001look at you I a couple years ago lateness was something that was my like it could be less late my house is like better to be five hours early than a minute late so like that's well ingrained my husband does not help with this uh solution time dilation you like just thinks he's like oh yeah we'll just leave I'm like we have two small children you never just leave yeah that honestly we do that a lot haha I'm like we gotta go realize that we're going to be live soon he told us he was like uh he'll be like yeah just um okay I just need to uh I just need to get ready okay so uh ready sorry sorry to interrupt but we are gonna there we go get going um it is 901
002and we'll call to order for the uh special meeting of the Board of Education of Saturday February 18 2023. um and we acknowledge the trend traditional ancestral and seated territory of the chumashtangva Fernandina tatavia and First Nations on which we are learning educating and living living I'm just throwing in extra syllables everywhere today thank you um I'm just trying it's not enough coffee has been ingested so we're working on it um at this time and then we'll do uh the Pledge of Allegiance spoken stand I identify where the flag is place your right hand over your heart Freddy again I pledge allegiance to the flag of Illinois okay um we will take the role at this time Dr Hill if you take the role for us remember poundster cam card present remember tavit present remember
003connian absent he's on his way he's just notified me uh vice president Weisberg president president Ferguson president okay so we do have uh four out of five members with one on the way so we do have a quorum to proceed with the rest of the meeting um we um we'll move to item two a which is um to address the board this will be our only period of public comment um and would anybody like to address the board I have no cards thank you thank you Andrew from schlossman the last meeting you know in 30 years of going to these meetings I've never stood up in rows and called for a point of order point of order by definition is a query in a formal debate or or meeting as to whether correct procedure is
004being followed a point of order is not an outburst Mr President and then you went on to make the comment there is no such thing as a point of order I beg to differ regarding 3A on the agenda refreshing the brand you can only guess that this is about this symbol with three characters on it that makes you uncomfortable I think your woke agenda is inappropriate and I think it's a bad use of funds that spend money to issue new cards and new letterhead and new signage at this time when we're calling for more money when we're out of money and you're getting ready to ask for a bond that's what that 521 thousand dollars was all about you hired somebody who was a bad salesman and he couldn't sell it twice talking about the
005parcel tax and now we got Mr Cantwell who's a much better salesman you're going about this all wrong you're punishing dissenters like me I'm talking about 3B changing around people can way people can speak and address you you're doing it wrong and to our newest member I'm sorry I don't read my classes our newest member I you've hit the ground crawling I want you to speak up for me I don't want you to go along with these guys who are going to change the order of of how things of how people can come and address you you should be encouraging participation when I ask question you should go out of your way to answer it and an example is that of that is I talked about a cost-benefit analysis of solar because I've heard you
006talk about solar Mr President I've heard you talk about wanting to go to electric cars I know the answer to these questions I know that it's 10 pounds of [ __ ] in a five pound bag and I know it's not cost efficient but the superintendent gives me the bums Rush when I ask for the cost benefit analysis he says well you know you can call tomorrow and and you can you know public record that type of thing no I should have got an email from the superintendent with that information in it and all of you should have got that information so you can make an intelligent decision instead of spending feel good money and if you go for a school bond you can bet I'm going to be talking about this type of thing because it's
007that's the type of thing you're going to want to include you're already talking about it with the DWP you're researching it why shouldn't we know if that works or not if we're getting our money's worth when you spend money for it now I've been marginalized ignored trying to silence me which is what this meeting here is about if you're going to go from five minutes to three minutes or even one minute whatever it is it's your meeting all respect it but it's the wrong thing to do you should be encouraging participation in these meetings you can't have everybody coming up and giving you a Pat in the back you know I question a lot of things and they're good questions and they deserve answers if they if a person who stands under the rainbow flag
008came here you'd do somersaults for that person to make things right if a person of color came here you'd do somersaults to make things right for that person and you should and we're all all of us have colors all of us are the same but you don't treat it treat us that way the people who come here and uh you know uh complain like me marginalized and it's not right we should be treated the same as everybody else and we should have answers to our questions and there are always legitimate questions you're spending you're spending money hand over fist and you're going to the Property Owners again you should be ashamed of yourself if there should be complete transparency and there's not there's not transparency in this District there's a leadership problem in this District
009there's a common sense problem in this District and I'll keep coming back and saying these types of things because I want more accountability I want good leadership and one other one last thing on here you were I'm grateful that you're going to be recognizing people and I've been calling for that calling for that for years and if I can be of any service I'm glad to do it if you need me to come down here a couple of hours a week or whatever and coordinate make up the certificates arrange things I'm happy to do it now I know you'll never call me because I'm I liked big surprise but that doesn't change the fact that I have a long history it's volunteerism Mr slash may your five months thank you minutes is up thank you
010very much any other speakers seeing none uh we will go to superintendent's comments and responses no response okay uh board members comments and responses welcome to my left looking to my right um uh quickly responding uh one uh point of orders are recognized usually uh in Robert's Rules of Order I'm aware of uh you know points of order and I'm aware of Robert's Rules of Order if you look at our board bylaws Robert's Rules of Order are not recognized uh as a means by which the board does its business therefore points of order don't exist in the Board of Education second if they did exist they would be four members of the body because those are procedures for a body to interact and to pass business um we have done I think a great deal
011of work to welcome Dr agapanian um to respect public comment uh and and change up public comment in a way to try and include and increase participation um I will say and I say this with all due respect us reviewing our agenda and how it's laid out is not about you it is fundamentally about one uh I have been speaking with Dr Weisberg as a member of the executive committee who's responsible for putting together these agendas and I want to make sure as I said when I ran for president uh that everybody has equal access to these agendas that everybody can participate fully and that does not occur at 11 30 at night when everybody has been working a full day um so what I am hoping to do is facilitate a conversation to ensure
012our agendas and our board is aligned on what we expect to see from our agendas what outcomes we hope to derive from our agendas you talk about a lack of accountability you talk about a lack of transparency here we are having that and and further putting in systems in place so that way that accountability that learning all the things that we hope to achieve from our meetings and not just rubber stamp as you have previously also accused us of uh that instead these are productive meetings that move the district forward by its elected policy leaders so while we will do do all we can uh to to make sure public participation is happening uh we are we have the right uh to structure our agenda in a way that ensures uh one that our business
013can be done in a way that you know frankly it deserves uh and also so that we can ensure public participation um your commentary around me jumping if there were a rainbow flag here uh first I seldom jump um so um so that is first second um what symbols you deploy or what symbols anybody else deploys um in in their commentary is their right it is when it is hate-filled that I do not like to respond to it it is when it is ignorant that I feel the need to respond to it uh when somebody is choosing to express who they are authentically again I have no problem with that even if I believe what they're saying makes them kind of a jerk um but what I don't respect is when others use the time
014to create unsafe spaces for people to participate by saying commentary that they know will be triggering you deploying the use of a rainbow flag in your commentary was meant to trigger this response congratulations you got it so as as you get being an example that I'm sensitive to one community over another I've been representing a lot of a lot more heterosexuals than LGBT folks in my time on this board in fact statistically that's almost all I represent so um that's all I'm going to say I I re I respect your right to come down here I respect your right to contribute um it does not guarantee that you will be heard uh it does not guarantee that you will it will guarantee that you'll be heard it doesn't it doesn't guarantee that we'll be listening
015to you and if and if you want to do that you've run for office before in this town and there is an opportunity for you to run every two years um and now districts potentially for you to run it so again there is a certain amount of uh once you are elected yeah you're considered your opinion is considered differently why because the community has elevated you to that role um that's not the case with submitting a public comment card in every moment okay thank you for your time thanks for coming down today it's a Saturday so this is your second redo of the week uh I appreciate it I'm not sure if I'll invite you down to do certs but if there's a moment where I can do that we may figure it out um
016so I don't know um but thank you for that and thank you for the offer with that we will move to any other comments just checking nope great study session update on board branding um so um I'm going to start this off so if if that's okay um so there are kind of a number of things that represent the board like you can't see it yeah yeah yeah um there are a number of things that that represent the board that have just not received attention and it's not due to uh well again it's not the priority how we you know it's just not the priority so um one of those things for instance is the Montage that begins at the beginning of the meeting so I can confirm uh being a student board member in
0172005 that that was the same Montage used in 2005. so it's old um those children are in their 30s absolutely um yes if not later yeah yeah it could be footage from the 90s like yeah it um so the idea is one to get a nod to if there is capacity for our uh media production classes at the secondary schools You're Gonna Love Me I do love you more but go ahead um I I thought looking at the agenda I took some time and actually spoke with the video production teacher Buren Kai and she would love to put together a new Montage yeah that's amazing okay so that's where you were going I yes I know I'm asking for permission um and so that's great and I love hearing that and what's really jumping out
018I know like this is why like we're trying right this is the whole point for us to be able to do this these have these conversations so what's great is that we were speaking with one of the camera operators on channel TV6 uh who was at the board meeting and they too are willing to work with the students once they produce something yeah uh and then bring them in and then actually show them how they can put it together and so if we can make that so if everybody's fine with it we'll update the Montage so just and then if staff can work with great opportunity for those kids well that's well and remember one of the programs I I uh helped start was teams in action and teens in action media Communications team was
019a group that actually won a ton of Emmys um as as for a channel six show and they would work with channel six producers and put on different shows on teen issues and so it's a really incredible experience to work with those professionals and they're winning golden mic Awards kind of right and left they're real they're known within their industry so yeah I agree it's it's a good mentoring opportunity it's a good kind of CTE opportunity so cool yeah okay um so that's yeah Montage done um the second is like on our website so we have the board members listed uh we have our photos um the idea is putting a bio in them um that that's the second uh our email is already next to our names they are right okay good so those
020were the two big ones is very contentious it's very contentious um I would like to remain a woman of Mystery yeah if there are any other kind of like again how the board is listed how the board is accessible any of those kinds of changes open for that but those were the two that I really just wanted to make sure that we could yeah yes so we'll do a group photo at the dice at the council dies I do think though and I mentioned two every year Well I mentioned there were things I'm still depressed Mr Benson when he came in that we could get we could we should work if you're in the habit doing what council does ideally which is whenever there's the reorganization meeting is doing our pictures because that's what they
021do they do their group picture they do their individual pictures that night and just be and just get it done be done with it not have to like worry about it okay so they also have a different cut like because our that meeting went until I think like 11 or something right they have like a very ceremonial reason they do they have a meeting that's just that yeah but maybe it's one that we come a little bit early again I think I do agree with the president I think we should do this on regular basis I mean besides the video being something out of 80s you know about it um also you know uh some of the pictures you know we've aged since someone has been here for a while here's the argument to keep
022your tongue no I mean the point I'm making is that that we should I think branding is important but also for our constituents they should oh there's no board is the president the titles any updates yeah I hope we do more of that as well because even on the website you know you know I like the access right now but I think we change it we put it you said yourself I don't know even getting something as simple as it can we did talk about that I actually think that is an important thing I know we tried it a couple of years ago with the shirts but again sort of referencing Council and I know they have more of a budget to do this or any budget to do this and we don't but I
023think that being able to when we go to events when we go to like not necessarily School site visits but when we're somewhere where it's like a an art fair or Pride or whatever that we can show that we're board members I think is actually really important for the students and parents to see us so any kind of signifier I actually think because I think the shirts that we made at like the district but didn't say like board member so I do think that there's something really important about that because we want people to know that we're showing up to support so that's a that's a great thing to talk about well all right I was just going to say my only other suggestion on the BIOS would also be like if folks are hosting
