Regular Board Meeting

001that's pretty uh with regard to item 102 uh do we have any uh modifications of the agenda by the board so you know then I'll go ahead and ask for a motion to accept the to adopt the agenda as presented motion there's a motion by board member Charlotte taken by vice president uh excuse me for president I just wanna on the very end the very last item of the agenda on the next meeting there's a typo and I just want to make sure that for uh Memorial life you know uh reporting purposes yeah our next um the regular board meeting is going to be December 15 2027. all right um boardroom Travis you want to amend your motion to read December 5th I amended to accept my motion to accept uh the meeting minutes with

002the all with the change of the December 15th all right it's the next meeting correct all right um yes yes all right uh if there's no further comments um I'll go ahead and go for comments from the public there are no current requests for public comments thank you all right um if there's no further comments from members of the board I'll go ahead and call for a vote as I see you foreign um all right at this point we'll go ahead and move forward with item number 1.03 which is an explanation um any person may address the board on any item on the meeting agenda persons who wish to speak an item if we have the Pledge of Allegiance there you know what yeah thank you I jumped uh a couple of things here so

003thank you for reminding me second uh but I just wanted to make sure that we recognized that board member joined us were you able to note that in the minutes or in the yes yes I did thank you all right um so we've done roll call let's do the land acknowledgment and um the board of trustee the Alum Rocky Elementary School District does hereby acknowledge that the district schools and Facilities sit on the traditional lands of the molecu Maloney people and the Board of Trustees further acknowledges with respect and reverence the molecua aloni people tribe of San Francisco Bay area where there's stewardship in these lands all right uh we'll proceed with the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance of the United States under God indivisible with liberties all right moving on to item 1.03

004um any person may address the board on the item on the meeting agenda versus who wish to speak in an item on the agenda will have the opportunity to do to do so when the item when the agenda item is introduced and presented during the meeting if you wish to speak on an item on this agenda please use the raise your hand function on Zoom as described above when the agenda item is called there's a limit of two minutes for each speaker the board has a right to limit total public comment on any agenda item to no more than 20 minutes persons who wish to speak on the to the board about a manner within the jurisdiction of the district but not on the agenda we'll have an opportunity to speak during item 2.01 on

005this agenda as stated below all right moving on to item two point 2.01 uh members of the public wishing to speak please indicate by raising your hand their ASR requests for a public comment for Central Rivera [Music] uh Sandra uh please unmute yourself and you have two minutes to talk and the timer will start once you uh start talking good evening members of the board Alum Rock Community and superintendent Bauer my name is Sandra Rivera and I am a TK teacher at Chavez Elementary School I'm coming to you tonight to ask for two things the first thing is this year has been the most challenging year that I have ever experienced in the 17 years in my district um with covet happening and the children's social emotional needs getting aimed in different directions it's very

006important that we keep our class sizes smaller this year I have a few students who are in the special ed program in my classroom and I'm being told that I might have a couple of more children being added to my case into my classroom but the problem that I'm seeing is is that these students are more and more difficult um and are not creating a learning environment that is conducive to everybody but because of the fact that so many of our other classrooms have been collapsed and that there is no room for the students anywhere else all of the Overflow students are coming to my room this is not fair to all of the students that are here the second request that I have is I turned in a timesheet back in last time period

007but it wasn't addressed even though I got emails back and forth telling me that to fill out my timesheet this way and asking me why I was charging in a certain way I did not get paid for it on this November time sheet when I should have been um and so if we could do something to speed up the process on when we turn in our time sheets on time and how long Administration has to approve them and report them thank you Mr President there are no more requests for public comment all right go ahead and move on to 3.01 our Alum Rock administrators Association do we have anybody here to speak on behalf of araa there is a request for public comment from Maria Martinez all right if you're here for araa please uh

008the floor is yours Maria please submit yourself thank you good good idea Martinez here uh r-a -a and I want to um say good evening to our board Dr Bauer and staff um I am a principal on special assignment supporting academic services and I'm also the past president of the Alum Rock administrators Association it is a privilege to speak tonight to represent a group of vibrant Educators and administrators who work tremendously hard in service to our schools and Community there are exciting developments taking place across Alum Rock and our administrators continue to work to serve their respective sites or departments at the Cesar Chavez Early Learning Center they had a parade on Halloween and the children paraded through six different departments on campus the wonderful people in the department were dressed up and gave out

009treats and a few adults wish they had brought along a bag just to trick or treat with them the office staff was painted and really needed a facelift and so um that's another thing that happened at the Early Learning Center they have a painted office and the children have lunch together and they choose where they want to sit and it's great to see them laughing and having conversations and occasionally taking a bite of food and they are just playing in both the Kinder areas and it is just really rewarding to see how happy they are and it's going to be great to have Toddlers and babies on campus and the collaboration between the district school and kidango has been very very rewarding Cureton Cureton also had a Halloween parade and Fall Festival on October 31st

010and it was wonderful for parents to join for these fun and exciting events they're going to have a walkathon on November 16th and students and staff are going to wear their activewear and walk the blacktop over at Lindale they had a beautiful beautification day and that happened in October and they also have a new mural on the cafeteria side promoting School values they had a great Halloween parade and Lindale will also have a new piano lab with 34 keyboards and built-in speakers and this is from a generous donation from Friends of Lindale and those classes are going to start in December and those and Fishes delivers 300 plus freshly prepared meals and pantry and Deli items every Friday to Lindale families over at painter Elementary science from scientists kicked off with the new science Partners

011on November 16th they met with teachers last week to map out investigations and labs to implement and this partnership is layered upon um the in-person training with lab investigations and also on October 31st students were able to celebrate the fall Harvest for the Harvest Festival costume parade and this was something that parents could take apart in by watching their students and uh students and families came together on October 14th for painters First school-wide Assembly since before the pandemic to celebrate the overlap of Hispanic American heritage month and Filipino American Heritage Month um little Heroes at painter has launched an interest Scholastic soccer season and has implemented leadership incentives and teachers are planning their Foss science lessons under guidance from the county science coordinator at Russo mcentee Academy um they celebrated Halloween with the school uh

012doing a parade and with music and then they walked over to the district office where the TK Kindred SDC classes came to trick-or-treat and the students and parents walked through all of the Departments and had a great time and um Russo mcentee is also celebrating Harvest Festival with the community today from five to seven with games food and resources for all um going to our Middle Schools Ocala steam Academy had a great visit from various site administrators from different schools in um the in-field network and this visit was for site administrators to discuss how the school models the district's first indicator of Fab Five to thrive the arusd classroom component in which all students can Thrive and be in a safe and welcoming environment uh oh Coliseum Academy also had the honor of a visit

