Board of Education - Apr 02, 2024

001GOOD AFTERNOON. IT IS 4:18 P.M. THIS IS LAS CRUCES PUBLIC SCHOOLS BOARD OF EDUCATION WORK SESSION, I CALL THIS MEETING TO ORDER. WILL YOU PLEASE TAKE ROLE? >> MEMBER FRANK? >> YOUR. MEMBER PATRICK NOLAN? >> HERE. >> VICE RESIDENT 11. PRESENT. >> VICE PRESIDENT TERESA TENORIO. I'M HERE. VERY HAPPY TO ALEC INTRODUCE ALEXANDER Z, HE WILL HELP US WITH THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND SALUTE OF THE FLAG. HI, ALEXANDER. YOU ARE GOING TO STAND RIGHT THERE AT THAT PODIUM. AND FAITH ARE DIRECTION. WHEN WE ARE DONE DOING THE PLEDGE, CAN YOU COME VISIT US HERE AFTER WE ARE DONE? YEAH. TURN AROUND. >> I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS ONE NATION UNDER GOD INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. [

002SPEAKING IN A NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE ] I SALUTE THE FLAG OF NEW MEXICO AND THE ZIA SYMBOL OF PERFECT FRIENDSHIP AMONG UNITED CULTURES. [ SPEAKING IN A NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE ] EVERYBODY GIVE ALEXANDER A BIG HAND. NICELY DONE. LOOKING AT TODAY'S AGENDA, I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE THE APRIL 2nd, 2024, WORK SESSION AGENDA. SO MOVED. >> SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. ANY OPPOSED? I SAY AYE AS WELL. MOTION PASSES 5-0. LOOKING AT THE APPROVAL OF MINUTES I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE THE JANUARY 18th . THESE ARE ALL FOR 2022. YES. >> JANUARY 18, 2022, REGULAR SESSION MINUTES. FEBRUARY 1st, 2022, WORK SESSION MINUTES. FEBRUARY 15th 2022, REGULAR SESSION MINUTES. AND A JUNE 7th, 2022, WORK SESSION MINUTES. SO MOVED. I WILL SECOND. >> MOVED BY MR. ROBERT WOFFORD AND SECONDED BY MR.

003FRANK. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? THAT MOTION PASSES 5-0. APPROVAL OF CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS . WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS SIX A1, APPROVAL OF EL PASO ELECTRIC OVERHEAD AND UNDERGROUND FACILITIES IS MEANT FOR FAIRACRES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. 682, APPROVAL OF CONTRACTED FOOD SERVICES BETWEEN LAS CRUCES PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND THE HEAD START PROGRAMS. SCHOOL FOR THE YOUNG, LEICESTER DAY CARE CENTER, ONE AND TWO. LAS CRUCES'S CATHOLIC SCHOOLS , EXPLORE ACADEMY AND BRIGHT BEGINNINGS FOR THE 2024 TO 2025 SCHOOL YEAR. AND, SIX A .3, APPROVAL OF AMENDED SCHOOL YOUR 23 TO 24 FOOD SERVICES CONTRACT BETWEEN LAS CRUCES PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND LAS CRUCES CATHOLIC SCHOOLS. PRESIDENT TERESA TENORIO. >> MADAM? ON MY AGENDA IT IS 5. 5A ONE AND TWO. I MISREAD IT. IT IS 5A .3 IN FRONT OF ME

004AS WELL. YES, MA'AM. THANK YOU. THEY ARE ALL 6A .1 5A TWO AND 5A THREE. IS IT 4A.1? NO. OUR AGENDA STOPS. THERE IT IS, IT IS 5A.1. WE CAUGHT IT. MOVED AS AMENDED? I'M GOING TO ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE AGENDA ITEMS 5A.1, TWO AND THREE. SO MOVED. >> SECOND. >> SECONDED BY MR. ROBERT WOFFORD. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. ANY OPPOSED? THAT MOTION PASSES 5-0. THE BOARD MET AND CLOSED EXECUTIVE SESSION ON TUESDAY, APRIL 2nd, 2024, FROM 3:08 P.M. TO 4:12 P.M. TO DISCUSS LIMITED PERSONNEL MATTERS AS PERMITTED UNDER SECTION 10-15-182. SO THAT THE SUPERINTENDENT CAN UPDATE THE BOARD AND LEGAL COUNSEL REGARDING SPECIFIC EMPLOYEE MOVEMENT AND CONTEMPLATIVE MOVEMENT AND TWO, THE SUPERINTENDENT COULD UPDATE THE BOARD AND LEGAL COUNSEL COULD ADVISE REGARDING THE INVESTIGATIONS OF PASSIVATED AND OR CERTIFIED EMPLOYEES, ALSO TO

005DISCUSS COLLECTIVE BARGAINING STRATEGIES . AS PERMITTED UNDER SECTION 10 DASH 15 DASH 185 OF THE NEW MEXICO OPEN MEETINGS ACT AND TO MEET WITH LEGAL COUNSEL TO DISCUSS PENDING OR THREATENED LITIGATION AS PERMITTED UNDER SECTION 10-15-187 OF THE NEW MEXICO OPEN MEETINGS ACT. SPECIFICALLY, TR VERSUS PATRICK HOWARD AND LAS CRUCES PUBLIC SCHOOLS . TWO, IOM 20-CB HAVE 00276D AND AN UPDATE. I FROM THE MATTERS DISCUSSED IN THIS CLOSED MEETING WERE LIMITED TO THOSE STATED HERE. WE HAVE ONE PUBLIC COMMENT. I AM HAPPY TO WELCOME SHERRY NOLAN. GOOD AFTERNOON. HELLO. CAN YOU HEAR ME? WE CAN. SEAMA GOOD EVENING, SUPERINTENDENT RELEASE, PRESIDENT TERESA TENORIO AND FELLOW BOARD MEMBERS. I AM HERE TO TALK ABOUT BEST BUDDIES AND TO INVITE YOU TO TWO SIGNIFICANT EVENTS THAT ARE COMING UP. I WILL PUT MY GLASSES ON. BEST BUDDIES

006FRIENDSHIP PROGRAM REPRESENTS ONE OF OUR ORGANIZATIONS FOUR KEY MISSIONS . THESE PROGRAMS BUILD 1-1 FRIENDSHIPS BETWEEN PEOPLE WITH AND WITHOUT INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT -- WITH AND WITHOUT INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENT OF DISABILITIES. OFFERING A SOCIAL INTERACTIONS WHILE IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF -- SORRY. I DON'T KNOW WHY I AM NERVOUS, YOU GUYS ARE ALL MY FANS. THE QUALITY OF LIFE AND LEVEL OF INCLUSION FOR THE POPULATION THAT IS OFTEN I CITED AND EXCLUDED. THROUGH THEIR PARTICIPATION PEOPLE WITH IDD FORM CONNECTIONS WITH THEIR PEERS, GAIN SELF-CONFIDENCE AND SELF-ESTEEM AND SHARE INTERESTS. EXPERIENCES AND ACTIVITIES THAT MANY OTHER INDIVIDUALS ENJOY. THIS PROGRAM IS SIGNIFICANT IN CONTINUING THE MISSION OF SPREADING DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION. CURRENTLY WE HAVE SIX CHAPTERS HERE IN LAS CRUCES. THEY ARE AT CENTENNIAL HIGH , ORGAN MOUNTAIN HIGH, LAS CRUCES HIGH NMSU, GASTON HIGH AND OUR

007NEW CITIZENS CHAPTER FOR OUR OLDER INDIVIDUALS. WE WILL HAVE OUR BEST BUDDIES WE CAN EVENSON WITH THE CHAPTERS PARTICIPATE IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. ON FRIDAY, APRIL 12th, WE WOULD LIKE TO CORDIALLY INVITE YOU TO OUR ANNUAL FRIENDSHIP BALL AT LAS CRUCES HIGH SCHOOL FROM 7:00 TO 10:00, DJ RAY J HAS DONATED HIS DJ TALENTS TO US. DO NOT MISS ONE OF THE BEST DANCES OF THE YEAR AS OUR DANCE NAME REFLECTS IT IS OUT OF THIS WORLD. ON SATURDAY, APRIL 13th, THE NEXT DAY, WE WILL HAVE OUR FIRST BEST BUDDIES FRIENDSHIP WALK HERE IN LAS CRUCES. THEY ARE NORMALLY ONLY IN ALBUQUERQUE . WE TO HAVE OUR FIRST SATELLITE WALK HERE IN LAS CRUCES AT LAS CRUCES HIGH SCHOOL AT THE TURF FIELD. ALBUQUERQUE IS ALSO HAVING THEIR FRIENDSHIP WALK AND WE WANT TO

008SHOW THEM HOW WE DO IT HERE IN THE SOUTHWEST. THE BEST BUDDIES FRIENDSHIP WALK IS THE LEADING WALK IN THE COUNTRY SUPPORTING INCLUSION FOR PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOP MENTAL DISABILITIES. ALSO KNOWN AS IDD. JOIN 50,000 PARTICIPANTS AT 70 PLUS WALKS ACROSS THE GLOBE TO SUPPORT THE BEST BUDDIES PROGRAM IN SCHOOLS, WORKPLACES AND COMMUNITIES. YOU WILL BE MAKING THE WORLD MORE WELCOMING TO PEOPLE WITH IDD. ONE FRIENDSHIP, ONE JOB AND ONE LIFE-CHANGING CONNECTION AT A TIME. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE AND/OR DONATE TO THE WALK, THAT WOULD BE AWESOME. WE HAVE SEVERAL TEAMS FROM EACH SCHOOL SET UP THAT YOU CAN JOIN OR YOU CAN FORM YOUR OWN TEAM. ON THE FLYER I AM GOING TO GIVE YOU IN A MINUTE, I HAVE INCLUDED THE WEBSITE IF YOU PREFER NOT TO ACT, JOIN US

009ANYWAY. WE NEED THE CHEERLEADERS AND IT WOULD BE GREAT AS WELL. WE HOPE THAT YOU CAN JOIN US, BRING YOUR FRIENDS, FAMILY, WHOEVER YOU WOULD LIKE AND WE HOPE TO SHOW ALBUQUERQUE HOW WE ROCK HERE IN LAS CRUCES. I MAY HAVE YOUR PERMISSION TO GIVE YOUR LITTLE FLYER? GO AHEAD AND HAND IT TO THEM AND THEY CAN GIVE THEM TO US. DO YOU WANT SOME BACK? HERE. JUST ENOUGH FOR US. THANK YOU. >> WHAT TIME DID THAT START? THE WALK? SHERRY, WHAT TIME IS THE WALK ON SATURDAY? SATURDAY. >> WHAT TIME DOES IT START? AT 9:00. WE NEED ONE MORE. I FEEL LIKE YOU GIVE THAT TO US. NO? OKAY. NEXT, WE HAVE THE SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TENORIO, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. AT THIS TIME I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE OUR IN EA

010AND CSEC LAS CRUCES REPRESENTATIVE -- REPRESENTATIVES FOR THEIR REPORT. GOOD AFTERNOON. PRESIDENT TENORIO, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD , SUPERINTENDENT. MY REMARKS ARE GOING TO BE SUPER BRIEF, OKAY? OUR LOCAL ELECTIONS HAVE CONCLUDED. AND IF YOU RECALL, I HAD INFORMED YOU THAT WE WERE GOING TO ELECT AN INTERIM PRESIDENT. SO THEN I CAN GO BACK TO MY DUTIES AS VICE PRESIDENT. WE HAVE A NEW PRESIDENT , HER NAME IS JULIE AND SHE IS HERE. JULIE IS AMAZING . IF YOU HAVE NOT MET HER YET, SHE HAS DONE ALL THE COMMITTEES, ALL THE WORK, WITH ANY LAS CRUCES . SUPER INVOLVED, VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE. I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT SHE IS GOING TO LEAD OUR LOCAL TO THE BEST OF OUR ABILITIES AND ALWAYS KEEPING OUR STUDENTS AND OUR MEMBERS OF THE FOREFRONT OF WHAT SHE DOES. WE

011HAVE A VERY STRONG BOARD OF DIRECTORS, SO SHE IS NOT ALONE. WE ARE GOING TO SUPPORT HER AND MAKE SURE SHE THRIVES IN THIS NEW POSITION AS SHE LEARNS IT. WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, I'M GOING TO HAND IT OVER TO HER TO GIVE HER FIRST BOARD REPORT TO YOU ALL. THANK YOU. WELCOME, PRESIDENT. THAT IS CORRECT, THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING, SUPERINTENDENT , PRESIDENT TENORIO AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. MY NAME IS JULIE AND AS OF YESTERDAY, I AM YOUR NEWLY ELECTED INTERIM PRESIDENT OF NEA LAS CRUCES. I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU ALL. I ALREADY KNOW A LOT OF YOU SO WE JUST WRAPPED UP ELECTIONS AND A LOT OF HARD-WORKING EDUCATORS RAN THIS YEAR. THESE POSITIONS WILL BEGIN IN JUNE. DENISE WAS REELECTED AS VICE PRESIDENT, CARMEN WILL ONCE AGAIN BE OUR MEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR.

012NOEL WILL BE SECRETARY, NATALIA WILL BE OUR NEW TREASURER. SABRINA WAS REELECTED TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. KAREN WILL MOVE FROM SECRETARY TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS , AND WE ARE EXCITED TO HAVE TWO NEW FABULOUS BOARD MEMBERS. CAROL AND JULIE. EVEN THOUGH THEY SERVE UNTIL JUNE, I JUST WANTED TO TAKE A MOMENT TO THANK AMANDA, CHRISTINE, AND LISA FOR ALL OF THEIR HARD WORK ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. FOR A QUICK BARGAINING UPDATE, OUR TEAM MET WITH THE FEDERAL MEDIATOR FOR INTENTIONAL BARGAINING NEGOTIATIONS. AND, INTENTIONAL NEGOTIATIONS TRAINING. AFTERWARD WE HAD OUR FIRST TENTATIVE AGREEMENT WITH THE GROUND RULES. OUR BARGAINING DATES FOR THIS MONTH ARE APRIL 8th, NINTH, 16th, AND 22nd. YOU ARE ALL ALWAYS WELCOME TO ATTEND AS OBSERVERS. THANK YOU AND I STAND FOR ANY QUESTIONS, JUST NOT ANY REALLY HARD ONES

013TODAY. [ LAUGHTER ] >> BOARD MEMBERS, ANY QUESTIONS? NOTHING HARD FOR SURE, JUST, WELCOME. VERY NICE. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. [ APPLAUSE ] I DO NOT SEE OUR CSEC REPRESENTATIVES HERE TODAY. I RECEIVED AN EMAIL. SHE IS UNABLE TO BE WITH US TODAY. SHE DID NOT HAVE A REPORT. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TENORIO. AS FAR AS MY SUPERINTENDENT UPDATE, I HAVE A SHORT ONE TODAY. HAPPY TO REPORT THAT BARGAINING TEAMS, AS WAS MENTIONED EARLIER, HAVE BEEN SELECTED FOR BOTH NEA AND NEA. HOURLY NEGOTIATION FOR NEA WILL BE DENISE SHEEHAN, REPRESENTING THE NEA SIDE AND OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION, STEVE RODRIGUEZ, REPRESENTING LCPS. RENEGOTIATING FOR CSEC, IRMA REPRESENTING CSEC AND MR. DAVE , REPRESENTING LCPS. WE LOOK FORWARD TO A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH AND PLAN TO HAVE BOTH SIDES COME TOGETHER WITH BOARD REPRESENTATION SO WE

014CAN EXPLAIN AND DISCUSS HOW THE DISTRICT IS FUNDED. THIS WILL ENSURE AN EQUITABLE PROCESS SO EVERYONE HAS THE SAME INFORMATION AND WE CAN BEGIN BARGAINING IN GOOD FAITH. LASTLY, I HAVE AN UPDATE ON OUR CLIMATE AND CULTURE SURVEY. IT IS DONE REGULARLY ACROSS OUR LCPS COMMUNITY. LAS CRUCES PUBLIC SCHOOLS WILL ASK PARENTS, COMMUNITY MEMBERS, STAFF AND STUDENTS IN GRADES SIX THROUGH 12 TO SHARE THEIR THOUGHTS AND PERCEPTIONS OF THE DISTRICTS CULTURE AND LEARNING ENVIRONMENT . QUESTIONS INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO FEELINGS ON SAFETY, STUDENT ACCESS TO TECHNOLOGY, AND RESOURCES AND HOW THE SCHOOL DISTRICT POSITIONS ITSELF ABOUT DISCIPLINE AND RESPECT. OUR ANSWERS THAT ARE COLLECTED DURING THE SURVEY ARE KEPT CONFIDENTIAL AND WILL BE USED FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES TO ENSURE LCPS IS MEETING THE NEEDS OF PARENTS, STUDENTS AND STAFF AND THAT THOSE NEEDS

