? students started to ask for extra practice on the learning goals they didn't understand. Sue Lyle, in an article about lecturing, mentioned one of the problems we have. Most of our teachers today have spent long years of apprenticeship in the old systems. We came through a system that was lecturing. We came through a system that used the 100-point scale. I think software engineers have too because they keep designing grade books that are only appropriate for the old 100-point system. In Canvas, I'd have to use a hack. I'd have to assign one to four to these categories. The problem is we're back to the old system where students are focused on points and not on learning. So here's my ask. Today, ask staff if the Canvas contract includes standard-based

151grading tools in support of AR 5121. Encourage staff to budget for Master A grading tools as part of the LMS budget. I haven't researched a particular option, and Altitude's pricing isn't reasonable, but if you're unsure of what implementing mastery gradebooks looks like, ask your teachers. Help teachers by giving us the tools we need. Plan for the AC after COVID future. Don't just vote for an AR. Budget the tools and training that allows us to implement your vision with fidelity and help us to continue to transform learning. And remember... All the science teachers on the pilot had students asking for extra practice. Thank you very much. James, and then we will... Kaylin? Yes. Could I ask the caller, because some of it at the beginning of his presentation, I didn't quite get, but I really liked

152what I was hearing toward the end. If the board could be emailed what he just said. Yeah, so James if you're watching this or want to like the concept. Yeah, please. Can you please email What you said to me or to straight to Linda I can circulate it with the board or email all of us however you want to do it just Send to all of us and Thank you. All right without any further ado. We're gonna move over to the introduction of this item. Dr. Bravo who's introducing this item? Mr. Cerda. All right, Hermann, take it away. All right, thank you. So this year, this agenda item is actually a three and a half year. We're looking to secure a three and a half year agreement with Canvas that we've been piloting for the

153past six months at four of the sites. This would include, would cover all the 9,000 students. And comparing this agreement with School Loop, we're paying, I think, close to $80,000 for School Loop. And School Loop does not do what Canvas is doing. Teachers are using it to develop lessons, assessments. Students, of course, have access to it. Parents have access to it so they can monitor their students' academic progress. And so I believe we're at around $48,000 per year if we do enter in this agreement with Canvas Learning Management System. So can I ask some questions? Because I had questions before Mr. Lucas's comments. And what I want to say to Mr. Lucas is right on. These are just licenses. Are there opportunities to purchase professional services from Canvas? And, and the reason I bring that

154up is, you know, I've had a very long career in professional development in software development. And You know, you buy a tool, you buy the licenses, and then the implementation is either it meets a certain percentage of what the requirements really are. And it's really all about gathering those requirements up front and phasing things in and having multi-generational plans for how you add in functionality and all that other stuff. And unfortunately, we grabbed. or we moved to Canvas in the middle of this crisis. And when you're in the middle of a crisis, the first thing that you do is you get yourself out of the crisis, right? You have to manage yourself to get out, you know, get safe, get stable, and then you could go back and repair and improve and all those other

155things. That was a long way of me saying, what kind of plans do we have in place to come back and take what we've stabilized a lot of now through the first semester of distance learning and truly grow it into the platform that it needs to be to support our vision for mastery and transforming instruction and things like that. And so one of the things we're actually, we are contracting with the Canvas consultants that each of the sites that are currently highlighting, well, that are currently on Canvas. Del Mar is not, by the way. They're not using Canvas, but we are. contracting with them where we at first when we first started with them we allocated approximately 28 hours of professional canvas expert time where they actually conduct training for administrators for teachers We added

156an additional 30 or so additional hours of consultation time and we're still working on building what the needs are, or assessing, I'm sorry, what the needs are as far as Canvas. We are scheduling weekly, if not biweekly Q&As that of course we're gonna have to assess whether that's... you know, getting us where we want to go. But definitely now that we have the Instructional Technology Coordinator, she's also getting trained as well from Canvas and they're coming up with a PD plan for next semester and then following years and Emily Hansen, the Curriculum and Instruction Director is also working closely with the Professional Development Committee to also assess what types of professional development we're going to need to ensure that we're implementing Canvas and that it's actually giving the teachers the tools that they need and

157training that they need to fully implement it for the benefit of our kids, of course. Herman, do you, so I just went through, cause I know that I, I mean, I use Canvas and I've seen mastery, a mastery grade book within my, um, Canvas account. Um, and my quick research here is that it's still in beta, but do you know, um, what the. You know, because I think there are some features that are turned on by the district. Are there features that cost additional or are those settings that are just decided by the district? Because it does seem that there is that setting, but that it might still be in beta. I'm sure that they're developing it, but wanted to know what you do know about that. I don't know much about that. I don't

158know if it was John or Jen that did meet with them regarding that particular function. John, I don't know if you want to speak to that. It is in beta. That's my understanding. I can speak to their pricing structure. The Canvas has been mostly inclusive. So if this is a beta feature, it is something that we would have to request to enable for our teachers. And generally speaking, there hasn't been much cost associated with enabling those additional features. Where we have some areas where it may cost a little bit more is if we need to customize the system to do our own thing. But if it's something that Canvas is developing for their community, it's generally not something we've had to have to pay for. Well, I'm in full support of this. I think that,

159you know, I think as we heard from a caller and probably heard from different feedback throughout the fall is that as people are transitioning to a new system, which I think is the best one that is out there. And I think the smart path to take, it's important that they have access to. like Stacey said, learning opportunities to get their questions answered, to be able to say, hey, like I found this cool feature, what's the pathway to try to get into my account? Because they're all going to learn through this together. I do like the idea that this would put our entire district on something similar as opposed to having two kind of different paths and two different practices at different sites. Yeah, so those are my thoughts on my vote yes when it's time.

160Are you looking for a motion, Mr. President? If that's the pleasure of the board, we can take a motion. Because I will move to approve the acquisition of these licenses. Second. All right. So, Robert, seconded. All right. So, we have a motion by Stacey, a second by Robert. Is there any more discussion? I'm going to do it now instead of in future planning, but I would be very interested as we are moving out of the crisis and into the stabilization and transitioning our new instructional technology leader into her new role at some point in the future, kind of seeing what the vision is for how we're going to deploy. or what we're going to deploy and how Canvas is going to support it. One more question. It says that the budget source for this is

161the CARES Act funds, but that's just for the, is that for the length of the entire agreement or is that for this year? For the entire contract. For the entire contract. So you're prepaying the licenses? My understanding is. I think that's a smart use of the money. I do really hear what our teacher was talking about in terms of mastery learning. And I'm supportive of Canvas. I think that... developing the consistency will allow our teachers and students to become better at using the tool. I think it does work well. And I would like to, I would really like to find a way, you know, as we have districts and counties getting into these contracts, right? We have some some pull and being able to ask for certain things from the LMS. And so being able

