001[Music] thank you [Applause] foreign [Music] good evening and welcome to the Board of Education meeting of February of Thursday February 16 2023 we're going to begin tonight's meeting with the land acknowledgment we acknowledge the trend the traditional ancestral unseated territory of the Chumash tongva fernandinho tatavia and First Nations on which we are learning educating and living and with that I'll have Nicole dribecki come up and do the flag salute for us okay can everybody stand 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 [Music] thank you very much Mr Becky with that we will go to a roll call uh mesquitario if you could take roll call at this time member Tabet president
002member ponter kamkar president clerk agacanyan president vice president Weisberg present president president Ferguson present we have all five members are present so we do have a quorum and we're able to proceed with the business of the meeting tonight um reporting out on closed session uh items the board did act on an item in closed session the Board of Education met in closed session voted to approve the notice of intent to suspend and propose statement of charges for employee and the proposed statement of charges for employee number cl0117-2-3 that was moved by myself Mr Ferguson and seconded by Dr Weisberg and that motion carried five to zero uh there are no other items we need to report out on for closed session and so we will move uh to item six uh adjustments to the agenda
003we've received a request from a few members of the audience who are requesting to speak on non-agenda items which would carry the public comment to the end so I will move that we will that we consolidate those public comment periods so that way we can take all cards at once so if you uh with the consent of my colleagues if that's okay great so if you are uh if you could help us out in this meeting we see a number of people coming out today please fill out your cards as soon as possible and turn them in so that way we can work and get everybody through this and get you all home so thank you so much and we will do that and consolidate the two periods of public comment uh any other adjustments
004to the agenda seeing none will go to items seven items for future agendas requests from my colleagues seeing and we'll move on to uh reports from the board student Representatives we are happy to have Mr ever Huerta from John Burroughs High School come on up good evening good evening there we go good evening president Ferguson vice president Weisberg board members superintendent Hill amazing District staff and bourbon Community here and at home watching I'm so excited to finally finally be back with all of you today into this meeting to discuss all the amazing things that have been going on here at Burroughs on February 2nd we had our second annual pep rally of the year which the theme was neon each grade level was assigned their color and we are excited to say that we had
005amazing participation and student body as this was the first time at Burrows we did an optional pep rally which had the option of the students who didn't want to attend to be given the opportunity to have extended nutrition and those students who wanted to come came to our pep rally and even better we our pep rally was right on time and we ended with spare time so the students who went to the pep rally also got an extended nutrition as well in ASB and the month of love and friendship as we are celebrating all today we sold our Valentine's Day grams which included various packages and this year we had over 150 orders we received our best uh our best selling package included a stuffed animal uh roses a message and Candy which was a
006Blow Pop And A Ring Pop uh so a big thank you to the Enchanted Florist um which is a local business here in Burbank that we were happy to support and we were happy to do business uh with the Roses as well our lean crew had their annual fundraiser uh Macho Maddox is where they sent out a survey where students and staff can participate and the results that are returned so for students they pay a dollar for the result and the result they see is the people who they are most compatible with on campus and it's actually really cool like I got mine and I it was pretty fun and you get some pretty interesting facts about your horoscope uh and all it's honestly I don't it's it's pretty cool so and as well our
007staff also gets to participate so staff gets to see who they're most compatible with within themselves um uh it pretty is I got I got a JFK quit online so I'm pretty happy about that as well link crew uh was able to do their um also an annual thing with their freshman which is called a palentines is um during lunch they uh get together with their group and they the Linker leaders bring snacks treats and it's a time where they get to discuss see how they're doing within the year where they need support or and just just to catch up on everything and it was a good turnout on on the freshman and it was really happy to see all our Linker leaders engaging and participating and all that ASB has also been busy with
008our fundraiser of light the night for the link leak wow I can't speak today Leukemia Lymphoma Society uh where the most fundraiser class will be having a pizza party as their prize so we're highly encouraging and participating and asking our students to participate and donate when they can't uh for for their fourth period um also I'd like to give a shout out to one of our hard-working committees this semester our student faculty Commissioners who have been busy these past weeks celebrating our amazing teachers and counselors so um in ASB we do these things called teacher buddies and each ASB member is uh paired up to either two or three teachers and the responsibility of the ASB member is to get to know your teacher buddy connect with them share all the important information that ASB
009is doing and as well we do these little teacher buddy grams and our student faculty representatives and Commissioners they organize little care packages for our teachers so it had coffee packets fancy job pens which I was jealous because I wanted one and a little note that uh the the ASB member wrote for their teacher buddy just of encouragement of saying like thank you for all you do here at Burroughs and you know making it personal uh I had I had three teachers this semester and I I'm really glad because I'm I'm getting to know more of our staff members at Burroughs that we typically don't see and we also get to engage with them and have that participation with an ASB moving on into the exciting senior news here at Burroughs there are 98 days
010until graduation which is crazy to think about um and another shout out to an amazing group on campus are college peer mentors who have been helping out our seniors for those who don't know FAFSA is now a graduate requirement here in the state of California and it really sucks if you're on the off-grad list if you haven't completed FAFSA or a substitute form or an opt-out form for that so our College peer mentors have been busy going around campus checking with their seniors that haven't filled out FAFSA because we want to make sure that every student gets the possibility of walking in stage in May because it's only 98 days away crazy to think about um they today they had a workshop on FAFSA and they help students navigate and tell them how how to
011do this and we're really happy to have this amazing group on campus to be able to support our seniors as well our grad Night tickets for California Adventure have been on South since the beginning of the month um the last day to purchase them is the 24th of February and it's also really cool because the students from Monterey High School can buy tickets from their home school so they can as well participate in these activities so we're really excited to see all the seniors uh finally talking about and getting all these things ready our senior class as well has been busy planning our prom which I'm excited to share the location uh which will be the Odyssey and the Granada Hills so it's a really pretty venue um so we can't wait and to see
012also all the festivities and hopefully by next meeting I will be able to share the theme with you guys um this week also Begins the opportunities for our seniors to start nominating and voting for people for our prom court so uh seniors are getting uh ready and fired up to campaign for their for their spot on um prom court as well um we are in moving into the World of Sports we are happy to and prior to announce that the regular season uh ending of our boys and girls basketball teams and soccer teams have ended as well um I would like to congratulate uh the boys and girls basketball team on taking the W against Burbank High it was a really intense match uh my stress levels definitely felt it um Mr count will it
013was nice seeing you at the game supporting our our troops I know you guys were here um at a fun board meeting I I was jealous that I wasn't there with you guys but um a good congrats to them as well as a congratulations to um the girls soccer team who also uh won and we also would like to congratulate Burbank High again on fighting a high uh battle tense match I was definitely biting my nails the entirety of it um so thank you bourbon Klein on that um now we wish the best the luck best of luck to all our spring sports that are starting today their season which includes a softball baseball volleyball track and field and Tennis which today they all started their season and I actually got news before the meeting
014that our softball girls uh did win their first match of the season so we're excited to hear that from them um we also want to congratulate our amazing drama program who put an amazing show of rent it was a beautiful performance I had the opportunity of tending on Sunday and it was I'm not a big musical person but I definitely love seeing the hard work that they put in into these Productions and especially the staff that they have and support and especially tech crew who were able to make the lighting the sound and all of that possible so a big congratulations to them our VMA is also getting ready for their annual pop show which we'll have which you will all have the chance to see on February 24th and 25th at 7 pm and
015if you can't make it the last show will be February 26 at 2 pm lastly we also had yesterday our CTE day which was such an amazing opportunity to see for students to see the various colleges and uh you know students who don't know what they want to go into such as the National Guard and as well just the different works and trades and entrepreneurships that they have I got to hang out with the Carpenters for the day which was pretty fun and then as well the City of Burbank who also has their own programs such as seeing the plumbers the electricians it's such an amazing opportunity and many students don't know that they have those types of things especially here in Burbank so it's amazing to see that exposure and students taking interest in
016that and then lastly to end off my report I'd like to give a huge shout out to our amazing yearbook staff who have been working super duper hard this year getting all their events meeting all their deadlines and definitely have been stressed with all the crazy things as if it isn't one thing it's another thing and they're running all over the place so I'd like to give them props to all that and they can students have the opportunity from the beginning of the school year to pre-order yearbooks the last day to pre-order is March 1st so if you are a parent and are watching and you have a student at Burroughs buy your yearbook thank you um that is it for all my report any questions thank you thank you [Applause] okay with that uh
017we we will move on to items uh item number nine which is request to address the board so again just a reminder if you haven't turned in a card please do so so we can get through look at this more coming in appreciate you um and we're gonna get started so uh just uh everybody will have five minutes uh to speak once they are called uh it's you know uh a five minute thing there is not a back and forth conversation so we will respond at the end uh after everybody has concluded their comments the board and staff will respond to you so uh if we're not responding in that moment you know exactly what's happening there we're waiting um and then again not a back and forth so just again we want to create
018a safe environment for everybody to communicate what they need to uh and and following those rules helps us do that so thank you very much and with that we will begin uh with Mr schlossman good evening everybody great Mr Ferguson you violated our rights tonight you Whiffle waffled you did it last week shame on you it's a brown act violation uh get your act together as an as a new president you should set a good example and you know if I ask you to to change the agenda around you won't do it for me I'm sure but if your friends and your employees show up you do it for them and it's got to be a Level Playing Field and you're it's just a poor example now uh Mr Sims is here ask him if
019it's legal if what if it's what you did ask him if it's a violation of the brown act because it it is what if somebody knows that their that the speaking on on non-agenda items is at the end and they come late they're out in the cold now and you've done a disservice the correct way to do it is to have two periods of Public Communication about anything people want to talk to you about so they can talk about the things you just voted on now I met for within over an hour with Mr Cantwell I had a wonderful meeting with him he has a wide breadth of knowledge across multiple areas and I was very impressed sir uh Mr agacanian you made a comment at the first meeting of the year you said you
020only want to hear positive comments at these meetings I thought that was out of line all of us have a right to come here to this Podium and redress our elected officials and learn the difference between redress and address there's a there's a difference so I felt that that was a a violation for you to make that statement now I haven't forgot about you miss Weisberg and all the things you said at the last meeting I had made a comment that five police officers beat a man to death and I equated that to poor education and poor training and you suggested that I was saying that the teachers here were responsible I wasn't suggesting it I was saying it if teachers here or anywhere in the country Advance students that don't have the knowledge that
021can't pass the tests you're doing them a disservice do you understand what I'm saying when you give a handout a diploma or Advance somebody a grade who hasn't earned it you're dumbing down America and this is the employee pool we have to select from for these critical jobs so let's be clear about that you went on to mock me Miss Weisberg for taking notes before a meeting you saw me writing notes down about different agenda go back and watch the video and see what you said okay you did mock me and when I said that you worked at a school Sierra Canyon and they charged 45 000 a year for uh per student per year I was pointing out the fact that we are a public school system we don't get that kind of money
022forty five thousand dollars per year per student okay that's what I was talking about and you mocked me for that as well and then you did something that was a really poor example beyond the previous two examples you mispronounced my name purposely you call you called me sloshburger now I put up that with a year for a year with Miss tavett of calling me sloshburg a year she couldn't get my name right and I wondered does she think that all Jewish people end in Berg I wondered I mean that's what it really called for because you had my name written down in front of you and you just continued to do it now I didn't make a big deal out of it I accept her but I expect more from you and when you did
023it purposefully that was a form of bullying I'm calling you out for bullying me for making fun of my name you did it purposely not accidentally now I've said I've pronounced some of your names wrong and I apologize promptly when I do that's not my style to do that but it was your style and you set the example for everybody watching you and I expect more from you than making fun of my name so get it right in the future would you please sloshman now if you want to clarify your name with if is it Weisberg or Weisberg all Endeavor to get it right every single time but please extend the same courtesy to me okay uh next speaker is uh Katie Gonzalez followed by Tracy Sorensen come on Dan I want one welcome good
024evening my name is Katie Gonzalez I teach at Jefferson and I have taught there for seven years I love my job and I love the Burbank community I just had one thought that I just been really on my heart that I wanted to share my husband is also a teacher and he teaches about 15 miles from Burbank and he makes significantly more than I do and I have a master's degree and he does not I feel that something has to give or more teachers will be going 15 miles from Burbank for better pay thank you thank you very much our next speaker is Tracy Sorensen followed by Diana avasta good evening president Ferguson school board members Dr Hill and everyone else my name is Tracy Sorensen I am a second grade teacher at Thomas Jefferson
025and the elementary director for BTA to begin I would like to thank you in advance for reinstating PE for third fourth and fifth grade for the next two years assuming that you will find many to make this permanent for Jefferson I would also like to thank you for realizing that we need a vice principal and help is on the way tonight I would like to remind you that busd teachers are significantly underpaid we work hard in a more than devoted to our students the price of everything is going up up up our health care benefits are subpar I worry about our futures it is time to show your appreciation and significantly raise our salaries thank you foreign [Applause] thank you very much our next speaker is Diana avasta followed by Melissa Walden good evening president
