001passed on before us and um have transitioned on to the spirit world uh many giants who who's uh we who we stand on and behind and uh have opened up many doors for some of us to be exactly where we're at right now so um just thinking of those that are in the spirit world continue to be with us as we honor them in this upcoming day of the dead for many in our community um this next week so with that i'll go ahead and open it up to item 201 uh potential district partnerships within district facilities with the goal of generating streams of revenue for the district and i'll go ahead and turn it over to mr chang madam president i believe we skipped the pledge of allegiance thank you so much yes uh
002let's uh go back and do the pledge of allegiance if you can all join me please i pledge allegiance i pledge allegiance to fight of the united states of america and to the right into the republic for which it stands one nation [Music] thank you mr chang no i'll turn it back over to you thank you madam president um on this item um the administrations as you know um the districts um have some surplus property across the districts um and the administration is requesting the board for some direction um in terms of uh what kind of partnership our opportunities are out there um and how do you see the board envision um some of this work getting being done to utilize some of our surplus property thank you mr chang i do see trustee chavez's
003hand up trustee chavez uh yes um i would like to make a motion for the district to start that search on uh generating strings of revenue for the district um and thank you and then just to check um [Music] okay uh i'll i'll i'll go ahead and go to trustyfam and then i don't know if he's gonna second or okay well not yeah i just wanted to advise you madam president that uh you know uh board vice president is in the process of logging on and uh trustee bejarano was having uh technical issues logging on so uh you know i wanted to see if maybe it was advisable to wait a couple minutes to to allow for the two trustees to to get on okay yeah and in the meantime um i i know there's
004a motion on the floor trusted chavez i'm just going to ask rogelio um rogelio in regards to um guiding the district is this uh something that formally we get to make a motion on and vote on or can we just direct the uh district staff to get back to us with potential partnerships so i think it can go either way if there is a particular proposal that a one or more board members is interested in having the district pursue then there could be a motion to that that effect otherwise it could be a motion to ask the administration to bring back some proposals and different concepts at the next or a future board meeting or it can just be on a consensus basis that this is something that the board would like to discuss at
005the next meeting in more detail with some specific outlines of proposals okay and i'm hoping that um vice president and uh clerk are in soon um mr fam if you can help me identify and hopefully they're in um okay so i think we're trustee chavez um just made a motion to basically direct district staff um for potential to look for potential district partnerships exactly what it states here um so for purposes of moving this forward um i am going to motion go ahead mr cruz yes so with with regards to ab361 this is the that was the resolution that the board excuse me passed at the last board meeting um that resolution and and those new brown act provisions require that if there are connectivity issues which it sounds like there are right now you
006have to wait a reasonable time and i think i'm seeing other people log on right now but you might want to wait another minute or two until board member beccarano was able to get in the into the meeting okay i just see trustee quintero in um i know we're in the process of allowing people in [Music] do we see uh mr trustee vegeta in yet i don't see him to see the lord okay um so welcome trustee quintero as the we are on item 201 and trustee chavez just made a motion to direct uh district staff um to search for potential partnerships within district facilities with the goal of generating stream so revenue for the district that basically what we've done um for purposes of moving this forward i was going to second that and
007then we were hoping that you would all be back here for during the time to have a discussion um so that's where we're at yeah um so is it it has it been seconded or can we discuss i just seconded it right okay um i i'm interested in and also moving forward so i would be supportive but i also wanted to go ahead and have us provide some very very broad parameters not getting into the wheats because i also think that it's important for the board to provide its its um desires i don't want the staff to go out there do tons of work on on certain things and they're going to be spinning their wheels and then at the end we wind up saying well that's not exactly what we're looking for i'm thinking
008that some very very broad 10 000 foot kind of parameters would be uh appropriate at this point that way they kind of know what they're looking for as they move forward and so i would like to go ahead and in our discussion put those forward and then possibly incorporate them into the motion if uh if that's acceptable if not then i'll make a substitute motion and see if that moves forward do you want to make a um do you want to propose language and see if trustee travis is open to that sure um as we move forward um my interest is that staff goes out and looks for partnerships that make sense such as public sector organizations establishment clinic child care centers things of that sort one of the things that i was not interested
009in seeing is us renting out facilities to our competitors i think it's counterproductive we basically go ahead and take in a couple of drops of water or a couple of drops and then we bleed out gallons and so that makes absolutely no sense and so it's uh for that purpose that i was hoping that we could provide very very broad parameters so that staff can can have a sense as to what it is that they're gonna start looking for rather than having them to because i know exactly where they can go right away and start getting tons of partners that are going to offer them cash but then at the end it's going to wind up costing us a lot of students you know what i mean let me be clear about it our competitors
010the charter movement would love to rent every facility that we have uh and uh that's something i'm not interested in pursuing so uh trustee travis i see your hand up um it's okay i see you down now i'll wait for min's comment okay trusty fa so i guess i you know part of you know to formalize trustee quintero's language here so basically to to ensure that district partnerships are sought to provide community services to the residents of our district and also the prohibition of any partnerships that involve the rental of space to private and charter schools uh trustee chavez do you have something to add to that or how do you feel about the specifics on now you want to talk to him first um i don't see him on yet but i wanted to
011i know just proposed some language in there and i just want to see since you made the motion how you felt about that so let me get this straight you want partnerships but gintero said he wants to exclude charters and private schools is that correct you want me to correct do you want me to confirm that madam president i think uh quintero would be helpful for both chavez tonight is very specific language that you might want to include in the motion so that also maribel can get it if we accept it that we move forward uh seeking partnerships but that those partnerships exclude uh our competitors in particular the charter movement okay so yes uh chavez that's his addition to that do you accept uh the motion on the floor i really don't want to
012exclude anybody so no we can vote on my voting first and then we can vote on quinteros but i i in all fairness i think we shouldn't exclude anybody thank you we'll make that a substitute motion we can vote on this first and then it will cancel out the other motion okay um i do see vagirano on the list um if somebody can promote him please to the panel list can we first vote on the motion that i asked for right but i'm i do see the herano on now so i'm asking him for him to be on the panelist so if he has anything to add before we go to the vote i do see him here already and i don't know we just need to promote him [Music] i'm having extreme technical challenges
013today my router was out and my computer all kinds of stuff but and i can't get my camera on okay but i wasn't serious i was hearing the past few minutes um okay so i'm i'm in now at least for now unless something else goes down and i'll try to get my camera up awesome no worries as long as you can hear us and you're with us thank you so at this point um what i'm going to do is i'm going to open it up for public comments on the current uh motion that's on the floor um and then we'll see and then we'll take a vote and then we'll see how that goes um mr chavez can you help me with public comments see if there's any members of the public bushing to address
014the board on this item amen president at this time we have no public comment okay well wait a few seconds we have one person first speaker is veronica veronica you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin great thank all right thank you miss vidonica give us one minute while we pull up the clock okay great thank you hi everyone my name is veronica malore and thank you for bringing this item to the floor about having um that partnership and looking for that partnership i also do agree with um trustee quintero in making sure that we serve we rent this our facilities as much as i don't want to rent any facility out and want to keep expanding our schools that we rented to clinics to non-profits to community
015organizations that are going to bring something to our communities and yes charter schools are growing and charter schools need land however if we want to continue having still alan rock in existence as we saw the enrollment decrease and we keep on seeing the displacement maybe looking for partnerships that allow us to bring something to the community not just more schools but actual community clinics something that is going to benefit the community and that is going to keep our schools open and continue to grow thank you ms veronica next speaker is dilsa gonzalez it's gonzales you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening members of the board my name is ilsa gonzalez i'm a community organizer and i am a parent of two students in the umbra
