001foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] good afternoon [Music] [Applause] [Music] stop the time [Music] thank you [Music] stop it guys [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] supper time [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] come on is it time that clock is off want to make sure 601 okay fine we'll reconvene now from our closed session to open session and we'll be led by uh Pledge of Allegiance by our student board rep I'm car cartridge please stand put your right hand over your heart ready begin hmm okay so here's for the moment silence um when walking in a school restroom it's not uncommon to smell a kid's favorite smells cotton candy bubble gum and even
002chicken waffles unfortunately the price has paid for those delicious smells is to the detriment of the lung health and overall health of the kid vaping and the kid who simply wishes to go about their business according to the FDA about 1 in 10 AKA 2.5 million U.S middle and high school students have used e-cigarettes in a span of 30 days dangerous aerosols fill the same chemicals you find in cleaning products have already claimed hundreds to thousands of lives here's a moment of silence for those students who continue to fight the battle against addiction and to those that have unfortunately lost it thank you omkar now we'll have a closed session report out by our Federal Trejo thank you Mr President item 4.1 no reportable action taken regarding public employee performance evaluation superintendent 4.2 no reportable
003action taken regarding unrepresented employee superintendent item 4.3 no reportable action taken regarding negotiations 4.4 the Board of Trustees unanimously voted to approve separate agreements for four employees subject to termination due to the reduction or elimination of certain Services performed by certificated employees the agreements deem the request for hearing slash notices of participation submitted by the employees as withdrawn in exchange for a brief extension of the employee's Health and Welfare benefits after their layoff item 4.5 no reportable action taken regarding Personnel 4.6 this item was pulled prior to the adoption of the agenda 4.7 the Board of Trustees took formal action with a 5-0 vote to approve the expulsion of students 22-26-22-32 and 22-3-4 thank you and at the pleasure of the board we're moving on to item six um recognitions and I because we have
004students in the audience and they may have some homework or tests they need to prepare for I like to move them from uh 6.3 four and five move them up above 6.1 and so we can start the recognition right now is that okay with the board okay so we're going to start at 6.3 which is the Cypress High School CIF Southern section Northern Division boys wrestling champion and I think we have some in the audience [Applause] so um we'll start out with Tyler thinggren and we're I'm going to come up here to the podium and maybe the board can come up here in the middle is Tyler here Tyler's not here but I will read about Tyler anyhow Tyler's a senior at Cypress high school he was a three-time CIF qualifier two-time CIF Placer two-time
005Masters qualifier and a CIF Champion he's also wrestles all the while maintaining a 4.0 GPA so let's give him a round of applause and if he shows up later we'll give him a certificate that time 6.4 Anaheim High School CIF Southern section eastern girls division wrestling champion and that is Liliana balderas come forward Liliana is a freshman at Anaheim High School she holds a 33-2 record with 23 wins coming by way of pins was crowned the 121 pound Southern section Eastern Division champion Southern section Masters champion and CIF State runner-up she was named the or not yet she was named the Orange County League MVP for girls wrestling and first team all-county by the Orange County Register Liliana also maintained a 4.0 GPA for the first semester she has been wrestling since the age of
006seven and has previously earned the honors of Tulsa national champ USA Wrestling All-American and Rocky Mountain National Champion she hopes to add freestyle National Champion high school state champion and High School National Champion in the coming years after I wait wait one more nothing yet that's it after high school she intends to wrestle in college and then compete in and win an Olympic gold medal for the United States now we can clap [Applause] that was Miss Janet Brown representing uh Luke Cray's office so she received a certificate for Mr Correa okay fantastic I can imagine she's just beginning 6.5 Magnolia High School Division uh 12 Southern section CIF Girls Soccer Championship Champions and Orange County registers Coach of the Year Ireland Jones [Applause] so do we have any of the girls uh here tonight look
007come on up come on down [Applause] [Music] okay Magnolia Division Seven CIF Southern section girls soccer Champions on Friday February 24th of this year the Magnolia High School varsity girls soccer team won the CIF division Southern section Division Seven championship game against La Quinta with a score of 2-1 at Bolsa Grande High School stadium in Garden Grove the title was the first CIF Southern section title in the school's history which opened in 1961. this is also the girls fourth orange league title the Sentinels are coached by head coach Erin Jones as well as assistant coach Alyssa Garcia and Wilfredo Velasco let's give them a hand [Applause] but thank you [Music] example okay besides their accomplishments Ellen Jones Division Seven CIF Southern section coach of the year isn't that fantastic on March 1st this year Ellen
008Jones was selected as The Division Seven CIF Southern section Coach of the Year this is his first CIF coaching title in his 21 years as the head coach he has also selected he was also selected as the 2023 Orange County Register coach of the year and he was named Orange County Orange league coach of the Year this Marks Mr airline's first CIF Southern section title and his fourth orange league title congratulations coach do you want to have a few words to say or no that's enough huh all right keep coaching [Applause] I don't know a coach that doesn't want to talk so here we go girls and my coaching staff they really worked hard all season long they did the work I just helped guide them and I just want to thank them and everybody
009in this district and the community for the support that we've had all season long thank you thank you so much thank you ladies you can go home and get to homework [Applause] I'm sorry I didn't realize that lucrio's office also had more certificates for the for the girls so my error on that sorry Janet oh and represented from Doug Tracy supervisor Doug chaseey chafee's office also anything more what more okay it's always wonderful when we recognize our students success throughout the district this is just a you know sort of a tip of the iceberg of what happens throughout our 46 square miles in our district so congratulations to you again okay moving back to 6.1 Anaheim Union High School District teachers of the year and the Board of Trustees would like to recognize the Anaheim
010Union High School District Schools 2022-2023 teachers of the year each School site selected a teacher of the year and submitted him or her for consideration for the auhsd teachers of the Year Awards a committee then had the very difficult challenge of reviewing and nominating letters for each of these outstanding teachers and selecting three district teachers of the year who exemplify The Best of the Best these three teachers will now be considered for the Orange County Teachers of the Year recognition program five count five County teachers of the year will be honored as an awards ceremony in November and the first teacher I should have had the more stay up there sorry about that Mandy Johnson from CVA [Applause] I I guess it really doesn't hurt us to have a little exercise get up and move
011it back and forth so come around on up well I talk about you so um Randy Johnson from Cambridge Virtual Academy she teaches English 15 years with auhsd and Mandy is a teacher who truly embodies 21st century skills and she has a talent for creating interactive and engaging lessons that cha that challenges her students to think critically collaborate with their peers and communicate their ideas effectively she is an advocate for inclusive inclusivity and kindness and works hard to create a safe and supportive learning environment where all students feel valued Mandy is an active member of the district-wide mindfulness cohort and regularly incorporates mindfulness practice into her classrooms helping her students develop greater Focus self-awareness as well as emotional intelligence her dedication to her students and her commitment to Excellence make her a valuable asset to
012the school community and the district congratulations Mandy [Applause] Australia [Applause] next is Christy Kennelly Christy there she is performance oh she's six okay I you're going to accept the awards instead okay thank you so much okay team team [Music] hey [Applause] okay well I'll I'll tell you a little bit about Christy she you helped her okay do you want to read you want to read this she teaches math she's been with the district for 19 years and she is positive caring and compassionate educator who creates engagement in her classroom by incorporating educational to Tech tools to support student learning she is an instructional leader on campus and often leads demonstration lab for teachers to model best practices and instructional tools Christie is intentional about the systems in place on campus to promote a positive caring
013and compassionate community she is in her classroom before school after school and during lunch tutoring students in addition to coordinating the PO push program which is an intervention program for students to work on missing assignments and projects so they can improve their grades so congratulations Christy [Applause] thank you okay the last person uh Brian Shoemaker from Dale Junior High [Applause] Brian teaches math he's been with the district for 23 years he is a compassionate educator who serves and supports students and staff through his Service as math department chair co-leader of the steam Focus team as well as member of site leadership team Capstone implementation team financial literacy team School site Council and counselor advisory committee he has an open door policy which allows parents and staff members into his classroom for reflective learning skills learning
014walks excuse me for reflective learning walks Brian takes this opportunity to gather valuable feedback about his classroom practices Brian created the first stem class at Dale in order to offer students the opportunity to practice creatively creativity through Innovation learn about career paths and stem he also collaborated with a team of teachers to implement a school-wide project-based learning program congratulations Brian thank you [Applause] now I think that's all I have we can go back to our seats thank you yeah okay I'm sorry get come back come back well I want an exercise all right all right all right all right next item two kindness matters Awards celebrating kindness is a valued quality and a priority for the Board of Trustees it is acknowledged that even the smallest acts of kindness by a single person have the
