Board Meeting

001me set mine for english so i can hear you yes i can hear you so okay thank you all right and for everyone that's out there uh please be patient and when you do speak if you're going to be speaking in public comment uh please take it slow as we're having a different interpreter tonight all right so moving on to item 1.01 the uh meeting has been called to order uh can you please call the roll today is a regular board meeting of august 11th 2022 at 5 30 pm members of the board in attendance president andres quintero president vice president mim pham president uh members of administration superintendent dr bauer present all right um let's go ahead and move on to the land acknowledgement the board of trustees of the alum rocky and elementary

002school district does hereby acknowledge that the district schools and facilities sit on the traditional lands of the maloney people and the board of trustees further acknowledges with respect and reverence the maloney people tribe of san francisco bay area for their stewardship of these lands i will go ahead and move on to the pledge of allegiance please find the pledge of allegiance near you and feast it ready salute 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 all right um so we're on to item 1.02 uh discussion and or modification of the agenda uh do you know my colleagues have any suggestions for modifications of the agenda see none do i have a motion

003to adopt the agenda as is notion to approve second all right uh motion by vice president farm second by clerk i'm gonna go ahead if there's uh is there any public comment on the site okay we'll go ahead and proceed i'll call you as i see you if there's no further comments from my colleagues here on the board um hi uh board member travis hi vice president hi myself when i motion passes for [Music] not present um all right welcome and explanation to the audience um all right and one um there's an explanation there on 1.03 you can read it at your leisure um you have a limit of two minutes for each item for each speaker on on any item um that is on the agenda and we also have public comment for items

004that you may want to speak on but are not on the agenda but are within the jurisdiction of valormark school district we'll get to that uh public comment short shortly yes that's an item 5.01 um all right so at this point in time we're going to go ahead and move over to closed session we'll be recessing the closed session um and we will go ahead and resume after uh closed session um right uh i will go ahead and resize up 5 36 see you all in closed session we'll be back shortly everyone yes public comment on items in closed session oh gotcha yeah all right is there any public comment on items that are include for discussion in closed session there's no uh public comment all right oh dr barr do you want to go

005ahead and announce the items that will be heard sure in closed session that way it might elicit some somebody who may be interested in speaking sure um we have item 2.03 a number of existing litigation as presented on the agenda 2.04 anticipated litigation to potential cases 2.05 appeal of findings in investigation report 2.06 employment employee appointment behavior intervention supervisors and 2.07 uh employee appointment occupational therapist all right i'll go ahead and call for public comment again just in case that may have elicited some public comment interest he's calling for president there's currently no public comment all right everyone see you all uh we'll go ahead and recess to a closed session at 5 30 7. see you all afterwards hello everyone hi how you doing good so i'm gonna assign you as an interpreter you've

006been with us before huh i yeah i have yes okay so i'm going to assign you as an interpreter okay okay we're going to get back to the board meeting at 6 20. okay you bet thank you i'll be right here you all right uh we'll go ahead and reconvene this meeting uh at 6 56 p.m and uh we'll go ahead and move on to item 4.01 recognition of amigo the alum rock board president i'm sorry we need to report from closed session thank you i'll let you go and take care of that mr rico would you please uh report yes thank you dr barrow in closed session the board approved the employment of three behavior intervention supervisors jose lopez reyes hernandez and alexis anthony pardo and the board also approved the employment of two

007occupational therapists elizabeth cavetti garza and christina garlit rackad all right is that all we have to report up all right so moving on to item 4.01 recognition of amigo delano rock this item was brought in uh by trustee pham and i'm gonna defer to trustee fam to explain um in and we have a family representative as well okay thank you uh so uh a couple uh over the summer uh you know through through dr bauer i had learned that uh lois moore a uh 28 year teacher of alamo passed away uh you know she lost her uh battle with cancer and you you know her her career was uh a very fruitful one at uh in this district uh a lot of her uh i think she was she i had her as an art

008teacher when i was at palace school and i believe that that was sort of the play uh where she had the most impact uh she introduced a lot of a lot of young children to uh the world of art many of which went on to become skilled artists in high school and careers in the visual arts and graphic design uh she was uh the yearbook advisor at pala in the years that it won the uh was it uh national association of uh scholastic publication award so paula uh and eastside san jose middle school actually uh won awards with the uh with the best of the middle schools in the country for producing uh a highly regarded yearbook uh during her tenure at pala now of course she moved she also taught at other schools in

009the area and um [Music] you know someone who certainly made um a huge difference in the lives of many children in allen rock and in east side san jose so uh you know uh upon my recommendation the you know our district would like to present a special award uh in in you know in honor of all her accomplishments uh with the alum rock union elementary school district uh so doc dr bauer do we have the uh the family member yes mr moore you have the floor yes i am here so uh mr uh kurt moore uh uh you know it's strange that we have to do this virtually i i would love to present this uh you know to you at the board room uh you know uh but we the the allen rock union

010elementary school district board well hereby recognizes lois moore posthumously as a distinguished a friend of alan walker in spanish um her year career uh with our district serving uh many thousands of children over the years from the from grades k through eight and so we you know we want to express our condolences uh for your for your and your family's loss and you know and that uh we you know uh present this token of appreciation for your wife's [Music] accomplishments in our district thank you so much um that's wonderful and it's it's a it's an honor uh to be here for her um it it will be hard for me to get through this um you know she she had choices of school districts and she was tapped by palo alto campbell all kinds of

011different school districts and um and you know earlier in her career i i was like hey what about you know palo alto you know all these she said no no she said no to every single one of those because she said that her talents would have been better served teaching people on east side and she stuck to that she really stuck to that um she worked so hard not to get anybody in trouble i mean she had she she she had key you know she had keys to every school that she ever worked at because she worked so late that the janitor would say please give her a key so that she said she could leave um she would often walk out with the janitor at night so it kind of gives an idea of

012what hours she did and she put in um [Music] while she was a teacher she um she never allowed any students to say i can't do that and you mim i guess you said that you were a student and um i think that you probably heard her say that a few times no you can do this you can complete this it's not difficult even though she showed some kind of art piece of art that you guys were going to do and she said you guys are going to accomplish this and they did and she believed she believed in all children across the spectrum no matter what skin color no matter what economic situation they were in she she convinced not just the child but the parent that the child can learn and the child can

013do it and it was always her biggest goal was to improve the generation she said i want to make that generation better than the next generation and uh she saw that i mean she taught she taught parents of children you know in those times and she saw that okay yeah we're seeing improvement and and that is so important um to any any city any area any anything that you've got to leave the world she always said i got to leave the world better than the way i found it and uh she did so i i thank you so much and she would've been so proud uh to receive what you guys are presenting and thank you you know and thank you for being here with us and you know kind of you know in a

014way our honoring what what your wife did for our district for so many years yeah thank you so much thank you for being here with us um any comments from members of the board uh or more travis mr moore i want to thank you because all the work she did um you allowed her that time to share with others and i want to thank you and that speaks awesome of you too thank you yeah there were there were a few times when it was like okay yeah i'll make dinner um mr moore thank you so much for uh being here to accept this award on behalf of your wife and your family um you know i didn't get to meet her myself but sounds like a wonderful teacher and i think of all the artists

