001[Applause] Good evening. Shame on you guys. Two years I've been coming to your board, which I have better things to do. And all I see is you guys trying to expel suspend students. Are you guys serious right now? You want to suspend students from their dreams, their hopes, their gains, but yet they get to go to first through sixth period trying to focus on homework and getting things done and still getting paid for them to go to school, right guys? Cuz you're pocketing that money. Tell me you're not Mr. Silva, Dave Ladic, Alcap account. You guys are pocketing money from each and every one of these boys that are sitting out their money for going to school. How dare be reinstated or we will on behalf of the people be filing a full lawsuit against.
002Thank you. Sir, >> anyone else would like to make a comment? >> Good evening to the board, administration, community members in attendance. My name is James Peterson and for the past 16 seasons I've had the honor of serving as the team's head football coach and I want to be clear that I'm in here. I am here I'm support of all these athletes. Number one, I'm in support of coach Darren Silva and all the coaches who dedicate valuable time to their student athletes as well as the entire our ball program which is a proud thing for all of us past, present and future athletes. Today we have no formal documentation has been provided to me as their head coach or to these the individual players. >> We've all been held to these sanctions and and we've
003been scrutinized over these allegations. The documents provide the proof. So why don't I have them as the head coach? Despite this, our team is facing both section and self-imposed sanctions. I want to thank the administration at my new school. They they have done things on behalf of our student athletes this week. So, I'll thank them for that. But at the same time, I respectfully urge the Turkai administration to work swiftly, continue to appeal process for each of these athletes. These sanctions are impacting our players in more ways than one. We must also ensure that any self-imposed sanctions are truly in place to strengthen our program, not tear it apart. And in the end, it's our students who suffer the most. Principal Klein, as the head coach, I'm the head figure of this program, I ask
004that any sanctions, self-imposed or otherwise, fall on me and me alone. This program is a vital part of our community. Now more than ever, we need to unite behind our team. Our It's our team, the whole district. This is not the time for division. It is the time for us to come together and stand for what is right. Thank you for your time. >> Are there any other public comments? >> Seeing none, we'll move on with the agenda. Everybody was clear. Um, my name is Darren Silva and u, you know, got to come up here and clear the air. You know, I'm not a perfect person and I don't think any of us here are. I've met anybody out in the universe yet, but um, I've made my mistakes and I've been accountable for my
005mistakes and I'm here to be accountable for my mistakes. But if it's not my mistakes, I I can't be accountable for other people's mistakes. So, um, I I do want to thank the opportunity for you guys for letting me speak. But over the past couple days, I've had some time to reflect deeply on my actions that led to my suspension. And I want to begin uh saying clearly and without excuse. I take full responsibility for my mistakes. And I understand that as a coach, I'm not just teaching football. Um I'm I'm shaping young men, modeling leadership and discipline and respect. And in the moments I failed to live up to these standards expected of me from the school. uh I've used the past three years not just as a coach but as a person. I've
006sought out mentorship, completed professional development courses, uh student leadership and sports uh uh sport ethic programs, and I've worked closely with other educators to better understand how to how to lead with both strength and empathy. Um um just admitting you're wrong, it's not enough, you know, but changing your behavior, seeking accountability, and being open to learning every day, day in day out. That's that's the the true true model there. What I'm asking for tonight is a chance, you know, a chance to prove that I've grown, that I'm committed to doing better, and that I still have something valuable to offer these student athletes and this community. Uh football has always been uh about more than just wins and losses. It's about teaching discipline, building character, and fostering teamwork. Um, I'm ready and willing to return,
007not just as a coach, but as a positive role model, one that leads with integrity and puts the well-being and development of the students first. Um, thank you guys for considering the reinstatement. I know it's not your guys' decision. It's obviously in the hands of other individuals. I think the finger keeps getting pointed in different directions, but whoever's hands it's in, you know, um I I asked, you know, for the the consideration of the reinstatement, not just because I want to coach I want the coaching position back, but because I believe in the values of the school, uh and what the community stands for, and I'm committed to living those values. So, as you can see, there's an overwhelming support and I came here four years ago to support this program and to support James
008Peter Peterson and what he's been doing these last almost 20 years. And uh I want to continue to to support him in any any way I can and my best support is on the field with these kids next to these other coaches and continuing to uh raise this program up. And you know, we all got to work together. Um, kids, parents, coach, um, administrators, athletic directors, and you guys on the board, we all have to remain a team and stick together and not let these other schools and this CIF and whomever else create a divide. The divide is not good. That's what they want. We have to stick together at this time come together as one. So, thank you guys for the opportunity. I appreciate it. Any other comments? If not, we'll move on with