024regular office hours or have kind of other ways for folks to engage that's a great idea um that we can include links thank you man okay so a bio page is going to be relatively static but like but an event so oh I just mean like Emily's got regular off yeah no no I I do so that's actually I think that that's great so being able for so a bio is something that will get done we'll send you know relatively small not it doesn't need to be scroll um but then um yeah if there could be a component or a page and a process kind of delineated of how you know do we send it to Cindy Cindy then posts it for us um you know that would be great for for announcements and updates
025from that board but also even be as far as the office hours are concerned part of the bio like right definitely holds weekly office hours from four to six email her yep you know so it does it actually is it's very low maintenance yeah and and my hope is is that you know when we transition to districts that also will have additional District information so specific you know this is the Board District it's not have to right that's right yeah so um you know that I mean the board page is going to have to transform in the fact that it will have to talk about we are districted we are you know and explain that also I think we do a good job of explaining how much we're paid on the website things like that
026that are kind of how much are these people 504 a month um so um [Music] do you want the name tag pins and say your name would remember or just no I think they need to say board member like if we did like magnetic so we don't mess our clue if it just said like our names in like USD board members yeah we can use it over and over yeah exactly yeah that would be great and then if there's new members Etc that's just an automatic like that that gets produced as a part of a welcome to the team um yeah there you go right now I just use my badge yeah I just walked into every meeting yeah hi everybody that's what I was saying not even okay so we'll work on bio Pages
027the other thing is is like not to be insensitive but we've got some photos on the front of the website that have former board members you know and think those need to be rotated on um former principles oh yeah what's what's refresh generally but on the board page we'll we'll go to bios uh the Montage will start working with the students on you know I don't want it obviously to impact anything else so you know it's not a rush but it just keep us updated on that front and then um lapel pins right bios lapel pins and Montage yeah some kind of yeah yeah we're gonna get to that little Billy um manages the like is it each page is so the board page is managed by my office got it I was just thinking
028about your question about photos um not that I have any photos yeah yeah every time I go to a school I seem to forget to take photos um that's what you're doing your job then yeah that's it no absolutely well and and I I think it can evolve in time but this is you know I think a good start and it allows us to communicate I think just more effectively um yeah this is word branding but a little adjacent to it is just uh social media um the number of fake busd accounts that are on social media like that ridiculous District Instagram one yeah and it gets me every time well they make it impossible for you to report it because they're like please list the name of the actual account but we don't have
029an actual account so it's like you can't even report it on Instagram because we don't have a busd Instagram so it's like you get stopped in the process of reporting it so I don't know what if anything can be done but there's it's not great to have these like I mean I remember letting you know because you have a fake one up there too yeah I can't get they won't take it down I know it's ridiculous I do get it suggested to me all the time that's how I thought I found out it was it existed for the record there's a fake Matt Hill Instagram account that is not me my picture it looks like everything is legit but it's not like and everybody following you is like they're District people I've had 20 people
030reported I've reported multiple times they won't take it down okay and is there anything have we tried it with the district the fake District One thing we did some uh research on trademark and copyrights there's a process on that but even that they say it's reactive we talked to some people that do the copyright lawyers and they said it really doesn't solve the problem right um okay but I do think it maybe is a good point though that the pages may also want to list our handles our official handles that's not about yeah or say like Dr Hill does not have the officials so like Honestly though honestly I think that's important yeah and I think even for the schools too right because that's been something where I think ptas happens to the real Burbank
031yeah so this is It's evolving Continental yeah no no we're but let's let's bring that back as kind of a general social media conversation yeah this is uh specifically on board branding but let's bring that back in let's have that because I I think so you know or at a minimum listing handles we're saying what handles exist or doesn't exist at some level that's the list I have at school or at work is basically like here are the official ones yeah yeah right the Rogue one right it's our uh is our brand logo is it it's bad copyrighted yeah no well we could so for 1500 you can we can come back that's the that's the research staff has done and you could do it but it doesn't actually solve the problem we're trying to
032have a much better logo so what let's bring that back for a full conversation um I I think you know um as as Mr schlossman alluded to this is not a conversation about the district logo having said that not all of us are comfortable being represented by that logo um you know uh it's just not and by the way you don't need to spend a whole bunch of money you we spend money on our brands at all times we spend money printing all the time you just stop printing one and you start printing another and you phase things out over time that's how all things happen um so just you know again that's not this conversation having said that I will say like I'm not wearing the logo um not doing it um so uh
033but I I think there should be inclusive branding that people can wear identify and and allow us to be you know in just a moments and approach all that so we'll bring that back great thank you okie dokie uh social media bring back I'm like well let's bring it back and then I forget about it during a gender review so um okay perfect that's not any others on that front thank you for that we'll keep going so uh 3B board meeting agenda structure and review um do we have copies of our agenda from last week anywhere that we could run off and just kind of go through it as a model I will print some I mean we also put well you know this one's unique so let me print off last week's yeah if
034you could yeah I've got one so yeah I don't I have uh digital so I'm good okay um can't get on my laptop oh sure okay yeah I'll take it to Ricky but it was working fine forever then it wasn't when you need it never works when you need it I sat here now and like went through the Diagnostics we do wrong here fix this changes and it's not even that didn't work you're good okay I dropped I dropped some shoes I know these are probably older than them [Music] they're just so big oh yeah I'm like I have very long size no like struggle to get my butt that was a weird statement yeah but I'm a weird proportion I do I see my children it's a meeting like Jack is also all torso
035the way yeah I have uh at about like an hour mark right there in 20 years like I just started like yeah my back starts like yeah it's not good I kept catching myself oh and I just slowly start to sink down yeah by the end I'm a good Tiny Little Gnome well and also with suit jackets you become okay so um um yeah yeah I can get you all right so um Dr Hill is bringing us copies of uh of the agenda and what generally the agenda looks like um I I think it'll be helpful to have actually you know copy in front of us whether it's digitally or in but there's a few things that you know one just the structure of the agenda does it work well um Dr Weisberg and I
036have spoken in exact committee about um specifically like one the presentation section uh in the beginning which usually takes up the Lion's Share of any meeting um it's kind of by Design supposed to be where the conversation is supposed to be had whereas the businesses obviously the business but for the most part they are relatively routine items um so one keeping one item academically focused um and then another item which is uh about operations facilities you name it um generally thank you Dr Harris um thank you okay thank you pull one up on my phone Steve okay so um so in the 10 reports to the board so really dropping it to two two at most maybe three reports to the board every board meeting one that's academically focused one that is operational yeah operationally
037focused now that doesn't preclude us to getting to three but if you see three it's just it's gonna be a longer yeah yeah right yep but that's kind of how hoping to do that um uh the moving retirements up from the end to the beginning so um and then creating basically after reporting out on closed session um adjustments to the agenda items for future agendas we go into announcements um and have an announcement section after that before we go into reports from the board which is our student members right now we've kind of combined uh responses to public comment with our announcements which is you know when somebody's been up there telling a story about how awful their experience has been with something you know and then we're like oh and then we went to
038a party like just it's a little weird yeah it's just it's not yeah it's not sensitive so um having a section for announcements the idea would be as you all know we like shorter meetings you know or efficient meetings not shorter but efficient meetings so that we keep announcements to know more than three minutes three-ish minutes um but that also be the board president use that time for retirements yeah um uh and any adjournment announcements at that point okay wait sorry yeah I was pulling up and looking yep can you quickly for me yeah and as I get my word up so I can type it in girl here okay real quick again what were you saying so so starting out basically going to reporting on closed session we'll do that adjustments to the agenda
039items for future agendas and then before reports of the board we do board announcements or the would that be considered like reports from the board of just like board member report or no I mean it definitely calling it announcements is that what you said announcements because it it's all the stuff you did between the last board meeting and so like last time I was like also I went to a school right right right right I know same there isn't a place to put it right right well and what I like about that um is making sure that our responses to public comment then State um yes that's right well okay so announcements by board members the other thing is because it's before public comment it will keep this brief because I think that's the focus
040um in getting to the public comment so um then it's okay to not have an announcement too that's correct of course no you have to that's correct yes and any kind of reporting out any way of actual official items should be as you know should be included as a part of the agenda fundamentally like if we're reporting something out okay then reporting out from Five Star here was the finding we need the board to act in default like that's an item um so um so announcements again a three-minute rule on that front so it'll be very informal but you know trying to keep it to three minutes that's 15 minutes if all of us do three minutes so that's why I'm saying like yeah the incentive is to just say very quickly you know to
041acknowledge organizations people that we've met with um and then kind of move on from there um report three minutes max yeah remember that that's that's that's well again that's kind of the harder or the soft rule but if it starts going long then I can you know remind everybody there we go yeah yeah there you go okay so adding announcement an announcement section and then when it comes to requesting to address the board um so we have Public Communication on a right now we break it up by agenda items and non-agenda items we've Consolidated the public comment period rather consistently uh in order to get people home right um first and foremost so one I think like the idea is actually to consolidate the public comment periods but instead on the card the public comment
042card um is to change the order in which we take public comments so so if there is so having three boxes basically to be checked agenda items non-agenda items and student uh if they are a student I'm motivated to get that kiddo home um I don't want people necessarily abusing that um and just trying to bring students to convey messages because they're going to speak first and I do want to make sure you know that's all good on the legal side but I would like to be able to prioritize kids if they come to our meetings and hear it from them1 a12. but also we're combining now right I think so the The Proposal is to have one period of public comment for five minutes which is a long period of public comment um and
043to have basically take the cards as they come in students would go first agenda items the next and then public and the non-agenda items would be called after that yeah but all within the same whether or not there's people yeah yeah letting them do what coming in kind of as as they're handed to you that's the order okay yeah students agenda items on agenda items we would just that work it makes a lot of sense to me as far as I think speaking to the needs that we've learned not just minors but also you know our teachers who are coming any any adult who works anybody who works right like coming to the board meeting and having to sit for two and a half hours to get a chance to talk it just it to
044me doesn't honor the intention of public comment which is to allow people an opportunity to engage and it's different to your point if someone's able to do it at 7 30 versus 11 30. and it also so I for me I think it really speaks to us being responsive to the feedback we've been getting from people which is love we really want to come and engage um but I just can't either I can't get child care for that many hours or I can't be up that late or whatever and so for me this just feels like it's going to be it's going to speak to encouraging people to come and engage as opposed to cutting people down who are like I just can't be there for that long two questions so first would we continue
045to have a virtual option and then the other is like is there a could we allow for the option of public comment at the end for people who or missed the first set so the virtual public comment I believe is controlled by state law yep and whether or not that that's going to continue I think the research person is going to change yeah I I wanna I would love to continue in perpetuity if we can continue um there is a new legislation outside I just changed in March but whether or not we're required accessibility wise we should keep continue to do it so so there the the the law right now basically the law does yeah it does yeah it basically says that this is not a valid form of public commenter is is what
