Board Meeting

001uh before we do so we'll go ahead and get uh in and carry out the landing acknowledgement board of trustees of the alum rock union elementary school district does hereby acknowledge that the district that the district schools and facilities sit on the traditional lands of the maloney people and these and the board of trustees further again reverence people tribe of san francisco bay area for their stewardship of these lands all right next we'll go ahead and proceed with the pledge of allegiance please uh find your nearest flag and face it ready pledge allegiance [Music] all right moving on to item 1.02 discussion and modification of the agenda are there any requests for members of the board to discuss to modify the agenda see none then i'll go ahead and uh we will go ahead and

002proceed as it as is um all right 1.03 welcome and explanation to audience any person may address support in any item on any item on the meeting agenda persons who wish to speak on the item on an item on the agenda will have the opportunity to do so when the agenda item is introduced and presented during the meeting if you wish to speak on the item on an item on this agenda please use the raise hand function on zoom as described above the above on the on the agenda item is called there's a speaker the board has a right to limit total public commentary agenda item to not more than 20 minutes persons wishing to speak to the board about any matter within jurisdiction of the district but not on this agenda we'll have an

003opportunity to speak during item 501 on the agenda seated below all right moving on to item 2.01 we're going to go ahead and take on item 2.01 2.02 and 2.03 all as one given the fact that they are all essentially very very much related and so let's go ahead and proceed with trusty questions firstly chavez do you have a question do you need a motion for all three um at this point give me a second let's let's go ahead and uh here it this is a presentation at this point so let's go ahead and hear the presentation we'll go ahead and understand the direction i'm sorry on the first one 201 it's the so we're not going to take that different from on a separate motion because the other one is a presentation 2.01 2.02

004and 2.03 are all dealing with the same issue and can be taken on as one okay thanks yeah so at this point let's go ahead and turn over to the administration doctor thank you for president uh you will have to do a vote on after and they all we check with legal and they all can be one but just to remind you that there is a vote for 201 and 203 just to remind the board that those are two separate votes okay all right thank you for checking all right let's go ahead and proceed dr bart you want to go ahead and introduce the item yes thank you so much board president um these are unprecedented times in not not only for alum rock but also for our state in terms of education and um

005we have um [Music] a tremendous opportunity to do great things for our children utilizing some of the one-time funds that the state has sent to us so i'm going to be asking sandra garcia director of state and federal and dr diana vallesteros director of early learning and mr rena sanchez to present to the board this uh all of the the work that alum rock is doing on behalf of our students of all of our students and utilizing the resources in a way that will increase the opportunity for our children so i think ms garcia are you the first one in the presentation so i'll turn it over to her thank you so much okay i'm gonna go ahead and share my screen um i'm not able to share my screen okay good evening good evening

006board president quintero um superintendent dr bauer board members community sandra garcia director of state federal programs and i'm here this evening to talk to you about expanded learning opportunities plan so we all know about after school programs which we call asus programs and those are through a grant that we received from the state of california and during the pandemic a lot of needs as we all know rose you know needs of families and ways to support students uh in our schools and um through this was born expanded learning and i believe you all remember last spring or even summer sometime i came to you with a plan for expanded learning opportunities grant and that was more focused on how to support kids as they were coming out of uh distance learning and back to school

007so this this one is called expanded learning opportunity program and um and what it is is an expansion of what we already know and after school is aces so when i refer to expanded learning that includes our aces programs but it's calling for an extension of these services to include programs that focus on developing not just the academic but the social emotional physical needs of our students through hands-on learning experiences the presentation tonight will share some background on expanded learning assessment of needs and a program structure that i'm recommending so some of the background is that through ab130 um ali allies are asked to offer tk through six pupils a comprehensive after school and intercessional expanded learning opportunities um we're also asked to provide all students access to nine hours of developmentally appropriate academics and

008enrichment activities by the year 2025 through 2026 rolling it out every year until full expansion in 2025-2026 the nine hours includes uh recess lunch and instructional time as well as the expanded services to develop the elop infrastructure so that we can integrate arts music and sports present programs into the enrichment opportunities for students so the context of ab130 some of the important components is that uh again we offer uh the elo program to all tk through six uh pupils in the district um and that we prioritize service to our unduplicated pupils which are english learners our foster youth and our low-income students um that it is aligned the program is aligned to our aces program so we use the standards that are required in our current aces programs that aces and elop should be considered

009one single comprehensive program that we provide no less than nine hours a day of programming when combined with the instructional day and that's including inner sessions and summer that we provide programming on all plus 30 intercession days which could be summer provide before or after school components on one site or multiple sites depending on the needs of the district and then again that we prioritize school sex in the lowest income communities i'm showing you this statewide funding source just as an example of some of the funds that have been provided um as we get to this new opportunity of expanded learning opportunities program so we already have aces programs that we've had in our schools and uh that grant funding has been available since 2006 and we're fortunate to have a program in every school

010in our district as i mentioned before during the pandemic we were given elo grant monies and that was of one-time funds to support our students as they returned to school and then now this is the new pot of funds called expanded learning opportunities program funds and those are scheduled to be ongoing so in once we learned that we're going to be receiving these funds i started gathering information meeting with different groups to gather information input on you know how we're going to go about this and we're the needs of our district i had ongoing planning sessions with our current aces partners to kind of just gauge their um capacity and interest in partnering with us on this um had alignment discussions with our departments of early learning our vapa and scl departments we analyze current

011site needs you know including waiting lists that we have at certain sites just looked at information that we've gathered through our elk cap community forums our panorama survey and then i sent out an additional expanded learning parent survey through all of this some of the highest needs based on the input is that there are a majority of families that do need the support through 6 p.m um but there's also a high percentage of families that favor just one hour after school of additional support and a form of investment or possibly two hours like enrichment and homework support parents do favor more enrichment programs during the summer there is an interest for intercession support and enrichment and homework are the highest interest options for families so the parent survey that i sent out kind of gave

012that information that i just shared with you this is just kind of the graphs of where things fell most people want till 6 pm summer enrichment was very popular and then summer academic came second and then a lot of interest for a full day summer program till 5 p.m and then um kind of gauged interest on intersession um and you know what that would if people were interested and this is where um the idea of having the spring break camp came from which we will be having next week and we already have um 320 students signed up for that camp so very excited about that hard to interrupt ms garcia can i just ask one quick clarifying question about these graphs yes yes okay thanks the numbers that are on each graph the white numbers

013on the bar themselves what are those indicative of so you know um there were these are all parts of questions that i asked so they're not going to come up to 100 percent they're just the parts of different questions that i asked um so i may have asked for options and there were like five or six options in each and these were the highest of all of them so the numbers are the number total number of responses for that particular category yes okay thank you thank you for asking that question um and then the types of programming again the enrichment was the the most popular and then homework plus enrichment was second in line then tutoring and then only homework was the the fourth so in gathering that information and talking to different um partners

014and um people uh staff in our district um i came up with um some a program structure that we could follow next year and again the details still need to be worked out so the logistics the details of how we will do this but this is an overall uh i mean um general vision of how i see this playing out so um the vision would be to provide a safe and stimulating environment where students engage in a variety of experiences that support their learning and enrich their lives the mission would be that the alam rock expanded learning program offers a quality pre-k and school-age program during the after-school space that exemplifies our district vision of providing excellence through service perseverance love trust and equity and then the purpose would be to enhance the school experience

015for all children during the after school space in alignment with our district l cap goals and priorities so again we already have our asus programs that run through 6 p.m and that includes homework learning support um enrichment activities integrated sel and supper daily monday through friday so adding on this piece the reason why you know we have the arrow going back and forth is basically what we would be doing is uh um adding on more spaces for more students to be involved through some enrichment cycles and i see those being like six to eight weeks long throughout the year but this would also be provided monday through friday just as our aces program are and we would at some point everything would be integrated and you know students would be able to take advantage of

016the parts of the program that um they need so if they need a full program through 6 pm then they would stay through 6 p.m if they wanted to um you know enroll and just be part of the enrichment cycles and have some homework support that would be an option as well so this these are just samples of what the day would kind of look like for the different um options so the instructional day plus elap would be the instructional day this is just a sample because not all schools start at eight but if you start at eight to 2 30 would be the instructional day they would then have their snack and then they would have enrichment and then they would have homework support and for a tk kinder student since their day is

017shorter um they would go to lunch after their instructional day and then their program would go from 12 to 5 p.m so this would be the 9 hour day and of course if a student had a late start kinder they they could have the option of having the before school support which we do provide at at our schools intercession camp and this is the structure that we will be following um next week during spring break when we offer our first spring break camp and it will be eight to five monday through friday and it will be a combination of enrichment sel you know some literacy type activities um and just you know kind of mostly just fun and entertaining and enriching for students but infused with some type of learning support daily and then our

018summer our thought for summer is that we typically have our summer learning support from 8 to 12 daily and then what we'll do is we will offer parents who who want the opportunity to have their kids stay 2 5 through 5 pm we would offer camp uh from 12 to five with um in collaboration with our partners um think together in ymca so then the students would have the option of having both the learning support and then the the camp from 12 to 5. and that is that the end of my presentation and i will stop sharing just in case you have any questions on that piece uh no question just thank you very much for the presentation and all your work you put into it thank you trustee chavez um i did include uh

019a plan that does need approval so that we can move forward with offering these services and that was included in the board packet all right we'll take that uh once we're done with uh we'll take that in an item 2.03 okay we're done with all the items okay i'll go back and we'll do the second now yeah okay so now i'm going to turn it over to dr diana vallesteros and she will be sharing some information with you on universal pre-kindergarten and the reason why she is following my presentation is because we'll be able to offer the nine hour day um through the ela program um with the plans that she has through universal pre-kindergarten so um dr thank you thank you brahma good evening board president quintero and um superintendent dr bauer and our

020board trustees um thank you for this opportunity to share about all the the buzz about universal pre-kindergarten the upk um coming from the state of california so i'm next slide thank you so you may be wondering you know what is all this upk what is happening and you know in about 2000 a group of scientists really got together and and put together this science saying you know this early years really really matter and one of those discoveries you know was that ninety percent of a child's brain development is happens by age five here it says before five but by age five so the other ten percent happens afterwards so this focus on the neuro scientists and the brain and the development really told us that when we were saying you know kids need to be

021ready when they come to kindergarten it's really before they come to kindergarten and so part of this you know brain science is really um giving us the trajectory in the state of california to move forward and provide more early learning and i want to just say high quality early learning for our children because um many times people say early learning early learning but we really have to stay focused on the high quality you know and and they also laid a foundation that you know environment really matters for these children they may not have the language but their brains are ready to learn children are born ready to learn thank you next one so then um we had a whole you know group of economic scientists who also started looking at this early learning and the

022brain development that the neuroscience had put out and um heckman was one of the scientists who has dedicated the the final um years of his research on early learning and the and why it's so important so here you can see that you know he's added the importance on the return on investment in the dedication we do prenatal early childhood preschool and then you see the k through 12 and the j job training so it really gave us another um picture of why this is so important to invest i think you know it's been difficult in a sense that you know we want instant gratification and that our investment of um into education into early education um returns the investment but as you can tell you know the return on investment really comes at a later

023time it really does you know um some of the work has said you know it really helps um with the achievement gap it really helps um the productivity of these children once they are in um in society uh it really helps them have a um a better outcome in life and so it's a lifelong investment um this um uh economic impact of investing in early childhood so as you see all this information is coming out and the states are looking at it and education is looking at it and so really early education prenatal is really that first stage of education next slide please so here's where we are now that one dollar of investment in early childhood yields 16 return so i have been in this field long enough to remember when it was one

024dollar and invested in early childhood the return was seven dollars but it has been growing you know as the science has come out and the science has told us you know that this is really a significant investment in human development to start at the early stages next slide so here we are what is ubk so upk is really this this bridge you know that really unifies you know all these different um entities that have been working in early education private cspp is the state program head start and then our universal transitional kindergarten some of the points next slide please sandra so one of the unique things about universal pre-kindergarten that you know i really like is that it is really um encouraging i would say encouraging um all these entities to work together and not

025be isolated in a single system to become you know this one unified system working together so here it says you know the universal transitional kindergarten um california state preschool um the community based organizations private preschools even our family child care homes and it really is to to encourage that every four-year-old no matter what zip code no matter what background every four-year-old will have one year ahead of kindergarten in universal pre-pre-kindergarten next slide peace [Applause] so how do they work together how do they work together and one of the key things is they they align you know they all align if you have all these partners and leveraging on the partnerships they're all going to be aligned so they're going to be aligned in a sense that it integrates for the first time you know these

026two worlds that have been separate most of um education the the early childhood education and then the elementary education but here with upk it's going to unify these two worlds thank you next fight please sunday how is it going to be done and here is you know straight from our state of california it's going to connect um kindergarten first grade second grade and third grade you may hear this p three prenatal three p through third grade um it's called you know variety of ways but it's it's a mixed delivery system and the reason that characteristic of a mixed delivery system has always been um early childhood education you know you have private school you have public school you have employee sponsored um child care but in this process it's how do you unify unify all

027of them and really with the core intention of serving all four year olds these four year olds this is the exciting part for alumron we have served four years in alan rock since 2015. um 2015 and the way we did it my most people say well how did you do it if you don't get the ada is because alan rock prioritized district funding in this area so we were able to bring those four-year-olds since when legislation the state legislation say well if the leas and the districts want to bring in four years they can go ahead and bring them in and start them even earlier so we have an element open that window to serve those four euros every year next slide please and these next three slides is just to give you a snapshot

028of you know how we laid the foundation to get to to ubk but before upk was the priority i want to be very clear that alum rock laid this foundation beginning with that one step of of inviting those four-year-old children into our transitional kindergarten in 2015. so then we had you can see our history here from 210 to 215 some of the key things was we started out with tk and k combinations you know and um and by 2015 we had before and after school care like missandra um just shared but we didn't have enough spots for all the children um this e-lop is really great because it's going to give that full day for all the children that need it and all the families so that was our our first little snapshot of our

029historical timeline the second one is 2 15 to 219 i think in your packet you got our strategic plan that came out for full implementation in um so that's when we began again laying this framework for for what is now a state of california initiative the quality for all is the road map and the framework that and the pathway that we have followed in alum rock um by 2019 it was really excited that we had leveraged so many partnerships in our early learning process that 1172 children had access to early learning and that mixed delivery of service um we found out that there was still a gap and many of you know that you know we have the very unique and innovative painter cooperative at painters school and it was really because again there was

030families that saying yes we have subsidized um support from the state of california in state preschool but i can't afford that i can't attend you know if it's sixteen hundred dollars a month and the subsidizes 800 for a family families were saying i can't do that and so dr bauer and i had a great conversation and she says well what do they need i said they need free some of our families need free and so the painter co-op is free to families who will volunteer in the co-op um next slide please and here we come we're coming into our 2019 and 2023. um some of the things that we also established to support families and children as many of you have experienced is we had we expanded our family resource centers we have now four

031family resource centers we brought in our partners of catholic charities um and somos mayfair has had what they call the flagship family resource center at cesar chavez which will now move and enhance to be a demonstration side um so that's pretty exciting um and here as you see in 2023 they say this is when um we have a solid platform in lmr a very solid pal form a foundation really we've how did we do this we did it with district leadership we did it with leveraging amazing partners that have like-minded like values that that we have in the importance of serving families and children at the earliest stage of human development um we have a great focus in lm rock on how you do a holistic system change by serving the whole child the whole

032family and the whole community so this is what tk california says you know is is the pathway you can see here number one this is the preparing stage for all of us and as i've shared you know we are ready because we have tk in every one of our schools um the number if you go all the way to number five which is 20 25 26 um it says finish line all four year olds can now attend tk well we've opened up that window for more four-year-olds to come this 22-23 it's opened up to may 31st and the next year it'll be open to all the four-year-olds so we will be more ready more than ready in this map that they have given us so why here we are at the early learning center the

033constant right and i know mr sanchez is going to present this but i'll do the first slides um next slide please sandra this is our quality for all you all now have a copy this is a living document that lives on my desk with anything that i do anything that i write because it really gave us that framework it was the work was done in two from 215 to 216 i think dr bauer and launched in 2017 i came on board as the director the first director of early learning in 2016 and this this was the the um the road map thank you santa next slide is good so here i'm just sharing those those fours there were five strategic goals and as you can look at these you can see that you know our

034foundation had already began the framework really had emerged in 2017 um to align and integrate systems so what kind of systems right so those the system like professional development coaching for their teachers that was one of the systems curriculum um right now we align the the social emotional learning from preschool all the way through the fifth grade the second was to provide an inclusive equitable affordable and universal access so you can see here that you know we were already talking about that importance of equity and giving equity to all families and being inclusive of all children in our t4s tks in our preschools the third one was you know to address the social determinants and this really came to vision when we had to deal with um you know the pandemic right we saw those

035social determinants the basics of those basic needs of food of diapers the formula and those things and how our family resource centers got together and really address those social determinants those are also addressed in all the family resource centers um and number four one of my favorites is strengthening family school community partnerships and so really um really seeing that our families are an asset they're an asset for us and they are our partners in the education of their children so really having them be a part of all the work that we do and um that's strengthening next slide please so goal five really of quality for all was how do you demonstrate impact and how do you achieve sustainability well the really exciting thing about what's happening in the state of california with the universal

036pre-k and the universal tk is that it's going to really support us to achieve that sustainability and leverage funds and leverage partners who really want to create this system change because it is an educational system change next slide and the next slide really just shows you you know what are those things that we have done that in the schools um based on the quality for all that really impacts the change for children so i know it's really tiny here but we couldn't get it any bigger but you can see here that we have the alignment of social emotional learning we have because of what the data tells us we have two exceptional language and literacy partners raising a reader and now we have the the christie yamagucha foundation always dream in our schools and so

037we slowly you know integrate and embed these in the schools um all the schools have you know consultative work from me to go in and support when it's the really young young children um [Music] so this is the impact this is really you can see the impact of what we've done you'll see that our dual immersion thing together the schools are here the preschools that we added you'll see that painter co-op is also here um just to show you some of the activities of impact thank you and then i turn it over to um assistant superintendent mr renee sanchez thank you dr valesteros i mean mr sanchez sorry can we ask a question now of dr valestero so should we wait till the end with regards to her portion go point all right thank you

038um so thank you first of all um dr valesteros and i really wanted to um just ask a question that kind of zooms in a little bit on the a term that you used holistic um you know that's something i think that we do here in alan rock because we choose to do it but also because in some sense you could use the term we're forced to do it like the families that we serve and the conditions of our district are such that we have to take a holistic approach and look at all the different domains of what's going on in families in order to try to get to what we're charged with which is academic success but there's all these other again holistic factors to consider so that with that being said i'm wondering

039um you know for a lot of our families a lot of our youth they have experienced trauma whether that might have been a you know maybe a traumatic immigration um experience or family issues or some traumatic experience in the community and we know based on what you said and we just know that you know that that age the brain is a sponge and so we know how the impact of trauma um how that affects the wiring of the brain basically at that early age and so i'm wondering this is question one number one um to what extent is kind of having that trauma-informed lens integrated into our overall approach with our younger children i think it's something that we obviously should have for all of our students because you know the experience doesn't stop at

040third grade um but just to what extent is a kind of a trauma-informed lens integrated or overlaid over our approach and then back to the word holistic utilizing this approach that you've presented to us um if you could just maybe touch on the long term or longer term impact on the community you talked about you know having to serve the children and the community in this holistic approach so by doing this by by you know engaging in or or utilizing this approach how is that impacting our you know not only our children as students but the overall community and the families that we're serving so those are the two questions and hopefully they're clear yes so and if they're not just remind me so the first one is the trauma informed so one of the