009the agenda. The consent calendar. Uh, we pulled item 18. Are there any questions about the consent calendar from the board from the public? If not, can I have a motion to accept it? I move to accept the consent calendar as amended. Second. >> This is properly moved and seconded to accept the consent calendar. This is a roll call vote. Miss Carlson. >> Hi. >> Miss Jackson. >> Hi. >> Miss Martinez. >> Hi. >> Miss Ramirez. >> Hi. >> Mr. Shields. >> Hi. >> Board. President votes I. Motion passes to accept consent calendar. On the agenda is educational services. Uh, Miss Sis on information 27 and Mr. A. >> Good evening, President Phila, board of trustees and David. John and I are here to give a quick recap of our school 2025. So, as a reminder,
010here we'll give it a minute. Okay. So, as a reminder, this year, um, our focus for summer school was really was targeted at those students that needed additional time and support to meet grade level standards in both ELA and math. For the elementary side, we focused on grades TK through six. New this year, um, from previous years, we had it at nine schools previously. This year, we've condensed it to holding at three of our elementary schools. So, we held it at Julie, Maderos, and Wakefield. We grouped the schools um based on geographical location. So Julene um was made up of Julene Brown and P students. Mados had rural and walnut students as well. And then Wakefield supported both our dual immersion program um and English only strand. Our enrollment um this is our enrollment that
011was at the end of summer school. Um Julian 145 students, Madera's under 1233 or a total of 490 students. We originally started um with you know enrollment kind of declining since the end of um summer enrollment for the 20 days. Um started with 667 students but like traditional summer school families plan vacations and they slowly drop off. Julene, we also held two EL classes that was students that were new. Maderos was our own site. Um, Maderos housed one TK class and then we have a dual immersion TK class as well. Additionally, not on here, um, we had ESI students. were made up of 33 teachers that supported that program and I had 31 students sorry 31 staff members. This next slide I just put together some pictures just um kind of a synopsis of what
012our summer program looked like. These are at Wakefield. These pictures come from Wakefield. So students got to participate with learning in the garden um trying some of the the crops that they were growing. T came out and supported classrooms um with lessons. You can see they had dress days to try to encourage students to come. And then you see a picture of, you know, not only is it made up of a lot of certificated staff, but our classified staff as well that provided um meals for all of our students. >> It's been a few months to hear. Uh yeah, I'm reporting out on secondary summer school. uh target audience mostly is credit recovery, ELA, ELD supports um and providing some opportunity for advanced enrollment in the 21st century skills class uh for incoming freshmen. We
013know that um as a statement and then graduation requirement would offer that opportunity uh for students to take a class in advance so that way it doesn't interfere with their FFA or sports and athletics and bands and all that. So that's also part of summer school. Um break 712 we house at Pitman. Uh I'll get into more details about the three weeks for credit recovery and then there's the six weeks for the support classes and 21st century. Um again at Pitman High School we also utilized uh Fusion uh who offer some additional online elective and some PE uh recovery options and SCA which actually set up a Turlock satellite site this year which is really nice and convenient for additional students. Okay. Um, a little bit about the three-week term. So, we had term one,
014194 students completed a course to earn five credits. Those were in core classes, English, maths, um, biology primarily in, uh, social studies, world history, US history. And then term two was 180 students completed course. Kind of like Shel alluded to, you get a little little fatigue. Uh, students start to drop out of those 194 students and then 180. Some of those are duplicates. So, some stayed the whole six weeks. Some students only needed five credits to kind of get back on track or was that so they could fit into their schedule. Uh, as we mentioned, we did have nine students who did not pass uh their class and they dropped out early um and didn't quite complete that. And then the second term, again, 13 fail as we mentioned. Uh sometimes that students can be
015a little tiring after a full school year. A little bit about the three-week terms, too, is in order to make up credits, we used to do it online, egeneuity. So, it's packets, but we'd have a math teacher who also has history or needing a science or needing English. We switched last year, now this is year two of inperson with a credentialed content area expert comes with the challenges. Uh, but the nice part about that is if I'm a 10th grade English teacher and fortunately we have them applying for summer school, they know the essential standards that were taught whether it's the fall semester or the spring semester and that's what they're targeting for that short condensed time. Students um uh and from 8:30 to 12:30. So over the course of 15 days, they're getting about
016equivalent of 55 or so or roughly um hours of instruction. That is equivalent to egeneuity coursework for credit recovery which is in about that 50 hour to 55 hour ballpark, but it's in person with a teacher there supporting them, not just having them meet one time a week for an hour. So um we continued that this year. Uh and when looking at the numbers uh we do see that um that that equates to 400 secondary students um you know 5% would be about 225. So we always say that tier three is 5% of our students typically right we want 80% who are really driving the 15% means tier two just a little bit nudge and you got that 5%. So when we look at those numbers we want it to be zero but when we
