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7/20 AUHSD Board Meeting: Open Session (6:00 p.m.)

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2023-07-21
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Orange County, CA
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5,280 words · about 30 min
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2026-06-05

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001good evening everyone thank you for being with us this evening we are now reconvening the meeting from our closed session and uh please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance recognition of our flag of the United States thank you everyone moment of silence was you recognize what we just did recognizing our country who provides us the ability to have a a free school system here in the United States and as we are finishing up our summer break we look forward to what is in front of us for the next year all the work that is going into preparing to take care of our children in the district through our teachers and our staff so let's take a moment and just think about what it entails to be able to provide this service to our students thank

002you now we'll have a closed session report by the clerk of the board thank you Mr O'Neill okay item 4.1 no reportable action taking regarding public employee performance evaluation superintendent 4.2 the Board of Trustees unanimously approved the settlement agreement in a oah case number 202-3040446 resolving all issues and students due process complaint by funding placement and reimbursement 4.3 the Board of Trustees unanimously approved the settlement agreement in oah case number 20230-10406 resolving all issues and students due process complaint by making changes to the IEP and providing reimbursements 4.4 no reportable action taking regarding negotiations 4.5 no reportable action taken regarding Personnel 4.6 the Board of Trustees unanimously voted to accept settlement in Orange County Superior Court case number 30-2020-01156793 CU Dash p o dash C J C 4.7 the Board of Trustees unanimously voted to

003accept settlement in Orange County Superior Court case number 30-2021-011250522 sorry zero one two five zero five two nine two-cu p o dash CJC and related coverage coverage issues 4.8 the b o t unanimously voted to accept settlement in OC Superior Court case number 30-2021-01238180cu Dash p o dash CJC 4.9 the Board of Trustees unanimously voted to accept settlement in Orange County Superior Court case number 30-2022-01262513-c-u-bo-cjc for 0.10 the Board of Trustees unanimously voted to accept settlement in Orange County Superior Court case number 30-2020-011480-65-cu-co CJC with plaintiffs one two including related coverage issues three four six seven and nine four point one one the Board of Trustees unanimously voted to accept settlement in Orange County Superior Court case number 30-2022-0124-6603-cu-p-o-c-j-c item four point twelve the Board of Trustees unanimously voted to make the following appointment effective

004July 3 2023 Brian belsky director of Arts education [Applause] congratulations Mr belski where do you care to step to the podium and say a few words uh oh he's taken Board of Trustees cabinet uh esteemed colleagues members of the community I'm deeply humbled and honored to stand before you as a director of Arts education or uhsd as I begin my 26th year in education in my 21st in this District I gratefully accept this role with a sense of responsibility and enthusiasm to foster a brighter future a future through the power of Arts education the role of Arts education in building a stronger Society cannot be overstated it serves as the Bedrock of creativity empathy critical thinking nurturing well-rounded individuals who contribute meaningfully to our communities through artistic expression we Empower our youth to find their

005voices cultivating a generation of confident and compassionate leaders last fall the voters of California overwhelmingly passed proposition 28 to expand Arts education for all students and the board's decision to create this position shows Visionary leadership as we move forward to support our Arts programs and students and to create new ones I'm deeply grateful for the district's unwavering support that recognizes the pivotal role that Arts education plays in shaping our development as humans your belief in the transformative power of the Arts inspires us all to strive for excellence and to create an inclusive and thriving educational environment I'm also thankful for the support of my family who are here tonight my wife Sarah and daughter Olivia and my nieces Randy and Brittany Sarah you've been there every step of the way from watching chili pots at

006band fundraisers to helping me revise production schedules you're the absolutely best and I couldn't have done any of this without you and also a shout out to my family watching online hi Mom so as we embark on this Collective Journey just let us remember the words of Pablo Picasso the purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off of our souls so through Arts education we cleanse our souls we enrich our lives with beauty and meaning and together we'll sculpt a brighter future where the Arts Empower us to bridge divides and create a society grounded in compassion Innovation and understanding thank you all so much for your trust and for your support foreign okay uh welcome you to the position and look forward to great things as we move forward this new year