015within our community you know i'm sure if i looked in to see if they had her as a teacher i'm sure that i would find that they did sit through her class um so you know i i thank her for um having that ability to um teach beyond the box you know i think teachers are given this box and um there's some teachers i just can teach beyond that box that where our children feel like they can soar um where their spirits just you know um glide and um you know i i feel that through the words you shared through the words that men shared um and you know grateful for for her grateful for her leadership because i'm also i'm also sure that she mentored and coached many teachers and that she taught many

016teachers um and you know all the ripple effects that that continues to have in our community um i'm grateful for because i know that our children are continuing to benefit from all of those uh teachings that miss moore left so um thank you for supporting her you know working as a team making dinner dinner when you did and um just encouraging you know and listening to her because you know it's not i mean not easy when you could probably make you know so much more money somewhere else and you got to pay bills so i know that it was a team effort you know when you're in a marriage it's like okay well then we'll give and take a little bit over here you know to make this work so um i think that also

017shows you know the the value of being in a relationship in a marriage where um you know you support one another's passion um to making this world a better place so thank you for doing that as well thank you remember thank you yes i just wanted to offer our condolences um also on behalf of the board and the district and uh mr mario also just thank you for your words uh for those of us who didn't have the opportunity to um be in you know in class with with him it's more you know those words really humanize um for us beyond just the plaque that we see and help us to get a sense of of what we're really talking about here so i want to thank you for sharing those very personal uh memories

018with us and and so that we can have a true appreciation of of the dedication um that is you know the reason for this recognition so thank you for that thank you okay on behalf of the rock schools we want to thank you uh for being here and sharing with us i want to thank my colleague for bringing forward this recognition is very much well deserved um it's more taught those things that make life worth living i used to work for a city council member who was fighting for uh investment in the arts and he uh he mentioned that there was uh one of the things that we remember of a civilization it's not the best bean counting technique strategies it's the art that's left behind that's what we turn to and so she did

019her part to pass along that uh generation after generation uh uh practice of passing on art and so thank you uh for being here and thank her for being part of the alum rock family dr bauer thank you for president i also wanted to thank mr moore for being here i know lewis very well um i've been in alamo for 20 years and she has been an amazing amazing colleague in every way and i always um remember her in her chair with her class around her when i will go and visit classrooms so um tons of fun memories with louis and she's dearly missed and i just wanted to share with you that we're gonna be uh making arrangements so that you can receive the plaque okay thank you very much thank you thank you

020all right we'll be moving on to item 4.02 the recognition of a certificate of gratitude dr barr do you want to introduce a certificate of gratitude yes board president thank you very much this certificate of gratitude is being presented to mr joseph corona for volunteering on the measure i campaign mr corona went above and beyond the call of duty as a volunteer he made phone calls he visited he stopped the envelopes and without his help it would not have been the same so thank you so much mr corona we are hoping to have a lot of volunteers and all the different uh things that we have ahead of us um thank you so much and and also we will send you your certificate i think that he has been promoted so i'm gonna turn it

021over to you uh board president all right are you here joe yes all right we can hear you thank you very much thank you for allowing me to give me the opportunity to help you guys in this uh measure your eye that was interesting for me to help you all you know it was something it's something to learn more about and i uh like i said before my kids get went to this this district my grandkids go so i'm willing to always support and help you guys when it comes to this district alum rock okay thank you very much thank you for your support okay thank you um hello mr coronado thank you so much for uh taking the time to um make sure that that passed you know i know that the numbers that

022it passed with um wouldn't have been you know done if it wasn't for you for your time the countless hours the phone calls knocking on doors um i appreciate every everything that you did um and you know the fact that that it passed um [Music] you know your actions your voice just completely sounds like you you was pouring you went really far i'll speak up a little louder i think thank you yes i also just wanted to um express my gratitude to mr corona um you know i did have the opportunity to be a little involved with the effort and in some respects and you know i was impressed by mr corona's dedication that i saw um you know it's people are so busy and we all leave busy lives and it takes something to

023be able to dedicate oneself consistently towards an effort especially an effort that was as important as this for our district and so for that reason i also would just like to recognize mr corona's dedication and really crucial part in getting this um to where we needed it to go so thank you mr quran thank you thank you guys for watching you know i want to express my my sincere thanks for your efforts mr corona you know i was there i i went and phone bank for measure i myself and you were there along with many of our volunteers and uh it takes a lot of dedication and a lot of faith in our district for uh to be with uh the measure i campaign every step of the way uh you know uh i can

024say you know uh the allen rock school district owes you a a a debt of gratitude for your efforts and for your continued involvement with our district and your it is a indeed a great honor to be able to recognize your efforts and you know to present to you this token of our sincere uh thanks uh you know so again thank you so much for your uh unwavering support of the alamo school district thank you thank you very much guys trustees and joe thank you very much i know that uh it's a lot of work uh going out there and knocking on doors and making phone calls in the in the afternoon when people are yelling at you because you're interrupting their dinner work hey it's part of the part of the the the process

025thank you guys i really appreciate it those are much needed resources that are being put to work directly to benefit our children you know anybody else uh with comments you guys have a good one all right now we're gonna uh joe you want to mute yourself there you go um moving on to public comment 5.01 members of the public wishing to address the board on an item that is not on the agenda may do so now by raising your hand um you will have a limit of two minutes and so you can go and speak on an item that's on the agenda but that is within the purview that is within the jurisdiction of rock school district president we currently have one speaker miss veronica thompson please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer

026will begin good evening board president quintero trustees superintendent bower alum rock staff and community i'm a performing arts educator at george middle and lindell elementary tonight i bring to your attention california senate bill which allots 3.5 billion dollars from the general fund to the state department of education and then to local control to establish arts music and instructional materials discretionary block grants lease are encouraged to proportionally use the resources received to support arts and music programs and funding will be available through the 25-26 fiscal year suggestions for funding include obtaining professional development and instructional materials and visual and performing arts and ethnic studies along with best practices for improving school climate such as training for restorative justice strategies it's also recommended that culturally relevant texts and diverse book collections be developed to support independent reading

027for students in english and their home languages i respectfully request an expiration of these funds and a report to the public to indicate how they will be utilized on or before the october board meeting and hearing the story about mrs lois moore it just shows and demonstrates the importance of the art she sounds like a wonderful person and a dedicated and inspiring arts educator i want to say my condolences to her husband and just say that the arts matter i respectfully ask once again that you would explore the funding for the arts and music discretionary block grants thank you so much have a great evening further comments from members of the public president there are no more speakers all right thank you go ahead and move on to item 6.01 the alam rock administrators association

028comments do you have anybody from alamo administrators association yeah that easy law was i saw dr villalobos okay be promoted there he is good evening board uh trustees dr barr a-r-u-a excuse me arusd staff in the alam rock community my name is dr julio vialos and i proudly serve at joseph george middle school and i'm also the president of the alamo administrators association it is a privilege to speak tonight to represent a group of vibrant educators administrators who work tremendously hard in service of our schools and community there are exciting developments taking place across arusd and our administrators continue to work to serve the respected sites and department for example i can say elementary they are having a welcoming family's back on august 15 between 4 and 6 pm with the barbecue the class list