046it sends I think it's wrong like I think that we've opened this as an option in it we should maintain it um especially if somebody is sick and want to participate from home like yeah should be able to do that um so I I think that is fine um I think opening a second period of public comment we can do that uh if there's you know there's a ton of people that would necessarily participate yep um at the same time like thinking about like trying to make sure there's an option if people heard something during the meeting that they then wanted to react run down too I have a suggestion for that which the reports to the board by staff come with lots of information so maybe you move that up before public comment so
047that if people hear something they can speak to it or might change what they're going to talk about it might bring about another thought process if those reports are given first and then public comment and then superintendent's comments and then board comments so the my only my only concern is it's like for instance I I like I like the thinking around that I think though that if for instance like we had the presentation from the demographer this week relatively long presentation or if we do like the first interim it's a relatively long involved presentation but there was a special comment section for the demographic well that's required because it's a sec there's also a separate public hearing for that public hearing that's the word right but the the challenges is that if you have all
048the presentations and all those people who are who again may not be speaking on any of the presentations are now locked in for that presentation yeah so that's why I would rather keep public comment ahead of that you know we do a final period of public comment as well um no kind of again specificity I would say that that should be to three minutes um because yes so five minutes and three minutes yeah um I I think at that point you know again if if members of the public want to bring something up that we should reconsider in that moment I think that's valid yeah but I I think like potentially five minutes of that I it's not the purpose to introduce new Concepts at the end of a board meeting when the all the
049action is done yeah um I also think it gives us the opportunity to have its Point too of encouraging people to have more consistent communication with us because you know the performative public comments are not helpful for the district but somebody who's really invested in in conversing with us about something they heard during a presentation um if they've already spoken right and then they're like oh so either yeah there is that option of the like late night yeah at the beginning and at the end right and she had different things to say after she'd heard someone that's right so I think having those two options available and then also consistently reminding people you can reach out to us at any point like we actually would love it if you reached out to us before the
050meeting so we can talk with you um so to me the the shifting it to where we're shifting it consolidating and having that three-minute option at the end for people who may feel so compelled I think that makes a lot of sense and speaks to miss tabith's concerns and also our hope to accommodate a more accessible public comment period and and I think that that it's not a backing board so um I I think what also is good is that it maintains that anybody coming to any member of our any member of the public has eight minutes yeah that they can take up uh to present ideas and Concepts like I I think that that's why they're pretty dramatic well compared to most other yeah when I tell other people when we have conversations with
051other boards or other um and I've talked to people in city council and they hear how much uh space we give they're like what yeah I and I love it I think I don't want to reduce it I just think that what we're doing now is it in some ways expanding or at least expanding the opportunity for people who otherwise it just wasn't realistic to come so I like it 24 49. is that um that's changing ab361 right which was the first one okay yeah going through that right now I know they're very strict March 1st right no I need to look at it I know I haven't looked at it yet so bless you uh so we'll bring that item back actually to weigh in on because like yeah keeping virtual public comment is
052kind of critically important I know that there's other actually I'm not I feel like pre-covered um one thing that was allowed was basically sending an email to be read um allowed at the board meeting if you couldn't make it to public comments yeah um and then basically timing it out essentially if it went over time so I guess I would be okay with that if there's no option for virtual like yeah we're not allowed to do it yeah I would like to figure out the closest we can come to it to asynchronous or not in person I'll do the research on that I think the email one is more problematic than the virtual public comment but I agree I believe I believe we can keep virtual public comment but if we cannot I'll update the
053board great thank you thank you um the other thing that I just as far as um accessibility and engagement and this is this is a conversation I think for when we have a joint meeting with Council is uh the conversation regarding having our meetings on the Burbank Channel on YouTube because it's great because people cannot find us on granicus it's like the most impossible thing to find it's glitchy it's problematic being able to go to the Burbank channel to find school board the way you find all the other boards and commissions I think would be I don't know the cost that's why I'm saying we need to talk to council about it um I mean all the cameras are there because there are they're already and they do it for Council they do it for
054Council so it feels like it would be again accessibility wise to me it's a no-brainer I don't know the history of why we aren't there but it feels like we should be there I mean not saying disappear granicus because it needs to live on our on our website but like we should be on the YouTube channel yeah it just it just again allows people a very go to the Burbank Channel on YouTube Here's the word of the meeting is and it makes it easier to share purchased a YouTube channel which is what I think you have to do then no they just posted on the Burbank Channel like our meetings would stream the way that city council meeting well I thought you wanted our own YouTube oh God no oh we we do have a
055USD YouTube oh it's free I mean well look at that I I like the idea of I'll I'll reach out to the city of Japan if we can just just add our our meetings to their I just think it's nice to have us concentrated in the place where all the other meetings about like and obviously I know we're separate from the district and budget Etc but it's nice to be part of it in that way people can just not separate that's right we shouldn't be in that capacity yep so oh uh in terms of the agenda I know the recognition apart but I also would like to you know found it like the people are retiring I would love them to invite them if they can yeah come and maybe give them a little certificate
056for their service something yeah just so people can see who these individuals are absolutely and maybe they can share an interesting story that will you know encourage others to come to Burbank and working yeah so what so previously I talked about announcements so announcements and presentations yeah and it's just kind of combining it into one okay got it so that's where your presentation when we get to recognition that's where that would go that's where that would go thank you yeah for sure any other changes are really positive yeah I I'm hoping that it will um so when we're scheduling different components of agenda setting you know if there's an academic related like hey I really want to dig deeper into this like let us know so we can start plugging it in for because you
057know we'll talk about board priority board member priorities you know this is that opportunity to go you know I really would like to learn more about dual immersion I I really want to learn more about this and now we've got a dedicated section to it yeah um and and a dedicated section where we're focusing I I feel like we spend a lot of time doing crisis management with finances and as a result the attention doesn't always go to the academics um and so this allows us to kind of balance that I think in a meaningful way um so I think this is probably in Dr Hill's head but I don't know if it's sometimes anywhere else which is like what is upcoming in some of the four meetings like there are certain things that we're
058going to look at on a regular basis right and like have knowing what that Cadence is is something that like I've worked on with my board at work of like okay we know that in this at this time we're going to do this budget report at this time we're going to look at end of year results at this time when we look at mid-year results things like that and I would love to to have a better understanding of like where we're sorting those things in especially if we're going to go to one act especially in the academic side one academic thing per meeting yeah yeah that's fine so we can build out like a a calendar so to speak like it's that's really I right now I think a lot of it's driven frankly by
059budget like that calendar it's not really driven by the other side so yeah it's kind of stuff that is to go to board approval then yeah what we can do we do a month we have a annual one we just published that with um the monthly board action items Bai so we send that out it kind of gives you a preview but it'll be we'll go ahead and just highlight the current month but show you the full month and we can talk about adjusting that in governance um you made me think of two things thank you um thing one thing one is I know that we've had conversations about there being like a giant Master calendar that lives somewhere on the website and that there are it's just not possible that's not what I want
060to talk about what maybe maybe it's possible just wouldn't be perfect all the time I think for for me just from a board perspective and this goes again to sort of like our interaction and our involvement as far as like learning so I was talking with Abby who went to the DI meeting and I was like oh man I wish I would have known about the DI meeting so is there a way because I go to things and just sit in on things thank God for Zoom as much as I can but is there a way to provide us with some sort of a list that just has like I don't even know activities like the or the major meetings like I reached out and got all the d-lac and elac meeting so I have
061those calendared and I go to those when but I have them on my calendar so like gate meetings d-lag and elag Di like all of the different things that and again we're not going to be able to make all of them but just knowing that they're there so if you're like oh wait I actually do have my 6 PM freed up I can hop on the zoom and I think it just gives for me it's been really helpful in sort of learning about all these different programs to be able to sit in whenever I can I will say you will get called on when you show up I've never been called on Bria was my job not knowing that true but we're not there to vote on anything we're the vote that we're just there
062to sit and listen and and three of us being present is not a brown act violation three of us talking about an item that's potentially coming to a vote before the board that that's yeah but I'm talking about anything we have to vote on right so we'll be I think we want to be careful but I I just think that if there was some place and Matt I don't know how difficult this would be to do so me asking this is and but and we're also having a conversation a little bit later in the agenda on consolidating a number of these meetings that's right that way that's right frankly it could potentially be less arduous to kind of track these because there's regular schedule potentially but if not I do think that like a monthly
063governance calendar which would be great that would be great um and along with that too um with um the cbra stuff like I didn't know the website was up no it wasn't we didn't know until the presentation it would be great I don't know again who that comes from to be fair and I think they launched it right before the meeting okay um yeah and here they should edit it uh just there are some references to older communities uh just a heads up is is who is looking before that gets um posted on the agenda or going live I know Matt does somebody from the district like are you looking at it Mr Campbell is the lead on that working on the demographers and Mr Sims um but I'll follow up on that because this
064isn't no I'm sorry yeah I keep deviating yeah so all good then yeah so a governance calendar would be fantastic got it got it okey-doke um that wraps us up any other adjustments to the agenda okay I wonder why um is there anywhere in any of these items that it states uh any of sorry new memory uh sorry I'm still having my car does it anywhere say that any of the speakers if they need a translated it will be provided yes it does it does oh if you require Spanish arminian ASL translation of the meeting please it says of the meeting but I thought there was also four public comments well the the issue 8 PM the day before the question that I have about that and have had about that for a couple of
065years is if like how do you find that information and utilize it at 3 pm before you know like I I would like us to think about again how we can make it easier and simpler or even just maybe the word is clearer for people who need translation to know how to do that um Matt Dr Hill I don't know and I was going to ask this about the changes we're making to the agenda because obviously we want to let people know that things are changing um and I think we need to let them know before they come to the meeting and like we'll have something posted but how do we communicate maybe more effectively to the community the sort of procedural elements so like if you need a translator I know it's on the
066agenda but is there somewhere more Center we can put like hey the agenda structure is changing if you need a translator so it's like because right now I think and please correct me if I'm wrong there's a lot of clicks you have to click to find that information okay man well there's the board highlight email that has that in there so that goes out and that's front and center you say on the website make that more I think so or even just when we you know like on social media if we're posting like you know like the board highlights that um that that she does a great job doing like is it possible to include that on in the board highlights leave it in there but I'll double check yeah maybe part of the notice
067of just like FYI I hear you we're making more a little more essential yeah do you think people aren't getting to speak up because they don't know that that's happening I I don't think that people I will say this I think more people would perhaps engage if they were aware of the opportunity to have translation I imagine that it's not that people are saying I don't know how to get a translator but somebody who would sit who might say well I'm not going to go because like I don't if it's if the how-to is clear I think it would it will open the door for more people and I think we won't really know and and I think the litmus test of saying well nobody uses isn't a great litmus test because we should be
068offering it and being as clear as possible even if nobody ever uses it because we want people to know that it exists so I think having the new the new changes to the agenda structure and just more clarity on the translation opportunity I think it's just it's it's a good thing to do it's a good practice to be in and like I think your suggestion of having the notice is great I think that's a great suggestion I've said this over the years language barrier it's huge and and I've heard in front of the community members who are very well educated that they don't but the English is not their first so if it will not come right where if we are putting this out there with a professional truth translator yeah and La did this