007right vapa is a fantastic program we love it so we look forward to what's your visionary in your mind what you see and help us move forward working with the Ed Department here so congratulations to you and your family thank you and somebody's really proud of her daddy yeah yes uh next report student speakers I don't see any student speakers in the audience um I don't see any Association members in the audience to come forward to make a report be recognized um I don't see any PTA representative in the audience we're moving forward quickly so we now come to public comments Open Session items opportunities for public comments occur at the beginning of each agenda item we have one speaker his name is uh Fred smaller excuse me uh camera come to the podium please

008failed penmanship I'm saying my name is Fred smoller I'm a professor of political science at Chapman University which is an orange thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today this is good um from October 5th through the 15th at the Orange County Fair and events center I will be putting on with a group of people the Orange County sustainability decathlon we were funded by a five million dollar Grant by the state legislature and I can't help but smile when I drove in here to see your solar installations so you get it climate change is real I believe I teach courses on it and I hope it will be incorporated into the curriculum of the entire state but this is the good part I spoke to your city council and of course I asked

009for money I Got 5 million from the state of California and part of this exhibit and you can go to ocsd23.com are 15 homes that are coming from California from around the world that demonstrate sustainability and the use of non-fossil fuels for heating and cooling I happen to be the guy who brought the something called the U.S solar decathlon to Irvine in 2013 2015 you possibly may have gone to that so here's the good news and then I have homework the first part is the Anaheim City Council or the utility um portion of the city government has agreed to fund any school bus that wants to go at the high school level to the Orange County uh sustainability decathlon this is on October 6th what we call education day and we will have the Wyland

010exhibit and a number of great exhibits and we are encouraging the teachers perhaps to come to us in the morning and maybe in the latter part of the day give a lesson uh we we have suggested lessons about sustainability climate change whatever the teacher thinks is appropriate by the way my wife's a retired teacher she said don't tell them what to do so it's the teachers can also apply for Grants and and we give out the money if they want supplies whatever they want but the big part is your city council has done this we would like now here's the homework part I'd like you to send this out to every High School teacher and let them know I would like you to encourage all grades to come to the event center uh and I'd

011like you to encourage to the extent that you can all of the Anaheim residents to come and here's my dilemma I went to Sacramento got my check for well then give it to me but I got five million dollars because they said you know we are engaging in this enormous undertaking to convert our economy to sustainable practices and I said great we're going to be the only County of 58 counties to do this type of decathlon because we think education is so important they but I said you can't do it in one shot I want to do it every two years and they said well show us local government support show that the students went show that the the school boards and I'm speaking to every single School Board every single city council that's my

012summer that you think this is a good idea and if I have the turnout and I have the students then I can go back to Sacramento and say gee you know we're the leaders in this Orange County and my ultimate goal isn't just helping us adapt to climate change there's another goal and my other goal is to make Orange County the sustainability capital of the world and that this should be our next chapter in our illustrious economic history so you have this I'm going I'm going I sent the PDF to your public information person this is the superintendent here are who is she here wait superintendent my new best friend my my card is there and let's get together it's win-win they go the buses are paid for uh I think it'll be a good

013event and hopefully we'll have it it's open to K-12 although the buses are just for high school maybe talk to Ashley a mayor and get it for everybody okay thanks for your time thank you Mr smaller thank you can we get that in the Friday update you know so it's in our file yes but we'll get that in there yeah thank you so uh I have a question uh Professor he's the only Professor that he so Professor um so you put on the uh the solar decathlon it was at the at the Great Park that was me okay I was there with my son congratulations but the students were the most passionate and gay not college students which is what I teach but the high school students and the high school teachers they were the

014ones now I did bring it here I started this in 209 my hair was not nearly as gray um but that's the U.S department of energy solar decathlon I felt California needs to have its own in particular why I wanted our own is that this now has a K-12 component the U.S department of energy does not have a K-12 component ours has an Outreach to uh all communities there's a I was part of the U.S solar decathlon I love it but there was a kind of a elitist tinge to it I mean those kids were going to do well no matter what quite frankly Stanford and UCLA you know so we are reaching out to schools like Rancho Cielo construction Academy so I'm a local guy it's a California event we cannot effectively combat climate