029will be posted and they will host a backpack giveaway at the same time ymca after school programs will be present supporting the backpack distribution and inviting families to apply for the after-school care they're also excited to open the school year with a focus on kimochis for social emotional learning and positive behavior systems pbis with the partnerships of the santa clara county office of education and the support from dr aimee amazon at cesar chavez early learning center uh they're really busy uh with the his construction getting ready for the facilities for licensing um they're also currently working on partnership with think together and alan rock they're also early learning sites such as adelante one and two plus painter co-op enrolling families um the early learning corner position has been approved and resumes are coming in and

030they're interviewing and hiring para educators for tk classrooms at linda vista they would like to thank dr barr and the board of trustees for approving the new linda vista playground construction of the playground will be completed for students to enjoy at the beginning of the school year at meyer elementary they're going to be welcoming welcoming back the blue jay families and communities by celebrating a national night out on august 2nd which already occurred it was a fun ice cream social event and the students received backpacks with supplies to start the school year special thanks to dr barra and trustee carina herrera loera for attending the event meyer is getting ready to welcome students staff and families for the 22 academic school year at russo mcentee is getting ready to welcome our students and families we

031want to thank the district for updating our school blacktop and replacing the marquee we have a new school mural painted over the summer by paul gonzalez which is ready for our community to enjoy for years at our middle school particularly at joseph george today we actually welcome families with an ice cream social families were able to submit the registration packets and in return receive their students schedules we are looking forward for an amazing year i do want to highlight the last one department which is the business department which includes mot in the warehouse the fisk fiscal department purchasing i.t payroll print shop and cns they've been really busy uh paving projects that's it six sites which include avelante george renaissance of fisher renaissance and matson russell mcentee and shepard there's also fashion fencing projects at

032three schools adelante two cassell and renaissance at fisher the installation of shade are will be occurring at six sites um adelante aptitude george renaissance fisher uh renaissance at fisher renaissance madison and shepherd there's also uh been they've been really busy repurposing um cesar chavez into the early learning center there's new lockers and paints for new locker rooms at georgian shepherd and there's new marquis signs at adelante one george mccollum renaissance at fisher renaissance madsen and san antonio shepard thank you for your time all right moving on to teachers do we have something for teachers i don't see anybody more president do we have somebody from csa california school employee association i think i saw sharon sharon fontaine is there all right sharon flory's yours hello i don't know what happened my screen just went kind

033of goofy um i wasn't going to speak tonight that this has been a very difficult and prime week but since you saw me i will give it a try i do want to one thing i want to do is say good evening board president dr bauer everybody um and to welcome all the new people coming on board i know that we have a lot of new administrators teachers classified staff and welcome those that have come back already and that will be returning come tuesday first day of school it should be a very exciting year um i'm sorry i've been on several committees this year and i know we worked real hard to put some things into place that are just booming and and taking shape so with that um i'm going to say good night

034and thank you so much for listening to me we have something for syndra sandra floor's yours thank you sorry the mute button was pressed um i'd like to say good evening my name is sandra rivera i'm the area vice president and i would like to start off by offering my condolences to the family of lois moore and also miss stewart who had passed away who is the secretary from mccullum i never had the pleasure of meeting miss stewart but i did have the wonderful pleasure of working with miss moore for many years and it was an awesome collaboration and she was always full of such wonderful energy and brought the i can you can do attitude so she will be missed i'd also like to start off by welcoming everybody back to another great school

035year so many new and awesome things are in store for us all during the 22-23 school year yesterday the area executive board got the privilege to meet and welcome about 45 new educators to the alum rock family they were all eager and excitedly awaiting their first day of school so to the fellow educators and from your fellow educators welcome i have also had the privilege to visit a few of the campuses so far this year and have loved seeing some of the updates and progress we are making to our sites these improvements will make the students days more comfortable and safer all around new blacktops and shade provide our students with safe and cool playing environments to exercise in the outdoor spaces we are counting down the days till we have ac and heat inside

036all of our campuses and classrooms as well we would like to thank the it department for working so hard at updating all of our educator laptops over the summer however there have been a few hiccups when educators turn in their laptops some of them that is their only way to have access to their emails so they voice concern that how they are notified to come and pick up their laptops when their devices are done some suggestions that were offered were when we turn in our devices that we could have a sign up then on when we can pick them up or to receive a letter in the mail notifying us when we can pick them up some educators have already been back to their school sites to prepare for the upcoming year while trying to

037prepare one sometimes needs to print why is it that the network was updated and completed over the summer but the educators printers have not yet been connected many teachers have called me and many of us have had to call it to have our laptops connected to the office printer for us to print having multiple teachers trying to get their classroom set up without the tools needed is difficult not to mention the traffic jam it creates at some school sites when you have 20 plus staff members plus office staff all trying to print from the same office printer our school year will also be filled this year with a lot of activity as we have four seats on the board coming up available area would like to invite members of the community and local business owners

038living in the area a chance to be part of all the wonderful things happening here in our district and with that i just want to wish all of my colleagues and everybody in alum rock a fantastic school year and a wonderful first day on tuesday thank you uh item 6.05 superintendent thank you so much board president and um ditto to everything that the previous uh speakers have said thank you so much to all of them for having such a wonderful attitude as we open a fantastic new year it's going to be fantastic because i have seen evidence of that in the classrooms in the blacktops everywhere everybody is working very hard to create welcoming environments for each and every one of our children i will be uh doing that last sweep tomorrow of all the

039sites so um we spent a lot of time this week visiting sites making sure things are addressed and we are listening taking notes and um trying to address as much as we can before tuesday and um parents we are waking we are waiting for your students with open arms ready to have a fantastic new school year thank you all right um 6.06 board of trustees comments communication i'll go ahead and i'll take you to the see you raise your hand if you're interested okay hang on uh or uh uh just a few things you know uh first of all i wanted to uh you know uh note that uh the county has certified the passage of measure i and i want to want to express uh thank you alan rock for your continued faith in

040our school district uh this parcel tax provides uh four million dollars in annual revenue uh which is certainly needed to uh maintain academic programs and the services that uh the residents of allen rock i want to express you know on behalf of my my gratitude to our community for their continued investment in ellen walk uh second i also wanted to continue to uh express that uh you know we uh reid hugo airport is still a being you know danger to our children a couple weeks ago i after hearing that a plane crashed in the nearby vicinity uh not only did it uh damage the roof of a resident but also damaged the fence at meyer elementary school and you know thank goodness that it was only it was during a saturday during the summer if

041and now if this were during the school year uh you know uh i could not imagine you know uh the the lives and safety of children and school staff put at risk you know should school have been in session then so i want to uh you know can you know uh i'm glad that our board has taken a position um in support of the closing of a review view as soon as practicable and you know we you know continue to keep keep keep the fight on keeping that closed uh let's see here and lastly i am not no i shouldn't say that thirdly uh great to see russell mcentee and shepherd get their black tops to repave this is the start of uh start of the rebuilding of our district uh you know just a

