001asked for the increase service members were paying 8.8.25 and they're now paying 10.25 all right so that could be a possibility that they've got to change as well so if that happens it will be the employees on the server side that could get hurt with that um so maybe at some point a lot of the lobbyist group have been lobbying that the state takes care of that portion and don't give those to their boys and school districts because basically you give us money but we're paying out all these anyway so just like just take care of it and don't give up and then please take more care of it at that point so that's really because a lot of people do get hurt in it when you go from 8.25 to a 10.25 uh self-contribution
002that's a lot for that as well and so that's where the service thank you i anticipate what kind of questions you have so every time every now and then oh my asking gosh [Laughter] [Applause] all right we gotta do to get the potential 3.5 million if you don't have to do more i think it's basically um some auditions for example they're not transporting as much as we have our teachers are actually we transport a lot of our students most districts for example charge um a lot of students um you know and then so the idea is hopefully then they can take the money and then you do some of the cost for the families as well and really score that they prioritize the tk states as well as the um for um the free individual
003students i mean currently it's only for three or four years yes so you know yes so that i mean currently for example you take our bus we don't you know for our families already at this point that a lot of ships do not provide like a lot of um i know um um school district even for the high schools they don't even provide for them but we do we do do that a lot so we can definitely take a look to see what other things we can do but the issue is this we've been providing this out of the general fund we've never got funded enough so don't think about that it gave us more money it just we never got paid for it we are spending one and six million dollars already at this
004point so they're just basically paying us back for ultimately knocking back so paying us now to provide this service because this money had never gotten a cola since the lcs planning model went into 2013. that's the problem so that money has stuck there for all these years almost 10 years at this point thank you the second question is uh learning recovery emergency block crank so you have about 48 million of this at one time is that something that we can use for uh facilities i'm i'm thinking about auditory right is that something that we could take a look at i don't know how to keep watching um i think we got some jungles from there so you know um you know this is something that will have to probably you know come up with a
005plan and to see what we can do i know we have different ideas we know we need to fix uphook we've been there multiple times at this point um we are working hard to come up with a plan um to see for short term as well long but we do have a plan and then we just set aside some dollars um when we took the budget back in june and we do need to fix something maybe the board will have to act on it and um to someone from general budget excited when you do that we will uh we will um find every opportunity this will also be helping kids to perform as well so i'm sure we can try the best we can to make sure that you will um no absolutely not and
006so we are still uh making contributions to special education um i know we're looking very forward to working with our new director as well to look at different programs looking at some expenditures as well um you know we are declining enrollment overall but not in such education and so that's one of the things that we have we are looking at those numbers as a making sure that um we are looking at different things um in that program as well and i know that um it will she has already come to talk to us and wanting to learn the different areas within that as well so this is great news they gave us debates but yeah so it's it's good but it's not great because like at this point with that and and they will need
007to give us a lot more to make us whole at this point um so very hard [Music] from the federal government for special education we spent every single dollar of it plus more i mean so whatever that we don't have enough did the district stand the balance so that would cause the contribution but then they haven't we totally understand um and so i think the goal is for example down the road is if you're going to give us base funding plus any authentication please give a documentation for all these other programs versus just on the base funding so they just give it to you just educational budget but it is a contribution model meaning that they don't receive enough funding um for that program as well thank you thank you can i give you a
008swing [Music] okay um thank you very much and thank you president javar board of trustees superintendent executive cabinet i appreciate the opportunity to uh to share um i'm excited about this i've got four members of our team that i could not have done we could not have done any of what we did without the four folks behind us sharon kane from manhattan high school she's peter and anaheim performing arts conservatory director miley eisenberg director of dance at western high school in orangeview and next is carrie fenton director of dance from cypress high school and you ask how you're going to do something or can we do this and if it's good for kids they say yes and then we figure out how to do it i mean i've made a career out of that and
