Board Meeting

001thank you and today we are um celebrating it's um we're celebrating we're celebrating many things um a joyous occasion um and a not so joyous occasion so i want to um start off in honor um first want to honor the uh youth that we lost yesterday um unfortunately uh we lost to youth um senseless violence and his name was steve ruben gutierrez i mean he was one of our students from renaissance so just thinking of him and his family at this time holding him in our thoughts and lifting them up as well as our entire alum rock community and also want to honor that we are celebrating 90 years here at ellen rock today a very joyous occasion as well for our community for our family here at elim rock celebrating all the wonderful things

002that 90 years has brought to our district from the inception of the idea the dream of having a school district forming to the many schools that have opened up and the many children and families that this district has served um very happy thank you min fam again for helping organize um that celebration that we had with ringing the bell there at paula middle school um and then having um an intimate um celebration um due to you know all the things that um we're dealing with wanted to make sure we marked the moment which was very important but also do it in a safe way so thank you all um thank you for joining us here today uh now we're gonna move on to item 102. uh any modifications of the agenda from the trustees or

003uh move change i'll wait for hands or if i don't see anything we'll move forward all right seeing them we'll go ahead and move on to item 103. um actually that's there for uh notice for our entire community here today that we do have the opportunity for those that are wishing to speak um you will be giving the moment through public comment on each item and if you're here to talk about any other item then we'll also give you um time in our next um agenda item so just want to make sure that you are all aware that um we do have time for the members of the public to speak to the board so with that we'll go ahead and move on to item 201 public members who wish to address the board on

004any matters that are not on the agenda jose if you can help me identify any members of the public wishing to address the board on this item good afternoon madam president uh at this time we have no speakers um excuse me we we have one speaker our first speaker is area member miss sandra rivera miss rivera please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hello good afternoon my name is sandra rivera i'm a tk teacher this year at cesar chavez elementary school and i was just commenting tonight asking that the board take a look and reconsider some of the things that have been asked of us to do this year one of the things is the safety protocols that are for our classes trying to squeeze 22 kindergarteners or tk students into

005one classroom is horrendous there's no room to do anything tk and kinder is supposed to be about exploration and co-existence and everything else but with all of the desks and plexiglas barriers and everything there is no room to do anything else in our classrooms we're also having a lot of difficulties trying to set stuff up i spent three hours yesterday trying to rearrange my classroom only to come in today and have mot undo every single thing that i did yesterday take plexiglass dividers off put new ones on and then change the setup of the classroom so that now one student will be facing the board and the way the plastic partition is put in the other student will be facing the back of the classroom so it's not things are being done hastily and without

006any consideration for the time energy and effort that the teachers have already put into the classroom and we're not getting any guidance and it's just making us all frustrated and extremely uncomfortable with starting of this school year so i ask that you take some time and talk with the teachers more and look at the procedures thank you our next speaker is miss adrian day miss vayne you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin we can't hear you in case you're speaking are they unmuted what's that yes uh miss me can you please try and meet yourself i'm wondering if we should go to the next person if there's anybody else while they figure out maybe the audio issues and then uh our next our next speaker is miss

007calma mentosa miss mendoza you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin we can't hear you almost speaking hmm let's see [Music] if you see alma [Music] it's unmuted can you try speaking into the microphone i'm not sure they're having audio issues um [Music] and if [Music] i wonder if uh adrian audio works now maybe we can go back and then pour it back to mendoza after [Music] i really want to hear what they have to say let's try it again um yes uh we have miss dain or miss mendoza okay um i don't know we're gonna be able to hear them uh please um if you're able to come back at any other item um we'll go ahead and take your comment when you're able to hopefully fix

008the audio issues or we can figure that out um i'll put your name down here and then at any point in the meeting i would love to hear what you have to say and um [Music] okay anybody else um [Music] yes our next speaker is jessica levodi miss livoti you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin can you hear me yes yes okay before i make my comment um madam president there's a big um echo or bat like sound bouncing off of when you speak there's it's like a loud piercing sound i don't know if you're in the room with someone else who's on zoom but there's like a big um bouncing off sound um but just just so you know [Laughter] thank you no problem we're gonna

009yeah make sure we turn down all the volume and then i appreciate that because i want to make sure the public isn't like squinting while they're here yeah we're better squinting right now it's better wait let me say something uh testing one two three yes much better okay thank you i appreciate that you got it of course um i just wanted to speak on um as the safety and that i feel that we as educators right now are in the dark on what is happening as well as parents um and that i feel that we could have done so much more for safety and mitigation and we could have done so much more um we're cramming all of our students back into the classrooms um there isn't a testing protocol happening we don't know in

010regards to when there is exposure um when we will be um informed of exposure is it going to be within 24 hours you know because of the delta variant it's just rapid and and crazy um the we could have had smaller classrooms but we're not we could have had testing and screening but we're not doing it to the best of our abilities we could have had upgraded ventilation systems and not just air purifiers um today i was in the um opening of schools uh training today and the presenter said that if we have our ac on to close the doors because so we don't blow the ac and that's just scary you know because then we're just circulating air um just for the sake of the air conditioner um and why why are we not

011hearing from people um and administration about what is happening and the guidance and it's just so uncomfortable and it's i'm scared for my lives my parents are scared for their lives and their students lives um and they don't know also what's happening with the independent study i have several of my my students signing up for it and they don't have any guidance on that and i feel we could have done better and we're now down to the wire as in 48 hours thank you anybody else will say maybe yes we have we have miss elma mendoza miss mendoza you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will be good thank you yes hopefully it works now not working still not working hopefully we can figure that out during this meeting

012i do have your name alma um anybody else will say yes our next speaker is richard collins miss collins you have two minutes please send me yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hi can you guys hear me yes yes okay hi um so i'm a teacher and i have um my own child that attends arusd um i do have a lot of questions at this point and i feel i'm feeling a lot of anxiety because we have not had any word as to what to expect if we were gonna if we're even gonna be teaching independent um studies um and what what this means i know that negotiations are happening and stuff but um and i also want you to know that i think i i believe i'm speaking on on behalf

013of a lot of teachers when i say that like the area is fighting for us and there's more than just you know the people that are negotiating we all are behind them and we all want what's best for everybody including the students um and i have concerns because my i have a son that is immunocompromised and i'm in a situation where i don't know what to what if he's going to be an independent study and if he is what does that mean if i'm going to be teaching independent study what does that mean so there's so many questions um that we need answered before i mean basically before tomorrow since we only have a couple days left for planning um i just that's all i have to say i just think that we need to

014get it together and be like the surrounding districts and do what needs to be done so that we know what's going on thank you miss collins our next speaker is mister lolinda mendoza miss mendoza you have two minutes please tell me yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hi can you hear me yes yes okay um good evening um i just like to echo you know what my colleagues are saying um i feel like we are very unprepared um we don't know what to expect as teachers i know that dr bauer sent out a letter issuing or stating like what to expect or what layers of safety protocols are in place but i feel like that's not enough you know i know that we don't want crowds we don't want visitors on site

015yet you know tonight at my school there was a bienvenida where you know we were asked to come in and meet students my reasoning is to make it normal it's not normal times are not normal um i'm i didn't go um but some of my colleagues did and i asked if back to school night was gonna be the same way and according to my principal we are expected to be at back to school night in person because uh it's after school hours what is the difference between back back to school hours at night time and the daytime um i just think that zoom is much better for this uh last year when we did this we had more parents show up because it was through zoom so i i want to suggest that this be

016done again this year also um some of the protocols that were in place are good that these guards um and the three feet could be when possible um i like to suggest more benches for eating outside for our students i have little ones and they're going to be taking off their masks and if they're sitting next to other kids um you know they they still don't know um that they should not be you know talking with their mouth closed you know all that i think that leads to to be addressed thank you ms mendoza our next speaker is miss tanner miss tanner you have two minutes please send it yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hello can you hear me yes yes great so i'm loretta tanner i moved again i'm back

017at cureton and i'm teaching fourth grade with a little bit of fifth grade and i echo all of my colleagues and their concerns i also have a concern that we don't have a contract and other bay area districts are giving their teachers that worked last year twenty five hundred dollar bonus thousand dollar bonus and a raise and we i it's just hard it's hard to feel unappreciated um so please settle our contract do the right thing don't let us be the bottom of the barrel again and that's all i have to say thank you very much thank you miss jenner our next future is miss adrian bean miss vane you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin all right can you hear me now yes all right thank

018you uh hi my name is adrienne bain i am a teacher at joseph george middle school and you know i i love my job i love teaching i love the kids that i work with it is one of the most fulfilling jobs i think everybody can agree with me on that um i'm just tired of with this district not having any foresight and not knowing there's a plan that's going to happen and i still don't know what the plan for this year is or you know what the safety protocols are i know i have the basics down but it's really disheartening and it's frustrating and it creates a lot of anxiety and on top of that knowing that gas prices are going up and now it's i i have a ford focus a 10 gallon

019tank and it's costing me 50 dollars to drive to and from school and i don't make a lot of money and we haven't had a raise a cost of living raise in two years and other schools have been getting bonuses and you know it's really gonna suck part of my language if we decide to do work to rule or god forbid we strike because we haven't been appreciated and we haven't been thought of and it's hard to sit there and think that and to not to not feel good about your job when you don't feel appreciated and you're not part of the conversation and you don't know what's going on and so please i beg you if we could have a little bit more communication and start thinking about each other that would be lovely

020thank you i appreciate your time for listening to me finally thank you mystery our next speaker is happy lori miss zoe you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin i can't hear you you're speaking i wonder um hopefully she's able to fix the issue maybe we can go to the next speaker and then come back yes madam president our next speaker is sherry miss duarte you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin thank you for letting me have an opportunity can you hear me yes mister okay uh thank you for giving this opportunity to speak um i am proud to say that i am celebrating my 25th year in the school district um on of the 90 years i've spent uh

02132 years in the district whether i was a student or a parent or a teacher and i i love this school district but i don't feel very respected as as a professional as a person who's constantly trying to improve my educational practice it feels like it's it's really not respected in a way that makes me want to come back to work i mean that's really the bottom line tomorrow is our first contractual day and i really don't want to be there i went into my classroom that was set up in the spring and actually uh it was shown on a video uh on the news with ten desks set up with the um the sneeze guards and of course i'm not gonna only have 10 students this coming year i'm going to have um you

022know 26 to 30 something like that and i went into the classroom and 30 desks are like sardines in that classroom kids aren't going to be able to even get in and out of their desks much less you know learn while they're in there so i'm just feeling under appreciated um and unprepared to tackle this large job that we have and i put my whole heart into it and i wish that the district did that for their teachers too and their students thank you very much thank you miss lecter our next speaker is miss kathy lowen miss louie you have two minutes please underneath yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hi can you hear me now yes okay thank you sorry my microphone uh failed to i don't know to work um

023so i i have some big concerns about and i know this isn't really something that we can deal with because it came from the state but i have some very big concerns about the modified quarantine um i don't think i think it's designed to keep more kids in school but i also don't think it's designed to detect active coveted cases the the rules are if you are vaccinated even if you've had uh close contact with someone who tests positive for covid then you don't have to quarantine you don't have to get tested and that is very concerning to me because um there's evidence that there's a lot more cover cases out there than we're detecting at this at this point in time and i'm worried that we're going to have a very large outbreak at

024our schools that goes undetected until it's until our hospitals fill up and people you know i don't want more people to die i don't i don't want that to happen and i don't want to be in the same state that that other states in this country are in currently um in a couple weeks so um i'm concerned also about what we do with during fire season when we when the smoke is outside and the air outside is toxic you know i think the plan is to you know open doors but what do we do when we can't do that that reduces how much circulation we have in our air and i see 152 students a day um you know i think my largest class is 35 it's really packed in there i don't think we

025have enough safety protocols in place at this point thank you thank you mr matter madam president at this time we have no more speakers thank you um with that we'll go ahead and move on to item 301 uh we have anybody from teamsters here today so we can help us identify anybody from the audience i don't see any race hands okay welcome mr trevor um at this time feel free to give us your update from teamsters mr trevor please unmute yourself mr trevor if you're speaking we can't hear you if you can please mute yourself hmm hopefully we're able to figure that out maybe um as mr trevor figures out the audio issue we'll come back we can go on to california school employees association and then come back to uh teamsters adam president i

026don't see anyone from csea okay please raise your hand over here from csca otherwise um i see alma raising her hand jose um hoping that alma was able to we were able to figure out those issues maybe she can give her miss mendoza please try to mute yourself hmm hi hey yes hi everyone how are you oh great you can uh you can make it by voice hi i'm my name is alma mendoza and i am a teacher at ryan school um of 35 years now and i wanted to address two points to the board tonight if possible please one we are going on our second year with no contract in the middle of a pandemic last year we work without a contract this year we're working without a contract starting with that one we