069and it's grown at beginning that some issues too and now the numbers have written because not people know it will take time you're saying at the city or at least yeah you know and that when they started it it just grew the beginning I think just the option being out there yeah yeah and not making people there's there's embarrassment because you're you're right like it's not about education or intelligence it's just about literally the language I think making it more visible yep got it thank you any further comments on agenda structure that will keep us moving um item 3C individual board member priorities for the year so we do our annual goal setting that's organizational goals you know what we're trying to do as a district but um especially as we're building out these agendas
070you know uh it's helpful to know what items certain board members want to hear miss tabat a few meetings ago talked about Fields about usage about uh and and bringing that up curriculum Etc about speeding like you've talked about these things um so as a result of you vlogging that I'm like okay great when do we get that on an agenda for Miss tabot um but other board members may have individual priorities that they want to see come up on agendas or issues that they want discussed um you know in this in this year before the end of the year Etc so I wanted an opportunity for everybody to kind of check in Lay those priorities out so that way Emily and I could take that back so that we as again we're doing these
071academic presentations operational presentations whatever we're slotting in what board members are asking about and looking to to deliver on so anybody want to start with their kind of high-level individual priorities with me you want me to continue then I use your example that's for sure but you can start is there any accidents my priorities that I one will continue to work on which is safety around our school sites be it speed or can we just get people to learn how to drive the answer to that is no apparently apparently um I saw new signs in some recent travels that there's an additional fine this our 15 mile an hour school zone if you are on your cell phone as well that's cool I thought that already was a thing well wait so if you're on
072your phone you have to go slower the fines are already higher right and I think it sounds like the cell phone fine is awesome right so there's a there's there well you have to come here I get it but when the penalty is always Financial yeah then the low-income families get disproportionate their cars get impounded because they were talking on their phones but they still need to drive 15 miles an hour like everybody else who makes more money they're saying they should be able to go to traffic school instead of raising the vines that's all anyway go ahead okay traffic school whatever I just you know restorative Justin anyway back to still would like to work with the with the safety we've done some things with the um yes we can group uh they're doing
073some individualized work at both high schools for driver safety prom safety coming up so that's something I want to continue um um what we did a little tiny bit of work um with Lori Little's suggestion uh working on positivity and being good sports that may be minimizing it but that's the basic I want to continue some work on that really a curriculum issue so it's a big deal well we had this conversation um about how the pandemic has changed how people uh present themselves how rules have changed how people think it's okay to do XYZ when it used to not be and so how do we get back to I don't mean back back but how do we get those Norms up of being positive coming you know for an example just cheer for your
074team here for the the kids on the field or in the pool or whatever that awesome video that was made now how do we get that video out to more people so those kinds of things to get to a place where a sporting event a choir event is a safe and fun place to go and not a place where you have to worry being bullied there you know Behavior so got it um that one um this is really tiny but big to me we used to have Sarah's gonna kill me because it's a lot of work on her office but I'll help I'm sure other people will too maybe that's a place for Mr Washman to help we used to do a employee um uh recognition dinner we headed outside of Burbank High it was
075catered I think they paid 10 bucks to come but it was a moment that we recognized people for longevity for retirements everybody got to vote on you know there was different categories exactly relatives kind of thing yeah the most spirited yeah the the best yeah you know uh book room monitor or whatever the titles are so it was but it was a nice come together because it was really one of the few times that every levels of the district from you know principles to um all on the same level because they're all equally important to people in facilities whatever else and it was a nice event and it brought about some you know good good vibes and I think that was important which is also a great place you know like Gloria Meza who's retiring
076after what 45 50 years yeah you know to get to not everybody watches the board meeting and yes for the community to see that is great but for our own employees to say yeah peers versus Community yeah I think are different yeah so that's one priority I'd like to get back to are these kind of along the lines you were thinking yeah absolutely uh and one yeah I think that's okay anybody I never know what might pop up yeah yeah that's helpful to them no I'm like those those actually seem very achievable what do you want from me Dr ayakanian I have the information president um of course continuing with the Dei committee and okay also with the environmental issues and the committee and District Greener Career Tech education I am in the conversation with
077our vice mayor right now and I've talked to you about it um hopefully good news coming soon in terms of having Central entrepreneurship and an incubator for Innovation and Entrepreneurship as well um English second man you know language I I I've been I want us to really kind of start looking at what's been happening in Burbank some of you know have been going there on monthly basis yes okay more newcomers uh who don't speak English and I can tell you from the first meeting to the second it's a day in life students are interested options have changed they're they've gone from I don't know what I'm going to do when I graduate to like I want to do this now this is the second meeting yeah so I want us to kind of put this
078out there as well you know a lot of us you know have experienced this have friends but also I think these students also need some mentors who come from the same struggle talk to them and give them the right direction that's very important to me um as well so that's something that I want us to encourage in others High School right um and then I know we have a five-star Coalition but anything legislative legislative white I want to be more involved in just based on my years got it can I jump back because I forgot something nope yeah I don't know I don't know anything to throw at you do you have to Throwbacks um our our Elementary music programs um like to be involved in looking at those programs and monitoring them and see
079what our expectation is for those programs and students and how they get evaluated okay got it did I take one from you no no okay I just I have ideas for you okay fantastic one last item but it does need for the tour okay um I also want a brother I wanna be more uh engaged with the business Community including the chamber you know we're beginning invitations a lot of these grand openings on which is great we should be there I think what's important as once we spreading those relationships you can also look at these businesses as partners you know right supporting our schools and knowing what's going on as as I don't know if you said it or um Emily uh Dr weidberg last meeting that people come to Burbank because of our school
080and we I've said this over and over again um that that is the reality a lot of businesses also benefit from this for partnering and working with us so with your permission I might get a little more active in that area as well working with with the training well and and just as a heads up my hope is basically you know everybody gives the feedback now and then we figure out how to put these on the agendas in ways that okay great like you want to reach out to the business Community fantastic what do those benchmarks look like what does outreach look like how do we actually get returns for for that so to speak you know like hey okay we're going to do an outreach program of you know um you know a business
081loyalty program and we're you know for five bucks you'll get a sticker in your window saying your friend of Burbank schools great this is what that looks like Dr agatanian is going to take lead on that right it's the conversation to it kind of triggers those conversations so we can move forward with actual programming to address these things okay um to my right yes uh not one of my goals but I know that one of the district goals was around like figure out where all the master plans are and and communicate uh updates on them and so like there were a lot of things that I wasn't sure kind of what was um in the hopper already from a priority perspective so that's maybe for our kind of regular meetings Dr Hill but um certainly
082some things that um I'm interested in right especially in terms of di that we've kind of heard people wanting an update on that Master Plan Etc so um my priorities um I try to align to some of the annual District goals here um so the first was really about increase increasing on the revenue side um through our stabilize increased enrollment and advocacy so similar I think to what Dr aracanyan was saying about being more involved uh legislatively in working with other districts and working with like um at the state level locally Etc I think that goes along well with uh 4.1 which is the super intense budget advisory committee to identify efficiencies though that one really talks I think more about the expense side rather than the revenue side but that's where I drew a
083a connection um and then on the College and Career Readiness side um we do have a specific goal around a number of high school students completing a through G increasing by two percent um you know I had a conversation with Dr Hill a couple weeks ago when we got the uh Clearinghouse data back about just like I really want to understand why our a through G is pretty low um and because you know we do see a lot of our students going on to post-secondary and I kind of want to understand the uh the students that are in community college is it because they need remediation because they don't qualify for um our UCS and our CSUS or is it um that they're choosing to do that because of financials right and so like I
084I feel like a through G is all kind of wrapped up in there um so a3g is one thing that's really important to me and then one nine is around um the two years of Community College and or apprenticeship experience um and you know there's an implementation goal on there for basically two years from now so that's work that has to get done ahead of time and so those are those were my three that I identified with for the year I think especially the advocacy stuff is just it's really hard to I think I don't know if I think we all got the email from someone after El Cap saying like we're only looking at the expensive expense side of things why aren't we looking at the revenue side of things and I think to
085your point and to your point at the last board meeting like I think we're all trying to do some things on that I don't um it's hard to figure out a plan for political advocacy in uh uh open meeting right um because you've got to be able to kind of throw some things around and figure it out so um but it is something that I feel like would be worth our time to to plan for yeah and have a strategy for all of the different ways uh to bring in additional Revenue okay Dr Debbie I have so many things um we have so much time I only picked three well too bad some of my bullet points are just like one bullet point um one of the things I'd like to do and I thanks
086to Dr Hill about this is I want to take a look at um because he's already done work in this area about graduation requirements and how they sort of um how are different student and family populations are impacted by them so specifically we've been talking about the what do we call it Service Learning or community service or service learning requirement um but just making sure that the sort of um policies we have in place for things like graduation we're taking into consideration our different student populations uh when we're doing that so that's a priority for me um some I mean in that is sort of under a larger another priority is sort of expanding our our understanding of Dei more holistically so you know we've talked a lot about in the last couple of meanings
087uh differentiated instruction and making sure that there are opportunities for professional development because that falls into Dei right like di is so large I also into your thing as well um your thing I apologize you're saying um in regards to like the Dei master plan making sure that we are really clearly communicating with the community the work that's being done with our teacher leaders on the school sites where we are with reintroduction of books or choosing of new books so just we get updates relatively regularly but I want to make sure that we are updating our community because that's something that people are interested in and invested in and where are we what have we been doing how is it going um the mental health our health centers and thinking about how we can expand
088um and and some of these are obviously for next year but really thinking about them and putting some action behind them this year how we can expand that work into middle and elementary I mean every report that's coming out is just sort of shattering in regards to mental health for especially young women but for all of our our young people um and how we can make the services that we are already offering um I'm going to talk about that too more available or I don't know what the word is I'll figure it out accessible accessible um enticing is in the word but also how we can get our students to use them right so like one of the things that Helen well also you know one of the things that came up at the end
089of last of last year's I met with the student Mental Health Board and they gave a lot of really wonderful and positive constructive feedback on things that they wanted to see in the mental health center right that it was all great so how are we you know are we taking the time to check in with our students so that we make sure that what we're offering is what they actually need or want yeah um this is a small thing no it is it actually is I swear but I'm stealing it directly from city council um I already spoke with um Mr Ferguson about this for president Ferguson is that I one of the things that city council does when they do their monthly proclamations is they invite they had somebody from the library come so
090for like black history month they had somebody from the library come and talk about like books and resources I know we've got to steal it what a great way to involve our school librarians to have them come for our different months different proclamations and share resources books how I mean like we're stealing it's such a great idea um thank you city council um working together stealing their stuff um yeah I mean a lot of the other I have one other one it's seven item 82. um they look for 82.82 things um also thinking about how we can better support our students as they prepare for graduation so apprenticeships two-year four-year Miss Solberg who is is here has been really phenomenal in um generating some fantastic ideas for way ways we can support our students as