013from Dr Bauer and trustee bam and trusteefam even got to spin the house wheel and was placed in house Mahan and students and adults in house man are said to be Noble wise and patient and they look forward to having other trustees visit and spin on their house wheel to find out which house they belong in and finally Ocala had an awesome turnout for their back to school hallow steam night students and their families engaged in various steam activities with their families and teachers and are looking forward to seeing you all at our the signature sure event steam night in the spring and going to aptitude Academy they are excited to kick off project Cornerstone and this is called expect respect and they're going to train up to 30 youth leaders to Advocate and Lead

014change initiatives on campus and looking at the different departments within the Alum Rock administrators Association in student services coordinated The Ninth Annual parent University at Shepherd Middle School and that happened on Saturday the 29th of October 320 parents were in attendance and 201 students and parents attended excellent workshops and kids participated in a kids camp where they were able to paint their own pumpkins and parents were also able to participate in a resource Fair where they had over 20 outside Community organizations table academic Services has completed initial lpac testing hooray hooray and we are currently in the process of reclassifying students in the month of October approximately 50 missions were completed in the Alum Rock professional development platform Thrive some completed Thrive Basics to learn the tool while the majority of teachers completed the Thrive

015flocabulary Mission which is a standards-based creative approach to teaching and learning vocabulary through music and digital citizenship week was celebrated the week of October 14th with posters and pledges at middle schools as well as district-wide resources to support teachers with intentional lessons featuring cyber security and understanding digital footprints and looking forward to the first week of December our academic Services team will lead our second round of in-field networks for schools with common folk guy to celebrate and collaborate around best aligned practices focus on safe and welcoming School environments and a team identified focus on either steam literacy and bi-literacy or mtss that was definitely a mouthful but it's great to see so many fantastic and amazing things happening in our district so I want to thank you all for your time this evening and we

016will check in next month thank you all right uh moving on to Teamsters 3.02 is anybody from Teen Spirits here to speak on I'm not sure they were able to make it tonight all right I don't see anybody raising their hands so at this point we'll move on to CSEA um anybody from CSEA yes uh Sean Fontaine sends the ingredients to the Lord and she's unable to join tonight okay uh area Jocelyn are you here all right Jocelyn's raising their hand yeah just uh Jocelyn you are able to speak thank you good evening everyone I would like to congratulate those of you who survived this last election cycle and are on your way to the next term on the Alum Rock School Board I understand that ballots are still being counted and the results are

017still pending but I have no doubt that you are all looking forward to a relaxing weekend without phone Banking and or Precinct walking it is certainly an exhausting time I would like to thank all the area members who volunteered your time to campaign on behalf of the candidates who we supported to make the best decisions for Alum Rock School District moving forward I would also like to give a special shout out to our very own memoni of salberta who is on her way to represent us on the Santa Clara County School Board of Trustees District Six having worked alongside of her on the area executive board for many years and to proudly call her my friend I know we couldn't have a brighter more qualified person to make the important decisions at the County School

018Board level after the last couple of years of Virtual School site meetings with the area members it has been really exciting to be back to on-site visits and reconnecting in real life I've had the chance to visit more than half of our sites so far and aside from seeing and hearing about all the great things taking place as Maria Martinez pointed out to you I have also felt some very common widely felt concerns surfacing across the sites we still have the ongoing lack issue of lack of substitutes which impacts the other classrooms when the students are divided up excuse me we're also still short Paras and subs for Paris of course both of those issues end up placing a greater burden on the classroom teachers when they have less help more students and have to

019give up their prep times to cover other classes however I think one of the most significant concerns I have heard from almost every school is the increase in poor student Behavior and the lack of respect for rules and people it seems that this is directly related to the covid years but we must have procedures and resources in place to deal with the increase in the severity of poor Behavior well I don't profess to have the answers I am here to draw your awareness to these problems because unless we deal with this issue we will continue to lose more teachers from our district I know of at least four teachers who have quit the district since the beginning of the school year unfortunately I am aware of several more who are considering it hopefully if we

020can get a handle on some of these issues we can alleviate some of the stress on our teachers and work to retain them on the eve of Veterans Day I want to personally thank each and every veteran who has served or is serving to protect the Democracy of our country I know it's a very difficult position thank you all right item 3.05 superintendent I wanna Echo uh Jocelyn's sentiment and I want to thank the veterans um thank you for your service and for helping us have a more robust uh democracy and freedom in this land thank you for that I also want to thank our community for supporting the district's measure s that's going to be giving our Workforce a huge opportunity to be able to be with us and and work with us and

021raise families with us so thank you community for that trust for your support for your district and I'm looking forward to one day in the near future to be able to all of us but that first ribbon and provide the first set of keys to the to the staff that are going to be enjoying and and having the opportunity to have that so thank you community for that I also want to thank all of our students because um as we go in and out of classrooms I want to thank Rusty Farm because he um has uh led the the charge of visiting all the schools twice a year and that has given given me the opportunity right to be able to see almost every classroom in in this in this district and I really appreciate

022our students um the wonderful faces and the smiles and the um great activities like the ones that we saw this morning both at Renaissance at Madison and at San Antonio our students have a great opportunity to have wonderful teachers that are teaching them stem uh lessons that um are second to nobody and finally I want to thank those parents that have been signing up for our tip training we're gonna have project Cornerstone dig the road take the show on the virtual Road and we're going to be next Wednesday we're going to be connecting with 220 parents they're going to be part of a series of parent engagement professional development once a month we're going to be um talking about different subjects including brain development and how do we deal with our teenagers the series of

023professional developments is called take it personally and I think for I think every parent who has signed up for this opportunity thank you all right to moving on to item 3.06 uh comments from the Board of Trustees is there any comments uh board membership I want to thank all the veterans uh who for many decades have been underappreciated but never forgotten thank you for all your service for the comments thank you uh I just want to start off by thanking each and every one of you for uh putting your name on the ballot to continue serving our district um I know ballots are still being counted as Jocelyn mentioned so um either way you know congratulations because it takes a lot um it takes somebody that's Brave to continue doing this work um so thank

024you and uh along with that I just wanted to um highlight some of the activities in our community where I got to connect with our community um I was able to attend the Santa Clara County fall um Board Association dinner along with Dr Bauer it was good to be there and listen to students from our community the swag pretty cool name team uh it stands for student wellness Advisory Group and it was just great to hear their input and you know their thoughts and uh to me as as I've mentioned before is important to incorporate Our Youth and continue to hear from them even though some of us you know that are a little older or maybe a lot I don't know I like to consider a little bit for me um you know we're

025set sometimes in our ways we're set in like how we do things uh so it's great I think it's always good to keep it fresh listen to our youth and their needs um and maybe do things a little different sometimes maybe you know not do things as we did when we first started um whenever that was for for you know whoever and wherever we're serving our district so grateful for that and want to give them a shout out and their families um also was able to attend the Trunk or Treat event at the Hillview Library um that's you know next to one of our schools and see our staff and students and just engage and be so excited to participate in the uh you know toss and the you know turning the the wheels and