162to find a pathway to be able to implement the mastery grading within Canvas. I think that that is important. And it seemed from what I can tell, it seems possible to do that. And just circling back on what Stacey was talking about, are there other board members who want a report of that nature? If so, what does that look like? Is it, is there a light touch version? Like what, what's the pleasure of the board? What was the request again? I just want to see at some point in the future, kind of what the plan looks like for what we're, what we're going to build out with this tool. I'd be, I'd be interested in seeing like the beginnings versions of that, right? Not the, like maybe the, the quick and then see if we

163need to dive deeper. I don't want this to be deep. Yeah, yeah. That's what I'm just trying to like, y'all do this, right? Like myself included is like, I'm just trying to get to define what that looks like. Are there other trustees though? Is there a third that wants to see? I'm interested to see that. That plus what our speaker was talking about. What if there's a module being developed, what that looks like. And I'll reach out to our Canvas rep just to make sure that it's what the pricing is, if there is pricing and any additional information about when it would be either a publicly available beta or something more formal, like a completed product. It sounds like we might even have some information we can share with them if they don't, if they're

164not aware of this, thanks to Mr. Lucas and his colleagues. Right. Great. So the motion is still on the floor, correct? There's a lot going on. Okay. So we're going to take a vote and it's going to be a roll call vote. And Dr. Bravo, can you lead us through it? Trustee Gallagher. Aye. Trustee Arisman. Aye. Trustee Brown. Aye. Trustee Goytia. Aye. Trustee Varitch. Aye. All right. Passes with a 5-0 vote. Item, it's a crease on my thing. This is 20, right? 20A. is a public hearing on adopting Resolution 33 on annual and five-year reports for fiscal year 2019-2020. I will open the public hearing. If anyone would like to speak on this item, now is the time to do so. I'm checking and there's nothing. I'll be speaking on the item. Great, thank you.

165At this point, I'll close the public hearing and then we'll move on to staff. April, take it away. Before she starts, wait a minute. Before she starts, I just want to, Mr. President, let you know that she was very concerned about conforming to the 15-minute rule. And I told her because of the import and nature of this report, you would probably be okay if she went a little bit over. HAB-Jacques Juilland, If. HAB-Jacques Juilland, Maybe 16. HAB-Masyn Moyer, We're going to try our best. HAB-Jacques Juilland, Well, it is important. Right. So, so go through it. And then also, you know, HAB-Masyn Moyer, Are we done with 20. I'm sorry. HAB-Masyn Moyer, I need to introduce it. HAB-Masyn Moyer, So we had a public hearing. Now we're hearing the item. Okay. Of 20-80. So to be

166good stewards of public funds and to ensure transparency, public agencies who receive developer fees must comply with reporting requirements. And what this is, is an accounting of our developer fees in the fiscal year 19-20, how much we've received, any interest earned, and what we used it for. All right. Oh, yes. I think I can't. I spoke too soon. Yes, yes. And I caused some. I thought I got away from having to speak on that item. I know you're excited for that. So am I. So so just just I apologize. I'm going to recap what just happened. We had a public hearing on 20A, which is a DOP Resolution 33 on the annual and five year reports. Is there a motion? Move to approve. Second. All right. Motion by Stacey, second by Christina. Any discussion? Great.

167Thank you for doing this. Can we have a roll call? Trustee Gallagher. Aye. Trustee Arismith. Aye. Trustee Brown. Aye. Trustee Goytia. Aye. Trustee Varick. Aye. All right. So 20A is done. Now we're on 20. B, approve the 2021 first interim fiscal status report reflecting positive district certification. Bob, anything you want to add? No. He has stolen my thunder. All right. Go ahead, April, whenever you're ready. All right. It is my pleasure to present to you tonight the 2021. First interim report. And before I begin, I'd like to echo Dr. Bravo's statement. We do have a solid financial position today, due in large part to effective resource management, receipts of one-time stimulus funds, and sound decisions made by the trustees when we adopted the budget in June. Our job is to facilitate the future and one

168of our key strategies is to invest in our resources to ensure student achievement and to enable students to create their futures. So the topics of discussion tonight we will start with an introduction, highlight the material changes since the June adopted budgets, walk through the first interim financial statements, discuss some of our budget challenges, and finally wrap up with the budget process and next steps. Per state law, the district is required to twice a year certify its revenues and expenditures. The first interim report reflects our activities from July 1 to October 31, and it must be adopted by December 15. The second interim report will be presented to you in March. We recommend a positive certification, which means that we're able to meet our financial obligations in the current year and two subsequent years. Now I

169want to take you back to what our key assumptions were when we adopted the budget in June. Remember that the adopted budget is based on the Governor's May revision, and the Governor's May revision is usually built upon actual personal income tax receipts collected, as well as stable economic projections. However, both were missing this year due to the pandemic. As tens of millions of people lost their jobs, there was an extension to the income tax filing deadline. And ultimately, state revenues were expected to plummet. As a result, we assumed a loss of our minimum state aid funding of $3.8 million in 2021 and $11.4 million over three years. Now we know when the governor enacted his budget, there were no real cuts to school funding. So now we're able to add this back to our multi-year

170projections, which will really help us in the out years as we are projecting to deficit spend. Property tax growth was assumed to be 4% in 2021 and 0% for the two out years, again, due to the uncertainty of the pandemic. Beginning fund balance was projected to be $18 million, but we actually ended the year with $4 million more. All right, 11 years of economic expansion came to a screeching halt this year. But as it turns out, state revenues have come in actually much more resilient than anticipated. You might have heard or read about the LAO's fiscal outlook. What this is, is a report that shows us what state revenues could look like prior to the governor releasing his budget in January. The key findings of this report highlight what they refer to as a very

171large windfall taking shape. What this means is that actual revenues collected are much higher than anticipated. So there is this one time. monies or funding available. And at this point, we don't know what that means for us. There is speculation that this will be used to pay down deferrals, but as a community funded district, that will have minimal impact for us. Property tax adjustments in Santa Clara County, the applications for exemptions or reductions to property taxes have increased by 210% this year, mainly due to commercial properties in the hospitality and retail sectors who have suffered from the pandemic and continue to suffer due to the shelter in place orders and also softening in the condominium and multifamily home sector. So this will reduce our growth in property taxes next year, but as far as the

172magnitude of the effects are still unknown. President-elect Biden, we hear that he offers a robust education policy and we look forward to seeing how that plays out. All right, now let us go through the material changes since the adopted budget. In our revenues, we are adding back our minimum state aid of $3.8 million, 11.4 over three years. We have a property tax growth of $716,000 in the current year, and we've updated our property tax growth percentages up from 4% to 4.67% in 2021 and from 0% to 2% in the subsequent years. So what I've learned from my conversations with the County Tax Assessor's Office, Santa Clara County of Ed, and fellow Basic Aid CBOs. I've learned that it is very difficult in a normal year to project your property tax growth. It is like a