009that's you know we just just figured it's good for kids you say yes and then you figure out how to do it and these books embody that and i i'm thankful i'm grateful they've done for the summer months and for the kids in the program for the students all across the district individual conference so summer arts academy began a few years back uh 2018 2019. um one of my favorite quotes kind of describes what we do leonard bernstein conductor or conductor and composer to achieve great things two things are needed a plan and not quite enough time and uh that's what we do we're gonna do what now it's time um it's it's it's true in the performing arts you get folks toward a goal and you get them unified toward it you help them
010um and you structure that so that they learn how to work together whether it's a team of teachers or if it's a team of students and it's a self magnifying thing right the power is magnified the folks move faster and faster and faster the more bought into it they are these folks behind me and are experts at that so we began in 2018 2019 um we wrote and received the 700 000 title four grant for vision performing arts my thanks to former director of special programs susan sucks and to former graduate program special programs joe carmona for the work that they did together on that uh it was incredible one of the project goals was expanded summer opportunities we as a district have a pretty significant gap in terms of workforce development in and around
011creative industries and this was a program that was designed to help address that issue in california we have a 650 billion dollar creative economy it employs more than 2.7 million people uh and we wanted to bridge the gap between our a or just these students and those opportunities in creative industries this is a great graphic and we see that it's pretty small on the screen from a california state pta but if you think you have a print out of it you can see that there are all of these careers in and around these uh these curricular areas within the arts that are viable career options these are things that pay the bills and put roofs over families heads and we need to make sure that we're connected to these things and that's one of the
012things that summer's academy has done so in 2018 2019 uh we had the funding from this grant so we built a very robust program it was in two phases phase one was a two-week workshop series for multiple curricular areas um we did junior high band junior high jazz band high school band high school jazz band a 7th through 12th grade stream orchestra a digital photo class that was photo one was a two week enrichment program capped off with a band concert at pearson park um and then phase two was the first indication that that the team was as crazy as i was and we decided we're going to put together a five-way production of the broadway musical anything goes completely the live orchestra in a district that hadn't done that in 25 years um so
013i wrote a new course titled professional musical theater against enrolled students 10 baptized elective credits and also confers career credit for high school graduation so there's certain opportunities that students have in the summer program uh that they don't necessarily have during the school year but the caveat was they had to be they had to be enrolled in the faculty at their so they couldn't they couldn't take the place of those summer performances during the school year programs uh it was incredible it was an amazing thing we got through we couldn't believe it uh there's the set we built and um you see kids up there and the set of the prof and the boat but um one of the things some of the things that we learned was in talking to the students there was
014a shift from i me to we us they began to talk about district visual formulas they began to see each other at events they began to go across town to support each other at their you know at their at their events we created different collaborative events across the district there's a collaborative nutcracker performance it's several dance programs put on and the music is played live by an orchestra from oxford [Music] that in um it's pretty incredible um there was capacity building students there was capacity built in staff those 2019 kids they still had a group text and they were at the show in july this this past summer and among them were students that are studying music theater technical theater uh dance in college in preparation for careers in the visual corners so we had
015big plans for 2020 huge we were going to go big uh we had ongoing fun uh funding built in using uh formula title four funding thank you to joe carmona again for figuring out how to make that work because it's a brilliant way to use that ssa funds the whole creative team was returning we had multiple options for shows we did this huge audition workshop on march 7th all these kids showed up we were going to have people could dance they could sing they could act and they were triple friends and then we closed the canvases and that was march 13th and it was a week later and uh best way to plant some ice in that right so in um it's actually there's a 30 drop district-wide investment enrollment 30 um bands of 100
016turning into 70 but when you're a band of 50 and you turn into a band of 30 uh 35 that's you know it was pretty significant so standard dance was the same theater uh forty percent drop in performing arts um our most engaged students didn't they were it was like everything else even those best students were ghosting us in our classes it was it was a real challenge because trying to teach the arts give a screen boy that was the hardest thing i think any of us have ever done [Music] in arts but they didn't want to get out there on stage they just didn't want to do it in april of 2021 orange county healthcare agency said that we could perform together outdoors and we move forward with plans to have a summer performing
