001[Music] good evening and welcome to the tonight's meeting of the Board of Education the meeting is called to order at 400 PM in Open Session roll call please student Board member oose Miss Armstrong present Miss Centron present Mr critchfield present Mrs Garza Miss Stewart present tonight we do not have requests addressing closed session agenda items at this time the board will recess to close session Open Session will resume at approximately 6:00 [Music] p.m. here we go good evening welcome back everyone tonight's meeting of the Board of Education was called to order at 400 PM in Open Session the board then clo went to close session at 4:01 p.m. and will now reconvene the meeting and open session at 6:16 p.m board clerk kitfield will update us on the closed uh closed session topics thank you
002madam president topics discussed in Clos session were anticipated litigation labor negotiations and Public Employee discipline dismissal release the board took no action in closed session tonight we are going to have our amazing vice president miss Garza she's going Mrs Garza she's going to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance would everyone please stand face the flag right hand over your heart ready begin i al to the the United States thank you you may be seated thank you Mrs asav do we have any replacement Pages tonight we do have some replacement Pages we have item 13.7 and 13.13 on the back table do we have any amendments to tonight's agenda we do also have an amendment we have one correction this evening we have a type error within item 13.8 which is the resolution for release
003and reassignment of certificate administrators in the first paragraph of the resolution the word issued is misspelled with an extra s so we have one correction all right and I know we have recognitions cuz I see all my alumni here I went to B high school so I'm really excited for you guys to be here and Mrs oo can you take the recognitions away for us yes I am going to have Mrs Carter uh lead us in those recogn recognitions this evening would you like us to come down if the bo could come down that would be great thank you so this evening the board of education is pleased to recognize teams from our district who earn the distinction of mid city leagues Champion during winter sports season staff and students please come forward as I
004call your names and then remain up here for a picture representing belflower High School boys varsity basketball we have coaches Zach Carter Stanley [Applause] Hollis Marvin [Music] [Applause] Bragg angel CNA hirro Vasquez and now for our students when you hear your name please come forward EJ Andrews Deacon Bots Cali Carter Jason Harris II Jaylen hatch Stanley Hollis III Elijah Thompson Lorenzo Urena Kenneth wri Christian Sana Derek Martinez Connor Delgado Deshawn fiser Dunn thanks to the exceptional coaching and guidance of belflower high coaches and staff along with the hard work and dedication of our students the belfar high school boys varsity basketball team celebrates their first league title since 1978 [Applause] Bellflower boys basketball team had an undefeated season in 2425 earning them the title of mid city leagues championships congratulations to [Applause] all e e
005parent pictures students do you have anyone that you would like to recognize that's in the audience tonight we want tooge can the parents stand up get a some [Applause] acknowledgements and coaches thank you for your dedication to our team and what a great Triumph congratulations to all of you and that brings an end to our recognitions tonight that is is the last recognition e e thank you again so much all right you guys let's go ahead and continue on we are going to go to our presentations from our student staff and community and we're going to go to our employee representative reports can I have Carrie McDaniel from BTA good evening board president Stuart interm superintendent aavo board cabinet community and guest it's been a little while since I've been up here um so there
006was an article recently published in the signal which is the newspaper in Santa Clarita where I live about how sagus School Board wanted to discuss the behavior challenges that teachers have been struggling to combat and correct in the classroom I realize that behavior is challenging everywhere but I would like um for you guys to look into ways that we can support teachers and students in our classrooms I think we all realize that Ed code challenges us to be creative with our discipline let me tell you about some of the concerns I get from elementary teachers a student or students with ex- behavior gets sent out of class to the office that Elementary School may or may not have an AP or a counselor on campus that day the principal may or may not be on
007campus depending on what meetings are on the calendar what does that teacher do I've told many teachers this year to make sure to document the behaviors and email admin but that just leaves a paper trail what are we doing about the behaviors what is the bigger plan how do we know that next year will be better because we've imp implemented X Y and Z processes this is just Elementary School let's talk about high school we decided to go to block because we were promised smaller class sizes in order to provide intervention in our classrooms build relationships with students provide more elective opportunities help our struggling population with credit recovery during the school day instead of expecting them to do it Z or 7eventh or even eth periods the district agreed to keep High School teachers
008cap at 175 in order to support its desire to start a block schedule the following school year and in order to provide those opportunities to our students bargaining continued um last week after a long break our last date was before winter break and it it resumes again next Tuesday I hope that we make some progress Alliance last month discussed transportation and reorganization I hope that the district continues to move forward to bring back our own transportation department and continues to improve the reorganization process I think we all saw a lot of improvement this year and I hope that that continues the standing committee continues to meet with um involving special education they meet almost monthly they continue to discuss and hopefully make some changes to our special education department that benefits both our students and