173science and an art. Add to that a pandemic and it makes it almost impossible. So what I can guarantee you is that these numbers are going to be updated when we have better information. Our expenditures, as I mentioned, we received one-time stimulus fundings, and it's really helped our unrestricted general fund. You'll notice a significant decrease to our salaries and expenditures. This is due to the repurposing of salaries to LLMF of $435,000. These are your bus drivers who were helping deliver meals, counselors, or any PD related to COVID. And we have some unspent salaries and expenses due to COVID restrictions. These include summer school, your athletics and activity stipends, as well as substitute costs as people are not calling in sick as much since they're working from home. All right, now this is the unrestricted general

174fund. It's comparing the changes from the June adopted budget to the first interim. And this green cell here, you see that we have an increase to our revenues of $4.4 million. We know that $3.8 million of that is due to our minimum state aid. And $716,000 is due to property tax growth. And now here in the yellow cell, you see that we have a reduction of $1.5 million to our total expenditures. And if you notice, the majority of that is due to salaries, $1.4 million reduction due to repurposing of salaries to LLMF and unspent due to COVID. So in our first interim report, you see that we actually have an operating surplus of $5.4 million compared to a projected deficit spending when we adopted the budget. So when you have an increase in revenues of

175$4.4 million, a reduction in expenses of $1.5 million, that brings us to a higher ending fund balance of $6 million. These are our MYP key assumptions. I'm not going to go through all of these, just highlight a couple of things that I've not mentioned yet, in particular, enrollment growth. Our enrollment is up by 150 from the prior year. And we're projecting to grow by 100 next year in 2027 and 22-23. And if you notice in our FTE change, we have an increase in certificated FTE to respond to that growth. Classified FTE, these are positions that were originally eliminated but have now been reinstated. This is our unrestricted general fund multi-year projection. In year one, again, we have that surplus. Our ending fund balance is $27.4 million. Year two, you see this in red, we begin

176to deficit spend, which taps into our reserves. So we've got $26.8 million. In year three, we're increasing our deficit spending. And year three, I want to remind you, this is the last year that we will receive a... April Fajardo, Our parcel tax of $4.8 million if it is not renewed so your year four will be a challenging year for us as we will have to balance our budget without that $4.8 million of revenue that we usually count on and now i'm going to pass it on to our fiscal director miss Sharon you will take you through the next slide. Ms. Sharon Yu, Thank you, April good evening board of trustee what we have in this illustration is the component of the ending fund balance. In the first interim, the unrestricted general fund is projected to

177end with $27 million, $26 million in year two, and $24 million in year three. The components of the ending fund balance consist of the following. We have set aside a $20,000 under a revolving fund account. We have $86,925. for our stores, which is the materials and supplies on hand. And we still have a set aside the $4.7 million for our parcel tax soft landing. And we also still have set aside our 6% reserve for economic uncertainty, which is a $7.3 million. And then the remaining of $15 million, those are used or set aside for budget stabilization for the two subsequent year. Next slide, please. This is an illustration of our restricted general fund. We adapted the budget projecting an $11 million revenue and a $38 million in expenditure last June. The current financial report is

178based on the latest information and best estimates and reflect the district financial status as of October 31st. On the revenue side, the budget includes the $4.7 million in one-time state and federal funding, primarily to support necessary distance learning and COVID-19-related expenditure. This includes the Learning Loss Medication Fund. It also includes the unspent carryover from Title I, Title IV, and CTEC from fiscal year 1920 and other local revenue. and then also an increase in funding with special ed, Title II, Title III, and RDA. We also receive $900,000 from the Harker Settlement Agreement, as well as a net increase with our trust accounts. On the expenditure side, The vast majority of the increased expenditure are for staffing, equipment, materials and supplies, and services to support distance learning and implement safety measures for COVID-19. These expenditures are supported

179by the one-time federal and state funds. In addition, the current budget reflects the carryover of unspent restricted funds from 19-20. This usually occurs on an annual basis when restricted funds are not exhausted in the prior year, resulting in a fund balance that carries forward to the next year. And as you can see on line 13, the other sources, the reduction in line 13 is due to the increase in revenue for special ed and the cost for SBCTE. So the contribution from the general fund. reduces for $48,000. Next slide, please. In this illustration, we have the restricted general fund multi-year projection. In the first interim, the restricted general fund is projected to end with $10 million and $9.6 million in year two and 9.1 million in year three. Keep in mind that the CARES Act funds

180we received for 2021 are one-time funds. Therefore, the revenue and expenditure that we incurred this year will not continue into the next year. Most of the funding will need to be expended by June 30, 2021, in the exception of our GEER fund and ESSER that will be expiring in September 2022. I'll turn over now with April to continue with the presentation. All right, now that we've given you some good news, I'm going to temper that by talking about some of the real budget challenges the district faces, mainly that our expenditure growth is far outpacing our revenue growth. We know that pensions have been one of the fasting costs to school district budgets, as well as special education costs. We are a basic aid district and we are in growing enrollment. That adds additional pressure to

181our budget since we don't receive additional revenue for these kids. The expiring parcel tax in 22-23 of $4.8 million and the rising cost to health and welfare benefits. So putting all of this together places an extraordinary financial pressure on our budget. This graph gives you a historical perspective regarding the growth of special education costs. You see just in six years the cost of this program has grown by 58 percent and we know that this program is significantly underfunded. When Congress passed the Individuals with Disabilities Act, they originally agreed to pay 40% of the cost to educate a child with disabilities, but they've not made good on that promise because at this point, the district only receives about 6% to 8% in federal funding. And if you see this yellow bar here, this $20 million is

182what the district contributes to fund this program. These costs are expected to continually rise and will continually be a concern for us. This gives you a perspective, a historical perspective on the soaring cost to employee pensions. The green bar is the STRS expenditures. And within six years, it has grown by 162%. And PERS has grown by 149%. You will note that between 1920 and 2021, that growth doesn't appear as steep. That is because if for 2021 and... the 21-22, the state provided relief by making a payment towards our required contribution. And if they hadn't made that payment, the cost for STRS in this fiscal year would have been $8.9 million and $2.9 million for PERS. But you can expect larger increases beginning in 22-23, which strains the district's budgets. All right, so what are the

183next steps? In January, the governor will release his proposal for the 21-22 budget. In March, we'll present to you the second interim report for 2021. In May, the governor will bring his May revision, and we will use these assumptions to build our LCAP and budget for the 21-22 fiscal year. And in September, we will bring you the unaudited actuals. So in summary, what I want to leave you with is this. The district is fortunate to have a solid financial position and reserves to help us to get through this disruptive period in time. Thanks to prudent fiscal management and a supportive board. But now is not the time to be lax. It is said that when a school district is in financial trouble, the reason can be traced back to a bad financial decision made during

