001people connect share the um interpretation I'm sorry what was that can you hear me oh yes yes interation if godos can do that that would help yes before we I'll announce it I'll I'll introduce you to do that Carlos yes are we letting everybody in I think we can yeah okay go ahead um do we have let's see I we have a quorum there's three of us here Dr Boward do we have any indication any um notifications from any the trustees who are not here yet if they're running late or if they're coming or uh no to my knowledge everybody was supposed to be okay maybe they're just just running late it's a crazy time right now so I get it um wait just another minute or two see if anybody shows up but we
002do have a quorum so we can we can start in a moment [Music] you h now it's I think trusty is connecting know I'm here I don't see trusty Marquez I don't hear trusty oh there we go I think my microphone was off sorry about that okay so she may uh trusty Mar is remember she might have a a phone number so maybe maybe she's here and she just needs to be un unmuted or speak I can't see everyone's I know I'm in the same boat I'm going over the participants just to see if I can okay well we we can go ahead and get started nonetheless I I see her number here this is Trusty Marcus oh she is here great yeah okay so everybody's here so now I will officially call the special
003board meeting to order on December the 9th 2020 at 6:04 PM um Mel can you please do the roll call today is a special board meeting of December 9th 2020 at 5:30 p.m. I mean sorry 6:00 p.m. members of the board and attendance president Nano present vice president Corina alera present clerk Andres Kinto present member Linda Chavez member Linda Chavez present uh member Dolores Marquez frosto present can you hear me yes members of administration superintendent Dr Bower present okay thank you very much so we do have a quorum tonight and in this meeting as always is being recorded it can be viewed through our on our live stream on our YouTube channel um and before we actually get started as has also become customary Mr triod will give us instructions in English and Spanish as
004to the translation feature available here on Zoom Mr Tripoli yes I can is anybody speaking right now hello hello hello are we still on um I can't hear them I can't either get Frankie's phone I was able to hear but it sounds like some people were not I'm hoping people can hear me and if so um the direction that was given by Mr Tripoli was that in the bottom of your screen next next to the share screen button on the right hand side you'll see uh a circle a globe and you have to select either English or Spanish and that will give you the proper channel to be able to hear in in the appropriate language that you need um I hope I covered that correctly Mr trioli can't do as well as you can
005but I try my best um so okay so that being said um as always also the the method for providing public comment in this meeting is available to you if you go to our website arusd.org and in the top leftand cor corner there's um a button that I believe says board meeting um oh I can't see it right now but there's a button that you can click on for board meeting current board meeting something like that and in there you will see the agenda which has all of the instructions for providing public comment this evening and in all of our meetings so that all being said now um if you are able to given your your situation and the digital realities that we have if you're able to stand and join me in the Pledge
006of Allegiance if not you can remain seated um but let's go ahead and do that I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you everyone okay so we um at this point I'm not forgetting anything right Dr Bower or Mr Gil we got it all covered all the formalities okay so we'll move forward to item 2.01 but actually before we do that I wanted to um ask my colleagues uh or have a suggestion for my colleagues this evening with regards to public comment so I'm I'm really interested in particular in in everything but in particular item 3 point0 five which is the community input regarding desirable oant characteristics for consideration so if
007indeed we decide to go down the route of an appointment um then I want to make sure that we provide ample time for the community to provide feedback particularly in that area so what I'm proposing or suggesting to my colleagues is that on the all the other items we we still allow the um for the the normal way we do it which is the 20 minute limit as outlined um in our board bylaws for public comment so we can just treat that normally but particularly um to make room for item 3.05 which I'm inclined to be more liberal with and allow more time if needed to hear that feedback because I think that's key to why we're here tonight um so of course every item is important but I want to make sure that we
008are able to have time for everything in that particular item so my suggestion is 20 minute um limit as we always normally do for all the other items and being much more liberal for item 3.05 to get that feedback in terms of time for feedback I agree okay thank you any other comments from board members if not I will assume everyone is okay with that trusty Marquez I can't are you saying something or no I'm I'm I'm I I will I will say president theano I have a quick question go ahead um is everybody seeing zoom 5.4.2 on your um screens I don't see that I just lost everybody okay I'm going to get on my phone okay well if it helps we see you and hear you okay yeah but I would like to
009to be able to see you people as well so I'm gonna phone in as well okay so okay so it sounds like we're okay with that so that being said then um thank you everyone and we can then move to item 2.01 request to address the board um on any item that is not on the agenda for tonight so you know there's some very specific obviously important things on the agenda tonight and I anticipate you know there's a lot of input people want to give but this particular item is for something that is not on the agenda tonight specifically and keeping in mind that we want to provide time for that 3.05 so Mr Gil is there any public comment on item 2.01 yes sir there are okay so marel can we there you go
010I don't even need to say anything um you're on top of it okay so who is the first person Mr gilia sorry Claudia Gloria I couldn't I didn't hear the last name Claudia quo oh Claudia quo Miss quo when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin okay thank you good afternoon my name is claa quo I'm a parent of the alamro school board school district and a member of U I am here today to voice our community's disappointment after learning of Mr fam's lost of interest in serving as a trustee in our alen Rock School Unified District board as a board member actually uh for the second time today we would like um for the board and superintendent to grant us some transparency on the subject the community asks to know which of you
011knew of Mr fam's intended resignation and how long prior to the official notice do you guys know of this as well thank you thank you Mr Gil next person next person is ilza Gonzalez okay Miss Gonzalez when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin um good evening members of the bar my name is daa Gonzalez uh I am here to ask for transparency and um from this board I think that this meeting has um a lot of questions and I'm gonna be talking about it in item 3. z um five I believe that's when we have to talk about this meeting thank you well miss Gonzalez before you go just to be clear I mean 3.05 is specific to providing feedback about what you would want to see in a um in a person
012that we would select so if you have anything other than that you can feel free to still provide it during this time 3.05 is specific to your desires or for the characteristics of a applicant so I don't know if um you had more to say beyond that but I just wanted to make sure that that was clear and she can we yes I do sorry so um my name is Da Gonzalez like I said and I would like to say that I'm really disappointed on the decisions of this board basing that on by your by loss you guys have 60 days to make a decision and it looks like you want to do it in two weeks I also see in item 3 um Z five if I'm not I'm not mistaken you guys have
013uh Futures people that want to be appointed to take that seat to be able to give um some input I want to know how they were called or how they knew about this on item 3.05 either that it was only 24 hours posted and it wasn't um released to the media or to any or is not it also in the alen brck school web page who is contacting these persones and who gave them the information so they could come prepare to today's meeting if it was only 24 hours notice and you guys only let um Mr fam know that you guys were taking his email as a um giving up his seat yesterday also 24 hours prior to this meeting um as the new boards we were hoping to get to have all the trust
014in you guys and for you guys to make the decisions the best decision for our students this shows you guys are not doing that we're in the middle of a pandemic we as parents deserve to have more communication and more input on this we talk about collaboration we talk about parents involvement and we talk about transparency this meeting today is not showing that B that there's applicants that shouldn't even be applying today but in the next following weeks you guys have 60 days to make the best choice please us L wisely don't be doing this in two weeks and make a trust in this in this board once again thank you have a really good evening thank you Mr Gil next person next person is Veronica okay Veronica when you begin speaking your two minutes
015will begin great thank you so much um my name is Veronica and I am the mother of two Alan Rock students um I'm also Community activist and organizer and I am here to ask the board for transparency I am here to ask the board that this not be rush and that not only that but that the voters have spoke the voters said who they wanted and if Mr fam is not taking that then that's fine the next one by0 four by 0.54 percentage would be going to Brenda SAS the pointing shouldn't be to your friends it shouldn't be to your convenience this board is not here for their own good but rather the good of our children the future of their uh here for their future I'm also here um representing the racial Equity Coalition
016um re best for racial equity in alen rock schools and um we want to thank you because we finally received a response um towards collaboration and as we have talked about it from all board members we have not received anything or acknowledg that this application that you guys put out for the racial Equity committee has been a gatekeeping system that is available for those who have the privilege to have a device that supports completing it and even knowing how to access the application there has been no collaboration with this valuable stakeholders in developing the process like always and just like in the racial Equity committee there's no collaboration and there's no collaboration with this board and I'm asking today and actually not asking but demanding that we take that collaboration that we do not let
017you just put and make the decisions but rather take our advice as parents we have students that are committing suicide we have students that are out there in the streets because we're not taking into account the parents voice again and again so again um we are here for collaboration and we're demanding that you give us a seat at the table for that collaboration thank you thank you Mr Gil next person is FL Delon okay Miss Delon Miss Deon when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin can you hear me yes okay uh good evening everyone my name is flor de Leon I am a parent and a community organizing with a group of u a group of parents a committee here in Alan BR School District um just to add into to what the
018previous um speakers say you know uh we need to make sure we have transparency because we have seen sometimes you guys act too soon and when you guys act too soon things are not done right properly you know and right now what I see you know is I don't want to see the same mistakes from the past and H I want to make sure that when you're making decisions and I know that you have a part on the agenda where where people supposed to be talking about the characteristics of the new um person of the bancy that you will be talking about um and we want to make sure that the people that is coming o over to take this seat you know it's people that uh really it's involved in that Community knows the
019community and not only that but people that can bring um um can bring uh not not not only like uh a way to change um this board you know we want to make sure I I I'm sorry I got a little bit lost but I just want to say that you know we are here to make sure people's voice is heard and we're gonna be here continue to be here and making sure that whoever takes over thiss we need transparency and that transparency we wanted from you too because it feels like you guys are going too fast and we want to make sure that we are part of the decision making and even being part of this process on set electing uh the these news board member you know we are here to collaborate and
020not only to give you input but to be part of about making those decisions thank you thank you next person Mr Gil Omar Mr Gil I'm sorry can we I see an inappropriate name here John can we um have them extracted from the meeting there was a completely inappropriate name do you see that name now it's changed to John now Jonathan um I don't know who this is or what but there was something completely inappropriate so if we can remove that person and block them out I because I don't know if it's I I have no idea what it is all I know is I know what I saw and it was not for this meeting so um yes I thank you can you consult with um yeah there's a a Nazi fell Israel bird
021sign or something like that it keeps on showing up what it looks like to be a a swasa oh that Israel bergstein yeah hey hey buddy show your facei you're such a tough guy there um yeah if we can remove Israel burgstein Mr can you ask Council if it's appropriate to take that action first thing okay can we unmute thank you Mr Gil can we unmute uh Mr Ruiz please and you can if you could respond to trusty gto's question yes it's it's appropriate to do that whenever a person is causing disruption to a public meeting so that's fine okay thank you um I mean just again in the name of transparency for if for those who didn't see um through the race racial Equity lens and all these things that we talk about within
022our district there were things that were showing up quite quite contrary to that and so there's there's no room for that here with us and's there's another one that I won't repeat with it says um so we jack up yeah if staff can be on top of that please off your math tough guy yeah we're gonna so I don't know Dr Bower if we can actually have someone one of our staff um just be on constant kind of surveillance it looks like we have some people with whatever motives they may have trying to join us tonight but as I mentioned we we're not going to stand for that and and we'll eliminate it as soon as we see it so and Community I apologize um that we've seen that there's we try our best with
023this digital format and and you know it's sometimes it's it's out of our reach to be completely perfect with it but please notify Us Al myself or anyone if something comes your way or or something else inappropriate comes and we'll address it no matter where we are in the agenda we'll address that immediately uh okay okay so I'm sorry I forgot where I forgot where we were in the someone had just given public comment correct so we have another another person Mr Gil uh yes sir the next person is Omar Tores okay Mr Torres when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin good evening uh trustees to the elmrock and local community my name is Omar Torres uh I'm a incoming truste to the San Jose Evergreen Community College District Board of Trustees and
024I share parts of the east side with a trustee Karen Martinez who served on alen Rock uh before as well and uh I'm just here to to to ask um my fellow uh eiders and trustees that uh we I hope that this uh process is a transparent process uh in selecting a new trustee it is uh very unfortunate that Mr fam uh decided not to not to be seated uh and it's only hurting our kids and it so I do beg that the the trustees that are currently sitting on the dis please uh do the right thing make sure that it's transparent make sure that there's Community involvement make sure that the community decides who who's going to be sitting on this this board uh it is it is now more than ever incredibly important
025to to show to our kids uh that uh honesty is the best policy uh and that um you're making decisions for for them and not for political reasons so can't were you done Mr Torres I couldn't tell if his microphone went out or if he was sounded like he might have been done Mr Torres um yes sorry okay sorry about that I couldn't tell if you mic went out or okay thank you I did thank you so much for allowing me to speak thank you Mr Gil next person next person is Gabriel Palmer okay I didn't get the last name but Gabriel uh Palmer Palmer yes okay Gabriel Palmer Gabel Palmer sorry okay um when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin and before you start I'm sorry I should have mentioned this before
026but Mr Gil if you could also have a an itchy tring trigger finger on the mute button because because of what's going on tonight we don't know who's going to come in or say what so if we could just be ready when someone speaks to Go mute if things I know it's a uh I'll try to speak out or any board member can please speak out and let it give direction but Mr Gil I I will if I have the authority I'll give you the authority to use your judgment when to use that I mean when it's obvious and clear we should just cut it so this is again an imperfect process but we're flying building the plane as we fly it or whatever okay so Mr Palmer I believe Gabriel Gabriela Palmer oh Gabriella
027Palmer when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin Miss Palmer the person seems Dro okay so if they person go ahead next person is tomorrow Hall okay Miss Hall when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin hello everyone thank you for hearing me out today my name is tomorrow Hall and I'm calling to express my support for the appointment of Brenda zind Zas to the alumrock Union School District Board of Trustees I believe Brenda is is passionate about public education and um as a longtime resident educator and Community leader in alumrock she's prepared to serve and knows the Stu the needs of the students and families in the district appointing Branda would be the shest way of reflecting the will and vote of the people into this role in the governing board election
028Brenda missed out on the now vacant seat by only 224 votes Brenda placed second in voting in 17 out of the 29 census tracks in the voting area I firmly believe that appointing her to this seat will show the community that its voice is valued to both the district and the Board of Trustees in a year full of hardships and challenges we need a board that is committed to serving the children and families of alam Rock to listening to their voices and acting in good faith to public Trust and as a community member I am in full support of selecting Brenda zenas to the alrock school board thank you thank you if I could just remind everyone um just very quickly that the board has actually not at this point taken um the position or
029made the decision as to whether a provisional appointment or a special election will occur so any um comments to in support of or again or any comments to a particular appointment of a particular individual at this time may be um a little preliminary because we have not actually um decided that that is the direction that the board will go in so that's just a reminder Mr Gil next person is Angel Martinez okay Mr or Miss Martinez I apologize when your two minutes when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin absolutely thank you very much board uh trustees uh the alumrock Board of Trustees find themselves confronted with a very unique situation today without taking office or the oath a trustee elect has declined to take their seat and therefore there was no trustee installed
030during the swearing in the alumrock school district bylaws as written state that the trustee president can when a vacancy open UPS on the board through a definite list of situations either appoint or hold a special election this is not not such a case there was no sitting board member who left there was no criminal arrest and no dereliction of Duty by sitting on the board without taking the oath of office as such the Silicon Valley young Democrats and the Silicon Valley High School Democrats asked the Board of Trustees here today to take the will of the people into account and allow the next highest vote getter to take place of Mr fam uh who was supposed to be taking a seat uh here with us today uh that being said uh if the Board of
031Trustees so chooses to go with either of the other two options of holding a special election or an appointment uh to please make it as open as possible and as transparent as possible as we want to make sure that the next trustee uh represents uh not just the East Side uh but all our students uh here in San Jose thank you thank you next person Mr Gil Dave Peters Mr Peters when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin Mr Peters are you can you hear or is your microphone I don't see a Peters on okay well maybe we can come Mr Peters hello okay yes uh when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin hello I can you have me yeah yes we can can hear you I say my boy Jerry Winkles
032he did apply to be part of the board got declaimed I think something being Jewish I'm pretty sure could be because because he was a okay Mr Mr Gil can we mute this person okay um again apologies to our community and to the public um obviously we have some people here this evening who I won't make any comments but inappropriate comments won't be accepted next person Mr Gil is mar Bill I'm sorry before we go forward I apologize Miss ree Mr um momento uh Mr Ru is there any thing that that would prohibit us from screening public commenters before we provide them the microphone if if some and I don't know Mr Gil if it's possible there's there's certain members of the public that we know and we I think we wouldn't need to do
033that but for um either just phone numbers or individuals who have not regularly been here is it in any way possible to screen those to make sure that they have appropriate comments before we put them to the public um I mean that that gets a little uh complicated because um in terms of who would be defining the appropriate comments right and I'm not sure how that would work out logistically as well under these circumstances whether you create a separate waiting room I think your plan right now is the best um I think you also might want to consider disabling the video function so that there are no more video images as well except for board members and and appropriate staff um but you know I think this is yeah this is a very troubling situation
034difficult okay well I thought I would try I mean if if anyone has another solution I'd be open to hearing it but with in the absence of that we can just continue forward so Mr Gil who was the speaker Ru Ru oh I'm gonna try to do my best don't worry I'm gonna try to do my best and let's see if you can understand or not but my name is marel Ru and I'm member of the community and I'm here today because I'm a border I'm here to tell you guys at the board to do this thing you had to do to put someone in that chair it has to be with transparency and don't forget the person who is going to be there is not your willing it's not what you want it's just
035what is the best for our kids and I hope you can pick someone is not coming from another area another part of the city who is just using who is using our our our school just as a political things and and jump to another position or higher or do something else so that's why I'm here to tell you that and thank you so much thank you very much Mr Ruiz Mr Gil next person I have a quick question is that okay if I ask you something sure um I was muted uh for a long time and I was corresponding with Dr Bower I did want to say something but um I was trying to be respectful and not uh interrupt anybody but I would like a chance after the speak to to speak speak uh
036as you could see that I was muted on the screen the whole time most of it except for when we first um uh did roll call so uh is that allowable Mr D this is the public comment portion yeah I you can answer that right after the public comment portion thank you okay thank you um and marel I'm sorry I did not remember do remember do you know what time we started the public comment I know we have n numerous interruptions but I just want to have an idea of where we are here approximately okay okay um we well I don't know how many more but we have but we can take um a few more and hopefully so there are 13 more okay so we're g to you said we started about 610 we've
037had about 10 minutes of interruption so say 620 so we'll go to 6:45 um with this and and unfortunately um we'll need to move forward at that point so as many we can get in so Mr Gil next person please is Jeff marham okay Mr Markham when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin thank you president Bano um I believe that uh as you know I've been a long time resident I'm now president of Moder count so uh you can take my input in that regard but uh one of the things that I think has been something that the elen school district has been trying to uh engage with and has had a difficult time with is the Vietnamese community and the Vietnamese Community chose uh Mr fam to represent unfortunately he is decided
038to uh not accept the uh trustee position but that does not uh negate the fact that the I believe the Vietnamese Community needs to have a voice on this board and that it is incumbent on the uh Board of Trustees of alumrock to reach out to the alrock community of the Vietnamese uh uh community that has children in the school district to uh see who they might want to have represent them because they chose somebody unfortunately he he didn't uh agree to to take the position but uh I just like to suggest that rather than people down the voter roles in terms of who who was next that to reach out and uh bring bring the community in because uh it's something that's been elusive for quite some time okay thank you Mr Markham Mr
039Gil next person is Victor Vasquez Mr Vasquez when you begin speaking you're two minutes will begin good after good evening uh Bor so I'm here also to support or improve at parents um and overall you know our community as well I I Echo the sentiments of being transparent having a clear timeline and actually uh open com open knowledge of all the communication time frames for when this situation arised and was given to the board for the community there nothing to ask us too controversial it's part of good governance um I believe that clear reasoning of each item is important to to explain at the beginning before discussing it with the public I think that would also help in terms of the transparency and your thought process around why are you uh creating this process um
040in your in your thought patterns or even starting with saying hey this decision has been made excellent but I think keeping that going is important the accountability process I think that we also have to be sensitive to the families that have extreme barriers in terms of logging into receive information about their children for them to also there's a lot of barriers in terms of also logging in to show up to these meetings uh for some of those more more vulnerable working class undocumented overwork families that we also have to consider and that actually to the next point of that is why I think the the idea of having a good timeline that doesn't feel Rush is important so that we could also reach out to all the decision makers and stakeholders that are are impacted
041or as many as possible and you know when we think about accountability it's like these are the process has to be reflected to the body of the community and our community also needs translated documents agendas process applications yes it's a lot and it's different maybe other districts don't do it but that's part of our commitment to community engagement and and racial Justice Just closing it out I think inclusivity is important in this process uh we know that people of color especially working class women especially Progressive women are left out of decision-making bodies they're like 1% and I think that we need to look into that and and recommit to that process and whatever we decide with the process it should reflect the type of democracy we love thank you Mr Gil next person next person
042is Raymond Mueller hey Mr Mueller when you begin speaking your two minutes we'll begin hello folks um I am here as a uh one of the few people who have been at the last three or the last two um appointment meetings um I do want to bring up that this is a very regular thing and my concern here is that each time that the four members who are running the board at that time make that decision they do leave out large swaths of the community um I do feel and I want to State I think that muting our video is part uh is is uh stopping us from having the right to free speech I don't have anything in my video other than my wedding picture in the background but you have turned off my