026just getting prizes and candy and checking out the cars um and seeing our firefighters out there uh really great event so it was great to connect with our community out there um and then you know just the many other events uh just thinking of Macario you know within our community I know I saw some of my peers there thank you for attending um and um you know the the other los Muertos events you know many community members came out I saw many children smile and just remember their loved ones um also I want to congratulate um each and every one of us in our community who exercised our vote you know who um made sure that uh we spoke up on that um on that ballot uh and that passed as Dr Robert mentioned measure

027s um you know just so many uh so much excitement you know that that brings alone and I know that we get to have many more conversations as Dr Bauer you know said just envisioning that cutting that red ribbon eventually and I know it's going to take a lot of work still but um thank you community for uh making sure that uh you had your input and what happens within our district um and uh last but not least um I know the that we're celebrating our American Indian heritage month this month um this weekend there will be a big celebration within our community at connection Friday Saturday and Sunday um I know some of us you know read about indigenous people like we are a thing of the past but we're actually living and thriving

028there will be a big Gathering people from um other countries actually will be coming in are flying in as we speak so great opportunity to bring your families um it will be a connection this uh tomorrow Saturday and Sunday so please make sure to go there and along with that just want to end again um as Jocelyn and Dr Brower mentioned and uh trustee uh Chavez uh thank you to all the veterans thinking of my uncles um Jesse and Ernie who served and all the rest of the veterans that served and those that continue to serve thank you so much for doing doing uh for your service and sometimes you know you can't think we can't thank you enough um for the freedom that um we get to live here um within this city thank

029you for the comments forward vice president uh thank you Mr President uh well quite a lot has happened but I want to start out a big thank you to first uh all the veterans who have served and those who uh are serving uh your your sacrifice makes our democracy possible with uh if you uh did not you know our ability to vote this past Tuesday was made possible by your willingness to step up and defend those rights so uh uh we we certainly we owe a debt of gratitude for uh what you do I also want to I know that you know I actually though votes are still being counted uh I want to thank the Alum Rock Community for uh saying yes again to saying yes to a brighter future to saying yes to

030uh in time uh with with the passage of measure s to end the boom and bust cycle that Alum Rock has uh gone through since Alum Rock started you know our our ability to put our resources to use uh to secure the future for our children tomorrow so I'm very ratified that uh we're able to turn the page on the past and look forward to uh a brighter future for all of us going forward I want to thank all my colleagues who put their name on the ballot this past Tuesday this uh out you know we are a community-based school district and uh uh every one of you all all 50 000 voters of Alum Rock all 110 000 residents are the owners of this school district so thank you so you know uh uh

031thank you so much for taking the time to make your choice known and uh to let us know that uh Alum Rock is is capable of great things and we are back on track to doing great things once more uh I tell you it's been a busy month uh as Dr Bauer will attest was it I have finished my my second annual tour of Alum Rock So since the last meeting was at the Ocala Adelante one aptitude at Ross Ryan analante II Cassel dorsa Hubbard and this morning Renaissance at Matson the Chavez Early Learning Center Lucha and San Antonio and so much going on in our schools right and uh oh at Ocala it looks like I am an honorary member of House Mayhem thank you you know but our kids are doing things that

032you know I would not have imagined doing in junior high or even at uh you know at the K5 level um I got to see the well our Wellness room in action at Gosser when our kids providing for their social and emotional well-being the Gardens at Ryan uh was it are to see the first eighth grade class at Adelante II um and let's see here uh was it a smart classroom in action in a kindergarten at dorsa you know our kids are you know uh kindergarteners being utilizing their Chromebooks well and taking care of uh Chromebooks uh let's see here and then Renaissance at Madison uh was it stem in action our seventh graders were doing a a dissection lab and I mean I seventh graders doing dissection usually you know usually that's in my

033goes to show how dated I am a bit there but you know I didn't see that until the eighth grade at Pala but they're dissecting at seven in the seventh grade although I will say the superintendent enjoyed that demonstration a bit more than I did because I you know um dissection was never my thing but uh you know we're we're seeing uh got to visit our special education kids at Chavez uh and to see you know our maker space in action at San Antonio so many many great things in our district and I uh thank all all our families for their con continued trust and faith in Alum Rock schools uh I got to meet the parents at parent University on October 29th at Shepherd it was always a wonderful feeling to see our parents

034together again but also uh the show what we're able to do for our parents and our children outside of the classroom as well uh uh and then lastly I I thought I thought he I I thought he was there at uh Hubbard but turns out he was at uh Cassell I want to congratulate Milton Hernandez on being Santa Clara County teacher of the year uh you know I will say you know uh Alum Rock teachers are not only the finest teachers in San Jose where the finest teachers in all of Santa Clara County so I thank him for all for all he has done for our kids what he will be continuing to be doing for our kids and you know he showed you know he showed he showed all Silicon Valley what we're made

035of and then if I may ask Dr Bauer does this mean that Mr Hernandez will be going to be teacher of the year at the state level competition no he was the teacher of the year for Oliver oh okay but still congratulations to him on such a uh such a uh distinction so with that thank you so much and uh Mr President and I you with the floor for the comments from members of the board I have a question not the same Mr Hernandez whose father was also a featured in the Vista years ago I really don't know so if it's before 2000 I wouldn't you know bother to do something okay all right uh so I'll go ahead and close up my comments um very very grateful to the Alum Rock Community for the

036trust and confidence they placed in us and supporting uh our measure to raise revenue to repair our facilities and also to embark on on on a uh program of providing housing and uh for our faculty and staff the world changes the needs are different than they were years ago and this District needs to change with those changes that are that we're facing in order to continue to survive and to be able to provide equality and dignified education to our students and so I'm very very grateful to the voters of Alum Rock that saw and recognize that need and provided for the opportunity for us to go ahead and meet the needs that we're facing so we can attract the best qualify qualified the most qualified teachers we can be competitive uh bringing on staff and

037so very grateful for that uh same vein my colleagues I am very very grateful to our veterans who have served and who have stepped up when um in in in the benefit of our country and so thank you to all who have done that especially the over representation of working class folks from where the military picks up the majority of its um for of its numbers and so thank you to all those who have stepped up in the service of our country I also want to recognize those who unfortunately have fallen victim and I think it's also patriotic to seek redress uh victims like Vanessa Yin who uh was a victim uh was murdered while in the military and so while we recognize our veterans we also should demand that they have safe working conditions

038so they can continue on serving our country in a safe manner without having to be subject to murder while they're in their in their own facilities uh even after there's been complaints concerns expressed and so with that I don't take away anything from our veterans I just demand that our government provide a safer working conditions for our veterans all right moving on to item 4.01 the approval of resolution number 20-20 forward slash 23 National unhoused Youth Awareness Month there's a motion board member Chavez second by board uh clerk is there any comments from members of the public with regard to this item or president they are no more um there's no request for public comment if there's no further comments from members of the board I'll go ahead and call you the vote as I