026Ferguson members of the board of EDS superintendent Hill members of the district and community my name is Diana vast and I'm an English teacher at Burbank High School and the president of the Burbank Teachers Association I know I will be repeating what you're going to hear more of tonight but times change and even when progress is made each month Educators like my colleagues you see here today face more challenges some of these challenges cause upheaval and add stress to their lives to walk in our shoes means you must have courage stamina empathy knowledge patience and a love for public education yet in spite of all our teachers our counselors our nurses and speech and language Pathologists continue to work diligently to meet the needs of our students even in times when the demands are great
027and the expectations unrealistic for anyone human to meet our members deserve to be compensated adequately for their time their work their expertise our working environment is our students learning environment right now teachers are still dealing dealing with heavy workloads added responsibilities and pressures it isn't just about walking into a classroom and starting to teach it's dealing with classrooms that are not cleaned daily class sizes that are bigger and filled with students who require more emails that must be answered and parent phone calls that need to be made besides being strong in content and current and methodologies and pedagogy they must also provide social and emotional learning it's about getting to know their students and recognizing their areas of strengths and weaknesses it's about assessing grading and trying to provide the resources whether it be in
028the classroom or outside it's about trying to build relationships with parents so that together we can ensure their child does not slip through the cracks in some cases it's about needing District support to work with parents who need help with their children it is about needing District support to protect the Integrity of instruction that we follow in state standards we need adequate numbers of Campus supervisors at our schools to help keep our students and staff safe we take our safety the safety of our students and staff seriously but we cannot possibly be everywhere at all times and teaching in the classroom our students must be expected to follow the rules and expectation as set forth in Ed code and District policies we need resources to address these habitual disruptions occurring in middle school this is
029the second time I've brought this to your attention there needs to be a setting where our middle school students can work in a smaller setting and get the services they need teachers must be able to follow their Progressive discipline plans that include class suspension parent involvement and education when it comes to the Home Learning environment and discipline should be offered all need to learn the value of good sportsmanship and exercise civility even at this mic all need to know and be reminded that in Burbank we do not tolerate hate speech or derogatory language that is specifically intended to denigrate a person based on race ethnicity sexual orientation religion or any other factors that cause a group to be marginalized we deserve to work in a positive working environment free from threats and bullying we all
030want busd to be the number one quality place for public education and for employment we want to provide our students with the best highly qualified teachers counselors speech and language Pathologists and nurses but you must use the monies that we have received from the state and federal governments to bring salaries up other than the year 2000 and I've been at this for 42 years this is the highest Cola we have received we have over 11 percent of new ongoing money and if you are serious about retraining retaining the teachers and recruiting you teachers you must look at what you value in the budget we are not arguing facts but we have to argue where you're going to put that money a lot of districts around us have received double-digit raises this makes it very difficult
031to recruit and in the next few years you're going to have a larger number of Educators retiring so we are appreciative we thank you for the praise but we need a raise that is going to make it feasible for us to stay in Burbank we cannot support a healthy learning environment if we are not being given time adequate resources to do our job affordable health benefits and a competitive salary we have many vacant positions in sped and sped teachers and SLP need that time to give their students Quality Service they need time to prepare meetings with parents consult with others service providers and the truth is the money saved by compensating these teachers counselors speech and language Pathologists and nurses from the beginning will save you so much more and would vastly reduce the turnover
032rate we have now thank you so much for your time and attention [Applause] our next speaker is Melissa Walden followed by Zach Doyle oh man how do I follow that hi good evening everybody my name is Melissa Walden and I work at John Muir Middle School I'm a special education teacher and Diana had a lot to say that I was like yes yes that's exactly what I was going to say so I'm gonna keep it short um I spoke last year about uh my my position and all of our position as far as like secondary teachers we have a position where it's case management and we have SDC so we do both those are two positions in one and so I'm asking for um that second period for an IEP case management period and the
033planning period because we do both and we don't have enough time we are working Way Beyond the 40 hours per week that is allotted thank you for your time our next speaker is Zach Doyle followed by Ryan Baker good evening good evening where do you remember do you mind if I lower my mask I'm also going to take a second to shake out the nerves there you go uh good evening board and thank you so much for the continued communication opportunity that you provide the members of our district to discuss the thoughts and concerns we have for our community I wanted to take the time to connect with each of you as I have not had the opportunity to meet any of you in person uh I've been at busd for five years and I've
034been teaching first grade for three um I began as a substitute I've worked as a behavioral Aid a tutor a swim coach a reading interventionist amongst the infinite other responsibilities that were asked for as educators Burbank is where I began my professional Journey I had the privilege of learning the ropes from our very own Emily Phoenix and Julie Barnhart first and fifth grade respectively and I know that the USD was my district it gave me the Vibes that I had from my own childhood District that I had when I was growing up and I knew that this is the place that I wanted to be I've also had the opportunity intermittently to coach the Burbank High School swim team as they prepared to get their new mainstream coaches and it's no secret that I love
035working with kiddos that's why I'm here and it's why we're all here I've spent the last two weeks receiving pitches from numerous seasoned Educators as to why my voice is necessary at this meeting and the truth is it was a tad disheartening to hear so many wonderful masterful tenured teachers expressed the same thoughts and opinions of our future that have sometimes seemingly been pushed aside it would be amazing to sit here and just discuss the best teaching practices that we can give our kiddos but unfortunately we're here to fight for our wages and that's why I'm here today I'm here in representation of the new and old Generations that dedicate their life and time to their profession the people in this room are all here for the betterment of the districts and our community it's
036been an honor seriously an honor to meet all of you and to create the best possible educational environment for our youth and our teachers that means higher wages that means more face time I would love for all of you to come into my classroom and see what we do with the six and seven year olds and amongst everything else love love love love love love thank you can I ask where you teach Jefferson thank you [Applause] I wonder if Jefferson's here tonight [Applause] our next speaker is Ryan Baker followed by Denise King foreign good evening board members and fellow union members my name is Ryan Baker I am currently a certificated employee of the Burbank Unified School District through the child development department and I've been here for the last six years I'm currently at
037Jefferson Elementary as well [Applause] being that I work in child development the Children's Center as is probably more accurate I feel as if I'm constantly battling to prove my worth I see on many occasions how it's assumed that we are babysitters and not actual Educators I always say that if I were a babysitter you could not afford me and unfortunately as a certificated educator the same is true I can honestly say that my colleagues in the department work hard for these families and students that we love so dearly I can not speak for them directly but I can tell you that I spend countless hours in my classroom trying to my hardest to make sure the environment for my students is safe happy healthy productive enriching and educating I currently have 27 29 wonderful students
038that is 29 personalities that I manage I care for their well-being their Mental Health the friendships they'll make are they happy do they feel safe will their lives somehow be made better by having gone through the program I feel as if I spend more time in my classroom than my home this includes after hours and weekends and I won't get into the amount of money that I've invested in my classroom and my students only a hundred dollars of that will be forgiven it is not lost on parents how essential the child care department is as well many of them would tell you that without the child care services being offered in this District more conveniently at the school site in which their child is enrolled they couldn't work essentially my work is never done and
039I like it like that that is why I find it very frustrating that I and a lot of the members behind me feel like we have to come to the table and beg for scraps in my personal experience I can only speak to the nature of three school districts in the state of California and I must say Burbank is hands down the best one that I've worked for the community is amazing the teachers are talented the principals are dedicated in care very much for their school environment if all of this is true why is it not shown to the compensation of our educators why are we met with excuses when it comes to the budget why are we told how much we're appreciated yet a lot of our paychecks say otherwise as my wise father
040says show me don't tell me is it too much to ask that the cost of living increase that we are entitled to each year actually cover the cost of living increases are we ungrateful for recognizing that these small incremental increases that were barely offered feel like a shot of adrenaline and not a step towards the solving of a systemic problem should I have to constantly knock on the door of my colleague and BTA president to devise strategies to up my wages knowing that it's an uphill battle where I'll again have to desperately prove my worth and probably be met with a hard no I say now the ball is in your court I believe that you will all live up to the standard that has been set by the Burbank Unified School District I really
041hope that you will not miss the moment because fortunately or unfortunately for a lot of you you're stuck with me but there may come a day where a lot of Educators in the district realize the joys of being an educator do not pay their bills and might look elsewhere or leave the profession altogether I say again do not miss this moment work with us help us show us you appreciate us thank you for your time thank you right now the final card I have is for Denise King if there are any other cards please make them up before Miss King wraps her comments good evening good evening my name is Denise King and I teach at Providencia Elementary School go Panthers I'm here today because my paycheck went down by 300 last month January 2023
042happy New Year you can't pay your family's cell phone plan currently I'm only taking home 58 of my gross pay and I don't even have a retirement plan like a 403 b or a 401k I'm not taking anything out and I know that's a bad plan for my future but unfortunately I need all of my money right now for expenses a few years ago I was paying 800 a month for Kaiser and then we learned about when I learned about a new PPO that was only around 150 a month um I jumped on it now that was an introductory rate and we knew that okay we were told it would go up but now instead of 600 a month which it was last year which is a pretty big increase um it's now 900 a
043month I I didn't change anything on my end but yet I'm making 300 less than I did in December and I know many of you have a background in business um does this sound like a good business sense to you if your salary was going down after years of service would you want to stay with that company I teach math this does not compute my paycheck is inversely proportional to the cost of living again does not compute and with all of the extra that keeps getting piled on us especially in elementary with absolutely no planning time to do it this is bananas to me I've been teaching for 27 years and I don't think you all have an idea of how hard it is to be in the classroom right now with kids still coming
044off distance learning and all the behavior issues that go along with it every day is challenging and we the teachers are just told to make it work deal with it put up with you know handle whatever is thrown at us there's new program implementation textbook adoptions and so much more and we are people with lives outside of school but for the last few years you seem to have forgotten that I'm tired of coming home from work every night just to get back to work in what should be my free time a salary should never go backwards and I'm sorry the costs are up but if you have millions in reserve it should not be coming out of my paycheck I work way too hard and it feels like a slap in the face so please
045share the wealth share the wealth with the people that really deserve it you have no idea how hard we work thank you for your time thank you are there any additional speakers who wish to address the board seeing none will close the period of public comment and we'll go to staff for staff responses Dr hilford thank you president Ferguson and thank you to all the speakers tonight and thank you to all of our BTA members for coming here tonight I know it's been a long day already I also know several speaker says you don't want to just hear our appreciation but I still want to give you my appreciation for all that you do and for coming down here tonight um I got an update uh this this afternoon that we had a very good
046negotiation session today we were looking at two articles compensation was not one yet but I know we have another meeting scheduled on March 3rd and hopefully we can start discussing compensation but I really appreciate everyone bringing their stories and their testimonials tonight so thank you thank you very much Dr Hill we'll go to board colleagues for their responses starting with Miss tabot trying to figure out how to word this best it it means so much to see a packed room and folks coming to a board meeting because I I hear you it's important what you do every day that when you show up to your classrooms your kids have many expectations of you your parents have many expectations admin on and on and on and so to come here tonight after a full day shows
047how dedicated and um needed you are so thank you for taking the time out of your free time as um I think Denise put it um appreciate that and appreciate your your um commitment to your craft for what you want to produce every year so thank you and I hope that um negotiations do flow in all of the things that you've asked for tonight I can't you know see one reason why it shouldn't if long as the numbers line up we should be able to do something uh better for our dedicated employees so let's hope that happens um was there uh nope I think I'm Gonna Keep it really short tonight so thank you thank you Miss tablet Miss ponds for cam card thank you um so again it is great to see so many
048folks here um uh Mr Doyle I think you're right Vibes don't pay the bills even if they're good vibes um and I said it last time and I think it's still true that that up here we're aligned um and we want to be um fighting with you on these things um we know that there is a structural problem in terms of the amount of Revenue that we receive and there are a number of ways that we can attack that and we need to be working on that together and that's those are the conversations that I've been having when I'm not here um it is as Mr Baker said a systemic problem um so I do think we need to build a CO we have to build a coalition together to increase our revenue sustainably and
049long term I think there are likely it sounds like the conversations are going really well and I want to see that continue um but long term we know we've got a problem um that we need to work on together um I had the opportunity of being in a school uh after the last board meeting I was over at Washington Elementary for art day um and I just want to shout out to principal Vineyard for inviting me I saw K2 classrooms engaging in really rigorous academic vocabulary and several artistic media I saw watercolor I saw acrylic I saw oil pastels and I think when I went in principal Vineyard was sharing with me that she had a school tour coming up for prospective parents and what I always encourage people to do when they are looking
050at schools is to go visit our schools they are truly amazing and what we're doing with our young people is is awesome and I I was really heartened to see that um the other thing that I want to bring up is I attended a couple of other meetings over the last couple weeks and I just want to thank the folks coming for the lcap meeting thank you Mr Cantwell for wherever he went for oh he's back there I just can't see him um for facilitating and for members of the public for asking really thoughtful questions um and for following up and a lot of the questions were around this Revenue issue that we're seeing um the other one was the DI parent meeting and so there was really great turnout for this meeting and I