015ARE CONSISTENT WITH DISTRICT GOALS. THE CULTURE AND CLIMATE SURVEY, WHICH TAKES ABOUT 10 MINUTES TO COMPLETE, WILL BE OPEN APRIL 8th THROUGH THE 22nd AND WILL BE AVAILABLE IN BOTH ENGLISH AND SPANISH. FAMILIES WHO WISH TO ANSWER THE SURVEY IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE CAN CALL OUR MAIN OFFICE FOR TRANSLATION ASSISTANCE. OUR GOAL THIS YEAR IS TO ENSURE THAT WE INCREASE THE NUMBER OF RESPONDENTS AND SO WE ARE GOING TO BE REALLY COMMUNICATING IN ALL OF OUR MEDIA --I'M SORRY, OUR SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS. ALSO, WITH THE HOPE OF ALSO ENGAGING OUR LOCAL MEDIA AS WELL. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TENORIO. MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, THAT CONCLUDES MY SUPERINTENDENT REPORT. THANK YOU. BOARD MEMBERS, ANY QUESTIONS FOR MR. RUIZ? OKAY. GOING ON TO AGENDA ITEM 4 A, OLD BUSINESS. WE HAVE A BOARD DISCUSSION FOR REVIEW AND POSSIBLE APPROVAL

016OF ANY AMENDMENTS TO THE STRATEGIC PLAN, VISION , MISSION, VALUES AND GOALS. THIS IS JUST SOMETHING THAT I REQUESTED BECAUSE I FELT LIKE AFTER WE HAD A VERY PRODUCTIVE AND SUCCESSFUL BOARD RETREAT, I WANTED YOU --TO GIVE YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO KIND OF SIT WITH THE WORK WE HAD DONE AND IF ANYTHING CAME TO MIND THAT YOU WANTED TO KIND OF DISCUSS WITH THE BOARD AS FAR AS AMENDMENTS. NOTHING OVERTURNING WHAT WE HAVE ALREADY DONE BUT JUST TO ENHANCE. I KNOW THAT THERE WERE A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT I HAVE NOT KIND OF SETTLED AND I WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU ALL AND THEN SEE WHERE YOU WERE IF THERE IS CONSENSUS OR NOT. SO, CURRENTLY WE HAVE THE VISION STATEMENT AS , WHERE ALL LEARNERS THRIVE. THE MISSION STATEMENT OF THE LAS CRUCES PUBLIC

017SCHOOLS PROVIDES A SAFE, CARING, EQUITABLE AND STUDENT CENTERED LEARNING ENVIRONMENT THAT CULTIVATES CIVIC AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, PROMOTES EXCELLENCE AND HONORS DIVERSITY. VALUES, WE HAVE SEVEN VALUES. BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR EVERY CHILD, FOSTER GROWTH AND INNOVATION, GUIDE ALL DECISIONS THROUGH THE LENS OF EQUITY, SUSTAINABILITY AND RESPECT. COMMIT TO THE SUCCESS OF EVERY STUDENT. MAINTAIN A SAFE, HEALTHY AND CARING ENVIRONMENT. CULTIVATE AND MAINTAIN PARTNERSHIPS WITH PARENTS, STUDENTS, STAFF AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS , EMBRACE THE POWER OF COLLABORATION. AND I THINK WHERE I WAS KIND OF STILL MULLING ON WAS WITH THE VALUE STATEMENTS. I LOVE ALL THE SEVEN STATEMENTS. I THINK I AM STILL WANTING TO ADD SOMETHING ABOUT INCLUSION . I DID NOT THINK IT WAS NECESSARILY MENTIONED AND I WONDER IF YOU ALL THINK THAT IT NEEDS TO BE OR IF IT IS REFERRED SOMEWHERE? AND THEN

018THE OTHER ONE I HAD WAS , LIKE, RESEARCHED-BASED OR EVIDENCE-BASED. PRESIDENT TENORIO. WHERE I SEE THAT IT MIGHT BE , INCLUSION MIGHT BE INCLUDED, IS NUMBER 4, WE ARE COMMITTING TO THE SUCCESS OF EVERY STUDENT. WHICH MEANS WE ARE NOT --BUT, WE CAN ALSO ADD IT IN NUMBER THREE. WE GOT ALL OUR DECISIONS THROUGH THE LENS OF EQUITY, SUSTAINABILITY, RESPECT AND INCLUSION. KEEP IT THERE IF WE WANT TO GIVE THAT, INSTEAD OF HAVING IT BE INFERRED THAT IT IS THERE. I THINK IT FITS IN 5 TOO. MAY BE BETTER JUST ADDING AS OPPOSED TO ADDING ANOTHER NUMBER. I AGREE. >> IF WE ADD IT AS A SEPARATE WORD, IT SAYS MORE THAN HAVING IT BE INFERRED. YEAH. AGAIN, WHEREVER IT GOES, IT DOES NOT NECESSARILY -- IF YOU THINK THAT IT IS ALREADY IMPLIED, THEN

019I JUST NEED TO HEAR THAT IT IS . BECAUSE OTHERWISE, I GUESS FOR ME, IT IS NOT COMING OUT AT ME. ABSOLUTELY, SO I THINK IT MIGHT BE BEST TO ADD IT SOMEWHERE . WHERE WERE YOU THINKING IT SHOULD GO? OR WOULD YOU LIKE TO ADD ANOTHER VALUE? NO, I NEEDED YOUR BRAINPOWER TO KIND OF HELP ME WITH WHERE TO PUT THE CONCEPT OF INCLUSION. I THINK WE ARE MAYBE ON NUMBER FOUR WHERE IT IS, COMMIT TO THE INCLUSION AND SUCCESS OF EVERY STUDENT. THAT WORKS FOR ME. I THINK WE SHOULD INCLUDE IT SOMEWHERE. AND, YEAH, I THINK IT IS IMPLIED BY SEVERAL OTHER STATEMENTS BUT I THINK WITH SOMETHING LIKE THIS, IT IS BETTER TO ERR ON THE SIDE OF REDUNDANCY THEN OMISSION. THANK YOU. SO THEN IT WOULD BE FOR NUMBER FOUR. TO

020ADD COMMIT TO THE INCLUSION AND SUCCESS OF EVERY STUDENT. PRESIDENT TENORIO, IF I MAY? ! >> SO WE ARE THEN COMMIT TO THE INCLUSION, IS THAT WHAT WE ARE ADDING TO NUMBER FOUR THEN ? CORRECT. >> OKAY. >> THE RESEARCH COMPONENT, THE DECISION SHOULD BE DATA DRIVEN RESEARCH-BASED , SOMETHING OF THAT SORT, RIGHT? YES. AND SAID -- >> I FEEL LIKE WE ALREADY DO THAT AND WE TEND TO --IT IS KIND OF LIKE A GUIDING PRACTICE. WHAT DOES THE RESEARCH SAY? WHAT ARE THE BEST PRACTICES? AND IF THAT IS KIND OF ONE OF OUR VALUES, THEN IT SHOULD BE MENTIONED. SO WE ALREADY HAVE A NUMBER THAT TALKS ABOUT OUR DECISIONS. SO, DOES THAT SEEM LIKE A LOGICAL PLACE TO PUT THAT? POSSIBLY. IT IS ALREADY A LONG SENTENCE, BUT WE CAN MAKE IT LONGER.

021PRESIDENT TENORIO, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, IF I MAY, DEFINITELY I COULD SEE WHERE IT COULD BE A NUMBER THREE. I ALSO RECOMMEND MAYBE UNDER NUMBER 2, FOSTERING GROWTH AND INNOVATION THAT IS GROUNDED IN RESEARCH AND EVIDENCE, OR GRANTED IN EVIDENCE IN RESEARCH-BASED PRACTICES, OR SOMETHING. WE COULD ADD IT THERE. I LIKE IT THERE. FOSTER GROWTH AND INNOVATION WHILE FOLLOWING -- GROUNDED IN EVIDENCE AND RESEARCH-BASED PRACTICES ? WHAT OTHER WORD. , AFTER INNOVATION? GROUNDED IN RESEARCH AND EVIDENCE BASED -- I DON'T KNOW IF WE NEED THE-BASED. RESEARCH AND EVIDENCE. FOUNDED IN RESEARCH AND EVIDENCE. BEST PRACTICE, SOMETHING AND SOMETHING? FOSTER GROWTH AND INNOVATION . YEAH. I DON'T KNOW, I KIND OF LIKE JUST KEEPING IT SIMPLE. FOSTER GROWTH AND INNOVATION COMMA GROUNDED IN RESEARCH AND EVIDENCE. I THINK THAT WORKS WELL. IF WE MAKE IT TOO

022WORDY IT IS GOING TO GET A LITTLE OUT OF HAND. I DON'T THINK THERE IS A THIRD TERM TO PUT THERE. RESEARCH, EVIDENCE AND REDUNDANCY. [ LAUGHTER ] AND REPEATING ONESELF OVER AND OVER AGAIN. THAT IS ONE OF OUR VALUES. SHELI STAY HERE UNTIL MIDNIGHT? OKAY, SHOULD I REPEAT THESE? OR CAN WE MOVE ON TO THE GOALS SECTION? IS THERE ANYONE THAT WANTS TO ADD ANYTHING TO WHAT THIS PAGE OFFERS? PUT INCLUSION WAS NUMBER FOUR? CORRECT. NUMBER THREE, GUIDE ALL DECISIONS TO THE WIND OF INCLUSION, EQUITY, SUSTAINABILITY AND RESPECT. COMMIT TO THE INCLUSION AND SUCCESS OF EVERY STUDENT. I CAN SEE IT BOTH PLACES. I DON'T KNOW IF THAT MATTERS. I FEEL LIKE IT GOES WELL WITH THE WORDS EQUITY AND RESPECT THERE. AS FAR AS INCLUSION? YES. SO WHEN YOU CALLED IT INCLUSIVITY? OR

023JUST INCLUSION ? WINDS OF INCLUSION? INCLUSION. DO YOU LIKE IT IN NUMBER FOUR? I FEEL LIKE IT FITS PERHAPS BETTER WITH THE WORDS EQUITY, SUSTAINABILITY, RESPECT. AND THE SUCCESS. WE ARE COMMITTED TO THE INCLUSION. WHAT DO WE MEAN BY INCLUSION? I THINK IT IS RELATED TO THE SUCCESS OF STUDENTS. IT IS LIKE, IT IS SAYING THAT -- WE JUST HAVE BEST BUDDIES HERE. IS A PRIME MODEL OF WHAT WE DO WITH INCLUSION, OF TRYING TO --IT IS JUST WHAT WE WANT IN OUR COMMUNITY. WE DO NOT CASTAWAY ANYONE BECAUSE IT IS LIKE, YOU ARE NOT UP TO SPEED OR, LIKE, WE BRING THEM IN AND WE SAY, YOU DESERVE QUALITY EDUCATION. AND WE ARE GOING TO GIVE THAT TO YOU BECAUSE WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SUCCEED? AND ALSO WHAT EXPERIENCE WILL YOU HAVE IN

024SCHOOL THAT CAN BE --THAT ALL STUDENTS SHOULD ENJOY? I LIKE IT THERE. >> I CONVINCED YOU? YEAH. I LIKE IT THERE. OKAY, SO THE NUMBER TWO WAS FOSTER GROWTH AND INNOVATION, GROUNDED IN RESEARCH AND EVIDENCE. YES. AND THEN COMMIT TO THE INCLUSION AND SUCCESS OF EVERY STUDENT IS 4. AND KIND OF JUST EXTRAPOLATES ON THAT LENS. OKAY. SO, IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE THAT ANYONE ELSE WAS WAKING UP ABOUT? JUST ME? IT IS GOOD TO REVISIT THIS BECAUSE WE WERE VERY FOCUSED ON OUR EVENT. I THOUGHT WE DID A GREAT JOB AND I JUST , I WOULD WAKE UP THINKING, I REALLY LIKE THE EVIDENCE-BASED . OKAY. SO, IS THERE A NEXT PAGE WITH THE GOALS? HERE WE GO. SO, WE HAVE KIND OF THESE UMBRELLA CONCEPTS OF INSTRUCTIONAL OUTCOMES, ENVIRONMENT AND ENGAGEMENT. UNDER THAT WE

025HAVE KIND OF THESE, WHERE WE ARE GOING TO FOCUS AND CREATE SOME SMART GOALS , WOULD BE WITH LITERACY, MATH, POSTSECONDARY READINESS, I AM NOT SURE HOW WE WOULD DO A SMART GOAL , BUT WE NEED TO KIND OF KEEP IT GROUNDED IN THAT. AND THEN UNDER ENVIRONMENT WOULD BE HEALTH AND WELLNESS AS A SMART GOAL. SAFETY, THAT IS GOING TO BE INTERESTING IF WE CAN MAKE A SMART GOAL OUT OF THOSE. LASTLY IS ENGAGEMENT, WE HAVE ATTENDANCE AS A SMART GOAL FOR STAFF AND STUDENTS. CLIMATE AND CULTURE, WE HAVE SCHOOL CLIMATE, TEACHER RETENTION, STAFFING, MORALE. GRADUATE PROFILE , LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES, SO LOOKING AT THIS, IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE YOU WOULD LIKE TO ADD TO THIS? OR TWEAK? A QUICK COMMENT IF I WAIT MAKE, THERE ARE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, THINKING ABOUT THIS ONE,

026NOT NECESSARILY A SMART GOAL BUT THAT THEY ARE INCLUDED WITHIN OUR SMART GOALS AS WE GO THROUGH THIS PROCESS. SETTING OUR SMART GOALS WITHIN EACH ONE OF THESE COMPONENTS, THEN IT IS THAT THE -- THE STUDENT DEMOGRAPHIC IS ALWAYS WITH HIM THOSE GOALS AS THINGS THAT, FOR EXAMPLE, LOOKING AT THE DATA, WE ARE LOOKING AT STUDENT OUTCOMES WITHIN THE DEMOGRAPHIC ALONG WITH ALL OF OUR STUDENTS. JUST WANTED TO POINT THAT OUT. THANK YOU. >> PRESIDENT TENORIO. IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY WHEN WE WERE GOING OVER THIS WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE WERE SITTING ON OUR GOALS WITH THE WHIMS OF EQUITY. WE ARE ALWAYS LOOKING AT IT THROUGH OUR LENS OF EQUITY AND I THINK THOSE WERE THERE TO REMIND US. WE NEED TO BE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR THAT LENS. CORRECT. SO, I LIKE THE

027FACT THAT THE MATH SORT OF STANDS ALL BY ITSELF THERE, YOU KNOW, BUT I MEAN, WE ARE NOT MENTIONING SOCIAL STUDIES AND SCIENCE AND LANGUAGES. I MEAN, SHOULD THEY BE MENTIONED? OBVIOUSLY LITERACY IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT BUT WHY MATH ALL BY ITSELF TO THE EXCLUSION OF ALL THOSE OTHER PRETTY DARN IMPORTANT , YOU KNOW, ACADEMIC AREAS? I THINK THE ANSWER IS JUST ON WHAT WE ARE TESTING. RATE. >> MAYBE --SORRY, GO AHEAD. GO AHEAD. AS WE ARE GETTING STUDENTS READY FOR POST SECONDARY READINESS, THE CIVICS AND SOCIAL STUDIES LANGUAGE, MAYBE IT IS PART OF THAT WHOLE PACKAGE. BEGINNING OF YEAR, AND OF YOUR, MIDDLE OF YOUR. PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, AS WE LOOK AT THE ACCOUNT ABILITY PIECE , MATH AND LITERACY ARE TWO MAJOR COMPONENTS, BUT NOT JUST THAT, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT

028, MEMBER FRANK, SOME OF THE OTHER GOOD POINTS REGARDING SOME OF THE OTHER CONTENT AREAS WHERE LITERACY AND MATH IS INCORPORATED WITHIN THIS CONTENT AREAS AS WELL, SO AS WE ARE BUILDING C, AS WE ARE LOOKING AT, WHEN I THINK ABOUT SOCIAL STUDIES AS WE ARE WRITING PAPERS IN SCIENCE, THE MATH THAT IS APPLIED, THE APPLICATION OF LITERACY AND MATH THROUGHOUT THE OTHER CONTENT AREAS AS WELL. OKAY. >> BUT THAT IS A GREAT POINT. PRESIDENT TENORIO? >> YES? MAY BE RIGHT NOW IT IS GOOD TO CONCENTRATE ON THESE TWO AREAS IN OUR GOALS AND AS WE MOVE FORWARD, AS WE MEET THE GOALS AND AS WE ARE MOVING FORWARD THEN WE COULD ADD OTHER GOALS WITH OTHER CONTENT AREAS? OKAY. >> I THINK FOR ME IT IS ALWAYS A COMPLICATED CONVERSATION BECAUSE IT IS TEST