041other things that you know that happened in ellen rock is we have probably one of the only districts with the social emotional learning department which is really wonderful so that social emotional learning department we partner together and talk about you know certain families but they've also done an amazing series of trauma informed that's been open to all the teachers and all the directors and all the coordinators it's been an ongoing six series um what we did for the younger children trustee baharano we did a specific trauma series of three for those t4 tk teachers invited the k teachers the first second and third grade teachers we did it we ran it twice in our collaborative thursdays you know which is a smaller groups and then we did some professional development and so those were very

042focused with our partner the new teacher center out of santa cruz that has also been working with our transitional kindergarten since 16 on mentoring and coaching and building teacher leaders within the alarm rock school district so that's did that answer the first one yes it does thank you i'm glad to hear that that we are keeping that in mind when we're taking that approach i mean i knew it but it's it's good to hear more specifically how it's being implemented so that was question one thank you okay now question two the holistic impact i think i'm going to go back to the heckman studies on the holistic impact because in the studies that they have done where children did attend early learning um in other studies you know in different parts and different states they

043have seen i think now the oldest study the children are involved i shouldn't say children the adults are 45 years old and so those those um studies now show that those there was less crime in in that study um of you know that started then there was more predictive positive social productivity of those now adults there was um a very citizen commitment to to giving back to society and and so i think it's that return on investment trustee bahrain all right that it takes a long time i mean they did the those preschool studies you know in yitzlani michigan and now those children are 45 and now they're seeing the return on investment things like less divorce you know more participating with their children their now they're looking at their children of these generations of

044these studies and these children are more apt to go to school or that to finish high school to go on to college okay thank you very much for those responses i think it's very helpful for me and hopefully others to just keep in mind the context of not only the the short-term impacts of any decision we make but you know what we're trying to do down the road you know as as benefits to to our district into our community so thank you you're very welcome thank you dr valesteros um and as you've heard over the last few minutes um you've heard a lot around the research and the data regarding the impact of early learning education has not only on children but the entire community this is why we bring this innovative opportunity to you

045today we feel this is important we feel this is critical this is something that's going to benefit our entire community next slide please this is a massive investment for our kids and the entire lmroc community we have always been pioneers in creating opportunities for our families the early learning center is one more step to ensure that all children alum rock will walk into our schools healthy physically and mentally and will equip with the foundational social emotional capacity and skills to help them be resilient and thrive you know we are providing as dr baestero shared with you earlier we are providing bits and pieces of this throughout our district but we want to be able to provide something that is comprehensive and that is serving more of our students next slide please as you can see

046from the images here right this is some of the work that's already happening and a reminder right starting early for our students is ensuring success and their ability to complete to compete for jobs of the future we want to provide them with those opportunities we want to provide them with the skills to ensure that they will be able to compete you know in the bay area and be part of the workforce of the future next slide please we heard loud and clear from the community the needs of families for preschool and extended day opportunities for our youngest students we heard in the facilities repurposing committee this was some of the feedback that was given we heard through our strategic planning committee from various members of the committee um this was some of the feedback that

047was given focus groups other partners have shared with us this is what the community continues to ask for right those opportunities for preschool um for extended day for more students there's just not enough of that throughout our district and in our community and we heard this again in our lcap forums so this is not something that is new to us this is something that the community has continuously brought back to us as important as critical uh for uh the families and so that is why we are um looking to start this initiative next slide please what will we provide in the early learning center at cesar chavez uh we'll provide high quality research based prenatal through a five-year-old model we will provide a strong innovative unique partnership of public and private providers we will provide

048a platform for early childhood education and systems change for the benefit of children families and the community this is not you know this is not something that is um only going to impact those children participating there uh but their brothers their sisters their parents right it's a comprehensive approach um next slide please so following the state's vision for early learning and their master plan for early learning and care we are looking to be innovative in providing a space where our youngest learners have the resources and services needed for them to thrive this space provides a comprehensive approach to not only support the children but also provide opportunities for parents as well you know as you can look from the list here this is just a small sample of what we will have in the campus

049right child care preschool infant through kinder programming extended nine hour day professional development um not only for the teachers but opportunities for the families as well through our family resource center parent trainings we have a preschool assessment center they're located as well and a social emotional learning department that will be supporting our students as well so as you can see this is a well thought out approach with all the elements necessary for students to be successful next slide please we can't do this alone so we are looking to partner with kidango who has a long history of success in serving our youngest students here are some of the facts right 40 years of experience serving families they're currently serving over 4 000 kids daily in the bay area they are operating over 50 child care

050centers they provide a rigorous learning environment they provide behavioral and mental health services as well and this quote from from kadango themselves giving love nutrition and learning opportunities needed to develop the early language math and social emotional skills next slide please so i would like to wrap up um this presentation and ask for your support uh for the redesign uh into the charlotte chavez early learning center i leave you with this quote um you cannot make people learn you can only provide the right conditions for learning to happen and that's what we are trying to do here um in alum rock uh in cesar chavez uh we want to be the pioneers we want to be the innovators we want to provide those opportunities for our kids in the community so we humbly ask for

051your support thank you all right thank you for that presentation and then um let's go ahead and move on to uh public comment at this point we'll go ahead and uh take public comment in any of the items that were heard 2.01 2.022.03 if you wish to speak please indicate by raising your hand hello board president we currently have six speakers first speaker is carla landing miss landon you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin um god loose i'm not sure if you yes i can hear you uh mr president i can't quite hear what mr pauly is saying can you make that announcement in the spanish room thank you carlos our next speaker is saul ramos mr ramos you have two minutes please submit yourself when you

052begin speaking the timer will begin good evening members of the porsche clinton devourer my name is quick secretary director along with victor vazquez at somos mayfair as you have learned for many years we have journeyed together we have built a partnership and a common vision to serve the children and families of the east side and it is on that principle and mission that i'm here today at somos we want to see a thriving early learning center with universal preschool access because this really fulfills a promise to this community will be a strong cornerstone of future success and a pillar of justice for an equitable education system access to preschool infant toddler care and after-school activities allow for economic opportunities for working parents and that is a key strategy in this long recovery process ensuing the

053pandemic we have worked together to envision and build a brighter future for our little ones and we stand behind that bishop proudly however we also want to ask you not to forget about the children and the families that under this recommendation are losing their learning home it is with them in mind the most impacted that in addition to consider this early learning center that we ask you to think about alternative solutions for a hybrid utilization of the space so we can ease the challenges that were right for working families and for teachers we do want you to consider a broad community engagement policy to guide us administrators and partners to build a culture of deep deep community engagement and hold us accountable it is time for this and develop a transitional plan to support students

054to ensure that the most vulnerable families and children are adequately supported and welcomed into new schools and you know given the times and superintendent bowers spoke about this for for allen brock to really think take a strong position in response to the heisen crisis uh these times do require for the district to engage in different alternatives and as you know somos will remain committed depending despite the borders thank you mr ramos our next speaker is dilsa gonzalez ms gonzalez you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening members of the board my name is lisa gonzalez and i am a parent of two students at allen brock and a community organizer today i'm here as a parent community member and as a person that has been in

055these meetings for the last seven years and i understand some of the decisions that you have that you have to make are hard decisions and some really great today we heard an amazing program coming within in a preposition however this is comes as um this comes as expense of of the students already currently there they're gonna be this place today i put myself in your shoes and the last seven years have taught me that parents get angry and we lose the trust in that district because we're not being engaged in this kind of decisions the decisions that today you're making is not only going to be affecting parents but our students the students that have been going through a difficult time during the last two years because of pandemic their parents have lost their jobs

056they have their their extremely low income and every month during that virtue they're going to be displaced they're also um being impacted by losing their families to that and to suicide think about that the emotional damage that our kids have but i also think that we if we do think about alternative solutions where we bring our families and communities in how powerful would that how powerful will be if we organize and work together with non-profits with students and staff to find solutions to this placement to find solutions in creating a path on outreach to enroll more students in our classroom to find solutions that are possible to work as a team and go and get more funding through the county state and even the city today you guys have a decision to displace hundreds of

057students but we we don't have to go that route so think alternately think about how we can work because i would have been sitting with you i know the best way is to engage community and be part of that of that solution thank you thank you ms gonzalez our next speaker is rose mary muniz it's you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin the system is telling me that you have an older version of zoom and it's not letting me open up your mic at this time if you can upgrade your zoom and come back we can have you we can have you take we can take your comments jose or can she also call by phone yes yes and the numbers should be provided in the agenda

058in the meantime can you move to the next speaker yes our next speaker is martha gamboa martha you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hello my name can you is me yes we can hear you we can hear you i just want to say thank you for this meeting and also i would like to use to put this in perspective that if we can also support parents and children with special needs um i we work at kidanku we also work with children with special needs and we have several families requesting support for parents as well as children so that is only my comment that i have for today thank you miss councilwood our next speaker is marcia lopez lopez you have two minutes please submit yourself when

059you begin speaking the timer will begin foreign for prayer preschool croquettes please go our next speaker is veronica madore you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin great thank you hi and good evening my name is veronica and i am a parent leader within buhe and first of all i want to address that my comment is based on a co-creation of solutions in which somos mayfair and parents for cesar chavez came up i am here in solidarity with parents from cesar chavez to support those decisions and solutions they created somos mayfair provided them the space and listened to their worries and supported them as well um and stand strong with them as parents and one is the beloved community engagement process and policy that focuses on racial equity

060um in the alan rock board must adapt to community engagement policy to involve parents students stakeholders and staff in policies or changes that affect the closing merges or restructuring of allen rock schools this policy must include provide data education research information on external and internal factors leading to this decision also having alternative solutions parents are asking for a resolution that creates a win-win for current families and students a hybrid model in which the vision of early childhood education and the preservation of current students can co-exist and shape space and share space as a parent my worry is that just like the parents outstanding chavez we're not being involved in decisions or re in the report for scenes of schools or others that will be having the same issues this is not the first time or

061it's going to be the last time and parent boys can no longer be excluded from the decision table co-creations of solutions take time resources and time i encourage dr bauer and the uh and the allen rock staff and the board to work together with parents in any decision making transparency accountability develops into trust are key to parent engagement thank you thank you miss amador our next speaker is jessica mendoza ms mendoza you have two minutes please send me yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin good afternoon as a parent with a special needs child who is currently in kendango i am very very grateful for early education he does preschool and he does special education at the moment and i can see how much he has benedict benefit from it i would love

062it if he can continue that and it be welcome to other families and needs however i do think that maybe more support for the parents so that we can learn how to educate properly our children with special needs so that they can grow up in society and not be excluded from any activities and once again thank you thank you miss mendoza our next speaker is you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening my name is yadi valgo i am the parent of a toddler i support the expansion of child care and preschool in the district because as a single mother of a four-year-old boy finding an affordable child care center was my challenge until i found space at the linda vista kadenko center in november of

0632020. throughout my search i had trouble finding something that i could afford it took a very long time to find a program that met my needs as a working mom when i returned from my maternity leave i had um no other choice and to find a babysitter on my own she cared for my son for four months until she could no longer watch them watch him at a weekend to figure out who i was going to leave my baby with so that i could show up to work on monday i wept for the helpless situation i found myself in i went from babysitter to babysitter and this is not what i wanted for my son if i had the opportunity to enroll my my child as an infant toddler i would feel at peace knowing

064that he was being taken care of at a facility where he was learning and developing social skills the consistency of taking him taking him to a health care center where i know he would be loved taught and cared for would relieve me from much necessary stress let alone how significant and valuable of an educational experience this would have been for my son at such an early age and what this would do for his academic success in the future this is why expansion of infant child care centers are very very important and very much needed in our community thank you for your comments missy our next speaker is olivia ortiz ortiz you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin um is our next uh speaker is david bibanko david

065you have two minutes please meet yourself when the when you begin speaking the timer will be good evening my name is david vivanco i am a parent of two students in balum rock and i have a two-year-old that will benefit from the early education programs y'all proposing today because i live just in front of cesar chavez but that doesn't mean i support our current students having to move from their school after all they've been through through the pandemic this is why i'm here supporting and offering some alternative solutions parents are asking for a resolution that creates a win-win current family and student a hybrid model in which the version of early student education and preservation of our current students can coexist and share spaces using or leasing the other spaces and lands for housing or

066leasing other spaces such as mexico local organizations that provides services to the community establish programs that support youth and parents such as sports mental health and enrichment class also trying to seek city state finance and covet funds to return to the school offer services with good capacity that competes with charter schools such as after school programs and mostly important uh recruiting and preservation of families hello rochester shared their annual plans goals and statistics for recruiting new families back to school alam rock should explore explore resolutions and set strategies to address the displacement of families in the east side and in mayfair work with plant-based organizations to change policies and fundings to ensure long-term housing is available to families and tenants right protection policies and ex thank you for your comments mr ivanko our next speaker

067is sophia sophia you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hello can you guys hear me yes we can hear you okay um so i am a parent here at chavez elementary and i mean as you guys know this is kind of very disappointing news to hear about you know the school being changed to a kid angle i mean you know i don't mind sharing with them but i mean why choose this school out of all schools to do so um there's other schools and if it's you know for money-wise in the long run i mean we can always share with them the school's big we have a big field that can be you know used it's not being used now there's so many other alternatives that we

068can take you know instead of removing the students or that are already here um just please consider that you know i mean it's just not fair that we got such a short notice of all this and in so little time we already have to relocate and find somewhere else to go i mean it's not fair for working parents we're all working parents you know a lot of us can't even bring our children to school we have our parents bring them and it's just not fair so i mean just you know just think about that and that's all i have to say thank you for your comment sofia our next speaker is andrea portillo miss portillo you have two minutes please send me yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin um good evening members

069of the board and superintendent bower my name is andra porcion i am an air usd alum and the organizing and policy manager with somos mayfair i want to uplift the comments of the parents who have spoken before me and while i acknowledge the difficult situation the school district is in i urge the district to think strongly about the last recommendation that has been shared which is to respond to the housing crisis by supporting and exploring community-led solutions that address the root causes of the low enrollment we are experiencing today it's no news to you that our students and families are being pushed out of our schools and communities due to historical housing segregation policies increased cost of living current threats of eviction displacement and a general lack of access to affordable housing options that lead

070to long-term home ownership the data also shows us that those most vulnerable to displacement in san jose are women and children especially those in women-headed households somos has been involved in advocating for permanent solutions to keep families from being displaced in san jose which is directly related again to our levels of enrollment we have worked on tenant rights and protections for renters advocated for more affordable housing and are currently working on a community opportunity to purchase act policy with the city of san jose's housing department that would allow us to preserve and expand our affordable housing stock preventing displacement when properties are sold and creating a pathway to ownership we too are calling on the city and county to invest time and resources to anti-displacement strategies and solutions that keep our children and families housed

071and in schools until we begin addressing the housing crisis we will continue to be faced with tough decisions that at the end of the day impact our students and children the most we welcome the opportunity to collaborate with the district advocate on behalf of our schools and families thank you thank you for your comments ms portillo our next speaker is leticia mats if they say you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin is [Music] our next speaker is camille janis fontana is fontana you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening uh alan rockboard trustees and superintendent bauer my name is camiliana swanthania and i share my remarks tonight as both a beneficiary of kidango programs for my children as

072well as someone who has co-created much of these programs and visions alongside you over the last decade this is not an easy time for our school district in alum rock um and what i'm learning more and more in my new role is this is not an easy time for school districts across the state of california and as i know you're facing immense macro pressures all i can hear today is that you all are in a very unique position to continue to build with the community um to continue to listen to these parents to stand with them to find mutual wins and now that i have a broader view of the state of education in different communities i am saying to the school board that you are in a very unique position that not many of

073these school boards have the depth of relationship the long-standing partnerships that all of you have and so i really hope tonight irrespective of the decision that you make that you really listen to the openness the willingness of your partners or your residents and really think about how to center students both the incoming early education students that need these services but also the students that are there now who have just you know been deeply impacted by immense pressures over the last couple of years and who needs to sustainability and stability and in whatever way i can in my personal role you know stand with you in partnership as i know these are very difficult times but our families deserve that from all of us to work together thank you for your comments ms giannis fontanilla our

074next speaker is josefina josefina you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin my name [Music] our next speaker is yesenia cruz ms cruz you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin i think that you guys wanna or consider to close the school down and make it angle as is in a five radius distance from this school there is already six skin dangles and we don't need another one we do have a quintangle right next to chavez and we don't need to make it all cesar chavez into akidango a lot of our students are really upset and sad on how this came about that they're trying to con turn this into a kandango a daycare it's a huge school that we can

075share with plenty of other students we could share with little kids a lot of parents would really appreciate and if they do share it that they could bring their little infants and their kids here as well a lot of kids as well and their parents have to walk here you um you have to consider that there's a lot of children who have to walk we do live in a low-income community there is a lot of parents who can't afford a vehicle or can't afford more than one vehicle to bring their kids here a lot of parents here as well have their their parents so their grandparents are bringing them just go and pick them up they're not going to be able to walk to another school and another concern as well is san antonio is

076on the list of closure so what's going to happen if you turn this into kidango and then you go and close the san antonio where is our kids going to land at i mean keep giving our kids the education that they have that they're comfortable in the school they're at as well we just are really ending kovat and you guys we showed our children how to keep a distance and now we want to put more than 40 kids in the classroom in a different school we had 260 students in chavez there's 280 in san antonio how many more kids can you fit in san antonio and lucha is already there sharing the campus of san antonio says that travis is a huge school who we can share it with plenty of other people thank you

077thank you for your comments miss cruz our next speaker is justin triano justin you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin uh there's so much space behind the school are you nervous tell them how you feel i feel sad that they're going to be shutting down the school there's so much space around the school you can take off the parks because we normally use the big one um please don't don't please don't close it there's so much space behind the school how do you feel about going to a new school i i don't want to go to a new school because if there i'm gonna be new friends i'm gonna miss all my friends there's i love my teachers my rsp teachers my city are teachers um i'm

078very sad that i have to leave them behind and go to a new school so please don't close the school please thank you for your comments our next speaker is reina de los santos you have two minutes please send me yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin buenos i don't think she and this you might want to explain to her because she can't hear him escucha she can't hear us hola si mescha she's muted she doesn't hear us hola i can hear her just fine do the other trustees not hear her we cannot hear her but she can't hear us outstanding uh we can go back to your assumptions after you have uh two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin um hi good afternoon my name is

079sylvia gonzalez i have a child at cesar chavez um i was really sad to learn from him that the school was gonna close i know there was a meeting um the day before he learned that the school was closing um which i couldn't attend because it was a five when i have to work but i didn't know it was about school closure or else i might like ask to get up early from work so it was really sad and he's really sad too that he has to move schools that he's not gonna be able to see his friends he's a fourth grader so that means that next year he's gonna go to a new school and then after that he's gonna move to a middle school so it's gonna be two big changes like one

080nest to the other which is really sad and also it's really sad that um they didn't take into account our opinions like they never said the school was not closed there was nothing it was just a big surprise to learn that and also like at the beginning of the year the principal sent an email saying that the rumors about the school closing were not true and then now we learned that it's going to close so it's really sad and i know king dango is a really good opportunity for our community and everything but we also need the students that are already at school to have their place the place where they belong so that's just my opinion thank you thank you for your comments our next speaker is sylvia sylvia you have two minutes please

081admit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin yes i i want to say i don't want to close on the school because everybody here is used to it and if we move to san antonio um everybody's going to be uncomfortable and like not used to it our grades will get lower and like he said we won't feel as comfortable and i think we'll probably lose friends and stuff and so i think we should just stay and student goes to school and also if we if we turn this through a kadengo we have so many can dingos why do we have to move this into a candle so and that's all i wanted to say just asking why so thank you for your comments uh mr board president at this time uh can we