027haven't gotten a raise we haven't gotten a bonus and some people might be thinking in their head my my aren't these teachers greedy but you know what any teacher who has worked through this pandemic the last year and a half and is still at our district loves their job believe us we're not in it for the money but we also want to be appreciated and the best way to appreciate a professional in any profession is to monetarily award them so i ask to please have our contract settled we have so many questions and most of us are at our wit's end trying to get things ready and so anxious but we're going to show up and we're going to be there we did it last year we'll do it this year so i asked the

028board and the negotiation team whoever is there from the district to please put on their big boy big girl pants and get our contract settled we need a raise we need fair information on a timely manner so we know what the heck we're doing and what to tell our parents that's the first point second point i asked you to please please please look into our cba the kinder teachers and the tk teachers have to give one and get one so that means i go into my partner's class and i teach for an hour and they will come into my class and teach for an hour and we are very concerned because that would be mixing cohorts so what we are asking is that we spend that hour that we give our partner with our own

029thank you miss mendoza thank you yes uh and would she do you know we'll say if she's from um csea she's not okay okay great thank you miss mendoza let's go back to um teamsters and see we can get trevor back on we can have his audio mr trevor if you can please mute yourself hello hello can you hear me yes welcome hey how's it going no i just i just uh i'm here representing teamsters i don't really have much to say just want to let you guys know i'm here and uh listening you know taking notes and representing teamsters i guess great welcome thank you for being here and thank you all for the work you do um at this time then we will move on and keep me focused here um if you

030can help me i don't think we've had anybody from cse yet correct i don't think we did okay so we did not i'm correct okay so just checking if you're here from cse please raise your hand otherwise we'll move on to area okay i don't see any jose help me identify if i miss anybody otherwise we'll move on to area if you're here representing area i don't know if jocelyn is here please raise your hand nice yes we have miss mers welcome thank you i i just have to share i literally just flew in my house from the beautiful event of this afternoon aside from traffic there was some road closures and this and that so i'll take a deep breath and i do want to just comment on i don't know what's been said

031i don't know whether it was shared out about the afternoon event on the anniversary celebration but um if regardless whether or not it was or not i just want to tell you how much i appreciated being invited and being a part of that celebration it was it was just really um very exciting to hear all of what what all of you had to say and the history behind the district and pala middle school and and just the you know what a special part of the founding of east san jose that alum rock is and how it was a great celebration and thank you um i also so reset i i want to again say good evening on the eve of area members returning to prepare for the beginning of another different start to this school

032year i remember learning in my early days of teaching some 45 years ago um not all in ellen rock but a long time the important life skill of being flexible it has served me well throughout the years but i have to say that over the past 18 months i'm getting feedback from many of our teachers that they are absolutely stretched to the max and from what i understand you may have heard from some of them tonight or you may still hear from some um some of them stretch so far that they're like a rubber band ready to snap i have shared with some of you the sense of panic that i am hearing and seeing from them increasing in correlation to the increase in the number of cova delta variant cases rising around us rather

033than going into any of that detail again i'll leave that up to those teachers who would like to share their personal stories with you um i did hear the very end of miss mendoza talking about the the time in the transitional kinder and kinder classrooms that we commonly refer to as our given get time and i know that there's been a lot of concern on that i've heard from those teachers but i and i hope that i'm not being premature but i did sign the mou this afternoon that was agreed to between the district and area to make that a choice at the schools that those teachers who do not want to do the give and get have an option of providing the same lower ratio to their own students rather than having to mix

034classrooms and switch cohorts so that's great news that i know has probab is probably giving a sense of relief to many of those teachers that might be listening right now and i appreciate that fast work that we did with um the district bargaining team i literally sent it night before last and it was sent back today and signed and i sent it back to them i mean it was like in the midst of everything else going on so thank you for that i understand that there are different safety mandates and guidelines coming out daily from all levels of our government making it difficult to set a goal when there's a moving target my hope is that alum rock chooses to err on the side of caution and take the safest approach to protect our students

035and community that may not always be the most popular position but i do believe it's the wisest for everyone uh i would also like to take this opportunity to welcome the 35 plus new teachers to alum rock i we were had a zoom meeting and were part of the new teacher orientation yesterday so i had many many many of the members of our exec board had the opportunity to touch base with those new teachers and i want to make a pledge to them again if they're listening that um aria's commitment is to have your backs this year and please don't hesitate to reach out to your colleagues for support and guidance also realize that we are all arriving on this same boat for this school year we it's an it's not the typical start it's

036not the start of a typical new school year so don't feel like you're alone because we all feel like it's there's many new things that are happening and we are all in this together and if any of those new teachers or any of our current members that aren't new need help please don't hesitate to reach out to myself or any other member of area um i i'm going to um use the words of trusty fam at the end of what you said at the um at the celebration earlier and that's like ready or not here we come so thank you thank you jocelyn vick for uh being here um now we're going to go on to alan rock administrators association do we have anybody here from a-r-a-a yes madam president we have dr muntesque welcome

037good evening trustees superintendent bower and community members i i want to take a moment to join in the celebration of ara's of arusd's 90th anniversary it was a privilege and honor to attend today's event and celebrate this moment in time to honor the arusd community past and present for the long historical legacy of our district which we are fortunate to bear witness to our araa members are diligently and collaboratively working to prepare for the start of the school year and have been doing so throughout the summer schools have held community orientation meetings for our families in preparation for the start of the year additionally we have uh work to secure uh backpacks and supplies to provide the students and families we serve um to highlight a few of our sites at renaissance and and at

038my site san antonio we facilitate a voluntarily a voluntary and well-attended professional shared learning opportunity for our school teams um through with seeds restorative practices which was well attended our members are energized to launch the year in community and to move forward together so thank you board president and trustees thank you dr yvonne montes now we'll go ahead and turn it over to our superintendent dr bauer thank you madam president um today was a very emotional day for me in so many levels uh celebrating 90 years of alum rock eight of them as a superintendent and eleven of them as a staff member it has been a privilege of mine to serve this community it's a beautiful community and it is certainly the heart of san jose at the same time i my heart goes

039out to [Music] the family of um gutierrez family who just lost one of her students and i also my heart goes out to the family of renaissance at fisher who lost one of their students it's a very difficult moment for any of us educators to learn the loss of a child it's a lot more difficult to learn the loss of a child to violence so my prayers goes out to the family to everybody in renaissance at madison we are here to support you staff please don't hesitate to reach out i also want to share my deepest condolences to sharon fontaine who is the president of csea on the loss of her husband this was unexpected um our heart goes out to her she is an amazing partner general we love you and if you're a

040csea member please convey these words these humble words to her i've been checking with her we miss you we love you and we want to see you back soon we're very very sorry for your loss thank you alem rock here we go ready or not but let me tell you who we are thank you dr bauer um now we'll go ahead and uh turn it over to the board trustees i'll go ahead and call your name as i see you on my screen and feel free to give us a report or safe pass we'll start with trusteem and pam all righty uh thank you madam president uh first of all i i too would like to express first uh my deepest sympathies to young mr gutierrez it's always very hard to have children pass you

041know a life with you know a future ahead of them cut short i express my deepest condolences also to his family secondly i'd like to also express my condolences to sharon fontaine the president of the alan rock chapter of csea on the loss of her husband i real you know that those are some of those uh deep deep wounds that uh will take time to heal i again you have my most sincere sympathy and my deepest condolences um you know today was a great day uh i i we had a though it was intimate uh we were able to have a great celebration great delayed celebration of the 90th anniversary of alan rock it's been almost a quarter of a century since i or 20 years since i last stepped foot on pala and you

042know it i am gratified to see so many members of our community our elected officials supervisor chavez the supervisor alvarado representatives from assembly managed coloradan state senator dave cortesey council members carrasco uh uranus and esparza for being part of uh [Music] the recognition of a truly original east san jose institution one that has uh served its children and families through good times and tough times i certainly hope that you know as we get into a position again of moving forward and building upward we look to the next 90 years and uh we continue you know to be here to be to be the provider of public k8 education in the alum rock region of san jose i'd also like to thank well my board all my board colleagues dr bauer the administrative staff as well

043as the you know employees of alan rock maribel carrillo barbara campbell patricia kovar who helped me you know bring the you know original i had my i was set on just a simple bell ringing and i this commemoration is sort of like uh the a plus but extra credit so thank you so much last but not least uh i didn't want to make uh known that next third one week from today at 6 pm the city will have a public hearing about its uh draft proposal on the disposal of a surplus school property and i'm i will be attending as well you know and i hope my colleagues will but i also encourage uh all members of the allen rock community to come there and make your voice known because what the city is doing

044uh will negatively impact the future of this school district and if if we're if we're to be here for another 90 years providing the road to opportunity for for so many for the children of uh alum rock in san jose uh let the city know that you know you are opposed to the city's proposal on the disposal of surface school property and uh let your members of the city council and the mayor know that you know this this is wrong for the people of alam rock and it's wrong for the people of east san jose thank you very much madam president thank you man and now um welcome ernest i know you've been here for a while um thank you for taking care of our community in the ways you do and i'll go ahead

045and turn it over over to you at this time okay thank you um madam president and uh for those words and i'll just say um you know most of us that are on this for all of us that are on this board and staff and you know everything that we do here with the district we do because we have an interest in the future of our children here in this community and you know some of us are also lucky enough to do that similar kind of work during the day and sometimes that work takes us you know in different directions and so unfortunately i was unable to attend the event this afternoon i very regrettably you know had to take care of some business and finish that and so i missed it but it sounds

046like it was a wonderful event and i although i wasn't there i want to thank all of the attendees for going because it is truly momentous and trusty fam for kind of bringing it to the forefront and pushing it and and making this you know helping to make this happen um and so i want to just thank everyone for that and apologize for my late arrival here uh i also want to say that you know [Music] as dr bauer mentioned you know it's been the difficult day for me on a number of fronts um and i can't say anything more than what has already been expressed with regards to sending condolences to to the individuals that have already been mentioned um but one thing that i always hold on to that maybe was spoken to

047at today's event is just this community in spite of everything that we're bombarded with all the time historically we we've we have the grit we have the fortitude whatever you want to call it we have what it takes to not only survive these things but to get stronger and i know that's no solace to someone who's going through something at this time but i just hope that they know that this community is is supporting them as around them and that's what we do here in east san jose and in alamo um and finally i also want to reiterate what trustee fans said about the upcoming upcoming meeting with the city i think you know go back to the community and this the strength of this community obviously here at our board meetings we have different

048groups of parents different individuals who are always very interested in advocacy for whether it's their particular student or the district as a whole or certain topics and i think that for some of those individuals or some of those groups this may be a wonderful opportunity to to you know direct some of those abilities that they very clearly have to organize to bring people together to advocate and really bring that perspective to the city because you know we have been we've talked about it already as board members and as district staff we've had discussions um you know between meetings and we try to do what we can but really there's a place for that but the voice of a community the voice of parents and families is really heard whether it's at the district the level

049or the city level so i would encourage um if anyone has that interest to really um you know direct some of what they've proven to be so effective at earth's district to this particular topic so um thank you everyone for allowing me to kind of settle in and get my feet under me for tonight's meeting and um [Music] and that's it thank you thank you trustee and now i'll call on trustee chavez uh can you hear me my condolences to each and every family member and parent brother and sister and friend who lost a loved one recently um i just want to thank all the teachers for their efforts and and thank you for speaking up what uh you you feel in your heart and also i want to thank everybody because it's an honor

050to be here and um i want to thank dr bauer for putting together and then bringing up that it was the 90th anniversary and i'm i'm glad to see everything that was in the district office um i think sometimes we we learn a lot from history as well as the resilience that has been here all along and everybody working together not always agreeing but always working together and making sure that the students are taken care of i thank each and every one of you for doing that and putting your efforts um all the staff all these years and everybody in the administration the teachers all the union um people they're fantastic all these kids that are that were serving um they're worth it and to see that this educational foundation was put up 90 years

051ago it's like very noteworthy but to found a school in which to instruct and prove and develop all that is best in the souls to gain the education wisdom and discernment that they need to reach the fullness of life god intends for each of them the alum rock union school district represents so much more than just a building this district will forever be in these kids lives and hearts as well as ours and it is a place where the children may realize the blessings of an education and learn how to make for themselves all of and all around them the best that they can of their world and the want and the spirit to rise above and all these kids are all smart they can all do it and thank you all all the people

052who have been working these past 90 years to do that in this community thank you trustee chavez uh board vice president um [Music] madam president um it was a momentous occasion and uh very very happy uh to have been able to be part of it i want to thank um board member mint pham for having the foresight to uh go out there and in revisit this 90th anniversary we felt as if kobet stole it from us thank you for helping recover as has been mentioned it's a very very sad day in alan rock and i want to express my condolences to jedis family for their loss and um it's just there's no words um looking at the age and the one year difference between one of my children and the child that was lost it