017arts program so faced with no venue no students no show no plans i did the most reasonable thing possible i announced a huge one-night-only broadway review show with performers from across the district 16 campuses doing a two-hour performance at pearson park with music from like musicals i think that's what we did and [Music] it was pretty incredible um we did a google form sign up there were no auditions required um we spent the first two days in shock nobody the kids didn't know how to interact eventually they felt safe and fell in love with performing again um we rehearsed outdoors under academies um for coach killer calls there was no show music there was no orchestra there was no anything so the team had to write it they had to write everything because we weren't
018doing a musical that you bought the music for and it just showed up they had to do it all and we'd find a music arrangement for an orchestra oh this is good it's the wrong key for the choir good to change all the music for the orchestra so it fits into the right key for the requirements and it was really tough um we ran a professional sound wireless microphone and the whole crew we had no idea what to expect the first day of rehearsals at pearson park before the show was the first day to give you a timeline of like where we were in life at that point that was the first day that masses were no longer required outdoors for performance nobody had attended an event in 16 months we wondered if we would
019even see 200 people in the audience and 1250 people show up to watch the arts come back when this was 2021 it was incredible our takeaways from that the initial student hesitation mirrored what happened in the performing arts programs at the school sites when we started school in august they were hesitant they were but you know what those kids from the summer arts academy they went out to they were in those programs and they were helping they were bringing those kids along they were ambassadors of the arts and they helped rebuild the arts across our district and that was a huge the most important thing that we did in 2021 was all about making sure we were addressing student social emotional welfare and the means and we put together a good show but you know
020i mean it was it was uh it was all about that there's three students that after graduating that the next year entered apprenticeships and to uh tech industry they're going to be they're going to work through they're going to be lighting in town that's what they're going to do for their life and they're going to be really good at it and we figured out the students were ready for a full musical for the next year so that's brings us to planning for this year we built the team that was represented all the curricular areas we added visual art we added a technical theater teacher we we really when we went to try to address all the things that we had in depth um the uh we we had 50 cast members audition we did an
021audition workshop where students learned they were in the dance so that they were prepared coming into the auditions uh the auditions were amazing we had 50 cast members and 50 orchestra students we had 12 tech and design kids show up um only eight students in the entire cast of an entire company had ever missed a good musical though um we had actors that didn't ever saw her dance with the dancers that had never acted their son i mean it was it was we didn't know what was gonna happen uh day two of rehearsals we lost a bead she figured out she her counselor called her and said uh looks like you're gonna have to take summer school and so we lost the lead in the show on the day on day two of rehearsals and
022more on that uh here's the set being delivered [Music] and now build it um so there's four pictures from them from this summer the top left that next day after the after we lost that lead those are the five girls that stepped in ready to audition for that role uh the top right that was our first our first uh dance rehearsal in the dance room at western high school all the kids if you're looking close they're all like on their phone trying to figure out where they're at in the script them and how the show works and like nobody knows anything um and it was kind of a beautiful moment of bottom left you're seeing these visual art piece art students from across the district that are hand painting a 20 foot by 80-foot backdrop
023and hung in the back of the stage and created the scene of new york and the bottom right is our first reversal on stage thanks to the team at mastermind productions they do the oscars and the grammys and help john when he's in town for providing a professional level audio experience for our performers and for taking the time to walk our students through the technology of what was being used how the things work together how all the pieces connect to create an audio palette for the audience the person doing the audio mixing was mixing 104 channels live at the mixing board during the show the students learned an awful lot jump onto that and the show was incredible the show was it was an incredible show you see on that on the top there's this
024reversing at western high school outside on the bottom here's all of that was done by the students all the the design was done by john hoganson the set design uh who's teaching theater at kennedy he designed these beautiful beautiful set pieces to open and close and create exteriors and interiors all from single pieces because we couldn't move things in we couldn't fly it couldn't change sets you could change the scenes didn't do anything in the back you see that that that set piece that they that they painted from nothing we did two shows an audience to about 750 people each night thank you trustee smith for being there and being such a wonderful audience member i really enjoyed our conversation and the students appreciate the support anytime they see any you see any of your