029DRIVEN. THERE MAY BE OTHER THINGS -- I KNOW THEY ARE WORKING ON, AT THE INSTRUCTIONAL LEVEL, WHERE IT IS NOT THE TEST SCORE PER SE BUT IT IS CALLED THEY ARE ACTUALLY TEACHING THE CHILDREN HOW THEY ARE ENGAGING THEM AND THAT IS NOT ON A TEST BUT IT'LL BE INTERESTING HOW WE CAN MEASURE THAT. IF IT IS JUST BEYOND THE STATE TESTING. PRESIDENT THORPE, I MAY ALSO , WHEN WE THINK ABOUT THE OTHER CONTENT AREAS, IS ALSO THE POST SECONDARY READINESS, THE COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS, ALL OF THAT IS EMBEDDED WITHIN THAT AS WELL. I AM CURIOUS AS FAR AS LOOKING AT THE POSTSECONDARY READINESS , COLLEGE AND CAREER UNDER INSTRUCTIONAL OUTCOMES AND IN THE GRADUATE PROFILE UNDER ENGAGEMENT, ARE THEY DIFFERENT? ARE THEY DIFFERENT ENOUGH? WHAT DO YOU MEAN? >> UNDER INSTRUCTIONAL OUTCOMES, WE

030HAVE POSTSECONDARY READINESS AND COLLEGE AND CAREER. AND THEN UNDER ENGAGEMENT WE HAVE THE GRADUATE PROFILE. AND THEN SELF REFLECTIVE. MY MEMORY WAS THE SELF-INFLICTED ASPECT OF THE GRADUATE PROFILE, THAT IS WHY WE PUT IT THERE. AS AN EXTERNAL MEASUREMENT. SO THEN THAT WILL BE A SMART GOAL? I THINK SO. I THINK THAT WAS THE IDEA. I RECALL DR. WENDY SAYING A THING OR TWO. I THINK IT WAS HOW WE WOULD ENGAGE THE KIDS ON, THERE IS THE MONTHLY HIGHLIGHTED PROFILE IDEA , HOW TO MAKE THOSE CONCEPTS ENGAGED WITH STUDENTS MORE THOROUGHLY. INTEGRATED IN IN A SYSTEMATIC MATTER. I HAD A CHARACTER COUNTS POSTER IN MY CLASSROOM. I HAD ENGAGED. [ LAUGHTER ] FORGET ME. IT IS A BIT EARLY TO BE TOO FACETIOUS. BUT I THINK MY MEMORY IS, THAT WAS THE IDEA. THAT WE

031WOULD TRY TO GO BEYOND IT AND WORK WITH SMART GOALS THERE. DR. WENDY, I MIGHT PUT YOU ON THE SPOT. I LOVE THE SPOT. SO, I THINK TO YOUR QUESTION, PRESIDENT TENORIO AND TO MR. WOFFORD'S POINT, I THINK UNDER ENGAGEMENT, THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO ENGAGE STUDENTS WITH THINKING ABOUT THOSE CONTRIBUTIONS AND THINKING ABOUT THOSE THINGS BECAUSE A LOT OF THOSE ATTRIBUTES ARE THINGS THAT IT IS HARD TO JUDGE FROM THE OUTSIDE. IT IS MORE STUDENTS THINKING ABOUT WHERE THEY ARE IN TERMS OF HONESTY OR EMPATHY OR SELF-EFFICACY . BUT THOSE COULD ALSO BE INSTRUCTIONAL OUTCOMES , REALLY THE PLAN IS TO EMBED THEM IN DIFFERENT WAYS AND BACK TO THE -- TO MR. FRANK'S COMMENT EARLIER, IF I MAY, HE MENTIONED THAT SOCIAL STUDIES AND SCIENCE AND ALL OF THOSE THINGS, THEY ARE PART

032OF BEING COLLEGE READY. AND THEY ARE ALSO GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS. SO, ONE OF OUR INSTRUCTIONAL OUTCOMES OBVIOUSLY IS NOT JUST TEST SCORES BUT ALSO TO ENSURE THAT STUDENTS ARE GRADUATING AND THEY ARE GRADUATING WITH THE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS THAT THEY NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL AT THE NEXT LEVEL. I BELIEVE EVERYTHING IS COVERED THERE EVEN THOUGH IT IS NOT SPECIFICALLY. I AM JUST THINKING OF THE NEXT STEP AS FAR AS THE SMART GOALS DEVELOPED, IT HAS TO BE SPECIFIC. IT IS KIND OF INTERESTING FOR ME OF, LIKE, WHAT WE ARE WRAPPING OUR BRAINS AROUND. RATE, AND RESIDENT, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, THE OTHER PIECES OF THE GRADUATE PROFILE , AND CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG, THIS IS ALSO PART OF, AS WE EMBED THIS BACK TO YOUR POINT OR QUESTION ABOUT EMBEDDING, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT

033ADVISORY WE CAN EMBED THIS AND THAT IS HOW WE REFLECT A PIECE WITHIN THE ADVISORY PERIOD AS WELL AS WE ARE DEVELOPING THAT CURRICULUM OR REVAMPING THAT. DO WE HAVE ANY IDEA OF HOW MANY GOALS WE CAN CREATE? BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE YOU DO NOT WANT TO HAVE TOO MANY. THAT WILL BE PART OF THE WORK ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY AS WE REFLECT UPON -- AS WE START PLANNING AROUND WITH OUR SMART GOALS WILL LOOK LIKE AND REALLY THINKING FOR THAT, WE WILL ALSO HAVE THE DATA AVAILABLE, WORKING WITH CES. THEY ARE ALSO LOOKING TO PROVIDE US WITH SOME EXPERT ANALYSIS AROUND , FOR EXAMPLE, STATISTICALLY -- WHAT IS THE WORD I AM LOOKING FOR? IN OTHER WORDS, AS WE ARE PLANNING THROUGH OUR PERCENTAGES AND THOSE INCREASES, WHAT IS THE STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT ? THAT

034IS THE THURSDAY AND FRIDAY WORK WE ARE DOING THIS WEEK. SO, I JUST WANTED YOU ALL TO KIND OF HAVE A FRESH VIEW OF WHAT WE HAD DISCUSSED AND SEE IF THERE IS ANYTHING ELSE WE WANT TO THROW AT THIS PROVERBIAL WALL AND SEE IF IT STICKS OR IF -- THE ONE OTHER IDEA I HAD UNDER ENVIRONMENT WOULD BE INCLUSIVITY. BUT I DON'T KNOW JUST BASED ON THE DISCUSSION WE HAVE HAD , I DON'T KNOW THAT, DO WE NEED TO PULL IT OUT? THE LENS OF EQUITY, OF RESPECT. AND HOW DO YOU INTEND TO MEASURE THAT? ACCUSE ME FOR INTERRUPTING, I AM SORRY. THIS FEELS VERY GIVE AND TAKE. I DON'T KNOW. IT WAS JUST A THOUGHT SINCE WE INCLUDED IT. BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT ADDING AN EXTRA THING AT THIS POINT IS THE

035WAY TO GO. MAYBE WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE A MANAGEABLE NUMBER OF THINGS. I LIKE THE IDEA OF ADDING IT AT SOME POINT BECAUSE WE CAN DO THIS AGAIN. WE CAN SAY, WE ARE DOING THE SMART GOAL THING, I LIKE THESE ONES BUT LET'S --COME ALONG TO YOU DO THE SAME ONES BEFORE YOU THINK, EITHER WE MET THIS OR WE DID NOT WRITE IT THE RIGHT WAY? OKAY, SO WITH THAT, IF THERE IS NO --IF THERE ARE NO CHANGES TO GOALS, SO FAR WE HAVE TWO AMENDMENTS TO THE VALUE STATEMENTS . AND NO CHANGES TO THE VISION AND MISSION. SO, I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE AMENDMENTS TO NUMBER TWO AND NUMBER FOUR OF THE VALUE STATEMENTS AS WE DISCUSSED. GO AHEAD. MY APOLOGIES. ARE YOU READY? MOVED BY MADAM CORT

036AND SECONDED BY MYSELF. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. >> ANY OPPOSED? THAT MOTION PASSES 5-0. NEXT WE HAVE THE SECOND READING OF POLICY, J CAA, SCHOOL ATTENDANCE ZONES AND REDISTRICTING. GOOD EVENING, MADAM PRESIDENT, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD AND SUPERINTENDENT. BEFORE IN YOUR PACKETS, YOU HAVE THE POLICY J CAA SCHOOL ATTENDANCE ZONE AND REDISTRICTING FOR YOUR SECOND READING CONSIDERATION. IF I MAY DRAW YOUR ATTENTION , BASED ON THE SUGGESTIONS AT OUR LAST MEETING, MADE A COUPLE OF CHANGES FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. IF YOU LOOK , THE FIRST ONE WOULD BE UNDER POSITION A, NUMBER THREE . SO THE SUGGESTION NOW READS, CURRENT AND ANTICIPATED ENROLLMENT BASED ON FUTURE PROJECTIONS. THAT WAS A COMMENT THAT WAS MADE I BELIEVE BY OUR STUDENT ADVISOR. AND LOOKING AT NUMBER FIVE, ADDING BUILDING OF NEW SCHOOLS/FACILITIES BASED ON THE LCPS

037FACILITY MASTERPLAN, I THINK THAT WAS ONE OF THE COMMENTS ABOUT MAYFIELD AND ADDING SOME THINGS. THAT IS ANOTHER SUGGESTION FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. UNDER NUMBER 12, UNDER POSITION A NUMBER 12, ADDING A WHOLE NEW ONE, NUMBER 12, CONSIDERATION OF THE LCPS TRANSFER POLICIES AND ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS, I THINK THAT WAS ANOTHER SUGGESTION TO MAKE SURE THAT WE KEPT THOSE UNDER CONSIDERATION AS WELL. AND THEN ADDING A LETTER , PROCESS SHOULD BE GUIDED THROUGH THE LENS OF EQUITY, SUSTAINABILITY AND RESPECT. SO WITH THAT, MADAM PRESIDENT, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, I STAND FOR ANY QUESTIONS OR SUGGESTIONS. THANK YOU, BOARD MEMBERS. JUST A CLARIFICATION, I LIKE THOSE ADDITIONS, SO THANK YOU. BACKGROUND B , NO GUARANTEEING THAT OUR RESIDENCE OR BUSINESS WILL REMAIN IN A GIVEN ATTENDANCE ZONE. I WONDER, DOES IT MATTER ? WHY DO WE NEED TO

038PUT BUSINESS IN THERE? NECESSARILY? THERE COULD BE A REASON FOR IT, I DON'T KNOW. BUT I AM JUST CURIOUS. Reporter: MADAM PRESIDENT, BOARD MEMBER NOLAN. LOOKING AT NUMBER BE . PARENTS AND COMMITTEE SHOULD BE AWARE NO ATTENDANCE ZONES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE, THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT RESIDENTS -- THE RESIDENTS PART I GUESS I UNDERSTAND AS YOU DO. THE BUSINESS PART, I GUESS I THINK ABOUT IT FROM MAYBE A FUNDRAISING PERSPECTIVE OR SUPPORT PERSPECTIVE THAT IF I AM A COMMUNITY PARTNER FOR ONE OF THE SCHOOLS IN THE ATTENDANCE ZONES A CHANGE IN THAT BUSINESS HAPPENS TO BE LOCATED IN ANOTHER ATTENDANCE ZONE, WHICH TO ME DOESN'T MATTER, DOESN'T CHANGE THE FACT I CAN STILL DONATE TO OR BE A COMMUNITY PARTNER WITH OR SPONSOR OF, BUT I THINK MAYBE THAT IS HOW I READ THAT.

039THAT WOULD BE MY OPINION. THERE ARE NO RED FLAGS OR ANYTHING. I WAS CURIOUS WHY THAT WAS THERE. BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY. YES SIR, GREAT QUESTION. I HAVE ONE SUGGESTION OR SOMETHING TO CONSIDER. SO, IN --UNDER A, THE BOARD AND SUPERINTENDENT BE CONSIDERED , BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, JUST CHANGING THESE AND OTHER TO THE FOLLOWING. SO, WE WOULD READ , THE BOARD AND SUPERINTENDENT MAY CONSIDER BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA . AND THE REASON FOR THAT IS, I THINK OTHER IS KIND OF REDUNDANT BECAUSE , BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO KIND OF COVERS IT. AND IT IS ALSO, OTHER IS SOMEWHAT VAGUE. THANK YOU. >> I MEAN, IF PEOPLE AGREE, IT IS JUST SOMETHING TO THROW OUT THERE. I LIKE THAT. A LITTLE MORE STRAIGHT AND TO THE POINT. I WILL

040NOTE THAT CHANGE, THANK YOU, SIR. SO WE ARE STRIKING OUT THE SECOND MINDS SO IT JUST SAYS, ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING? JUST TAKING OUT THESE AND OTHER AND REPLACING IT WITH THE FOLLOWING. OH, AND CRITERIA. >> OKAY. SO YOU STILL KEEP CRITERIA IN ESTABLISHING ATTENDANCE? OKAY. YES. MADAM PRESIDENT. MR. WALKER? >> DO WE DEMONSTRATE OUR BELIEF IN INVOLVING PEOPLE IN THIS DECISION MAKING PROCESS? ARE WE EXPLICITLY SAYING WE WANT INPUT SOMEWHERE ? OUTSIDE OF JUST THE BOARD MAKING CHANGES? THERE IS KIND OF AN IMPLICATION THERE BUT IT IS BECAUSE I AM AWARE THAT THEY HAD COMMITTEES IN THE PAST THAT I WOULD KNOW, THAT MEANS THEY WILL BRING IT TO A COMMITTEE BUT IT IS NOT! SO WE SET. PERHAPS WE SHOULD BE EXPLICIT IN THAT WE WANT AS MANY DIFFERENT COMMUNITY VIEWPOINTS

041AS POSSIBLE. PRESIDENT TENORIO? >> Reporter: LET'S LOOK AT WHAT MR. WOFFORD WILL GET TO. IT IS LETTER C. COLLABORATION AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR INPUT FROM AFFECTED STAKEHOLDERS , ESPECIALLY FAMILIES. IT IS AN OPEN PROCESS WHICH INCLUDES COLLABORATION AND OPPORTUNITY. OPEN PROCESS, UNDERMINE. SORRY, WASN'T TRYING TO STEP ON HIS TOES. I THOUGHT YOU WERE ADDING MORE. SO WE JUST FOCUS ON MR. WALKER? YES MA'AM. DID YOU CC? I SEE IT NOW. >> HOW DOES THAT SOUND TO YOU? IT SOUNDS INCLUSIVE. >> OKAY. AND THE SUPERINTENDENT OBLIGATES A REGULATION THAT WILL INCLUDE THAT, OKAY. DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE? NO, I WAS JUST -- POINTING OUT WHERE IT WAS. ALL RIGHT, IF THAT IS ALL WE HAVE, BOARD MEMBERS, THIS IS OUR SECOND READING. WE WILL HAVE ONE MORE AFTER THIS. THINK YOU. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT, MEMBERS

042OF THE BOARD. WE NOW HAVE THE SECOND READING OF POLICY JI CFA, BULLYING, CYBER BULLYING, HAZING AND HARASSMENT . GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM PRESIDENT, SUPRA --I COME BEFORE YOU FOR 2nd READING OF POLICY , CYBER BULLYING, HAZING AND HARASSMENT. I DON'T KNOW IF I AM GOING TO BE AS QUICK AS HE WAS WITH HIS POLICY BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF CHANGES TO THIS POLICY. IS OKAY, THERE IS A BALANCE. I HAVE TO BE THE ONE TO BALANCE, KEEPS EVERYBODY HERE. ALWAYS HAPPENS. I WANT TO START OFF BY EMPHASIZING A FEW POINTS. FIRST, I THINK I WORKED A FEW HOURS WITH ELENA THE LAST FEW WEEKS OR SO. EVERY TIME WE WORK ON POLICY IT IS A GOOD THING BECAUSE WE START LOOKING AT RELATED POLICIES. ONE OF THE BIG MOMENTS THAT WE HAD TWO WEEKS