053makes it very personal it's very sad and tragic um i uh with that said i want to wish all the students who started at eastside union uh my daughter started uh this week uh as a very very successful year and uh and um very very excited for what the future holds for them and you know also want to wish the best to all of our students who start off uh in on the 17th so um very very exciting time i want to while we were talking about the 90th anniversary in the history of rock it's important to note that our district was in place uh well before a very very controversial topic that has arisen in the community and that is uh reid hilvey airport we as a district took action in november of 2020

054to ask for the closure of that district and i appreciate all of my colleagues who supported that um i know that um there were some members of this one member that voted to not support it you know they have their reasons but history uh will be on our side when we go ahead and take a look at the results of the lead study that demonstrates that our children are being poisoned especially those of us who live adjacent to the airport day in day out um and at a rate that's even higher than the lead poisoning that had been in the children of flint michigan at this highest level and so that's that's very very serious it needs to be dealt with immediately um we cannot take platitudes and pats on the back and one day

055we will deal with it no the damage is being done day in day out to our kids it needs to be dealt with immediately and there's an opportunity for the public to take this opportunity to notify the public that on august 17th that led study will be presented to the board of supervisors and there will be an opportunity for the people of east san jose to rise up and speak to uh the members of the board of supervisors and let them know how you feel back to the history this district was formed in 1930 while before that airport was established the schools around the area were already in place before the airport was fully expanded to what it is today do not be fooled people continue to tell the story that the airport was already

056there forever and ever and ever the airport was not what it is today it was a small a very very small private airport that was expanded against the wishes of the education leaders of east san jose against the very explicit wishes of the of the education leaders of the san jose who foretold in san jose news that that airport would kill kids and so lo and behold i'm not sure if they were talking about the light study they were probably thinking that planes were going to be fallen as they have they've fallen onto our campuses onto our parks so that's another danger and so august 17th in the afternoon approximately 6 p.m um you will be able to go ahead and speak your piece to the santa clara county board of supervisors hear about the

057lead study that took place and that has been published and that you can read yourself you have some time perused through the 131 page report that lays out the dangers and the damage that those planes are having on the health and safety of our children day in day out so meyer elementary school was there before the airport was expanded hubbard fisher all of these were except for meyer all were built in the 50s while before the expansion in the airport had already taken place thank you madam president thank you vice president quintero let me bring my audio up here okay um and at this time i will hear an echo we can bear with us uh we're transitioning to come back to our board room um so we're doing our best here um please provide

058feedback if you hear an echo um as uh um i think to ms lavoie did earlier uh we appreciate that um so in regards to i just want to reiterate um can't mention enough the heartbreak that we feel of losing any one of our members our young man uh especially looking forward you know to starting a new school year and all the dreams that he had along with his family um and with that i call on the rest of us you know um to take advantage of the time that we have here on earth you know as parents as teachers as administrators whatever it is our role you know as students um as we start this new school year on behalf of his life um and how we can you know positively impact um whether

059it's our child our home our school our classroom our our community um with this opportunity that we have to just take another breath here on earth and um with that uh thank you trustee pam trustee vicarano quite for reminding us about those opportunities to show up on behalf of our community um you know i know we have a lot of you know all of us right um we have alum rock near and dear to our hearts this is our home this is where we chose to raise our children um and you know the many other reasons that you all live here and um and you know teach here at elem rock and so those opportunities to speak up as a vice president that'll mention august 17th at the county board supervisor and then trustee of

060fam at uh august 19th at this uh at the city um city of san jose uh council uh meeting our city meeting um on behalf of our children uh because one you know affects our health um any human being but especially our children who are being poisoned by lead um so speaking up on behalf of our children and future generations and then also speaking up on behalf of our of our district um of the space that we have for our children to learn to play to grow in to thrive in um so ensuring that you know um we all show up and we all speak up um and with that also um just keeping in mind that we are you know as i think john jocelyn mentioned on the eve of some teachers coming to

061their classrooms setting up starting to think of their curriculum and how to teach it which should be very exciting times i can only imagine as a teacher and then also our children you know having setting up their uniforms getting their backpacks together their folders um whatever it is that that that that excitement of first day of school i think and i take myself back of what that's like but i also can't help to you know highlight that it is a very very very tough time for us all in one way shape or form and we can't continue to go by without you know acknowledging that and i think jocelyn did a good job of of you know and speaking to the teachers it's hard it's tough um and thank you you know jocelyn and all

062the other leaders available to you know listen to be sounding bored to release um but also let's not forget our little ones you know and the things are going through um you know excited but yet scared and then they hear these adults you know speaking around them and like whoa should i be scared and i can only imagine and so you know being mindful thoughtful as we speak as we move forward around them um as we have these classrooms i know it's not going to be easy i know it's not easy i know in my job it's not easy there's some of us that are willing to go back to the office and there's some of us that are really upset about it and everybody has you know their their a good point um and

063so you know let's just be extra gentle with one another um and you know take an extra year to listen um to one another and um really you know just have compassion and move forward in the best direction for us all um and then with that i'm not you know i'm gonna also use this opportunity to remind everyone that getting vaccinated and wearing our mask wherever we are away from home are still the two safest ways to protect ourselves um you know we all have our own thoughts opinions on that and that's fine respectful of all that but i just want to remind you know our community that um that those two are the ways that are going to continue to keep our community safe and ourselves safe so get tested if you have any

064symptoms you know don't think it's just something that will go by we want to ensure that you know we all are safe um you know your children if they have symptoms test them take care of them everybody's health comes first um and you know know that as uh the board president here um in my conversations and the questions as we move forward as a mother of a 12 year old also going into the seventh grade here in our district i'm also asking some of those questions and ensuring that we're doing what we can um to make sure that when we open up next week on the 17th that it's safe that it's a space where all children are welcomed and as hard as it might be for you know some or others and even as

065a parent you know that um we feel good about this here and that uh 21 22 um is that year that you know really brought us back like you know strong trees with strong roots with all the resiliencies that we carry with all the things we've gone through the hard times the good times um and that we push through and that we have new green leaves grow off of our branches that you know that compassion that nourishment the teaching the learning you know will be like water for our trees um and i look forward to celebrating you know once we move past this this difficult time so i look forward to continuing to be here during the school year and to go through this ride with you all thank you all right now we'll move

066on to item 401 um and i'll turn it over to superintendent bauer thank you madam president this is just a very brief presentation about parent square we aim to communicate with our parents in multiple using multiple tools we have heard very loud and clear that we need to use different kinds of ways to reach out to parents and we honor that but um well while i was talking to the staff especially our it staff that is really committed unlike many other techies in our county we are very blessed with an amazing team who really wants to work with parents and make sure that parents get the information that they need so that's what we're going to present to you today and i'm going to turn it over to assistant superintendent of business just to give

067you a summary of what you you will hear thank you thank you dr bauer and good evening madam board president members of the board and the alamo community at this time i want to introduce mr daniel pena who along with jose chavez has been leading the i.t department during this transition but daniel tonight will will be providing a brief overview of some of the features and important data in parent square so with that i'll turn it over to danielle all right good evening uh boy president herrera trustees and superintendent bower parent square is our parent engagement tool it's the tool that we use to communicate to our community to our parents to our students and actually to our staff as well one thing that i do want to make a note the 89 89 students

068and families that currently is not accurate our database has not refreshed but from this screen in general we're able to see the percentage of the families that we're reaching currently the district stands at 98 percent um and it also tells us how many families were actually not able to reach and this is a great tool that lets us physically see the reason why whether it may be a student that doesn't have an actual number assigned to them home phone number a parent that doesn't have a cell phone number we have no way of communicating as not everybody does have a cell phone and not everybody does may not have an actual home phone further we can see and we can separate by school site you know what percentage are we reaching out to our families

069and we can just simply scroll down and just see broken down by school site the green little box is the percentage that that school is able to reach out to the families um the numbers in red are actual posts that that particular school site has actually made so that the parents are able to read that announcement receive that email or receive that text message sending them a link with the information that is needed for them another place um that we can use looking deeper into parent square is our dashboard one misconception is that you know oh i i don't receive the messages i don't have the app the parent square does not work on the needs of a family downloading the actual app itself the way parent square communicates is if we're providing an email

070address if we're providing a cell phone number or if the parent wishes to download the app those are the different ways that it's going to communicate with them the purpose of the app is it allows the family to do two-way communication very similar to social media where somebody puts a post and they put a little heart that means that they liked our post and so this particular dashboard breaks it down as i scroll down through the through the data but it also lets the parent choose the method of whether they wish to receive messages in english or messages in spanish as well as to decide how they wish to receive the message in your screen you're seeing hey how the messages are physically broken down via email chose to receive their method of receiving messages

071through email uh 45 receiving their messages via text while are actually using the app for two-way engagement um so here you that's how the actual information is broken down um on how we're actually reaching the families it also tells us you know the different features that we're using and how it's broken down whether we're using things for sign ups whether it's going to be parent teacher meetings whether it's a post where they need volunteer work whether it's a permission slip they're sharing photos so currently we're using nine out of the 14 different applications just at the beginning of of the school year also it tells us the interaction those how many actually community members are are actually interacting with us in two-way communication as the application allows for that you know a parent could start

072a conversation with the teacher uh through the actual app if they chose that method of communication the distribution um how many posts has the district actually made as well as how many posts just currently this month of august has and actually have the total school sites and the volume you know spread out by by the school sites how many staff members have actually posted something to the class or to group um and it also tells us who are our busy bees um you know judging um by this you know uh miss gloria hayes perkins at one of our elementary schools she's been a busy deed just relaying content and information out to our community and so other ways that we've used this is during back at the end of the school year we were using

073the online health forum to have our parents actually fill out the health forum before they were actually dropping off their child at school so that we could see hey there would be an alert that would be sent out if anything on the help form was selected as a yes um i i unfortunately am i'm not able to to show that uh just because it discloses some student information and we don't want to violate any any laws but that is parent square in a brief summary yeah thank you so much um very helpful information i don't know mr chang if there's anything you want to add or uh dr bauer before you move forward very briefly i just wanted to thank mr pena for his uh presentation this was something that was very reassuring that in

074terms of connecting with families we are able to reach we are able to know who we didn't reach so that we can try other ways thank you so much for that hard work thank you so much um at this time what i'll do is we'll go to public comment and then um we'll bring it back um well i guess it's only for information only um i'll open it up to the trustees for any questions comments on this presentation and then just reminding those that are here i know it's kind of hard to you know do the mew on mu turn it down but if you're not speaking um if you can mute it and mute yourself and turn it down if you're here in the boardroom thank you anyone um okay i see trustee go

075ahead i do have a couple questions but i wonder if there's any public comment just maybe to add to or inform my questions or if not i could just ask mine now however you want to do it madam president public comment on every item [Music] yeah i just wanted to confirm so trustee you're saying you would like to hear public comment before asking or your comments i would like to i have some on my own if you want to go that way but i i might hear something from the public that i might also want to um or any of you you know okay um so we'll go ahead and do a public comment first and then we'll start off with you um depending on what you hear then thank you man jose if you

076can help us uh any members of the public wishing to address the board on this item yes ma'am president we have one speaker our first speaker is miss sandra rivera miss andre rivera you have two minutes please send me yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening i just wanted to say thank you thank you thank you for parents square um through my this will be my 16th almost 17th year in the district i have looked for a communication skill tool like this and can you hear me yes ms river okay sorry um i have looked for a a tool that we can use like this to communicate with parents and i know we have had some in the past that were very cumbersome very hard to use very not user friendly

077for both us and for the parents and i can say that i am not a very technologically savvy person and i have come to really depend and rely on parents square whether it be to send gay friday notices your child completed all their work this week give them a pat on the back or if i need to get in touch with a parent i love the fact that the messages go out in both english and spanish and i believe also vietnamese daniel can correct me if i'm wrong um but it allows for uh i don't want to say a more intimate form of communication but one that's not just the school district telephone number popping up on the parent's cell phone all the time and so thank you for having this app thank you for

078allowing us to continue using it and i hope that we can go forward and continue to use this program because the longer and more continuity we have the easier it is for us and for the parents as well so thank you very much thank you for your comments madam president at this time we have no more speakers thank you so much okay at this time i'll go ahead and turn it over to trustev you're muted trusty with harano thank you uh once again um for walking us through the the dashboard and the app and um it's really informative um and i my questions i guess couple questions number one um so i see on the there on the dashboard that there's the term deliverability is used and so it looks like that means that that