082go back to uh and give her another opportunity to see if she can bigger de los santos mr board president at this time uh senora de los santos has the ability to unmute herself okay i was gonna call on rosemary so can you unmute her sure is all right uh can we move on to rosemary mister board president uh russ mario i'm sorry carlos are we hmm all right that was uh santos she logged off she's back on um all right uh let's move on with rosemary's mr board president uh this user has an older uh version of zoom it it's not allowing me to unmute on mutual mirror if you're interested in making your comments you can go ahead and call in uh the phone number's on the agenda i'll provide it to you

083right now the meeting id is 815-8282-7250 all right uh let's move on our next speaker is nain lopez and lopez you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin now in lopez please send me yourself so is gracias our next speaker is victor vasquez senior vasquez you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin members of the directive victor vasquez our next speaker is maria martinez miss martinez you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin [Music] our next speaker is jackie jackie you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hello can you hear me yes we can hear you oh hello my name is jacqueline franco i'm a mother

084of two daughters at cesar chavez and i'm also a co-chair for the east san jose peace leadership team i really urge the board to reconsider this position right now like it's been mentioned our families our students have been through a lot these last couple of years we're really trying to get into that stage of recovery and healing and we can't do that if we're constantly thinking about what's going to happen with our kids school you know how are we going to accommodate our schedule our work schedule to fit the changes that are happening within the district um not only that but our students are feeling that my daughters are feeling it it took a lot for me to convince my daughters to go back in person they're dealing with anxiety they're dealing with fear with

085covid and everything that we've experienced in the last years and to receive that message that their school is closing next year only really alliterates that that message that they've been receiving that they don't matter and that students from our neighborhood and kids from our neighborhood don't matter and i don't want them to believe in that i really think that we have an opportunity to think um creatively and you know maybe creatively of how we want to envision our schools in the next year i know it's been hard on the district and the funds we have but like we said we can look for more funding um create more programs you know do different um types of outreach to bring our students back but also to ensure that our students stay and you know closing down

086another school is not going to make sure that the students that we have continue to stay here especially if they feel like the district is not being consistent and they don't know what's going to happen to their school in the future so um i really just want to be part of this process as a parent take more um talk to parents look over there before making this decision thank you thank you for your comments miss franco mr board president at this time we have no more requests for public comment all right uh so we're concluding public comment on these items um let's go ahead and take comments from uh members of the board trustee chavez i'm sorry did you call on me yeah i'm taking comments from members okay we can i'm asking to approve

087item 201 and 203 a motion we'll take them separately um there's a motion for item 201 do i have a second all right this motion is second um any comments remember the board uh we'll remember i don't know yeah thank you so um i do have some comments that i'll get to but first i just i wanted to um you know hearing the the wonderful presentation that we got um early on and the comments from the community on from various differing perspectives i kind of wanted to give um dr bauer an opportunity if she'd like to just um maybe explain some of the rationale of why this recommendation has come to us i know we have we're talking about 201 right now so you wanted to proceed with i went oh it's because we already

088made the motion so we're not yeah the motion we'll deal with the other one i just want to make sure that so the public can follow uh okay yeah so the motion okay so then i will i guess that's a heads up for dr bauer for um a question that i will have on oh 2.0 2.03 so for now i don't have anything for now so we're not voting on all of them together just to pronounce it for the comments on 201 or questions for members of the board i i actually do have i guess just a quick comment so in terms of the um expanded learning opportunity program i think that um some of my thoughts i already kind of shared in my question to dr valesteros uh but based on her answer and

089you know a lot of the work that's been done already i do think that um in terms of this program it's important that we think about some of the things that we do as as investments kind of upstream upstream investments for downstream benefits so when we develop programs like this you know similar to our dual immersion programs and a lot of the things that we've done it takes you know um i mean it takes change and change is hard to to do even to implement a program like this but once we show the commitment to these kinds of programs that we'll take resources that will take work to get up and running we will see the benefits down the line whether it's to our students whether it's that similar to that 45-year study that dr

090baesters was mentioning and and overall be a benefit to to the district and to the community and you know as a board member i know i have the obligation to look out for the long-term sustainability and [Music] well-being of the district and i think this program in a number of different ways um both in the immediate and in the long term will be beneficial and so i will be supporting the approval of the i don't know if we call it e-lop it's a lot easier than saying the whole thing so i'm the e-lock so that's those are my comments thank you for the comments for members of board questions see now then i'll go ahead and make my comments i really appreciate this uh proposal being brought forward with the data and uh the studies

091since i appreciate the numbers that you brought forward i have always heard the anecdotes of children who have access to early learning opportunities uh you will have have better results in going to college and stuff that sort so appreciate you bringing actually the information that's that is very much needed for the public to learn about it as well as us to make an informed decision uh so and and also you know uh in fact matters that when you bring forward uh these proposals with data it makes it much easier to just say yes so thank you for that uh board clerk and i apologize for i was trying to find the button before you spoke so i apologize for not going uh before you thank you and i just want to thank you sandra for

092your uh presentation and your work right all that it takes in order to even get to the point of presenting the information um i also want you know to highlight and um just uh show my um happiness for you know the parents that have already taken the time to save a spot for their children for the summer program you know that like makes me so happy right um because we know that one when our children are learning and engaged during the summer you know it's um it's good for them and for the entire community in the in itself um and the fact that you know parents are um one hearing about these programs and opportunities to then sign up um you know the different ways that you all have the ability to make sure that

093they um can sign up through so thank you for that um and i'm glad you know that we um are already um providing you know many of these resources and services but that we're continuing to expand and continuing to uh think of ways to ensure that these programs stay for the long term right that it's not just this year or next year but that we're looking at ways into how we can continue to implement them so that they stay here for um a long time so thank you to you and the rest of the staff for doing that but yeah i will also be supporting this program thank you for the comments from uh members of the board all right tina and then oh i'll just close off with say thanks for helping us compete

094i know that we have competition out there and they've been provide an expanded hours of essentially child care um i know that we're going to be providing educational opportunities during those hours and so uh thank you for allowing us to get our hands out of we've been playing with our hands tied behind our backs and uh this is going to allow us to compete and i know that we're going to be able to bring back more of our children uh who have i don't know no fault of their own i don't fault the parents either because i actually was uh approached by a parent who said i don't want to leave but i will because i don't get enough access to uh enough hours i can't leave my job and come back and take my

095kid in and out of school and child care and stuff that sort so uh we're i'm appreciative of the fact that we're responding to the needs that are out there um as i've heard them directly from parents out in the community so thank you for that all right uh if there's no further comments and i'm gonna go ahead and call for a vote as i see you um board member aye ward board clerk hi ford vice president hi board member travis hi myself what an eye the motion passes unanimously all right uh we're going to go ahead and move on to item 2.03 uh there any comments or questions for members of the board yes the question just to refresh it the question was um dr bauer if you could um just take a moment

096to explain yours and the team's rationale for bringing this item to us tonight for our consideration um i think i would appreciate hearing that as well as the community thank you so much trustee vegeta um this has been a process that started in january of 2021 when um we gather the facilities repurposing committee which is by it code our 711 committee in alum rock and that particular committee identified a number of sites to to repurpose the recommendations of that body that that uh was comprised by a multitude of uh stakeholders in our community and they share with us their thoughts and one of the major priorities was to expand the early learning programming and repurposing facilities for early learning programming that was the name of the committee and so uh alum rock has was we

097have been very clear from our community that we are not to sell property and that the the engagement that we have with our partners is to offer specific services to the community so we have kept that very clear in our minds the enrollment the current enrollment in cesar chavez is shows us a 433 students with 174 students via distance learning so in person we have 259 students at cesar chavez if we subtract the number of fifth graders moving on to the middle school which is 75 that leaves cesar chavez elementary with 184 students and when we looked at our partnerships in terms of early learning the partnerships are looking for space because with early learning we cannot just repurpose a classroom saying here is a classroom it used to be third grade now we're going

098to have um infants the younger the the students the more the space and you can ask dr valesteros all about that because that is the the reason why we need to move grades first through fifth for next year to another place i think that the public needs to remember that is not this is not a school closure hidango is not taking over cesar chavez is going to be an at the cesar chavez early learning center on and led by alan rock school district in partnership with kidango i think that that's something very important for all of us to know because that's the way we create narratives that are non-existent and i want the board to remember that that we are not closing cesar chavez we are keeping our preschool uh special ed students and um

099i heard a number of parents also saying that they needed to increase the number of services for special ed students in the community uh we are going to keep the the young force and the tk and the kinder to really be able to design for alum rock community this early learning center there are a number of schools around cesar chavez we have two schools with less than half a mile away and i this this i'm not bringing without the consideration of how this is going to affect families this is a very difficult decision for me as your executive to present um we are very clear that um the they were coming out of um very challenging times we have already thought and we had you know uh i have been very clear with with somos

100and and i you know uh the transition plan we talked about together and so uh including the some of the comments um that they mentioned in terms of considering how we're going to help our children to transition we had that conversation with somos so uh our socio-emotional department our principal and listening to some of the feedback from the these uh or community organizers we have already began to to conceive the plan i hope that we all help our students by helping them understand that this is a great win for families just like their families that at some point they needed a high quality education and programming for infants and toddlers which is non-existent in the area thank you for the opportunity trustee vegerano to allow me to share the data this data has been shared

101multiple times during the demographic study presentation we have to the for the board in november the initial repurposing facilities committee report came through to the board in april of 21 we have been talking about this multiple times we have learned and asked parents to be a survey and through the l cup forums opportunities i know that sometimes we're busy and we are not able to go to a meeting or we're not able to to read our parent square but these have been multiple ways uh can we do better can i and i'm just gonna own this can i do something better in terms of communication probably yes in terms of remote reminders but we have tried to outreach in multiple languages as well um the day of the parent meeting at chavez we had a

102translation services both in spanish and vietnamese and so we try um as much as we can to be able to communicate we are a very a unique district that engages parents in a very robust way probably the best parent engagement programming in the county so thank you so much for the opportunity um this was not an easy decision it was not done in a rush it has been done very thoughtfully i know that sometimes people are not going to agree but i respectfully ask the board to consider and approve this recommendation that i'm bringing for the board so that we can increase the services that alam rock provides to the mayfair community thank you goodbye further info uh thank you mr president you know i'm just gonna bear with me uh make my uh comments

103on both items beca in both 2.01 and 2.03 given that you know this this this is the crucial will uh let me say first that i completely understand uh the sentiments of the community members who uh spoke their opinions about uh cesar chavez elementary uh you know in in 1990 that was where i got to see my first fifth grade promotion my cousin had recent had finished the fifth grade was about to move on to shepherd middle school she would go on to do a lot more things and ended up becoming a doctor so you know great uh great things do start in alamo uh i understand the pain that that comes with such a move uh the last two years have not been easy we've had a lot of emotional trauma not just among

104the children but among teachers staff it has not been an easy time to be around the you know in these last two years uh but at the same but at the same time um let's take a step back and think of this you know and i want to stress scissor chavez is not closing there is no school closure there continues to be two elementary schools within the mayfair area and i i wanted to to emphasize clearly that no san antonio elementary is not going anywhere there's no plan to close san antonio elementary i wanted to to reassure the community you know back to uh my statement to san jose spotlight in the spring of 2021 about you know when we had uh this discussion about the 7-eleven committee there will always you know my pledge

105has been there will always be a school in every part of the yeah district change is hard but this is an opportunity to blaze a trail that uh we have not yet taken uh in response to the challenges you know let's not beat around bush school enrollment everywhere is declining but this is an opportunity for our district to reach out to to fulfill a need for early childhood education in this community for alan rock to take its experience in elementary education and to [Music] apply it to the crucial pre-kindergarten years the preschool the wraparound parental services and we are doing it in yes in partnership with kidango but lead and you know run in an alum rock school an asset that will continue to stay in this district an asset that will continue to be

106available to this community in an asset that hopefully uh you know can be something that continues to serve uh all of us in ellen locke not just parents and students but you know others within the wider allen rock community wider eastside san jose community a place for a quality pre-kindergarten early childhood education experience so yes i get it that you know changing schools is not something pleasant especially as we meander our way out of covet but this is a up this is a huge opportunity for our district our community to try to stem not just behind enrollment but also uh to as a way for our district to serve an even greater population in alamo and so uh you know as much as i have my own fond memories of cesar chavez which i was

107in third grade when the decision was made to name rename mayfair to cesar chavez this is an opportunity for us to make sure that we still have a cesar chavez early learning center to educate our kid and so uh you know with with that said i i yes i will be voting yes to approve this but i also ask our members of the community our parents to give us a chance give us give this a chance let us you know to let us break new ground and let us continue to keep cesar chavez early learning center uh in existence and yes relevant to a new generation of alum rock residents thank you very much for remember charlie see your hands up at this time i'd like to make a motion to approve 203 all right

108but i'll go ahead and call you for the motion but let me continue to call on comments and then i'll call i'll call you back for the motion uh we'll remember i don't know yeah thank you thank you president quintero so um first i want to just say i want to thank um everyone obviously who provided public comment tonight and and feedback throughout the past year or so on this process and and this whole situation that our district is in particularly tonight i want to thank our i'm assuming um younger participants who bravely stepped forward and gave their opinion and their thoughts about their school and their community and that that's huge that that's very impactful for me as a board member and even it takes me back to when i was a student here

109in allen rock a long long time ago about like 40 years ago now i shudder to say that but it's about about 40 years when i was a student at thomas b ryan and i had to make the change to um i went to mccollum and at that time i did not want to go and i cried i remember i cried because i didn't want to change schools and leave my friends and then so i know it's hard and and you know for my parents it was hard and transportation from ryan to mccollum you know was a thing and so i get it um but i will also say that i carry with me today friendships and relationships and learnings that i got at mccollum and i still have friends to this day from my

110third grade class miss laraway's class at third grade at mccollum um you know that i have today and and our kids are in college and and we talk about that but we're we're friends from from a column so i understand that um feeling i've lived it um i appreciate that but i also would offer that when there is change there's also opportunity for potentially lifelong benefit um with that and then i know it takes a struggle to manage through that change sometimes but um good things can be possible from that at least from my experience um i also want to acknowledge i kind of already did i want to acknowledge everyone from our our 7-eleven committee um and the representation that we had of parents and our labor units and and teachers and everyone that

111was represented and the opportunity for parents to engage at that time that really informed us the report that we got informed us about what the sentiment was from all of our stakeholders about the situation that the district is in i appreciate um you know ms garcia and everyone all the teams that have done our panorama surveys and work with our lcap uh meetings and processes to get feedback there over the course of the past year plus as we've heard consistently the desire for the this type of programming we've heard that through feedback i've lived it as a parent i know some of my colleagues on the board are currently witnessing that as parents we we see and we hear you know what the the desires of the community are um and so that informs my

112decision as well and then also just in to that point of informing my decision i think it's important for a school board or you know for the most part any democratic body to provide multiple opportunities for feedback for comment for engagement and through the ways that i just described dr bauer described i think there that we have done that as a district we've done um a great deal of to the extent possible considering that the the team the staff still has to deal with everything we've dealt with over the past year or two from kovid to you know some of the social um challenges society-wide that we've wit that we've gone through it's it's a lot of work to try to handle the day-to-day the very special circumstances that have come up in the past

113months and years um and in addition to try to go above and beyond to engage every single person in the community in a perfect world we would do that um but at the end of the day there's only so much bandwidth that that's available to get everything done that needs to get done so those opportunities that have arisen over the past years i'm very thankful for those and at the end of the day you know the democratic process calls for decision making to me be made by whatever individuals are sitting in these seats democratically elected by by the voters of this district and so you know i think that it's a very i appreciate also the comments that this is a very difficult decision for us for everything that we've talked about tonight and it's

114not i mean i don't think this is going to be the last difficult decision for this board or whatever board may come and so but at the end of the day the board um is the one is the body that needs to make the decision we should be considering all the feedback we should be considering every side of a um of an argument and every bit of data and every bit of inter interaction that we have and make our decision and so that being said um based on all of that i will be supporting this i think it is a very good idea i think even from those who have their concerns about um this this opportunity even those many of them stated their appreciation and their understanding of the need for this type of

115programming so um i will be supporting this tonight and i thank everyone involved who has gotten us to this point um where i think we can be a model for other districts and and other um places to move in this direction to serve students and families so thank you thank you um and thank you enos for mentioning a lot of things that i was going to say so i'll keep mine shorter but thank you also dr bauer for restating um the process that we we've gone through right over a year now uh well i mean 2017 right 2015 uh moving towards uh making sure that we provide the resources and services thank you dr baestetos for your work and leading those efforts as well and in our community in our district um and you know

116just like uh mejirano mentioned earlier i also wanted to bring up you know another big fact that i know right because i am in law enforcement i am a probation officer and i do work with youth who have been incarcerated and we do know in dr baestetos you might be able to quote whoever you know does the studies that you know we look at the at the models and not me necessarily right but those that are involved in creating more prisons right versus colleges i mean that's really the the black and white the opposite right um and and we look at the third grade outcomes right of the tests in third grades to determine if we're going to be you know making more prison spaces more beds and prisons or creating more colleges and so

117for me um and i've been you know loud and proud about the work um and my my passion in closing down juvenile hall one of these days because there's no more crimes being committed by my youth and that's because we're providing resources and services like this right an early learning center where our children can get the resources the services their early learning that they need to feel confident to be in class to raise their hand to answer the questions to get 90 percent 100 percent on their you know colors on their numbers on their as they grow right and and how they learn and so um for me this is a dream come true um and and i think everybody you know i heard everybody speaking i wrote down your name thank you so much

118for coming and giving us your input i heard everybody's uh you know um excitement about this so i think everybody came and said came and said i support this i support this and some said however right however we get to um you know think of the families being impacted the children um the elders right that might walk their children to school and all the realities that every child that will be affected whatever way that is um you know will be affected and um thank you dr bauer for you know doing your best to meet with families and letting them know before today right because we could have just put it on the agenda and then you know it would have been um i think more of that shock of like why didn't you involve me

119so i appreciate you at least trying to you know get a meeting with uh parents beforehand so that they heard from you first also with staff and i know dr bauer i know i asked you some of these questions beforehand um and you know i'll state your answer and then you can correct me if i'm wrong um but you know some of my obviously uh things were that right did you meet with parents um how far ahead and um also one of the big things where were any staff going to lose their job if you know we go into this transition and so your answer was no um and so many other things i asked but i think those two you know um were important to me um as we move in this direction because

120uh we know that you know if any income is lost right in any one of our homes you know it really um really does have a big impact so i i'm glad that no not no staff are going to lose their jobs um if we go in this direction and you know i also want to um state that um everybody that's you know stated like we need to come together we need to work together absolutely i think nobody here would uh say uh disagree with that comment you know i look forward to continuing to hear from you um i unfortunately didn't hear from many in the community before this but i did get a lot of emails um interestingly enough in support of this um i got one that uh actually um came to talk

121today um that was in agreement with this but you know wanted to make sure that we had all those other things and take in consideration but other than that um i got a lot of emails and support in support of this and i'm looking forward to you know um having that door you know open um in the center open and so um i just i say all that to ensure that um our community knows that we're here we're here to serve you elected us as mentioned right you elected us to vote on matters like this that are hard um to take our all considerations when we are i'm gonna be voting um including you know our our our our district and making sure that it's here again for the long term um another 90 years