025faces at the shows [Music] [Laughter] incredible uh connections that they've made the students john's team did this great video and they interviewed students and they didn't prompt them with the questions and they asked them what their um what their takeaways were um what their takeaways were and you know secretly while we're doing all this stuff what we learned from the student feedback was they began to see themselves in the industry whether as a performer as a lighting designer as somebody who's doing costume or makeup repair they begin to see themselves in the industry in in and around the creative arts whether it's the performer on stage or the person who puts the light on the person on stage so students are making connections these careers in the arts um you know if you're an audio
026engineer you start with 60 000 and if you're a one audio tech then in seven eight years you're making six figures it's a it's a viable career option um and those careers in the arts they're fulfilling they're available um and they're you know they'll they'll support a family they will even even in southern california um but you know the arts are important to us as human beings um they give us the opportunity to learn what it means to be more like ourselves and less like everyone else and to learn what that means um and our students are getting a world-class experience thank you for your support and my whole team there in that picture our little family photo um it's uh it really has been an incredible experience and it has been my pleasure so
027um i have a unique experience this year that i've never had before directly due to the summer arts academy i don't think you know about this so i just wanted to bring it up so you know um i have uh there's some schools that don't have theater um so we're very fortunate in anaheim to have the performing arts conservatory theater this year i was asked if i would take some students from savannah that they do not have theater and so they're doing a concurrent enrollment they're at savannah that they're coming over in the afternoon to take my theater class i didn't even know that was possible so i want to thank you for concurrent enrollment because students need the arts and they're wanting to come because of the arts and that's how we keep our
028students enrolled and we draw more students by having more arts programs available to our students thank you may i speak mr absolutely speed and i asked him if he would come and make a presentation for the school board and sharon i saw you reading from there i understand why because i can't even find the words to express my feelings about your production you are nothing but gods and goddesses and don't laugh because i i can't even begin to think of the whole process of how you pull that together in a short period of time with cognitive changes and music it was beyond anything that you could have imagined you would think that someone you told someone in psychology they said i think you want to be locked up because don't try this you can't do
029it in that short time and my husband and i walked in and i was feeling very weak and my husband had to get into the queue and there was a family sitting on the bench and um there was one seat on the bench left and i asked do you mind if i sit next to you and so i started chatting with them and miguel believed she played and i remembered that correctly it was your family and we didn't know who i was and so we chatted and then when i was trying to go in and my husband and i sat down the front row and mr belsky introduced us and stood it up and thanked everyone so the place started and then the great came halftime and i went into the restroom and when i
030came out of the skull bruce mug i don't remember her real name but her mother henry and her sister were standing there and they looked at me and she knew that who i was and i said i'm just so blown away by your daughter her performance and i don't even want to feel like i'm singling her out but it was beyond my imagination with this young girl i think she goes to kennedy high school and i think to her younger sister he was very very proud to have an older sister like this and her mother said to me she is planning to go to new york and there is no doubt in my mind that she will be the next person we will be reading about that came from this community and sharon i know
031why do we because this story tonight had to be told to people it starts with one person over here who leads this band and those good things that emanate from what this gentleman has done i done it because i'm here and i have lived it and i saw it and the thanks that i have to say to you the kudos this is not enough in the language to say you are all miracle workers and from the bottom of my heart thank you one and all and i understand why you crosshair thank you so much [Music] um now because it sounds it's just phenomenal and i will make sure next summer i will try to make it you know very very hard if i can tell i'll be there so that is great that is really
032great i mean and i am our supporter you know that and i just think that's phenomenal what you guys have been able to accomplish and what a benefit to those kids every one of them i mean i know that that type of experience will stay for forever so thank you again for all your work um [Music] but i know i and so i really thank you for a lot of people don't really think that you know a career and that's not a career it's choice it's a you know fun thing that they do they don't understand how hard it is um much and you know what um i want to thank this board um [Music] um every day over 20 years presentations and i've just seen the growth throughout the district and i'm very pleased