042year ago we were you know uh celebrating the delayed 90th anniversary of our district so and you know what a way to kick off the 92nd year our district you know starting with the uh rebuilding and renovations of our facilities for the next 90 years uh the repayment and the replacement you know repayment is just the start of better things that come and i hope that you know our community continues to keep investing so that we can see the big investments come forth uh so uh you know on that note i you know want to wish all of all of us uh you know a very happy start of the new year and i look forward to uh seeing our kids back in class on august the 16th thank you very much right uh we're

043remembering yes thank you president quintero i also um just wanted to express you know driving around the summer um around some of our campuses seeing some of the progress that we are finally seeing physically to our sites and you know it makes uh makes me very happy to see that happening it's one thing to to talk about changes and plan for changes but when you actually see them physically in front of you um it kind of brings home the that these things are coming to fruition and you know i just remind us all that as a as a board as a district as a community we've for me at least it's been four years of a lot of ups and downs um that a journey that we've traveled together but i think as as vice

044president fam mentioned this is kind of like the beginnings of a lot more to come there's there's a lot of work that this board is actively um doing and working on and in the middle of that ideally and and what we are planning for is that we'll see a lot more of these improvements and things to help better the experience of our children and our families and alum rocks so i also want to wish our our children and our families a good start to the year i remember you know last year we were talking about these different challenges of dropping off kids and picking up kids and there was a lot of stuff going on in the first few days of school but we kind of weathered that we figured it out as alamoc does

045and we had a successful year and you know as school starts this year we may see some pickups and bumps but i'm confident that the team and the community together will will have a great start and we'll have a great year and like i said continue as a board and as a district moving towards even more improvements and physical things and not physical things but improvements to our district to move us into what i sometimes like to refer to as as the new alum rock so thank you everyone and and have a great start to the year portfolio thank you um i just want to start off to saying happy new year to everyone the new incoming teachers and staff welcome um also our new families our new students that are coming in to alum

046rock welcome um all the pre-k tk children um that will you know eventually go through our district you know welcome um enjoy every bit of your school um time here with us um as i get teary-eyed of you know entering my last year as a mother of an 8th grader incoming 8th grader on tuesday um i can't help but to think you know of the um journey that i've gone through um here at elem rock as a parent and then now as uh trustee bahrano mentioned you know where we're at you know just um really i mean um having gone through you know the dark tunnel and now just seeing the light and you know hearing the uh feedback from you know administration administrators saying um that the marquees are up that the um blacktops

047are seeing them um being able to you know think back when i mean you know it was a danger to walk on some of them um and at the time there was nothing i mean you know we we were kind of tied um our hands were tied and being at a place where our district is so much better um and safer um and just pleasant to be at you know um i i'm just excited um so congratulations to everyone who had a you know part to do with that um from ordering them and making sure that they're in on time you know before school starts um to voting on them right we were here voting on on all those items um so thank you um and then also i want to give a shout out

048to mr vasquez at meyer for the national night out it was great to see students with backpacks shout outs to council member sylvia arenas for donating those it was great to see the children with ice creams but most importantly it was great to see them and their families out on a tuesday afternoon with smiles and excited to be back on campus you know and excited to start a new school year so thank you for organizing that and having that for our community um and then also just want to invite the community for the uh re-grand opening of the hillview library that's going to happen on august 20th they're at hill view so come out and enjoy you know another positive community event um for the children and families out in our elmrock community thank you

049well remember trouba is keep it short and sweet since uh a lot of the trustees already covered what i wanted to say but i did want to uh welcome everybody to alan rock and thank you all the teachers and the families and the students sticking with alum rock this year and the future years to come and it was great to go to the csva leadership institute conference and one of the main subjects that they were speaking about especially with everything that's happening was the hazardous preparedness events that they had and they had a lot of people from uh all over the state of texas as well as some from california a lot of police departments and fbi and trying to coordinate and letting the districts know how to better prepare in case of an event

050should happen so it's always better to be prepared and i'm wondering and gonna ask the follow-up question of dr bauer maybe if there's something that we could do to partner with uh maybe san jose's finest san jose pd and i look forward to maybe uh seeing uh when captain treyer came and he talked about some of the programs that they're doing in other districts as well as the other um i'm sorry i forgot her name right now about the bicycle program that they have rolled out and barius has been doing that for years i'm wondering if we can maybe uh bring that to alumra thank you very much all right um i um i do want to add the uh welcome to everyone back to the this new school year uh the excitement's in the

051air it's always uh great to you know feel that uh that the sense of a new year than a fresh start so very very excited for that um as my colleague mentioned we had a situation where a plane landed near one of our schools and i am appreciative of those board members who did support our efforts to state our position and put our children first and put the safety of our children first by um by uh moving a forward resolution that's asked for the closure uh reed hill the airport um i was there and i was able to speak to the the family on which uh um you know the airplane hit a light pole simply hit the roof hit their car and slid onto our fence and it was very disheartening to see that

052um i am appreciative of the public safety personnel from san jose pd firefighters the community service officers that were out there directing traffic ensuring that everything was safe as they were uh cleaning up the site that was under the inve you know was being investigated and first responders were out there responding so thank you all who um were out there to ensure that the site was safe and secure our facility staff that ultimately went out there and had to make sure that uh the fence was repaired so that our kids who are using our facilities there the contango program were able to go back to school and be safe on the site thank you all um as my family and i have been making our way to we uh to hillary library uh we've been

053able to see it open again and very very exciting to see that uh it's now available um the various times i lose drop by uh the numbers aren't as great and i get it people are clearly still um uh shocked by the events that took place but this is our library this is our community's asset and it needs to be used by us and retaken by us uh these criminals cannot uh take over our facilities and so i'm heartened to see that uh on the day that it was open and reopened uh we had the strong presence of san jose pd welcoming the children back into the library uh there is still security on site and so very appreciative of the efforts have been made by the san jose public library to ensure that it's

054a welcoming environment and that people feel safe as they make use of their assets this uh library so thank you very much for the city and the support they're providing um with that i'll go ahead and conclude my comments we'll move on to item 7.01 so the discussion consideration approval of resolution number 6-22 forward slash 23 authorizer remote virtual teleconferencing meetings um do i have a motion on this item motion [Music] 7.01 there are currently no speakers present okay on item 7.01 all right um there's no public comment then i'll go ahead and i'll move back to members of the board uh boardroom family i thank you mr president uh you know uh earl in july i asked the administration to uh regarding a road map for the sort of board to return solely just

055the board and administrative staff to return to the board room so at this time before i ask my question i'd like i mean before i make my comment i'd like to ask dr bauer uh you know what what is the opinion of our technology services about uh the board coming back to the boardroom may i respond board president yes governor um we had a a long conversation with i.t and as the public has seen you know we have uh some glitches with the audio and so the only way for the board to be to have a good audio uh quality during a virtual meeting where the audience is virtual um and the the board needs to be in the boardroom together present and so when we have had that and we have had that in

056the past when the board has interviewed firms and all board members were inside the ballroom and nobody was connecting from another room or from another place then the audio quality was just fine so respectfully letting the board know that in order for us to continue to have some kind of um safety precautions also for our audience because our ballroom is relatively small in comparison to other board rooms in around the area um we will have to continue with a hybrid way of con conducting the meetings but it would be um better if the board if every board member is in the boardroom together with us members of the staff um in you know conducting the meeting and that that would also alleviate um uh the need during closed session to have multiple um uh people

