001usually i i'm working off of two monitors but i'm only on one monitor right now so i'm just trying to get used to seeing this a little bit differently oh for president um nasty marquez is trying to connect okay well that'll be two of us so after just to confirm the all public comment is coming through the hand raised feature correct or do we have wait hold on oh it's the hand um hand feature it doesn't say but we're not taking email we don't have emails coming in right no okay you other board members mr ruiz do we need a quorum tonight for anything oh was that no or or i saw you oh we do need a corn okay hear me okay oh now i can hear you i i can't hear you and
002there it is is that better yep i can hear you i guess one person does not acora make so we have to sit here maybe people are commuting home from work or something [Music] okay and trustee marquez also is trying to connect and uh i just haven't heard trusty chavez yet okay mr ruiz i actually i think i overlooked i had failed to see on the agenda um the pledge of allegiance can we still do it although it's not agendaized absolutely okay two i'm here sorry about that is that trusted oh there you are so i will i'll wait like two more minutes i guess um okay while we're waiting i'll let you know my internet connection sorry can you hear me yes my internet connection is really bad today so i'm connecting to my
003hot spot so i'm hoping not to have any issues if i do then i'll call in if i get bumped out for some reason okay looks and sounds all right sounds very clear yeah i think it's actually better that you should use it every time cool hot spot is the way to go yeah could be i'm not um that's four of us so we'll wait one more minute see if trusty marquez is able to connect she was trying to connect but i guess having problems too i'd rather be on the computer okay so it's 605 so i will go ahead and call this meeting to order for a special board meeting today on august the 10th 2020 of the alum rock union school district maribel can you please take a roll for tonight's meeting today
004is a regular board meeting of august 10th i mean sorry special board meeting of august 10 2020 at 6 00 p.m members of the board in attendance president estobejerano president vice president corina present clerk andres quintero president member linda chavez and members of administration superintendent dr bauer president thank you did we get trustee chavez as president her microphone was muted i didn't hear anything yeah she we didn't get her present that she said she was present okay i guess we can let it be noted that she is president present she may be having some audio difficulties right now but she's she's muted can you hear me now yes now we can yes well then did you get me um maribel did we call trustee quintero yes i i was just not sure if i was
005muted or not oh i think we can oh yeah he's not muted yes i think we have everyone present except trusty chavez i mean i'm sorry trusty marquez um but we do have a quorum so we will um begin the meeting but before we begin just a couple of announcements a little bit of a shift this month on or this meeting and i think probably going forward on how we do the meetings and how public comment happens so previously um we had and specifically interpretation so we had um a separate meeting that was for a spanish meeting previously via our youtube a youtube channel um and now we have an option to have your directly in the zoom meeting that you're in currently to have the meeting translated um in into spanish so at the
006bottom of your screen if you you see a button that says english or spanish if you select that button you will be able to choose whatever language you want to hear the meeting in and you will hear english or translated interpreted spanish is that um all accurate mr mr gill yes sir and if they want to hear only in spanish they must click on mute original audio okay um can i request i know it's spur of the moment if not i'll take a stab at it but trusty vice president herrera can you roughly translate into spanish the instructions that i just gave i know i apologize i didn't prepare you for this but i hadn't thought it through if not i can try it but yeah you know what to tell you truth i was
007trying to fix my um lighting here so i can go for it go ahead and do it hold on before you go before that we have the interpreter on our call mr carlos he is interpreting to our audience in spanish but if they came on in english and didn't yet know to go into spanish would they still wouldn't have heard him yet right make sense makes sense okay sorry interesting i guess or mr um [Music] thanks yes yes can you hear me yes i don't hear him either i think he might be frozen okay yeah you're back i don't know if he can hear us wake up maybe i can take it on while he comes back i'm sorry are people unable to hear uh no i'm an english channel too and and it looks
008like everybody's thinking that i'm just sitting here like without saying anything but i'm actually hearing mr tripoli talking we can't hear that we can't i apologize if i look like i'm so maybe ernesto i was actually i could barely hear everyone in the meeting right now i could hear mr tripoli loud and clear but everyone else sounds super so maybe you're on spanish no i'm in english is he translating now i hear you he did translate when i was looking like i was staring maybe you should take off your earphones because you'll be translating i'm assuming while we're talking so we don't have to listen to this like we can continue with our meeting and he will be translating as we're speaking uh click the off button at the top click on interpretation and then
