Feb. 11, 2025 SUSD Board Meeting at 4:00 PM

001Today is Tuesday, February 11th. Roll call vote. President Stevens. Vice President Gluck. Help us assure compliance. One minute. All right, good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining our board meeting. I would like to call the meeting to order at 4 p.m. And Abby will read the language under public content. In order to help assure compliance with the Brown Act, and in order to make our board meetings more effective and more efficient, trustees will speak only when recognized, and trustees who speak on a topic other than the item currently under consideration will be out of order. Board Meeting Protocols The safety and decorum of the school board meetings are important to Stockton Unified School District and the community. SUSC promotes the public's right to free speech and we want to make sure that all community members,

002parents and students are able to participate in a safe environment. We want to ensure all community members have a seat during the board meeting. We will have the maximum number of chairs allowed per fire code, 132. We ask that members of the public do not stand along the side of walls or block the walkway. Anyone standing up during the meeting will be asked to take a seat. If they do not comply, they will be asked to leave. Any accredited news media representative who is standing will have a press credential clearly visible. There is a podium position in front of the first row of chairs. No one other than the person who is speaking may be at the podium except for a guardian, administrator, or translator. For safety, people may not line up behind the speaker

003to await their turn. We want to give the person at the podium the time and respect they deserve. Each speaker will be allowed three minutes. Attendees are not allowed to enter the area past the podium where board members are sitting. No profanity or obscenity. During the board meeting, if there is a disruption, the board president or designee will give a verbal warning to the person or persons causing the disruption. If the disruption continues after the verbal warning, the individual will be asked to leave or be removed for the remainder of the board meeting. After the meeting is concluded, we ask the community to clear the lobby area in a respectful manner. Thank you and back to you, President Stephens. Thank You Abby moving on to item 1.2 roll call President can eat the Stevens present

004Thank You vice president Sophia colon Thank You clerk Donald on air present. Thank you trustee Angel and Flores present Thank You trustee is the belle Perez Thank You trustee Frank Silva Thank You trustee Shauna priest Thank You student rep Michael Lynn Present. Thank you. Student Rep. Loram J. Happ. Present. Thank you. And back to you, President Stephens. Thank you. Item 1.3, Moment of Silence for Ms. Donna Keswick, Elementary School Educator, and Julian Martinez, student of Stockton High, presented by Vice President Colon. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. It is with a heavy heart that we share the sad news that Mrs. Donna Keswick, Elementary School Educator, has passed. Mrs. Keswick was a valued member of the Monroe Elementary School community and planned to retire at the end of this school year. Her contributions and commitment to

005Monroe school students and staff will be deeply missed. Stockton High is deeply saddened by the loss of their student, Mr. Julian Martinez. Julian transferred to Stockton High from Stagg with the goal of graduating, earning his diploma, and moving on to greater opportunities. He worked tirelessly on his studies, dedicating extra time at home and late into the night to achieve his goals. Julian was a committed and hardworking student, taken from us far too soon. Our heartfelt condolences go out to his family, friends, and all who knew him. He will be missed. Please join me in a moment of silence. Thank you. Thank you, Vice President Colon. Item 1.4, student board representatives, Mr. Michael Lin of SECA and Jay Happ from Franklin High School. Yes, Weber recently concluded their Student Skills USA competition against Franklin and Edison,

006and results are going to come this Friday on the 14th. And Weber is continuing to support their seniors towards their path in Delta College before they graduate. SECA just had their Dancing Under the Stars Winter Formal Dance this past week and our fundraising committee is hosting our Pancakes for Prom fundraiser at Applebee's. And HCA had their Winter Formal Gumdrop Gala on February 1st of 2025 and their tickets were $25 each. And HCA is also having a Valentine's Day Spirit Week from February 11th to February 14th, which is this week. Thank you. For Frank for Franklin, we're excited to have our eighth grade visits this week or across the past few weeks They've been touring around the campus and having a parents night with clubs program sports basketball and cheer night We're a success including up

007filling our gym and also fundraising our soup potluck brought our staff together and Our boys and girls soccer both qualified for the playoffs, so congratulations to both. Our basketball team showed tenacity at our home and away games across the season. Band did well during their first competition of the season. Counselor's week was also a success for us. We ended up decorating their offices and giving them thank you cards. And we've been also hosting Delta workshops and classes. For Stag, they've had their club rush this week across the campus and involved food and fundraising for each of the clubs. They've also been having college and company presentations, whether it's from UC, CSUs, and Delta, while also having helpful scholarship programs. For Chavez, they've been fundraising also and having a Valentine's based. They've had their senior night

008for winter sports and their winter dance, including prom announcements. They've also had their ELAC family event, which is today. Also, they have their parent night on Valentine's Day, which is February 14th, and the Know Your Rights Workshop. For Edison, they've had this spirit week this week from February 11th to the 14th, which is Valentine's-based. They're winter formal, and they're Veterans Pow Wow, which honors vets and Native American culture. All right. Thank you both so much. Can we give them a round of applause? And, Jay, thank you for joining us. I know this is your first meeting, so we look forward to seeing you in the months coming. Item 1.5, student honoree, Ms. Amy Dominguez, Pacific Law Academy, and I would like to call for Principal Martinez to the podium. Good evening, President Stevens, board trustees,

009and Superintendent Dr. Michelle Rodriguez. I'm Mr. Martinez, the principal of Pacific Law Academy. It is my honor to introduce to you the Pacific Law Academy 2024-2025 student honoree. It's Amy Galeana. This student is our ASB president. She passed her seal of biliteracy as a junior. Her cumulative grade point average is 4.57. The schools that she's applying to, UOP, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, UCLA. Hawaiian Pacific University and her international universities are Yonsei in Korea and American University of Paris. Board of Education, I introduce Amy Galeana. Thank you, Mr. Martinez. Good evening, President Stevens, Board Trustees and Superintendent Dr. Rodriguez. Sorry. It is an honor to stand before you today as a student. Honor your representative for Pacific Law Academy. I'm deeply grateful I'm deeply grateful to be recognized

010for this opportunity and I want to extend my heartfelt thanks to the Stockton Unified School District School Board my peers my family Who have all supported me throughout this journey? First and foremost I want to thank my family and my mother and my father whose unwavering support has allowed me to flourish within this community My sister who remains a constant reminder that the impossible is possible if you set your mind to it. Their encouragement has been the foundation on which I have built my goals and aspirations. I couldn't have done this without them. I would also like to express my gratitude to my teachers, administrators, and staff who have worked tirelessly to create an environment where students like me can thrive. At Pacific Law Academy, the dedication to our education and well-being is evident in

011everything you do. And it truly makes a difference. Thank you for being the mentors and role models that guide myself and my peers every day. As I accept this honor, I am reminded that it is not just about individual achievement, but also about the community that makes it possible. The teacher we are all part of something greater than ourselves the teachers the students and the families Have played a tremendous role in creating an environment where Stockton as a community can succeed together I'm excited for the future and for all the opportunities to make a positive impact both within my school and within the wider community As I continue my journey, I promise to uphold the values of dedication, hard work, and service that have been instilled in me here at Pacific Law Academy. Once again,

012thank you to the Stockton Unified School District, my school, and my loved ones for showing their support. This honor is a reflection of the incredible community I'm proud to be a part of. Thank you. Amy we're gonna ask you back up to the podium and I think you have your parents there behind you run ax them to come up with mr Martinez for some photos and I would like to present a certificate All right moving on to item 1.6 Oral suggestions regarding open session agenda items in section 1 and closed session Christina will announce the number of public comments and Request each person to provide their public comment in the order they were received and that will be the timekeeper Madam President, we do not have any public comments to report at this time. All

013right. Item 1.7, public employee discipline dismissal and release. Requests that complaints or charges heard in open session. Ms. Smith, do we have any cases to present? We do not. Thank you. Item 1.8, the board will consider and close session items listed by Vice President Colon. Good evening. item 2.1 conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation significant exposure to litigation under subsections d2 and e3 of government code section 5 for 956 point 9 for potential cases case 1 claim number rsk 0 3 1 2 2 4 Case 2, claim number 648737. Case 3, claim number 648398. Case 4, settlement agreement voluntary demotion. 2.2, public employee discipline dismissal release. 2.3, public employee appointment classified, government code 54957, leave of absence, resignation, retirement, rescind employment offer, appointment. 2.4, public employee appointment, certificated, government code 54957, leave of absence, resignation,

014retirement, job abandonment appointment. And 2.5, conference with real property negotiators, government code 54956.8. Thank you. All right, item 1.9, the board will now recess to close session. All right, thank you all for being here. I would like to move on to... Item 3.1, we would like to reconvene to public session. Abby will read the language under public content. In order to help assure compliance with the Brown Act and in order to make our board meetings more effective and more efficient, trustees will speak only when recognized. And trustees who speak on a topic other than the item currently under consideration will be out of order. Board meeting protocols. The safety and decorum of the school board meetings are important to Stockton Unified School District and the community. SUSD promotes the public's right to free speech, and

015we want to make sure that all community members, parents, and students are able to participate in a safe environment. We want to ensure all community members have a seat during the board meeting. We will have the maximum number of chairs allowed per fire code, 132. We ask that members of the public do not stand along the side of walls or block the walkway. Anyone standing up during the meeting will be asked to take a seat. If they do not comply, they will be asked to leave. Any accredited news media representative who is standing will have a press credential clearly visible. There is a podium position in front of the first row of chairs. No one other than the person who is speaking may be at the podium except for a guardian, administrator, or translator. For

