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001yes he's not locked down okay um so we'll go ahead and move on with the land acknowledgment as we uh remember back in October we passed um to start every board meeting with the land acknowledgment um so I will um include that now and um include that in the beginning of our meetings moving forward we take a moment to acknowledge and pay respects to the First Nations people of the land upon which Alum Rocky Elementary School District is established the ancestral homelands of the moekma aloni tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area thank you uh Mr Quintero welcome I do see here on welcome okay um if you can all join me in the Pledge of Allegiance at this time I pledge of allegiance allegiance to the Republicans [Music] thank you moving on to item

002102 um part of the annual organizational meeting nomination and election of the board president I uh yes thank you I would like to nominate uh trustee Quintero for board president second by trustee fam um I know we don't uh take public comment at this time but any comments questions do we do that I don't remember no okay so we'll just go to the boat at this time I'll just call your name as I see you on my screen trusty fam I trustee hi trustee Linda Chavez no uh and myself obviously Mr Quintero doesn't vote right or he does he does uh and myself I so passes four to one um I will virtually hand you the gavel at this time and uh I will just pass on the facilitation of this meeting uh board president

003Quintero welcome thank you um all right so moving on to item 1.03 the annual organizational meeting nomination election a board vice president do I have a motion uh nomination for vice president uh but remember I don't know I see your hand race yes um if he would accept I would like to nominate trustee Min fam for board vice president I humbly accept emotions been made and it's been accepted is there another motion for vice president no second thank you uh Cena and then I'll go ahead and close nominations at this point I'll go ahead and call for a vote I was in um well I'll call you as I see you on screen uh board member yes uh board member Min Pam I board member Linda Chavez hi board member aye and myself I the

004motion passes all right uh moving on to item 1.04 the uh action is annual organizational meeting nomination and election of a board Clerk uh is there a nomination for board Clerk or member um yeah if she would accept I would um like to nominate uh trustee and pass over my virtual at this time pen um as clear as the clerk court clerk all right with the virtual nominations and of the the pen pass along um of um at this point is there other nominations for board click I I was second I was second for uh trustee Herrera loera's nomination all right I see no other nominations I'll go ahead and close nominations at this point I'll call for a vote as they see you on the screen I'll give me a second I'd want to

005double check um do we have uh Council not at this time all right all right I'll go in close nomination and then uh move forward with the with the vote uh all those in favor well sorry about that I'll go ahead and call call it fine as I see you board member yes board member Min Pam I remember Linda Chavez hi board member hi with myself voting I uh motion is unanimous all right there you go that um let's go ahead and move on to the uh action uh items uh 1.05 action approved and appoint superintendent as Secretary of the board is there a motion to appoint superintendent as Secretary of the board motion to approve is there a second motion by Chavez second by fam is there yeah at this point it's all right

006now I'll go ahead and call you as I see you is there any uh let me see a board member Min fam I remember Chavez I remember aye or remember yes and with my self-porting eye motion passes now all right um there is an opportunity for a discussion of modifications of the agenda under uh item 1.06 uh is there any modifications to the agenda that board members would like to considered all right seeing none then I'm going to go ahead and I'm gonna ask for a couple of modifications because we do have a couple of uh several special guests I want to go ahead and move some items over to the early part of the agenda so they can go ahead and um and be able to speak so I'm going to ask that uh

007item 4.06 to um media laughter to 1.0 after 1.06 that we hear 4.06 um excuse me can you repeat that I couldn't hear you sorry I'm asking that the board uh where we're gonna I'm asking that we move up item 4.06 which is a resolution for the Workman alone Federal recognition we have a representative uh from the tribe and I would like to take the opportunity to uh be able to have them speak to this item early on um and uh uh well remember you'll be okay with 4.07 following that uh yeah absolutely uh yeah oh give me a second um I sorry about that I was off uh yeah yeah all right number One never mind okay 4.06 and then 4.07 right after because there are other speakers as well that are possibly going

008to be uh showing up so uh is that uh is there a consensus yes all right discussion action modification the agenda um at this point is there a public comment hello board president uh we have one speaker uh first speaker is Karen McDonald uh Karen you have two minutes please submute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin people all right this is the time for us to do the comments for this is uh to speak specifically to the discussion and modifications of the agenda okay I didn't see it okay all right um all right so we'll go ahead and move on to seeing that there's no other uh of a comment go ahead and move on to item 4.06 at this moment um and um item 4.06 is the resolution is brought forward

009and the subject is approved the resolution and p20-2122 supported the restoration of the federal recognition alone Indian tribe of San Francisco Bay area at this point uh Jose would you be able to bring forward Charlene esport president foreign you're now a panelist um and I'll go ahead and recognize you uh briefly I just wanted to introduce the resolution and uh Charlene can speak more in depth to it this is uh Alan morocc's effort to lend support to the efforts of the re-recognition of of the of the Ohlone tribe Charlene uh feel free to um uh step in and provide uh further details yes um thank you uh thank you all for having me on this evening and and um hearing our plight you know for federal recognition and actually considering uh providing um a resolution

010and a letter of support um for our efforts um I I want to touch on why um and what federal recognition means to the molecma people um Federal recognition means access you know to Federal funding for health care housing assistance education as well as access you know to other Federal contracts and grants only available to federally recognized tribes um you know even though our community our moekma community is is stronger now than ever you know revitalizing our languages our language and our cultural practices such as our dances and our ceremonies without Federal recognition we will not be able to restore our inherent right of self-determination you know meaning self-governing ourselves on our our lands um our you know sovereignty was promised to uskma our distinct community in perpetuity and it was the government that broke

011those promises especially molecmas people um you know our goal is to keep our people in our 10 000 year old ancestral Homeland and to do that we need Federal recognition no because of the cost of living in the Bay Area is pushing us further and further away from our homelands and I again I want to thank Alum Rock School Board for bringing this item and and and hopefully voting to approve um you know a resolution and a letter in support of our our sovereignty thank you Charlene I appreciate you making the time to come and speak and inform the public about um the situation that the uh alone you are facing here in the Bay Area um at this point I'll go ahead and take um board member I don't know what uh uh would

012you mind uh holding off to to after we take the public comment or do you want to speak right now sure I can wait whatever if it makes sense to speak right now let me know I can wait okay uh any members of the public wishing to speak to this item please do so now by indicating by raising your hand at this point I don't see any members of the public well say do you see anybody wishing and indicating their desire to speak uh no poor president at this time I don't see any public comment all right see none then at this point we'll go back to comments for members of the board uh we'll remember thank you um and I just wanted to acknowledge uh president Quintero um you know of you bringing this

013forward um and asking you to join in presenting this resolution and there was a no-brainer to me um I absolutely um believe in all of it you know I'm glad that we've uh already passed the resolution to include the land acknowledgments and you know all the things that we've already done um and you know I think this shows actions in that we're not just one of those that will included you know land acknowledgment and then check off that box um that we are really about uh making a difference and I'm doing what we can in order for um the Maloney to receive federal recognition um and so thank you Andres for taking leadership on this item um and including me to present this resolution um I as an ally of the Maloney you know um

014this is the least we can do and I look forward to um doing more you know as much as I can to support them in getting this uh Federal recognition so um I will happily and uh very um uh wholeheartedly vote Yes on this item thank you and thank you Charlene for being on this meeting thank you uh but remember yes thank you president Quintero so um my thoughts on this particular resolution is uh first and foremost I to to borrow a word wholeheartedly support this um Spirit of this resolution and and the intent of the resolution uh but before I'm I'm uh I'm say where you know well I guess I'll say that I'm I'm wary as a board member of us as a board um bringing resolutions that may not have at least

015as far as I can see at this time a direct connection to our students I think we're here for um to serve our students and our families and and at the end of the day to improve the academic um you know reality of our district and so um I'm not I couldn't tell you I don't know if we have a any more students in our district or um any that are officially recognized by the tribe but what I would say in order for the to make this feel more comfortable for me um because I agree with um trustee Elena that we should demonstrate that we are about the action behind I mean I don't think we should just put resolutions just to express an opinion um of abort of our board unless it's tied to

016something that's beneficial to our students um or or clearly beneficial so I would suggest or I would propose that we add a now um and now therefore something to the extent of the recognition of the moekma aloni will be intentionally incorporated into our ethnic studies program or something that we can directly tie this resolution and our support of it to the education of our students so that you know I don't I'm not comfortable mandating every class to have to you know follow a very strict set of guidelines or how they go about it but I think it's important that we go beyond just this acknowledgment at a kind of 30 000 foot level and actually tie it to our students so um I believe trustee Lord as the one who is bringing this resolution so

017I would propose that we add some language to directly tie um the the struggle and and the and the fight of the moek Moloney um to the education of our students through the ethnic studies program and for me that would I would feel more comfortable um in that this resolution is something that is tied to our students and not just and they're not saying that to minimize it when I say the word just but it's not just a statement by the board it's a statement by the board tied to the education of um the students in the district so just to respond to that um I I'm I'm I agree with uh I think I mean I just want to kind of direct us to what we passed on the 26th of October where it

018specifically highlighted some of the information that you're saying but I think we need to repeat it and that's fine we should um you know put that put language like that in there and then also maybe I would add um to submit a letter on behalf of the board um you know to be appropriate to Deborah Holland I believe would be the appropriate uh person to submit the letter to so it we can list the actions in there I'm okay or we can do it um and I think the only thing that I will mention as a descendant of the Regatta nation is that it does something when um you know our children are recognized so are there more Maloney I'm sure there are I couldn't tell you right now how many but the fact that

019we have um you know recognition for our indigenous peoples of this land does something for the rest of us who are um you know indigenous and so I know when I found out about that connection in my adulthood um what that did for me I can only imagine of our children in schools um when they learn about you know things like that and um really enhancing their educational experience and uh just building that confidence um and so is it directly related not really but is it related yes it is and I I definitely understand that we're not just going to be you know doing resolutions just because um but definitely you know ensuring that it does something for the education of all of our children here in alamat um but those are the only since

020I'll add and so I'm okay with adding it I don't know if um if if we need to add the specific language language now or um if it's actions because I know that you are okay with ensuring that I know it was covered on the 26th of October can you refresh my memory roughly what was the action that you're referring to in the 26th of October resolution let me go through it it doesn't have to be exact but just I don't recall specifically what the kind of action things were yeah let me let me and and while you're looking if I could just respond quickly um president Quintero um if that's okay just uh I think you mentioned it to me that it's almost a bigger picture thing too you totally stated it by saying

021that you know my opinion is that as a board I think we just want to be judicious about the resolutions that we bring um because I think our role here is is fairly specific and um and this is important I I don't mean to minimize this particular item it's very important and I support it I just would like to um tie it to the education of of the students so that it directly ties with our role as board members so that's it that's I don't know do you have a response really quick and I gotta get to boardroom Travis okay so is it okay to respond to yeah uh go ahead and respond so one of the whereas uh the lmrock Union Elementary School District is committed to enhancing equity and diversity and remains dedicated

022to providing schools with the resources and supports to advance the ethnic studies courses and curriculum curriculum so it's it's very broad it doesn't say specifically what the district is going to do um so maybe we need to include that it just you know mentions the ethnic studies curriculum but that's one of the whereas all right uh border Chavez Here Comes um when I first seen never seen item 406 the first thing I thought of what does this have to do with education and educating the Alum Rock students if it was about Reading Writing science math um I would be on board right away but I think we need to deal with matters of the district and not political um things that haven't directly correlated to the education of these children thank you um I'm gonna

023go ahead and speak right after superintendent superintendent just to remind the board in addition to what trustee and this is just to remind the board of what you approved October 26th it was um there's an a sentence saying that now therefore it be it resolved that the Alum Rock Elementary School District recognizes the importance of teaching Native Studies to all students and supports the district's ethnic studies steering committee ongoing work in making that a reality for all students and be it further resolve that the Board of Trustees of the Alum Rock Elementary School District those hereby acknowledge that the district schools and Facilities sit on traditional lands of the aloni people and the Board of Trustees further acknowledges with respect and reverence people thrive of the San Francisco Bay area and the stewardship of these

024lands all right I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to make my comments at this point so that I can go ahead and provide some explanation I brought this forward in collaboration with a board member and the intention was and it's based off of my experience in Alan Walker and the fact that I grew up and I went to school with uh members of the Illinois tribe that were students in Alum Rock I know individuals and families who lived here for Generations in Alum Rock uh and uh they are alone and so I'm basing that off of my experience and my knowledge of the and it's in line with what um what what it's written the resolution the acknowledgment that the eloni are here they never left and uh we are attempting to go

025ahead and support people who are part of our school district who are attempting to go ahead and erase that second class status that the federal government has placed upon the only tribe and so I have I I understand that there should that ideally in an Ideal World we'd go ahead and make a connection to a direct Connection in the classroom the connection is there in the fact that our students who are alone who are going to our classrooms every day uh would benefit from the recognition that the federal government should provide to the tribe and so the the connection the Nexus is is right there already in the students who are are attending uh our school district that we should be supporting much like um on Asian American uh uh uh month um the the

026Latino Hispanic Heritage Month uh similar to those resolutions that may not have a direct connection to uh education about no recognizing cultures and so in this way I do not find uh I don't find it inappropriate to uh move forward with the what the resolution as is because we are uh coming forward and stepping up and supporting a large-skill effort uh and it's not just us it's a lot of other organizations that they're asking support from and the greatest and most formal position that a board can take is through a formal resolution so rather than putting forward a letter signed by somebody from the district a resolution States the position of a public school board uh with regard to the request that's being made of the federal government by the Ohlone tribe so all right

027um I forgot who I was supposed to acknowledge first uh oh yeah so um again I don't want to admit I just don't want it to be miscon misconstrue my intentions behind this it has absolutely nothing to do with the specifics of this resolution itself um if if that is the kind of connection that you're making the Nexus that we do indeed have my wife Maloney students then I would um you know I personally would feel more comfortable if that was stated somewhere where it says it was like whereas students of Alum Rock this school district will benefit from the support or something along those lines or the first sentence of what Dr Bower said which we already approved um of something along the lines of um you know we let me let me help

028teach Native Studies and then my final just to close my comments um whether we decide to that that would be my preference I will support this resolution um regardless of what we decide but as I mentioned I think my comments um and I hear what you say president Quintero but I just want I just want us to be wary of or judicious like I said about the kinds of resolutions that we bring and not that this is a bad resolution again but just that we it's related to the work that we do as a board and if it's the relationship is there as it seems to be here tonight then absolutely we should um bring items and and stand up for those things and support them so let me help you out with this and

029hopefully this this uh will make you feel more comfortable this is the fourth where I ask Indian tribe was never terminated and their members still live in their average Aboriginal Homeland today which includes Alum Rock School District here area um working within their own Community to strengthen ties to local universities local government and Community groups and schools does that provide some a stronger connection yeah that's fine again I again I don't want it's not a the moekma Alone part of it is not the part of it that I'm kind of wanting to just put out there a little bit tonight so I support that and I will vote in support of this because of my support so I'll go in that language that would be good for me but even without it I would be

030supportive of the resolution uh all right so for the benefit of money management teaching notes um after Aboriginal Homeland if you could comma which includes Alum Rock School District uh working within their own communities local government schools and Community groups and I hope I didn't go too fast there all right uh board member Chavez uh to me this just isn't the appropriate platform thank you understood you stood against the previous uh resolution so I was not expecting support on this one all right yes okay thank you all for indulging me in this conversation I think that dialogue is healthy and it's good and uh you know I think that if we wind up with a better product if we if we're talking through so appreciate the comments uh at this point um I believe I

031was there probably on here previously on this item no no nothing we asked for it I don't think there was any public comment yeah okay all right uh Jose is there any public comment uh yes board President we have two speakers uh first speaker is Mr Victor Mr Victor Vasquez Mr Vazquez you have two minutes please send me yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening Alum Rockford trustee superintendent I want to just start by saying thank you for bringing forward this resolution that acknowledges the current people whose land we sit on and also the connection between Alum Rock and the Native American Maloney community it's almost Mayfair we we've been we believe that this is very important not just and it's not a political statement but rather an opportunity for you

032all to continue to teach our students what it means to have diversity and also be sensitive to the communities that sometimes are not heard in our in our neighborhood neighboring San Jose Community so I encourage you to like continue to move forward with this resolution and explore Partnerships with the Mike Maloney Community to bring forward the teachings and like not into the classroom or curriculum or to the staff as well because those students are very well also in our community not only here in Milpitas San Jose throughout throughout this area so I want to thank you for bringing forth this resolution to the board tonight thank you so much next speaker thank you Mr Vazquez our next speaker is Veronica Talton Miss Talton you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the

033timer will begin good evening board president board trust Board of Trustees superintendent Bower and community members uh tonight I would like to stand in solidarity with this resolution that is being put forth and I am speaking as one of the co-leads of the racial Equity committee for this District I think that the Erasure of indigenous people and people of color continues to occur this is not a political statement this is educating our entire School Community about the importance of acknowledging human life and our school sites sit upon the land of the moekma alone people many people live in the area where the mechma Ohlone people traditionally resided and whether there is only one student or one thousand it is important that we acknowledge the contributions of the moekma aloni people and honor the work that