091far as like essay reviews and financial aid information especially with now the FAFSA requirement and the opt-out requirement that that speaks to one of the things of what how are these requirements um connecting to different student populations and impacting them differently so I think that's that's really something a huge appreciation to her for all the work she's already done um I really like that yeah because filling out that FAFSA form as I learned the hard way if you even fill it out right you screw this on out on something well no question and forever basically well yeah it's very hard to change and Miss Weaver was telling me when I met with her at Monterey that one of the problems that their students face their student population faces is that you know so you either
092fill it out or you opt out right and so if you're if your parents are working multiple jobs they don't have the time resources or energy to fill it out and they opt out they're missing out on all the things so if that's a requirement how can we better support those student populations and those parents and making sure they're not opting out that they or they're they're opting out from an informed place that if they choose to do so it's because they really know and so I think when we're faced with stuff like that's not our choice that's the state choice but what are we doing to support our kiddos and our families so um again appreciation to you for that and Miss Weaver was really the first person to get me thinking about that
093um and just just in general this isn't a goal but I think all of these things how we communicate this to our community District Community how are we talking about all of this whether communicating the advocacy that we do not during board meetings whether it's communication about new positions that we're creating and how those are created to meet the needs that have been expressed by our teachers and classified staff um all of that stuff is always a priority so continuing that conversation for every priority that we all list I think has got to be like at the top in the end busy at all this year no there's nothing to do um great okay just making sure that as much of this as possible so we can start scheduling this um in different ways um
094so from uh my priorities this year um build on a lot of the themes that frankly I think we've all been kind of touching on in different ways so one um I I feel like I I hear from you know I I we've now kind of missed habit Dr Agony and I have now been on the board long enough where we're starting to kind of see some parents phase out new parents phase in and it's like it's now very cyclical and you're like wow okay time is passing um having said that you know the the new generation of parents coming in right have a learning Gap uh that they now have to learn all of the different systems and all the different things and you know we've talked about Ed 100 as is a good
095means to do that kind of Outreach in that education great that's one um but realistically building what I really want to focus on is is working with PTA Council uh and developing a parent Wiki which is basically a One-Stop centralized Hub of information and videos with all the core things from enrollment to how you resolve an absence to and again having YouTube videos that are just centralized in one location you know busd parentwiki.com and it's all just in one place I love this um so so I I think this is something we build on over time but my goal would be to work with the PTA Council identify kind of the top 20 you know questions that can be answered um most of those videos can carry on and we can even joke about how
096old they are if the information stays the same but um we could look at the less that let's ask questions and yes wow okay people ask this question every single year let's give them so so I think this is an exercise that can be done every semester it can really you know I don't want to I want to get it up that's that's what you know I want to get it up and posted for people to actually be able to utilize it now before it becomes overwhelming because I think there's a number there's a Millions questions millions of questions that need what's your expectation because I think this is a great idea so we're gonna do it so again staff will staff will do it but we'll you know it's a priority of mine to
097approach PTA Council to get this off the ground formally and I I make up that a lot of those resources exist but not all in one place that's right A lot of it is like individual schools have developed right here's how you do this individual like Tas have developed those things right so like can we consolidate them into one place I think is a really beautiful idea right and and I I no I agree and I think we start out with kind of the systemic district-wide things that that we can outline answers to and my hope would be over the next few years eventually again there would be school-based wikis on based off of individual schools and how schools ask you to take on different things right but you know I think we need to
098model how we do this first uh before because otherwise it becomes like all these school websites everybody's throwing up everything and sometimes it's useful sometimes it's not sometimes people have greater Clarity or greater ease of explaining things sometimes they do not um and so just balancing that out so that's that's a priority my only concern that and I always have this one with everything we talk about is I feel we're still very short staffed and we keep adding stuff to people's plate well and but I think this is important I I hear that but I also didn't weigh in on your priorities and say Hey you know so you're right so you're done don't put us because my apologies thank you um so let me make it better if nothing ever wants some help I'm
099willing to help on this because I think it's so important thank you now she's trying to steal it what a politician you now get it okay so parent Wiki is is again something I I want is a priority for me um I spoke to Dr Weisberg about this kind of piggybacking on some of the mental health uh related conversations you know I've been very involved in mental health in this District Suicide Prevention policy all of those things that frankly our district has LED and the state has Then followed suit which I love um but I would like to create and work with our Council Partners to create a no wrong door policy uh in the city which would basically say that every single uh Recreation leader any any student-facing role that the city employs is
100trained on what the school district's resources are for mental health and that we design an application where both city employees basically adults can make referrals to our school-based counseling program um so that way it doesn't matter if you're in a park or if you're at school there's a pathway for kids getting help yeah well and what I think is so powerful about that is I mean Beyond it just being necessary you just that one of the things that I've been it's been a slow process but hopefully will be sped up is based on the information that we did get from the student Mental Health Board and from talking to teachers and community members is working to create you know this could be a shared app but an app that allows students to access our wellness
101centers in order to schedule appointments um and then to provide feedback about the people with whom they interact because one of the issues that came up for the kids is like I want to go but I I'm afraid I'm going to miss class and if you're standing in line waiting to get in and you're having anxiety or Panic issues that's not conducive to helping those issues so giving students an opportunity to make an appointment not only helps that but also helps teachers who are like these kids are always leaving yeah to just screw around in the health center if you have to make an appointment to sit down and see somebody you're much less likely to do that I also think how we integrate and if students just need to take attack like a couple
102maybe it's like three times a month or whatever where you can just go sit and be and like maybe you don't need to see somebody but you do need grabbing a panic attack yeah using to sit and breathe so figuring out a way to sort of address those issues that have been raised by our students um and do it in a way that is obviously like secure it's confidential but there are apps like this that exist and it also allows FSA to better utilize the staff that they have because they also have so so few staff members and you know we only have the budget that we have so I think it's going to allow the students to feel to engage with the center more it's going to allow FSA to do more with who
103they have and it's going to meet the needs that have been expressed so hopefully that's a place where both of those things can sort of well and and a lot of it the the no wrong door policy is just good practice because this has frankly been a 20 plus year partnership between the school district and the city to have the school-based counseling programs it started out at Community Day School in 2002 um you know so this is I mean it it's been a long and then it's evolved right so first it was um and I remember because I was in those meetings first it was referral only uh it wasn't self-referrals it was just teachers staff referring to the programs then the program evolved into okay can we cover all the middle schools yep we
104can cover all the middle schools can we do the middle schools and high schools can we do the elementary schools okay now is self-referral available okay great now can we get assume Comprehensive Mental Health Centers at our at our at our high schools and then all the challenges that come with that so I I think an app is the next iteration of it I think it's an intersection where the no wrong door policy can meet with kind of accessibility needs um and also frankly further cement this partnership because you know we pay thirty thousand dollars a year uh the city pays 275 000 a year um and and that's a big ticket item uh that the city has supported for a very long time having said that uh you know it's critically important um and
105and so this I think builds infrastructure around that in a way that allows FSA City partners for all of us to know that we're invested in continuing uh to make sure these programs are accessible to people and we do actually have you know I believe we're basically maxing out the program uh for the most part so it's not for a lack of um and especially as more and more agencies are hiring mental health professionals um it's going to get harder and harder to to cover these slots so I think all those things are good and I think you know when you had mentioned the app to me I was like okay this makes sense but let's you know let's find it and all that so uh the no wrong door policy is a priority for
106me um uh board history um so we do not have um we joke about the board office which is back here it's really just a series of filing cabinets um um we really don't have records that go past and and they're not even complete records past the 70 like mid 70s um and so really partnering with our library uh to bring about some of those because I believe our district is going to hit it Centennial soon uh if it hasn't already um so um I we weren't founded at the exact same time it was a unified school district as the city was but we're likely in that range and so I think it's important history for people to know um for instance one of the former school board members uh Mary Alice O'Connor um was
107quite literally the inspiration for the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella she served on this board one of us is yes her husband was the animator uh one of the animators of Cinderella you know she gave me her booklet that she was given as a board member so I have that there you go and that needs to be part of that there you go there you go so very cool absolutely but there there's a ton of kind of Burbank history that's very kind of unique and cool and so the library has a lot of those records and I think it's just a good part ownership to kind of engage in another priority is modernizing and streamlining our governance process so that is a conversation that we're having today but you know I I think we especially moving
108to districts we are not a small agency anymore we are not a small town anymore we don't need to act like a small like we need to make sure that we are as transparent as possible I think parents should be able to go to our website and very get a very clear picture of where we're going and what policy conversations are happening and further to know exactly how they can get involved whether it's with a translator or whether it's uh you know without a translator frankly so that's going to be a priority and then the second is uh or my last kind of but very heavy focus is going to be really breaking down and and elevating how the pandemic has impacted sped populations differently than other populations um what we you know everybody's been
109impacted um but one there there could be additional costs to frankly taking on some of the impacts to sped families um I want us to be aware of that proactive and building compassionate systems for those kiddos um I think also like you know doing better at you know one keeping it as a part of our agenda that population is a part of our agenda but two giving more and more parents the opportunity to weigh in uh and tell their stories because I think as Miss tabot was saying we were talking about this a little bit right every kid has impacts and we're just starting to see in in kind of new ways how the pandemic is impacting young people some people have aged out of the K-12 system and now they're in college and it's
110all kind of bathing in in different ways anxiety how do I manage this all of that and they don't have the tools okay that's for a person who may who knows that they don't have all the tools um there may be individuals who don't aren't aware of the tools that they don't have um and and our K-12 opportunity our K-12 experience that is the time to get those those kids as much support as possible so um I I really want to focus on that during our time and so I I will be agendizing different and working with the superintendent to identify ways that we can talk about that story a little bit um it is it is for students who learn differently uh you know um I I our gate population is a part of
111that population for me um especially our twice exceptional population so legally anymore they're no longer a part of the sped umbrella so but I they need to be watched and looked at as well I I think we it we are not being responsible leaders if we are not checking in on all student populations um having said that I I think um my experience during the pandemic and in the return from the pandemic involved a lot of parents calling um very upset um parents who I've still maintained relationships with who feel completely exhausted completely overwhelmed uh and we're not taught I wish I could joke that this was you know four or five that I'm just being hyperbolic that I could no I mean at least two dozen different families talking about how their sped student
112is so far behind and how the traditional tools that have been used to mitigate um you know struggle in an academic struggle in the classroom are not what is necessary anymore to get those they are too far behind even for that to be effective so if that's the case then what are the learning models what can we do what can we deploy we talked about this during the pandemic a little bit we talked about how we brought if we could potentially start bringing backsped students faster uh in a bubble model right we were all trying to address these needs they did it for some students they didn't get met um and so I just want to make sure that population in particular who doesn't always have the ability to advocate for themselves uh is is
113elevated but all populations I think should be reviewed I just am specifically focused on that sped population um because I've heard the most about it and I want to make sure that we're all aware okey-doke those are General priorities anybody else I think that's a lot it's good but I think also it gives a bit of uh flexibility for Emily and I to Dr Weisberg excuse me um yeah it's a retreat um okay I'm just I'm remembering back to a moment where when I was appointed to the park board my mom was at home watching me she was very proud you know young appointee and she's like you called him by your first name yeah don't ever do that again I raised you better than that so that that moment you know you'll get it