051was glad to be there as a DI parent and also as a board member to hear those concerns for the program um but I think the high level is like it's really exciting to see teachers here I really want to get into some more classrooms because every time I do I'm just really impressed with what I see and so thank you but I don't want you to have to pay your bills bills with vibes thank you Mr President um you know every morning when we I drop off our son and pick him up later you know not only I see all the hard work that's going on but also you know from the German who is always has a big smile on that mirror at Miller when he's letting the students cross and no matter
052how cold the weather is or it's raining or not and he always has a smile on Larry Nelson right is that who it is good I should say hello to him um to also the fact that our uh our son is he he just loves the school doesn't want to leave you know which is a good thing you know he stays there and but also the after school program and when working with with you know with the teachers and every day when I comes and I drive him home I ask him what you've learned today so he had a math test today shout out to our Math teachers and but I do agree with all of you and what what you're talking about and I know that my colleagues have talked about this I've always
053been about making sure that we do take care of our teachers but at the same time you know experiencing it on daily basis as a parent um it it really warms my heart that that you're here this is a big challenge I'm happy that the state is moving in the right direction looking at legislation to change wages in accordance to cost of living because the reality of it is you know what's happening right now with inflation and everything else it's just been hurting all the families my hope is that you know you talked about insurance well guess what our insurance commissioner is going to be in town soon doing a little workshop with our Senator maybe you should go and raise these concerns but at the same time I'm glad that finally the legislators are
054understanding that this is a big issue and I'm glad you're bringing this up because we also have the ability to bring forward these conversations to our lawmakers to make sure that once in world for all as my colleague says and one of our teachers said we address this systematic issue but I can tell you that that we're here for you we hear you and you know and thank you again I know you don't want to hear this but I want to thank you again for all you do because it warms my heart when our son comes home and all he talks about is teachers and how much he loves to be at school thank you thank you Dr Weisberg thank you thank you to everybody um to Katie Tracy Miss abasta Melissa Zach Ryan and
055Denise um I think pretty much everybody knows that I'm also a teacher I teach seventh and 8th grade uh history um and I think and that was truly the reason that I ran I feel like and still feel like it is unbelievably important to have an educator sitting on the school board who does understand what it feels like to go home and continue to work and then get up and continue to work and then go home and continue to work um so Denise you talked about how it's so hard to understand how difficult it is to be in the classroom right now and um yes I do teach at a fancy school but it is still really difficult to be in the classroom right now and one of the things that I'm constantly reminded of
056whenever everybody shows up is how lucky all of you are to be part of such a powerful Union that's not something that I have the um benefit of and I and I feel that acutely every day but I'm also just so moved to to see the power and the unity and the passion that you that you speak with as a United Union I think it's so important so along with just saying that I was really excited to hear that the negotiations have started off super super well um I wanted to share a little bit about the things that we are doing on our end um Dr agakanian mentioned it but we uh are advocating really hard with our elected officials to address some of the systemic funding issues so Mr Ferguson and I are going
057to be meeting with Carolyn or Senator mengevar's staff very very soon always meeting with Senator portentino and assembly member Friedman and I bring this up because it's not often apparent what we're doing you know because we sit here and we say we hear you and when we respect you and we appreciate you and all of those things are true but we are also working our butts off behind the scenes to try to make systemic changes so you're not asking for scraps and that we can give you something substantial and meaningful so thinking about what we can do on the state level thinking about how we can convince people not to give us money in restricted funds but in fact Let the experts decide where the money should go those things are really important the switch
058from uh attendance to enrollment all of these things are important and we are constantly in conversation we're really lucky and blessed to have elected officials who listen and take the time and are also really invested in education so we're we're doing that work I know um Dr Hill is also doing that work so that's that's something that we are constantly trying to figure out how to address so I don't I don't want it to sound like you know obviously we can't talk about negotiations we're not part of the negotiation process but what I can tell you is the level of appreciation we have we are we are trying our best every day to Advocate to make connections and to make a change so it's not the same conversation every time um because I know how
059horrible it feels to work as hard as you do and then ask to be paid a livable wage it's disheartening it's dehumanizing um it's exhausting so please know that we are continuously working behind the scenes I hope that you will continue to reach out to us I got a lot of really wonderful emails this week um and I know it takes a long time to write them so I'm appreciative to those but please keep reaching out to us and I know that you know a lot of what we say does sound empty but we're trying to make it as full as we possibly can with the tools that we have and we know that sometimes it's just not enough but it's not because we aren't invested or we're not unified we are or that we're
060not working every opportunity we get to try to make changes on both our level and also on the state level because I think we all know unless we make some changes higher up this is going to be the conversation we all have and hopefully another thing that we'll be able to work on is getting our community to invest in our school district the way that surrounding communities have whether it's a parcel tax or a bond or whatever it is one of the things that's so difficult we know that Burbank is Burbank because of our school district people move here because of the district people stay here because of the district so we need people to also support the district and when you look around and you point to other districts and you say well these
061teachers make more in it yeah they do and that's partially because the community has said we value public education so much we're willing to invest in it and that's something that we also are thinking about and trying to figure out how do we get our community to see how vastly important it is to invest in our district because Burbank is not Burbank without you so that's something else that we're thinking about um so I just wanted to share a little bit about what we're doing not just what we're saying um Zach Mr Doyle I don't know where you are I can't see anything I see your hand sir um thank you so much and I and I want to say I want to apologize for not meeting you yet one of the I love teaching
062more than anything in the entire world but one of the problems with teaching is that I work the same hours as you do so I get a couple of grading days every year and I'm always on site I've gotten to almost every school and I will make it a priority to come the best times are getting to sit in on the classrooms and meet with teachers and tour and see all of the reasons why we do this so I think I do speak for all this most of us up here work full-time jobs not as an excuse but as a clarification if you don't see us it's because we're doing our other jobs and then we're gonna then we try to get to everything we possibly can um speaking of that I wanted to thank
063Allison Edge so this is the second year I've been able to help out with the Naf Academy mock interviews if you haven't had a chance to do this it's awesome I've interviewed one student so far they do mock interviews to learn interview skills and and job skills and so I I have two other students but it's it's amazing what they're doing in that Academy is phenomenal so if you get an opportunity to participate it's not a lot of time but a big impact so I wanted to thank Miss Edge for allowing me to be part of that again and again to thank everybody for for what they shared um and maybe we can and I would say maybe we can do not maybe I think we can do a better job of communicating to you
064the things we're working on behind the scenes to address your concerns it's we shouldn't have to say oh by the way did you know you should know we should be telling you so I want to commit to doing a better job of making sure you know the advocacy that we're performing every day not just at board meetings so thank you to everybody this is not the time for that this is this is not the time excuse me this is not this is your first warning there is as I explained at the beginning of the meeting there is a period of public comment where the public is able to participate then it is our time to respond we have had this conversation separately as well Mr schlossman where I have asked you to not yell out
065in the middle of the meetings so there is no such thing as a point of order in this meeting I will come to you I will I promise to respond to you but that's not the example we're going to be setting for our kids are your comments okay thank you Dr Weisberg okay to all of our teachers and staff represented by BTA who are here tonight thank you for taking the time to come down there are so many areas to do work in uh we hear that and for all the campuses that are represented today uh thank you for turning out and thank you for helping us to kind of understand a little bit more of what you're you're dealing with some of these themes are are recurring but they don't fall on deaf ears
066it exhausts me to think about your daily work day and then on top of it the other expectations that both we convey and the community conveys parents convey it's unreal and I have and will always continue to be an advocate for all of you in in our own ways and and I think what we've seen in time as a board though also is a real move to Advocate like never before because we realize these compensation questions are so much more of a crisis this then we're talking about as a state and in a number of different ways we have this fine balance that we have to kind of navigate with a state with funding that is as volatile as it is a lot of the state funding that comes in is as a result of
067capital gains so when the stock market is doing well California is doing well um why a lot of tech investment uh from especially Northern California when the stock market market turns those those gains drop uh dramatically and so does the tax revenue that comes with it and as a result the state will do very drastic Maneuvers in an effort to correct any kind of financial problems that are happening what we've seen is uh and what we're getting and hearing is that there could be some economic slowing down coming down and so we have to then take that data and that information that we're receiving against our total Reserve balance and decide just how much we want to invest or we can invest at this time that feels in a lot of situations very inhuman um
068and it doesn't feel like it takes care of people fundamentally um but what I can say is that we are all invested in getting every dollar that we possibly can into your pocket uh we are also invested in trying to do it as quickly as possible so that the county doesn't slow down payment options things like that we are very much committed to that uh to our bargaining teams that are are talking right now love to hear on the progress that has been made all very very good and as we get to other items I hope those conversations continue because I think both sides are trying to get money in pockets as as quickly as possible through this negotiation process um to the specific commentary um you know going 15 miles a mile away making
069more money that that is real uh Burbank and and that is a big challenge for us as a school district when it comes to Recruitment and Retention um and we as a community have a tried and over 60 percent in both situations have said that they are willing to tax themselves more in order to ensure compensation uh is is present in a way that that can help us retain teachers uh unfortunately that was not enough of a threshold uh we did not meet enough of a threshold for the parcel tax to pass so we are looking as that has now gone to the Supreme Court I mean again from legislation to generating local Revenue we are shaking every tree uh to looking genuinely at efficiencies because what we don't want to do is provide a
070raise and then two years later be in a layoff situation now that's used by many districts to scare and intimidate negotiating teams away from asking for what their members need that's not what we're saying um but it is something that we're navigating that we have very real I have been here through layoffs um and it's a terrible day uh to vote on those things you you feel responsible not just for the livelihoods that you are impacting but for the kids who have developed relationships with those teachers who uh and employees so all of this is taken very seriously and so thank you again for all you do um on behalf of all of us and certainly we will work as aggressively as possible to address these the systemic issues in the long term uh and
071where we can address short-term problems let's get them done let's get them out of the way so that way you guys can get back to doing the things you love um uh to Mr Doyle I love your energy and I just so appreciate that um and if it didn't come across in TV Land let me just tell you we're lucky uh with that kind of energy in the classroom uh and I know there's a lot of enthusiasm all around and a lot of great energy but just uh it really came through so looking forward to finding a time where we can set up a visit with you um to uh Mr Mr Baker uh yeah you know we're happy to be stuck with you because we are clearly we're happy to be stuck with you
072and with child care being as challenging as it is quality child care that is another layer to this crisis right and then Here Comes Burbank unified to solve that problem false there's a lot of different government agencies that need to be chiming in but instead it's put on us and then we've got to figure out again how to make you also in the eyes of the public more than just a babysitter because you there is so much more training uh and an experience frankly that you have that that as a result doesn't get deployed doesn't get activated so we're happy to be stuck with you we're happy to be uh stuck with somebody who cares enough and and I'm sorry that it feels like scraps it is scraps um and we are doing all we
073can you know I'm not going to Gaslight anybody this is scraps um and so we do all our all we can to make sure they are as fatty scraps as we can pass but we we've got a lot of work to do as a state uh to acknowledge the work of Educators to acknowledge the work of classified employees uh and for the state's spending plan to represent our values as a people um so thank you in the meantime um to Mr schlossman the two periods of public comment that exists first are for agenda items and the second is for non-agenda items to consolidate because there were a lot of people who wanted to talk on a broad range of subjects we Consolidated it so that everybody could who wanted to speak in the beginning could
074speak and then go home we will take another period of public comment at the end and allow for another period of public comment in case anybody wants to come down at the end the board is having a retreat this Saturday we are discussing potentially changes to the agenda at that time so I want to let you know because we've communicated on this that this may change uh in in a future conversation but for now we will have an additional period of public comment at the end for any member of the public who wishes to come down and address the board on any agenda item okey-doke okay with that thank you everybody for coming down tonight we appreciate you we appreciate your time and thanks for taking care of our kiddos [Applause] we're going to let
075the room clear a little bit um it won't be a song and dance but we'll keep you moving good to see you miss Hunter now that we've opened a second period of public comment I will let members of the public at home know we have plenty of seating we welcome you thank you our viewership just dropped by a hundred percent you know okey-doke okay with that we are going to keep moving uh through the through the agenda items um we will move to item 10 reports to the board just item 10A district demographer presentation by trustee area map development and criteria under the California Voting Rights Act thank you good evening Mr President members of the board and staff and Doug just leaned over and said geez I thought they were staying for us and
076I was going to say I love Jefferson just to hear the whoo but thanks Annie oh he's doing that I I do want to say I'm Ken shawkins um I first want to thank Andy and Ruthie who've been great over these past couple of weeks just getting the stuff together making sure we're getting stuff on the website getting the Outreach done it's not as easy as it looks as you know but they've been great so [Applause] all right so what I'm what I'm supposed to do here is go through um something that was virtually the same as what we did last time I looked at the agenda then the public hearing is a little bit later so I'll go through this happy to entertain any questions you have this is basically framing the rules of