015power to change the lives of our students and community with this in mind the Board of Trustees began this recognition in 2011 honoring students parents District employees and community members for their acts of kindness all individuals recognized who are nominated by staff student staff member student or Community member and selected by the kindness matters committee and Celeste Kruger is going to lead the way thank you good evening good evening word president O'Neill Board of Trustees superintendent matsuda cabinet and guest so I'm excited to be here I'm honored to be here to present these Awards tonight so we're going to present the recipients to the kindness matters award for the spring 2022-2023 school year assisting me tonight is Theresa Rodarte and so to be a recipient of this award uh one must go above and beyond
016to demonstrate compassion kindness and care for others the following people have done that so recipients when I call your name please come forward to receive your award our first recipient is yamila Castro [Applause] [Music] she is a teacher at Western High School and she was nominated by her principal Lorena Moreno so umlis serves as a department chair of World Language of the World Language department at Western and she's the Community Schools team leader this year she has gone out of her way to build a strong sense of community at Western High School she writes positive notes to staff members to recognize and affirm their contributions to our school Community she buys little gifts for office staff members to recognize them for their positive customer service to our families students and staff members she sends positive
017emails to our school Community celebrating the accomplishment of all members of our school Community she will often spend her own money to buy these gifts and cards to recognize and celebrate different members of the school Community she buys snacks for our meetings to add to a welcoming environment with our staff and parents thank you so much Miss Castro [Applause] our next recipient is David Peters David is a volunteer at Kennedy High School Mr Peters has been a faithful supporter of the Shamrock regiment which is the John F Kennedy High School band and color guard for several decades he is an alumnus from the early 1980s and credits his time in the Band program with the success he has experienced as a small business owner Mr Peters is incredibly gracious and giving of both his time
018and financial support this year and last year he covered the cost of our banquet facility rental so the individual costs for students and families was very low he has also donated numerous instruments over the last decade such as Chimes euphoniums and flugel horns flugelhorns and he's willing to tow an equipment trailer for numerous events throughout the year additionally he serves as a parliamentarian on our booster board Mr Peters is simply a volunteer who strongly believes in giving back as a sign of gratitude thank you Mr Peters [Applause] our next recipient is Kelly Stevens thank you so Kelly is a School counseling intern at Cypress High School Kelly is pure joy she has stepped into a counseling intern role at a large and busy site with enthusiasm professionalism and kindness Kelly easily puts students at ease
019by treating them with respect and showing them that she genuinely cares she conducts EMT student interviews with compassion and her notes are thorough and helpful for the team everyone who comes in contact with Kelly notices her joyful nature and random acts of kindness in fact she is so wonderful that staff members members believe she is already a full-time school counselor recently the site experienced the loss of a colleague and Kelly jumped in to support the counseling and office staff by checking in on them again showing genuine concern for others thank you Kelly [Applause] our next recipient is Eve Sullivan so Eve is a teacher at Lexington Junior High School she was nominated by AJ Dunham Miss Dunham says that Eve hosts art sessions for the staff after school periodically her room is warm and inviting
020upon entering there is classical music playing and it has a very relaxing Vibe she also provides snacks for the attendees every session she teaches her colleagues different techniques to create small pieces of art it is a joy to go into her room after work and have the relaxing experience of creating something beautiful the art sessions for her colleagues is definitely above and beyond her job description and helps to build camaraderie among staff thank you Miss Sullivan [Applause] our final recipient of the evening is Patrol excuse me putoa fuega Mr fuega Mr fuega is the jrtc instructor at Magnolia High School and he was nominated by the assistant principal Cynthia Lundgren Mr fuega is new to Anaheim Union High School District as the jrtc instructor he has led the Magnolia JROTC instructions successfully he has also
021become Magnolia's head football coach he very quickly developed strong relationships with the students Magnolia has an 11th grade Foster youth student that participates in the JROTC class and in football this student was recently removed from his home and was initially homeless Mr fuega and his wife decided to Foster him so that the student can can continue to attend Magnolia which the student describes as his only family Mr fuega has gone above and beyond to support this student taking him into his home to secure the student's success is the priority Mr fuega States I want the student to become a better human I think that's all that needs to be said about this very special human Mr fuega thank you great that's are we still bands for this evening thank you very much foreign thank you
022all to all of our kindness matters winners it's amazing to hear what they contribute to society and to our our school community so thank you again we'll give it a moment while they leave okay he's going to leave early too okay yeah okay next we have uh reports we start out with the student Representatives report and before he speaks I'd like to just announce that he's been accepted to Stanford foreign [Applause] [Music] thank you so much for the congratulations thank you everyone um uh also before I begin the student report I do want to say uh thank you so much for the board for having me here uh you guys thank you so much for our students and I'm very very gracious to be here and I'm very happy I got to spend this year
023with you and uh also on that note um the ambassadors have this tradition where we have like a send-off and it's on um April 26th that Wednesday from 6 p.m and we would love it if the board and cabinet could join us we would love to see your company so if you could it would be in the district um make sure she texted me the name I'm blanking it I am sorry the lounge District Lounge right here yeah okay yeah the lounge so it'll be there um what time will it be 6 p.m on the 26th that Wednesday thank you um but yes thank you so much thank you for everything you do for students and uh so for the board report or for the student report so uh on March 8th Anaheim high school
024held its first women's March during sixth period International women's day so um clubs like Bros wrestling Crown gold njrotc Art Club and organized by um Andrea Monroy the ASB secretary in medsley cariola the ASP president they held this woman to March and where the empowered women on campus and empowered the movement of women since it was a uh women's history month so on to CVA CVA held a masquerade event where it was actually their first time having a masquerade event they had food music activities organized by ASB conga line musical chairs and a whole other array of exciting activities um Cyprus is actually from Lexington but I know a couple kids from Cyprus were also pulled um like there are band kids Lexington Junior High School hosted jbtc film crew who's a Korean national television
025channel for a new cooking show so they actually had some band kids and other kids on campus from Cyprus go to Lexington and get filmed off to be televised in Korea so that's a pretty huge and international label for the auhsd um I'll be gone to Gilbert so Gilbert participated in Project hope to get a tour of UCLA in the facilities they have it was inspiring for students and they empowered many to continue their academic Ventures uh I could tella they held the Miss catella's talent show which showcased the diverse talents of students in a grand Auditorium they perform live and recorded personal videos and overall it was a huge success and it celebrated into visuality and artistic expression at Kennedy the Irish Academic Decathlon team was able to take home fifth overall at the
026California Academic Decathlon uh tournament and they were able to win first in their division so uh kudos to the Irish Academy's soapbox speech finals where they had a great many participants gave really emotional empowering speeches uh the Learners from Junior High division were Lac D Muhammad and then the first place from high school was Mimi alakalak so it was it was a really great event I was there and I saw some of the board members there too and it was truly a very inspiring event seeing their voices being held um Magnolia held a clashes of class clash of classes event which was basically this uh interschool competitive little fun event where they had things like a dance battle which was apparently the Highlight so uh students of different classes dance battle to see who is
027the most festive class for Magnolia um Oxford Academy had their Health occupation students of America HOSA State leadership conference recently and their advisor and which is also the Oxford biotech teacher uh June quenza he was inducted into the HOSA Hall of Fame and many of the students were given Awards and some were even elected to the state board for HOSA at Savannah the glla which is the global language Leadership Academy took their first trip to Costa Rica for an educational tour where they had things like ziplining fruit tasting and other Ventures to learn about Costa Rica more so once again second country in the student report so I think that's that's pretty huge finally Western's AVID program also embarked on field trip to UCLA with 76 students and while on campus they were able to
028talk to alumni Western alumni who are usually a freshman so they can connect with inspiring role models and overall it was amazing for prospective students and really embolden student voice so uh thank you for the board for all the things that have helped students too thank you great report and wonderful presentation again thank you uh next student student speakers uh do we have any student speakers in the house like to come there's one on the okay okay um Michael Flores Gilbert High School hmm good evening I am Michael Flores the alternative education student ambassador or Gilbert High School student ambassador for short our newest democracy School and I'm also the class representative for Gilbert High School's GSA or rainbow Gladiators for short thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak with you here tonight