016safety, people may not line up behind the speaker to wait their turn. We want to give the person at the podium the time and respect they deserve. Each speaker will be allowed three minutes. Attendees are not allowed to enter the area past the podium where board members are sitting. No profanity or obscenity. During the board meeting, if there is a disruption, the board president or designee will give a verbal warning to the person or persons causing the disruption. If the disruption continues after the verbal warning, the individual will be asked to leave or be removed from the remainder of the board meeting. After the meeting is concluded, we ask the community to clear the lobby area in a respectful manner. Thank you and back to you, President Stevens. Thank you so much. Moving on to

017item 4.1, the Pledge of Allegiance led by the Black Student Union of Stack High School. I'm going to ask someone to please rise. 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. Before you go, we have two certificates, one for you, Josiah, and then another one for you, Alana, and then we'll also take some photos. We're going to ask your school team to come on up. I don't have my heels on this time. Okay. There you go. There you go. There you go. Thanks. A little box. I'm going to give you some stilts. Thank you again stag BSU All right moving on to item 4.2 action taken in closed session led by vice

018president cologne Item number 2.1, conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation, significant exposure to litigation under subsections D2 and E3 of government code section 54956.9, four potential cases, and I'll read off each one separately. Board motion to reject claim number RSK031224 unanimously. Board motion to reject claim number 648 737 unanimously board motion to approve claim number 648 398 6 yes with 1 no from trustee Silva and Last case is board motion to approve settlement agreement voluntary demotion unanimously Item 2.2, public employee discipline dismissal release. So there's several cases I'll read separately. Board motion to approve one noon duty assistant probationary release unanimously. Board motion to approve one plumber job abandonment effective 129.25 unanimously. So just two cases. Item number 2.3, public employee appointment classified, government code 54957, leave of absence, resignation, retirement, rescind employment offer appointment.

019Board motion to approve with six yes and one no from Trustee Flores. Item 2.4, public employee appointment certificated, government code 54957, leave of absence, resignation, retirement, job abandonment appointment. Board motion to approve without one position unanimously. Item 2.5, government, I'm sorry. Item 2.5, conference with real property negotiators, government code 54956.8, no reportable action. Thank you. Item 4.3, order of agenda. Christina will read the oral announcement. This is the opportunity for the Board of Trustees to make any changes to the order of the agenda. Otherwise, the order of the agenda will be as published. Thank you. Any changes? All right, seeing none, is there a motion to approve? I motion to approve. Is there a second? Second. All right, discussion? Roll call vote. Vice President Colon? Yes. Clerk Donair? Yes. Trustee Flores? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes.

020Trustee Silva? Yes. Trustee Priest? Yes. President Stephens? Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Item 5.1, Oral Suggestions Regarding Open Session Items. Christina will announce the number of public comments and request each person provide their public comment in the order they were received, and Yvette will be the timekeeper. Individual speakers shall be allowed three minutes to address the board. The board shall limit the total time for public input on each item to 20 minutes. Madam President, we currently have three public comment cards. The first card is from Ms. Monique Guerrero regarding item 7.1. Hi, my name is Monique Guerrero, and I am the current secretary of the Citizens Bond Oversight Committee. I am not here to point fingers. After reviewing the presentation on the agenda for CBOC, I... just would like to say that consistent guidance and set

021guidelines would have been appreciated from the start of this committee moving forward forward i ask that you please respect those that volunteer their time and your staff members who work hard at their job please have guidance along with written policies in place for any committee that you have thank you for your time the next public comment is from miss monique guerrero regarding board agenda item 11.3. Hi again. So after reviewing a few of the school safety plans, I do have concerns in regards to our students with special needs and disabilities. I did see a section titled preparation and assistance for special needs students where sites will identify those students and make special considerations and plans. As a parent of one of those students, I would like to know what those plans may look like. What

022will you do for students that can't follow directions or walk in a line? What about the child that cannot regulate themselves because there is a fire drill going off and that teacher has to evacuate them? I am asking you as a board to ask for those details. This is not something that I should have to bring up in my child's IEP meeting. Children like my son may have a lot of needs, but parents should still feel safe leaving them in your care. Thank you. The last public comment card is from Mr. Jerry Gonzalez regarding Board Agenda Item 7.1. Good evening, President Stevens, other board members, Dr. Rodriguez. My name is Jerry Gonzalez. Some of you may be familiar with me. I'm a Stockton Unified alum. Many family members have attended Stockton schools. Our family's been

023here for over 100 years. I have family that have served in many roles in the district, teachers, counselors, yard duty, food services, custodial, any number of. So I'm very familiar with the history of this district. I'm also the president of the Citizens Bond Oversight Committee. We had requested to be on the agenda for this body twice. for the January 28th meeting and today's meeting. And it was not until just the other day I received an email from Ms. Joanne Juarez telling me that we were not going to be able to present to the board because what we had prepared was not consistent with what they interpret. And I say they be in the district's legal counsel, I'm assuming, to what the bylaws are requiring or requesting of our body. This was not conveyed to us

024whatsoever until just last week. It's very frustrating. We've been trying. I have, I handed to the secretary here a copy of the update. A number of people on the staff have been copied of what we were going to present to this body. And what our attempt is basically to give an update because it's been so many years, nobody can even recall when there was a last bond oversight committee. There was never a facilities master plan until just very recently all of this we were going to present to this body into the public and for some reason we're not able to I just am very frustrated Now according to Ms. Wattis we're supposed to present something to the board on the next meeting not the 28th, but the 25th And I don't know what we're supposed

025to present. We're not even scheduled to have another CBOC meeting until So I find it frustrating and unfair. And I know that a number of the other committee members have expressed to me the same concerns. I do realize that Sam Santana, the district's legal counsel, is going to present tonight about what this body of bond oversight is supposed to be doing. Sure would have been nice if they had talked to us about it. Thank you. There is a document we don't have it which one is it is there Jerry do you have other documents? Can we get a couple if you have extra some of us didn't receive any? Thank you so much. I'm passing to Christina. Jerry. Thank you Any other comments was that it? Okay moving on to item 5.2 oral suggestions and

026comments from the community regarding non agenda items Christina read the number of public comments and request each person provide their public comment in the order they were received and that will be the timekeeper Madam president. We do not have public comments to report for board agenda item 5.2 Thank You item 6.1 approval of consent items Christina will read the oral announcement Does any trustee have any item they would like to remove for separate consideration as an action item? After any items are removed for separate separate consideration. There will be a vote on the consent items without any discussion Thank you Anyone like to move anything into action? I? I wish I would have knew that before because I would have Respond I can't pull anything from the agenda right now. So we'll have to wait

027till we get to the agenda item All right. Thank you any others? All right, seeing none, is there a motion? I'll make the motion to approve consent items. Is there a second? I'll second. All right. Any discussion? Hearing none, roll call vote. Vice President Colon? Yes. Clerk Donair? Yes. Trustee Flores? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Trustee Silva? Yes. Trustee Priest? Yes. President Stevens? Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Item 7.1 presentation citizens bond oversight committee overview and I would like to call Vicki Brum to the podium actually That's this is the one I was gonna say can we just pull this one until we can get the group to present? I think that's really unfair and Not respectful to the people who we went through a whole process for putting on this committee So you would have to

028make a motion. Do you want to make I would make a motion to pull? Okay, so the goal of this presentation is for there to be very clear expectations of what the report must contain per Ed code so that the group when they come this next board meeting or if we need to the following that it complies with all the requirements. We were Because of the work that we've done, we had no material findings this past year. We want to have no material findings this year so we can get out of high-risk designation. So we need to ensure. that the report complies so this is an informational item only it's not meant to replace what the committee is going to do but it is meant to guide the process and make sure that we have

029a report which is compliant according to ed code and so that's the purpose of this so that the public and board knows what the requirements are we have all intentions of having the um or the selected group come and do their presentation. We just need to make sure that the presentation is aligned. So I'm still gonna stand with offering to pull this presentation because this information should also been given to the committee so this way they were the ones who we did a whole respectful process of vetting and They applied but it was a lot of work to get them on that committee So I do feel that it's a slap in their face if we hear something from somebody that they were supposed to be a part of and If they were doing their

030due diligence, then they should have let the committee know So we're gonna I'm not gonna trust the information if you didn't hear from the committee so miss wars Can you talk a little bit about our Vicki the process in which? the bond oversight committee went through and When were they provided with what edco needed for them? They were provided the means of how to present to the board. We gave them samples. Sarwan gave them samples back in June, I believe it was, at one of the meetings. It could have even been before that. So they understood all we had to do was put in the figures that they needed to be put in. They were given the materials to bring it to the board for the one-time-a-year meeting. So I think you want to make

031a motion. You want to go ahead and make your motion to pull the presentation until we get more information from the committee. Okay. So there's a motion on the floor to pull. Is there a second? I second. All right. Any other discussion? We'll go into a roll call vote. Vice President Colon. Clerk Donair. Yes. Trustee Flores. Yes. Trustee Perez. Yes. Trustee Silva? Yes. Trustee Priest? Yes. President Stevens? No. Motion passes 5-2 with Vice President Colon and President Stevens voting no. Thank you. Thank you, Vicki. Thank you. All right, Item 7.2, Presentation Key Performance Indicator Presentation, KPI Broad Course of Study by Mr. Ty Paffert. Good evening President Stevens, Trustees, and Dr. Rodriguez. Ty and I have the honor of presenting our broad course of study. The best presentation ever, I promise. It's Monday, Tuesday. All