017when we're seeing that then those are things that we'll reflect on. We did have uh four students completing graduate senior studies which we offer as well. And then we offer an independent study strand. This is primarily for EC Academy students since that is their general mode of instruction throughout the year. So it wouldn't seem right to then all of a sudden we're going to throw them into this alternate universe of of not uh their normal high school experience. So we did have that with two academy teachers uh teaching that as well with 118 courses completed. Uh we do have though some students who needed to make up that health and college career um if they did not pass it their freshman year and come in late and wanted to take over summer uh and not
018be a senior taking that class with freshman. So we do a kid. >> There we go. Uh the sixe terms we have a seventh and eighth grade strand of ELA math support for students. Uh so they go for two hours and two hours for full six weeks uh for each of those classes. And then at 9:12 we same thing for ELD uh our income ELD students um 2hour blocks 2our blocks of your math. Um what's nice is we have mild mod special day class opportunity for credit recovery. We often get students who transfer in from out of district or with attendance one full year and we need to give them five credits. So we have a model teacher teaching for them to make up those core classes as well. Um we appreciated partnership with Fusion
019this year to make up some of those PE or some little additional electives that was in June and then SCO offered um some additional opportunity in July and so there may have been a student who took an inerson class with us core and the English 9 but then they went to SCO in July and took an elective class because they were missing an elective. >> That's any questions? I just have one uh one quick. Were there any um weight lists on the elementary site or the secondary? Did we have any weight? >> So every opportunity was given >> not at elementary and the secondary and we did have some weight list that we had to call it for the 21st century primarily and then I know here work really hard. We actually hired on for
020some hours uh counselors right before summer school started to try to work through and see how we could fill those slots. So tried to really get as many students in as possible. Um starting most of the juniors going to be seniors and then work our way down. Uh but that's quite a process with the inerson model because you just can't plant them into an egeneuity teacher and then they're going to get you. We have to find that they've got the spot. Uh but I think that Maria Shotty anymore and uh the team and the counselors who work there did a really good job there. And then 21st century we did have u you know an enrollment process trying to push out the information uh whether it's at frost orientation student sites, middle school and junior
021high sites and then um had to have a cut off date because we do need to hire uh staff for the summer. With health it gets tricky too just to be honest because you want a health credential or healthcified teacher. You don't want to just have anybody teaching it. So that remains a challenge. So you can be kind of limited. So we really have to stay tight to that. putting in there, we let them know, notified, they're on the wait list and we try to do everything we can to get as many in as possible. >> Thank you for the presentation and and I did have some questions you answered. So, thank you for that. I wanted to say I really appreciate the partnership with uh Fusion and Scope, right? So, that it's like crosspollination
022like what let's not reinvent the wheel, right? work together to provide the most opportunities for our students. So, so I appreciate that and I don't remember that from years past. >> We've had um we have had some partnerships there the last couple years. I would say um Fusion primarily SCO has kind of left on its own and if students and counselors kind of have would but they had to drive up to the I it's the teal campus or you know up to Modesto. this year uh in talking with one of the directors, he said, "Hey, if you give me enough students, we'll I'll send I'll plant somebody over there um in Turlock and so you were able to help us with that." That's why we got >> Well, I asked you on Monday. I just
023want to clarify to everyone else. I was a little concerned when I saw the three weeks of credit recovery for half a semester, but um as John explained, it was about 20 hours or so each week. And so um and they were working with credentialed English teachers or math teachers. So that makes me feel good. Um I thought the numbers were a little high, but you know, I think we need to help that rigor and our students are going to have to come back and start doing the work again. >> So I appreciate that. I'm glad those kids were able to do that. So thank you. Um, and it's not first dose, but it's not first dose instruction, right? They just lived that class for a year. So, do we need to beat them and
024fire hose them again or do we need to get very specific as to the learning targets they need to learn? And so, that's where those those contents come into play. Now, >> Martinez, >> I appreciate the presentation, John, and I appreciate that you guys are really focusing on meeting the students needs and having Skully on board is huge. So, thank you for all the hard work you did over the summer. It will be noted and appreciated when we receive the data. Thank you. >> I did more hard work before summer and then Maria and Chhatty did all the work and their team during summer. Just to make sure I point that out. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions from the board from the public? Want to thank you very much for this information item.