079is the amount of the percentage or whatever of messages that were actually delivered end-to-end and i saw one of the second pages that you looked at or second or third it looked like it also shows like a little red section for maybe emails that bounce back or text that don't go through or something like that so it looks to me and i i guess i'm looking for clarification on this for this question it looks to me like we're able to see the amount of messages that are going out um and then the percentage that are maybe not reaching the families and it looks like they're in the high 90 percentages that the parent or the individual receives that message with a small percentage maybe bouncing back is that kind of accurate from what we saw

080in the presentation yes um let me go ahead and share our dashboard so the dashboard anything that's in the light pink that is messages that were that failed and this could be uh anything from when the parent first signed up um that was their cell phone number and for whatever reason they had to disconnect it for the email it could be anything that their account was disabled or the email address is no longer working or they actually declined to receive the emails and so with everything there is always the the portion of you know working with our school sites working with the with our community liaisons to make sure that our system is as more most up-to-date as possible so that we can continue to eliminate and get the highest percentage as possible and of

081those thank you for that answer of those pink sections does it also allow us to it sounds like it does individually identify what number or email those came from and we can tie it to a a student absolutely um what i can't do is i can't um because it's going to disclose information i don't want to click on it but yes that's exactly what it physically does it tells us exactly who is the student who's the parent and where the mistake is made okay so then in that thank you again for that answer to you so i i appreciate what dr bauer said about um you know we hear oftentimes that you know for whatever reason parents are not receiving communication we hear that in the comments that we get and so it's good to

082see that we have a platform and hear from at least one member of our our public our staff that it seems to work for them um and it's good to see this at least we know that the parent or the individual in the large majority of cases is receiving that whether or not they see it or remember it everybody's so busy maybe it just it doesn't land with them but we know that it's getting there and we also know who it's not getting to and we can address that individually so i think this is very helpful um i had one other comment but uh the only other thing i'll say is i wonder if this seems like the kind of application that we might be able to produce reports and i'm wondering if maybe um

083the board members if we could if it's possible to receive i don't know if it's quarterly or yearly or just once um based on the information that you shared a report just so we can take a little bit more time to to look at you know the numbers and and just analyze it a little more but overall i think it's good i think it's um you know what we need especially in these times when instant communication is so important with all the changes that are happening and it's excellent that we can identify those that are not getting them and work with liaisons and everyone else to get there so i'll leave that request for possibly a report that we can dig a little deeper in maybe as a board and thank you again for the

084information um i i don't know if you have something in response to him i also see trustee chavez with your hands uh jose i don't know yes yes madam president one thing i wanted to add in regards to what mr rivera mentioned in in the communication the app also allows to for the parent to set it in their native language and the app will automatically automatically translate the messages back and forth and so if i write something in spanish the app will translate it to the teacher in english and we'll do that back and forth thank you nice thank you for that information trustee thomas my question is kind of along what uh the hedano's questions were but once you tie it to the student and to the parent and to the teacher what does

085the district do to reach that i think it was three percent that that uh you don't get the response from um like how do you follow up once you you haven't reached them you follow up with uh like i don't know if in their applica if the information of siblings or other relations like friends or cousins if you could reach them in that manner is there that extra information there when they do give their information other ways to reach them if you can't reach them through their sales or through their emails do they ever put other contact information is what i'm asking i guess a superintendent or anybody that can answer thank you so much for the opportunity to answer the question the answer is yes and that is precisely why our community liaisons are

086such a key team member for our schools because they are the ones that follow up with those families with a home visit usually we during the pandemic i want to honor and praise a number of our community liaisons principals some teachers do that we also have the school um schooling services uh coordinators who because we're able to know which phone numbers are no longer you know uh current and what if that those messages that are bounced back we're able to reach to those families there are some very hard to reach families and we have had a number of stories as the pandemic evolved that we that was our our connection with the parents especially some of the parents who were homeless and we that's how they were able to communicate with our uh district in

087constant way it was the lifeline we had the story of a single mom with a first graders who ended up in hayworth in a hotel and our ability to communicate with her to parent square and connecting with her through the phone we were able to provide her the services that she needed over there in hayward when they were connecting for their school in alum rock and so countless stories about that and i think that that was why i wanted to highlight tonight this uh amazing tool because a lot of times you know we just kind of get into other things and we forget about communication and this is something that we are very uh focused as the this year begins to make sure that we're connecting with every single family thank you thank you trustee

088chavez one last thing does the district also ask for the work numbers if they can't provide sales i i remember in the past there was a lot of neighbors that they uh worked in the same shopping center as us and we would go and interpret and also receive their calls because we knew that they didn't have cell numbers and they didn't have a home phone number and it was easier for them to that worked in the same mall as us for them to just you know we'd say hey you know tell someone so to come over here and the school's calling and we interpret for them but you know this is just people helping other people and sometimes uh as a community you want to do that to help the the students you know what

089i mean but do they also ask for work numbers okay thank you thank you um and i had similar questions so thank you all for asking your questions um very excited to see most of our parents signed up i just want to reiterate i mean 99 is is exciting um and you know hearing the teachers also express themselves about you know how it's helped them do what they do um a little better you know um something less to be frustrated about right and a good tool to use to communicate with your families um and you know of course it's it's very small but it's kind of like you know when you see that hole right in something a very small hole out of the big picture but still you know my questions and i did

090ask dr bauer in our one-on-one was regarding how we are connecting with those that are not connected and now that i'm understanding it even better thank you for that um explanation now that i know that we have that piece of the parents that are not connected yet as one item um so thank you community liaisons and staff who are you know working hard and diligently to connect our families but then also the emails and texts that are connected and are not working that we can identify those um and ensure that you know we connect those parents in one way shape or form one of my friends actually this morning was like i missed the message about the school i got a new phone and i'm trying to connect and haven't been able to connect so

091i know the impact you know when the family misses that you know welcoming event or those things so um we get to ensure we get hopefully we can get 100 um and then even thank you trusted chavez for bringing up those ideas right of how we can maybe use a community phone or you know what those options are that might look a little different than you know when i was younger where you know there was one one phone number and you call that number but now with um you know internet and things like that what that might look like nowadays um so excited to just make it better yes something that's working great and how do we make it even better i do see uh trusted fam's hand up so i'm gonna go ahead and

092turn over over to you if you thought of something that maybe didn't come up before uh no i just wanted to express my appreciation to our information technology services for pushing the boundaries here this is um you know uh the sites for president mentioning the phone it used to be a hard a hard paper notice in the mail so this is uh this is very good i i wanted i know that this took a lot of effort and so i wanted to express my appreciation to to everyone who was a part of implementing this thank you trustee fam all right seeing no other hands and i don't know if you can hear me sorry working on my uh audio here i don't see any other hand so we'll go ahead and move on to item

093502. uh i'm sorry 402. uh superintendent i'm going to turn it back over to you at this time thank you madam president uh and i know mr sanchez is eager to provide a lot of information i know that um i heard my teachers our teachers and i i understand the hesitation it's hard to anything that is that we don't know is difficult i just want to reassure everybody that 95 of what we are gonna present tonight has been the safety safeguards that we uh that you were presented when we reopened the schools in april and we worked together i do appreciate uh jocelyn's comment to the the fact to keep a pretty stringent safeguards remember the county has only given schools really very very little guidelines in terms of requirements wear your mask indoors that's

094it and there all of the other kinds of safeguards were removed because the best way to stop the pandemic and stop the contagion is through vaccination so i encourage everybody who's able to get a vaccine please do so but we decided to keep some of those tools to ensure a safer return to school so mr sanchez mr chang uh the time i'm gonna turn it over to you and i just wanted to make sure that our audience especially our teachers and our parents know that we kept the majority of those safeguards thank you thank you dr bauer board president uh herrera members of the board um our community um we we did want to give you a brief uh overview of the tremendous amount of work that has gone into the reopening of our schools

095you will be receiving a lot of these documents in the next uh 24 hours we've been working diligently updating information as it's changed and evolved you know a lot of you heard the announcement from uh the governor just yesterday in terms of vaccines so all of those things uh having have been evolving and changing and so we did want to make sure that we gave you the most accurate information possible so today ms campbell's going to be sharing the presentation with you and um mr covero chang his department his division has a lot to do with keeping our schools safe for students and staff the curriculum department has done a tremendous amount of work ensuring that we have all the different tools and resources available to teachers as well as students to make sure that

096not only are we providing the instruction that they need on a daily basis but we're also bridging those learning gaps right and we're also addressing the social emotional uh learning needs of students um you will also hear from uh director um garcia around all the different interventions that we're we put together and all the different resources that will be made available to our families so um i hope this this is helpful for the community but i can assure you it's been non-stop for our team here and i i want to commend um everyone right in all of our departments because it has been non-stop in getting our schools ready and getting our teams ready uh for the reopening so just wanted to open up with that um next slide please so this is the overview

097of what we will be sharing with you today and the three big buckets are around safety protocols our instructional program and then the additional supports that you will see and you will hear about um at the various schools and throughout our district and um i will remind everyone that the big day is tuesday august 17th uh we're very excited uh our principals have been working diligently day and night making sure that the classrooms are ready um i know that superintendent power uh mr chang and many staff members have been going around to the schools to ensure that you know they're ready to go so with that um i will turn it over to mr chang to share with you some of those big pieces that we've done with regards to safety protocols thank you mr

098sanchez um and as he has alluded earlier i'll be covering the safety protocol section of this presentation next slide please so first and foremost is following all guidelines from the cdc cdph as well as the county protocol and these are some of the safety measures that districts has implemented safety signage is posted on all campuses water fountains will remain closed students will be provided with a reusable reusable water bottle water bottle and or water filling stations will be available to refill water bottles on campus students will be reminded to wash hands frequently especially when transitioning from one activity to another all of her front office are open and ready to support and assist the community and parents screen guards have been set up in the front office and ppes will be made available to anyone

099who needs them lastly non-essential visitors will not be allowed on campus at this time next slide please next slide please just some minor technical difficulties thank you for being patient next slide please thank you the districts will also require all students and staff to wear masks while indoors uh physical barriers such as these guards uh will be continued to be used in offices and classrooms there will be a two to three feet of physical distancing in classrooms where possible and per the cdph guidance in-person instructions can occur safely with minimal physical distances requirement when other mitigation strategy such as masking are implemented individual instructional materials will be provided for students to limit sharing and mass are highly recommended outdoor except when eating next flight please in terms of sanitizing uh classrooms and offices will be

100disinfected nightly with our foggy machines classrooms have touchless hand sanitizing station in all of them and commonly touched areas will be sanitized frequently during the school day in terms of ventilations all classrooms and offices are equipped with air purifiers um air filters have been upgraded to merv 13s were compatible and the filters it shows itself will be changed every three months in addition that doors and windows can be opened to maximize air movement without harming the ac units next slide with respect to the bathrooms bathrooms will be will have high touch area sanitized every two to three hours soap or hand sanitizers will be available a number of students entering at one time will be limited and bathrooms will be disinfected and fogged each night uh with regards to prevention and this is where we

101will need parent support health checks will be done at home by parents and sick students students who are sick will need to stay home isolation room will be used if someone does become ill wrong while on campus and contact tracing will occur in collaboration with the santa clara county of public health next slide regarding transportation everyone will wear masks and use hand sanitizers as they enter the bus buses will be sanitized after each use drivers and students will be separated by one row uh family members will not be allowed on the bus at this time and students will be seated from the back to the front next slide please with vaccination and testing uh vaccination is currently the leading public health prevention strategy to end the cod19 pandemic school employees have been eligible since february

102uh and all are encouraged to get vaccinated uh we are also working with our labor partners um to reach agreements to have all unvaccinated employees covet tested on an ongoing basis as required and we are also looking into the ability for regular students covet testing with parents permission next slide please regarding the meal programs breakfast lunch and suppers will be offered at no cost to all students during designated meal service times to ensure a signal service environment the following procedures have been established meals will be offered and served in the classrooms at selected sites where they're doing it right now and from the cafeteria meal service line all food items provided are individually wrapped cupped or bagged to ensure minimal exposure to potential contaminants students will have access to hand washing sink and or hand

103sanitizers dispensers to be used before meal service seating will be available inside the cafeteria and or outside and students will remain three feet distance when eating with regards to independent study and community meal community meal distribution free meals will be offered to independent study students and children 18 and younger at three of our curbside grab and go mill location uh the hours are from 10 a.m to 11 a.m on tuesdays and thursdays uh and the three locations are renaissance academy and fishers renaissance academy at madison and lastly shepard next slide please and at this time i'd like to pass it on to miss barbara campbell who will be presenting the instructional program good evening um i will be talking sharing a little bit about our academic program and what pieces we have in place for

104the return to in-person instruction so our academic program we will begin with in-person instruction for all students we will uh bell schedules for start and end times are being distributed by sites and posted on our on the site web pages we will continue the traditional 4-1 schedule where thursday is a shortened instructional day teachers will continue to use the online platforms see saw google classroom to continue and maintain communication along with parent square instruction will continue will include whole class and when appropriate small group instruction a combination of online and instructional platforms will be used to support student learning and all subjects will be taught using the district adopted core curriculum and all of these include some digital components along with hard copies and textbooks this kind of gives you an idea of what are