033as this about the district and how we have supported the arts it's been so beneficial for thousands upon thousands of students that have gone through our schools and had the opportunity to be part of it so we look forward to many more years of the same and now that you have told us really how great it how easy it is to do things okay all right well thank you for i wanted to hope one of the things that i loved was that english as he had even during the tough times um we as a district did not take a scalpel to the budget for visual arts and performing arts so that was unprecedented i think in orange county and that is something that i always echo so i'm glad that you know that's the history
034that has to a certain extent has allowed us to do what we're doing right now so i want to thank all not the board members here but the board members in the past and i always love the performance you know my daughter is looking forward to coming to high school and performing so hopefully you will still be very sure but uh yeah no i and you have some really you know i know brian useful but everybody or behind you are you know cheerleaders of the program so i thank you on behalf of the hsp students and parents as a future parent as well because this is going to keep it going but i have a couple of questions as well dr nian probably didn't tell you that you know to do the necessary uh research
035start with the enrollment aspect of it right have we seen um value students increase in numbers uh yeah as a matter of fact we have um um last year we came up about 11 from that low uh we're i just ran the numbers today even despite uh despite a slight decline in overall enrollment we are up about 1600 students across the district in digital performing arts so it's about another 12 and a half percent uh district-wide performing arts still lagging behind visual art a little bit but very encouraging so i mean you mentioned while performing arts lagging right i mean that's part of what i always see as good training ground for students as well i'm glad that we're bringing savannah student stand behind but what can we do as a board of cabinet to
036kind of strategically invest in i know we're doing it but i want to see futuristic go to the show let's get people there as much as you can i know that this board cabinet have shown a commitment to do that for many years continuing that it's really important continuing to fund visual performing arts and our district-wide events both using lcff and title 4 and grants to be able to do that in the fall i don't know if i can talk about this but in the fall there's a ballot proposition ballot that is a music and arts funding initiative that will increase music and arts only funding for all school districts and it will be one percent of lcff so it's like an 800 million to one billion dollar ongoing not single year not two three
037years of ongoing funding for music and arts without raising taxes um there's no tax increase according to that so that would be a getting the community aware of at least that's out there supporting elective alignment between the junior highs and high schools making sure that just continuing that process of making sure that if we're creating something here at the junior highs those students have somewhere to go as we're building those programs because the master schedule drives everything that we need so just continuing to support good magical schedule work and the mindset i think the last thing is to be just making sure we all have the mindset that it's not about talent it's all about a sequential set of discrete skills that are taught over years and hung by folks who are just tremendous educators
038because like we said we did that show with folks there was one person i think who could activate all at the same time and we had a cast of 50 and the show was incredible because it's a set of skills and it's a lever for equity our students can their every bit is good as students who have more training more private lessons more studying all of that kind of stuff and we've shown that year after year so just continue to support that mindset um so i know mike wants to say something but i also want to kind of pinpoint that yesterday at our opinion we were talking about the importance of kind of talking about our programs and doing our own homes in terms of not only saying what a great program we have but
039also that attracts students who might want to come to our district right so i hope i know we do a great job with rpio john does a tremendous job of being there and putting together but i think i would encourage everybody who has social media to kind of take that opportunity to share it because i think that's another important aspect of it i know one of the reasons that my boss we decided to do the funding for some of our archival programs in our school districts is because of that right because we saw the need of our programs and we decided you know what we have some extra funding let's go ahead and do that so you get those type of opportunities once when we have the opportunity to go out there and roll out
040our district you can think about this kennedy it used to be a wasteland like about four years ago i think there were four high schools kennedy just started cyprus just started to uh they're both second year programs now magnolia has a program savannah does not um junior high high school strategically you guys got to do what you got to do i know we have to decide on those uh but my god especially performing marks and it is traumatizing what we've been through and what the adults have been teachers and this is the story of renewal from trauma um and i i really commend you i know you represent your colleagues there's a lot of other unsung heroes out there and i i really want to also thank the board for supporting the arts and health