043video um I do feel that this board has great potential I have supported most of you in what you've done and I do hope that you will consider the voters and the folks that you are supposed to be thinking of and that is all of your constituents not just the students and parents but everybody those of us who are paying taxes to pay for these schools and those people did all speak on November the 6th 30 days before you got noticed that this person wasn't taking their seat so I am hoping that you will go in the direction that the community went finally I do want to make sure everybody understands I am not in the least bit bitter about not being appointed just so you all understand someone has said that about me recently
044I'm glad Karina got the job because she's excellent at it and I'm hoping that her voice will be heard in the uh Roar from the men thank you Mr Gil next person next next person is caraline oh sorry uh camel fontania hey miss fontania when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin and unfortunately this will be the final comment for this item as we've discussed previously so miss FIA whenever you begin speaking you two minutes will begin hi good evening board trustees superintendent Bower my name is chaman fonia um and I'm a parent of a child at adante dersin Academy as well as a programmatic partner almost Mayfair I I just want to Echo some of the the sentiments I've heard this evening around um process transparency and timing um I do not envy
045the position that you all are in to make this decision um and I am very disappointed in Scott fam choosing not to um proceed with his his election win as that was the the will of the people um but again I think this is a very nuanced situation like everything in Alam Rock and I think um my my biggest concern is is the timing um we are about a week and a half away from closing two weeks and in order to be transparent intentional thoughtful um you need as much Community engagement and transparency as possible and I'm just concerned that with the quick turnaround um there are many voices that are not being heard in this process and so I just wanted to reiterate that I know that many decisions are going to be critical
046in the upcoming calendar and school year um as we hopefully recover from this pandemic um and we need to have thoughtful leadership and foresight as we make those kinds of decisions thank you thank you okay um so thank you everybody I apologize again for those we were not able to get to on this item I apologize for those interruptions um but we do need to move forward um if again if you have particular comments to the to the um applicant type of applicant that will be in 3.05 and you will have a chance to express that then um so we'll move forward to item 3.01 and for item 3.0 on yes uh I see trusty Chavez she first and then I know she said she wanted to talk and then trusty Marquez after that thank
047you okay um I agree with a lot of the PE what the people have to say Ray Mueller for one as far as taxes go we shouldn't be spending on this uh especially after so soon after the election if Scott fam had not been I'm sorry I'm sorry Tristy Chavez just can I ask um what so your comments specifically are they addressing this item or it's on our comments you know how the public got to comment and before then you asked the board I didn't get to comment then because I was muted and my internet unstable and that's when I got on the phone because I'm now on the computer and on the phone because like uh Victor said that a lot of the parents can't um get in in some of the meetings and
048because they have problems with their internet has it month after month I have a lot of connections here to try and fix it at the beginning of the meeting I was fine and then uh after we took roll call then I'm not fine so okay so I just want to clarify with Mr Ruiz is is this a time when board members are able to speak for for this item I don't we don't usually have board discussion on this item is is it a is it okay if we move forward here Mr or did he not say it was okay to speak earlier I'm sorry Mr rri can you answer the question that I asked yeah so I mean this is uh you chair the meetings um it sounds as though the comments are related to
0493.02 I could be wrong about that in terms of what process the board is going to follow as a result result of this situation um 2.01 was intended to be for General comments unrelated to things that are already on the agenda um but you know substantially all of those comments were related to things that you know that are already on the agenda yeah so trusty your determination thank you Mr trusty Chavez I I that's why I asked because I think what you're speaking to it sounds like are actually specific spefic to items that we have agendized so would it be appropriate for you to comment on those items as they'll speak more specifically to what you want to say and and it'll be in that particular topic so when you asked the board earlier if
050they had any comment and I could not comment because of this Zoom meeting that it went and I also was texting Dr Bower um so be because my internet was bad I don't get to com is that correct I'm not sure I'm I understand what you're referring to when I asked the board for comment Dr B want to clarify truste Chavez there was no board comments there were no board nobody commented I know that you were not listening but the board was not talking I was listening but it wasn't coming through but it's not that I wasn't listening it's that I have really bad internet connectivity so I you you know I feel for the parents who also try to get on these meetings and they can't hear things correctly I'm on two devices on
051my phone and the computer and you know it's month after month I keep saying you know there's really a bad connection so to answer your question we didn't no board members um had a time yet in this meeting that we had comments so I think just to so we can move forward um your comments are specific to some of the these topics and it would be helpful I think for all of us to hear those comments in the context of that item because then we can relate your opinion to that one so would it be okay if we if I ask you to express everything you're about to say but just on the item that it pertains to okay can sure and can I ask you one thing when I do when you do see
052that my internet is unstable and when you see that I'm unmuted can you please have Avatar unmute me and I was asking repeatedly okay M if you can it will be helpful if you raise your hand or push the button because I I'm not on my screen I'm not able to see when your connection is bad so yeah I was too busy trying to text Dr Bower of my problems with the communication thank you president can I can I make a suggestion because I would hate to lose uh trusty Chavez that's okay I don't need the suggestion let's move on thank you okay so I I had um Miss uh trusty trusty Marquez you were you're going to go next so go ahead and thank you um so my question um to um roio Ruiz
053how many people are still left I mean please tell us how many people are still left that did not get to talk because you actually set a time frame of when we were going to stop and is it possible or is it at the will of the president to just to stop like that and not allow those people that have come on to this meeting to speak um it it just does not seem fair to me that people are being silenced because it's taking too long if it's going to take too long it's going to take too long we're here to resolve something that has happened and I think that we need to hear all voices and not silence any of them that are still waiting to say something so Evar I guess needs to
054let us know how many and roio um is there any reason why we cannot or is it just the will of the president well the so the the board president presides over the meeting and your board bylaws limits um agenda items each agenda item to 20 minutes each uh total public comment time this this item went for as far as I could tell went for longer than 20 minutes um so you know if if it's the board board chair's preference to extend time then I believe that's within his rights but again I I would just add that you know I think all the one or two of the comments so far had to do with things that are on 3.2 uh through the end of the agenda relate to specific agenda topics and if I
055could just clarify as well um trusty Marquez I did ask for um some consensus amongst my colleagues at the beginning of the meeting with regards to the timing of comments and I got support from one person I forgot who and no one else responded so um I take that as an agreement to move forward in that way I was not able to respond because I also got thrown out um and then I had to do something to get back on yeah but I Al that's when I was thrown out but um in either case I am asking for um to for those people that did not get to speak if you will allow them if there's only two or three or four that we listen to the community this is what the meeting is about
056this is an unorthodox meeting of what's going on because of the situation that U Scott fam has put us on on so we're all muddling through this and the community really want to engage and I ask that you please allow that engagement to happen thank you okay thank you I appreciate your comments I appreciate the sentiment I I get it um but I I not but and I'm interested in hearing particularly um the comment about what we need to look for if we decide to go down the route of um appointment and I want to make sure we leave time for that so that one we won't be as as conservative with our time as I mentioned initially but I do appreciate apprciate that sentiment and and again I apologize but we need to be
057able to move forward so that we're not here till 2:3 in the morning um so that being said um there let's see so item 3.01 um I wanted to uh Pass open it up um with Mr Ruiz so he can explain uh what this item is about and why it is here um and the particulars of the situation so Mr Ruiz if you can help us with this yes um good evening board um so this item actually relates to item 3.03 through 06 on the agenda um as noted in the uh board memo for three item 3.0 uh two uh um you know Mr fam was C certified as winning as one of two winners of the November 3D election on November 4th I'm sorry December 4th he informed uh the superintendent that he would
058not be uh taking his seat on the board and your board bylaw 9223 addresses uh vacancies on the board and so uh I was asked for some guidance on how the board would address this situation so I immediately referred to uh board bylaw 9223 which uh for the most part follows the standard form prescribed or recommended by the California school boards Association um but following the appointment of board member uh era loera back in early 2019 this board developed a custom more customized process uh that included specific Community engagement that included the opportunity uh for statements by members of the public who were interested in the appointment and you implemented all of those in connection with that appointment process by which member Etta Loa was was ultimately appointed and then there was an amendment brought
059forward to this board bylaw 9223 to reflect that process as I understand it in reviewing the current policy I did notice I think what could be a a significant discrepancy in some of the language and if if the board decides to move forward with a provisional appointment process I it was my it's my recommendation that the board consider the discrepancy and make any changes to the language uh that the board deems appropriate and the discrepancy arises because in a portion of the policy it says that um uh that actions will be taken by majority vote of the board that that is a provisional appointment will be made by majority vote of the board but at the end of this uh bylaw uh it currently says that if there is not a unanimous vote after uh
060this process the board will in effect recommend a special election to elect the new trustee so that creates some ambiguity in the process and for the benefit of not just the board but of uh candidates who may be interested in this process I thought it important to point out this discrepancy to the board and um you know and and leave it to the board if if you would like to make a change um I would recommend that uh revert back to the old language or the original language which is majority vote and I have included that in the draft for the board's consideration that is my recommendation only um based on everything that I've reviewed so far doesn't mean that the board has to adopt my recommendation um your board bylaws specify that whenever an
061amendment to a board bylaw or board policy is brought forward it goes through a two- reading process before it's approved by the board but your board bylaw 9110 also says that that two- reading process can be waved by the board so if the board is inclined to make the amend or changes that I'm recommending then uh I'm also asking or recommending that you consider waving the two reading process and AD adopting the amendment uh today on the basis of a single reading um that way it would take effect immediately and the public in the board would would have some clarity on what the language is uh in the board bylaw 9223 thank you okay thank you Mr ruise so at this time we'll um president we're gonna um there'll be time for questions and comments
062from the board after but we're going to provide first the opportunity for public comment on this item um and so Mr President um trusty Marquez we're going into public comment right now but I I know but I wanted to respond so that for clarification and um it is customary that the board members do that when their um their attorney is is informing them yeah you but you can do that when it's time for public for I'm saying it's customary right after he says something to us and informs us it is customary that we as the board members elected to the seats you know have that option okay thank you um so at this time we will move forward with public comment you're not going honor you're not going to honor that then I'm going to
063say that the opportunity will come um when we have the time for so there is no opportunity here so you pretty much are not allowing the people's voice to be heard because we were elected here by the people I'm so sorry that you do this okay thank you Mr Gil um or marel can we have the um the clock and then can if we if you can kind of on a note on the side just keep track of the time and if we do have those similar interruptions just um take that time away from the the 20 minutes um so that it's not counted against people that have legitimate comments on this item so um so we can Mr Gil do we have public comment on this item and then after this we will have
064questions and comments from the board at and it's at that time that we can have a full discuss discussion with the board that we can also include public comment into our um discussion things that the public says that we can um consider with our discussion so Mr Guild um I'm assuming we have speakers so who is the first Speaker I'm sorry who was it Nao okay Miss Navaro when the you begin speaking your two minutes will begin okay um thank you for letting me speak um I just wanted to let you know I'm not associated with anyone so this is as a parent speaking of a first grader here at this at the district um I actually found out about this meeting by accident I happened to read it on San Jose Spotlight and that's
065how I found out a be about this meeting so um my thing with um the board vacency and filling that um I believe um that it needs to do the full length of time there it is correct there should be no rush to fill this H position if we have to put a temporary Nom person into this position until an official my preference would be an official appointment and that a temporary P person I don't know about the bylaws like I said I'm totally new to this uh but a temporary person could be in there in the position who will not commit to being an official appointment um that would be my my preference um and also and I would I stand by uh making this an appointment um But like everyone has said before
066we really need more transparency we need more information and we need um more information about everything um that's going on um yeah um I would say work with the school leison the school Community leison to inform people that what happened about um like um with um Mr fam leaving and work with the school liaison to communicate all this information to the parents U because they the one the community liaison have a good relationship with the parents at all these schools and they could communicate better to what's going on and I beg you please let's not be continuing um being the laughing stock of Santa clar County we make the news all the time for bad things in this district and I'm constantly fighting with people saying no Elm moach is not that bad you know
067yes we lose students to Charters to private schools but this is we have to make sure we okay thank you Miss n I'm sorry your two minutes has expired thank you for your comments uh Mr Gil next person is Omar wcz Mr Vasquez when you begin speaking your two minutes we'll begin hi uh good good afternoon everybody yes um I want to make I want to H sorry about the uh I think the best process to appoint an next person probably I just said is by you guys appointing somebody you know uh make sure you follow and listen to the people and and select somebody who actually who actually has kids living in the in the in this Allen R School District uh somebody who really is uh already working there you know and but
068also listen to the people perhaps I like the previous person who spoke I also read it on the San Jose Spotlight and I realized about this minute that's why I kind of got here late and yeah this is interesting because uh it's crazy I don't think it happened before somebody decide to run for election and then just quit on the last day I mean that's that's crazy you know I don't but the best way to do like I say is if you guys decide to listen to public comments and make and appoint somebody provisional thank you thank you um before we move to the next one quickly I just want to remind everybody that this time for public comment is specific to item 3.01 the situation that Mr Ruiz described with regards to the um
069readings for for bylaw 9223 Mr Gil uh next person the next person is Tamara Shan okay Miss Shane uh when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin michine are can you hear okay Mr Gil maybe we can move on yes I'm sorry I'm here can you hear me okay yes we hear you thank you uh my name is Tamara Shane and I'm an attorney at the law Foundation of Silicon Valley I work with Eide students and families representing them in special education hearings and meetings and I Echo Victor Vasquez Veronica Amador and others in the reinvest for racial equity and alumrock School District um Coalition I'm urging the board to take the will of the people into account and appoint the person who received the the second highest number of votes I urge the
070board to show the community that their voices matter and to be transparent in its next steps in replacing that now vacant seat please pledge to act in good faith and public trust okay thank you Miss Shane um and again I will remind um the public that um this particular time is for any public comment specifically with regard to item 3.01 discussion action to wave second reading requirement of board bylaw 9310 and to approve amendments to board bylaw 9223 so that's what this public comment time is specifically for um Mr Gil next person yes uh T it's hard to pronounce the last name okay Miss uh Miss I didn't have a when you begin speaking once Mr Gil unmutes you your two minutes will begin Miss Tanya are you okay I'm on I finally been unmuted
071yes I do I do agree with the situation there are two places in the board policy um that are totally opposing each other one says appointed by majority vote the other says appointed by unanimous but my question is you should probably explain to the public what is the time proposed between the two readings does it really matter that you have the second meeting say a month at the next meeting at the next uh regular scheduled meeting because the appointment should be taking that much time anyway so even though I do agree I think the public needs to know how long a second how long with timeline between the two readings uh please let us know okay thank you Miss freden Berger um Mr Gil next person is Raymond Mueller Mr Mueller when you begin speaking
072your two minutes will begin yes I would like to speak to the fact that we are hosting a meeting that the community found out about yesterday at 1 o'clock you're asking to change bylaws without a second reading and move forward Ward with those changes tonight I feel that that is definitely something to be reconsidered I would like our our legal consultant I would ask a question but I know you can't respond to us um and I'm sure that's a situation BR as well but just to be clear the state gives you 60 days from December the 4th when you were notified you have until February to make this happen whatever it is so there is no excuse for rushing anything because as many people have stated this meeting was not well publicized and it is
073not fair to those who do know they should be aware of this this is a big deal so um I would ask that the board trustees consider that and not change the bylaws tonight and act on them on the same night it really looks Shady thank you thank you um Mr Gil next person yes yes brand zandos Miss zand house when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin good evening board members um superintendent uh today I ask you and I'm gonna Echo what Ray Mueller said right now I don't believe we should be rushing this I think that we have to be as transparent as we all claim to be when we run for office and rushing reading this is just to me not okay I think the community should hear the first reading
074and I don't see a rush in this because being in this board is important as we know this seat has to go to a person that takes this um serious rushing it does not give a lot of people the time to uh apply and I think reading it educates the public and the voters and um I would just urge the board members to consider a second reading and not rush this process thank you thank you Mr Gil next person is Jeff Markham Mr Markham when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin thank you Bo president Bano uh I don't believe what Mr Ruiz was suggesting was a uh decision this evening on whether a board policy change would be appropriate I think he was suggesting that it was a a good time given that
075this has come up a couple of times that uh it would be appropriate for the board to consider uh whether to address this issue or not so uh I would like to say that and I would like to uh further uh suggest that his recommendation is well uh well regarded in this in this situation but uh since it's come up a couple of times we should deal with it and move on because uh Mr fam was not perhaps the only person who's going to resign from his position in the future thank you Mr Markham next person Mr Gil is FL Delon miss delion when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin good evening everyone my name is flor de Leon again Paran and Community organizer um I also agree that we're it's not a
076good time to make the amendment yet for to the bylaws I think uh we have seen in the past how long these board me meetings take and we have even seen you guys even passing and voting for things that sometimes needs to have a reading and because you spend a lot of time talking and interrupting sometimes when people is talking and sometimes that takes a lot of time and we get a little bit distracted but I think it's very uh important that position we're um uh putting the person that is going to take this position is for four years and we want to make sure that the process and the by laws are not changed just because you want to make things faster so I think we need to think wise and make sure we
077have um time time enough to review you the US review the US went to to know what is the consequence if you change something right now you know and I think uh we want that Community wants to be part of this process you know and it looks like a lot of times you you guys run too fast and going too fast and this is not the way we're gonna make make the best choices on the decisions we're making so we need a second reading if we need to uh to do it and and and in other meeting we do another meeting but we need to really spend time wise and not make the amendment at this point Thank you thank you Mr Gil next person yes Veronica Veronica when you begin speaking your two minutes
078will begin great thank you again for having this time um and I also want to Echo the russianness um we should not be rushing especially have waving a second raing um in between um I also want to point out that today we found out about this meeting yesterday at 1 p.m. and today instead of in parents Square sending out that there was a special board meeting they send out that there was a training for parents at 6 pm and they were also offering Door Des to the first 30 parents okay so where is that priority in making sure that we're engaging the community because right now I don't see it I do see it in trying to get parents into the trainings which which is great but you knew that this meeting was yesterday and
079instead decided to advertise it today in the morning in parent Square uh the training instead of this meeting so really we don't need to rush things uh we don't need to uh put a stop on really engaging the community and just completely um undermining what our community what the voters want and what they're saying because we are strong and we are here thank you thank you Mr Gil next person is dza Gonzalez Miss Gonzalez when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin um good evening members of the board I personally do not believe that this is time to change policies it is a rush decision we have been in another meetings and we have seen that even you guys have some problems understanding the policies yourselves or to change some of the policies or
080going back and forth it's not something that it's policies that affect our students our community and the work that you guys do they shouldn't be done in a Russian way it should done in a precautious because you are there to represent us the best of interest for our students rushing into policies and making changes out of nowhere or just to benefit some of you um it's not the correct way to do it think of our students and think about that job you guys are doing you guys were pleased to do that is to actually read go through it and take your time before affecting anything that is gonna impact our students and our community either in a positive or negative way hold on this is not a rush we can take our time there's no
081rush or if there is I want to know why and from who that Rush is coming from thank you have a really good evening thank you Mr Gil next person uh no one else okay thank thank you very much so now we'll move forward to um board questions and comments and we'll go ahead and start with trusty Marquez if you still um Wanted the floor and after that it looks like Mr trusty Kino after that and trusty Chavez after that we need to make a motion correct in order to discuss that's right thank you for reminding me so for purposes of discussion I uh moveed to uh approve amendments to board bylaw 9223 um okay so thank you for that we have a motion in a second so now we can have um board comments
082and questions trusty Marquez would you still like the floor to express the questions or comments you had yes please okay um so um so my con well what I wanted to um to to say is pretty much had been said already by the community I was so happy to hear them and for them to understand that uh yes it is I believe I'm going to read a quote from one of the community members that said yeah changing these bylaws right now it's it it's look it looks pretty shady and I totally agree on the day of in a short notice of me of of this meeting um we should not be handling any of those bylaws right now they are what they are and in the future when we don't have anything going then you
083can bring them up and have and deal with them then and use this time as an example because it just looks from where we're sitting at out here in the community that these bylaws were good for the last appointment and let me remind everybody if you were not there that appointment didn't go very well and didn't smooth very smooth we announced to the public that three fin IST would go except that when we got to that point there were four people that were going to be moving forward there was a tie between two of the candidates and it should the tie should have been broken so then three could move forward that did not happen so it was okay for that appointment but now you don't want to use the unanimous but you want to