032right, here we go. All right, we broke this down into three sections for you to make it easy for you to digest as we go through the, I will introduce section one. The definition of our broad course of study, the key performance indicators, really what we are exposing our kids to. what they have access to, and to make that easier to digest, we have a simple video here that if I don't break it, here we go. Broad course of study. Is your school district ensuring a well-rounded education for all students? Does your child's school offer classes in core subjects like math, science, and English, as well as performing or visual arts and career technical education? The answers to these questions fall under the Broad Course of Study Performance Indicator of the California School Dashboard. The

033Dashboard is an online tool that helps us understand how schools and districts are performing and where improvement may be needed. Let's take a closer look at the Broad Course of Study Indicator and see how your school district's achievement is measured. The broad course of study indicator looks at whether or not students across the school district have access to and are enrolled in a well-rounded program that includes a diverse list of courses which can be found in the California Education Code. For grades one through six, the required courses include science, English, mathematics, social sciences, visual and performing arts, and health and physical education. Courses in grades 7 through 12 include world languages, applied arts, and career technical education, in addition to courses that fall under the A to G requirements for California college admission. When assessing

034if a district meets the broad course of study indicator, it receives one of three ratings, met, not met, or not met for two or more years. A district that has met the broad course of study indicator has reported on whether their curriculum not only includes core subjects like math and English, but also classes like woodshop, drawing, French, and nutrition, so that every child receives a well-rounded education. The broad course of study indicator, along with the other performance indicators, are part of the California School Dashboard, which goes beyond test scores to provide a more complete picture of how schools and districts are meeting the needs of our students. To learn more about the California School Dashboard and its other indicators... So the good news is that Stockton Unified has historically met the indicator based on our

035California Dashboard. And if you read it, it's really the access, and we try to make it easy here, enrolled in and progress over time. These are the indicators that we self-report. And if it really gets easy... Let me go back there. It's our A through G requirements that our graduation requirements are now based on. So there's total alignment here, especially in secondary ed, on what we offer our students. And with that, I'll have Ty go into the how. Right. Good evening. So the how is how we offer all these different opportunities for the students and how we meet them. And so one of the... The first ways that we can ensure that that happens is that we have flexible schedules and access also in enrollment where the students can move to take courses that they

036are interested in. You can see a large variety of the different types of schedules that we offer in the district from the 4x4 block to the AB block, 7 period, even AMP sessions for students who need an alternative setting at Stockton High School. And so that's one way we can offer the broad course of study because it creates a lot more opportunities in an eight period day whether it be four by four or AB or AM, PM sessions, things like that. There we go, yeah. We also thought we would show you a couple examples of course registrations. This is a typical course registration sheet for a comprehensive high school at Edison. And the counselors would work through this course registration sheet with every single student to make sure that they are aware of all the

037choices and opportunities that they have. to select courses, whether it be through CTE pathways or in the arts or in AP or IB, depending on the site, and to make sure that they have every opportunity. Here's an example of Delta courses that are offered at HCA. And you can see even at a small high school, such as ACA, they're getting several choices of what they can take as far as dual enrollment and concurrent courses. And again, we would work with them with the counselors through my position to make sure that they're getting a broad offering of Delta courses and that they're meeting needs not just of the high school, but for the IGETC and things at the junior college level. This is a CTE example of all the CTE courses that were offered at HCA

038as well. And as you know, they're a medically themed charter school. And so most of their CTEs are designed to offer courses around completing those medical course pathways. And then obviously getting credit for them either through dual enrollment or for high school or through internships to make sure that... That it's not just English, math, science, and history, which is important, but that they have all these broad opportunities. And so that's part of the how of what we offer. Now, why is this important? If you look at our current core values as a district, I would argue that all of these are in our broad course of study, but it's really offering equal access to success and opportunities in that world-class education. The data that we're about to show you, you should be extremely proud of

039because we have done a lot of really good work over the course of time. So here's our AP offerings, our Advanced Placement and Participation. You remember when I showed this last year, you can see that there is significant growth from... I think I did about 144 additional students from last year to this year taking AP. You can see that the demographic breakdown is also growing. It was everybody went up with static. The Pacific Islanders stayed static at six, but there was growth in all subgroups except that one stayed static. Our ethnic studies enrollment, very proud of this work. I think we're second to none compared to other districts. we have an increase of 107 students, greater access there. Our dual enrollment, this one's a little, I'll explain what this is. This is gonna exceed previous

040year. We just have term one data only. We're still collecting term two data, which is current semester or term, depending on the schedule that you're on. We will exceed the 719. So these are the students that are taken to Delta classes that are highlighted here. Each comprehensive high school and specialty school has their own. courses that are taught on their campus and then on the left here's the access to all the courses that are asynchronous after school so we have a very good partnership with Delta a lot of our students have access to this the beautiful thing about a four by four block is that senior year is really meant to have access to other things outside of the course ETE Delta etc Our seal by literacy has also went up by 165 students. I

041think it's even, if Israel's up here, I think it's even more, but it's gone up significantly from previous year. Our arts program, and I know, is Cindy in here still? There she is. And Prop 28, you can see the myriad of things that are offered at the high schools from dance, mariachi, piano, it's amazing. Prop 28's amazing, Cindy's equally amazing, and what's offered at our K-8s. CTE, I won't say too much about this because Haley does an amazing job, has seen significant growth and in a future board meeting you'll see. additional growth there. But again, that senior year is meant to be flexible because most of their requirements are already completed. Our IB program at Franklin has, if you look at that number compared to last year, significant. Instead of 15% in the school, it's

042now 60. It'll be higher this coming year as the sophomores take additional courses. From 62 to 171, Anna and her team in the IB program at Franklin has Taken over really the number of exams taken all indicators there is that our IB program is getting stronger and there's a greater articulation as well with PYA Avid you can see the significant growth there 42 schools several demonstration sites access to 15,000 plus kids 93% of those kids get accepted to a four-year college very excited there and our next steps So we're by no we're done a lot of good positive things happening, but we are still working We have our equity audit that we're currently in We're trying to really train our counselors to use Mesa on time to evaluate every single transcript quickly not by paper

043This is electronic and our master schedule access our new graduation requirements are coming in they're being staggered in through 2029 This is the last year that we'll be at a 210 requirement. We move into a 230 requirement next year with new courses coming in in math and ethnic studies. We have the seal of civic engagement, CTE expansion, which I alluded to earlier. We'll be at a board meeting coming soon to see what Haley's team has really done there. We have CTE, ELD pilots. We're targeting subgroups. We're doing as much as we can to offer that world-class education here. It's why my son goes to this district, because I believe in the power of this district compared to others, and we're extremely proud of that. And questions? Oh no, that was just a clap. Don't go

044yet, Mr. Biederman. I wanted to return the tech. We're on encore. Can you talk about how you're promoting AP? So you talked about promoting it, next steps is within the subgroups, but what does it actually look like for a student to hear about an AP course? A lot of it is with counselor contact. I'll give you an example of the math track right now, because every freshman that came in had access to pre-AP. So they're getting it foundationally. Because AP really, for us, happens their sophomore, junior, and senior year. So they're getting exposed to it foundationally as they enter high school. So when they come with that pre-reg sheet, AP is not this hard thing that I don't want to take because I've already felt it, right? I've had it a little bit. So it's

045a lot of, if you're an avid student, you have to take AP. It's an expectation of being in that program. So it's a lot of conversations, digging into those subgroups to determine what they want to take. Because it's not Ty and I determine what they want to take. We want to offer things that the kids want. I know that STAC has AP African American history because the students wanted that. Let's offer that. Let's go through the training process, order the materials, that type of thing. So it's a lot of conversations. MESA on time will make our counselors' jobs easier so they can have deeper one-on-one conversations. They'll have more time to get to those subgroups and have those conversations. Good question. Any other questions? I just have a comment. I just wanted to say thank

046you to Ty and Brian at the same time. I don't know if a lot of people know, but Ty was at the IB program at Franklin when it originated. So I could see how it's grown since then. And Franklin and Brian, you always do a good job. I know you always put the kids first. So I appreciate all the work you do. Thank you. Yeah, Ty is awesome. Thanks, I just wanted to ask and it doesn't have to be right now but it but maybe for the Friday b2b on your Your grid where you're showing the number of students. So I'm really excited to see that more students are Participating in AP but I'm wondering if we can get like the proportion so we know the numbers of this for example Hispanic students 482 but

047what proportion 50% students 10% students We can do that. That's easy. And then I was curious. I didn't want to know, because we talked about IB. So what caused the great growth? Can we pinpoint or highlight a few? Sure. So as Brian was saying about how we instituted pre-AP math across the high schools and especially the comprehensive high schools, Franklin took the lead with their IB English, and they did that the same way. So the majority of that increases at the freshman level with all of the IB, all students in ninth grade taking IB English. I know they're looking at other subjects and looking at sophomore English. Been helping a few of the lead teachers out there look at some of the statistics around just specific success like this for the IB program. So they're

048definitely looking at ways to increase that, but that's where that big number came from. All right. Any other questions for Mr. Biederman or Ty? Nope. Seeing none, thank you both so much. Thank you. Thank you. All right, item 8.1, public hearing for successor contract negotiations for the 25-28 fiscal year between the Stockton Unified School District and the Stockton Pupil Personnel Association, Inc., and presenting the District Sunshine proposal to SPPA to the public. I would like to open the public hearing. And is there a staff report? All right, none. Is there any public testimony? No. Any comments from trustees? All right. Hearing none, I would like to close the public hearing. Item 10.1, Board Committee Reports. Christina will read the oral announcement and announce each board committee for a report, and Yvette will be the timekeeper.