025Next is a action item. Superintendent Vlad. Thank you. Good evening. Once again, President Solo, members of the board. Um, as I mentioned earlier in my report, we have been working hard with the HR team's working hard on getting uh quite a number of ELOP positions filled. Um, one of those positions that uh we are looking to fill is that of the ELOP site supervisor. uh preliminary budget uh worked out to where we thought that we would be able to hire five of these individuals, but since the governor's budget uh was passed uh increased our funding, so we're able to move that to nine. Um this evening, we are going to be asking for the four we asking the board to approve four of those. uh as we wrap up the onboarding process for the rest
026of them over the next week or so uh we will be needing to get those all forward and I'll be bringing those back for approval official approval um in the second meeting in August. However, we are very pleased to bring forward four names this evening for this for this position. All four have experience in working in after school programs, young children, police activity leagues. Um, and we are very confident that they will meet the requirements and the expectation of these classified management positions. So with that, I'd like to uh recommend the board approve Iette Zamora, Sheila Barios, Gabriella Sanchez, and Ramona Biano to the position of Elop site supervisor for the 2526 school year. >> Questions for the board? >> Yes, I do. Tell me again who were these four, please? >> Sure. I bet
027Zamora, Sheila Barios, >> Gabriela Sanchez, and Ramona Biano. >> Thank you. >> Are there any other questions from the board from the public, please? >> I move to accept the four individuals. >> I second it. >> Properly moved and second. All in favor say I. All >> oppose. Nay. President vote sign. Motion carries. >> Next. >> Yeah. [Applause] >> Business services. Miss Warder. >> Item 29. >> Good evening. President Silva board members cabinet. Um tonight isformational items on some resolutions. uh resolution 42526 um it's an annual resolution required by the SFP school facilities program and is an acknowledgement by the district governing board that the state is currently out of bonding authority and is not guaranteeing that funding will be available in the future or if it is that the projects will be eligible for
028the funding. This is currently only required for modernization projects but could also be required for new construction in the future. This resolution is referring to state bonds not district bonds. This is anformational item only and will go for approval on the next meeting. Uh resolution 52526. Again, this is just a anformational Sorry, >> go ahead behind the >> Okay, just anformational item only. A resolution is a new requirement for Prop 2. It requires that school districts have a um a governing board adopt a five-year master plan as a condition of participating in the SFP school facility program. Uh the characteristics of the master plan will be implemented via regulation over the course of 20 uh 2025. In the interim, the SAB uh state allocation board is requiring that all school districts um that file funding
029applications adopt a governing board resolution that acknowledges a master plan requirement and pledges to provide the master plan prior to their funding application being aortioned by the SAP. Again, this isformational item only. It's a new resolution for Prop 2 and we'll be going uh for approval on the next meeting. Are there any questions about these items? Item 29 to 30. Miss Carlson. >> Thank you, M. Fusher. Um, I was just Oh, I just wanted to clarify. So, this will be before the end of 2025. You know, in education, it's like we always run on a school year cycle, but it has to be the end of his the like December 31st, 2025. >> Yes. Okay. >> We're still working out the details on what is actually required as a master plan. >> Okay. So, the
030resolution is just saying we know we need to do it. We're definitely going to do it. Yes. Got it. Thank you. >> I have a question. >> Um on this adopted five-year master plan, what exactly are they looking for under the master plan? >> So, we're still working out the details uh with our with our consultant. Um it it's mostly on facilities in general, like enrollment. Um you know, what are uh classrooms, how many we have, how many students we have. It's like a mixture of everything. What we need, what we're going for. Um, again, we're still working out the what the details are. Um, and when we have more, we'll we'll let you guys know. >> Will we get a copy of the master plan? >> Yes. Thank you. >> Questions public items item