084go back to the board majority but it's so transparent for us that's why you want the transparency of three because it'll be three of you just doing what you want to do in this district and not listening to the voice and not following your policy that you have in place so I oppose it I will not be supporting the motion and I'll bet you anything that it's going to be a 32 vote so it kind of it it it's kind of for me is like why am I sitting here doing this because nothing is going to get changed it's all going to be the same the entire Community has come and said do not rush you know we're looking at February two weeks we're going to go into a break you know and how did
085these people that are going to be speaking tonight how did they know those that are going to throw their names and their you know their hat in there right now how did they know about this if some people just heard about it today when they read it in in the social media this looks horrible this sounds horrible this looks terrible but fortunately not for me it's not be thank you not not going to be against me because I'm here to defend and protect and a agree with what the community wants we heard Community say let the people speak and let the people appoint it still should be in the hands it still should be in the hands of the people because that oath was never taken it was a vote that put him there and
086it should be the people's vote to put the next person in there and nothing else I really I really believe that the next one in line is missas and we should just go with that and be done if you want to rush it but other than that I think that we should take the 60 days thank you okay thank you trusty kto I think you were next and then trusty Chavez after that um so board president B thank you for recognizing me um I have some questions for uh Ro Riz or general counsel regarding the process because some statements were made by our colleague stating that this policy was in place at the last appointment and so if I remember correctly the the policy itself wasn't incorporated into our bylaws at the time it was
087a a plan uh system that we all developed and they you very very um you know wisely were able to package together um after we all you know agreed on it and um nowhere in there was there a a unanimous component to it um because if we recall at the last uh appointment it was not unanimous we had folks pushing back and one person in particular saying that they wouldn't support our colleague K and so for the community out there I understand that um there's concerns about you haven't read the policy and um you know I'm inclined to to I'm I'm ready I'm ready to move because any sort of policy that uh is unanimous um it it it it gives all the power to the minority to one person in this case that individual
088would be you know whoever is the outlier and doesn't want to come on board with the rest and so the same criticism is being leveled to the Senate right now United States Senate where you have um a this requirement uh to that prohibits the ability to move forward and so now even you know President Obama and B president-elect Biden are talking about that's not appropriate so uh in this case I I I I um I don't agree that we need to maintain the unanimous component it's not what was in place at the last time that was uh something that um you know an aspirational goal that you put in there and I'm not knocking you for it um you know in in an Ideal World it'd be great but unfortunately we don't live in an
089Ideal World we we need to make we need to uh uh move ahead in a way that is is logical and that recognizes what the the circumstances that we're in uh so having that unanimous element you know think about it the the uh the Articles of Confederation our first crack at our our governing documents for the United States why do they fail in large part because they requireed unanimous consent to be able to make an amendment um and so it's obviously something that needs to be addressed either now or at some point in time but um and also the fact of the matter is that there is a conflict in our bylaws right now as we speak which is not healthy uh we have in one place saying that it's a majority and we have
090in another place saying that it has to be unanimous or that we're stuck with a special election um and that trigger for a special election is very dangerous and somebody can go out there and demand that uh if the policy is still on the books we go ahead and move with the the special election that's a million dollars that we're going to have to be on the hook for because we're the only show in town and nobody else is going to help us pick up the tab so this a significant amount of money um and uh and so we we at some point in time have to take this action I'm comfortable with taking it tonight after it's been fully explained to the public I hope that you all go on to our website check
091out um board byaw 9223 and uh take take uh and recognize that there is a conflict um and that that last part of the bylaw does have that unanimous component that um May May put us in a deadlock in a situation where we can't move forward and we wind up having to pay for an entire special election just for Alam Rock which is you know it's prohibitive due to its cost so those are my comments I hope that folks uh can kind of follow along with what I've attempted to to mention or if if possible if we can uh post up the language itself that way people can recognize what the issues are and uh we can see that there's no sort of a nefarious or somehow somehow hidden agenda here it's we don't make
092the change then more than likely we'll wind up having to go and call a special election per our byas so those are my comments thank you uh trusty Chavez and then trusty Loa after that okay I believe that we need to customize this board bylaw policy and to reflect an amendment and the amendment being as as well as um if another trustee wants to add to it it's fine but this is what I'm proposing to customize this policy to reflect the amendment that if someone doesn't take the seat especially if it's we haven't even been especially since we haven't seated anybody or nobody took an oath of office yet that the next highest vote getter will be fit um it it would not be wise to wave the Second Amendment reading now please please don't
093wave the Second Amendment reading now especially since you're hearing all of the concern that we're rushing this I don't want to rush this I I think we should first consider trusty chave trusty chave the last thing we heard does have happen this time around and if we do decide to a point she keeps bleeping out yeah can we unmute trusty Chavez she's okay I'm on my phone now okay so I'm I'm ready so I don't know how much you heard but let me say it again customizes board policy we heard that part the last part we heard the last part we heard was that you don't want to rush this yeah because we've been hearing from the community and it's better to be clear than to be every the perception is that this is being
094rushed and it is and we should first clear up this board uh policy and then it can be implemented the next time at the next election and then we can move forward on doing an appointment but let's fix this board by policy and I don't think that we should be approving this today because it still needs revision because there's too much ambiguity and the people are not comfortable when it's not clear and concise so I will be voting no on approval thank you thank you trusty erera yes uh thank you so uh Mr Ru I have a question for you can you tell me what the I mean I guess ballpark total amount for a special election would be how much that would cost about so I believe that the last time the administration looked
095at this issue which was about a year ago or so I believe I think it was about a 100,000 just north of $100,000 based on what on What uh the size of the the registered voter pool at that time I do know that there was an increase in voter registration in the district so I don't know what that number would be but it would be six figures okay so at least 100,000 um if not more and so uh you know I I really appreciate all the people that came up to speak and I think it's uh important that you know as trustees we are I agree as transparent as possible and do our best to um explain and ask questions right if we don't understand um as Tanya who's a previous board member uh clearly
096stated you know there's contradictions in there um and so because there's contradictions we need to fix this you know whether it's now or whether it's whenever knowing that there's contradictions you know as a board trustee I feel it needs to be cleared up and um make sure that we have no contradictions in our board bylaws and so as a trustee it's important for me to make sure that that happens and so um one of the reasons why I will be supporting and you know I wanted to make clear also the consequences of not fixing this right um and of going into a special board because of whatever reason and spending over $100,000 that we do not have um you know one one of the main reasons why I feel we need to fix it as
097soon as possible um and then another thing in regards to you know trust as trustees I think we need to make sure that um we don't feed in understandings that we don't create um more um you know chaos because um it's clear that we don't go through these things all the time right the last time that we went through this was in February 2019 um and so do I understand it you know completely no but I will ask questions to ensure that I move forward in the best way and so um for now you know I'll leave it at that I know we'll have more discussion in regards to the process um on the next item thank you okay I do see trusty kto but just briefly I wanted to interject a quick comment that
098Mo mostly confirms what uh trusty erera and trusty Kino have said in the implications of not taking action this evening on this item to approve is that later on in the agenda there is um you know we will potentially take action on the decision between just sending this to a special election or making a provisional appointment and if we do decide to make a provisional appointment then that's where our decision here comes into play because if we decide to just hold off on this and not do it now and do it at some time in the future that leaves it open for at least one or two people to not make it unanimous and force a a general election force $130,000 is what I heard um to pay that we don't have whereas if we
099address it now make the language consistent with in our board policy consistent with what is standard everywhere else then if we do decide to um to go with a a provisional appointment then it does not kind of handcuff us to have to F have a unanimous decision or be forced into $130,000 expenditure so um at this time that's why I'm I'm supportive of of making this amendment um trusty K I know you were next but uh Mr Ruiz did you have something yes if if you don't mind I I just wanted to clarify one important point about why I'm making this recommendation to wave a second reading um you know ideally normally you would want the you would want to use the second reading process but if the board decides to make a pro provisional
100appointment and doesn't make a change and and Begins the the provisional appointment process but doesn't make a change to the bylaw until a second reading either we week or two weeks or even three weeks or a month from now then that risks the possibility that one of your applicants for the position is going to say that the game the rules of the game the rules of the process were changed on us in the middle of the stream and we should have known with certainty what the rules were at the beginning of this process that that goes to the fundamentally to the concept of due process so I you know that was what that was the primary reason that I wanted to bring alert the board to this issue and advise you of what the the
101possibilities are in terms of of waving that second reading okay thank you for that Mr uise truste kto and trusty Chavez after that um so you know I in terms of the number uh that our general Council quoted us or has mentioned uh I would have to you know if we if we go back back and and talk and remember the the um the price to put an item on on the ballot when you have a full uh election we were quoted $100,000 and that's sharing the cost with a bunch of other districts in this case it would be a special election that only Alam Rock carries so an item on an an election is 100k imagine what it is for us to carry the entire election on our own and so that's why we
102have to go ahead and make those um we have to pass a resolution consolidating our election as a school district with the with everybody else's election so we can save uh on the cost and so that everybody shares the cost of the entire thing so um I respect our general council's opinion but I think that we we may want to go and ask register our voters um well obviously we will if if it comes to that but um just from that I'm assuming it's a heck of a lot more than the 100 Grand that it costus just to place an item on the agend on the on the ballot I'm going back to my own experiences um at the city when I was working there there was a community facilities District couple of hundred homes
103and to I think it was like a couple thousand homes probably and they ran a special election and it it it was H it was a significant amount 60 Grand or something like that and that's just a small area of uh an entire area like our we're the size of a city council district and so it would be it would be a heck of a lot more to run an election only for that group of people so that's where I'm basing my my you know my opinion it's a that it's a lot more than the three than the six figures or you know it might be six figures but on the higher end as opposed to the lower end thank you uh trusty Chavez and then trusty Marquez I think I heard you say you
104wanted to go after her so we trusty Chavez and then trusty Marquez okay uh president Bean know I think I heard you say uh for them to just do the standard uh nothing in Alan Mo has ever been standard um we need to customize this board bylaw and we have another meeting next week on Thursday so we wouldn't be rushing it if we just um make the decisions make the adjustments on the board bylaws instead of just rushing this through and that way Alan won't be faced with this situation again because it will be in the board bylaws but to just wave it um it it doesn't seem right to the ones who voted because ordinarily if you have the biggest vote Getters you seat them and if the other one declines to take the
105seat then you seat the next one it it just seems like the right thing to do thank you thank you trusty Marquez um yes I I I listened to what roela was saying and um and I think that for more reason about what he was talking about someone not wanting the due process is another excellent reason to take the 60 days to do it because then everybody will be fully informed that this had taken place but you know um this this um controversy between the first and the second um uh readings um and I I I mean I don't know how I say I know what I want to say but it's not coming out how I want to say it it's just that there are a lot of reasons why we should not do
106this now we should not rush into it first we we we're given 60 days to do this process we're going to be going on break in two weeks and and I I totally feel that you know we have a three vote here right now that should step back and listen listen to the community who have come on to this meeting tonight and I all I hear is that you guys are not listening to them and president Beano you're not listening to them either you know you should let everybody speak um always doesn't matter what time we have to leave this is what we were elected to do but I will not be supporting the waiver of this so that uh we can deal with this at a different time and really do the readings first
107and second readings and by then we'll be into February January February and we can uh start looking at how this process is going to be done with Community input with a committee or what U right now all I'm hearing is that this board will take that decision now well I want Community input I want a committee and I want them to have a say because they are the voters and as far as I'm concerned and I see it this seed is still in the hands of the voters thank you okay thank you so at this time I'll go ahead then and call for the vote for item uh Mr Ruiz yeah can I can I ask for a clarification because the motion was to approve the amendment as recommended but the the motion should really
108be in uh two two parts it should be to wave the second reading requirement and to approve the amendment as recommended okay tresy erera um are you amable to making that correction or Amendment uh can we oh there you go are you okay with that yes okay okay so um with that motion on the floor um I'll go ahead and call for the vote on this item I know does also need to since he second agree yes uh yeah the secondary concurs okay thank you okay so now we'll go ahead and call for the vote and as always I'll just call you as I see you on my screen trusty era loera yes trusty Quintero hi trusty Marquez no myself I and trusty Chavez no motion passes three to2 uh trustees Marquez and Chavez in
109opposition thank you we can now move forward to item 3.02 discussion action regarding board vacancy and filling of board vacancy including selection method F filling board vacancy provisional appointment or special election so as we kind of have been alluding to um in this entire as as a part of this continuous conversation um we do need to determine how we are going to fill this seat whether or not it is through a provisional appointment or through spe special election and um and so that I believe is the meat of this item trust I mean Mr Ruiz is there anything beyond that that's important to to cover it just as an introduction of the item I I would only add that um because this issue has come up some of the comments uh today is that um
110although Mr fam was certified as one of the winners of the election uh he has he has indicated that he's not going to take his seat and he has not taken his oath of office under the government code and your board bylaws of vacancy on the board can occur in 12 different ways I believe it is one of them is through resignation the other or one of the other ones is the refusal or failure to take the oath and file it uh with the county office um this is not a resignation because he has not assumed his seat um he his communication has indicated that he's not going to take his oath of office and under your board bylaw 9223 when there is a vacancy then the board is asked to make a determination of
111whether it will fill the vacancy either by special election or by provisional appointment and that is the first issue that the board is asked to decide tonight to declare uh the vacancy and to select the process for how that vacancy will be filled the person who ultimately fills that vacancy will serve in that position until the next general election which is two years from now it is not a four-year appointment it would only be two years thank you okay thank you for that clarification um so as we did the previous time we will take um public comment and then we will have questions and comments from the board after that so that we can incorporate input from the public into our um questions or comments um so again marel I appreciate the work last time
112if we could do the same thing this time um we were able to get everybody in for comments I I believe at least to my knowledge and I hope we can get through it this time so 20 minutes if we can keep track and two minutes per person and Mr Gil um who was the first person M okay miss m you have when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin thank you um well I have several things that I want to say one of them being that obviously it's unfortunate that we're in this situation however it's I'm not that surprised because those of us that have been around a while know that Scott fam uh quit the last time that he was on the board why he ever chose to run this time and
113especially considering that he didn't even lead a campaign is was surprising my concern though in this type of an election that we had where you picked the top two it was clear that the voters uh that the Community selected I mean I think everybody was on board with trusty Herrera laera she um had a significantly higher number of votes than anybody so it's like if I'm going into the polling place and I'm choosing two people I know she's number one the other four candidates that were on the ballot split the votes this second vote four ways so to assume that the next highest vote getter would have received all of Scott fam's votes I I just think it skews the results of that election I I don't think that we can assume that the third
114person in line would have gotten the next most votes so I am in total support of an application process and I feel that we we have have done it in the past we have obviously done a good job of it since we're fortunate enough to have um trusty Herrera Lera serving on this board right now and I trust in this board to follow a process that will um appoint someone that will represent this community thank you thank you Mr Gil next person Natalie Abal Miss Abal when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin good evening I'm Natalie AB ball I'm the parent of three children in the Alam Rock School District um I do come here to ask that you like don't move forward with a special election for a couple reasons I don't
115think we're in a position financially to spend six figures and then given some of the history with what just happened with the election with Mr fam I think an election could be a dangerous scamble considering we never know who might decide to run for a seat and what intentions that they bring and I I do agree that moving forward with a fair lawful and transparent application process is an appropriate option at this time and I do agree with um how other people were saying that we not rush this because we can miss an opportunity for a really good candidate so um that's what I have to say on that and I I agree with we don't go in the order because I feel like if we open that door like for the next person to
116votes I mean That Could That Could set us up for something dangerous in the future if we do something like that because I feel unfortunately with Alan Rock sometimes um the votes that people get it's it could be a little surprising thank you thank you Mr Gil next person fenberg miss fredenberg when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin Miss fredenberg are you I'm trying to get unmuted oh you hear me now yes okay fine yes no I I do agree that we a special election is out of the question but I agree with also probably most community members that we need to take our time so that the best possible candidates if it's going to go provisional if you're not going to appoint the next vote getter in the election if that's um
117a no noo for you and Nob brainer for us um if that's the way you're going to go the time is important to let the community know and 24 hours is definitely not enough time a month is a little better which is why I said you could hold off on the and go ahead and have the second reading because you got plenty of time so thank you thank you Mr Gil next person esposa Mr Espinosa when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin hi yes uh can you hear me yes great thank you um hi my name is uh Tim as minoa I'm uh the parent of two alumrock kids um and I'm just calling to express my support uh for the next person in line who had the most um number of votes
118um asides from um I believe Mr fam um and that's Brenda um Brenda has honestly time and time again shown her passion uh for the kids in our school um she's been a servant for the kids in our school district as well as teachers um you know Community leaders and she's just been a really strong advocate for a lot of the stuff that we've been advocating for in the district um I think that you know she reflects the will um her appointment would reflect the will of the people who have already voted um in the in the election that we just had um and she only missed a vote by a very slim margin um she was placed second and so um just echoing off of a lot of the sentiments that people in our
119community have been expressing tonight um it would only make sense for the board to appoint somebody um who was who who was the next in line during the election it doesn't make sense to go back and do all this homework and and figure out like who the next great cand C is going to be because we already know who it is the people already spoke um the people casted their votes back in November and so I think we should honor that I think that um again it doesn't make sense to go back and try to figure out you know who's going to be the next best in line she's already in our district and I think that we uh should acknowledge that and that her appointment should be made um official um very soon thank
120you thank you and I just a quick reminder that this particular item will get to I think this what some people may be wanting to speak to but this item is specific to whether or not to go with a provisional appointment or a special election not specific yet to any individual um potential applicant Mr Gil next person is Alish baseri okay I didn't quite get the name Miss baseri or Mr baseri uh it's elisheva baseri oh there we go thank you thank you Bard um yes um as I stated my name is elisheva basri I'm a San Jose Community member and a parent and I just Echo the voices of so many of the previous callers about transparency and good governance um this board is trying very hard to earn the trust of the community
121and that doesn't happen without transparency no matter how good intentions um exist um the will of the people is still ch still clear with the election being just weeks in our rearview meeting so I'm going express my support for the appointment of Brenda andas um appointing her would the will of the people and the frankly the cheapest if the goal is to avoid a special election uh she would have um been the Victor with um only 20 224 votes behind um and I urge the board to take this action in good faith thank you thank you Mr Gil next person Steve Naro what was the name again Steve Navaro okay Mr Navaro when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin thank you uh um cheer and uh the rest of the board um my
122name is St Nar I'm a a um longtime resident of um of uh this uh district 7 and also a parent in in the elmrock school district I wanted to um mention to the board that you know I wanted to thank you for your time uh in in administering this process I tend to agree with um the rest of um the other community members and citizens that you need to be able to take a measured effort to take your time and be thoughtful about the process for placing somebody in this role whatever that happens to be um I'm a little bit ambivalent between whether or not to do a special election or a pro uh an appointee I'm leaning more towards the appointee because obviously the cost outlay for a special election is significant and
123the and the district isn't made of money but at the same time I'm I'm also I also um tend to agree with uh one of our colleagues that mentioned that the votes for the res the rest of the folks on the ballot it wasn't an overwhelming like torrent of votes that were there they were very close together in in in in being able to place for the for that race and I personally I feel it's a little bit disingenuous to just decide arbitrarily we're going to stick with this one person I think you have to have a measured approach for what you do you have to communicate that back to the community and really work harder at getting Community input 24 hours ahead of time is not enough we need more time we need the
124capability for folks to really get engaged debate this provide their input and provide you the Insight that you need to make a firm informed decision that's what I ask for thank you thank you Mr Gil next person you're on mute Mr Gil if you're saying something I can't hear yes sorry about that is De human uh yes can hear do you yes uh when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin hi uh thank you uh board members and staff my name is Yu I'm a longtime resident of Alan Brock uh again I want to thank all of you guys for your work and service to the district um I just wanted to say I didn't get a chance to express my sadness and disappointment uh that Mr scottf even ran and that he won
125I did not vote for him and told he would not to um but uh with the pandemic still raging where you know as of yesterday only 31 ICU beds are available in our County and our school district funds are at risk um I urge that the uh board go with the appointment process uh and and uh as others have mentioned before um I believe uh you know I hope that the community get a chance to um uh have a chance to to recruit and to find folks to apply so that our stakeholders like uh like ARA um like the parents in our uh Community um like the Vietnamese Community uh you know they have their strong desire for representation is quite clear in the previous few elections um even even though scottf did not campaign
126he got the second highest votes and I think that's um it's it's very telling uh to to the community that is seeking uh some sort of representation on this board um and also lastly just out of curiosity hopefully this can be addressed um I was just wondering why board member Dolores Marquez is uh you know still on the call um maybe it's a when the next term starts but I'm wondering if uh uh she will be participating in the selection uh for this uh vacancy appointment uh would like to know that thank you thank you next person Mr Gil is dza Gonzalez Miss Gonzalez when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin good evening members of the board um once again I'm a parent of two students in the BR school district and I'm