034is being done of the racial Equity committee who does land acknowledgments regularly and the ethnic studies committee I find it very disturbing that there is any opposition whether little or a lot and I'm hoping that the education of what land acknowledgments are and the furthering of this for all of our students and appreciating diversity and inclusion will continue and I proudly say to those who know that I'm a racial Equity leader that Alum Rock has no pushback and that we acknowledge all human life thank you very much for listening I hope that this will be put forth thank you Miss Sultan our next speaker is Miss tilsa you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin foreign my name is Lisa Gonzalez I am a community organizer but I'm

035also a parent of two students in the Olympus School District I am here to say thank you to uh Corine and I'm president I'm Andres Quintero for bringing this resolution forward I am I am in discontent hearing some people saying this is political move this is not a political um there's not political at all these shows our kids every day that they matter that our ancestry matter and our culture matters this is a learning opportunity for our students our teachers and our parents to acknowledge the land that we've done on but also to acknowledge that our my work and learning um are still here are still present and I would like to Echo what everybody else said but also said this today is a learning experience for our students today we applaud um and Andres

036Quintero for bringing this resolution forward I can wait what else we can do when we talk about Unity we talk about bringing everybody together and talking about every single culture ancestors on the table thank you have a really good evening thank you Miss Lisa our next speaker is Caitlin ceremiento you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hi thank you for the opportunity to share I'm a teacher at Renaissance Academy at Fisher and we were fortunate enough to be able to help pilot the ethnic studies program this year and I want to say that I completely agree with all of all of you who said the importance of teaching our students about the Milwaukee tribe um like one of the last speakers said it doesn't matter if it's

037one student it doesn't matter if it's 100 students it doesn't matter if it's a thousand for that one student it makes a difference and makes them feel heard seen and valued and for all the other students who are not from that tribe not from that background and gives them the opportunity to learn why that person is important what is special about them what contributions their people have given to our society um with our ethnic studies teacher at Renaissance at Fisher Luvia Solis I want to give a shout out I'm super proud to say that our students are 8th graders at Renaissance at Fisher know about the Milwaukee tribe because they've learned about it and they are proud to talk about the land that we stand on um so I really hope that this resolution moves

038forward and thank you to all of the ethnic studies and racial Equity leaders in our district foreign for president at this time we have no more public comment all right if you know uh other speakers we'll go ahead and call upon uh if there's no further comments from remember the board we'll go ahead and call for a vote uh uh board member Madam I just want to make it clear that I don't think this is a political thing I'm not sure um how my my colleagues are feeling about I just um to the to the comments that we heard I think it's important that we connect things to the teaching of our students this is certainly whether there's one student a thousand or zero as the previous speaker said it's important that everyone learns about

039it and that's why I just was wanting to be intentional about including that but I um I support it so that's it thank you all right uh for the comments for the board so you know that at this point I'll go and call for a vote I'll call you as a CU board member fan I board member Chavez no board member aye hi and with myself well now this motion passes four uh to one um with uh Chavez descent all right all right uh moving on to item try it on 4.07 give me a quick second I'm trying to scan and see if there's can I make a motion to approve not yet I'm not taking motions at this point um I have uh uh a guest who um was going to go ahead and

040speak to this item sure uh Adam are you here no if you are raise your hand if not then I'll go ahead and touch upon this item right now and uh we'll go ahead and move forward um item 4.07 is resolution for the uh designation of the Mosaic that is uh housed at uh we used to be San Antonio San Antonio elementary you can actually see it uh in my background it's a mosaic that was built in the late 60s uh by students and um one of those students was going to be here uh to go ahead and speak about his experience I mean actually helped him build the mosaic um there was a in a um an individual who was part of this and she submitted her testimonial writing so I'll go ahead and

041read her letter uh for the amendment for the board good morning uh good evening honorable members of The Honorable board members my name is uh we're not being able to attend this evening uh this this evening's board meeting to address my voice of why the Mosaic San Antonio elementary school strawberry should be protected now the second uh greater when staff invited us the students to be part of the building of this Mosaic I did not understand its meaning its purpose or its Mission but one thing for sure was when this project was done how product felt that had been part of it As I Grew Older I had my kids introduced them to the Mosaic I told them how productive I I felt that my little hands have been part of building this beautiful music

042then I did the same thing with my grandkids my oldest grandson said it doesn't surprise me grandma because that is how you've lived your life doing community service his words hit me and I realized that I had lived my uh my life doing community service I worked as a teacher's aide for eastside Union High School District for 12 years helping students working with parents teaching ESL classes I then went to work for the city of San Jose district 7 for nine years with the community liaison my job was to organize sorry about that my job was to organize the neighborhood so they would be heard and get the services they needed and they deserve after I finished 14 years of service at the county of Santa Clara working with our elected officials continuing the same

043kind of service but for instance we're so right it's like a quote by Alex Haley in every conceivable manner family is the link to our past pretty sure future truly this Mosaic Mission influenced me an impact in my life can you imagine how many other students might have been impacted or have been impacted in the past 57 years uh it's more than a mosaic it's history exposure Enlightenment and inspiration for generations to pass its mission on to the Future Generations the family is linked to our past pretty sure future if anything restorative thank you for your time on this very important issue may you make the right decision because you're you're in a position of continuing great work so um I introduced this item I think that uh the Mosaic is important um and it

044is uh necessary to go ahead and protect those things that uh denote and uh let us know about our past about our our community unfortunately in recent history we've seen in recent times we've seen the uh The Disappearance of murals all over the east side uh from one day to the other they're gone this is a mosaic so they'd have a little bit more trouble uh getting rid of it too fast nevertheless uh because of uh The Disappearance of mosaics I thought it was important to bring this forward I brought it forward a while ago but uh probably a year year and a half ago or two years ago I lost track of time here uh and uh it hadn't moved forward so at this point I'd like to move forward on a standalone basis

045I hope that my colleagues have read the the resolution and uh are aware of the protections that I'm asking for uh it's a significant um you know artwork and as you've seen in the testimony for somebody who was there when it was built um and uh and somebody who in in many of us who passed by and have seen it and have been inspired by it I think it's important for for it to be protected at this point we'll go ahead and welcome comments from members of the board I see board member Chavez as her hand up board member checklist I'm happy to say that this was done by Alan Rock students and yes I would be supporting this and um I asked Dr Bauer about this one that we make sure that all of

046the uh languages in the uh contract to protect it should it later on be rented out or something thank you uh board membership is just a um respond to that one of the Clauses here clearly uh speaks to that and this is be it for the resolve that any and all protections and requirements outlined this resolution show apply to said mosaic by the Union Elementary School District and any more potential future tenants of that particular address just through FYI on that uh boardroom yes okay thank you Mr President uh you know I too want to add my uh voice in support of this resolution I believe that it's important for this District to be mindful of its history and this Mosaic represents a point in time in this District's history when uh you know uh

047the the Latino Community um grew and uh uh became a this uh uh was a distinct uh part of this community and I think that uh that moment in time should be preserved for future generations and also uh I wanted to note that uh this is also a piece of work a piece of artwork by students of the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District and uh where we are able to preserve uh unique pieces of artwork by our students um we we should Endeavor to do so not not just out of the preservation history but also uh as a teaching uh teaching tool uh for our future students who are so artistically inclined thank you very much foreign but you're on mute thank you um so yeah I just want to add uh uh I

048want to say thank you uh or president candeto for bringing this forward um you know as an adult now um and member of the east side for a long time I can think of um other you know murals that were unfortunately um painted over you know of deals that that put their love and um medicine onto those beautiful walls you know and I would hate for any more to be gone you know that my daughter wouldn't be able to see those or experience those for our future Generations so um I will definitely support this and um just with that I'll make a motion um to support this resolution at this time oh oh all except that motion is there a second we'll continue the discussion amongst board members uh board members yeah um I want

049to first and foremost thank you president Quintero for for bringing this resolution not only the resolution itself but in reading through it it's it's very thorough it's very well thought out um and I think that's important for something like this because should it ever come down to it you know we want to make sure that we have robust language and and a robust um you know proposal here that would that that would guide the decision that would be made at some hypothetical future point so thank you for the work that you put into bringing this to us um I you know for on a personal level for as a young person you know I always know of and and this is this is the you know part of what you would say is part of

050the East the fabric of the East Side um and so I know passing by I always felt that when I left to college or whatever like there's there's certain landmarks that any area has that ties you culturally historically to that area and this for us this is one of them um and I think that's it's important that we preserve these that there was a to um comment that one of the murals that was erased um on Sunset and Alum Rock at a building there um at one point I worked with at-risk youth in that building and we actually um had a lot of our youth or youth that were in programming there I should say with us um and they were the ones that painted that mural myself and a bunch of you know youth

051that we had who excitedly and proudly painted that mural and and it hurts me to this day that that's not there you know I'm getting chills right now just thinking about that and so with you know the influx of new people potentially coming into our area with development and all the things that we may be foreseen in the future it's critical that we um do preserve those landmark pieces of our area and there's not many school districts I don't think that can say that they actually have one of those landmarks as part of their district and and so for those reasons I think it's imperative that we um do something like this and I'll support this resolution tonight thank you for bringing it all right um all right uh is there any oh you know

052what I I did not take public comment yet correct what's that do you remember correct uh President we have not taken uh thank you at this point uh there's a motion there's a res um there's a motion and a second I'll take public and at this time I see uh one speaker you have two minutes please I meet yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening members of the board Theresa Gonzalez once again I just want to say thank you um president Andres Quintero for bringing this forward for our kids and I work and our community it is important to preserve our history is important to preserve our art and um art that represents our community I have I have seen also several murals that have been erased um or painted over

053and it erase parts of us so I just want to say thank you thank you for all the trustees I hear your comments thank you for first for um supporting this motion and um that's it thank you Miss Lisa at this time we have no more public comment all right Doug before I call the vote I just like to appreciate the support that I've heard thus far um I'd like to speak to the Mosaic myself I'm uh San Antonio was my elementary school and uh the words there that are at the bottom were in Spanish and they were uh words that I could read uh and that I could understand as a kid because Spanish was my first language up until I was in the second or third grade is when I although I was

054born here in the east side uh Spanish is my first language and I didn't speak English until I was in the second or third grade in where I can perform like fully you know get the language and so it was very welcoming to see those large words in Spanish as you're walking into your school that you belong At This Place acknowledges Your Existence in your culture and so for me it's very very important that future Generations have that same ability to be welcomed into into this area into to that school um all right thank you very much at this point I don't see uh comments from members of the board uh and so Xenon then I'll go ahead and call for a vote I was calling you as I see you board member Pam I

055remember Chavez hi I remember I don't know what I'm board member hi uh with uh myself winning I the motion passes unanimously thank you for the support uh moving on to item number two uh request to address the board this provides members of the public opportunity to speak to the board about any matter under the jurisdiction of the board not otherwise on the agenda those who wish to address specific agenda items will have an opportunity to do so when the agenda item is introduced and presented during the meeting individuals wishing to speak or requested to submit a comment I guess when we're in person um or raise your hand uh on the on Zoom um there's a two minute timeline for each speaker the board of automatically for two staff any formal written requests that

056are brought before them at this time written matters may be placed on a future meeting is there uh members of the public wish you to speak if you do please raise your hand we'll say please uh take a public comment yes for president at this time we have one speaker first uh or our only speaker is Miss Sandra Miss Sandra you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hello thank you very much for your time my name is Sandra Coons and I am a fourth grade teacher at Hubbard I would like to speak about the importance of having smaller class sizes as well as establishing a limit on the number of students for fourth grade and above in Alum Rock despite the declining enrollment that is challenging our

057district fourth grade at Hubbard is currently at capacity we have two fourth grade classes with 31 students and a fourth fifth grade combo with 28 students and fact for quite a while this school year I had 32 students I have students reading at the kindergarten level all the way through students reading at a fifth grade level this is not atypical based on my nine years in Alum Rock as a fourth and fifth grade teacher I see this range in levels on a regular basis as a teacher I do differentiate and I use small groups but there is only so much differentiation I can do with small groups my back table only seats five students that means I have to have seven small groups this year and I would prefer even less this year due to

058covet and safety protocols I am doing a great disservice and dishonor to my students because there are simply too many of them with too many needs all of our classes within Alum Rock should have additional human support like Perros in our classrooms we don't need just more programs we need more people and I'd like to take the last few moments to commend and thank our administrators Jonathan natividad and Olga Martinez for the amazing support that they have been providing us this year despite being in classrooms subbing most of the time I cannot imagine getting through this year without their help and their support thank you to them both and thank you to all of you for your time and for listening thank you Miss Koontz our next speaker is Jessica levodi miss livoti you have

059two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin foreign hello can you hear me now yes perfect um yes I'm Jessica levodi I am an rrsp teacher at Linda Vista I am a and here to address the board and Dr Hilaria Bauer to stress the importance of settling our contract and as you probably all know we are now work to rule as a district and it is imperative that we settle our contract for smaller class sizes safer schools and a better wage a living wage who wants to come to one of the lowest paid districts and teach a when inflation and is going Sky High we need our piece of the pie you are getting over five percent in Cola every year you are increasing your save your savings as a

060district and we deserve a piece of that you can't keep cramming our classrooms full of students and telling us to take professional development when you're not giving us the support the supplies and the Personnel that we need and so please settle our contract and to piggyback off of Sandra Kuhn at Linda vesto we would not be where we are without our principal Mr Gomez he's been nothing but incredible during all of this subbing supporting us and so again settle our contract so we can have a hopefully a better remainder of the school year thank you thank you miss livoti our next speaker is Danielle Banderas Ms Banderas you have two minutes please submit yourself you begin speaking the timer will begin down hi um good evening board members Dr Bauer and the public my name

061is Danielle d'ambrosio teacher at Lindale for this is my 21st year of teaching um I would like to say many things tonight and the first thing I would like to say is that at the last board meeting I did not appreciate the tone about changing The Narrative of what is happening in Alum Rock so we have a side of Alum Rock where let's say my fourth graders for example are I have half of my class in band we have the best music provider the best art teacher the best PE prep provider we have little Heroes we have happy students we have happy Parents they are learning and thriving yes that is all happening um but there's the other narrative board members and Dr Bauer where I've been here 21 years and this is 21 years

062of the same when it comes to bargaining and negotiating and you always make us beg for it you don't have a leg to stand on when the state gives you the cola of 5.07 ongoing that keyword there people ongoing and then next year another projected 5.38 ongoing on top of the 5.07 so it's really not a good look and if you would like to change the narrative start tonight have the conversation let's get this settled fairly this is becoming just not okay and I would also like to say I also didn't like the tone at the last board meeting of like yeah well if you have to move or you have to leave or you have to quit like do what you need to do and do it for your family like yeah I get

063it what are you going to do when you have teachers leaving in Mass Exodus and you can't get anyone to work here attract and re thank you miss the Ambrosio our next uh speaker is Gail larocca miss larocca 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 okay good evening hi um I've been wanting to talk to all of you for many many times um I've spoken and I'm glad I have the opportunity um what the last speaker the teacher I'm a teacher at Meyer Elementary I'm currently uh independent studies um teacher uh but like she had said um she taught for 21 years I've been in this District since 2008 I started teaching in 1996. we as as

064teachers and classify everyone we should not be begging for a race or begging for smaller class sizes we should not be begging for our blacktop to be fixed when we have teachers falling and getting hurt um I have fallen and gotten hurt a couple years ago uh because our blacktops are not being fixed safety conditions are important teachers are important all employees classified but what I literally was asked to move and he like she had said it's not okay I was raised and born and raised in this area I grew up in Camion Park I am Mexican-American and proud of it I am bilingual and we all and it doesn't matter who we are where we're from but the teachers they are awesome at Round Rock they give all of their best it doesn't matter

065um that um I'm sorry I'm losing my losing track as I haven't talked in a long time but um please don't make us beg for for respect um I had to move and my rent went from 1800 to 3 100 and it's not okay and I wish you would just and when I was so happy to see a new board come on board and you guys were doing the same old same old um it's just a result it's like why aren't you changing your tactics why aren't you showing respect they beg us to come back parents want us all to come back there's a global pandemic and yet we are still being so disrespected and it's not okay please please help us all thank you Mr Brooker our next speaker is Nathan lefkowitz Nathan you

066have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hi so I just want to say thank you to the board for giving me this opportunity to speak um the reason I'm here tonight I'm a new teacher here um and I just really want to say that teaching has been one of the most rewarding experiences of all the different jobs I've done however right now I just want to emphasize that right I am incredibly anxious and I'm also incredibly heartbroken and the reason I use those two words is because I am feeling right now hearing all these Educators speak who have been here for 20 plus years say that the same thing is happening over and over again that makes me feel like a I'm nervous for my own position and

067B I'm heartbroken for the students it doesn't make sense for somebody like me to stay in the district where teachers are saying that they are being treated the same way over the course of 20 years you are not going to keep new members here the problem is with employer retention you are going to have to continuously retrain and re-educate the same types of people every single year that means you're going to see the same exact problems and you're going to the same exact issues until you change your tactics if you don't change and you don't adapt to what people are saying people like me who are new are not going to be motivated to stay if you continuously lose those people you are not going to be able to make effective changes having and hiring