016school district i am here to support um the comment that um our trustee andres quintero did and the previous speaker i truly believe that there are so many non-profit organizations and if you recall back there was a committee that said what to utilize these spaces that we have um that we're not currently using we talk about maybe child care for teachers and um community and parents to be able to allow to go to work and do their things we talk about bringing on non-profit organizations to provide mental health um social emotional support and other resources for our communities we talk about maybe creating some kind of um support for our teachers trainings and um so they could gather their trainings within the school district boundaries there's so much things that we could do that will
017support and will continue to support our students and families and we don't have to rent it out to other non-charter school to other charter schools i truly believe that for the sake of our students for the sake of the retention and for our district to keep growing and being able to give back to our community and especially our students and our parents we need to focus in what we have right now which is our students our families and being able to retain them remember what we do here is gonna impact later on in the future so thank you um andres quintero for thinking of our families and one more time think about the community um input that you already received in that back we don't have to be creative we already have it there um
018and we just had to utilize it on our on our behalf on our behalf and truly give community engagement and bring those words back to life when we think about maybe renting these spaces thank you have a good evening thank you mrs gonzalez uh next speaker is jocelyn mers miss mers you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin thank you i will not take much time because i want to echo what both of the previous speakers have said um i was part of that facilities repurposing committee and i feel like we put in many hours and a lot of thought on what the community needs and our community is in desperate need of child care before and after both for staff and for the community um i again
019i i just urge you to take a look at some of the suggestions that were discussed by the committee and move forward on some of those i'm kind of surprised actually that that nothing has been done up to this point that that has been six months so thank you thank you ms mers madam president at this time we have no more public comment thank you i'm gonna go ahead and uh turn it over to our trustees and call you as they see you for a vote um trustee family see your hand up oh yeah yes you know yes just a question to to trustee chavez here uh you know if our if our responsibility as trustees is to see to the financial sustainability of this district so that we can pass on these assets to
020to our children and their children and their children's children uh why why why is trustee chavez opposed to excluding charter schools and private schools trust travis i don't know if you want to add anything to that or respond trustee chavez can you hear me or maybe she can't hear us i'm wondering if she's having audio issues um trusty chavez are you there are you in our meeting uh madam president can we if in the interest of moving the meaning forward i would ask our council to provide us uh robert's rules of water um which is what we're bound to to follow under our bylaws uh the substitute motion has to be heard before the the underlying motion correct or the main motion or do i have that backwards no that that's correct as long as
021there is a second in support of the substitute motion all right so i'll second the substitute motion okay so so now that it's been second then uh rogelio just to clarify we'll go with the um substitute motion first yes and i would just just for clarity's sake i would recommend reading that substitute motion back into the record okay motionless to go ahead and just give it up can you pause real quick i just want to make sure that um trusty chavez can you hear us trusty travis i can hear you now okay perfect it's it's okay uh all right sorry for interrupting vice president um if you can please state the motion the substitute motion was that we uh authorized uh administration to seek potential district partnerships um partnerships with oh hold on we see
022that we authorize the administration to go out there and see potential district partnerships with the goal of generating uh streams of revenue for the district of those partnerships exclude our competitors charter schools assigned by trustee fem okay so now we're on the substitute motion uh mr greece um i'm assuming i go through the same motions uh trusty um comments questions concerns and then public comment on this substitute motion uh that well not through the public comment but through the board comment yes okay all right now opening it up to the trustees any questions comments or concerns on the substitute motion okay i'm gonna give uh because i know a chance i do see his hand up so you can help me unmute him can you hear me yes okay so i don't want to turn
023on my camera because every time i do i start losing audio so there's something going on on my end but um what i do want to say is i um you know having just gotten on in time to hear um trustee quintero's motion and and hear the public comment you know i would i will definitely be supportive of of this this new motion um because i think for the most part what um i heard in public comment is that this board had already begun taking some steps in a direction for potential reuse of facilities and kind of looking forward in terms of what we would want to see and what we would want to bring to the district if we had to go down that route and that work and those kind of very preliminary
024plans were actually backed up almost item for item with the 7-eleven committee that we had those things that they put in their recommendation that they wanted to see line up almost exactly with the work that had already begun by the board and conversations that were beginning to start and so for those reasons the fact that we had begun to move in that direction and that the 7-eleven committee which is reflective of the community aligned with those um like i said very preliminary planning discussions which none of those um included the opportunity for for other educational institutions i.e charter school or private schools because of that because that was the way that we had already intended as a board and as a community i'll be supportive of this motion because i think it reflects work that's
025been done and the desires of the community um and to trustee fans point i think they are also in the best interest of the district moving forward from a fiscal perspective thank you trustee any other questions or comments from the trustees i'm in agreement um i you know i was in agreement in starting to direct the staff as in public comment somebody mentioned you know we've had some of this information for a while and um as a board we haven't moved and so it's definitely important to start looking at the possibilities of potential district partnerships and ensuring that they are benefiting our district um in all ways shapes and forms and so i look forward to hearing about them in the near future um and if i don't see any other trustees making any comments
026questions concerns i'll go ahead and bring it to the vote on this um current item we are going to be voting on um madam president yeah just just one thing to your last point there that i did want to bring up so yeah we haven't moved yet um on these things but i think it's important also to understand that um when we look at these potential uh partnerships or streams of revenue that kind of goes hand in hand with the availability of facilities for us to be able to generate that revenue and you know the closure slash repurposing of facilities has been you know for anybody that's been following has been a process that we're trying to be very intentional very careful very um [Music] you know methodical about and so although we haven't taken
027direct steps in that direction i just want to make sure that everyone also understands that it's there's other pieces to the puzzle it's not like we can just start finding partnerships and putting them in we could and that might be a short-term um solution but i think the way that we're trying to look at it is from a more longer-term perspective and because of that that's why i bring in that it goes hand-in-hand with the availability of repurposed or yeah repurposed facilities so that's kind of the i just want to make sure that we still fill in that part of the picture that um the movement on this type of stuff requires other things ahead of that to be able to get it all going but we are moving into direction so thank you absolutely
028thank you for clarifying that and i'd like to add you know in addition to hiring you know the council that we recently hired project management all the pieces to the puzzle so thank you very much for pointing that out and that we have been doing the work but not specifically this um we've been laying down the foundation in order to be able to be ready for possible partnerships now so yes very exciting thank you for clarifying that and for painting that picture um for all of us or reminding us of those very important aspects to this process um okay so seeing no other hands up i'm going to go ahead and just call you as i see on my screen trustypam hi trustee chavez no vice president quintero hi hi and myself i okay um
029and then so i'm assuming since this one passed the other one kind of uh we don't go back to the other one um i do see your hand up trusty chavez so are we going to get public comments before we take the other one or no we already took public comment i clarified with council that um we didn't need to take public comment on this item and he said no none on this item excuse me with the second one exactly i asked him and he said no public comment on that one okay sorry because during that time i couldn't hear everything thank you yeah no good i'm glad you're asking thank you so much am i correct the other one just we just move on to the next item on the agenda correct that's correct
030okay thank you uh 202 approve resolution 1321-22 regarding the city of san jose redistricting commission and support a proposed unity map um trustee family yes this is your item yes yes uh you know madam president uh honorable colleagues you know i bring this item for the board's consideration because uh this the issue of political representation on the city council is a grave importance to this district um you know at for generations out you know uh district you know district five has been more or less synonymous with the boundaries of the vast majority of alum roth in fact you know if we go back to history uh you know it it coincides with the historic town of alamo prior to its annexation by the city of san jose now obviously this has muted many benefits to