127really involved in every single meeting that the distri has helped this in this District I have seen a numerous of parents I have never seen coming to this meeting or spoken they speaking to you and saying take your time let's not rush this this um decision let that community be involved give us more time also 24 hours is not enough and we all know that even as a as a parent that I am take your time involve community in this process as well we are here to help and to be that guidance because we are the parents we know what our district needs and what our students need to be successful that let's not rush this situation let's take our time we don't have it to do it in two weeks we have 60 days
128to do it let's do this a correct way let's show parents that that board is knows what it's doing when it talks about replacing or or appointing somebody that's going to take that decision on behalf of our kids and our and parents as myself and the ones that are here we want to feel listen listen to the community let's do in the timely matter thank you have a really good evening thank you Mr Gil next personman mu Mr Mueller when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin will say that I agree with the majority of the board members that I've spoken sorry trustees that I've spoken with we don't have money to waste um I do not think it's the most optimal way for us to get what the community wants but again I
129am going to beg the trustees to please hear your community find a way set up a system where people can provide you more input um once you have the the list of people make sure that that list of people that are applying is actually put out in time so that Community leaders can discuss with those folks and see who they want to support last time that was a bit of a challenge um so please make sure the transparency does extend to things such as the list of applicants perhaps you should establish a date in advance of your actual date you want those applications so that you have enough time to process them because that was the problem last time you couldn't get them through the processing that you needed to do for HR I believe
130it was so you did not get the list of applicants out until the night of the selection meeting having done this twice it is a bitterly embarrassing process even for the people who did much better than I did um so I do hope that you will find ways to make this a much gentler process for those people who are putting themselves out there to the community and um again I support saving money doing it this way but please make it more comfortable for those people who are trying to join you finally I was told by one of the people that voted for me not to be there that I was not voted for last time because they wanted a nice quiet group and I might raise problems and I wouldn't have the same perspectives please
131don't do that we don't want to hear more from you we want to hear from different people with different persp thank you Mr Gil next person yes Victor vesos Mr Vasquez when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin just want to uh Echo the sentiments of like around the appointment process we are in a deficit so it's definitely very reasonable to look into that and just you know also there's comments around like representation and thinking in the future what are some of the policies that could also adhere to that is it representative district elections um a possibility are there other thing other solutions to look into with time with a community process or committee that would look into that uh so that we're not amending policies last minute doing our homework last minute and
132and also trying to find people and and elect and fill up the seat it just sometimes you know by doing that ahead of time you know in retrospect uh would avoid people feeling like there's power struggles or anything that's potentially like a bias in the process so as a board just you know encouraging you all to look into those um differences in the policy and the line them ahead of time thank you thank you Mr Gil next person just 804 is it time to stop how many thank you marel how many more do we have Mr Gil there are four people um let okay why don't we go ahead and those four TR uh Mr Gil can you see make sure we note who they are and any that come in after that unfortunately we
133can't hear but we'll go ahead and and hear these four and if you can the four that remain please if you um say that what you need to say then in consideration of others we would appreciate if you don't take the whole two minutes if you don't need it thank you Mr Kil who's the next person is Jeffy Kela okay um I think it was Jackie Miss C Miss Kaa I hope I'm oh there it is hi and this is Jeffy Kaa and I'm calling in to support the appointment of Brenda Z zenas to the Alam Rock Union Schoolboard District of Board of Trustees Brenda is passionate about public education and has spent her life serving her community and she is prepared now to serve in the role of board member and Alam Rock needs
134someone on their board that will advocate for them and not only that but appointing Brenda will be the shest way to reflect the will and vote of the people since she only missed this seat by 224 votes and we just had the election we know the will of the the voters and this year has been really difficult there's been a lot of challenges and so we need a board that's committed to serving the children and families of alen rock and listening to their voices and acting in good faith to public trust as a parent I am in full support of selecting Brenda and Deus to the Alam Rock Union School board thank you thank you Mr Gil next person Branda Zend house Miss Zend house when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin good
135evening board member superintendent um today I just want to ask you guys um to consider an appointment rather than um a small election um I wouldn't want any of the funds that the school has to go on an election as we know our district is already hurting financially and we have had costs that shouldn't have been done that were from the general funds that should have stayed in our kids um uh funds and I don't want to see that happening anymore so I urge you guys to support of an appointment process and I also have a question um I know you're allowing public comments but was there any emails that were meant for public comments that were supposed to be read and if so I have never seen that in a board meeting are we
136reading them or are we just keeping them in our emails thank you thank you Mr Gil next person font Miss font when you begin speaking your two minutes begines um and Dr bow again um I just I want to express my support of the provisional appointment process over the special election um I came on this evening without any agenda um and really just to listen to the perspectives and point of views and and I really want to uplift um what I heard from from Joselyn Ms um as well as some other folks around um this voting election I I believe that there are a lot of statements around the will of the people but I think earlier I mentioned Nuance um because that is also you know uplifting the the other perspective that I I
137heard Bruce wi share around representation especially for the Vietnamese Community um Alan is home to a very sizable API Community um and so I think when we think about the will of the people we have to hold that at the same time with representation and what that means to um students and families here in the alumrock school district so in able to move with that Nuance I'm just going to Echo the importance of intentionality and more time for us to do the the adequate community outreach and engagement um to make a provisional appointment process a robust one um and one that we can stand behind that was on and transparent um so that we can continue the hard work of rebuilding trust within the Alam Rock School District thank you thank you Mr Gil next
138person Veronica Veronica when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin great thank you again um and good evening um and I also want to Echo that there is no need and we shouldn't go the way of uh special election and we do not have the funds um and should we go with an appointment or appointing someone it should really just not be left up to the board members but the engagement the genuine engagement and collaborations with parents and other stakeholders and organizations um and community and I think that's something that we like to put in paper and we like to say and I mean not we but actually the school district likes to say and the school district likes to do um in paper and they like to do a presentation but when it
139comes to it we the as parents we don't see that collaboration we don't see that engagement and we have seen it in the Committees that have been formed right we have been asking for that collaboration and that commitment um that we do this together as stakeholders as parents as community members and it's not happening and just to be transparent um we need to if we're moving forward with an appointment we need to make sure that it is not rush and that it is taken into account our community our parents and our everybody that is a stakeholder in this district and it's important that we it's not just words that are nice piece of paper but that come with actions and those actions are actually presented and if it has to take us a little bit
140longer and we have to work a little bit harder on that then we're here for that and we've been here we've been asking for that thank you thank you m is that the four Mr Gil or was there another one that was the last one okay thank you okay thank you everybody so now um is uh is there a motion on the floor um at at the minimum for purpose of discussion for item 3.02 trusty kto motion motion by trusty kto is there a second second Chavez second second by trusty Chavez okay so are there any questions or comments from the board trusty hello I a question hold on hold on I'm sorry trusty eraa you will be first but trusty Marquez did you have no hold on I I was making my motion I
141had a question I was blanked I was blanked out and I had to unmute myself so I not I did not hear what the motions and who motioned in who second that's where I wanted that's what I wanted to get at president so I hadn't make a motion in and it was seconded so I wanted to make my motion because right now what it is is it's provisional appointment or special election uh so my motion is that we move forward with the provisional appointment okay thank you for that clarification second okay so trusty Marquez did you get that the motion is to move forward with the provisional and it's seconded by Chavez okay thank you for clarifying that for me sure trusty Lera your comment or question um I have a question for Mr Ru
142um Mr R if we if this does pass um I know that uh We've mentioned or the 60 days um has been mentioned from the um moment I'm assuming on Friday that he would have been coming in is that correct that's correct that's a really good point thank you for bringing that up okay so we have 60 days in order to make this process happen um is there a minimum time time like uh or is it just as long as it happens within those 60 days as long as it happens within that 60-day period And if I can add one other thing is that um you know currently um Dolores Marquez is a member of the board so that that seat is not yet vacant it will be vacant on December 12th um if the
143board declares it such um because that is the first day of Mr fam's eligib ability to hold that office you know had he sworn an oath so um I would just recommend that the motion be to declare Mr fam's seat vacant as of December 11th 2020 and to fill that vacancy by provisional appointment yeah I'll accept that that'll be the motion on Linda do you accept that before I go on with my next question Linda do you accept that as a second motion uh let's hear your question first so the question is um it's it's cl's question uh sure yes okay um and so we have a total of 60 days we get to complete this process within that time um it will become vacant after do is um is off um December 12th um
144in this time roel do we need to set like does that come next at some other point or do we set like uh the I know the selection method um but I mean at what point in our agenda today would we set like our next scheduled special board meeting or if we have it on the 17th is would that be here or would that be later that4 yeah 3.04 you the board would decide on the process in got it got it okay thank you I'm sorry about that okay those are my questions that I had thank you okay I saw I think trusty kto did you have a a hand raised yeah I had uh some comments and just uh you know I wanted to appreciate everybody that's been uh participating I think that um
145our um unfortunate move to to because of Co now on this medium but it also allows for a lot of people to participate and it forced us to create a more robust streaming process and so we got to recognize that at least let's look at the silver line and things for as bad as this thing is um but um you know I I you know David eon's model political systems you this is exactly what it is we have people engaging and and providing those inputs through demand support whatever it may be and it's going into through the process that'll come out as an as an output so I you know I know there's a lot of folks out here people are at the end of the day from what I'm hearing here it looks like
146nobody's gon to be happy because we got certain folks asking for something other folks asking for another thing um and so that's exactly what we signed up for we signed up to make those decisions definition of politics is also deciding who gets gets what one and how according to certain folks and so um I'm really express my gratitude to everybody who's out here you know you could be doing something else but you're engaging and you're letting us know that we can come to a more informed uh decision and so um appreciate everybody other folks who traditionally haven't been here I've seen some Community leaders who are really active and doing a bunch of other stuff and now they're showing up to the meeting I really appreciate their input uh because they're they they they represent
147the the the voice of a significant groups out there neighborhood associations and so thank you all for engaging and you know I know that it's not the end of the meeting but I wanted to jump in there and make sure to state that um that I'm I'm really uh comfortable with um with what I'm hearing and it's helping you know to make a better informed decision thank you um any I I keep seeing the yellow box around your name trusty Marquez are are you trying to say something I can't tell yes yes I was trying to just let it light up with a whisper it's working okay go ahead so so um I I um will not be supporting U the motion that's on the table today because I clearly distinctly heard an overwhelming overwhelming
148Community saying that missas should be the next appointee and and I do not see a problem with that because it would have been tonight it would have been over and done with and we would have been doing what you guys always say let's get the people the community engaged let's talk let's listen to the community let's you know we we are here to listen to you we no but nothing like that happened today you know I am sorry that you know all the comments that were set today and there were so many comments and I got each and every comment down that that it fell on death ears because they wanted to be engaged on the appointment but the three vote here is the only one that's moving this process and not listening to the
149community and I am so sorry that this happened tonight so I just want the community here to please remember how all of this went down so I I apologize for you guys okay thank you um I'll I'll go and then I see trusty Chavez um you can go next um and I just wanted to go just kind of in response uh to trusty marquez's comments if I understand correctly what I believe I hear you suggesting is that by default the the next um vote getter just automatically would get the seat so there would be neither an appointment nor a special election just by default that person would get the seat that's how I hear you saying it by virtue of the fact that you're saying you would oppose the motion on the floor so um
150I just want to state that I I did have the opportunity I mean as much as it's been rushed for you it it also believe it or not has been rushed for us to try to figure out how to deal with this how to move forward how to proceed how to deal with all the things that you're aware of and the things that you may not be that we just aren't able to share um and I was able to find time to speak to our colleagues in um Franklin McKinley San Jose Unified baresa and East Side Union High School District and all of those districts have in these situations a process for appointment um and none of them automatically default to a second or third or fourth or whatever the case may be vote getter
151um and addition Ally um you know that's that's the process that's set forth in our bylaws in the bylaws of all of those other districts and so you know I don't I want to make sure that it's clear that the process that you know we may end up going down is very um standard across most districts and and where we have set ourselves apart and what we took a vote on a little earlier is actually Alan Rock has gone um actually I was the one that brought that uh modification that we voted on earlier to to memorialize our process for appointment and and so by doing that we've even become more clear and more transparent about our process of selection now certainly there's always ways and and areas where we can even improve more but
152I guess the point that I'm trying to make here is that the process that we seem to be going down is very consistent with all of our other neighboring districts consistent with csba recommended policies um and to just automatically default to any individual because of the previous election would um in my estimation be problematic so um that's my statement about that trusty Chavez uh yes can you hear me I'm on my phone now we can hear loud and clear okay so um I heard what you're saying um president know but I would before I lose connection because I only have one little bar on my phone um I wanted to also say uh that if we could Implement a board polic and I know this is not time but I want to say it now
153before I'm not Hur if we could implement it uh on the board policy to put this amendment and revise uh the policy for appointment or for the next vote getter by January 2021 uh January 31st 20 21 or after the appointment uh whichever comes last thank you I'm sorry trusty CH I didn't quite understand that can you repeat what you're suggesting I didn't quite get that okay because I keep hearing um whether people's um feel that this appointment is going to be right and that it's being rushed and we're not listening to the community I think that we also have to I I know it got voted down that we have to have a first reading and then and we're not going to go into a second reading but can this board policy be brought
154back next month so that we can vote to put a more concise and clear way of doing this process should this ever happen again and if it could be done and implemented by January 31st 2021 or after we do the appointment or election whichever way this goes thank you if I mean I I guess my response would be if I understood it correctly obviously you're you're free to request an item to be added to an agenda at any time um and the the president whoever they are at that time and the superintendent will figure out how to go ahead and agendize that so I think your request is well within you know what we're able to do and in terms of the timeline I don't know I don't know that I got that but like
155you mentioned we did vote on for the purposes of tonight we voted you know that's what we're moving on for now yes but I just wanted to add that after the appointment or okay or so put a certain timeline on it so that it does get on the book so that does should this happen again it's just clear concise and we move on so that we can get to the education of the students because it's um this is just sidetracking us some thank you okay thank you trusty Kino uh board president I want to make sure that the community is very clear that you did a really great job in memorializing the process from last time um we do have a you know um obviously I don't agree with the the last the last component
156that we we we amended tonight but um we do have a very thorough very very clear process and I would like I said before I invite folks to go out there on our website you just type in arusd board bylaws um and it pops up it's a first link 9223 um it goes down down to the weeds and so it really lays out the entire process so some of the comments are being made out there is as if I'm not sure if some of our colleagues read the bylaws if they've actually you know been able to understand them properly because it's a very very thorough uh you know set of instructions that if a board gets you they've never done this before they would just follow it Point by point and uh and and and
157they would be able to go through a very transparent very wellth thought out process process that doesn't have uh our board members just shooting from the hip and just like you know let's see how this goes today it's very well planned out very methodical and so appreciate that and your work that you did there I just want to make sure that the public is very well aware that there is a process and now with the the amendment that we made today it's a it's a you know it's it it changed that slight little thing that would have been a hiccup possibly so those were my comments just want clarify for the for the community thank you um has have all the trustees had an opportunity to speak on this item yes okay so in the
158interest of time I'm some of us Twi I am gonna call for the vote and then if you have further comments I'm sure it can they could still come up in the other items because this kind of all bleeds together so um for this particular item since we've all had at least an one opportunity um we'll go ahead and call for the vote um and so I'll call as I you on my screen trusty so the motion on the board on the motion on the floor is to approve the um a provisional appointment to to declare Mr fam's seat vacant as of was there a date December 11th as of December 11th and to move forward with the provisional appointment in order to fill that vacancy um that's the motion trustee era your vote hi
159hi trusty Marquez no myself I trusty Chavez no okay uh motion passes 3 to2 two in opposition or trusty Marquez and trusty Chavez thank you everyone we can now move forward to item 3.03 receive public statements of interested applicants for provisional appointment now that we've established that we are going down the rout of provisional appointment as opposed to special election so um I just wanted to provide a little Clarity here and again this mirrors um essentially the process that we used when we did indeed appoint trusta and so on this evening um any potential candidates who at this time are a are interested in running have the opportunity to um say and introduce themselves to the community that was what the community had asked for at last time and so that's why we put it
160on there this time um if there are additional um applicants at whatever time we end up deciding to to do the actual appointment process um then I believe my understanding is that we will also set aside a brief time for those can those applicants to um have a brief introduction of themselves in addition to um the interview process that is identified in our process and our bylaws so um so that's kind of the introduction Mr Ru or Dr Bower anything to add to that before we start with public comment not for me okay so as we've been doing Mr President yes Mr President I'd like to table this part there was not enough notice for the community to completely be informed or for the complete Community to be informed only a few chosen that were
161called are the only ones that are going to come forward I think that is a real farce process when not everyone was given enough ample time to know about this I think this should be tabled until after the process is put in place second was that a a motion trusty Marquez that was a motion second by Chavez a motion and a second to table this item is there questions or comments from the board trusty erera yeah um I think it's important to hear everybody that's interested everybody that invested their time um I heard from Plenty of you know uh community members and our trustees um about uh one of the um community members who is here today and I would love you know if she is interested to hear from her um I don't know
162you know um yeah so I think we're in alignment I remember when I was a candidate at the time or a possible candidate or thinking about it I was not ready you know I ended up going to the meeting because that's you know as a parent that's what I was doing at that time being informed and active um and Community member and so I remember having my heartbeat and say wow I didn't think this you know was going to be a moment given to me and so I remember going for it and so um I will uh be supporting 303 um is that what we're discussing 303 because I hear another the motion on the floor is the table you'll be you're you're talking to the whether or not you will support the so I
163won't be supporting this motion and uh yeah okay TR thank you trusty K I think I saw your thumb yeah um I I actually don't understand the whole idea of um of transparency wouldn't wouldn't it be great to hear from folks today possibly hear from folks later on uh and then even between and then hear people uh you know when they have to when when they're ready to speak when once we develop a process obviously it will be more clear to us and so I think the more opportunities for people to speak it's the better um obviously we don't want to hear from the same exact people over and over again but I mean a as the process is fully developed we' have more opportunities for more people to speak so um I'm I'm comfortable
164with as AG gendis today allowing those who are here um and they're interested in speaking to speak we can go ahead and hear them the community can hear them and then at a separate time provide another opportunity for people to speak it's I think it's a a worthwhile Endeavor to allow uh folks who are interested to to be able to speak so that the we can hear them the community can hear them and then you know other folks can be informed and we can get more input and we can know more about you know what the community's position is on the on the people who are out there what better way of of showing the community who are the applicants because one of the criticisms uh that we heard from the community was that the
165names weren't put out and that because of some HR issue and so I appreciate that you brought that up because this is a this is probably an even better way of allowing those who are interested to announce themselves and to um present themselves to the board as well as public in general um you know to go ahead and tell people to no don't talk because for whatever reason it just seems like a and and an Endeavor to try to be less transparent um and so that you know that's not what we're supposed to be doing thank you trusty Chavez and then I'll go after that and I think maybe trusty pres yes a response after that okay okay go ahead chave okay so I think that in all fairness we should give everybody the same
166amount of time and if you give those persons time to talk now um and then they're just going to be talking more the more you speak to somebody or hear somebody speak you might be swayed one way or the other so to make it more Equitable I think everybody should be allowed the same amount of time and the same number of times to speak thank you thank you um my quick comment is that I you know this was agendized as it as it is here and so In fairness to any individual we don't know we may have someone or we may have no one we we don't know at this time but if we do have someone who came here with an interest in putting them themselves forth as an applicant and they've been sitting
167here through this meeting I think it's um that we owe them the opportunity to to have the this Mo time to introduce themselves to the community if they if there are people who don't know them I remember the last time there were several applicant applicants who were at that time fairly unknown I would I would say to most of the community and ended up being very good applicants um so I think um In fairness to them if they are there tonight they should be given the time to speak um because that's how it's agendized and they made the effort so I will not be supporting the motion to table trusty Chavez and then trusty Marquez after that uh go ahead take Marcus and then if I still have the comment I will okay thank you