009helps our teachers be successful last month I attended the Southeastern Service Center School Board dinner with a lot of you here it was a nice night the food was pretty good and I went home asking my husband what the title of his Memoir would be I'm still adamant that mine is depending on the day it still Rings true almost every day yesterday I attended the DBQ professional development with the Middle School social science teachers I really love what that is doing with our history teachers and I hope that the district considers expanding it to other teachers if applicable um I then rolled into the teacher of the year committee I'm really excited about this new process that's transparent and allows for sites to determine who their teacher of the year is um the applications that
010have been submitted um were very competitive and clearly points out that we have a lot of wonderful teachers at our schools doing a lot of wonderful things for our students um BTA shared the data from its admin survey with all of you uh I gave them to miss aavo I hope you guys got the envelopes our membership engagement committee spent a lot of time compiling the data to give you feedback on um from the teachers on site admin site reps will be given the data at the next rep council meeting in March to Foster conversation with their own site admin next week I am attending the AI conference in Anaheim with many other bflow leaders and look forward to debriefing the experience and how we can incorporate some of what we learned into our classrooms
011ac across the district finally on Tuesday I was listening to the radio and it was reminding listeners that the cell phone ban in La USD started that day and that all students needed to have their phones off during the school day I thought it was a cool PR thing to do but parents and Guardians uh now parents and Guardians also hear it on the radio and sometimes hearing it from a different Source makes a difference I'm not sure um what the plan is for the cell phone policy but I urge you to consider messaging and how to use other sources to reach our community thank you and have a thank you all right so CSA does not have a report tonight and neither does PTA so we're going to move on to our superintendent's report
012thank you good evening everyone I hope everyone enjoyed a long weekend this past Friday and Monday it was my pleasure to visit visit Ernie pile this week twice I received a special invitation to attend the wedding of Q and you and I have some pictures for you up here um this was put on this morning by Miss Ashton's transitional kindergarten class the presentation was adorable creative and very thoughtful the students dressed as Alphabet letter ERS they were members of the wedding they were either a guest or part of the wedding party they hosted their parents in school staff to a wedding which consisted of songs a read aloud and a mock wedding vow ceremony between the two letters of q and u Mrs Ashton's creative way of engaging students in learning that Q is almost
013always followed by a youu and words was fun and engaging for all so I think Ernie pile and Miss Ashton for that invitation it was adorable I'd also like to congratulate our CTE teachers and students we celebrate CTE programs in the month of February most recently we had CTE students competing in various skills USA events at the regional level and we have 48 students from belflower Mayfair Somerset and the cops program who qualified to compete at the state level in April so congratulations to the students and staff for all of their hard work we know that that's a tough thing to participate in I'd also like to congratulate Somerset High School for once again being recognized as a model continuation High School the state superintendent of schools Tony Thurman announced the 2025 recipients yesterday Somerset
014will be recognized in April at the California continuation Education Association awards Gala for providing comprehensive services to at risk youth Somerset staff will join us for recognition after that upcoming Gala and we look forward to celebrating them and finally this evening I'd like to introduce our newest BD administrative team me member Mr Calbert Wright who I believe is with us this evening welcome Mr Wright is serving as an assistant principal at mayfer middle and high school Mr Wright served Lynwood Unified School District for 13 years he started his career as a special education teacher he served as an instructional lead and most Rec recently L as a data expert he holds a Bachelor of Science and MERS of Science in sociology and special education earned from Loyola maram Mount and National University Welcome to the
015BD team and that's my update for this evening thank you awesome okay so we're moving on to committee updates does anybody have a committee update Mr clerk kield yeah thank you madam president um uh the uh committee on facilities and enrollment uh will be doing a learner centered uh visit in San Diego March 16th through 18th uh thank you uh Ryan for putting that together I know we're going with a group of people down to San Diego to visit a numerous sites um all doing unique things in their in their respective schools so that I'm looking forward to that and our uh security committee uh will be meeting on February 25th thank you board member Aron um I have a report from L Locka okay yeah that's the committee okay so uh uh Paramount Unified
016School District will be hosting Locka on Monday February 24th from 5: to 7: p.m and we'll be discussing topics on mathematics adoptions the role of the school board members instructional um material adoptions uh state and local governing board processes processes roles and responsibility and this is all in efforts in closing the achievement Gap all me all board members and cabinet members are welcome to attend we just need to register thank you any other committee updates so the one thing that I wanted to bring to my colleagues on next uh meeting's agenda I'm going to be adding another committee um a legislative action committee basically so that we can keep up with current legislature things that are coming into play we're going to be going to coast to coast to advocate for our students so I'm