029the rainbow Gladiators of Gilbert High School which I like would like to specifically thank the Board of Trustees Asta and members of our ahsc committee for supporting and advocating for lgbtq plus youth in our district I'd like to also introduce Alondra our JSA Treasurer and Liz our JSA secretary the rainbow buyers would like to share with you who we are and what makes us a unique standout student advocacy group in our school and community GSA is gender and sexual sexualities Alliance also known as gay straight Alliance this is a communications class and club which is formed at our school nine years ago by Miss Monique Masen our fearless founding advisor who entrusted Miss freeze to be our new advisor this year a year filled with many accomplishments and experiences rainbow Gladiators is a safe place
030to be yourself no matter how you identify because of your support of our alliance we would have likewise received the support of our site leaders and lgbtq plus Center of Orange County we have felt empowered to participate in both our school and local community in such ways as publishing stories in our school newspaper the Gladiator times volunteering for foster friends Thrift Center to support homelessness and lgbtq plus youth we've also hosted educational group meetings and participated at both our biggest event this year brief healthy live mindfully and our back to school night having a boot to represent the lgbtq plus youth we also lead educational discussions and presentations to both faculty and staff we also are celebrating Pride week May 19 15-19th on our campus and we are developing and hosting the first annual GSA
031picnic at Gilbert this year these things can only be possible with the support of our district and Community leaders and support staff and even our teachers so thank you again for your continued support of rainbow Gladiators and all the GSA clubs and lgbtq in our district I would also like to have an extended invite to the Board of Trustees when we have our date finalized for the GSA picnic if any of you are welcome wanting to come to see and help support this event thank you for the time you gave us to speak I hope you all have a great evening thank you Michael well done [Music] we always enjoy hearing the students come forward and speak next is US recognition associations we have this evening we have our Astor president Grant Schuster we have
032Juan Alvarez who is from Anaheim School District as a trustee and I don't know of any other Association representatives in the audience so I'm going to ask oh no no okay so Grant Schuster from math I'll just say apga I knew that was not right sorry about that Mr Asta all right um good evening board president O'Neill trustees District cabinet and everyone joining us here tonight in person and online springboard meetings are often a time to celebrate and honor our students staff and Community while we continue to have amazing teachers and students to celebrate we also have been challenged with adversity in our community and on our campuses but my primary goal over the last five years that I've spent in this position has been to build relationships for times just like this the work
033the association and District leadership have done toward this end has already produced positive results this spring I want to acknowledge the great work done between Asta and the human resources department last month this board unanimously approved a reduction in force of more than a dozen PE teachers after countless phone calls meetings and hours of work we are pleased that every riff in the physical education credential area has already been rescinded in addition several of the English Department Rifts have been rescinded and we are confident that positions will be found for all of the remaining teachers who have been notified I want to give a special shout out to Scott Jensen and H.R who has picked up the phone at any time including many evening and weekend calls to help myself and our Asta members navigate
034this process another area where we see our relationships at work has to do with Safety and Security on our campuses last week the ask the executive board met with the district cabinet and spent over an hour discussing concerns and Pathways forward it is incredibly rare if not unique to have district and Union leadership coming together and openly and honestly discussing issues we spent over an hour discussing ideas including expanding security Personnel growing training programs increasing pay and security substitute pools as well as the possibility of student resource officers on campuses we also discussed the reintroduction of the board approved Progressive discipline policy it is incredibly important to make sure that this policy is implemented at every site the process includes a variety of interventions and resources that support students and help change behaviors as we
035continue to move forward it is important to understand that people at school sites will continue to be our most important asset in supporting students families and their needs last month I spoke about balances in various accounts funded through the one-time covert relief packages we all understand that some money has been encumbered and there are big ticket items like filtration systems in facilities however there is also money that has prioritized but not spent and it is incumbent upon all of us to be flexible and Nimble based on the needs of our community an example of this is the learning recovery emergency block grant over 47 million dollars is being allocated to auhsd half was released in November and the other half will be released this spring there will be competing priorities for that money but we
036don't see priorities stronger than professionals on campuses building relationships and providing services to students those funds could provide a total of 300 teaching positions for an example everyone understands that this money is not a long-term solution but this relief money is to be spent on supporting students as we exit the pandemic it is no coincidence that all four lcap focus groups of parents students and staff named class size as one of their three top priorities in meetings this week we have all we have the financial ability to re organize priorities and provide the staff our students and families have called for and need let's get that done together I would like to close on another positive note later this month the National Education Association vice president princess Moss will be visiting our district to see
037how we are becoming a national model for Community Schools she will also be here to learn about our whole child approach that de-emphasizes test scores while focusing on skill development and helping students find their voice our philosophy around both of these topics was developed collectively and that has been integral in the success of these programs we look forward to continued collaboration and finding a way to staff our campuses to provide the services that will enable all of our students to succeed this concludes my report thank you thank you grant [Applause] okay we've seen we have no other associations represented um Amanda Oh I thought she I thought she said no oh okay all right that's okay good evening president O'Neill Board of Trustees superintendent matsuda executive cabinet students parents and school Community joining us in
038person and online we want to welcome everyone back on behalf of Ulta from spring break we're now in the last quarter of the school year as you know this is the busiest time of the year we're preparing to celebrate and finish the year while planning for a successful start of the upcoming school year currently School sites have been actively working on and finishing the master schedule and are in the midst of Hosting student Capstone showcases we want to recognize all of the hard work planning and efforts put forth by school sites Personnel to make these student experiences a success now that we are talking about success we want to give hope in Sycamore schools a huge shout out for being named Democrat California democracy schools with this announcement our district now has 100 of its
039schools recognized with this distinction we also want to congratulate Mr Jose Lara who has just named AXA region 17 continuation education options administrator of the year for Orange County in addition we would like to invite you um the board and all of the community to present present to join us at our upcoming steemapalooza event on April 22nd it is going to be an amazing event showcasing our programs our students and their passions I want to end this report by thanking the site and District leadership for the continued opportunities to collaborate connect and address concerns that arise we appreciate the strengths-based approach in working together to be solution driven thank you [Applause] okay next we have any reports from a parent teacher Association anybody from okay Jesse good evening cabinet board and superintendent and all of
040the audience my name is Jesse Alvarez I'm the current um Anaheim secondary Council PTA president and I am also re-elected for next year so I will also be the council president for next year as well I just want to say thank you to president O'Neill for attending and Robert Saldivar for attending our the fourth district PTA administrators dinner it was during spring break so they gave up their spring break to be with us so we're very appreciative of that and then also an invitation I shared the information with Jaren already but I don't know if it has made it to you guys yet but we have our upcoming honorary Service Awards dinner coming up on May 10th and this year it will be at Anaheim United Methodist Church more more formal information will come but
041we want to make sure you guys all save the day I have physical save the dates if you'd like one um but you guys are all more than um welcome to join us as we honor um volunteers that go above and the Beyond across the district every school you know does their own individual honorary Service Awards and we bring everyone together to celebrate them all as a district um we will be having our last meeting of the year on May 3rd before we break for summer and then we'll come back strong again in the fall so I look forward to collaborating with you guys again next year thank you thank you Jesse [Applause] thank you okay we had one student come in and so we'll go back to uh item 7.2 for student speakers and
042that is a Eon de bernitz okay you're right okay come on forward from Western High School hello everybody sorry if I'm a little nervous this is my first time doing this just relax no problem we're here for you uh my name is Ian and Tonya stubbornitz and as a student of the Arabic program at Western High School I offer a possible alternative to the removal of our entire program for context to those listening drops in enrollment in the schools of our district has led to understandable budget decisions from the district that are already incredible incredibly difficult to make as they are forced to remove teachers as well as entire curriculums however I wish to help prevent the removal of the Arabic language curriculum as it is the only one in the county to my knowledge
043this is where my alternative comes in instead of defunding a language program set student caps for others some are scared of taking Arabic due to its somewhat complicated nature but is a now two-year returning student I can probably say that if you just give it a shot it's not that bad when it comes to capping other languages my offer is that you keep a maximum of three periods per class or more of absolutely necessary this would go for Spanish Arabic Japanese French Etc they would indeed have a minimum student requirement but with these newly added student caps classes are not too full and not too empty when a period hits the cap none can enter until the same period until the same same period of different languages are filled to their maximum example Spanish period