057on stem by supporting with the video or the internet or stuff like that because then the board and whoever needs to be in closed session with the board will will be face to face there are further comments okay yes so you know uh you know we've we you know just like uh earlier i mean uh we have you know on we are having see you know serious audio issues where board members are be you know suddenly go silent or uh you know become very difficult to hear we've had board members kick you know kicked out kicked out tonight in the course of meeting online and uh you know uh and you know yeah uh i i regret to inform that you know there there is a possibility of a week in closed session so uh

058mr president i'd like to amend this this item you know to to specifically state that the board and the staff would return to the boardroom and that uh closed session will be in that closed sessions of the board will be in person going uh effective with the september regular meeting uh will the maker of the motion accept uh the amendment no um you know um you make a substitute motion we'll vote on that if it passes then it is and if not then we go back to the original motion i think mr president we have we have some we have prestige around them all right let's go ahead for more comment um board remember yeah um actually my so my experience um has been actually the opposite i think what has been described when even

059when and this is was is irrespective of whether or not i have been in the in the physical room because in these instances i was not um but even amongst those that were there the audio on multiple occasions has been even to me at least as an outsider even if i was say observing through youtube or whatever it was more of a challenge when people were in the room with feedback with echoing with hearing people both on the microphone on their own microphone and somebody else's microphone and it's just it's very confusing as an observer and i would imagine as the member a member of the public um so my experience has been a little bit different than what um i think was messaged to us and that's been on multiple occasions and again um

060my belief is that that is irrespective of whether or not i was in the room physically um or anyone else because that it's kind of like two independent variables what occurred what was occurring with the audio with those who were in the room and then anyone else outside of that is kind of a separate issue so um so that's been in my experience and i think my support for this particular item at this time would um you know be be impacted by or or would that would help to guide my decision on a vote on this at this time so that's it for me right now i just want to clarify in regards to voting we are voting on the resolution to continue to allow virtual meetings correct that's what's on correct it's 7.01 okay

061so um i i i guess regardless of if things may be changed between now and the next board meeting if we're all here or not um that might be secondary uh but i just wanted to confirm that we are voting on if we are going to continue to have virtual meetings um so thank you for that clarification and yeah i'll continue to support the virtual meetings especially as dr bauer mentioned you know our board meeting our board room is so small um so we definitely need to continue to have this as an option for our public to continue to log on and participate thank you all right um you guys still have your hands up so yes board remember uh board member travis you're muted i agree with what dr bauer said and actually um

062when i see us here uh we're all pretty much basically at the district i know i'm here the president is here as as well as the other members of the board it just to me makes it a lot easier and as far as closed session goes nobody's in the rooms so there's no problem there and i see that when we were in the boardroom there was problems so that didn't help and i think sometimes it's just an issue of maybe a button gets pressed you know but that might be just at that moment user error but other than that i think that because the public has easier access it's easier to do virtual and i'm going to support that thank you all right for the comments yes you know mr president as i said i

063am not nothing and we are not going you know off of virtual again i want to make that very clear where i'm just saying propose you know uh uh me uh is dr bauer is uh counsel here is general counsel here yeah uh you know just as a question uh kind you know in reference to what uh you know uh in reference to uh our practice with the interview of the uh of can you know consulting firms and construction firms uh i wanted to ask general counsel is it in the purview of the board president to to have members meet in meet in person in the boardroom so we again we are not you know the audience remains virtual nothing is changing about that community can continue to log in as they have but you

064know does the board president have the authority to compel uh members to meet in person in the board room and for close session so there's no easy to easy answer to that mostly because this is very much still an unprecedented situation with covid and with the state of emergency declaration still in effect under your board bylaws the uh board the duties of the board president include conducting the meeting and he also acts as a parliamentarian um when he's conducting the meeting but the but it's silent your board bylaws are silent as to whether the board president has the power to control the manner or the the the setting of the meeting under these circumstances so currently you have a resolution in place that allows for virtual meetings if the resolution isn't passed then upon the

065expiration of that current resolution you have to go back to in-person meetings so i would say given all of those you know all of those points um i don't believe um sitting here right now that the that the board president has the unilateral power to determine whether or not the board has to meet in person especially given the current resolution further questions all right i'm reading the the votes here and it looks like i are going to have it so um if there's no further comments from members of the board i'll go ahead and call you as i see you i called for public comment earlier uh there was one hand up uh east zelda weasel yes there's currently one speaker with the raise time of zelda oh okay um did you did you see

066the handle when we called the public comment prior uh board vice president i think her hand has been asked for a while oh okay zelda you have please don't meet yourself upon a meeting you have two minutes the time begins when you start speaking so if i called for public comment previously i don't want to make it a practice of reopening public comment uh vice president and so if it was called previously that's i don't know if you recall in the past we've uh people have come in late or presidents of the bargaining groups even haven't been able to get on because we had already gone from public comments so in in order to keep with that practice and we'll go ahead and proceed if that wasn't up before but in this case if they've

067been called then we'll go ahead and provide them the opportunity yes my hello board my hand was up earlier it just got overlooked um but i appreciate uh being given the chance to address the board real quick before i get into my original statement um i heard one of the board members uh state that because there's a state of emergency still in effect that you guys are going to proceed this way but the state of emergency that's in effect is now for monkey pox not for covid so i just wanted to put that out there for you guys but um my original comment has to do with um the governor and cdc lifting and or changing so many of the restrictions that were put in place for the pandemic i'm disappointed because i was given

068previous information last year about the mass situation for our children attending uh alum rock school district i've grown up on the east side we currently commute to bring our children to alum rock school district we love the community we chose to commute 15 to 20 minutes to bring our children to that school area we saw many friends and family members over there and it's just that continuing to mask is causing specifically our children we know about other children a real lack of desire for continuing to want to go to school there especially when schools in san jose unified are not masking which would be much easier for our commute i'm very motivated to stay in that school district because it's where i grew up and so it's a great pleasure to have my children attending

069some of the same schools that i went to uh back then it was called rogers when i was growing up and now it's adelante um i'm curious why um giving the the so many changes in the health regulations and also the scientific knowledge about the virus and how it has mutated uh andres you're on me but hey wait a minute i have a question because uh you know uh question to general counsel wait a minute if uh if the state of emergency was based on covet and now if it's monkey pox then uh you know how valid is this state of emergency so the um the legislation that authorizes the virtual meetings is in the brown act in the government code and there are two conditions two basic conditions towards holding virtual meetings one is

070that there is a proclaimed state of emergency and then the second that there are um uh recommended social distancing measures at either the state or the local public health uh level the the uh the brown act doesn't say that it has to be a coveted state of emergency it just says it's a state of emergency and then there are recommended social distancing guidelines which there are in santa clara county especially relating to public meetings or public agency meetings um there is still there is still a state of emergency surrounding the governor's original declaration of a state of emergency in in march on march 4 i believe it was march 4th of 2020 the the scope of that state of emergency has been whittled down with subsequent um decrees from the governor but the but the