017going to start that committee um if we can get that on the agenda next meeting all right so moving along to we do not have public comments tonight correct there's no cards right okay awesome so we're moving on to discussion items we're going to start with 12.1 our lcap midyear update presentation yes and we're going to have Mrs Carter provide that presentation this evening actually Madame President if um I might real quick um we still need to open up the the public comment just in case someone from the public that hadn't submitted a card yet would like to uh speak on any issues and then we can close it out if nobody comes up are there any public comments closing public comments thank you okay tonight in collaboration with Business Services I'll be providing the
018midyear lcap update the lcap is our local control accountability plan which is our district plan for supporting student achievement the elcap is a three-year plan of which we are in the first year of implementation annually we review the plan with educational partners and determine if any changes need to be made in February of each year we provide an update including the current status of implementation of each action the current expenditures to date and outcome data for each metric that is currently available expenditures and implementation information will be presented as not started in progress or complete some metrics are still in progress as the information is collected from sources that are not yet complete or available such as the healthy kids survey and lcap Survey data metric outcomes will be presented as pending improved or final
019at the time of adoption of the budget overview which was June of last year the total projected Revenue was approximately $185 million received by funding sources is labeled on this slide as of January 31st the projected revenue is approximately 204 million the difference in funding is due mostly to Federal one-time funds that had not yet been expended our plan has four goals 27 actions the actions included in goal One support the provision of safe collaborative conditions for learning more specifically actions provided on quality Educators instructional support decrease of combos infastructure maintenance and custodial operations as well as in goal one Mental Health Services positive behavior interventions and the ability for staff to collaborate and professional learning communities to support students with participating in a broad course of study of the 11 actions one is complete
020and the rest are still in progress give me just one moment I appreciate your patience for goal one there are 45 data points and five State priority areas basic conditions student conditions student engagement School climate and course access basic conditions including hiring teachers with clear credentials purchasing standard alignment materials and maintaining good facilities all maintained progress in the area of student conditions which measures student supension and expulsion rates positive behavior intervention implementation and perception data regarding the safety of schools 8 of 18 outcomes are still in progress and 70% of the remaining outcomes improved student engagement data measures the rate of student attendance one of 11 metrics is still in progress however 90% of the remaining metrics improved or maintained four data points are collected to measure School climate including measurement of student connectedness and
021school teachers feelings of responsibility for improving school and parents feeling of welcomeness to participate at school all outcomes are still pending in the area of course access data is collected to measure student Dropout rates enrollment in CTE and Fine Arts and the achievement of second grade students becoming readers by third grade English learner jop route rate in second grade students becoming readers has improved however the overall Dropout percentage has increased an analysis revealed that 28 of our students were considered dropouts last year however it is important to keep in mind that fifth year students students earning a special education certificate and students that are leaving High School to enroll in Adult School are all included in that Dropout percentage goal two includes 10 actions that support academic programs and achievement these Services include purchasing standard
022aligned materials supporting beginning teachers supplemental academic support and expanding learning opportunities and other programs including early childhood education college career opportunities and bilingual dual immersion implementation of all actions are still in progress there are 57 metrics measuring progress of three state priorities for goal two including implementation of State Standards student achievement and other student outcomes that include participation and achievement in college career opportunities 24 data points are collected to measure progress toward implementing State Standards including students attaining proficiency of science math and English language arts standards almost all of the metrics collected saw progress however overall science and English language arts proficiency declined slightly students with disabilities and long-term English Learners made progress in both math and English language arts an area of continued needed Improvement is the primary grades to support students being proficient
023mathematicians and readers by third grade and students who are English Learners most of the 14 outcomes collected to measure student achiev including spring semester grades and benchmarks are still in progress and 11 of the 19 metrics collected to measure Student Success and other programs improved including 11th grade students being College ready the percent of students graduating state or university ready the percent of AP exams passed and students graduating prepared and earning a seal of biliteracy and the percentage of dual immersion students with attaining English standards improved goal three measures progress with increasing parent involvement and communication strategies perception data regarding whether teachers believe they are part of the decision-making process that parents believe their involvement is promoted and three or more parent workshops are provided by each School are still being collected current data regarding