0441 is at the cap instead of putting them in Period two you put them in another period one class of a different language while this may bother some at first the reality of this situation is our students will be more evenly dispersed among language studies allowing for better career opportunities however if we do not consider this cost-effective alternative then we suffer the loss of a career-rich language we could be teaching more students about this means if you want a better and more attentive form of studying this language you would have to go to San Diego LA and other Northern california-based cities this is an issue as commutes are unbearably long and stressful as well as the living extent expenses being beyond the salary of most auhsd families the Arabic program brings attendance from cities over
045simply because we offer the exclusive language in our school only this means we also are connecting a large Middle Eastern Community together through the one Lifeline that is our school to remove this class is to remove consideration of the community entirely not only is our communal connections Jeff jeopardized but also a chance at a seal of biliteracy in the Arabic language would be forfeited unless you take that test this year this denies our students a chance in recognition from the state of fluency in the Arabic language the removal of this curriculum also closes students out from the Arabic Honor Society which is an International Scholarship group that supports students learning the language and heightens the chances of college attendance even for first generation families I leave off with this and the recent events of the
046Anaheim Community Little Arabia has finally been recognized this would instantly set back the Middle Eastern Community however as their own language wouldn't be represented in their County after all the work they put in just to be seen by the city itself removing the program is turning the community's victory into a struggle of two steps forward one step back [Applause] Ian thank you for your thoughtful presentation we appreciate your input and it will be considered thank you okay moving on to public comments Open Session items opportunities for the public comments occur at the beginning of each agenda item and at this time for items not on the agenda persons wishing to address the Board of Trustees should complete a request form available on the information table at the back of the room and submit it to
047the executive assistant prior to the meeting I have those here each speaker is limited to a maximum of five minutes and there's a timer right here you can see the red light um and a total of 20 minutes for a single topic board members cannot immediately respond to public comments as stated on the speaker request form so we'll take them as they came in first request to speak is I I beg your pardon but uh matzo hey I won't try to you can help me with that matzah uh thank you all thank you to see you guys this is about the name the school colonists we remember what you did we forgive you but can you is this this is this is written by a federally recognized tribal member a Native American as these settlements
048form into colonies their societies became oh I apologize I'm nervous okay I'ma start over acculturation versus assimilation is a very good topic assimilation is a process acculturation is exchange of cultural futures for the past 500 years natives have faced genocide escalation various forms of physical mental and social abuse this has led to high rates of violence assault suicide and poverty and abuse among the natives to date natives were seen as subjects of the Spanish Crown to treat them as less than human Violet the main law of the universe natives Are Spiritual Beings not religious this is the reason Colonists thought we had quote no God or higher power the colonists took no time to learn about our culture and ways of life Christianity was introduced during the period of European colonization the Spanish and the
049French brought Catholicism to Turtle Islands while the British and Germans brought Pro properties English wasn't my first language was my first language Christianity began in the Roman Empire and Christians refused some of the Roman religious activities Christians began to be prosecuted for their beliefs even though natives may have been impressed by the colonists technology our people couldn't understand the Newcomer's appearance language and behavior Behavior or hospitality and our good natural intentions came with caution we were viewed as helpful and friendly colonists welcomed us into these settlements on our land the colonists wanted to trade with us and on a daily basis in hopes to convert US into civilized Christians as these settlements form into colonies their societies became segment and divided along religious and racial lines most people that dwell there were not free labored
050and Servants of or slaves they were forced to become product tax pain subject of the king of Spain Espana in order to produce produce wealth for others and settlers colonialism was born from 1492 to 1880 between 2 to 5.5 million Natives and 12.5 million Africans were enslaved the constitutional amendment that ended enslavement of black people did not apply to native peoples until 1924 Turtle Islands also became enslaved by the desperation of the land degradation degradation callers realized that the lands were rich in resources and accepted quickly to exploit them in 1769 the first missions is built in San Diego throughout San Francisco the missions from California straight out towards Florida and Georgia in order to force neighbors to convert to Roman Catholicism these missions built by Natives and black slaves foreign diseases starvation over excessive
051physical labor and torture discriminate the people our people in 1800s another tool the U.S government used to fix the co-indian problem was the simulation program of native little ones into Indian boarding schools we say little ones because we didn't understand counting the years of our life government agents kidnap Nader's little ones from their homes families and communities the Indian boarding schools were ran by government and Christian missionaries the philosophy of these Sinister boarding schools was quote kill the Indian in him and save the man quote by Captain Richard Henry Pratt by 1969 over 80 percent of the school-aged Native little ones almost 61 000 attended 408 boarding schools in the United States there are of the 25 Indian border schools in California was run by the U.S government the cultural genocide horror focal sexual mental
052and physical abuse by little ones that were endured in the hands of the nuns priests and major contributions of historical trauma native peoples native little ones were forced into boarding schools in the name of family refused to cooperate they were legally imprisoned deprived of research such as food and clothing including smallpox leaded by blankets and raw and meat our little ones experience torture abused whenever they spoke their native language including native sign language showed any of their culture and practices cutting off our sacred long hair and dressing native little ones Europeans clothing remaining with the Christian names and the biggest Multicultural cultural genocide attempt the last part do you know the science of broken spirit is a sense of holding back or being unable to relax in certain situations that remind you of the painful
053trauma of the past it depending of our spirit of your spirit such that you sometimes can feel Joy experience and then make self-worth allow the tears that needed to heal oneself instead of holding them inside numbing the emotions this Souls would are the past emotional injuries of manifest pain past identities due to loss of culture after boarding schools closed families were still separated at high rates I learned by history statistics heartbreaking stories native Advocates put federal government to pass an Indian Child Welfare act known as equal 1978 at the time of equal became law as many wondered native children became taken from homes after simulation as the little ones became children of equal the foundation native tribal rights and probation of preservation of native families and culture 20 year old campaign fell to raise natives
054but its efforts to Turtle Islands still felt today colonialism impacts and include environment degradation that spread the disease economic disability ethnic revivals of Human Rights relations issues that can no longer have outward groups Colonial rules last paragraph I think it is important to remember the study of laws of the universe it is crucial for the world to understand racism the law of Divine One states of everything is connected nothing to truly separate from each other no matter what happens in the physical reality we are separated from Crater from each one of us spiritual level last sentence with what I remember what you did with what with that I remember what you did I forgive you but can you thank you so much for being respectful we will change the name of the school to college
055thank you next next speaker Janet Brown Janet Brown is she still in the end there she is okay from Luke Ray's office representative lucrative good evening Board of Trustees superintendent suda our executive cabinet is auhsd families and guests I'm here on behalf of Congressman Correa to read a letter that's States it has come to my attention from concerned parents that there was an incident of one of our schools that has raised concerns about safety of students and staff I thank the district for opening up this issue for conversation so we can address these concerns and find Solutions I want you to know my office is available to help and identify Federal grant resources available through the Department of Justice such as the school violence prevention program Grant and many others that are outlined on the
056attached list and I've provided each of you a copy of that and I'm willing to support your request with letters of support the availability of services and resources through the new auhsd community Resource Centers is extremely valuable asset to our community as is the 9.1 million and federal funds received by the auhsd for counselors social workers and psychologists my office will continue to work with the auhsd to assure that we apply and take advantage of all available opportunities to bring more funding to our schools to provide Mental Health Resources and safety measures for our children and communities sincerely Congressman J Luis Correa thank you and let us know if we can be of help we're going to thank you for the letter [Applause] next speaker Kenneth batisti Kenneth still there he is hello my name