077the road um the first thing we have up there is a little bit more detail than last time but you can see the flow of what we're trying to do here we had the first meeting this is the second public hearing where these are intended to get feedback from you all and for members of the public there's a submission deadline in March 3rd and we need to get those any maps that are drawn by March 3rd after the community performs in by the third so that we can bring those to the next board meeting that we have you have two more Community forums or four you can see them there some are in person and some are online and then you have the meetings in March the next two public hearings and then you have
078the submission deadline and by May 4th we're supposed to be making a selection I wish I could say that that was the end of it it then has to go to the county and the county has to approve it and that's subject to their schedule so we're going to fit in those public meetings and your public hearings that's a significant amount of Outreach get as much feedback as we can we will draw Maps the public if they choose to we'll draw Maps we will then treat those Maps bring them to you so you can look at them and then it's up to you to sift through those and make decisions Foundation of what we're talking about here the column particularly on the left the federal laws the first is the equal population that simply means
079it's a one person one vote districts have to be as close as possible to the same size and when you do this every decade as you know with population shift and things change sometimes they get a lot of out of whack and so you have to redraw the lines you have to draw them from zero but they have to be as close as possible to the same size you will see when we get to map making how this makes a difference because she'll say well we want to take into a community but certain districts might be bigger that way and so you have to carve in shape to get them the same size the next two I actually think are is really interesting play but for the federal Voting Rights Act really says that you
080are not allowed to draw lines that dilute the potential for a protected class to elect somebody it's dilute the potential it doesn't guarantee anything and so you can't draw anything that moves through or clearly says we're diluting the potential the third one though no racial gerrymandering you can't also be seen as in a circuitous way going to capture a certain population so that you are creating a district so they're kind of two different parts of the same question and you'll see as we go through this you'll get a feel for it it's not as easy as some people think that people just say oh gerrymandering and it's it's not as easy just to draw a line but again you can't dilute but you also can't purposefully go and grab it in a circuitous way on
081the right hand side you're going to see those areas those principles that people or jurisdictions have used in the past as I mentioned last time this phrase communities of interest is really a term of Art and it's more most important for you to Define what that community of interest is as long as you call it out in your public and you say this is what we were trying to do it's important to create that record so anybody looking back says oh I get a sense of what the board was trying to do you try and keep District as compact as you as you can and it's contiguous we want districts that are touching this may not be as much of an issue in Burbank and some jurisdictions it really is and natural boundaries streets natural
082or person made streets or mountains or streams or whatever and the voters choices that that won't be an issue here as far as the lines but it might be an issue as far as the terms and so you're going to also have to determine who goes up first and the sequence of those elections you don't want to upend somebody who elected someone here for four years and say by drawing a line it cuts off their turn you try we try our hardest to create both lines but also the sequence that allows people who elected you to keep you for as long as they elected you so that's what that means really respect the voter's choice uh plan future growth Andy and I had a chat about this before if you're really aware not just like
083there's kind of a plan but shovels are in ground and things are moving and you know there's 5 000 units going on and with Rina coming down from State of California you don't know what's going to happen but if you do know you can under populate that District a little bit knowing that in 10 years people are going to come in again as long as you call it out and say this is why we did this right I would caution against doing that just because you think there's going to be some growth somewhere um last one's minimize the voters shifted to different election years that's similar to the respect voters choices and the core of existing areas you don't have that just yet that's just a short list you can come up with however much
084you want you're going to see now the demographics that we've called out for you if you take the full I want to note this this is not voters and this is not citizens this is residence that number at the top there is 107 000 people who live in this District you divide that by five and you get 21 510. that's the number we're trying if all things are perfect each of you would have a district that is that many people you try and keep it within a difference of ten percent plus and minus to keep it as that's the number we're targeting for you try and get to zero as best you can zero difference as far as all those by the way there's a lot more categories and there's a lot more detail but
085you can see some of the things that would allow you to think about a community of Interest I know president Ferguson you mentioned the issue about renters last time we could pull that out certainly and if it's something that you all agree is important to create a community of interest in renters by all means that's getting a little trickier these days with long-term rentals short-term rentals Airbnb and all that but but it's important that we can call that out and keep that in mind when we draw a district as we noted last time the Latino population doesn't have a particular concentration a little bit around the airport the freeway Corridor as you can see Asian American African-American there's not a lot of concentration I did want to get to the next slide if it'll go
086we did call out last time we didn't have this but we were able to find this and find the number and you can see in the northeast corner there's a lot more blue there again it doesn't mean you draw a circle and draw a district it doesn't happen just like that it's something that you can take into account and say there potentially is a community of Interest here and we may want to have a district that doesn't dilute the potential of that District to elect somebody does that make sense that one we didn't have last time um we did this last time children at home spanish-spoken household income you can use wealth as a community of Interest renters as you mentioned president Ferguson and multi-family housing I would say too sometimes communities of interest you
087can say let's get them into one so that they represent a community you could also say maybe they want to be part of two different districts so they have two members of the board to go to you have to sort of grapple with what that feels like and what makes sense to you all of it revolves around you defining what is important you'll see in the next slide clearly attendance zones are are an issue for school boards different perhaps than what city councils or County Supervisors would think about you all know where the schools are and you can use that as a way to determine how to draw lines again the the foundational or fundamental element here is the districts have to be almost the same size they have to be that's the key thing
088here and so you want to draw your lines with communities of interest and all the other things but you want to keep districts the same size uh I just did this all through the presentation when we go to the um the community forums we really really emphasize stop looking at the map for a moment stop looking at the paper for a moment tell me where you work and play tell me where you exist tell me where your communities are it's not often geography sometimes it's the roads and a stream but it's also where we shop and where we play it's not just physical stuff and if you ask the questions people will give it to you then we can start to draw a little bit more refined you have a couple of tools on your
089website now the first things I would notice I would note there are different tools for different purposes the review draft Maps tool is really cool it's not to draw to a map but once we get maps up you can really really zoom in and out you can call in a an address and you can say show me where this is what district and what map Etc it's a very very effective and very easy to use tool you also have two other ones one is a paper map where people are just not comfortable with the technology you can print it out and it's connected to an Excel spreadsheet you can draw the lines around it the spreadsheet does the math for you you need to do the math because again you're trying to get things that
090are even so you could draw something do the math and it's a it's a piece of paper it's an Excel spreadsheet connected to a piece of paper you could also as that last little part says in the bottom we prefer not to get it on a napkin but if you just have something that's important to you whether it's a map or an area or whatever and you want to submit it to the city submit it it doesn't mean that it won't be it doesn't mean it'll be a map but it'll mean it means that we are getting input we're getting input from people about what they care about and where they want lines drawn and then the last one is here I'll actually show it to you this is the simple map drawing tool that's
091what it looks like it's a it's actually a lot of work to make all those little rectangles in there but the map spits out that and then you draw your lines around it if you want to work with paper and then secondly there's something called dra or Dave's redistricting map it's a relatively easy software to go in and you can click and draw and paint and move things around and then the key here is for anybody when you tell people you have to submit it to the district don't send it to me don't send it to you send it to the district because the district gets it we get it we treat it and then we present it back to you the way it looks okay I think that's the public hearing after this presentation
092we do want to have a conversation with you about what you care about where your communities are as well as any members of the public and we're going to do a virtually the same thing of this probably a little bit more condensed at the public meetings happy to answer any questions that's your website it's up the phone number Andy didn't want his home phone number so we put the district up and and Ruthie has her email there any questions do we want to do questions now or do the public hearing and then do the questions let's do the public hearing and then we'll move to questions that way we can also ask any follow-up questions if members of the public have any questions thank you thank you very much and thank you for making a
093very dense report very concise appreciated because uh there's a lot of you know there are a lot of questions with this there are a lot of new uh things to understand and so we are doing our best to try and consolidate these presentations make sure that they are informative uh but not overwhelming uh as we try and educate members of the public so thank you for for working with us on that I think that that's critically important um and then uh from there uh let me see it is 8 15 so we can move to the public hearing uh so with that I will open uh we will move without objections for my colleagues we will move to item 11a the second public hearing regarding potential composition of trusty areas prior to the drawing of
094maps pursuant to election code section one zero zero one zero subdivision section A Part One uh the Board of Education will conduct public hearing so with that the public hearing is now open would anybody like to address the board on this issue I have one individual Miss if you want to do it through public comment if you want to do it through public comment you can ask your questions up here and then the then they can respond yeah oh now yes Ready set go this is your moment um Diana forgive my ignorance it's just that I'm just wondering how long would this stay in place so two years from now if I decide I want to contact the city because I think it needs to be redistrict for so I just wanted to know how
095long once you do this how long is it in in place and um maybe just a little bit about the why why are we doing this that that's all any other speakers seeing none will close the public hearing thank you so much uh do we want to get um we'll invite you back up to answer those two questions let's try it again Jefferson Elementary these are in place for 10 years it's done traditionally in between census because that's when we count everybody and that's when we make those decisions um based on population shifts so this this map will be in place until the next census you might ask then why are we doing this in the middle of a census period in 2023 and that gets to your second question why the California Voting Rights
096Act is an act that was passed Doug here please yeah 2002. um it it created an environment that allowed folks to come to places that had at-large elections and challenge them as districts that were not allowing for potential election of protected classes to sue those jurisdictions both school districts Mosquito Abatement District any kind of elected District you have and if you lose the suit as the jurisdiction you not only lose all the money you used to try to defend yourself you have to pay the lawyers fees the legal fees for the other side to this to date there are a number of 12 15 16 jurisdictions school districts cities whatever that have tried to and none of them have won there is one that is uh there is Santa Monica the city of Santa Monica
097is at the Supreme Court Supreme Court I'm asking Doug yes um but it's gone back and forth in appeal but nobody has won in defending themselves so jurisdictions such as yours either react to a letter that is served that says to you we're going to sue you if you don't or they just look at the tea leaves and say we need to do this because it's coming they just do it because they think it's the right thing to do but that's the answer to the question is that's why Burbank unified is doing that now as opposed to waiting for the census it'll be in place until 2030 wine and others do the census they got to count it then you look and then we go through this process again so okay questions for my colleagues
098doc we'll start with Mr Huerta uh hi everybody Dr Huerta one day oh fingers crossed that is the Hope okay school um um I just a quick question just with um love the information especially after taking AP Government I know what these terms mean um so that's even better um but um going on to public hearings the website just um you know obviously Burbank is um has such diverse demographics seeing the map that has been presented um just uh my uh question is I think this probably might be a question for you or probably more for the district um but just towards translation or that that um place um is our website uh have that option of translation of that phone number are there people at the ready to go for translation especially the communication
099within our own busd of communication I say this because I think of my lovely mother who only speaks Spanish and who is not tech savvy um so I'm always checking her emails and I'm I'm I try and translate and obviously um the little uh professional legal terms Spanish that I know usually don't go around and she thinks it's another thing and I'm like wait no I just messed up so um I just how is that happening how is that going on and then especially when we are in person for the community hearings will there be translators available or will we have to have uh participants who want to translate uh email beforehand to have translator presence and if so how can we make that more accessible within our own Community especially uh just noting myself
100especially within the Latino Community because I've worked registrations at different schools and many uh many parents don't know how to print out the papers don't check out their emails and just on that case so how how will that be addressed and how we can have even more further participation within something so important that's an excellent question from the district perspective we've priority from John so if you look at the the website that's already up you can translate it into like a bajillion languages uh including espanol I was like where's Spanish and then it's it says espanol bajillion is a technical term by the way yeah so so absolutely yes and I think Mr Campbell can probably speak to we were actually emailing back and forth today about accessibility and how we can make sure that
101as many people as possible can attend knowing that there are limitations with child care and you name it so it's something that's a huge priority we've talked about it at length already I don't know if Mr Campbell can speak to the question about making sure that there's translators but it's a huge priority for all of us sorry on the spot yeah so um again we have been discussing participation and inclusion is a significant priority and so that's one of the reasons that we're doing in person as well zoom we're doing them in the morning and the evening we're doing them on the weekend weekdays and translation will be a part of that absolutely thank you thank you Other Board member questions Dr um sort of a comment question which is that one of the things