024Instagram followers and accounts and social media posts and website traffic have increased goal four was created to identify actions to support three schools that receive specialized funding this year due to instability of their student population to support these populations services for academic support and college care are being implemented over 40% of the 28 metrics collected for this goal are still in progress however 68% of the remaining 16 metrics uh showed improved movement over the course of the next few months the outc cap actions will continue to be implemented and Metric outcomes will be collected to determine progress in supporting Student Success the elcap survey is currently being developed and is scheduled to be distributed in March in May final analysis of the current lcap will be reviewed and final input will be solicited from educational
025Partners prior to June when the updated elcap will be brought to for review and approval and that concludes the update thank you so much Mrs Carter um colleagues do we have any questions or comments um I just have one question of of the items that are in progress are we um believing that we're going to meet um meet the goal and complete it I I mean there there are a lot of measures but are there any that you think that we may may not meet uh there probably will be some that we won't meet remember this is a three-year El Cap so we're hoping to meet that final goal by the third year um and we do have our surveys coming out so it is going to be dependent on what the responses to those
026surveys are most likely okay thank you so much clerk critchfield thank you madam president um can you and uh I appreciate taking the time to answer this question uh before but just for uh public knowledge the there is the uh on the impact of budget overview the all federal funds increasing to 18 uh 474 um I understand it's the carryover could you explain that a little bit uh just for uh the board and audience I'm sorry really quickly before you explain can we get that page up on the screen please the impact to budget overview for parents so we can see that as she's explaining thank you so much it's um common when we develop the budget again I think I've walked the board through the budget development cycle so we're developing the budget we're
027going to start right about now and we're going to bring it to the board in June however we haven't closed out the year before but we've got to provide a budget for the year that's coming and so when we adopt a budget we often don't have all of the carryover numbers for programs or um resources that are um still kind of moving along through the process and so it's very common that we will bring changes to the board bringing those funds forward so that we can spend them in the current year and that's what you're seeing on the uh budget overview for parents is the impact of our adopted budget without maybe all of those carryover numbers in them and once we determine how much is carrying into the new year we do bring those
028back good thank you um because I know it's it's something that comes up uh around this time every year so I just want to make sure we put a little bit of sunshine on that the um so and there's quite a few of these that say they're midyear expenditures I know it's not a lot of the expenditures aren't equal throughout the year maybe there's more in the later part of the year but with some of these where you know we budgeted 12.5 million and we've we're only at like 4.8 or uh like with the high quality Educators um the budget for the infrastructure maintenance when they're so low is there an adjustment uh made to what's budgeted if we don't think we're going to spend that so there's not so much care over because it
029seems like sometimes like we budget so much and then the numbers come in late and then we have this big uh influx so that's what we utilize our interim report repor in for will bring forth those numbers that have kind of been adjusted based on our projections and what we know to be happening so these numbers are partially through the year and you're absolutely right some of those things are going to take place later in the year and therefore the numbers might be a little heavier coming up on the end of the year and some of them may have taken place in summer and you may have something that's higher because it's already taken place and it's already part of the budget so our goal is to bring you updates to our projections that will
030then and kind of guide the budget in or guide our board in the budgeting process and let you know where we think we stand okay and so when we develop the budget for uh the allocation for the the lcap um do we have a so we don't have an idea of how much that carryover is going to be so we're kind of budgeting with that smaller uh bucket right that sounds exactly right so we're again developing the budget in the April May time frame and you can imagine the expenditures that take place in April May and June that can impact those budgets that might carry over and a lot of these are on the restricted side of the house so this is maybe a title one budget that we have a finite set of money
031and the amount that we need to bring forward is exactly what's left in the grant for the next year and so we we monitor those things we do the best that we can but when we bring them forward into the budget in the next year it's the actual amount that we have left over from the grant previously okay and and I appreciate that this is is uh your your first time with us for a whole budget cycle so I know some of the stuff is uh just you you've adopted it um but would you say that uh and I know you already have in some ways making changes to kind of maybe get a little bit closer when it comes to how much we're budgeting and so there's not so much of a gap um
032absolutely that's what we're working for for and what we're doing right now is we're doing our projections based on what we think we're actually going to spend good and so that will be a common practice that we'll be bringing forth to the board when we do all of our interim reporting great thank you very much you're welcome um vice president Gara thank you Madame President um my question let me see if I can find it now it's on ALC cap go one can you give me a definition of high quality Educators like what does that look like I I I thought we had high quality educators it's basically just a name of uh for our teachers for our administrators and so highquality Educators is actually from um historical there used to be a definition of