122plus um and you know i know dr bauer also thought ahead and made sure that she put a staff person to oversee this process right so thank you renee for being that person now you know and i'm saying that out loud so any one of you right that came um and have some thoughts to find solutions to move forward in a good way rene sanchez is there you know he'll take your call make sure you you let us know um you know i'll say his number six eight zero zero um we wanna hear right we want you involved we want you in the 7-eleven committees we want you to come to not just the board meeting where we're voting right great thank you so much for showing up but we want to hear from you

123and we want you to be involved a part of the solution on behalf of our children um and our families here in alam rock so i look forward um it's an exciting time i see it as an opportunity i see so many people that showed up today that i haven't you know seen in a while so good to see you and um you know i heard some of you for the first time here and i look forward to working in partnership and collaboration and tough decisions that are continuing to come our ways you know and how to do it in the best way possible for our community um but i will also be supporting this thank you or remember i don't know is that your hand from previous or no i have one more quick

124comment that i also wanted to make um that i forgot to make but you know as as we potentially move forward in this direction and other things that may come our way one thing to remember also is that these partnerships that we're talking about partnerships with kadango the work that we've done with a lot of different um partners out there you know it things to do things like this and other things that may come down the road for the district it takes kind of like timing and things to line up and and i think it's important to also think about the fact that when the opportunity exists and and all the many or several partners are aligned in their efforts and their focus and their capacity to do work then that's a time to to

125kind of strike what's that saying while the something is hot or whatever um but you know there you go but you know as if we um there there are times i think when delaying or or debating you know things too long sometimes opportunities may come and go so i think when things are in front of us although we do want to be thoughtful and consider give sufficient time we also have to think about those alignments and the timing of of the opportunities that we have so i just wanted to mention that because i think we have this opportunity with partners to move forward in this in this particular item but there may be other opportunities in the future where again partners are looking for certain things we're looking for certain things and if we can

126get those things to line up that's the time to to try to take action um so that's just another thing that i consider as well thank you further comments from the board all right so stand out for the comments i'm gonna close off with mine uh and then i'll go to you trustee chavez for the motion that you were seeking to make um perspective [Music] he i want to say that uh this uh this issue is a very very personal uh my my siblings went to school there with in what was then made for elementary a few years prior i was there um watching my brother go through a little ceremony his fifth grade ceremony uh getting a teddy bear from his very loving teacher that had you know wanted to have him part this

127really cool table that her husband actually had a little business they made and she gave it to him as a gift and so it's a very very personal thing for me and we don't take this lightly at least i don't i know i don't speak for my colleagues but i'm sure that they don't either um nobody signs up saying i want you know i want to serve my community and i want to go ahead and you know make these types of decisions these are very very difficult decisions that um if a school district is serious about its work if a school district seeks to do the right thing by maintaining its physical solvency then sometimes it has to make these decisions we can look to san francisco unified the crisis that they're facing right now

128um sacramento city unified school district i already went through a series of shutdowns and are now going through a massive strike and a series of problems that are all financially because they kind of put off these very tough decisions we can look down south to englewood that is going through receivership just outright been taken over by the state because of significant financial problems and i'm proud of the fact that we are moved away from that we have a positive budget because we've taken these decisions that aren't easy to make but they're not very popular nevertheless they have to be weak and uh we have to we we move in the other direction let's take a look at some of the options around local oak grove school district just went ahead and sold off some of

129their land and those are the options out there and i'm not interested in any of those options i've uh spoke very clearly to dr bauer when these when when when when dnf when we were looking at the inevitable we fought this we fought this as much as we could dr bauer can attest to it that we held on and pushed back and the the number of students just isn't there and uh we we have to do the best we can with what we got and this is an exact proposal that i put forward dr bauer and i said i'm not in the business of shutting down our schools we need to leave enough so that it is an alum rock school so that when in the future because i know in the future we can

130go back in and make use of our sites this is exactly what we asked at least i personally look forward to dr barrow i'm sure my colleagues probably brought up something similar um but a long time ago when we were looking at these issues this was uh a scenario that i put forward that i was not going to be supportive of letting go of any of our sites outright but that we needed to maintain a presence and we've met that but we still have a presence at this site we bring in partners that allow us to keep it going financially they bring in the financial resources and the programming that aligns with what we have our mission our goal here at rock and so we have a provider that is going to bring in children

131to the district that i am certain will continue in elm rock rather than go on out to one of our competitors and that was our goal this is a proposal we have um those initial conversations for dr bauer there were no partners or not it was just an abstract concept of i'm not interested in selling offline i'm not interested in becoming a a landlord for um a bunch of chargers because that's exactly what we would have if we opened it up and said well here it is we no longer have use for this site because we don't have the uh number of children required to operate it um and they'd come on over and say give me give me um we've taken on the extraordinary step of pushing back against the county board of education

132i was there when our superintendent very bravely took this on and said some of our competitors right here right next door to our sites your own staff has demonstrated that they're not preparing our children their children are not doing well and yet the county board of education went ahead and approved their renewal and so these are the things that we are struggling against and as i mentioned before in my previous comments we've been working with our hands tight behind our back we now are going to be expanding the number of hours the children have access to learning opportunities out inside and outside of the classroom uh we're going to be expanding the opportunities for children to come in at an earlier age so they can stay in alan rock we can continue to grow the

133number of children rather than see them leave to our competitors and so i'm appreciative of this proposal has been brought forward because i think it meets those ideas that i put forward a long time ago and i it is not i i do not want to make light of the pain that is being felt uh anytime that we ask for a change and or we move something that is so near and dear to everyone such as your local elementary school it's painful but uh it is a medicine that we have to take in order for us to survive and not to fall into the trap of many other districts that they're going through right now oakland san francisco sacramento inglewood as i mentioned or our neighbors here to to the south no grove that are

134selling out some of their land um and that's not something i signed up for and i will not support to sell off uh our assets our children's assets our community assets uh i want to make sure that we're clear dr bow i know it's been mentioned but some of the concerns were raised about the supposed closure of san antonio and it's a brand new school which is are still paying for it um and i want to make sure that the public hears directly from you in terms of the future of san antonio and the basis for that assertion or that statement we're not closing san antonio we're not close in san antonio because it's the newest building in the district so um [Music] yeah all right it's a brand new school brand new facility um

135with regard to our partners i want to thank our partners who've been out there and have helped us we have uh for example symbols bayfair who's been an active partner right there at the cesar charles elementary for years already at the family resource center and we know that they've done some great work in outreaching and building up the community and uh those partnerships extend beyond just to work out at the frc i know that's almost me if it was an in a actually a very important partner in the facilities committee correct uh dr barr renee your book can attest to that uh renee what role did uh solo made for playing the in the facilities committee that provided the recommendation they were definitely active and involved in the conversations uh when we met on a

136regular basis um just like many other community members and that was definitely one of the recommendations that came through in the plan itself and the recommendations to the board and as part of the process of that committee the information was provided in terms of the demographics the projections that were provided correct to that committee that is correct so the committee was informed provided with information that was provided by professionals not just this wasn't uh district staff giving those numbers this was a democratic study correct that was the demographic study and the data that showed you know all those numbers throughout our district and one of the big recommendations was for early learning services for our families all right well with that said i think we've uh talked about this issue long enough um and if

137the board's ready to make a decision i want to remind everybody that we've taken public comment extensively uh previously and we were here for quite a while already uh taking public comment on this item so just want to make sure that the public's well aware of that um with that said uh trustee chavez you had your hand raised and you were actually making a motion i was just scratching my eyebrow okay so is there a motion then there was a motion i made the motion you never made the motion because i didn't hear it okay can i the motion to approve 203 all right we have a motion to approve item 203 uh which is approvals in the charge at any learning center another second second yes uh the second is by board member all

138right at this point if there's no further comments from members of the board seeing none then i'll go ahead and uh call for the vote as i see you board member hi board clerk aye board vice president phong i board member chavez hi with my cell phone now the motion passes unanimously all right uh let's go ahead and move on to item 2.04 which is a clamor report from san jose pd on crime uh in and around arust and what their patrol capabilities are in arust um dr bauer or uh barbara barano did you introduce this item uh yes i did request um this item to be brought to us uh in light of a number of different things i think at least anecdotally and maybe we'll hear tonight actually backed up with some numbers

139um we're all i think as a community keeping our eye on and and very concerned in some instances with the level of crime in the community at large but also the impact that that has on our students on our families on our facilities um and so you know given the entire climate within our district as well as the community i just kind of wanted to um get like a climate update from our police department about what um they're seeing in our community i know myself and others on the board have had personal experiences of of criminal type behaviors here at in our homes and and nearby our schools and so um it's an issue that i think uh when i ran for this position a long time ago that i wanted to prioritize is the

140safety of our students our families and our staff and so that's why i want to hear um about what's going on and maybe hopefully be able to ask some questions and get some kinds of recommendations about how we as a board can make decisions that will help protect our community and and maybe even some policy modifications that we need or whatever would be necessary for the safety of our of our schools so that's why i brought this item and i'm looking forward to getting some information tonight all right uh captain trailer uh the floor is yours sir uh i wanted to before you start just uh let the community know that we have uh very lucky to have such an excellent uh individual that's uh uh looking out for our public safety out here the

141last time we met um he is he was uh instrumental in putting he was actually leading a a resource fair out in uh one of the one of the areas with highest need in our community unfortunately it was uh you know there were some some issues around there but him and his team jumped right into it and kept the community safe in conjunction with the firefighters who stepped in uh so thank you for that type of work that you're doing to build up the community uh and uh and helping uh helping the you know keeping us safe so thank you very much floor is yours well thank you very much for that welcome and it's great to see you again under um cooler conditions instead of a fire right and thank you for coming out

142for that event i'm going to share my screen um please let me know if it looks odd and i will i know that what i'm saying is being translated so i want to make sure i don't speak too fast for translators um here we go okay uh mr uh bejarano thank you for thank you for uh letting me know kind of the purpose behind it i was just um i got a very brief email asking to show up and and um i wanted to kind of give you my version of a climate report it might not cover everything you said today but this is not one day in and out for me i'm your captain and i am the community's captain so please know if i don't answer something perfectly i know how to find

143the answer okay and um first of all thank you for having me second of all um i a few of you know that i have a huge soft spot for everything you're doing for kids in our community they are they feel like family to me i i know a lot of them and um just had a tremendous experience growing up in san jose and seeing what board members like you do the big picture of things so thank you for that um i am part of the mayor's gang prevention task force so i'm aware of what is happening with both youth and adults related to gang activity in our inner city especially the foothill division and i'll talk a little more about that so you understand kind of my area all right my uh my slideshow

144seems to be working i think uh real quick that's the stuff i want to talk about quickly today i know you have been here a long time already so i'll try and buzz through it i've been a police officer here for 27 years i've worked all of the bureaus which is like detective bureau vice stuff internal affairs and my heart and soul is patrol and as your captain i am a patrol captain right now so there's a gift to be your captain and the community's captain um and just introducing myself to you if i haven't met you before but also the community that's watching i'm gonna give you ways that you can reach out to me and i can help you facilitate some of the issues that you're seeing in the neighborhood very simply we

145used to give out like you know i want to lower something by 10 percent or change this or that and those are really fluffy numbers in the end what it comes down to is like you said i want you to feel safer at home i want to feel safer at home i was just on your side of town uh waiting for my chance to talk i was at my son's baseball game at piedmont hills high school and that's my area and i want people to feel safe when they go to these events for our kids and watch them grow and successfully become part of our community later in life and we do that together i can't solve unhoused homelessness in our area i can't solve the graffiti problems by myself but i have seen what

146we've been able to do together i did bring a sergeant with me um tom muller thomas muller he's a sergeant from the school liaison unit in a second tom if you're on i'll let you jump in and after the next slide um but if he if he's been waiting a long time so if he had if he had to go i understand um the biggest issues i'm seeing today and this is um i meet with about 32 community groups a month and i personally meet with almost all of them when i can it's been easy easier with zoom right but things are changing a lot more in person which is great the biggest issue i'm getting from communities all over my division is traffic or traffic around schools but not just around schools traffic in

147our neighborhoods you know that the fatality rate in san jose we've had a lot of traffic fatalities and that to me is equivalent to homicide those ripple effects it has on community members that i know family members that i've known and grown up with have been the victims of traffic traffic fatal traffic accidents so just know that we are working on that and there's a whole nother slide that i talk about what we're doing the unhoused issue especially the ellen rock corridor story road further south and then a little bit up along the freeway area so that has been a big issue that we've been working with through the proper housing authorities in san jose and tom if you're on i don't know if you have the ability to jump in but this was a

148chance for you just to kind of give a uh a second of uh answers maybe related to school incidents tom muller is our sword can you guys hear me okay yeah you're back yeah uh tom tom kicked me out to teach me a lesson i think but the um i i was hoping tom could just give a little brief update we talk we speak to each other every almost every day about what's happening in our schools and i thought a quick climate on what's happening in schools tom if you have a second might not be happening um all right well that's okay tom's a good person i know uh it's just a matter of a technical thing i don't know if i should click on this button here guys it says join as a panelist

149i would be happy to do that i'll try it yes good you're back all right i'm back and tom are you there or no tom is not here okay we'll just keep going then guys if that's okay um i'm here hi tom tom muller uh isn't here but he would tell you that the things we're seeing in san jose at the schools um at every level especially the middle and high schools are fights and sometimes gang-related fights um weapons and obscene posts and threatening posts uh those seem to be regular events throughout this city not just in foothill division and then um i wanted to bring up the privately manufactured firearms fortunately we knock on wood we don't see those a lot at school but we do see them on the streets more than i've

150ever seen as a police officer so those are what we call ghost guns and ghost guns um the pmfs are what we're all trying to call them instead of ghost guns uh that way we all call it the same thing those are um those are kept in you you are currently not sharing your screen oh i'm sorry i'm gonna try again with that it looks good thank you okay so you can see the pm the pmf i was talking about the privately manufactured firearms i you know when i was a new police officer i would um often have vehicle stops and a lot of people would have drugs or weapons here and there but the amount of guns that we're getting off the street from youth are real so i just want to bring that

151up so you don't think i'm ignoring a very big issue that we're dealing with in san jose traffic problems we are dealing with our traffic team we have a traffic enforcement unit um i have put them in different locations as i hear complaints of and i bring that up because i don't know every school my wife is a teacher she teaches kindergarten first grade combo class she has for like 20 years i think um don't tell her i don't know the exact years i'll get in trouble but um that being said i know that their school like they have teachers out um and when when somebody's driving wrong a parent that gets brought up through the administration it gets handled a lot of times through that way but schools are different right everybody handles it

152in a different way and if i need to be involved i usually will send the traffic team out and they'll help they do write a lot of tickets though you know they write hundreds of tickets at a time the unhoused has been an issue for a couple different schools uh it's it can be for a lack of better term like whack-a-mole we are moving families if you will of people who are unhoused they stay together very often and no matter what resources are offered there some people that just don't accept that and then the school the school liaison team is in my opinion second to none and they are they are very interactive and officer cervantes and cory green are my liaison units for the foothill division and if you haven't met them um they

153are usually very involved and keep me updated along with sergeant mueller and then the as far as the firearms we you know i keep seeing arrests and i bring it up because they're around um adelante in the middle of the night right there they're cinderella they're poco they're all over but i use that as an example because that happened recently it's in the middle of the night and i get that and that's good that's not happening when our kids are there but the um the reality is they are in our neighborhood this is what um you can do to help i sent this information to maribel with the links to make it easier so you don't have to write anything down hopefully and the community can have it as well but that's for traffic that's

154who you can do a complaint with um and tell them the timelines because that's better than me just saying there's a problem at adelante dos right at adelante um you and i think sometimes it's more powerful when it comes from community members because i don't always see it the homeless concerns is there and in the school incidents i just ask that people keep calling when when they have something happen to their child sometimes we might not know as administrators or as police officers until a mom or a dad or a family member calls and helps us and then the ghost gun thing i put that back in there because we do have a new program that cheap mata started recently where you can turn in ghost guns and get paid for it and that's um

155i've never heard of that happening so i'm excited for that for even one gun to get taken off the street that way i think it's going to become a little contagious and we'll get some guns off the street i'm almost done promise i tried to keep it under 10. um gang-related and school violence are my hot topics that's something i immediately get notified of and not just the school but also often the administrators will call me there a lot of them are part of the mayor's gang task force um i heard it earlier um in a different presentation that you were doing somebody spoke about mental health that's a huge issue right um with adult and youth maybe because of covet maybe not um but for sure i see it in all over the city

156uh youth dealing with things like the time off from covid and that type of thing can't skip fentanyl um it's one of the scariest things i've ever seen as a police officer scariest drug um you know we can't you can't even touch a grain of fentanyl with gloves off without putting yourself at risk of getting sick or maybe overdosing it's that it's that um potent and really a scary drug where someone might be able to buy a marijuana in back in the day from someone not thinking much about it where today that could be a life or death decision right so fentanyl is a big issue and i'm sure many of you if not all of you are familiar with that um i i don't want to skip over this stuff but i don't want

157to i don't want to waste your time but the school burglaries are also a big deal day or night i get called 24 7 if there's ever an incident at school and we send it through our chain of command the chiefs know about it as well it's a really big deal they recently did arrest a couple kids excuse me juveniles under under 21 who were vandalizing and um stealing from schools but it is a non-violent felony so um the ramifications for that are treatment and not uh not always they're not going to be stuck in jail for a long time like perhaps 25 years ago that's a picture of the foothill division on the left i did it uh this afternoon so i added this one i'm sorry it's a little grainy but that shows

158you how big it is it goes from milpitas all the way down to the bottom of evergreen and then the next the next slide over on the right um your pictures are in front of it for me but i think you can see it that is the amount of traffic collisions in 30 days in the alum rock area your area where your schools are mostly that's just 30 days that's not fatal accidents those are just traffic collisions in our in our city and i can't i can't believe that i mean that many bubbles are popped up right there so it's not um a small thing and that's what the whole city looks like it's not what just our area looks like but um but wow right i think that's a that's a lot of bubbles

159there okay when a final plug is um i am doing a coffee with a cup it's the first one we've done since covid hit um at starbucks the manager of starbucks the district manager offered up their location if you have time i know it's a saturday hopefully you're doing something fun but if you have time to stop by at 10 you or the community please come and meet your officers who are working in your area men and women that give everything to keep our neighborhood safe and that's a and i sent that flyer to maribel as well and uh that's it i wanted to put my contact information at the bottom that's my email address and that's my cell phone number please don't call me with 9-1-1 stuff but if you do call 9-1-1 anybody

160community anybody from the board you do call something big and it's related to school let's say please don't hesitate to email me and say hey todd i called 9-1-1 today because i saw somebody break into cesar chavez school i i know i will know about it but i i like to know that you called right so it just kind of gives me a little bit of a litmus test to know what's happening from your end what you're seeing from living out there okay i'm sorry i hope that i hope i didn't take too long um and the rest of my time i'll be a great listener all right thank you for an excellent presentation uh we'll remember i don't know first of all thank you captain treyer for um coming and presenting to us tonight

161and being patient you know we had an important item obviously up front um so thank you and thank you to um the individual who you brought even though he wasn't able to make it that the fact that you know he made the effort we're appreciative of that two two questions that i have um that you kind of alluded to in your presentation um one of them is with regards to um a concern that i've always had um i mean i understand that fights and potential gang fights and weapons on campuses between students is is always an issue but but my concern um in some respects even more than that is um the [Music] the risk if there are any of individuals coming from off campus posing a threat to students or staff so although you