105our what's our core curriculum what our ed tech supports that we are providing and continue to provide as a carryover and some of our online platforms for engagement digital citizenship and also assessments the top part talks about what are our core curriculum pieces that are providing for math ela social studies and science then we have a variety of programs like seesaw levered learning near pod raz science a to z that are being provided to support uh additional instructional pieces in the classroom we have three online assessment pieces and actually there's one more missing which is isis i station which is for our dual language uh schools which is english spanish and then for engagement again google classroom is seesaw and then we also have nearpod which has a variety of modules that support digital citizenship

106we have modules to support social emotional learning we have modules to support english language development but also modules to support college and career exploration and readiness as you all are aware um we ab-130 was passed this summer and alum rock will be offering independent stock study option for our students whose health would be at risk by in-person instruction as determined by the parent the in the independent study teachers will be using our district adopted common core standards aligned curriculum parents who are interested will be signing agreements to have their child children participate in independent study and just to give you an idea students in grade tk 3 will be receiving daily synchronous instruction which will include live interaction to support social student social emotional learning and then students in grade 4 through 8 again we'll

107be receiving weekly or daily synchronous instruction along with daily interaction to support their social emotional learning and connectiveness our music programs have had to do some adjusting and we as you can see along the bottom as we're waiting for more guidance from the california department of health of public health on in around instrumental music but uh singing and playing uh wind instruments will occur with ppe outdoors only um masks are being designed for choir and band and covers for instruments our band mariachi and choir rehearsals will occur socially distanced outdoors and if weather does not allow for outdoor rehearsals teachers will plan alternate classroom activities and our fourth and fifth grade classes usually get a general music prep class and that will continue but without singing or playing wind instruments physical education will resume as

108normal with additional safety precautions so masks are going to need to be worn during pe when not social distancing so during close contact activities while lining up entering and exiting locker rooms in the middle schools again that they will be needing to be masks mass will be worn inside the locker room while children are changing for pe and as um mr chang had mentioned locker rooms will be disinfected disinfected with foggy machines daily hand washing will occur before and after class and then equipment will be sanitized between groups of students our special ed services um are going to again we will provide services based on the student's current iep for in-person instruction at the their assigned sites especially classroom sizes permit social distancing related services will be offered via pull out or push in a

109small group as indicated in their ieps and all district-wide safety procedures will be will be implemented in those classrooms um any request for independent study by a parent who has a child in special ed it will be handled through an the iep process to consider the change of placement which because it would be a change of placement and services for independent study for our special ed will also be a combination of synchronous and asynchronous instruction and i now going to hand off to mrs sander garcia who will be talking about support services that we're providing for our students good evening everyone um i am going to go over some of the support services that we have planned for this school year next slide please first i'm going to share some information on the social emotional

110learning support and support that we will be providing this year through our sel department uh we will continue to support uh sel implementation at all school sites with such programs as commodities restorative practices and second step we will our sel department is coordinating a professional development for all staff site staff in trauma-informed practices as well as providing professional development for elementary and middle school counselors we will be providing counselor services across schools be our school counselors and we have increased the number of counselors this year and provide training and placement of our intern counselors at both elementary and middle school sites we will also be facilitating parent trainings on social emotional learning competencies and part continue to partner with our community-based organizations to expand services and resources to all families and students next slide are

111after school programs so we will resume our after school programs after school as they are intended in person at all school sites um our five service providers are city years city of san jose think together ymca and envisioners and uh they have been busy uh preparing with the site principals and staff um for the reopening of the schools we will have program monday through friday immediately after school through 6 pm and students will be receiving supper as part of that program and just to remind you that the after school staff uh their main responsibility is to support with homework and provide uh enrichment activities such as art physical activities stem activities health education etc we will work towards adding some sort of school day support ramping that up through our aces providers when possible and

112this is just a list of the five agencies and the schools that they provide services to so in terms of tutoring and supplemental learning support we do we have been working with several agencies some are continuing there are a few new we've been having discussions with them over the summer on ways that they can support our our students as they return to school and have the need for these supports we will be having services at all school sites in terms of homework and intervention type services and it'll be a combination of teachers and paraprofessionals providing those services and in some cases using some of these support providers in addition to what they're able to provide with their staff members some of the pro tutoring support that we will have are sylvan learning tutor works paper

113which is an online personalized tutoring service booknook tutoring varsity tutoring springboard collaborative other support services that we have been partnering with and will continue this year are the city peace project grail family services little heroes and reading partners and we'll continue to investigate other ways and other services that we can provide our students and you know we really want to make sure that the students that need the support receive it and that we provide it for them so that's the end of our presentation and you know we just want to thank you for listening and just say that you know this is a time to come together celebrate the beginning of a new year and welcome everyone back to our campuses um and again um congratulations on 90 years of excellence in alum rock thank

114you i don't know dr barbara we were going to add something no okay great thank you so much for such detailed uh presentation and painting a clear picture for us um and so at this time i'm gonna open it up for public comment first and then i'll open it up for the trustees for any questions comments or concerns we'll see if you can help me with the public yes madam president we have uh one speaker miss jacqueline argani mr donnie you have two minutes please tell me yourself when you begin speaking the time will begin oh you can uh unmute yourself sir donnie are you able to unmute yourself maybe while they um figure out the audio issue we'll go on to the next one and then come back to jacqueline yes our next speaker

115is right yes you have two minutes to speak please emit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hi i found it hi my name is lynn white and i am a tk teacher at linda vista elementary i've been teaching close to 20 years i'm i'm trying that i didn't see much information about your contact tracing screening and testing protocol will you test sample groups how will that work and when will we know and then my other concern is that in tk it's all about socialization and kids working together and a big part of what we do is have families involved so will you do rapid testing so that volunteers can continue to come onto our campus and be welcomed and so that we can have field trips um and try to make this

116as normal as possible for the children and i'm very concerned that we don't have our contract negotiated we love working with kids and we want to be in the class and we want all of us to work together towards mutual mutual agreeable outcomes but it feels like we have not taken the time to get our plan together so that we all feel comfortable for the first day of school but we will do our best to make sure that the kids are safe but if i had my drivers i would wait till the kids could get vaccinated and then you know hopefully they said in the winter we come in and you know maybe achieve herd immunity within our classrooms so that the kids aren't transmitting the virus as you know what i hope doesn't happen

117but i i'm hoping we can all work together and do what's right and what's safe for our kids but i am terrified to work with tk kids 20 kids in my class thank you for listening thank you our next speaker is miss jessica libody who's the voting you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hi yeah um so i was i was waiting for this presentation and can you hear me yes oh okay sorry um and uh i still again my questions weren't answered in regards to quarantining in regards to at least weekly testing i looked at our numbers today and the zip codes in in alum rock are like 24 25 000 per 25 per 100 000. we are it's so high right now and we are

118opening our doors full throttle with just masks um we need at least weekly testing on everybody regardless of vaccination status and this modified quarantine is just asking for a super spreader event um we're seeing now like mountain view already has you know a couple days in have several pieces so what is our quarantine will we be then distance learning will we be zooming in for the kids or are they going home with packets like we need to know this the first day of school because we know there's going to be cases the first day of school we've seen it now across the state as they open up it's within the first couple days there are kids and what are those kids doing when they go home to quarantine and then we need to quarantine we

119can't be saying that they can stay in our classroom even though they've been exposed with a mask on as long as they get tested twice a week and we know with the delta variant that asymptomatic we can spread it just as being vaccinated just as much as the unvaccinated so you can't say that teachers can stay and teach if they've been exposed they need to go home and be safe we need to know this the first day of school because we're gonna have that kid in class who comes with a positive coveted test so we need to know this now and it wasn't in the presentation and these are the questions we're getting from parents what are we doing with quarantine what about testing what about health screening that's what's important and we don't have

120that information and that's not okay it's not safe um because we know what the first day is going to be like and we won't have answers thank you thank you or our next speaker is miss kathy louis and so you have two minutes please send me yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hi um i'm at shepherd middle school and um i'm i'm an art teacher and i've already planned to you know keep separate supplies for everyone but um i keep hearing things about cohorts and i don't think that's happening in middle schools um i'm going to be having like 35 kids in my classroom um at least one of my periods and i think the other periods are close to 30 each one of them and it equals out to 152 kids

121and like jessica was saying um i'm very concerned about this modified quarantine and i mentioned it earlier um it seems like it's designed to keep the schools open but it's not designed to mitigate cases um our new our case rate keeps going up i have been keeping track of new cases every single night since june 24th 2020 and i've been watching it fluctuate and i've been watching the patterns and the trends and everything and uh i'm extremely apprehensive about just opening the way we are doing that and i understand that a lot of it comes down to funding from the state um but what i'm concerned about is that i'm not hearing a backup plan if the state does say or if the county says you know we're shutting things down because things case rates

122are getting too high like it is like they are in other states um i don't know any backup plans i don't know what's what's going to happen i don't know what to plan for myself what to plan for with my kids my kids are going to ask questions like kids are always asked questions about what happens if this happens i have no answers for them and that's really disconcerting this close to the beginning of the school year and i hope we can get some more answers thank you our next speaker is miss adrian bing miss finn you have two minutes please submit yourself subscribe hello uh thank you for um listening to me again um first off my first question is about the fogging um i once again i am a teacher and um sometimes

123things are left in the classroom is what what what is the chemical composition of the fogging because i was i usually have a pitcher of water and will i have to empty that and wash it every day that's number one uh quarantine if we have to quarantine as teachers we're gonna lose our sick days even though we won't we only have quite a few and what happens if we lose all of our sick days do we have to take a pay cut because of that um i usually have classes of 31 students i don't know how i can do a class of 31 students and how and distance myself from them all together throughout the day i will have over 150 kids on that note with regards to computer programs we had a program called

124hapara which we could control students from a remote computer and it was wonderful why are we not investing in a program like that anymore um another problem is that teachers right now we're not allowed to have lunch with each other we're not allowed to share a space with each other i don't know about you but after dealing with a hundred kids for a couple of hours i need some time to talk to my colleagues and lunch is usually that time and how are counselors going to be able to social distance and deal with kids i just think these are things we need to think about thank you miss wings our next speaker is miss sandra rivera mrs rivera you have two minutes please submit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hello can

125you hear me yes mr okay um i was just echoing with what some of my colleagues have been saying i the school safety plans that have been put out from a teacher's standpoint seem like the superficial stuff whereas we're in the classroom with the students what are the new protocols now if a student starts throwing up am i supposed to evacuate all of my students i have tk students are we supposed to be i can't leave my classroom doors open because my door goes directly to the parking lot there's not a lot of windows that actually open in my classroom out of most of them have been painted shut from over the years so while we appreciate a safety plan from people built by people sitting in the district office i don't know if teachers

126or people who are actually in the school sites have been consulted to help create that safety plan there are a lot of questions and issues that we have that are not addressed and our answer kept being told oh we'll address that later wait till the safety plan comes out those questions still have not been addressed are teachers allowed to take the student's temperatures in the classroom if the kids are saying that they don't feel good because how am i supposed to now send a tk student up to the office before i used to have two of them hold hands and walk to the office together we can no longer do that there are still a lot of unanswered questions and i understand that hopefully some of these will get answered but this did not help

127any of us tonight it actually it made us a little bit more apprehensive thank you miss rivera our next speaker is miss joslyn mars mr mars we have two minutes please submit yourself thank you um i had not planned to speak since i i think that many of our uh teachers have covered a lot of the um issues that we're concerned about but i guess the bottom line is school starts tuesday and i noticed that on the um slide presentation it said that there was safety some of the safety plans were being bargained but that hasn't happened yet when when will that happen i mean if work kids come back tuesday when will those tests be done and they should be done on site if we're going to have testing if we're not vaccinated i

128guess again it's all a matter of we're down to the wire and instead of saying we'll get it done or we plan to we have to get this done and put it behind us so that we can so that teachers know what to expect because they come and ask me and honestly i don't know what to say because i don't have the answers until we have a written agreement in place it's all speculation thank you miss smirks madam president at this time we have no more speakers thank you jose um at this time i will open it up to the trustees for any questions comments or concerns and uh before i do that just want to let you all know after this item we'll take a five minute bio break um so i'll go ahead

129and turn it over to trustee fab i see your hand up uh thank you madam president hang on we're good um getting used to all okay uh first of all uh question to the administration uh drew through you madam president uh in the event a child is put in quarantine here and and does it i kind of feel like the child would be placed into [Music] independent study or you know please walk me through what what do we do say if a child knock on wood tests positive and has to be quarantined how uh how do they stay with the class or how did they learn for me so i lost my signal oh so uh maybe renee so can you help answer that question please absolutely so um what i want to remind everyone