033what a high quality teacher was um but that's the name that we've given that goal so that really is just the area where you're looking at our teachers and um our administrators in that space or in that action and so to qualify to say this is completed what do we need to do to complete one one it would be that because it's completed expenditures it would be at the end of the year and Mr arus can correct me but that's that difference okay thank you and then um going over to elap go 2 yes elap go 2 uh many of these say in progress is there a way can you maybe describe how schools are tracking their own progress schools track their budgets similar to similarly to how we track our budgets um but I
034can tell you that at this midyear term when we're putting all of this together we're doing this with our school sites as well so um for instance over the course of the last couple of weeks we've been having meetings with our administrators on their budgets that they've had and basically we look at okay you said you were going to project to spend this and we still see that maybe you haven't done that is there a reason for that did something else become a need and we have those conversations so that they still have the opportunity to reallocate or spend the money that they haven't spent yet so there's still time for them to go ahead and use these funds at before the end of the school year absolutely okay and what if they don't get
035to that point what happens then well and Miss Arcus can correct me if I'm wrong but that would be car overfunding depending on the grant or the funding that it is okay and I think I may have asked this question before but um so do we lose any of that funding if we're not using it or allocating it completely again correct me if I'm wrong Miss Arcus but there are certain timelines to spend our money and as long as we spend it within that timeline then we're okay some uh funds are 2 years 5 years some are um 18 months 27 months so we just have to hit that deadline or else we would have to give the money back okay um any of these well never mind I'm good thank you I had just
036a piggyback question um to add on l cap go11 the high quality Educators if we budgeted 110 why is 63 halfway that would mean that we're going to be at 126 right CU isn't that one pretty standard so why would we only have budgeted 110 million and we're going to be at 126 million these midyear expenditures are through January 31st so it's not quite exactly six months it's it's a little bit of math on our side right and remember how we pay teachers and when those things happen so some of those things could have happened in the summer months depending on how we how we do things gotcha so it'd be great if I could come with a midyear expenditure that was exactly 50% through the year but I'll never be able to bring that
037to you just based on uh school system calendars okay got it I thought be the one I thought that would be the one but it's not okay um any other questions uh yes if I can president um all right couple more um the lcap one for the uh so for the instructional support is that the uh is that the instructional AIDS item it is okay um and so when we when we budget for like okay this is what we want to do this is the money that we're going to put to it um at what point do we like revise or like uh make whatever correction necessary to like make that possible because it looks like we're yeah I understand your question um so you're absolutely right we allocate that based off of what the
038conversations were and decisions were for our lcap and then we try to make that happen and we've been trying to hire instructional AIDS and been doing a variety of things to do that um there were priorities before this actual number and that is to fill our vacancies in some other um areas like TK and our special ed IAS first before we went to this funding so we have been trying to do that before we look at reallocating this um but there is a certain point where we do say okay is there something else that we might be able to do for this funding but we haven't um hit that Mark yet because we are hoping to hire instructional AIDS if we can especially with our up job it's a great plug y I did it
039for you thank you uh the and then lcap two where it says uh supplemental College uh so when we're over the budget amount kind of opposite that question um how do we how do we reconcile that so uh when our mid year is over the budget amount for uh these items do we make that budget adjustment is that done at the next reporting how does that work so what happens here is we budget based off of the funding that we have and then when carry overcomes our sites uh decide that there's a need in that area and they'll allocate their funding in that area that's what happened with this you're looking at 2.9 yeah and so uh more funding was put into that then the I think it says 1.6 something along those lines yeah
040and so that's why it's matching already that is expected to still continue it's going to go above the 1.6 because there's actually revised budget that has more funding in that action okay okay so we would just adjust it to uh whatever it is there but we would wait for uh carryover funding before we made those adjustments typically we're going to do our proposed budgets in April and then yes in October we do that revision once um the correct me if I'm wrong Miss Arcus but once the uh May Revis is in from the state and everything so that we know what is the actual carryover that we can allocate out to our sites I would just add in regards to that it's she's she's absolutely correct but what the state is asking for is a
041midyear update to what we budgeted and that's why we leave those numbers kind of in line and that's why we don't do a lot of budget adjustments because what they're asking at the midyear update is how far we've come and this is when we have an opportunity to look inward figure out how we're going to adjust that and figure out how we're going to change that or carry over into the next year so you do it both ways though so if something's like uh we not near the budget we' lower that to make room for increasing something else that's getting closer we can we can definitely do that okay um the lcap goal three the parent communication um so it's it's over budget so on the last example we kind of like brought the budgeted