068new employees every year is not an intelligent smart or reasonable business idea no matter what you are doing if you're a forming company or if you are doing sorry or if you were doing uh School management so the fact is if you want me or anyone new to stay you're going to have to change your tactics and respect Educators and make the changes that they are demanding the fact that I see 20-year veteran teachers say that they're begging over and over again lets me know everything I need to so I just want you to take this a note and say that this is somebody new who enjoys teaching who would like to stay but can't because it doesn't make sense thank you for your comments our next speaker is Karen McDonald Miss McDonald you have

069two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin thank you superintendent Bauer and Alum Rock board members for allowing us to share our comments first let me say that I am a woman of faith I believe in one God and I follow Jesus I lead with this because this impasse has created a conflict in future actions and created one more area of discernment for me I mean the teachers already have about decisions to make every day and this is an ongoing problem for me when we taught from home there was no question that teachers would teach past the allotted Zoom time that we would buy the tools necessary to do a good job to upgrade our home Wi-Fi so that there won't be so much dropped calls to post letters to

070our students and come back in April at the request of the school and its community we didn't wait for administrators to reimburse us or give their approval we did it for the best interest of our students we did these things because it was the right thing to do not because it was safe or even convenient but but because we cared and we cared about our districts back working this long without a reasonable cost of living increase is disappointing when I met with you Dr Bauer in June you may or may not remember that I did not come to you with a list of complaints I simply told you the list or the status of how the year went you probably don't even remember me but now as you and the board make decisions about having

071our backs I have to be candid and say it does not feel like We Are Family but as a God-fearing woman I will just say this I will forgive you for the bad decisions and the wrong treatment that the employees are getting right now and I will pray that your hearts may be softened to do come to a quick and reasonable resolution thank you thank you Miss McDonald our next speaker is Nicole Versace you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hello uh hopefully you can hear me my name is Nicole bisatcha I'm a one of five art teachers in the school district and I'm very proudly at Joseph George Middle School um I love my students I love my colleagues I love my community but unfortunately I

072will not be able to return to the district next year and it is entirely because of the way the district management is treating me as well as all of my incredibly hard-working colleagues I could go to another District I could take my over 10 years of teaching and my master's degree in specialized education and I can go to another district and earn 25 000 more per year and be treated at least like a human and I've been thinking about this for a few years I've had many many many other people in the district tell me to get out while I can and this year I'm afraid I'm going to have to follow that advice because I have no other choice I love my job I love my students I love everyone I talk to on

073a daily basis and is absolutely breaking my heart that I can no longer afford to work here both in terms of my fiscal health and my emotional health so please consider what it takes to keep dedicated teachers around and actually be able to afford to keep this job thank you Miss Versace our next speaker is Stephen Lynch Mr Lynch you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin um okay I've unmuted myself the Alum Rock School District is failing at students and has been for many years every year we have a significant number of students who are extremely below grade level expectations in their reading ability this year due to last year's covid remote learning and even larger number of students than usual is way below grade level we

074need to address the ongoing ongoing lack of support for students who are needing extra help and especially those who need extra help this year what have they done to remediate the problems caused by last year's challenges how are they spending the millions of dollars of the coveted money to help our students I have seen no impact from the millions of dollars of covid money in my classroom the district office is now telling the special education teachers to tell the general education teachers to adapt and adjust their classes due to a majority of students now being below below their two great levels below grade level this is just normal I deal with this every year two grade levels below normal it's not okay the Alum Rock School District does not support its students nor its teachers

075sufficiently throughout my 20 years teaching in the Alum Rock School District I have witnessed incredible waste of the money that should be spent on students it is inconsible that the student that the school district does not support their students and teachers by not coming to a reasonable contract with the teachers union foreign we are here for the students I expect the school district to be here for the students too thank you Mr Lynch our next speaker is Veronica Helton miss telton you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening I'm a proud vappa instructor at George middle and Lindell Elementary and my very first time speaking at a board meeting was in November 2019 shortly after I was hired I shared how proud I was to be

076in Alum Rock and thank the board for their service though I've been deeply bothered with actions in our district as of late I still have hope that the district's mission statement will be upheld morale is low employee energy is depleted and the cost of living continues to rise while our salaries remain stagnant as we approach winter break in the season of giving and celebration I implore the district's bargaining team to consider students and employees the district has the power to settle the contract with area and to reduce class sizes maintain safe School environments and provide a raise for certificated staff please settle the teachers contracts for my students whom I love and show up for daily to retain colleagues who aren't fed up with working conditions but who will choose to stay to attract new

077and highly qualified qualified Educators to our school sites and for the principles of justice and fairness in closing I'll leave you with a quote from orator Frederick Douglass which reads if there is no struggle there is no progress those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground they want rain without thunder and lightning they want the ocean without the awful Roar of its many Waters this struggle may be a moral one a physical one or it may be both moral and physical but it must be a struggle power concedes nothing without a demand it never did and it never will please settle the contract for area thank you very kindly for listening and I'm still thankful to be a member a teacher in Alum

078Rock thank you Miss Hudson our next speaker is Amy Rodriguez Ms Rodriguez you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hi my name is Amy Rodriguez and I am one of the two District nurses at Alum Rock and I am very proud to be a member of the Alum Rock Community and to be taking care of the students and the community where I live and work however I implore you to please settle the contract I am proud to be a member of Aria as a nurse the ratio is incredible it's one nurse for every over 4 000 students we have more students with medical needs than we ever have before on top of everything else we do covid contact tracing we make sure the kids get health screenings

079we do all of the health care plans for all of the students with any kind of medical need from asthma to more severe needs such as diabetes and seizures I implore you please settle this contract and show the nurses and the teachers that we are worth it that we are valued that we are worth your time thank you very much thank you Ms Rodriguez our next speaker is Caitlyn sarmiento Mr miento you have two minutes please send me yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin foreign sarmiento I'm a second year teacher at Renaissance Academy at Fisher and a former student of Leicester Shields Elementary and Pella Middle School both in the Alamo School District having grown up in the east side of San Jose I've seen how hard Alum Rock student hard Alum

080Rock teachers work and strive to give students everything and more that they need to succeed but now being on the other side as a teacher I'm seeing how little these amazing educators are being valued by the district and I have to say as someone who really admired all of my teachers as a student before it's truly disappointing and heartbreaking to see this and to feel this how does the district expect to attract new energetic teachers under these circumstances let alone retain amazing teachers with 10 20 30 plus years of teaching experience teachers teach plan assess grade communicate Bond and care because that's what our students deserve that's what our community deserves and yet on the other side of it teachers are not getting good respect and the pay that we deserve so please I ask

081you to settle our contract and to think of us as humans and to think of us as people who deserve a living wage to get through these tough times especially this year thank you Miss heniento for president at this time we have no more public comments uh it seems like a couple of people raise your hand and yes please call me yes we have Miss Sandra Rivera Miss Rivera you have two minutes please submit yourself you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening board superintendent my name is Sandra Rivera I'm a TK teacher at Cesar Chavez 10 areas vice president I come before you tonight with a word tired now many teachers know there is no kind of tired like two days before Christmas break tired in any classroom but two days before Christmas

082break on a year coming back after a pandemic tired has a different meaning this year tea for me is trust right now it's trust that I'm lacking trust that my employer in my district is going to help take care of me and my family for all the work dedication and time that I spend with my students the eye is irritated that we're here yet again as my 16th year in the district I have signs with my children picketing almost every two years I can do a time lapse watching my children grow up on the picket lines in Alum Rock are run down not only our classrooms and Facilities run down but your teachers are run down and tired he embarrassed I'm embarrassed that every year I'm being forced to hand out pamphlets and papers and

083talk to my parents about the poor working conditions that we have here in Alum Rock but D has me a little bit hopeful and that's determined I'm determined to make a difference in this district and I'm hoping that this board is determined as we are please take this time and consider what kind of tired you want your teachers to be is it going to be trust irritated run down embarrassed or are we going to turn that tired into something triumphant thank you thank you Miss Rivera our next speaker is rander Randall barber Mr Barber you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin thank you board my name is Randy Barber I'm 19-year veteran in Alum Rock and uh the speakers who spoke well uh I don't have a

084lot to add to that other than we need you to make the commitment to us as teachers the same way you make the commitment to extending superintendent contracts over multiple years worth millions of dollars or getting automatic raises to YMCA or city year because quote unquote the rates are going up yes that's true costs are going up we all know it we need you to seriously seriously fairly settle this contract because you can hear the the you can hear the anger building and the exhaustion building and I hope you're hearing that we are willing to fight for our students so please settle our contract thank you I want to remind everyone that if you've already spoken public comments once uh at one point in time so if you've already spoken um you've already been recognized

085we're going to go ahead and move on thank you Mr Barber uh we're president and our next speaker is Elena Barron you have two minutes please commute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hello I have been teaching at Lindale uh for a few years now I've been with the district for close to 25 years and I just want to piggyback on what everybody else has been saying um I just want to say that the stalling of a much needed raise for teachers or raise the district can in fact afford is puzzling and it's almost as if a majority of you board members would like to support us but are somehow holding back now board members remember that you have been elected to serve the interest of students and a fair raise for

086teachers is intrinsically tied to the progress of students uh When We Begin work to rule the educated education of our students will suffer um maybe some board members don't want to go against a powerful person or people in Alum Rock by voting for a raise maybe board members feel uh that you will need the endorsement of said people in the future for political office or for some other reason maybe you want to secure future letters of recommendation it's puzzling to me I'm trying to figure it out that's why I'm asking these questions um but I will remind you you have been elected to Endeavor in the interests of Alum Rock students you have not been elected to secure your own business political or otherwise future please stay with the focus the students when work to

087rule comes out it's going to be pretty devastating we have you know different interventions we have different things that are are already stopping it's very serious I want to say thank you for how you brought up the beginning of your meeting by acknowledging so easily the muakma alone and yes they do indeed deserve to be acknowledged please see us in that same light as people who are working for the community thank you thank you Miss baroon at this time we have no more public comment um moving on to item 3.01 uh Alum Rock administrators Association we're here in uh Commons and Communications we have somebody from AR AAA yes we uh we have Miss Martinez hello good evening School Board trustees and superintendent Bauer I am Maria Martinez and I'm the past president of araa

088and the principal at Adelante dual Language Academy this evening I am happy to share information about what is going on at our Alum Rock schools this past month more of our schools held vaccination clinics most recently endorse that held their first clinic and as we speak right now uh Russo mcentee is wrapping up their Clinic as well this evening and when we return from winter break dorsa will launch their partnership with the get down through which will be able to provide hip-hop classes to students and dorsa along with many other sites have also just wrapped up fall intervention Cycles recently the parents and staff at Adelante II brainstormed and identified solutions for safety issues of the parking lot and drop-off zones we had a parent who donated some cones and right now students parents and

089staffs are working to make sure to be able to enter the school safely at Adelante one and at Joseph George Middle School the partnership with the envisioneers one of our Aces programs is hosting its first semester showcase tonight where students were able to share their project-based learning that they created with volunteers who worked to develop 21st century skills with our middle schoolers so congratulations to our envisioneers and also Adelante one and Joseph George Middle School have launched their partnership with Verizon as a bills School using the hotspot model with this grant we are able to provide to our middle schoolers our six through eight figures uh high-speed internet hot spots along with 30 gigs of data a month so that we can help close the digital divide so many things to Verizon for their partnership

090and recently Lucha hosted their rock painting party online for their December family night and the school provided materials and I know the students had a blast painting their rocks and connecting to their school value of kindness and speaking of being creative the arts for all teacher in Residence is in full effect to support keratin's vapa effort and also this evening there seems to be a very popular evening for events Cureton was able to launch their production of Annie Jr and that premiered tonight at 6 30. and uh lastly we want to encourage families to come to your child's School site if you haven't yet we are offering a free at home covid test kit that can be used to help make sure your child is healthy and ready to come back to school after the

091holiday so that is just um a tool that we are offering if you would like it and yes there are so many wonderful things happening in our district and we look forward to continuing to do great things in the New Year araa wishes everyone a restful and safe holiday break thank you foreign are you there all right Steve uh somebody from Teamsters shows up later we'll go ahead and call on you um at this point we'll go ahead and move on to item 3.03 uh California School Employees Association Sharon are you here or anybody from CSEA that is uh doesn't mean to speak Sharon yes I I am here can you can hear me I hope um good evening and congratulations on Mr Quintero on becoming our new board president and to all the other

092new positions for the board members good evening Dr Bauer um not a lot tonight I've read through the agenda in the book and and it looks very good and um I was real happy to hear Maria Martinez speak on all the new and wonderful things that are happening um I've read a few articles in the San Jose Spotlight that are negative and and I understand why and I am hoping that in the near future the area does get a um a fair settlement and and things can move forward but the one thing that they don't put in are all the good things and that's what makes it sad for Alan rock my children were Alum Rock students many years ago I actually graduated eighth grade from Alum Rock School many many years ago and um

093but it as um it does have a lot to offer and I feel sad sometimes that people are not aware and hopefully with um moving forward everybody can hear and become a part of and be active in all the good things and one good thing for me today I got to see my three grandchildren perform their Christmas program and they're six nine and eleven so that was very exciting and and um to see it's been a difficult season for my family and myself but I got to see the Christmas through my grandkids eyes and that does bring a smile during a difficult time so with that I would just like to say merry Christmas happy New Year have a safe restful happy holiday with your families and everybody out there stays safe and enjoy thank

094you so much right uh moving on to animal 3.04 Alum Rock Educators Association good evening um I actually have a couple of things that I wanted to address before I um before I get into my the ideas that I actually had prepared I'm not sure I was just sent a text actually from my daughter earlier tonight about um I'm not sure if you're aware but I think that you should be about the possible um social media Tick Tock challenge that's um scheduled for tomorrow um that what the was sent out to her school and and staff said that they became that they were informed that they were unsubstantiated threats circulating on Tick Tock regarding school Mass violence on tomorrow Friday December 17th hopefully you're aware of it I know the police are aware of it

095and that um you're taking whatever steps that need to be taken I appreciate that I know that we've had some challenging um incidences uh the a couple of the middle schools in the last week or two um and so yeah just so you're aware of this and it's on your radar um the other thing before I get into some of my what I had planned to say is that I I realized that you chose last year to do this new type of format for the board meetings um as a participant it it has a lot of um shortcomings for one of the things that if I I would like for you to reconsider going back to where we can actually see who is participating in the board meeting um even if we can't see faces

096if we could at least see participants names and number the number of people I have we have no way of knowing whether there's any more than the six faces that we see on our screen we don't know if there's 20 people here or if there's 200 people here so if there's a way that that could be modified or at least some time along the evening if you can let us know how many people are participating in this meeting it would it would be something that we would like to know so moving on um I was really hoping for a Christmas miracle this year regarding a settlement to our bargaining agreement but obviously that didn't happen now we are going to begin the brand new year of 2000 2022 in the same place which is not

097a very happy place uh obviously I don't need to explain that to you because it's your decisions that are holding us back from reaching an agreement yes I know it takes both parties to bargain a reasonable settlement but you're the side controlling how the money is being spent sure area could agree to an unreasonably or unfair low offer and move us out of stagnation after all we did it for the last two years and where did it get us it got the teachers uh to drop to the lowest end of the county and starting salaries put us in a place of unfilled teaching positions because so many people left our district and we have nothing to attract teachers to come to Alum Rock now it put many of our teachers in impossible Financial situations since

098the cost of living has increased dramatically in recent years as I'm sure you all have felt the same it has put our students in overcrowded classrooms with substitutes we're more crowd control is taking place rather than well the well planned out educational programs because either there wasn't a teacher assigned in the first place where the teachers have become so burned out they are getting sick both physically and emotionally and having to take some of their days off where have your proposals gotten us well we're now in fact finding our teachers will begin working to rule at the beginning of January which almost sounds like it's something illegal or unethical when in actuality all it means is that we're going to do what we're paid to do nothing more nothing less the good news for the

099district is that the settlements from the last two years of area receiving a zero percent increase to the salary schedule has shown a significant increase in the district's ending balance I could go on and on about how we got where we are but to be truthful I am much more concerned about where we are going to end up and I'm not just referring to our labor dispute I you I heard it from other teachers that spoke Tonight from One from a brand new first-year teacher in Alum Rock that really tapped into what I am have been worried about and and very concerned about moving forward I committed almost half my life to this school district it honestly means a lot to me in many ways both the good and not so good it has made

100me who I am I am genuinely and deeply concerned about what this the future holds for the Alum Rock School District and the students that we serve obviously we have been a part of many changes over the last decade and most noticeably since the kovic covet pandemic hit our teachers have done their very best to face the challenges but what I am seeing lately is really different they're tired at times distraught frustrated angry and as you've heard many of them are looking to not only leave Alum Rock but some are looking to leave teaching all together I hear from more and more of our season teachers not just those in the their first five years but those with 10 12 15 and more years of teaching who are planning to leave Alum Rock at the

101end of this year they simply cannot afford to stay here any longer especially when they can have their pick of districts and make a lot more money as again another area member mentioned earlier my concern that I'm sharing with you is I don't know if you have thought about what the situation is going to put the district in next fall when we can't get anyone to teach our students I'm not saying this as a scare tactic we don't need anything else to fear I am bringing this to your attention because it's real and it's something that you need to plan for it can't be ignored it can't be put off you may think there's a problem now but those problems are going to pale compared to what the future of this District holds if you