130about is that every single case is is different and we take every single case on a case-by-case basis we consult with our district nurses we work with the health department we look at exposure we look at we do contact tracing to see who has had that level of exposure we look at individuals that were exposed are they vaccinated so all of these things have evolved over the last few months and it's no longer an automatic if you were in the same room with somebody that um tested positive for covid you all of a sudden have to quarantine right so we need to look at these things case-by-case basis and so i can't just do a blanket response as far as the student if the student is ill he is ill and then he won't be

131able to engage with the classroom right um if he's going to be out for an extended period of time we can definitely assign him assignments just like we are doing with students in independent studies so we're going to have to uh take a look at the individual situation and they make accommodations accordingly okay uh thank you renee uh then the guess the second half is uh you know based on public comment uh what does quarantine look like if if a staff member fall does test positive or falls ill we have to follow the same things the cba the this is um different times uh we it's not like last year last year we had some mandates that we had to adhere to we're going back to the um what we have agreed in a lot

132of the dispensations that were provided last year are no longer digit and we need to just accept that there is no way for us to change laws or contracts or anything like that at this moment because we are no longer in the same status that we were last year so i understand those are concerns um i think that the best way to avoid a whole lot of concerns is to make sure that we get vaccinated and that we continue to wear our masks remember what i said at the very beginning as far as the county is concerned as far as the state is concerned all they want us to do is to wear the mask and they took off a lot all the other safeguards we are not doing any of that we are keeping

133extra precautions because we have learned through the we started we were the first district with a care pot back in september last year and we worked through the most difficult times in of covid we reopened our schools and we conducted a summer school and we never had a contagion studying in alamo rock we learn a lot of lessons and those are the ones that we're putting into action i do understand the anxiety for people who have not been part of the reopening or teaching summer school this is normal to feel that way but i also know that we are going to be acting swiftly whenever something happens we learn uh very quickly how to uh whenever there was a a contact in our midst and and we address the classroom uh the whole concept of

134modified quarantine is what the public health department is telling us to do this is not something that our team hilaria bauer the board we are not health officials we are educators and i understand the concerns we are going to provide the safest environment possible for our students and for our staff thank you mr from any other questions or comments uh uh you know one last question to administration uh any pasta does a situation look uh safe enough for a class to potentially have a field trip this year future future i think that we need to bring everybody back first and i think that as we become better acquainted with the the new reality because that's what we're all facing um we will gradually bring some of those more normal things back i do i heard

135the comment from the teacher regarding back to school nights i will be addressing that i um have said very clearly that we are not going during the regular school day we're not gonna have anybody who we don't we you know visitors i don't know because of that extra layer of protection and uh that includes volunteers because there are some people that we cannot demand we cannot ask them whether or not they have been vaccinated so i'm very clear about that um we are doing that because we want to protect the only case and we totally hear tk um even first grade um their the first day of school the first couple of days of school are going to be normal children are going to cry parents need to suit them the principles are setting up

136the appropriate environment to address those specific circumstances thank you very much thank you uh and now i see trustee chavez's stand up trustee chavez yeah i i have uh two questions and the first one is i guess uh for miss barbara campbell when she spoke of the bell caps uh or the bell covers for the instruments um for the win woods and the brass and and they're gonna do that outside that's that's fine but um a lot of those like the like the woodwinds they require swabbing and they're supposed to be uh disposable uh is the student gonna have to uh pay for those disposable ones or is that going to be provided from the district and also on the horns on the brass and the horns they have spit valves so um i know

137they recommend like i looked up the recommendation that it's 20 minutes and then they do the aerosol and are they going to do that aerosol outside as well as if they have to perform inside because at winter time it gets really cold the poor little kids are going to be out there freezing that they're going to have to be uh playing outside i i just wanted to know how are they going to address the caps and especially when you're playing an instrument to have a bell on it uh you you're going to get a totally different sound unless you're muting it like if you're gonna do uh the ones for the horns how was that how are they gonna handle that and then i have a question after that if she can address that please

138if you don't mind i i'll i'll respond to that that's fine thank you yeah and we're working very closely with our coordinator um music programs right so we are looking at all the guidance and we understand this is not ideal by any means just like it's not ideal in our gathering to all of us have been wearing masks right but we want to provide the best possible scenario for students and we want them to have that experience so all the safety measures um that are put in place none of those costs will come to the families or the students all of those are costs that the district will take on right so we want to make sure that students are safe we want to make sure that students are receiving the best possible experience but

139at the same time we don't want to expose them unnecessarily um to you know possibly catching something right so all of those things are in place i shared with you that we will we have ordered all of this extra material we are going to be doing all the cleaning that needs to happen to ensure that it is all appropriately and adequate for students and i have another question um i don't know if you want to answer this one as well but um one of the things that the teach one of the teachers said that if she has a sick student before they would have a another kinder student welcome to the office so um there's a there's there is some solutions to do that like i seen in other little schools that um i work

140and there's like little schools in front of our the other side of a parking lot in lafayette the way they do it they have actually gotten a jump rope which is six feet long one handles one handle and the other student handles the other handle and they walk them around like that and and they put them to the side and then they take their temperature and everything and then when they take them out or i know min fam asks about the field trips when they take them out they put them on this big old long rope and each one gets a little circle and they put their hand in it they're all distance out six feet apart they look so cute like little ducks walking in a row but there's a lot of different things

141that they can do as well as putting little plastic gloves if they do have to handle the jump ropes and so that the other little kid doesn't get sick um but you know i i know that that this is coming down the line but i still think that if you have that things little things like that in writing that would make the staff feel a lot more comfortable about when a child is sick and you know different things so that the whole class doesn't get sick just things on paper i think that it might put a little bit of their concerns to rest um but ultimately this is just a suggestion i'm not telling anybody what to do but i'm just saying that there is solutions thank you for president yes you don't mind if

142i can respond to that um thank you i appreciate the comment um we have been sharing a lot of these details with principals and we've had some presentations for teachers um we do have outlined the protocol if somebody's asymptomatic if somebody has been vaccinated exposure and so they they we do have that and that has been shared uh we will make sure to reshare it i know that principals uh were have it available to them so i know that some of them are meeting with their staffs on on friday or on monday so they will be sharing all those details right and as i shared with you um a lot of the things right now has to do with whether the individual shows symptoms right even if you're just exposed to a situation doesn't automatically

143mean that you're quarantined it has to do with um developing symptoms and those are our details that we we have shared with principals and that they will be sharing with their teams as well and we do have it in writing and outline for everybody and okay one more question sorry one more question again this is just a suggestion so a lot of times in emergencies you kind of don't think straight because of what's happening especially if you have a classroom full of kids like you know like on the first date when somebody's choking you know how they have step one step two step three can you put those things in the classroom say when you open up the closets can you put it in the door or something like that so that they know what

144steps to follow um sometimes when you have an emergency on your hands um you're emotional about the kid because they're sick and then also the class might be upset and and things don't always go the way they should but if you could like when i said put it in writing if you could also you know like there's this rules for this do this there's that you know system for that do that and have it there in case something happens i i don't know maybe that's just over overkill what i'm saying right now but it's just a suggestion like i said thanks thank you thank you trustee travis um uh i'm no that was it just want to make sure i okay oh awesome all right just saw the hand up okay um i disney trusted

145with harano's hand up um i'll go ahead and turn it over to you at this time all right thank you uh so i first of all want to thank again the staff for the presentation i particularly want to thank at this time our you know our custodial serve team our maintenance team food services because the um you know the details that are laid out in the presentation and and what we got tonight i mean it takes a lot of work to put all of that stuff together and these schedules of sanitation and under understand some people may not think it's sufficient or clear but at least um from what i gathered from it i know that that takes a lot of work to set up and ongoing for our you know our custodians and our

146food services to be cuffing and bagging and sanitizing and disinfecting that that's monumental and actually had a question um related to that so one of the questions that i have is do we have have we added additional staff to um because of these kind of stepped up um needs or or is it realistic to expect the staff that we had to be able to follow these um schedules of sanitation and stuff and is there like a kind of like you see at a target bathroom or something like they have a little signing sheet when the last time somebody cleaned the bathroom i assume we have something like that and it looks like we do so the question is just staffing for that but also gratitude for those teams um but kind of prior to that

147i i wanted to also go back to dr bowers uh comments about i feel like we're kind of we're fortunate in some ways because even though people you know some people are worried or scared or or um you know anxious about whatever they perceive as is this current situation um you know that's real and that's real for them you know so that's we need to respect those sentiments but i think we're fortunate in that we have as dr bauer mentioned learned both through our own efforts and what we've seen other places do that you know it is possible to to function in a way that's nothing's ever going to be 100 safe but that is that can be very safe so i know as dr barr mentioned we had our care pods we had summer

148school we you know we've had different stages where we've been able to kind of beta test in our own district and roll stuff out and and i frankly i told dr power when i met with her recently i think it's either an example of all the work that was put in or just miraculous that we didn't have any you know any problems with it and so the fact that we were able to put that together and did not have any problems at all and i know we had a lot of discussion prior to that about people's worries and concerns all valid but when the actual product rolled out and we implemented we had zero problems i'm sure there were some bumps in the road and but overall it's something we were successful with that i

149know also my wife is works in early education and for months they've worked with from infant to to tk pre-k students or children and they've been able to do that very successfully in person um for many months and so i think the models are out there and they may not be ideal they may not be perfect they may not be 100 risk-free but i think if we go into it with a mindset of learning adaptation um not that that phrase of not letting the perfect get in the way of the good i think we can you know move forward there's always room for improvement as i say but i think we're we're in a good place um and i think it's something that maybe it sounds like there's been some challenges with um kind of

150negotiating some of the details of what's going to happen and i think it's unfortunate that the state and all these changes have come very rapidly to us and i think we heard very loud very clearly that you know people teachers wanted to have their summer respected and they didn't want to have to you know they wanted some time to refresh and to not have to deal with you know negotiations and stuff so i think just the the junction of people trying to get that well needed refresh time versus these things that were coming in from the state it causes challenges to try to um you know get everything lined up perfectly in the amount of time that's necessary but we did want to respect that um those statements that were made about summer that's deserved

151and the other last question i'll have is so the first question was about the staffing for sanitation the other question i have is i saw that the merv 13 filters were all replaced and will be replaced but it says where compatible so i'm wondering about what is the um situation and the places where it's not combat compatible or if we could just have a little more description of that and the last thing if we can have that report emailed or the presentation tonight emailed to the board members i'd like to look through it a little more um on my own time as well so thank you those are my comments or questions as well thank you and i see uh mr chang with his uh mic open so i'll turn over thank you board president

152um so let me first respond to the rooms that do not have the hp system that are compatible to the verb 13. in those rooms itself we do have temporary units or window shakers or window units in those rooms we provide additional air purifiers so um so those room would get two air purifiers and if they're larger rules we could we would consider um adding additional ones um we also provide fans for this room so they can circulate the air in those room much more efficiently and so those are some of the measures that we've added to some of the rooms that doesn't have the merv 13. in terms of staffing let me start off with cns first uh cns you know i think it's it's a challenge all across the board in terms of

153having [Music] enough staff or or hiring there's a lot of shortage in labor right now um but i do have to commend our teamsters units um because in just one sitting they were able to agree uh for us to offer uh additional hours to the current staff to help prep those um those individual bags for foods to be delivered to students um and we were able to do that in one sitting so i do want to thank the teamsters unit uh for always working with us and getting things done in terms of custodians we just recently had a job fair this past weekend and i believe the the results were were helpful and we are working with our mlt department um to get any additional staff in terms of custodians um to be able to

154support the additional efforts that needs to happen at the school site this did i miss anything uh trustee berhana thank you mr chang any other trustees um any questions comments or concerns all right i'm seeing that uh just reiterate you know i know it's hard times for us all us all um and i want to shout out to to all the staff you know all the staff from those that are assisting to putting up the water stations to the teachers to adjusting i know how frustrating it is i work at the emergency operations center and it feels like we set up at the end of the day and the next morning all of it's turned upside down and we got to start fresh so i know that feeling it's frustrating um it's tough uh and

155you know it's just it's not easy um and then you know to also have the direction from an another entity from you know state um bringing out new announcements you know on a weekly basis on a daily basis it feels like and so um just sending you know uh round of applause to you all um to administration you know to my peers who we kind of we see here you know and we hear the frustration and we are with you all and we understand you know and and and just getting it from all areas and doing our best to continue to provide not just the best education but ensure that it's you know in a healthy way um and that we're all taking care of of one another um so with that um if i