184good times. So I'd like to heed continued caution so that we are prepared to face the challenges such as rising costs, an expiring parcel tax, and continued uncertainty due to the long-term effects of the COVID pandemic. All right. Thank you so much. If we could go back to board mode. April and Sharon, that was such a great presentation. Thank you. And I think... We'll get to trustees comments and questions, but thank you for having it in our agendas when it was posted, because I think being able to go through this before the meeting. Right. There's a lot in there. And it was really helpful, I think, to help us follow along through the presentation. So without any further comment, though, trustees, do you have questions or comments? I do. April. In the beginning of your

185presentation before sharing, you briefly showed classified positions and then indicated that they were restored. Right. Okay, we downsized our classified staff last year. Are you saying that those positions are going to be brought back? We restored five custodian supervisors, three service clerks, and 0.75 of a community liaison. I don't know what the history is on that. I just know that that's what we added. Okay. How many classified office staff did we lose? We lost one person at each site, I believe. We lost a library clerk at each site and one other, I believe, at each site. Meredith, can you tell me how we look compared to before we made the cuts? Sure. Well, I'll try. I will answer your question, Trustee Gortia, in terms of, yes, the library clerk and the... receptionist positions were those

186in CSCA that were eliminated. However, though, if you remember, we did negotiate a revised office clerk position, which is April was referring to where we've posted and are looking to fill that revised position that has a little bit of an additional job duties that can really address operations for supporting COVID and operations at the school site. So in on balance in terms of those adjustments, that we are not fully restored in terms of CSEA. On balance, I believe we are still overall down a few positions, but again, have added in these, a new position, different position, office clerk. So we're back up by about a third. That is a good estimate. I would say a third to a half. Yes. Okay. All right. And then. Sharon, during your presentation, you mentioned Harker, but there was

187not a separate line that identified Harker revenues. What was the amount from them and was it a one-time payment? Yeah, it is a one-time payment of $900,000 and it's lumped under the local revenue. Under local revenue? Yes. Yeah, okay. Your voice is very soft. Thank you. Okay. And then one other, I think it was line 13. Just under other and it had a large amount in parentheses. I didn't understand that one at all. Can we go back April on that line 13? I think the slide's not up anymore. No, it's not up. John, can you put the slide back up? Yes, what slide number? 13, please. Well, I don't know if it was slide 13. I think it was line 13. Oh, line 13, excuse me. Yeah, it was insurance presentation. I believe that that's

188the reduction in the contribution because we did receive an increase in special ed revenue. Contribution to, wait, slow down. Reduction in contribution to what? So the district provide a contribution towards a special education program. And when the special ed revenue increases, our contribution reduces. So it's like a part on your restricted and unrestricted. And then also the general fund pays for the SBCTE. And when we receive a revise of the total cost of our student going to SBCTE, there is a reduction of around $39,000. Okay, there it is. Line 13, other sources. Yes, that is the general fund contribution to the restricted program. For special ed? Special ed, yes. There is, yeah, special ed, yeah. Wow. Correct. It's a whopping amount. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for clearing that up. And special ed and transportation,

189the majority. All right. Thank you. While we have these slides up, is there other questions, clarifying questions on the slides? Well, I had a question in terms of slide 10 with the key assumptions. My question is around enrollment and the projections that we have for enrollment. I just was curious to hear if you, what conversations are being had in terms of enrollment, given that so many people are moving out of the area, and to what extent the pandemic is, you know, how much we think these numbers might shift more drastically than they have in the past, whether you know anything about that. Thank you for the question, Trustee Aerosmith. These projections were based on our demographers report and conversations with our feeder districts. So we are going to get an updated demographer study in January.

190They've actually given us an updated report, I think, just a few months ago. I'm not sure when. But for 2021, they projected that we would increase but grow by 250 kids or so. But we only actually grew by 150. For 21-22, they projected that we're going to grow by 200. So we've cut that in half. When we adopted the budget in June, there was actually no growth projected here. So we are adding this to the budget. And when we receive the tomographers report in January, we will update these. Thank you. More of a comment than a question, but at the school boards association conference in one of the budget work that I was in, they were talking about the state once again is underestimated. overestimated how much money they'd make in PERS and STRS, so

191the contributions are likely to be going up. Other side note, Moreland is down about 350 students this year, K-8 over last year. That was it. Thank you. A couple of comments. First of all, April and Sharon, very nice job. You can breathe. Your first interim is almost over. So just to add to Robert's observation about Moreland's enrollment being down, my understanding is Cambrian is down about 200 students. And so when you talk to the demographers, Can you help have them explain to us how enrollment can be decreasing in all of our feeder districts, but increasing in our district? I still can't understand that phenomenon, and it's been this way for a number of years. So I want to go back, just to comment on, you talked about the Legislative Analyst Office fiscal report from, last

192month. And there was a big headline about the windfall and state revenues is like 13 billion. And I think That report kind of highlights a number of things. First and foremost is that there's really two economies in California. And what the increase, the windfall in tax revenues really came from income tax. The people who have the jobs that you can work from home for and still continue to get paid, they're doing just fine. And they're paying their taxes and they're going up. Property taxes are not going up. And sales tax is going way down, which is impacting people who are facing the, you know, the unemployment from restaurants being closed down and all kinds of other businesses being closed down. So kind of the lower economic range. So that's, you know, that's kind of the

193reality that we are in. It's almost like a tale of two cities, right? But the other thing that it demonstrates is that, and you mentioned this in the 11 years of a great economic run that came to a crashing halt because of the pandemic. The other thing that we saw happening during those years is that budget assumptions for the budget development cycle were much more stable. And so if you go back to the Great Recession. And the budget assumptions were so unstable and it was causing a lot of problems, right? And you would see concessions being negotiated and then ending balances ending up being higher. And so we're entering that time again where the budget assumptions are going to be really, really, really, they're not going to be as solid as they've been for the

194last. from the recovery. And so it's going to be really important for us as a governance team to continue through the budget development cycle to do things like explain or pass resolutions up front, explaining what our values are and what our guiding principles are during the budget development cycle. So everybody's clear about what our intentions are throughout. And then I think the headline on the restoring of the CSEA positions might be something like when we were negotiating at the end of last fiscal year, we really took great care to actually, well, to take positions that were not going to be effective. coming into the pandemic and trying to make the space for hiring more the types of positions that we were going to need, like maybe more health clerks and things like that. And the

195team did a tremendous job of lightening the impact to all of those people that were in those positions that were eliminated. So we may have eliminated positions. But we were able to keep the majority of those people employed. and or retired and still receiving income. So what it's sounding like is that we're in the position right now where we have identified new classified positions and we are starting to post those and opening up some opportunities for that. But they're going to be the type, it's the repurposing of the role to be better. prepare to operate within this new normal that we have. That's at least my take on it. And then my last comment is really about the parcel tax sunsetting. You know, we passed these parcel tax renewal, and I think we actually passed