168okay trusty Marquez okay so here um listening to um Chino and listening to um to you um president Deano it just does not make any sense to have people speak now when other people don't even know that this is available is not it hasn't been published anywhere it hasn't been told or if it has it hasn't been with enough ample time and so for me this process of allowing them to do this is going to tarnish the process you're going to put up ahead you know because you still have to put the guidelines and what they're going to the questions you know they're going to come and answer you still have a lot of work to do and putting this together one of the things I am going to definitely recommend and I hope that
169you really take it too hard is that no applicant no applicant that is going to be interested should contact any board member and introduce themselves and try to lobby for a vote that happened in the last appointment I had Corina call me several times while all the other applicants never never even thought of being so une as to call a board member and try to get the support of a vote and I don't want that to be happening at this appointment where your friends or your people you know as a board member they're going to be calling you and say I'm interested you know with my chances blah blah no if you're interested you apply if you're not interested you're not interested but no one no one should contact any board member that's going to
170make a decision or a vote on the appointment should be ever contacted because what Karina did at the last appointment was very very unethical in calling me so I hope that when set up the rules that you will keep that in mind thank you thank you trusty Chavez did you remember your comment yes okay um I'm I'm glad truste um Marquez said that because I'm going to refer back to what I just said in all fairness everybody should be given the same amount of time to be fair and so everybody knows that we did a fair process to to let persons speak more than other persons that's not fair that's not Equitable and they're always coming to the board meetings and saying we need to be more Equitable this is a chance to do so
171thank you okay thank you so at this time since I'm gonna go ahead and call for the vote since we need to move forward um and so this is the a vote to table this item or not the motion no the motion on the floor excuse me is to table this item so um let's see um Mr R do we need to take public comment on this tbling motion no this is a it's it's really more the nature of a motion to carry it's not a motion to table because there isn't another motion on the table U but it's a motion to carry but no this is a procedural motion okay so but we always allow comment from the community okay so I'll go ahead and call for the vote for this motion to table
172trusty era no trusty KERO no trusty Marquez yes myself no trusty Chavez yes okay motion to table is does not pass um the three opposed erera quo Beano um so um did we originally have another we didn't have another motion yet right for this item no go ahead hey board president Bano um would you indulge um the because um you know I have to admit that sometimes I may um see some something that I agree with with my our colleagues not everything and not everything that they mentioned right here but um you know I think it would make more sense to move the the comment section um to um after we develop the the the um sorry about that I you know what get let me get back to me I'm I'm at a l
173right I'm not sure we are on um I I wanted to adjust the comment section so that we can go ahead and fully flesh out out our process and then then it becomes just part of the process you know do you follow me I might I'm sorry it's working on process the process is this is as like literally this um this item is part of the policy that we have outlined in our board bylaws already so it's not that we need to determine a process this is the the the opportunity for potential applicants to introduce themselves at this time is part of the memorialized process got yeah I I I just I went I went back to 92.3 I so you're right I was being know there's a lot said and so they throw a
174lot at you sometimes you I appreciate the clarification you're right you're right thank you kto so I'll take it back uh president Beano if we can move on um and see if we have a list uh to find out if there are people interested um do we need to make a motion I don't even think we need a motion actually okay on to that that would be great no motion is needed right Mr D that's correct I think you just call the speakers okay so then um at at this time the it's obviously the the digital nature of this makes it a little more difficult in many ways um but any again this this is a opportunity for those who who became aware of this um to present themselves to the community it's it is
175in my estimation a fair proc oh I won't make a comment because that part is over so if are there are any community members at this time who um who have an interest in applying for this vacancy um please uh raise your hand in the zoom um platform to make yourself uh um visible to Mr Gil so that you can have up to five minutes to just introduce yourself to the community again um this mirrors the process that we used last time and this was from coming from the voice of the community wanting to know who the people who were thinking running were so or or applying I'm sorry so I'm kind of trying to stall a little bit while Mr Gil identifies who those people may be and maybe we don't have anyone at
176this time but the opportunity exists here on the agenda so Mr Gil do we have anyone right now yesly we have three okay so um no particular order uh Mel if you can set the timer for five minutes um and so I believe the a difference from this time to last time is that last time I believe we gave 10 minutes and I I think the feedback that I heard was that that was was quite a long time for people to do just an introductory kind of statement so we did shorten it down to five minutes which still can be substantial for this particular type of um you know speaking opportunity so the first person you know feel free to take the entire five minutes or whatever you feel is necessary to introduce yourself and
177your intention um to apply to the community Mr Gil Who is the particular order who is the first person if I may address that earlier there were four people now there are three sometime four it is dropping are we still considering whoever comes in correct so they're back to forth okay okay so let's uh if you can choose one just randomly and we'll start there and and see if those four Remain the four that we end up with okay the first person is Joe Corona okay Mr Corona thank you for stepping up and um actually you know I'd like to put this to the board quickly I don't know if we could do this maybe this is an opportunity where we can turn on people's cameras um Mr Ruiz or or Dr bow or anyone
178feedback about turning the cameras on at this point this is a little different now from those challenges we had earlier in the evening can we go ahead and if the okay if the applicant has the ability and the desire to um turn on your camera I know people may not have be set up for that right now but if you are we I actually individually as a trustee would request that you do that just so again the community can be familiar with who you are and if you're going to try to be in one of these seats we should know kind of have know who you are yeah so um so thank you Mr Corona um and everyone else if you're able to and desire your camera and feel free to take the five minutes
179um and with that Mr Corona you can go ahead and take as much as you like and let us know when you're done thank you okay by time start good evening good evening Bor and uh trustee uh um my name is Joe Corona I was a candidate for this past election fortunately I was not the the Victorious one but uh I've been living in this neighborhood so everybody can know I've been here since 88 my kids went to this alrock school board District my grandkids are going that's what made mein to run for this position that I know I'm not a educator I've not been in this in the in the system as all the other boards but I I I feel that I can bring something to the table that can all we change
180this board a little bit uh work with the board and with the parents to help the the achieve more make our kids more successful more growth and achie and achievement on their studies we go forward and uh and uh in this community you know it's not an easy job as I can see all you got I hear all these these people speak which they have the right to speak which is good it's everyone has everybody has a different view of this Alm Rock Schoolboard District you know many year several years ago I was a coach here on the on alrock School uh alrock area I I had the place was at gay Avenue I had to go and I was a coacher for several years which is great you know got invol with the children
181kids and uh that allowed me to be become who I am those those kids are now 30 30 years old and they see me they still call me coach good that's part of and I am also a little St John bani uh Catholic Church that's why I'm a parishioner there somewh involved there I care for this community maybe I can bring some kind of like I said before uh uh help uh this this board accomplish more goals that we have place and I see there's a lot of challenges in this area but we can we can achieve them you know I always say to myself every adversity has a seed of an equal or greater benefit for those who have a positive mental attitude you know and uh it's always having a positive attitude and
182everything will work out for yourselves and uh uh nice talking to all you guys uh and uh keep me in in your consideration if you guys decide to appoint somebody you know uh I hope I can of you guys in the future you guys have a good evening thank you very much thank you Mr Corona okay um Mr Gil again in no particular order Rand if you can randomly select another person and if that person my request have your camera on if possible and and take as much as you need of your five minutes to introduce [Music] yourself so the next person is Raymond Miller okay Mr Mueller uh once You' begin speaking you have the opportunity to obviously as I said speak for up to five minutes to um discuss your uh potential application
183intentions Etc so feel free to use up as much as apps as you need and and start talking we'll begin thank you very much um I would like to first um commend the uh superintendent on uh she has managed this situation as soon as it was possible information did get out um I would like to speak to a couple of points first of all I do feel that the appointment process has been used and abused by the members of this board for decades there are currently I believe two people on this board who were originally appointed I believe were you not I believe also anyhow sorry not Ernesto Andre um so I am going to continue with what I have asked in the past and that is that this group when you're making your choices
184that your choices are not I like this person I would you know have coffee with this person but do they represent a group of this community that I do not do they have views that are not the same as everyone else because I think that will be a big issue um I did want to mention that since the voters are being left out of this it is important to note that there are other things in place from the elections that you may want to look into before you make your decisions that would include um endorsements and such um I am currently the co-chair of the sil Silicon Valley stwall dims and actually our club endorsed uh Karina and um Brenda so they didn't I wasn't running this election um so anyhow those are a few
185points that I wanted to bring up and in honor of the fact that I promised my husband that I would not I'm announcing that I am not putting in my obate thank you thank you Mr Gil next person BR Zas Miss Zas same thing um you have the opportunity to turn your camera on so that the community can if they don't already um get a visual see who you are and and hear your um you know anything you choose to use your five minutes for introduction or whatever um so obviously as we said when you begin speaking your five minutes will start feel free to use the entire five minutes or however much you need uh first I want to say thank you guys for this opportunity I also want to state that um I
186don't feel as comfortable as I should to be doing this because this was a really short notice it was 24 hours and I would have loved to see every person that wanted to run for this scene I want this to be as Equitable as I I can see it and um from what I've heard I do want everyone to know I didn't know there was another meeting at the same time as this board meeting which does make it really conflicting for people to um come and um I would say give their five minutes if they were offered a door Dash uh card that just I didn't know all this information so I feel uncomfortable giving my statement right now um and I would ask if I am allowed to give my statement with everybody that
187is putting in their application if that is possible um can you let me know right now um I'm not quite sure if I understand the request so if I want to wait to give my statement when all the applicants have given their application and have the same amount of time as I do and the same amount of time um to put in their application and know about this process can I do that then and there you mean so so you mean not speak tonight but um at at a future time when we go through the appointment process and there may be other applicants to speak at that time yes because if I speak now will I be able to speak then again uh I believe that is how we did it the the last time
188but board members um you can feel free to refresh my memory I believe last time there was there were several people who were who did not speak the first time but spoke the second time and I think there were others who spoke both times um so yeah I mean if I can just add uh I'm not sure when you say the second time and the first time I know that we spoke the five minutes and then I believe we went straight into the interviews process that we were given um you know time to speak then so um this is a time that's given to everybody and if Mrs sendas doesn't want to take it that's fine right we we get to respect that um but we get to you know depending on what we choose
189what that process [Music] is if my memor if my memor me correctly I think there was at least one candidate who who couldn't make it who didn't know the first time and so they spoke the night of as an introduction so to answer your question Miss andas um if you would want to not speak tonight and instead give your introductory speak uh you know words on the night when we do the process you I believe it will be okay to do that because we so it would be basically like you didn't as if you might be one of the candidates that weren't aware of the media tonight and so you would have the opportunity at the other appointment proc um my point was because um the other time wasn't a 24hour notice I think we
190were given a little bit more time but I will say a small introduction just to let you guys know that I am interested in this position and I gonna say my name and a little bit information about myself well if we do that then I think we I mean this will be considered your introduction so okay I think at that point it would become a little unfair if we do twice well I do take this role very seriously um to me uh when I ran for alen Rock School Board District uh my only purpose was to serve the community and the children in the school I've been working in this district for 14 years um with the special ed department and I truly love my job I love those kids and I see nothing but
191potential in these kids um working in this district has given me the experience to know what our children need and um maybe how we can better support our kids um I've made a lot of connections during these past years with a lot of not only leaders but Partnerships that I know that are willing to come in and support our district um I have been very involved in our school district I sat at site Council um I was a representative for both of my children's school I have two children one is in elementary and one is Middle School um so I was the representative for both of their schools and I also was the district advisor committee representative um I learned a lot about our district when I got involved and I learned how our budgets
192are allocated I was also given the Jubilee parent award um from the district and um from the principal parent award because I choose my time to volunteer my kids school uh to learn more about not only their teachers but their classrooms and what they are doing um and I've always volunteered for all their field trips I've never missed one field trip with any of my children because I think it's important to see what they're doing and and be involved in their schools um I also want to say that I been taking trusty training before with um board members that sat at this board and took the time to give us a three course training that I truly appreciate because they gave me a lot of understanding about our school board um I'm also the right
193now the lind Vista uh PTA yearbook staff um as I mentioned before I've been very involved in this District um I used to be the youth uh leader for a church here in the community and I've always been involved with children from Little to teens and I know the hurdles that our kids go to because I am the only candidate that I will say works with these children are elen rock students and I believe that I will bring that uh lens to this board um which is our students voice I work with them on a daily basis and I know um what our parents uh need and and and ask for because I contact them on a daily basis and especially with covid-19 right now I'm hearing of all the needs and all the um
194support that they wish that they have or you know and I understand that our district right now doesn't have all the funds and is doing the best that they can do and I can see it um as as transparent and trying to involve all the parents that's something that I appreciate with this board that you guys have been doing um I have also been volunteering sorry um I've also been volunteering at the food pantries here at uh our local pantries with City team uh with the River of Life family I've been doing that for two years and um have I also partnered with our local farmers market on making sure that when covid-19 happened that a lot of our parents that are undocumented got the vegetables and food that they needed I was able to
195raise enough money to give uh more than 50 families groceries um we do it on Sundays and lot of our um Farmers Market they donate whatever they don't sell and we distribute it all over and a lot of these families are all Ellen Rock families that we support um I am very involved when it comes to our kids our parents and I take it very serious when someone is uh in need and whenever you ask me if I have um if anyone needs anything I always look for resources I'm very resourceful when it comes to trying to make sure that um we try not to spend money but support our community as you guys heard the Linda Vista project was with beautiful team and um that was a great partnership that I could say that
196I was a part of um we were able to uh beautify Linda Vista at the cost of Zar to the district and I'm really proud of that because our school got beautified and our children were so excited to see the new basketball courts and I hope that one day they get to play with them and get to see the new uh Galleries and art that was um I'm looking forward to continue to working with partnership that will bring services to our school district at possibly no cost and not only that advocate for more funds because right now I know that the biggest need in our school district is of funds and whatever I can do to support the district um I'm ready here to help I'm here to serve and most importantly I'm here for
197the students and our parents okay thank you mras um Mr Gil do we have is it one other person or two more yeah there is one person and a phone number will ask the next person is [Music] De um same thing for you if you have the ability and um oh there you go camer is up and so same as everybody else when uh you begin speaking you'll have up to your four five minutes to give any type of introductory statement you would like and and introduce yourself who may not know you in the community so as soon as you begin speaking you're feel free to use as much time as you need of your five minutes sure thank you so much uh board uh board president uho um my name is Yu uh my
198pronouns are he him I am an immigrant I'm an educator uh and I'm someone who deeply believes in the power of the people uh I grew up in Section 8 housing uh I have been in classrooms uh and I know all too well uh you know what the lack of representation means and how it translate to educational outcomes uh for our children uh not just racial representation but representation for the younger generation uh representation for low-income people um and and I know what it means to be rose that grew out of the concrete um so I'm raising my hand just now just to be clear uh not so much for myself as I haven't made a decision whether or not to be a candidate but um really for our Alam Rock Community uh I know
199uh that the name k Tran uh can elicit some strong emotions uh I know the name Scott fam can elicit some strong emotions uh they I know for a fact that they do for me uh and it's not a good one um I strongly oppose their Antics and I look forward to the day when you know the alamro 3 is gone as well for good from our board meetings uh and you know similar to uh Brenda you know having ran in the past uh I really worry what what will happen in 2022 midterms when it rolls around and one of these two decides to throw their names into the election again uh having you know not really run any conventional sort of campaigns and both times either being elected or being very closely almost elected
200um really shows what the uh Community is is is asking for they might not show up to the meetings but they made their voice heard through their votes so you know in the interest of equity for our uh students and and for steady stewardship um you know through the very possible like very rough times ahead which I'm not jealous of any of you guys um you know having having seen what's going on um I'm considering to apply um you know or find someone within the API Community to make sure that we not only react to you know things that happen like this these troubling times when someone decides just to quit on the kids uh you know but but I hope to proactively work to engage our communities uh if I do end up placing
201myself into this process I will do so in the interest of our children um you know in the interest of reforming our alen Rock District to be more fair more Equitable uh like uh VI had mentioned in the past perhaps a changing of the way we we do the elections in Alam Rock uh I will do so in the interest to make sure that long after black lives matter you know stop dominating the news that we will make sure to keep police officers out of our schools uh and instead invest in our mental health and educational needs of our children um and it's just I beg everyone here to to reach out to anyone that you know that you think is qualified uh I think our community have a lot of good people uh they've
202been deterred um and it's time to re-engage the communities so thanks so much and uh that's all okay thank you Mr whnn um and I believe we had one more was is that correct Mr Gil we have a phone number yes sir there is one number ending 6518 okay um the individual who's presently calling in on the phone with 6158 obviously you don't I don't believe you have the ability to use a camera right now um but you can go ahead and when you begin speaking your uh five minutes will start for you to have a chance to introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about your intention to be an applicant uh yes can uh can you hear me board president Beano yes loud and clear oh okay very good uh board president
203honorable members of the board uh my name is min famam I you know uh I am putting my name in uh you know in the application process for the board vacancy uh why am I doing this well uh I am a alam Rock resident and an Alam Rock graduate and I you know I would not go on to college not go on to graduate school uh not working as as an educator nor as a legislative Aid without you know what Alam Rock has given to me uh you know in terms of uh my commitment to this community I mean first of all uh you know there was a Vietnamese candidate that was elected and I myself am Vietnamese and you know and I think you know the Vietnamese community in Alam rock is part and
204parcel of the rich Heritage of this district and I you know look forward to being able to you know uh represent that perspective if appointed to the board but I think more importantly uh I see you know why why I you know the meat of why I want to I want the I would uh myself forward for appointment is uh you know Alam rock is you know going through some tough times as a result of this pandemic you know uh not of its own making and you know as we know you know funds have you know our district serves a you know low to Middle inome population so you know my focus you know if appointed would be to work with the to colle work with my colleagues on the board you know work with
205superintendent Bower you know to you know to get get us through this pandemic just like it has just like this District uh has gone through you know uh in has come out the other side through you know uh its 90-year history uh to you know and once we get out of that pandemic and you know to work to you know put us back on the right track you know financially and in terms of being able to uh uh offer educational programs that will you know bring people you know bring the community back to Alam Rock You know I you know I you know uh you know I currently serve as the vice chair of the bond oversight committee you know I'm no stranger to you know uh working through thorny questions and I you know
206uh you know it was a multi-year process but you know through you know much work with my colleagues on the oversight committee we were able to you know get questions answered and help you know help the district improve its you know internal Financial controls regarding to bond issuance you know and you know move us into a better place you in regard to our bond programs so I'm hope you know so you know I'm hoping to leverage my experience not only in that area but also you know as a legislative Aid I've worked to you know when adalante had issues with getting staff with teachers I was the point person in the district office of Assembly women compost to you know push through the bureaucracy and as Vice chair of the uh uh citizens advisory committee
207with the open space Authority I've worked to you know help secure grants for example uh at Joseph George middle school so I certainly hope that you know uh I can be able to use this experience to you know again get this District out of the pan you know see the district through the pandemic and get it to the other side in a better place uh thank you very much for your consideration uh board president and honorable members of the board and uh you know uh in good evening thank you very very much Mr fam um just to make sure Mr Gil we don't have anyone else is that correct tonight correct okay well thank you um to everyone who this evening St Ste forth and and gave us a little information about yourself um as
208applicant or potential applicant um let's see so that's all for this item this item was just specifically to receive those comments so so I'm sorry Mr President we can't hear you very well oh sorry so I think on this item that I was just thanking everyone for stepping forth and I think on this item is this not it's specifically was just a time for those applicants to come forth um so I don't I don't know that we have the need especially in the interest of time for common question from the board but if there's anything urgent that someone feels they need before moving on to the process and procedures for this um I guess we can take a moment or two Mr President I really feel strong that we shouldn't be asking questions of the
209speakers no no not asking questions of the speakers I just meant amongst the board like with regards to this item no we're that will be in the interview process okay trusty Chavez are we set in a date right now that would be I think on the next item okay okay so it sounds like we don't have anything so again this was just the opportunity for people to come forth and and put themselves out there um Dr bar do you have something I we cannot hear you it's hard to hear you I don't know what's going I know that you get closer to your mic but it's hard to hear you I have h i I'm not able to hear you yeah you're almost at a whis at a whisper can you hear me now a
210little better but not okay hold on put your hand over the mic maybe can you hear me now yes oh much better okay so much for this microphone I'm just using these little earbuds now and I guess it's better okay so we don't have any need um or we can move forward to item 3.04 I think that's where the majority of what um trustees and probably Community will have input on um and so item 3.04 just as a quick introductory um I'll say something and I guess Dr bow or Mr Ruiz can chime in but this is basically now as I mentioned previously we do have the majority of the process the of how we go about an application process I'm sorry a provisional appointment process in our bylaws and so that's all there in