102continue putting the teachers at the bottom of your list of priorities I hope I'm wrong I I honestly hope I'm wrong but I've seen it coming and I see it escalating just ask yourselves if you were new to this area and you were looking for a teaching job what would attract you to come to Alum Rock why would you want to start a career here before any of the other districts setting aside the obvious Treasures that we have in our students I really hope that you can take a look at the big picture of where we are headed and where you want to be and what needs to be done in order for the Alum Rock School District to have a future in the meantime I do hope that you enjoy your holidays with your

103family and friends I wish all of you good health and happiness in the new year to come please take some time over the next few weeks and over if you're lucky enough to have a break to think about what kind of future you would like to see for this District thank you all right move on to item 3.05 superintendent thank you for president um for a moment I thought that I was going to pass but um uh I wanna wish um Everybody also a good and safe holiday um it's not going to be easy for me it's not going to be easy for me I was a teacher for 12 years and my daughter is a teacher and I'm an educator in everybody um has a very right now it's difficult to be a superintendent

104very difficult um I know that it would be very easy to just say do it it's over we all are happy and then we don't have enough to pay our what we have to pay it's very difficult to hear you know that there's a there's a perception that my contract is millions of dollars when it's not um and as a matter of fact it's not there's no money for that and the board will consider that it's very difficult to hear um the questions about what is being done with the money we have 22 sites um with 8 000 students and every time I get an email I get a call I get a text I take it with me because I do care and I do respect I might not say the things that want

105to be heard and I totally get that I totally get that we are in that process in a very difficult process of negotiating and I honor that process and I really from the bottom of my heart just wanna be very clear that this board and this Administration including myself honor and respect profoundly every single staff member that the fact that our finances are so challenging has never diminished the admiration the care and the love that this team has felt for each and every one of one thousand and two hundred staff members and 8 125 students in all of their families I do wish you a safe and happy holiday thank you all right moving on to item 3.06 for Christine's communication the comments uh I'll go ahead and call you as I see you here

106uh board member Mana yes thank you president I just uh want to briefly um acknowledge our past our past board officers particularly president my ex-president era and ex-vice president now president um Andres Quintero um you know it's it's diffic having been you know president the time before that I know how difficult it is to try to appease you know or try to um do all the things that you wish you could do and that you could agendaize and that you could pass and that you could direct staff to do you know I appreciate the challenge that that is and I guess right now I'm speaking more directly to ex-president era um and so I want to thank you for the the leadership that you've given us over the past year in these difficult times these

107challenging times um you know I I think I think I speak for myself I guess but I think I speak for the rest of the board in that you know we we wish we lived in a world with unlimited resources or even sufficient just sufficient resources to be able to do what we would love to do with regards to you know programming and Staffing and all the things that that everyone here in what I consider to be our Alum Rock family as a former student as a parent of Alamar graduates and a board member I consider this my alma family and I wish that you know there does come a time I hope there comes a time when things um react the reality is different and and decisions are easier but I know the challenges

108that you've gone through or you went through this past year and and yet we I think we've had we had a very successful year in spite of you know detractors that we may hear from externally um or you know that people who die out or or and sometimes very rightfully so have their opinions but you know that's the reality and and with that you know we have we were still able to move forward um a lot of positive things and I think we continue to in my opinion to change the narrative I always say you know there are things that we can improve on always and I don't um you know I'm not here to say that this district is perfect obviously we're not and I don't think any district is um but I do

109think it's important for the well-being of the district long term to highlight those things that do go well and to get that narrative out there so that the reality of all the things that we've talked about at infinitum throughout the months and years um is out there to those who who can then bring resources to the district who then can bring Partnerships to the district who can have the confidence in us to be able to bring those resources such that we then increase our likelihood that we can you know pass those those resources on it and hopefully change the way things look but um I guess to close it off thank you uh ex president and it's vice president um for for the leadership over the past year and I look forward to continuing to

110move forward in spite of all the challenges um and the realities that face us and the difficult to Impossible decisions that we as board members need to make um I'm still optimistic about where we can all go and and finally I just um Echo the statements of many that I hope that everyone has a safe and um reflective um winter season holiday season and and we can come back with Renewed Energy to the extent possible to try to work through things in the name of our students and families so thank you board member you gotta unmute yourself well pitfalls of of Zoom hit balls of Zoom uh first of all I do want to uh thank trust uh trustee Herrera loera now work and you know and you you and your previous role is uh

111board vice president and uh Krusty bejarano and his uh previous role was leaving this board through 2021 uh very very challenging year uh in in the in the entire existence of this District uh you know uh you know uh we thought we had a uh light at the end of the tunnel with the vaccines and it looked like uh you know the situation did improve but we still find ourselves in the thick of this pandemic unfortunately uh although in a much better place than when we were in in December 2020 uh so I I want to thank uh thank you and validate the work that you all did in um keeping this ship of the district going through a very very uh tough year uh I own I also wanna uh thank my colleagues for

112your trust they have placed in me uh in their by selecting me as vice president for this for this year uh you know I look forward to a constructive relationship I mean constructive uh working relationship with the board president and the board clerk who uh continue keeping uh keeping this District moving uh I want to reflect on the fact that you know even though we've had a difficult year we've still been able to do some good things uh we served six and a half million meals over the 18 the first 18 months of the pandemic and we are first we serve meals over the summer and we're still serving meals to this day so I'm very proud of the practice this community-based school district is still going above and beyond and you know as crucial

113Partners in the Alum walk Community for you know as it has been for Generations not only educating the children at Alum Rock but also providing a helping hand uh in tough times uh you know uh you also wanted to also note that uh you know uh though it was my idea I want to thank my colleagues on the board and the superintendent for supporting me and reclaiming our 90th anniversary which was delayed because at the run of the pandemic but we had an opportunity to uh commemorate an important milestone in the history of Alum Rock into oh you know show to our community uh you know that we have been there in tough times and uh even now as we are still in times we are still there you know in order to uh see

114to it that the children are better off academically at the end of the day and then when they came in at 8 A.M in the morning and also the fact that you know we are truly a community resource whether it be uh providing additional academic support and yes to to meals to people who would have had difficulties in uh keeping food on the table in such troubled times uh you know I also want to kind of make a on a good note report that you know I along with the uh trustee Jorge Pacheco in the Oak Grove District we lobbied the County Board of Supervisors to take the first step into creating a public broad public broadband internet service provider to uh ensure that we reduce the digital divide in this County and you know

115especially as it pertains our district where we have had issues with uh connectivity to you know get the county to step in to help resolve that so that our students can you know uh have that internet connection with this and also important to their educational experience and uh you know we'll score that uh tomorrow I will be embarking on my last you know leg of the my school psych visits which will mean that uh you know I will have visited every school in the Alum Rock School District before the end of the year so I'm excited for tomorrow to see the students and see the children and see the teachers in the classroom and hopefully get a chance to see the challenges of providing an education for our children and what we can do to

116support that and you know um I uh I know that you want to Echo that times are tough you know they are challenging but uh you know I I know that you know it's still a work in progress but I I am hopeful that we can we can get to a settlement somehow I you know I am hopeful that you know eventually uh the differences can be bridged and we can uh get to that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow uh so on that note I want to wish everyone uh my colleague on the board the superintendent Administration uh teachers classified staff parents and students of this District a happy holiday season uh as well as a safe one and uh we will see you all back in the new year thank

117you very much Mr President foreign thank you uh president Quintero so um it was an honor to serve this District as a president this last school year um it's been difficult as it's been said I'm not going to repeat it we're all feeling it whether we're governing this District or working in this District or a parent of this District we're all feeling it um as a governing board member as you all remember we started off making some really tough decisions you know involving schools and um uh 7-Eleven committee and um then you know at some point deciding if the children were going to come back to class you know were they going to be safe um I mean decisions that you know I don't wish upon anybody right and then you were all part of

118making those along uh with me and um we know that even though we're not exactly where we want to be you know um we're definitely in a much better place as trustee macarono mentioned um and he'll remember that when he handed the gavel over to me a year ago we were still um in a qualified budget you know we were still receiving those letters he was receiving the letters that I started receiving from Dr Dewan from the Santa Clara County Office of Education pretty much saying you know watch your budget your you know qualified and he received he's nodding because he remembers receiving those and when you receive those as a board president it's not just like another you know paper that you receive and you read I mean none of it is but those

119letters do something to you as a board president when you're receiving them um and the the responsibility that you know you feel and knowing that you know you kind of inherited that um and really you know didn't bring the district to that point but you just inherited um yeah I can't even explain what that feeling is but I know um and Chavez you also know what I mean and um you know I'm happy to report that I I became began you know governing as a president with those letters I received those letters and the last letter that I received was finally a positive so if you can if you can um and Chavez you can just imagine that you know receiving those letters and then receiving a positive like congratulations I mean it's one of

120those that I like wanna like put in my wall you know because it's not an award that we receive it's not a plaque but it should be you know considering everything we've been through as a district and so I just say that because I think we experienced some sort of Amnesia right like we forget those things that we've gone through difficult typical times um and as somebody mentioned I think it was Sharon who mentioned you know our district is continuously highlighted for the negative things and the negative and here's another negative it's almost like that's all we're looking for but I mentioned to that because that is a huge positive that we should all celebrate because we all were a part of that whether it was the teachers you know um as Jocelyn mentioned you

121know not getting a raise last year and yes that was a part of the decision making and yes it had to do with that um to you know and we all had a part in getting our budget into you know being a positive now so I mentioned that because um we get to remember that right and so just like we got into a positive we can easily put it back to a negative if we don't govern in the right way and make the right decisions so I know you know there's nothing easy coming our way you know I wish there was a wand and I wish it was like yes finally just because I had over the the gavel I continue to govern you know with as much Integrity responsibility as I've always have um

122so I know we still you know are in the thick of it you know we're writing those hard waves and storms but I know that we're gonna get through it um I look forward to you know coming to an agreement you know just like the teachers mentioned I look forward to that too um and you know for the best of everyone involved um and you know also other uh positives for this school year you know that I'd like to highlight um is that we open you know and and we didn't need to shut down any schools for any reasons our children our families our teachers are keeping our children safe wearing their masks um doing all that they can you know eating outside um hard decisions right but we're doing it and so congratulations to

123everybody you know um who who's been putting in their part um it's been a blessing as to an honor to serve the district you know I was able to finally visit all the schools not as thorough as trusty fam you know uh working full-time in the Emergency Operations Center having a teenager myself and putting um the focus in my home first my priority because there's no way that I can be saving the world or advocating for all you if I'm not doing it within my home so doing my best to balance all of that um but I was able to at least visit every school touch bases with the principals I look forward to going back um and then beginning our strategic planning you know almost completing that you know which again you know it's

124continuing to take our district to the next level to move it forward to push it um you know and and and come up with goals with our community entire community that are going to be best for our children um and and everybody that you know staff and families um and completing our governance book that we started almost two years ago right finally last you know meeting we were able to finish that having new partners as wejrano mentioned that want to invest in our district you know that want to invest I want to bring money and bring it and leave it here and add you know I'm very different than it was when uh you know when I came to this District as a parent um it was the opposite right the resources were being taken

125and so I mean that shift um I'm happy you know that we're here I'm happy that it is where where it's at um I know it might not seem like it it might not feel like it at times but I do want to highlight all of those things because that is exactly where we're at where we're at we get to celebrate um those accomplishments because they're huge and we get to continue to govern you know sometimes it's not easy um to make those tough decisions but to continue to push you know our district forward you know through this storm so that eventually we can you know enjoy the sunshine um and uh you know and and look back during these times and say you know we did that we were there and we pushed through

126so thank you all again um thank you board president for allowing me the time um and thank you for also governing along with me and um having my back when I couldn't be there as for vice president to support um and thank you to the rest of the board also for continuing to govern um with me during these tough times well remember chocolates okay I'm gonna make this short and sweet I just wanted to say to the teachers and the staff um that you're caring your thoughtfulness and educating the Alum Rock students is appreciated and I've heard from parents and students and how they appreciate the teachers and all the people that work together to try and get the education to the students and and are successful and sometimes not always successful but um we're

127working on it and everything is a work in progress and everybody is valued everybody doesn't always recognize it but I just want you to know um and say thank you that's all right um I uh wanted to thank uh board president former board president for her service to Moroccan leaning through some tough times and you know along the way also uh remember I don't know who also was there during some very very difficult uh times when we started having to adjust to to a new reality that none of us had faced in our lifetimes probably hadn't read about it before um and uh very much appreciate your service during that time in addition thank you to all our teachers um to our classified staff to um the teachers who are out there maintaining the facilities

128are keeping them up and running um to our child insurance and service folks okay everybody who's doing their part to uh keep things moving moving ahead during these times of uncertainty you are very much appreciated the work that you do is is invaluable and I want to thank you for that I understand that there are negotiations times are tough during during negotiations and obviously I'm as I've stated before I don't negotiate in public I don't think it's right um I you know I I know that your your uh your uh bargaining team would also agree with that that negotiating program is not appropriate um and so therefore I won't but I I do want to as one board member uh state that my position has always been that Administration needs to bring forward the best

129uh and the most um the mostly we can provide while still staying fiscally solvent and that's been my my position as one board member in my my direction as one board member um obviously the the board has to act as a as a majority um but that's always been the case and I and um I'm confident that uh Alan Rock's besties are ahead of us and that we will come to a resolution that is that that allows us to move forward that is fair that allows us to continue uh moving the district forward so um I wanted to thank the I know that board member Pam alluded to this but uh we had a opportunity to speak on behalf of the the municipal Broadband now that the county is moving forward thanks to the leadership

130of supervisor Chavez and supervisor allenberg who brought forward this idea of uh something that we've constantly been been perfect to are we actually been able to observe it in our board meetings for one of our board members is constantly having issues with Wi-Fi with internet connections and as a result of of those issues that are not isolated to the neighborhood where or one of our one of our colleagues resides in there are Pockets out there that don't have uh enough investment in our community and so therefore the counties taken upon itself to explore these opportunities that new legislation has brought forward uh to beginning Municipal Broadband operation that will allow the county to install that last mile of cable to give really fast internet uh speeds or provide the service itself and so I'm very

131excited for what the future holds for for those areas that were without um some people might think uh Broadband is a luxury it's not no longer a luxury it's necessary in order to be able to access health care in order to be accessed possibly access to food in certain instances all that information uh is now primarily being put out through through uh through the internet and therefore yeah it's now a necessity conducting government business uh sometimes requires you to have access to the internet in order to get it done quicker or to get it done at all so um very appreciative of evolution that they've taken to move forward on that um at this point um I'll go ahead and move on to um uh item 4.01 the approval of the proposed meeting calendar for

132uh um we have the proposed me calendar before us uh Dr Bauer are there any changes or anything that came up as a result of since the posting thank you board president uh the staff is respectfully requesting the board to move the January board meeting regular board meeting to January 20th there are some years where the holidays are too close to them to the regular board meeting and it doesn't allow staff enough time to process the appropriate backup to the agenda so if you are okay that's that's one of those um requests we have um I believe there was another request in July um because we have back to back recall we need two meetings in June and I'm going over the the calendar right now for July July 14th yes because there is that

133week of July the 4th and people take off and things like that so and we just finished with the board in that that El Cap meeting at the end of June so between June and July remember the July meeting is where we have all those major contracts that we bring to the board that it's a lot of them right and so to prep for the backup is so that's that's what the the the staff is asking respectfully if we can move it to um the 21st July 21st all right so those are two January 20th July 21st or the proposed changes um any uh comments I'd like to make a motion to approve it with uh the January 20th and July 21st uh edits yeah a motion there's a second second uh second by board

134member um further comments from the board seeing none that I'll go to comments for the public so are there any comments for the public at this time we have no public comments all right uh see if there's no public comments we'll go ahead and uh I'll there's a motion and a second on the floor already uh if there's no further comment from members of the board then we will go ahead and call for a vote uh Boardman Travis oh you just put your hand down all right um hi uh vice president aye uh board uh board member at Illinois hi yeah with myself avoiding I uh proven honestly um all right moving on to item 4.02 45 superintendents contract for the period of July 1st 201 through June 30th 2025 um is there oh um

135uh I just moved to uh ratify superintendent's contract for uh the period July 1st 201 through July 30th 2025 all right is there a second a second all right uh the motion has been uh made by board members seconded by foreign so do we have a comments from members of the public or president at this time we have no public comment all right uh moving on uh we'll go ahead and call for the there's no further comments from members of the board I'll call for the vote uh board member Chavez no excuse me no wait wait you said hi so I'm gonna take that person I was trying to suppress a cop so it's a no and I'm even gonna say no again all right so um [Music] uh got me thinking now I uh

136we're more fun I board member aye myself putting eye uh the motion passes at four uh to one uh uh with Chavez descent all right um item 4.03 discussion consideration to approve resolution uh 19 21 22. authorizing remote virtual teleconference meeting of the board and the district committee subject to the brown act for the period of December 18 2021 through January 17 2022. um uh I see Hands Up by former Chavez uh motion to approve uh but remember I don't know oh and I was going to motion but I'll second it to me in my estimation there's been no changes in the circumstances since the last month all right we have a motion and a second I'll go ahead and accept it for the purpose of discussion board member members do we have comments uh