049This is the opportunity to hear any reports from board committees specifically regarding prior or upcoming committee meetings. There will be a three-minute limit per report. The first report will be from the City of Stockton Parks and Recreation Committee, Clerk Donald Denair. Trustee Denair just walked out, so we'll have to call him back. The next committee is the Budget Oversight Committee, President Kametha Stevens. Sure. So we met with the team this past week to... Talk about diversity of funding. We know that we have some really tough restrictions coming down from our president regarding what we do here with federal funds. So making sure that we can implement and then sustain kind of what we have here at the district. I believe it was stated that we receive 15% of our funding is federal funding. And if

050that was to be frozen we still could make it but it would mean a little bit of tough times for here comes trustee denier some tough times here for the district we did also hear about grants utilization for the school board and then talking about how do we sustain our DEI work and a lot of that is making sure that we can diversify some things looking for other grant opportunities and then aligning that to some of the work that we have coming around the community school grant so if you haven't had the opportunity please come out to our Budget committee so that you can hear more about what's happening not just here at Stockton Unified but what we're hearing from CSBA the county and also the state of California The next committee is the city

051of Stockton Parks and Recreation Committee by clerk Donald and air Good evening everyone So I attended the first Parks and Rec Commission meeting of the year on January 27th at the council chamber of Stockton City Hall We elected the president and vice president of the commission, serving from January 2025 to December 2025. We re-elected Gina Calder to serve as the Parks and Rec Commission president for a second year. And Spencer Lockwood was also re-elected for a second term to serve as vice president of the Parks and Rec Commission. Some announcements from the Recreation Services Department. The winter-spring edition of the Community Services Activity Guide has been published in English and Spanish on the City of Stockton website as well as their Facebook social media page. Contents of the guide promote programs and events offered by

052Recreation and Library Services through April 2025. Regarding youth sports, registration is now open for MLS Go Outdoor Soccer. indoor volleyball, and First Tee golf camp from now through the first week of March. Additionally, the Start Smart development and Stepping Stones introductory programs for kids ages two through six are accepting registrations for the Start Smart Outdoor Soccer League. Scholarships of the 25% Scholarships of 25% are available for all youth sports registration fees and can be requested when registering at any of Stockton's community centers. The next meeting will be Monday, February 24th at 530 at the Stockton City Hall second floor council chambers. Thank you. Thank you. Moving on to item 10.3, approval of minutes, January 24th, 2025 regular board meeting. Is there a motion? Oh, I skipped one. Okay. 10.2, brief reports on trustee activities. Christina

053will read the oral announcement, and Yvette will be the timekeeper of three minutes per report. This is the opportunity for each trustee to make a brief announcement or to give a brief report on their own recent activities at the district pursuant to the Brown Act Government Code Section 54954.2A3. There will be a three-minute limit per report. All right. Trustee Silva? Nothing to report at this time. Thank you. Trustee Flores? I'm sorry. Trustee, I'm sorry, I'm looking at the board different. Trustee Perez? Hello, good evening. On February 6th, I attended the HBCU Caravan event at Hong Kingston Elementary School. And on February 8th, which was this past Saturday, I attended the NVLF Local 684 newly elected training session in Modesto and collected so much information. I'm learning so much. But I had a good time there

054meeting with other elected officials from the Valley. That's it. Thank you. All right, Trustee DeNair. Hello again. So on January 30th, I attended the Delta Service Center Council School Board Dinner hosted by the California Teachers Association at Papa Pavlo's Restaurant in Stockton. I'm grateful for Stockton Teachers Association President Dr. Chris Anderson for introducing me to the CTA leaders who were in attendance and from the District Board I was joined by Superintendent Dr. Rodriguez, President Stephens, Vice President Colon, Trustee Priest and Trustee Silva. The presentation that evening was given by Patricia Rucker, a CTA legislative advocate. What stood out to me from that presentation titled Answers to Remember, Problems to Solve, was her speaking about the importance of ethnic studies as a means to encourage students to attend their schools, take ownership over their education, while

055learning about the diverse communities in California. This makes me think of the work of Educational Services here in the district curriculum department. ethnic studies educators and the students who are already taking ethnic studies. I'm really proud that our district is already growing our ethnic studies program and that we are a leader for building out ethnic studies in the region and the state. And that's my report, thanks. All right, Trustee Preece. Good evening. I had the opportunity to watch our own Dr. Rodriguez in action as she taught myself and other administrators across San Joaquin County the importance of changing experiences, to change beliefs, to change expectations, which was really exciting for us. I also had the opportunity to visit our HBCU Caravan, which is an invaluable event that exposes our students to rich history. Black academic

056excellence and cultural significance of historical black colleges and universities. This was able to be hosted again at the Hong Kingston and Trustee Perez was there as well. It gave our students access to these types of opportunities which is essential and I definitely look forward to working with the host of that event so we can work on possibly getting this to one of our high school sites and maybe possibly providing transportation as needed for any interested students so they can attend as well. Trustee Perez and I also had an opportunity to attend the Stag versus Chavez basketball game where we were able to enjoy the incredible school spirit and energy from both sides. It was awesome to see those ladies in action. And I'm also honored and excited to have been selected for cohort seven of

057the school board partners program. It's a program that provides targeted training and resources and is a network of educational leaders dedicated to improving student outcomes. This opportunity will allow me to further develop my policy expertise, governance strategies, and equity-driven leadership to better serve our students and our community. Thank you. All right, thank you. Congratulations. All right, Trustee Flores, congratulations on the SVP alum. Yay! I don't have much to say. I've been in school. The only thing I can say is I actually get my registration to walk and graduate with my master's in educational leadership on May 1st. And I'm very proud to say that I was in the top 10% of my graduating class. So that's where most of my time has been in the books and trying to get myself together. But I have

058been in contact with my school sites and let them know that I am here. And if they need me, I'm still support. And also, February 14th, which is this Friday, I'm sure you all will have Valentine's plans already. But if you don't, we are having a Sopa Zemmote event at the Mexican Heritage Center. Tickets are $40. And we have local restaurants that will donate their soups, the popular. delicious soups so that you can come and have some sopas de amor. Thank you. Thank you, Trustee Flores. So I'll go next. I'll say ditto to all of the... I was at most of the events that my team went to, but I just wanted to highlight kind of what we see happening with our kiddos here at Stockton Unified. We know some of our kiddos, we've seen

059the walkouts that's been happening across the district, and it's important for us to always provide a safe space for our kiddos to voice kind of what they're feeling right now in this climate. So on Tuesday, February the 18th at Franklin High School, the board will be hosting a student forum. so that we can hear from our students and come up with plans and actions that they can actually utilize to drive their passion forward. One of the things that we want to make sure is that when we say that we are a safe haven for our families and our kids, we actually want to be that safe haven. So instead of just allowing our kids to walk out and not have any actions behind their work, we want to give them the opportunity to explore those

060actions, to talk about what they can do to support their family. And then to really say that we are a safe haven and a pillar for our kiddos here at Stockton Unified. So if you're available, come out and just provide some support to our kiddos. We want to make sure that they have avenues of action and not just to be reactionary, but to have a plan and process to be supportive. So we look forward to seeing you all on February the 18th at Stack High School to make sure that Stockton Unified continues to be and affirm that we are a safe haven school district. Oh, Franklin, sorry, Franklin High School. I was on a roll, I was on a roll. It's 5.45 p.m. So we're looking for an amazing time with our kiddos. And then

061last but not least, Trustee Colon. Thank you. So again, echoing what my trustees have said, it's been a busy, busy few weeks, a couple of weeks since we last met. There's lots of activities going on on campus. around our city. There's lots of opportunities for us to see good work being done by our students, by our staff, and within the community. So just a few things. The Veterans Pow Wow this past weekend was beautiful. The HBCU Caravan was exciting. And then of course our Health and Wellness Fair at McKinley Elementary. And just to kind of echo what President Stevens was saying. Just walking around and this is just one the first of several that we'll have it's clearly important to see our families being able to be in a space that they feel safe, that

062they feel supported, and that they know that they are welcomed in our school. And one of the thoughts just in thinking about that is what does it mean to be a safe haven school? What does that look like? We have a resolution we passed in December. We actually passed a similar resolution. This board did. back in 2016, 2017. So we have been a safe haven district before, but what does that mean in action? I want to thank Superintendent for the email last Friday that is a list of what is the procedures? What can one do if... if ICE is on our campus or approaches our students, what do we do when you're on campus or around campus? So I appreciate having that clear-cut what to do. And in addition to that, not but, but and

063in addition to that, as an adult, I feel Safe Haven means that we are listening to our students, that we are acknowledging not just whether they are immigrant status or not. but the diverse student population that we have, that they feel that they're seen, that we are listening to them, that we are here to support them in any capacity that we can. In the end, it's their success that matters. We want to see them continue on and to do good work. So again, just to reiterate, having a student forum because, again, just having that open place for our students to come and to say what's on their mind, lots of feelings, right? Even myself, these last few months, going from a range of emotions, let's come together so we can have a clear plan of

064action. So 5.45 p.m., February 18th, at Franklin in the theater. Thank you. Thank you, Vice President Colon. Moving on to item 10.3, approval of minutes, January 21st, 2025, regular board meeting. Is there a motion? I'll make the motion to approve the minutes. Is there a second? I second. All right, discussion. Roll call vote. Vice President Colon? Yes. Clerk Donair? Yes. Trustee Flores? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Trustee Silva? Yes. Trustee Priest? Yes. President Stevens? Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Item 10.4, approval of minutes January 28, 2025, SUSC regular board meeting. Is there a motion? I'll make the motion to approve the minutes. I'll second. I'll second by Donair. Any discussion? Hearing none, roll call vote. Vice President Colon? Yes. Clerk Donair? Yes. Trustee Flores? I wasn't here, so I have to abstain. Trustee Perez? Yes. Trustee Silva?