043AGO WAS RIGHT AFTER THE FIRST READING WAS THIS OTHER POLICY THAT YOU HAVE IN THE BOOKS NOW, IT IS CALLED HARASSMENT , LET ME MAKE SURE, STUDENT HARASSMENT BASED ON PROTECTED CHARACTERISTICS. WHICH REALLY OUTLINES THE MAIN IDEAS THAT YOU HAVE IN THIS POLICY. ONE OF THE BIGGEST CHANGES TO THAT IS, IT HAS OUTDATED LANGUAGE FROM STATE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE. A LOT OF THE LANGUAGE IS INCLUDED IN THAT ONE IS NO LONGER IN EXISTENCE. SO I OUTLINED IN OUR --IN YOUR EXECUTIVE SUMMARY THAT WE ARE PROPOSING TO DELETE THAT POLICY WHICH WE WILL GET TO FOR 1st READING HERE IN A SECOND BUT I JUST WANT TO MENTION THAT WAS, THE BULK OF OUR TIME WAS REALLY SPENT ON ANALYZING THAT PARTICULAR POLICY AND MAKING SURE THAT WE TRANSFERRED EVERYTHING THAT WAS APPLICABLE AS IT RELATES TO

044STUDENTS. SO, ANOTHER MAJOR POINT WAS REALLY TRYING TO CLEAN UP OUR POLICIES IN THE J SERIES WHEN IT IS RELATED TO STUDENTS. KEEPING IT TO STUDENTS BECAUSE IF YOU NOTICE A LOT OF THE TIMES, WE OVERLAP WITH STAFF , THIS ONE INCLUDED. SO WE WERE VERY INTENTIONAL IN TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT IF THE ITEMS WERE INTENDED FOR STAFF, THAT THAT WAITER BE ADDRESSED IF NEEDED IN ONE OF OUR -- IN ONE OF YOUR POLICIES FOR STAFF. SO, IF I MAY, WHAT I AM GOING TO DO IS JUST GO THROUGH THE CHANGES , THE PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE POLICY. AND THEN I WILL MAKE SURE AND ALSO OUTLINE SOME OF THE CHANGES THAT MR. WOFFORD SENT ME. HE SENT ME A PRETTY HEFTY LIST OF ITEMS TO INCLUDE IN THE POLICY BUT I JUST WANTED

045TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE AWARE OF SOME OF THE CHANGES HE PROPOSED, THAT SOME OF THEM DID MAKE IT TO THIS VERSION YOU ARE LOOKING AT AND OTHERS DIDN'T. WE CAN EXPLAIN WHY. AGAIN, I WANT TO THANK HIM FOR HELPING WITH THE COMMENTS ON THE SIDE, I HOPE THAT GAVE YOU SOME CONTEXT AS TO THE WHY, EITHER WE ADDED OR DELETED CERTAIN ITEMS AND REALLY THE BIG IDEA WAS TO ALIGN WITH THREE -- TO ALIGN TO REQUIRED LANGUAGE , THAT IS INCLUDED IN THREE, AND THE SAFE SCHOOLS FOR ALL STUDENTS ACT. IN STATE STATUTE, THAT REALLY OUTLINES THE LANGUAGE AND THE BLACK EDUCATION ACT, THAT IS AN MSA 1978, 2235 /35/1. ACTUALLY, I READ THAT -- IS, 22 -FIVE -4.3 AND IN THE CHILDREN'S INTERNET PROTECTION ACT. THOSE WERE THE OVERARCHING LAWS , REGULATIONS

046THAT WE WERE REALLY FOCUSED ON. SO NOW I'M GOING TO GO THROUGH THE CHANGES. SO THE TITLE, MODIFIED THE TITLE OF THE POLICY BY LEADING HAZING WHICH WAS A HUGE CHANGE FROM YOUR PREVIOUS POLICY. THIS IS A PROPOSAL AS IT DOES NOT ALIGN WITH LANGUAGE INCLUDED IN THE SAFE SCHOOLS FOR ALL STUDENTS ACT. SO THIS LANGUAGE WAS ACTUALLY REMOVED IN STATE CODE , I BELIEVE IN 2010 AND 11, PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I GET THAT INFORMATION AND CORRECT. ANOTHER WAS MODIFIED TITLE OF THE POLICY BY INSERTING THE WORD RACIAL AGGRESSION. THIS IS A LEGALLY REQUIRED AREA THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED IN POLICY. AGAIN, THIS IS GOING BACK TO STATE STATUTE. THAT IS INCLUSIVE OF THE LANGUAGE IN THE BLACK EDUCATION ACT. UNDER DEFINITIONS, WE ADDED LANGUAGE TO THE DEFINITION OF BULLYING TO EXPAND ACTUAL

047OR PERCEIVED DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS FOR STUDENTS WHICH NOW INCLUDES EXPRESSION AND ANCESTRY ETHNICITY AND THIS WAS A SUGGESTION BY MR. WOFFORD THAT WE DID INCLUDE IN THEIR. MODIFIED B UNDER THE DEFINITION OF BULLYING FOR CLARITY, IT WAS JUST FOR I THINK, MR. FRANK BROUGHT THIS SECTION OF LAST TIME AND IT WAS JUST FOR CLARITY PURPOSES. WE REVISE B UNDER DEFINITIONS. DELETE TO THE DEFINITION FOR HAZING AS IT DOES NOT ALIGN WITH LANGUAGE INCLUDED IN THE SAFE SCHOOLS ACT, I WENT OVER THAT ALREADY. MODIFIED THE DEFINITION OF GENDER IDENTITY TO ALIGN WITH THE DEFINITION INCLUDED IN THE SAFE SCHOOLS FOR ALL STUDENTS ACT AND TO POLICY JPD WHICH YOU ADOPTED TWO YEARS AGO. SO WE MERGED BOTH DEFINITIONS INTO THIS ONE BECAUSE REALLY IT DID NOT CONTRADICT, IT JUST EXPANDED IT MORE. DELETED THE DEFINITION FOR NAME-CALLING

048AS IT DOES NOT ALIGN WITH ANY LANGUAGE INCLUDED IN THE SAFE SCHOOLS FOR ALL ACT OR ANY OF THE OTHER LAWS THAT I MENTIONED BEFORE. MODIFIED THE DEFINITION OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION TO ALIGN WITH DEFINITION INCLUDING THE SAFE SCHOOLS FOR ALL STUDENTS ACT. IN, DELETED DEFINITION FOR TROLLING AS IT DOES NOT ALIGN WITH LANGUAGE INCLUDED IN ANY OF THE LAWS I MENTIONED EARLIER. AND, INSERTED RACIAL SLURS AS PART OF THE DEFINITION OF RACIALIZED AGGRESSION. WE DID KEEP RACIAL SLURS AND THE REASON BEING IS BECAUSE THAT A SPECIFIC LANGUAGE OUTLINED IN STATE STATUTE THAT IS INCLUSIVE OF LANGUAGE THAT IS INCLUDED IN THE BLACK EDUCATION ACT. THAT IS A REQUIREMENT. IN THE POSITION AGAIN, I WILL BE REPEATING A FEW THINGS I HAVE SAID ALREADY, DELETED HAZING AND NAME-CALLING FOR THE REASONS I MENTIONED EARLIER. DELETED LANGUAGE

049FOR CLARITY AND AVOID REDUNDANCY IN C. NUMBER FIVE AS IT IS ADDRESSED IN D. SO THAT WAS JUST DELETED BECAUSE IT WAS REDUNDANT LANGUAGE. UNDER REPORTING, INVESTIGATING AND STANDARDS, MODIFIED LANGUAGE THAT INCLUDES THE LEADING -- DELETING HAZING. THROUGHOUT THE POLICY, THAT LANGUAGE WAS DELETED. MODIFIED LANGUAGE FOR LETTER A, NUMBER 5 FOR CLARITY AND CONSISTENCY. USE OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES, DELETED UNLAWFUL HARASSMENT TO JUST INCLUDE HARASSMENT OF THE TERM UNLAWFUL IS NOT ALIGNED TO CURRENT STATE LAW OR CODE. LIKE MENTIONED EARLIER, MR. WOFFORD DID SEND ME SOME CHANGES SO I WANTED TO GO OVER THOSE TO MAKE SURE YOU ALL WERE AWARE OF SOME OF THE SUGGESTIONS MR. WOFFORD HAD MADE. THIS IS STARTING WITH THE PURPOSE STATEMENT, IT WAS TO EMPHASIZE THE BOARD'S DESIRE TO PROHIBIT STUDENT TO STUDENT BULLYING. HIS SUGGESTION WAS INSTEAD OF

050--IF YOU READ THE PURPOSE STATEMENT NOW IT REALLY HAS TO DO WITH YOU AS A BOARD, BASICALLY GOING THROUGH WITH THE THREE LAWS THAT I MENTIONED EARLIER FOR STATE CORD. MR. WOFFORD, PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I DID NOT CAPTURE THAT CORRECTLY BUT I THINK THAT WAS YOUR INTENT TO MAKE SURE THAT IT WAS CLEARLY CLEAR THAT BEHAVIOR IS PROHIBITED, THAT INCLUDED NAME-CALLING. WHAT WE WANT TO DO IS PROMOTE A SAFE ENVIRONMENT CONDUCIVE TO LEARNING. AND THEN WE ARE ALSO GOING TO MAKE SURE OUR RULES FIT WITH THE LAWS. BUT THE MAIN GOAL WE HAD IS TO HAVE A SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR KIDS. AS IT IS WRITTEN, OUR PURPOSE IS TO COMPLY WITH LAW. I LIKE IT JUST DELETED TOO. MAYBE SWITCH THE ORDER? I PUT THE END OF THE SENTENCE TO THE BEGINNING. TO ENSURE

051THAT LAS CRUCES PUBLIC SCHOOLS PROMOTES A SAFE ENVIRONMENT CONDUCIVE TO LEARNING , COMPLIES WITH ALL PROVISIONS OF THE SAFE SCHOOL ACT FOR PREVENTING, ADDRESSING BULLYING, CYBER HARASSMENT. EXPRESSLY PROHIBITS RACIALIZED AGGRESSION AND ENSURES COMPLIANCE. GET RID OF THE INFINITIVES AND JUST MAKE THEM FIRMS. CAN YOU SCROLL UP TO THE TOP PLEASE? SORRY. >> THAT IS OKAY. IT IS SO HARD TO LOOK ON MY PHONE SO I APPRECIATE THAT, THANK YOU SO MUCH. YEP, AND I CAN SEND THAT LANGUAGE AGAIN . MR. WOFFORD IS SUGGESTING WE MOVE THE LAST -- THE LAST CLAUSE THERE, TO PROMOTE SAFE ENVIRONMENT CONDUCIVE TO LEARNING TO THE BEGINNING. AFTER LAS CRUCES PUBLIC SCHOOLS PROMOTES. I AGREE. WE WILL MAKE SURE THAT IS THERE FOR 3rd READING. HE DID SEND THAT TO ME. WE DO NOT EXPRESSLY CAELI BLACK EDUCATION ACT. WE

052HAVE, IN QUOTATION MARKS, THE SAFE SCHOOLS ACT. NO QUOTATION MARKS, THE CHILDREN'S INTERNET PROTECTION ACT BUT PERHAPS WE SHOULD IDENTIFY ALL THREE ACTS, ARE THEY THE SAME? MADAM PRESIDENT, BOARD MEMBER WOFFORD, THAT IS A QUESTION I HAD AS WELL. I SAID WE SHOULD BE CONSISTENT IN THAT . THE ACT, IF YOU WANT TO TAKE THAT ONE, I WOULD HAVE. YOU EXPLAINED IT BETTER THAN PRESIDENT TENORIO, MR. WOFFORD, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. THE CHALLENGE I HAVE IS WHEN WE REFERRED TO THE BLACK EDUCATION ACT, THAT WAS THE NAME OF THE BILL. BUT NOT, THE STATUTE DID NOT RETAIN THE NAME. SO FOR THE OTHERS, WITHIN THE STATUTE ITSELF, IT IDENTIFIES , IT SELF IDENTIFIES AS A NAME BUT BLACK EDUCATION ACT WAS THEN ISOLATED TO A SINGLE STATUTE THAT DOESN'T NAME ITSELF AND SO WE ONLY

053REFER TO THAT BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN AROUND A WHILE AND WE RECALL THE NAME OF THE BILL BUT IT REALLY DOES NOT HAVE THAT MEANING ANYMORE. AND IT IS BROADER THAN A PARTICULAR RACE. AND SO IT SEEMED KIND OF STRANGE TO IDENTIFY IT THAT WAY WHEN THE LAW DOES NOT IDENTIFY ITSELF THAT WAY. SO WE WERE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO FRAME IT SO THAT WERE THE LAWS HAD A NAME, WE NAMED THEM. BUT THEN WE ALSO CAPTURED THE OTHER LAWS , THAT ONE IN PARTICULAR, THAT WE WERE TRYING TO COMPLY WITH. SO THAT WAS OUR HUMBLE EFFORT TO DO THAT AND STILL STAY ACCURATE. RIGHT. AND THEN OBVIOUSLY THE REFERENCES ARE AT THE END OF THE -- YES. EXACTLY. THAT MAKES PERFECT SENSE, THEN. THANK YOU. >> ARE WE ON QUESTIONS YET,

054PRESIDENT? IT IS YOUR TURN, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. CMAC ACTUALLY, HE ASKED ME A QUESTION. DID YOU HAVE MORE THAT YOU WANTED TO SAY BEFORE WE JUMP IN? MADAM PRESIDENT IF I MAY JUST FINISH A FEW OF THE OTHER SUGGESTIONS THAT WERE NOT NOTED ON HERE THAT MR. WOFFORD HAD SENT. UNDER BACKGROUND, UNDER THE BACKGROUND SECTION, INCLUDING EXAMPLES OF THE TYPES OF NAME-CALLING WHICH INCLUDE RACIAL, GENDER, XENOPHOBIC AND HOMOPHOBIC SLURS, NOT JUST RACIAL SLURS. SO IT IS NOT JUST TO INCLUDE RACIAL SLURS BUT TO INCLUDE OTHERS. INCLUDE --WE DID INCLUDE ANCESTRY AND ETHNICITY. WE DID INCLUDE THOSE AS PART OF THE DEFINITION FOR BULLYING. MR. WOFFORD ALSO SENT ME A DOCUMENT FROM THE CDC WHICH OUTLINED THE IMPORTANCE OF ENUMERATING WHICH REALLY IN THE CONTEXT OF BULLYING POLICY IS MAKING SURE THAT WE PUT AS

055MANY TRAITS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF STUDENTS THAT WOULD FALL UNDER BULLYING. I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THAT WITH YOU. WHERE WOULD THAT GO UNDER? >> HE JUST SAID THAT AS A REFERENCE FOR ENUMERATING AND MAKING SURE, THAT IS WHY I BELIEVE YOU SUGGESTED TO INCLUDE EXPRESSION AND ANCESTRY ETHNICITY ALSO, TO EXPAND IT MORE. DR. LOZANO, MAY I JUMP IN? JUST BECAUSE I KNOW IN THE NEXT READING WE ARE GOING TO --THIS CLARIFICATION OF THE BOARD WILL BE HELPFUL. SO IF I MAY , PRESIDENT TENORIO, DR. LOZANO, SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE WERE ACTIVELY STRUGGLING WITH IN TERMS OF EVEN THINGS LIKE DEFINITIONS AND THINGS LIKE ENUMERATION, IS THE FACT THAT WE HAVE OTHER --THIS IS NOT THE TOTALITY OF THE POLICIES, OF THE BEHAVIORS THAT THE BOARD PROHIBITS. AND SO ONE OF THE STRUGGLES

056IS, WE START THEN FINDING OURSELVES STUMBLING INTO OTHER POLICIES. WE LOOK AT GENDER ALONE, POLICY JBD, WE HAD A VERY , YOU KNOW, EXTENSIVE CONVERSATION WITH THIS BOARD ABOUT, WHY DON'T WE COMBINE ALL OF THESE? AND THE BOARD FELT REALLY STRONGLY THAT GENDER INCLUSIVITY NEEDED TO BE ITS OWN POLICY SO IT STOOD OUT. SO WE WERE TRYING TO RESPECT THAT AND JUST A FEW THINGS TO NOTICE ABOUT POLICY JBD, IT CONTAINS 13 DEFINITIONS. IT ALSO PROVIDES FOR A COMPLAINT PROCESS. SO, I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO REMIND OURSELVES THAT WE WERE JUST HERE ON K EF AND K EC REGULATIONS WHERE WE DISCOVERED , STUMBLED ON AND TRIPPED OVER THE FACT THAT THEY OVERLAPPED , THAT THEY HAD SIMILAR COMPLAINTS, PROCESSES, THEY HAD SIMILAR PROCEDURES BUT THEY WEREN'T THE SAME. WE ENDED UP IN ONE,