162know i'm concerned about on campus really i have concerns about whether it is unhoused individuals or you know parents who may have some um you know issues between maybe a mom and a dad or whatever it may be we've had people come from off campus and we've had some of our staff injured if i'm not mistaken and so we have had some of that and so question number one is um you know any suggestions you might have for our us as board members or even our staff in the schools in terms of what to look out for how to um try to prevent any of that those possibilities and then the second question is i'm glad you focused so much on the traffic stuff i talked to dr bauer this week um about later on

163tonight i'll probably be requesting to put this item on the agenda um but i i see that the city has or had a program called street smarts um which is an education uh program for to have within the schools i know when i was in school you know we had safety patrol and i remember having like setting up cones and teaching us how to cross the street and those things and i know our students and our families don't have control over those crazy cars driving but i think um one thing that we may be able to assist with in the effort is properly educating our families you know just how to be smart i mean as the name suggests how to be smart in the streets let's see a lot of people crossing looking at

164their phones not paying attention and it seems like they're not quite either understanding or taking seriously the con the potential consequences of not being aware so if you can tell me if if you know if that program still exists um i guess that's the question because i was going to request something along those lines tonight to our staff i want to make sure you can still hear me okay yeah okay great um because my button isn't working which is uh weird so uh first of all when it comes to threats or volatile behavior coming to the school my advice and i hate uh to go back to my wife but she is my number one right my advice is to never take it on if you call 9-1-1 and say we have we have something

165happening here that's volatile it's dangerous it's threatening to two people or to each other the officers are going to come out it's at a school they're going to come out as quick as they can um please don't take it on and um usually that anger isn't guided toward administrators but it can be right let's say a student has been um brought into the office and then parents get really a parent or a guardian can get really upset with what's happening how to handle that um just know you can get a hold of me okay if you're if you're an administrator at your school and you have somebody that's been very volatile in the past and you think it's going to be an issue in the future like you know you're going to call somebody in

166we do what's called a civil standby and if it's not me it's one of the amazing officers out at whatever school they will come and just stand by and then that will um you know that has happened occasionally it doesn't happen a lot usually because um there is such a connection between parents and administrators usually um but know that that is an option for us as as officers you know we go through all sorts of training de-escalation crisis intervention training um just a tremendous amount of training and i think it has benefited me you know for 27 years being here it just gives me a different lens of looking at what people might have woken up with today versus how um how i woke up right and and we all have different lives it just

167puts me in their shoes a little bit in a better position i think so sorry to interrupt just really quickly if someone were to call in one of those situations would they specifically request a civil standby or just call and the officer will make that determination when they get there if um if if they know like at ten o'clock this parent is coming in and that parent is volatile they can call for a civil standby but if the parents there or the the guardians there and it's volatile you just call 911 and say we have a disturbance and um and just give the the facts of what's happening okay the traffic thing i i remember what you're talking about the uh it was training we did it a lot at first for students uh all

168ages a high school down but i think now that would be handled through our crime prevention unit and fortunately but unfortunately my superstars in crime prevention one of them just got promoted to the supervisor she took esther mota's place i don't know if you knew esther but esther retired which uh we all are going to miss her but sandra garcia took over her spot and she was my foothill person so i actually went to middle school and high school with sandra so i know well i would like to hear any stories you have offline but the uh but she is she is uh going to continue the momentum that that crime prevention has and i know we can put something together the question is is it a community outreach or is it student because those

169are those can be different right um i i spent a lot of time at my community meetings in your areas talking about traffic and exactly what you said like getting off your phone when you cross the street getting off your phone while you're driving unscientifically i feel like that has a lot to do with some of the things that are happening uh the the uh fatal and non-fatal collisions are related to our phones a lot we didn't have those back in the you know 2008 or seven or anything before that and those numbers were different they were a lot lower so um my offer to you is that we come up with kind of a plan if you do have a group um either parents or students or yourselves anything we can do to help

170you with that we are on board we can help you with that for sure thank you very much welcome thank you for having me uh board vice president yes thank you mr president and thank you captain thayer for uh coming here tonight and uh thank you and uh to you and all your officers for the work you you guys do to keep us safe um you know you mentioned the crime prevention unit and i was thinking uh does the san jose police department still offer something like a uh a dare program i remember back in the when i was in middle school here in allen rock we used to ha the county sheriff's department used to do the their program where uh you know well i remember deputy daniman came in and wow taught us

171about you know drug you the dangers of drug use and you know uh the the nitty-gritty of the street you know uh as i said uh that that image of the the junkie is burdened in my head forever so i so i wonder is there something that the police department does similar to that so we can you know attack the the root causes of delinquency instead of you know lending it fester where we can have that partnership between police department and school district well there is and i feel like you might have a camera in my office because i just brought this up yesterday and had a meeting about it there's a program we've done in your school district called team kids i taught it at i personally taught it at adelante at san antonio

172uh cesar chavez i taught it for many years with a big group of people there's two of us that teach at that time it's a six six week program that was put on hiatus because of covid um it is so near and dear to me that um now that i'm a captain i'm trying to pull my weight around a little bit and bring it back i don't know if i have enough time in the rest of this year to do it because you know it seems like the school year is ending so quickly to me but um i i have a group of people that are equally as motivated to bring it back that covers um things and just off the top of my head it covers gangs it covers drugs it covers um social

173media it covers choices and challenges and then um something else i'm forgetting off top of my head but um it's powerful you know and and you go in with some kids with their arms crossed when you walk in and then by the time we're done of a six it's six weeks one hour a week um they graduate and it's a very positive thing i go into target now like to go shopping i'll be with my family in any part of the city where i've taught team kids and some you know 22 year old will run up and give me a hug like they were in fifth grade again right it's it's for about fifth graders that's a it's that powerful of a program they remember um us and they remember what we teach so i

174hope um i hope when i get this rolling again that i could have your support to bring that into your school cost you nothing except for a little bit of time and um usually i bring ice cream on on meeting number six so that's a win or the healthy ice cream for anybody's life but no no thank you i mean but as i said uh you know a little a little bit of education goes a long way and if uh you know just like we had a our discussion about uh free kindergarten education you know a dollar spent on uh on crime prevention uh needs many dollars uh not having to be used in the prison system so thank you know of course i'd be happy to support that and you know we uh i

175certainly hope that uh alan walk and san jose police department continue to have a fruitful and constructive relationship in the heart of east side san jose we definitely will thank you so much captain trayer thank you remember um i heard you say how can we help uh the traffic and um what brought this question to mind was how can we help make people drive safer one way is by slowing them down and is it actually possible to put speed bumps in front of every school site because i've been to contra costa county over there in lafayette in front of the schools to slow them down all of the elementaries had speed speed bumps uh dur when you drive on this road that a lot of people have a tendency to drive faster as long as

176long and as well as there's a lot of curves and you can hit somebody so because of the incident that just happened in the ocala area i'm asking you has um the county and the city and the police thought of putting speed bumps in front of the schools to slow down the traffic so that these people getting run over won't happen right here on white and madeleine four people had to die before they put in that little light right there on that corner i mean it's not going to be too much more of a cost if they do it when they're repaving the roads is could i speak to somebody about that or would i have to talk to somebody who's in charge of traffic thank you for the question um i get i get

177that question a lot and i see the benefits of those speed bumps or speed humps i um i know that the process to go through that goes to the department of transportation it's not through the police and it involves the community and what happens is a certain percentage of the community has to be okay if it's in front of a residential area and there is a lot of pros and cons to the speed bumps with the noise you know all day long all night long and the people that live there and uh you're never going to hear it from me if it slows down if it slows people down it's it's going to be a win but um if it's okay i'd like to talk to you continue that conversation with um our department of

178transportation who i work with weekly you know i wrote a new law that went into effect with our city attorneys folks on side shows and changing intersections and i do believe it is making a huge impact in certain places to make those type of dents and that type of speeding but um it has never been brought up to me about school um speed bumps before so let's uh let's continue it i know the right people to talk to for our area for sure can you send me an email too uh because i would like to have a conversation with them as well oh yeah i think i think it should i'll be the facilitator but i'll i'll uh i'll get you in touch with the right people for sure thank you very much uh vice

179president family you had your hands up still from the last time or all right we'll remember yes it was from last time sorry about that okay thank you uh nice to meet you captain todd um i've been activated and not uh in my usual job for the past year so i'm happy to meet you and i'm glad you're here serving our community um as captain and um since uh trustee chavez just brought it up um i know that there's a community already that's that has a list of uh different signatures for a speed bump around around donald meyer and i know this because they've contacted me directly um so you know maybe i can forward you know the email or i know you and trustee chavez will look into that but i'll also forward that

180to be on the list and i'm sure that you all have you know a list of different car accidents that have happened and you know starting starting somewhere would be good you know whether it's akala it's meyer anywhere so thank you for looking into that um also thank you and your um the officers my daughter she was in fifth grade prior to uh kovitz so she was able to go through it with uh officer vallejo as well um so thank you for your work uh there she still wears her shirt proudly so um and she every day she came you know would tell me what she learned about um and you know also i know now under sandra garcia you know as a crime prevention doing a lot of the classes as well for bullying

181and you know how to um you know uh even drugs i i know that they do that as well so i know you're all doing a lot i know that could put a stop to many things but i'm happy to hear that you know things are coming back um and yes absolutely you know keep our schools in mind you know for these programs i know uh superintendent um bauer has been definitely uh you know a great partner with you all for a very long time so we look forward to having you back on our campuses um and yeah you know i i don't know uh if we've done this before you know but um you know even if it's once a year dr power or you know maybe once uh twice a year you know

182it's good to have this um collaboration and uh you know hear from you um and see how we can work with one another uh to keep our communities safe and ensure that we're all sleeping you know in our home feeling safe and secure and that our schools are also safe and secure um and that our community can not just attend right our schools um that our children can go and learn and be in class and be able to learn what they're there to do and focus but also that our uh families feel um included in our schools you know we are a public school system so that we're able to um work together and feel safe um and that our youth you know instead of vandalizing that we're maybe shifting that and maybe doing you

183know some clean our school's days and things like that so i look forward to um to continue to work together and getting to know each other um and i love that you know you have kids right well now no longer kids adults running to you but it's all about that right building the relationship and having that rapport with one another in a positive way so thank you for your work and i look forward to getting to know you better thank you yeah you send me the invite i will come so thank you for having me all right i'm going to go ahead and uh i think everything has been said already great work i'm really appreciative of the crime prevention team that you have um i as a former staffer to elected officials who sat

184through plenty of the presentations always learned something different because they kept it fresh and updated and uh and so if members of the public have an opportunity to go out there sandra sandra avila now karina's on there as well the whole team is great they do a great job i'm going to go ahead and take on public comment at this point so that the captain can go ahead and also listen to some of the public's uh questions or some other concerns remember that this is a public comment and for our uh brown act we're not uh able to engage in dialogue during this time jose go ahead and call on those who have comments yes mr board president uh we have three speakers our first speaker is angelita echeveste you have two minutes please unmute

185yourself when you begin speaking the time will begin uh good evening i am sorry i have my baby in my arms and he wanted to speak but he's six months so i apologize no worries all right uh next speaker thank you our next speaker is dilsa gonzalez you have two minutes please admit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening members of the board my name is ilsa gonzalez a parent of two students and hopefully third really soon i want to say thank you for the presentation and for bringing the information up and i want to address um three things i heard the first one is that programming and maybe future collaboration i would like to um ask to please engage parents and to also know that the um and understand that

186the um presence of pipeline is um prison to school pipeline is it's really true it's there there's a lot of research around it and um before we make any any suggestion or changes or addition let's explore alternative solutions of partnerships and working together to support our students i heard another solution on the root cause right on how to prevent this and i believe aung rock is doing a tremendous good job excellent job at doing this we have mental health social emotional support research practices in our schools and within our classrooms and um and i'm constantly within with for our our students however i do believe that partnership with the county that city to not only have them in school but span them throughout our most needed communities our minority communities is a plus we heard

187about the kobe relief task force is talking about this so how can we engage in these conversations to support our families and communities lastly i heard really great um alternative solutions from uh ms um trustee chavez and trustee lorena herrera um sorry um about um solutions speed bumps um how can we bring other things within the table let's always think of alternatives and things that could help our kids mentally in social emotionally because i know for sure we need more than that more more programs like that thank you thank you for your comments ms gonzalez next speaker is maria martinez martinez you have two minutes please mute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin maria martinez [Music] is our next speaker is veronica madore you have two minutes please admit yourself when you

188begin speaking the timer will begin great thank you um and hi everyone my name is veronica mador and i'm a parent of two allen rock students um and i also want to echo the from the previous two speakers or comments regarding alternative solutions right especially the one about uh parents and the standby because i feel as a parent um you know again we're human beings and somebody can think i'm can be a thread when i'm upset and possibly need uh somebody to talk to right and so how can we have those alternatives of mental health specialists being on call instead of a police officer that can be very intimidating and not just that um it creates and continues that school to prison pipeline as we know right and not just with the students but now

189with the parents as well as being targeted unfortunately by by others especially by the police and i also again want to echo the different alternatives that we have and i appreciate the collaboration that the captain is bringing towards uh hopefully you know facilitating conversations with others sorry i have my new warrant with me um others in the community uh others in the city that can bring uh speed bombs that we need right and how to support with the traffic that's going around and also again having different classes that maybe come from um other departments that are not just intimidation because i remember when my parents sat through um a whole drug thing at joseph george a couple years ago um and i was there and it was very intimidating it was it wasn't just uh

190about talking to students and how to support them not to use drugs but just intimidation of like your student is going to die if they use this drug and rather than giving them tools on how to support their student so thank you again thank you for your comments ms amado uh mr board president at this time we have uh no more requests for public comment all right uh kevin kevin chair thank you very much for your time appreciate your generosity i know you're really busy a lot of things taking place and uh really appreciate that you've made a significant amount of time for to talk to our community just to reiterate um i'm very appreciative of the approach that captain trier has taken to make his um his team himself very accessible through community events

191so that individuals should not feel threatened or or in any way shape or form um you know being in danger any sort of the the interactions that the children have had with captain trey and his team have been very positive he's actually put money on his own pocket to bring together events uh to get the community to come out speak and and get to meet law enforcement and have this relationship of that allows us for a very positive working environment amongst the community and his and his officers so thank you for that work that you're doing uh to really build bridges and help the community feel uh that they can call on on law enforcement whenever they need the support so thank you for thank you very much uh all right we're gonna uh do

192you have any uh last comments no okay thank you i'm sorry go ahead i'm sorry go ahead nestle oh sorry i was i was just saying thank you thank you for coming and thank you for spending time with us and looking forward to the future work that we can do together you've got it we're gonna have a great year great all right thank you very much have a good one all right we're going to go ahead and move on to item 3.01 this is uh public uh comments on matters that are not on the agenda that we haven't touched upon already if there's anybody wishing to speak on any matters that are within the jurisdiction the alumni school district but are not on the agenda then you can do so you can indicate by raising

193your hand at this moment mr board president at this time i see no request for public comment all right um let's go ahead and move on to item 4.01 comments from the rock administrators association all right we've been going for quite some time so i'm going to ask all of our speakers we really don't limit uh the comments but if we can keep them very brief um we've we've got we still got a lot to take care of and it's already fairly late so um go for it i'm rock administrator association good evening board of trustees air usd staff and community my name is ivan muntes and i proudly serve as principal of san antonio elementary school home of the hawks and president of the alum rock administrators association it is a privilege to speak

194tonight to represent a group of vibrant educator administrators who work tremendously hard in service of our schools and community and we are um excited to share the following updates with you all tonight at aptitude aptitude kicked off wellness week with uh the soft opening of the wellness center students participated in tours of the center and daily activities to engage in healthy activities like sports acts of kindness relay races and more at dorsa 39 students just finished a hip-hop class series with the get down dance group approximately 91 students are in their last week of after school intervention provided by teachers via dorsa's soaring scholars program and or tutor works approximately 35 girls in second and fifth grades just finished the spring series with baws i bay area women's sports initiative and celebrated a field day

195to sjsu where they watched sjsu versus santa clara university's women's soccer teams compete lindell at lindell several of our students fourth and fifth grade will be honored at the 2022 national bilingual multilingual learner advocacy month showcase on april 28th for my name my identity art contest at scoe lindell is bringing the latino family literacy project to 20 families this year this program is designed to establish family routines vocab development and english language development for latino parents with their children excuse me with their children parents will attend 10 hours of in-person classes taught by two classroom teachers attending parents will receive all books and will be awarded a completion certificate at the end of the program at painter elementary painter is uh is receiving over 250 new t-mobile data-enabled devices as part of the district's innovative

196learning schools initiative teachers are working with students to develop responsible habits with their devices with the ultimate practice of taking devices home nightly to enable access to more to more 21st century aligned activities and projects on march 31st 100 of painter students and staff participated in their locally publicized march for cesar chavez day mr uh jimmy from i.t supported with limestream live stream to ar tv and mr mamluco published a final video edit to the community leading up to the day the asb committee shared instructional resources and lessons about uh cesar chavez and his significance in advocating labor for labor rights as a former ar usd community member students and teachers continue to learn high quality science instruction uh bi-weekly through our genentech fully funded partnership with uh non-profit science firm scientists this uh 35

197000 value program was able to assign dr esther who holds a phd in ecology from cornell university at russo mcentee on march 31 students and teachers along with our city forest planted uh participated in planting trees at russo on april 6 we celebrated autism awareness day the teachers presented lessons to all students at our school building their knowledge and compassion for our students on the spectrum on april 12th russo will be hosting an exhibition night in open house virtually to showcase our efforts as an environmental justice and sustainability school we will be celebrating dia de lino on april 29th with every child getting a toy from the school and lastly at russo they will be celebrating reading under the stars on april 28th with every child getting a book from the school uh now moving

198on to ryan's steam academy steam uh ryan is holding a steam showcase um their steam showcase took place on april 13th they are looking forward to celebrating died el nino on april 27th and they are excited to report that over 60 students are taking advantage of their springboard intervention program at san antonio elementary school our fifth graders just returned from an exciting science camp where they learned about uh ecosystems the flora and fauna and within our local community and had a hundred percent students attend additionally today we were able to provide one book for every student through our partnership with reading partners students were excited to select a book and many spent their recess time reading to each other and discussing their book on march 30th we offered a restorative justice session for families which

199builds on the sessions our team has been engaging in to learn about the restorative approaches we are utilizing at our school to support the social emotional needs of our youth restorative justice continues to be a focus for san antonio and we are committed to embedding these practices into our school fabric and that is what we have to report on behalf of the lmroc administrators association thank you for your time thank you 4.02 chipsters go for it tom good evening members of the board for president and um thank you for uh for a uh for a great uh so far board meeting i mean this is the first time i i've listened to you guys for the past four hours uh close to four hours and i'm i'm enjoying it it's it's it's you know it's

200very productive and and it's it's interesting so with that i just wanted to let the board know that um on behalf of teamster i i wanted to uh uh you know um acknowledge that uh that we are looking forward to you know another negotiation session with the district and then that we we are always here to to support the district and that the um that we ask that the board member and management keep in mind that you know uh coming to work on a daily basis to support the district is is what we we're all about um you know we're here for the student uh feed the student transport the students uh fix our facilities um anything that has to do with maintaining it you know teamsters there you know feed our kids uh the

201whole nine yard and anyway uh i just wanted to say that uh we're looking forward to another session with the district and and that they that the uh the members are excited to to to move forward for our last uh school year uh in the contract so um looking forward to it and and again uh trustee bergeron thank you you you acknowledged me earlier and i appreciate that thank you very much i mean it's it's interesting you guys do a great job you know the job that you do is is very um very hard and and sometimes tough decision is is what you have to do but to to you know maintain our school maintain our facilities or you know keep keep the the staff the students you know learning employed the whole nine yard