114from me later yeah so anyway okay yeah there we go Rodriguez at that time but yes anyway but there you go um okay so um we will we will start working these into agendas in different ways really appreciate the conversation it really helps uh Dr Hill you you got any questions on that front okay um great and I have two different agendas so now I'm kind of mixed up thank you okay we will go on to our action items um to establishing a process for board recognition certificates and honorary resolutions um Dr agricanian this is your moment your moment it just happened time to shine so uh there's an attachment to this report uh in particular and I've taken some uh at the request of Dr agricanian for years um you know uh taking the
115opportunity to draw together some uh some protocols basically for how we put that's why it's an action item and I'm pulling this up because there's no printouts or I didn't bring my lap in front of me do you have the protocols in the back somewhere I do okay on my computer great so uh I I can walk I can walk through them if if we can share thank you yay sharing sharing scaring um so one uh We've included some designs that are just kind of again can be printed out from our print shop um and the different uh it's just basically color printing um and again different sizes so basically standard this is the the hope is basically that we adopt these protocols these Protocols are basically instructions to staff on how this is done
116it's also limits on the board so we're not going hey I would like 5 000 certificates prepared tomorrow with my name on it right it both restricts and enables so that all the processes can be planned and there's no kind of surprises because right now we do recognitions but it's kind of spotty based off of oh yeah we should do that oh we yeah we should do that um as opposed to thank you thank you thank you um so this kind of standardizes it a little bit more so walking through it this is kind of The Proposal one certificates of recognition so at the request of a a member of the Board of Education everybody can give a member's certificate so this would be from Individual board members um so miss tabic could give out
117a certificate with her signature this sponsor camcar could give out one with hers Dr iron Canyon so again if you're as a board member want to recognize somebody boom it's there um yeah but will it have also the rest of us under it that's different that's a resolution oh so you don't want to do like we are but that's a resolution that's different I'll get to that in the oh okay so individual certificates of recognition if you want to go to an event print them out do it or have them printed have you sign great you can do that board approval first not on certificates uh not on certificates of recognition Okay because it's just your name that's going on it right but what if we're presenting them at a meeting then they have all
118of us on it I'm getting to it like let me I promise you I promise you yeah okay so that's individual certificates that any board member can give there are no um any certificates which are presented during board meetings should be presented by the board president doesn't matter who they are because the board president does presentation so if you want to do it at your own Community event then you get to do it otherwise whoever's in the board president share they get to do it during the meeting because we've elevated it to that level honorary resolutions that's what these are yeah okay so can you pull up if you can the templates credential yeah yes so can you scroll up to certificate sorry it's a certificate so that's what a certificate looks like okay and
119then present to blah yep and then resolution basically looks very similar but uh everybody but everybody would sign those okay okay resolutions of the board need to be approved by the board okay those go on the consent calendar okay no staff is not going to prepare resolutions honorary resolutions unless it's approved on the consent calendar okay so it's approved ahead of time and then and then the certificates created and then at the next meeting essentially we'd present it yeah or if a member wants to present it right or if a member wants to present the resolution on behalf of the board at an event they can go take it so into any member can request um the only cap we've put on here um is the number of frames sometimes we would want it to
120be framed obviously other times it would be in folders those frames are going to be a cost so limiting that to 25 frames per year basically but otherwise members can present resolutions in folders if they're presented at the school board meeting then the board president does it if you want to you know put one up for approval because Jack's Pizza hit 60 years and you want to do a resolution of the board for them great you can add that to the agenda item uh add that to the consent calendar that would get approved and then it would be delivered to you to be able to go and present it that okay um adjournment and memory certificate so we do adjournments in memory right now basically you know again making sure that we do that as
121a certificate it's actually very very nice I will tell you uh my former boss Mr nazarian when he got the adjournment certificate it meant the world to him um for his dad um so uh you know those moments I think for staff are are really good but we would keep that in place so those would be our three standard recognitions that the board would give either an individual member cert and all board members resolution or uh an adjournment certificate does the adjournment certificate get signed as well or no it doesn't look like it okay no it doesn't there's no signature on it it just says on this date the Board of Education adjourned in memory of your loved one block okay thank you not blob by name um I have a leveling blog that's amazing
122um did you you have a loved one um forever alone okay thanks win okay so going to uh standing recognitions of the board so basically these resolutions that are given out they are beautiful they are pretty all those things um the standard people who would get these so one if somebody's president of the Board of Education and they finish their time as school board president great you get a resolution from the board recognizing your time to school board president so miss Tabet would get the first record yes it actually says I'm just oh it does it actually says that like recognitions for board members Etc are all retroactive so at any time anybody prior to this we can still recognize uh and and we should um retirement from the board so if somebody doesn't become
123necessarily president but they leave the board they still get a resolution recognizing their service to the board um and those get put automatically in the consent calendar and those don't get voted on that's the only ones that don't get because we're not going to be mean to each other and deny each other resolutions um on the way out for service if you serve the district you serve the district um uh and then uh retirement of student board members so student board members would get certificate resolution when they depart uh and then parent Community leaders so the head of the PTA Council would get a resolution when they are done with their time of service uh the head of our bargaining units would get a resolution upon completion of their service and on any head of
124our District's foundations um we would be the oprahs of certs that's exactly right but those would be the folks who would also get it automatic automatic would get those those are our partners you know and and so the leadership uh partner leadership structure of our partners should absolutely be recognized so um staff turnaround timelines so I I put in here I think this is I want this to be as flexible as possible I put this in as kind of guidance language so it's at least three Disney you need to request your certificates at least three business days in advance that gives District staff enough time to communicate I can't do it in three days I need more time and there's no rushing District staff on this front like they need to be able to set
125the tone on turnaround time and especially if it's a bigger order for certificates if you're going to give a set of entire class yes um Cindy we've talked about it uh if if there are digital signatures and you're comfortable with your digital signature being added she can do that uh if you would prefer to sign the search yourself she can leave that section blank as well but those would be the options that's it Allelujah I love it so can I get a motion and so uh last thing is the certificates of recognition that we would give out standard eight and a half by eleven honorary resolutions 11 by 17. they're big um adjournment certificates uh 11 uh by eight and a half so those are going to be and those are all numbers our print
126shop can handle they're standard formats okay yeah so can I get a oh there they are boom there you go they just so moved there you go yeah move by Miss tabot to adopt these protocols seconded by doctors his baby oh yeah this is the adjournment certificate adjournment in memory all right okay sir okay okay so uh moved by Miss habitat habited extra syllables again uh moved by Miss habit seconded by Dr Argonian to adopt these protocols all those in favor say aye aye opposed motion carries 5-0 great uh again I'm drowning in paper um and then moving to the last thing which is appointment aboard liaison's consideration of shared governance model consolidation of board superintendent subcommittees um so this is an item uh that I brought the superintendent and staff who brought basically because
127we do every year when we do our annual reorg we we name Representatives I don't think there's any problem with naming representatives to a lot of these kind of external organizations so uh the Burbank arts and Education Foundation d-lac I saw this for one second sponsor Kempner just brought up a good question is there a way to put the slides up so people who are here can see I don't know where in I honestly don't know because the computer's up but that may be just for streaming that's just for streaming um these slides no we don't have I know [ __ ] um everyone in the audience can pull them up on their phones um it's not ideal but you can see them if you download the agenda from the website yeah oh it's so tiny but
128it's a good thing for us to think about next time we do a retreat thank you okay I'll do it again okay yeah no it was just an oversight usually we have the presentation laptop set up and I apologize it's that happened okay um so continuing on so we'll thank you we'll figure it out next time I appreciate it um so we can still absolutely I think assign Liaisons we've kind of had some you know kind of uh interim appointments right now that I think are fine they're working fine um but in terms of I've talked about this for a while um in terms of our governance structure we have some committees which are superintendent subcommittees we have some committees which are master plan committees we have some committees that are required by federal and
129state law we have some committees that are uh just kind of thrown together frankly on an ad hoc basis and just like Hey we're a committee now um you know and and the challenges is that they all meet at different times they it's hard to track some have formal minutes others do not have formal minutes some minutes are very uh detailed other minutes very sparse um and so it's rather inconsistent and my hope is to introduce so I was a student Trustee of the Glendale Community College District um which is a part of uh you know state law prescribes a shared governance model that frankly I saw in full effect and I think it's actually a very good governance model that is required by state law but again it's not required for local school districts
130but attempting to kind of bring that model to Burbank unified in order to uh streamline the number of meetings basically moving you know consolidating the number of meetings to basically three standing committees of the board uh along with any other committees which are required by law um so that would be for instance lcap is required by law uh that's we don't have a choice of having an lcap commute we have to have an lcap committee um so basically it would if you look through the presentation um it would basically create three committees uh three standing committees one would be administrative Affairs which would have oversight over um facilities and finances uh and the lcap process um academic Affairs we have a lot of committees in this District but not a committee centrally focused on academics
131ironic um so it would be one that's focused on curriculum development on um on ensuring uh that we're meeting academic standards how we're working through that how we're working to achieve that um so anything related to academics uh in our district and then student affairs which has to do with student life student uh Wellness um uh general just again student related items uh everything's technically student related but again you know uh graduation requirements that's an academic Affairs thing discipline standards student affairs so those would be the three committees the idea is to have those three committees co-chaired by by school board members by the policy leaders of this District um you all co-chair it uh things that need to get to a board agenda should go through those subcommittees before it gets to a board
132agenda that way uh members and by the way all these committees would be televised or streamed so that way members of the public when they see an idea on a board or they see something on a board agenda it's also been streamed through a subcommittee as well so now you've seen an item not once oh I didn't get enough notice about this I didn't no no it's been on our subcommittee it Matt that was a public meeting now it's on our school board meeting um and it's good so all the recommendations from all these committees would go to exec and exec would have been scheduled basically everything that the Committees have laid out uh the Committees would be basically about one two three four five twelve people um two Board of Education chairs two reps
133from the Burbank Teachers Association two from CSEA two from PTA two from basa and two from students student populations so everybody would be at the table and then uh the foundation partners and our District staff would serve as ex-officio members so they would have access to each of these meetings but the discussions would be amongst the groups that are most impacted by the policy so that's the structure from a 10 000 foot that's kind of conversation I've actually written it out in each of these levels of what different committees would be working on and what committees would be Consolidated so administrative Affairs for instance um would have oversight over budget lcap facilities employment job classification and recruitment I'm just curious why El Cap is there not under uh academics it's because it drives budget decisions
134it doesn't mean that all of these things will be housed I think that's a good point like there's going to be moments when it really impacts both okay that's when your school board president and your exec committee sends it to a specific committee and designates it so each year that's where if there's kind of a tie between policy committees okay the board president whoever they are will be able to say that should go to admin Affairs and then it can come to us that should go to academic Affairs and then it should come to us you know so there's a little bit of traffic cop uh that needs to be played but again it still makes sure that the item is heard multiple times for the public Consolidated committees under administrative Affairs would be facilities