057THE OTHER ONE SEEMS TO FIT BETTER. THIS IS THE DILEMMA AND THE DIFFERENCE IS, THIS BOARD WILL NOT LIVE OUT THAT DILEMMA, IT IS THE PEOPLE ON THE GROUND, ON THE CAMPUS, WHICH POLICY APPLIES, WHICH DEFINITIONS APPLY, THAT IS SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT, DOES THAT MEAN THAT THIS POLICY IS THE ONE OR IS IT ANOTHER POLICY? WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT THE REGULATIONS? SO WHAT WE WERE TRYING TO DO IS SAY, THE BOARD HAS MADE A DECISION THAT FOR CERTAIN CATEGORIES, THERE WILL BE A STANDALONE POLICY. WE ARE GOING TO AVOID OVER THAT SO AS TO MINIMIZE CONFUSION AND MINIMIZE THE CHALLENGES TO THE FOLKS ON THE GROUND THAT NEED TO IMPLEMENT IT. SO, THIS IS NOT TO LESSEN THE IMPORTANCE OF IT, BUT IN HOPES THAT IT HIGHLIGHTS THESE THINGS THAT IF YOU COUNT JUST GENDER

058ALONE, I HAVE COUNTED POLICY JVD, WHICH IS THE MOST EXPENSIVE ONE, GENDER INCLUSIVE SCHOOLS, POLICY GABA, GENDER EQUITY FOR STUDENTS. POLICY JI CK, SEXUAL HARASSMENT OF STUDENTS, THAT IS IN ADDITION TO THE POLICY ACIE WHICH IS NONDISCRIMINATION WHICH INCLUDES GENDER. AND POLICY ACIE A SEXUAL HARASSMENT. SO, TO THEN START PILING ON ALL OF THESE DESCRIPTIONS WHEN WE HAVE 13 DEFINITIONS IN JVD, GETS A LITTLE BIT HARD. SO DO WE DUMP THEM ALTOGETHER AND CREATE ONE POLICY? OR DO WE PICK AND CHOOSE WHAT WE OVERLAP? DO WE ADD NEW DEFINITIONS AND THEN WHAT DO WE DO WITH THE EXISTING POLICIES THAT ARE REALLY ABOUT THAT? AND THEN REINSERT THOSE BACK IN? SO THAT ARE SOME OF THE CHALLENGES ON THE GROUND THAT MAKES --THAT WE STRUGGLE WITH, SO YOUR GUIDANCE WOULD BE HELPFUL FOR THE NEXT

059READING. THANK YOU, MISS GALLEGOS. MADAM PRESIDENT, ONE LAST COMMENT. IT IS CONNECTED TO WHAT WE JUST FINISHED TALKING ABOUT, ANOTHER SUGGESTION BY MR. WOFFORD WAS UNDER DEFINITIONS, REPLACE THE DEFINITION OF RACIAL SLURS TO TWO OPTIONS, EITHER RACIAL, GENDER, XENOPHOBIC , AND HOMOPHOBIC SLURS , MEANS WORDS OR PHRASES USED IN A DEROGATORY MANNER THAT REFER TO MEMBERS OF RACIAL OR ETHNIC GROUPS , WOMEN AND GIRLS, A PERSON'S ANCESTRY, ETHNICITY OR PERCEIVED SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER IDENTITY? OR HAVING MULTIPLE ENTRIES WITHIN A DIFFERENT TYPE OF [ INAUDIBLE ] I THINK THOSE WERE ALL THE SUGGESTIONS THAT DID NOT MAKE IT FOR YOU TO SEE. BUT I WANTED TO MAKE SURE TO HIGHLIGHT THOSE. MR. WALKER? POLICY JVD ESTABLISHES A GENDER INCLUSIVE SCHOOL. THIS POLICY MUST BE PERFECT IS TO ADDRESS BULLYING AND SO THERE ARE DIFFERENT --I

060APPRECIATE HIS POINT, THEY OVERLAPPED WITH K EC , BUT WE ARE DOING DIFFERENT THINGS WITH THESE DIFFERENT POLICIES. PART OF THE PURPOSE I THINK IS TO INCLUDE THE RACIALIZED AGGRESSION BASED ON THE NEW LANGUAGE FROM WHAT WE CALLED THE BLACK EDUCATION ACT. BUT IN DOING SO, I DO NOT THINK WE SHOULD DROP HAZING FROM THIS POLICY. NEW MEXICO DOES NOT HAVE STATUTE WHICH ADDRESSES HAZING , BUT IF RECENT HISTORY IS --IF WE RETAIN ANY INFORMATION FROM JUST THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, THAT IS A REAL ISSUE. HOPES BILL DIED IN COMMITTEE THIS YEAR THAT WOULD HAVE PUT HAZING IN OUR STATUTES. AND HOPEFULLY IT WILL HAPPEN NEXT YEAR. BUT JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING IS NOT IN STATUTE, I DON'T THINK SHOULD PREVENT THIS BOARD FROM SINGING, WE DON'T LIKE THIS. NAME-CALLING IS NOT IN STATUTE, IS

061THAT CORRECT ? THAT IS CORRECT. >> WE CAN HAVE A DEFINITION OF NAME-CALLING IF WE WANT TO AND SAY WE DO NOT WANT IT TO HAPPEN. THAT NAME-CALLING CAN BE A LARGER INCLUSIVITY THAN SIMPLY RACIAL SLURS. WHAT HORRIFIES ME ARE MY FORMER COLLEAGUES TELLING ME HOW COMMON RACIAL SLURS ARE IN OUR HIGH SCHOOLS RIGHT NOW. IT ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIES ME AND THE SAME THING WITH HOMOPHOBIC SLURS. AND CERTAINLY GENDER-BASED SLURS, I THINK WENT UNNOTICED FOR SO LONG BECAUSE THAT IS JUST PEOPLE TALKING. AND CALLING THEM OUT SPECIFICALLY AND SAYING THIS IS PART OF BULLYING , MAKES US ON RECORD SAYING WE DO NOT LIKE THESE THINGS. PART OF THIS IS FROM MY READING AT THE CDC AND THAT IS WHAT DR. LOZANO MENTIONED ABOUT ENUMERATION. THAT WHEN YOU ENUMERATE , SPECIFIC BULLYING GROUPS OR PEOPLE WHO

062HAVE BEEN BULLIED, THEIR RESEARCH SAID THAT THERE WAS A CORRELATION BETWEEN A DECREASE IN BULLYING AND THOSE SCHOOL DISTRICTS THAT ENUMERATED THE PEOPLE WHO WERE BULLIED. AND SO , THAT IS WHY I THOUGHT THAT SHOULD BE INCLUDED. CAN I CUT YOU OFF REALLY QUICKLY? AS FAR AS ENUMERATING THOSE GROUPS WHO ARE PRIMARILY TARGETED, WHERE ARE YOU PUTTING IN HERE? WHERE WITHIN THAT POLICY? LET ME SEE. I AM BACK IN THE CDC STUFF ON MY iPAD. I THINK IT IS UNDER SECTION B. SECTION A IS OUR PURPOSE IN SECTION B, CALL THEM THE OTHER WAY. RIGHT THERE, THANK YOU. IN THE BACKGROUND SECTION. BECAUSE RACIAL SLURS GOT ADDED AND THEN TAKEN OUT OF LETTER A, IMPLICIT BIAS WAS ADDED IN THE FIRST READING, BUT TAKEN OUT NOW. THAT I THINK PROBABLY MAKE SENSE. AND SO WHEN

063I WAS READING THAT LANGUAGE AFTER THE FIRST READING, THAT IS WHEN I THOUGHT WELL, IF WE ARE GOING TO ENUMERATE, AN ENVIRONMENT CONDUCIVE TO LEARNING, WHAT STUDENTS WOULD SAY , LET'S ENUMERATE. WHAT IS BULLYING? ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS I FOUND WAS A UNIFORM DEFINITION OF BULLYING I WAS TRYING TO GET THROUGH, A 2007 PUBLICATION, LOTS OF EXPERTS, AND THEY HAD PAGES AND PAGES OF HOW TO REPORT BULLYING SO THAT THE CDC COULD ACCURATELY TRACK THIS BEHAVIOR. D I DON'T KNOW HOW WELL NEW MEXICO DOES THAT. HOW WELL OUR DISTRICT DOES IT, BUT WHAT I DO KNOW IS IF WE DO NOT TRACK A PARTICULAR PROBLEM AND WE CANNOT SAY HERE ARE STATISTICS, THIS IS A PROBLEM HERE AND HERE ARE THE NUMBERS THAT SHOW IT, THEN WE CANNOT BEGIN TO ADDRESS THE SOLUTION TO

064THAT PROBLEM. IT IS ONLY THROUGH THE COLLECTION OF DATA IN THE UNDERSTANDING THAT SOMETHING IS GOING ON THAT WE CAN FORMULATE POLICY THAT WOULD RESPOND TO IT. SO ALL OF THOSE WERE MY CONCERNS. THIS IS CDC. NEARLY 40% OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WHO IDENTIFY AS LESBIAN OR BISEXUAL AND ABOUT 33% OF THOSE WHO ARE NOT SURE OF THEIR SEXUAL IDENTITY, EXPERIENCED BULLYING AT SCHOOL OR ELECTRONICALLY. COMPARED TO 22% OF HETEROSEXUAL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS , ABOUT 30% OF FEMALE STUDENTS EXPERIENCED BULLYING AT SCHOOL OR ELECTRONICALLY COMPARED TO ABOUT 19% OF MALES. NEARLY 29% OF WHITE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS EXPERIENCED BULLYING AT SCHOOL OR ELECTRONICALLY IN THE LAST YEAR COMPARED TO 19% OF HISPANIC AND 18% OF BLACK HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. IT GOES ON TO SAY WHERE THE BULLYING WAS. I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE

065GET THIS POLICY RIGHT. THAT WE SAY WHAT WE MEAN TO SAY, JUST BECAUSE HAZING IS NOT PART OF STATUTE DOES NOT MEAN WE DON'T WANT IT. THEN LET ME YIELD FOR A SECOND AND TALK ABOUT THIS PART. OKAY, ANYONE ELSE? >> YES. >> MR. FRANK? I HAVE A FEW THINGS. I NEED TO GRASP WHY HAZING IS NOT --IS BEING TAKING OUT OF THIS. AND I KNOW I PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE DONE MY HOMEWORK BUT DO WE HAVE A SEPARATE POLICY THAT DEALS SOLELY WITH HAZING? AND IF THAT IS THE CASE, THEN FINE. BUT ANYWAY, I NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT IDEA. THE OTHER THING IS, I HAVE PAGES OF STUFF THAT I AM CONCERNED ABOUT AND I KIND OF DID THIS ONE SATURDAY AND DID NOT KNOW HOW TO HANDLE IT. I WAS THINKING OF EMAILING YOU

066AND SAYING MAYBE WE CAN GET TOGETHER YESTERDAY AND GO OVER IT OR -- ANYWAY. I DON'T WANT TO TAKE OUT HOURS OF SCHOOLBOARD TIME ON THIS BUT I WOULD LIKE TO, YOU KNOW, AND PUT SOME OF THIS , AT LEAST HAVE IT CONSIDERED, SO MAYBE WE CAN GET TOGETHER AND DO THAT? I WILL TALK TO YOU AFTER THE MEETING. ALSO CAN YOU MAYBE EXPLAIN THE HAZING THING AND WHY WE ARE TAKING IT OUT OF HERE AND ASSURE ME IT IS COVERED SOMEWHERE ELSE? BECAUSE AFTER WHAT THEY WENT THROUGH A COUPLE YEARS AGO WITH THE BASKETBALL TEAM. WE CAN SEE HOW DANGEROUS THAT KIND OF STUFF IS AND WE CERTAINLY WANT TO HAVE A POLICY THAT MAKES IT VERY CLEAR TO EVERY SINGLE PERSON INVOLVED IN OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT THAT WE DO NOT CONDONE THAT AND

067IT IS UNACCEPTABLE. ABSOLUTELY, YES. I WAS NOT AT THE OFFICE YESTERDAY BACARDI EARLIER TODAY, YOU ARE PROBABLY GETTING READY TO COME HERE FOR FEEDBACK BUT WE CAN SET UP A MEETING AND GO OVER ANY SUGGESTIONS. DEFER TO ELENA ABOUT THE HAZING BECAUSE I WAS AN HOUR AND A HALF CONVERSATION. BASICALLY WE WERE TRACKING THE HISTORY OF IT. ORIGINALLY THERE WAS NO BULLYING STATUTE AND NO BULLYING REGULATION. THERE WAS A HAZING STATUTE AND HAZING REGULATIONS. IT DELINEATED WITH THE COMPLAINT PROCESS NEEDED TO BE IN ALL OF THOSE THINGS. BASICALLY IT IS LIKE NOMENCLATURE, THE CONCEPT OF BULLYING REALLY REPLACED THE CONCEPT OF HAZING. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IN THE DEFINITION OF HAZING THAT I CAN IMAGINE THAT WOULD NOT FALL WITHIN THE DEFINITION OF BULLYING. WHAT HAPPENED IS WHEN THE STATUTE SWITCHED AND WAS USING THE

068TERM BULLYING AND IT HAD ALL THE ENUMERATED REQUIREMENTS THAT BOARDS HAD TO DO TO ABSOLUTELY PROHIBIT BULLYING, IT BEGAN --IT BECAME AN ISSUE OF, ARE WE JUST GOING TO KEEP ADDING AND --OR ARE WE GOING TO ALIGN WHEN THERE ISN'T A SINGLE THING, A SINGLE TALE OF HORRORS THAT WE CAN THINK OF THAT WE MIGHT CALL HAZING THAT WOULDN'T BE BULLYING. IS SEEMED TO BE THE MOST EFFICIENT THING TO JUST ALLOW THE PROHIBITION ON BULLYING TO TAKE CARE OF ANYTHING WE MIGHT HAVE FORMERLY CALLED HAZING. AND I DO WANT TO MENTION TO YOU, I REALLY FEEL LIKE IF WE REALLY ENUMERATE A LOT THAT OVERLAPS WITH POLICY JVD , I UNDERSTAND MR. WOFFORD, WHAT YOU ARE SAYING ABOUT WHAT MAY BE THE OVERARCHING PURPOSE OF GENDER INCLUSIVE SCHOOLS SOUNDS LIKE A BROAD PURPOSE BUT WHEN

069YOU GET INTO THE POSITION OF THE POLICY ITSELF , IT PROHIBITS BULLYING. IT PROHIBITS HARASSMENT ON THOSE BASES. I AM REALLY KIND OF STUCK WITH WHICH POLICY IS IT? AND WHAT WOULD APPLY AND DO WE EVEN NEED TO GO BACK AND ALIGN WITH THE SAFEGUARDS ARE? BECAUSE IT TALKS ABOUT THE SAFE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT , CREATE AND MAINTAIN A SAFE, CIVIL, RESPECTFUL AND INCLUSIVE LEARNING COMMUNITY. AND IT TALKS ABOUT THE COMPLAINT PROCESS. WHEN THAT HAS BEEN VIOLATED. SO, REALLY , I AM HAVING TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING WHY WE WOULD HAVE TWO POLICIES WITH SIMILAR PROHIBITIONS AND DIFFERENT KINDS OF PROTECTIONS AND PROCESSES WHEN THEY ARE COVERING --THEY MAY HAVE A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT DESCRIPTION TO IT BUT IF BOTH ARE PROHIBITING IT AND THEY ARE PROVIDING SAFEGUARDS FOR THAT PROHIBITED CONDUCT , TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHICH IT IS.