015change without education you know that and uh and I think it's substantive and there's it's not controversial and I think um I just want to keep this thing here for the next 50 years so okay thank you very much for your presentation thank you okay that's good that's good [Laughter] oh we have another 70 to go all right thank you Mr belski please item of the business Educational Services School sponsored student organizations do we have a motion slow moved the motion in a second second uh any discussion this is on 8.1 Tina all in favor say aye aye opposed yes five zero resolutions resolution is 8.2 resolution number you know what you wait wait I don't want to um but I don't want to uh not vote for this um Club but I thought I

016felt that they need to kind of revamp their purpose um and it's uh exhibit G um it's the pi Club Pacific Islander um I don't know if uh are you looking at it Jaren okay so my my issue was is it truly just is it truly a dance group because that's really kind of what they focus on um and I didn't feel like they they they they spoke enough about how they were going to um uh okay so it says the purpose is not to only learn but to expand the culture um to everyone willing to listen and learn it's also teach cultural dances so explanation was just a little vague so can you get back with them I feel like it's a kind of a teachable lesson for them to kind of go back

017and revisit their their purpose they may know their purpose but maybe expand it yeah if it's dance that's great we would prove it I mean it's a club for dancing but I think if that's what they want to do then they need to just to speak to that okay thanks okay uh 8.2 was resolution number 2023-24-e-01 annual certification of course based independent study for 2023-24. so move second Motion in a second any questions seeing none this is a roll call vote Miss Guerrero aye Ms Percy aye Ms Smith aye Mr Reynold Trejo aye and I vote I 5-0 resolution 8.3 resolution number 2023-24-e-02 artificial intelligence in education we have a motion in a second any questions I just had a comment um um great resolution I just wanted to make sure that um I know

018the AI Summit was mentioned in the resolution will our Kennedy High School career pathway be involved in that any student Showcase of their time in the career pathway yeah so that's the hope with the a summit there's a few things that we want to accomplish obviously um the professional learning that will come from the summit with our staff and our students is a big piece but then two is um we're hoping that even though the pathway lives at Kennedy and they'll play a prominent role we're hopeful that artificial intelligence which is going to happen whether we like it or not uh really is a part and integrated into what's happening to all of our schools so we're fortunate our partnership with the Cadence where they're utilizing the tool as a part of their platform but

019with safeguards in place so we can begin to really work with our staff and our students and utilizing the tool through the lens of Ethics right using it for for productive outcomes rather than sometimes the bad or evil outcomes so there's a lot that's going to be done with that and yes our hope Kennedy will be prominent but we have a task force that's doing work with AI and although Kennedy is largely represented on that task force understandably so we do have other teachers and staff that are part of other campuses who have an interest or passion in artificial intelligence because again we don't want the pathway to only live at Kennedy it's something that all of our schools should be a part of well I just wanted to make sure and after we've had

020more discussions just recently last couple of days I just want to um you know say that I I I am even more assured that you know when we're leading this through the lens of of ABI and with ethical use um I before its usage um and I trust that we'll roll this out carefully um and cautiously um and you know with consideration of the issues so um I appreciate our our conversations with this um because you know um we do things with Fidelity here and um and I'm I'm all for um you know leading the way again with us so in poor president O'Neill if I may uh to trustee Randall Trio's point you know our superintendent is well connected or is becoming well connected with leaders in the artificial intelligence world and so they're

021also deeply connected to work we're attempting to do through the summit so there's gonna be a lot of eyes working with us on not just the framework that we're trying to develop but the way that we implement this with through the lens of ethics and with the responsibility to really leverage this tool that's again going to happen whether we like it or not but to leverage in a way that's going to be productive and meaningful for our students to position them to attain jobs that are going to be utilizing this technology but then also to use the way that's healthy and to make a better world right create a better world which speaks to our visions thank you for that I just want to add one thing Mrs Randall Trejo used the word trust and