042up to where the mid year was but on this one we're we're over um so is it just kind of you explain that one sure it's similar to 2.9 and so it was budgeted at a certain um the one two and then School sites had carryover and so they were uh deciding that they wanted more in that area and then they've expended that and so now it's gone above but do we adjust the budgeted amount like the last one like the numbers were the same so it looks like we adjusted the budget for the expenditure we didn't adjust anything so those numbers the one number that you have the first one is what was budgeted um and then the second one is what's been expended to date okay oh it's off by a little bit
043Yeah okay uh qu and last one the um a lot of these have uh uh dollar amounts attached to the goals but with the uh like the social media the Instagram I know uh at one point we had talked about like the enrollment campaign and kind of that working into like the lcap uh did we not put like a dollar amount as far as like the enrollment campaign or would that be in one of these uh other line items so right now because that particular position started after this elap was developed all of those costs are in the superintendent's office budget okay um that position I'm sorry the public information officer and the enrollment campaign all of those pieces were developed after this lcap was developed this past June okay so it's coming out a
044superintendent budget I have one question on that can I piggy back off that so in this lcap parent communication we only allocated $1,200 and we're trying to improve parent communication that is what was allocated there okay so what is that entail can you tell me like what does that include is it Flyers is it just you know social media what do we get for that 1,200 well that 1,200 I would say that our funding is actually um in I know it says 4,300 it's we've spent more which I'm glad we've spent more but I'm just wondering like what do we get for that money the I think the piece that we're talking about with parent communication is in a a different line item where that parent communication typically is like our websites or our mares
045or those kinds of things um but I would say that they're funded out of uh more of a technology fund right now versus here so in that 17 section then here okay sorry go ahead clar chrisfield oh no that was that was it thank you very much are there any other questions no all right so moving on to our consent agenda um do we have any items to withhold for the consent agenda this evening yes madame president I'd like the let me just find it real quick um I'd like to hold 13.3 and 13.5 does anyone have any others nope you covered it hearing none can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda and withhold items 13.3 and 13.5 so moved can I get a second second roll call please student board member
046o Jose I miss Armstrong I miss Centron I Mr critchfield I Mrs Garza I Miss Stewart I all right so moving along to 13.3 three the selection of members to the California School Board Association delegate assembly um I would like to open this up um I know there are five names on here wait one two three four there are five names on here I would like to um approve four of those names I would like to approve Robert cono Christine Chone Kennedy Ernie Nishi and Christine cedra um I feel those four are warranted but I do not feel the other is is there any other discussion on that I would agree with you any others okay so I would like to make a motion to approve agenda item 13.3 Robert Cano Christine shakon Kennedy Ernie
047Nishi and Christine Seadra can I get a second sorry second roll call please student board member of Jose I miss Armstrong I miss Centron I Mr pitfield I Mrs garet i m Stuart I all right moving to 13.5 second read of board bylaw 9150 student board members clerk kitfield thank you Madame President um just one thing from the last discussion from the first read there there's a a part uh in the top and it's again stated at the bottom that student board members shall or May receiveed it um but we had talked that I thought I think it should be changed from shall or may to a shall um I know we've had discussions on that um so I'd like to know if that's a possibility and how we could make that happen um do
048you also think that it should be moved to the second paragraph yeah I think because it's stated twice and it's slightly different phrasing I would say just maybe uh clean it up and just make it very clear uh whether it's the you said second paragraph yeah it's the second paragraph student board members May at the board's discretion receive elective course credit for service of a student board member based on the number of equivalent daily instructional minutes for the student board member services provided and then at the end of it it says students may receive credit at the conclusion of each semester so it kind of repeats a little bit so we're thinking cleaning that up yeah I'd agree so to approve it you need us to say specifically how you want it gotcha cler Crisfield
049uh so I would move to have it say uh student board members uh Miss shall receive elective course credit for service as student board member based on the number of equivalent daily instructional minutes or I I guess that part of it how it's done because I know there's some things you have to take into consideration I would just say uh the shall receive course credit okay and you would like that in the second paragraph and strike the last sentence at the bottom of that page which is the final paragraph underneath petition correct correct no need to have it twice okay understood any other discussion all right can I get a motion to approve 13.5 with the corrections that clerk critchfield stated can I do it like that awesome we get a motion you have your
050motion I second roll call please student board member o joose I miss Armstrong I miss Centron I Mr critchfield I Mrs Garza I miss Stuart I all right so we're moving to board Communications we're going so quickly tonight student board member can you start for us please um good evening everyone today I don't have much to talk about but um today I attended a principal's cabinet meeting um with Mr Diaz and my fellow peers um I feel that it's important to bring up because we discussed um the Belle schedule and how some middle schoolers um should be having a seventh and an eighth period instead of leaving so early um and also getting input from students um I feel like it's extremely necessary is and that's what I did um and then also um these