211terms of how we um send out the applications how we do the scoring all of that stuff is is in there so this um item tonight is more I think then along the lines of timelines um also I know we need to I we requested for each trustee to bring two questions um that they might want considered for the application and interview process and so um so I think all of that stuff the kind of some of the the minutia or or the finer details of the process is open for this particular section is additional that we announce oh just setting a future date board meeting as well okay and so as we've been doing we'll go ahead and um start with public comment um on this section 3.04 and then we'll this is as
212we agreed to 20 minutes for this one to give more time for the next one after the public comment on this item um then we we can use that comment to inform our questions and comments during a board discussion of of the process and procedures so with that all being said um I kind of hate to do this because I want to hear everyone but uh vice president ER Lera can you go ahead and um facilitate for a couple minutes the public comment I need to um take a quick break absolutely so thank you okay thank you I'll be back so Mr we have speak speakers are ready to speak yes we are one okay can we go ahead and uh unmute them and the first person is T Tanya as soon as your uh
213speak in we'll yes we can hear okay you can hear it okay so I sent a letter to the board members today and to uh superintendent Bower uh explaining uh a position I'm taking about uh how the process could be and I'm going to say this not knowing the full facts and maybe the attorney does but I do know outside of your policy outside of board policy many school boards have done different kinds of choosing of positions and making decisions one of them of course a special election you know the other is doing provisional appointment um there have even been coin tosses which I strongly disagree with um but there's also in your power I believe within your power as school board members to actually appoint the next vote get her um after all you
214are in the position of power to make decisions what's best for your district and the most expedient would be a to pick somebody who's well known um to this community who's been engaged who's been involved who's run twice um been to the board done done done the work basically and I believe that you do have the power within your within your position to actually make a decision that's not necessarily in your policy but it's not not outside of your policy either and that is to point the next vote getter and I'll just read what I wrote Brenda's and day house who ran a full campaign this November very close to third vote getter and also ran two years ago and has been actively engaged in school and Community Affairs before after and in between campaigns
215she's prepared herself over the years to be a capable and responsible trustee she was also an applicant for the vacancy left by Karen Martinez a year ago in the light of this I strongly feel that the board should appoint Brenda to the vacancy as soon as possible and there were also not just my letter but there were two other letters one from Richard Hobbs that you received and one from Nella and alen hinger requesting that you'd make that consideration as well thank you thank you uh do we have anybody else on the list yes we have two more three more uh next is Jeff Markham Jeff as soon as we uh you begin speaking we'll um start the time thank you very much uh for very much the same reasons that former trustee foren Burger
216advocated for Brenda zenas I would like to advocate for Bruce Wen uh he's also run twice before and placed reasonably well in the voter uh roles in terms of uh represented how he's represented and uh I think he would represent the Vietnamese Community very well um and and as we've seen Mr fam was the uh second most vote getter uh in the community and uh I think Alam Rock really needs to spend some extra energy reaching out to the Vietnamese Community because this process has confus them uh and uh you know they're from a a country where they've had a lot of political upheaval and I think uh reaching out to them and having somebody that they trust within the Community uh is a good thing and uh the Vietnamese Community has a lot of
217school children in our district and it's very important that they be represented um I think we have a lot of representatives from a lot of other ethnic groups and the Vietnamese Community needs to have an active voice in alrock and I hardly recommend that we uh advocate for somebody who could represent their voice so I would put my voice behind Bruce w thank you Mr Markham uh do we have any other speakers Mr yes next is Nat Abal welcome as soon as you begin speaking we'll start the clock thank you my name is Natalie B Mama three um I wanted to Echo what Mr markim I just said um I I've fully support uh duwen um I feel like just from knowing him when he R he ran before he's been very transparent he cares
218about the community he cares about the kids um and I feel like he would rep he's that representation that we need on the board um there are other people that are that are interested and I have to say as a community member I you know with not getting into too many detail but if I haven't agreed with a certain person's um things there is a particular person who's running who has put inappro like inappropriate emojis on my Facebook and then goes and changes them so you know um I it makes me very like uncomfortable like if you know having a candidate that might not be able to have receptive communication and I do feel like with uh Bruce with with uh DN that we would have that so I um I fully support him thank
219you thank you uh do we have somebody else uh yes ma'am we have Victoria partia Victoria as soon as you begin speaking we'll uh start the clock hi good evening my name is Victoria partia um I am a parent of um my son who attends alante too and I'm calling to express my support for the of Brenda SAS to the alumrock Union School District Board of Trustees I think what set Brenda part is that you actually see her out in the community one of the just examples that I can think of straight now is that when I started talking to her about how it's very challenging that my TK son has four different apps to log on and how challenging that is and right away she told me what was going on and she let
220me know that there was other parents in the same boat I think this is very important I do like I said I do see her out in the community and I know that she is very relatable because she not only works um in the district she ALS she also has children and I think this is very important and she does bring a different perspective that a lot of the other people might not so please um you think about when they has us you're thinking about who to appoint thank you thank you Miss partia uh do we have anybody else yes we have Demi Yang welcome as soon as you begin speaking we'll start our clock hi my name is Tami Yen and I am a Community member I am calling to ask board member to
221honor the election Resort and point Brenda Zenda to the next Board of trustey i' also have a question maybe you can answer later I wanted to know how you guys will point the next one because uh I don't believe it if you have to interview them and then your board the trustee uh appoint your next that would be your peer and then that queer is a higher Yaki I don't think that that's fair for you to do it so I wanted to know if you will open the public to pick who you want to choose that like do public get to have comment on or get to vote because I just personally don't think it it's fair for you to appoint someone who is supposed to be a evil even position as you thank you
222thank you Miss Yang uh do we have anybody else yes next person is Steve Naro welcome Steve as soon as you begin speaking we'll uh begin the clock thank you uh uh vice president and and the rest of the board um I'm going to try to be as concise as possible I actually um I I'm familiar with Brenda's Zend house I mean i' I've had folks tell me about her background and read about her prior to the election I um wouldn't have any issue with her taking that seat um I can't find myself necessarily advocating for her or trying to represent her because in my heart of hearts I also know that it's important that we hear from the community and I don't think as of right now we've done enough of that what I'm
223really interested or keenly interested in seeing is Outreach to the community especially the Vietnamese community and being able to reach out connect get people engaged hear what they really care about and and see what the community can bring uh to the table in terms of you know potential viable uh people to appoint I mean in the end maybe brand is the great best choice and that and that would be awesome but I still think it behooves us to take the time to listen and to go out to the community and really pull that in because I look at the board today I don't see that representation and I I really think we if we don't do that if we don't um take that opportunity to really um hear you know different aspects of the community
224out we're really missing out thanks thank you Mr Navaro anybody else yes Raymond Miller welcome Mr Mueller uh as soon as you begin speaking we'll uh begin the clock so um I've put in a lot of comments here I'm very very happy that this is moving forward um I do want to make sure that I you hear what I was saying that this was very difficult both of the last two times which I did participate in both of those um and I do hope that you will work to make this easier for the applicants um the first time I went through it I actually was interviewed by the superintendent before I even got to attend the board meeting so I was cleared and it was obvious that I was capable of this uh there were
225some questions about that in the last round uh the people were not necessarily screened beforehand and not that any of us was unqualified it's just I think that that's something that it would be good if you did that in advance some folks might want to consider whether they're going to be the best option or not um I do hope there will be some opportunity for Community input whether that just be each of you calling your supporters your key people and finding out for instance Camille should be chiming in at some point I don't think that she'll be interested in putting her name in the Hat but she's a very good person to talk to um as well as Victor and a variety of other folks um but please because of the fact that this board
226currently sits as a Latino board I hope that you will reach out to community leaders and other sectors of the community such as the Vietnamese community and talk to them about some of the folks that are applying ultimately this is all up to you and I don't want to be in that seat right now I'm glad I'm not Karina thank you again for taking it good night thank you Mr Mueller anybody else yes I have next is Andrea poro welcome Miss Portillo as soon as you begin speaking we'll begin the clock excuse me I'm going to step away from for a minute hi everyone U my name is Andrea Portillo I'm here supporting um our impu parents as well as I'm also an arusd Alum and I'd like to again just call for transparency in
227this process and really urge the involvement of parents and community in this decision-making space um parents and students deserve to be a part of this process and should be able to submit questions for the interviews or be part of a parent or student committee that will vet candidates um I agree with previous speakers in the importance of doing further work to engage Community to both deepen the Democracy of the district as well as to strengthen parent and Community voice um we all know right now that our community and our students are suffering and they deserve to be part of electing or appointing the representatives that truly represent them and hold their best interests at heart thank you thank you anybody else yes um Victor vcos welcome Mr Vasquez as soon as you begin speaking we'll
228begin the clock thank you um just my personal observation here um I appreciate Community calling for a deeper process to engage uh folks who we also believe have been left out traditionally and we also I appreciate people's experiences and what you share about that so I think we should listen to that as well um as people have gone through the process and really be aware of power right like if if your job is to build a policy work with people and also some accountability in the process we've been talking about accountability we have to be aware that you know a little bit that the person who I'm supposed to hold accountable or my colleagues should not be the only ones that are screaming I think it's important for us to keep that balance uh in
229terms of like any kind of screening or in transparency so that it's a balanced approach right so that by the time candidate get here Community also sees all of those opportunities or it's part of the screening process as well so just want to Echo that that how do we balance that we've done a good job with other committees where we build that space I know that we probably don't have the time to do so but be very careful around those power dynamics thank you Mr Vasquez anybody else yes we have Claudia K well wel Claudia as soon as you begin speaking we'll start the clock Claudia can you hear us Claudia is she unmuted yeah uh is she unmuted can you hear me now yes welcome Claudia as you it wasn't allowing me to unmute
230myself it was is denying me sorry okay I will be speaking in Spanish um when give me one second just want to make sure we have our uh translators ready to translate for you okay thank you uhuh sorry about that uh are we ready with our translators he is translating simultaneously I'm trying to figure out um yeah currently Carolina is and okay Carlos trii is also there Mr trii will you please translate from Spanish English is he able to shift though from his Spanish oh great thank you so much yes okay okay thank you when she can't hear us okay this good give me give us one second Claudia um can you hear her uh okay okay Claudia um I I just want to make sure that you heard if you can please uh speak
231with pauses so that he can translate for you okay thank you can I start now yes pleas thank you if you can let me know when to continue because I can't hear him go ahead you let me know when you go ahead okay V Ray mu thank you very nice very nice gracias claas too uh she was speaking in Spanish so we were to give her four minutes total so if you can unmute her just to make sure that that was her entire uh comment yes that was all thank you very much okay gracias thank you very much thank you H for translating for us as well the next person is dza Gonzalez Miss Gonzalez uh welcome and as soon as you begin speaking we will uh put the clock at two minutes for you
232good evening members of the board I'm once daa Gonzalez um thank you for taking Community input in decision such as this um we believe I believe that any person that represents us it's a it has to be a Community member a community that represent parents and students and that knows exactly what the issues are but but I also want to acknowledge that giving two minutes to each parent to say what we want is not enough if we really want accountability and do we really want parent engagement let let us engage in a more meaningful matter meaning make us part of the of the questions you guys are going to ask make us part of the this of the timeline so we could really give meaningful and and abundant information for you guys to be able
233to make the best decision for our community Community engagement means having meetings having that contact and actually reaching parents not 24 hours but with a timely matter which can allow us to be informed and ready to give what we want to see in the next com in the next leader that takes a position in alra school seat be accountable be transparent but also when you say parent engagement being meaningful about it let's create a path where we can give our meaningful in um input and not just a few of us but a a parents that are actually getting involved and at 24 hours but with a timely matter thank you and have a really good evening thank you uh do we have anybody else yes we have Veronica welcome Veronica as soon as you begin
234speaking we'll begin the clock thank you and good night everyone and thank you for still being here um and I think just like everyone else I want to Echo um the fact that you know I I would love for Brenda to take that seat right but I know that um the board does not want to take that um way and they want to be quote unquote you know Equitable um and want to see the perspectives and even though we had a lot of community input on uh supporting Brenda we still are not being heard so what I am asking is that you again genuinely take us as a partnership that if it needs to take every single day for us to meet and you uh and the district engage with the community with everyone open
235that up for everyone and engage into the uh whoever is going to be running so we can screen them so we can ask them questions so we can understand who they are and where they're coming from um that would be the best action take right and I know that you sit on a board and going into 2 in the morning it it's very heavy on all of us right we all stay up um you stay up and we all study the board book and everything and putting extra work and not just putting extra work to you guys but to us as well it is not just a oneway street it is something that we as parents I think are dedicated also in doing because we stay up with you at 3 in the morning going
236through everything and so again that meaningful relationship means opening it up if we need to meet every single day then we meet every single day for two to three hours to meet the needs of our community to understand who's running and who will be taking that position again if it's not wanting to give it to what the voters had said then let us be that meaningful impact let us be that partnership that you're looking for um with actions and not just with words thank you thank you anybody else uh no okay thank you so much now we'll move on to uh welcome back president Beano I'll go ahead and you can't hear can we unmute him he can't speak there okay thank you uh thank you tra excellent job um and thank you community I
237think I heard most of the feedback so thank you everyone for your input um and so at this time uh we can go ahead and move into questions and comments from the board and begin to try to outline the process and procedures for for this um this process I see trusty Gino with a hand up I believe so we can go ahead and start there I'd like to go ahead and if you'll entertain a motion I think that i' I'd like to put forward a motion that uh takes into account the concerns that have been raised uh but also recognizes the limitations and um and the need to go ahead and move forward in a in a reasonable time and so I know that folks have raised and said two weeks is not enough two
238weeks is not enough I I you know I I I agree um actually I'd be comfortable moving in two weeks but I also want to take into account the concerns that have been raised some folks have said let's go ahead and move on with the two Monon process I think that's a little dangerous getting to the deadline at which point the board no longer loses loses control of the process and it it goes on to the County Office of Education and so I'm not interested in allowing the County Office of Education to make a decision that should be made by the people who the voters alrock put here so with that said I would ask that we move forward with uh a process that brings back everybody at um at the January 6 meeting so
239that would put us right in the middle of the month so that if anything were to happen because we've had situations where the board hasn't been able to meet because certain board members weren't showing up and we couldn't hold Quorum and so I'm not saying that's going to happen but I don't want to put us in a spot where oh we waited until the deadline and all of a sudden people got sick and we couldn't take action so I think that the approach the the safe approach would be to move forward uh on January 6 that gives us four weeks uh through which we can uh follow the the policies which says we put out announcement in the in the media and then it also gives significant amount of time for people through to prepare
240to to engage with other folks um and uh and then present themselves and I would also encourage us to uh hold another session uh on the 17th before uh the regularly scheduled board meeting um an hour before for folks to come over and and provide uh and and and speak and identify themselves so that way we'd have today um an hour before the meeting on the 17th um and then we we would have um a uh um the on the sixth so a total of three sessions in which people can get out there and present themselves to the community they can also you obviously speak to the board and the community can you know find out who they are and and and do their due diligence as well as us to through the process and
241so I would hope that my colleagues would be able to support a process like this that you know takes T takes time but doesn't get us to that that spot where we're playing chicken to see let's see if somebody something happens and we we wind up handing over the process to to the County Office of Education trusty kto can you um thank you for all that can you cons want me to consolidate it if you can consolidate the motion please the motion was that we move forward with a process that creates a listening session on the 17th an hour before a regularly scheduled board meeting so that would obviously be a special meeting and we dedicate an hour there and then subsequently we go ahead and bring back the applicants on the 6th of January
242the first week that we come back as a as a district for the the um the final interviews as and the the appointment um uh that that evening can I add to that before I second um if can of you accept that maybe as uh board trustees we bring our questions on the 17th and announce them then that we email them to bow that we have time to think about our question um you know if you're okay with that yeah I think that would great that would be a great idea because it gives us that entire time to go get input and feedback from folks to what their priorities are provides that opportunity for folks to provide their input so yeah I would uh thank you for that I would just like to say um
243I mean Factor this in in that the questions that we will decide upon need to be part of the application itself that that applicants would get so if we hold off on submitting the questions as as trustees that would mean that the that would delay the this I believe and correct me if I'm wrong Dr bow or roio that would delay the um dispersement or availability of the application itself that's one thing and then I had another question but um Mr Ruiz if you could clarify that and if we can unmute him if we need to what if we were president B while he's being unmuted uhuh go ahead what if we were to make the announcements and we announce the process and then have the applications go live on the 7 once we submitted
244the the questions could I clarify trusty kto what you mean by we announced the process because the process as we've talked about is outlined in the in the board policy I mean the timeline okay the timeline thank you for the opportunity for interviews and or for you know just to speak uh go ahead Mr rise before the board meeting I tried to do some research to see what the paper process looked looked like for the board in the February 2019 appointment process and what I did find was an application that specified that an interested candidate or applicant would include a statement of interest and I believe some letters of recommendation but there weren't I couldn't find any specific questions that were asked they were asked to respond to as part of the application process but
245the board did decide uh before the selection on the questions that the applicants would be asked at during the process that but my understanding of how it worked in 2019 yeah and I think um one thing that's different this time around and I'll after this tring that I seeu um but one thing that's different that we kind of discussed internally was that in the previous time we were able to have the applicants be in a separate room so that each applicant could have the opportunity to provide responses in a way that you know the other applicants would not be able to hear but with the current situation we cannot um I I've conferred with Mr Ru and we're not able to exclude any applicants from this digital meeting so the the workaround or the solution
246to that that we've that we've are GNA are kind of proposing is that in this version the questions that are selected for the application itself the written application that we would request of an applicant those would be the same questions that would be in the interview process um so the applicants would fill out a written application submit that and then at the night of the interviews they would have the opportunity to to expand upon their answers that they wrote and in that way the person that goes first is not at a disadvantage because the person that go expand on what they wrote and not kind of borrow from people that they had that had gone first and and would put those people at a disadvantage so the reason why I say all that was it
247was in regards to kind of the difference between the process that we had last time versus this time particularly to Mr Ro's comment about that application that we used last time so I don't know if anyone if that's if I under explain that clearly and if people have other thoughts or solutions to that issue or any feedback can I say something I I think I F I had said before trusty kto so he could go and then trusty Chavez next sure I don't know if trusty Marquez it looks like maybe you're trying to say something hey um so but let's go Chavez and then Marquez if she's next after that I wanted to um support uh the your reasoning for the for the way in which it you know the questions should develop um I
248also want to do it for the purposes of leveling the playing field as well uh we should be uh cognizant of the fact that if we want to have a diverse pool of people then we shouldn't um simply go ahead and say well whoever we put in a hot seat they can answer questions best and you know them with questions then they'll they'll be the ones you're going to selected I think that uh in this process we should make sure that people can go out there do their research and provide wellth thought out uh responses to these very important questions that are going to be the basis on which we're going to make a decision as as well as you know whatever other information we presented and so for that reason I think that um
249having folks submit questions in advance um maybe part of the process is we put out the letter of interest or whatever recommendations we asked last whatever the process says and then everybody who submitted then receives the questions subsequently and the request is you need to submit them in advance of the board meeting so that you know the board can analyze them or um check so so to clarify are you saying that we still go with that initial form as last time which is kind of a basic um request and and then once we receive those those individuals will receive the application with a deadline to submit that would then be used in the interview process correct that way we're not holding up the process for just for an application and there's an applicant that doesn't
250even really come through or they don't follow through this would be sent out to folks who are already are so committed that they submit their permission and it gives us that week from here to let's say the 17 to De go out there talk to the community get input and then uh submit our questions and so in what Forum would we submit our questions then uh we've done it in the past where we've sent emails to the superintendent once we're ready to submit questions and the superintendent collects them so the board doesn't want to have a discussion then um under this proposal that would kind of exclude a discussion from the board as to which questions to use or we we create an item on the 17th that allows us to discuss the the the
251questions okay so that's the proposal trusty Chavez my understanding was that we were supposed to have the questions ready tonight um I have mine ready if you want them submit it now or if you want me to hold off um and is there any way we could do it a little bit sooner um I know a lot of the times they say well we weren't given enough time um keep in mind that when we're given all this material we just have a few days to go through it and then have the board meetings as well so um I think that they have to be able to adapt to that as well uh that's just an an my opinion but you know I'm just putting it out there thank you okay thank you uh in terms
252of your first question we do I guess we'll determine I have mine ready tonight too I don't know I don't see mine getting any different um but I I guess we'll decide whether or not those who have them can submit them now and those who need want want more time can get that uh before we go trusty trusty Marquez did you have something or not yet um I have a question go ahead so did we set the date for when this is going to be happening not yet I think there's a motion on the floor but we're still was that the January what was that the January um date that um was talking about I think for the actual appointment um process that special board meeting yes that's the January that was in J January