102that we talked about the last time you're here is how important it's going to be to clarify that while and again this kind of speaks to the why but that while people are voting by District that we still serve at large and I think that most people are not going to assume that so looking at the website for example I really appreciated the note that said this process will not affect where any student attends school I think it's important to add there also the the understanding that we still serve at large because it's going to scare people to think oh you know who's going to be taking care of my school or who isn't it so I think the more that we can on anything that we put up release discuss say that that is
103clarified so that everybody knows that we serve at large we're just elected by District we can integrate that into that would be fantastic so more of a like a statementy thingy but I do think it's going to be are you one of the most confusing things for everybody and still confusing for me a little bit um I also think uh it will be helpful to include and maybe it's less important but still important for people to understand what that means for their elected board members so like do I have to go vote again for everybody in 2024 like do I do we know the answers to that but I think as much as we can be transparent as far as how this is going to impact people I think the better so the first thing
104to me is far more important but I also think people will want to know like what does this mean for electing school board members didn't we just go through an election so but for me the first thing is like the most important and then just clarifying uh for people too just the process I think you'll be elected by District but governing at Large we'll make a point of that in the presentation yeah I appreciate that and if we can do it on the website too I think helpful excellent the sponsor camper um I have one kind of technical question which is on the calendar piece um there's a deadline for maps for board consideration on the 16th but not for the 20th like when are those gonna be due to just and maybe you don't
105need an answer now but just to like clarify that if we've got kind of two map deadlines and maybe I'm misreading it but I don't see another map deadline I see the final one for the April 20th for the April 20th meeting seventh okay cool and that has to do with getting them in the packets right for you all right right okay we traditionally have that whatever your protocol is and then we need enough time to get the maps process them and put them together put them in a deck and all that stuff so but it's mostly driven by your internal process yep I because the First Community Forum isn't until after the submission date for the first set of maps and so I want to make sure that after the all of these Community
106forums we're thankful to take maps from folks um and then uh I you'll have to forgive me I was trying to do a bit of multitasking looking at the website because I hadn't seen the website yet um and I would just encourage us like it's not when we're doing these forums like really doing kind of a walkthrough of like here is how you find busd's map and how you draw those Maps like whether it's even just like doing a screen share that we can share on YouTube or something like that I think would be tremendously helpful um because you know I got signed up and then I was like well where's my map um so you got signed up through Dave's I did okay so that's there and there's a video that should be there
107as well but but you got signed up through Dave's so you get a an account basically yeah and then you can go in and you click and you start to draw but you want to then see the District of Burbank yeah that gives you the outlines and then you got to start clicking and drawing and all that stuff um we can do both written conversation written instructions and there's a video and then when we go to the community to the extent that we can show people we will awesome great um I think that's all I have Miss tab it first and then we'll go together I want to hear this Dr Weisberg because I'm going to compliment you on what right you can pay me later no I said was so succinct and I appreciate
108it that that message does get out there that we rep we are voted in by a population and all the populations are equal in number as opposed to conversation before representing a school area or boundary yes I get that so I'm so happy that you said that so well and that we're all on a on the same page so to speak which also I would prefer because I think it's less confusing for the general population and I don't even know if this is something that we get a say-so in but I think the city's going through the same thing and if it's by the numbers that it would make sense to have the same voting population boundaries because it's less confusing my opinion and so uh those are my thoughts and I'd like I just
109me I haven't talked to any of you about this would like to work closer with the city and designing these and getting input or seeing their input from their constituents that bring stuff in comment on this one just because I'm working more with the city in Kansas leaving more at the school district um the city has a very confusing process but is probably going to focus on a six District map they're they're gonna their plan nothing's official yet but they what they talked about at council is putting on the ballot in March at Charter measure they changing them to six council members in a city-wide mayor so that just so you know they may not line up there will also be a five district map Drawn as a fallback but so it's not a five
110district for the city with an out at large mayor right because you have to you have to have an awesome number in the end so they're they're like it's going to be a confusing process because they're going to draw five district map because they have to and then for the ballot marks are going to draw a six District plus one map so it may be a little confusing to try to coordinate the two true okay that would be smarter so you need the math teacher to do five sixths and we draw no no never mind I'm kidding there you go by the way it's it's I I I did both the city of South Pasadena and the school district and it it's so attractive to do what you're trying to do but when you start
111to hear what school districts school board members want and what city council people want is different and it's because you've got these little things called schools in the middle and and like it or not you you do concern yourself with that the small enough City like South pass it's not close it you can see kind of outlines so my suggestion is to if you're really interested I would have you go to their Outreach meetings invite them to your Outreach meetings so if you're hearing similar things then you're going to see the shapes are going to form themselves but to try and sort of do an overlay particularly with what Doug said it it's going to be really challenging but I would if you listen to it you'll see the themes and they'll come out so
112um thank you any further questions come okay um so I'm going to hop in uh one you know um I appreciate your your your comments I think in the spirit of efficiency and the spirit of you know cooperation and working together I think it's always great to try and work with City Partners where we can I I think that that there are different considerations for each map um I think when you uh I happen to work for a city council member who represents a district uh and when you go through a redistricting process you are looking at different things we do not have again control over commercial corridors versus residential corridors and the impacts of businesses on residents we are not elected to kind of answer those concerns we are answered to and answered really
113the educational needs of a community um and and so as a result I can see for instance that if they want to make sure that each council member has a portion of a commercial zone or a good chunk of commercial properties that they can represent equitably across the board well if you think about how our city is laid out that's going to look differently than if you're considering a school that exists basically if you walk in any direction for about a mile those are very different maps and so I think I support definitely working together to educate our community that we're going through this process however I also you know now hearing about this potential Charter change like that's confusing as heck uh on top of everything else I first of all I respect the
114city for having the conversation because I think we are big enough to have kind of these governance conversations to review how we're governed and to consider new models after 100 years I think that that's responsible but when it comes to right now navigating that making sure those questions comments concerns don't bleed onto our Maps potentially I think that you know we owe it to the same constituencies we represent to really put forward maps that are going to take care of kids first and foremost and and you know it may not be as convenient for for folks but if you look at any major Community uh that is districted at this point including as far as the city of Los Angeles you know again the boundaries for LAUSD and the city of Los Angeles don't match
115entirely having said that those lines cross all sorts of different ways the other thing that's good about it is is that when maps are drawn differently when there are issues of potential collaboration you could conceivably have two council members to work with on your issue because they represent the same School Board District and so it actually encourages greater participation with more members of the elected official whereas if our Maps match exactly then well if you upset that council member upset that school board member you're out of luck uh until they leave office I think that having maps that are different allow for things like that so that's that's where I'm going to continue to support education efforts where we can collaborate and get the word out that this map drawing process is occurring but I
116don't support consolidating our Outreach efforts I don't support consolidating our input sessions I don't support even putting our stuff on the same website because I just think that it's it's highly confusing uh and and I want to go at a pace that I believe my belief that the public can digest understand and feel comfortable with as it is it's a very short timeline to be doing all this work so that's just my considerations on that front um in your presentation it says what is your there are a few communities of Interest questions things like that and I just you know again kind of want to reiterate where I I certainly stand on that like I think renters continue to be a community of Interest why because I think that that allows us to demographically represent
117uh income levels of all of the full spectrum Geographic boundaries I would say you know I have to say that I think Buena Vista represents a pretty big dividing line in our community um and ideally I would love to see Buena Vista kind of respected and then two Bridge districts that uh that kind of transcend our enrollment boundaries between Burbank our two Comprehensive High Schools Burbank High School and Burroughs and if you use kind of Northern Buena Vista and cut it into the hillside those foreseeably could be districts that represent both high schools and so we don't set up for situations where board members are trying to push funding between the Comprehensive High Schools you're calling those Bridge districts so Bridge districts go over and they catch or they capture one high school they capture
118both enrollment zones yeah that's right yeah that that's what I mean yes so I mean after Buena Vista would likely be the five freeway as a divider geographically but trying to respect as much of Buena Vista and then using you know potentially the the density of the hillside to have two Bridge districts to at least you know one to two Bridge districts I think would be good and reducing the conflict while we supplement with other kind of bylaw changes and things like that so that way again as Miss tabot has said and then as Dr Weisberg reiterated today you know that we are working towards a common mission of funding and supporting all schools uh even though we represent districts so that that's important to me all the uh identified communities that have been previously
119identified you know I think those are continued communities of interest um but I would say just geographically Buena Vista seems to be a good dividing line uh to start some of that work uh in breaking up uh and I think that would also make sure that we could you know potentially look at districts for The Armenian American Community potentially look at districts that where there's density with the Latino population as well and again kind of respect those so I'm seeing heads not I want to is that is that I absolutely agree okay I I just want to make sure that but I I hear it clearly and I wrote it down uh I just want to make sure I'm seeing the the board go like this so okay well that's okay please so I have
120a question uh in regards of demographics um so you know Armenian Americans are considered Caucasian but and that has been a challenge Glendale is a great Testament they did the redistricting and two of The prominent Armenian communities end up losing their representatives um at the school board sites and so there's kind of been this mixed bag of you know representation not and to a point where some of the members of the community who've been really vocal kind of upset you know we're not we don't we're not interested anymore we're tired of this whole process it was bad enough they divided the city into half Glendale after the redistricting when you have now right two representatives in an assembly side alone one of the few cities that kind of was impacted but just based on my
121observation what I'm saying this has not worked well for certain communities will get get to tend to get confused in in the whole Caucasian you know process what has been your overall experience with communities like what I just well I mean let's talk speak about I would say to you we didn't we at first thought we weren't going to be able to delineate The Armenian Community because of what you said because the census had encountered them as well subsequent to the last meeting we were able to do that and so it it sort of takes out the issue you're talking about that's why we have the map that shows um where the concentration in the Northeast and I would say by the way board member if the city is looking at the same app the
122numbers are going to be the same numbers and so to the extent that they're concerned with and you may mentioned last time president Ferguson do you have a mayor and a president who are both renters if those become guiding forces guess what those districts are going to sort of find themselves close enough but to The Armenian question I think it it's there on the map the numbers are there the experience that you just mentioned where jurisdictions are split in an assembly seat when you do this you try as hard as heck not to do that you try and stay away from splitting jurisdictions it's one of the principles that you do sometimes it's very difficult to do because of the numbers you're trying to balance and so the only thing I take it's it's um
123it's not easy it's not an issue here because you have one big jurisdiction and for The Armenian Community I would again the population is pretty clear in the Northeast which is also very heavy renter and identity so you may have one and again that may be a case where you want to try and create two if you can but you remember those three principles you don't want a gerrymander you don't want to be you know going around like this so you'll see it as it comes up but we can do that and my other question is based on your experience I understand people you know some of my colleagues brought up the concerns about yeah we're here voting as a right but also in your District right you also have to be kind of tending
124your District needs so it's kind of a double-edged sword it makes it complicated it's like do I represent yeah we're here it's at Congress I'm representing the interest of the people but I have to represent the interest of my community we're kind of doing the Mini version of this right and and that tends to sometimes also confuse people but also so I think it's very important you know that that the boundaries are you know I mean it gets comfortable no matter what we do I always tell people this is a complex process no one not everyone's going to be happy about it and it would draw people more attention to their little area because that you want to get reelected right so you want to concentrate on that area right unfortunately and that's part of
125the problem well and and that's also why I I think we've talked about potential governance reforms and things like that to protect from that because inevitably there's going to be a political component of looking out for the district that elects you inevitably that's the case but with smart governance decisions changes in policies for instance again raising the vote threshold from four to four out of five instead of three out of five uh to to kind of exclude funding from a or to take away funding I think things like that are smart and and again uh how we draw this map I think ultimately will will help us avoid some of those challenges yeah just to be real because the more we draw it in um frankly you know to protect everyone uh the more likely
126it is that that's all the interest will ever be um so that's why I suggested Buena Vista because it will break up uh frankly some of the enrollment boundaries and pull in both enrollment boundaries at that portion uh not just on the high school level but also on the Middle School level um and and really create a cross-pollination where everybody's kind of having to look after everybody yeah and just I mean I'm sure I'm being a little Pollyanna about this but I really do think that um as hard as we can to resist the sort of political machinations that often get involved in this and help our community understand that if we're doing our job what's best for the district is going to be what's best for our districts so I know that so much