041and recognizing that this is more than ever most the arts and performing arts are so vital to healing our young people including our adults so we have with all the teachers out there thank you thank you thank you very much uh if i'm not mistaken we have the support already supporting that [Music] thank you thank you very much all right so we are going to move on to our items of business start off with resolutions 9.1 resolution number 2022-23-81 annual certification of the course-based independent study for the 20-22-23 year it's one of their parents came up to me and she said my son took cva and he is so happy she says he has found his name you know and it's just like when i said you know that is so good to hear because
042we are trying to you know supply unique opportunities for students and everybody's different and so here's a young man who was never really happy in the comprehensive high school and he's taking cba and he absolutely loves it and he's just been you know really succeeding well and she was just so happy and so thanking me for my district you know putting forth and giving that type of opportunity so i just have to let you know that i heard that there was a parent who's very very happy and her son is very very happy because we're offering some students who just don't feel comfortable in a comprehensive school cycle and yet they want to learn the right situation services 9.2 consulting agreement with their fall and associates scene then i will warrant 9.3 transportation agreement orange
043japanese 9.4 award request for proposals 2022-24 full service human resources software solution action is second any [Music] our questions [Laughter] please i understand the combinations [Music] hi [Music] any questions you know this is such a neat opportunity for our kids you know um this is you know the grant that uh the map has utilized and when i went to [Music] jobs they came through and this was such a a rapidly executed thing that we got and we've got these kids actually working and you know they're getting paid and working and learning and loving it and they've done such a good job i mean i really enjoyed listening to them talk about what they've been on which they have learned and a personal regard so i love the fact that these kids are learning all that
044and getting back to nature you know they took us on a tour and we're pointing out what vegetables these were and all that 50 strength you know and so i thought oh we've got to keep working with them they get even more of that grant billion um grant and funded grant that has come out of so far this is only 60 thousand dollars additional money because of this experience students this summer it wasn't just what which is what we're trying to communicate approach if there's an instructional aspect because you know the learning part that they did in the iowa they developed these little uh information sheets and they did all those [Music] finding places to donate a lot of the produce and that that sometimes proved to be very difficult finding an organization that could
045handle all the stuff that is coming out of the market so it's just a phenomenal learning it was great these are opportunities to purchase those boxes too right because it was on social media i had a friend that actually posted but he was from lahore apparently he actually purchased it and he posted it on his community uh feed and then uh next thing you know it was kind of everybody was supposed to be posting it back so that's great all right so we have a motion in a second all my favorite cyprus got activated united states superintendent's office survives four policy 6203.1 okay uh second for the balance all in favor all right the opposed motion carries unanimously i will take that independent motion for 10. uh motion second and a second superintendent and i
046also did attend the leadership advantage in the morning okay then i did attend the cypress mine parent meeting on tuesday the 26th of july about the field in other words we've had a lot of complaints about the condition of fields and so to remedy a situation that has been kind of bad for a long time um we had a meeting and nancy pakkering was there to present along with uh to the secretary principal this morning science she had an idea you know she's going to have to project about that field maybe we can move it a little bit north and then put a softball field before so the girls could have two softball fields so there's an idea okay we have other ideas i have other ideas for okay um [Music] oh magnolia high school's
047uh accelerated white caps certainly for the cyber security thing again we have another cold board this new freshman class is charlie right so we've got charlie and alpha and beta so alpha will be graduating this year right with 10 years okay and then [Music] attended the coffee with the principal at lexington he did an excellent job good turnout i think we had almost we must have over 45 parents there if not 50 and then another 30 some are more online so very good turnout i was really really impressed with his presentation and he gave them the opportunity to ask questions and all so it was very good we had a human relations gal that was on campus she did a presentation as well and so i was just i really think so congratulations to a
048fantastic opening um i felt like no news was good news and but we did hear uh alan and i went to our [Music] rop meeting yesterday everybody was just congratulations um um and i attended the um national conference on the does a fabulous job describing that wonderful conference and um it really was you know we had fabulous speakers very aggressive people but again it's those students who were highlighted at the last the last night we all thought as a group that you know they should have students the first day you know maybe they bring back their graduates or something and kind of start and kick off the event first first i know the things they needed to be cultivated but they tackled some really amazing subjects and just told us what they wanted with their