057is it doesn't matter what my name is first thing giving honor to God I'm here I know a few of you and first thing I want to say is thank you for what you do our profession the profession as educators in our society is fast vastly undervalued so a lot of educators are in here for what I'm seeing and knowing the stories just like the gentleman that went ahead and took the kid into his house is truly heart-given um I met a certain member of the board and we discuss some of the ideas that I had uh one of the things that I suggested is we have the thing of kindness well with all the hate going around in our nation shouldn't we go ahead and promote kindness and love to each other if we
058don't promote it then hate continues to go ahead and dominate our nation what are we in need of more love kindness and compassion for each other values languages we have to open up we don't want to be like Florida we don't want to shut down knowledge we want to expand we want to go ahead and let give our kids what is equipped to go ahead and go up and combat that in a discussion of debate we must prepare them it's just like a foundation and and in that there saying that that I just came to say uh our situation over at Sycamore we must secure the safety of every staff and every student not just at Sycamore but every school and if we do the right thing we will be protected uh we have been
059fortunate we are being blessed to not be in the news for some of the things that's going on in the nation and I don't even want to mention them because you know what I'm talking about blessed that it has not happened to any of our schools if we promote love and kindness we will be doing the right thing and that would ensure for those things to happen they get Mental Health Grants to recognize students to get out and talk and be able to communicate because who knows first usually it's a student so we must open up that communication the wellness the mental health Wellness the last thing interaction uh we should I talked to the member about perhaps doing a spelling bee something academic for every kid in every school that we can go ahead
060and get them to going should the school district be sponsoring more soccer tournaments when we have went ahead and took another leap into investments into our kids such as the the soccer grounds the soccer fields and now all of a sudden we see it paying off we must introduce languages to our children at an early age uh the elementary Union stepped in a few years ago and uh I went ahead and I went to that meeting when this superintendent was inaugurated and behind that meeting they I'll close like this the second language was evolved for our elementary schools making it bilingual we must continue to keep on growing because that could be a job a profession of Powerhouse made to go ahead and be expressive thank you very much [Applause] next speaker is Juana Reyes
061versus positives okay my name is um yo tengo um estudiantes Fullerton um is foreign security foreign umeno families families Bueno Jesus is the espionage cordial is present temperature is your time is up I'm sorry okay okay thank you so much and please stay notes and please uh go to Sycamore and thank you so much thank you everybody [Applause] next speaker is Mark Richard Daniels I come in here not knowing what I was going to say and now I've got like five different things to say um first of all the young people just watching it reinsures my faith to see these young people and you know soccer and just academic studies and all these things that wow the future looks bright when I see this it just wow it's just I have to come here more
062often just to get energized and inspired now now the name uh colony I just want I I have it's like fingernails on a chalkboard for you teachers here yeah uh it started out as a wine Colony let's keep that in mind it progressed as a communal group that was going to grow wine by growing grapes smashing the grapes yeah we know this story if you if you know the story of uh the creation of Anaheim and we were the Los Angeles Vineyard Society originally and people that did not know about growing grapes all came down here and and took a shot at it with a few teachers and this is the term colony and we basically were the largest wine cellar in the United States and we rivaled uh Europe France and Italy that is
063a wine producers of course but we were the largest producer in the United States here in Anaheim this little Colony the second colony was Westminster and it was founded by a group of Presbyterians who took the name Westminster from Westminster England and the founding of the doctrine of the Presbyterian Church in Westminster England okay so I'll move on from there and um I have a an issue with uh cohabitating here we are in the city of Anaheim this Rich affluent City and this uh School District which is now 125 years since the founding of the original Anaheim High School and uh there should be more of a partnership I know in years past there used to be what was called Keen challenge if anybody knows what that is Teen Challenge us where the uh say
064Western High School would open up their gymnasium in the summer and it was uh I guess you would have the uh city of Anaheim send over people from the park and rec to facilitate those they would have different events inside the gymnasium the high schools that had swimming pools were opened in the summertime and they would have again uh from the park and rec would oversee you know as lifeguards would oversee the high schools I'd like to see more uh partnership with the city of Anaheim and of course since Cyprus and La Palma as you reach out to the rest of the district that there has to be more of the idea that you have the campus in the daytime and then Anaheim comes in at night and you guys partnership whatever event even this
065uh chamber here you would have uh does that mean I gotta go oh um so anyhow that you would have this uh partnership that would uh seem to work work well in hand in past days and I know there is the the board members that are part of the City uh uh commission as far as the uh sister cities and all that so we have to get more of a partnership and not be so estranged as it's been in years past thank you very much [Applause] thank you uh the next uh speakers Raquel solozano Duarte yes oh yes good evening Board of Trustees superintendent and cabinet members I'm Rick Hessler snow duenes a very proud alumni and teacher at Western High School I'm here tonight to highlight a student-led event known as Market Day Market
066day is a culminating event where student CEOs have an opportunity to sell a product to the local community students spend time researching designing and marketing their product to our school community this fall we had 11 student-run businesses since our last in-person Market day which was held on March 6 2020. we got it in just in time the profits that the student businesses generate go back to those student CEOs in the form of scholarship checks in 2020 we issued over 600 in scholarship checks to our student CEOs during the pandemic in 2021 we held a very small online virtual event and issued 130 in scholarship checks this year we were able to provide one thousand five hundred dollars in scholarship checks to our student CEOs our student CEOs this year include rafino Brito Miranda Megan Brewer
067Isabella Martinez Santos Cristobal Emily Leon Caro nor Sandy Chao Taylor Stephanie Anaya Alexander Morales Angelina magana and Jesse Contreras we had staff play the role of secret shoppers and raided the businesses in the areas of best storefront best customer service and most knowledgeable these outstanding CEOs earned Dave and Buster's gift cards for best storefront we had CEO Angelina who made custom Christmas ornaments at her table for best customer service we had student CEO Emily Leon for Emily's chamoy gummies it sounds odd but she sold out quickly most knowledgeable went to student CEO Megan Brewer for her handmade scarves Megan demonstrated her social entrepreneurship skills and donated her profits to the Puente program at orangeview this event is possible due to our partnership with empowered a special thank you to superintendent matsuda and his Innovative approach
068to educating our students in career preparedness he made the initial connection and continues to support this partnership empowered partners with change making Educators who help students develop a growth mindset that ensures they develop the skills and confidence to create and seize opportunities in and out of the classroom through experiential learning I have copies here of a previously published empowered magazine for board members a bookmark is placed within the magazine that highlights Anaheim Union High School District and its creative classroom approach to integrating real world real world skills within all content areas and finally I would like to invite you all to our next Market day which will be at our district-wide event steemapalooza next Saturday at loera high school from 9 A.M to 1pm Western will have five student student-run businesses we are very excited
069to continue providing these Market Day opportunities to students to help them learn scholarship funds please bring your wallets we are not set up for electronic payment yet so cash please thank you for this opportunity thank you the last speaker is Julia m good okay this is in regards to the retaining of the Arabic course at Western High School I'll make it succinct because my daughter implied that you guys don't care that she could see it from your faces but but I don't believe her so anyway with that said Arabic is uh the bridge to International Affairs and global politics it opens opportunities uh 280 million people speak it worldwide Arabic the father of algebra is Muhammad Musa he spoke Arabic he contributed on the concepts and terminology of algorithm degree Cube the digit zero average
070an astronomy point on sphere Zenith um so math is the universal language in conjunction with Arabic um Anaheim is considered Little Arabia and was officially recognized um on August 2022 so with that said it's important for the community to provide opportunities for students that would like to learn Arabic thank you [Applause] that's the end of our speakers next is item nine items of business School sponsor student organizations do you have a motion second we have a motion in a second any discussion okay all those in favor say aye aye aye that's 6-0 thank you next is 9.2 resolutions thank you one and all for being here this evening resolution number 2022-23-b-12 temporary interfund transfer so I moved second just the motion a second any questions on this okay this is a roll call vote Miss
071Guerrero aye Miss Percy aye Ms Smith aye Ms Reynold Trejo aye and I vote I that's 5-0 next is 9.3 resolution number 2022-23-b-13 school lunch hero day second have any uh questions comments on this this is a great day yes um and this is a roll call vote masquero aye yes uh Piercy aye Smith aye Ms Reynold Trejo aye and I vote I 5-0 9.4 resolution number 2022-23-hr-06 day of the teacher so move second any discussion okay seeing none this is a roll call vote Miss Guerrero aye Ms Percy aye uh Smith aye Ms Reynold Trejo aye and I vote aye 5-0 9.5 resolution number 2022-23-1 hr-07 national school nurse day any discussion seeing non roll call vote Miss Guerrero aye Ms Percy I Smith aye Miss Reynold Trejo aye and I vote I 5-0