051are things that I'm going to bring up in the um s super intendent student advisory meeting um also yesterday Mayfair had our um first elective Fair which is new and it's an opportunity for students to see electives that they might not know about such as um patient care technician or being a tutor um there's many Pathways for students to look into and we feel that it's very important at Mayfair which is why we started the elective Fair um also tomorrow um we are going to have a disabilities awareness assembly and it's for students and staff and I feel like it's important to discuss but that is all thank you thank you so much board member Armstrong thank you um president uh Stuart um um good evening and thank you to everyone for being here this
052evening uh you know February is such a short month however many things are celebrated and or brought into remembrance so some are American Heart month and uh so you know they just want you to make sure that you take time out and get your heart check and make sure your heart is healthy um I'm I'm preaching to myself too I need to exercise more and um you know CU I really do have to take care of myself and make the time because we are all very busy but taking care of yourself is very very important um we had Valentine's Day and you know I heard some of my friends say yeah Valentine's Day that's National Seagal awareness day so you know I got a little chuckle out of that um and then um I didn't
053know it but it was National cancer prevention month it is National cancer prevention month and you know with that um you know early detection is best they say and you know I don't know how many of you have been touched with uh family members or friends or even yourself with cancer but you know do your best to again take care of yourself and get checked out and um so that Uh something's going on we can uh prevent it or catch it early and this is something that I've been uh the next thing is what I've um I always take pride in and I do lots of activities at school with my class and that's National Children's Dental Health and uh it's it's a lot of fun the kids get a chance to get messy and
054uh you know and the parents like it even though a lot of my kids already have those silver teeth but you know they're going to have permanent teeth coming in and I always refer to my uh children uh uh dentist because he was one of the dentists that made it mandatory for uh kindergarteners to get checked out before they start school so you know he was um uh Dr Cortez he Santos Cortez he was very instrumental in getting that ped and of course black history month and I don't know if anybody it really I didn't at least I didn't notice a lot of um um advertisement for it but I know it was out there but there was uh the kingdom Day Parade um there there was a king I you would think it was
055in uh January but we had one uh right on in on Crenshaw King U Martin Luther King black history so again you know short month H but it's so it it's I can't go through everything but there are many more things that that have been and still will continue to happen in this short month um also um and I'm I'm kind of upset about it because I'm going to miss it uh uh at Mayfair high school they Mayfair will be hosting the abilities awareness assembly tomorrow morning and I'm going have to miss it because I have to go to work you guys I can't take off so um so anyway I know it's going to be lots of fun lots of rallying I I have participated before and I had so much fun I mean
056they have fun so y'all have fun and tell me how much I miss it you know if you guys go tell me all about it and so um I also want to take one more opportunity um to say you know as as board members we all get a lot of information that you know passes through us and I I want to honor and congratulate um Jackson Burns uh Robert Foster Ariana Perez and Alfredo Martinez they're all May Fair High School students and they were awarded the gold medal award for Region 3 leadership and uh leadership and skills conference and they have advanced to the state competition and I tell you I'm proud of them I don't think I could do it I I don't have that Tech technological mind you know thanks Brad for helping
057me earlier it was right there I just wanted some attention so and anyway again thank you for being here this evening and thank you madam president thank you so much for member Centron uh I'm going to piggy back off of what Miss Rita has said about the U um the skills USA jph no one knows this my daughter also participated her senior year or her junior year um and I it felt like Junior and Senior year um so I just want to shout out to and she was a Mayfair student as well so I just want to shout out um to Mayfair high school students you guys are doing an amazing job all our high schoolers are especially our seniors this is their last years some of our seniors were here tonight um but this
058it it takes a lot of work to get to skills USA especially um as POC especially as a female as a young female um to go on to State it means they are making waves so I just want to say you know a special good congratulations and good luck for those that compete next year that's it thank you so much clerk crfi thank you Madame President um I'm very excited and I will let you know how it goes uh the abilities awareness assembly uh at mayair tomorrow um I always get choked up at that like every every year it's a really touching uh assembly and uh really looking forward to it I'm also looking forward to it and I'll plug it again uh Bonnie uh the the B USD career Expo and resource Fair happening
059February 22nd 9:00 a.m. to 1: p.m. at belflower High School uh I just want to say thank you uh for all the work putting that on uh I understand it's the first time B USD has done that um and I think it it says a lot about our desire to to uh hire um fill those positions that we that we've uh budgeted for and get the best uh uh people possible so thank you for all the work that went into that I'm really looking forward to it uh my highlight for last week was a podcast I did with uh president Stewart uh that was really exciting uh that's always a fun one she's my favorite guest um and also congrats to Mayfair wrestling they had an awesome season uh the boys and the girls did