022I think that word is huge when we move into this new part of life Trust okay any other comments seeing none Miss Guerrero aye Ms Percy aye Ms Smith aye Mr Randall Alfredo aye and I vote aye 8.4 revised board policy 7807 6120 6158 independent study second reading this information or an action item so move again we have a motion a second for Action any discussion see you none all in favor say aye aye opposed 5-0 8.5 revised word policy yeah all right board policy 71105 61 46.1 High School graduation requirements first reading information only 8.6 license subscription says but it's information only that's an error okay uh 8.6 a license subscription Arbiter Sports LLC second motion a second any questions see none all in favor say aye aye aye opposed that's five zero 8.7

023quote five star students five star in parentheses motion so moved okay in a second questions all in favor say aye aye opposed 5-0 8.8 Grant award Mazda Foundation fuse Grant close in a second any questions concerns so you know all in favor say aye aye opposed five zero 8.9 memorandum of understanding mou Orange County human relations DBA Groundswell so moved second we have a motion in a second on any questions yes um foreign human relations uh like a report to the board I feel like it's been quite a while it's probably been a I think we've done updates for you but the presentation probably was uh definitely over a year ago for sure at least maybe a little longer okay would you be interested gosh do we receive um progress reports from them with the

024work that they're doing say they yes yes we do at the end of each year they provide a detailed report in terms of what data they've collected the work that the RJ specialist in this case have done at the schools that they're re they've been at the work that the bridges programs or clubs have done uh at their respective sites and there's any other trains like last year they did a lot of their implicit bias inner sort of practices training so they'll provide updates on how many staff they've trained the outcomes from those trainings as well so we do get a detailed report would it be too tedious to to put that together and let us see that we can do that for sure okay I mean if if it's just it can be generalized

025it doesn't have to be you know real detailed but I just feel like we haven't I haven't received um information um from them in a long time let me put that on a Friday yeah yeah that's fine okay uh all in favor say aye aye opposed by zero 8.10 purchase and subscription service agreement Raptor Technologies LLC some of second motion a second any discussion seeing them all in favor say aye aye aye opposed five zero eight point eleven independent contractor agreement leadership inspirations in a second any discussion okay all in favor say aye aye opposed five zero 8.12 subcontract agreement the regions of the University of California so move second Motion in a second any questions see none all in favor say aye aye opposed 5-0 8.13 purchased through public corporation of or agency netsync

026Network Solutions Inc for Amazon S3 platform so move second Motion in a second any questions seeing none all in favor say aye aye opposed that's 5-0 purchased through public corporation or agency netsync Network Solutions Inc installation and development and deployment excuse me summer second motion a second any questions all in favor say aye aye aye opposed five zero uh 8.15 purchase through public corporation or agency Soft Choice Corporation second motion a second any questions all in favor say aye aye aye opposed five zero 8.16 independent contractor agreement parent teacher home visit so move second Motion in a second questions team none all in favor say aye aye aye opposed 5-0 8.17 public hearing disclosure of collective bargaining agreement with apka apga we open a public hearing anybody wishing to speak close the public hearing nobody

027wishes to speak 8.18 adoption of the 2022-26 collective bargaining agreement with apga motion a second any discussion seeing none all in favor say aye aye aye opposed 5-0 revised board policy 6317.25 and parentheses 4119.22 professional attire second reading it's a move we have a motion in a second second we have a motion in a second yeah all in favor say aye aye opposed very good 5-0 uh superintendent's office 8.20 revised board policy ten three two five and parentheses 9323 meeting conduct revised board policy 10110 number of adult student members in terms of office second reading Motion in a second any discussion okay all in favor say aye aye aye opposed that's five zero consent calendar number nine anybody wishing to pull an item I want to pull 9.37 937 okay 9.14 9.14 okay move for