070MADAM PRESIDENT. MR. WOFFORD. >> IN THE GENDER INCLUSIVE POLICY, I READ WHERE WE SAY , DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION GUIDANCE HAS REMINDED SCHOOLS OF THEIR OBLIGATION TO IMPLEMENT POLICIES THAT PREVENT BULLYING AND HARASSMENT OF TRANSGENDER STUDENTS, BUT THAT WOULD BE OUR BULLYING AND HARASSMENT POLICY SPECIFICALLY . THE TRANSGENDER OR THE JBD POLICY DID A LOT WITH DEFINITIONS TO DEAD NAME SOMEONE , WHAT CISGENDER IS, WHAT GENDER NONCONFORMING MEANS. BUT, IT DOES NOT ADDRESS TITLE IX OR BULLYING THINGS DIRECTLY. AND WE HAVE, IT LOOKS LIKE ABOUT FOUR POLICIES THAT ADDRESS TITLE IX INCLUDING , OF COURSE WE HAVE HELD BACK ON THE REGULATORY PROCEDURES BECAUSE WE ARE WAITING ON THE TITLE IX REGULATIONS BUT WE ARE CURRENTLY IMPLEMENTING THE TITLE IX REGULATIONS BECAUSE WE HAVE TO AS A MATTER OF FEDERAL LAW AND THEY ARE INCREDIBLY ELABORATE

071IN TERMS OF SAFEGUARDS. OKAY. LET ME MAKE SURE I UNDERSTAND. SO BECAUSE IT IS IN ONE POLICY, WE DON'T WANT TO REMIND OURSELVES IN ANOTHER POLICY THAT WILL BELIEVE THAT BULLYING OF TRANSGENDER KIDS IS WRONG? IT REALLY IS KIND OF LIKE THE LAST SITUATION WE JUST WENT THROUGH. IT IS LIKE, WHICH IS IT AND WHEN THERE IS SLIGHT DIFFERENCES AMONG THEM, IT JUST GETS CONFUSING. RIGHT, WHEN THE SUPERINTENDENT IS MAKING THE REGULATIONS, AND THE COMPLAINT FORMS FOR ADDRESSING THIS , THEY NEED TO BE CLEARLY ADDRESSING BOTH POLICIES AT THE SAME TIME. SOMEONE COULD BRING A COMPLAINT BASED ON THE FILE IS ON ONE WHATEVER. BUT REALLY THE PROTECTIONS WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER ON THE OTHER. WHICH IS IT? THE ADMINISTRATION FAILED TO IDENTIFY THE PROPER ONE, IT CREATES ITS OWN PROBLEMS, SO THAT HAS BEEN

072THE MOTIVATION FOR STREAMLINING AND , WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT WANTING TO LIST THESE , THAT IS TOTALLY LEGITIMATE . MY THOUGHT IS, THOUGH, THAN THAT ALMOST SPEAKS TO THEN , THAT TO ME PROMOTES A SINGLE STREAMLINED POLICY , IT PULLS ALL OF THESE CONCEPTS TOGETHER WITH A SINGLE SET OF SAFEGUARDS. WE ALWAYS CROSS-REFERENCE, DON'T WE? RIGHT, BUT WHEN THERE IS OVERLAP, IT IS GOING TO CROSS-REFERENCE AND THERE IS NOT OVERLAP, IT GETS REALLY CONFUSING FOR THE PEOPLE , THE BOOTS ON THE GROUND, WHEN WE ARE CROSS-REFERENCING AND THERE IS OVERLAP. AND SO THE CROSS-REFERENCING WORKS WHEN THERE IS NOT OVERLAP. SO IF THERE WAS A COMPLAINT FROM POLICY JVD, IS THERE A COMPLAINT FORM? I DON'T KNOW WHERE WE ARE, I HAVE NOT STUDIED WHERE WE ARE ON THE REGULATIONS. I HAVE NOT STUDIED THAT.

073I KNOW THAT IT PROVIDES FOR --THE POLICY PROVIDES FOR A COMPLAINT PROCESS AND I BELIEVE IT PROVIDES FOR -- THIS IS THE OTHER THING TOO AND THIS IS THE STAFF PIECE AND I AM HOPING IN THIS CONVERSATION WE GET SOME GUIDANCE FROM YOU ALL. WE HIGHLIGHTED BUT DID NOT DELETE THE PARTS THAT HAVE TO DO WITH VOLUNTEERS AND EMPLOYEES BECAUSE WE WANTED YOUR DIRECTION ON IT BEFORE WE TOOK THE LEAD. BUT OUR HOPE IS AT THE NEXT BOARD MEETING, WORKING WITH THE HR DEPARTMENT, TO NOT ONLY MOVE THOSE OVER BUT THAT YOU ALL WILL SEE SOME REAL EMPHASIS ON THAT RATHER THAN JUST A PASSING LINE THAT STAFF CAN'T HARASS AND BULLY STUDENTS EITHER. I THINK THAT MATTERS TO YOU AS MUCH AS STUDENTS BULLYING AND HARASSING OTHER STUDENTS BUT IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN,

074BY THE WAY, VOLUNTEERS AND STAFF CANNOT EITHER AND SO OUR IDEA WAS TO PULL THOSE OUT , PULL THE TRAINING, EVEN POSSIBLY THE TRAINING PIECES OUT AND MOVE THOSE INTO THE PERSONNEL POLICIES WHERE THE EMPLOYEES THINK TO GO. AND HAVE A CLEARLY DELINEATED THERE. AGAIN, SO THAT WE DID NOT HAVE THESE REALLY LONG POLICIES WITH THINGS GETTING LOST. I CAN HEAR BOTH SIDES OF IT, AS FAR AS, MR. WOFFORD. I WOULD AGREE THAT TAKING OUT HAZING , NOT INCLUDING WORDS LIKE NOT JUST RACIAL SLURS BUT THE GENDER SLURS AND HOMOPHOBIA, OR HOMOPHOBIC LANGUAGE , BY NOT HAVING IT IN THERE, THAT SOME PEOPLE WOULD READ IT TO THINK, THAT IS NOT AS IMPORTANT TO THEM. AND SO WE ARE TRYING TO SAY THESE ARE IMPORTANT TO US AND WE WILL BE AS INCLUSIVE IN OUR

075LANGUAGE TO MAKE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IS NOT TOLERATED. I HEAR YOUR SIDE OF SAYING, IF YOU START PUTTING ENUMERATING ALL THESE ISSUES, THEN EVERYBODY IS GOING TO BE ONE POLICY AND THEN THEY ARE NOT LOOKING AT POLICY JVD. I DO NOT KNOW HONESTLY IF POLICY JVD IS --IT HAS A REGULATION BUT IT HAS NOT BEEN CHALLENGED AT ALL. SO WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF IT WERE CHALLENGED? THAT IS KIND OF HOW WE --THE METRIC OF, IS IT WORKING OR NOT? MADAM PRESIDENT, IF I MAY, THE PROBLEM WITH THESE POLICIES -- NOT PROBLEM, BUT THE DISADVANTAGE FOR THE BOARD WHO IS THE POLICYMAKER IS THAT ACTUALLY I ASSUME THERE ARE COMPLAINTS FILED. BUT WE DO NOT GET TO THE BOARD LEVEL AND SO IT REALLY IS THE ADMINISTRATOR ON THE GROUND WHO HAS GOT A LOT ON

076HIS OR HER PLATE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHICH POLICIES APPLY, WHAT THE DIFFERENCES ARE BETWEEN THEM, THEY ARE NOT NECESSARILY, MEANWHILE, CERTAINLY THIS IS A PUBLIC DISCUSSION, THEY ARE NOT GOING TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT IT WHEN THEY ARE TRYING TO SORT THAT OUT. THAT IS WHY I THINK THERE IS SOME MERIT TO CONSIDERING ALWAYS BEING MINDFUL OF IS THERE A NEED FOR STREAMLINING HERE? I EVEN WONDER, IF REALLY IN THE BOARD'S MIND, JVD WAS NOT MEANT TO PROVIDE --TO SET MORE OF A MESSAGE AND NOT NECESSARILY A RECOURSE, THEN DO WE PULL THE RECORDS OUT AND CROSS-REFERENCE OVER TO THIS POLICY AND CERTAINLY MAKE THIS POLICY MORE SPECIFIC AND HAVE THE FOCUS? THIS TALKS ABOUT INVESTIGATION, THERE IS SOME MANDATORY REPORT LANGUAGE THAT I NOTICED IN JBD, THERE IS MANDATORY REPORT LANGUAGE IN

077THIS ONE, THERE ARE SLIGHT DIFFERENCES IN TERMS OF , I THINK, THE RECOURSE THAT IS CONCEPTUALIZED. THERE IS RELIEF AVAILABLE IN BOTH OF THEM. MY CONCERN ABOUT NAME-CALLING IS IN TERMS OF NOTICING THAT IT IS NOT IN THE LAW AND TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAINTAIN THE INTEGRITY OF YOUR POLICY, AND MAYBE ONE OF THE ADMINISTRATORS OVER HERE CAN SPEAK TO THIS BUT THE CHALLENGE OF, THERE IS A MANDATORY REPORT ON THE PART OF STAFF. IF WE ARE TELLING STAFF AND TRAINING, WHICH IS BY LAW WHAT WE HAVE TO DO FOR BULLYING IS THAT THESE BECOME MANDATORY REPORTERS AND THERE ARE MANDATORY INVESTIGATION AND MANDATORY CONSEQUENCE , THEN BULLYING, WHICH TO ME WOULD CAPTURE THE KIND OF SLURS THAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT , IF WE PUT THAT IN THE SAME CATEGORY OF NAME-CALLING

078, WHICH COULD BE POTENTIALLY -- THE WAY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TALK, COULD BE BANTER BETWEEN ME AND DR. LOZANO THAT WE ARE OKAY WITH AND YOU HAVE A MANDATORY REPORTER SITTING THERE WATCHING AND MAYBE IN HIS FRONT GROUP AS AN ADULT THAT WOULD BE COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE BUT DR. LOZANO AND I, A COUPLE OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE FINE WITH IT, IS HE VIOLATING HIS HR TRAINING THAT HE JUST GOT THAT HE IS A MANDATORY REPORTER ON THIS NAME-CALLING? THOSE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE THOUGHT THIS POLICY CAPTURES --THE LAW CAPTURES WHAT THE BOARD VALUES. DO YOU WANT TO POTENTIALLY WATER THAT DOWN AND CREATED DILEMMA? AND SO THAT WAS THE CONCERN THAT I HAD ABOUT THE GENERIC TERM, NAME-CALLING. IS THAT THERE IS A LOT OF PROTECTION INCLUDING MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS THAT THE BULLYING

079LAW CREATES ON THE PART OF STAFF IN THE TRAINING OBLIGATIONS HR IS GOING TO HAVE TO DO AROUND THOSE OBLIGATIONS SO IF YOU ADD DESCRIPTORS THAT PEOPLE WILL NOT NECESSARILY ON THE GROUND PERCEIVE AS BULLYING BUT WE HAVE ADDED IT. BULLYING MAY INCLUDE NAME-CALLING, SOMETHING, SOMETHING, SOMETHING. NOT A YOU MUST CHECK OFF ALL AS A BULLY LIST BUT THESE COULD BE QUALITIES THAT --THE CDC TALKED ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF A UNIFORM DEFINITION ON BULLYING. I THINK I SAID THAT TO DR. LOZANO AS WELL. MAYBE WE SHOULD LOOK AT WHAT THEY HAVE HAD TO SAY AS WELL BECAUSE THE POWER IMBALANCE WAS PART OF THE ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS OF THEIR DEFINITION. HE REPEATED MULTIPLE TIMES OR LIKELY TO BE REPEATED MULTIPLE TIMES THINGS. THAT WAS ONE OF THE THINGS I LOOKED AT UNDER THE STATE LAW ,

080MR. WOFFORD, IS THAT UNDER THE STATE LAW DEFINITION OF BULLYING, YOU ALWAYS WORRY ABOUT SOMETHING THAT IS NOT PERVASIVE AND NOT PERSISTENT. SO WHAT I LIKED ABOUT THE STATE LAW DEFINITION THAT I THOUGHT CAPTURED AND HONORED THE BOARD'S VIEW ON THIS IS THAT THE STATE LAW DEFINITION SAYS --MEANS ANY SEVERE. IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE PERVASIVE OR PERSISTENT. DOES IT HAVE THE POWER IMBALANCE COMPONENT? THIS IS WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT LAST MEETING WHERE PEOPLE ARE YELLING AT EACH OTHER. IS THAT BULLYING OR ARE THEY YELLING AT EACH OTHER? TARGET VERSUS VICTIM? YEAH, THE TARGET VERSUS VICTIM TALK WE HAD. WE HAVE A GOOD GORDIAN KNOT HERE. CAN I GET A WORD IN TOO? CAN WE POSSIBLY HAVE A STATEMENT IN HERE THAT JUST STATES THAT WE CONSIDER HAZING TO BE BULLYING /HARASSMENT? I DON'T

081THINK IT IS WATERING DOWN, BUT I APPRECIATE YOUR POSITION. I THINK IT MIGHT INCLUDE THIS. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HAYES BUT IT COULD BE A COMPONENT OF YOUR BULLYING. I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT GREEN HANDS AT FFA, NINTH GRADERS, HOW MANY PEOPLE SHOWED UP IN YOUR CLASSROOMS WITH GREEN HANDS? THINKING ABOUT THE SOCCER PLAYERS AND THEIR HAIR. IS A INITIATION INTO A CLUB? SO, FOR US TO REALLY SAY WHAT HAZING IS IS IMPORTANT AS WELL. WE HAVE ANOTHER READING AFTER THIS SO YOU HAVE TIME. IS IT TWO WEEKS? ROUGHLY ALMOST 2 WEEKS. ANOTHER READING. MADAM PRESIDENT, CAN I ASK MR. WOFFORD A QUESTION? FOR MY UNDERSTANDING, UNDER DEFINITIONS, UNDER BULLYING, RIGHT? IF YOU LOOK AT THE DEFINITION OF BULLYING, IT IS WHAT ELENA READ. NUMBER ONE, MAYBE I AM NOT UNDERSTANDING --IT IS ENUMERATED,

082RIGHT? THAT IS WHERE I GUESS I AM NOT QUITE SURE HOW TO MOVE FORWARD BECAUSE WE EXPANDED IT, RIGHT? YOU SUGGESTED TO ADD EXPRESSION AND ETHNICITY /ANCESTRY WHICH I BELIEVE ANCESTRY WAS ALREADY INCLUDED ON THERE? I WAS LOOKING THROUGH ENUMERATION POLICIES . GENDER OR GENDER EXPRESSION AND THEN ETHNICITY ANCESTRY, BUT ANCESTRY WAS THERE. YES, THAT IS ENUMERATING. I APPRECIATE THAT. WAS IT MORE OR ENUMERATING MORE IN THE BACKGROUND? IS THAT WHAT THE ASK IS? I'M SORRY? IS THE ASK FOR A THIRD READING TO POSSIBLY, AND I GUESS WITH YOUR DIRECTION, TO ADD, TO ENUMERATE MORE UNDER BACKGROUND? I THINK IT WAS V? WHEN WE HAD THE NAME-CALLING AND THE POLICY YOU BROUGHT TO ME BEFORE IN LETTER A OF BACKGROUND, THEN RACIAL SLUR GOT ADDED AND I THOUGHT IF WE ARE CALLING OUT RESOLE SLURS

083LET'S CALL OUT OTHER SLURS AS WELL. I THINK I USE THE GENDER EXAMPLE LAST TIME WE MET. LOOK AT ITEM B. PEER PRESSURE. THEN THERE IS A DEFINITION OF PEER PRESSURE THERE FOR SOME REASON. CAN CONTRIBUTE TO BULLYING AND CYBER BULLYING. I AM READING FROM IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT ITEM, BACKGROUND ITEM B. I DID NOT UNDERSTAND WHY IT WAS THERE. WHY PEER PRESSURE WAS THERE AND HOW OUR BACKGROUND WORK TOGETHER. PRESIDENT TENORIO? >> I BELIEVE THE PEER PRESSURE THING WAS ADDED BECAUSE OF ONE OF OUR STUDENT ADVISORS. THE DEFINITION THERE. TALKED ABOUT PEER PRESSURE, OR WAS THAT -- THAT CAME FROM STUDENTS. I WONDERED IF THAT WAS IN THE BACKGROUND AND WE WERE DEFINING RACIALIST AGGRESSION AND CYBER BULLYING AND RACIAL SLURS. I WAS NOT SURE IF IT WAS A STUDENT ADVISOR OR SOMEWHERE

084WHERE WE HAD STUDENT INPUT BUT I KNOW THAT THE PEER PRESSURE THING CAME FROM STUDENTS, YES. YES, SIR. SECRETARY WOFFORD, ARE YOU --I AM WORRIED ABOUT LOSING THE LEGITIMACY OF POLICY JBD WHICH WE ALL FELT WAS IMPORTANT FOR A STANDALONE THING. IF WE HAVE THIS POLICY THAT STANDS ALONE , WE MIGHT --I AM WORRIED ABOUT CONFLICTING LANGUAGE, RIGHT? I THINK WE NEED TO PUT BOTH OF THOSE POLICIES SIDE-BY-SIDE AND I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO ENUMERATE TO SAY, YES, THIS IS IMPORTANT TO US BUT BY DOING THAT, ARE WE TAKING AWAY FROM THAT POLICY ? THAT IS MY CONCERN. I DO NOT HAVE ANY ANSWERS, IT IS JUST A CONCERN I HAVE. THIS IS THE KEF AND KEC CONCERN, DO WE HAVE AN ADEQUATE WAY OF FUNNELING MULTIPLE THINGS INTO A FORM THAT SAYS BULLYING