0729.6 resolution number 2022 23 hr-08 classified reduction in force nobody wants to do this uh oh yeah we have a motion second we left in second yeah any comments okay reluctantly uh roll call vote Miss Guerrero aye Ms Piercy aye Ms Smith aye Mr Randall Trejo aye and I vote unfortunately I moving to Business Services 9.7 selection of least lease back contract contractor for the projects at Dale Junior High School Katella and Kennedy High Schools RFP number 2023 Dash 0-15 and I accept your Motion in half a second we have a second any discussion Cena all in favor say aye aye opposed that's five zero Educational Services 9.8 agreement arctic wolf networks Inc from Luke yes I had a question um I just wanted a clarification if this I know this has to do with
073our framework is this the first time and I know before spring break we had some Internet outages this is the first time we're experience this length of interruptions yes Eric Eric green would like to speak to that please thank you good evening Eric thank you hello good evening uh no this is not the first time um we've experienced Internet outages we've had a variety over the years of outages from power outages that would take the entire District down we've had um we've had instances where our service provider that provides our data lines have had issues so the most common um example of that would be the companies doing construction out in this in the city they break a fiber and it creates outages for one or more schools we've had that the worst example of
074that is we probably about six years ago we had a three-day outage at three at three schools with no internet for three days and then we have had outages where equipment fails where we've had cyber incidents that interrupt service from a couple of minutes um to 15 to 20 minutes and this contractor would assist in navigating that traffic this particular contractor was looking to see if the issues were related to any type of cyber security issues okay thank you you're welcome thank you yes go ahead but I say we're security issues like ddosing and things like that would those be stopped or it could be ddosing it could be if there was something uh more malicious like ransomware or anything related to cyber security any other questions well just one because I I did I
075think I read that it wasn't any of that though it was this last Spate of problems wasn't related to anything like that negative was it that is correct that's that's when their findings thus far so we're we're going to be closing out with them uh fairly soon our last update with them as they have found no evidence of uh issues related to cyber security that's good okay and my comment is not for you but um for the division thank you for getting the word out so that our students weren't freaking out um right before the break I think it was um occurrence happened and you know we wanted to get the word out that assignments weren't going to you know be affected and I got word of that at Anaheim high school that teachers had
076gotten that message and they were kind of relaxed on that um you know for our students so I I just want to thank us for getting the word out so students were you know suffering through that I like to second that too that thank you and thank you to Eric for your all your email updates we appreciate it oh my pleasure thank you thank you okay so we have a motion in a second all in favor say aye aye opposed okay that's five zero uh 9.9 independent contractor agreement Mary's Kitchen any questions seeing all in favor say aye aye aye opposed okay uh 9.10 independent contractor agreement Kathy Olinger so moved second Motion in a second comments questions seeing that all in favor say aye aye aye opposed 5-0 9.11 independent contractor Services agreement Junior
077Achievement of Orange County second promotion in a second any comments questions I I have some background in Junior Achievement and I'm very pleased to see this being offered this opportunity so all in favor say aye aye aye opposed good 9 12. Grant award National Association for School nurses champions for school health so move second second okay I believe this is a ratification so uh any questions nope okay all in favor say aye aye opposed six or five zero 9.13 independent contractor agreement OBS midco LLC so move second any questions yeah I just was wondering um is this a new um uh and I know Jerry's not here is this a new uh person that we're going to be or company that we're going to be working with and do we know why we chose this
078particular company yeah this is going to go through the sys Department I know we have Lauren here for 9.13 Lauren thank you good evening everyone um I have to ask Miss Trejo can you repeat the question I didn't quite catch the whole thing on the independent contractor agreement with QBs midco LLC do you do you know why we chose this particular I do we worked in conjunction with the silpa to identify the best provider for this training for our district so in working with Mr Levine and Mr Rodriguez at the sulpa we identified together that this was the best company okay so moving forward we're going to start training more yes we have a train trainer of trainers this is a trainer of trainers it's coming up in April and then we'll move forward with
079the rollout from there okay thank you so much thank you sorry to put you on the spot but no no worries that's why I'm here I appreciate it thank you thank you thank you um Motion in a second all in favor say aye aye opposed none 5-0 uh 9.14 independent contractor agreement Orange County Bar Foundation project youth OC Juvenile Diversion program second Motion in a second any questions no seeing none all in favor say aye aye aye opposed 5-0 Human Resources 9.15 initial contract proposal auhsd to Anaheim military instructors Union amiu that is information only 9.16 is a public hearing so we open the public hearing for the initial contract proposal auhsd to Anaheim military instructors Union anybody wishing to speak sing none we close the public hearing 9.17 initial contract proposal amiu to auhsd
080information only 9.18 public hearing open public hearing for initial contract proposal amiu to auhsd anybody wishing to speak seeing none we close the public hearing 9.19 amended 2022-23 2020 23-24 and 2024-25 student teacher calendar so Motion in a second any comments questions yes I have a comment I'm going to vote no on this item because I do not agree with the calendar and I don't know whether I voted for it earlier in the year or not but I will continually vote no on this calendar because I do not agree with it I have spoken very vocally about not believing and starting in August I think we're out of step with reality and what is the best for our kids so whenever it comes up I will say no so you will be aware that I'm
081not voting yes on this okay remind me while we're voting on the 22-23 calendar right now well we've already voted on this calendar this was already accepted all three years but this is now a new thing because now they have made June 10th June 18th federal holidays this is now changing the counterfeit so basically we're adding that to the calendar and from what my question was before there's got to be about 478 people that will be uh under this item because they will be working June 18th or whatever yes okay thank you cost the district for the decision 195 000 right okay all right that was Motion in a second all in favor say aye aye opposed nay okay and abstain notes four one thank you uh consent calendar anybody wishing to pull any items
082okay I'm gonna pull 10.9 Z and 10.10 anybody else it's a balance second Motion in a second all in favor say aye aye opposed okay so that is five zero on that so 10.9 Z and 10.10 so move second motion a second all in favor say aye aye opposed abstain 401 thank you moving on to page we're getting there yeah 25 of 26. 25 superintendent and staff report thank you very much I do have a brief report I visited uh Cypress High School Oxford High School in Kennedy art in Kennedy high schools Capstone and uh was very impressed with what I saw both with the students and also joining parents who were very proud of their students and kudos to all of the teachers who've done an amazing job launching the Capstone at their respective
083schools Nancy Nyan and I have also were at South Junior High in Katella presenting on our challenges with declining enrollment in chronic absenteeism and over the past few weeks I have visited orange view as well as the Mac over at Magnolia Dale and Anaheim High School to tour the up uh what's been going on with biotech over there and uh as well as obviously Sycamore Junior High School thank you further yes perfect um I just wanted to say thank you to all the student ambassadors and all the students that attended the El Cap on this past Tuesday night we saw so many amazing kids there so I'm sure all the ambassadors uh really like called on the students to attend so thank you so much for for showing up and I'm just so happy to
084see you guys there and I did attendant the Kennedy Capstone for the first time so it was really really amazing and what I want to share is all of our teachers are very very reflective they ask student questions like one of the teachers that was um resonating with me was he asked what could have we done better to acknowledge and to help you with why your passion is things are outside the school so I just wanted to thank a lot of our teachers as well so for they're just showing the the interest in those kids and showing their compassion to the students it was just really really visible at Kennedy this week so I just want to thank the staff over there for that very good oh yes um I did attend the Casper conference
085as well that's the California Association of school business officials um um conference last week and so as you all know about 3 200 um um School business people came together uh it was just right here in Long Beach and really learn a lot about different things um especially right now with the cost of living adjustment what that's looking like with some of the state budget challenges that's continuing so there's just a lot of um anxieties point with out-of-state budgets so that's what we're hearing and some of the prop 28 money as well that's something that's a big topic right now to see what some of the things that can be done or what or how long should we start planning for for those dollars as well so there's just a lot of um different ideas
086and it was so good to kind of to share and to hear what other districts are doing with some of the things that they're doing in terms of constructions as well so just a lot of very creative ideas and I was like well if we next time when we do this we can probably looking at doing that so it was really really um informative to attend the conference without some of my staff as well good thank you thank you nothing yes I want I want to Echo what Nancy um said in the out in regard to the l cap and just really thank our families our staff all of our students that have been attending and our Ed staff that has been helping to support and facilitate our group so so we really truly appreciate
087it it's been a great showing of everyone but in particular our students so omkar and all of our student ambassadors thank you very much um and then our community Forum from from uh yesterday at Sycamore Junior High I think um distributed to thank all those who attended all of our our families from Sycamore um our staff that helped to put that together um you know starting with uh John Bautista and our our support staff here at the district and our staff over at Sycamore they did a great job and just for all those who are attendance including our board members thank you for all that were there and support thank you very much we truly appreciate it thank you okay moving on to item 12 Board of Trustees reports we'll start with Ms Guerrero thank