196the last one early. And people forget about the fact that these sunset, but... our next budget cycle that starts in January is going to start making the sunsetting of the current parcel tax very, very, very, very clear to everybody. Because now, current year and then the second year has parcel tax payments and year three doesn't. And so that soft landing that we've been saving for all of these years that stay in that, you know, fund balance, they have the potential of just going down to zero and that those reserves will be gone if we're not successful. in our next attempt at our next at bat, as I like to call it, in getting our parcel tax renewal. So I think pointing that out in your financial presentations and your interims and things like that are

197going to be very important so that we all understand what that is going to mean if the parcel tax were to go away. All right. I have four things written down. My first is a question. I saw, so I know when we wrote this year's budget, the county forced us to put $0 in property tax growth in the two subsequent years. And I see in this we're estimating 2%. Is the county basically saying you're allowed to project property tax growth again? I wasn't aware of the county telling us not to project that growth. I don't really think the county advises you on what your growth should be. Sharon, correct me if I'm wrong, but the rationale behind that is for the 21-22 roll year, it's already grown by 3.62%. However, the exemptions and adjustments have

198not yet been applied. we're expecting our roll growth to be reduced by that amount. And also that the roll growth can be increased by 2% each year, as long as the California Consumer Price Index exceeds that. But for 21-22, it does not. So they're also going to reduce our roll by 1%. I'm sorry if I'm getting in the weeds. It's a little bit of an overstatement. What they said was that they advised it and they kind of put the burden of proof the other way. So they said, if you put in anything other than zeros, you're going to have to come in and explain to us why you think that that's the case. So as it often turns out. often we switch the burdens of proof, you know, in the direction, you know, based on

199however we're feeling at the time. So, um, but they, they, they in theory are going to lighten up on that burden of proof or we have more proof now. Well, President Gallagher, I'd like to add that we've also sent the first interim report to the county as kind of a pre-approval and they've seen our assumptions and they're totally fine with them. Cool. Okay, cool. Thank you. Then I have three just things that are top of mind for me. One, I think there's a very real possibility our parcel taxes not get renewed. If you think about the timing, you think about the place we're at as a school district in June of 2022, probably not going to be that great. November could still be a disaster. And I think I have heard more about this year

200having our schools closed and the potential reluctance and challenges, I guess, of coming back to any sort of how it used to be. as reasons that people are like, I'm just never going to support you again. These are for people that I know because they've volunteered for our campaigns before on our parcel taxes. So I think to the extent that we need to plan for that and increase soft landings or do whatever, because that's top of mind for me. I'm not saying it's impossible. I'm saying it would not shock me if we can't get to 66.7%. Number two, it's been echoed by or it's not been echoed. It's been stated. I'm echoing demographic survey. You know, we do it once a year for a reason. I think the last year's in July or when do

201we do it? January. You know, that's a pre-COVID survey. I think we're going to learn a lot this year and I would not be shocked if there's a lot less kids. But let's have the experts tell us. And then third, you know, we do have some extra money right now, right? I think due to a lot of different reasons. We also have half our low-income students failing a class and we have a higher percentage of kids failing classes for their graduation that we've ever had before. And so the extent that we need to spend that money on stuff in the spring and things in summer school, I think that's a good use of money because Starting ninth grade, failing your classes is tough to rebound from and to the extent that we can like not

202buy our way out of it, but support students to get back on track where they want to be and where their families want them to be, I'm okay with. Those are all my thoughts. Anything else or other questions? Is there a motion? One second. I just couldn't unmute myself quite fast. Yeah, sorry. Yeah, parcel tax. It's mystifying to me. I've read some sentences and some messages such as, since you're not educating our kids, wow. I think our teachers are working unbelievably hard to educate our kids. And I think it's much, much harder to transition to this new type of teaching. create all these lessons that can be viewed over and over and over. I mean, that's, if I had to do it that way, knowing that it had to be absolutely perfect, no spontaneity, no

203variation from one class period to another. It would take me a considerable chunk of time just to get those things in the can and make sure that they were absolutely, totally perfect. Because when the kids are in front of you, they can ask a clarifying question. You have to anticipate every single question when you're creating that type of a lesson that can be viewed multiple times. I don't, I can spend all day going into that. But in terms of our money, having a little bit of extra money. I had a very interesting message from one teacher who said that it would be a good idea if we started to plan for the wave of students who will need remediation to catch up. Summer school in vaccinated pods this June, potentially, could make up for lost

204skills and credits this past year. A return to something that we did once before, 20 to 1 in English 1, to help kids. get their feet back underneath them. More zero period and seventh period classes. There just were some ideas in the message about what we need to start thinking about more than just online credit recovery. So that could be one area of focus for some of those extra dollars, perhaps. That's all. Thank you. All right. Is there a motion? Move to approve. Second. All right, motion by Stacey, second by Linda. Is there any more discussion? Dr. Bravo, can we please have a roll call? Trustee Gallagher? Aye. Trustee Aerosmith? Aye. Trustee Brown? Aye. Trustee Goytia? Aye. Trustee Baric? Aye. All right, 5-0 vote, it passes. Thank you both so much. And we're going to

205move on to item 20C, which is to adopt the local control funding formula budget overview for parents. Jen, are you going to take this? Yeah, I am. Hi, everyone. Jennifer Orlick, Director of Innovation. And I'm presenting the item for the budget overview for parents. So typically, we do this at the same time as the local control and accountability plan. But we know that was not the case this year. And so we had the learning continuity and attendance plan that also has with it a budget overview and the purpose of the budget overview is to present our financial information and especially how we're spending for high needs students. This year it includes a summary of how we've received and plan to spend those CARES and state COVID emergency funds prioritizing our students especially who are English

206learners, low-income or foster youth. And so we've been asked to present that to you for your consideration along with the first interim. This hopefully is the only year that you know all of our timelines are a bit different. And then in June as April mentioned we will likely have another local control and accountability plan with a budget overview for parents and the budget for you to review at the same time. Motion. Move to approve. Second. By Stacy, second by Linda. Any discussion? Jennifer, just a quick question. The LCAP community you're working with, I'm assuming they've seen this already. Does it make sense to them? So actually, this is a separate process. Unfortunately, it's kind of a separate form. They've seen this in the sense that All of the information was information that was presented in

207the learning continuity and attendance plan. And this is simply a summary of it. Okay. Very high level. And I mean, you've seen that information as well. But when we did a survey after we developed the plan, the vast majority of the group said that they agreed with the process and were satisfied with the plan to prioritize those funds towards our students with. We have a motion. We have a motion. I'm two Red Bulls in, but I'm still kind of fading. Can we get a roll call vote, please? Trustee Gallagher. Aye. Trustee Arisemuth. Aye. Trustee Brown. Aye. Trustee Goytia. Aye. And Trustee Verich. Aye. All right. With a 5-0 vote, it passes. 20D is to approve third amendment to property exchange agreement with Rokes and Holmes and the Marr family. All right, trustees, this is an