049education and always as i have been saying for years when they go to conferences workshops we were doing it um you know were always um and it was again um um and putting students first and founders first in education giving the students what they want we heard it from their house exactly what abhsc is feeling and that was very [Music] district has done and um i felt such a cohesiveness and you know the caps know how really captivated it was really amazing to just in my mind just to learn why wow this is this this is amazing and i i don't i don't take that forward lightly um it's it's we need to maybe you know i think that limit is we are giving students um an unlimited source of you know their carpet is
050just being rolled out for them they they really can't tackle anything to them you know if we're doing our work right so anyway congratulations um you know on that conference wrapping everything up and tying it in the flow and work just it's hard um we always say it but um so um thank you for that um i attended the welcome back luncheon for uh um that um training that we were doing um um the um back to school in service they always do a fabulous wonderful job in celebrating and giving a great kickoff [Music] and he had a wonderful speaker but again um this was really um innovative and they haven't had a student speaker before but this time made it a student piano and again ask the students you know what do you want
051in your education or how have our programs helped you and really they honestly answered you know questions and what do you want um [Music] articulate that in different areas one was a family which asl another one are students within um [Music] um and in my other capacity um i did some professional development of restorative practices um which is always wonderful and i've also got to revisit or take another course with fern on hazard with cashier cars which is always a wonderful trusted program that we um and i've always enjoy reading what the trade unions do and um there's a really sad story in here commissioned folks to sing the story and done the um and um psychology social work i spoke about a hospital that i became aware of here and it used to be
052a general hospital that was closed and nurse an addiction and because we are so impacted in our society with mental illness and addiction problems and homelessness it just seemed like a wonderful thing that we this is now offering and they take all insurance so that was the key so on the 22nd i went over there because they were opening up and guess what they were not opened and i asked to speak to the founders and behind the um said he wasn't available and i said well where are you and i didn't have an answer but when i reported this initially i said i asked for the young nurse is this is the funding from this hospital private or public any of this and that to me was such a key because who needs his chat
053gains their chance and that just put a great big question mark in my head and it made me work with what is going on so i pick up the register on august 7th and the front page we have riviera addiction care providers and i think really our insurance committee mental health here and this article is putting them in jeopardy uh apparently john wasn't able to pull it up on the website so i felt it for in society for the type of care that they take faith and guess what's happening and i have been very suspect because i watched dr phil and many of the people that are on his program he says almost in youtube and you'll mention in the strong picture of the front of the care and i think that this is an
054opening to what noticed is he has not offered those pure places for people that are at this program so maybe there's no way to be there i don't know how this was all about this so at least you all are aware of what apparently is going on and it's a reality so that place is never open we don't know and it sounded like one of these places okay so they so it's things that i want to both with you all that over the years these entities have what they call strangers and they go to different communities for example they might go to an airport in boston and find something and then they flep out to their facility and then they run out of insurance and when the insurances cut off they take their person to
055a park and they prepare and i've been aware of this for a number of years but and so this article actually found it just only filtered into what i've been thinking so anyway it's true [Music] because we do have some control over what we need to do in our district and forgiveness [Music] you graciously put together every year for our homeless families it's not something we advertise it's invitation only for our families and she does a tremendous job and external partners that you work with and they get together every year selfishly selflessly and they provide um and i can't even explain how elated the students were um there was an organization getting backpacks for our students and it wasn't just like you know navy or black these were beautiful backpacks so the kids were so
056happy to get them and they were showing them off um haircuts provided by a top branch organization you know coming from um um but i mean that really want to do good in the world and um several of them and then of course we had a lot of agencies there to provide a lot of resources for our families we had several students out there helping out um you know just providing a really fun celebratory atmosphere um there's um an organization is going to be using oxford academy and they'll be giving away 500 main brand shoes and a special need two specialty students at hope school on the 26th and a student at uh at oxford academy is coordinating this organization i support so when that happens i'll report back because i'm sure a little bit