031our district we've been able because of our location and being nearly co-terminus with city council district five it has resulted over decades the benefit of having a united represent a united voice to you know to the city council in the coordination of not just city services that help the residents of the alamo district but also in enable us to be able to work with work with our city council member to push for and advocate for policies that are to the benefit of the residents that we serve in the allen rock school district now under the now once a decade you know what census uh the city engages in read the redistricting process uh and you know in in some released craft maps uh the city redistricting commission had you know has on its table proposed
032maps that would divide the allen rock district into two or more city council districts um you know this pre this represents a particular uh i would say dangerous political disadvantage for our district because uh what when you are a minority i i wouldn't say minority but when you are a smaller part of a district we're less able to court coordinate with our elected representatives in order to advocate for services for policies uh you know one particular example i i wanted to cite was years ago i i was a participant tried to participate with the uh state level citizens redistricting commission and at the time you know i had had uh one of the issues was that eastern the eastern san jose portion of alan walk would have was any draft map proposed to be in
033a map that uh in the senate district that was anchored mainly out of merced and you know this piece of adam rock would be this this sort of like this westernmost point uh of a district of a senate district that was overwhelmingly in the central valley and i spoke at the time to to that redistricting commission uh advocating against techcraft because it would separate us from you know the communities of interest that we live in and so the same case goes for uh you know these maps uh you know to see allen rock divided into one at one one map has us divided into four districts another map has this divide in three districts and two districts uh basically almond walk would you know alum rock would be politically divided and we would lose the
034ability to have a united voice when it comes to getting services for our residents however luckily there is the uh as a as noted in the resolution uh there's a unity map which uh proposes to maintain you know uh as in the last redistricting cycle alum rock in the bulk of a single city council district and given the grave importance of the city of san jose and its impact on the residents of the allen rock union elementary school district i propose that our board collectively express our opposition to the draft nasa for the city's redistricting commission and to endorse the unity map in order to preserve uh the political influence and our ability to advocate and serve the residents and families of the allen rock school district thank you very much thank you trustee fam
035um do you have a motion so i am mo i motion that uh that the resolution uh as published via adopted and passed by this board nice president oh second okay so um i'll go ahead and open it up for public comment first and then i'll bring it back to the trustees for any questions comments or concerns mr chavez can you help me with public comment at this time madam president yes um i would there there is uh a staff person from organizations that put together the unity map i would encourage us to bring them forward not as public comment but as part of the part of the item discussion and they would be able to answer questions so you would have them now or after public comment um i think that would be a
036wiser approach great idea um and i think he does have his hand up um jeffrey buchanan um if we can include him maybe on the the presentation piece of this um mr chavez can you um a mute his mic and maybe he can give um additional information on this item for us to um hear him and understand yes madam president uh mr buchanan is now able to open up his own mic thank you good evening uh members members of the board jeffrey buchanan um former alum rock resident current trustee over the luther burbank school district and uh policy director with silicon valley rising action um so in terms of the the map that's that's being discussed um i think i can do a screen share just because i feel like with maps it's really hard
037to understand uh what you're talking about without without being able to see it so just give me one one second here um okay and okay so you should be able to see the screen now um so with within within the map you'll see um we were able to keep uh i believe all the volume rock within district five uh it's the i think the one of the if not the only map certainly one of the few maps that keeps uh the entirety of the alum rock school district within district five additionally you know some important features of this map i think you know being a school district that represents you know one of the city's larger or more diverse populations of both latino uh and uh asian populations within the city i think you'll you'll
038be appreciated to know that this map you know on average increases the political voice of of latino and asian populations with the city uh almost one percent of peace per district uh in terms of uh the citizen voting age population compared to the baseline numbers so we're in addition to making adjustments for population we we saw big growth in terms of uh district four uh in district three that really would and then you know proportionally district five grew less uh than many of the other districts but we were able to accommodate uh within this map largely keeping largely keeping the the previous lines of district five uh the same as as before we had to grow a little bit uh in terms of going north uh past the old boundaries i'll bring up here in
039red is the previous boundary uh grow a little bit into district 4 in order to keep this map uh within the the kind of requirements of the fair maps act when it comes to deviation from the ideal district size and so i think of all the maps this keeps district five uh uh the most intact uh but while also you know increasing the voice of of latino communities particularly in district six and district two uh in maintaining you know significant uh latino voice within district seven and district three um and you know overall i think leads to uh a map where you know latino black asian american populations have a much greater political voice much more representative political voice compared to their population sizes um you know writing some historic wrongs of how in the
040past we've lumped together some lower income more diverse neighborhoods with wealthier less diverse neighborhoods um and so encourage you to consider supporting the resolution on the table and glad to answer any questions thank you do the trustees have any questions for mr buchanan uh trustee quintero uh not at the moment okay um i do see another hand up uh uh no i didn't have questions i just had my own comments okay thank you mr buchanan so stick around please just in case anything comes up i appreciate it well actually i'm sorry i do have a couple questions now that i'm looking can you i think you alluded to it mr buchanan in your comments but can you just confirm or or re-restate the the numbers that are on there what they specifically represent those percentages
041yeah so i know the district number is on that yeah yeah sorry apologies um so uh basically when you're when you're putting constructing a redistricting map you would look at the total population of the city and we have 10 districts uh and so dividing our total population by 10 uh creates what they call an ideal district size and in order to uh uh uh following with the affairs maps act you basically have to end up with uh a situation where you have no one your largest district and your smallest district the their kind of deviation from that ideal size combined can't be more than 10 so like you could be plus 5 and minus 5 and still be fine but if you go any further in either direction um then then your map would would
042would likely face legal challenges i see okay thank you for that that makes sense thank you okay um so i'll go ahead and uh jesse chavez you have a question so that the public can know what lines the streets what lines are on the streets and which one got moved can you possibly give the public some of the names of the streets yeah so yeah so we um essentially now let me just take you into the couple areas where we where we had it and you can zoom up so there is a the filipino community in san jose uh is working to construct a park in uh right off of uh gemelli way uh and had requested as a community of interest keeping that park uh within district four so there's a small you know
043little section here along gemelli way uh easton uh place in easton lane um that in this map goes over to four um you we gained the area our district five uh ads independence high school uh and the neighborhood immediately east of independence high school uh in addition to uh this area uh easter east which is like eastern lane uh marbury uh and uh was it not grand view terrace uh capital uh and so adds a little bit there additionally uh the area around the column middle school which had formerly been in district 8 uh is moved into into district 5 and then we've requested that the uh uh so the old line you'll see this line here for for reed hill view we ask that the old line for reed hill view uh be utilized
044for the current maps because it you know it includes the the area that's non-residential uh into district five uh but for some reason the uh the outlines of the reed hill view property uh it includes both the non-residential and residential and its census block and so like for this piece of software it doesn't let you like cut a census block in half even though you can see the old line actually did that so we've requested in comments to the city council to to keep the old line uh for rehab divide the division between eight and five thank you sorry so just to on that same point so if we keep if this map were to keep the old lines of read read hill view then that kind of more irregular line to the west of
045it the yellow line would that not be the boundary then but in fact yeah it'd be this red line so we've requested that that red line be used again for this um this piece of software essentially you would have to add the census block that includes the kind of i guess you'd say southern uh uh portion of the airport you know also kind of wraps around this residential neighborhood i think it might be a trailer park i forget um and so you would need to for contiguity reasons if you included all of this you'd get all that residential and then you'd have to grab these areas too because you couldn't leave them as an island and so we'd be taking population from eight um this effort i should have said this before was an effort