065Yes. Trustee Priest? Yes. President Stevens? Yes. Motion passes 6-0. Would Trustee Flores abstain? Item 10.5, approval of minutes, February 1st, 2025, SUSD special board meeting. Is there a motion? I motion to approve. Is there a second? Second. Second by Trustee Priest. Any discussion? All right, roll call vote. Vice President Colon? Yes. Clerk Donair? Yes. Trustee Flores? Abstain. Trustee Perez? Yes. Trustee Silva? Yes. Trustee Priest? Yes. President Stevens? Yes. Motion passes 6-0 with Trustee Flores abstaining. Item 10.6, approval of Resolution No. 24-63, Resolution on Trustee Compensation for Missed Board Meeting. Is there a motion? I'll make the motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. Second by Trustee Donair. Any discussion? Hearing none, roll call vote. Vice President Colon? Yes. Clerk Donair? Yes. Trustee Flores? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Trustee Silva? Yes. Trustee Priest? Yes.

066President Stevens? Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Item 10.7, the 2025 California School Board's Association Delegate Assembly Election Ballot. Is there a motion to approve one of the candidates? I'd like to make a motion to approve Sandra Chan for Delegate Assembly. All right. Is there a second? Second by Trustee Flores. Any discussion? All right. Hearing none, roll call vote. Vice President Colon. Yes. Clerk Donair. Yes. Trustee Flores. Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Trustee Silva? Yes. Trustee Priest? Yes. President Stephens? Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Okay, got it. Okay. Sorry. I have to ask the question item 10.8 approval of expenditure for one Stockton Unified School Board member to attend the California School Boards Association Coast to Coast federal advocacy trip in DC Washington DC on April 28th through the 30th. Is there a motion? I motion to approve. Is

067there a second? I'll second. All right discussion. All right roll call vote Vice President Colon. Yes Clerk Donair. Yes. Trustee Flores. Yes. Trustee Perez. Yes. Trustee Silva. Yes. Trustee Priest. Yes. President Stephens. Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Item 11.1, Superintendent's Report, Equity Audit Kickoff by Dr. Michelle Rodriguez, Superintendent of Schools. Yes, and thank you so much. So just a plug because it's going to happen the day of our next board meeting in the morning. So we are having our second health and wellness fair for our families. This time we chose to have it in the morning, and so it's going to be from 1030 to 1230 at the school for adults. And so we encourage all members of the community to come out. We had about 300 families come the last time. and we want to

068make sure to continue to provide those resources to families. And then our video this time is on our equity audit. So this is going to be something that is, you'll see 275 people from all 55 schools that are involved. And something that's really important is just the diversity of voice. So we have everything from our students there, from each one of the schools to our parents. staff, both classified, certificated, and management. And so here is the work that we're doing around the equity audit. Oh, sorry, the health fair is on the 25th. It's an equity kickoff. SUSD is beginning a three-year equity audit. We hope that off of this three-year plan that we really see that systemically we are pivoting and changing so that we are supporting every child where they are. The true point

069of equity is to see what a child needs, what an individual child family needs. and then provide those resources. From school principals to district administrators, all 55 schools are represented. They are learning about compassionate dialogue, how to deal with conflict, and much, much more. What you've got to first do is let them know that you care about what's happening to the kid in front of you. So when that parent comes in angry, the first thing I'm doing is empathizing and understanding and saying, I get it. We have an opportunity to truly hear. and understand what the culture of stock has to say about the school district. and get to the root of how we can actually make more progress with the equity work that's already being done. Encouraging equality and equity at all school sites.

070So we believe that each person in there, from children to parents to classified staff, certificated staff and management, we all have our part with dismantling barriers that are in the way for our students. Putting students first. In Stockton, Melinda Meza for the Stockton Unified School District. Moving on to item 11.2, approval of agreement with the California School Boards Association to facilitate CODA ethics training on May 6, 2025, and conflict of interest training on May 7, 2025 to the Stockton Unified School District executive management team, management staff, superintendent, and pertinent staff, and review and update related policies. Is there a motion? I'll make the motion to approve. I'll second. Discussion? Roll call vote. Vice President Colon. Yes. Clerk Donair. Yes. Trustee Flores. Yes. Trustee Perez. Yes. Trustee Silva. Yes. Trustee Priest. Yes. President Stevens. Yes. Motion

071passes unanimously. Item 11.3, approval of the 2425 Comprehensive School Safety Plan. Is there a motion? Oh, wait, there should be a two-minute report by Mr. Omlin. I didn't realize I was going to do a report, but if you have any questions, let me know and I'd be happy to answer them. I think there was one that came from Ms. Guerrero regarding SPED. Yes. So did you want to talk about what does the plans look like for our special ed students? Yeah, for our special ed population, we do have a separate plan that's more in detail for staff. They also have a tabletop. for special needs. In addition to we, um, we just added evacuation chairs or in the process, we're still putting them in over at our four conference comprehensive high schools on the second

072floor. Cause we had a problem with, um, evacuations for our special ed population coming down the stairs. So now we're putting evacuation chairs at, uh, each second floor at three comprehensive high schools with special ed population. Uh, we also, um, gave the special ed folks some radios for elopers and evacuations. So we do, and the principals do receive a principal packet, and within that principal packet we have a detailed plan for each site for the special ed population, in addition to another 75 pages of special ed information for them and guidelines. And who supports with the evacuation chairs at the school site? Is it teachers? Who does the work to assist the students down the stairs? Teachers. There's a training that they're going to go through as well. So we did test them out, and

073we tested them with some school staff, and they worked really well. You could have a 200-pound person and someone that's a lot lighter, say 165 pounds, take this person down the stairs easily. So these are just one of the gaps that we identified. You know, also, we did a drill years ago over at Walton, and we tested our evacuation procedures there for special ed, and it worked well. And, of course, we're going to find that, you know, we had some problems with tags as we're evacuating students on wheelchairs. So there's always going to be challenges, but each site should have a detailed plan for our special ed population. You have a question from trustee crease Yes, all our all our plans it's not available to the public we have several plans So we have our

074emergency operation plan which goes into your active shooter scenarios bomb threats I mean lockdowns So it's a lot more detailed and it's measured response for our staff as well And it's different than the comprehensive school safety plan Comprehensive school safety plan, you just get some key guidelines that CDE require or ask for. So the principals put that in there. But our other plans, our emergency operation plans, are a lot more in-depth. That goes into actual staff response. in addition to what we call tabletops. So what they're required to do, principals, is meet with their staff and go through six required tabletops. And these tabletops just go through an incident. And then the staff, in principle, they talk through, say, for example, bomb threat. Even the active shooter, we have a detailed response plan for that,

075too, as well. But I'd be happy to share that with you guys. Trustee Flores? Is it up to the principals to decide which staff will be able to help the special education teachers if there is an evacuation process? Because I know if there's not enough special ed teachers and usually they're short-staffed in the classroom, if they have to evacuate, who's going to help them get all those kids out? So that's why we drill and that's why they do table toss, but that's a good point because... We are short staffed. And so the radio, they radio that they're going to need help, say, on the second floor. And so additional staff are going to hopefully come up and assist. And again, I say hopefully because it's something they need to drill with. And what we do

076to an emergency services is we test them. So we'll go out and we'll do drills at sites and test that. And then when we put the evacuation chairs, I mean, we review their evacuation procedures for their special ed population. So will other staff be trained in that as well and not as like CSAs or? student assist or anybody else that would be part of that team? Sure. I think they're a separate team that would be responsible for knowing that they have to evacuate on the second floor. And it's the ebb and flow of an emergency because you can't predict each step. So because it's especially on a chaotic event, but we still practice it. And that's part of their tabletop where they're identifying staff. And then what we call their principal packet that they receive

077each year, which identifies all the key staff members that are going to be assisting too as well. And they get the training? Yes. And it's up to the principal, right? Yeah, the principal really needs to take the lead on this. But we're there to support the principal if they need assistance. And again, we do test. We'll be out testing. I know, I mean, I came back two and a half years ago, and the first year was mainly projects. So we built back up, we're building back up the team now. with the chief and then we have some other folks too, Curtis, that we're building this team up. And of course the help of Dr. Rodriguez has been immense to get a lot of these projects already completed. But we do have the documents. I know

078in closed session we can definitely share them with you as well if you have any other questions. Any other questions? Trustee Colon? So if a parent of a student with any kind of special need IEP or anything like that, whatever their need, are they able to ask the principal for this information? Because it sounds like it's not... Yes. Okay, they can. The parents can, yes. Okay. Definitely. It's just not something that's available to anyone and everyone? Because I thought you said it was not available to... Well, it's part of the emergency operation plan, but, I mean, obviously there are certain sections that we don't have to redact. That's one of them. What we don't want for the public to know is, like, our evacuation locations. So we evacuate staff because now they become easy targets.