039see you board member Travis aye board vice president aye board clerk aye board member aye myself for United motion pass unanimously all right item 4.02 can discussion in consideration to approve resolution number 22-223 authorizing remote virtual teleconferencing meetings do I have emotional standard motion by board member Chavez second by board member boardwise president fam is there any comments from members of the public for president there are no requests for public comment at this time all right uh if there's no further comments from members of the board I'll go ahead and call you as I see you board member Chavez aye board vice president aye work Clerk of Alora aye board member I don't know aye myself 49 we should pass the unanimously I have a question about that one though yeah because the actual motion

040and the item is to approve the authorization of remote teleconferencing and I know last time there was a provision made in the motion to force um divorce I don't I don't remember if that was for that specific motion or or for all of these items for this particular item going forward you know am I making myself clear remember how we had a there was an exception to the motion last time um and I just want to make sure that it's included in this that we all just voted I on well I think what you're referring to is the language within the resolution already has Provisions that are meet everybody's needs here on the board uh I mean so the this actual item is authorizes the remote teleconferencing but I just want to make sure that

041we're on the same page of what uh was voted on because I know there was like a little um addendum or or something to the motion last time yeah a Mr President if I may uh yeah uh well that you know uh yes you you're a correct the actor two meetings ago we um the provision for the board to meet again in the boardroom uh the resolution has been updated so if you look on page three under uh uh was it part number five it's uh you know number five you know it says the board and superintendent and any necessary staff shall meet in person in the district's boardroom so that so that amendment has been incorporated into okay so that we didn't need to redo anything okay I just wanted to make sure that

042that was all right clear so the we already went ahead and called for the vote Yes for the question after the fact correct yeah okay just want to make sure we're almost impeached all right um I am moving on to item 4.03 this is fine I think we haven't voted yet so I I made the decision we did vote for it no we didn't think about it you sure Maribel have we voted oh is there a vote because I I remember calling everybody yeah yeah there was there was a a rule called vote we voted but yeah yeah so that's why it threw them all right I'm just trying to keep everyone on their toes tonight item 4.03 is there any public confidence item I know it's for this information only just want to find

043out if anybody wants to speak on it there are Mr President there are no requests for public comment at this time okay all right um solar energy and vicinity master plan is for information only I'm assuming that's going to be a executive presentation that's going to be fairly quick all right the floor is yours Mr Chang foreign good evening can you hear me loud and clear thank you um good evening president members of the board and superintendent Dr Bauer um tonight we'll be giving you a quick update regarding the um solar um energy and the facility master plan so um I would like to invite um Mr Russell driver from Park and Miss Andrea has been from LPA who's going to be providing um a brief summary of where we're at with those projects um

044Mr mellow if you can promote um Mr Russell driver and Miss Andrea Pippin to the panels hello good evening good evening yeah hello okay Mr driver Mr Chicken um we're ready whenever you are thank you Andrea shall I go first sure okay great good evening everyone um I'm Russell driver principal with Arc Alternatives and um I'm gonna go through very quickly what we're working on relative to the energy component of the work um we are in the midst of doing an analysis of all the district's energy bills and benchmarking all the facilities we're going to have a benchmarking report that details energy use intensities and other kinds of metrics um for District staff review next week um our plan then calls for us to um do some additional audit work sort of starting in November

045December with a focus on solar we expect to be on-site mid-December I would say to supplement work we're going to do remotely to help identify areas where solar systems can be installed across all of your campuses um in the district um we've had some very productive coordination meetings with the LPA folks and we're sort of Feathering in the work we're going to do on the Energy Efficiency component of the program with the work they already have underway to do facilities conditions audits just so that we're not duplicating any effort there um the last thing I wanted to mention in terms of our update is that um the California Public Utilities Commission this morning released their draft decision around the transition of net energy metering from uh 2.0 to 3.0 which I know is something we've

046talked about before and has gotten a fair amount of press um the net net of that um if you recall is that we want to work as hard as we can to make sure that if the district is going to do solar that they do it under the current set of rules and not the proposed set of rules the way the timeline looks right now that means that we have until about mid-april to submit interconnection applications for any systems that the the district would want to actually install um and the best way to do that is to partner with a solar vendor in order to do that so I mention all of that because we spent some time this week putting together a schedule for our work and I believe we're going to need to

047accelerate that so I'm I'm going to be sitting down with uh your staff and the LPA folks next week to talk a little bit about how we can make all that go faster and make sure that you don't have any risk of falling into the new net energy metering program um as it as that that sort of grandfathering window closes uh on or around mid-april so so that's probably the biggest news and it's hot off the presses so we haven't had time to really adjust the way we were thinking about the project but the net net of it is that we really do need to move as fast as possible on the solar piece of the program uh to make sure you have the option of going solar in 2023. so that's all I have

048uh in terms of updates um I don't know if you want to ask questions now or maybe uh Andrea can can do her update and we'll we'll do q a uh uh Miss Pippen if you would finally uh you know give the board an update thank you absolutely uh good evening superintendent Bauer board president Quintero and my other members of the school board um I am Andrea Pippin I am with LPA Design Studios located just down the street from you all in Downtown San Jose I am an educational facilities planner so this is right up my alley so um this facility master plan is really taking a Visionary approach to every school site within the campus looking at the district holistically and creating a road map for the future of your District looking down the

049road about 10 to 15 years and really creating some Equitable environments for your students and ones where the students can Thrive currently in the process we have begun the facility condition assessments we have reviewed and approved the pilot assessments performed by our consultant or our partnering firm Bureau Veritas so they have begun their sightwalks of all of your campuses this week their schedule has the sidewalk visits their boots on the ground visits running through the beginning of January and then we'll be getting the reports of those campuses um kind of incrementally along the way in terms of our visioning process we have had a two-day visioning workshop with leaders within your District educational leaders those were held October 19th and 20th the resulting report from those engagements have been shared with the participants and will

050be shared with our focus groups so focus groups will be held beginning next week to kind of dig into some take a deeper deeper dive into specific topic areas and themes identified during that visioning Workshop um this will these focus group meetings will include three different sessions um with your students occurring in person at Ryan steem Academy Ocala steam Academy and a Hubbard media arts academy so we're very much looking forward to learning the students uh reaction to building their dream school and seeing what they what ideas they bring to the table for the future of Education within Alum Rock also beginning next week is the facilities master plan committee this is um kicking off the broader Outreach air efforts as this committee includes Personnel from the district you know members of your school communities

051teachers staff Etc and also the community at large so this is really this Nexus Core Group who we will carry along with us throughout this master planning effort all of your communities community members who express ideas throughout this process really author it so hopefully this long-term master plan will reflect your community's vision will really be authored by them we're just the facilitators in the process speaking of which one of these next steps an activity that we'll be doing with the facility master plan committee will be to review a draft of surveys that will be distributed to your community parents teachers other community members as well as a separate survey that will be distributed to students so trying to gather up as many voices as we can throughout the process the survey just by the way