046of the asian law alliance the naacp uh the raza roundtable and other organizations uh with an effort to you know and within that there was some negotiation and conversation about how do you both you know keep a district like district 8 that is uh you know a majority uh minority of asian voters strong as well as how do we keep a district like district five which is the majority uh latino voters strong and so when you play with that eight and five line you can start to sway either way on that because the further south you go uh the the larger proportion of asian uh voters and the further north you go the larger proportion of latino voters and so in order to kind of keep both those districts and those communities of interest uh
047together and their voices strongly kept the same line essentially thank you any other questions for mr buchanan before we move on to public comment i actually have another separate question right if no one else does go ahead okay so the areas that we would gain in the northern boundary um are to my knowledge are primarily um asian pacific islander populations i mean i could be wrong on that but that's from stuff i've seen in the past and so i'm wondering just um [Music] is there a significant impact with regards to ethnicity within the proposed district five um one way or another whether it's the asian population asian um api population or latino population or is it roughly even though we gain um some of those i think more densely api population populated areas does it
048still kind of remain roughly the same ethnic makeup uh yeah overall yeah overall it's it stays roughly the same uh both in terms of uh the other thing that i forgot to mention uh you know recognizing uh that there's a part of the kind of foothill area that's in the incorporated city of san jose uh that you know also has kind of less it's it's the the demographics are different than most of district five uh and i believe the school district there most of the i think the students are actually attending evergreen uh uh school district in that neighborhood and so we did uh give that population that population is moving to district eight um and so between those two swaps of adding north uh and uh moving uh some of this district eight some
049of this population in district eight we keep basically the same when it comes to population and citizen voting age population for the latino uh population within district five okay thank you you're a muted present thank you um if i don't see any other questions from mr buchanan we'll go ahead and open it up for public comment and then we'll come back for any additional questions comments or concerns from the board uh mr chavez can you help me with public comment uh yes madam president at this time i see no public comment okay we'll wait a couple seconds any no still none okay all right bringing it back to the trustees any questions comments concerns before we take a vote trustee verano yes thank you um so first and foremost i want to thank trustee fam
050for bringing us this resolution um and the work in that and i really want to thank those individuals organizations entities that make up the group that put together this unity map and all the work that um obviously very comprehensively and and and thoughtfully put forward here um and i would echo you know much of what has already been stated by trustee family mr buchanan in addition though i think i would also add that you know in terms of the the council district and governance i think obviously there's there's something to be said or a lot to be said for the political ramifications of empowering populations um or or disempowering populations depending on you know decisions that are made within a certain area and mr buchanan i think spoke very well to that point specific to
051the asian pacific islander and latino populations in the current district but i think there's also um something to be said for kind of like the historic socio-historical and socio or cultural um realities and foundations of any given area i think that also it contributes to the um you know the cohesion of any given district in any given area and some of the proposed maps that i saw really in my estimation kind of put communities into the same district that would need to be governed that have very different cultural or historical uh realities and i think east side san jose and alum rock district as we kind of coincide we have a very specific historical context that we all operate with thunder we have a very specific socio cultural social economic reality here in this district
052and i think to break that up is very significant obviously again from the political perspective but just almost like the identity of our community um you know who we are as people here in in this geographic area and so for all of those reasons the obvious political ramifications that though that other maps would you know have on us and in addition you know i i think kind of just like the identity of us as east siders that the impact that that would have and in my opinion the negative impact that it would have to break us up um i will i am supportive of the unity map and i think it's very important that we're able to have this um unified political voice but also unified identification and cultural and historical um kind of foundation
053that we've always had as a community here so those are my comments thank you thank you trustee pam you know i just wanted to you know and thank jeffrey buchanan for being here tonight and explaining the the importance of the unity map to to our community and also to thank the consortium of the naacp asian law alliance uh la raza community roundtable and the latino leadership alliance for you know being the consortium that put forth this uh unity map and you know a map that you know listens to the needs of all the communities but especially in our case you know the east side the allen walk community to you know you know to continue you know to continue you know continue to ensure that you know our our historic identity as an lmwa community
054continues forward and all you know ensuring that we retain a strong stable voice in city government so that we so that the allen walk district and the city of san jose can continue to have a long and a constructive partnership in serving the residents of allen roth thank you thank you trustee pam vice president quintero i want to thank trustee pam for bringing forward this resolution um i've had the opportunity to review some of the draft maps and they were jaw-dropping to say the least um they as was indicated by trustee pham they did split us up even worse some of them went ahead and stretched the district out all the way to downtown uh reaching the uh into nagaley park actually as much as i love the people in the united park has been
055great i've worked with them on different things and different projects we're a very different community it's a very different uh uh you know social economic status and so it's important that we keep the east side community together uh so that it does have a voice and in particular the alamo community so i it's for that reason that i'll be supporting uh the resolution that's before us thank you so much um trustee chavez i think it's important to learn to hear what more of the community says thank you thank you trustee chavez and we did give opportunity for public comment unfortunately there was no one um so just some closing remarks um before we go to the vote go ahead trustee travis i meant not just on this meeting i meant more of a community input
056thank you thank you and there is has been many many meetings i um suggest that you know i'm sure many of them have been recorded if you want to hear more about what others are saying um i don't know vice president if you want to add to that or we have something else to add yeah one of the things that i also want to note um it may be of interest to one of our colleagues here to several our colleagues is that there's been um letters that have been put forward in our articles of the in the local newspapers as well indicating that some of the business community is very concerned about the breakup of uh their business districts it's very fascinating that this this very progressive group of folks was able to go ahead
057and put together a map that meets those interests and so many of those alum rock corridors business corridors are kept together by the unity map and they're broken apart by some of the other maps that are being put forward in draft form at the city so uh i'm very very heartened to see that we can achieve uh very um uh you know the the goals which are many um as stated by by the coalition it's uh they're looking at not just ethnicity or race but also the status of renters socioeconomic status multiple factors and so putting all that together they're still able to go ahead and and meet the needs of certain uh business folks that were were sharing concerns so so i'm very heartened by that work thank you vice president and i would
058just uh encourage all of us you know those listening those um of us that will be voting on it um those in the public to think about you know this divide and conquer that has happened in our history over and over and the purpose of that and what the purpose of those that even presented um that you know divide the maps that divide right um that divide us but the purpose of that is you know really question what would be the purpose of dividing our community you know maybe we could have the communities be against one another instead of uniting right um and what does that create and so those are some of the things that i'm thinking of as i'm supporting this thank you so much trusty fam for bringing it forward um you
059know for me the unity map alone and you know the name and the title of it um says what you know this this concept is about what what i'm supporting i'm unity because the more we're united on behalf of you know what we all represent of our children our future generations then the better you know we will be here in alum rock and you know county as a whole city as a whole so with that i will be supporting this i am going to be calling the vote i'll call your name as i see you on my screen trustee pam hi trustee quintero hi trustee chavez no trustee vagano hi and myself i thank you next item approve resolution 1421-22 recognizing native indigenous people um and i did bring this forward so i'm going to
060go ahead and um read it and um we'll go from there recognizing the second monday of october as native indigenous people's day the month of november as native american heritage month and opening arust board meetings with the land acknowledgement in perpetuity whereas indigenous people in particular the moek maloney tribe of the santa san francisco bay area have had and continue to have distinct rich cultures binding them to the earth and all of its inhabitants and whereas the second monday of october is nationally celebrated as indigenous people's day and the month of november is native american heritage month and the alam rock union elementary school district is honored to acknowledge and celebrate local and national american indians and whereas the board of trustees values the many contributions made to our community through indigenous peoples knowledge labor