253yes so um I have a question then for uh Mr Ruiz okay so if if the seat becomes vacant um because you guys already took a you took a vote on that um do am I going to continue to sit through this process or not no yeah so it wouldn't behoove me for me to have my questions right now so that's all I need to know I mean you're as we sit here you still are a board member and you still have the opportunity to to have input into this process I think it's just after that time then that's when it it ends and it becomes vacant so so feel free to still have input here um trusta and then I have a question for Mr after that or Dr uh I have a question
254for Mr D as well so uh if once we put the um application out are we able to list in the application that the questions will be provided say we put out the application on Monday uh next Monday which would be uh I don't know December 12 I'm sorry 14th um in the application can we say the questions will be provided on December 17th at the meeting uh or December 18 the next day yes we could do that because I think um you know I think Linda made a very good point in that you know this is a lot of information right so we're expecting our candidates to take this serious right I mean we wanted to have serious candidates who take the time to fill everything out maybe you know whatever they're going to
255do to prepare to be the best candidate and so we want to give them that time and so I think if we're able to put out an application on the 14th and then let them know that the questions know will be finalized by the 18th that at least will give them the opportunity to begin the application process and then you know prepare with the questions later and then I believe the administration and staff would also need to know from you the board when the responses to those when the written responses to those questions will be due when they need to be submitted by oh yes okay um my my questions that I have um Mr Ru or Dr Bower um is in terms of delaying this out a little bit and and the timeline that
256trust suggesting what are or are there implications to that I know we have our we're supposed to have our organizational meeting as a board um normally in December um and so I wonder how that be becomes or maybe doesn't but become an issue and then in terms of the work that we need to do Dr Bower I know that um we've had discussions and there's a lot of significant very significant work that does that is time sensitive um and so I'm just wondering before we I I I agree I understand the importance of wanting to to be you know a little more take a little more time on this but I also want to make sure that in doing so we don't you know get have other implica negative implications on us other than potentially
257putting this into the hands of the county so if you can respond to any of those and I do see your hand trusty Chavez after this so from if it's within the first week of January I think that is totally fine that will give people time I think if the if the for us to prepare the agenda and to have all the paperwork ready I would ask the board to ask potential applicants to have everything submitted by January the 4th that Monday because then that gives us a an opportunity to have everything ready for you and the public by the six okay so in terms of the other business of the district no pressure If we go by that date it's still doable since we have the two weeks of vacation as it is on
258starting on the on December 21st we're we're two weeks off everybody's gone so I think that that that will allow was to have everything that we need right before like the January meeting the regularly scheduled meeting all of that and then uh Mr Ru in terms of the organizational meeting for the board does that have any impact if we delay out to January uh no no I mean you'll still go forward with your organizational meeting on the 17th because that's what your your rules require but no there are no other issues but so then we'll have our organizational meeting with just four individuals that would be part of that okay that's that's correct and is and there's no negative repercussions I mean I would like to I I I think there's value in having a
259fool board to there when we do that but I also weigh that against the value of of taking a little more time in the process trusty Chavez and then trusty erera is there any way that we can accomplish this before everybody goes on vacation on the 21st um I think the sooner the better and there's a lot of stuff that needs to be done in December and um we need to move forward on on um basically focusing on the students and their education okay um I think that's still open for discussion so we'll keep that possibility or that request in mind as we keep discussing trusty erera and then trusty kto and I think I saw Dr Bower too um I I it has to do with the same thing um I think definitely you
260know the 21st is way too soon to give a candidate you know time to answer questions fully being a recent candidate and answering questions I think we should give them sufficient time um in addition to that you know I don't think it would give our staff enough time however I do agree um in that if possible Dr B and I don't know you know how we can do this um it that we can have the questions earlier um for me it's important to have the full packets in if I'm expected to do an appointment on the six or you know that I'm or on the seventh that I'm giving only you know 24 hours to review a packet or 48 um I don't know you know maybe that we get it on the fifth like
261for me it's important that the next person that I appoint that I've read through their answers thoroughly that I've read through the resume th thoroughly that I've read through uh you know cover letter resume you know whatever is submitted so that I I've read that and then I hear the responses and then I'm able to make the best um appointment that I believe at that time you know to my ability so I don't know you know can we work somewhere in the middle where we can we're able to do all that you know take in consideration the candidates the staff and then us as trustees I guess to to piggyback on your question while someone is w waiting to respond to that um so your in in your request truste ATA how would it differ
262from what is on the table now um by trusty ketto in terms of that the 17th and the sixth I believe were the dates how how would you see that how how would your request fit into or be different than that timeline so there no difference other than we're discussing the process in regards to when the application will go out when expect the um answers or the applications in by um so since we're having that discussion you know of like what we're putting on the motion um my motion would be to have the applications I don't know and if if that's enough time right submitted maybe by the fourth and that staff have it to us by the fifth maybe what is the fourth the fourth January 4th that the that's what I mentioned yeah
263yeah four that's when she'll have them ready to us on the 5ifth Yeah by what time on the 5ifth we'll probably give it to you by the end of the four if we have everything completed remember I know we I don't know if we're assuming that people are going to submit their applications electronically there might be people who are going to be submitting applications the old way in in paper and pencil or paper and Pen correct you're not going to restrict the submission of the application right no they can submit anyway and so I just kind you kind of on the ground if you if people are going to be submitting you know packets or their their application remember that because of covid um we have you know staff needs to monitor the stuff that
264comes in to the office so the fourth will be the first day that I have staff that is able to you know collect the packets and for us to have them ready for you because we need to make copies and do all of that that we do for the board and our you know if packets are going to be submitted by the fourth You Need To Say by this time so that we can start you know copying and doing everything that we need to do to that we can have those packets ready for you can we require them to to be submitted digitally yeah because I don't know if 24 hours is enough time I'm just telling you the reality that you need to consider right Mr Mr Ro can we require a digital submission
265yes it's it's up to you hey uh president um I'm sorry did did I trusty Chavez did I give you an opportunity I forgot if I had no you didn't but let GTO and then I'll speak okay go ahead trusty kto um I just wanted to know the concerns about U requiring everybody DJ um May limit folks who are not necessarily uh comfortable with the digital communic with with I can't hear you you're gotten too low I I uh wanted to um raise U my concerns about requiring people to submit digitally I think there should be an in-person option uh because that would be uh limiting folks who don't have access to technology or they just aren't comfortable with um you know using a computer or something like that so I would suggest that we
266provide both options and then just simply L if we're looking at the 4th then just say hey there's a noon deadline and so submit your stuff then so that we can get everything out to the to the board members that afternoon if you know may one way thank you trusty Chavez um I think we should put like a Time an exact time like before 12 noon January 4th that gives the um staff more time to work on it and also they could do it it so that that way you don't have to worry about the covid just have them uh first class it mail it in and that way you don't have to have a a you know worry about your staff I I think either by the internet or or that way it might
267be easier on the staff and and and make the process and let them know you got until 12:00 that's it thank you uh trusty kto I appreciate um I just wanted to respond really quickly I appreciate that perspective I definitely thought about it too on the by the same token I I do also in some ways I'm motivated by um wanting to kind of set an expectation of being able to do things digitally because we do in these times operate that way and and in the past it has created a lot of challenges when someone um is not able to to um you know process paperwork or whatever digitally so that was kind of what my thought behind that is we were you know we I think we want to move towards that because we're
268all trying to get stuff done digitally and it has caused issues in the past but I certainly appreciate that perspective uh you know what I am uh Mo I am I'm in agreement with uh uh board member CH uh not necessarily about the digital stuff because I still believe that there needs to be access so I'll agree to disagree on that one but covid itself somebody can do it they should be able to go ahead and send it first class with the post with the stamp uh with the postmark so that should be two options for people who can't uh who can't or choose not to use um a digital format okay uh Mr R looks like he has something important and Thena so so the problem with using the problem with using a postmark
269is you never know what's going to happen with the US mail it could come late by a day or two even a week and it could have a postmark by the fourth um so my recommendation would be that it has to be in the district at the district by 12: noon on January 4th whether digitally or hand delivery by mail FedEx anything it just has to be there yeah okay truste so uh I'm wondering if we could do it by Jan I'm sorry December 31st this way it's in we have a slot at the district office that people can they don't no that's that's why I'm that's why I'm kind of reminding you this is a very dis circumstance so we have a little box that we put outside for everything that is coming in
270we don't leave anything outside this kinds of stuff right so there's no opportunity for somebody to go into the district and drop it in a box I'm sorry the district shuts down uh trusty era loera between December 21st and January the 4th nobody's here except for very emergency people nobody's here that's part of the the the calendar there will be no staff I can certainly wait outside but you know what I'm saying um I'm just letting you know the reality I may suggest to you that that you can move the the meeting to the seven gives everybody one more day gives you one more day just to read through the through the what you know I don't know how many applications you're going to receive and my role is only to put them together for
271you to give them to you that's the only role of of our office trusty trusty Marquez I I think was trying to say something but just real quickly before trusty Marquez goes and then trust trusty ketto after that I just want to bring us back and and let ask everybody if we are going too deep into the weeds right now and just in the interest of time or if this is all necessary conversation um because we still kind of do have some important stuff to do so I don't want to get too bogged down with this but if we need to we' need to so just we can think about that but trusty Marquez go ahead I think you had something and then trusty keep that no it was it was already answered it was
272because I know that the district is shut down so I was wondering how they were going to get you know their their paperwork in if nobody's gonna be there and it's okay it's something you guys need to work it out okay thank you trusty kto yeah um you know what I would agree that we move to the seventh it gives more time to review stuff and um it's in line with the with our meeting dates which are Thursdays so it'll probably be um less of an impact for the board members that way we're not just throwing out meetings in random days but we keep it on Thursdays since most of us have set those days aside for board meetings so if we make that change would we be able to move forward with the processes
273laid out and as seconded by by uh by board member so we're saying the 17th the 7th and then at the applications would be due on the the 17th would be when people could um introduce themselves we're giving that opportunity right is that what that was that first date yes and then we're saying that the seventh would be the appointment process itself yes correct okay and then we're saying then are we missing that the applications will go out on the 14th oh that that's what I was going to get to next so the applications when do they go out and when are they due that's the only dates that I suggested the 14 I agree with that they would go out on the 14th you said of December okay and they would be due on
274the fourth the fourth at noon and when when would questions be due by trust then if the application is going out on the 14th 17th no you got to do it before no no no see remember that the questions are going to be sent out to the C to the applicants after they submitted their application and remember we're going to need time whether it's a chain back and forth in email or you know staff or or president vice president or however it is to consolidate those questions into remember the questions would be we would figure out the questions at on the 17th it will be one another it oh that's right that's right okay so we Square it away there and they go out to everybody who's applying okay so date wise then does it
275sound like we have all of that pretty close to being set except for the time the time I would say end end of day 5:00 P PM I thought you said that we were going to hear something before the board meeting on the 17th how what time like an hour an hour and a half it would be an hour before the regular board meeting on 17th and at that time you know all the yeah so what time would it be then 5 instead of excuse me 430 4:30 4:30 wow okay and then for all the other due dates for things would we just say 5:00 pm yep end the business hold on what other due date or what like due date of application it's noon we said noon noon on the we agree to that
276yeah okay I missed that part well for staff no so that staff would have enough time remember uh I must have been looking at thinking of a different part of it so you remember I remember can repeat what I understood or can marel repeat what we understood so that we are very clear before you take a vote Yes so what I understand is that December 17th an hour before the regular board meeting they're gonna have introduction of themselves and then on the 7th is the application process this uh January 7th and um on the 14th of December is when the applications are going to go out and then we're supposed to get them by January 4th at 12: PM that's what I got that sound correct to everybody that's correct I think she miss the
277questions yeah we question going to be added there's going to be added an item on the on the regular board meeting for December about electing the questions for the application okay is a question or a state we understood correctly yes was it okay another quick procedural question so roio I'm assuming then that that December uh this meeting an hour before it it's still under I guess would it be under my president position and then in the me preceding meeting or whatever the the meeting after then we would have the organizational meeting to do that process but the the pre- meeting would still be facilitated by me as the president at that time that's correct okay um so time timeline wise it sounds like we do have it down then because I had just a couple
278of things with the actual process itself so I I'll go ahead and just mention my thing so um you know one of the things that that's in the board bylaw that we that we have is that it specifically says that um applicants would go into a separate room and obviously that's not possible right now and um we can't separate them or take them out into like a private room in Zoom so I don't know Mr Ruiz do we need to address that difference in board policy with how we're going to um implement this this time around with zoom and covid um so that's uh trusty kto and then trusty Chavez well first Mr Ruiz can you respond to that well one of the issues there is that since the meeting is open to the public
279and the applicants are member members of the public they have a right to to sit into the Open Session and listen if they want you can always ask them to se separate themselves and sit in a soundproof booth or somewhere where they're not listening but you can't compel that yeah oh go ahead and I think you know the current situation with you know with zoom and the pandemic and this board has chosen to be transparent so all of the all of the applicants will have the same questions and they'll know what they're going to be responding to as part of the interview um you might want to just consider just waving that P portion of that and then just um not requiring it at the time of the interview in other words everybody is in
280the room but muted except for the person being interviewed yeah and that was my question just if if it posed any problem if it's specified in one way in the policy but if we do it differently in actual okay and then the other question or thing that I had that I wanted to bring up was that for the uh I took it off my screen but for the first round I believe it said um there's 10 minutes total uh for that first round to answer all of the questions and so I think we had five questions in the first round and three questions if we need a second round so if there's five questions and um if we're giving a total of 10 minutes for that first round I'm just throwing out there if everyone
281still thinks that 10 minutes total time is sufficient to answer the five questions that we're going to be asking in the first round can I say something kto and then trusty Chavez and then I think trusty Marquez after that um yeah I got my response through the's comment so I got it but I think that given the fact that we're having the questions provided beforehand it'll allow people to be able to you know make their uh statements you know uh their statements will be brief but very you know informative instead of you know putting people on the hot seat and have them respond to questions they they weren't aware of so at this point I think that that time is adequate okay trusty Chavez and then trusty Marquez I think after that I think that's
282efficient time and and they do need to concise their message in the time fright frame allowed and also there was one applicant which was Johnny he did it within a minute and then dropped the mic I mean that was fantastic very clear and concise so I I think we should keep the time limit thank you okay trusty Marquez did you have something no no I don't okay the other thing I wanted to just clarify too with regards to that 17th meeting um is that those who have already introduced or presented themselves I believe the understanding is that it would be anyone who hasn't already because um you know we wanted to make it fair and if anyone does want to see those introductions it's all on video for them to see so is that the
283understanding that any new applicants that didn't present themselves tonight would have the opportunity um on on at that meeting that was my understanding that wasn't my understanding I'm sorry that wasn't my understanding that's how come I said I didn't think that it was fair that you allowed them more time and then being able to speak again and then it was just thrown out and so you allowed them to speak and then with the understanding that they were going to be allowed to speak again and that was one of the questions that she asked if she was going to be able to do that again yeah I think that wasn't for me that wasn't the understanding because I know for instance when Miss Anda spoke I know initially she said that she I I think she
284wasn't going to speak but then she she did speak for her time and then some so at the beginning of her statement I let her know that this would then be considered her introductory statement and I think you know she did a good job being pretty thorough during that time so I would want to make sure that we're fair to any other candidat applicants um trusty was my reasoning uhuh I mean I don't know I think we may be I'm sorry I can't uh I think we are disagreeing because my reasoning was that uh you were going to allow them to speak twice if you remember correctly that's what I'm saying not can I ask can I ask Council what you got from what was interpreted from you when I was speaking can I ask
285Rio that of course you can when you were speaking member Chavez yes when I was speaking about them talking to twice and that it wasn't fair and then we went ahead with the process and let them speak yeah I mean that that's what I understood your comment to be I didn't understand I'm just speaking for myself I didn't understand there to be a firm Decision One Way or Another on that and that's an issue that's an issue that the board can take up and decide next Thursday actually at the special meeting so since it was vague doesn't it take precedence that you you allow them to speak again since it was vague I mean yeah not not necessarily um I mean what the what the policy provides is that they be given an opportunity to
286introduce themselves um and the policy anticipates a meeting taking place one week before the selection process but because of what you're where you're headed on this it's actually going to be more than one week which I think is fine you've already received some introductions it'll be up to the board next week whether you want to allow reintroductions uh on top of new introductions as well my point being is that the community kept saying this was such short of a notice a lot of people don't know that this is happening and there's a lot of parents that prefer to go to whatever uh they had going on in the district for their education so they could help their kids a lot of them don't know what's going on so I think it's better that you do
287um everybody at that time when everybody's more tuned in to make it fair okay uh trusty Marquez did you have anything and I think we're getting pretty close here to being able to take a vote um I only I only have U my opinion and what I remember and what I understood was that when um when Miss SAS asked if she was going to have an opportunity to speak again you were very vague president because you didn't know what to say if she was going to have an opportunity or not I believe I got the sense that she also did did not know whether she was going have another opportunity to talk or not and so she went ahead and talked now but um I check the tape on that I I disagree but in
288any case check yeah go ahead and check the tape because that's how I heard it that's how I understood it and I feel um in any case I mean it sounds like Mr R says that we can make make a decision one way the other next when we have that meeting but but listen to it because if I'm not mistaken and I believe in the background I heard Karina say yes so she stepped in and said that yes she would she would be able to speak but go ahead and listen to the tape because could be it could be so we'll check it yeah I mean yeah yeah thank you um regardless though we'll we'll still all you know we'll still be able to make that final decision when we meet next time it sounds
289like so one more thing uhhuh since it was understood that they get another time and I think we were speaking about it that they would have another opportunity like you always say palabas palabra so we have to honor what was said if we if they understood that they're going to get another time to speak then we should honor that that's it thanks okay thank you um so are there any so the timelines are set are there any other questions or clarifications that we need to make board members as to the process the policy that's outlined in 9223 anything to that that needs to be modified to reflect kind of a couple of modifications that we've made or the covid zoom realities does anyone see excuse me it's 1020 are we going to extend uh we
290Pro we do need to okay um Mr Ruiz so you you have have a couple of other decision points to make but it the hour is getting late and they relate to community input um and you the board could decide not to take those issues on tonight but to put to take them on on the 17th either as part of the special meeting or as part of the regular meeting uh that evening which would allow for them to be taken on at an earlier time in the day and potentially more Community input okay excuse me I'm sorry trusty kto and then trusty Chavez after that can you repeat that everything was uh I couldn't hear what he said the internet's unstable can you repeat that please I said there's still a couple of items on
291the agenda that relate to community input uh in terms of the process but in light of the late hour it's up to the board the board could choose to defer these items these additional items to next week ear as either either as part of the special meeting or on the agenda for the regular meeting uh so it'll be taken or considered during an earlier time in the evening and allow for more input yeah I would agree that we go ahead and defer those uh those other those items to the special meeting that the time that we set aside because if we look at past history the you know the numbers aren't overwhelming so although we're going to do our best to get out there and by we'd be able to um take care of these
292items as well as hear out um the applicants so we start off hearing out the applicants then move on to taking care of the items during that uh special meeting that we have okay so um so to the question of extending tonight and with regards to the community input which primarily I think I think we're talking about 3.05 um could we say that 3.05 we would move to a time in the future to allow for more substantial time for Community input we would finish up here with 3.04 and could we could we extend a little and get 3.06 done move to till 11 second I'm sorry I couldn't I didn't I heard 11 but I didn't hear anything after that second from I'm sorry trusty Chavez I didn't hear the motion yet so I I
293don't know I moved to 11 and trusty Chavez second okay um okay I'm okay with that any other any problems with that or questions or different ideas okay so then uh let's go ahead and and vote on that just to make sure we get get that set so the motion is to extend tonight till 11: p.m. to finish up item 3.04 and to finish 3.06 and to um is it table item 3.0 3.05 to a future time car Carrie Carrie okay so that's the motion um tra yes trusty kto trusty Marquez that's fine okay myself yes and trusty Chavez yes okay thank you everyone thank you for the reminder trusty Chavez so item uh 3.04 then to finish up do we have as I'm as I asked previously any other questions with regards to the
294policy as it's written and modifications that might need to be made to reflect the current situation if not we have the timeline down and we it would seem that we could go ahead and take a vote okay let's vote okay and Trust uh Mr Ruiz obviously it doesn't sound like there's any legal things that we're doing here Dr Bower you're good for staff and everything so let's go ahead and take a vote on the motion as it was previously stated with the timelines um timelines that were suggested in that motion uh Trust erera yes trusty quo that was I yes okay trusty Marquez I'm going to abstain because I had to leave um and um relieve myself for a minute so I didn't get the whole just of that okay okay you want to repeat