137Mr President might we go to uh public comment first and then okay uh all right uh if there's no further comments from members of the board then we'll move on to uh public comments are there uh comments from the public no public comments at this time all right 159 then I'll come back to members of the board any comments from members of the public from the members of the board uh yes I'll say it uh you know this is a uh as as much as it you know uh you know I I've made my views known about uh you know my that that I always believed that public business should always be held in person but you know I I do want to um you know let it be known for lack of a better

138term that uh you know to to all our regrets that the circumstances have once again changed uh you know well uh it almost feels like you you know uh one version of the coronavirus uh recedes and then another one pops up so uh you know uh you know as much as I would like to see all of us back in person you know the uh the safety of the uh Community uh of this District's Community kind of comes first so you know one once again uh circumstances have you know have have made it so that uh this item is once again a necessity all right for the comments remember to the board see none then I'll go ahead and call for a vote I'll call you as a team what remember Chavez I Vice President

139Palmer I remember I with myself 49 motion passes unanimously all right um moving on China 4.04 approval to appoint the board representative for County committee election for 2022 um at this point I'll go ahead and um and call for a of those Desiring to serve as the the electors for that position uh to make themselves known uh board member uh yes I would be interested um in in this item uh aren't if there's no no one else um expressing interest and we'll go ahead and move forward with that with board member uh all right board member Chavez ordinarily how many of you have on a school board um the the this is the appointment to cast a vote so yeah my question is ordinarily how many do you have one or two uh when historically

140we've sent one person thank you go ahead and take care of it all right um so is there any further comments from members of the board yes yes uh uh uh a question to either Ward president or superintendent uh you know just just for my edification in the community's identification uh this the county committee on School District organization does would this have any bearing about uh uh the drawing of District boundaries yes they do they um are the body that decides whether or not somebody's in a particular District so it can get very contentious if somebody for example is in a very next to a very affluent district and they want to have their house changed over so their the value of their house can increase uh stuff of that sort uh but they also

141serve as a body that actually puts together the lines uh for the County Board of Education so the board itself um does not select its own lines it's the county committee on School District organization that actually puts them together I know this very well because I worked with them uh 10 years ago to come up with the boundaries that are in place now uh so basically uh you know given that the county has 32 districts and we are electing we are uh appointing one of our own to represent us so I take it that so each each district has one vote yeah exactly we're not putting somebody no no no so the county committee does the county committee gets one person per supervisorial District it's not um it's not like we're sending somebody over to

142vote at the county committee we send somebody to vote for that person who's eventually going to serve oh okay okay so representative democracy oh so we're like an electoral so basically we're we're appointing one of our own to the Electoral College uh you know I kind of uncomfortable with the comparison myself but yeah yeah you're right it is accurate well on that note then I am fully in support of uh knowing trustee Bay harano's work on his his board and his uh very thorough uh thorough mannerisms I'm very confident that trustee Bay harana will represent as well on the county committee on uh was it on the uh oh was it uh on on the as our delegate to vote for members of the county committee on School District organization you're on mute yeah all

143right remember I'll just uh if that was a motion uh trusty fam I'll second that yeah so motion that's emotion emotions to motion to appoint Ernesto Bay Verano as our delegate to uh you know uh as a delegate in the election for members of the county committee on School District organization we have a motion from work from the second from board member uh any further comments from members of the board the only question I had um and I don't know if it could be answered because I don't know if we have legal counsel with this or maybe president you might have the answer but because the um some of the action here potentially would happen in late October or early November and it doesn't give any more specificity as to that November date um I

144I just wonder if the election coming up how that could potentially impact the selector whoever it were whoever were to be selected from any District um if that individual is no longer there at the time where I'm not sure if they make sure to do it prior to any changes in um in Representatives based on election results so um again I don't know if we have the answer I don't have the answer that and I would assume that we can reach out to Dr Bauer can reach out to the county superintendent who basically serves and has staff that staffs the county committee and they'd be able to provide us a thorough response in writing um okay so if that's uh that's okay with you it won't proceed in that manner uh we have come or

145hands uh that are raised by board member uh I'm not sure who had their handout first Travis okay so wouldn't the organizational meeting of next year's December uh decide that as well to uh I meant to me I think I think I'm adding to trustee bejarano's question that that organization is after the actions already taken place I think I think the the person would serve through that time though early November I believe that's my understanding too I think trustee Chavez may may make a good valid point here all right God remember uh the only thing I'll add is um should we add um a secondary person in case that happened to cover that we have um agenda is this uh select one of its members to vote as the law in the edge in the

146ad code requires it so at this point let's go ahead and have um Dr Bauer reach out to the county superintendent to give us more instruction more Direction and clarify the questions and we would have uh complied with with the law by taking action at this meeting the way we have foreign yeah I was going to ask if the language could be added and or alternate for because we're changing the language that's not possible that's my question the the item's been agendized as select one of its members so if I'm sure that there's a provision already in place and we'll get the response from families of Virginia and just for clarity the the request coming from The Office of Education it only indicates um to select a board member so it doesn't doesn't give any

147indication about a secondary or backup or anything so I think yes I think we should just wait if there's a response that Deans further action that we need to do something different then we can do it at that time all right um any further comments from members of the board uh boardmanship is so are we just gonna make the motion and vote on it today and should it be changed we'll just change it later is that what we're doing yeah usually Miss Carrick who is the one who's chaps um the uh the county committee we'll go ahead and reach out to boards and let you know if there's changes or is there any actions you have to take and she's pretty good about that of notifying you hey there's been some changes or something you

148have to do this to complete compliance with water yeah and just to add on to your statement it's the letter that we received says that we have um until February of 22 um to submit our certificate of who we're selecting I guess so we have some time to clarify yeah all right so there's a motion on the floor there's a second um see no further comments members of the board we've called for public comment already as and so we didn't have any so we will go ahead and move on with the board as I see you board member Chavez I remember behano hi board member from I remember uh hi myself 49th motion passes you know all right um before we go to a far away from the agenda I one of my staff members

149uh made the comment in the notice that during the item 403 uh we're going to have to extend that to January 20th instead of the 17th and the um the board is able to do that as you know going back to and to amend the previous um item to be able to cover the change of the board meeting to January 20th because this virtual only have you know covers till January um 17. so I'm doing my motion again for January 20th uh so I'm putting that motion in now oh we need a second give me a second we're moving back down to 4.03 for the Public's Clarity so let's let's keep it all in order and I have a motion already by board member Chavez uh to uh amend your motion and there's a second

150by board member [Music] and uh please uh clarify the date for the record May January 20th all right and so the change will be January 20th in that Mutual motion all right there's a motion in a second to adopt the language with the uh Amendment uh January 20th rather than the 17th I took public comment on this item before um so we're going to go ahead and move on it moving forward I'm sorry do we have to take it again since we amended the motion you know what let me yeah let me go ahead and open it up yeah it is there a public comment on this item uh since we're taking it again 4.03 nope public come in at this time all right see none then I'm going to go back to the board

151I'm just gonna call for a vote um we weren't in person that would be a lot quicker here hi hi vice president Farm hi remember hi myself uh yes abortion is unanimous all right we went outside on 4.05 uh this item is uh for the board to consider the formation of teacher housing task force I brought this item forward uh not for the intention of having it have anything to do with negotiations or anything like that I wanted to make it abundant and clear that uh the purpose of bringing this forward is for the long term it is for us to begin the conversation and the reason that it's only here for information is to be super abundant trans incredibly transparent so we we as a board can have a conversation whether or not the

152board is interested in even interchanging this and moving this forward um and so as I mentioned I want to reiterate this is not about uh and for any any of any purposes of negotiations or anything like that this is a long-term view we we have a a crisis um that is Nationwide um and uh it is a the fact of the matter is that our schools of Education are not um graduating enough teachers um and and it is creating a serious crisis um and so therefore I am interested in having us begin this conversation is that it's just for information to see if there's even interest to bring it back for Action at the next meeting to establish a task force to start looking at the concept of teacher housing um possibly using some of

153our land to be able to allow us to provide um relatively affordable housing for those who are teaching in our district to attempt to address the crisis that we're facing um and uh and I'm talking about the broader crisis of not enough teachers coming out of the schools of Education so uh with that said I'll go ahead and open up two comments from the board uh board member Chavez yeah so um thank you so we just partnered with Goodwill of Silicon Valley in the uh their meeting and they're also doing the Workforce Development Center wouldn't we be kind of conflicting with their agenda or their purpose in doing so um because I know that I asked before if I could see um their I guess business plan and see how they lay out all their

154work um and I haven't seen it yet and if I could see that and so to see what they're doing and they're going to be doing down the line uh especially since we just brought in that partner I wouldn't like to or maybe it's going to be co-mingled I don't know what it's going to look like but I would like to see that first thank you um so I know you asked about uh if there's interest I'm definitely interested I think it's definitely something worth investing time in and um having uh focused you know group um to look into what that can look like and my only thoughts are I would like to expand it just to see as housing in general um definitely for teachers but uh you know just looking at the possibilities

155for even you know some of our families that um that you know obviously housing is also affecting I'm not saying that it would include that I'm just saying to not limit it to just teachers and maybe doing you know just leaving um leaving a general in regards to housing Workforce task force whatever we we name it I know right now under its information only as that I just offer that as a just general comment um to consider when and if we decide to move forward um and then I'm confused as to uh trustee Chavez's comments um I don't remember a partnership yet or any of that but um yeah I mean there's I'm sure there's going to be so many possibilities I'm imagining um and models that we can look at um to move forward

156so I look forward to you know having a focused task force and then as a board hearing back what those possibilities can look like I'm excited to have this conversation thank you for bringing it Forward uh president uh vice president Palm yes I I want to thank you too for for bringing this uh issue uh as we know it's very tough to live in in any portion of the Bay Area we have a we have a housing shortage for many years this pandemic has exacerbated that uh so you know it is certainly something that I I hope that will help us with uh uh what attracting quality teachers and also uh teacher retention um but uh you know I too share uh trustee Herrera loera's uh thoughts about Apostle you know um looking at this

157as also uh the possibility possibility of housing in general but I would say let you know um with that too well we can say uh with giving our teachers our in our classified staff priority uh for uh you know uh you know priority Focus you know and we yes we can you know and if if there is a you know if there is and if we're able to you know to to also export for The Wider Alan walk community in general I mean you know given that uh we are all hurting uh you know I know I I certainly know that you know many of our our students are living in uh in you know in homes where multiple families are residing too so uh it certainly is an important you know it certainly is

158a conversation uh well worth having and you know let's see how we can uh you know even you know uh where we can use some of our resources to help help our teachers help our staff and uh help our families also board member of I don't know uh yeah thank you president yeah I will be supportive of um kind of moving this discussion forward and getting more information about it um I because I do think that it's just wise when there are scenarios like this or possibilities like this to look into it and you know I think we in some sense have the obligation as board members to look into opportunities if they could feasibly have a benefit to to the district and so I would be supportive of continuing to find information I would

159be very curious about um the the notion of opening it up in general just because I my admittedly limited understanding at this point of how some of these um these things have worked is that there's kind of specific intent of um as trusty Pham alluded to uh retention Recruitment and Retention for for staff um and so I just I would be curious in further discussions what the um you know what the cost benefit would be to opening up even wider than that specifically also because I think if we were to ever go in that direction we would obviously have a limited supply of Housing and there is a very vast need as we all know so it's just there's a lot of questions to be answered I um you know I have additional questions that

160I probably would ask at a later time but I think it's wise to move forward with a discussion on it um and see where that goes so I will I would support that direction um after this conversation tonight all right uh I'm gonna go ahead and make some comments and then I'll go back to you uh board member Chavez uh so I'm I'm thank you for the support uh that I'm I'm I'm seeing here one of the concerns about just simply saying let's go for all affordable housing is as board member Brandon mentioned there's significantly and uh I I'm I am concerned that the city in the county would see we've got some land here let's go ahead and build out to resolve all of the County's problems on the backs of uh and uh

161not the county county the cities it needs on the backs of the land uh that the kids rightfully deserve the open space that our communities rightfully deserve um and so my the reason that I had brought it Forward has very narrowly focused for Teacher housing is because we see models that are in place such as Santa Clara unified and has already in place the structure that is that allows them to operate uh affordable housing for their teachers specifically um they uh you know these are preliminary conversations with other board members in passing and advanced and stuff that sort um not that I've seen any sort of formal conversations of any sort of just asking questions how do you guys how does it work out um and the the response has been our biggest problem is

162that we don't have enough of it and we wish we had uh the ability because Atlanta is just too expensive on here so those are some of the preliminary conversations I'm um you know very comfortable moving forward and and exploring the possibility of housing for everyone but I we have a very unique need and we have a need to get teachers for our kids everybody else is budgeted to deal with their with the issue that they have budgets for and that's why I narrowly focused it for Teacher housing but if it's the will of the board to open it up to explore all affordable housing on Alum Rock land and then that's something that we can definitely explore but I would caution everyone that right now we would probably be inundated with uh desire to

163fill every square inch of uh fields in open space by those who are looking to you know and obviously the need to to resolve this this crisis but I would be concerned about having uh us overwhelmed if we start going down that path uh that'll be up for this board to decide all right board members uh when I was president and I brought this to the session about teacher housing I was um said uh nobody went for it so uh one trustee in particular came out in in Open Session and said not to two other board members so now I am happy to see this but at the same time um I want trustee said that she doesn't remember us voting on that if we do this and if we open it up to the

164public it does open up a can of worms where we can be uh looked at more and scrutinize more by other entities trying to um get the lamp so in doing so I like I said I would like to see the business plan because if Alum Rock is in the business of Education Alum Rock is not in the business of um uh housing teachers but three years ago it was I I understood that uh when I spoke to the superintendent that uh the teachers union was not interested so my question is have you asked them if they're interested now and probably not because we're just getting this information but I would like to see something in writing but I would like to see first the business plan of the other partnership that we just took

165on with the Goodwill Industries to see if uh our partners are okay with um us continuing in this uh or if we can work with them or if they want to work with us or not that's fine too but um to get uh the experts and stuff like that to start letting us know um I guess I would like to see something in writing and not just a discussion thank you all right thank you Chavez this conversation wouldn't have taken place in closed session because it's not a closed session conversation there is a limited uh scope of things that you can bring up in closed session and it's obviously this does not fall into one of those things one of those categories um I am not uh I for one I would ask the rest

166of my colleagues not going to go around asking permission of anybody any other organizations to engage in conversations amongst ourselves within the district um this is being brought forward as an information item purposely so that there can be full transparency as it just a conversation amongst this board and uh input from the public um and uh if anybody else is interested in in in providing input is a public meeting they're able to go roll back the tape and view it um and I'll I'll go ahead and call on boardroom okay I I mean I was going to mention also the the thing about closed session and obviously if there were things to be discussed the closed session it's it wouldn't be appropriate to bring them up here in Open Session but um I I don't

167think that was the case in this instance um and also I concur I think with uh trusted that I I don't I understand um in some sense what trustee Chavez is is referring to with regards to um recent partnership possibilities that have been brought to us I would just um you know suggest maybe re-looking at that item that we had recently because I don't think that um it what we did and what we had in that meeting with regards to those Partnerships is actually what um what the concern is at this time so just that but I think moving forward with conversation with Gathering further information there's there's no reason to in my estimation to um you know delay that or or have any any barriers to that at this time I saw that Dr

168Bauer Hunter yeah just to clarify for you and the public there is no formal partnership with any entity that we don't we have not brought forth to the board in the form of a lease or an mou where we presented to the board during the special board meeting was a report of us having conversations with Goodwill Industries and with some Juan Bautista Early Learning Centers so it is only um conversations with them there is absolutely no formal partnership I just want to make be very clear because this this uh the public needs to know about that thank you and I'll remind members of the board that we authorized in previous action before that report uh the administration to go out there and uh look for Partnerships and so that report was basically a response to

169the authorization that was provided as a board uh board member Chavez yeah yeah uh yes we did authorize that and I also uh requested to see their their business plan and we haven't seen that yet is there any way possible that the district can get that to us uh before the next meeting this is I'm just requesting it I know uh Dr Bauer has uh thank you trustee Chavez and I really appreciate you want to have more information at this point because there is no formal partnership there is no um documentation there is no we are still in the very preliminary conversations about any idea with them and so I just um there will be nothing for us to produce in terms of business plan or any of that nature because there's no formal agreement

170with them thank you thank you uh board member I was just going to mention that um you know I think as a board right if we say yes we're going to have this partnership um you know then then we'll have all that but um I think we we set that up Dr Brower to report back come back a couple months to see yeah so I'm excited you know I think like trustee Chavez to see a plan to see what that can look like you know bringing in maybe possible funding for our schools and our our district um but yeah so I look forward to see a plan eventually too whether it's you know whoever it is um but yeah so I just thank you for clearing all that up because uh I was concerned that

171trustee Chavez maybe was an understanding where we were at but thank you for clearing that up Dr Brown all right um for the comments all right uh anybody else who has not spoken right uh what remember Chavez did you have Carmen I know you raise your hand up uh in the interest of the time I'm Gonna Save it thanks all right all right well this item is for information the idea was that it was uh intended to be just what we've had a discussion amongst ourselves uh as well you know in in full view of the public and uh the opportunity to to also weigh in on uh the possibility of pursuing um eventually bringing back and an item not to um go out there and start building but to just get more information formally