061technology science philosophy arts and the deep cultural contributions that has sustained substantially shaped our district and whereas the board of trustees has a responsibility to oppose the systematic racism towards indigenous people in the united states which perpetuates high rates of poverty and income inequality exacerbating disproportionate health education and social inequities and outcomes and whereas the board of trustees promotes closing the equity gap for indigenous peoples through policies and practices that reflect the experiences of indigenous peoples and all other segments of our district and whereas the idea of indigenous peoples day was first proposed in 1977 by a delegation of native nations to the united nations sponsored international conference on discrimination against indigenous populations in the americas and whereas over 70 percent of american indian and the last alaskan native people now live in urban areas
062with california having the largest populations in the country and whereas the moekhma oloni amamutsun island and thailand tribes of our region have suffered severe injustices and dispossession and whereas the alum rocking elementary school district joins the santa clara county office of education and the city of san jose in honoring and supporting the first people of the region as efforts are made to revive their cultural language and history and whereas such organizations as the society for advancement of chicano hispanics and native americans in science sagnas with its five santa clara county chapters are committed to the support and advancement of native americans in science technology engineering and math stem education and careers and the indian health center of santa clara valley has offered comprehensive health care and wellness services since 1977 and whereas alum rocking elementary
063school district is committed to enhancing equity and diversity and remains dedicated to providing schools with resources supports to advance ethnic studies courses and curriculum and now therefore be it resolved that the alum rocklin elementary school district recognizes the importance of teaching native studies to all students and supports that district's ethnic studies steering committee's ongoing work in making that a reality for all students and be it further resolved that the board trustees of the alum rock union elementary school district does hereby acknowledge that the district schools and facilities sit on the traditional lands of the moekhma oloni people and the board of trustees further acknowledges with respect and reverence the muekma ohlone people tribe of santa san francisco bay area for their stewardship of these lands and be it further resolved that the board of trustees
064adopts this resolution to recognize both indigenous people's day in october november as a native american heritage month and to begin each board meeting with a land acknowledgement stating we take a moment to acknowledge and pay respects to the first nations people of the land upon which alum rockingham elementary school district is established the ancestral homelands of the moek maloney tribe of the san francisco bay area as an opportunity to reflect upon and teach about ohlone tribe of the san francisco bay area sorry as an opportunity to reflect upon and teach upon the ongoing struggles of the indigenous peoples of this land to celebrate the thriving cultures and values of the indigenous peoples of our region namely the moek mahaloni peoples and to stand in community and solidarity with the indigenous people of the americas thank
065you so much for listening i felt it was important to read um off you know this is very important um and what i'll do is i'll make a motion at this time to adopt the resolution at stake thank you uh now that uh we got a motion and a second i'll go ahead and um i'll open it up to public comment at this time mr chavez any members of the public wishing to address the board on this item yes ma'am president we have two speakers excuse me uh first speaker is miss dilsa gonzalez ms gonzalez you have two minutes please send me yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening members of the board i'm once again community member organizer as well as a parent um i just want to say thank
066you president um herrera i believe that recognizing our ancestors where we're coming from it is a huge thing to do for our community um it is part of the vision and mission um and i believe that um um brock school district has perpetrated for the last years as well as it's it's another step to um to cultivate to enrich and to show our kids that we are proud of our culture and where we're coming from and our ancestors thank you for listening to community we were a huge advocate for english studies because we this matters we matter our past matters and our culture matters so once again thank you very much on behalf of of the community and the parents without listen and this is one huge step to to be greater than we are
067already thank you have a really good evening thank you ms gonzalez our next speaker is gerardo lloyda mr lloyd you have two minutes please admit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening board trustees madam president my name is gerardo lloyda i am step dad to a seventh grader at adelante and the director of development and communications for the indian health center of santa clara valley where we stand for the healing and survival of american indians alaska natives and our greater community as a descendant of the pueblo mezcalero pacha and palmei tribes i strongly urge you to support this resolution as a small gesture towards fully acknowledging and hopefully one day putting a halt to the ongoing efforts of erasure against the first nations people like the moek maloney tribe of the
068san francisco bay area one of the most impactful ways that this erasure is perpetuated every day is in our classrooms we're trusted adults teachers speak of first nations peoples as though we no longer exist in the past tense we are still here among the 22 000 plus patients that we serve at the indian health center there are members and descendants of over 80 federally recognized tribes we are still here the maloney of the san francisco bay area currently have over 600 enrolled members who are working tirelessly to reclaim their status as a federally recognized tribe while reviving their traditional culture and language on behalf of their future generations we are still here land acknowledgements help to perpetuate an understanding of the history that has brought us all to reside on the land we occupy they
069help to end the ongoing erasure of first nations people magnifying their visibility as a people of today and tomorrow once again trustees i strongly urge you to support this resolution so that our leaders educators families students and most importantly our first nations people will not forget that we are still here thank you i yield my time thank you mr lloyd our next speaker is veronica ms veronica you have two minutes please emit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin great thank you and just like the previous speakers i also want to urge you to um also approve this and go beyond that right go um i know that's something that um has been done in the past where you know our children don't longer make the missions and that was really something a
070great step forward and having ethnic studies something that really is teaching our culture that is not being erased by the western culture and that continues to embrace and continues to enrich our children with their culture enriches their our children with the culture of the first people and that we recognize that they are still here just like the previous speaker said um and yes and that we also continue our ethnic studies committee i i haven't i don't i haven't been following but i hope that they can come back again and have more meetings because um it was very insightful have you know listening to the conversations of those the people in the committee um and what we're moving forward with as alan rock so thank you thank you mr onika madam president we have no more
071public speakers thank you so much i'll go ahead and open it up for any comments questions from the trustees and seeing none we'll go ahead and uh trust you ma'am you know i'll just say you know uh i'll be supporting the motion you know one of my uh interest has been uh history i was a history major and uh history you know the past is something to be studied in whole yeah we have to take you know not only you know successes but we also have to look at what what didn't work in the past and so we have to recognize that you know um as much as this country has grown this region has grown there were there were there were a lot of wrongs committed in the past and that we in in
072the interest so that our children learn not to repeat history it's important that our children learn that you know the good and the bad of history so that our children you know make progress you know um you know basically uh you know become a more perfect community and i you know and it is for those reasons that you know i support this motion and you know in order to you know acknowledge the full history you know of this region uh so thank you very much thank you trustee fam um any others uh vice president quintero uh i appreciate you bringing this resolution forward i think it helps us to begin the process of making sure that we're regularly telling the stories um that uh we don't forget because you know those who uh that don't
073learn from their history are doing to repeat it as the adage says and uh we have the the trail of tears uh and unfortunately many people think that's the only one the fact of the matter is that there are many trailers this year there were long walks out here for the uh uh in particular and so many many of those stories where people were displaced and so it's the lang uh recognized acknowledgement i think is an opportunity for folks to be able to reflect on uh beyond just a statement beyond beyond just a statement also reflect on what would happen in the past so that we can make sure that it's not repeated once again thank you vice president okay seeing uh no other hands i'll just uh make some closing remarks as a descendant
074of the radical h nation um just proud to you know be able to be here on this land and um you know live and thrive and play and do all the things that i do right um and also have relations with our milwaukee people and uh you know do my best to honor and acknowledge them um in the opportunities that i get um not just you know and like many have said right in this land enlargement that will do but ongoing whether um it is you know taking that deep breath and thinking mother earth and remembering you know that we're here um and we're sharing the space on what you know once upon a time um was uh stole stolen was taken was not um you know done i think of the treaties i think