295it to her no you guys had a lot of discussion on it while I while I skipped into the ladies room so okay myself I and trusty Chavez I okay so motion passes for in favor one exstension trusty Marquez U we're caring item 3.05 so we move to item 3.06 board development of values that will guide board work in the selection process so um this item is specifically um to kind of because the thought behind this is that when we are making um doing our scoring for the applicants as they come to us that obviously everyone is going to have different perspectives and different they're coming from different per points of view um but the purpose of developing these values is that at hopefully ideally in some ways your scoring your decision making will be
296based Less on um kind of personal opinions or or thoughts and at least have more consideration to the values that we think are important for any candidate regardless of who they are and um particularly it's outlined in specifically outlined in the process that's in the policy that if we do come to kind of like a stalemate at the end of the process that these values will be used um in our discussion to really weigh the the options against these values to come up with the right um individual for for the appointment so um that's the background of this as we've done the rest of the night we'll go ahead and take any public comment on this item um I am going just because we have until 11 I'm going to limit it until oh I'm
297proposing that we limit this till uh 1040 which would give us 20 minutes as a board to come up with the values that we think are important um and then the community will give their values in the future date when we have 3.05 does any I'm gonna take a break to use AR restroom I'll be back okay any objections to that or does that sound okay that we we allow public comment till 10:40 and to give us 20 minutes to discuss what we think are the values of our future colleague that makes sense good okay um okay so um the public I I apologize for having to cut it short but I mean we've heard loud and clear a lot of what this I think will be but we still want to open it up
298so in the interest of time I'll go ahead Mr Gil um if we have the first person and we can just keep excuse me before you do um I'm getting some uh feedback from the community that they're not being being able to log in I don't know what that's about I don't know um is everybody being able to log in I don't know we've been watching and allowing people to log in I'm I'm just repeating what's okay so we we'll have people we'll see we'll see to the best of our ability we'll we'll be on top of that but for now Mr Gil do we have the first person and I don't know trusty kto or or trusty Marquez one of you when you move around your microphone kind of has a lot of of
299noise it's sensitive so I don't know if we can try to limit that just because it it's making a lot of noise so Mr Mr Gil do we have the first person um yes sir the only person Flor Deon okay miss delion when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin um again flor de Leon I'm so tired on being on this meeting I thought it was going to be an hour and we we're here almost five hours after five and a half and I just want to say on the values and like I I I just feel like doesn't matter what that Community say sometimes you don't you guys don't don't really pay attention to our input and like we've been saying we want to be part of this and and I know the
300values on on the boards that we're looking is for someone that really cares about kids first agenda and not um on their own you know or having someone that that has a good fate of bring coming to this board because you know they they they have good faith we want people and candidates that are really have the values and understand um what uh or District it's facing at this time in in ways of uh of all the things that we're going through or or uh deficits that knows that we have the deficits that knows that we uh are lacking of funds and the understands and and and and values the importance of of um of um District you know or what are we facing right now and honestly I just want to say that in
301all these uh you guys uh with questions and and the questions that you're thinking about doing to the to the to the the ones that are going to be app point or filling the applications I think it would be good that we sit down or at least give a chance or something where people can give that input and really work with you on creating that questions and not just going with questions that you did last time but to work and make uh questions that really we can get and see where are the values of of these individuals thank you Mr Gil next person so the next person is Veronica okay Veronica when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin um hi good good night everyone and um I Echo um L and um you
302know also we've been here for quite a few hours but I also want to highlight that disappointment of um you know of all the trustees especially I think trusty Gordina I'm very disappointed all I heard during the last really almost hour was eye statements and I how am I going to get this application how am I going to rate it how am I how am I how am I going to accommodate it to my needs you're not here because of you you're here because of children you're here because hello oh can you give her the time back uh what's going on with the Internet is is I think I got muted yeah you it hasn't no it hasn't been on mute time back so you were at a minute 30 a minute 33 okay yeah
303it seems like somebody on mute me um that's okay I'm still here um and like I was saying um it's very disappointing it it was very disappointing um you know and uh trusty Corina um we had those conversations when you were running right like to hold you accountable and here I am here I am to hold you accountable because that's all I heard not just from you but from your colleagues as well this I I statement you're not here because of you you're not here for your needs you're here for our children and I hope to I we were so many of us speaking and none of that went into consideration in this past hour that you guys were delegating none of it none of it okay it's disappointing um and we're here and you
304know it drives me to sadness really to see that nobody reflects or it's reflecting the values that we put that we really elected you for um and yeah I'm I'm just disappointed and I hope moving forward that we don't hear this IE statements that we do not hear for me and my accommodations but rather what is the community needs what do the parents need because there's parent Coalition and is there and anduha has worked before with you all this is not something new right there's other as well that are working there and so I now really I really hope that you work in collaboration truly with parents and Community thank thank you thank you Mr Gil next person is Victor vascos okayy Mr VZ when you've been speaking your two minutes will begin um you
305know so a lot of the things have have changed you know our communities facing covid we are pretty sure close to calling it systematic uh impact on that or students are suffering through that they're facing displacement uh the digital buy the budget cuts that are looming the lower attendance that need to do academic improvements for school district um the need we see the obvious need for Community engagement we know Society wants justice social justice center folks and the reality is that we got students dying also in our district and um I say that to to say that we need people who are willing to struggle for alternative Solutions not just the status quo and there's nothing wrong with that there are solutions out there that promote Justice and better academics and engagement some when that
306thinks about Equity not just race but class and and gender right somebody that could also hold a reward to that standard that doesn't feel like they have the power to interrupt uh the board members based on their status um someone that thinks about Community or personal interest somebody that yes puts kids and Families First but engages with them in the decision making and the Imp aspects there's been some examples of these things as well so I'm not saying that we don't have that someone that has a vision for change or a platform of solutions already to the table um someone that is willing to push for progress and Improvement not just saying oh things are good let's just see how it goes but like hey we need academic Improvement let's do it what's the plan
307of action what's the plan of that we can improve let's work to support that development it's not a negative thing someone that's engaged at the meeting bring Solutions so it's not just one board member saying here's the timeline here's the deadline here's it we appreciate the expertise but there should be more someone that's prepared that's gone to trainings has gone to these board meetings has rent there's a lot of values and and things to think about appreciate your time thank you Mr Gil next person St fren bger Miss fren bger when you get begin speaking your two minutes will begin can you hear me thank you okay so I believe that this is not about the characteristics of the applicant but the characteristics of the board members this is it says board development of values
308that will guide the board work meaning this is your work this is something you have to look inside the look into the mirror and look at your own life look at your own biases and your personal feelings and discard them when you are picking this applicant discard your biases of color discard your biases of color discard your bias CL es of economic dispar discard everything and only look into that person to find out is that the person you can work with to just eradicate all this hellish life these kids are living this is getting only worse for them not better for them so I want to read to you from a quote from my mentor I shared this with allia today because it has a lot of meaning to me and I hope it has
309meaning to you quote educational allows us to be truly human it deepens us and enables us to build a better society and a brighter future the profundity of Education determines the profundity of culture the nature of society and the firmness of Peace education plays a major role in keeping creating deep solidarity Mutual understanding and Trust remember you are a part of the educational system you may not be Educators per se but you have to consider consider yourself as Educators and remember that education plays a major role in creating deep solidarity Mutual understanding and trust and that's who you want on the board with you and that's the kind of board member you want to be that should be what you think your values and what you create of your values so thank you thank you
310Mr Gil next person V Gonzalez Miss Gonzalez when you're uh when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin and this will be the the the last speaker um for this item new members of the board um I had to Echo some of the things that my the previous people said I statements you guys are not I anymore is that community and the students that you guys represent I don't really like to hear that you take in consideration what we say when it's the benefit of you guys but not when it's the benefit of our community I am going to be here and telling you the values that we believe that it has to be and in the next people taking that place but I hope that you guys really take it seriously and actually
311add it in in the next steps that you guys doing so as a mother I believe that a the nurs representative has to be a student center that students should be the priority not politics accountability from this person you guys are accountable to us to the parents even if we vote for you or not and if we show up to every single meeting you're still if we don't show up to every single meeting you're still accountable for us transparency most than everything unfortunately this board has been lacking of it and we would like to see more of it um good governance and experience and ability it's just not wanting to be there but also having the experience we don't have to teach nobody nobody has to learn you don't learn with our students you work
312for our students that's a different thing we have we need a person that has respect to our parents and is really into parent engagement when that how the already said engagement really engage with them really participate with them and really take their input into consideration and even make them um part of that committees that and really take their role seriously we want somebody that has good ethics but is here to transform we are in a in a pandemic our kids now more than ever needs a lot of help and a lot of support our families as well we need somebody with that creativity to bring to that table that actually knows and works for that thank you have a really good good evening okay thank you okay so trustees we have uh about 19 minutes
313here um so again the these are board the values that we as board members um think would be important for our future colleague to possess as we work with them both in these items that are in the public and those things that are um not accessible to the public you know we need to consider all those duties that we have and what we need what we think is important for a person that we're going to be working with um so does anyone want to start if not I can throw something out trusty Chavez and I don't know if trusty Marquez had something but we'll start with trusty Chavez I also see trusty K after that um I think more importantly is informed and one of the things is that a lot of people who have
314run before uh haven't been been as active as they might have been um I see only one candidate that has been informed and active and in the community uh this whole time and not just for years and not just because uh of the race but I mean truly involved truly helping kids and parents and is that a good does that make for a good trustee I believe so um there's others that have ran but they were qualified to do certain things but they haven't been active in Alam Rock and one of my questions that I brought today that I will be uh submitting is how active have they been in the last 18 months that's very important because if they truly have been concerned over the children's Weare over their education over their lives to
315come that needs to be front and center and I've only seen that from very few trustees and I'm so glad that there's ex trustees that are still very involved like Tanya and Karen who come and they watch the meetings and they're always involved in they're trying to help the community that's very impressive to me because it shows that they cared when they were on the board and they care now that they're off of the board they are community members and that that's what the candidate should bring not just because this certain ethnic uh needs to be represented but I think that we truly need to pick the best person for the job I I um sometimes have a difficulty when somebody agrees with me too much it's like you need to hear other perspectives in
316order to collaborate and today there's so many who have said today that we're not listening to them I want them to know that I am listening to them and even though it may not seem to them that I have listened to them I do consider what they've said and I want to thank them all for always being engaged every single month a lot of them are so faithful and they're here month after month and they're involved and I want to thank them um and that's all okay thank you I think I saw trusty kto or or someone else yeah okay go ahead uh one very very important value um is a demonstr commitment to to our I'm sorry can you speak up a little bit it's hard to hear hear me I'm not sure what's
317going on I've been using the same mic can can you hear me now yeah that's better so uh a demonstrated commitment to um Al Rock to the school district and uh you know no conflicts of interests are something that I think are going to be something that needs to be demonstrated throughout the process for me to feel comfortable we've uh unfortunately had instances where there's individuals who've been on the board and their job is basically to negatively impact the district by what they do they remove students from our schools stuff of that sort so going forward I need to know that uh who's joining the Board needs to have a commitment to this District to make sure that the district gets better but at the same time not benefit by removing our students from our
318schools stuff of that sort and so we've been in a in a weird spot in the past we've had board members in that situation and those who are joining um I know should not be in that situation now and should not in the future intend to go and take a job with the with one of our basically with our competitors to to to give them the the advantage of having somebody on the inside so that is I don't know I'm not sure if it's a well I guess it is a value in terms of putting Alam Rock first and making sure that Alam rock is is is getting better at the same time not working against it um through whatever it is that they they're doing so that's U something that I would want to
319make sure that we okay all right thank you um anyone else uh trusty erera and I'll go after that I think governing with Integrity um and it goes along with some of the things we've said you know um but I think you know having Integrity [Music] um yeah I would add that okay okay um along those lines I I also have the the word integrity um and accountability um you know I think that's important um I I certainly I certainly hear enough feedback from Community whether or not they agree that individuals on this board or the board as a whole does not have integrity or accountability um you know I I I would agree I would disagree with many of those contentions I do think that it is important not only important essential to have
320integrity and I think accountability goes hand inand with that so someone that um if they say something you know they and then they do that thing they follow through on it or if they you know they're even when it's hard to voice their opinion and when others are against it or or whatever that that they are true to themselves and true to their perspectives and and those that they represent and um and so I think that's part of the integrity and accountability is is is being true to true to your word and accountable when you when you have missteps or or you know accountable to your colleagues in that way and the other thing um that I think is very important looking at the you know the next two to four to 10 years is
321I think um a value that we need is is the ability to to be um the the ability to and the demonstrated experience in strategic thinking um and kind of like long-term visioning uh we need someone who you know certainly being active doing direct kind of Direct Services direct activities in the community is absolutely essential is absolutely admirable and is absolutely part of the puzzle um and in addition to that when we're in close session or here in public the decisions that we make make are frequently reflective of a different kind of thinking that is more abstract more nuanced as has been brought up tonight and so the ability to not only think at the ground level but to have demonstrated ability to think at a more policy abstract nuanced long-term way um is is
322important to me so I guess strategic um and someone that's in that is rooted in policy or not rooted in but has that experience in at the policy level um of understanding because we do have a lot of decisions that are very much um you know going to need some of that kind of thinking so those are important to me trusta just remember two others um also inclusive uh inclusivity that they are are able to include um you know and and be inclusive of the different constituents that they represent um the children the the parents the staff um and just you know have an open mind right like be be inclusive and responsive uh responsive to again you know the community um staff you know there's a lot of signatures that we need to have
323within a certain amount of time there's a lot of like you know responses to emails um and yeah but just to be so not necessarily like it needs to be by this time but we get to be responsive as trustees I think also um the word that some of the community said is is respect I think obviously you know in in this position there's many times when you know when it's important to remember that we need to be respectful of community of each other um we there's obviously times when we disagree in approaches or or or perspective perspectives but even in that disagreement we need to um have someone who's able to show respect or or behave in a respectful manner towards towards their colleagues and towards the community um so I think that's that's
324a huge one that some of the community brought forth as well I believe I haven't been asked okay go go you have the floor trusty Marquez thank you after listening to all of you speaking and um I was jotting some notes down and Andreas talked about the conflict of interest you know Kina talks about integrity um the had talks about accountability and respectful but um I can remember that we had community members um come to the podium and and ask that um that we need to be prepared we need to do our um governance training and the last time I remember I believe um Corina had not done hers yet and theyan know I wasn't sure about where you were with yours um you Karina you've sat for two years now and you've not given
325or done the example of saying yes I'm going to go do my govern governance or yes I have gotten that I got that done um and same for you um Theo and and when we talk about conflict of interest you know um there was conflict of there's conflict of interest and there's conflict of interests one it can be a conflict of interest the one that we always watch out that it's monetarily that it's Financial you know in in our behalf you know um but there's other conflict of interest and that's when you are promoting an organization you are promoting another person you are promoting and it's to your interest that person that organization whoever gets moved forward and um and that has been happening so there's conflict of interest and accountability it should be to
326everyone and it should start with ourselves you know the accountability should start right there at the chair that addresses the community uh it's um it's it's it's it's very important it's vital I believe it's vital that you folks who do not come from the system of the educational system is that you need to learn the educational system you need to know because with this covid-19 it is be changing by days and we have no idea where this system is going to end you know um the way we used to teach and the way children used to sit right next to each other in a desk and the way they played together in recess the way they had lunch sitting right next to each other in cafeteria we can't go back to that until we have
327eradicated you know this Corona and we don't know that we're even on our way to doing that we have a vaccine you know for this virus but um it's it's it's kind of hard to know where it's going to go um so yeah it's always changing and the system is always going to be changing for the better of the student of the child for the protection of the employee and so there will be things in place that I'm sure that you know next year I won't even know what's going on because it has changed that much I didn't know that um this the Friday that I was supposed to and it was on my calendar on my phone that the fourth was my last day that was my last commitment on the 4th of December
328until I contacted um general counsel and they said the law had changed and that it is now at you know the second Friday so you as you can see it is always changing revolving sometimes getting better sometimes not you know um I just feel that that a lot has to be at your end so that you can role model that and um and get the trust from the community that you have lost so um I think when you go to p this person that's going to sit on there that these qualities that you have all spoken about um that you can find them in you know in their speech that you can see they have been truly involved and they have not just moved into the community and now they you know they want to
329start getting involved well some some of us have paid our dues and have been involved for 30 40 50 years and uh and when it's people just coming in they want to do things different they want to reinvent the wheel they want and that's fine they're energetic they want to do this but we it doesn't have to be done if it's not broken don't fix it you know um if it's working fine if it needs updating do it but these people have to have a true commitment and not let it be a stepping stone to just move on to the next whether it's up to you know to city council where it's up to over here at so Board of Supervisors or where it's you know it's it it has to be a true commitment
330coming in there not just staying there for one or two terms or three terms and or you know one or two years or four years and that's it so uh those are the qualities and those are the things that when you ask your questions and you put your questions together let it touch all of those things Integrity respect um all everything that you mentioned accountability um so I wish you guys luck in this process and thank you for listening all right thank you we have a couple more minutes anyone else with uh values that um you think are important for the next uh trustee to have different than it sounds like we do have some common themes that um are coming forth is there anything additional to that that trustees would like to add trusty
331Chavez um she kind of played on what I was going to say as well as far as getting the community's trust um during this whole time when there is so many questions I've heard it over and over again at the meetings that they feel that we're limiting them and um we need to do a better job that's all thank you yeah and and appreciate you saying that because I also um I think it's important for the for the applicant to also understand the the Greater Community it's fantastic that we have a dedicated sup supremely dedicated segment of our community that's that's obviously active beyond anything that I've seen in other districts um and that's you know that's that's an important part of our community but we need also a trustee who understands that there is
332there is also a broader community that for whatever whatever reason is not able to or chooses not to participate in these forums but also um does contact us in different ways and and that those um perspectives are also need to be considered in decision-making so we need someone that understands the importance of this dedicated segment of our community that is here monthin month out but also understands that there is another large segment of the community that that also has a voice that needs to be represented as well trusty kto I'm not sure if you're going toour we have to end so um I I want to ad journ memory get back to me once you're ready sorry trust the microphone is is like static so I want to adjourn in memory of someone if you
333can get back to me once you're ready to adjourn okay okay anyone else have any other things they feel are important of course if you think of something we could always added um you know in in the meetings that we have coming up for this process so let's go ahead at this time and get ready I'll go ahead and adjourn so trusty kto go ahead and and you've already adjourned I'll go ahead and make my comment thank you for that um I want to journ in memory of me m Landin Ramirez uh who uh in life was the proprietor of a East San josean Institution as well as other locations me Bakery which we many of us know and frequent um they the family in general is just a amazing group of people that have
334dedicated themselves to building up a business and doing great stuff in that way but beyond that not just being Proprietors of a business and locking themselves away instead they're very active in the community supporting and engaging with folks whenever there's a need they're there and so um the community lost a a great supporter out there in terms of uh of you know they're always there anytime there's some sort of a you some crisis or something they're they're supporting and providing um things for in food for folks that need it um other types of events and so very very appreciative of the work that they've done and so I'd like to adjourn in memory of mandz um who's who who's now his children are carrying on his legacy in the work that they're doing the great
335work that they're doing at their at their businesses um that are you know right here in alen rock they're right there on on Story Road as well as on alrock Avenue and other places throughout the city so great great story of uh this is a you know coming in working hard and getting ahead and so he leaves his uh big shoes to fill which I'm sure his kids are going to be able to step right into keep keep up uh keep on his legacy and I'd ask the Administration to um I know that you've put together letters in the past uh to go ahead and re acknowledge the fact that this took place so that we can go ahead and get it to the family thank you trusty kto and we will adjourn in their
336honor um tonight's meeting at 1101 pm thank you everyone and we will see you at the next meeting meeting adjourn uh Mr Ruiz did I forget some okay I he was just saying goodbye oh okay Mee good night everyone [Music]