028the balance oh I'm sorry I I need to pull a 9.14 uu but that's you've already pulled 9.414 okay oh yes that's fine okay move the balance okay okay all in favor say aye aye opposed okay uh let's go with 9.37 okay there's a 9.37 is the the human resource personnel and I just want to give out a shout out to item C it is the national board for professional Teaching Standards certification incentive program stipend we have 18 teachers who are receiving this this is phenomenal and I want to congratulate each one of those it shows you how good our teachers are this is not an easy thing to achieve I started this program when I was teaching and it just takes a lot of time and effort and I just said oh wow you

029know I gave up but this is great you know they they worked hard for this and and uh I I think they should be acknowledged and I just want to say congratulations to all of them that are receiving that and it just shows the quality of our teachers and I just want to if I may give a shout out to Diana fujimon and our team it's through their leadership the support that they provide to our teachers the encouragement that that makes this possible thank you yeah that's great okay so okay that was my whole point I just wanted to you know come on acknowledge them it's in there but you know that's an achievement so we have a motion on that so moved in a second second all in favor say aye aye aye opposed

030okay 9.14 gets a 5-0 now I'm sorry that 9.37 now 9.14 Miss Guerrero I'm just gonna abstain so it moves motion and a second second okay all in favor say aye aye all opposed abstain I and I said I before it's it's three eyes one no zero no nose and two abstains all right we'll get there all right that takes care of the consent calendar [Applause] next we have the superintendent and staff report thank you uh board president I want to put a shout out to the board especially the two board members Ms Guerrero Miss Randall Trejo for attending along with over 50 auhsd leaders the Europe conference in San Francisco and which and I also want to commend the ad division for a record seven workshops and collaboration with Cal State Fullerton so it

031was an amazing conference 2500 attendees nationally and once again auhsd was out in front on a number of areas including the Capstone the aim program parent and student engagement and on and on but amazing experience so thank you board for representing the rest of the board at the at the conference and next year we look forward to seeing some of you in Washington D.C for my report I just want to share that today was the kickoff with our leadership Advance we brought all of our not just our management teams back but then also our teacher leaders our counselors our family community engagement Specialists Community School coordinators to Kennedy for our time together to really kick off the start to the school year tomorrow will be our second day so if you have the time and

032you want to come by Kennedy in the morning we're there from 8 to noon just as a front loading though there won't be like a fancy Presentation tomorrow tomorrow our teams will be in breakout rooms where they're working together with their site teams to continue to map and plan their year two at a glance and what that's going to look like as we continue to make our Capstone and performance task assessments better and then also thinking about how we're going to expand the Cadence and then thinking about safety and culture making sure that those are our three big areas of focus to start the school year so if you want to see our teams do some great mind work by all means come on down Mr solver and I will be walking all the rooms

033where our stuff is helping to facilitate and just be there to support while they're having conversation so thank you thank you so question Jaren so tomorrow morning there's no general meeting they're just going straight to their rooms they report straight to the rooms they're there from eight to about 11 and then 11 o'clock the junior high teams will go and join their High School feeders and then we have a couple of unique schools like Oxford and CVA will be together and then Gilbert the independent studies program and hope will be together and we have a tuning protocol where they're basically going to share their year two and their planning uh documents with each other and give each other feedback and then we'll finish with a video launch instead of bringing them back to capacity of

034video launch okay yeah I just want to wish everybody just a great start to the school year and here's to another fantastic year thank you hi so um tonight I want to share with you this award that we receive from the construction management association of America for our Dale project um the modernization and new construction as well so obviously we have our um executive director Patty Nelly Here she and I were both present so but thank you so much Patty for your leadership in all this as well as the um Patty's team and the um our project managers are coming who have done a fantastic job to help us with our bond that is um Kenosha as well as Brianna Clinton are for being there to help us lead this project so that's uh first

035announcement and second announcement is um Scott Singer is his birthday today so thank you so much for happy birthday happy birthday so um thank you for being so dedicated and being here for your birthday you do a great job and you always make sure all the kids are make sure that they're picked up every single day so thank you so much for your dedication but thank you for being here today on your birthday all right July another July happy birthday happy birthday birthday no report and yes Amy Kwan reminded us that we had a parent at the Europe conference received the national parent of the Year award Juana Rojas from Western High School so a huge shout out to um that our Western team and that parent for nominating her and for the work she