052will be available in English Spanish and Vietnamese so again trying to cast as wide a net as we can throughout the process um that is my update and of course we'll be working very closely with arctural in the energy master plan all right we have a question from board a member as thank you more president uh so first of all I know I just said this before but I just every time we have an update about our you know our solar energy program it's just I get so excited um just to hear the wheels in motion and hear like the specific action that's happening towards possible implementation here so you know it's just seems like I mean it was several years ago so long ago when I first started having some discussions with people down

053at the csba conference in Southern California brought the idea back I'll um thankful and grateful to board president Quintero to partner with me and present to our community of the ideas we had then the the majority of our board um to graciously come along and partner and support the idea with the knowledge that there's great potential for significant um benefit to the district over the long term and that's really you know just what what keeps me so um excited and proud of the work that I and my everyone on this board well the majority of this board has been able to accomplish I feel like it's important fortunate that we've had to delay this long because we could have been further down the road towards these potential benefits but such as the work of of

054a school board um so thank you for that update I I did have just um a couple of just very brief questions um one of them I guess um is for Mr driver if you um could just briefly my I don't actually have a record or or memory of the difference between the new and the old program so if you could just briefly explain um that the reason why it's in um in our best interest to move this along what what is the difference between those two programs and then I have a few other questions sure sure and I'll I'll try to explain it in uh in English it's a it's a little jargony and and complicated um even for me and I've been doing this for 15 years um that what this is all

055about is is something called net energy metering and that is really uh the policy at the heart of how solar generates um savings Bill savings for for um everyone in California who would do a solar system um on site like like being contemplated here and essentially what it does is it allows you to um uh sort of export excess solar generation back out onto the grid and get a credit for it from your utility um and what this proceeding does is it changes the current set of rules around how that works to make that exported energy worth a lot less and so the net effect is after these changes go into effect that the same solar system at the same site is going to generate far lower savings under the new program than under the

056current program and so it's really important for us to work with with you and your staff um to get not to get the systems built but to get far enough along with utilities that we get you your place in line under the current program um so that we're really maximizing those those financial savings from doing a project okay thank you yeah that does actually ring a bell and refresh my memory on on some of that that discussion um so thank you for that uh my next question is a super brief one for Miss Pippin and I don't know maybe it's for administration here we'll board members be receiving um some kind of update or or report or whatever about those visioning sessions that are occurring um with regards to the the long-term Vision I guess

057of the district I believe we can make that report available to you all I'll defer to superintendent Bauer okay so there's going to be multiple ones so um my recommendation is to have at least a few so that you can see kind of the flow of thoughts from the different focus groups okay okay thank you and then my last question is um I don't know which one um Miss Pippen or Mr driver to direct it towards but I know that um when I initially brought this one of the questions that a lot of people had myself included is I learned about the whole process and things may have changed since then but what what I was really trying to work towards with everybody was figuring out the the financing of something like this and I

058learned one of the things that I learned at that time based on our situation at that time was the PPA I believe that's what it was um plan purchase agreement something something up or just agreement that's how long ago it was but um so I knew there was that I know there was possibilities of bonds I know there was grants there was all these different options and so you know because of the delay that we had to do for various reasons I don't know that we ever really settled on that and like I said the environment may have changed since then so I'm wondering where in this process that seems very well you know moving along at this point how does that occur will it occur like what where where does it go because we

059as a district I think we're in a much better position now I mean um and I think it's different than what it was when we bought this several years ago but I'm curious as to the financing aspect of this yeah that's a really good question and and that is in our scope to help you all figure out what's uh the the most advantageous way to go what I can say is most school districts at least in the recent past have been um tending to use power purchase agreements instead of debt financing for for these systems and it has as much to do with the cash flow as um debt limits and and and you know sort of the priority at most of my school clients for those Capital funds um and one thing to think

060about is is at least specific to solar our purchase Agreements are so common and so straightforward um that it's it's sort of a an easy way to finance a solar system and those kind of mechanisms don't necessarily exist even for other energy projects um if you're talking about HVAC and lighting and other Energy Efficiency improvements so at some point for for a lot of our clients it sort of becomes a trade-off about what to do with with the deck capacity you have and how to prioritize that as much as it does the cash flow but but to come back around to to my initial answer uh we will provide two views of the project one with each type of financing um for for staff and everyone to look at in making that choice okay thank

061you and if I could say just one final question uh that you may or may not be able to answer um but in your experience in a very general high level sense um is it has it been to your experience that for districts maybe similar to ours that financially it is advantageous to move forward with projects like fees and or are there you know any significant time amount of time when it just doesn't make sense like what very general I know we don't have all the details and specifics yet would it does it generally make sense to move forward with these kinds of projects financially yeah generally speaking it does and that's sort of our big task at the front end is to make sure that we Define a project and position it such that

062it does deliver those Energy savings and those financial savings and if it does not that we're in a position to have sort of a fact-based conversation with all of you um about why and what options there might be moving forward the only time I've ever really seen districts get in trouble with these kinds of projects frankly is if they go into them without that kind of analysis maybe working directly with a vendor and they end up with a project that that is priced too high um and so that's exactly what we're going to be watching out for and to make sure that uh you know you don't get put in a position where five or eight years down the road it's it's not a good situation financially for the district that's exactly the tests that

063we're going to be applying perfect well thank you both very much and and um I'm gonna continue to be excited about the work thank you thank you all right uh it's a very thorough question thanks sir for uh asking everyone thinking about um I have any questions um Miss um Andrea I think you mentioned that there uh would be uh the time of in mid-april so is does the facilities master plan committee know that there's kind of like a drop dead date um so the facility master plan committee begins uh next week and they will be carrying you know this process with us we'll let them know of all of the kind of immediate or impending decision points um so we'll roll in arcs uh timelines as best we can so how long does a

064process uh usually go for and is there time that you need to submit it like you said mid-april does that mean that let's say using the date April 15th is that like the last day you could submit it and another question is after that one is that sometimes the state will match a dollar per dollar when you're doing repairs or renewals on stuff is there also that possibility yeah if if I could jump in and clarify that a bit that date was something I was referring to in terms of the solar systems only right so that doesn't impact your larger facilities master plan except to the extent that we're going to try in that window to identify which schools are the best candidates to do solar um and so that that date in mid-December will

065be locked down sort of by regulation and statute and it is inflexible so we will have to you know it is going to be a lot of partnering between the two efforts and work with staff and the LPA team to make sure that that you know we we get all that stuff worked out in a way um that that makes sense to everybody but it is really just the solar component we're talking about okay grandfather didn't should we decide to add the additional ones correct I missed the beginning of that question I'm sorry once won't be grandfathered in should we miss that deadline that's right and so then the question will become if you miss grandfathering on any of these uh sites for solar will solar make sense at all under the new set of