085OR CYBER BULLYING OR SOMETHING ELSE? THANK YOU. JUST GOING BACK TO THE WHOLE HAZING TERM , I FEEL THAT FOR MOST PEOPLE WHO JUST LOOK AT THIS WITH A VERY LAYPERSONS POINT OF VIEW LIKE MYSELF, I UNDERSTAND HAZING TO BE MORE SOMETHING THAT IS RELATED AND IT IS NOT NECESSARILY AN INITIATION BUT IT IS ALSO NOT BULLYING IN THE TERMS OF IT IS PERVASIVE AND TARGETING A CERTAIN PERSON OVER AND OVER. IT CAN HIT ONE PERSON, IT CAN HIT MULTIPLE PEOPLE BUT IT IS NOT NECESSARILY PERSISTENT. I SEE IT AS VERY DIFFERENT THAN BULLYING ITSELF. MADAM PRESIDENT, IF I MAY, THAT IS ONE THING THAT IS IMPORTANT TO BE AWARE OF WITH THE BULLYING DEFINITION, IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE -- IT CAN BE A ONE TIME. BULLYING MEANS ANY SEVERE OR IS ,

086IT DOES NOT SAY AND, SEVERE, PERVASIVE, ABUSIVE OR PERSISTENT. A SINGLE ABUSIVE ACT, A SINGLE SEVERE ACT, AND THAT IS BULLYING. WHAT IS PERVASIVE? EACH WORD , ANY ONE OF THOSE THINGS CAN CONSTITUTE BULLYING. PERVASIVE WOULD BE OVER TIME , BUT IF IT IS SEVERE AND IT IS ONE TIME IT IS BULLYING. IF IT IS ABUSIVE AND IT IS ONE TIME, IT IS BULLYING. TO ME AN ACT OF HAZING, IT COULD BE A SINGLE INCIDENT, BUT THAT WOULD BE BULLYING. IF YOU WANT THE HAZING DEFINITION IN AND I THINK THE WAY BOARDMEMBER WOFFORD IS CONCEPTUALIZING, COULD INCLUDE, MAKES SENSE IN TERMS OF THAT KIND OF CRAB WALK THERE. BUT I JUST WANTED --I THINK IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR US TO RELAY THE EXPANSIVENESS, WHEN WE FIRST WERE LOOKING AT COMBINING THOSE TWO POLICIES, I THINK

087WE ARE LOOKING AT 16 PAGES AND REALLY STRUGGLING WITH WHAT ARE WE DOING AND ARE WE UNDERMINING OURSELVES? BUT BACK TO YOUR POINT, IF YOU DO NOT ADD HAZING OR YOU DO NOT ADD FURTHER ENUMERATION, TO ME THE FOCUS OF -- BECAUSE WE HAVE HAD DEFINITIONS IN THE PAST THAT REQUIRED THE PERVASIVE. IN THE HISTORY, THE EARLY LEGAL HISTORY OF THINGS LIKE BULLYING AND HARASSMENT, A ONE-TIME INCIDENT WASN'T ENOUGH. THAT HAS CHANGED OVER TIME. SOME OF THIS REFLECTS A FIX, NOT A NEW PROBLEM. NOW BULLYING CAN BE A SINGLE INCIDENT. IT CAN BE A SINGLE SEVERE INCIDENT, IT CAN BE A SINGLE ABUSIVE INCIDENT. WHICH IS WHAT HAZING IS. AGAIN IF YOU LOOK AT THE HISTORY OF ALL OF THIS, ONE SORT OF REPLACED ANOTHER BECAUSE IT CAPTURED IT. THEN WE NEED TO CHANGE THAT

088DEFINITION A BECAUSE THIS IS BULLYING MEANS ANY SEVERE PERVASIVE, ABUSIVE OR PERSISTENT. YOU DON'T NEED TO CHANGE IT. THE OR MEANS ANY SEVERE. ANY SEVERE PERVASIVE -- IT DOES NOT SAY AND. THEY DO NOT ALL HAVE TO BE PRESENT. AND THAT IS A KEY -- THAT WOULD BE PART OF THE TRAINING, THAT A SINGLE SEVERE INCIDENT IS BULLYING. BECAUSE OF THE OR. IT WOULD BE LIKELY TO HAPPEN AGAIN, EITHER HAPPENS MULTIPLE TIMES OR IS LIKELY TO. IT IS NOT EVEN LIKELY TO, IT DOES NOT EVEN REQUIRE THAT HERE. DO WE NOT NEED TO SAY IT CAN BE A SINGLE, SPELL IT OUT IN HERE? BULLYING MAY BE A SINGLE INCIDENT? IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSCORE THAT POINT BY SPELLING IT OUT, CERTAINLY, BUT IN TERMS OF HOW LANGUAGE IS -- LEGAL INTERPRETATION OR JUST INTERPRETATION,

089THE OR IS WHAT MAKES THAT THE CASE. ANY ONE OF THOSE THINGS. IT THEN MEETS THE ADDITIONAL CRITERIA. HERE IT WOULD BE AND THAT MAY BE BASED ON A STUDENT'S ACTUAL OR PERCEIVED RACE , RELIGION, COLOR, NATIONAL ORIGIN, ANCESTRY, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY AND TO ME THE GENDER IDENTITY, THAT TAKES US RIGHT BACK INTO WHAT IS THAT? THAT TAKES US BACK INTO JBD. THAT IS WHY TO ME REITERATING COMPONENTS OF JBD IS MORE WORDS THAT TEND TO DISTRACT FROM, TO ME, THESE FIVE LINES ON THIS PAGE IS THE THING WE WANT PEOPLE FOCUSING ON. OKAY, ALL RIGHT. SO THE BULLYING DEFINITION AS IT IS WRITTEN MAY BE A SINGLE EVENT, WAS MY QUESTION? RIGHT. AS FAR AS PUBLIC --THE PUBLIC GOES, I DON'T KNOW IF THEY ARE ON THE SAME WAVELENGTH WITH UNDERSTANDING THAT HAZING

090IS BULLYING AND IF WE MENTION BULLYING THAT WE ARE INCLUDING HAZING BUT I AM OKAY WITH HELPING EXPLAIN NOT. MADAM PRESIDENT, WAS THE RACIALIST AGGRESSION OKAY FOR THE TITLE? THAT IS NEW, RIGHT? AND THAT IS RIGHT OUT OF -- TAKE HAZING AND PUTTING IT INTO ONE DEFINITION SOUNDS GREAT TO ME. I AM SORRY WAS -- I JUMPED IN. I DON'T KNOW, GO AHEAD. BUT HIS QUESTION IS TO YOU, I AM SORRY BUT DO WE WANT RACIALIST AGGRESSION? DEMOCRATIC IT IS TO ALL OF US AS TO WHETHER OR NOT RACIALIST AGGRESSION IS OKAY IN THE TITLE. IT MAKES THE LAW THAT YOU ARE TRYING TO MIRROR VERY CLEAR. I AM GOING TO CALL TIME ON THIS POLICY. THINK YOU ALL, YOU HAVE ABOUT TWO WEEKS TO WORK WITH DR. LOZANO. MAY I ASK ONE MORE THING?

091WOULD YOU PLEASE TAKE OUT THE WRITING AS A PUNITIVE THING THAT WE TALKED ABOUT? ONE OF THE REMEDIES WAS TO MAKE WRITING AN ESSAY AND WRITING SHOULD NOT BE A PUNITIVE THING. IT IS EXACTLY THE LANGUAGE FROM THE STATE STATUTE. I CAN SHOW IT TO YOU OR JUST ASK RICK I APOLOGIZE, SECRETARY WOFFORD, I DID NOT MENTION THAT ONE YOUR SUGGESTION WAS INSTEAD OF USING, DOING ESSAY AND LET ME LOOK AT THE EXACT WORDS. IT WAS I ON PAGE 3. IF COLIN IS MOVING IT DOWN TO PAGE 3. G UNDER PROGRESSIVE DISCIPLINE. ALWAYS STRIKES ME AS PEDAGOGICALLY BAD WHEN WE MAKE STUDENTS WRITE AN ESSAY AS A FORM OF PUNGENT --PUNISHMENT. OR AS A REMEDY, IS WHAT THEY ARE THINKING HERE. NUMBER TWO. I WAS SUGGESTING SUCH AS JOURNAL OR LETTER WRITING AND GET RID

092OF ALL OF THE REQUIRING. WE WILL MAKE SURE TO ADD THAT. ALSO THIS EXACT LANGUAGE ON SOME WEBSITE QUOTING THE NEW MEXICO STATUTE. THE YELLOW HIGHLIGHTED IN THE POLICY IS TO SHOW YOU THE PRECISE LANGUAGE IN THE LAW. IF IT IS YELLOW HIGHLIGHTED, IS BECAUSE THAT IS TAKEN STRAIGHT OUT OF THE LAW. BUT I AGREE WITH YOU, MR. OFFERED, IT IS HARD WHEN OCCASIONALLY THAT HAPPENS WHERE IT IS AN OUTDATED CONCEPT. THAT CAN ALSO LEAD TO EVEN DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION WHEN A STUDENT WHO DOESN'T HAVE THE CONCEPT IS BEING ASKED TO WRITE, I WILL NOT, I WILL NOT, OR I AM SORRY. YEAH. OKAY, THANK YOU. DID NOT MEET TO TAKE UP MORE OF YOUR TIME. WHEN YOU HAD MENTIONED EARLIER THE RELISTED ENTRY, IS IT INCORPORATED INTO THIS READING? MADAM PRESIDENT, WHICH SPECIFIC ONE? WAS

093THAT A SECOND ONE? NO. YOU HAD MENTIONED TO ME . THE ONE THAT IS UP NEXT FOR REVIEW. ALL RIGHT. WE ARE GOING TO MOVE ON. IT IS TO THE FIRST READING OF PROPOSED DELETION OF POLICY, I WAS JUMPING AHEAD. YOU JUST KNEW. AS PART OF THE BOARD'S POLICY REVIEW CYCLE POLICY J I SEE KA, BASED ON PROTECTED CHARACTERISTICS, THIS IS AN EXISTING POLICY BEING PRESENTED FOR POSSIBLE DELETION, POLICY WAS LAST REVIEWED AND REVISED ON MAY 20th, 2008. AFTER CAREFUL EXAMINATION WE RECOMMEND THE SCHOOL BOARD CONSIDER THE INTEGRATION OF POLICY JICKA STUDENT HARASSMENT OF PROTECTED CHARACTERISTICS INTO J I SEE FA, BULLYING, CYBER BULLYING, HAZING AND HARASSMENT, THE POLICY DEDICATED TO ADDRESSING STUDENT HARASSMENT BASED ON PROTECTED CHARACTERISTICS, SHARES OVERLAP WITH J I SEE FA. LEADING THE POLICIES CAN LEAD TO GREATER CLARITY. THE STRATEGY

094WOULD ENHANCE THE OVERALL SCOPE AND OFFENSIVENESS OF THE POLICIES. MADAM PRESIDENT, YOUR QUESTION ABOUT, WAS ANYTHING TRANSFERRED? AS OF NOW EVERYTHING IF YOU READ POLICY JICKA REALLY IS COVERED UNDER THE POLICY WE JUST WANT OVER, THE BULLYING POLICY, THE BIG IDEA WITH THIS WAS THOSE PROTECTED CHARACTERISTICS OR TRAITS THAT MR. WOFFORD HAD MENTIONED, WHICH ARE ENUMERATED HERE BUT IF YOU NOTICE THERE ARE THE ONE THAT WE JUST REVIEWED IS A LITTLE MORE EXPENSIVE. THERE WERE OTHERS THAT WERE ADDED AND THIS LANGUAGE IS REALLY OUTDATED LANGUAGE. AS MENTIONED THIS WAS LAST REVISED IN 2008. THANK YOU FOR CATCHING THIS. AND SO I'M GOING TO MOVE ON TO B2. DO WE NEED TO HAVE DISCUSSION? BOARD MEMBERS, DO YOU WANT ANY DISCUSSION ON PROPOSED DELETION OF POLICY JICKA? THIS IS NOT UP FOR AN ACCIDENT ITEM AT

095THIS TIME, PRESIDENT? WE CANNOT SAY THAT IS GREAT, THAT IS DELETED? I THINK YOU CAN TALK ABOUT IT. CAN'T WE TALK ABOUT IT? I THINK IT WOULD BE A GREAT IDEA TO DELETE IT, ONCE AGAIN JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE ALIGNMENT WITH OUR POLICIES AND THAT THERE ISN'T ANY OVERLAP OR, THAT LEAVES US OPEN TO MISINTERPRETATION. VICE PRESIDENT IN COURT, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I BELIEVE ELENA MENTIONED WAS WORKING WITH HR ON ANY EMPLOYEE RELATED POLICIES BECAUSE THIS ONE IS HEAVY ON STAFF. IT MENTIONS STAFF A LOT SO JUST MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE NOT GETTING RID OF ANYTHING THAT IS NOT STATED SOMEWHERE ELSE. THAT IS THE WORK THAT MYSELF AND I WORK WITH MISS DONNELLY ON MAKING SURE THAT IS TRANSFERRED. THAT IS REALLY THE BIGGEST ONE. THANK YOU. ALL

096RIGHT. MOVING ONTO ITEM FOR BA.2, DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE APPROVAL OF THE CREATION OF A TEMPORARY COMMITTEE UNDER POLICY BDE, BOARD COMMITTEES. TO INCLUDE THIS HE HAS STRATEGIC PLANNING CONSULTANTS AS DETERMINED BY CS. THE ADMINISTRATION AS DETERMINED BY THE SUPERINTENDENT. AND TWO BOARD MEMBERS AS DETERMINED BY THE BOARD PRESIDENT. DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO ADD? THANK YOU, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. LOOKING AT WHAT WE JUST DISCUSSED, LOOKING AT THE SMART GOALS, THAT'S WHERE THE PLOT PARTNERS WILL BE COMING IN. MYSELF, OR THE EXECUTIVE CABINET. THEY WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO INCLUDE THE BOARD REPRESENTATION AS WELL. MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE EVERYONE'S INPUT BEFORE TAKING IT BACK ONTO OUR COMMUNITY. THANK YOU. I WANT TO THANK THEM FOR THIS IDEA. I MENTIONED TO HIM, INCLUDING THE BOARD THROUGH THIS ENTIRE PROCESS, THANK YOU FOR HAVING PUBLIC

097INPUT AT THE BEGINNING, AND WHEN WE GET TOWARDS THE END. THIS IS JUST SOMETHING THAT IS VERY MUCH APPRECIATED AND NEEDED. I AM JUST SO HAPPY THAT THE PROCESSES ARE INCLUSIVE. WITH THAT, DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANYTHING ELSE TO SAY ABOUT THE COMMITTEE? BDE BOARD COMMITTEES, INCLUDING THE STRATEGIC PLANNING CONSULTANTS. THIS INCLUDES DEMONSTRATION, AND TWO BOARD MEMBERS DETERMINED BY THE BOARD MEMBERS, APPROVED BY THE BOARD, AND BROUGHT BACK TO THE BOARD FOR APPROVAL. DO YOU AGREE? I AGREE. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I'M GOING TO APPOINT MYSELF. I'M SORRY. I SHOULDN'T SAY THAT. THERE YOU GO. >> I WAS KIDDING. MY APOLOGIES. IS ON THE CREATION OF THE COMMITTEE. I WILL HAVE A TEMPORARY COMMITTEE UNDER POLICY BDE. FOR SMART GOALS COMMITTEE. PLEASE SAY AYE. ANY POST? THAT MOTION PASSES 5-0. I WILL HAVE A MOTION.