127of this you know so much of people's anxiety is wrapped up in like what if I get drawn in the same district as another board member and that is a concern for people who run for office but I also I like I believe and I think that this board is capable of focusing on helping our our busd community understand that when we when we become districted um while we will I'm sure I'll spend some specific amount of time at our specific School locations we're going to be working for the good of the district as a whole and so I don't want to have this conference this sort of narrative come up of but of course naturally we're just going to care about our schools I don't think it has to be that I think we
128have to push back against that ourselves as people who are ran for school board to represent all of busd and you know if we do a good job of governance we'll people will get reelected so I I don't even I think it's important to like that we as a board are really clear about the language we use when we talk about this which is to say like we recognize that there's anxiety about how this is going to be but again our job is to represent all the districts we know that there's some you know there'll be some natural care intent and tending to the district that you're put into but I think we can push back against that narrative and I think it's important that we do um because I do believe and again maybe
129I'm being ridiculous but I do believe that that is what we will do um I hope that's what we will do you know I one second I I will say that I am going to be meeting with Glendale School Board president nairina next week they represent trustee areas and one of the questions I'm talking to her about is how do you continue that uh how do you continue that working for everybody um they have strategies for that so I want to be able to learn that and bring some of that back but with that Miss sponsor cam thank you um so I think we can we can hold both things where when we are sitting up here we are representing and advocating for the full district and also being held accountable to an individual set
130of Voters right now we get emails to all five board members and it's not clear who's going to be held accountable for answering to those individual constituents and you know as a voter I kind of like having one person that I could go and say this is my problem help me fix it and do some of that kind of like constituent service constituent um stewarding that maybe isn't happening because the the accountability is diffuse right now um and I don't think that that's a negative thing I think it holds us accountable to actually serving our community Dr agakani and then miss tap it um I do agree with my colleagues and I think you know I always brag about our board our united we are and how well we work together you know but I'm
131also a complex system thinker I think in five and ten year increments down the road and that is a concern of mine for the Next Generation so I think if we set the tone properly I think that'll be fine but again just based on my observation and certain communities that this is not the intentions are well and I know why this was brought forward the whole lawsuits and everything but I think we have to be very careful also how we carry the message because it's not sitting well with certain communities who feel like they're kind of been pushed out of the whole process and I think I think I think it's important that we're very very clear on what are we representing this and and I think the city I I know that you know
132we want to keep this separate but at the same time that also impacts because a lot of these all individuals also even with renters there are communities who were here two years ago they're completely moved on because rent has gone up right there are certain voting blogs who don't you know are come and go and that tends to be challenging we know what some of those areas are but at the same time I think it is important that that we make sure that everyone participates and they're not kind of pushed away because they didn't see this work in other districts as well as some of the members of those communities hoped but I think this board I think we can carry this forward in a positive matter but right so far so good Miss tablet
133so I think from what I've heard please don't be offended in any way shape or form it's just a conversation you maybe what you said in the beginning is not what I'm hearing you say now well so it's based on population primarily with yeah with a few other things put in but I keep hearing dividing areas so that schools are represented in a fairly even way but our goal is not to represent a school only to be voted in by an area and I think well maybe we might be able to work together to see the whole picture when we make decisions I think Dr agacanyan is correct that maybe four six ten years down the line that's not the case any longer I just really want to keep the focus if because we have
134to go this way now I really want to keep the focus based on uh dividing those lines by populations plural not just numbers but you know however else that has to be and not necessarily the focus on representing schools I think that leads us down a rabbit hole that we don't want to be we then become Pasadena so and my specific feedback around you know kind of use trying to create these Bridge districts is again geographically a comprehensive High School which is a major population student population may or may not be in your physical District but if you have if your District overlays two enrollment boundaries for two different middle schools for instance and one of those middle schools feeds into one of the high schools and another middle school feeds into another that board
135member now has a vested interest in making sure both pathways are taken care of because otherwise they're going to hear from their constituents so that's where I'm talking about using boundaries Geographic and otherwise to purposefully layer the considerations of every board member so that you don't have that kind of protectionism that kind of you know this is my turf I'm only going to look out for my turf we are complicating our lives intentionally by making sure that you know you can't cut that no board member should be able to cut out a school from their consideration we'll see this out there you go yeah so with sponsor camper um I just want to as we're looking at this Outreach um plan I think it's great I think I'm really excited to see that we've got
136multiple ways of doing it I did see the Disney PTA at least bring this up at the last PTA meeting that like this is something that's coming this is something that we need to care about I would love to see that kind of Engagement with the rest of our groups that like to do this kind of work and like to do this kind of Outreach right whether it's um whether it's the PTA or otherwise and so um just a real shout out to my Disney PTA but also um I imagine I hope that it's happening elsewhere as well to get them engaged I I will say I was at the PTA council meeting so the school board president traditionally attends the PTA council meeting which has representatives of all the units uh there and I
137did an announcement about redistricting there so uh yeah made it through um so it was high level without you know but I'm really happy to hear that individual units are taking this on so again if if units have the capacity and time and want to be able to put this on I think units are a great group uh That Could That Could facilitate presentations I you know I worry a little bit beyond going or going beyond that so booster groups um parent groups parent organizations um when we start getting into these advocacy organizations potentially running them that that's where I think you know it becomes a little complicated of who gets but why did we pick one advocacy or go over another and I think that's where we get into some trouble but but completely
138aligned on uh especially our parent leaders and and making sure that they're briefed um okey doke any additional questions on this front I think the communities you want to highlight except for the ones already that's good no what he said just one one data Note um the question the Armenians came up just so people aware um the census has proposed changing our categories for 2030 so there will not be a separate Latino question right now there's that weird argue with latino yes no that'll just be another choice and there will they are proposing it's not finally they're proposing a middle eastern and North African category which would cover Armenians uh down in El Cajon would get the the Iraqis you know it is challenging to do political life yeah no no no no I I
139think yeah so so it's as far as you can get I I'm fully aware yeah all the differences informationally I think that's really helpful for consideration because we can only use Census Data exactly um and and that's what's the most yes we completely understand and and you know I I relate my friend uh so um you know uh absolutely so I I one and to answer Dr agaconian's commentary a little bit on this you know I want to make sure this this time we've received what we've received which has triggered this process which now we're going um I think one of the areas for potential cooperation with the city long term is after this process potentially creating an independent redistricting process that's prescribed by the charter that will allow greater time in preparation for this
140to occur so you don't have elected leaders necessarily drawing the lines and people can apply as the other commissions have been the County Commission in particular that Drew supervisorial lines I think was extremely successful as a model potentially for outreach and things like that so there's there's a number of models here but I think uh in terms of what you're saying in terms of missed habits concerns I think that there that this is only the beginning of the work that we need to do as a team and and I think the next steps look like how do we do this in an independent fashion how do we do this uh you know and again not just start the year before four in 2030 but how do we start in 2029 get the conversations going uh
141so that way we're fully prepped and we're not on these Consolidated timelines anymore thank you so much for the presentation thank you uh with that we will move to uh item 10B report on the advanced placement program um and that will be done uh by Dr promo good evening board president Ferguson distinguished board member superintendent Dr Hill District staff and Community I have the honor and fun of sharing with you the data and the progress of our students in 2022 who were involved in the advanced placement program so the first slide I have is a high level uh profile by sight of our students who participated in advanced placement you can see that the data is provided to you longitudinally and you can see four years worth of data by School site it will show
142you how many AP students we had enrolled in AP classes the number of exams that were taken that year and uh our our pass rate so a pass rate is uh passing score is a score of three or higher so a three a four or a five so I do want to point out if you look at the data and you look at 2022 and the number of AP students you can see that there is a little bit of a decrease especially if you look at it in comparison to 2019. so I want to talk a little bit about that in that in that time frame we've also um you know really uh produced a lot more dual enrollment classes and these dual enrollment classes have become more popular and more kids are taking them
143and some kids are taking them in lieu of an AP class because they're earning college credits and that is a different avenue or path for kids to make it to college so a lot of students are now looking at a different pathway maybe I'm going to earn enough college credits and be able to apply to the university as a junior and and maybe it's going to be a little bit easier to get into the school of choice that I want in terms of number of AP exams that number has gone down a little bit as well so it must be several years ago that our district changed its policy and we no longer require students to sit for the exam if they take an AP class and so over time we have seen that this
144is starting to decrease a little bit I don't think this is all bad so I could be an AP student who's challenging four AP classes because I really want my transcript to look good I want to apply to UCLA so I want that on my transcript but when it comes down to taking the AP exams maybe I'm only going to choose the two that I'm really strong in and not stress about taking all four which is something that our counseling staff has been really deliberate and strategic in communicating with kids is not to overextend and find yourself in a position where you're feeling really anxious or stressed I think our pass rate is solid 2022 uh and and it's uh not statistically significant between these two schools so I think our pass rate is actually
145very good uh the next uh it did in advance there it is uh the next slide is looking at the data by demographic and you can see our different subgroups and how they performed um again I look at those uh Pass rates and feel like regardless of which demographic you look at we have a pretty solid pass rate for our folks we have more females taking exams than males and the males are performing a little bit better I don't think that's really statistically significant either it's not by too much and we had 408 exams taken by students who qualify for free and reduced lunch I just had a quick question which is so the percentages are good clear across the board but with the fee reduction it's definitely the lowest percentage um I'm making an
146assumption here that students that receive fee reductions are probably also students who can't afford like prep classes and all the expensive bells and whistles that go with it so do we like what or do we provide any additional supports for students who get the fee reduction knowing that probably they're not going to be able to do the test prep in the way that other students will so the test prep they do have access to is through the College Board and the College Board has tutorials and test taking skills that they can actually utilize beyond that what we have are prep books test prep books that are in the library and accessible and our City libraries have them as well depending on who your AP teacher is they will hold study sessions whether it's at lunch
147or after school but you're right there are fee based programs that help kids to prep that we haven't really addressed how do we let the kids know about all of those great resources that are in place so a lot of that is done by the school site via bulletin in the counseling counselors either put tweets out or they put out in their bulletin announcements what resources are available do they get sort of any of that information when they register that's a good question I don't know the answer I can look into that sorry to like no no questions okay I'll look into that thank you I'll let you guys know uh piggybacking on that just a little bit because I think they're they are great points and and we now have data demonstrating um some
148backup to this and and so I I think if we can investigate so again uh a prep session after school is a luxury that some students who aren't working right can go to and and those who have to work to contribute to their families um they aren't going to have access to that so if we can potentially use this to explore online options that exist uh whether it be in a hard kind of synchronous setting or an asynchronous setting I either work but I think also if there are study groups Etc that can be formed online that may be more accessible at different times of the day Etc you know and really mapping it out if you can study at eight o'clock at night these are the options available to you I think that that's
149kind of the user-friendly compassionate way of doing this because I you know I I know statistically it's when we talk about the actual number of exams but when we are talking about uh Hispanic students they are 10 percent or three percent okay um but with low-income students in particular 65 that's that's noticeable and so at this point we need to answer that we've we've done some work on this to try and make sure people have access to taking these tests but I think this is the kind of the next step of that the next logical step thank you we will I will definitely look into that and the College Board does have online uh practice ones so we'll just make sure that that's getting out to our students so that they can do that yeah
150the set of data is just to look at um if we're capturing our English language Learners uh and you can see there uh based on each School site where we've had uh English language Learners or reclassified students and at what rate or the what quantity number of students that fall into each of those categories and you can see that in comparison to our English only students any questions about that next slide is just looking at our other major subgroup which are our kids that have special needs or on the 504 plan and you can see what the data is showing there not not a lot in special ed a lot but a pretty significant number pretty healthy number in 504s and again you can see what our low income or low socioeconomic students and what
151they represent the number of students they represent so uh district-wide where are our greatest areas of participation this has not changed over the last several years it's still U.S history with 187 students in English language and composition 176 and psychology we had 169 students areas of strength is a little different for each school but the data is really good and it looks it looks good so at Burbank High School 100 pass rate in computer science a 95 pastorating English slit and 88 in Spanish at Burroughs 100 of Spanish language 90 in statistics 89 and both calculus and physics tablet you know the years fly by when you're having fun the Spanish language at Burroughs is that the those dual immersion students haven't reached that level yet okay I don't have they actually gotten into Spanish