079So that's what we don't want. We don't want them to know our procedures on actually bomb threat. We don't want to know our procedures on active shooter. So we redact certain information. But again, it's. It's all about the training for staff, making sure that when an incident does occur that they have the ability to move students. And that seems to be the biggest challenge for special ed. Paris? So I was just going to mention that so what they can do is they can view, they can't take with them, but they can view a redacted version. And so they would then request it and we would then be able to allow them to view a redacted version that they could sit there and read but they wouldn't be able to take it with them because it's

080confidential. Yeah, that's the comprehensive school safety plan. We are making 56 copies to give to principals that have it readily available at the front office. But the actual emergency operation plan is separate. That's where we get into the measured response from staff and the forms that they have to fill out saying, yes, we did this, we completed these drills. So there's a lot more to it versus the comprehensive school safety plan. There's just a whole lot more. All right. I think no other questions for Mr. Omelette? All right, thank you so much. Thank you. Okay, we still need a motion for item 11.3. I'll make the motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. All right, any other discussion? Roll call vote. Vice President Colon? Yes. Clerk Donair? Yes. Trustee Flores? Yes. Trustee Perez?

081Yes. Trustee Silva? Yes. Trustee Priest? Yes. President Stevens? Yes motion passes unanimously item 11.4 approval of legal services agreement for Bueller trap Annie LLP to perform an impartial investigation is there a motion? Is there a second a second all right any discussion hearing none roll call vote vice president Cologne Yes. Clerk Donair. Yes. Trustee Flores. Yes. Trustee Perez. Yes. Trustee Silva. Yes. Trustee Priest. Yes. President Stevens. Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Item 12.1, adoption of resolution number 24-54, proclaiming a week in February 2025 as Career Technical Education Week. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Is there a second? I second. All right. Discussion? Roll call vote. Vice President Colon. My question was, why did it need to be? Mr. Haley. That's a great question. I know there's a lot going on in February. The reason

082bringing this nationally, February is also recognized as CTE month. That's why we try to get one week of that there. Thank you, Mr. Haley. All right, continue with the roll call vote. Vice President Colon. Yes. Clerk Donair. Yes. Trustee Flores? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Trustee Silva? Yes. Trustee Priest? Yes. President Stevens? Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Item 12.2, adoption of resolution number 24-60, proclaiming March 2025 as Arts Education Month in California Youth Art Month. Is there a motion? I'd like to make the motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. Discussion? Roll call vote. Vice President Colon. Yes. Clerk Donair. Yes. Trustee Flores. Yes. Trustee Perez. Yes. Trustee Silva. Yes. Trustee Priest. Yes. President Stevens. Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Item 12.3, adoption of resolution number 24-61, proclaiming March 2025 as Women's History Month. Is there

083a motion? Nobody wants to motion on this one Is there a second Any discussion? Who roll call vote vice president Cologne? Yes clerk Don air. Yes trustee Flores Yes trustee Perez. Yes trustee Silva. Yes trustee priest. Yes President Stevens. Yes motion passes unanimously Item 12.4, adoption of resolution number 24-62, proclaiming March 31st, 2025, as Cesar Chavez, Day of Service and Learning. Is there a motion? I'll motion. Is there a second? I second. All right, discussion? Roll call vote. Vice President Colon? Yes. Clerk Donair? Yes. Trustee Flores? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Trustee Silva? Yes. Trustee Priest? President Stevens? Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Item 12.5, ratification of the First Amendment of the Agreement to Furnish Consultant Services with Schoolyard RAP, providing Asian Pacific Islander history, Latino Latina history, and black history in educational curriculum and content through

084the lens of history for students in ELOP. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. All right. Any discussion? Roll call vote. Vice President Colon? Yes. Clerk Donair? Yes. Trustee Flores? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Trustee Silva? Yes. Trustee Priest? Yes. President Stevens? Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Item 12.6, ratification of the amendment to the K-12 Strong Workforce Agreement for Franklin High School Auto Body Repair Shop. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. All right, discussion. Roll call vote. Vice President Colon. Yes. Clerk Donair. Yes. Trustee Flores. Yes. Trustee Perez. Yes. Trustee Silva. Yes. Trustee Priest. Yes. President Stevens. Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Item 13.1, ratification of the tentative agreement between the Stockton Unified School District and the California School Employees Association and its Stockton Chapter

085318 for the 24-25 successor year negotiations and approval of the required financial public disclosure forms that assess the financial impact of the tentative agreement. Is there a motion? I'd like to make a motion to approve. Is there a second? Second. All right. Any discussion? All right. Roll call vote. Vice President Colon? Yes. Clerk Donair? Yes. Trustee Flores? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Trustee Silva? Yes. Trustee Priest? Yes. President Stevens? Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Item 13.2 ratification of the memorandum of understanding between the Stockton Unified School District and the Stockton Teachers Association regarding a one-time signing bonus for the 24-25 fiscal year and the approval of the required financial public disclosure forms that assess the financial impact of the agreement. Is there a motion? I motion. Is there a second? I'll second. All right. Discussion. Hearing none

086roll call vote vice president colon. Yes clerk Don air. Yes trustee Flores. Yes trustee Perez. Yes trustee Silva. Yes trustee priest. Yes president Stevens. Yes motion passes unanimously Item 13.3, adoption of the district's initial proposal to the California School Employees Association and its Stockton Transportation Chapter 885 for the successor contract negotiations for the 25 through 28 fiscal years and to authorize the district negotiating team to proceed with negotiations. Is there a motion? I'll motion. Is there a second? Second. All right. Any discussion? No. No public comment on this one. All right. Roll call vote. Vice President Colon? Yes. Clerk Donair? Yes. Trustee Flores? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Trustee Silva? Yes. Trustee Priest? Yes. President Stevens? Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Item 13.4, adoption of the Stockton Unified School District initial proposal to the United Stockton Administrators

087for contract negotiations and to authorize the district's negotiating team to proceed with negotiations. Is there a motion? I'll motion. Is there a second? I'll second. All right, discussion? Roll call vote. Vice President Colon? Yes. Clerk Donair? Yes. Trustee Flores? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Trustee Silva? Yes. Trustee Priest? Yes. President Stevens? Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Item 13.5, adoption of the Stockton Unified School District initial proposal to the California School Employees Association and its Stockton Chapter 318 for contract negotiations and to authorize the district's negotiating team to proceed with negotiations. Is there a motion? Make the motion to approve. I'll second. All right. Any discussion? Hearing none, roll call vote. Vice President Colon? Yes. Clerk Donair? Yes. Trustee Flores? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Trustee Silva? Yes. Trustee Priest? Yes. President Stevens. Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Item 13.6,

088adoption of the Stockton Unified School District initial proposal to the California School Employees Association and its Delta Valley Chapter 821 for contract negotiations and to authorize the district's negotiating team to proceed with negotiations. Is there a motion? A motion. To approve? Motion to approve. Thank you. Is there a second? I'll second. All right. Any discussion? Hearing none, roll call vote. Vice President Colon? Yes. Clerk Donair? Yes. Trustee Flores? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Trustee Silva? Yes. Trustee Priest? Yes. President Stephens? Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Item 13.7, adoption of the Stockton Unified School District initial proposal to the Stockton Unified Supervisory Unit for contract negotiations and to authorize the district's negotiating team to proceed with negotiations. Is there a motion? I'll motion to approve. You want a second? Is there a second? I'll second. All right, second.