202i appreciate all that you do and thank you again for your time this evening on behalf of teamster uh have a good evening and we'll see you again next time thank you uh moving on to item 4.03 california school employees association sharon flora's yours thank you good evening president quintero dr bauer members of the board i just have a couple of quick things because i know it's getting late um thank you to sandra garcia dr valesteros and mr sanchez for their presentations i did read all the information in the board book but it was a lot to absorb it was so nice to have it presented and be able to see it on the screen and get all the information from the professionals it was a great presentation and thank them for that and then

203also i want to thank payroll and human resources for their ex expediting and implementing the new salary schedules for our members i know that that is not an easy task as we have members that work one hour two hours four hours five six seven and eight and going through each individual person by their hours and putting that all together and sending it out earlier than we had anticipated i know our members are grateful to have gotten their money prior to the break next week having that little extra will hopefully they can do something fun and enjoy their vacation and the easter break and um we also are going to enter into into negotiations we have a session set for the 27th look forward to i don't know if mr tarika will be in the first

204one as he's going to be brand new but we are definitely looking forward to working with him in the near future and um i hope you all have a great easter and with that i will say i'll see you next month thank you all right see you next month aaron um moving on to item 4.04 i was informed by jocelyn that should not be here and sandra wouldn't be here as well so given that there would be the representatives of area we'll go ahead and unless jocelyn's here or sandra is here all right i don't see them responding so uh dr barr thank you so much for president i have my comments are split between me and miss finnen who's gonna talk to us a little bit about copita so very very quickly um i

205want to uh announce and let everybody know that i'm going to be hosting an informational session about the board members responsibilities and roles for any parent or community member who wants to attend this will be april 26th more information will be given to you i have asked board president to help me uh with the facilitation and i have asked uh trustierre aloera as a former uh spark member uh to give care experience about being you know uh a parent in our district with a child and now sitting in the board so that the parents have uh in you know a a a view of of what the process was like and and what her role was and is now so i'm very excited i wanted to make sure that everybody is aware of this more

206information via parent square will be shared with you by by tomorrow um april 26th thank you and now i'm gonna turn it over to danielle finnen who is going to be talking to us about a brand new amazing opportunity for all of our students miss finning thank you dr bauer board of trustees and community my name is danielle fenin i'm the coordinator of our visual and performing arts pe and sports programs and i'm here to share with you like dr vara said a very exciting opportunity that's coming up so this year we're going to be hosting our first annual copita t48ar usd and this is a world cup style soccer tournament that will be taking place on friday april 29th saturday april 30th and sunday may 1st at overfall high school in collaboration with telemundo

20716 of our school sites will be participating this year in grades three through eight and in addition to our soccer games we will be celebrating dia del nino with a resource fair featuring community organizations activities for young children and a food truck flyers have been sent out via parent square and more detailed information will come soon i also wanted to thank mr gwendoline principal of meyer elementary mr arajo coordinator of student services and dr bauer for making this event possible thank you so much all right uh moving on to item 4.06 board of trustees comments communications uh let me check you guys i see you oh all right more rest present oh my may i will make this as quick as possible uh given the length of our agenda so first of all uh since

208this is our last meeting prior to spring break i want to wish uh everyone in alan rock a happy easter uh you know which is coming up this weekend uh i want to congratulate carlos tripaldi and tom nguyen on being nominated for a classified school employee of the year uh i want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all your hard work and services to our children and uh i certainly hope that you'll take the award home to alum roth also i want to extend my best wishes to aptitude at goss on the opening of their wellness center uh hubbard and lynndale schools for their uh students um being part of the bilingual learner advocacy month showcase uh i want to congratulate the adelante boys basketball team and the ocala girls basketball

209team for winning the district championship in this in march madness on but also uh all our schools are winners it was great to see our parents and our kids uh come out uh you know at the to open our springtime and to see us all back as one district for the first time since uh the pandemic um you know uh the board president i and the war clerk herrera had the uh great opportunity to visit cesar chavez uh renaissance at madison san antonio elementary and lucha on cesar chavez day honoring the oh you know uh in commemoration of uh the area where the united farm workers got their start it was a great to see lucha had they have their cesar chavez day parade on and to connect with uh our kids in in and

210around the mayfair area uh you know i certainly hope to to see our kids again at some po you know in in the near future uh we also i also had the opportunity to be part of a nature height with adelante ii and russo mcentee kids uh it was also a great opportunity to see our kids have an opportunity to get hands-on nature learning experiences at allen law park and a segway to that russo mcentee and the city forest recently uh had tree planting which was you know which i had the pleasure of uh seeing along with vice mayor chappie jones and staff from the office of councilwoman carrasco uh let's see here uh i would like to make a plug for uh interested community members to uh sign up to to be part of

211our bond oversight committee our district is moving forward with great projects and we'd love to have as much community input as possible you know closing off i want to i wish all our schools well for the upcoming copita or alan rock cup i look forward to uh being out there with uh with our kids uh you know april 29 to may 1st and also uh looking forward to a parent university at rancho del pueblo golf course on may the 14th so uh with that thank you very much mr president comments members of the board board member thank you board president um i just want to start off with giving my condolences to the family you know those that we lost due to that traffic incident across the street from or by ocala um i know

212that they're very near and dear to our hearts here in elm rock and so um i look forward in you know ensuring that as trustee chavez mentioned earlier that we're able to do something right and that their death is not in vain um i also want to congratulate the lindell and hubbard students who are going to be recognized at the santa clara county office of education congratulations um and in regards to copita i want to thank dr bauer you know i know as trustees you know we sent her a thousand and one emails i'm sure because i sent her 500 myself so i'm sure you all send her your own um a week or so and uh to keep up with things i know erica diaz you know one of the leaders there in telemundo

213contacted me you know once upon a time and said hey korin i really want to bring resources and services to alum rock to the east side of san jose you know where do i go what do i do and you know we met with dr bauer and dr bauer was on it and um you know now we're having this copita and you know so many other things that have happened since that conversation and i also mentioned that because you know part of our our job as trustees right is to bring resources to our families here um and we're you know at least now you know compared to when i first started i feel like we're at a place where um folks want to come come to ellen rock and um and provide and be a

214partner a part of and be in partnership with and so um you know with what we passed earlier which is really exciting um you know i look forward to continuing to partner with and collaborate with others to bring those resources to to our children and families here in elm rock um and just to reiterate what uh vice president um fam already mentioned it was awesome to be in the classrooms you know out in the schools on cesar chavez day as a proud daughter of um a farm worker you know who worked in the farms i'm seeing the children you know so proudly um singing songs of cesar chavez holding uh different posters and chanting and holding their fists up and feeling proud it was so beautiful to see um so thank you uh dr bauer

215for coordinating that uh but i think that one of like my favorite things that i saw that day um was entering a classroom and seeing a teacher in action teaching ethnic studies you know for me it was like wow you know from it having gone you know from an idea to a community coming together uh you know to it being put in policy and you know the committee the task force the different members um to actually seeing that teacher teaching those students it was just amazing because to me was done you know in such a quick turnaround even though there was covet in the middle you know of all those things but um it was just really beautiful to see and to see the students raising their hands and participating and answering questions um really

216made my heart happy so um congratulations to all the teachers and all the students and everybody you know doing um all that you're there at the supposed to do and i hope you have a well-deserved break next week and that you do something fun for yourselves thank you further comments from the board all right see none that i'm going to go ahead and close off the section with my own comments um was uh really enjoyed uh going out there to almost park with some of the the uh some of our district students it uh really kind of the partnership with chief code crew beautiful was uh great uh it really allows you to find out what's in nature when you go out there you really enjoy it but once you start you know taking a

217sample of water and taking a look at what's in there or uh looking at the you know little bugs and the the symbiotic relationship that they have with the the trees that are naturally there and stuff that sort or the plants it really kind of takes it to a lower level so thank you keep creative creek beautiful for the partnership that i hope that this is just the beginning of a long-term partnership that grows with alan rocker um it was great to go out there and so my colleagues have already explained it and i'm not going to go more in detail it was it was really really energy was just uh you could feel it right there with all the kids their signs their marches they were taking place on the campuses it was great

218and i want to thank all the partners and all the uh folks that are on the members that are part of the the teacher workforce housing committee that has been meeting we've told we've held our our two meetings so far and it's been great to learn more about the potential of what might be what are the possibilities so looking forward to continue to learn more about that and then eventually bringing a recommendation to this body in the future once it's um you know once once we receive the information that we're that we're out there looking for so um it's going great and so looking forward to seeing what that [Music] the information yields uh that we're looking for so um all right we're gonna go ahead and move on to item 5.01 is the public

219hearing with csca chapter 305 initially initial bargaining proposal to open negotiations with ar usd for the period of july 1st 2021 through june 30th 2022 i'm assuming that at this point we just open up the hearing correct and then eventually we close it so i'll go ahead and open up this hearing at 9 19. go ahead and move on to item 5.02 and i'll leave that open for right now and i'm going to go ahead and open up the hearing for keemstar's local 150 initial initial bargaining proposal open negotiations they are usd for the period of july 1st 2022 through june 30th 2023. up that hearing on june at 9 19. is there any public comment with regard to these items mr board president at this time i see no request for public comment all

220right uh no uh public comment i'll go ahead and close um these hearings at 9 20 for both item 5.01 and 5.02 all right uh we don't have to take action on this correct they're just public hearings all right um moving outside of 6.01 approved resolution number 43-21-42 declaring black april follow saigon memorial week uh i'm assuming that this item will be uh board restaurant farm we're gonna go ahead and speak on the side yes thank you sir yeah thank you mr president so uh my honorable colleagues residents of alan rock so um you know i i bring this resolution uh in honor of the upcoming 47th anniversary of the fall of saigon on april 30th uh you know to be to be uh to give a brief history of it um april 30th 1975

221was the fall of saigon which ended the vietnam war and resulted in the unfortunate defeat of the republic of vietnam during the vietnam war now as as we all know the republic of vietnam or also known as south vietnam was the uh non-communist democracy which unfortunately fell on that very very sad date and so um you know in in a twist of history uh you know uh on on such a sad date uh this event also triggered uh changed the face not not just you know not just at allen rock but also uh this country uh you know uh over the years since 1975 vietnamese have fleeing communism and seeking freedom of democracy have settled in this country and uh you know a particular significance settled here in san jose um you know be you

222know and changing the face of the changing the the face of this city for the better uh i would not be here if it were not for that event but also uh the fact that uh one out of five our kids are from vietnamese uh descent uh we today have um vietnamese dual language immersion program at painter reflecting the uh the many contributions of the vietnamese community of eastern san jose and of course in alamo also i felt that it's important that uh this the sacrifices uh by uh south vietnamese veterans and also uh american veterans um many families in alan rock were touched by this war uh many residents of alamo served bravely in our our country's armed forces for a noble cause and the cause in the defense of democracy of freedom and

223in opposition to communism so in light of recent events you know as we know the the world uh the world is uh not at peace especially in eastern europe i i think it it bears particular importance if we take the time to teach our kids about them you know what it means to live in a free country what it means to live in a place where we have the right to choose our leaders and to choose the direction where we want to go and also to honor the sacrifices that people have made over the years in defense of those rights and as well as to uh give our respects to uh the positive you know the great contributions that the vietnamese community vietnamese any san jose and alum rock have brought to our community so

224uh it is uh with that that i bring this item to the board and i certainly uh urge my colleagues to uh vote yes thank you very much mr president do you want to go ahead and make a motion uh mode uh motion to approve resolution number 43-21-22 do have a second second all right motion being made and seconded uh any further comments from members of the board all right board member travis uh when i first looked at this i i asked myself what does this have to do with the teaching of the students to read to write and do math but um i do support the the asian americans so i will be supporting this this time thank you remember i don't know yeah i was gonna um in the interest of time for

225growing a comment but i will say i think it's kind of um addresses a little bit uh trustee chavez's thoughts i remember when i spoke earlier about going to ryan and mccollum in those years was right around the time when we as students started seeing some new faces in our classrooms that we weren't used to i and i didn't i didn't know the geopolitics of the time but i knew that there was these new families who spoke this language that i didn't understand and and you know they one year they were they had you know their vietnamese name and the next year they had an english name and there was all these things i just didn't understand about the experience and obviously after many years of having you know live side by side with this

226community and been friends with individuals from the community i know better but i think the importance of these types of resolutions and certainly our ethnic studies program is that our students now um when whether we have different populations coming to the united states or to san jose that they understand some of those experiences of those people and just in general have a more global understanding that matches our um our vision and our mission statement that we as a board created that's reflective of a global um education that we're trying to provide so i just wanted to share that this resolution made me think of those years when i had that experience and not really having the opportunity to learn what was the experience of this community and now the opportunity to to change that and

227allow our students to be aware um of of the our neighbors and and our and our friends so that's it thank you uh thank you i just want to um thank vice president fam for bringing this resolution forward um for the many reasons of a hirano mention and just you know in general for making our district more inclusive a safe place for all um you know and i can go on and on but i'll just leave it at that thank you vice president family yeah i'll conclude this portion of comments with my comments thank you for bringing forward this uh resolution i think that it's important to recognize those major um events that uh are significant uh for uh our um for large segments of our population here in our community uh it allows us

228to better understand what uh many have gone through and the significance of these dates for our friends our neighbors uh those who we went to school with um i happened to interact with uh you know many of my classmates that i became friends and it was through the the conversations we got to know more of each other and uh so we might ask well what does this have to do with reading and writing there's a lot of things that we do in our schools that don't pertain to exactly reading writing well for example the pledge of allegiance we say every morning and we recite is part of the political socialization that we provide to our students it doesn't necessarily follow along with the concept of reading and writing or arithmetic whatever it may be but

229it's part of a broader process of creating well-rounded individuals that are part of a broader community and so this is very much important so that uh maybe the children who aren't uh necessarily as well-versed about what happened uh that day on april 30th 1975 so they then learn what the significance is for their neighbors and their friends so i think it's very important and i'm very supportive of this resolution with that i'll go ahead and come in a second and have an emotion in a second oh i'll call for public comment well so do we have any public comment on this item uh yes board president uh we have ms veronica talton salton you have two minutes please send me yourself when you begin speaking timer will begin good evening board president quintero vice president

230fam uh carina herrera ernesto bejerano and trustee chavez dr bauer and all of our alum rock family i had not planned to speak this evening i just want to thank vice president fam for bringing this forward this shows that in our school district everyone is valued is heard and is seen regardless of their racial identity it shows that we embrace those who suffered through the vietnam war and that the lives of those who are asian-american and those who are not will learn great value in the sufferings of others i'm so grateful that our district supports ethnic studies and valuing those of a racial identity that everyone is being treated the same and i'm also thankful that we're in a district where we have the opportunity to celebrate differences whether someone is 70 percent of the

231racial demographic one in five or the only one thank you to everyone i would like to wish all of my area colleagues and the school community a safe and happy easter have a good evening thank you miss thompson our next speaker is angelita echeveste you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking timer will begin good evening i as well as the previous um person who spoke i was not planning not at once um to speak at all but i just want to thank you um vice president sam for bringing this resolution for having this conversation um and also like i appreciate hearing uh trustee chavez's comment because that was eye-opening and it was disheartening um when we look at a banking system of education versus what we're trying to do and what

232you all have done with ethnic studies um anything and everything can be associated with that with our education um with math with reading with writing and um and to learn about various cultures my culture or other school church that that's what helps um the i can't even articulate it but knowing others and knowing myself is what really really helps with the biases and the racism and changing systems that's going to make the world a better place for my daughter and the more she knows of others and and understands others pains and and where they come from and where she comes from that's what you will unite us that's what makes makes a change and everything and like in the world you know um i am so grateful and it is an honor to be part

233of this district it is an honor to to take my daughter to school every single day because of the work that you all do because of the resolutions that you bring in because of changes that you you have um and that you think of community and you continue to um open space for us to participate to engage in a meaningful and intentional way just thank you so much for that thank you for your comments miss angelita uh at this time mr board president we have no more requests for public comment all right uh let's go ahead and call for the vote i'll call you as i see you poor remember i uh board member travis hi myself when i motion past unanimously all right moving on to item 6.02 discussion and consideration of resolution number

23444-21 the two authorizing the remote virtual telecom teleconference committee of the board and district committee subject to the brown act or the period of april 16 2022 through may 15 2022 um is there a motion on the side of option to approve you know i'll keep my comments brief uh you know i'm torn on this but uh you know given the the you know city count san jose city council has lifted its uh uh mass mandates and the uh general situation where most school boards are in uh in session in person uh you know i've already expressed in past meetings that i strongly believe that the business of the people should be transacted in the boardroom it should be transacted in the most transparent way possible and it behooves us to you know uh meeting

235you know uh to gather again meet in person uh you know in especially in light of the fact that our teachers are teaching classes in person again and so uh it is for those reasons that um i won't be voting in support of uh this resolution uh you know reflecting the which i i believe the need that uh we you know it's important that we come back uh we come back we set and you know we if we are expecting our teachers to teach in person just uh the work of the people should be done in person thank you very much for the comments from members of the board uh thank you um i i do i'm in agreement with a trustee famine that you know we should be doing it in person and all

236of the above um for our district specifically um you know i know he mentioned city council and um for those of us that have been into in those chambers we know that room is huge and they're able to meet in person and do the work uh for but for our school district our room is small and that would only you know allow us to have um a small number of people present um so you know in currently we also know that the new variant right our numbers are going up unfortunately in our communities and we also know that our community here in alamo has been one of the most um impacted by kobut unfortunately and still continues to be and so um i'm in agreement with you know trustee famine that we definitely should however

237to keep you know our community continue to keep our communities safe especially our district you know i would hate to expose our staff here or any of that um it's still not safe you know and for that reason i will be continuing to support us uh continuing to be virtually um for our next board meeting thank you all right uh further comments from the board routine then i'm gonna go to public comment yes mr uh board president we have um public comment ms lisa gonzalez you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening members of the world my name is gonzalez again a parent of two students in unravel school district i want to say thank you um mr trusty fab for um echoing and being able

238to say it aloud that if our children and our teachers are out there giving classes in person these meetings should be held in persons as well as you will notice today a lot of people weren't able to speak due to updates due to apps and due to um not having internet access and um some of the meetings we have even trust is having to deal with um internet access and not being able to talk or participate 100 um once again there's alternative solutions for having a small place uh we could do it in a cafeteria within school we could do um there's a lot of a lot of alternatives where this um where this military can help in person and doesn't really need to be in a poor meeting where there's a small small small

239community member showing up and risking everybody i understand the risk but um i would wish that the way that you're talking about the risk and not risking yourselves or other stuff will be the same when we talk about kids going to school and are risking them as well um one second i'm trustee pam thank you for acknowledging thank you for bringing it to our board and thank you for being inside a community that has been more impacted um and that don't really have access to technology or to um internet out there thank you have a really good evening thank you for your comments ms gonzalez mr board president at this time we have no more requests for public comment all right uh there you know further comments uh the motion did right help me out

240um we have a motion outside him yes second bye challenge thank you for that um i'm torn with this uh because i do believe that um we need to give back in person um i i also acknowledge that there's a lot of participation when you have this format more than we've ever had in person and so you know that's that's also something we also recognize we have to recognize um but more importantly i think that the the security and uh the need for us to maintain control over our closed session comments necessitate us to come back uh in person i have a few i have some serious concerns around our closed session and uh the security around our closed session meetings um as of late and so it's for that reason and only that reason