03131 public hearing. go over the information first. >> It will hold it here. >> Uh resolution 62526. Um it's also an anformational item. Resolution is also a new requirement for Prop 2. Approves the filing eligibility documents and funding applications with the state. It also identifies the individuals in the district who are authorized to sign necessary documents and upload them to OPSC website. This resolution must be taken to the board for each application the district intends to submit to OPSC. Currently, we have two sites that have modernization construction going on this year, and that's Osborne bus lane and classroom modernization and Earl Elementary roof and fire alarm replacement. Both of those projects are happening right now. Um, this is anformational item only and we'll go uh for approval next meeting. Happy to answer any questions. >>
032Okay, we'll declare a public hearing. Uh, are there any questions or comments about this from the board or the public? Mr. Shields. >> Yeah, I guess this is another question. This is for the funding to um reimburse us. Correct. I don't know if I'm saying or is this additional funding? >> This is for state match funds, >> right? >> That's right. Okay. >> Can you remind me again what props two is for? It's for the school facilities program. So, the state um issued a large sum of money. Um there was a list of a whole bunch of schools that were on this list for funding. Um and so they provided funding match funding for certain schools and then in order to be on that list, you basically have to um submit to OTSC, which is
033what they did right here. >> Is there any other comments or input from the public? Then we'll close this public hearing and this this is information item. So we'll move on to the next one. Item D. Thank you, Miss Wiser. Item D. Information action item. Mr. Mr. Gordon. >> Yes. Very good. Thank you uh President SA members of the board, fellow cabinet members, and Mr. Ladic. Um so Ed code has uh always compelled us to either offer uh accident insurance for our students to purchase or we are required to provide them accident insurance. Uh in the past we've always offered them insurance to purchase uh something sent home to students through the athletic programs and things like that. The participation has been very low. It's been an optional program. Um so that program in itself
034has ended. The company that we used to use for that no longer offers that product. So we started looking around about how we can meet this requirement for um providing either providing accident insurance or making it available to parents. And what we've determined is we are with the California student accident insurance program. Um, basically it's a program through Norcow relief uh or I'm sorry through Kenan who administers NorCal Relief our uh liability carrier. Um we can what this program is and we chose this program because we think it's the best solution for our families at a very reasonable cost for the district. What it'll basically do is it'll provide $25,000 worth of accident insurance for every one of our students as well as volunteers. Uh and that includes uh whether they're on school doing school
035school activities if they're out on a field trip something like that to and from home uh for uh you know start of the school school day and then of course intercolastic sports as well. So this is an additional insurance that they would have. So their their own insurance will be the primary but this could for example cover um deductibles and things like that. So, we're really excited about being able to offer this. I know in today's day and age when a student gets hurt for a variety of reasons. Uh, you know, a lot of times they have the insurance, but that it's that uh deductible that really, really hurts them. So, this is going to be a program that we're going to be able to partner with parents and partner with families and be able
036to offer. They will still be able to purchase the um insurance like they have in the voluntary insurance so they can purchase the full insurance for their for their child. Uh but this right here is that accident protection insurance. Uh the cost is very reasonable at $2.20 per um student. It comes out to about $29,67 for the school year. So with that, uh can I answer any questions? And if there's no questions, I'd like to uh the administration to authorize authorize us to enter into this I'm sorry, the board authorized us to enter into this agreement. >> Any questions for the board? >> Miss Jackson, >> have we offered this before or have we had this type of coverage before? >> We we've never offered this accident insurance before to families. Um, we've always offered
037the op optional insurance that they could purchase on on their own and that met head code in the past, but because the participation was so low, that company's not offering that anymore. >> Thank you. >> I'm sorry. Yes, Mr. Ramirez. >> So, do does a parent need to sign up or is this automatically covered? >> It's automatically covered. So, we're going to change our accent uh protocol. So as soon as if a student does get hurt, obviously it has to be associated with a school activity. So the school district will or outside the school site will fill out a form uh and then work with the parents to be able to submit that to this company uh in order to collect some some payment. Miss River, I mean >> Martinez, >> how would the families