156don't see any others i'll go ahead and move on to our five minute bio break it's 808 we'll see you back here at let's say 8 14. thank you all right i know we're gonna slowly be trickling back in so i said 8 14 to hopefully start by 8 15. oh okay now wait perform just start again okay speaking up we have a min and [Music] thank you [Music] all right and if i can just remind ourselves to um turn down the mic i'm sorry the audio the speakers if uh yeah we're not speaking here just so that the echo doesn't happen great all right now that i see quorum calling the meeting back to order at 8 15 um going on to item 501 uh approving of the installation of the ideas for the

157verizon labs out of color shepard renaissance at fisher and apprentices at masses um [Music] awesome okay thank you um all right this time if we commute ourselves here in the board thank you um this time i'm gonna go ahead and call for let me out all right call for uh public comment on this item and then we'll move on to questions comments or concerns from the trustees thank you any hands raised no public comments at this time no no oh sorry okay thank you uh we'll say i'm gonna give a couple seconds before we move on to allow folks to raise their hand for public comment on item for 501 any now jose still no okay so go ahead and move on to trustees any questions comments or concerns from trustees all right cnn i'm

158gonna bring up mine um and and i talked to dr bauer about this um i'm not a professional but um you know i when i read the 5g and the contract involved there um there were a couple of concerns that you know i had um and after doing a little bit more investigation um basically um citing one example of what i read that helped ease my mind and being able to vote on this um is uh the food and drug administration based on the fda's ongoing evaluation the available epidemiological and cancer incidence data continues to support the agency's determination that there are no quantifiable adverse health effects in humans caused by the exposure at or under the current cell phone exposure limit so i did some investigation that helped me i just wanted to share

159with the public um i know there's a lot of good things from this contract that's going to help our children and hopefully our communities as a whole um so i see i see a lot of benefits to this so um that's all i wanted to bring up um with that i'll go ahead and call for the vote and i'll just call your name as i see you on the screen trustee vacarano hi trustee chavez hi justin hi hi vice president quintero hi yes really briefly since the discussion about 5g was mentioned um i also want to add that this is an antenna is to receive signals um and so it wouldn't be projected now i know that i'm not an expert either but uh the signals are already in the community because the city has

160already um provided verizon access to uh the basically those small towers and so what this would allow is for our students to be able to receive the the signals that are already being transmitted so i just wanted to add that thank you thank you guys since you're adding that uh mr chang i saw you um not i just want to confirm is there or is there not i thought i read in the contract that there would be a device on one of the polls and it showed a picture of where it would be placed yes oh i'm sorry no go ahead so the the 5g towers is already in existence in the neighborhood and so we would would we would need to do is add a device on top of the roof on the lab

161to connect to that and then there's other devices in the classroom that feeds from the devices on the roof so that that devices can connect to other devices in the classrooms in order to get access to the 5g network and and it's only limited to the um to that small area so it's not available to the community it's just for the the lab itself great thank you mr chang thank you vice it's already up uh or not regardless i know it brings good things for our children um and you know also just the fact that i was able to go in a little deeper and read more about that and just ensuring you know that our the health of our community um maintains at least that we you know make it better from where we're

162at uh mr from i i did see you you were unmuted was there something you wanted to say before we move forward okay awesome all right great we'll move on to 502 the governing board of trustees we'll discuss a direct administration of if we commute ourselves if we're not speaking please uh the administration to research and provide a recommendation for the selection of a legal firm to provide additional legal support for the review of various contracts um mr pham yes uh madam president i moved to uh open discussion and then uh approve directing the administration to research and provide a recommendation trustee chavez i see your hand up uh if we do approve i'm seconding it right now all right so you're uh seconding mr pham's uh motion yeah if approved okay uh so with

163that um maribel did you get that down do we have the wording if it's any different we i just want to make sure that we don't keep moving if you want to make sure that the minute's covered ken um trustee pham repeated because he said to me for discussion uh so i didn't get the rest of it because okay so i i moved to open uh discussion and uh approve directing the administration to research and provide a recommendation and travis second okay perfect all right so at this time um i don't know if there's a presentation dr bauer or anything before we move forward no it's just the extra support and if the board so desires we can start the process and bring some recommendations to you um that's that's all we needed from you

164tonight thank you thank you uh i'll go ahead and open it up for public comment and then um we'll bring it back for questions comments or concerns from the trustees uh jose if you can help me out is there any members of the public wishing to address the board on this item madam president at this time we have no public speakers okay wait a few seconds do we know still now okay so we'll move on to the trustees i see trustee vacarano's hand up yes thank you um i think that given that you know we've just recently gone through the process for to for our um program manager um and we've made that selection and we have a lot of work that we need to get done and and you know i think we're gonna

165need additional support and i also found kind of came to my attention that there's a lot of districts that have actually multiple um you know legal legal counsel that they use for different whether it's availability or expertise or whatever and we we even have that with one of our other legal teams that we use so i think it's actually a good idea for us to to secure another option in case we need it just so that we can be prepared to move forward um you know and either in specific areas of expertise or just based on availability so we don't have you know any delays in the work that we're trying to get done so i will be in support of moving forward and i my suggestion i don't know if it needs to be

166added to the motion at this time with but in terms of selection i would i would suggest using the same process that we've kind of in some ways started to grow accustomed to i think how we select you know appointed trustees or counsel or whatever you know i think that process seems to with tweaks every time for as needed for the individual situation i think the overall process works pretty well so i would suggest that as the process we use thank you i see trustee chavez stand up so if we do motion to get the thing and if bejedano was motioning to do the same process then i'm also seconding the second one trustee thanks thank you chester chavez uh do we have any other questions comments or concerns from um any of the or

167members of you can please turn it down sorry i just know that it's echoing to our public and trying to do um our best here okay any other questions or comments from the trustees people are moving forward okay see none go ahead my only question is i guess to dr bauer our staff if they would like us to include that part about the methodology used to to select into this motion or just cover that at a later time because the motion right now doesn't include that piece of it if we don't need it now we could just move forward with motion as it stands i think okay okay um and i think she said we got it i know she didn't meet herself because it caused too much background here so she said we got

168it and i was just gonna add that i think um what the motion covers covers the main piece and then the details you know i think um i think we'll be good are you up forward are you asking to amend the motion so that we can no i don't think we need to amend the emotion okay i think we're good with what we have and in regards to the details just like we did when we brought in the firms um you know jesse jess will maybe come in in the beginning you know say those things and then we you know agree today we do it this way and then we move forward on that day just kind of refreshing our our memory so i think the motion as is right now i think is good

169if we all agree to that um so i'll open it up for vote at this time if you're all okay with that no other questions come true can we repeat the motion one more time just so i'm clear on what the actual motion is now at the end of it do you want to read that so it's to move to open for discussion and approve and provide a recommendation and then trustee bahrano added to select selection of the same process as we're accustomed to is that all together or is it just one what trustee percy pham said just for trustee okay then that's clarification for me too that way it's just what trustee thompson so what was to move uh to move to open for discussion and approve and provide a recommendation that's what he

170said uh trustee family does that cover everything and trustee travis yeah yeah that's one second so then i have a question go ahead and trust you guys if the motion is to approve and provide a recommendation that last part to provide a recommendation i just wanted to see i wonder if we could clarify what that means to provide a recommendation to move forward in the process or i just i want to make sure that i'm vote i know what i'm voting on and that we don't get down the road a month or two and and it's cloudy so if i if there's just maybe trusty fan to clarify his motion yes uh yes well i mean it'd be good oh yes so if you wanted it yet provide a recommendation regarding the item which is

171for the selection of a legal firm to provide additional legal support for the review of various contracts trustee chavez um trustee fam do you also want to include include using the same process as we did before so that way we're just voting once uh to save time yes okay yes yes i would be yes uh i would accept an amendment that then i'm seconding that one the last one thank you everyone that makes it that's helpful for me and makes it more clear on what i'm voting thank you okay so second on that last one the same process okay so we did add to that so i don't know if you want to read it again to ensure that our minutes open for discussion approve and provide a recommendation using the same process as we

172did the last time i think you have to put as we did the last time yeah make it more specific as the previous the previous uh law firm or the previous as long as we yes we state it i think it's okay yeah just a little more specific using that process as we did the last time yes the process that we did for selection of legal counsel at last time or something in in 2018 or 2019. because that was more specific was it 18 or 19 now 19 that's the last time we did it well that's when i became the process yeah 2019. okay all right so are we ready to vote now yes we used prior with the other legal firm is that what it's saying because you said 2018 2019 so yeah no

173don't worry about the year and i think just the process we used previously when hiring a legal firm okay thank you and as a vice president that reminded us it's in our um bylaws and how we move forward but this is good at least it'll save time for the next before when we do that all right so now i'm going to call for the vote uh trustee pagarano you can just clarify really quickly i think in the bylaws that's specific to the appointment of a trustee if i'm not mistaken but my vote is um it could be and let's look back into it and if it's not let's put it in we'll put it on our to-do list because i think it'll save time for the future yeah okay my vote is yes thank you

174trustee chavez yes uh trustee fam hi uh vice president i and myself i passes unanimous all right moving on to item 601 approved uh let's see i got a question on this last one so when we bring it next time in the agenda is it also going to be brought do we have to change the board by law in order to do it like that the same do the same process the way we did the last time or or that only applies to appointments of trustees uh no i we're not gonna change any bylaws we're gonna move forward with this uh with this hiring of legal firms so no conversation about changing any by-laws right now in the future if you bring it if myself anybody else comes and brings a conversation about changing our

175bylaws then we can do that but for this no no but i was asking i i should have been asking dr bauer dr bauer can can we put that in next month's agenda or do we just not worry about it until we have to do the process again i think that's different if you're putting items for the next excuse me i'm sorry okay i just i just don't want to lose track of where we're at doctor yeah verify for her but okay thank you i'm trying to understand myself right now that question so we cannot talk about changing the bylaw right now because it's not an agenda that's why okay board president is asking and then if you're asking if we can do that to add or delete or anything like that it's totally appropriate

176for you to bring it as a new item at the end and you know you you you know you requested items before is it needed i don't think it's needed quite honestly trustee chavez i think that we have gotten pretty good i think about the process because you have selected legal firms you have selected trustees you selected a program manager kind of thing you know what i'm saying i think that [Music] the system itself has embraced the process and our community already knows thank you thank you for your clarification thank you dr bauer okay um and i see chester colando's hand up i hate to drag it i'll be quick i'll be very quick but i i appreciate what dr barger said but this board may or may not be together forever we're not going

177to be together forever and the community may change staff may change so it might be something to consider i think philly's considered uh memorializing it so that future boards future principals i mean i mean superintendents or whoever might use that process but either way we're fine for now to move forward i think so that's it thank you and i think just to close up that conversation as a board president i'm in agreement i'm not in opposition so we just add that to the agenda item when it's appropriate and then we bring it forward i think it's a great idea to save time in the future thank you all right so moving on to item 601 approve updated local control accountability plan 21 22. trustee fab uh move to approve this item was um we amended

178the agenda okay and this item's only up for information only all right i didn't get that agenda thank you so much so information only i'll go ahead and pass it over to dr bauer oh okay all right so um i think it's a short presentation from miss andre garcia just so i'll i'll let the community know what happened you know this update can i just get a quick clarification and i think trustee quintero said something but i it wasn't muted so i don't know if it was important uh who uh dr bauer wasn't was trusting i think it was trustee somebody said i just repeated what he said that he he suggested that we keep reports to five minutes or less oh okay that's a decent question i thought you were saying welcome uh miss

179garcia welcome back um good evening um i don't have a presentation but i will explain uh the reason this is back on the agenda so as you know our lcap is i work in collaboration with the county office of education to make sure that everything that needs to be in the lcap is there so that um you know with for any kind of audit or um review that we're in compliance with all of the items that need to be in the lcap and it was a recommendation by our county office of ed for me to take language from throughout the lcap and put it into this one section so it's not changing the goals it's not changing actions or services budget all it's doing is synthesizing the information and including information that is in other

180places in the lcap for this increased and improved services section and that was that was it and so they recommended for transparency reasons to just bring it to your board for information to let everyone know that we have added that language to that section of the lcap thank you sandra um any i guess i'll open it up for any public comment on this item jose do you have any members of the public wishing to address support on this item okay i'll leave it a couple seconds see if people maybe are running to press that button to raise their hand do we know still now okay thank you uh moving on to trustees questions comments concerns seeing none um i'll go ahead and move on thank you so much for that information uh moving on to

181602 approval of seal by literacy achievement awards student recognition um trustee femme uh i proudly need approval okay uh um move to approved by mr pham and second by mr quintero uh i'm gonna go ahead and turn it over to uh our superintendent power i don't know and i'm gonna turn it over to barbara thank you barb good evening board president on board members superintendent dr bauer today we have the opportunity to recognize students from an advantage language academy that during the 2020 and 2021 school year are being awarded the pursuit of bilingualism award the pathway to sela by literacy is an award given to students that meet strict and rigorous criteria and show proficiency in two languages english and spanish alum rock union school district students on the path to bilingualism are recognized in