036has done thank you Amy for reminding us appreciate it um and also just along with Brad's message of you know wishing everyone a great start to the uh 23-24 school year we have some unsung heroes every year you know during this is like the busiest time for m o um they're in this very very warm weather they're out there power washing down uh our our grounds washing windows painting interior extra doors and walls and getting classrooms ready moving furniture so just uh a lot of appreciation for our m o department and all the work that they do during this time to ensure that when our kids are back our staff is back and you know those those doors open that the schools look as beautiful and pristine as they can so so thank you thank

037you for mentioning that right okay Board of Trustees yes thank you um so I have a opportunity to attend the budget committee meeting I also attended the summer arts academy musical of Nucci's was a which was like a incredible show which included nearly 100 of our students from 14 different schools um so congratulations to the all their work this summer I also attended the congressmember lucrez Roundtable on agriculture and nutrition in the 21st century which was hosted at Gilbert High School and the participants had the opportunity to tour the first permanent food pantry there that was a great turnout and then I attended the aim summer program closing ceremony along with some of my colleagues which celebrated a record 170 students that were able to have internship opportunities which was excellent and then as mentioned

038I attended the nsep slash gear annual conference I was the Europe alumni so it was really great to see the great collaboration that ahc has done with CSU of Europe in the past two decades and thank you to all of our team that was there and that presented and um really highlighted our work here at auhsd and then I also Echo the Highlight to our Western High School parent that received the gear family leader of the Year award um Juana Rojas um so thank you and that concludes my report Percy wow okay uh basically I uh didn't do quite as much as Jessica but I attended the aim Disneyland uh uh presentation where the aim students at Disneyland prepared their final exam which was planning out a night activity at Disneyland and they had to

039do everything that is normally done and they did a phenomenal job each one of them you know were in different departments and so they brought the knowledge that they earned from there to figure out everything from how much it was going to cost for souvenirs to how many groundsmen they were going to need and you know so they did a good job but that I have to say this there were 12 students that were at Disneyland and uh the then afterwards uh Ken Rothrock who's the president of Disney there did wasn't able to be at their presentations but he wanted to see them afterwards so he had them all come up to his office and then uh Brian left but uh I stuck around so I was able to go up to his office as

040well and talk with the kids and and Ken he is really um appears to be really excited about working with even more students he's just been really impressed with what our students have done we started off with three at Disneyland and then they went for more and then of course if I hope all of you recall he came here and Disney donated three hundred thousand dollars to our was it 300 000 to our program and so um it was great it was just really really good and I and I look forward to Disney working with us even more he seems eager to continue to work even in other ways with us and I had to because I I go back a lot of years and and um I was one of the first when I

041was teaching that worked with Disney when the district established this the creativity Challenge and that was back in the 80s and uh it started off only with Anaheim Union but then it kind of grew and it grew to the whole of Orange County and then it changed again and it's no now it's a different program it's not the same but we've worked with Disney many many years and so this is really nice that they are backing us up like this and then I attended the aim graduation of all the rest of the kids who were on all the other different programs and then the I attended the leadership thing this morning and I tried to get around to a lot of the rooms and say hello because it's hard to say hello when everybody's there

042at once so tomorrow I'll try to get back to the other rooms that I didn't make this morning but um it was it's good it was a good you know a lot of them working and right away and oh when I went into ball they were talking about there no it wasn't just Ball but one of the other junior high is talking about taking a bus trip through their attendance area and I would like to do that so um I you know I told them let me know because if I can I would like to see that because that would be a little bit more in-depth into individual areas because we're going to be doing one of the whole District aren't we so every school will be doing a community reflective walk which is a