075of the trauma i think of you know all that pain that our indigenous people went through um and you know it doesn't mean like oh i i can't live here anymore right i gotta go or i can't be a part of this unfortunately or fortunately whichever way we all look at it we're here and so with what we have you know how can i make it better um and acknowledge right that we get to live together um with the many other cultures now and many other people um how do we get to honor as you all you know mentioned some of you uh mentioned very eloquently so it doesn't happen again like trustee pham said so that we don't go back to those moments and as things like we've done today in today's you know
076what we've done in today's meetings like adopting a unity map right adopting this resolution so that we don't go back so that we can be united um continuing to represent the needs of our community here in alum rock continuing to represent our children and our families and as our public mention to listen um and to you know continue to support because we are them right we live here i am a parent of a seventh grader i am a mother here i work here and so you know um in the things that we do as leaders not forgetting all of our needs and continuing to represent all those um that we were elected to represent and so thank you you know um to the the trustees for listening um i look forward to having this passed
077so with that i'm going to go ahead and call um for the vote trustee fem hi vice president quintero hi trustee chavez welcome back to her uh trustee vijarano hi okay we'll come back one more time trusty chavez okay i suggest we wait some time maybe there's some technical difficulties yeah maybe she's having technical difficulties um maybe we can get her on the phone i do see her on there let me um see i don't know i don't see her unmuting so i'm not sure if she's maybe in the restroom or let me call her and see if she answers she she's unmuted madam president okay i can't hear half of the time can you hear me yes we can hear you hello um i'm like seeing a black screen so i don't know what's
078going on okay no worries about the screen did you see all my texts that i sent you karina um i'm looking right now i'm having i've been having problems since i first got on that's it no problem i'm glad that you're on here can you hear me now i can hear you off and on and you sound underwater right now perfect let me call you to make sure i have you on go ahead and answer your phone so that we can connect yes yes i can hear you can you hear me okay so just want to get your vote on this item yes or no trustee chavez no confirming no can we put it on speaker just to make sure that it yeah for public trustee thomas can you repeat that let's see travis i
079think i lost her again let me tap or text i guess or um maybe just uh we could take a break and come back to vote on this and so they could go through the presentation and we can come back directly to the boat we can ask council if that's acceptable mr reese are you on yeah if you want to postpone the vote on this you can't until after the next item let me see well i i mean i i guess at this point um it'll pass with or without i think she said no but i think i mean i was it was very choppy so we'll go ahead and um four of us voted there is quorum so i don't think we need to wait um unless yeah i think we're good um she
080might be able to meet herself now she wants to get her vote in as a specific yes or no otherwise mr reese uh can we just reflect it as a absolutely okay and this time can we avoid going back and putting technical difficulties you're either here you're not uh you made phone calls uh i'm i'm really hesitant about going out there and you know adding additions to the minutes about about technical develop or remember charlie's hand is up maybe she's back on maybe she's back on trustee chavez i voted no thank you perfect all right clear um all right we'll go ahead and um move on to item 301 approve e-s-s-e-r-3 expenditure plan uh mr chang thank you madam board president um at this time i'd like to turn it over to ms andrew garcia
081who's going to be providing a presentation on this plan okay let me good what do you mean everyone let me uh oops see my screen there see all the things i'm working on hey welcome ms garcia okay here it is [Music] all right i'm working on uh two computers here so we don't i'm gonna go ahead and um turn my camera off for a second for a little bit and then i'll turn it back on okay um good evening board president board members and members of the community um sandra garcia director of state federal programs and i'm here this evening uh to share some information with you on um esther three and to also um share the proposed um expenditure plan related to this um this budget i'm going to share some background on what
082esser 3 is some data that's relevant to the plan some current support information on current support that we are providing and details on the budget plan so as far as background the elementary and secondary school emergency relief funds also known as esser come from the american rescue plan from the federal government there are two requirements to receiving these funds the first requirement is to complete the safe return to in-person instruction and continuity plan and the second is to develop an expenditure plan for how sr3 funds will be used some important details around sr-3 funding important to note that these are one-time funds there are specific requirements that make these funds uh restricted in some way and they are good through september 2024 so three years the timeline for these funds um these are some of
083the requirements that need to be done in order to be um in complying and to to be able to receive these funds the first was to develop the safe return to in-person instruction and continuity plan and if you remember in july we did do some stakeholder input and we brought that to the board for approval in july um and july enjoy like i said we had some input sessions on that portion of the plan and then in september and october we had more stakeholder input sessions on the expenditure piece uh we also had a stakeholder survey that allowed time for other stakeholders to provide input and we are here this evening to bring it for approval so that we can share it with the santa clara county office of ed by october 29th so a
084little bit around the fiscal requirements um for this um this plan of the apportionment must be used for expenditures related to addressing the academic impact of lost instructional time through implementation of evidence-based interventions and that is about four million four hundred and ninety thousand one hundred and eighty-seven the remaining s or 3 funds must be used on expenditures for prevention strategies to maintain safety for in-person learning and then this is just another way of looking at it there are two buckets prevention strategies to maintain safety for in-person learning and then the other bucket are the intervention strategies for addressing the learning loss and that's what these stakeholder input sessions and some of the plan focuses on this evening it's a little bit of data that i want to share with you all um before we
085we move on um so it's important to look at some of the data in regards to our student um progress and the progress monitoring that we've been able to do so um unfortunately the timeline with when we had to have this approved and our fall data kind of didn't align with each other so what we're sharing with you today are the most current um pieces of data that we have and this is end-of-year data um so this was um june and i believe this was shared at one of the board meetings as well so just as a reminder it's a comparison of fall 2020 data to end of year data there were three um diagnostic tests done last year with students and these are the results for math so if you notice in the um
086the graph here uh fall 2020 approximately 48 of students met or exceeded the standard in math compared to the last column on the right 38 at end of year 2021 one thing i do want to point out is that if you see the bottom of the chart we did have approximately a thousand more students um take the the diagnostic at the end of the year that did not take it at the beginning of the year so that can you know change the data a little bit um and that is due to um if you remember during um distance learning at the beginning of the year there were some challenges with getting kids um able to to take assessments and and um those kind of things online so by the end of the year kids teachers
087and kids were were um were more used to doing this online and we were able to have more students take these assessments so just wanted to point that piece out as well this is for reading and uh similar to to the math um 44 of these students um in the fall of 2020 met or exceeded the standard compared to 38 at the end of and then some you know it's sometimes it's good to look at it by grade level to see where the gaps the biggest gaps are and be able to focus on certain grade levels if needed so this is for math and this is just end of year data this is not a comparison this is end of year and this is for reading so um this is uh some more information i
088want to share with you and this is on the stakeholder input sessions themselves you know as a reminder our input sessions in july we developed the first part of this plan the safe return to school and continuity of learning plan this slide in front of you highlights the common themes for the most recent input sessions um and focuses more on supports for students learning support and integrated support and after the input sessions and you know we um held input sessions with parents with students with um management uh staff with teachers and staff uh with um our union representatives and community members and after synthesizing all of the information these were the themes that emerged for learning support um we have four that emerged out of those and it's uh the the need to have academic
089interventions during the school day and um uh as long as after school and you know before and after school but there was a a lot of um talk around needing to find a way to integrate that with the school day as opposed to focusing all of our interventions um after school which require staff to work additional hours and you know just the capacity of our staff and finding additional staff to do those kinds of interventions so somehow finding a way to integrate those during the school day as well as continuing with the before and after school tutoring replacement of devices and then there was a lot of talk around the need to reduce class size integrated student support there were four main topics that that i wanted to highlight and that was the expansion of
090counselor and mental health support enrichment opportunities for students to connect socially behavior support was spoken about a lot and then a continuation of workshops and trainings for staff and parents in this area this is information from the stakeholder survey um in addition to the input sessions we did provide an opportunity for stakeholders to share their input through this survey the merging themes on this section were additional students social emotional there's this second column here need for social emotional mental health and then this fourth bar here which is continued emphasis on student and staff safety and the last bar over here additional staff to provide support and cut off but it's during the school day in the two sections that i mentioned earlier um what i did was i synthesized information from several of our past