009tick that off clicked off button can you say something again mr tripoli i could still i could still hear him with my headphones in or out i could still hear him did you click off check the off button on interpretation trustee vegeta can you check and see if i'm muted on the computer you're not i can't hear you no you can hear me through the phone because i got my phone on but you you're not being here from the computer nor can i hear anything from the computer i would really like to get on with the computer i have it open but nothing's coming through we can all hear huh can can you see me or can you only see black only see black we see your name that's because it's coming through the phone
010not the the video on the computer is there a way that uh that could be corrected can you ask the it guy i think it it's your connection linda are you connected to your computer you said no i could see clearly i don't have that like cloud over me like the last two meetings and and it says the connectivity is good but i it looks like i'm muted linda at the bottom of at the bottom of your computer screen well there's a little like it looks like a video camera kind of thing and it says either stop video or start video i did that already i i'm aware of the functions and how they work but it's not working for me so i'm thinking did they mute me on the other side no no is
011what happened in several meetings so for now we we can see we can hear you fine if you can figure that out on your end that might obviously it's helpful for you but um i think we're okay right now we can hear you pretty clearly so i haven't heard mr tripoli in a little bit so i don't know if he made a change or if he's just not talking yes yes if i lose you it's because i gotta call the it guy to get on the computer okay there you are no that's on the okay so we can see you so once you go back to spanish then because i didn't hear you interpreting and none of us i don't think did so when you go to okay so once you go back to spanish
012we'll we should all be good and i won't just be staring off into space first always we are able to all right see you now thank you yeah but that's through my phone i don't want it to the phone can you help me can you assist me please to get the uh audio on the computer because i i have both devices on but currently you are logged in only through one device where i have enabled the camera okay i will shut my computer down and restart thank you okay and we're gonna get going here now i think we got most of the technical um challenges out of the way hopefully you know everyone out there this is new for us so we apologize for for the little mix up here but it seems like we're
013learning and getting it down here so um we will uh well that was it for the announcements correct with in terms of the technical stuff i think so so at this time uh we'll go ahead and do the pledge of allegiance um so if you're able to stand with your zoom set up then please do so if not that is fine as well but please join me in the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for the republic for which it stands under god indivisible with liberty all right thank you everyone okay so um we can go ahead and move into the meeting at this point item 2.01 um mr gill do we have hands raised for public comment and if so do
014you have a rough estimate of how many currently no hand raised just because of the technical stuff that's been going on i'll just give it a second here and see if make sure we provide opportunity for any public comment on this if not then we will um dismissed to close session at that point now we are developing there are three okay well while we have three then um we can go ahead and get started so we will do a two-minute um two-minute public comment and as we have been doing um recently in order to make sure that we expedite or tr attempt to expedite our meetings and get our business done um we will have a 20 minute time total for public comments so we can get um to the business at hand as a
015board so um the first speaker the clock is ready so um who is it mr gill uh brenda zander house okay missing the house when you begin speaking the two minutes will start sorry um good afternoon everybody uh trustees and superintendent my name is brenda sandejas i have two kids in this school district who will be starting soon i still have a lot of concerns about how school will be reopening and one of my biggest concern is um parents using zoom with their kids there's still a lot of parents that don't know how to use them and a lot of them have a language barrier um in the apartments that i live in there's currently six families that still can't access zoom or uh parent square or any other apps through the school because their