172in a very transparent manner about what the possibilities are um and so I'm looking forward to putting an item on the agenda uh for Action uh based upon um on on what the input that I've that I've heard today uh so uh for those interested feel free to come and join us at the next meeting so we can have a further discussion in the possibility of establishing a task force uh any uh comments from members of the public we'll say have I take you public companies where president at this time we have no public coming uh give them a few seconds there somebody's all right um seeing no uh public comment then we will go ahead and uh move on with item number five point oh one uh the approval of uh 2021 2022 uh

173first interim report uh Dr Bauer do you want to go ahead and take this on and I would ask you if within the uh first interim um and I know that it's within the scope of that you'd be able to provide a thorough breakdown of some of the coveted expenditures a lot of questions have been raised around that and if we can get very very narrowly focused on you know obviously this isn't going to be a line item breakdown but uh we I personally would like to see a lot of examples so that the public is very well aware of where the expenditures have been made um the floor is yours to talk about absolutely um this is public information and we have that we will have that breakdown available remember that the the funds

174are being spent as we use them I just want to remind the public that we do have the first interim book online as part of the board meeting materials and I before I turn it over to Mr Chang I want to highlight three very important pages so that everybody who wants to know the finances of Alum Rock um in a quick look without having to go into all the detail will have the kind of information that you need so if you look at page number one of these of that document you have a summary of all of the different Pockets the but the the buckets that we have in the um in the district if you go then to page number five page number five is the general fund unrestricted that will give you a

175sense of our major um sources of revenue specifically the lcff and then amount that we will be getting that we have that we receive in 2019 2020 that we receive in 2021 and that we receive in 2122 that we will receive as of right now because there are there's no nothing else that we can that that we know for sure this anything else is coming 22 23 and then 23 24. so for all of the whoever is in the audience page number five is the unrestricted and the reason the the the revenues that are coming to the district the last page that I want to highlight in that book it's page number seven page number seven is where the covid monies recite I know that there's a lot of comments about people not knowing and

176I just as a teacher as a good teacher I want to tell you where you can go and you can look for yourself the information that you need page number seven is where these restricted funds including covet funds are so without further Ado I'm gonna turn it over to Mr Chang thank you power and good evening board president and members of the board um let me share screen with this foreign see my screen yes thank you so good evening again um tonight I'll be presenting an overview of the uh first interim of the current year um and with that some of the topics that will be going over um are key changes to legislations um key assumptions that the districts used in preparing its first interim report um will also be going over the multi-year

177projection and lastly next steps and future consideration so this year uh brought upon two significant changes that will impact not only districts in California but uh mainly Alum Rock um the first change is a good change um this this change involved in the increase in the concentration Grant adjustment from 50 to 65 percent um and again this is a welcome change because it does provide additional funding um in lcff um however um these additional fundings do have strings attached to it as you can see in bullets um number two uh these funds are to be used to increase staff who provide Direct Services to students um including custodial staff and another requirement for this change is that the districts would need to present an lcap supplement by February 28 2022 and so we're bringing we'll

178be bringing a report uh in the near future for the board to review the second change involves unspent supplemental concentration Grant funds um in previous years um those unspent funds uh were able to fall to the unrestricted general fund um this is no longer allowed um starting in the current fiscal year moving forward and so those unspent funds will now have to be designated um as unused portion of the supplemental concentration Grant funds and they must be spent on specific actions contributing to them to meeting um the minimal proportionality percentage the MPP requirement and again the districts will provide will need to provide a report outlining um the use of those funds so that was those were the key changes um we'll start with key assumptions um and we'll start with enrollment um you may

179recall that during budget adoption we used the demographic study to uh project uh number enrollment for the current year and also for the two years out so at budget adoption for the current year we projected to serve 8520 in 2000 2022 and 23 8105 um and in 2020 324 7692. uh when school started and we started to do our warm watch body seed count uh we recognized that um those numbers were overestimated um in October our enrollment um came in at 8 100 uh 79 which is 341 lower than what we had initially rejected of budget adoptions um and accordingly uh we also made the adjustment and year 22 23 and 23 24 in year 2223 uh we adjust our enrollment to 7790 and then in year 23 24 um our enrollment is projected to

180be 7419. So based on those two changes uh one um that um included enrollment and other one that included um the concentration Grant we wanted to show you the impact it has on lcff um from what we projected to receive in lcf budget adoption versus first interim so at this point I do want to draw your attention to the very bottom row um where it starts with total lcff and if you go all the way to the right hand column that shows the net difference in terms of the changes um in lcff funding you'll see that because of the concentration Grant increase there's a net increase of 3.4 million approximately 3.4 million dollars in lcfs funding but if you look at that number alone it doesn't tell you to pick the whole picture because if

181you break down lcff um in its component you'll see that excuse me the base Grant itself which is the unrestricted portion of lcff saw a slight increase of about 116 um the great span adjustment these are add-ons for class size reduction for tk23 we actually saw a decrease of about nine thousand dollars the supplemental Grant uh we saw in I uh an increase excuse me you saw a slight increase of about 86 000 and remember supplemental Grand there's a requirement for us to use those funds to provide increase and approved service for students to regenerate those dollars and go into the concentration Grant you'll see that um there's a huge increase of about 3.2 million dollars and that's because that's a direct result of um of the increase from the 50 to 65 percent and

182two additional add-ons for tick and excuse me and transportation um my apologies I'm losing my voice here foreign s for taking Transportation Laura did you want us to go to other items we could come back to the presentation yeah I'm happy that way you can uh clear you know take some whatever you have to do yeah thank you um yeah we'll we'll jump over to items um 6.01 that way you can get through it and uh and do what you have to do thank you all right we'll go ahead and move on to item 6.01 uh and we'll come back to 5.01 shortly yourself so uh 6.01 approved California state preschool program uh continue funding application for fiscal year 2223 uh uh uh horsepower did you have any any comments I respectfully asked the board

183to please um uh approve this is that this is what provides our um preschool programs in Adelanto one in Adelante too is a continuation of that Grant all right uh before taking comments from the board let me ask if there are comments from the public any comments from the public no comments from the public at this time for president all right see none then I'll go ahead and go back to the board board member Chavez often to approve all right second or remember uh had her hand up first that's fine that's fine that's okay you guys want our arm wrestle for it I'll YouTube okay I'll thank you all right motion by Morgan Chavez second by word uh vice president um is there any further comments from the board as I see you Linda uh

184board member Chavez is that me yeah I board member hi Mr President from aye uh motion passes unanimously uh 6.02 educator effective block grant absolute Academy this is for information only uh any comments or any anything that needs to be added to that information seeing none from the administration uh is there any public any comments for the public we see no public come in at this time all right so you know public comments any further comments from the board uh board member yes just in the interest of I guess Clarity or transparency um I'm wondering if um Dr Bauer or someone could just give a very brief uh description of what this item is what the information on the item is just so that people know and I'm sorry board president is this is it

185okay to go ahead and respond uh yeah go for it the 603 is going to give the whole deal of the district regarding this particular blog grant that we receive this is for profession for additional professional development for the staff all right yeah and so um there will be a a minor explanation aptitude gets its own because it's a depend District dependent chart thank you all right is that uh good enough all right uh seen uh no problems with no comments from the public and no comments from for the comments from the board we'll go on to 6.03 uh uh Dr Brown yeah I'm gonna be asking Barbara um Campbell to speak briefly to this and we brought the plan to the board if you remember in the special board meeting of December 7th and

186so this is just um the opportunity you know we that was the opportunity for everybody to provide input and all of that and this is the moment where we were asking the board to approve good evening board president Quintero board members Dr uh Dr Bauer um at last board meeting I presented um just a brief slide presentation talking about the input that we received from all our different um all our stakeholders we had surveys we met with a couple uh kind of a focus group and laid out a professional development plan with a couple of focus areas that came across in in the feedback and the input that we received from everybody some of the key items were again addressing School climate professional development around classroom management and behavior around uh standards aligned instruction are

187were some of the highlights that people had um requested we opened it to public input last time and right now it is ready for approval so that we can move forward all right uh thank you for that explanation is there uh any comments from members of the public all right um we have uh one uh person of the comment all right uh the voting what do you have two minutes you tell me yourself perfect I just have a question is this coming um from like where is this money coming from with funds as we are you know negotiating as Educators for smaller class sizes Etc say for schools where why are we focusing on professional development in regards to spending money that in that area when we could be utilizing it for infrastructure and ventilation

188and better classroom environment when our teachers are already burned out um so that's my question is just where is this money coming from when it comes to professional development thank you thank you Mr Liberty or president of this time we have no more public comment s thank you for that um comments from members of the board uh board member uh yes thank you um Miss Campbell for uh for the report and I think you did allude to it already um but could you please uh specify what these funds can be utilized for yes so um the um guns the the Grant had a very specific list that of that how the funds can be spent some of the areas there was um about 11 10 areas that we could choose to spend these funds coaching

189and mentoring for um in an instructional setting for beginning teachers or administrators strategies to improve inclusive practices um practices to create a positive School climate practices to engage pupils and lead to accelerated learning instructional educatal education support to implement effective language acquisition um professional learning communities a new set of professional learning communities uh standards aligned practices and social emotional learning those were the categories that we could use uh the funds for and then based on what the input that we we received from all our groups we focused it on coaching and mentoring of Staff we focused on inclusive practices the other two areas we focused on was positive School climate and also standard standards align instruction and literacy to improve learning so then other than the I guess you can kind of say infrastructure um

190that that we've chosen to go with regards to professional development there's not really opportunity it sounds like for um dedicating These funds towards any other kind of infrastructure or anything else just given the parameters of the Grim okay thank you I don't know uh thank you for bringing this uh forward you know and um hopefully we get to approve it today I think any funds coming into our district you know are positive um although um maybe they're not the uh what you highlighted in regards to professional development is not at our priority list right now and our needs it's definitely needed you know um especially I mean I think in any profession you know I think other professions I've had in the training and uh Refreshers um and how to improve right I think it's

191always it's always good um and without adding adding stress to our teachers so I look forward to you know hearing more about it once it's implemented and the new fresh ideas may be that allow some of our teachers uh to you know be creative and just feel better in in teaching and and you know all the amazing things are already doing um and I think too you know grants I mean when I hear the word Grant I get excited right it's monies and thank you I'm sure there was an application process and all of that and I think I mentioned it last time so thank you for taking the time to do that because as we know if we're having funding come in for that through these grants then it might then free up you

192know some of the monies that we would have used for this from other places um and so you know we might not see it like right away or but um I think the fact that you know we have this scrap coming in uh hopefully um you know approved tonight that it that it continues to allow her to bring in monies even though this money is specifically focused on those things you mentioned um that then we don't have to pull funds from other places um to cover those things that are very important for our staff um yeah and that's it I look forward to supporting this I don't know if there's emotion I have not entertain a motion yet uh if you'd want to make one I'll I'll accept it at the moment uh Dr Bauer

193before I make a motion all right yes I'm assuming you're going to talk about the source of the funding from the CDE correct yeah directly from this tape us but these funds is to provide more this is this cannot supplant they have to supplement so even though you know I think uh asked that question in the special board meeting and that refreshing everybody's memories right because there's a lot of things going on and any conversation around funds is very you know it gets a little uh touching so I just want to be very clear that whenever we receive this this specific Grant um came as a part of the stimulus package this is part of the covet funds but the state in their wisdom not our theirs they said we want you districts not only

194Alum Rock everybody to provide more you cannot go to your budget whatever we had in professional development and say okay well we'll use we have to provide more and I know that that those are the kinds of things that sometimes we all go like this makes no sense but to your point we are happy to receive them we will use them as required and and I just wanted to be very clear that that the problem with these kinds of fundings those things have decided for us we don't get to the side thank you thank you for clarifying that reminding me because we did have this conversation offline so I appreciate that uh you mentioning that in public um great so with that I'll uh make a motion to um approve this item rise a second

195second by Chavez I'm assuming you're targeting yeah all right all right our Motion in a second and uh we've already done public comments so at this point I'm gonna go ahead and call for a vote uh I'll I'm gonna call you as I see you board member Chavez hi remember about I don't know all right vice president Palm aye uh with myself wouldn't I have a motion passenger um all right moving on to item 7.0 um item 7.01 approve uh contract with upcoming Management Group Incorporated for program Management Services uh Dr Bauer do you want to go ahead and uh take this yes and I I just um this is also for verite I'm not sure that he's ready uh he's having a real hard time with his throat um uh I saw in the

196um in the in the uh um participants in the atten attendees uh list that died who is the attorney for dwk um who was there this is the this is only uh this is for the bond program and this particular contract is for the program manager side of that operation and is being paid exclusively with bond funds we have gone through the process the board um selected comments all of those things have already been done we were just at the moment where the the specific agreements in the contract were reached so I'm asking the board very respectfully to approve so that we can start working in some of our very needed facilities with some of these funds uh with the help of Cummins thank you move to approved uh second by board member Chavez um

197I want to remind everyone that this was a part of a long run out process that got even dragged down a little bit more because it took us a while to get on uh attorneys that could go ahead and take a look at this and so uh significant amount of transference it took place throughout the entire process which I'm very I'm very appreciative and I think it's it's very much required so at this point I'll go ahead and call on members of the public do we have members of the public wish to speak on item 7.1 this time we have no public I see no members of the public we should speak we have Motion in a second there's no further comments from members of the board we're going to go ahead and oh uh

198border vice president that's just one comment and you know I'm very excited to to see this this has been a you know as as you yourself have said Mr President it's a been a long drawn out process of which I was a part of before I was on the board you know this uh but I was on the bond oversight committee uh this I you know this is a validates all the work that the bond committee has done you know in in the three plus years that I served is to get us to this point where we can once again uh restart the bond programs to fix uh our aging facilities uh you know I've seen I've toured 19 out of 22 schools and I'll be finishing all 22 schools tomorrow and on these buildings

199are serving you know I think in some cases they're fourth generation of students I can remember um going to goss in aptitude at Goss in October and uh uh the same the same cubby that I use when I started kindergarten were still there in in the kindergarten classroom so I cannot stress uh how important it is to uh to provide the necessary Renovations that these bonds will do whether it's um it's to the buildings themselves but also as as the pandemic and the wildfires of 2020 and 2021 have shown um you know to to upgrade our HVAC systems and to finally hopefully um uh complete central air conditioning in every Alum Rock School uh so um I urge my colleagues to vote Yes on this item thank you very much all right uh for the

200comments for the board um I'll uh you know also add to that uh that it's very much necessary we've heard some of the concerns and uh very very valid concerns that have been raised by the public and with regard to some of the issues uh taking place we need to be able to access uh the funds in our bond program we need to have somebody in place that can go ahead and coordinate those projects to make them happen this is all part of the process that uh will obviously not solve all the problems the last time we took a look at all the needs it was like half a billion dollars worth of needs um and uh we we obviously don't have that amount of money to be able to solve the problems but we

201will have the resources we need to get to the the priorities that involve healthy safety um right at the beginning so uh board members yeah thank you I um just want to briefly say that kind of what you said just then you're closing there that in addition to you know the the projects that we need to get going primarily those um safety those ones that were identified as safety concerns um several years back you know this this moving this forward allows us to do that in addition we and I won't belabor the point here tonight but we've talked about additional potential projects that could essentially bring in Revenue to the district annually so um for the purposes of first and foremost obviously safety um with regards to our facilities but also as we look at

202the bigger picture the possibility of of um kind of I guess you could say thinking out of the box a little bit um in a such a way that it allows us to again essentially bring Revenue um for all intents and purposes to the district so I'm excited about continuing to move this forward and then continuing to improve our situation because of this decision it's all supported tonight foreign board member Chavez I'm really excited to see this and let's vote all right uh I think everybody is any further comments see none then we'll go and call for a vote trustee Chavez hi uh hi more remember hi vice president aye uh with myself winning eye of the motion uh passes unanimously um the time is moving ahead and I definitely want to make sure that

203we get to the back to the first intro uh before it gets too late uh because I think it's important that the public uh that is here uh see it so uh cover you uh are you able to take it on right now I think so I would try to push through all right can I get you some tea or something like that I'm okay all right all right you'll uh share your screens okay so I believe I left off on this slide right here um here with the add-ons or something like that yes so the add-ons for taking Transportation um these amount have not changed since the Inception of lcf so it has remained the same since 2013-14 um and so you'll see the difference net difference here uh mainly due to the increase

204in concentration Grant data districts is generating um the 3.4 million dollars um in net revenue and again I do remind that the concentration grants do have those strings um attached to them in terms of how we can spend those funds um going forward to 2022-23 again the total net different it's actually a reduction for next year a 1.5 but if you look at each component you'll see that the base Grant um shows the most uh reduction of about 3.2 million dollars and again this is the most unre restricted portion of lcff so any amount that goes down here um really restricts the uh District's ability to have um discretion or have funds to spend on their discretionary manners and then um going down to the great span um a decrease of about 131 000 um