089Any discussion? Hearing none, roll call vote. Vice President Colon? Yes. Clerk Donair? Yes. Trustee Flores? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Trustee Silva? Yes. Trustee Priest? Yes. President Stevens? Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Item 13.8, adoption of the Stockton Unified School District initial proposal to the Stockton Teachers Association for contract negotiations and to authorize the district's negotiating team to proceed with negotiations. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. All right. Is there a second? I'll second. All right. Second by Colon. Any discussion? All right, hearing none, roll call vote. Vice President Colon? Yes. Clerk Donair? Yes. Trustee Flores? Yes. Trustee Priest? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Trustee Silva? Yes. President Stephens? Yes. Motion passes unanimously. All right, item 13.9, approval of the memorandum of understanding between the Stockton Unified School District and the California School Employees Associations and its

090318 chapter regarding the creation of a new evaluation form for the ELOP program facilitators. Is there a motion? I'll motion. Is there a second? I'll second. All right, discussion? Yes. Are we going to, this is for the evaluations, right? Yes. Are we going to, is there ever, I think this is a great idea, but as long as it's done with fidelity and unbiased and it's honest feedback, and then is there any ideas or conversations about... The directors given an evaluation or given a survey by their facilitators Do you want to call up Mary? Thank you. Good evening everyone. Can you ask that question one more time? Yeah, so I've heard some concerns from facilitators that they're not being treated respectfully and that they have some issues going on and I don't want this process to

091Further the authority that they're already dealing with I'm sorry to hear that. We haven't heard any feedback. We do have monthly check-ins with them, so I didn't know that that was going on, but we can check in more with them. I would like to take pride in that everything we do, we do with fidelity. We do respectfully, coming from being a program facilitator myself. I understand all the roles and the hardships and the triumphs also at the site level, looking directly at the job description, working also with HR. Yes, the comparison is to what they are asked to do in their job description. Also being that we do understand their work, their site coordinators who are their direct supervisors who provide the evaluations also come from being at the site level of doing their work

092firsthand. So it is a good lens coming from understanding what the work looks like, the hardships, the struggles. They also provide the trainings, the onboarding, the ongoing. on one-on-one support at the site level and so when it's time to evaluate you're evaluating from a knowing position also that ties into their job description so there shouldn't be any misdirection or redirection from the straight line to what they're expected to do the support that they're given and then it can be properly evaluated accordingly And the reason why is because I've received some concerns from different facilitators, and they receive different accountability than... everybody. Nobody's receiving the same accountability expectations. And so I just want to ensure that the expectations or the evaluations are going to be set forth for everyone and not just targeted or tool used

093to target staff members as well. And then I would go an extra step as in letting the facilitators create a survey about their supervisors as well. I mean, it's not evaluation, but a survey, because then it will improve the relationships, and then the supervisors are therefore up, will say, they could see where they can improve as well. Absolutely. And so if I can go back to your... everyone you were comparing it to another position. Could you please, please speak to that so that it's apples to apples? Oh, we've all heard it. The facilitators have come up and already expressed concerns about mistreatment. And then I've received messages from facilitators from different facilitators saying that some facilitators are held more accountable than others. And some facilitators are being targeted. I'm sorry that they feel that way.

094So we'll do our due diligence to check in with each one individually and we'll make sure. And I hope what I'm saying today isn't a reason to go target anybody as well. No, I don't know where that language is not in my vocabulary of targeting anyone outside of supporting. Again, we do have valid. support tools in place to continue that so But I would like to also include that HR is with us if we did need to do anything further, but we do follow Guidelines from SUSD if there's anything that needed to happen beyond us because we don't target we support that is a language that we do use However, I wanted to go back if maybe retaliated then that's the way the word that they used So I don't want to go back and

095forth, but I just want to I'm just Stating the facts of what I heard. Trustee, let her finish the statement first. I appreciate that. If we can go back to, I think you were saying that they're getting something different than everyone else. I'm just asking, who is the everyone else? So I've received messages from different facilitators who say they have been held accountable where other facilitators were being not treated the same way. Okay. Thank you for that. So we do follow, take pride in the practices that we do have. We are the onboarding, the trainings, the monthly meetings that we have with coffee and conversations directly with myself, open forum, casual, also monthly meetings and training. So we do offer, try to offer as many forums as possible, totally open to making adjustments to going

096forward to support whatever that they need. We have lots of FAQs. We have also times for them to do their survey. We do offer that and so we send that normally after intercessions or special events that we have so they can share what's working What's not working? Many of our facilitators have shared that due to sharing their input that they've made adjustments immediately And so no no no need to say back and forth at all I just wanted to speak to the support that we are giving that we are proud to give but also looking forward to making whatever Necessary adjustments were needed not a problem at all Thank you. So Mary what's different from this? What are the changes on this particular evaluation form? Thank you for that. So 2003-2004 is when after-school programs

097begin. ACES funding started that and that's just kind of a statewide and it was very different in that it's under a group CSCA 318 which is the bargaining unit group which I was proud to be under as well as a facilitator and the difference is that facilitators oversee programs where it's a hundred plus students seven, eight, nine, ten staff members. They're responsible to communicate and work with their principal. Teachers in the school day, other parents in the school day, work with parents, pretty much coordinate and run and operate an entire program. The principals are normally gone. right between four and five o'clock and our programs operate till 6, 630. And so there is another leadership type of role that facilitators have that is just a lot. They do a lot, they carry a lot and

098they're like the face of the program and even doing safety drills, procedures, any major issues they still have to follow until the 630 hits, the last child is gone. However, under CSA 318, the majority of the staff are assist. So these are individuals who assist teachers in the classroom. So they don't really, under this umbrella, respectfully, there's not apples to apples with the work that they provide and the support that they provide. They're coordinating and operating programs versus an assist assisting a teacher in a classroom. So you can kind of see the difference. So the evaluation tool does not line up. So you're asking questions that may tie into very basic general support to a teacher or to a staff versus requirements from the state, from the CDE of reporting, attendance. Management of a program

099they're responsible for recruiting students working with school day teachers working with principals alignment of safety programming providing a level of training to SUSD paraprofessionals as well as to Community partner staff, so it's very different the workload is heavier And we're here to support them which is why we want them to have an actual fair evaluation So we can say hey these are the things that you are doing right that aligns with what you were expected to do in your job description Just to clarify so 318 has two type of evaluations one for Paris and one for non Paris So now they're gonna have a third evaluation just for the after-school staff. It's more tailored to them We negotiated this for almost a year I want to say going on to reach an agreement and we

100finally were able to reach it I could send you our website where it has a different evaluations and you could kind of compare and see how different they are And then what prompts the unscheduled? Because it says there's an unscheduled evaluation. So what would prompt that for a staff member? HR, do you have a process for that? Because they receive one once a year. So you have your normal two, four, six months when they're new. And then unscheduled is you pretty much just have to do it by the end of the year, a certain date, by April, I believe. And then you can communicate with your, normally it's like when the availability is of the supervisor and they will communicate that and it can go on their calendar. It's not like a scheduled observations like

101we do with teachers. It's sort of an overall performance throughout the year and at the end of the year they're due. For probationary people it's a little different. You have to do them every few months before they become permanent. Okay, got it. Okay. Any other questions for Glenda or Mary? If anybody ever is interested in looking at the messages and the concerns that I received, I have them if you guys want to see them. All right, thank you. Anything else you want to add, Mary? Yes, I did see what you're speaking to. Thank you, Ms. Angel-Ann, because we're very transparent in this department and we're very proud to answer and speak to any question or concern. And again, for any of our facilitators, we do have open forum meetings where we do meet and are

102able to share how they're feeling, even through other ways of communication, and we can support them. Because our objective overall is to ensure professional development, which we do provide from our department, also to do reassurance. Knowing that the work is hard and heavy, we do. want them to feel support. So wherever it's not happening, we'd love for them to reach out to us directly. I don't know what the language of retaliation or target is, but we definitely can help change that language to help them to the positive end of our support. Okay. Thank you, Mary, so much. Thank you so much. All right. We have a first and a second. Let's move on to a roll call vote. Vice President Colon. Yes. Clerk Donair. Yes. Trustee Flores. Yes. Trustee Perez. Yes. Trustee Silva? Yes. Trustee

103Priest? Yes. President Stevens? Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Item 13.10, approval of the new school bus driver delegated behind the wheel trainer job description, CSE 8885, salary schedule range 43. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. All right. Any discussion? All right. Hearing none, roll call vote. Vice President Colon. Yes. Clerk Donair. Yes. Trustee Flores. Yes. Trustee Perez. Yes. Trustee Silva. Yes. Trustee Priest. Yes. President Stevens. Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Item 13.11, approval of additional floating holiday in honor of former President Jimmy Carter. Is there a motion? A motion to approve. Is there a second? There's a second. All right. Any discussion? Roll call vote. Vice President Colon. Yes. Clerk Donair. Yes. Trustee Flores. Yes. Trustee Perez. Yes. Trustee Silva. Yes. Trustee Priest. Yes. President Stevens. Yes. Motion passes unanimously.

104Item 13.12, adoption of resolution number 24-59, waiver request, variable term waiver. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. All right. Discussion? All right. Hearing none, roll call vote. Vice President Colon? Yes. Clerk Donair? Yes. Trustee Flores? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Trustee Silva? Yes. Trustee Priest? Yes. President Stevens? Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Item 13.13, approval of revised salary schedules for confidential, certificated management, and classified management for public posting. Is there a motion? A motion to approve. Second. All right. Any discussion? All right. Hearing none, roll call vote. Vice President Colon? Yes. Clerk Donair? Yes. Trustee Flores? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Trustee Silva? Yes. Trustee Priest? Yes. President Stephens? Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Item 13.14, approval of teacher exchange program J1 services agreement with foreign culture exchange consultants for the human

105resource department. Is there a motion? I motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. All right. Any discussion? All right. Question by Trustee Priest. I know we had previously voted on this issue, and I know that we are asking our teachers to do culturally responsive training, and now we want to bring in teachers with no connection to the subcultures of the students that are currently present in our district, and I want to know how that's beneficial. You want to speak to that, Glenda? I'm sure, okay. So at this moment, bringing teachers from... anywhere, out of state, out of country is better than having revolving door substitutes. I understand the concern about, no, they are not being onboarded, they're stocked away, they don't have any of the trainings that Ed Services and Student Support Services