038hypothetically in the event of something happening, what would be the protocols and procedures to get this type of information, the form, the risk? I mean, how what does that look like? >> Well, as soon as we have this done, the the company provides us marketing material. So, we will be sending that home to families. Um, we'll be working with Marie to make sure that families are well aware of this uh, insurance, but we'll also be talking and training our administrators. So, if there is an accident on uh, at one of our school sites, that'll just be part of the process. They can fill out this form as well and work with the parents to ensure they're aware of the the coverage. >> So, then in the event of an accident on school site, the nurse
039will release an accident report to support this. They will they will so yeah so they will complete this form and I don't know exactly what this form is for this insurance program but there's a form we'll fill out that basically acknowledges that this student was injured on one of our campuses that doesn't necessarily go into the details of it like our accident or incident report forms that we collect for liability purposes but this form will be filled out so that the uh the insurance company understands that this is truly an accident that happen in association with the school or the district during a school sanction. >> So without an accident report or incident report, they will still look at the form and be nonbiased. I don't know how to put the question because it's very
040important to support it with incident reports and accident reports when you submit something to risk manager as far as the forms. That's what I'm looking for. Uh again, this is for this to access this insurance that we're talking about today. There is a form that they would fill out, the administrators would fill out to provide and work with the family so they they understand how to reach out to this carrier and get uh that accident coverage. >> Okay, that I that's fair, but I'm looking for reports, an accident report or an incident report to support that carrier. And we do collect those and we send those to our liability carrier and those are confidential pieces of information. >> So the families do not get those that information the accident report or incident report. The families
041don't get that report from the site. >> They do not. >> Thank you. >> Yes, sir. >> Yeah. Just for clarification, do you we have a dollar amount of what this will cover deductible wise? I mean, the intention is to help indicate an accident cover deductible to Is there any dollar amount that they've given or >> Yeah, I'm sorry. I I I meant to mention that it's $25,000 of coverage. Uh again, it's on top of the family's primary insurance. So, that $25,000 coverage would, you know, primarily be for covering any kind of deductible or anything like that or something that's not covered by their insurance. You know, on occasion, we have a student that takes a metaphite and those are very expensive. So, that would help with that considerably. >> I apologize. I think you
042did mention that. >> I'm Any other questions? Questions for the public? >> Yes. >> Steve. Yes. Mr. Gordon. I would like I'd like to know. Yeah. Well, when when a employee injures a student, it's like is this what you're talking about? Is this what you're what you're explaining? I mean, that it's like because it's it's like I didn't I didn't get an insurance form when my daughter was injured by a police officer at junior high school. Uh I mean, they they what you call it? Uh I heard of a $10,000 or something like that from Mr. Whatever was uh Fernando Fernando so like I was I was given is that anything to do with this? This is a brand new program that we we haven't had. Uh once the the board approves this then we'll
043have this to go into effect for this coming school year. Uh but it there are obviously like any kind of insurance programs there are um uh items that are covered and items that are not covered. But as a general sense, um any accident that happens at school, an injury at school will help uh pay up to $25,000 to cover those medical bills for that accident, >> including personnel injury to student, right? >> I I'll have to look into that. I'll get back to you. >> Thank you. >> Are there any other questions? If not, can I have a motion, please? >> Excuse me. >> Good afternoon, Barney. I guess I'm a little bit confused because I don't even think you have an idea of what you're presenting tonight. So, I think we the people community