066rules um and and that's a little unknown you know my my gut instinct based on reading the decision today is uh for for many sites particularly smaller ones solar would result in in a financial loss yeah thank you all right yes you know um you know I was a former legislative aide so uh I think question to Mr driver you know uh I don't you know wouldn't there be a possibility for a district to apply for Proposition 39 grants so that way we wouldn't you know if we could save money on the installation through that grant funding you know we you know we would avoid you know any you know wouldn't there be a possibility of avoiding potential losses for smaller School sites my understanding is uh prop 39 program has closed out um and

067there there certainly may be other monies um available through the the bipartisan infrastructure bill that was passed in 2021 and perhaps other sources um and and that is a good mitigation if we can find those things I mean if you have Grant monies or other monies that are low cost enough it certainly could offset the loss in savings and and make those sites viable so I I think that's a very interesting path to go down but but we would all have to identify um those kinds of of opportunities for for additional funding okay thank you yeah thank you so much it sounds like you're all going to be really busy in the next uh month or two um so thank you and I want to just uh publicly uh thank trustee harano for really spearheading

068this and bringing this to our board um and here we are now I think I just got excited when I heard Mr driver say uh that we can be going solar um in 2023 because you know before the date just seemed so far um and so just to hear those words you know really um just got me even more excited and so just to I mean I just want to clarify is that true like we can actually be going solar sometime in 2023 yeah I mean there's a lot a really good question there's a lot still to be determined but but given the timelines now for having those um interconnection applications in to secure the nem it does mean that that we have to be pretty far along if not have a solar vendor on

069board and certainly you could see construction start by the end of the calendar year I you know the qualification I would provide to that kind of timeline is we haven't yet done the work um at the district to determine if any of the sites could be built while school's in session I mean sometimes that's possible depending on where the solar systems are going sometimes you have to do all the work in the summer so it would be somewhere between towards the end of 2023 and the summer of 2024 depending on that answer but in in rough terms you know if if this is going to happen for the district this is our window to to work all that stuff out and get going on thank you so much that's exciting that's one last question then

070uh board member uh president I I do want to you know Bank Krusty bejaranas far-sightedness you know with with this this development especially uh with inflation coming this is a you know a golden opportunity to a save on energy cost but at the same time hopefully even recoup some of those energy costs and be able to reinvest it in our children and so I I want to give my thanks and appreciation to my fellow trustee for you know I know that he started this ball rolling before I was appointed to the board so you're you're far sightednesses paying dividends for Alum Rock so I want to express my appreciation and my thanks for that thank you all right um yeah I also want to uh thank you I don't know for bringing this forward uh

071and aside from expression appreciation I also want to acknowledge that um it's a courage because there were political attacks politically motivated attacks unbased attacks that um led to the delays and I guess again we're having a good time we're talking about good stuff but it's important to learn from what happened in the past that these savings DC sorry about that yeah I'm getting a little passion here these savings could have been realized already had it not been for political attacks that were for personal from Personal Agenda of certain individuals who wanted to delay this it came on they yelled and screamed don't do this until December because they wanted to delay any action on a solar project because of elections are taking place and so uh I guess I don't want to you know Reign

072on anything or or or or you know bring down our spirits but the fact is that we need to acknowledge that um thank you for the hard work that you did and had we kept on moving forward or had we been able to move forward uh a little sooner the savings would have already been realized we'd be well on our way to to producing more energy than we take in and realize those savings so thank you for the hard work and thank you for having the courage to keep it going even under the faith of uh vicious attacks out in public and at the board meetings uh so thank you for that all right I just want to just really quickly say this is a team effort um I appreciate those words but I mean

073including Dr Bauer and even staff that's not here anymore that moved on to other things really been a team effort and your main point I think is well taken that this board or any board as we experience all the things we experience we should use those as lessons moving forward to you know become even more efficient in our decision making to the benefit of the district so I really appreciate that thought thank you everyone all right moving on to item 4.04 a wave second reading requirement and approve amended board by uh board policy 5141.21 administering medication and monitoring health condition by board vice president Palm second by board member all right I know we said at the same time all right um is there any comments from members of the public with regard to this

074item 5.04 Mr President there are no requests for public comment at this time thank you all right uh move on to item five ah 50. comments from the board on item 4.04 oh yes sorry about that uh I'll go ahead and take comments um uh you know uh this is uh this is a health and safety issue we all know the uh deadly effects of Fentanyl and opioid abuse and you know it goes without saying we you know Overfelt high schools uh Prince of chiallo had had his face-to-face experience with this uh his quick thinking saved a child's life uh and uh uh seconds count when something like that happened and so we need to you know we it you know as you know we need to be able to take quick action when needed

075so it is for these reasons that I urge my colleagues to vote Yes on item 4.04. uh thank you and um so fentanyl I think all of us on the board here probably knows but I just want to highlight that if you don't know about fentanyl please make yourselves um aware you know speaking to the public especially parents who might not maybe um be familiar with fentanyl and its presence in our County um please make yourself aware thank you Dr Bauer and staff for bringing this forward and ensuring that our staff get trained to use this I know I had a question during our one-on-one and Dr Bauer answered uh because when I was reading that um the Precision has The Physician has to authorize an Administration um and that's just one line of the

076many I just I want to make sure that uh that was clear and um my question was what happens when the physician has not authorized but Dr Butler made it clear that um our staff once trained or able to administer this so thank you Dr Bauer for ensuring that all of our staff are trained um if we ever need to use it so thank you I just want to thank umizo Rodriguez one of our district nurses and the student services department for helping us uh edit the world policy it seems it was a true uh team effort and I also want to really thank the staff in Renaissance at Matson who really push for this and uh and it's been in for sharing with me one of the teachers and I apologize because I can't

077remember the teacher name but miss Finn in I see you in the audience and please tell your staff thank you so much for caring about our kids so much that you guys brought it to my attention and we immediately reacted to that and Amy thank you so very much for all the hard work that you put into editing the board policy for the comments remember the board all right yeah it's definitely a new uh not only I'm just saying uh part of having to adapt to the district should say change your circumstances is essential and when you start hearing your kids talking about this uh that it's just become part of the environment that they're facing it's important that our policies reflect what's going on on the ground so that our staff is prepared to

078face these very difficult situations so with that said I'll go ahead and I'll call you as I see you well remember Travis bye board vice president aye board clerk aye board member I don't know I myself would you know the motion pass unanimously all right moving on to item uh 5.01 through item five ten these are all items related to projects that are out of the bond program that are allowing us to update our facilities and ensure that our children are able to play on pavement that uh is even and that uh leads to funding to not other circumstances so I'll go ahead and call these uh one by one um do you have a motion item 5.01 motion by board member Chavez thinking about world vice president Trump did I pull the comment on