135sfoc as as we run out of bond dollars that there's no longer a bond committee requirement um budget advisory committee Eco Council those would be Consolidated under administrative Affairs lcap would be a subcommittee of that Committee in particular academic Affairs would be curriculum instructions student achievement gaps textbook adoptions District calendar school schedules English learner reclassification that's kind of their oversight area Consolidated committees gate pack calendar committee now it doesn't mean these issues stop getting talked about you can have an agenda and always have these issues on that agenda um but the the need for staff time to be consumed with extra committee meetings is now Consolidated and the subcommittee for that would be like the dlac committee would be a subcommittee of academic Affairs which I believe is required for certain federal grants and things
136like that um and then student affairs would be Student Activities fundraising Wellness student discipline sarb School culture climate diversity equity and inclusion would be under student affairs consolidating Dei School climate committee and fundraising so again those issues would still be talked about but not in separate committee meetings is the idea so lots there yeah no I think this is great um I'm curious the parent advisory the gate parent advisory committee right I imagine that that looks very similar to like our di parent meeting that we have um so I don't those are usually informational right rather than folks coming and looking at any particular it's usually staff coming and kind of telling them like there's what we're doing like bring your concerns um so I wonder if that one maybe sits by either like continues
137to sit by itself or we pull in kind of other parent advisory committees into that academic affairs um yeah I I I don't necessarily I don't mind that I think at all like I I don't mind when there are informational sessions okay got it I I think it's more just like when it's like hey we're considering this policy what's your feedback on it that's it's more about policy Direction and when it's kind of the two-way and game meetings aren't just informational as somebody I've sat in on a couple of gate meetings and there really is much more of a of a sort of robust conversation about policy needs so there is like a presentation component of it but that's not the entire and I haven't been to the AI meeting yet so I don't know
138but I think that I I so just to clarify yeah the gate has has more to it than just it it there is a presentational component but there is conversation yeah that has to do with policy procedure things like that I don't mind if that's broken out I I think but if there's policy related conversations that are impacting it should be happening through academic Affairs yes yes students on sarb concerns me that's a very private matter and I don't know that that's we can talk about it more but I don't know that that's an appropriate thing I agree oh yeah no so it would be about the SARP process policy it would not be a specific SARP committee the specific committee is delineated by law so it's like in it's over umbrella yeah that's right
139umbrella this company's day in this community in this community and it's creating so isn't it no go ahead sure I interrupted you is it an extra meeting so underneath these umbrellas are these groups still meeting and then they come to this umbrella meeting to present what their committee's doing so so in that specific situation yes because it's a committee that's required by law okay for us to fulfill a process on attendance right we need to go through correct Supreme Court right can I jump I just want to make sure I understand too sarb's going to continue to operate how it always has that's a legal requirement we're gonna do that dlac's gonna operate how they always have if there are policy considerations that they want to discuss or updates it goes to this broader cup
140yeah that's how I'm understanding that's correct okay and since I have a mic can I go back to lcap elk cap since that that oversees everything I think I just proposed just keeping that separate that is driven by instruction it's the district goals fine as a component I I worry if it gets embedded in the administrator is going to change the tone and feel of it so I think I'm just since it's another legally compliant one we just keep our elk we have four lcap meetings in the town I'll just keep that structure separate if they're poly so I guess if there's policy considerations it may end up in the administration point it may end up in the executive may end up in fine is so it could those policy items would go to the
141appropriate Master committees okay I I don't I don't disagree with that at all like I think that's a good suggestion where I do want to house responsibility is every year there's usually some parent group or you know who was like I didn't like how you put stars on the poster right the process so if if we can house the process the lcap process itself within one of these committees I think that's important if not making it a sub that totally makes sense then how go ahead if we just house it under academic then wait you had something no good so I want to make sure that I'm cleared too on sort of the intention of it like in general because I I obviously looked this over before um and I think it makes a lot
142of sense but I want to make sure it's because I understand what the purpose is that right now it feels to me like all of these committees sometimes they happen sometimes they don't happen it kind of goes into a black hole um there isn't it's all kind of very siled there isn't a lot of communication about it um that's not with everything but because of the the nature of like you said something's being established committee something's not Etc so what this allows is for us to sort of group like like-minded committees into one place thereby increasing the transparency increasing involvement from the different stakeholder groups and allowing board members to sort of so the board Drive the agendas and then when there are things that so in its policy conversations so it's the process conversation
143okay I mean I I like it a lot um that was just how it was helpful to talk it through out loud yep okay um as far as so Dr Hills proposed putting El Cap not at least nominally underneath academics if it's going to live under the there I would also propose moving fundraising then up to um operational and financial or the sorry the administrative Affairs rather than Student Activities unless unless I'm misreading how we're thinking about fundraising right is this like a fundraising with bourbon couch and education or is this like boosters and that kind of stuff yeah I think this is booster okay never mind but I again like I don't think that I think like Foundation relations generally yes would be in admin Affairs yeah responsibility and what that what that process
144looks like fundraising restrictions on external organs yeah so student affairs maybe that's what it is is that it's internal fundraising and academic or administrative is external yep that makes a lot of sense okay thanks like when you say something that answers a question I didn't even know I had let's really helped do it again well that worked okay are we comfortable moving forward with this model I'm willing to give anything a try I like it um so I I will move that we adopt this model for a year um and that we come back to this at the next reorganization if it doesn't work we can throw it out but you know start again but um I'll move that we adopt this for a year um and then uh the next thing that we would
145then appoint committee coaches let me get a second to that again moved by myself seconded by me Dr Weisberg uh last one that you got on thirds so you know yeah anyway uh all those in favor say aye aye aye opposed okay that motion carries 5-0 thank you for entertaining this um the other thing is again these will be streamed meetings so the public can also watch these meetings um and we can talk about agenda structures all of that is going to be driven by board members so I think this is going to be strong so something before we get to co-chairs really quickly something I think that we should should talk through also with Dr Hill is how we convey like the streaming needs and the communication needs and because this is going to
146change things for staff who have also we're also involved in these things so just making sure we give people time to adjust and like knowing what the needs of Staff will be in order to accommodate this I think will be is very important so yeah I I agree with that so if we could have like about like a 60-day implementation phase you know that you know to roll this out um with the goal of really going live with this you know towards the end of this Academic Year but into the beginning of next year really kind of and then we can work on templates for agendas things like that that makes it easier for everybody to take on kind of their issue area and go from there and then organize all the logistical challenges of
147finding a streaming space all of that okay or doing it via Zoom however we're gonna do that okay great okay co-chairs so right now we have student affairs uh academic Affairs and administrative affairs So based on the number it looks like it'll be each of us serving on two except for the board president who serves on one because we care exactly we're doing a different Committee in this process but yeah sure I mean I don't know what the best way to go but I know I know where my skill sets look yeah I can yeah I mean I think um preferences if I have to pick two um administrative and academic police for for me academic and student I don't understand um for me it would be student okay Dr agathanian you said student and
148academic yes they did thank you well what would you prefer yeah admin student it'd be good on admin just because of all the budget and yeah okay and other your other choice academic and student student affairs okay this tablet admin amen and student Okay so we've got uh so for student we've got three it's myself uh Emily and Dr Weisberg and miss tabot again it's not you it's my mom screaming um so it's it's kind of my only choice so I'm gonna presidential prerogative and jump on student affairs um what's in that remind me what's in that category it's a wellness student discipline culture and climate Dei oh you could take me off of that okay okay I appreciate that okay important one to me so why is terrible okay it's one thing it's a
149big thing I'll take the thing take what I can get so student affairs uh will be co-chaired by myself and Dr Weisberg um then we're going to admin uh well maybe we should do academic uh well I mean we have two right yeah both we have Dr Eric no shark I missed having oh you did say admit okay okay I think um and what's under admin again one more uh admin is facilities employment job classifications and recruitment operations Eco Council yeah that's that's most of it I'd really like to stay there okay we'll be there I guess I haven't been there before so I can't see yeah but you know that's just my yeah I I'm torn in the sense that the Eco Council you look you've been working on facilities that for 10 years
150so you have a lot of experience um having said that like I do want to rotate and make sure others have experience in this area as well so um that's kind of where I'm leaning um also your board priorities you talked a lot about curriculum work um safety you know a lot of these are are kind of curriculum based so I would say I I it's your call um if you two want to stick to admin then we can do we'll do I I support that so the hard part is we have three areas and it's not going to break up evenly somebody's I'm only serving in one area so it does break up it does break up evenly at that point I think we need to have one more question right I was just
151gonna look at you didn't you didn't prioritize academic so the three on academic or Abby Emily excuse me um and currently Dr agaconians on the Eco Council which is now under admin and Miss Tabitha so he's just for some transition on this first year on the admin and then the two of you on academic but that's just something for you all to consider I I think it's important to have fresh perspectives and Facilities right now I it's not it's not anything personal I I just really think that it's important that we rotate and and give new members opportunity to weigh in and and that's just kind of where I'm falling so what do you do then I gave up student affairs so there's only two other places for me to be well I mean I
152and again like you are a former teacher so academics is not a bad place for you to be right didn't you say we picked two well we picked our top two and now we're pointing through so this would be so there's not so basically I gave up one there's only two other places for me to be correct so you would co-chair either academics co-chair academics with whoever else wanted to be on academics that's me so somebody's going to chair too okay I'm not following okay so so again we're picking just co-chairs I understand so you read what we have so far because I don't know where we are so right now student affairs we have myself and you co-chairing that that's me there you go academic Affairs we haven't decided yet and administrative affairs we're
153discussing right now right now for academic and administrative affairs academic Abby I'm sorry the sponsor Camp car uh Dr Ariana and Miss habit are interested for admin for admin for academic Dr Weisberg sponsor camcar and miss habiter or Miss habit didn't sign up for that so I would say no so it's really who wants so I I support for admin Affairs Miss Ponce cam Carr and Dr agathanian sharing this year co-chairing this year is that good folks environment that's the people Council yep and then that would move us to academic affairs and that I would this have it I think if you would coach her that okay and uh who else is it Miss potzer campfire so to be a real pain in the butt I'm the only board member who didn't get to choose
154what she wanted to do hold on okay so right so this is so this is the tentative list uh so for student affairs Ferguson Weisberg or uh I could uh administrative Affairs it would be the sponsor chem car and Dr agacanyan and for academic Affairs it would be the sponsor camcart and Miss habit he's not co-chairing any committees got it you're the only doing one yeah no I'm just looking at things really quickly be the option of someone wants to cannot can yeah it's challenging because of brown act yeah two folks are always going to do one committee right right um I mean it's fine that's fine okay so this year's appointments are again myself and Dr Weisberg for student affairs or academic Affairs the sponsor camcard Miss tabot and for administrative Affairs on this
155sponsor Camp car and Dr agatani okay and we'll revisit this in a year um and then the last thing is the board representation on committees so we did so I want to go through this list and make sure that we do kind of our permanent appointments so everybody's going to have to do too yeah okay okay so Burbank arts and Education Foundation right now we have myself and a vacant slot um who would like to do baef with I mean I'd like yeah okay okay just having an experience Dr Argonian and myself any objections there okay especially because you're co-chairing uh admin Affairs as well that gives a foundation tie so that's good uh d-lac right now is Dr ayokanian and vacant so anybody do you want to continue Dr because anyone else I'm down
156to I would like but it should probably be academic yeah shouldn't align with the larger so it should be sure five star um right now we did a temporary appointment for Miss habit and myself I think that that should continue okay uh gate right now is Tabit and Weisberg this is a this is again under the academics so miss tabot if you would like would you like to continue with that one um I have no choice and um well you could not do it so that that's a choice lcap uh wait so am I staying on gate or is it gonna should it not go to somebody who's because that's that's at that that's yeah that's academic so Abby would you do gate pack sponsor just dying at this point okay okay um lcap we