071state of emergency itself itself still remains in effect but again it doesn't have to be the state of emergency doesn't have to be specific to cove it it's just a public health state of emergency any more questions now thank you very much uh rogelio all right uh board remember so just to be clear the vote then is on the original motion which is to um accept or support the language on the agenda correct uh there was no second to the amendment uh trustee no you read the amendment oh sorry you're right yeah original you're right and the uh the maker of the motion didn't accept it can we vote okay all right if there's no further questions then i'll go ahead and call for you as i see you since public comment have already been

072called um uh board member boardwise for their phone now board member travis aye board member remember yes board member uh board clerk hi with my software now the motion passes for one all right moving on to item 7.0 went on to item 7.02 uh approved certification of election uh for june 7th cy direct primary election uh no motion ocean to approve some motion to approve there a second second second by boardroom motion by worker second by board member i don't know is there any comments from the public for president there are no comments all right mr president you're on mute is there any further comments remember i have somebody watching the windows here uh and so therefore i don't want that noise to be transferring over the board me so thank you for letting me

073know that uh i wasn't muted um is there any further comments from members of the board all right c9 then i'll go ahead and call you as i see you uh 7.02 uh we're voting on 7.02 or vice president actually fam said move to approve he didn't vote yay or no no if if you remember he asked me what item we were on and did you did you vote fam i knew i just said move to approve i you know the board president cut out so i didn't hear that parts all right let's go ahead and redo this so can you hear me board member phone yes now i can hear you all right um how do you how how did you vote on the side all right so motion passes for all right so

074let's redo this again then obviously if we're having these glitches here motion by board member fam is there a second i i had motion and uh vegeta had second are we redoing it i'm not sure yes at this point there's glitches here that are taking place and i just want to make sure where this certification the election takes place so that uh measure i doesn't get kicked back and yeah certified so now i'm i'm confused and uh so we could probably do it let's redo it again okay because clearly there's been glitches and people can't hear so we're on 7.02 approval certification of the extreme results of june 7 2022 statewide direct primary election measure as stated in the agenda the election took place that we all participated in and that we engaged in a

075democratic process in our community to approve all right so there's a motion by remembering for a second second second by more restaurants and then hand up by board member yes to your point president just to make sure that it's clean can we just confirm with council that because several of us did vote on a motion in a second that that this redo will trump or or um override that previous vote again just to your point to make it clear i never uh voted and we never finished off the whenever called the the vote as a whole okay so that makes all of our votes that voted nolan voight then just to make sure we do it again to make sure that it's done right all right so we have a motion in a second on

076the floor and um let's go ahead and move forward as i see you board rights president phone hi board uh member travis no board member all right moving on to item 7.03 so approval contract legal services with santa clara county went ahead and brotto brought this item forward to dr bauer uh because sometimes we need uh the recommendation or the uh the we need the advice the legal advice the county council on on a small number of items every once in a while and so uh it's a relatively small minor contract just to make sure that we have the ability to call on county council in order to get a definitive opinion on some issue um uh so that's the the the item that's before you i'm gonna approve i'm calling for public comment okay

077board president there is currently no public comment all right all right uh motion by board uh clerk is there a second second all right second by board member but i don't know is there any further comments from members of the board all right um so you know then i'll go ahead and call you as i see you uh board vice president i uh board member uh travis no board member i don't know yes board clerk hi my sophomore night motion passes 4-1 with chavez descenting all right i'm moving on to 8.01 award of bid package and contract for number b2223 dash bonds 1-3 repair and replace play structures uh play mat at san antonio elementary school another one elementary approved second a motion by board member i know second by board member chavez is there

078any public comments board president there is currently no public comment all right um all right as uh somebody who's seen the mats at uh the schools uh damaged i am thankful to expect that the voters have approved the bond monies to be able to repair the mats unfortunately uh due to some uh vandals uh some of the items do get uh damaged in particular people set fire to the mets and so we're hoping that uh these will last a little longer uh any for the conference members report seeing none then i'll go ahead and call you to see you more vice president i board member chavez board member hi work clerk hi with my sop 49 the motion passes unanimously another 8.02 award of bid package contract number b2223 all right i'm reading these out

079to ensure that the public is aware that the work is taking place so there's a there's a method to the madness here um thank you to your support uh is there any comments from members of the public president there is currently no public comment all right see no public comment i'll go back to uh back to you dr power to jail we can't hear you you're muted maribel has her hand up and i don't know if it's a a comment on the process oh okay just to alert you um i just wanted to let our interpreter know um juan that he can um leave our meeting um now carlos is going to take over the translation for the spanish and we just want to let him know that all right thank you thank juan juan

080much appreciated all right um we were at comments from members of the board because there was no full of comments is there any comments members of the board uh board rights prison problem yes so you know kind of you know i since both um both are related i kind of want you know you know this is you know again more progress we have you know we're starting where we've repaid the blacktop we're fixing the playgrounds and we're replacing the signs we're making you know we're making moves with the you know with this first chunk of available bond monies that we have and uh you know this will set us this will set us on the road for uh progressively uh bigger projects down the road pardon me there's a window cleaning in progress there but

081uh but this points our district in the right direction providing modern facilities for our children so i hope you guys know all right no further comments members of the board all right um we'll go ahead and call you to see you board vice president could you repeat that uh i'm going to go ahead and call you for a vote as i see you hi hi board member travis hi board clerk hi board member hi with my sophomore and i the motion passes unanimously um 8.03 approved contract with studio adobe architects for architectural services who to approve got a motion from foreign president there is currently no public comment all right uh borrowing banana you have come yeah just a quick question or clarification um in the materials it mentions that some of the work that

082is going to be done is mechanical um and so i was just wanting to see if we can get a little clarification i know it's very clear that roofing is one of the things that will be covered by this particular item but it was the mechanical um classification or mechanical description for some of the sites that i just wanted to see if i can get a clarification i'm not sure if that's hvac or electrical or what that might be ajac falls into the maps which is mechanical trees that would be it but i'm sure that dr bauer can you are correct trustee vegeta you asked me that question in one-on-one and i think this is a fantastic question to clarify for everybody in the audience yes it's it's issues with um the hvac issues with

083electricity things like that okay so good i mean so then just kind of piggybacking on vice president fam again you know we obviously hvac is one of the issues that we all of us have as parents or board members or whatever it may be have you know had ongoing discussions about and this again is the evidence of continued progress in the right direction and so there's a number of sites here that we're going to be um looking at addressing those issues and so i'm happy to see that and thank you for the clarification on that all right um i'll go ahead and provide my comments as well i think it's important to note that for a while we were stalled in what we could do in the repairs and so if you heard some of

084us talking with excitement about blacktops and mon and these signs and hvac systems it's because we've been uh unable we've got our hands tied because of a lot of problems that took place previously that we've been able to work through and to fix and resolve and so for the members of the public who are just tuning in and aren't aware why are these clowns so so excited about blacktops well it's because we've been getting the complaints and i've seen the pictures on social media of excited parents that have passed by and have seen this uh fresh new blacktop where the kids can play and have fun uh and without having to be concerned about tripping and falling and so that's the reason why you hear us uh talk with the excitement about all these projects

