001Yeah, let's go ahead and get started. Get started. Started. Evelyn, if you can start us with roll call. Trusty Lee here. Trusty King. Trusty Marquez is absent. Vice President Weekly present. President Wells here. Uh good evening. It's May 8th, 2025. Welcome to special meeting of the Redwood City uh school board. Um not many people here are online. Um but uh we we will be taking public comment. It's going to work a little bit different at this evening's meeting than how we handle at a regular meeting. We're going to hear comments related to only to the special meeting topics. Um the two resolutions that are up our uh action item tonight and we'll hear them when we get to 6.1 on the agenda. Um, so if you do have public comment, um, you know, on the
002special board meeting items, um, either post it on the links online for the participants that are online, um, they're in the public content section of the agenda online, um, or fill out a speaker card in the back and hand it to Evelyn before we get to 6.1, um, so that we can, uh, be sure to hear from you. And then, of course, to be fair to all speakers, we limit public comments to three minutes per person, um, unless otherwise noted. Uh, with that, do we have any changes to the agenda? All right. Can I get a motion to approve the agenda? I move we approve the agenda. All in favor? I I. Great. Then let's move into our two action items. We're going to start with 5.1. This is adoption of resolution 22 uh regarding
003non reemployment of classified employees for the 2526 school year. Thank you. I appreciate the special board meeting tonight. We do have um I want to tell a little bit of a story between what has occurred from our layoff uh meeting that culminated in February to where we are arriving to tonight. So, as you recall, there were two layoff um sessions, one in December and one in February in which we were addressing for our classified group, which is this first action item, lack of work or lack of funds and the board took action on those resolutions and then subsequently um we met with CSEA, discussed the positions. Um, we are still in negotiations regarding the librarians reduction of hours, but for the other positions due to uh funding coming back or um new requests coming in,
004the number of FTE has been changed since our original prediction, which was back in December and February. And actually, that happens from time to time. That's not anything new. Um but that did occur in between March and April and so that is one resolution is essentially correcting the new number to make it accurate certainly for the business office and so forth. It will result in notification to the employee again as the final layoff number. Okay. So those that have other positions now or with the classified group has bumped into other positions, they will still be notified of the process but recognizing that their employment will still continue. We do have some employees in which we don't have positions for for a variety of reasons and they will be placed on the reemployment list as outlined
005in ED code. So that is part one in this in uh action item 5.1. The second item, I just wanted to update the board that we did have one employee who had requested a hearing under ED code 45117 but withdrew prior to the hearing date. So that is just an update that was in the board memo. The board memo has a lot of detail about what I just said. And uh this resolution is requesting approval from the board for the reduction of 18.6668 FTE at this time. Any questions? Does anyone have questions? Any comments? Um Okay. Yeah. I'll just take a moment to acknowledge that um you know that this is just a spreadsheet of numbers. These are real people that are there and you know they've contributed meaningfully to our students in schools. So
006I definitely appreciate that. Um, you know, and I understand sometimes budgetary shifts require these kind of things to happen, but um, just don't take it lightly and uh, definitely consider that during these reductions. Um, so then if there's no comments or questions, this is an action item. Uh, can I get a motion to approve? I move to Oh, wait. Oh. Uh, I thought think we were going to take Sorry. Um, I mentioned this at the beginning. We're going to take it during the oral communication at 6.2. Yeah. Sorry. I'll move to uh approve resolution number 22. Seconded. All in favor? I I Okay, we'll move on to 5.2, which is resolution 23. Uh this is non-remployment for certificated employees for the 2526 school year. Yes, thank you. And thank you, Mic, for those comments. That
007was appreciated. So this is very similar to the classified item I just mentioned but it does pertain to certificated certificated teachers and certificated management as well. Um and the same situation applied where we had two layoff sessions in December and February and the board took action and um and approved the resolutions at the time. Since that time period, there have been shifts and changes in regards to the services that are required for next year. So 3.25 total FTE was reinstated due to additional funding sources. And that could be as simple as the PTO sends in a commitment letter. Um there could be a shift in supplemental concentration requests, what have you. And so those were um those were essentially brought back maybe with the change of a funding source. And so as a result the
008recommendation was to um approve the 30.7604 FTE as a reduction um at this time. So that is the the reduction of 3.25 that we brought back. Okay. The second piece is that we had two affected employees who requested a hearing under the ED code. One employee withdrew their request prior to the hearing. The second employee went through the process with an administrative law judge. And um by ED code, the board and the employee were emailed the results of that decision prior to May 7th. And so you did receive that. Um and so we also attached it as exhibit A here. And so therefore it is our recommendation that we adopt the proposed decision by the administrative log judge as outlined in resolution 23 uh and take action on this particular item. There any questions regarding
009these two resolutions for certificated questions or comments? again another you know not not the easy part of the job and of course these are educators who you know poured their energy into our students um so I want to thank each one of the affected ones and I understand that the hardship and the uncertainty that that you know these kind of resolutions represent um is there a motion to approve I'll move to uh approve resolution number 23 seconded all in favor I I All right we'll will move on to oral communication which is 6.1. Uh we have one speaker card and it's Maria Stockton and you'll have uh Yeah. And three three minutes. Can you press the button on the right? There you go. Perfect. Thank you. Thank you. Maria Stockton, uh uh classified president CSA
010City5. Uh this is I was just going to talk on the reductions of classified. Thank you for your your words. We don't ever want to see somebody laid off because they're hired because they're needed and some of the positions unfortunately with changing of schools and everything. It's understood of some kind of changes. Uh as for the librarians, we are in discussion right now. I believe the district is receiving a letter today from CSEA. So that will continue until whatever happens. Uh, as for the one uh person who submitted a letter for uh the hearing or something, she was confused and she didn't know what that was. So that's why it was withdrawn. It wasn't that she wanted to challenge anything. She just didn't understand it. So, uh, we want to thank everybody, you know, the
011district, especially Patricia Perez, who has loads of work, you know, on her desk, uh, for working with us on getting this done and with Wendy and us continuing discussing discussing discussing the librarian positions and we'll bring information to the board as well. Also, the third week of May is classified week. And so, if you don't know all of who you represent beside children and parents and the district people, please learn who your support staff are. And please come visit the sites and not only visit teachers, administrators, please stop in the kitchens, the library, stop in the office and say hello. We want to know you as well as we hope you want to know us and what we do. So when you decide to make cutbacks or you know have to make decisions, you'll better
012understand what we do. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you, Maria, for your comments and we appreciate all the work that CSAA does in the district. Um certainly and thank you for coming last night and sitting through the bond oversight committee. I understand that the you know the special meeting was scheduled on on on different day uh but good meeting. Okay, great. Um, I think with that we're up to 7.1 to adjourn the meeting. Um, can I get a motion to adjurnn? I move we adjourn and a second. All in favor? I. Meetings adjourned.