060did really really well um uh I mentioned earlier the the safety committee meeting uh for Tuesday I want to say thank you to president Stewart for starting that standing committee and for those that don't know what the standing committee is it means that it's going to keep on going so it's something that we can continually address so I want to I want to say thank you for for starting that I think it's important and uh I appreciate your leadership in that um and and I know we have a very uh you know I would say we're very engaged active board and I I know we're very accessible and we try to communicate and be as transparent as possible um I I will say I when there's issues that happen it's it's much more even though
061I'm always open to hearing uh concerns from the community I I always will be um I I want to encourage uh parents and to to have these problems addressed at the site as much as possible because it's more it's going to be more effective at the site um but know that uh we're always well I'll speak for myself uh I'm always open and I I want to hear um but never do that in lie of trying to handle the the issue at the site that's my PSA for tonight um in regards to the budget um our our I I believe it's our most important duty here uh in addition to uh hiring our our leader and the superintendent um and I I do think that we have some past practices uh that can uh be
062replaced for best practices and I just want to applaud our staff for making those adjustments and really committing to uh cleaning things up and making it better and more clear because the clearer we are with the information the more we can communicate uh the more trust that's going to be built um and that trust uh affects how we do everything in collaboration with our partners so uh thank you for the the communication and work on in that um and I just want to thank all my colleagues for being awesome uh it's a privilege to be on this board with all of you and thank you staff and thank you guys for uh being here tonight thank you cler critchfield vice president Gara you're gonna make me follow that oh my goodness I'm a t spout
063um so I just want to say um happy Black History Month um but I also want to encourage us to elevate all the voices in our classrooms who sometimes don't are overlooked so maybe just doing it for everybody as well you know because um you never know when that student will be able to come and be needing some help or maybe not seeing themselves so um definitely let's celebrate those students who need that elevation in their voice within our curriculum um and also I want to thank staff for their really you know uous hard work with our fair Expo our job fair Expo um I'm really looking forward to that I know that it's been kind of in the works for a while now so to have it see come to fruition is so exciting
064for me myself um and I think that's it for now thank you so much thank you I don't have a lot either tonight there must not have been a lot of events the last few weeks but the only thing I really did was I met with our PTA president Linda Morgan and we had a really great conversation um last week I'm going to go out on a limb and kind of to create my own board report tonight based on how I feel um I think the community knows that I'm going to say how I feel most of the time and I'm going to tonight and I'm going to talk a little bit about negotiations there's not much we can say about negotiations because most of it's confidential but there are some things that I can
065say and I'm going to so first I do want to remind everyone that the only way negotiations can work is if both parties are respectful to each other that's a must or nothing gets done two I think we need to remember that what we do should be focused on students and what is best for students and I'm a teacher but I also believe that we need to do what's best for students and what's best for students is what's best for teachers I just believe that in my heart um next I just feel like if we're not willing to work together we're not going to get anything accomplished so in any good negotiations no matter where you are it could be your husbands your families your relationships if you're not willing to work on things then
066what are we really going to accomplish so I'd like to say that and then the last thing I'd like to say is I am a big proponent like it or not of block scheduling when it's done correctly and the reason I am is because there were studies that we all looked into about block schedule and why it benefited our students again our students one they could get intervention to they could get credit recovery they could do all these things and I am a person that did not want to go to block schedule as a a teacher I did not I did not want to do it I didn't like it and we did it and I think it's helping my students at my school but we do it right we have eight periods and they
067have to go to eight periods and I'll tell you sometimes we have different schedules in Paramount than bfare and I drive by that High School sometimes and see kids getting out at 1:45 every day and it does not make sense to me there is no way in my mind that all of our kids should be getting out at 1:45 every day I don't think that's what's right for students so we're going to block schedule next year like it or not and I'm really excited about it because I want to see if it makes a difference because our test scores are not going anywhere so we have to try something and this is what we've decided to try so we're going to block schedule and that's just kind of the way it is so I just
068want to remind everybody um I do want to remind everybody that we talk about our current contract of the 175 students if you take that over five periods I averages 35 kidss per class if you go to block schedule and take it over six periods that's 29 per class 29 students for a high school class that's less than we have in our sixth grade which is 34 so I just want people to think about things and put things in perspective we want to do what's best for students students so on that note I thank you guys so much I do support our district I support my colleagues I support my unions I always have but I just want to know I want you guys to know where I stand on some of these things and
069I hope that we can work together to make some good things happen for all of our employees and our students in our district thank you so much informational items does the board have any question regarding the informational items this evening hearing none I if there is no objection the meeting is going to be adjourned at 7:21 p.m. and the next meeting I never write this down sorry the next meeting will be our special board meeting on February 27th at 5 p.m. thank you for improvising for me thank you