208amendment to our agreement with Ropes and Homes that calls for, in our original agreement, it's called for Ropes and Homes to make improvements to the heritage building at the district's expense. And the district has decided not to make those improvements at this time. And this amendment relieves Ropes and Homes from that responsibility. And there is no cost to the district. Move to approve. Second. All right, motion by me, second by Stacy. Are there any discussion? Seeing none, could we please have a roll call? Trustee Gallagher. Aye. Trustee Harris. Aye. Trustee Brown. Aye. Trustee Guitia. Aye. Trustee Marich. Aye. All right, with a 5-0 vote, it passes. 20E is to approve Resolution 32, Proposition 30, Education Protection Account 2020-2021. Okay, I am introducing this. The Education Protection Account or EPA was created in November 2012 by

209Proposition 30. The revenue generated from the Proposition 30 are deposited into state account called the Education Protection Account. The EPA funding that local education agency received is estimated to be $200 per ADA. So the district plans to use 100% of the EPA funding that the district received for current certificated teachers and salaries related benefits. The estimated EPA for fiscal year 2021 is $1.6 million. And each year, the Board of Trustees must approve a spending plan for the EPA funds. Therefore, we are requesting that the Board of Trustees approve the resolution tonight. Is there a motion? Move to approve. Second. All right motion by Robert second by Stacy. Any discussion? Seeing none can we please have a roll call? Trustee Gallagher. Aye. Trustee Arismith. Aye. Trustee Brown. Aye. Trustee Goitia. Aye. Trustee Marich. Aye. All right

2105-0 vote passes. 20F is to approve buyout of Chromebook lease from HP Financial Services Company. Mr. Keating. You are muted, sir. Oh, yeah. Good evening, Board of Trustees. This is a buyout of our Chromebook lease that we entered in the spring. The Chromebooks that we purchased or that we leased, more specifically, were to ensure that we had the technology required if we were needed to do distance learning. And we were able to really get these Chromebooks ahead of time before the really big delays happened. So this was super beneficial that we entered this lease. Now, looking back at it, we actually have an opportunity to move this over to CARES Act and pay off the lease so it's not an ongoing cost for the district moving forward. Very smart. Sorry. I heard very smart. What

211else we got? Move to approve. Okay. Second. All right. Motion by Christina, second by Linda. Is there any more discussion? Very smart investment of the care of the one time cares dollars. I'm sure we're saving money by buying out the lease early. So and you've got your refresh plan. Is that on track as well? Yes, we'll be. So we don't need Chromebooks for the incoming freshmen because we'll have them covered. But the preceding years, we will start needing to refresh again. Great. All right. And just a huge shout out to John and his entire team. You know, we're sharing some stories about some districts are just now getting their Chromebooks for this school year. But by being so proactive, that was not an issue in this district and we owe you a huge debt of

212gratitude. So thank you. Thank you. Like imagine just getting them now. Could you like crazy? Anyways, let's go ahead and vote. Can we get a roll call? Trustee Gallagher? Aye. Trustee Arisman? Aye. Trustee Brown? Aye. Trustee Goytia? Aye. Trustee Barrett? Aye. All right, 5-0, passes. 21As to award contract to 101 Builders Incorporated for the Westmont High School Dugout Field Finds Project. Good evening, board. This is Eric Wassinger, Executive Director of Facilities. On this contract, this is the final piece to the Westmont dugout. This is basically the landscaping that's going on front and a little bit of ADA on the sidewalk from the new softball location to the school itself. Move to approve. Second. Second. Motion by me, second by Stacey. Stacey, sorry, I interrupted you. Did you have a question? I was moving to approve.

213That's okay. Sorry, I jumped there. All right, any discussion? Can we get a roll call, please? Trustee Gallagher. Aye. Trustee Ersmann. Aye. Trustee Brown. Aye. Trustee Goytia. Aye. And Trustee Marich. Aye. All right, 5-0 passes. 21B, award contract to Saul Corporation for the Prospect High School Student Union Project. Eric, correct me on the pronunciation, please. So it's Saul's all. It's very interesting. Yes, a big contractor. They came in at the best price. We've had some... research done on them and none of us have actually, actually Bridget worked with them once at a different project. Love the company and how they work together as a good team. And so we've met them on site and talking about scheduling, talking about the whole project. It was interesting to hear at our pre-con meeting, the... The structural engineer

214for Hobak Luhin, who's our designer on this, said there's a lot of steel. And so he was concerned about the design and some of the neat fixtures and stuff. So everybody's on the same page. We know the people that are putting the building together. The fabrication of the metal is going to be Kwan is the name of the company that they hired as a subcontractor. And they helped put the steel together at the Brandon building. So our inspector is very familiar with them. And this project itself, they're the general contractor and they have about 150 subcontractors under them and their contract. And it's very organized and we're very excited to have them. So we're asking the board to approve this so we can start this project. Motion to approve. Second. As for the motion by

215Robert, second by Christina. Any discussion? So, Eric, I... Thank you for during the earlier presentation, kind of talking about why the contingency was so low on the new construction. Totally get that. But even with this great general contractor and your guys' management, stuff still happens. And so. there's really, there's about a $1.1 million contingency left on the overall project. So, you know, and I'm just about evaluating risk. At this moment in time, I mean, how manageable do you think that risk is, that $1.1 million on top of the contingency? I think it's very doable. for a few different reasons. One, because our field engineer is usually Tao Lin, who is excellent at DSA as the field engineer. Probably the most critical field engineer I've ever worked with. She's too busy for this project. And so

216DSA actually gave us another field engineer who does some high schools, but is much more... It's easy to work with the inspector. And so often when you have a set of drawings that could be very critical like this set, there can be a... There could be 20, 50 to 100 CCDs, which is a change directive through DSA. Every time we have a CCD, it costs us more money because it includes DSA to look at the drawings again, right? This connection or this connection doesn't match the drawings. So if we have a field engineer that can work with the inspector and make decisions on site, that saves us money because there's no CCDs. And so we have a really good contract we're excited about. And the fact that we have a field engineer from DSA that's

217different than we usually have, the inspector, myself, the architect are very excited about having this project move forward. Okay. Thank you. So the $1.1 million is the extra. The $550,000 is also the contingency that's built in. So with that $1.6 million, I think we're covered. Okay. Thanks, Eric. Appreciate the analysis. Absolutely. Yeah, my quick thoughts are, you know, this is this is one of the bigger projects of the whole, or if not the biggest of the entire program, right? And so I think to the extent, you know, and you did this with the two story buildings and, you know, the different big projects that we've had. But as one individual trustee, I think just as we have these reports, you know, once a month, making sure that we understand where the project's at, what's going