088you I know it's been a while since we met um so I have a few things um so I've had the opportunity to meet with the business services department and Nancy's team um and I also had the had the budget committee meeting with trusty O'Neill I attended the auhsd theater and dance Festival showcase I had the opportunity to participate in the California school board association's legislative action week on and attended meetings with our local school board members including local school members with our assembly members including assembly woman Sharon Kirk Silva and assembly member avelino Valencia I had the grand owner of attending Anaheim High School's 25th 125th celebration it was a great event filled with alumni some of my former classmates and I want to thank the office of lucria for the Dem the check
089that they presented for the restoration of the cook Auditorium and just think a the enemy and High School staff and ASB for organizing a wonderful event for the anime High School Community I attended the Laura High School Lauren lapland's number retirement ceremony the auhsd years of service Awards with some of my board colleagues I attended the second El Cap in March I know we had a few and it was a great event a great turnout even considering it rained that day so thank you to everyone the students that took the time to be there I also attended auhsd soapbox speech finals it was my first time ever hearing soapbox speeches and it was incredible the students work and time that went into it so I'm very proud of all of the student presenters I attended
090the California Association for bilingual education administrative Symposium and the Seal of Excellence a banquet for Anaheim High School's dual Language Academy program and I want to thank the dla program for all the work that they've done and congratulate them on their award I also had the opportunity to attend auhsd's Community Schools steering committee and see how our various Partners work together for Community Schools and I want to thank Grant and Carlos for co uh co-renting that meeting I also had the opportunity to attend the Capstone conversations at Anaheim high schools also my first Capstone conversation it was really a great experience to hear from our graduating class and I also had the opportunity to go to Sycamore during their site visit as they were officially recognized that a California democracy School the last of our
091auhsd schools and I'm incredibly incredibly proud of the team work that took together so congratulating them on their being named as a California democracy School um I also have the opportunity to meet with some of our city partners and um I also yesterday I had the opportunity to attend Sycamore Junior High School Community Forum along with some of our board colleagues I want to thank everyone that took the time to put that together and concluding our community schools the panelists that were part of the event uh the Sycamore High School community and the city partners that were there and the parents and students for taking the time to attend the Forum and for their support unfortunately we did have to end the forum for a reason such as technical difficulties and the weather and I
092do believe we as a sycamore Community are stronger together and I know the school will be sending out an email for the next steps so just letting our families know that and then I had the opportunity to do site visits at Dale Junior High School Orange view Junior High School South Junior High School and Cambridge Virtual Academy that includes my first thank you we didn't mean a long time very good it's Percy okay I know um I first of all attended the anaheiming high school district's years of service Awards always enjoyed that that was well done again I also attended the Sharon Quirk Silva woman of Distinction awards at Cypress College I was there to back up Renee Bryant and being awarded this woman of Distinction award and she well earned it it was a
093very nice little reception in the theater lobby at Cypress College I also attended the kabe administrative leadership seminar and that was very interesting I really really liked it it was you know I learned a lot and that's always a good thing when you can say you learned a lot um I attended okay Lexington Junior High was the site of the Korean TV station's cook-off where they had the TV station came in for two days the first day they went into the classrooms and and talked to them about Korean cooking and and lunches and this type of thing and the second day they came in with all the food and all the people and they did all the preparation and the culinary arts lab I have like 700 pictures that Kirsten I mean Kristen Harps downloaded
094I mean airdrop to me on my phone and then it went into the cloud because it didn't have any room so I'm but I'm learning how to get it back okay so but it was amazing I mean I'm watching them do all this preparation of the food and they had about six different Sous chefs I guess you call them the ones under the bean chef and and so they were doing all and you wouldn't know this was going on because they came around to the back of the campus and there had to be a dozen white vans so they came in with all this technical equipment and there had to be at least eight cameras in the or 10 or 15 cameras in the kitchen and then they took the multi-purpose room and they set
095it up to feed 100 students at a time and I would I went in that morning and I you know I knew it was going on but I had a couple other things going on that day but I got back for lunch at one o'clock um and they sat you at the tables and you had to have a ticket so the kids had to you know ask to be included and so they had they'd line them up for the two different servings and they had them six at a table and you got this huge silver tray with seven different uh portion sections a big portion for your stew and a big portion for your sticky rice and then four different things and we had a Korean Kebab which had uh crab oh so good and
096you know kind of spam on it but and it was held together with an egg and it had a pickled uh turnip I think and I can't remember what the other thing was it was very colorful and very good and then Korean seaweed and then we had the an egg and cucumber salad and I'm trying to remember what the other one was I can't remember so anyway phenomenal and then you know you had this full meal and on these beautiful trays and then afterwards they just asked for you to say good or bad but you had an opportunity to discuss it with the other students at your table and I luckily was at a table with a couple of girls who were very Adept with their Chopsticks you know and this one was she was
097cute she was an eater too for a little kid she was an eater but she likes certain things and she was taking it oh you don't like that I like because the stew had potatoes and carrots and she didn't care for the carrots but she liked the potatoes so so it was cute and it was great and I mean it was phenomenal but in in addition to this going on at the school Oak High School from Victoria Canada came in they had two big coaches but you know those big travel coaches it's not a bus it's a coach and they came in with their choir and their band and all their instruments and they performed you know along with Steve Graves the band teacher at Lexington was friends with the band teacher who came from
098Oak High School in in Canada and they came here for a week and they're doing other things they were going to be playing at Disneyland also but they had time that morning because they were going to go to the beach in the afternoon so they came and performed for a few of Steve's classes and it was just it was neat and I happened to be there for that and so was Brian so that was phenomenal and it was all kinds of things going on on you know that little campus on that Friday it was great I also attended the insurance committee meeting and we're going to have another one on Monday because we are evaluating maybe switching insurance carriers or pharmaceutical carriers and so I will be here I I looked on my calendar I
099think I'm open so I'll be here okay I'll call you in the morning huh yeah call me and remind me okay and then I'd attended the Strategic Arts planning revisioning I'm attending that those meetings that are being held in the PDC with Brian it's a they're working really well on the whole revisioning of the Arts curriculums and then one last thing I did was I attended the memorial for Diane Poore who had been our CBO here she retired but unfortunately she passed away and it was a nice memorial very well done I saw a lot of previous employees of the district that worked with Diane and it was a nice thing and that's thank you I think that's all I did Mrs Smith well I don't have a lot to report the insurance committee meeting
100is it in person on Monday it can be either either virtual we have a full set up I need to be reminded of that oh yes yeah please yes okay yes okay thank you you're welcome and um I just want to say we are very very fortunate and blessed in many ways and just attending and participating by listening at the insurance committee meetings over these many years has been a learning experience and I just want everybody to understand that it's not just something that's just given to us we work for it and it's been a very positive experience with good people conducting the process and the discipline committee was the last one for the school year and it's always a learning process what our teachers are dealing with in our schools the process of coming
101out of covid and dealing with all the impact of covid and the effect on our classrooms and schools and in society it's another learning experience and then I had the pleasure of attending the color and Light Art and photography exhibition and Brian belsky said that they arrived at eight in the morning it was held at a community center over on a back of Brookhurst Junior High School and we're Anaheim community service thank you I was just Brookhurst Brookhurst thank you and it's quite an astounding thing to experience all of the types of mediums what these kids produce and the teachers that work with these students on different campuses and I think that the look I brought one for each of you the location was stupendous and the attendance was just out of sight obviously a
102tremendous amount of pride shown and a delight and Mrs Piercy wasn't there no I was going to mention that earlier I couldn't believe I missed that never missed that it was it was all the fault of my of my calendar and I I met with a techie this afternoon to try to straighten things out so everything got I should you know get it all straight now I just figured you were in the ER no exactly we were concerned where were you were oh for her to miss that but it the good thing about that it's all online right oh yes still come on I've always been in there I know I know you did get to shake the hands of the students and congratulate them but we were there so um yes I attended um