152language right got it was this this year was the first year yeah so the answer was some freshmen have come through the dual immersion program the data from the meeting last week was that like 100 of the DI kids had passed the AP exam if they had been passed into it if they've been if they tested into it essentially am I getting that right okay it was pretty amazing data that's yeah that's for ninth graders really phenomenal information bringing it home bringing it home after many years bringing it home but then what's next for those kids oh yeah that's the big question isn't it AP Spanish language AP Spanish lit oh yeah this can this is an adventure that keeps on giving we can keep going yep okay uh not so ironically but uh areas
153of challenge for both schools is the same and that is in the areas of physics and chemistry a 57 pass rate at BHS 28 at Burroughs 62 pass rate in chemistry 40 at Burrows so these are the two areas that both schools um you know can we can we can work there we can see what we can do to help there uh the chemistry test is Statewide is not real great so that's not an excuse for us to not try even harder but that's what it shows across the state of California uh happy to answer any questions mishap once again my memory um physics and chemistry teachers are hard to come by they are uh yeah I know but we we've done a really great job in making sure there's always a quality uh teacher
154in both of those areas but I if you know it's a lot in his head uh there's been some turnover in those areas that is correct that would probably greatly affect those students and and those test scores as well so yes I'm hoping we can find we're working on it some some folks are gonna stick around uh to make sure that those uh I can hear Mrs Diane or Mrs abasta's brain working over there uh yeah those are important things for students so thank you no problem yes so uh thank you for your presentation I I think this is good news for the community to celebrate so for for the critics you know this is these are hard tests that uh again require an entire year with of study and testing and uh academic rigor
155to in order to to succeed in so um to all of our Educators who are making this possible and our support staff who are supporting students on this journey thank you um uh on a few things one you know just piggybacking on earlier comments I I think like the College Board example is a great of potential resources for students I also am talking about platforms for them to organize themselves into study groups city-wide so I think the library has some tools on this front um but again like if there's a burbank-wide study group it's pretty clear you know if we're having physics problems in both schools and if they could cross collaborate with their teachers and set that up on their own via Zoom that would be great you know and again allow students to
156look at a calendar and go I can attend a study group at that time and that doesn't exclude me from particip even if it's with friends from Burroughs also creates cross-school uh interactions which I I like so again trying to identify potential software systems and platforms that we could deploy um I I think is is important and then if we could dive deeper on the physics and chemistry um I I we have a responsibility too um because these are these are consistent numbers you said for instance that this is a bad test this is a hard test um I want I want the public to understand that more and it would also be good to potentially have in and again this is not an urgent report back but the the AP teachers themselves to kind
157of describe what the challenges are because for instance if there are answers that we could potentially identify in our business community Through apprenticeships right and designing a pathway that involves more practical applications because that's going to con you know that's going to accomplish different learning learning outcomes we should be doing that at this point and it's been a rather consistent issue area and again not for a lack of effort this is a standard across the state correct it allows us to do some outside the box thinking yeah um hi hey uh so a couple of clarifying questions so um when I look at the like number of students that are taking and passing um the tests here when I see something like for computer science there's 26 kids at Burbank and two kids at jbhs
158does that mean that there's two classes going on or there's one class at each school or those boroughs kids coming to Burbank to take the course or what is that yeah logistically look like so some areas of study are happening at one school and not the other right based on interest and a lot of times a lot of these courses are driven by a teacher right so uh for example it's not just computer science but uh AP French yeah so we offer AP French at burbankai and it's not that we don't want to have it at Burroughs but we haven't built up that community and there hasn't been that need so when you look at that data a student doesn't have to take a computer science course to take the exam so a lot of
159times a student may study on their own or may have be working with a teacher or tutor and they're working through the prep book and they're going to challenge a test so we are at this moment working uh to um beef up the program in computer science at John Burroughs High School and I feel like we're at those beginning stages where we're starting to get creep up so that we can have a full-fledged dedicated class in AP Computer Science at Burrows so there is a dedicated class at Burbank High School and these two kids are kids that just challenge the test amazing um truly which is when we talk about dual enrollment the dual enrollment courses in this somewhat predates my time on the board so um how many like are those are the ones
160you're seeing students taking are they similar in terms of content area as AP tests are there ways for students who are taking like a dual enrollment history course to then take AP the AP US History test or whatever it is and then I think my other piece for that is my understanding is that all the AP courses you know are adg qualified correct is it the same for the dual enrollment courses really good question so I just uh sat in a meeting with Miss gaseo and our uh CTE and and dual enrollment folks to kind of look at course offerings and so we started off with the ones that um were popular that kids were taking at the community college like public speaking Public Communication uh Armenian classes but they've expanded and we're looking at
161psychology classes classes in counseling which is a new one that has had a lot of interest this last year and several others do you want to add to that or yes but the whole purpose of the dual enrollment program is so that they can get college credit and also start on their Pathways so one of the goals that we have with LA Valley college right now is to create enough courses that our general education so transferable courses is the focus so that the students can complete a year or more of college while still in high school so that is what we're working on right now so that means that naturally those courses those transferable courses would also count as a through G and there's not a big correlation between the dual enrollment classes and existing
162like AP exams or classes and the thing is a side note the AP courses are generally much harder and in the conversation about Equity we've talked about this for a long time and and I think that you know and again just speaking on my own behalf you know I've always seen dual enrollment as the more Equitable pathway one it ensures that you get college credit um in in theory a student could take an entire class and not pass the test and get no college credit but because the weighted GPA impacts admissions that's kind of this lingering factor that keeps AP classes which I have to say also has a social emotional component because these students are melting down to the point where at one time I was trying to initiate and I still think we
163should probably move forward with some level of this an automatic trigger that if you're going to take more than three conversations that a conversation should become should be had with school counselors and with all that support staff and a plan should be developed if that kiddo starts falling apart under all that pressure we have heard and seen over years students break down because of the caseload that they've taken on with these courses so I personally would love to see APS completely phased out in the long term then we don't have to ask some students to pay for it and other students not to we don't have to worry about some students and their access to college prep courses that cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars to enroll in versus not and and in the
164long run that would be great but again for that harvard-bound student if you take away AP classes right now they are not competitive in that way so I I think that you know we've got to keep on the path that we're doing and in building out dual enrollment you know one year that's a great accomplishment eventually let's get to two um you know I think that's where we want to go but you know just for members of the public there's also a cost to this uh as as well as everybody's doing it's a lot of work for everybody involved uh and and there's a lot of impacts as a result but either way very solid numbers Miss habit I would be cautious in heading that direction and tell colleges and universities change how they look
165at students who are applying to come to their schools you have to remember at the end of the day a college or university is a money-making facility and so if you if if only everybody's coming in as a junior they're not going you know by because they have so many transferable units if I take a dual enrollment class in history it then works as a transfer units in history which means I'm not taking that University's history class not so the case with AP classes right they could be used for any area and not always the ones that they cut you know what I'm saying that a college may be able to you may take an AP History Class but that's when you apply to college that's not where those units are going they may go
166to something else and you still have to go to that University and take their classes because they at the end of the day they want your money so before we eliminate everything and that's I know that's not what you were saying I'm making it bigger we really need to make sure that our colleges are ready willing to accept all those transferable units so and and I I will say I I think you know I think we're in agreement uh you know I I am not for phasing out AP tests at this time or AP classes at this time uh if I would I could but I realize there's a lot of factors like that um I will say that I am not looking out for the bottom lines of colleges and universities uh College the
167the community college system the state uh schools in California the University of California you know those are institutions designed fundamentally uh so that we as a society can progress we want to create institutions of learning so that we can create complex problem solvers and that is a public uh that's a need that's a necessity that's a social good and that is what keeps us competitive frankly it keeps us as the superpower nation that we are um because we've invested in education and people forget that yeah even your K-12 teachers your K-12 classified employees they're a part of that that chain so my concern and and you made another point there are private colleges and universities who will demand for the sake of GPA that kids take six seven AP classes in a single year but
168will only honor and give college credit for one or two of those courses and not honor even though they've earned college credit um and not honor the other courses so again I'm not for a private university again whether they name a hall after me or not uh profiting on the backs of kids and making them frankly short circuit in high school deny them their childhood years so that you know the bank balances is is still there sorry not sorry so that I I heard what you're saying I'm not saying it is adversarial I'm just kind of addressing more of a systemic issue that I think really exists and it's just backwards it's not kid-centric the College Board is a company uh let's let's also this is not some government agency it's a company uh that
169produce the tests and that test uh as long as people are struggling on that test guess what they want to keep taking it to get better at it so that way they can be absolved of the sins of not doing well so I think it's a system that feeds itself and I'm just kind of offering that narrative to the public because I think we've done a really good job at starting to build out or do enrollment Pathways and for those families who are facing challenges and obstacles to getting to a higher level of learning or who want to take their college tuition bill and cut it there are ways and there are places for you that don't include uh you know stressing out and and going nuts so thank you so much sure uh with
170that we will continue on to item 10c which is a report on facilities and Technology projects Mr Cantwell throat clear there president Ferguson board members colleagues this evening we have two facility and Technology agenda items they both are technology they both are notice of completions the first one was a project convert fax lines to our VoIP the voiceover Internet Protocol Network so it was just a conversion of our old uh fax lines to an updated software the second notice of completion is for a project that took approximately eight months replacement of our firewall firewalls just completed about two weeks ago do we have any questions thanks to you in our time thank you so thank you for the presentation uh part of the conversation that will be happening on Saturday you know this is a
171relatively short report having said that you still have to create PowerPoints staff reports you name it so a part of the conversation you know for Saturday is do we want to continue having these presentations in the same way or to extend potentially you know do a time period every three months have a presentation like this Etc so I know these are brief reports I know they can be somewhat painful at times to just kind of do on top of everything else you're doing having said that the reason why we put these in place was originally Dr Reynolds we can blame her um you know who uh she's not here so we can do that um but was to highlight Bond spending um and so we have pretty much completed Bond spending at this time and
172so you know potentially kind of bringing it off the kind of repeat is a conversation for Saturday uh and just kind of this is an example of that so just thank you Mr Cantwell for doing the report um but just wanted to kind of preview that any further conversations on this thank you thank you so much uh with that we will keep moving on we have already conducted item 11 and item 11a which is the second public hearing on the composition of trustee areas so we will move to item 12 which is new and new and or unfinished business item 12a adoption of resolution 16 proclaiming March 2023 is intellectual and developmental disabilities Awareness Month president Ferguson Dr Weisberg I move that we adopt resolution 16 proclaiming March 2023 is intellectual and developmental disabilities awareness
173month as presented second moved by Dr Weisberg seconded by Dr AGA kanian to adopt resolution 16. any discussion on this seeing none will move to a vote all those in favor say aye aye aye opposed that motion carries 5-0 we'll have Dr Weisberg read that intellectual and developmental disabilities or disabilities characterized by significant limitations both in intellectual functioning reasoning learning problem solving and an Adaptive Behavior which covers a range of everyday social and practical skills and typically appears before the age of 18. whereas in 1987 President Ronald Reagan declared march to be developmental disabilities Awareness Month whereas quality and effective programs can lead to significantly positive outcomes for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities whereas individuals with intellectual and developmental disability disabilities often require a lifetime of specialized and community service support services to ensure
174their health and safety and participation in the community whereas individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities are living and working in the community pursuing higher education developing their Faith Falling in Love and getting married and making their voices heard in all aspects of life whereas Burbank Unified School District employs qualified and caring individuals who strive to support the education and lives of students with intellectual and developmental disabilities and support their families whereas Burbank Unified School District is dedicated to developing and sustaining programs and resources that support students with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families whereas March 2023 is designated as National intellectual and developmental disabilities awareness month to increase public awareness of the need to support individuals and family members Educators and other professionals who teach and care for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities
175to ensure they are respected valued and fully included in the community now therefore be it resolved that the Board of Education hereby designates the month of March 2023 as National intellectual and developmental disabilities Awareness Month thank you thank you Dr Weisberg and we do celebrate uh all the privilege that it is uh to educate so many of this population and to support so many of these families we are very very lucky we have a lot of work to do Post covet though to help these families uh and we are going to continue to bring that up as as a part of our board conversations and to keep this population Central uh as we all recover from this so thank you to all of you uh for allowing us to educate your children uh we are