057of leadership advance which from what i saw was well worthwhile and i wasn't it was i tend to balance it but it looked great what was going on so kudos to the leaders up there and then um yesterday i got to all the two schools and the only way to get to those two schools because the it was time for the schools two years to get out and the line down the street for the cars because i asked your mom and i said well i'm gonna go sorry i'm not gonna go to these two schools so um it was just i guess they were there to pick up their students so i made it off so but i got to all the other ones and i have to agree with what grant schuster said earlier
058and that was the advice on the campus the enthusiasm from the students to the teachers administration everybody was excited and they were saying it was running so smoothly and all the students and teachers were so excited to be back in the classroom that they were really excluding for a great year so i'm hoping the rest here will continue on that way as it did yesterday and i haven't heard anything happening today so i think the second year we're running the right direction so uh thank you for all the education out to our students so i attended that on my high school pta breakfast uh on monday actually on tuesday we did a wonderful job opening up the spread for our teachers and staff i also attended a kids expo which i spoke to this afternoon
059about uh we had we had anaheim students actually participated in it was a six-month course for students who actually had to teach them about starting a business stating and there were students who actually set up tables and showing us what they are going to do so we had a lower student who actually was going to start up at martial arts academy or class and then he also was a rop student who happened to get a certification to fly drones and he was going to do a business for realtors on uh you know exposing their real estate company or real estate for their business and also weddings so it's great to see our students are really taking that with english elementary school students participate great to hear um i also went to the community schools uh
060retreat which was a great turnout and i loved hearing everything that our teachers had to say about why they're there so i know it's going to be a successful event for us um attended the magnolia high school cider security white cap ceremony it was uh great to see our students really enthusiastic about it and then i attended the leadership academy that was great and i also attended our anaheim high school registration process just to check out it's great to see there um washington dc are europe europe i i just love i think i want to encourage all board members if they have an opportunity to go sit down it's not only about the conference but it's also actually sitting out with your administrators or walking with the administrators and talking about issues right and talking
061about how we as board members could be impactful so i think that's a great opportunity for us to um i mean i know we can do that here but i think it's always great to be in a different setting so that we don't have these guys watching over again they didn't share any secrets don't worry uh no but it was great and that was one of the opportunities i the ability or the kudos and the appreciation that we received from all other school districts i know nationally our superintendent was recognized for the work that he does so that was great to see but every presentation that we attended i think you saw people just literally after the presentation so thank you for that i also want to talk about rob uh yesterday we were at
062the rp meeting um you know our new superintendent there is all about making sure that we get an impact that's the word of the day or year and they also wanted to talk a lot about the program so i just wanted to kind of highlight some of that i know we have uh gail who actually presented really well for us yesterday but i want to talk about the programs that they have during the summer i want to highlight this the medical assistants uh students hired as of 8 11 22. there was an anaheim high school student cypress high school student catalan high school student a seminar high school student all of them got jobs offered during the summer and there were also students who are offering jobs but they declined and that was from anaheim
063high school in community security because they were going to uc berkeley rn program another one to john johns hopkins university for pre-med so our students are doing really great and love the partnership with rop i want to talk a little bit more about it i know that we invite you to make a presentation to us every cycle i want to highlight that because that's now that you want to so thank you very much for all the work that you're doing here appreciate it all right and having said that [Music] all um that's fine future meeting dates um export meeting is 7 30 to 6 pm any suggested 10 items we asked for our leaders in our schools to remind our students about the aid of water and how important it is in this state and
064to our community and i called manguya high school district office the other day and i spoke to dr nyan's counterpart and i saw 10 sprinklers in front of the school for three hours and when i spoke to him um i explained to him if we don't show respect for water and you are doing what you're doing and it's gone on for two weeks you're talking about magnolia school district in front of walt disney elementary and i think that's something that we need to be aware of who is responsible for our sprinklers and how long they run because i think that until we become aware of this issue of water we are going to be in downstream if we don't take this seriously you know it's not in general but [Music] okay all right all right
065all right so jeremiah