079this item there are no requests for probably comments at this time Mr President all right if there's no further comments from Members one and this will because of similarness you know uh more vice president yes thank you this is uh you know a step in the right direction for our district our ability to start the process of providing uh updated facilities for our children uh I know by by touring every school in the district and this is a you know uh you know we need you know say you know safe asphalt safe fields that our kids get you know the have the ability to have the outdoor recreation they need and also to uh uh you know replace you know keep our keep our children safe keep our children shaded so uh on that note

080I you know you know I hope my colleagues will join me in approving this item and uh the following items thank you all right further comments members of the board member yeah I also just have a comment that'll go for all of these items and I do actually have a separate question on 5.07 but um one thing as I reflect back you know over the past four years that I want to appreciate um all of the staff here in the district that is that works on all of these kinds of things because if we think about where we were four years ago we really have taken a very methodical approach to get to this point to be able to get to some of this work done and it's been you know there's a million and

081one distractions and and things offshoots of all the work that's had to be done but at the same time we've done taken the The Little Steps month by month that has gotten us to this point and I appreciate that the District staff has had the you know been able to keep the focus and the foresight to again methodically move towards this um approach such that now it's just really it's kind of like a formality but it just makes sense to do these things now so I want to um provide that recognition for our staff in support of these items all right further comments from members of the board being on then I'll go ahead and call for a vote as I see you board hi or remember Charlie's board vice president aye board member I

082don't know aye myself 49 motion passing in all right 5.02 got a motion for 5.02 second by board vice president Trump uh comments members of the public Mr President there are no requests for comments at this time all right um there's no further comments remember the board I'll call you as I see you we'll remember Travis hi board vice president aye for clerk aye board member aye myself we're in a motion pass unanimously item 5.03 motion there's a motion by board member Chavez Ford uh second by board vice president Palm is there any comments from members of the public Mr President there are no requests for public comment at this time all right uh if there's no further comments from members of the board I'll go ahead and call you they see you foreign second

083my board member Travis all right any comment from the public Mr President there are no requests for public come in at this time if there's no further comments from members of the board I'll go ahead and call you I'll call you as I see you board member Travis aye more of US president Bob aye work clerk aye foreign coming Mr President there are no requests for public comment at this time all right uh if there's no further comments from members of the board I'll call you the CU board membership hi board uh vice president aye board clerk aye foreign uh there's is there any public comment inside Mr President there are no requests for public comment at this time all right um I'll go ahead and call you the CU board member Chavez hi we're

084vice president aye foreign those comments from board member hello there no request for a comment at this time all right take care of that piece okay uh yeah I did have one question on this particular item um well for most of the other ones where there was a few that was I believe um uh they need they needed an extension I think it's the items coming up um need an extension it was clear to me that for those um you know some some new thing was found during the process that required us to do additional work and and that made sense you know whether it was an ad Ada requirement or whatever it might have been but on this particular item I didn't quite um see what it was that I know Dr Bauer did

085explain to me that for the middle schools part of it was with regards to the lockers that were installing in Joseph George and and Shepard um so I got that piece but I saw that San Antonio Adelante one and Cesar Chavez were also on the the letter that was part of the materials and so I was just wondering either what was the um the delay in those that required an extension or if those are just on this because they're part of the list of this particular project how it's How structured yeah uh yes good evening and thank you for that question um and just to clarify these extensions are related to some additional um work that had to be done um either on the previous list or new ones so for example um Caesar cab

086is is a new project that was added um back in October and then for Shepherd I'm sorry for George and Adelante one uh we had to go in and do a phase two of the asphalt work to finish some components of it um to be able to finish the whole campus itself and then the the other aspects of the work and you mentioned this um trustee bejerano um it's the whole Ada and that's probably the most annoying aspects of it just because um that was a result of some of these projects that just got done um and through those projects we've had to have DSA review it um which in turn required us to do some additional work in order for us to be able to certify previous projects that was done many years ago

087some of these projects dates back to 1990 and so um wow it's significant because we need to clear out and certify those projects before uh we can move forward with additional projects in the future all right thank you for that clarification oh no I was just thanking him for the clarification thank you Colville for reminding refreshing my mind and your superintendent added to the list um because when we visit yeah look at him he's chuckling right there so I I confess uh and then I apologize because I didn't remember you know I as I'm getting older there are some things that I forget and so it came back when Colbert says you know if we added this when we visited the first batch and this is not the lockers because the lockers is one right

088so when we visited cover and I did our rounds to check on the the projects we saw that there were some things it's sort of like when you fix one thing and then the other thing looks kind of yucky right because it's the new and the old that happened on George we paid one side of it first and it looked really good but the majority like the quad was not addressed so that's one and then the other one was that Chavez where you know we have our youngest our littlest right and we did a little bit of fixed work and then I just couldn't see ourselves not addressing the other parts so that's what happened there and then so thank you for being very patient Colbert and Terry maters from Cummings are very patient with

089me every week they asked me anything else but I wanted to share with you that this is because we really care and we want to provide the best for our kids number one safety the other piece around the closing of the projects this is just reminding you guys when we brought a specific contract for a company to help us close the project we had close to 95 projects that have never been closed so a lot of the issues you know although I don't I don't live in the past I live in the prison in the future that that's just some a reminder of the massive amount of things that we together as a governance team needed to clean up um we have amazing program manager and an amazing partner in the contractor that is helping

090us clean up and close some of these projects and so today with the new projects that are being done you are now seeing that the you know that the program managers are saying we finish and this you know and that's the way it needs to be so Alum Rock Community this is what you need to be expecting every time we have a bond program you need to see almost every month perhaps not every month but every other month a list of things that are completed that's the way it should be thank you so much for allowing me to say that okay all right um all right board vice president Trump aye board Clearfield aye foreign vice president from is there any public coming Mr President there are no request for public comment at this time

091um there's no further comments from members of the board I'll go ahead and call you the CEO Boardman Travis board Vice President Ford clerk aye board member hi myself 49 motion Passage we're not trying to 5.10 give me oh no motion to approve second oh yeah sorry uh there's a motion by board Clerk and I'm not a second by board member Chavez 30 comments from members of the public Mr President there are no requests for public comment at this time there's no further comments from members of the board I'll go ahead and call you the senior board membership is board vice president aye board member hi what's up 29 motion anonymously all right item 5.10 do I have an emotion outside motion it's a motion by War by certain problems or a second second second

092by board Clerk and Alora um is there any comments from members of the public Mr President there are no requests for public comment at this time they don't deserve for the comments from members of the board see none I'll call you the CU board member Travis aye Board of US president Trump aye or clerk aye board member aye myself 49 motion pass unanimously item 6.01 do I have pushing on that item six is there a second second second by vortex um is there comments from members of the board from members of the public Mr President there are no requests for public comment at this time um further comments from members of the board yes the question on this so I'm reading through the criteria you know I know I get it that uh but prior