176so lucky to be able to do so thank you Dr Weisberg again and then we will move on to item 12b approval of comprehensive school safety plans I jumped the gun I apologize sorry go ahead Mr President I move that the Board of Education uh approve each school's 2023-2024 comprehensive school safety plans as presented moved by Miss tabot to approve the safety plan seconded by Dr Aga kanian any further discussion on this item I know it's a lot of work yes this is a ton of work so uh thank you to all staff who have worked on this you know these are these are very relevant documents even though they are a state requirement uh uh you know some state requirements are just a lot of paperwork this is both a lot of paperwork and
177a really important conversation to so to our site councils to everybody who has kind of participated in some level of this thank you any further questions on this all those in favor say aye aye aye opposed that motion carries five zero we'll move to item 12C adoption of resolution number one concerning funding of Child Development programs for fiscal year 2023 2024 which is contract number cctr-2074 I moved up resolution number one concerning funding of Child Development programs for fiscal year 2023 2024 contract number cctr 2074 is presented so I can move by Dr Weisberg seconded by Dr agacanyan on this item um do do we want to discuss potential fees long term is this a good time for that Or Another We're going to agenda is that for a future board meeting right okay this
178the item tonight is to give the authority to sign contracts for next school year right uh we're reviewing our child development budget and I'm going to be talking about we've been increasing fees around five percent we're looking at inflation marks and other factors so we'll bring a future agenda item to talk about that thank you we had we had talked about that in exact so the the financial status so this is purely ministerial but as that conversation kind of rotates through I just wanted to make sure the board members are aware and the public is aware that that conversation is coming up um okay so I have read it is there was there a motion I didn't yeah get one Dr Weisberg excuse me excuse me sorry for spacing out on that print okay uh
179any further discussion all this in favor say aye aye aye opposed that motion carries five zero on to item 12d approval of the Aztec software licenses good let's tab it I move the Board of Education approves the software licensing agreement between Burbank Unified School District Burbank adult school and Aztec software not to exceed seventeen thousand four hundred and eighty dollars fifty percent oh all those there's a stream of uh of numbers of numbers right that the money comes out of effective February 17 2023 and that the authority to sign the agreement by exercise pursuant to busdar3314 as presented moved by Miss Tabet seconded by Dr Argonian any further discussion on this pretty straightforward all those in favor say aye aye aye opposed that motion carries five zero on to item 12 e which is the
1802023 California school boards Association delegate Assembly Election sub-region 23A traditionally we vote on this one by one um as candidates if I'm looking to my colleagues there are two candidates for two seats um so I will just move that we cast uh ballots for both candidates who have submitted uh an S for a second second moved by myself seconded by that's a little bit of presidential privilege right there but just trying to move us along uh moved by uh Mr Ferguson seconded by Dr Weisberg and Dr argument a question that none of my colleagues are interested in putting their name in this because I'll be honest with this with the cspa I mean we have I know that in the past we have not been pending I want to know where we are on that
181it seems that some districts tend to be a little more active with the csba and I know why the decisions were made in the past but I didn't even know there was an election and uh yeah yeah I I have to admit the amount of AdWords so the filing period is closed for for these specific for these specific spaces um we can do a write-in candidate we've done that before um having said that yeah there we go um but I I think if we could have staff keep an eye out for leadership elections Etc you know I will say it is a little concerning as gusd has at least two board members uh potentially it looks like that that would be represented compared to smaller districts San Gabriel uh that's going to be a district
182that certainly has access to concentration grant funding Etc and not necessarily facing the same Financial challenges that we are even though they are a smaller District or a medium-sized School District we can't keep uh at five star usually the csba rep is there but she's been not there the last few months so I I will keep okay Dr Eric honey just out of curiosity where are we on the attending the annual uh you know conferences so we can have that conversation on Saturday um as I'm part of board member priorities if that's a real prior I I think for instance ongoing education Masters and governance courses that's something that's great but the question of costs every year for the convention we should talk about that if that's a priority for you there's a time in
183the agenda we can bring that up um and that may be helpful for you to talk about that and give backgrounds who haven't participated well because my concerns we're voting for something for csba yet we're not having been we're not participating exactly and we stopped participating out of financial concerns so there's a time on Saturday to talk about that again so I think we'll we'll figure that out and they didn't have it for a while because of covet that's right yeah world shut down reopened we're all getting there uh so um okie dokie all those in favor say aye aye opposed that motion carries five zero uh and we'll to be continued to uh Saturday uh item 12f uh right yeah memorandum of understanding between Southwest Mountain States Regional Council of Carpenters and the Burbank
184Unified School District Dr Weisberg we we uh hold on I'm reading this approve the memorandum of understanding between the Southwest Mountain States Regional Council of Carpenters and the Burbank Unified School District is presented second uh moved by Dr Weisberg seconded by myself uh to approve this partnership with the Southwest uh Mountain States Regional Council of Carpenters uh thank you to the Carpenters who um you know this is a trade but it is a well-paying trade yes uh and a necessary trade especially with the amount of housing that needs to be built and developed along with commercial properties in in the state and the region so huge Partnerships huge opportunities available and also strengthening our vocational Pathways absolutely and career Pathways uh any further discussion on this all those in favor say aye aye opposed that
185motion carries 5-0 on to item 12g Miss Tabit Ferguson I move that the Board of Education take formal action accepting the following gifts to the district and that's specifically the board president can convey his appreciation to the donors respectfully and with much appreciation as presented second moved by Miss tabot and seconded by Dr agricania to won't know she said respectfully yeah I'm going to change it for a week see that's what I did catch up uh anyway any further questions on the gift report seeing none all those in favor say aye aye aye oppose that motion carries 5-0 and we will go through and thank the gifts so on behalf of the Burbank Unified School District we'd like to thank everybody for their contributions big or small but in particular these donors tonight to the
186Roosevelt Elementary PTA who has donated six thousand dollars to be used for the Roosevelt book club and the Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School go Rough Riders to the blackbaud giving fund which has donated 384.62 cents to be used as needed at McKinley Elementary School we thank you for that to Peter Lars Incorporated slash Court Cornerstone photography who has donated 781 dollars and nine cents to be used as needed at McKinley Elementary School thank you for that Marlene calvo fryer who has donated 500 to be used for student enrichment at Magnolia Park School a truly terrific campus in our district uh e uh and our final gift is Providencia PTA who has donated 4 500 to be used for Gary for the Gary dance program at private Valencia Elementary School no matter again how big or small
187we really do appreciate the support for our schools with that we will move on to the consent calendar uh and I'll take a motion and miss sabot move by Miss habit seconded by Dr agacanyan are there any items that board members wish to pull seeing none I will proceed to a vote all those in favor say aye aye opposed that motion carries five zero with that we have concluded most of our agenda as I said previously we are going to do one additional period of Public Communication I have one card for that and that is for Mr schlossman Mr President I was lucky to have a kid that in his AP classes he was bored you know and he went through UCLA and he was bored there too so that's just I guess that's just
188my kid you know tonight we witnessed multiple Brown act violations I talked to uh attorney Sims about it out in the hall and he confirmed it and you know all I ever asked for here is a Level Playing Field most of the things that I talk about or two or two things I want you to educate our students better and I want you to administer the business of the school district in a better fashion I want you to be fiscally responsible I don't think that's too much to ask largely I don't agree with you on many things particularly Dei and CRT some of these things but it's it's dissension is a good thing you know otherwise it'd be kind of boring around here and it's it's my right to say things it's everybody's right to
189say things that you don't agree with it but we should have a Level Playing Field we didn't get it tonight I go to a lot of these boards and commission meetings I go to the city council and I've received and witnessed a lot of brown act training and I've seen the superintendent when you Veer off course immediately correct you tonight uh on on 3B you had a closed session item regarding the Burbank Teachers Association yet each of you took turns uh going far beyond brief comments which is what is allowed and the superintendent didn't say anything and you know it's wrong now miss a Basta asks why are we going to districting well from my perspective I feel largely ignored here tonight doesn't count because I I really didn't ask any questions tonight but many
190nights I do ask questions and they are ignored and if I do get an answer let's say from the parcel tax Mr Hill says well I've already answered that and from my perspective if I ask that question in every meeting please answer it at every meeting maybe I forgot the answer and this is the types of things I sent an email to miss Weisberg I said I'd like to meet with you you can record the meeting and you can bring somebody with you to the meeting I want to talk about school business I want to resolve our issues and I'm ignored not even a response and I've when you run you say you're great communicators most recently you missed habit and I've sent you emails and I'm just ignored you know not even the courtesy
191of no thank you nothing and this is why I feel I need we need districting I want a representative that lives in my district and it's it was glossed over tonight but some of you folks are going to be out of a job because you have to live in the district that you represent now I guess you could move but when your term is up if we have redistricting you're you know you're going to have to live in that District okay so I talked to you about the Dei CRT telling us what books to read have disagreed with you on that you witnessed a a conspiracy happen here and none of you said anything messers paramo and Hill talked about me during a meeting on their private phones and I immediately asked for those text
192messages that I was denied and I said show me your phones no Mr paramo said I immediately erased all of my text messages and I found that to be disingenuous and I'll bet if we looked at your phone right now Mr parama we'd see some text messages okay thank you um the wrong way to do it if he's clearing out text messages on school business he just admitted it that he cleared out his messages I'm talking I've still got the time I understand but you do need to address your comments through the board I know talking to you now you are and the point of this districting is nobody said hey don't do that again it was a conspiracy it was against the law it was a violation of the brown act and nobody said
193anything so if we get districting I'm hoping I'll get a representative that says when people you know don't act appropriately do it appropriately and that's what I'm looking for and I hope you all have a good evening drive safe thank you thank you our next speaker is Diana abasta three from next month read Across America March the second there wasn't anything here and you know a reading above all so important and I do understand that you all have jobs but I also have to say that you took this position you have a responsibility to visit the schools and I'm not just talking about doing this as you wave by I have had some of you come with me sometimes I've had to earn but please look at what it's like build a bill um I
194know that I've taken this tablet and uh superintendent Hill so they can see what transitions look like like do you know what goes into just and I know you know an hour an hour lesson and you have all these different it's not even just personalities it's it's levels of ability and you know when you're a teacher you have to build a base you have to have a base to remediate and then you have to offer enrichment and it's very difficult to do all of this when you have all the other added pressures and demands um even today I had a teacher come to me with a parent email I I have no words for that do you know how that destroys and demoralizes a teacher because we are being told we want this student to
195get this letter grade we we have got to open up when we go to USD this is what it means this is what an education in busd means this is what it means when our children come here we have ethics here we teach our young students responsibility and accountability um I know I'm going a little bit and I do have other questions about me just redistricting because I I am concerned ethically about yeah and I know you you already know that but read Across America um tomorrow I'm actually going to McKinley and I will be observing TK and then a kindergarten and then a first grade because I'm very interested to see how centers and small groups are done because kindergarten is a lot you know I I go in there it makes me nervous
196when I'm in the kindergarten class and um you know people would say you teach high school but I love High School and kindergarten those teachers wow and you know you may not have seen all of that energy and I was so glad to see um Mr Doyle come up here Zach he's he is phenomenal but those other people have this gravitas this years of experience I'm just I'm like this when I go to watch them so again I am at McKinley if anybody would want to join me we are at Prav we make the visits and then we talk to our members and we also go in and talk to our principals to see what can we do to be proactive I think our principals need that mentorship just as much I I mean I
197I truly wish I had a mentor it doesn't matter how old you are but to have that type of leadership where you actually have that um that's something that I hope that we can continue to build on you know thank you very much thank you any further public comment speakers seeing none will cause a period of public comment we'll go to staff responses none no response just thank you both okay thank you board member responses Miss tabot just one Mr schlossman I have not received an email from you please look through your emails make sure it's Charlene tavett at Burbank USD t-a-b-e-t and resend me your emails because I haven't received one okay um thank you uh to all of our speakers read Across America uh let's make sure to get information distributed to the
198board so we can best participate uh to Mr schlossman I will say I I had trust that staff is doing from everything that they need to be doing to maintain appropriate records uh and moving forward uh you know again lesson learned but uh it doesn't require persecution each and every time um and that's coming from me so uh with that uh it is retirement the retirements thank you so much so I made a mistake in my first meeting um and I missed the retirements which is really terrible because I want and always have a very deep appreciation for these folks and I absolutely know some of these folks so uh thank you for uh the shout out to remind me it just is kind of there another thing for Saturday um uh but want to
199first begin um by recognizing the retirement of Kenneth Brown who is retiring from facilities who began his service in May of 1990. Rosie Paris who's in attendance technician at Burbank High School who began her service to The District in 1996. uh Diane sorrenti who is a serving kitchen operator who began her service uh in uh September of 2008 to Gloria Meza who is a budget Program Technician yes uh who was a who was at Burbank High when both Miss tabot and Steve Ferguson were uh students um who began her service ready for this October 1973. oh my gosh um that one in particular is something that we may want to pull out and recognize separately but what a commitment Burbank hear this when we're talking about our employees 50 years of service to to these
200kiddos and to these institutions we don't do that without doing something right so again um I'm just going to finish and then to Leslie Hawa who began her service uh in 2005. so really truly want to recognize uh pull out Miss May I know we do the annual retirement uh Gala but I think it's important that we recognize her uh at a at a different level for that a lifetime of service to our kids any further questions comments concerns seeing none we will adjourn at 9 44. thank you everybody