205the supplemental Grant uh 488 uh decrease thousand and then um the total net is 1.5 million dollars uh decrease and if this is mainly due um to the additional um declining enrollment that was factor in uh the from the changes from adopted budget to First in a row okay and then moving forward to 23 24 you'll see the net difference again is a additional reduction of 1.1 million dollars but if you look at each component um the base Grant itself you see the biggest decrease of 2.9 Million Dollars um 121 000 for grade span adjustment uh four hundred thousand dollars for supplemental Grant and then again you see an increase in the concentration Grant uh with a net difference of a negative 1.1 million dollars in years 23 24. so we wanted to show you

206this uh slide in terms of what the district is projecting to generate in total lcff revenue and comparing it to um what we're projecting to receive in the URLs um as you can see in year 2122 um total lcf entitlement is approximately approximately 106 million 106 million dollars um and I do want to remind the court that uh mainly this is because uh we're still in the whole time with provision so moving towards um 2022-23 this is when the whole Congress division goes away as you can see totality of that entitlement is approximately 96 000 96 million dollars if you compare that to last year that's a reduction of 10 million dollars in lcff uh Revenue alone even with the cola of 2.8 so that's the challenges that the districts has been facing even though

207the state has been providing Cola you see that in in lcf entitlement due to declining enrollment we'll see a reduction in those fundings year after year and then in year 23 24 compared to year 22 23 there's a reduction of about 1.4 million dollars in lcfs entitlement foreign sets of assumptions um what is the revenue for lcff again so for current year um it's based on 2019 20 P 280a um also over the cola 5.07 um again we're in the whole time this year for year 2223 um the cola is 2.48 again the whole harness goes away and you're 23 24 a cola 3.11 um again no whole harness for aptitude lcff Charter Schools do not have the benefit of Prior uh protection for Ada so all other funding will be based moving forward on

208current USDA um the cola is the same it's the same as the district for all three years um other state revenue includes the in-person instruction Grant uh for process 3.1 million dollars expanding learning opportunity grants approximately 6.8 which the board approval plan back in May of 2021 sure and then educator affected their block grants about two million dollars um and that's petting actually the board just approved that just recently as early this evening uh for local Revenue um partial tax is going to be significant for us because that expires at the end of this year so in the out years we have removed that from our Revenue budget um starting in 2223 and parcel tax generates about 4.5 million dollars per year for sr2 we included approximately 10 million dollars in the current year and

209then Esther three there's a projection of about 22.45 million dollars in fiscal year 2223 and 23 24. and again the board approved a plan back in October 26 of 2021. of the 22.4 my 45 million dollars um there is a requirement to use 20 of it for learning loss and then the remaining 80 are for broad usage so since there were a lot of interest um in the one-time covered money that districts have received and will be receiving I do want to put a summary um to show you uh what those funds were so back in last year 2021 you'll see that these are the pots of money that we receive from covet funds um I will go through all of that but the total of that uh for last year was a little over

21014 million dollars um for this year um episode 2 um the estimation's about 10 million dollars the in-person grant as previous noted uh 3.1 million the expanding learning Opportunity Grant um 6.8 so in this year Alone um photos about A little over 19. it's about 19.9 million dollars and then for years 22-23 um an estimation of about 22.45 um and again as previous stated uh 20 has to be towards learning loss and 80 is for Grant usage so if use tally all these funds up um it amounts to a little about 56.35 million dollars um but I'll go into more details in terms of the bulk and the money um in Esther two and three and what we're using um those money to fund now in terms of expenditures assumption um in the district's increasing

211its steps in calling for all three years oops um special ed programs continue to increase in costs for all three years um The District's maintaining its three percent um contribution requirement to routine restricted maintenance um calculus rates are as follows um calstrs rates um are as follows here um unemployment insurance um did see a decrease from adopted budget uh to First interim the state did recognize that there was a hardship on many districts in this state so they changed that um increase that were proposed back in May revised um back to or loaded from 1.23 to 0.5 percent foreign including a reduction of 25 certificated fce uh for 2223 to align with the planning enrollment um this is up by 10 uh ftes from adopted budget um to remove independent studies teacher remember um at

212the beginning of the year the state implemented independent studies where we had to provide independent studies for students who elected to do so and in doing so we had to hire additional teachers um current statue does not continue independent study in its current form for next year and so we're planning that accordingly um in 2324 a reduction of 10 certificated ftes um to align with declining enrollment so here's the piece that we're going to be using um the majority or all of the asset funds for so in year 2122 a transfer of approximately four million dollars in principles salaries of benefits and approximately 4.9 million dollars in custodian salaries and benefits from the unrestricted general fund uh to the restricted general fund to utilize sr2 funds and similar here in 2023 the same amount of

213principles the same amount in custodians from the unrestricted general fund to restricted general fund to utilize sr3 funds and then similar oops February and 23-24 um a transfer of approximately 3.5 million dollars in principal salaries and benefits and approximately 4.3 million dollars in custodian salaries and benefits from the unrestricted general fund um to restrict the general fund to utilize the remaining uh balance of message three funds you'll notice that the amount are smaller just because in the third year um we're exhausting all the funds and we don't have um we don't have uh ss3 fund to fully cover um those costs and then I know we don't uh do a four-year projection but just a heads up in years 24 25 all salaries that benefit costs for principles and custodians would need to be transferred

214back to the unrestricted general fund so with those assumptions this is the multi-year projection for the unrestricted general fund as you can see um in year 2122 We Begin of the year with about 18.2 million dollars in uh beginning balance we're projecting to generate 114 uh 114 million dollars in revenue and again I do want to remind the board that this is the whole harness here a total expenditures of about 83.8 million dollars contributions to special ed and routine maintenance of approximately 24.1 million dollars and as you see here um the district is adding to the beginning balance um I think it's noteworthy um the factors that the reasons why um the the fund balance is increasing in this year the first one as I explained before because we are in the whole Commerce provision

215a year this year and secondly as I mentioned in the previous slide um you know we're using Esser we're using about 10 million dollars of Esser uh three fund uh we're removing um principles and custodial costs from the unrestricted general fund to the restricted general fund so had we not do that the six point my 6.5 million dollar Surplus would have been um a deficit amount and so because we did that um we're projecting to increase the um Surplus from 18.2 to 24.8 um at uh the end of the uh 2122 fiscal year and then moving forward to next year um we began the year with about 24.8 million dollars in the beginning balance um here this year is where the whole harmless revision goes away as you can see um the total revenue is

216drastically um lower than um than uh previous years if you take a look at it from 114 to 99 um so that's been the challenge the district um in terms of expenditures we're projecting to have a total of 81.8 million dollars um transfers or contribution to special ed and routine maintenance um amounts to about 25.5 million dollars and as you can see here because of the whole Harvest provision going away um the district is actually incurring a deficit of 7.4 million dollars and therefore would be spending down um the beginning balance from 24.8 to 17.3 million dollars at the end of 22-23 year and moving forward to 2324 um starting the year with about 17.3 million dollars um and projecting to generate about 98.4 million dollars in Revenue total revenue and a total expenditures of

21781.8 million dollars again contribution to special ed and routine maintenance of about 25.9 close to 26 million dollars again you'll see that um the the deficit um starts to increase more um in the out years so in year 23 24 we're projecting to have a deficit of about 9.3 million dollars which would bring down the reserve level from 17.3 um to a little to a little um over 8 million dollars in your at the end of year 23 24. so moving on to the restricted general fund um the the districts is has a carryover of 7.5 million dollars to begin 2122 um projecting to generate 40.9 million dollars in total revenue um we had a total expenditure of approximately 72.7 um and here is the transfer in the 24.1 million dollar is to transfer in

218uh unrestricted general fund to um subsidize both um special ed program and routine maintenance um and that's projected to end the year with zero fund balance um starting the year moving over to year 2223 uh the district is projecting to generate about 37.2 million dollars in total revenue with a total expenditures of about 54.9 contribution from the unrestricted general fund of about 25.5 million dollars um and the districts do project a carryover and this carryover is related to the Esther 3 funds that we'll be using in the following year to pay for principles and custodial costs um so with that moving over to year 23 um starting the year with 7.8 about 7.8 million dollars in carryover um the district is objecting to generate approximately 16.1 million dollars in total revenue um with a total

219expenditures of about 49.9 million dollars um and again Trump contributions from the unrestricted general fund to the restricted general fund of about 25.9 um and projecting that the district would use up all of its uh carryover um thus resulting in um a zero fund balance at the end of year 23-24. so in terms of next steps in future consideration um as you all know um the district has not settled with any units for the current year uh we're eagerly awaiting for the Governor's budget proposal that will be coming out in January and this is for fiscal year 2223. um which we will begin our budget development process starting in January um again as I mentioned previously because of the change to the concentration Grant the district we need to present an lcap supplement in uh

220in sometime in February um and in March of 2022 the districts will be presenting its second interim uh report and that will be based on the assumption that will be provided by the governor um in January of 2022 as a part of his budget proposal and then in June of 2022 um the district will be bringing um we'll be holding a public hearing for year 2223 budget at lcap and again in June 2022 um we will need to adopt uh the budget and also the outcome thank you with that um I'd be happy to take any questions all right uh question members of the board is uh um board vice president Trump I just head up and then I'll go with uh remember okay thank you very much Mr President so I two questions to

221to assistant superintendent Chang uh in regards to Esser 3 funds and in the 80 percent uh designated as broad usage uh what is allowable uh under broad usage because I know even though the the terms are nearly self-explanatory my experience with federal funds is that they are highly regulated and categorical yes so fortunately um with answer three or with all extra funds um and Broad usage is you know um essentially that um and the catch-all statement that the state has produced is that you know um any expenditures that um would entails the operation the normal operation of the districts including paying for um current and existing salaries um of the districts to keep to keep the district's operation going okay yeah so is there any more continues no that was it okay okay uh the

222second question is uh in your in your 22-23 projection uh um there was a 2.48 cola uh projected and we heard in public comment that there was uh a 5.38 cola for 2223 uh you know uh what you know for lack of a better question uh you know you know I see your presentation and then now there's Pub they're in public comments there's been mention of a higher Cola from the state uh what um you know um more gifts is there any is there any new uh is there any information that was late breaking that we don't know of from the state yes so you know um there has been leaks in terms of some information that the governor will be presenting in his January budget proposal but nothing official until it comes out and

223districts are required to kind of follow uh what we call the common message and it's a set of guidelines that uh the county office event produces for districts to follow and So based on those guidelines um you know they set um the coales that the district should be using um the Persian surveys and things of that sort and since the governor's proposal has not been made official yet we can only base um our first annual report based on um something that our official or and in statute and so that's why when I mentioned that we're going to be bringing the second interim in March that's going to be based on the new assumption that's going to be made official in January okay so basically we just have we need to wait for the official data

224when the governor makes his uh budget proposal in January and then we adjust uh in Mar you know by March with the new information yes and and just a reminder um you know when the governor presents his budget in January that's essentially an uh a proposal um there's going to be uh a drawn out process where there's going to be a lot of negotiation at the legislative level um which will produce some uh some changes some possible changes in the May revised and you know that budget doesn't become enacted or official until the budget gets enacted sometime in June yes so you know while we're eagerly looking for information that's going to come out in January um there's still a waiting period for us to kind of concentrate in terms of how the final budget

225is going to play itself out oh because if there was 5.3 you know five point something percent again out from this State you know that's the Manna From Heaven basically so I thought that would that possibly would have been some good news but uh you know I get you know thank you very much for letting us know that you know we've got some until we hear otherwise from Sacramento we have those uh assumptions out of the County Office of Education to use for the time being yes thank you Mr Chang for uh powering through that and and getting us the information that we needed specifically because we asked for it to be a little more thorough and you and appreciate you going through the information kind of with the fine-tooth comb to the extent possible

226tonight I think it's actually contagious whatever you had going on over there but um um also so first of all I um you know I hear I hear what you just said about the the cola kind of I don't know if you could call it rumor or speculation that's um been out there but there's no oh is there any there's no guarantee to that obviously it sounds like and in the past have there been times when we thought one thing and something different came back and and and so um you know it's how hard is it to speculate on the the um validity or credibility of those speculations um in some years um there could be some changes that we could anticipate I think this year um just following the trend um and we got

227to be transparent here right just following the trend in terms of um where the state revenue is um it's it appears that you know those information could be true um if not true then it's really close to um what those information are uh that that is out there right now um and so we do Follow That kind of closely in some years it's you know it's way off um this year anticipated that um that information um is going to be very close to to to what it's being out there or being presented out there um but again um in terms of preparation for a first interim we have to go by what the county office issues in terms of those parameters and guidelines um and then that's why we keep updating report on the consist

228on a frequency um that fast because things changes so much um and you know it's important for us to bring those updates to the board when they're available and official okay and then thank you for that and then the um you also May reference in your um in your report to the routine restricted maintenance account for all three years um he stated that it's we are maintaining a three percent contribution so that's that's pretty solid and set into our projection is that that three percent is what we're keeping in our RMA yes and so that's that's a requirement by Statute in terms of those uh three percent contribution itself and so you know this is not a new thing for the district um unless the statute change um then you know we'll adjust to it

229but um in the current statute uh every District's required to make that three percent uh contribution so we're not keeping above that three percent then that that we're going by what the statute is requiring correct and there's you know there's no prohibition to um go above the three percent but at a minimum um you're required to contribute um at least two to the three percent level okay and then just my last thing if I understand it correctly then um so there's potential of you know some that proposal that could be helpful to us coming in January by the governor but as you mentioned that's kind of like a proposal then there's a a process or I won't say dry now but the normal process to get through to when it's actually um kind of set

230and we can plan based on that meanwhile however um it seems to me and correct me if I'm wrong that the district potentially is kind of metaphorically heading towards a cliff because we have these funds that were that is kind of masking or or um you know covering up the reality because we've had you know the opportunity or the luck not luck but the opportunity to to have these one-time funds but that's hiding the fact that as year two year three come along we are steadily heading towards a very significant impact on the budget so even when and if this proposal in January plays out through June concurrently we are still heading with our reality towards those um those numbers that you presented tonight in year two and year three correct is that a safe

231kind of synopsis yes and just to summarize it um you know just just an answer fund Alone um you know we're using about uh close to 28 million dollars um over the three year the current year 10 million uh next year 10 million and then 8 million dollars in uh year three out to pay for current salaries of principals and custodians had we not have that money um you know we would be incurring it's a deficit in the current year and that deficit would exacerbate by the 10 million dollars that we don't have in Esser fund uh so when those answer funds goes away or it's exhausted by year 23 24 there's right now there's no other one-time um relief funds and so you know the districts will need to start looking into some cost

232reductions um and able to um kind of align with the loss of Revenue uh from the Ada Cliff starting in next year and also moving forward in terms of the reduction in lcff funding um due to the declining enrollment itself so any decisions that we make as a board in the near future then we need to make with extreme Prudence because um you know even though there may be some positives that we're looking at there's our fiscal responsibility would it would behoove us to be very prudent in any decision that we make just because of what we know as a reality now okay um well thank you for that again Mr Chang and hope you hope you feel better and I hope you don't digitally transfer whatever you had over to me um um thank

233you Mr Chang for providing such detailed uh report um I know we all asked for it so I appreciate you uh uh bringing it back um and answering the questions you know when we would meet with Dr Bauer individually I'm sure we all had questions um I just wanna I think you know it's kind of beating a dead horse or that saying right but I think it's important because we keep hearing about the cola um you know and how we're getting five point you know and I think different numbers have been thrown out but um just to ask again to confirm to hear it again so that 5.07 percent is approved for one year so it's not like you're getting 5.07 and it's gonna be 5.07 forever well McMaster yes I'll start with that um

234yeah so so the cola itself um is applied to the base of lcff so whatever that base increases that continue to increase um the problem with with the challenge with us is that even though those base increases for us would be the numbers the declining enrollment cost is a reduction in Revenue itself so had we maintained the level in Roman we would see our funding increase by those percentage but due to declining enrollment we're seeing actual a decrease in funding um and so at one of my slides when I was comparing um this year's lcfs funding uh to next year and show that you know we show a 10 million dollar reduction um even though there's you know a 2.48 cola so that's been our challenge is that you know even though the state is

235getting this Cola because of declining enrollment we actually see a reduction in Revenue compared to um you know our expenditures which um continue to go to to to go up and like you said right so we had 5.07 but then it goes down to 2.48 Cola I mean it's not like we're continuing to get that 5.07 ongoing even that Cola goes down um but I just wanted to highlight you know because I know that we get I mean I think I don't I can't even it's been a lot that we hear that back but I wanted to make sure that our public understands that uh you know these numbers that it might sound like here's all this money and you're going to continue to get this and magically right it's going to continue to accumulate

236um but you know just like you did so beautifully in explaining how you know it's not all this money that we're getting and it's just accumulating but you know really how we get to make sure that we manage manage these funds appropriately to ensure that we have a district for seven generations to come um and that we don't fall off that Cliff that uh trustee harano mentioned um so yeah thank you for that I won't take more time I think the best analogy is sort of like um were able I I should say we are being paid for that you know if this were a pizzeria we're being paid more for each Pizza we're selling but the problem is uh were were facing a loss in orders for pizza so even though we're able to