106give. We do have a one week long new teacher orientation for just regular new teachers. We are planning and we're gonna be collaborating with the ed services to provide the cultural exchange teachers an addition to the one week, another few days to try to get them onboarded into the ways of Stockton Unified and all the trainings. But yes, you're right. There is a lot of support they're gonna need, but we feel that a credential, because they will have their credential prepared teacher is better than having substitutes change every week. At this moment we still have about 23 just K-8 vacancies. And these are classrooms with kids right now. Tomorrow, kids are gonna go to a classroom with a substitute, right? So we believe that bringing certified teachers, even if they're from out of the country,

107will be beneficial for the students. Yes, so I'll piggyback on to what Glenda Lee was also saying. So we have done this in the past before, and we have learned how to learn from those lessons and what we need to do. We actually still have some of our educators from last time, a group of approximately four. And so not only will we help provide additional... professional development, but also we will come together with a committee, a welcome committee, and help them, partner them up and mentor them just in the community and find those pockets as well as we bring them into our district. Yeah, we'll be adding layers of support with the new teacher program and also in HR we're assigning one person that will be like their point of contact that they could just

108call to ask any random question. The other kind of caveat there is that we have about 43 right now non-classroom positions that we froze, meaning coaches, intervention teachers, program specialists. These are positions that are usually taken by our most experienced STA members, your master teachers, the people that know and can go coach teachers, can go do intervention. And we froze those positions, the hiring, because... we were pulling teachers from the classroom from students. So the thought is that if we could get filling some of the vacancies with whoever we recruit, right? We're still going to do all of our fairs this year. We have a long list. And then some of the international teachers as well. That way we can start filling all those intervention teachers, all the coaches, the program specialists, and with our

109master teachers that are out there right now, and then have our international teachers kind of fill in the gap for the vacancies that we just cannot fill. It's just right now it's a teacher shortage everywhere in almost every state. And so just as we're thinking about whole child, whole family, whole community, we do also, we will be partnering with our, we have very strong parent packs as well. And so we will be partnering with our parents to also welcome in these teachers together as well. Go ahead, Trustee Perez. I'm more concerned about like the language barrier and how students will have trouble like understanding teachers that don't speak either fluent English or have heavy accents. And my concern for that comes from hearing students in the district express how certain teachers who are citizens have

110heavy accents and they can't learn the curriculum because they don't understand the teacher. What what what types of things have been addressed or will be addressed to assist in that aspect of learning for our students? Yeah, so we're building a a Interview committee like a panel with STA at the table USA at the table new teacher support at the table and HR So we could start screening candidates It'll be on zoom so we could screen for fluency now All of these teachers have degrees and CLAIM, WRITE A LISTING PAPER TO BE FLUENT IN ENGLISH. SO THE INTERVIEW PROCESS WILL KIND OF SCREEN OUT APPLICANTS THAT HAVE A DIFFICULTY EXPRESSING THEMSELVES OR MAY NOT SPEAK ENGLISH CLEARLY. BUT, YES, YOU KNOW, I DO HEAR, I MEAN, I HEAR FROM MY OWN KIDS, BUT MOST OF THEM

111USUALLY GET USED TO THE ACCIDENT AND THEY START UNDERSTANDING. BUT WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, THE INTERVIEW PROCESS WILL HELP US KIND OF MAKE SURE THAT WE GET TEACHERS THAT ARE communicating clearly it was before our time but I couldn't I could get you that information I'm on the positive side of this. But I do have a question because I'm concerned based on your guys' feedback right now. I was under the impression that we were going to pull these for the dual language programs. So this one in particular is from the Philippines. The first one was from Latin American countries. So that one we will be using for our dual immersion, which has been significantly challenging to fill. I do want to note we will not lower our standards. So if we interview people and they

112are not good for our children, we don't have to take anyone and then we won't. So, you know, whether it's... looking at the Spanish speaking or the ones that are from the Philippines, both sets, we plan on using them and interviewing them and having a really stringent process so that when we do bring them over, it's a positive experience for everyone, right? So we want it to be a positive experience for our students, for them, and obviously for us as well. I did a school site visit at a couple schools in Portland, Oregon when I went for the NABE conference out there. And I got to firsthand see the teachers from other countries in the classroom with the students. And I think that was their best asset is being from the country that they were

113teaching in. But... It was for the dual immersion or dual language program. And so this is the first time that I'm hearing that it's going to be for other positions. But I am concerned. I share the same concerns that the rest of my colleagues up here have. But I can say that for the dual immersion program, it was an excellent program. And the kids, when they're little, it's easier to grab them to where they're easier to learn and pick up the second language. And I was seeing kids in kindergarten speaking Hmong. I'm an adult. There's no way I would ever in my lifetime learn how to speak Hmong. But you have these teachers from the countries that are teaching that language. the passion that we talk about and we expected our teachers to have when

114they're feeding into our kids is what these teachers had and so that's what i could bring to the table seeing firsthand the dual immersion program from teachers from other countries and this is something that i i brought to the board then to look into and so i'm glad that they took I don't know how they got involved in that, but I'm glad that they did. And I look forward to seeing it along as long as we do it right, because I hate algebra today because I had a strong accent math teacher. So I know what damage that can do at the same time. I wanted to touch base on. the amount of teachers that stayed from the previous. So just to clarify, they're here on visas and the J-1 visas, which are the ones that

115get approved most easily, they have to go back after they finish with the fifth year. So they want to extend, they have to go back to their country and then apply for the different visa, the H-1B or any other type of ways to stay. So that's why. you likely have, you know, they spend five years and then they have to go back. The H1 visa is a little bit harder to get. That first company that we took in December does those visas. A lot of these companies don't do those. And those teachers can stay up to six years, and then they have a pathway to residency or citizenship. It depends on each case, but they may be able to stay a little longer. So we're exploring both options. At this point, like I said, we're

116just trying to fill in the gap and make sure that our students have a consistent teacher in the classroom and we don't start the year with 100 vacancies like we did this year. Any other questions? What is the standard accountability that will be held to these teachers to ensure that our students are passing their classes or meeting the standard for? GRADUATION. YEAH, SO THEY WILL BE PART OF THE STA UNION. THAT CONTRACT OUTLINES VERY SPECIFIC WAYS OF TEACHER EVALUATIONS. AND THIS PARTICULAR CONTRACT IS VERY THOROUGH. THEY HAVE TO BE OBSERVED QUITE A FEW TIMES, DO PRECONFERENCES, OBSERVATIONS, POSTCONFERENCE, AND THEN DO IT AGAIN AND AGAIN, ESPECIALLY FOR PROBATIONARY TEACHERS. SO WE HAVE TO WORK WITH OUR PRINCIPALS TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE FOLLOWING THAT PROCESS. It's part of the contract, but to make sure also

117with no teacher support that they're providing the support for the teachers. Because it's not just the evaluation process is too late, right? By the time you do the evaluation, you give them the feedback, hope that they do it again, but is it that they do it better next time, but is there support in between? The new teacher support is key. Having these coaches in place would kind of make sure that these teachers are following standards, are teaching the curriculum, and also falls with the administrators on campus. Thank you. So I know the process. My kiddo school did the same thing when it came to professors. They used the same type of program and system, and the teachers were not able to stay around. They were sponsored by the school to come in and do the

118work. Once they were done, they would have to go back unless they were offered another opportunity. But I do want to point out that one of the HBCUs that came to our HBCU caravan Fayetteville State University. They do have a teacher pipeline. I did reach out to them. So they graduate a ton of teachers. And in Fayetteville, they have some other charters that utilize the same type of. process they graduate from the college and then they get a contract with a school to then to provide them with some additional support so I would love to see us creating these pipelines with our HBCUs and other colleges where we are kind of growing our own teachers who come back here and do good work for our kiddos but yeah I am for this so I go

119ahead and call for the vote whenever you ready yep all right Vice President Colon yes Clerk Donair? Yes. Trustee Flores? Yes. Trustee Perez? No. Trustee Silva? No. Trustee Priest? No. President Stephens? Yes. Motion passes 4-3 with Trustees Perez, Silva, and Priest voting no. Alright moving on to item 14.4 approval of certification corrective action audit findings and recommendations from the San Joaquin County Office of Education for the 23-24 fiscal year. Is there a motion? I'll make the motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second Stevens. Oh, I'll second Stevens. Any discussion? Hearing none, roll call vote. Vice President Colon? Yes. Clerk Donair? Yes. Trustee Flores? No. Trustee Perez? Yes. Trustee Silva? Yes. Trustee Priest? Yes. President Stephens? Yes. Motion passes 6-1. Would Trustee Flores vote no? Item 14.2, approval of the vendor pool for the

120RFP 25.9-0-0, academic, extracurricular, and emotional support services for students in need. Is there a motion? I'll make the motion to approve. I'll second. All right. Any discussion? I have a question. Is this like just a pool of vendors that we're just going to grab when we need them? It's nobody that we're putting in place right now? No, the individual contracts will come forward at a later time, but it will be similar to what we're doing with the ELOP pool, so it will make it quicker. It will expedite us being able to get services to our most vulnerable students, including our African American black students. Are these state approved? So these are all local vendors. Okay, so they're not all state approved then? Yeah, they're not government funded. Okay. Any other discussion all right hearing that

121roll call vote Vice president Cologne. Yes clerk down there. Yes Trustee Flores. Yes Trustee Perez. Yes Trustee Silva. Yes Trustee priest. Yes President Stevens. Yes motion passes unanimously All right item 17.1. I would like to adjourn the board meeting at 724