091input sessions not just um the esser sessions but our lcap sessions our e-log uh plan sessions and kind of started seeing um themes that have been repeated over and over that you know stand out from all of these sessions and i put them into the survey so that we can rank them we can have folks rank them and these are the top five priorities in regards to interventions to support learning recovery the first at 86.62 percent was to support special populations and what they mean by special populations um it was written in the survey or you know students with special needs uh english learners our foster or unhoused students migrant students um in those types of students that do have uh special needs um number two was technology and connectivity at 84.69 percent number three
092targeted support and interventions at 80.42 um enrichment at 79.31 and then school they support at 72.56 when we look at this same type of um survey for integrated student support we had three that had the highest rankings which were additional behavioral support additional counseling support and staff development in seo and mental health so before i share information on the proposed expenditure plan it's important to share information on the current support we're providing and we'll continue to provide with new one-time funding we have received so i in regards to safe in-person learning this is these are some of the things that we have been able to provide and will continue to provide um which you know have been important as students and staff return back to campus you know i'm not going to read the whole
093list but you know everything from water so that our kids have water at school to air purifiers and ppe and outdoor seating areas independent study programs and continuity of staffing to make sure that we have what we need so that everyone is safe at school in regards to learning recovery um if you remember back to the expanded learning opportunity grant the elog and um lcap and you know we've talked about all of these things but these are some of the things that we've been able to put in place so far and we'll continue to work on supporting our students through these um these different intervention supports summer learning and enrichment programs we did provide a site to allocation for every site to provide a homework intervention program at their school site and we have many
094of them up and running already but we are still it's a work in progress and so we will continue to work on that um getting those up at every school site um i've been able to provide some additional school day support through our aces partners and we'll continue to work on increasing that support as well tutoring programs some enrichment programs that offer students a way of socializing with their peers in a non-academic setting but that definitely has a positive impact on academics and we principals and staff have found that that's been really necessary with kids knowing that they haven't been on campus for a while and some of them just needed a reminder of what it means to to socialize with our peers and how we do that in a positive way so these are
095some of the learning recovery supports and then in terms of sel um you know we've been putting a lot of things in place for sel and mental health i think the biggest impact has been um we have we've hired four additional k-5 counselors and recently um have post will be posting for five more positions so five more positions are coming soon um which is a way of supporting the school sites with this very important need and something that we've heard from every stakeholder group that we've talked to other things you know continuing to expand our services through our partnerships with community-based organizations more training on sel competencies and trauma-informed practices and then just the the whole development of the scl curriculum and the implementation of that uh it's so it's important just to understand that
096some of the challenges that we've had in putting some of these things forward um we did uh have some we are having challenges with staff and staffing and that's not unique to our district it's all over the place you know people are districts are finding uh it difficult to staff some of these additional positions that are being posted for you know the need that we have at the schools and so we'll continue to work through that and see what we can do to get the support that we need at the sites but that has definitely been the biggest challenge of all um and then of course as i mentioned earlier is just the capacity of the the current staff that we have you know of asking them to do more um during this challenging time
097so we just need to make sure that we're trying to find additional ways to provide these supports without it impacting our current staff so um now i'd like to share um the proposed expenditure plan um for esther three and it's broken up into two sections and the first section is the implementation strategies for continuous and safe in-person learning and the two items and those will be to the retention of staff for continuity of learning which is here on these two items and then the second piece is the learning loss piece and how we're going to address that with the interventions we have planned and so in looking at all of the input that we've received from the different stakeholder groups we came down to these five areas that we think would be the most impactful
098um at our schools at this time in in terms of supporting our students through this funding so um the first is a targeted school day interventions and you know we need to flesh this out a little more and see what can be done but you know that that would look something like staff to provide school day support to students that need the additional support that you have experienced learning loss need a boost need some extra support you know it could be one-on-one it could be in small group it could be an intervention as a reading specialist it could be you know through retired teachers or contracted services you know like i said that piece needs to be fleshed out but that is the intent of that first action that we have written in the plan
099the second is to hire additional behavior support specialists we have heard from everyone from teachers to principals you know to parents that we are seeing kids coming back with um additional need in this area you know and it may just be you know re-teaching and and and supporting some of these students that maybe not only have mental health needs but they it's impacting their behavior in some way and so we we definitely need the support for those students the third is continuing to offer our summer programs our before and after school programs in you know a way that is beneficial to the students that need it tech support and and other materials and supplies that support learning recovery and then of course the counseling support that we continue to hear from all stakeholders that is
100needed and that's my presentation thank you miss garcia i'm gonna go ahead and open it up for any questions comments from the board um actually let's go ahead and open it up for public comments and then we'll bring it back to the board um but before we do that if i can get a motion on the floor and maybe second i'd like to motion that we approve the sr3 expenditure plan thank you second okay second bye trustee okay so i'll go ahead and open it up for public comment at this time uh mr chavez can you help me identify members of the public wishing to address the board on this item uh yes ma'am president we have two speakers first speaker is miss lisa gonzalez ms gonzalez you have two minutes please submit yourself when
101you begin speaking the timer will begin getting members of the board once again parent community member of allenborough school district and organizer um first of all ms garcia thank you very much for that detailed um presentation as a parent and um as a community organizer i really appreciate it um and also using regular words right for parents to be able to understand that and to be able to go along with the presentation um second i know that uh we talked since july there's been a lot of outreach from the elk to the sr3 um we were part of um some um participation of of community boys however for me i read um i read an alarm and i know it's because of kobe and a lot of our parents do not know use do not
102are not used to use technology um for me it's kind of like a red alarm just to see like 762 service filled out from parents and one thousand from our students um from our parents perspective that either five to ten percent i i think that's around when we have around nine thousand and students i would like to reach out for um to support in the next grant i know that we have another grant coming up that there's need to be community input that decided to get effectiveness block grant i would like to um express that we're here parents are here community members are here our committee is here to be able to support and look for different ways where we could reach our community where we could reach our parents and get significant input so
103we can um so the plans are more effective and and thank you for hearing also that community but i think that we could reach a lot more parents to fill out surveys to be able to attend and now that we're um we're going to another ground let's work together let's work as a team to be able to reach those parents that we weren't able to reach this time when we did the survey thank you have a really good evening thank you ms gonzalez our next speaker is jocelyn mers miss merce you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening i would like to thank you sandra garcia on behalf of aria and myself personally i think that you did a great job of identifying and articulating what
104i've heard to be the main needs and um hopes that the teachers are looking for as far as the counseling services the the um added support for instruction during the school day the lowering of class size i truly appreciate the way that you presented it um again i think that that's what i've been hearing on a regular basis and we do understand that you know how difficult it is to find um people staff to provide those but that's where the needs are and um again thank you for what you've done thank you mr our next speaker is veronica ms veronica you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hi thank you my name is veronica and i also want to echo the two previous speakers massandra you did