241that i'm going to be voting in opposition to this item i believe that we need to come back in person so that closed session items not it's going available continue but it's for that particular reason that i'm going to support um then i'm not going to support this item so um i'll go ahead and call for the votes as i see you we'll remember i no board member travis hi yeah with my cell phone you know the motion passes on a 3-2 all right moving on to item 7.01 uh update from program manager regarding solar energy plan uh dr bauer is the program manager here all right please give us an executive update on this site uh this was requested by trustee pejerano i don't know if he wants to do that i'll be happy

242to all right boardroom you want to open it up um i'll just start by saying um obviously this for anybody who's been around for a little while this is an item that we had um i had brought some time back as a something for us to look into as a board to consider the options um but you know there were so many other things uh that we needed to take care of that we're still continuing to take care of um that that we decided to kind of um work on it at a slower pace in the background but continue working and now that we have a lot of the things in place that uh were of concern initially when i brought it to the to the board i thought it would be a good time

243to begin to re-look at this um for a lot of different reasons but that's why i requested for dr bauer to put this on the agenda and so i guess i will um or dr bauer and president so i guess i'll dr bauer i'll pass it over to you at this point thank you trustee vegeta i we have terry mathers with us she is our program manager from so terry welcome to alumrock and please let us uh give us the information regarding solar energy at alum rock okay so um dr bauer actually asked me to kind of give an idea of what could happen right now we don't have any specific plans so this is just the beginning the beginning of a plan so to say so we presented um our recommendations which is really

244for the district to actually purchase their own solar system the reason behind that is sort of multi-fold there's school districts can go about installing solar three different ways there's many different ways but three main different ways one is actually purchasing it yourself installing it yourself and maintaining it yourself and in the past this has been done through prop 39 grants and and other miscellaneous grants that may be available through pg e and such but the main one for school districts has been prop 39 and there are some no interest loans that are available for it if you decide to purchase it yourself there's also what's called um pp um power purchase agreements and basically you would go into an agreement with a company and they would basically install the solar panels for you and they

245would also maintain them and plan them and then in the the agreement part is is that you would agree to purchase power from them at a set price that would be renegotiated every every year or whatever the term of the negotiation was but you'd be actually purchasing how much power you use then the third option is the lease option and the lease option um is is similar to a power purchase agreement except you're actually leasing the panels you're agreeing to pay a set amount for the lease no matter what how much power that you use that's sort of the least advantageous way to go because if you use less power you're actually still paying the same price the last two options are negotiated so you will have to renegotiate your lease um or your agreements

246whichever whether it's a lease or agreement but your agreement every few years or every 10 years there's no upfront cost so that's a good part but there's no cost savings part so one of the things about if you purchase your own pal if you purchase your own panels one of the things that you'll see be seen is one of the big projects that we'll be doing is sort of it is our hvac projects which is actually going to switch a lot of your hvc from gas to electric but it's going to be very it's very energy efficient as we go into installing more energy efficient items into schools your power you should be going down and so you should be producing more power and so you're going to get a net energy the state has

247net energy metering some people have said well that's going away that's been tabled for a while it has been tabled they're not talking about reactivating it so you'll actually get a credit back for any power that you don't use you're actually going to get a check you'll get a check once a year but i'm sorry to interrupt just really which plan are you are referring to right now um the net the net energy metering so that's if you purchase your own power panels if you own them and you're actually producing them you don't get net you don't get you are not able to use name the nam for um lease agreements or for power purchase agreements that's sort of where they get their money it's like extra money for them that's why um your your

248you could negotiate that into your agreement but i haven't seen that done before so that's just important to know um so um i guess the the in in any case with all of these systems no matter how you go into agreement you are likely going to have to you will have to go to dsa okay because it does involve structure and you will likely depending on the school have to do an ada upgrade to your parking lot and your paths to the interest to the school so that's not a bad thing long term but it it it does cost it will add to the cost of the project is there anything else um dr bauer that you wanted me to cover no i think i think that the questions from the board members are going

249to generate the information that they need okay so uh or remember i don't need to have comments uh go for a question um so thank you ms mathers uh for that and so a couple questions that i have um first of all i know when we initially started to look at this a year or so ago um we were starting um our dive into this looking at ppas specifically because um at the time and and you know potentially similarly now the resources to pay upfront and or to secure a loan we um you know we weren't sure that alum rock was in the position to do that which is why we were starting off with ppas as just to look at what that would look like and so i guess the question is i don't

250know i understand this is a starting point but i'm not sure if you have had the opportunity to specifically look at our current position and whether or not we even could entertain the possibility of a grant or a loan or um i know we don't have money up front to to pay for this um so that's question one if you had looked into that um and just where we are now how realistic that is and then number two i did i hear you mention that with the ppas there's no no savings at all to the district and if that's the case then what would be the benefit to a district other than i guess making an impact on the carbon footprint of the district so questions yeah so all the verd defer the money one

251to dr bauer but uh with regards to um the ppa so the advantages is that you're not paying for the upfront cost and they're negotiating you're negotiating a fixed rate for your power so the advantage to you in a comparison to a lease is that you're going to pay for the exact power that you're using so the more efficient that you're using your power bill will go up or your power and if you're not efficient your power bill will go your power bill go up if you're not efficient it will go down if you are efficient so with so there the advantages is that you're not paying for the equipment and the upgrades up front they are producing all that they are charging you more for the power so don't think this is a deal

252there's more than power then pg e is because you you're basically getting the equipment right so it's sort of you're paying for the power but you're paying for the power kilowatt by kilowatt as opposed to a hundred thousand dollars right so you're still paying for it um you're just it's not it's not the upfront cost that you got what is the benefit to districts who choose to use the ppa that they because they don't they either don't get the grants or they're not able to get a loan now there are loans available that are zero percent and with the current push for solar from both the federal and the state um there is talk about um of opening up prop 39 on the state level again and in that case if we're going to do

253solar we certainly want to have our plan for solar so that when prop 39 or whatever number they're going to call it the next phase comes up we have all of our information together so that we can actually submit um and apply for the grants i think i'm still not quite clear though because i talked to a couple districts who who i mean all the different plans the ones that purchased their own um the ones that did ppas and and the ones that did ppas they they did say that they were generating savings because the amount that they were paying to the solar company was less than they had been paying to pg e significantly less in some instances so i guess that's still the question that i'm trying to understand if if you're saying

254that it's more expensive than pg e i'm wondering if either so it really depends on what hap what you negotiate in your deal and it also depends on what you're currently paying for pg e right so right now our power pricing is our in particular our power pricing is very volatile for with um with pg e you know and so what what could happen so usually you're going to negotiate a certain price for a certain period of time in the past our pricing has been fairly stable our pricing is not stable at the moment so since they're negotiating for a certain amount of time they're they're not going to take that risk they don't want to negotiate every year or every month so it's really frankly all about the negotiation that you have with your

255people a company right i mean so every district does it differently um i just got done doing it with the district and we explored all the different options and they chose to actually um they did get prop 39 money because they had all their ducks in a row and um they were able to um it was bond so they pre-financed it with bond money they did the project very early on so when they got the project done you get your prop 39 money they got the prop 39 money and they were able then and now we're finishing up the bond money so we've gotten our m the money and now they're finishing up their bond program with the money that was reimbursed by the prop 39 program okay so then speaking of finishing up just

256to finish up my comments and i'm what i think i'm hearing then is at this point you haven't had the opportunity and correct me if i'm wrong you haven't had the opportunity to consider alan rock's financial position to factor into your recommendation yet i'm going to defer to dr bower on that i was just asked to look at the three different programs so dr bauer do you want to touch base on that remember this was a presentation about the the different ways of financing and we have not gotten um direction from the board specifically to go into the you know the costs and and the specifics because then that will trigger us working with cummins we're looking for direction from the board you know and because that in itself right all of that work you

257know we will have to at this point we will have to use bond money to be able to do that kind of analysis so that we can bring a better informed um presentation to the board got it so it sounds like there was a recommendation but that recommendation is based on just kind of like no no data at this time just a general recommendation of what hypothetically might be the the best thing to get more into it we would really need to hire a solar consultant who could actually analyze the individual sites you don't want to put if you have a part a small parking lot and you can't put enough solar on there to actually generate enough power to make it financially feasible that that doesn't make sense you you don't want to just

258install this to install it you you guys do you have a lot of land so you could literally put a field of solar out um which would be highly efficient um and so there's you have a lot of opportunities but it's really a matter of um determining where and how much um before before you can before you can actually answer any of the questions that you're asking okay thank you mm-hmm uh board member travis okay so this is what i hear the dsa and the ada have to upgrade at the school as well as what wasn't mentioned was all the electrical problems that are at the schools that need to be fixed before any of this stuff gets in so i also heard we're going to be paying more for power as well as that

259the pricing is not isn't stable right now so i remember the i think uh the company was called strategic or something similar like that and and that's when the uh the mot the uh personnel he said that there was as well as the one who was given the presentation that there was a lot of uh electrical that needed to be fixed and and it was crucial because these were all safety issues so can we get a price tag we had one before but can we get a current price tag later should the bond go through so that we're not doing um study after study and paying for it when it may not be uh a good fit at this time thank you i i know that we have a lot of um electrical upgrades on

260our list of projects that we're doing and so we are currently analyzing the costs and the timing of doing the different projects and priorities so that is happening and i know some of that is being funded by the bond so that's a sort of a different project um in terms of the electrical in terms of the solar and the electrical not that they're disconnected but they're somewhat disk it doesn't make sense but they're somewhat disconnected because the solar will go back you're not going to actually feed the school with solar it's going to go and feed back into the grid and then it's going to come back in so it's a it's not that's just how it works um and it has it's it feeds into the meter so uh and your meter turns backwards

261i mean literally so um you can do one without the other so i have another question so when you're saying that it feeds back in the meter so we're actually paying extra once it feeds in the meter to you so you're the middle man i mean the company would be the middleman yes so we're kind of paying twice thank you yeah kind of yeah yeah how is it that we're paying twice let's not just say yes because well so so what you're gonna so we're you're gonna so you're gonna it's it's just like your home you you install the panels on your home unless you have batteries and you disconnect from pg e you are getting your power from pg e yeah with the power purchase agreement you're going to go ahead and not pay

262up front for the the equipment correct so you're not going to be up front for the equipment so my understanding is is the way that it works is that so on the power purchase agreement is you will pay the power purchaser and the power purchaser will get the credits and pay your bill based on how much you actually use and the price that they've negotiated with you per kilowatt for your power cool does that make sense and then the least first the least person it's going to be a little bit different because the lease is going to say you're going to pay me no matter how much power you're going to use usually there's a zone you can use like so much power so you can go from one end to the other and you're

263gonna pay me x amount per month as long as you stay within that zone if you go over that zone you're gonna pay me more if you go under that zone i'm not going to give you any money back that's usually the way that that works and then they're going to pay pg e and they're going to get the name credits and so like if you do it if when we do the power upgrades and and we make the buildings more efficient they're going to get those credits that you could have gotten if you bought the system yourself and installed it yourself all right thank you uh board member so it sounds it's really it's so it sounds like it'll depend on which one we end up picking when that time is right yeah i

264do thank you for bringing that forward thank you trustee vasanano for bringing it forward you know i mean in regards to the climate change right like i know it impacts and we can't wait you know we can't just sit and like wait until let's talk about in five years ten years um so i really appreciate you bringing it forward and you know obviously it's a lot of information and each one of those i'm sure you can spend an hour on explaining each one of those um options and so i'm wondering you know kind of thinking uh president quintero kind of like the task force meeting that we have for the teachers like i wonder if somebody and i don't know if it's appropriate but so for somebody to deep you know dive deep into it

265and then be able to bring back a report um to see what the best recommendation for us is if that sounds let me i'll i'll make my comments and within my comments so or i'll respond to that okay perfect yeah no that's just what i'm thinking because i know that you know we can literally be here another couple of hours and we're not making any decisions today but i would love to know you know more in detail so that when we do make that decision we make the best decision um and we're not rushing into it but at the same time we do get to deal with you know talk about this um and the sooner the better so that's it for now thank you so i see your hand i will remember i don't

266know i have my own comments um vice president farm you have any comments before i jump in fine no not at the moment so we've been dealing with this item for what is it like a year and a half already uh if not more and in all honesty some of the reasons why i got derailed was because of a lack of knowledge certain people started raising questions and making claims that the buildings were going to burn up when in fact terry just mentioned that the power net doesn't even touch the the the wires of our school district it goes directly to pg e then we go ahead and we get it back so it does it does go it we have to install a panel and then it feeds back so i mean it slightly

267does but not very really so it's feeding into pg e not us correct that's correct and so a lot of disinformation that took place over the course of a significant number of meetings that went on until three in the morning sometimes and in all honesty they were driven by political motivation and some of them was outright telling us don't take action until december because of some election typically i wasn't part of that but it was very very just to a certain extent it really messed up something that could have moved forward and brought us a significant amount of savings um all because of whatever ulterior motives some people had and they were passing along incorrect information i'm glad that we have now somebody who's providing us real information uh that we can base our decisions

268off of right outright we know that we you're not gonna be able to fund uh a pro a program similar to eastside union where they went ahead and shelled out out of their billion dollar bond program purchased up all their solar panels and did it on their own it ain't going to work out that way for us we don't have the resources to do that so we can just scratch that off um and uh the whole leasing thing just sounds like it's not going to really pan up well it seems like power purchase agreement is going to be our only option and we could go ahead and begin a committee and send it out for six months and then kill even more and more time or if we really really want to do this right

269we could move forward with a study session get all the information that you need at that time and then give some clear direction with some clear instructions for the administration to come back and and let us know and or no just clearly let them know we want you to go out with an artist and begin the process of bringing back a partner that's going to be able to make this happen uh and that we can select i can be as easy as that rather than uh stringing this along for another year and a half and not never seen it happen those are my comments and my suggestions uh board remember about them yes thank you um i want to first of all thank you i agree with uh a lot of your statement there i

270do think there's some misunderstanding and i again i'm open to be corrected if i'm wrong but i get the sense that there there were people who thought like that the solar panels are gonna literally plug directly into like the socket at the school or vice versa that the school was gonna plug like directly into the solar panels and could be wrong but i got the sense that was some of the perception but what i was going to say is that um i i feel like what we've received tonight is kind of a baseline of information kind of general information these are the three kind of i mean maybe there's more but these are three options available in general what i would say and maybe it's through a study session but i was just going to

271say um as an option to provide direction to um either staff or a program manager to now go out and and you know without obviously committing to anything bringing some more specific information for us to make it you know begin to think about any kind of decision specifically you know could we realistically afford to pay anything upfront trustee quintero already stated what i believe to be the case but maybe that's inaccurate the time has passed so maybe the situation has changed but i would like to see um you know sooner than later something brought back to us that says okay here's the outright purchase you can do x y and z but you're not likely to qualify or you are likely or whatever here's the ppa these are the you know whatever ranges that you

272might um possibly generate of of savings or or differences between where you'll pay them versus what you're paying pg e etc so so bringing us now back district specific information um about what each of those different options might look like and then um at that point kind of seeing where we stand and and again maybe it's a study session but i feel like i i think there's a possibility to do this without the study session and allow for sufficient discussion comment and everything appropriately in a regular meeting but um i'm just throwing that out there so i agree if we can do without a study session where you just get the data we should uh border travis you gotta come i'd love to hear what mr colbert has to say before i say anything all

273right uh aguero your comments yes thank you before you start uh we had uh data before correct on the site specific data solar solar stuff but is it too dated can we rely on that to do anything yeah i would recommend at this time um those data's were i believe year and a half too old so we might want to do some updates on that and just based on the comments that i've heard um to expedite this process uh then the staff can actually issue an rp for an energy consultant um to do the assessment and see the feasibility of any savings um that's the first part um in in working with our attorney at dwk their recommendation is to have a two um two-part process one is to issue an rp um for an

274energy consultant to do the assessment and the second part uh would be to issue an another rp for the construction manager um to actually construct the solar uh depending what plant we go to whether it's a uh district funded and owned solar system or is it a ppa option so those are some of the options that the board uh can choose from but the first step is or so desire is to direct administration to issue an rp for an entity consultant and we can get that started immediately your comments uh yes so one of the things that miss terry said that you could put them in the parking lot but our parking lots at the schools are very small but she also said that you could put them on the grounds what would be your

275suggestion what grounds would those be uh dr bauer how's your hand up trustee chavez that's we cannot answer those very specific questions right now because we don't know that's why colvera is recommending the board that we can get an expert to do those kinds of things and the easiest way you all the specific questions we're gonna say we don't know because we don't have the data to be able to respond okay so i think can i just ask a very specific question how many square feet would miss terry suggest that we need in order to do a project that would be profitable to the district so that's that's where the energy consultant would come in because it really depends on how much power you need at each site and how much power can be generated

276you know depending on direction of solar panels like it's it's just a little bit more complicated than saying 500 square feet um it it it just is all right uh so this item is for information and i'm gonna go ahead and i'm gonna give him the time i'm gonna suggest uh is the will of the board to move forward the rfp uh for the energy consultant as well as uh for the project manager or construction manager correct is that what you said yes but that doesn't have to be done at this point um all right so the energy consultant is what you're looking for so you can get the information you need to so we can decide what process we want to follow after that is that the will of the board i do have

277a quick question for mr chang regarding that um so with the energy consultant that we would um try to procure would they also look at um allen rock's unique or or specific financial position as well or they're strictly just looking at energy and needs and and possibilities in that way um i believe that can be included in their scope of work in terms of to find funding sources that are available out there that are realistic to us given our situation okay i would like that thank you all right so the the direction would be given through consensus unless somebody is opposed to it then it would seem that the board is supportive of moving forward with the rfp uh borrowing traffic uh i'll i'll wait thank you all right there's no there's no motion here

278it would just be consensus the direction would be for that so say no if you are posting if not then you got your direction mr chiang all right um i'm gonna go ahead and move on to item 7.02 uh approve and establish construction management service pool for districts projects uh dr baugh i'm gonna defer it to colvera real quick this is part of the prog part of the program to be able to start our summer projects yes thank you dr bauer um yeah and we're respectfully requesting the board to support um adding both kleinfelder construction services and sixth dimension um as the uh construction manager in the pool um that we're anticipating to use for uh some of the summer projects that would be going on um we did outline the process how we came

279to select these two firms um in the board uh cover so if you have any questions are you for you to answer that thank you all right uh do we have a motion motion for a second second motion by charlie second bye i don't know is there any public comment uh no public comment at this time mr board president all right if there's no further comments from members of the board i'm going to go ahead and call for a vote as i see you as i see you uh board member hi vice president palm hi myself we're not a motion pass unanimously um 7.03 approval contract with jones hall's bond and disclosure council double motion for uh action motion second all right the motion by vice president palm second by uh board member chavez do

280uh is there a public comment i see no public comment at this time we're presenting no public comment then i'll go ahead and call for a vote unless there's further comments members of the board see none i'll call for the vote of the cu board member hi uh board member hi what remember travis hi vice president palm hi myself 49 where should pass unanimously um um all right mr president yeah i may given the given that it's 10 17 p.m i'd like to uh make a motion to extend the board meeting to midnight given the uh given the remaining length of the agenda second the motion by vice president bomb second by board member chavez all in paper you guys moved all the screens on me or remember chavis hi my cell phone and i

281emotionally passed unanimously all right we're here till midnight um moving on to item 8.01 i'll cap initial finance presentation this is a information presentation i was going to check with mr sanchez if there if there was a presentation for this okay yes i have we have um i didn't see her that's why i was like uh i thought it was okay thank you sandra welcome okay i do have a presentation um some an update on where we are in our lcap process let me share so good evening um uh president quintero and um superintendent dr bauer and board members community i do have an update on um the where we are in the lcap process and some initial findings that i'll share with you tonight i'll share some stakeholder input trends and findings some survey