085um you know i was passing by fischer i saw the fence down like oh no what happened what turns out is equipment that's been moved in so they can finish up some projects so that that's why you hear such excitement for members of the board uh and as well as some members of the public who have spoken about this it's because we're able to now finally use the resources that we've been entrusted by the public to go ahead and resolve some of those uh issues that have been ongoing for several years so um i'll go ahead and call you as i see you if there's no further comments from members of the of the board uh board vice president farm hi board member travis hi board clerk hi what a member of hanover i myself

086wouldn't have moisture past university uh moving on to item 9.01 so approval resolution number zero four dash two two four slash two three to accept the cal shape rent the amount of 1.2 million dollars all right uh we have a motion by word vice president this is their second second second by board member chavez do you have comments from members of the public president there is currently no public comment all right um is there further comments from members of the board i'll see you none then i'll go ahead and call you i'll see you wherever your phone aye board member charles hi we're clerking uh moving on to 10.01 approved obsolete materials um some map motion books there uh there's a motion by board member chavez second by board member but i don't know is

087there comments from members of the public what president there is currently no public comment all right uh further comments members of the board see none that i'll call you as i see you board vice president hi board member travis hi board member 11.01 certificated substitute pay rates effective august 12th 2022 go motion motion and i have a question too okay you have a motion was there a second second second second by board right further than bomb uh comments from members of the public for president there are currently no public comments all right uh there's a question from board member chavez yeah um so when i was on the one-on-one with dr bauer uh one of my questions was that i noted that the elementary and the middle school are both getting the same and then

088i asked um is it more difficult to get a substitute for the middle school and it is so when when they so what i would ask for is could we consider because it is more challenging uh if the board would consider giving middle schools more uh dr bauer can you explain what you explained to me please i was thank you is it okay board president um trusty chavez brought up to my attention something that we have done in the past during the pandemic we just wanted to make sure we got subs and we brought this to the board with the same amount but i think she has a valid a concern and since these are individuals that are not represented by anybody um sometimes we have to be fair right we as administrators look at

089the need and things like that so when she asked me is there any way we can bring have a discussion around this this is regarding the daily rate for middle school subs and in the past there was a 50 difference between the elementary daily rate for subs and the middle school daily rate for subs so if the board so desires it might have this um this can be amended right now approved as presented with the amendment of uh allowing us to pay middle school stops 50 dollars more and also can i sorry about that can i also comment the reason why is because um if if i was a teacher and i've heard many subs say this that they would rather go teach in an elementary because it's more difficult to teach to middle schoolers

090and if you remember if all of you remember when you were middle school some of them were like the word says more challenging and sometimes more challenging means you have to give a little bit more in order to make sure that the subs are in place that's all thank you uh i think andres is frozen you're muted yeah i think he's frozen he's not moving so you can call on yourself trust me vice president fam yeah okay so uh is there any other are there any other questions by other members of the board comments okay hang on uh personally hirono uh yes i mean i think i'm pretty i'm pretty sure i know the answer to this but just for the purposes of i guess the public there would be no um significant impact on

091our budget um by amending this motion correct oh okay thank you okay and any other questions or comments from members of the board okay trustee chavez i would like to amend the this to say uh 250 for the middle schoolers uh make a motion to amend do is there a second oh hang or hang okay uh i will hold off on that because actually i have a question uh to the board and you know traditionally the presiding officer waits until all other members of board have had their uh say uh question dr bauer uh you know you know this is a certainly an item worthy of consideration i you know it sounds good in principle however uh would it uh would it not be would it not be prudent to to con to at least

092have consultation with the affected bargaining unit first to ensure that uh we do not have to ensure that we do have buy-in from our all right what i don't know we still on the uh substitute yes i apologize horrible internet connection no no so just just in just two so i acted as presiding officer while you were reconnecting and i asked uh dr bauer questioned about conferring with uh with the appropriate bargain with the appropriate labor union and if i can interrupt i also made a motion but he said wait he wanted to have you inside the meeting all right so um what was talking about i'm gonna respond uh i don't i don't think it's wise to set a precedent because these are non these are not known they're non-members of the unit and

093i can assure you teachers will be very happy if there are people coming in their rooms subbing for them we have never had any issue with this we bring to the board we've always you know have the support from the board so we have we start school on tuesday and we i can assure you we are going we are we're getting calls for subs so this will be something that will hopefully ease the way um of bringing for us to bring uh enough subs during this the school year all right uh i'm gonna what was the motion that you had made the motion was to add because it's more challenging uh for the middle schools to get the subs that if it would be 250 if the board would consider giving middle schools 50 more

094in order to ensure that we could have the subs for the middle schools all right doctor so the board may approve the item with the amendment of giving middle school 250 that would be my suggestion and it will be both things both things can be accomplished that way all right you had uh you there was already a motion on the table though so this is a substitute motion that's the same one original motion substitute notion no my original was with the amendment you move to approve item whatever it is i don't i item 11.01 but with the amendment we're going to get to where you want to go okay thanks give me a second sure made a motion it was already on the table however another substitute motion if this prevails then it just it

095passes and that's it okay we need to go back to 1.01 so there's a substitute motion to the original motion made by the same person is there a second to that which i have the fifty dollars second all right so that's a motion by chavez second round to add uh fifty dollars to the medical teacher substitute pay rate um is there any further discussion you know board vice president yes you know i mean and that's the case uh question to the superintendent couldn't could we do a small increase for the elementary substitutes also knowing that the general environment is uh uh is also difficult for subs at all levels i i believe the point was i'm sorry sorry so there's a motion in a second at this point i just asked the question i'm not

096touching um all right do you want to make an amendment to this motion to the amendment to the amendment waiting for the superintendent's answer before you know offering them so you know do we have do we have room to offer an increased city elementary subs i think that there should be significant difference trusted fam to be able to attract people to the middle school i nothing will be better for me to say absolutely yes but i don't think that that we will achieve what we want to achieve which is people signing up for the middle school okay all right fair enough thank you all right uh so there's the uh amen there was yes there's already a second so uh but remember oh yeah i just i had noticed that mr toriko had come on

097so i don't know if he had anything he wanted to contribute here just in case we had a question yeah thank you board member no i was making myself available if there were any questions uh thank you very much for um discussing this it certainly helps us in um attracting new subs and certainly i i appreciate the discussion uh into this because it's something we work on very hard in our department thank you all right so it looks like there's i'm gonna go ahead and call you to see if there's no further comments uh board member travis aye board member uh barclayer guerrero hi uh board member aye board rushed for their phone hi oh with myself we're not motion passes all right um can i ask one question yes when does this go into

098effect dr bauer says that i think you can answer that it's immediate right tomorrow right yeah right it'll be ready if the question it'll be ready for the first day of school thank you all right uh moving on to item 11.2 resignations is for information only feel free to read it at your leisure is there any members of the public wishes pecan item 11.02 or president there is currently no speakers all right uh moving on to 12.01 this is approve a master contract with tutor work academic service for 2022 2023 school year uh do you have public comment on that item all right move up move for approval by vice president palmer the second by board member chavez uh board member i don't know your comments pretty far you sound like you're really far away

