001can you hear me yes okay is my thing backwards it looks backwards to me no it looks great on my side okay i'm ready um so we're gonna try this out for today to see how this goes um and it's a shorter meeting so um i don't foresee any major issues um any questions around the format or oh i do have a question maribel in regards to the timer is that something that you can still show yes okay great so we can have the timer up i think we have one person that's patiently waiting thank you so much um and as soon as they begin speaking then we can go ahead and begin the timer um after did you give me the name of the person i'm sorry i'm not here not yet okay one
002second i see a couple hands up so i see ernestos and then okay yeah just quick question i guess maybe for avatar um for board members that are in the webinar thing is there a way for us to min to your knowledge a way for us to minimize the agenda screen other than just sliding it and making it smaller or do we is it just there by default so it is there by default okay thank you i have a question um did you say that this is being recorded or not uh i have not said it thank you linda for the reminder and yes just a reminder it is a public meeting and um it is being recorded so um [Music] yes just a reminder to everybody it is a public meeting and we're we're
003being recorded at this time okay any other questions before we move on great thank you um and then maribel and or after you look look out for mr quintero if he joins us and then uh brings us on correct i'm here you're here great thank you um and just so we know as uh trustees only those that i that have our picture open will show up on my like initial screen otherwise at least i only have two um two screens to go through to find you so welcome and i do also see mr uh fam's name on there so perfect all right so now we'll go on to our first speaker after um i think you said we had one i don't know if we've had any others join i still will be helping you
004okay we're gonna go ahead and start with um our first one and um [Music] if you can tell listening veronica veronica welcome veronica and as soon as you begin speaking the timer will begin great thank you um and good afternoon board members and um thank you for really making those accommodations that i think are going to hopefully really support um during those meetings i do want to comment on um the fact that there's a couple of meetings going on today i know that the bonds committee is meeting and as well as the dlac meeting is meeting so some of our parents are actually not going to be present or in participating because of those meetings and i know that this was something that came as last minute but maybe in the future if scheduling a
005warm meeting could not impact other meetings where parents are being um you know are need to be in different meetings as well um especially when it comes to this committee the facilities committee um it would have been great if you know just to have it on a different time so and i also do want to appreciate those of you that have your your camera on again just as a reminder of the brown act um that your camera should be on um and you should be just as present as you were in the board room um we there was an incident where um again trustee quintero was in two meetings at one time so i do want to re enact again to please have your cameras on and i do appreciate those of you that have
006it on i really appreciate that thank you thank you and uh points taken um and uh mr avatar um anybody else that has a raised hand yes another person brenda zander house great thank you and as mr uh welcome linda as soon as you begin speaking uh the timer will begin good evening board president uh corina and board members superintendent um let me give you um i just want to say that i want to thank the element school district for making sure to reach out to students we did go through a really bad situation recently with um a man that got killed in front of children and i want to thank the element school district for being very proactive and calling the parents and um guardians of all these students i myself got a call
007and i just want to say thank you um i also want to comment on this application process i did send an email but i just want to make sure that everybody else heard that i just want to make a suggestion if we can make a lot of these applications may be available online we are going to covet 19 and a lot of people are scared to leave their homes right now and a lot of them can't leave their homes because they're positive and so making this application more accessible for a lot of the people that want to be involved and want to participate i would really appreciate if maybe that's something we can work on and also want to make sure that we don't put like more than three meetings in one day i know
008there's several meetings going on today maybe that would increase the amount of participation in these meetings which i think this committee is really important i just want to thank you guys all for everything you guys are doing um and you guys have a wonderful day thank you thank you miss next speaker mr after as soon as you begin speaking the timer will begin we unmuted is she there maybe we can go to the next speaker if uh it's not working and we can come back she is the last speaker okay uh floor i'm not sure um it and after i'm assuming you guys have unmuted her she's not muted i mean she she is muted so somebody me okay she's now not me yes thank you so much floyd as soon as you begin speaking