043tour and uh in tomorrow's update you'll get the schedule and the details about what that looks like so if you'd like to participate or go with any one school you may okay yeah somebody brought up something about an apartment that you know was an issue or problem and I went oh about that one okay so and that's it those are the main things Miss Smith I have nothing to report Israel thank you I was able to enjoy Newsies as well um that was such a wonderful show and I had forgotten how um how how cute it is and um and that I think there was a seventh grader or eighth grader that was the lead in this role and just an amazing I thought he was in high school and so he's got a great

044future ahead of him and congratulations to everyone it was a really great great show I also attended the summer aim uh graduation we're calling it and and then Scott Rondell reminded us that not only the 170 students but all of the other Film Academy and uh gosh eluding me now but there are other students though equally about a equating to about about 250 I think he said more students that were had participated in the summer program I attended the uh the conference and our our I've always been saying this since I've been going to conferences and as a trustee um we're so kind of far ahead of uh you know the curve on an educational POS giving educational possibilities to our students and but I think it's just great that we continue to be out

045there and and talk about what we're doing and celebrating what we're doing reinforcing what we're doing in our district and um sitting in there a lot of folks from across the way we're getting lots of cards and cotton making lots of comments and connections with uh with our staff and hopefully it just kind of permeates to Across the the United States I loved the um the theme the power of possibility the speakers were phenomenal we all had the pleasure of listening to the first female Hispanic in space Dr Ochoa and just what a remarkable Journey that she's had Parents immigrated from Mexico and and you know taking a path she told the story of how when she was trying to make her decision and what path she wanted to go into and she's a math

046mathematician talking to one college professor and not really getting the support and not or feeling that she wasn't going to get the support in in in that department she felt a little demeaned and then speaking to physics a professor and the physics Professor being inviting and welcoming and encouraging leading her into that path which led to of course she did all the work but leading to her success but it just tells you just how important a teacher's support can be or not can be and and where it leads you and I'm sure she's uh I'm sure sure that Professor is kicking himself now not really being in her life I attended my no crop meeting and then you attended an emergency meeting yesterday while I was on a plane couldn't make it coming back from

047the conference and then I attended my monthly gazalpa meeting and I'm really excited next week I'm going to be training with their ABA specialist um getting some registered Behavior technician training so I'm really excited to be doing that and looking forward to a great year and thank you everyone I know everybody thinks people have we have Summers off right it's just not as you mentioned it's the busiest time for mno and busiest time for Ed staff because you're just preparing for the next year and I'm just so proud of of everyone in our district and our team I'm just proud to serve as trustee thank you I attended the budget meeting and both aim opportunities the at Disney and then the uh the summer closing as previously mentioned I attended a couple of ROP meetings

048the leadership Advanced this morning got into some of the classrooms afterwards and said hi and listened to people for a little bit and then I also attended with my wife and one grandson the Mac Farm opportunity where they were making Jam so it was really nice and my wife made some jams standing there so they talked her into doing that I don't know what they're doing with the videos I'm hoping that's not out there somewhere with with my my wife myself and my grandson but anyhow if it is we never signed a waiver so I'm gonna I'm gonna Sue so no uh everything works very well so um somebody mentioned about the the food pantry at Gilbert and when I attended the opening a few months ago they talked about with Second Harvest moving it

049to a couple other schools does anybody know where we are in doing that and uh you know what schools I think they mentioned maybe Savannah and Laura or Katella or schools but I can follow with Carlos because I know he and the community school team are working yeah I just was wondering how how we were doing getting on that that's uh important for the communities that we serve speaking of serving thank you all for all that you do for the kids and from uh you know the certificated the classified it's all we we couldn't do it without you so thank you so much and I hope you all had a wonderful summer even though many of you worked probably maybe harder during the summer than you do normally during the school year in preparation for

050the next year so with that said we have a future ahead of us the next is future meeting dates which is September excuse me August 10th is our next meeting and of course school I believe if I remember the correct the calendar date is August 9th my son's birthday in his honor we're opening schools so that's his birthday present no no not really and uh any uh suggested isn't items okay seeing none we move on to item number 13. 13 so move move for adjournment second we got a motion in a second finally all in favor say aye aye opposed thank you

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