093to reclassification Institute must meet all four criteria here uh so it looks like uh I guess curb you know uh correct me and I the the lpac I believe is the that's that's the determining examination am I correct after power does the English language learner's test yeah okay uh so pass a passing score so you know just the the passing score on the L pack would be meeting the first criteria okay it's just not one you know the assessment is just one part of the evaluate it's not an end the test should not be you know it's a diagnostic it should not be the whole enchilada no but this is a very rigorous battery of you know assessments that our students yes I see it and that's fine uh thank you very much Dr Bauer

094all right um no further comments or board member Chavez unanimously 6.02 do I have motion outside of motion Bible is there any comments from the public Mr President there are no requests for public comment at this time all right so you know comments from the public I'll go back to the board board vice president I wish all the kids a a fun time on all their respective field trips all right you said it for all of us okay um if there's no further comments from members of the board I'll go ahead and call you I see you report member Chavez four of us president Paul aye board clerk hi board member hi with myself 49 motion paths unanimously 7.01 is for information only is there any comments from members of the public Mr President there

095are no requests for public comment at this time okay all right uh moving on to item 8.01 do I have a motion on this item second there's a motion by board member Chavez second member any comments from members of the public Mr President there are no requests for public comment at this time all right uh see no comment from the public go back to the board any comments from members of the board aye aye myself 29 moisture passing unanimously item 8.02 motion by board member Chavez taking my word from any comments from members of the public Mr President there are no requests for public comment at this time all right I'll go back to the board any comments from members of the board this is 802 right 802 yeah no um all right so you

096know comments members of the board no further conference members of the board I'll call you as I see you board member Charlotte more vice president aye or clerk around aye board member aye myself 49 what's your passing everything Adam 8.03 motion to approve there's a motion by board member board Clerk second by board um member Chavez all right is there a public is there a comment from the public Mr President there are no requests for public comment at this time all right uh and further comments for members of the board 803 right yeah 803 okay um they're flying through these so quickly I'm keeping up yeah uh so on this one I I mean I'm 99.99 sure but I'm just asking this question um just for transparency and to make sure that we have this

097on record so that we avoid any potential future issues so the process of us moving um towards a you know this new vendor to do our storage and disposal of documents and kind of kind of Shifting systems in some sense it seems like um we are sure and and we've verified that the the vendor that we're going to have do this work for us that all the processes and systems that they will be using are they meet the standards or the expectations of whatever document storage and Disposal processes are set so basically the way that we're moving forward if we approve this meets all the requirement standards and expectations for document storage and Disposal four years um yes I it it does and just to verify that I would like to invite Mr Brett Latrell

098um who's more of an expertise in terms of the systems itself so Mr Latrell can you give us your opinion on this matter uh yeah so we we have gone through and and you know as a standard when we put out the RFP I made sure that all of these uh vendors you know that we we put that actually responded to the rfpe had the appropriate certifications and everything for disposal of the documents as well as verifying that when the documents are in fact uh scanned that they're actually in there so we're not losing any information so we have gone through all of that in fact it's been a year that we've been working on it so uh we've been very thorough in that aspect perfect well thank you for the good work and thank

099you for that uh confirmation you're welcome for the comments remember the board um yeah as part of our process to go through did we um I'm sure that it's in there but uh was there a question about any sort of like previous litigation or investigations um with these firms I don't know they have to vet that through our purchasing department the three firms feel the RFP so all of the you know there's a question on there have you been very surprised yes yes okay the only reason I ask is because the county was fell victim to an unscrupulous vendor that went ahead and built Santa Clara County as well as a bunch of other California counties and they wound up being on the hook for for like a multi-million dollar settlement because they were basically

100robbing all these public agencies uh so I'm sure that that's something that was good yeah make sure they weren't they haven't been dealt with by the federal government okay for fraud okay all right yeah I'm just saying that you know I saw the Hayward there I was like no I'm just kidding I'm just kidding it's not my competitor no no it's a joke about it the haystack and can I just add to that um yeah just to make sure Dr Barbara I know you said it's a part of the package so they market and our staff verify yes yeah and I I mean I trust that you I'll do and I'm sure you all do I just wanted to make sure thank you all right um yeah I I you know I'm sure they're giving

101us a good deal I saw the price difference like all right cool um I'm gonna go ahead and call you call you as I see you one more Travis board vice president Hi board clerk myself 49 the motion passed unanimously all right uh moving on to consent is there anybody wishing to pull item off consent Phenom do I have a motion to adopt the consent calendar as presented motion to approve motion by board member oh wait a minute just to clarify is is the motion to approve the entire balance of the calendar well there's a Target thing calendar 901 through 9 10. oh yeah so motion by word uh any comments from the public Mr President there are no requests for public comment at this time all right um see now then I'll go ahead

102and I'll call you receive board member Chavez aye board vice president aye more clerker aye foreign take a 10 minute recess of course yeah we'll we'll um yeah during the announcements I'll go ahead and make that so um or recess to closed session um at approximately 7 10. um is there any Dr Bauer can you announce the items that are beginning with legal counsel anticipated litigation as stated on the agenda then 04 conference with illegal counsel appeal of findings in investigation report as stated on the agenda 1005 uh multiple a little existing litigation cases as stated on the agenda item then all six Public Employee appointment Elementary School outdoor education coordinators 1007 Public Employee appointment on Child Nutrition operations supervisor 1008 public employment appointment employment and bond program manager and last 10 online Public Employee

103discipline dismissal release all right Danny comments uh with regards to items that we'll be discussed in closed session probably comment right yeah Luis sorry uh Mr President there are no requests for public comment at this time all right then we'll go ahead and research the closed session at 7 10 and then we'll all meet up in the board library in approximately 10 minutes we turn on the um well considering everything is not that bad yeah correct and I wanna thank you guys from the bottom of my part thank you both um I don't I don't see anything so I'm not sure itd are we on are we on no we're not uh I'm always assuming we're we're live in direct somewhere thank you yeah okay a little all right um we're recommitting down back to

104open second at 10 26. uh is there any action to report Dr Brown uh Mr tobrico has the reportable actions okay thank you Dr Barron closed session agenda item 10.06 the board unanimously approved the employment of Leanne and brew and Emerick Bisby has Elementary School outdoor education coordinator what was such an agenda item 10 point number seven the board unanimously approved the appointment of Tina Sanders as the Child Nutrition Services operations supervisor closed session agenda item 10.08 the board unanimously approved the employment of Steve Morales as board program manager congratulations yeah um item 12.01 is request for future uh agenda items if there is any future agenda items please we'll go ahead and send them over to the superintendent and she'll um I'll route them properly all right I'll go ahead and move on to

105item 13.01 we'll go ahead and adjourn this meeting at 10 27 pm