009our timer will begin not working for the lyon we are unable to hear you maybe you are in a spanish channel please try to be an english channel um not working i'm gonna um click over to spanish just to double check so she's not on the english channel either so i'm hoping that um maybe she can join us at the next item um if she can't connect now that she's able to connect at the next item um unless we can try one more time or maybe her internet's off floor going once going twice how i wish we were in person okay so um let's hope she comes back at the next item and i'll give her the opportunity to speak then mr ricardo oh i can't hear you can you click on english maybe turn
010my microphone on okay um if i could just ask for a point of clarification from mr ruiz i don't see him here but i'm assuming he's here or is he not he is here okay um okay so i'll just ask the question and assume he can hear me um so there's been i think at this point several insinuations or um questions with regards to the brown act and people's cameras and my understanding when covid stuff came on was that the governor had um for lack of a better term relaxed the restrictions on the teleconferencing option with regards to posting location and stuff like that so i'm just wondering and i want to make sure that we are in compliance with brown act rules um with regards to the claims that have been made a couple
011times so because i when i've looked into it i've seen that this would fall within teleconferencing just from a compliance perspective so um thank you mr becker i know that's correct in march of this year in response to the covet emergency the governor passed or signed an executive order which right now currently has the effect of law which suspended various provisions of the brown act and provides that all public agencies can conduct their meetings telephonically or through other electronic means this district has done it through all of those various means and so what alum rock has done is actually above and beyond what the executive order requires but that is uh these meetings and uh not every uh you know in my representation of other districts not other board members always have their cameras on
012and that's true with other public agencies for various reasons one of which is sometimes there's not enough bandwidth so what you're doing is totally in compliance with the law and the executive order right now okay thank you for the clarification i just want to make sure that in light of you know investigations and audits and stuff that we've had in the past that if these claims are being made that were uh make it very transparent that we are in fact in compliance with brown act so um that's cool thank you for that and that's it thank you thank you madam president yes mr quintero um just to for council for his can you further clarify that the brown act does the brown act even have the word webcam on their camera no no it doesn't
013it's really the executive order that deals with with this situation by its use of the term other electronic means um but no the brown act itself that it refers to telephone and active in-person meetings doesn't refer to video conferencing or other things along those lines this is really a result of the executive order thank you thank you and thank you mr rebecca i know for clarifying that in public i know these are questions that i've asked before that obviously maybe have not come out to the public and so thank you for clarifying for many of us because i had some of those same questions um to mr ruiz um and he was able to clarify so thank you for doing that and now we'll go ahead and move on to item three um the approval
014and appointment of members to the district facilities repurposing advisory committee and my understanding is ms bauer dr bauer has a presentation for us i wanted to know if you want to ask any public comment regarding this particular item um or afterwards yeah if you can do the presentation and then we'll open it up to the public it's very short and sweet and i'm going to ask maribel to share on the screen the all the applicants there was remember that this particular committee follows specific legal parameters and this committee is not supposed to have less than seven individuals and no more than 11 representing different stakeholders in our district so all the individuals that either were selected by different groups like that dilag the unions are in this committee list and the only two people who
015applied on time from the community are also in this um in this list so i'm asking the board to respectfully approve each individual uh to the facilities repurposing committee all of them have an alternate but the request tonight is basically to ask for the representatives thank you thank you motion to approve this motion by mrs charles i had just have a question is it possible to scroll it up just to i can't maybe it's on my screen but i can't see the bottom oh okay that's the bottom okay thank you and i guess one other question if i might madam president uh do you mind um seconding the motion so we can move into questions and comments um well actually no i won't second because my question is about the motion itself okay go ahead
016oh the so just a clarifying question and i thought i wasn't sure if i heard that we need to approve them individually or can we can we in fact accept them we're doing them all together all together that we're looking at the list i mean i think marijuana we can maybe scroll up or more so we can see i don't know if there's anybody there perfect so everybody want to make sure because i thought i heard in dr barr's presentation something individually but if we can do it as a group then i second the motion yeah that's on the floor okay second by mr referral all right um so um rogelio can help you help us out here in regards to um the public comment um the initial public comment was for any item that