044need a little bit more uh information just to cover our end as well and to make sure we're getting the exact information and the accuracy and the transparency as parents on how to file these um injuries and do we get an accident report and how do we go about it and how are you going to get it out to the parents who are bilingual who don't speak English who don't go on Aries and who can't read or write. Are you going to have like orientation seminars on this to educate them? What are you going to open up for those uh parents? I just feel like this is a little bit too much information just to say, "Oh, yeah, yeah, let's do it." I mean, of course, having insurance is great, but isn't that the law
045anyway? We should have had insurance from the get-go to cover these children. >> So, that that is not the law. The law is that we either provide it or we make it accessible. So, in the past, we've always made it accessible. We had a program that parents could purchase insurance for their students through a company that we contracted with. So, that is what the law is. So, this right here, we are actually doing it uh something for our families. We are purchasing this so that we have up to $25,000 worth of vaccine insurance for the families. As I mentioned, we're going to work with Miss Russell's office. uh the communications officer to make sure the parents understand it. That will be uh translated in in uh Spanish and English. Uh we have several opportunities in
046the family resource center. I'm sure we can have some uh coverage there as well. And we will talk to our principles and our site administrators to make sure that they help our communities and our student uh school communities understand the program as well. So, I guess my question for the board is um what what what what's the budget for this and what are we looking at and there's no numbers given. Um again, we're presenting something just from scratch. There's no transparency under Brown's act with no numbers on that uh screen right there. I'm not seeing how much we're taking out of the budget from the school to buy this insurance. Again, what's the deductible? What's covered? What's not covered? I think these types of things we need to have a little bit more details on
047it so that we're all on the same page. That way parents like myself if I need to help another parent and educate them, I have the information to give out. So I think that for board to uh vote on a yay and then we're going to shoot oursel in the foot again. Um it's not a wise thing to do. >> So the cost of the program is $29,67 to cover all of the students. It's $2.20 20 cents per student that we have in the district. Um on the agenda online is back up that will uh that has that information. We have some pamphlets and some uh information we'd be happy to get to you so you can help educate our parents on this. >> So is this coming out of the students budget? >> It's
048coming out of the general fund >> from the from what we give to you guys right for our students going to school. >> It's >> as a general budget. >> Yes. from the funding that you're getting from state or um >> correct >> or um anywhere wherever you're getting your money from as a whole. You're buying this insurance through that from that budget that belongs to the community. Correct. >> That is correct. >> So why couldn't you do that in the previous years? Why were you having parents pay if I we're still paying at the end of the day? I'm a little confused. >> You know, I I'm not going to go back in time. That's the program. >> But no, we're here in time right now. The question is why are you making it
049sound like you were having parents pay for it then? And now that you're not having parents pay, but we really are paying. >> Okay. So, I I'll explain it again. So, in the past, and I don't know how long in the past it's been, it's been as long as, uh, I can remember, uh, we offered insurance, very inexpensive insurance for parents to purchase. >> Why? >> Because that was the law. >> So, you had no insurance all those years. >> We offered insurance. >> Barney, did you have insurance all the other years to cover the children when they were injured is the question? We >> We had liability insurance. >> Okay. and we we're obligated to provide uh insurance uh either provide insurance to the families or make it available to them. That's what we've
050always done. That program uh no longer exists. So now we are doing something good for our families and we are uh purchasing insurance moving forward. To me, it just sounds like you are supposed to have insurance to cover these children first and foremost cuz they're under your umbrella, but you were still charging parents who wanted to add extra money into the pot, right? >> No. >> And now you're saying, "Oh, we're not we're going to stop charging you because now we're double charging." Because what that's what I'm hearing. >> We made it we made it available for parents to purchase if they chose to purchase it. >> That was the law at that time. And there's still that option. We have uh medical insurance available for parents to purchase if they choose to purchase it.