105such a great job in the presentation wise and i think at the beginning of the outreach back in the summer i really enjoy being in uh in groups of with different stakeholders um so we had teachers we had administrators we had parents and that was great to hear from everyone and those small groups i do want to echo as well the need to have more parent input more community input and just like dilsa had mentioned we are here to support in any way that we can't um to do that outreach to you know be able to pro get more um comments from other parents as well as this is so important and it's uh you know we know and understand that this is a once time kind of money and it's important that we invest
106it where our children's need it um i also want to thank all of the staff for really taking into consideration we had as parents advocated for cova testing in schools and that's something that it's happening now um and definitely makes um you know brings slightly more peace of mind and the safety that you guys have all taken into account making sure that our schools are safe thank you thank you ms peronica madam president at this time we have no more public speakers thank you um and now i'll turn over to the trustees any questions comments concerns to miss garcia or just in general now let's see i see a hand up um trustee because yes thank you uh thank you ms garcia once again for your report and um one of the questions that i
107had is i know you know it's very difficult for a number of reasons to obtain solid valid data from everything from technological challenges to um you know students being accustomed to the different uh methodologies of testing and so i i realized that i know a couple months back we did receive some data with similar challenges um but it it showed that there was minimal to no um learning loss in certain areas at least that was my interpretation and i think that's what we understood it to be at the time and now you know we have this data that shows roughly um loss in in some areas and in looking at data from other states and across the country you know our data certainly seems to reflect at least this data that's being presented tonight seems
108to reflect what we see in everywhere else other states or you know other parts of the country it's it looks very similar i do every i've seen everything from five percent to 30 percent learning loss in some places so i'm wondering if you have any indication um or any sense of the data and i'm hoping you're familiar with the data i'm referring to from a few months back that data and the data that we have tonight and what can we as a board assume to be i guess most accurate in terms of learning loss and the test scores that we see and also acknowledging that test scores aren't you know indicative of everything and of the entire student but it is what we have for another so i hope i'm hoping my question is um
109clear enough for you yeah and i'll attempt to answer and then um you know and mr sanchez probably has more in-depth information on on the assessments that have been given so far but i know that we just finished the round of fall assessments um in the end of september early october i believe it was the first week of october and so those results should be available soon so you know in my mind we could probably compare last fall to this fall or even the end of the year to the fall and just have a little more data on what the current uh you know how our kids are coming back now and of course there are other things that impact that you know do students are students more comfortable testing in a classroom you know
110and um are we able to get more results from more students because now they're in person as opposed to having those technical difficulties online so i think that all of those things will impact the the data that we'll see um coming up um but i'm not sure if mr sanchez wants to add anything more to that the only thing i i don't know awesome mr sanchez yes yes wasn't sure there um just wanted to make um to thank sandra again for giving this very detailed presentation with regards to the data we would love to come back and be able to share with you last year's data compared to our most recent data so we don't have that right in front of us and then we would be able to look at both language arts and
111mathematics and i can tell you i mean the gaps are you know between 20 and 30 percent but i think it would be you know i would hate to try to answer this um not accurately and so i'd be more than happy to bring that data as it's completed um at the next board meeting if you'd like yes i certainly would appreciate that thank you very much mr chang if you can please uh make sure to put it on the notes there to bring it back bringing that information back thank you uh trust me without any additional comments questions concerns uh no i think that covers it for now thank you okay trusty femme yes well thank you madam president i do would like to thank sandra garcia for putting out such an informative report
112uh you know the only thing i wanted to kind of to ground my colleagues is about is you know we've we've you know this this year has been challenging just like last year and i know that a few months ago there you know we also um received a report that showed that um yes we we had our kids we were able to stave off the worst of the learning laws with our kids but i also wanted to um make sure that that our my colleagues knew that we're going to be dealing uh with the after effects of social isolation for years to come and so i want the caution that it takes time to to get our children up to speed heck i'm uh i work at a college and i am seeing i i
113see every day the effects of social isolation on a college freshman it isn't pretty it takes time to re-acclimate and acquire skills and i also wanted to reflect that i've been on you know i've visited uh 15 out of the 22 schools of our district so far and i too have seen uh our children firsthand work our way uh uh through uh through 3d after effects of distance learning so on one hand yes i i want to make sure that i congratulate our teaching staff for doing the hard work and preventing our kids from sliding any further but at the same time to remind my colleagues that uh recovery from covid and making getting our students to where they need to be is another task in itself and that you know we you know we
114we should not we should be careful not to not to expect that everything will be the learning gaps will be resolved in a year or two we're probably not we're probably going to see um the after effects linger on for a few years yet so i wanted to make ensure that uh you know we don't i know we've still got work to do but to make sure that let me know let us let us set reasonable expectations not just of our staff but about our kids too and and that a steady a steady approach to to work academic recovery is is the way we should go thank you thank you trustee chavez i actually coughed and hadn't came up but um i wanted to thank sandra garcia for the presentation and i look forward to
115mr sanchez's uh comparison and anything that we can do for the kids to get them uh caught up to speed if not if you know uh how can we help that's all i wanna know thanks bye thank you vice president quintero i also want to thank uh thank you for the information that's been provided um while it's sobering it's important to know where we're at so that we can go ahead and formulate as we move forward so thank you for the information thank you and i just want to reiterate what trustee fam mentioned um you know our students you know we were already kind of starting a little bit behind and i put myself with my daughter you know first um you know i i know the struggle of this pandemic really you know affected
116um my myself right as a person to start off with as an individual not to mention you know my seventh grader um and out all of us you know as a whole and so um i'm grateful that you know we're getting some funds to to address this but again and never enough right not enough for the needs that we have um but you know grateful for what we're getting and that you know we're taking um kind of you know looking at all the corners ensuring we view what the needs are and the assessments and then you know involve the teachers the administrators the parents all the stakeholders so that we can make the best decisions with what i see the very little dollars compared to what we need right um but you know i look
117forward to hopefully um that uh not just you know as a statewide but nationwide that we get additional funding for the ongoing needs because it's not just you know during this time um but that we can you know continue to provide our education the money that we should be getting for the teachers that deal with these students on an everyday basis for the tutors for the counselors for you know all those the tutoring programs all those things that we get um to have in order to continue to um shift our education in california right to the top hopefully five and not like the bottom um within the bottom 10 or so so i look forward you know as a leader to hopefully continue to see funds coming in in different ways shapes and forms so
118that our schools get the funding that they need in order to provide the resources that we need um so thank you for your presentation i look forward mr sanchez and ms garcia to getting that additional information um thank you so much and seeing no additional comments questions or concerns i'll go ahead and take it to the vote at this time hi trustee chavez hi russian vice president quintero hi and myself i passes unanimously thank you so much um and at this time i will before going out to closed session i'll go ahead and play take any public comments at this time regarding items to be discussed in closed session mr chavez any members of the public wishing to address board on any of the items no public comment at this time madam president okay i'll
119take a few uh seconds here any no still none okay um so so we'll go ahead and um break out to public comment but before we do mr chang um what do you think a half hour an hour how much time do you think we need for full session more or less about half an hour we'll tell you yes yeah okay madame president before we go to close session might i suggest that the board takes uh 10 minutes for a restroom break yes mr pam before we go to the break just want to confirm the time so about a half hour um plus our break let's go ahead and come back at 9 15 to allow for sufficient time for a 10-minute break and then a sufficient time for a conversation in closed session um
120so we'll go ahead and break out at 8 28 pm um and be back from our closed session at 9 15. see you in 10 minutes thank you thank you fish all right welcome back uh back in session on 9 51. uh mr reese if you can help us report on any action taken in closed session yes closed session agenda item 4.04 the board unanimously approved the appointment appointment and employment of mr arturo vasquez as operations manager for the district and again that was unanimous there are no further reportable actions thank you so much adjourning the meeting at 9 51 pm have a good night good night