017was not on the agenda correct no in a special meeting uh the opportunity for public comment is limited only to the items on the special meeting agenda that's it okay so then i misspoke so i'm gonna go ahead and open it up for public comment because i there could have been some community members that misunderstood me and i know we're also waiting for ms de leon to see if she can connect so i'm going to go ahead and open it for public comment at this time um and after do we have miss flor de leon i know we were waiting for her to come back on do you see her no i don't okay do we have anybody that's uh waiting for public comment other than mr leon yes we have one okay no it's
018veronica okay welcome back veronica as soon as you begin speaking your two minutes will begin great thank you and um first of all i do want to just comment back i know that um there was somebody talking about the cameras and um you know i'm sorry sorry to interrupt you is this regarding our um our committee yes it is for this committee okay i need i needed to focus on this committee because unless it's focused on that we can't hear any public comment okay when it comes to the committee there were several parents that i helped put in the application and it was late and it was due to the fact that they have to work they have to attend to their children and the application was very hard okay it was not easy and
019accessible for them to fill it out and another thing they were not sure how as parents it was not represented there at a homeowner's organization if you're um a business owner if you are trust lad and so i do want you all to take that into consideration that parents that applied late it might have been due to the fact that they didn't know how to because i can let you know that i was working with a parent and um me and floor actually were working two parents were working with a parent to submit that application and this was on friday afternoon and it was still even hard for us to understand this application as well so i don't think it's equitable to say that this is only respect the parents that submitted this application on
020time and um i'm not sure i didn't go back right now to see if the applications were there and the times that they were submitted but i would like to see that as well but please do take into consideration that parents might have not been able to submit it due to that the fact that the applications were very hard to be submitted in the first place and second of all because the wording as well it had no length for parents to put there that they were um from parents or even from organizations in our community such as which has worked very close with the olympic school district in this past couple years in collaboration and i think it should really acknowledge other organizations in the community and their role as well so thank you thank
021you any others mr um maybe pronounced as yellow d-e-l-o-a welcome as soon as you begin speaking your timer will begin oh i think this is delia d-e-l-i-a welcome um so yeah i'm kind of big piggybacking off of that i had a really hard time i mean granted i did submit it before four o'clock but i really had a hard time submitting it because i couldn't do it online my printer broke i had no way to print out the application fill it out and put it back in um i didn't have a scanner so i would have to use my phone to send it so you have to make these my husband thank god is tricky with with uh the computers and we were able to manipulate the form so i could fill it out um
022so i entered i'm on alternate for a stack so i'm you know i'm not part of the list but i'm an alternate so um please please please fix these forms so that way they are admissible online because like i said if my husband wasn't able to manipulate the form i would never have been able to submit it by the four o'clock p.m deadline and um also i guess secondary question off of that is um what would be the roles of the alternates is there a role or is this something i have to work with my person who's the primary thank you thank you next person mr phil your next person is brenda zandejos welcome back as soon as you begin speaking the timer will begin hi uh good evening again uh board members and superintendent
023um i do have a lot to say on the this application it was um not easy for me as i can't leave my house right now as i was exposed so it was very difficult for me to submit it and like the other person said i had to use what i know i'm tech savvy and i was able to fill it out online through alternative extensions to google i think that's something we can work on as a district to make those extensions work with applications and docusign there's so many different other things that we can use and i also want to say there was no space for a union rep to fill out what are we representing so i know that we have area and we have csea there was nothing there for me to
024circle so i just made my own line and then the third thing that i want to say is i want to make sure that um we are also um allowing parents who aren't involved as in so many committees in this district be primary because i want to hear everybody's voice when we um use the saint parent for every committee i think it doesn't give a space for other people to create leadership in this district and that's something that we also have to consider when we allow also parents to get different perspectives and different opinions from parents that maybe can get involved in other ways but this is a good uh way of them to get involved and i again see a lot of the same parents that are like in four or five committees in