098DO WE NEED A VOTE? GOOD. MR. WILLIAMS? >> MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. WHILE THE TEAM IS UP HERE GETTING READY TO PRESENT, AS WE LOOK AT SOME OF THE QUESTIONS AS WE LOOK AT THIS PRESENTATION WITH NUTRITION SERVICES, AND THE UNIVERSAL FREE MILLS, AND EVEN IN OUR MEET AND GREET, WE HAVE QUESTIONS COMING IN, REGARDING NUTRITION, PARAMETERS, WHAT WE ARE DOING, HOW WE ARE PROVIDING MEALS, AND HOW WE ARE PROVIDING THESE DURING BREAKS, I THINK THESE WOULD BE A GREAT PROVIDER OF INFORMATION AND PRESENTATION AROUND THAT. THESE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE LOOK AT MOVING FORWARD. THANK YOU FOR PUTTING THIS TOGETHER. I WILL TURN IT OVER TO THEM. THANK YOU. MADAME PRESIDENT, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, AND THE SUPERINTENDENT. WE ARE HERE TO PRESENT AN UPDATE ON UNIVERSAL FREE MEALS. JUMPING RIGHT

099INTO THE PRESENTATION, UNIVERSAL FREE MEALS. NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM. ONE OF THE COOL THINGS THAT I'M SUPER PROUD OF, LCPS IS DOING IT. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT STATE MOVED INTO. UNIVERSAL MEALS PROGRAMS. THEY HAVE ONE YEAR ON THAT BEFORE THE STATE MANDATED IT. THIS WAS REALLY EXCITING. PROVIDING FREE BREAKFASTS AND LUNCHES FOR ANY STUDENT IN OUR DISTRICT THAT WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A FREE BREAKFAST OR LUNCH. ONE OF THE COMPONENTS OR ROLES PROVIDING THIS FOR KIDS, SAYS THAT WE MUST PROVIDE A LUNCH AND BREAKFAST PROGRAM. JUST BRIEFLY, WE ARE REALLY PROUD OF OUR FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES PROGRAM. WE OFFER HEALTHY CHOICES TO OUR STUDENTS. LCPS, HALF CUP OF FRESH FRUIT AND VEGETABLES ARE OFFERED DAILY DURING LUNCH. FULL CUP OF FRUIT IS OFFERED AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL WITH A 10% JUICE OPTION AS

100WELL. THIS WAS ALSO ANOTHER OPTION FOR BREAKFAST DAILY. RECIPES AND COMMODITY ENTR?ES, THEY ARE MEETING THE DAILY RECOMMENDATION REQUIREMENTS. PROVIDED BY THE NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM. SOMETHING ELSE YOU ARE PROBABLY NOT AWARE OF, THIS HURTS TO REDUCE WASTE. STUDENTS HAVE THE OPTION TO TAKE CERTAIN THINGS. THEY CAN DECLINE CERTAIN THINGS. IN THE OFFER, IT REQUIRES THE STUDENTS THAT ARE OFFERED EVERYTHING, SOME OF OUR OPTIONS HAVE ALTERNATIVES. THESE ARE OUR COMPONENTS. THEY MAY LOOK AT SOME OF THESE REQUIRED COMPONENTS. WE ARE STILL TRYING TO HELP THEM BALANCE THAT OUT. THEY ALSO DON'T HAVE TO TAKE EVERYTHING IF THEY ARE NOT GOING TO. THE BREAKFAST INCLUDES FOUR ITEMS. WE HAVE THE THREE REQUIRED NO COMPONENTS. STUDENTS ARE LOOKING AT ONE ITEM FOR BREAKFAST. SUPER PROUD OF THAT. SUPER EXCITED. I THINK IT IS GOOD FOR KIDS. ON

101OUR NEXT SLIDE, TALKING ABOUT REIMBURSEMENTS. LOOKING AT THE REIMBURSEMENTS HERE, TOTAL REIMBURSEMENTS FOR JULY 2023, FEBRUARY 2024, THIS SHOWS THE USDA TOTAL REIMBURSEMENTS, AND THE UNIVERSAL MEAL. I WILL CALL IT A SUPPLEMENT OR REIMBURSEMENT THAT WE RECEIVED THROUGH THE SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM. IN THE PAST, TYPICALLY, WHEN WE HAVE DONE OUR CALCULATIONS, AGAIN, HOW WE WERE ABLE TO OFFER FREE MEALS TO ALL OF OUR STUDENTS, IT WAS BASED ON A PERCENTAGE OF THE FREE REDUCED NUMBERS. WHAT WE WOULD DO, WE WOULD TAKE SCHOOLS, AND WE WOULD PUT THEM IN THE DISTRICT AS A WHOLE AVERAGE. WE WOULD AVERAGE FREE AND REDUCED LUNCH. THESE NUMBERS ARE OUT. WITH A GROUP OF SCHOOLS, WE WOULD COME UP WITH 70%. WHAT WE WOULD DO, REIMBURSING 70%. WE WOULD BE REIMBURSED 70%, FEEDING 10% OF OUR STUDENTS WITH THAT. THERE

102IS AN ADJUSTMENT THAT WAS MADE. WHAT IS EXCITING, THE WHOLE IDEA WAS HOPEFULLY MAKING IT EFFECTIVE. THEY ARE TRYING TO COVER COSTS WITH THE NUTRITION ASPECTS. WHEN I TALK ABOUT IT, WE ARE LOOKING AT ELIGIBILITY PROVISIONS. THAT IS THE TECHNICAL TERM FOR DOING THAT. EXCITING. THIS IS OUR FIRST FULL YEAR OF REIMBURSEMENTS. WILL BE EXCITING TO RECONCILE ON NUMBERS. THIS IS GOING TO BE WHAT OUR FINANCES WILL LOOK LIKE AT THE END. I NUTRITION SERVICE DEPARTMENT, IS 10% SELF-SUFFICIENT. THEY GENERATE ALL OF THE FUNDING THAT THEY UTILIZE IN THAT DEPARTMENT. THE SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM, WE SERVE AN AVERAGE OF 88-58 BREAKFAST. 12,939 LUNCHES DAILY. WE WOULD LOVE TO CONTINUE TO INCREASE THAT NUMBER. AGAIN, ALL OF OUR STUDENTS QUALIFY. WE TALKED ABOUT THIS BEFORE. SHARE TABLES ARE AVAILABLE AT EVERY SCHOOL SITE. EVERYBODY HAS ITEMS

103THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO SHARE. THEY ARE GOING TO PUT THESE THERE. STUDENTS CAN COME AND GET THOSE AS THEY SEE FIT. WE HAVE SNACK BARS AS SECONDARY SCHOOLS. SNACK BARS ALSO OFFER HEALTHY CHOICES AS WELL. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE ARE REQUIRED TO FOLLOW. THROUGH OUR GUIDELINES, THESE ARE OFFERED AT EVERY SCHOOL SITE WITH LIMITED VEGETABLES. A FEW YEARS AGO AS A SCHOOL PRINCIPAL, KIDS WOULD GO CRAZY FOR SALAD BARS, AND THE SMOKE BAR. WHEN WE HEADED OUT THERE, PEOPLE JUST LOVED IT. REALLY EXCITING TO OFFER THAT FOR OUR STUDENTS. WE SUPPORT 50 STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL DIETS. 50 STUDENTS WITH MILK INTOLERANCE. THIS IS SOMETHING WE DID TO WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH THE SCHOOL. HEALTH SERVICE AND NUTRITION SERVICES DEPARTMENT, THEY GET TOGETHER, AND COME UP WITH ACCOMMODATION PLANS FOR STUDENTS. WE ACCOMMODATE FOOD

104ALLERGIES, INDIVIDUAL HEALTH REQUIREMENTS, AND WE WORK CLOSELY WITH THE STUDENTS THAT HAVE PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIANS THERE TO HELP WITH PROVIDERS ON A CASE-BY-CASE BASIS. ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS, NEW MEXICO GROWN. NOT TOO LONG AGO, WE HAD A BOSTON AWARD. WE WON THE TOP AWARD. ABSOLUTELY SOMETHING THESE ARE WORKING TOWARDS. INCORPORATING THE NEW MEXICO GROWN PRODUCE. THESE ARE THE COMMODITIES WITH THE SCHOOL LUNCHES. THIS IS GOING TO BE INCLUDING THURSDAYS FOR OUR STUDENTS. AFTER SCHOOL SNACKS, QUALIFYING SCHOOL SITES. MANY AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS, WE PROVIDE SNACKS FOR THEM. BETTER BITES, IS A PROGRAM OFFERING FRUITS AND VEGETABLES GIVEN TO FAMILIES. THIS IS OUR COMMUNITY SCHOOLS THAT WE ARE NOT WORKING WITH. WORKING WITH OUR COMMUNITIES, OFFERING THAT. WE HAD AN ANNUAL FOOD SHOW. THIS IS THE FIRST YEAR THAT WE DO THE CONVENTION CENTER. GATHERING ON STUDENT MENU BUILDINGS. WE

105ARE TRYING TO CONTINUE TO OFFER STUDENTS THIS, ESPECIALLY AS WE WORK TOWARDS DOING ANOTHER FROM SCRATCH COOKING. STUDENTS PALLETS ARE ON THE FOREFRONT. IT WAS A REALLY FUN EVENT. MR. WOFFORD, WE GOT YOUR EMAIL. WE WILL MAKE SURE TO INVITE AND INCLUDE ALL OF YOU AS WELL. SUMMER PROGRAMS, WE PROVIDE FREE MEALS TO STUDENTS AGES THROUGH 18. WE CAN OFFER IT TO ALL STUDENTS, AGES ONE THROUGH 18. WE ARE WORKING WITH SOME LOGISTICS NOW TO GET THAT GOING. WE HAVE PARTNERED WITH FYI. WE WILL DO THE COOKING. THEY WOULD DO THE SCHOOL AND PROGRAMS. IT THE CITY IS TO BEGIN AND ADDING SOME SITES. THIS IS KIND OF ON THEIR OWN. THEY ARE TRYING TO TAKE CARE OF OUR ENTIRE CITY. WE ARE LOOKING AT WHAT THEY ARE USING. WE ARE POSSIBLY DOING MIDDLE SCHOOL

106SITES. THESE ARE GOING TO BE CENTRALLY LOCATED TO LARGER GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS. WE CAN FEED OUR KIDS THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER. UTILIZING OUR STAFF. THINKING THE STAFF SIDE OF THIS, GIVES US OPPORTUNITIES TO MAKE MONEY THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER. THIS IS AN ADDED BENEFIT. THERE HAVE BEEN SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT HOLIDAY INTERCESSION FEEDINGS. ONE OF THE APPLICATIONS THROUGH THIS, IS THAT HOLIDAY MEALS ARE ONLY REIMBURSED IF STUDENTS ARE OUT OF SCHOOL FOR 10 CONSECUTIVE DAYS OR MORE. THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE ARE GOING TO TALK TO. WE WILL CONTINUE HAVING DIALOGUE WITH OUR FRIENDS OUT THERE. IT IS AN APPLICATION PROCESS. AS WE GET READY TO DO OUR APPLICATION FOR NEXT YEAR, WE WILL GET SOME GUIDANCE. WHEN WE ASK FOR INPUT, WE WILL DEFINITELY SHARE WHAT WE HAVE BEEN DOING FROM OUR COMMUNITY. WEEKEND MEALS ARE NOT ALLOWABLE

107CURRENTLY ON OUR APPLICATION, OR ANYTHING THAT WE HAVE SUBMITTED. IT HAS BEEN A SHIFT. THIS IS FROM COVID, BEING ABLE TO OFFER IT. THERE HAS BEEN A QUESTION. AS WE GO AWAY FOR HOLIDAYS, FIVE DAYS A BREAKFAST, FIVE DAYS OF LUNCHES. COMING BACK, UNLESS IT IS 10 CONSECUTIVE DAYS OR MORE. IT IS CHALLENGING TOO. ALONG WITH OUR GUIDELINES, EVEN AT 10 CONSECUTIVE DAYS, WE HAVE VERY FEW HOLIDAYS. WE ARE PUTTING OUR HEADS TOGETHER TO SEE WHAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO DO AND PROVIDE. WITH THAT, MEDAL PRESIDENT, NUMBERS OF THE BOARD, SUPERINTENDENT, WE STAND FOR ANY QUESTIONS. ALSO, OUR COMMUNITY SCHOOLS, DO THEY ALSO PROVIDE MEALS IN ADDITION TO THIS? NOT MEALS, BUT THE PANTRIES. MADAM PRESIDENT, SUPERINTENDENT, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, TO BE HONEST, THIS IS THROUGH THE ROAD RUNNER FOOD BANK PROGRAM. I KNOW

108THAT WE HAVE SCHOOLS AND SCHOLARSHIPS THAT WE ARE WORKING WITH. THEY ARE PROVIDING SOME FOOD PANTRIES. PROVIDING FOOD DISTRIBUTION SITES. THEY ARE STILL DOING WHAT WE CALL THE FARMERS MARKET. THIS IS THE STUDENT GOVERNMENT THAT DOES IT. THEY ORGANIZE EVERYTHING THAT HAS COME IN. WE DO A FOOD DISTRIBUTION FOR FAMILIES. SUPER AWESOME. WE HAVE FOOD PANTRIES. IN ADDITION TO THIS, OUR SCHOOLS HAVE PANTRIES. INCLUDING THE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS. AS YOU CAN SEE, IT IS WELL-ROUNDED. THEY ARE SUPPORTING WITH REGARDS TO THIS. MR. FRANK? WE ARE PROVIDING ABOUT 13,00 LUNCHES. WE HAVE 24,00 STUDENTS. WHERE ARE THE OTHER 900? ARE THEY GIVING LUNCH? GREAT QUESTION. I WOULD LOOK AT SOME OF THE OPTIONS THAT STUDENTS HAVE RIGHT THERE. WE HAVE THAT OPTION. THE HIGH SCHOOL CAMPUSES ARE OPEN CAMPUSES AS WELL. YOU ARE GOING TO SEE A

109LOT OF STUDENTS GOING AND LEAVING CAMPUS. I DON'T KNOW WHY I AM NOT UNDERSTANDING IT WHEN IT SAYS THAT THEY WILL ONLY REIMBURSE YOU WHEN YOUR KIDS ARE LOOKING TO REIMBURSE FOR HOLIDAY MEALS. THIS IS IF THEY ARE ABSENT FOR 10 DAYS. SPRING BREAK IS TWO WEEKS OF SCHOOL. 10 DAYS. ARE YOU SAYING THAT YOU DO GET REIMBURSED FOR THAT? MADAM PRESIDENT. WE CAN. WE CAN RIGHT THIS INTO AN APPLICATION. WE ARE LOOKING AT OUR BRICKS. ANYTIME IT IS 10 DAYS OR LONGER, WE CAN PROVIDE MEALS THROUGHOUT THAT TIME. THE OTHER PIECES SAY IT IS WORKING. IT IS ALSO GETTING STUFF TOGETHER TO COOK THOSE MEALS. REALLY PUTTING OUR HEADS TOGETHER ON THAT. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE CHALLENGED OURSELVES TO DO. LOOKING AT SOME OF THESE BREAKS THAT ARE 10 DAYS LONG,

110THAT WE CAN RALLY A STAFF TOGETHER, AND REALLY FOCUS ON. THE OTHER PART OF IT, WE ALSO HAVE MANY STAFF MEMBERS THAT HAVE STUDENTS THAT ARE ON BREAK DURING THAT TIME. THEY COULD CHOOSE TO HAVE THEIR HOLIDAY. WE ARE POSSIBLY LOOKING AT HAVING THOSE CONVERSATIONS AHEAD OF TIME. HAVING THOSE CONVERSATIONS FOR NEXT YEAR, AND MAKING SURE PEOPLE CAN OPEN UP. >> CAN PEOPLE VOLUNTEER TO SOME CAPACITY? >> MADAM PRESIDENT, ABSOLUTELY. ARE YOU SAYING VOLUNTEER TO COME WORK IN OUR KITCHENS? ABSOLUTELY. YOU COULD COME VOLUNTEER IF YOU ARE A REGISTERED VOLUNTEER WITH US. THE OTHER PART, LET'S PUT OUR HEADS TOGETHER. THERE ARE SOME REQUIREMENTS AS FAR AS FOOD HANDLING. WE HAVE OTHER CERTIFICATIONS THAT WE HAVE TO DO. I THINK THAT MIGHT BE COOL IF WE HAD PEOPLE THAT WANTED TO DO THAT. THERE COULD

111BE SOMETHING THAT WE COULD OFFER. WE ARE GOING TO PUT OUR HEADS TOGETHER. GOOD EVENING. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DEFINITELY LOOK AT. THE PROBLEM IS THAT THE MEALS HAVE TO BE ON SITE. WE ARE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT THE DAYS BEFORE COVID. AFTER, WE CANNOT SEND THEM HOME. WE ARE SEEING A LOT OF PARENTS THAT CANNOT GET THERE. HOW DO WE GET THESE MEALS TO THEM? HOW ARE WE GETTING BACK TO THE SCHOOLS? THERE ARE A LOT OF MOVING PARTS. WE WANT OUR KIDS. THANK YOU. ANYONE ELSE? >> THANK YOU. I LOVE THE SHARE TABLE. THANK YOU FOR GOING 10%, FEEDING ALL THE KIDS. ABSOLUTELY. >> THANK YOU FOR STAYING SO LATE WITH US TONIGHT. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. THAT IS ALL FOR TODAY. WITH THAT, I WILL

112ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADJOURN. SO MOVED. >> SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. ANY OPPOSED? MOTION PASSES, 5-10. THIS IS ADJOURNED.