157agreed we're keeping that kind of broken out um so but official I I think board president can be kind of a default so that way it just kind of rotates every year uh Los Angeles County committee on District organization um they meet once a month no it's like one one yeah it's it's not lockster last is different um yeah that's that's the next one so uh on School District organization I'll continue on that one that one's lovely um LA County School trustees Association so right now uh it's Dr agakani and Miss Tabit as the alternate um anybody wanna I I work very approximately close to that area but I think instead of doing yeah I guess that's my okay whatever wait no it would be where you need to put me that's the way it's
158being done that whole thing this is not hold on hold on Miss Tabby can you stop for a second yes go ahead I don't want me to interrupt your texting go ahead this is not going to work unless we all agree for it I'm you're not and I'm not happy I understand I don't think that um it seems and I said it I said it everybody got to choose I backed away from something I chose so that other people could take it and then didn't get to pick an area that I was interested in what area are you interested in I I picked it at the uh whatever because you want to be with facilities I do I do I've been there for 10 years but the president has other plans and other ideas and
159so I I was just the only one it's okay all I said was I I as one board member I think it I I appreciate it and yes I agree correct and and I think after 10 years it's important that that other board member because again we're not always going to be another board member we're not always going to be here um I get it but but also sometimes we need a clean break and new leadership as well uh so and and that's all I'm saying is I I don't think that it I think that you have done a good job in facilities and through our bond process and all of it it's it's not a value tip but I am looking at again if you saw my priorities my priorities are about streamlining uh
160our institutions and and redesigning them and I think having new faces at the helm to to be a part of that will bring in some fresh ideas and I don't think that's a bad thing it's not meant to punish you um you take it as a punishment I just felt that you're probably okay so it just not like that's a reaction I'm upset pouting is different pouting is what a child does and I'm not a child and I don't like that reference that you just made I am upset and angry because I didn't get to choose an area that I was interested in and I'm now being asked to serve on a committee that is really not where my heart lies so it's difficult to go forward doing the best job you can not to
161say that I wouldn't because that's not who I am but it's not of interest to me there's many times that you've been on a committee and just blatantly failed to show up because you're just not interested and it just happens sorry so yes can I can I go hold on hold on well one of the things that I do see and again like I think that one we're still all dealing with all the things but two you did speak a lot about wanting to work on the curriculum piece around safety and safe driving and sportsmanship and so that's in academic Affairs you advocate for gait in really positive way that's an academic Affairs School scheduling in the district calendar I've heard you talk about that a great deal that's an academic Affair so again I'm
162not trying to talk you into anything but I'm so go to the other one I I understand that I understand that but to say that you're not interested in this at all like you you've expressed really powerfully things in here that are there's some I'm not saying that there's not some areas but fine but there's other areas in the way they've been divided up I mean we aren't we don't we as a board don't run different Departments of course not we're policy makers we we have things brought to us and by staff and then we vote Yes or no so I I don't know leadership all these words it's a little like what are you talking about we have gone through uh leadership change in that area uh for the last 10 years since I've
163been on there there never had seemed to be a strong leadership in that in facilities area which is my which is my major interest um and it goes uh I I think the problems in that area were because of the leadership at the district level and I think that's changed and it's a positive and they're going in great directions we've already started uh work on um uh the master plan and I've been a part of that and I think now to take me out is doesn't make sense especially because there's a second new person it's not like there's two of us going back in that area can I just ask a follow-up question you can ask anything you like um do you is there animal allowed sometimes to get angry I didn't say you couldn't
164get angry I just said that we we can all be mad and feel all the ways but we all have to figure out a way to work together positively so I would never tell you how to feel but I I will say I was just going to say like let's let's have this so that when we then move on to the rest of the appointments we can do we can just make the appointments instead of yeah I'm not trying in any way to tell you not to feel the way you feel so I apologize if that's the way it was conveyed is there any concern on your end based on some of the concerns that were raised in regards to facilities over the last year about you having some favoritism towards people within facilities I
165mean that I have friends and Facilities okay so wait wait and I am being punished no because I have friends in facilities I'm asking you an honest question I didn't assign you I have no power you guys none of you do no I know you can't hire or fire anybody I'm asking you if the perception that was communicated by multiple members and Facilities concerns you at all no it's not good so if we're if we're talking about new leadership and we're talking about going in a different direction you don't think that because those people are still there right that's what I'm asking you about probably not um that's a an employment issue which we can't some right so I that to me would I don't know who says it so it's hard for me to
166say okay but but if that's your concern fine well I'm not assigned I I it was a question it was not a decision and I answered it well and also okay we are not removing your expertise but we are changing level at which it's contributed so it will be contributed more during board meetings than in subcommittee meetings and I don't think that that's wrong like I you still get to flavor the stake so to speak as it's you still get a vote you're right absolutely and as we all do on all these issues I really care very strongly about the budget Jacob Mark that first that that I am angry I'll use the word angry that I'm the only board member who doesn't get to pick the area that she feels most um capable of
167of being a part of okay I understand that doctor thank you um for those of you who know uh some of the comedians that I co-founded I've always encouraged others to join I think it's a how to practice to rotate this on an annual basis you know all of us not only get to listen to these members and what the concern does is called a committee yep and I also believe that again it just helps overall you know when it comes to I can't call myself an expert in any of these areas nor should any of us I think yes I believe there is a relationship but sometimes is our advisory committee so rotating it I think as long as we do it on an annual basis I'm fine because next year I would like
168some of you to be part of the some of the Committees that I'm co-chairing and I think that would just bring forward positive uh you know yep move for future I think this what's important today for me in this meeting is that we're setting you know proceeded for the Next Generation the next leadership you know put some of the stuff that we've been talking about over and over again I'm glad we're bringing and someone was as basic as they are but the reality of it is that also I'll be honest with you at one point I was kind of on the same committee and I was like you know what I'm not learning anything new yeah and nor am I putting anything that's really helping them and I wanted to see people it's the same
169conversation I'm glad that we're doing this and and I am glad we're having this conversation but at the same time right now I think it's a just a good practice to step forward so then that's great and I hear that but what's happening here is some people have decided that I have caused a problem so let yes that's exactly what you said Doctor no I didn't so let's instead move things in such a way so she's no longer there you want honesty but that's what I'm hearing and you don't like the honesty because it is direct no I don't like the honestly because what you're carrying over is this a decision that is made that you don't like and it becomes a personal attack I asked you a question I did not make a statement
170I did not make an accusation I asked you if you felt X Y and Z don't you think your question brought forth exactly exactly what you said you said so you have a concern you right because that's what your question applied to he lied to what's the word uh directed itself to absolutely so if if you foresee that I've created a problem then you have decided that I don't need to be on that I haven't decided anything you did because I wasn't allowed to choose is this going to be the next year where yeah it used to be when you do this to me it will I'm going to stand up for my sister's not and I don't care if I like it or not you should stop we need to stop at this point
171because it's not it's not being productive coming at me and I defend myself I never commandeered one of your meetings when you were president not in a public way not like this so I'm going to ask that we stop and this is not personal this is about committee you're interrupting me again so we are going to move forward with the rest of the appointments at this time completely register your feelings on this I understand um but I do celebrate that you are a co-chair of the academic Affairs committee I hope that you will bring the same commitment that you have brought to facilities issues to academic Affairs and that we can continue more with this process today because I just don't think this is It's leading anywhere right now so question but that is not
172so as we're looking at the other committee assignments I think philosophically do we want those to be aligned then to those committees or I think so I think so I would think so okay cool like entirely aligned or make sure that one person who's the co-chair is on there and then potentially the person who's not a co-chair but is on that is serving on that subcommittee is maybe then that's their next year is that they are yeah I I think where it creates issues not trying to split a difference sir no no and I understand that the challenge becomes with brown act issues if you have a policy discussion at one subcommittee and then it gets brought to and it happens to be with a different member that's the only challenge so um did you
173have it nope okay um so right now we have loxa that's Miss Tabit uh the special education District advisory committee so that would be I believe that's under academic what which one I can't find any special education would that be Consolidated or that's not saturated wholly required it's uh legally required just okay I would recommend as you said keep it under academics okay so that would be missed Tabit and Doc no [Music] uh youth leadership program student affairs so that would be uh myself and Dr Weisberg uh Career Technical education that would be under academic so that would be Miss tabat and his sponsor cam car and fundraising committee and this was related to external organizations would be under admin so uh that's academic but uh and then fundraising will be under uh administrative so
174that would be Miss sponsor cam Carr and Dr agaconian that one was the kernel group internal fundraising okay so a little fundraising as we said student affairs the student affairs so that would be student affairs so any kind of I think appointments moving forward we just designate along these issued areas makes sense yeah yeah yeah Burbank arts and Ed should that be admin should that be Dr Eric yep yeah that makes sense let's do that yeah there are moments where I think it's being more president I'll step in but like we'll communicate around that I appreciate it or yeah so actually why don't we keep that one as you and Dr agakani and then because otherwise you're not on I just want to yeah I want to be able to move the foundation a lot
175like obviously you have some ideas around that front as well but I want to be able to work with the foundation so great um but I think in a year if it's really just not a president thing like then I I don't care about losing it in the same way but and it doesn't stop okie doke that's it so those will be the appointments I just want um we'll go ahead and update the board policy review items to match those new committees perfect yep so all policy review for uh board policy we'll go through um these committees as well great so then sorry and Di is under student affairs right so we said that yes and we should probably delete that one because that's now going to be topics on student affairs yeah right yeah
176I wasn't sure is that that's a subcommittee that's getting Consolidated so that one doesn't exist anymore correct got it got it got it it exists so in a larger more ethereal sense so in the fundraising one really is Consolidated too so that will come off the list right we take the ones that are Consolidated off this list so it's clean when we adopt it and and what I'll do is with Dr Weisberg we'll we'll kind of create we'll do the work behind the scenes on kind of building this out and making it clear so if there are questions that's clear again getting agenda templates out to everybody so that they can co-chairs can start thinking about their committees and what they want to agenda is also prepping a letter to the organization saying this is
177our new governance model this is what it looks like you know um the good thing is is that they will now only have to send six members in total to represent their ins you know as opposed to 30 different people on 30 different committees so um we'll work on that letter and we'll make sure that everybody sees that before it goes out and this is something that we'll vote on at the next meet like the revised lists we're voting on are we voting on that today we kind of just talked through that okay cool so sure what we need to like adopt with the model we voted to adopt some of that because that's a bit of a change and so then the appointments came as a result of that model got it um but
178if we could get a printed out copy and redistribute the fresh copy uh I think that would be cool yeah a lot of moving pieces okay um with go ahead I do want to also make sure that again I like this is more impactful but at the same time you know feedback from our community to any members or not if you're not part of a committee I think again just working as a team yep because I think this will bring more productivity but also be honest with you it's like the first time we've also we're talking about committed so much yeah that's right I like this I think just moving forward it kind of makes it easier and we'll see what adjustments have to be made moving forward if it is good in theory but
179not in practice and once again I like the plan as well what I don't like is I'm the only one who didn't get to choose I'm going to say it again I think your plan is great I think it streamlines a lot that is the one area that I think is unfair I mean that's my problem do you understand what my problem is I understood it okay you said it well okay with that um we've concluded our business today any other things Dr Hill great with that it is 11 26. thank you everybody for a great meeting we're adjourning bam I appreciate it I'm open to that and and I I think that that's not a bad idea we also have really good conversations with them uh all the time