025this district and i would love to see new faces new voices um in these committees um and that's all and i just want to say thank you for putting the application in three languages i really appreciated that thank you mrs anybody else mr after no one else more present thank you so much uh so we'll go ahead and open it up for comments and questions from the trustees any questions any comments let me get the other uh go ahead uh trustee chavez i think right now we should move for the vote and maybe after the vote consider if we should open it up to more time that's it thanks um i'm confused trustee thomas from your comment okay right now i think we should go ahead and vote okay and then after we vote to
026consider maybe the option of uh allowing a few more because if the if it was that difficult for them to fill it out and stuff and it's true a lot of people cannot leave their homes uh because of coped or don't want to because of covet and should we extend it another two days but after the vote is cast now so um so my understanding is once we and that's why i'm trying to prevent it before we do it once we vote on the committee those are the committee members so um once we vote then we go into adjourning the meeting does that make sense so any changes or anything that we do is prior because once we appoint then that's our committee that's my understanding mr reese can you confirm that yes i mean
027the you can agendize this for a future meeting to reopen the application period but my understanding from in general from the administration is that they would like this committee to start meeting sooner rather than later in other words before the next scheduled board meeting um go ahead trustee chavez i'm not saying to hold up um any of the meetings i'm saying that if somebody wants to on board uh in a few days if we should allow them to because ultimately there's there's not eleven so maybe eleven input would be better than uh how many how many are on there now i didn't count them nine nine so maybe two more okay but i don't want anything held up either okay got it thank you um if i don't see any other trustees uh go ahead
028trust your vehicle yes if it um we can just clarify i guess dr bauer when when were the applications made available and when were they due i think i know but i want to make sure what i think is actually correct um the application was made available i'm trying i'm going to my my calendar uh okay sorry for spreading yeah the question that can help too it was a friday before it was uh friday the the 15th friday february uh january 15th is when they became available for someone to apply yes okay okay and then on the is it the 22nd at four correct when they were due so like uh one basically one full week one entire week and then just to add to that mr bakarano we did we did and just to
029clarify even further is the night before um we had put out that time four o'clock deadline um for we had a thorough discussion amongst us for that following week um and i totally understand you know i i've missed uh big opportunities when i waited and i didn't make that you know deadline i totally understand you know of uh that feeling or that i couldn't make it whether it was my internet or just the the forms were too hard for me so i totally get it but i know that we also talked about it that deadline and we get to also follow through with that um and then take some of these things you know in consideration for any future i think the easier we make it you know the better moving forward we're learning um
030with forms and things like that um if i don't see any other questions or comments from the board then i will go ahead and move into um the vote going once going twice okay i don't see any hands so we'll go ahead and vote um on the committee members and then maybe um dr bauer i know um i just want to make sure that we have the primaries and then we have a secondary um if we can make that clear too so that once we appoint people and the primaries know what their function is in the secondary uh rogelio you might be able to help us out with this my understanding is that the primary will be the one assisting and um attending the meetings and if for some reason the primary isn't unable to
031then the secondary will be stepping in is that correct so so typically typically the alternates should plan on attending the meetings as well and they would step in in case the primary appointee cannot fulfill their duties on the committee perfect thank you um and dr brower once we approve the committee are you able to send a message to those that are on the committee with that information as well absolutely great thank you so much okay um uh yeah just i just i want to make sure i heard correctly from mr release so the alternates you said should plan on attending the meetings should they will they also participate equally or you know just as they would if they were the the primary person or is or they're just planning on attending in the event that
032the primary one is unable to for whatever reason to perform or are they actually attending and participating so so in my experience they attend but don't uh participate uh with the same full membership rights of the of the designee these are brown act meetings though so they would be free to comment uh during the public comment portion of those meetings as well okay thank you okay thank you if i don't see any others i'll go ahead and move on to the vote okay um so we'll go ahead and i'll call your names as i see you on my screen uh tracy bacharano yes trustee chavez yes trustee pham yes vice president quintero hi and myself i approve unanimously um thank you so much and at this time i will adjourn the meeting thank you so
033much have a good night thank you good night good night good night [Music]