218well, what isn't, where we need to step in, because it's I think this is such an important thing that the prospect community really wanted and could serve as the example for potential future builds that future boards may want to. put before the voters. Yeah, that's top of mind for me because it is so big. No, absolutely. And my department, all of us think this is the wow factor right here for Prospect. This is going to be our biggest project for one complete building. And we are buttoning this up from one end to the other, making sure that's on point. And it'll be a project that we're probably all going to be going to see and not just one or two people on the team, but probably five or six of us will be there. every

219other day because it's exciting for everybody. It'd be a great project. It'll be fun. We have the camera already installed so we can watch the demo. We can watch the entire building being built. So it's going to be great to watch from everywhere. Well, I'm going to set an expectation for you now, Eric, because when you said wow factor, I want you to rewind, remember at the beginning of this bond program, when we were looking at other schools that had this type of a setting, this type of a building. It was pretty wow when we walked in there. So after this building is built, I'm expecting that everybody's going to come look at ours and say, we won't pass a bond to do that. Right. Absolutely. That's our goal as well. Right. Yeah. And if

220right before the demo, if you share, let the board know. Oh, absolutely. I watched that Del Mar building. It was interesting to watch. It's going to take about one month for the entire abatement of it. So once we start mobilizing, we're talking about possibly mobilizing January 4th or the first week of January after the holidays. So the abatement will be going for about a month and then we'll be knocking it down. So we'll definitely let you know. Cool. Thank you. Do we have a motion? Move to approve. That was already approved. It was already made. Okay. Do we have a roll call vote, please? Trustee Gallagher. Aye. Trustee Arisman. Aye. Trustee Brown. Aye. Trustee Goitia. Aye. Trustee Baric. Aye. All right. Passes 5-0. 21C is to award a contract to Eric Inspections Incorporated for project

221inspection services of the Prospect High School Student Union Project. Board, this is the inspector that we'll be using for the on-site inspections working with the DSA field engineer through this project. Second. All right. There's a motion by Christina, second by me. Any discussion? Could we have a roll call vote, please? Trustee Gallagher. Aye. Trustee Erisman. Aye. Trustee Brown. Aye. Trustee Goytia. Aye. Trustee Verich. Aye. All right. 5-0 passes. 21D, ratify amendment number one to Sigmar Finney Architects for the Westmont High School softball field project. Board, this is a small addition to the 101 builders for the Westmont dugout field finds, 21A. This is for the architectural design of the landscaping that was not on the current drawings to finish that project. This is a $5,000 add to their current contract. So I want to thank

222you guys for pulling this out of consent because I just want to remind my colleagues on the board that I have a very long relationship with Mr. Finney, a little personal. And so I always abstain on any contracts that come before our board. Thank you. Move to approve. Second. All right. Motion by Christina, second by Linda. Any more discussion? Can we please have a roll call? Trustee Gallagher. Aye. Trustee Arisman. Aye. Trustee Brown. Abstain. Trustee Goytia. Aye. Trustee Verich. That's an aye. All right. 401 passes. Thank you very much, Eric. Thank you for your team. 22A is board comments. I'll remind the board it is 1030 p.m. And with that, let's go in our traditional order. So very quickly, I got to attend the last student advisory council meeting with Dr. Bravo, our student board

223members and the student reps from all of the schools and got to hear about their feedback on some of the parts of the plan and schedules. And I think we already heard a lot about that from our student board members. So I'll pass it on to the next person. You attended the CSBA conference where Stacey and I ended up in a couple of sessions together, I think. I've covered a couple of things, but there was one left, and that is Masters in Governance. They're not going to have an alumni program. So those that have taken courses will be able to do some additional things. And so it gives you more incentive to get through it. So doing some deeper content dives versus the... the course that goes over a six or seven week process deeper

224into a certain set of circumstances. I'm going to start off with reminding us that today is a terrible anniversary. It is the eighth anniversary of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook. My heart is still broken over that, but I want to remind us that before COVID. gun violence was probably one of the biggest factors in student mental health that we were facing at that time. And so we all have a responsibility to make sure that all those people who died on that day and all the people that have died in school shootings and mass shootings since then. that they haven't died in vain. Our work isn't done. Going to the CSBA conference this year in virtual mode, I have two things to say. I get it. I get distance learning now. I get what students

225have been experiencing. I get what teachers have been experiencing. It was really kind of interesting to try to do interactive things and not know where the button was to go to the chat and things like that. So I think I have a much better understanding of what our community has been going through. I also have a new understanding of asynchronous versus synchronous instruction. I think, as Justy Goitia pointed out a couple of weeks ago, one of the advantages of having this rich content of asynchronous materials is going to be beneficial to us in the post-COVID world. One thing I wanted to point out that really struck me was the second keynote speaker was Hadi Patovi, I think is the way he says his name. He's the founder of Code.org. And he said, he made the

226point that computer science education is one of the most effective ways to close the achievement gap. Because computer science is about creativity and collaboration. And there's studies out there that are showing that And forgive me, Kiki, if I don't get the language right, but the bilingual ad, whatever, that this is emerging, emerging bilinguals, emerging bilinguals. I'm going to write it down now. Emerging bilinguals, because I like that. that this could be a very effective way to have them be even more engaged in their education. One of the things he also talked about is something that I used to talk about a lot, but I don't know if anybody's been listening, but he also said that we as a country need to elevate the teaching profession. You know, we value doctors in this valley. We value

227software developers, software engineers, but we're not valuing teachers like that. And in other countries that are ahead of us in student achievement, that's not the case. So I just wanted to bring that up. Then. Last week, I got to do a presentation for the Branham Club Girls Who Code. They're teacher advisors, Barbara Shrimp and Stephen Turner. And I kind of gave them the OK Boomer guide to a career in software development. And part of the reason why I talked about the Boomer piece was another presentation from CSBA, which was really good about generational perspectives. And he talked about boomers and Gen Xers and millennials and, and Gen Zers. And he said, technology is only new if you remember it the way it was before. Otherwise it's all you've ever known. So these digital natives that

228are my kids are Gen Zers and they're these digital natives and they have a perception perhaps that boomers are not as tech savvy. But the reality is, is that the boomers invented the technology that they're so adept at. So, so we, we kind of talked through that, and I showed them what it was like to start a career in on on punch cards and things like that. And they felt like they were at the Computer History Museum, but The other thing that I talked to them about is that women still remain a very significant minority in technology careers. And they are going to face that when they go out into the workplace. And that the women who came before me, they really carved out pathways for us. And so I asked them to respect that

229and to pay it forward. to make it a little bit easier for the women who are going to come after them. And then I'm just going to leave it at that. I'm not going to do my third thing. All right, Linda. Just trying to figure out how come I'm stuck at home and I still can't get everything done. Anybody else experiencing that? I opened a Christmas card this afternoon. kind of chuckled. This was a woman I traveled with in Japan. She wrote, if plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters, 204 if you're in Japan. Probably worth remembering because I've made a lot of false starts on a lot of projects lately. I want to piggyback on something that Stacey said about technology. I clipped out an ad that I came across for