099boy president there's currently no public comment all right boy remember am i up okay yeah uh sorry i i forgot to mute myself but um quick question um in reading the materials i was just wondering if we have a clarification um or a little more specific information as to how many schools how many sites or how many students we anticipate serving with this um i know it's uh and in talking with dr bauer it is really based on um the needs as they may arise for for students at any given site but i just um was wondering just to get a sense of how this is being allocated as to those proposed number of students or sites that will be served do we have any of that information yeah i call sandra garcia to provide

100that explanation she um she's joining us because um i ask her to be ready for this thank you trustee vegeta thank you thank you miss garcia you may proceed with the answer am i in my own yes oh okay sorry i wasn't sure if i was on okay um so the 250 000 is not to exceed 250 000 and if you remember a few months back i brought information to the board regarding the elop funds which are intended for extension of support during our after-school programs and uh part of that program is to provide enrichment programs for students but also um intervention type support like tutoring homework centers and things like that so tutorworks has been a partner of ours for i want to say about eight years uh eight or nine years they have

101provided um tutoring at several of our schools after school tutoring um and also district programs like for our foster youth migrant youth they have summer programs in person and virtually over the past few summers they've been a great partner and so the intent of this contract is to provide services at the school sites in coordination with our extension of after school programs this year and also to open it up part of it as an opportunity for any other schools that have additional site fundings and one um i'm sorry site funding and want to um participate in the contract so so then there's not really been um how do i ask uh what i'm what i'm trying to get it you get an idea of here is just roughly you know how much we where the

102district spends per student or per group or per site on these types of things um and so i'm i i'm not sure because usually when i see these i try to do that math and just get a rough sense of you know is this a service that is you know in the same ballpark as what we paid per student or per school or is this for some reason way low or way high and it's so why um and so i don't hear that that we have any of those specifics ms garcia um i do hear that it will be open to other schools that are not currently receiving tutoring but i guess then am i correct to assume that we do not have any more specific information as to um specifically what or how we

103intend to spend these funds driver sandra let me just i don't know if you have in front the the contract the contract states that the hourly rate per student is 42 dollars and cents so if you divide uh the total amount of the contract because it's up to we don't know we're gonna use them right it will provide about 5952 hours of tutoring across the district however those are gonna be divided you know how how who's gonna get what but that gives you a sense about you know about 6 hours worth of tutoring for the kids in alum rock since we have about 7 900 um enrolled students right now it's almost almost an hour per kid across the district i don't know if that helps it does yes and thank you i i must

104have missed that 42 or whatever you mentioned because that's the number i was looking forward to so somehow i missed it so thank you for that and it is great to hear that you know theoretically that that covers a a great deal of our students who will need those services so thank you and uh dr powell and santa knife you're still there yeah the tudor works is one of the partners that we have correct yes we have still maine and other services that we've contracted with so they're part of a portfolio that's available to our schools to provide that extra support of the children needed yes you are correct all right uh board member travis you had a hundred so how was it determined how you get on the list if there's only a limited

105number we've done a lot of research and outreach to several organizations and and i want to say that a lot of organizations now are only doing virtual tutoring and um so these are those that are willing to come on campus and do in-person tutoring the virtual tutoring wasn't very popular anymore this past year parents really were looking for on-site tutoring for kids to be on i mean for tutors to be on-site working with their students so these are the tutoring companies that are able to offer that for our kids so um i'm sorry that my i think my question was how do you sign up to receive the services correct who takes pri who's you know is there a priority list oh got it so there's different ways um one of the things we do

106first is uh look at data look at school data and so we have recently um we'll be getting a report of each site to see you know what grade levels are in most need of support um which schools and then we'll kind of look at that area but then i also um offer it up to uh principals that if they have a particular need then they reach out and then we are able to provide that date that service at their school as well but as they set up here my intent is for all schools to have some type of tutoring support in coordination with the expansion of the after-school programs so would it be incorrect for me to say whoever needs it the most is is priority or what would you say miss sandra i

107would say that we do prioritize certain groups of students as you know in our lcap you know our foster youth our english learners and our low-income students they are the um the most high-need students that we are obligated to serve first but of course we're not going to leave other students out if they need the support and we will have those conversations with principals thank you miss sandra thank you um and then just i know it says any school interested in participating and i heard you say too that if a principal says i really need this that you know then you would look into it um so i think that was part of my questions um trustee because thank you for asking that because it was just very important for me to understand like is

108it available for everybody is it um you know is it not um [Music] and i know sandra that you know if if it's not this one that any of our students that needs tutoring um you know that maybe is not connected to this one that they would get it um so i'm confident about that but on this one in particular um i did have those questions so thank you for that um and you know i like i think for me the fact that you said you know that if a principal like i said um calls and says i need this program that then um you would also look into connecting that so yeah okay thank you for answering all the questions and being here absolutely is it safe to say that every site has access

109to some sort of service of tutoring support or after school support for the kids yes all right that was my understanding and so it's usually in the letter that's sent home to the parents at the bottom or somewhere there saying if you need extra support make sure to call this number that type of language is usually what takes place correct yes and then i want to remind you that last year i did allocate 30 000 to each site to use for this purpose for tutoring for developing a tutoring and or homework center at every site er principals had to submit a plan of how they were going to implement the tutoring and homework services at their site so that's something that we're also going to um provide this year in addition to what we're doing

110and so that's why when it says that uh any school can can participate in this contract they can also use their additional site funds to add additional support at their school all right thank you for bringing the services that bring the in-person support i know that if uh some of the public library in particular provides online tutoring services and so we're in competition with them if we go to an online sort of uh only approach so um thank you for bringing it back in person for the questions seeing none then i'll go ahead and call you as i see you we've called already for public comment uh do you have your hand up is there any um i just wanted to say that um there was no motion and no second so um i made

111the motion [Music] um i have um sabrina here who's shouting me today and she's she didn't hear emotion either motion i i heard a motion in a second because i was waiting to ask my question until those occurred yeah i got him recorded but i heard him trusty fan motion and i second yeah yeah border travis and best president of fun were competing with each other to see who made the motion first no i let him go first you beat you all right uh motion by vice president bomb second by board member chavez correct correct all right um we've called for public um for a public comment and i'll go ahead and call you to see you or members hi board vice president hi board member travis hi not in motion passes anonymously we're into

112item 13.01 you have uh public comment on 13.01 but before i move towards oh this is consent calendar starting with approved the entire balance of the consent calendar from 13 um any uh comments from the public please indicate by raising your hand board president there is currently no public comments all right um for the comments for members of the board see now i'll call you as i see you blur clerk hi board member hi [Music] i'm board rights president board remember travis hi myself 49 motion passes all right um i think that uh mr toriko already reported what happened in closed session previously so we don't need to do that um future agenda requests please uh reach out to the superintendent and uh they will go ahead and deal with those uh board member travis

113do you have a hand up uh i'll just re send them to dr bauer thank you sounds good all right at this point uh we've made a record no 8 43 i'll go ahead and adjourn this meeting at 8 43. have a good night everyone good night good night