103as well Diane Poor's celebration of life service and um it was it was uh very very well done um it was very interesting it never had kind of been in that kind of a in the in the service it wasn't really a service it was just kind of like a really um celebration and just kind of a gathering of people that knew her and were asked to to speak um uh on on you know on your memory of her and uh and thank you Brian for uh representing us as well as superintendent the superintendent um and you know the the positive thing about that and unfortunately we get to see you know old family um of our um you know our old colleagues and um employees of the district we don't want to see them
104in that sense but um it is comforting to see people that we know and was able to see Dr Billings um had that service so it's always good to see her and at the um OC csba and Joint accident or she was there as well and she announced her retirement from from uh aksa oh she's retiring she's retiring um so get this 20 years teaching 20 years as an administrator including superintendent 20 years with AXA yeah yeah it's a phenomenal career so um so good for her I'm sure she'll she'll still be around um you know catching up with everyone but we're sure going to miss her seeing her at the annual dinners she's a delight I also attended the kabe administrator Symposium with both professors Dr Victor Rios and Dr Rebecca Mira Les Rios
105a husband and wife team professors out of um Santa Barbara and they have a phenomenal program so much so that Manheim Elementary had Dr Rios at our kickoff for Anaheim elementary yeah yeah he's really good um good speaker and educator as far as his thing is is merging help me out mental health it's it's oh gosh it just went out of my head he merges he emerges Pavlov and and the um and EQ it's emotional I can't remember what it is personal intelligence it's emotional intelligence but he has a really cool yeah um saying it just popped right in my head it should have written it down but anyway he talks about you know emerging educational um you know rigor with the uh EQ some the balance um and then there was a dinner and
106uh dance and honoring Anaheim high school afterwards and so it's always fun color and light always spectacular um the the student and I know you're probably going to talk about her but I'm going to talk about her first she was a freshman that got the best of show in the High School Division and her charcoal pencil print artwork was just phenomenal and go on the go on the website to see it all of the work is just amazing I can't believe that their junior high school and high school students producing that artwork but this one was just um you can't believe it she said her inspiration was she her inspiration was um she wanted to do something with a lot of emotion in it and she said she listened to Elton John's Candle in the
107Wind song um to get the inspiration for that drawing and it's just she's a freshman yes it took her a week and a half yeah finish that it's called gifted yes absolutely and so very well done what I loved about that what you talked about the the way they decorated it they did do the the lights in the corner you know really um really cool effect to really make it look professional and all of the teachers said that that was the best lighting for the artwork really out of all the places that we've ever done that's a new location this is a new location for us not the Ambiance but the lighting was the lighting yeah it was great to see that um the I attended Anaheim High School soapbox presentations in the El Department
108I'm Casey Lang invited me and she gets the students that literally come you know straight from another country into her classrooms and the amazing work that she does to make them feel welcome and um you know and uh gosh it's just amazing she said she had students that had just come to school like two days ago so or a week ago um and I just I can't imagine being a student coming from another country and then coming to this giant high school but she she makes them feel at home and all the kids love her and Robert was there too and so it was really really amazing um speeches that the students gave some gave them all in Spanish some gave them in Spanish and English and there was a student that actually spoke Thai
109so so can you imagine the challenges that she has as a teacher trying to manage that but there's a lot of love in that classroom I attended the 125th anniversary of Anaheim high school that was a really fun celebration um also the Strategic Arts planning meeting the wonderful years of service celebration Brad you did an excellent job that ceremony and I attended also with my colleague Lauren lapins retirement of number 37 our Olympic champion gosh she's just amazing she spoke to every single girl our student that was in the softball team and took the time with every single one to speak to them they all had her shirt on and she signed every single one and just really spoke to them wasn't in a rush and just I just thought that's amazing she's just a
110sweet person and what the teacher said about her is that if you think she's a great athlete she's a Kinder for more Kinder person than than she is skilled at being an athlete so that says a lot um thank everybody to went to um the or put on the community Forum I think today um spoke a lot about how well that went um and um thank you for reaching out to the community thank you for honoring our community and um Nancy if you're listening you're my hero um went to the Ambassador interviews you forgot about that I was wondering about this yeah Ambassador interviews with Miss Piercy it was a Friday evening and then a Saturday all day interviewing our wonderful new ambassadors with omkar and they're all going to be fabulous next year uh
111and also Brian and I we interviewed our student rops uh for the celebration of success coming up and uh oh we did classroom visits with ROP at Salk Elementary Magnolia Western and Savannah and then of course we attended our ROP meetings and I attended my geselta meeting and that's my report gee mine will be really quick because there's been so much duplication so two ROP meetings ocsb a dinner with Dan Billings which is always a pleasure a budget meeting you didn't mention Hope School prom that's always a highlight just go stop and see those kids dancing having a great time try to make it every year my wife and I um the ROP tour to the schools that Emery just mentioned uh the ROP interviews for Success the Adam High School 125th celebration that I
112had to leave quickly I got called away on but I was there for a short period of time years of service at Western uh attended a principal meeting so those are always a pleasure if I can able to get here at that hour in the morning you should start those about 11 o'clock I can get make more of those okay um District so box speeches they're fantastic those students are just so wonderful and being able to express themselves um they're they're going to do well in society uh cabbie the Seal of the success award for Anaheim High School PTA administrators dinner the JFK Capstone presentation CVA Market day that was neat to go in and see what the students have made I even was given a cookie that they it was a business and they're
113selling these she's selling these cookies and she's doing well so they really have some very innovative ideas so it was great to hear and see um I attended over at Westmont Elementary two of our ambassadors from Katella and CVA were there and they were had sixth graders sitting there on the floor and they were given a presentation on aohsd and what to expect and the thing that that um when they asked at the very end who's afraid who's nervous and I would say almost every single hand was shot up in the air very quickly and what were you nervous about now I said this at ROP meeting last night what do you think they were nervous about math and they said math that was it was all over everybody was worried about math so they
114tried to calm their fears about math um I attended the as Ms Percy said the uh event at uh Lexington the Korean and the um uh that the Canadian singers and the color and light show was fantastic I just showed Miss Percy what she missed is just phenomenal um the community Forum last night sad but it was I'm glad to see it took place even though there's you know it was some issues came up but I think that it was important to to do what we did and let's move forward and reflect back and and do better in the future so I and I wish our principal uh healthy a quick healthy return to to the business uh world of being a principal and there's two things that I know you cannot repeat I attended
115the remodel of the La Palma ER and saw that they were I I think it's finished now I was there a couple weeks ago to see how they were doing and very close so if any of you get in in an issue in that area feel good that you it's a good ER uh better better equipped uh better position for health care in the ER and then so if I have too many times yes maybe that's why they're remodeling it because I was there too often I'm on the board there and they come in they say oh [Laughter] and then the last thing is um I went to my grandson's preschool and gave him a presentation on Vietnam Veterans Day and so I took my uniforms and showed them all diff about I think they're
116about four different four or five different uniforms I had with me and showed them the different ones and why you wore them and they were you know what the big question was a girl asked me what kind of cookies I liked totally awesome I know what can I say you like cookies all right Advanced planning you can see the future meeting dates um suggested agenda items anything to throw out at this point yes I do okay um thank you um so since the Sycamore incident I know we've taken a look at our campus safety measures and the district has had the opportunity to meet with our city Partners as they are also a stakeholder in addressing our school Community safety and I know the safety of our students staff and schools School Community is a
117top priority and there are outside factors beyond the school's boundaries that affect our communities and our Stu and our schools and with over 10 of our schools located within the city of anaheim's jurisdiction I believe there are definitely opportunities for collaboration with the city and I would like the board to consider either resolution or a letter in asking the city of Anaheim for their support and their commitment in addressing our school's Community safety well second that yeah I'll third it yeah thank you okay yeah we have to come up with whatever is going to be the best means of doing that okay at the end yeah you have to decide which way that to go I think this is something that many other cities you know with large school districts should look into also you
118it is your community we are the children of the community so our community should be involved with us as well absolutely thank you good idea thank you yes um so it'll be on the agenda next I don't know we we need to um have staff work the May the May agenda um is being finalized we'll we'll make an effort to do that in May otherwise we would do it in June first thing okay thank you and um maybe if we can see a copy of it beforehand to yes please receive a copy the resolution beforehand okay email it yeah email anything else okay sing that um do I have a motion so I moved at 808. motion and a second all in favor say aye aye