051This right here is accident insurance. So if a student is injured on one of our campuses, then they have up to $25,000 uh to co to help cover that accident, >> right? But accident is a very broad word. We need more definite uh >> indication as to what you consider accident. accident being uh harassed by a staff member, accident falling down on the school ground, accident trip and fall or what is that? >> I was just going to say that I read the four-page brochure that's online that's available for backup and it gives a bunch of exclusions that might be helpful for you to kind of read and some of your questions. >> No, I think we should have had that here tonight as a transparency and Brown's act and we can agree to disagree,
052but we're violating the Browns Act tonight. If you guys go ahead and pass this. >> I'll motion to approve. >> No, it was it was provided. Let's u >> Any other questions? >> Provided. >> I have a motion to >> Okay. Could I have a motion, please? >> I second. >> It has been properly moved and seconded. All in favor say I. I. >> All oppose, nay. >> And board president votes I. >> Uh board reports start with Miss Carlson. No report tonight. Thank you. >> I just want to hope everyone has a wonderful um first day of school next week. I appreciate everyone who has been working hard to to get us there. Um and I just hope you had a restful summer and I wish everybody the best. I really do. So um
053welcome to everybody who's new. Um we're appreciated very appreciative that you're here. If you're in different positions, welcome aboard. Um but um I'm really optimistic and I hope everyone has a great first week. Thank you. no board report. I just want to welcome everybody back and um look forward to a successful 2526 school year. And um that's it. Can't believe summer's over. I just I'm not ready actually and I'm retired and I'm not ready for school. But I just want to say same thing, you know. Um we wish everyone the best and if I could just make a comment. Um, as parents, we're the ones that really need to be diligent for our students. I cannot tell you, not so much in Turlock, when I when I go to other little cities, little towns, I'll
054see teenage girls or teenage boys and I look around, it's like, where are the parents? And we just cannot depend on technology to make sure that we're keeping an eye on the kids because those phones can be separated from our kids. And the phone might say that it's a tin pen, but that doesn't mean the student is there. So I just, you know, this is a this is a day and time that we need to be that much more diligent. We cannot depend on um technology. Uh yeah, my my board kind of gonna keep it kind of short here, but um you know, recently, I'm sure we've all seen it in the paper, there is a I've talked about this before up here, um an SVP or sexually violent predator um that's going to possibly
055be be released into the area that I represent, which also includes u another uh unified school district um in Chadam. Um and uh this is just something that it goes to just a reminder to our community that um we do pay attention. We are watching what's going on. Um you know, I I've said it before and I'll say it again. It's an absolute travesty that the state would continue to allow this to happen and uh would just watch um as somebody who has been violent towards children uh be released next to a home school, you know, a home school uh right next door uh elementary school, middle school, right down the road um and in our community um just because that person uh was a a perpetrator in our community at some point. Um so
056these are very real things that are going to affect our students and our parents and our families. Um it's something that's very very serious. Um and it's unfortunate that it's something that we're going to have to face as a community. Um and so uh you know I fully intend on on participating on Friday morning at the courthouse and there's going to be a little bit of a rally to try to hopefully uh one last try to stop this from happening. Um so I I would encourage uh fellow board members to take a look at that to to kind of just um see what's going on there. Uh, and then secondly, and and you know, we we had some very very passionate students and and community members come speak to us tonight. Um, and I think
057it goes back to um there is an organization in California that runs um the uh sports organizations throughout the state. Um, and I really wish somebody from CIF could come down here and explain to these students and to these parents what it is that they're doing, right? what it is that CIS decision has been. So, I'm going to make a request if possible if we can reach out to CIS and have somebody come down from their team to please explain it to these parents and coaches. Um because at some point um they do take it out of our hands, but that's not okay. And these parents are right. They're they're students deserve opportunities just like everybody else. Um and right or wrong, whatever the situation may be, the adults can handle the situation and we
058can fix it. We can remedy it. But the but punishing these students um you know I'm just going to leave it at I really hope we can see I have done here to explain that to these students and to look them in the face and tell them why this is happening. So that's going to be my kind of one request out of this. Um and at the end of the day I really appreciate all the community members who came out and spoke to us and shared uh their opinions and thoughts. Um I've said it before to our board and I'll say it again. Athletics is huge for these students. It's huge for our students. Um, and it it's very very evident when you know at least 40 or 50 of them pack the room uh
059for one of their coaches. Um, it means a lot. So, um, that that'll be it for my board. I know I always feel like I'm the serious person at the end. I apologize. Um, but uh, you know, welcome to the new school year, guys. Thank you all for being here. Um, I know you guys are not supposed to be here, but thank you. We're I'm excited for you guys. I'm excited for this new school year. Um, I'm really excited about that update on ELOP and I I really hope that we can continue to get as many students in as we possibly can. So, thank you to our team for working on that so diligently and so dedicately. Let's hope that this is just a smooth transition into the years to come for it. So, thank
060you guys. >> I just like to say I really uh enjoyed the administrative council with all of you the other day and I'm looking forward to a good start to this school year. looks feel very promising and it's thanks to to your fine work and hard effort. And with that also we need to make mention no matter how thin the pancake there are always two sides to every issue and we'll we'll leave it at that. >> We should put that under his picture >> and then and then also remind you we have to go back into close session so don't run off >> I need a Move to adjourn. >> Second to adjourn. All say I. Thank you for attending.