237charge you know as you mentioned the base gets higher but you know with the declining enrollment you know where it's not in the base increase is not enough to cover the the losses incurred due to declining in Rome that is correct and lastly I I wanna you know uh thank you for for putting up such a detailed report yeah you know I know even though uh it's not always good news it's kind of like uh having the E the kid eating having to eat the Brussels sprouts I mean uh we we need you know it it's it's basically our festival guide going forward until we hear otherwise so I wanted to express my appreciation for you for putting uh a very detailed financial report to the board and also I wish you uh speedy recovery

238for whichever growth unit you're having I uh Cough Drops cough drops that was my uh Saving Grace in grad school all right foreign okay well first of all I just want to say that believe it or not I love brussels sprouts and number two um actually this question is towards either Dr Bauer or um I know both of you had the opportunity to attend the csba conference recently and so I'm just wondering um because Mr Chang brought up kind of how that declining enrollment is impacting I mean what we knew already is having such a large impact on our situation at the conference whether in presentations or informal conversations with people across the state um did you do you have any indication of trends other areas or other regions with regards to enrollment or or

239are we in this County or in this District kind of like a an island experiencing this alone if it's okay uh president better to respond um sure I say as I mentioned at the last four meeting um you know having gone to csba it was it was good to be in like a room with thousands of other trustees good and sad right but to know that we are not the only ones experiencing this um and actually a lot of the workshops uh were focused you know on on conversations of the effects so for example um I went to a workshop about you know um uh the land use and what it do because a lot of a lot of districts are experiencing um possible you know school closures um more than half um at least

240the ones that I interacted with same same thing across the board um so yes it's not just specific to Alum Rock it's something that most are experiencing that were maybe like I want to say maybe 10 that were actually experiencing the opposite um and so I could see you know places that maybe um are a lower cost to move to they're actually building more schools right which it made sense but very few districts were building more schools compared to the ones that had um excessive you know schools trying to figure out what they're going to do with their land um and being creative and bringing funds into their districts all right uh board member Chavez okay um I was asking many questions so here it is um Mr Chang uh when I just want to

241clarify for the community uh so I know that uh you keep repeating that holding the district requirements a lot of people when I tell them that they're not exactly sure what I mean so what I try to do is explain to them because of the decline in enrollment as of June 30th 2022 we will no longer be getting the money for 10 500 students which we had in 2019 we will be getting funded under what we have now so Dr Bower said that our number is about 8125 is what I heard her say so what I would like to know is if the average then was about ten thousand dollars for student so what is the average on the that you calculated for 2022 slash 2023 the dollar amount for each Ada could you tell

242me that uh and also because I know it's a hypothetical number but what is the number so that we can base it on how you calculate it for 21 22 22 23 and 23 24. could could you give me each uh figure of the Ada for each of those school years please yes give me a minute or maybe I should ask first was the year was that total 8125 and if it's more can you let me know that first please I'm sorry I'm not following your question okay so on page one uh where you put right there uh so you have the actuals for 2019 and 2020. that is what we have been getting the money from the state not holding us um they're hold they're not holding us harmless because of the declining enrollment

243so um that figure we know but the figures for 2021 the the Ada amount how much was that for 2021 and then the amount for 2122 and then each consecutive year after that 2022 23 2023 24. so you have the dollar amounts here but what is the number of the Adas for each dollar amount and I'm sorry for the math problems well clavera pulls that up is there I'm sorry I didn't put it down from the last one oh okay is that from before um well uh Dr Bauer had an announcement about Tick Tock challenge I know it's not on the agenda but it's a very serious issue that came up and so I um if you can uh let us know what uh maybe we could take the opportunity to bring it up thank

244you and and if if this is going to take a little bit longer I'll respectfully ask a trustee Chavez if we can answer her question in writing later on um because it also deals I'm sorry because it also deals with how you know in order to get the information to approve or not approve you know I really would need that number this evening I I am interested Charles I wish you had given me that question last night when we had the conversation so that staff could be ready but that's okay we'll try to you know that's what I thought that he would have that figure because remember I said I have a coverage question on the Adas that was my question to you and I thought you might have uh told him that but that

245was my question poor Mr colbera on the dollar amounts what is the Ada numbers on each one because we know the amount that he's putting down here and we know the amount of the 10 500 in 2019 and 2020 that we're being hold harmless for but what are the actual uh student uh number for each of these years it was in the presentation all right please provide a career so um in 2019-20 um The District's Ada was uh 8452. um that doesn't reflect our total enrollment because 88 is calculated by actual attendance and so enrollment could be higher that's 8452 correct 88 yes okay so the district has been funded at Ada for year 20 and 21 22 and so uh moving forward we were not able to use that ADA anymore in 2022-23 we

246will be using this year's Ada um because this year's Ada is going to be higher than next year 88 because we're projecting to have more declining enrollment um can you give me that number for 22 23 and 23 24 please yes so for year 22 23 um the total District Ada uh is projected to be 7439 so almost a thousand dollars a thousand uh okay and the next one after that please um seven thousand I'm sorry can you mute yourself really quick when you're mad can you say that again Mr Colbert please so in year 22 23 7439 okay 23 24 7 102. thank you in terms of the average funding per Ada um in the current year it's for lcff alone it's 12 um and twenty three dollars next year will be twenty twelve

247thousand three hundred and seven and then 23 24 it's 12703. thank you all right further questions from the board uh all right at this point I'll go to the public uh question from the public comments yes before President we have uh one person want to make a comment um Sandra Rivera Miss Rivera you have two minutes T mute yourself you can speak in the timer will begin good evening I just wanted to clarify I know um Miss Karina Herrera Loretta asked Mr Chang and I don't know if the answer got kind of mixed up in the metal there but a cola is ongoing so that 5.07 that we get this year becomes the base for next year and then that base gets an additional Cola of for next year of whatever it is so if

248it's 2.48 which is what he projected but I've been doing all of the numbers that I'm seeing are putting it anywhere between 5.48 and 5.9 for next year so Cola doesn't go away the cost of living stays with us but it's not like we get 5.707 5.07 that just becomes the new base that's like the base salary and then from that base we get another Cola or cost of living adjustment so I just want to make sure that that's pointed out because the way that it was explained um it wasn't explained quite clearly and so we are getting ongoing Cola is ongoing but that just becomes the new base so thank you thank you Ms Rivera for president at this time we have excuse me one more public comment Miss Jessica the voting Mr voting

249you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin you're hearing a lot from me tonight I have a question in regards to the sped funding as enrollment was going down as you were projecting as this is all projections none of this is actually in in you know solidified Why is the the cost of sped and infrastructure going up I noticed it was like a million close to a million dollars more each year but enrollment was going down and also if the if the each kids per Ada is increasing by a cola increase why would it not for staff um so I also don't see us going off a cliff if we continue to keep getting funds every year um and a cola increase every year I feel like we're

250gonna be okay um but yeah so that's those are some of my questions um thank you thank you Mr body our next speaker is Jocelyn Miss MERS we have two minutes please send me yourself we're gonna begin speaking the timer will begin thank you uh first I want to thank Sandra Rivera for her explanation because it was very frustrating sitting here knowing that the information that was being explained may have been misinterpreted again as Sandra did explain that but that Cola is ongoing money it would be as if you decided to give us a raise that raise doesn't go away next year it's on the salary schedule and it continues on and then we add to it the following year hopefully uh aside from that I also want to make a point that yeah declining

251enrollment is happening all over the county as um trustee Herrera lawera explained I know that many of the districts surrounding us are experiencing the same thing I also know that along with that our expenses go down we don't have as many students that we teach we don't have as many teachers we don't have as many anything um and also along with that is um the fact that if you compare the number per student that we get for our unduplicated population uh compared to the districts around I believe that we get more than most all the districts around per individual student so something to keep in mind thank you thank you Miss Merce at this time we have no more public comment you're on mute Mr President we're back to members of the board any last

252questions from members of the board you know this is a very important topic and worthy of a lot of deliberation or all right so see no no questions from members of the board then I'll go ahead uh take a motion to go ahead and accept and approve the 2021-2022 first intro reports for a motion yeah what's it was in land use it to approve you're really scared of acceptance I was on mute okay uh motion from uh board member second by gerano I don't know all right um for the questions I see you uh no board member I don't know I remember aye uh word vice president um hi uh with myself 49 that motion passes four to one with Chavez descenting all right um we have uh 8.01 resignations it's for information only at

253this point I'll call before any uh comments from the public any comments for the public okay thank you uh we're gonna go ahead and move on to 8.02 certificated substitute paying rates Back to December 17 2021 are there any mem uh any comments for the public comments for the public probably come in at this time or prison there's none uh Dr Bower had her handle I'll let everybody know that the reason we're bringing this back is because we forgot to add those substitutes who are substituting for more than 15 days so that's the rate that is being adjusted to um show the the increase that we're offering them that's the only change to this substitute rate I hope the board um considers this and approve it thank you all right um a we called for

254public comment on 8.22 correct just to clarify Dr Bao you meant you said approve it but this is information only correct this is for information only I apologize I'm thinking about the the other stuff I apologize sorry it's here thank you uh we're at 9.01 items 9.01 through 9.05 are all Aces grants correct and so if you could give a quick uh overview on on Aces with like a one or two sentence to just for the public to know this is again from the state it's part of the covet funds and it is to provide to increase the number of students having access to after school tutoring situation that money cannot be used in any other way correct designated just for that all right um 9.01 through 9.05 obviously can't take it all in one

255shot it is very similar but let's avoid any sort of risk and it just go through each one uh what you're gonna make a motion uh well I was about to ask I would have been you know possible to combine them all as one item but I guess you know it's very they're all very similar so I'll take it so motion to approve items 9.01 to 9.05 uh do I have a second second uh and uh yeah I don't know yeah uh I mean anybody can correct me if I'm wrong but I believe in situations very similar to this we've had direction from Council that we should still take them individually um I know they're very similar um but I thought I remember it in similar situations that we were advised to take each item

256individually all right let's go ahead and take them one by one then are you guys okay with uh yeah unless I'm remembering incorrectly but sure all right so um so I need to sorry I'm sorry your voice is going in and out so do I need to ask to approve 901 uh for a motion on that so since we're going to take it individually yeah I'm asking uh board member that is fine that is fine yeah he was drawing his motion so second you're moving for 9.01 is there a second yes second all right uh motion by Travis all right thank you I'll go ahead and call for what is the CU Travis hi remember how I know hi or board member hi vice president aye myself 49 motion costume 9.02 proof and with the

257item 9.02 do I have a motion to approve item 9.02 motion to approve uh second second to motion Vibes vice president prom taken by uh board member is there any public comment on 9.02 no public comment seem none I'll go ahead and call for what it is to you or remember Chavez hi Vice President Palmer aye what's up with an eye emotion pass unanimously uh 9.03 do I move to approve World second vice president prom taken by board member Chavez is there any uh comments from the public no no public comment at the same see none then I'll go ahead no call for a vote as I see you board member Chavez hi remember I don't know I board member I don't know aye vice president um hi myself 49 what we should pass unanimously

2589.04 little proof second motion by vice president Pham second by or remember Chavez is there any comments from the public on 9.04 no public comment at the same no public comment I'll go ahead and call for a vote as I see you or remember Chavez hi remember I know hi board members hi board member from aye with myself 49 motion passes unanimously 9.05 motion by Farms second by Chavez I don't think Travis gave him the second second there it is she's here in a second now uh is there any comments for the public on 9.05 no public comment you know public comment and is there any public is there any comments members of the board see none I'll go ahead and call for a vote as I see you or remember Chavez hi four members

259aye board member hi board vice president Farm hi with myself we're not motion passes unanimously I have 9.06 which is a contract essential maximum now maximum Travis new members of the public we should speak on 9.06 do so now no public comment or prison see no public comment any board members we should discuss item see none I'll go ahead and call for what as I see you or remember Chavez I or remember everybody I don't know I board member I don't know what happened hi word vice president from aye myself 49 motion passes unanimously uh 9.07 uh contract extension with rural Health Inc motion motion by Chavez second box I don't know what up is there any members of public tuition to speak on 9.07 yeah uh all right uh see no public comment I'll

260go ahead and uh unless there's members of the board wish to speak uh board member Chavez I just want to mention uh and just I know we're going fast we're on item 907 right yes okay so I just want to uh make sure um because I I know I mean we're all overworked um but I I do I I do remember one of the nurses coming on earlier how how you know as much as they're doing so I'm happy to support this you know this will be bringing in extra funds to support with you know um things like uh supporting our students with diabetes and other you know related um we know the huge need um so anyways uh I'm uh happy to support this I know the need is even higher now with covid

261and the specific needs around the schools so uh I just wanted to point that out on 907 thank you all right um if there's no further comments from the board go ahead and call you as I see you Boardman Chavez you had already voted eye uh board member man I know I or remember aye vice president uh from aye with myself 49 motion passes honestly 9.08 uh contract extension with maximum health Staffing move to approved therapist second there's a motion a second is there any members of the public wish to speak with you so if there is please do so by any kidding by raising your hand I'm 9.08 no public comment for prison see none I'll go back to the board um any further comments from this item see none I'll go ahead and

262take a vote I'll call you as I see you board member Chavez aye board member hi well as president Plum hi myself 49 motion passes unanimously 9.09 contract extension with Home Depot well there's a motion by a board member of five is there a second second second by board member any uh members of the public we should speak on 9.09 includes indicate by raising your hand no public comment at this time seeing no members of public wishing to speak I'll go back to the board any for the comments on item 9.09 nope seen none I'll go ahead and call I'll uh we'll call for a vote I'll call you as I see you board member Chavez no hi board member hi board vice president fam I was myself 49 the motion passes four two one

263with Chavez dissenting all right uh content calendar item 10 is there any uh items that uh the board members wish to remove from the consent calendar seeing none I'll call for a vote on the consent calendar do I have a motion to approve the consent calendar motion to approve the entire consent calendar okay bo uh motion by phone second bye I don't know um any uh comments for the public on the consent calendar I see no public comments at this time or president see no public comments uh we'll go ahead and uh call for a vote and unless there's uh further comments from the board I'll call you as I see you board member Chavez bye board member I don't know hi or remember hi board member from aye with myself 49 motion passes unanimously

264all right uh we're moving on to closed session before we reach closed session Dr Robert a job comments foreign everybody that we have sent a parent Square alerting parents about the threat to school safety and then just to um let everybody know that we have been in contact with county law enforcement officials who are telling us that the threat does not appear to be credible but because we are very committed to safety we're monitoring the situation and have contacted our local police so that it can be on the alert about any incidents we're asking parents to monitor their students social media activity and if they find anything of concern to let us let the school know um about this so that we can be ready for tomorrow thank you thank you for that update uh

265we're going to go ahead and move on to item 11 11.01 a racist or closed session the board will recess closed session at approximately 10. um and uh opposition will remove is included in a closed session are there any announcements uh and or are there any public comments with regard to those items that will be discussed in closed session remember the public wishing to speak with regard to closed session items please do so at this moment by by raising your hand no questions at this time see no public comment uh board member man I don't know you had your handle before yeah I was just gonna um I just wanted to thank actually uh Jocelyn for pointing that out to us I I work all day and then straight to this meeting I had no

266idea and so that's significant so I want to um thank Jocelyn and her daughter I guess actually deserves um some credit for pointing that out to us and and staff are reacting so quickly and you know hopefully we nothing happens and and but but I'm also hopeful that um we are or I'm thankful that we've made that connection with law enforcement because we don't have the sros available anymore immediately on campus so it will be essential in any instance that um law enforcement is immediately available and so I'm thankful to Jocelyn and her daughter and to staff for putting that all in place uh Boardman he's requesting a little longer of a buyer break I think you said 10 I don't know if I can have a couple more minutes all right let's go ahead

267and get back uh into closed session at 1005. does that work yes thank you we're going from yeah I was about to say the same thing so yeah all right let's recombine in closed session at 10 at 1005. uh any particular announcements Beyond uh what's already indicated in the agenda talk about no we just need to come back and there's one item that we we're gonna have to announce Let's uh go ahead and extend the meeting right now before we break into closed session uh do I have a motion to extend the meeting until what do you think 11 should if we usually maybe earlier okay uh attention of the meeting at 11. second all right I got motion by Chavez second buyer all those in favor say aye hi hi hi unanimously oh sorry

268about that we have to take you one by one more board member Chavez all right remember Rihanna I remember aye or uh board vice president from aye motion with myself for United motion passes all right so we'll see you all at uh 10 uh we'll see you back once we're double close today no five oh yes so we'll be back after that all right laughs foreign all right uh we have Quorum and we're waiting for rohillian is I do not see Rogelio in the audience all right uh we got 12.01 uh report of action taking a closed session we're waiting for a general counsel there he is to go ahead and report okay can you make him a palace uh can you go ahead and report out actually taking a closet closed session agenda item

26911 Point uh I'm sorry 1106. um uh motion by vice president Pham second by member Chavez the board unanimously approved the appointment and employment of Luis Mello as Network system supervisor for the district there are no further reportable actions thank you for that um is there uh yeah do you want to take a full comment on reporter Kozak no all right um future board agenda request 13.01 if you have a picture Board of General request please submitted right and at this point we'll go ahead and call this community adjourn at 11 19 uh pm have a good one everyone good night thank you good night thank you