182both fifth grade and eighth grade for maintaining high linguistic proficiency in both languages i would like to invite directora martinez from adelante dual language academy to call the names of the students receiving this award and if we can make sure she's here and let her share her um let her speak hello good evening everyone i am so happy and proud to be able to name the students who have earned the pathway to the seal of by literacy all of this during the pandemic it still happens so this is fantastic i'm gonna go ahead and start um with the 8th graders that earned the pathway the first person was sandra santiago jorge we also have ines soriano cesar ocampo huitron rodriguez nicolas and we also had fifth graders josephine rose and anna flores sanchez all of

183our students have received a beautiful certificate in honor of their recognition and this evening here at the site we did hold a special reception for them so thank you so much thank you so much thank you director martinez and all the staff that supported them the parents um you know and just a community to ensure that they on top of doing social distancing we're able to um take this additional uh challenge on and um get get this uh by literacy achievement award um [Music] i'm gonna go ahead and uh open it up for public comment at this time uh jose if you can help me out and let me know if there's any members of the public wishing to address the board or the children on this item no comments at this time okay we'll

184wait a couple seconds any now still now okay come back to the trustees any uh questions comments concerns uh trustee phem uh i just want to express my congratulations to uh the uh recipients of the ceo of bi literacy uh this is exactly the type of thing that i was hoping to sell celebrate as part of our district's 90th anniversary and you know this is uh you know truly a a sign of the excellent work that alum rock has been doing for for five generations uh you know aside from that for uh eighth grade winners i certainly hope that uh what i hear the high schools uh announce their adp spanish language and spanish literature uh awards i i certainly hope that i i will hear of your names uh then now on that note

185congratulations to all those students thank you thank you fam um anybody else uh trustee lucarano yeah same thing just uh congratulations to all your hard work and as you mentioned um you know the hard work to get to to these types of recognitions is even it's like twice the work because of you have to jump over an extra hurdle with with all the new crazy things that have been going on so we're very proud of our students who continue to achieve and we send our congratulations trustee chavez i think trustee quintero had his hand up first i took it's okay uh he said it's okay go ahead trust me okay you guys mom at the same time congratulations to the students thank you uh vice president hey i also want to congratulate all of the

186uh winners of the civil literacy the the recipients of the seal by the cielo by literacy award and uh you know this is uh they stepped up they went above and beyond this is not the normal uh coursework that's prescribed by um you know just to do what they have to do in school it's it's a step uh above and beyond and so i want to recognize and and congratulate those who've earned it i also want to recognize the kids that went out for it and unfortunately for one reason or another weren't able to receive it but nevertheless put in a significant amount of work uh to try to to attain it so as has been mentioned i know that we at al rock are sending over well-prepared students too uh wherever they choose to

187go and if it is at eastside union high school district i know they will take advantage of the ap the spanish ap courses as i did and we went ahead and earned recognition for our high schools when we went ahead and passed those exams so i'm looking forward to their success in those high schools that they're attending [Music] all right um and it is on for approval um so seeing no other comments or questions from the board i'm going to go ahead and uh call your name for the vote trustee vacano unanimously all right moving on to item 603 approve consolidated application and reporting system cars 2018 2019 1920 2021 reporting and 2122 application for funding i did see uh chavez's hand up um i'm not sure if you were moving for approval yeah that's

188what i was doing but andres did it all second okay thank you um moving on to public comment at this time jose can you um help us with the public and let us know if there's any members of the public wishing to address support on this item yes ma'am no more comments uh excuse me no comments from the public at this time okay um i'll wait a couple seconds any no still now okay uh moving on to questions comments concerns from the board seeing none we'll go ahead and move for a vote trustee veterano hi jesse chavez hi trustee pam hi uh vice president hi and myself i all right passes unanimously moving on to item 604 approve next generation science standards the line textbook adoptions um second all right uh thank you uh mr

189chavez any members of the public wishing to address the board on this item no comments at this time okay uh public comment at this time we'll wait a couple seconds in case people were rushing to press the button any now still now okay moving on for uh any questions comments concerns from the board seeing none we'll move on to the vote trustee with harano aye trustee chavez hi joseph hi myself i passed unanimously moving on to 701 uh information only um opening it up to public comment at this time um mr chavez no public comment at this thing okay waiting a couple of seconds any now still now okay um moving on to any questions comments concerns from the trustees seeing none we'll move on to item 801 okay so uh 801 through 807. i

190do see trustee with hirano's hand up just i just wonder if uh again it was kind of kind of muffled on tracy quintero so just for the purposes of making sure that we get it recorded right if we could just repeat the motion um because it i didn't hear it just to make sure we did it uh you are kind of muffled too so i don't know if it's our system here but i did understand what you said so trustee confederal or vice versa can you repeat what your motion was then what was saying i'm trying to mean i move approval of the consent calendar for contracts over a hundred thousand dollars okay all right did you you were able to hear that all right so um we have a second so i'll go ahead

191and open it up for public comment at this time any members of the public wishing to address a board on these items mr chavez we have no public comment this time madam president okay thank you we'll wait a couple seconds do we know still now okay um cnn any questions comments concerns from the trustees all right cnn we'll go ahead and take the vote hi mr travis hi hi bestie fam hi and myself i uh unanimously all right i'm moving on to item 901 um approve the contract extension for citizen schools for payments 2021 of outstanding invoices move for approval okay okay approved by trustee travis second by vice president um we'll go ahead and open it up for com public comment at this time uh mr travis do we have any members of the

192public wishing to address the board no public comment at this time okay um i'll wait a couple seconds any now that's still next okay i will go to the trustees questions comments concerns trustee chavez do you have any um all right see none we'll go ahead and take a vote uh yeah i just um i did have a couple questions for this one on this one for dr bauer um and it's you know i just for purposes of transparency you know there were monies available to pay for this that um that it all oh i'm actually dr bauer if you could maybe just explain how there was an additional amount of money that came to us and so that was money that we needed to give to this particular agency because there was an adjustment

193to the funding that we were able to provide so i don't know if that's sufficient explanation if i got it right but just for transparency purposes just so the public knows that that would happen with that so if nothing else is needed all right that's it thank you i had a similar question to dr barrow as well so thank you for bringing that up yeah uh towards the end i could barely hear him um i think it's more so he was speaking softer than than a computer issue yeah can you uh say it again christopher maybe a little louder or speak in the mic okay can you hear me right now perfect better okay maybe i'll hold it out like this um so just for a purpose of the transparency so that the public knows

194um i had a couple questions about this i guess a few of us did and dr bauer explained that there were additional monies that came available to us to pay to a number of different agencies um for the their partnership and the work that we do and this was one of them and so we're just basically um approving this increase that came because of of an adjustment to the funding that was an increase um for those dollars so that was just for clarification thank you all right um we already voted right i know we're kind of have we voted can you okay thank you it's about that time all right we're gonna go trust you hi bestie travis hi bestie fam hi vice president quintero and myself i all right passes unanimously moving on to

195uh item 10 consent calendar channel 1 through 10 11. okay yes move to and uh approved the entirety of the consent calendar so items 10.01 i heard second by travis yes all right all right uh thank you and we'll then go ahead and open to public comment at this time mr travis any members of the public wishing to address the board on these items no totally convenient assignment president okay i'll wait a couple seconds any now okay now going to the trustees any questions comments concerns before we vote okay cnn i just had one um i think just like everything we've been discussing we don't know what's gonna happen tomorrow we don't know where what direction we're gonna go in um i know part of the approval was approving um uh fundraising activities you know

196which is great to see uh you know some of the schools preparing all year long or just ahead um and so you know obviously approving pending right what direction we go in hopefully we're able to have those friend raising activities and many more um so i just wanted to mention that i did mention that to dr bauer but again i think it just it's along with what we've been discussing we got a plan for what we know in the now um and hope for the you know best um but and approve things as you know if we're continuing to do things and we're all going to be safe and healthy um but also then being ready and mindful that things might change depending on um how this variant uh you know or how kobet um

197ends up in our communities that and that was the only thing um so with that we'll go ahead and go to the votes at this time trustee vacarano hi trustee travis hi trusty fam hi vice president and myself i passed unanimously all right so we've gotten to this point um of our agenda um before our journey people turn off their computers i do want to say something um we did receive a video from um uh mr cortesi and um some of us haven't been able to see it we want to share with our community so what we'll do is we're going to play after the adjournment during the recess time um because it's not on our agenda so we want to make sure that we're following our agenda so after i adjourn feel free to

198stick around and watch that video with us um then we'll go into closed session we'll make that announcement before we go into the german on the items dr bauer do you want to take care of that right now before i go into adjourning the meeting and enjoy our video anything we need to no no no okay so this time then i'm going to join on the items in closed session oh thank you that's what i i knew it was something i just my brain was catching up with my body here and my spirit so thank you trustee yes um so we'll open it up for public comment first before we enter so uh mr chavez can you help us out with public comment at this time yes ma'am president at this time we have no

199public comment all right so i'm just going to wait a couple seconds any members of the public wishing to address the board on any items of the closed session please raise your hand do we know still none okay all right so um yes i don't think we're actually a journey breakfast we're not very adjourned and i guess it's the word on the on the um just going to recess moving to closed session um bear with me here bear with me it's kind of late it's been a long day but thank you so not a journey in the meeting yet just uh closing out this piece to head into the closed session um and then we'll be back to cl to adjourn after that but before we go into closed session there will be a video

200played if you please join us um after i close into the recess for closed session um not yes available yeah after the video so 9 10 we'll start call session for how long one hour one hour so we'll be back here at 10 10 to hopefully then during the meeting anything else before we move forward no okay so nine o'clock and then we'll play the video um and i'll turn it over to dr bauer and i am going to ask maribel to help us with the video because i really wanted to see it and i'm very grateful that uh senator cortesey sent a congratulatory video on the 90th anniversary of alum rock thank you so much for that my i'm gonna ask her to start alone i just texted her audio's off should we try

201at the end [Music] i think it makes sense probably yeah let's try at the end maybe we could practice big practice and figure it out um yes can you send it to the trustee so we can see it later yeah we'll tr send it to the trustees and then we're going to try at the end to show it yeah thank you all right see you in closed session at 9 10. your exceptional faculty and staff congratulations to elm rock union school district for reaching this tremendous milestone and thank you for serving and investing in our local students for the past 90 years i'd like to express my deep gratitude and recognize the dedication of your exceptional faculty and staff the school board as well as the leadership of dr hilaria bauer we are truly grateful

202for your extraordinary service to ensure we have in place a successful education system for our children that puts their safety education and well-being first and you have my word as your state senator i will continue to do all that i can so that our public education system in california meets the learning needs of our students as well as their mental health and social emotional needs thank you for your enduring commitment to our students and i look forward to our continued work together to strengthen our public schools and set the foundation for a better future for each child and trust me um [Music] all right we are back uh let's see okay i can see myself now we have quorum mr fan chester chavez and quintero is right next to me and he's logging in calling

203meeting back to order at 10 27 p.m [Music] and a dr bower do you want to report out on our flow session items yes and you're on me yes i'm happy to report thank you board for approving the appointment of mr jose cortes as vice principal and aptitude effective immediately thank you very much and um i am happy to report that mr brett littell has been appointed by the board as our new cto and i want to say that is effective within the week is he needed to give notice to his employer thank you um and then just checking in i went to see if um we might have time for the video um otherwise we can forward it to the trustees and then put it on youtube for the audience for the public to

204watch jose travis is going to be helping with this because we were i was having technical issues here okay i'm going to be uh sharing it right now okay so once i adjourn the meeting um then we'll go into that if you want to stick around and watch out with us hopefully it works this time um so any future board agenda requests at this time otherwise you can email them to me or dr bauer so we can make sure to put them on seeing none we'll go ahead and um adjourn the meeting at 10 29 pm um see you on september 9th and stick around hopefully we're able to see this video otherwise if not we'll go ahead and uh email it to the trustees and post it on our youtube page for the public

205thank you very much congratulations elem rock years of excellence uh dr bauer can i ask you a quick question or not here not right now congratulations to elm rock union school district for reaching this tremendous milestone and thank you for serving and investing in our local students for the past 90 years i'd like to express my deep gratitude and recognize the dedication of your exceptional faculty and staff the school board as well as the leadership of dr hilaria bauer we are truly grateful for your extraordinary service to ensure we have in place a successful education system for our children that puts their safety education and well-being first and you have my word as your state senator i will continue to do all that i can so that our public education system in california meets the

206learning needs of our students as well as their mental health and social emotional needs thank you for your enduring commitment to our students and i look forward to our continued work together to strengthen our public schools and set the foundation for a better future for each child oh it's really this is great