282information tied to our lcap goals and then the next steps in our lcap adoption process for this school year very briefly this is the timeline we spent march doing most of the input sessions uh we're here at the board update and then as it follows every year we'll have a draft and then take the elk cap to the board for a public hearing in june and then in late june um submit it for approval to the board as we do every year we do look to our stakeholders for input a variety of stakeholders our parents our community our staff our students our union groups our management team and our advisory committees gather input from all of these different stakeholders in different areas of our district community i want to start with some just kudos to

283our our team our alum rock team um this comes from the survey the panorama survey spring survey uh we don't always you know hear the wonderful things that people say about us and as i was looking through some of the survey comments i thought you know i want to share some of these just so that our our team sees that their work is valued and recognized so you know just a couple of these are you know we really appreciate all the resources that arusd provides and makes us aware of i absolutely love our school my daughter has always been made welcome and i always feel respected and invited to participate those are two of my favorite um but just wanted to share some of the highlights of the survey data so in looking through the

284forums i did put this together of some of the trends and findings and you know a lot of these um are items and and trends that we they're not new you know they're things that we have seen in many of the things that we're already working on in our district um and you know i i put them on here because they were mentioned several times during our forums and input sessions and want to make sure that um you know you all know what our community is um saying and um asking for in terms of support in our lcap um and here are some of the main points you know tutoring and mentoring programs one of the ones this year that has really come out many times is some type of intervention support during the school

285day for our students [Music] after school and homework tutoring clubs which is something that we did provide this year um and a lot of students took advantage of and wanting that to continue into the next year targeted support for our newcomers um you know the way of a specialist that can provide that kind of support a lot on mental health and counseling restorative justice our students did come back with some additional needs in in terms of behavior this year and that came out a lot in the input from our stakeholders um enrichment you know which we hear a lot and which will be coming with the eloc grant and then for stakeholders parent tech training and um english classes were very popular this year um in terms of trends that is these are from our

286forums and input sessions and this is from our middle school students which for the past few years we've been making sure that we get their input and share with you and for them a lot of the same needs and some of the the ones that stand out for me are um you know wanting electives um which you know would be enrichment for them um continuing with useful platforms that they have found that during the pandemic were useful to them but they continue to see as useful making sure that we keep those and we do have plans to keep those um support for english learners nothing different than what the parents and the community and teachers are asking for and that's more targeted support for our newcomers professional doubt development for our teachers and making sure

287that we have translation support for newcomers and the parents as well and then in goal three counseling very appreciative of counseling and the support that they received this year but of course the need continues to to really have even more support maybe some support a trauma support program um training for parents and teachers to understand the needs of the students and their mental health and then for their parents they're asking also for english and technology classes for their parents training in the areas of scl and mental health providing some type of incentives for parents to be more involved in school and also allowing them back at school on the campuses and then a lot of appreciation for the community liaisons and the interpretation services so that's from our middle school students i'm going to share

288a little bit of information from our panorama survey our spring survey and overall this is just the participation of a response rate that we had a little bit lower this spring than last spring um which i find interesting because now we're back in person it would seem we would have more but you know there's a lot that has gone on this year so we have seen some decline in some of these areas but sure that we'll bring that back up again so overall uh this is some of the survey um the areas that are out kind of align with our elf cap that i like to share you know the climate of support for academic learning um the knowledge of fairness and discipline the safety the sense of belonging the school connectedness um and then

289you know the for the students the staff and the parents um and you know overall you know there there hasn't been a lot of change from um the fall to the spring there has been some in some areas have gone down um what i did this year though was i wanted to share um each area but then i want to share the trends with you because i did find some interesting trends um for support for academic learning has been pretty consistent and you know the this is one of the areas that traditionally we get um the higher scores on um students staff and parents you know all tend to rate this higher which is great because that's what we're all about is teaching and learning um and you know in terms of trends when you

290look at this is a new thing that i was looking at this year's results over time this gives us five years of data um from this panorama survey and we've been pretty consistent in terms of parents and how they rate rate us in this area of climate of support for academic learning and then when you look at staff it's pretty consistent as well you know it does have a little bit of uptick here and then it kind of levels off but nothing drastic when you look at the students results over time this is what i thought was interesting was that this area here that i circled was during distance learning and it seemed that we did go up in ratings with students in elementary and middle during that um time of um um uh distance

291learning sorry i forgot the name for a second um so i thought that was interesting oops um to look at and maybe dig down a little deeper and and you know maybe because they were getting um some intensive support during that time you know we were just um we did have a lot of support during that distance learning time for our students and i mean i think seeing this data really shows um the additional type of support that we were giving them during that time not that it's gone down drastically but it did go up a little and then in terms of safety um in students um the one area that that i asked you to look at last year and it continues to be similar is this one area here in the middle that

292says they neither feel safe nor unsafe and we have 17 percent of students at the elementary um marking this area and then we have 32 percent in middle schools i think that there's an opportunity to dig down into this data and to see what it is that um you know is is having them rate themselves in this area as opposed to unsafe or safe um in terms of staff and parents um i i don't think that the um data has changed much over the years and again i did do these results over time for parents um if anything we've gone up a little bit over the years and kind of maintained in the 90th percentile for staff again here's this middle area during distance learning that saw a big jump and then hit when we

293came back to school here in the fall it went down a little bit again so that was interesting to me and then for students as well um for the elementary students went from to 72 to 75 and then when we came back to school it went back down again um so definitely an area that we can dig into a little more and kind of see what what's going on there and reasons behind that for school connectedness um in terms of staff and parents uh it's been pretty consistent you know throughout the years in the 90th percentile and when we look at students again we have this middle area again where you know yes some of the time i do feel part of this school and then for the middle school students neither disagree nor agree

294when you ask if they feel part of this school so those are areas as well that i think that could look into a little bit more and as schools desegregate their data and look into it they can look more specifically at grade levels to see you know if there's a certain grade level that is marking that area more often um boys versus girls and kind of drill down into those areas a little bit more and then over time parents have been pretty consistent staff again in that distance learning time went up in this area of connectedness and then students um the elementary students was pretty it's been pretty steady all along um but the um the middle school students did take a little jump here during distance learning time and connectedness so um in terms

295of trends and findings in this survey we ask parents and students to we give them an opportunity to um give us responses to these questions and these are some of the responses that i pulled out that i think kind of go with some of the ideas that came out in the input sessions um you know around mental care mindfulness meditation self-care mental health resources for all students would be very helpful reestablishing of you know uniform expectations and behavior was also spoken about um more extracurricular activities and programs celebration of diversity in our district which i think goes along with some of the initiatives that we have been working on a focus on anti-bullying education at schools and then regular training and support for our new principals in terms of students there was mention of watching

296out for bullies um awareness of and support for mental health improving our playgrounds and the equipment that they play with of course kids mention food and some of the fun activities that they would like to see included in their school day so overall considerations you know looking at all of the input that i received and looked through and kind of put together um again nothing that we haven't heard of some of the new things that i think that stand out are this need for the school day intervention support um probably the development of a multi-tiered system of support an mtss support system um let me see and then again back to the training for the parents and mostly in technology and everybody parents staff members and students all mentioned the need for more technology training

297for their parents um basic skills and use of the platforms um training in seo mental health and you know other things aren't very oh and then the plan for bringing parents back on campuses so that they could be engaged in in activities with their students so next we have uh in may a draft to the board i will also bring a draft to our parent advisory groups and share them some of the initial thinking we'll have the public hearing in june later in june we'll have the adoption and then we need to submit to the county office of ed by july 1st thank you very much all right any questions from members of the board i wouldn't take public comment if all right uh let's go with public comment yes mr board president we have

298gonzalez gonzalez you have two minutes please submit yourself when we get speaking the timer will begin good evening um i just want to say thank you um miss garcia for um for all the hard work that you'll be doing for the current engagement and for um listening to community and giving this um presentation i really appreciate everything you you and the staff and the rest of the team has has done within the forums and making sure parents are engaged within this process for not only this year but for the last years um i also want to ad and i didn't say that and maybe it's because parents don't really know about the acne studies programming and curriculum that is happening right now within our school districts um i just want to add um a comment

299regarding that like if we could add it within the lcaps um goals and next steps so this curriculum and program that we're implementing in that albus school district which is a huge success and i just want to say thank you to everybody that proved that um to continue and to actually give them um and to be actually being able to get funded through through that years um we know that the goal is to support and to uplift and to um bring um our i'm highly students which are the ones that are learning um about the roots the culture and and everything within the agnes studies program um once again thank you very much and i hope that takes in consideration and to be added um agnostic is my comment on acne studies can be taken

300in consideration and added to that to the outcome um have a really good evening thank you mr gonzalez mr board president at this time we have no more requests for public comment uh members of the board uh remember i know you had your hand over before yeah just real quick wanted to thank ms garcia again for her report and actually uh maybe i missed it but i think we just got the board cover i'm wondering if we could have that um presentation sent to us yes absolutely okay thank you that's all foreign yes uh well i do want to express my uh gratitude to sandra for all the work that her and her team have done in putting this together uh you know i have uh i noticed that uh in in the in your

301presentation you mentioned that there was a slight uptick in performance during distance learning and then um uh of course things have leveled out and you know i kind of faced this as a college guidance counselor myself but uh um do we suspect that there are um uh as as as students return to the classroom uh you know a period of trauma has sort of affected their how academic performance in yeah in ways that we didn't quite foresee right like for example um socialization classroom was stunted during the pandemic and then you know children come back and and some of uh some of my visits uh to the school site you know um uh you know we we've heard issues of children um uh having difficulty in uh regarding you know resolving their own conflicts and

302so forth so you know we have a sense that uh there are it there is a sense that you know uh despite the you know in spite of the uh hard work that we put in we are also you know i wanted to make clear that we're also dealing with uh psychological issue aspects of children that are beyond our control so if i can just comment first i want to clarify that the the data i showed you was the survey data so it was an academic performance but it was the rating of our academic program so that's that's where i said we saw the uptick so i mean definitely um i i mean i i'm not an expert in this field but that coming back to school has kind of been a little shock to

303everybody right so that's probably why you see some decline in some of the responses um but definitely something we can um drill down and look at a little bit more thank you very much for the comments all right see now then thank you for that presentation you're welcome um we've uh taken public commentaries we'll move on to item 8.02 um approval resolution number 38 2122 asian american pacific islander heritage month 2022 uh draw a motion for approval of this item motion motion by chavez second by second by our second say goodbye vice president farm do you have uh do i pull the comment on this item no public comment at this time mr board you know public comment that i'll come back to members of the board any comments from members of the board see

304now that i'll go ahead and call for voters i see you barbara hi board member board vice president palm aye uh board for circular aye board member travis hi all right so 49 motion passes all right uh moving on to item 8.03 is a resolution related to cinco de mayo is there a motion to approve motion by vice president 8.03 no public comment request at the same time all right motion by uh vice president palm second by foreign um any comments members of the board see none then i'll go ahead and uh call for a vote as i see you for remember hello hi board best president hi or clerk um 8.04 resolution for our national teacher appreciation week motion promotion by chavez second by vice president we have a public comment on this item

305no public comment for this item at this time it's real present all right seen on the call for any comments from members of the board uh come vice versa yes i i want to take this opportunity to express my uh thanks and gratitude to all all the teachers guidance counselors and certificated uh faculty and staff in the alum rock union elementary school district uh as i've always said um you are you guys are all truly uh the you know central casting uh our schools would not work day in and day out if it were not for you so thank you very much and i urge my colleagues to approve the resolutions all right uh aim into that code board member i just wanna um add to that you know thank you for your labor of

306love because you don't get paid enough absolutely um thank you for all that you do i remember all my teachers you know by name and you know just their different times in my life and how key they were in supporting my um you know my learning so thank you all for what you do and uh you know thank you for um each child's life that you touch in the ways you do all right if there's no further comments then i'll go ahead and call for voters i see you uh board member hi foreign myself 49 motion passes unanimously um 8.05 approval for the school sponsor field trip list sorry motion to sponsor the field trips list j um is there a second second second by vice president palm is there any public comment no public

307comment all right um any comments from members of the board see your hands up uh ward clerk [Music] okay vice president okay uh i i wish are happy to approve this i wish our students happy learning out there all right there's no further comments i'm going to go ahead and cover what does it see you remember but i know i board member more restaurants remember travis hi with my cell phone in motion passes unanimously 8.06 approval the quarterly report on the williams uniform complaints motion is there a motion there's a motion by board member chavez second bye is there a second second second by vice president palm is there a uh public comment nope public comment on this set up mr word president all right uh see no comment is there uh comments from members

308of the board see you now and i'll call you as i see you board remember i know hi board member travis hi my sophomore night motion fast unanimously uh approval of sp sp187 comprehensive school safety plan no tool proof second approval by vice president fom second by board member chavez is there any public comments item no public comment on this side of mr report president all right see none um and i don't see any hands up for comments members of the board we'll go ahead and call for the vote as i see you board member hi vice president farm hi we're clerk hi for remember travis hi myself we're not motion passengers went on to item item 9.01 csv chapter 305 and teamsters uh local 150 salary schedule correction this is for information only attorney

309member is there any comments from members of the public with regard to this item i see no request for a public comment at this time mr president comments from members of the board see now then we'll go we'll go ahead and move on to item 9.02 approve classified substitute favorites effective april 15th 2022 motion motion by board member uh there is no request for public comment at this time all right um do any comments from members of the board because board member travis you still have your hands sorry remind no noise um i'll go ahead and call for a vote given that i don't see any hands hi myself when i emotionally passed unanimously um item 9.03 resignations from information only is there any comments from members of the public no requests for public comment

310on this item all right see no repressed requests for comments from the public i don't see anybody's hands up here on the board we'll go ahead and move on to 9.04 which is approval resolution number 41-214-22 classified employees week may 15th through the 21st 2022 ocean motion by board member chavez is second by four vice president thumb any comments from the public no request for public comment on the site of support president see no comments from the public or remember travis you still have your hand up uh bourbon farm you have a comment yes just uh quickly um um a big thank you to all our classified school staff uh you know i mentioned you know teacher appreciation week in the teacher appreciation week that teachers were you know central casting our classified staff is

311technical theater uh nothing nothing nothing would function in the building without you but not just that but you know the cooks who uh serve our children in the cafeteria and uh was it the secretaries who uh who uh work us that you know in many ways that valuable liaison sometimes or many times become student and teacher the paraprofessional who keeps an eye out on a child who might be falling a little bit behind in the classroom uh i thank you very much for all your efforts and so i urge uh my colleagues to approve the resolution for the comments for members of the board all right uh thank you to all our classified staff for everything that you do you keep uh things running much appreciated all right um we have uh most of the

312second i'll call the vote did i see you bob board member behind them hi board vice president um board clerk hi what remember travis hi myself will you not a motion pass university uh moving on to 9.05 accept csca chapter 305 initial bargaining proposal to open negotiations for the period of july 20. july 1st 2021 through june 30th 2022. little to the proof i'm a motion by vice president second second by board member chavez comments from the public no request for public comment so you know for no comments from the public no further comments from members of the board i'll go ahead and call for the voters i see you board remember travis hi my cell phone right motion pass unanimously 9.06 approved new management position for job description bond program manager driver motion motion

313motion by board member travis second by ward vice president bomb there any comments from members of the public no request for public comment on the site no request for uh i don't see any hands up so i'll go ahead and call for the voters to see you board remember i don't know i or vice president palm aye clerk hi board member travis myself 49 motion passed unanimously 9.07 received teamsters local 150 initial bargaining proposal uh to open negotiations for you know 2022 through move 2023. the motion second motion by motion motion by vice president palm secondary yeah uh any of any comments from members of the public uh no request for public comment on this site all right see no further comments from members of the board i'll call you as i see you unless

314your hand indicates to make comments for remember travis sorry it's still uh all right um all right board member or vice president phone hi board member board clerk hi board member travis hi with myself 49 motion passes all right uh item 10.01 approved the springboard collaborative contract for school year 2021 2022 extended learning summer program double motion approved um motion by chavez second time by vice president any comments from members of the public no request for public comment on this item mr royal president all right um i don't see any hands up here members of the board so i'll call you as i see you board member hi we're vice president hi board circuit i don't know hi board member travis my myself 49 motion passes i approve of 10.02 move to approve motion second

315uh he beat you too forever i don't know makes a motion second but childish do you have public comment no public comment on this item all right jonathan hands up for members of the board so i'll go ahead and call you as i see you boy remember i don't know hi board vice president farm hi clerk hi board member chavez hi with my cell phone and i emotion pass unanimously do i have a motion to approve item 11.01 motion to proof secondly that was a close one i think we're trying to beat you to it all right um do i have any public comments no 9.01 public comment on this item mr president all right see none then i'll go ahead and call you as i see you or remember travis bye or remember i

316don't know hi vice president farm hi clerk i myself wouldn't i motion fascinating um we're on the consent calendar uh move to approve the entire balance of the consent calendar items 12.01 motion by from i believe i'll second i don't believe the motion was completed at the time of the proposed second so i will second the completed motion no request for public comment on this site on mr president then we'll go ahead and call you as a senior or remember hi vice president hi worker hi board remember travis hi myself voting eye motion passes all right at this point we're going to go ahead and resist closed session the board will uh resist the closed session approximately about two hours after this the stated time uh we're gonna reset the position approximately eleven and um

317we'll resume after closed session uh possibly tomorrow yes may i request the ten minute break yes i think that makes complete sense given the fact that we've been going for several hours straight so uh we'll go ahead and meet up in closed session at approximately 11 also we uh public comment on the closed session items oh yes thank you for that reminder um do you want to go ahead and announce items on closed session dr bauer sure uh item 1301 conference with legal counsel as stated on the agenda uh one potential case as stated on the agenda labor negotiations as stated on the agenda and 1306 public employee appointment employment a title assistant principal all right um we'll see you all in closed session at um 1109. so do we have quorum yet think so

318all right um yeah it looks like we have quorum um dr brower did you want to report out for closed session yes under 306 public employment employee appointment i am very happy to report that miss julia rojo miss primavera hernandez and christina sarina had been aboard approved to become vice principals in alamo congratulations ladies welcome to the team and effective july 1st of uh the next school year all right congratulations um is there any public comment on 14.01 no there's no public comment uh comments from members of the board i see your hands up uh verbatim or remember i just have an agenda item for the next the next thing not not on the side oh okay so there's no public comment uh go ahead and want to feature a board agenda request uh but

319remember i don't know yes i mentioned earlier this evening that um i was going and i've already spoken with dr bauer and president quintero i would like to uh request a report from staff about um any safe uh traffic safety education programs that we have used recently are currently using or may be feasible for us to start but i'll provide more specifics in an email to dr bauer and and president quintero thank you vice president yes i'd like to request um an agenda item to examine the feasibility of temporarily moving um the board to the russo mcentee cafeteria for the purposes of resuming in-person meetings all right uh board board remember travis uh i also asked dr bauer for a list of all the renters that oligarch has and being and what they're being charged

320a square foot and a very specific list meaning who's leasing how many do we have what property and what square footage and the length of the contract and every lease uh and if every lease we have is at market rate and and i will be sending that email to dr bauer as we discussed through our 101 and just to be clear that's not an agenda item correct it's more of a request for information uh okay and so then could i get that request and then i will formulate an agenda item uh that sounds good so shoot it over as soon as you have it ready um all right if there's no further agenda item requests then we'll go ahead and join this meeting at midnight 12 a.m have a good one everyone good night