230something called the Kitty Zoom Creator Cam. And it's just this little camera thing on a little mini tripod. And it's got a green screen and it's got a choice of 20 animated backgrounds. And it shows how kids are using this as a creative tool to make little YouTubes of themselves. And I read what you do and it sounded a bit complicated. And then I scrolled down and it said, For ages nine to 13. And I thought, uh-huh. Well, maybe I'll start by ordering myself a kiddie Zoom creator cam and mastering that. And then I'll move on from there. Because I can really see the benefits in terms of. maintaining some connections with children in my own family. My sister has seven grandchildren and I've always been close to them, but I haven't been able to

231see them or they meet. And I want to do something to kind of rebuild that connection. So I guess if it's for kids nine to 13, I can master it. And if not, maybe Ms. Brown will help me get up to speed with that. But if I can't even do that, my Lord, what are we asking our teachers to do? So, yeah, I need to, I need to, Linda Turner, I need, I need to know more about this technology. I would really love to know more about canvas, since that's what we're asking our staff to do. And the next time there's a canvas training. I would love to be invited. That's all for me. All right. Thanks. Um, tonight from our report. I just wanted to, I wanted to One of my colleagues called it

232bringing raw warm rain right like sprinkling warm rain. Just on something I saw today so Many of you probably know that the latest, a lot of data comes out from the state about, you know, what's happening with students in the class of 2020. And one of the pieces of data that came out was around A through G completion for students. Now, A through G completion is not the end all be all, right? You can leave high school without your A through G done and still. go to community college, you can still go straight to career, get an apprenticeship. There's a lot of things you can do, but one thing you cannot do is go straight to a four-year school. And I was really happy to see, so in 2011, for students from low-income backgrounds, only

23316% of them graduated having been supported through their A through G classes to the point that they could make those applications. And this year, that number was up to 48%. In 2011, we were dead last in the county. We were 11th out of 11. And now we are third out of 11. And we had by far the most growth of any district. I think it's 298% growth. And it struck me because there's been a lot of success stories in the district. that go, you know, thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of hours go into this. This does not just happen. But I think it's one example of the change that is possible when we all work together towards things. And the next year and a half to two years is going to be a

234lot of having to perform miracles on how students are adapting to this reality. And so I just wanted to point that out as an example of this is something that's happening in this district currently. that hundreds of people were a part of, if not thousands. So I just wanted to elevate that. Thank you so much for doing that. I saw that and was really impressed too. I'm really glad you brought that out. Yeah. Okay. So item 23 is future planning. Future agenda items is 23A, and then we have our new theme of having our governance calendar attached to all our board meetings. So does anyone have anything on either of those? Yeah. I've kind of got it flipped in my mind. So I'm looking at the governance calendar and I'm looking at our workshop that's

235coming up on the 14th. So what I'm suggesting as possible topic areas for the 14th are under COVID, we'll get a report out on the readiness of CUHSD to move to level two. Then under, I was thinking in terms of the, and I'm just kind of throwing these out there for thought, under board professional development, since that's what we really want to. Board professional development strategic plan and diversity and inclusion training is kind of where we landed back in October. For board professional development, we could potentially take a look at developing board norms, maybe looking at where our protocols are at and see if we want to make any tweaks there. Developing a curriculum for our board, our, for our board's diversity and inclusion training, if that's something that, I mean, something along those lines.

236And then under strategic plan, really developing the work plan that we're going to follow this year for our update to the strategic plan. So kind of plan for the plan. I think that's smart. And I think we have broken down We have our assignments, right, from our last board workshop. And so do you think it's realistic to ask each group of people to bring an hour's worth of thought, an hour and a half, like how much time, or maybe email Dr. Bravo how much time you think you might need, and then we can construct an agenda? Yeah, I'm thinking that this could really be a... a planning session, right? So it doesn't have to necessarily have a tight agenda. So I think the idea of Linda and I focusing on board professional development, we can

237bring some things to address to that. You and Robert working on the, you know, kind of lead the section on building the work plan for the strategic plan update. And then I think it's you and Kiki working on the, on the diversity and training and, you know, whatever, whatever you guys feel like we need to do during that part of the planning, we should do. That's kind of how I look at it. Yeah, I think it makes sense. Other board members, any thoughts? Got thumbs up. Want to make sure you didn't ask for each group to bring an hour and a half presentation. It was just me, but it got shot down pretty quickly. Actually, Robert, your group has to bring an hour and a half presentation. Everybody else, only 45 minutes. Only? Okay. Okay,

238cool. So I think that's good. Okay. And then for the January 21st meeting, which will be our first regular board meeting of the year, I'm going to suggest under superintendent evaluation that we might want to take a mid-year review of the superintendent's goals and have that conversation with the superintendent. Under recognitions. I'd like to recognize Branham freshman Hannah McCarthy for winning the City of San Jose garbage and recycling truck sign design contest. Her design is going to be on garbage trucks and recycling trucks starting this year. And then also ask that, and I don't know if we need to do another, if we do a readiness assessment. of level two on the 14th. I don't know if we need to do it again a week later, but I'll leave that open to the pleasure of

239the board, how frequently we want to do that. Well, staff might come back and not want to do it on the 14th and want to do it on the 21st or something. So I think that hopefully we have some latitude there. Okay, cool. Board governance calendar, would it be okay to put page numbers on it, please? Yes. Thank you very much. Cool. And maybe a date because it'll be updated as we go. So then the revision dates. Thank you. Yeah. And that's what, yeah, I wanted. And then I was thinking as well that if we stored the governance calendar kind of on that featured page in board docs where the strategic plan is, then we have access to it. in between board meetings. And Dr. Bravo and cabinet can update it as they're doing their

240work and put their topics in under their columns. And with the date on, we'll always know the last time it was revised. And then We could just basically in our future agenda items, just refer back to the governance calendar. We wouldn't necessarily have to have a separate governance calendar conversation. We kind of merge that into the future items and then just fill in requests at that point in the evening. That wasn't direction. That wasn't direction. That was a suggestion. So. Where are we at? Move to approve. I mean, move to adjourn. Okay, so there's a motion to second. Is there any other discussion before we adjourn? Okay, we're going to take a roll call vote then. Dr. Bravo? Trustee Gallagher? Aye. Trustee Arismith? Aye. Trustee Brown? Okay. Trustee Goytia? Sure. And Trustee Baric? Aye. All

241right, with a 5-0 vote, we're adjourned. Everyone, I hope you continue to have a happy holidays. And for those who are celebrating later, have also have happy holidays. I'm going to go and sleep. Bye, everyone. Good night.