016ipads are locked and they're just worried that they will miss like they did when they had to go home a couple months ago their kids weren't able to log in and they had a really hard time so i'm just speaking out for these parents who are worried about um not being ready when their kids have to start conversating soon and again these are um uh latinos who need spanish translations and i'm just speaking on behalf of them because we need to make sure and we need to ensure that all parents have access to soon that understand how to use it this will save a lot of time for our teachers as well if the kids are knowledgeable and the parents of muting and unmuting as you see your board meetings you guys are still having
017a hard time now imagine our kids and teachers so just consider that thank you thank you mr guild next speaker oh we can't hear you you're muted i think flor de leon okay leon when you begin speaking your two minutes will start yes we can hear you okay uh good evening everyone my i am name is on the district and today i know that you guys will be going in closed session um to negotiate um i hope the benefits for the teachers and other negotiations that you might have um i i just wanna ask you guys to um to consider um that the the teachers you know security is very important and also that the teachers uh deserve to get paid a dignity salary and benefit that way we can continue to retain teachers in
018our district i know we have like uh uh um teach uh we we have a shortage on teachers and let's let's keep considering on that that they are very important to our kids uh education and in general the education they are the ones that um are working in the schools directly with the kids and they are the principal of everything you know and um and i i i just want to say that please uh i hope you guys get a good and good agreement and everyone is happy with this so we can move on with the planning on our schools and that's all thank you mr leon mr gill who is the next speaker no nobody nobody else correct okay thank you so that is it for closed session so wait a second uh just
019now two people raised hand okay um okay well we can go ahead and who's who's one of those people yeah and funny okay anthony when your microphone is unmuted and you begin speaking your two minutes will start hey everybody my name is anthony i'm a teacher in elm rock school district uh taught at many different places in the district uh i guess i'm just going to hear here to mirror a lot of the concerns of the parents students and greater community uh we we definitely need a plan uh we need a plan that is actionable for all the stakeholders uh in which we can you know create a sustainable education for our community um and so again i'm just here in my personal capacity to kind of speak up about that we do need solid
020schedules we do need a solid understanding of uh what the parameters are so you know all of us can work together for the betterment of our students um so thank you very much thank you mr gil next person next person is veronica veronica when you begin speaking your two minutes will start great good afternoon everyone and good afternoon to the board my name is veronica i am a parent of two allen rock school district students and i'm also here um again to really speak on behalf of families families need a lot of support and just as families need support we must not forget that teachers have also families the teachers also have a life and that we also need to support our teachers we need to make sure that our plan is safe for our
021students our families our teachers our staff and we need to make sure that it's sustainable and equitable we got to make sure that we are keeping our families and teachers in the conversation um i think this with this we forgot that we definitely we didn't you know the uh district leadership for god to include families um we have a lot and we want to participate we want to collaborate so i do want to make sure that you know keep at the forefront our students our teachers because without our teachers success we cannot have successful children so i want to make sure that we are advocating for our students and our teachers and our families and they're at the foremost of every decision that we're making i also do want to thank um corina our trustee
022corrina for being there for being a really great advocate as we are a request for d.a rosen to search to tell us more about why they he decided not to put any charges against doterra as we know they stole money and we want to make sure that we get that money back it is our students money and it is belongs to alum rock school district so thank you so much uh trustee corina thank you okay thank you mr gill the next person no more sir none okay so at this time i will go ahead and um call the public comments portion to be completed and we can recess the closed session at 6.25 and is there going to be a need to return to this room for people only to a german meeting okay so
023at this time we will recess to as a board to close session and um maribel is there a separate link for that i saw a couple of different invites i just want to make sure i sent you the closed session information for today yes so everyone please go check your messages from maribel to the closed session session close session meeting portion of the meeting and we will go there um board and staff okay thank you everyone we will return to adjourn the meeting um at the end of closed session uh do we have a time a rough time on that and then o'clock okay at seven o'clock okay thank you everyone and we'll go to the closed session you